Xie Songhua raised his eyes, glanced at Xie Yuncang, then lowered his eyes again, "Yeah."
Everyone noticed that the expression on Xie Yuncang's face became strange again. He looked at Xie Songhua steadily for a few times, and then turned to the old lady next to him. After the two most powerful members of the Xie family looked at each other, they completed a silent exchange.
communication.
Xie Yuncang turned his face again, and his tone was different from the seriousness just now, and even contained a bit of rare gentleness, "Fourth girl, everyone here is your blood relative, and the Xie family is also your family. In my own family, there is no need to be like that
Be careful, the girl next to you is quarreling with you today because her father can see her.
When you lived in Mengpo before, I saw that you had a lively temperament, why are you so submissive now, but someone is controlling you?"
Before Xie Songhua could say anything, Mrs. Qi spoke up, "Master, let me handle such a small matter! It's my fault that these maids are useless."
The Qi family's face is not unsightly. A big family like theirs pays attention to etiquette and rules, and matters in the inner house are under the jurisdiction of the mistress. These are the rules!
That's just the matter with Sun's mother. After all, it involves Aunt Zhang, and it involves human lives.
The fact that Brother An was brought to Shou'antang can be said to be a plan for his son's interest.
So if Xie Yuncang becomes a maid now, where will she find the prestige in the inner house in the future?!
Xie Songhua heard this and said quickly: "Father and mother, please don't get me wrong. The maids in my yard are all very nice. Sister Dingxiang just speaks a little harshly. She is usually very peaceful and never causes trouble for me."
Sister Bai Shao is just too strict about rules. She doesn't ask me to eat too much because she's afraid I'll get too fat. She doesn't ask me to sleep too much. She's also afraid that people will say I'm lazy. She doesn't ask me to dress too much.
Bright, for fear of appearing like a nouveau riche, you don’t call me..."
When they heard her words at first, the maids felt relieved. After all, the fourth girl was timid and did not dare to complain in front of so many people.
Who would have thought that after hearing this, something would slowly come over her, and Bai Shao's face slowly turned pale.
Xie Songhua kept talking about rules, but why are other people's rules so cumbersome? They almost control everything about eating, drinking, sleeping, sleeping, etc.
Before Xie Yuncang could speak, the old lady snorted coldly, "My old lady has always asked the girls in the house to follow the rules and not to bring down the dignity of the girl's family, but she didn't know that the rules in my house were already so strict.
"
Bai Shao suddenly fell to the ground in a cold sweat, but she didn't dare to defend herself and just kept begging for mercy.
Xie Songhua still looked confused, "Isn't Sister Bai Shao right?"
Xie Yuncang didn't look at her, but turned to Qi who was sitting below, "You handle it."
The embarrassment on Ms. Qi's face was almost unbearable, which immediately exposed the quality of the maids at Yanchuntai.
Fortunately, Xie Yuncang remembered to leave the handling of the matter to her in the end, so he didn't lose face in front of so many people.
Qi's decision was also very simple. The white peony root couldn't be used anymore, so he just hit twenty big boards and threw them on Zhuangzi. His future was over.
Naturally, Ding Xiang also wanted to deal with it, but when he saw that he was about to fall into despair, Xie Songhua seemed to suddenly wake up and quickly begged for mercy.
She spoke sincerely, as if she sincerely defended this lilac.
The maids at Yanchundai obviously all have problems, but if they all lose their temper, everyone will look bad.
Mrs. Qi only fined her a year's worth of monthly money and reduced her monthly salary by one level as punishment.
As for the other two second-class maids, they also received some punishment, but with Bai Shao in front, the others were naturally too late to be grateful and could not complain at all.
After the matter was settled, the old lady asked everyone to disperse, but Xie Songhua was left behind.
For a moment, everyone couldn't help but be curious. Seeing that several young girls couldn't help but look back, Xie Changqing coughed heavily, turned around and asked the book boy in front of him, "What time is it?"
One sentence frightened the young men and girls who were still going to school and immediately ran away.
However, Xie Shuhua was always worried and couldn't help but look back frequently.
Xie Li stood next to her and looked at her twice before saying, "This Xie Songhua is such an idiot. He could be bullied to this extent by a maid!"
Xie Shuhua pondered for a moment, seemed to sneer, and then said quietly: "Not necessarily, look at this time, didn't her father make the decision for her again, not only drove Bai Shao out, but also other
I beat them all up."
"What's the point!" Xie Li disagreed, "A girl's family actually wants an elder to take care of the yard for her. It seems like she's getting an advantage, but in fact, her grandmother and father can see her ability. In the long run,
Come on, third sister, do you think she can survive?"
Xie Shuhua was startled, and after thinking about it carefully, she smiled a little, then quickly restrained her smile, "It's true that I thought too little."
As she spoke, she glanced at the old lady's house again.
At this time, Xie Qian also took everyone out of the room, and the Shou'an Hall became completely quiet.
"Are you literate?" The old lady picked up the pile of paper again, squinted at it for a while, and then asked.
Xie Songhua seemed a little at a loss as he sat in his seat, and his face became a little shy when he heard this, "In the past, Mr. Murakami rented the house next to our house to teach, hired me to help clean up the house, and secretly learned some words."
Hearing what she said, Mrs. Xie nodded, "No wonder I know how to write, but my writing is so bad."
"I don't have paper and pen at home, so I, I just use branches to draw on the ground to learn the characters. This one is written with charcoal."
Mrs. Xie sighed, with a hint of appreciation on her face, "It's because of your hard life that you encountered something like this. This is already a sign of your understanding. After all, you haven't even gone to school seriously for a day."
Xie Yuncang didn't want to talk about it, "Where did you get the things you wrote above?"
Xie Songhua said quickly: "These days, Sister Bai Shao is very strict with me. I can't do this or that. Fortunately, she is willing to let me wander around the house instead of following me, so I am happy and at ease.
I always spend more than an hour shopping every day.”
She spoke with a slight smile on her face, "Many of the servants working in the mansion don't know my identity. They only think that I am a little girl in the mansion, so they are willing to talk to me. These are
I learned it from their mouths.”
"What you wrote here is not very clear. Please explain it to me." Xie Yuncang handed the stack of paper to Xie Songhua.
Xie Songhua took it shyly and muttered: "I..."
"There are only three of us here, no one will laugh at you."
Hearing Xie Yuncang's words, Xie Songhua seemed to be emboldened, "I'm just bored and writing whatever comes to my mind."
She picked up the first piece of paper and said, "The first day I went to the garden, I saw some women quarreling. I thought it was funny and wrote it down. It's nothing more than unclear responsibilities and unclear benefits."
Seeing that the two people above said nothing, she picked up the second piece of paper and said, "This is the low house at the end of the stroll. An old mother told me that these are the houses where people who got sick in the house moved there temporarily to recuperate.
, but I found it very difficult to recuperate there.”
She went on to talk about what she had seen and heard in her mansion. Her words were clear and her expression was charming and innocent. It seemed that she had written it down out of curiosity.
When she finally got the last piece of paper, Xie Yuncang's eyes became a little sharp, "I can understand the other ones, but why is this one so scrawled that some of it is indecipherable."
Xie Songhua was a little shy and seemed embarrassed, "This is the price of food."
