"Mother Xu, no matter how careful we are, the people in the mansion still look like nothing! This is the Xuanping Marquis Mansion, and it is the Xuanping Marquis Mansion that my wife has run for so many years. For the servants in the mansion,
To you, I am just a third girl, and a third girl who has just returned to Beijing. Compared to a madam, I am nothing." Yu Xijiao's eyes were a little cold.
"Girl, I understand." Nanny Xu was silent for a moment, her face became more and more serious, "Girl, who should we start with?"
It has been three days since they arrived in the capital, and they still know most of the people in Yaoshui Pavilion, especially Aunt Xu, who has received great trust from Mrs. Xie and has carefully made friends with the maid and mother-in-law in the courtyard.
"Steward Gao and Hong Ling!" Yu Xijiao said in a deep voice.
Aunt Xu took a breath of air: "Girl, Aunt Gao is not easy to deal with. She speaks impeccably. She always shows that she is the wife. She is also tactful in doing things and it is not easy to catch mistakes."
Aunt Gao is the steward of Yaoshui Pavilion. Before Yu Xijiao came, she had been in charge of everything in Yaoshui Pavilion. She was much longer than the master Yu Xijiao was here. Aunt Xu asked,
This grandma has been in Yaoshui Pavilion for five or six years.
Being able to be the steward of the Yaoshui Pavilion for such a long time shows Madam’s trust in Aunt Gao.
"Mother Xu, it's good to be diplomatic! This means that at least she will listen to what I say and won't directly conflict with me, so I'll send her out first." Yu Xijiao said with a slight smile.
Qingyue blinked her eyes in confusion and said: "Girl, Grandma Gao has been in charge for so many years. If she doesn't make any big mistakes, how can she drive people away? I heard that even Madam gave her some face,
Just sending her out would at most be a crime of not doing something for the girl, and it would be excusable."
For such a tactful mother-in-law, even if she goes against the girl's words, she will find reasons to evade her, and she is the most slippery person.
Yu Xijiao smiled: "She was required to do this in the first place. The accusation of incompetence in doing things was nothing in the past, but today she will definitely shed a layer of skin! Besides, Qian Lizhen can also be used to talk things over. She has been living there before.
This is my Yaoshui Pavilion."
I heard this from Aunt Qin.
This extremely well-organized Yaoshui Pavilion has been used as a guest house in the past. It is said to be a guest house. In fact, how can it be possible to regard a main courtyard as a guest house? It is just to make others think it is true.
They just live in the guest house.
Yaoshui Pavilion, when Mrs. Xie was here, decided to leave it to Yu Xijiao. At the earliest, it was the Yaoshui Pavilion that Mr.
Yu Xijiao was in Jiangnan, but Qian's niece Qian Lizhen lived in the courtyard. It was said that she lived here most of the time a month. Qian also hinted that Yu Ruiwen told Princess An and Dachang,
This Yaoshui Pavilion will be reserved for Qian Lizhen.
After being reprimanded by Princess An and the eldest daughter, she no longer dared to bewitch Ezi.
Yu Xijiao has never seen this girl Qian until she came to Beijing, but in fact, she can be seen everywhere here.
Perhaps she felt that Yu Xijiao would not be able to relax for a few days, as many things here were not cleaned up.
"What the girl said is true, but I'm afraid Grandma Gao..." Grandma Xu nodded, frowning but still worried.
"It's okay, go and call her in. I have my own plan." Yu Xijiao's eyes wavered slightly. This grandma, or in other words, many people in this yard, the master they knew before was Qian Lizhen, and now she is
A guy who appeared halfway across the road came from Jiangnan, so how could they recognize him in their eyes.
Although Mrs. Qian also returned to her house, she was distracted by Mr. Ning now. She happened to come out at such a time gap to make things easier for her.
Aunt Xu withdrew, and soon a tall woman came in. This was Aunt Gao.
"I have met the third girl." After Gao came in, she bowed sideways to Yu Xijiao.
Yu Xijiao's eyes fell on Aunt Gao, and she saw that although she was saluting, she raised her eyes and looked at her a few times, which was very disrespectful. When she saw her eyes sweeping over, she hurriedly gave her a smile.
"Mother Gao, go and see where Madam has gone and what's going on with Madam?" Yu Xijiao ordered, her delicate brows and eyes looking gentle.
Aunt Gao was stunned. She didn't expect that Yu Xijiao would order such a thing. She didn't understand the meaning of Yu Xijiao's words, so she hesitated and said, "Madam... didn't you just come back home?"
"Aunt Gao, the girl has just returned home. Many things are unclear, especially everything about the wife. Aunt Gao is an old man in the house, and she will follow the girl in the future. When the girl gets better, Aunt Gao will get better too.
"Mama Xu smiled and said it more clearly, the meaning of beating was obvious.
In a word, Grandma Gao understood, did this mean that she wanted to surrender to the third girl?
A third girl who had just returned from Jiangnan and was still unsure of what fate she would end up in, actually thought that she would stay here for a long time. Aunt Gao couldn't help but laugh in her heart. She really didn't know how to behave.
I regard myself as the master of the house. The owner of this courtyard has always belonged to Miss Qian.
It was true before, it is true now, and it will be true even more so in the future. Madam specially warned herself.
"That's what Aunt Xu said." Although Aunt Gao's words were very polite, several people could see the disdain in her eyes.
