After coming out of the old lady's room, Mrs. Xu couldn't support her body as soon as the sun shined outside.
The little maid Ying'er behind her quickly reached out to support her and walked back step by step.
Mrs. Xu didn't say a word along the way. Ying'er usually just ran errands and did odd jobs, and she didn't even dare to say a word of advice.
After returning to the room, Mrs. Xu sat down on the chair without any strength, her lips trembling uncontrollably.
Ying'er had never encountered such a situation before. She was so anxious that she stamped her feet. For a moment, she didn't know who to look for.
Fortunately, not long after, she saw two maids, Manqing and Mancui, coming back from outside through the window.
Ying'er hurriedly went out, stopped the two of them, and briefly told them what happened in the old lady's room this morning.
Mancui's face turned pale when she heard this. Is the Shen family about to change?
"Why are you panicking!" Manqing's temperament was more calm. When she found that Mancui and Ying'er were already lost, she immediately spoke to comfort her, "Madam is the first wife of Ming Media who has been married, and Master Yuanlin is with her, even if there are some
Despite setbacks, no one can shake her position.
"Besides, think about it, Hanqiao went to become an aunt, and now my wife is in a bad situation and there is no caring person around her. Isn't this our opportunity?
"As long as you are good now, Madam Loyalty, can you treat us badly in the future?"
Mancui and Ying'er looked at each other. If there was anyone among the three who would be promoted first, it would definitely be Manqing, who has always been calm and down-to-earth.
So the two of them said in unison: "Sister Manqing, you should pay more attention to your sister in the future."
The three of them were whispering in the courtyard, and Ying'er's expression suddenly changed, and she stared blankly at the door of the courtyard.
Manqing and Mancui also turned around and found that Hanqiao had returned.
In fact, after Hanqiao came out of Mrs. Shen's room, she stood in the aisle and didn't know where to go for a while.
Although the old lady Shen has spoken, after all, she is not an aunt yet and does not have a place of her own. Logically speaking, she should return to Xu's room and continue working.
But when she thought of Mrs. Xu, she couldn't help but shiver.
You don't need to think about it to know that if you return to Xu's room now, you will definitely not get good results.
But where else could she go?
Hanqiao stood outside the yard for a long time, and finally thought of what Mrs. Shen had said to her at the end. Whether she could stay in the Shen family in the future would depend on her own ability.
Thinking of this, Hanqiao resolutely walked back to the main room.
As long as she didn't officially become an aunt, she would still be a maid in the Xu family's room.
Mrs. Xu is the master and can beat her and scold her.
But she couldn't leave her post without permission and ask others to seize her fault.
Han happened to see three people talking together, so of course he knew what they were talking about.
She took a deep breath and said: "What are the three of you doing here chattering, and there is no one around Madam? I think you are itching!"
A few very ordinary words of reprimand seemed to have a different flavor in the ears of the three of them.
Mancui rolled her eyes and muttered in a low voice: "I haven't even sat down on my aunt's seat, but I pulled her up!"
Manqing stretched out his hand and tugged at the skirt of her clothes, signaling her to stop talking.
Mancui didn't care about that much, since Hanqiao would become an aunt in the future, so she wouldn't be able to care about Xu's house.
She said directly: "We are all second-class girls. We usually wait closely for the wife's work, but my sister has never let us interfere.
"My sister didn't come back with my wife today, how dare we come forward casually!"
Hanqiao did not argue with her, but ordered: "Ying'er, go boil the water. Manqing will bring tea later. Mancui, go to the kitchen and see what ingredients have been purchased today."
It takes half a day to walk from the main room to the kitchen, which is not an easy task on a hot day.
Normally, Ying'er would do this kind of errands, but today, Hanqiao deliberately assigned it to Mancui.
"You...who do you think you are? Are you trying to trick me on purpose?" Mancui said angrily.
"Now I am still the first-class maid in the madam's room. If I ask you to do it, you have to do it." Hanqiao dropped these words and ignored her. She tried to calm down and walked slowly into the main house.
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Mrs. Xu was still sitting on the chair in the same position as when she first came back. She didn't even raise her eyelids when she heard the footsteps.
"Madam." Hanqiao stepped forward gently and knelt where Xu could see her.
"Hey, isn't this Aunt Guo? Why are you kneeling here all of a sudden? When people see her, they think it's because I, the mistress, can't tolerate people!"
"Madam, I will always be your slave." Hanqiao placed his hands on the ground, bent down, and rested his forehead on the back of his hands.
"Farewell now, I can't bear it." Mrs. Xu said coldly, "Now that you have an old lady as your backer, why are you still pretending to be here?"
"Madam, you know that I have never had such an idea." Hanqiao began to play emotional cards and said, "My wife said before she passed away that she was not in good health and could no longer serve Madam. Let me
You must guard and take care of your wife for her..."
Hanqiao Niang was one of Xu's dowry mothers, Aunt Huang. She died of illness a few years after she came to Yongzhou Prefecture.
When Mrs. Xu heard her mentioning Nanny Huang, she became even more angry. She raised her head and asked, "So what about you? You were guarding me and ended up guarding me on my bed?"
"Madam, I don't have any slaves!" Hanqiao screamed in frustration.
"Then I'll ask someone to come over and examine you? If I'm wrong, can I apologize to you?"
It happened that Manqing came into the room to serve tea at this time, and the room fell into silence for an instant.
Even if Ms. Xu didn't know it before, she still didn't know anything about Shen Zhonglei's appearance in the old lady's room just now.
But Mrs. Shen's sudden attack was such a shock that she had no time to think about Hanqiao's betrayal.
Until now, seeing Han Qiao kneeling in front of her, Xu found that there was still a dense pain in her heart.
After Grandma Guo left the house, Hanqiao became the person she trusted most.
Even because of her status as Nanny Huang's daughter, Mrs. Xu has always felt at ease with her.
If Han happened to do something like this in normal times, Mrs. Xu would have hundreds of ways to punish her.
But now that she was in peace, she accidentally got bitten by the dog she had raised for many years.
For today's Xu family, this is really a tragedy that adds insult to injury and adds insult to injury.
Occasionally, he even pretended to be pretentious in front of her, telling lies that both of them knew well.
Hanqiao waited silently for Manqing to leave before saying: "Even if this slave becomes an aunt, she will be like Ping Niang and serve the master and his wife. Madam, think about it, no matter what you say, I am someone who came out of your room."
, it’s better than hiring someone from outside, so why do you have to do everything right?”
"Now that you rely on the old lady and the master, you no longer take me seriously, right?"
Mrs. Xu, who had been trying hard to endure it, was finally irritated by Han Qiao. She picked up the tea cup that Man Qing had just brought in and smashed it!