Yu Xijiao bent down slightly: "Then there is Grandma Lao Gao."
Aunt Gao stood there with a prickly look on her face. After receiving her polite bow, she said disapprovingly: "Old slave, let's go and see what Madam is doing now!"
It was impossible for Mrs. Cha, so she just went out for a walk and came back to find something to say.
"Then I'll help you, Auntie Gao." Yu Xi said softly and nodded to Auntie Gao, seeming to be very satisfied with her knowledge.
There was only a hint of darkness in his eyes. Since the Yaoshui Pavilion was to be cleaned up, a nun in charge and a first-class maid must be dealt with separately...
Aunt Xu stepped forward with a smile, took a purse and put it in front of Aunt Gao. Aunt Gao took it without caring, nodded to Yu Xijiao, turned around and left.
Outside the door, Aunt Gao threw away the purse in her hand, glanced sideways at the swaying curtain behind her, and sneered. It was indeed as the lady said, saying that the Jiangnan Confucian family was nothing but incompetence and cowardice.
It was obvious within a few days that he had a gentle personality, but now he looks not only gentle and incompetent, but also timid.
I'm afraid what happened this time also scared me out of my mind.
Needless to say, this matter has something to do with the madam, but in the end the madam came back without any problems, which shows the madam's ability. Even if An and the eldest princess, they couldn't let the madam back in the end.
For this reason, Aunt Gao felt that what Madam said was the right way, and that the third girl was like a grasshopper in Madam's hand, unable to jump more than a few times.
There was a sound coming from the window of a wing room. Aunt Gao looked back and met a pair of eyes. The two of them smiled silently. Aunt Gao weighed the purse in her hand proudly and left with pride...
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"Girl, look at her... she's so rude." Qingyue said angrily as she looked at the swaying curtain.
"What do you think, Aunt Xu?" Yu Xijiao smiled slightly and said nonchalantly.
"When I first entered the door, I was quite polite, at least I saluted the girl. Later, when I saw the girl saluting her, my attitude became even more contemptuous. When I finally left, I didn't salute because of the contempt. I must have thought that the girl was weak and incompetent. This
She is the only one I can rely on at all times."
How can he compare to the Qian family who has just arrived in the capital and has a few close servants around him and has been in charge of affairs in the Xuanping Marquis Mansion for so many years!
What's more, this time, the servants in the house seemed to have loud thunder and light rain.
Qian came back unscathed.
This shows that even An and the eldest princess cannot do anything to the Qian family, which also makes the maids and mothers-in-law who originally followed the Qian family in the mansion look down on Yu Xijiao even more.
Yu Xi's delicate white fingers tapped lightly on the table, and the corners of her lips curled up slightly: "Then let's go to the next one, called Hong Ling."
This is the eldest maid of Yaoshui Pavilion, and she is also Qian Lizhen's personal maid in Xuanpinghou's Mansion. The Qian family specially matched her with her. Qian Lizhen has her own maid, but some things have to be handled by Xuanpinghou's Mansion.
A maid is more convenient. Mrs. Qian felt sorry for Qian Lizhen and deliberately kept such a big maid.
Likewise, Hongling is also from the Qian family!
The most important thing for Yu Xijiao today is to deal with Hong Ling. She will operate on Hong Ling first. Compared with the treacherous and cunning Grandma Gao, Hong Ling is much easier to deal with. As long as she raises the flames...
Qingyue went out and soon led Hongling in.
"I have met the third girl." Hong Ling is a tall and beautiful maid, fifteen or six years old. When she came in, she bowed to Yu Xijiao first.
There is a faint fragrance in the air, as elegant as orchid, and Yu Xijiao's eyes are even darker...
"Hong Ling, I have only been in the mansion for a few days, and I don't know many things clearly. Why don't you tell me about the wife and the second girl in the mansion? What are their temperaments, their hobbies, and what have they done wrong in the past?"
Yu Xijiao asked calmly.
Aunt Xu and Qingyue had secretly inquired about the affairs of the house before, but they must have been secretly, and they did not find Aunt Gao and Hongling to inquire.
"Third Miss, look what you said, it's not a slave's business to talk about the Madam and the Second Miss. If you want to know something, you can just ask the Madam and the Second Miss." Hong Ling refused without thinking.
"That means...I can't touch you anymore?" Yu Xijiao asked.
"What does the third girl say? What does it mean to be bad at all times? The slave has a bad fate and is born to be a servant. There is no way that the third girl can't do anything. But the girl can't let the slave say bad things about the madam and the second girl.
Yes, this slave is the maid of the Xuanping Hou Mansion, no matter the lady or the girls, they are all my masters."
Hongling was not afraid.
In the past few days, she had also been observing the third girl who was said to have lived there not long ago, and found that this third girl had a gentle temperament and did not seem to be very courageous. Like Aunt Gao, Qian had already given them orders that their master
It's Qian Lizhen. Everything from now on belongs to Miss Qian, and so do they!
Miss Qian had promised her before she left that Yu Xijiao would not be staying for long, and she would have to walk around without food!
Just now, Hong Ling saw Aunt Gao getting the reward and leaving. Seeing Aunt Gao leaving proudly, she felt even more determined. Not to mention Madam, even Aunt Gao couldn't deal with her. This third girl really has no power.
If you use it, then she doesn't have to be too nervous and cautious.
"Kneel down!"
Seeing her plausible rebuttal, Yu Xijiao's face suddenly darkened...