The talk in the streets spread back to Xie's house, and the old lady smashed two teacups angrily.
Even if the head wife of the Xie family died of illness, it would not be known to everyone, mainly because Yun Chu's identity was too special.
The eldest daughter of the Yipin General Mansion, she was once the jewel of the capital. Back then, so many people were about to cross the threshold of the Yun Mansion to ask for marriage, and now there are so many people staring at the Xie family's backyard.
"She has obviously recovered from her illness. Who spread the word that she is about to die?" The old lady said solemnly, "The servants in this house are increasingly unable to keep their mouths shut."
I don’t know who spread the news about He’s poisoning Aunt Tao last time.
These two things were widely spread together, and it seemed that the Xie family's back house was particularly messy.
As the old saying goes, if you don't clean one house, how can you sweep the world? Will the court let a man who can't even take care of the women in the back house be promoted?
After a moment of hesitation, Zhou's mother said, "Ever since Madam became ill, the eldest lady has made the decision on all the big and small things in the house. It's really a bit chaotic."
"Can't it be that our Xie family can't do anything without the head mother?" The old lady said coldly, "Mother Zhou, call Sister Ping. I have to personally take care of all the big and small matters of the birthday banquet, and I must not leave anyone talking. .”
Mother Zhou was ordered to do it.
The weather has been sunny these days, the flowers in Shengju are in full bloom, and Yunchu is sitting in the flower hall reading a book.
Ting Shuang came to report: "When the eldest lady first became a housekeeper with my wife, she fell in love with the ladies and servants in the mansion. Those ladies were very dissatisfied with the eldest lady. As long as it was an errand ordered by the eldest lady, they would only give seven out of ten errands. The mansion It was a mess, but I heard that the old lady planned to personally take care of the birthday banquet."
Yunchu smiled.
There are only three days until the birthday banquet, and everything that needs to be prepared has been prepared. Even if the old lady intervenes, nothing can be changed.
"Uncle Chen gave He Xu the management of four or five shops in the Xie family." Tingshuang continued, "This time, He Xu was asked to purchase all the things that the eldest lady needed for her birthday party. How dare He Xu do that? It's really big, my servant did some calculations and found out that he had embezzled at least four hundred taels of silver."
Even Yun Chu couldn't help but click his tongue. The old lady gave him three thousand taels of silver for a birthday banquet, and He Xu swallowed four hundred taels. There must be other servants who were greedy for money. This one swallowed thirty or forty taels. That one took seventeen or eighty taels. After all, it would be good to have two thousand taels of silver to spend on the birthday banquet.
"He Xu gave a lot of the money he had embezzled to the man in the small temple." Tingshuang whispered, "Mr. He was injured, but he seems to have become more peaceful recently."
The smile on Yun Chu's face became even bigger: "Then let her have a good rest for a few days."
If you wait a few more days, He Shi will not have such a pure life.
Tingshuang already knew what Yunchu was going to do, and her eyebrows were filled with sadness: "Madam, do you really want to do this?"
Yunchu took Tingshuang's hand and said, "It has been five years since I married into the Xie family. Do you think I have ever been truly happy?"
Tingshuang shook his head.
In the first month of her marriage, Madam was filled with longing, but later she was treated coldly by the adults. After the child died, Madam never smiled from the bottom of her heart again.
Over the years, Madam's life seems to be peaceful day after day, but there is no hope.
In recent times, she finally saw a different look in Madam's eyes.
She was worried about Madame.
She was afraid that something would happen and make Madam's life even more difficult.
"Ting Shuang, you are as old as me and it's time to get married." Yun Chu looked at her gently, "If you like someone, just tell me. If you don't like someone, I will find you a loyal and honest person... "
"Madam!" Tingshuang was so frightened that she knelt down, "I don't want to get married. I will stay by your side and serve you for the rest of my life."
Yun Chu pulled her up.
Regardless of whether Tingshuang is married or not, she can no longer keep Tingshuang in Xie's house.
In the next life, no one knows whether the tragedy will happen again. She is afraid that Tingshuang will die in the raging fire of Xie Mansion again...
The sky gradually darkened, and the maid served dinner.
Although Yun Chu is not taking care of things now, she is still the mistress of the house, and neither Xie Ping nor the ladies below dare to deprive her of food.
While eating, suddenly there was a commotion in the front yard. Tingfeng ran in from outside and reported: "Madam, it's bad, a thief suddenly appeared at the southeast door. All the servants in the house went to arrest him."
Yun Chu frowned.
She has been in charge for four or five years, and every door in the Xie Mansion has been well defended. Nothing so outrageous has ever happened.
She ordered: "Keep the door of Shengju tightly, and don't go out if you have nothing to do."
It was already completely dark, and some people were panicking because of the thief in the front yard.
However, Qiu Tong was in Shengju, and all the girls in the courtyard had seen her Kung Fu skills. As soon as Qiu Tong stood at the door, everyone felt at ease.
After waiting for a long time, news came from the front yard that no culprits had been found and that there were no abnormalities in the various courtyards, so they dismissed it as a mistake. However, Yun Chu was not careless and asked his servants to work in groups of three. Qiu Tong The leader patrolled the yard all night.
After bathing, Yunchu walked into the inner room and sat down in front of the dressing table.
Tingxue carefully removed her hair accessories and straightened her hair before bowing her head and retreating, closing the door gently.
Yunchu sat on the edge of the bed, took off his shoes and lay on the bed. He pulled the quilt on the side and was about to cover himself when he suddenly realized something was wrong.
She held her breath and heard shallow breathing that was not her own.
At this moment, her mind rose to her throat.
She sat up carefully, reached under the pillow and pulled out a short knife.
This was a haircut gift given to her by her grandfather, with her name engraved on it. It was extremely sharp. She held the handle of the knife with one hand and suddenly opened the quilt with the other hand.
The moment the blade was swung, her hand froze.
"why you?"
Under the quilt, there turned out to be a child carved in pink and jade.
He is the young prince of Pingxi Palace.
"You woman, how dare you point a knife at me? If you hurt a hair on my head, my father will not let you go!"
Yun Chu twitched the corners of his lips.
She put away the knife and said, "If your father knew that you sneaked into other people's bedrooms late at night, he probably wouldn't let you go."
Chu Hongyu snorted: "If I hadn't heard that you were about to die of illness, I wouldn't have come. I'm so kind as to treat you like a donkey."
The little guy folded his hands on his chest and turned his back, allowing Yun Chu to see only one side of his bulging cheek.
Yun Chu's heart suddenly melted.
It turned out that the child took such a big risk and sneaked into Xie's house because he heard that she was sick.
To put it into perspective, they didn't have much of a friendship, so it was a blessing for her to be able to miss this child so much.
Perhaps it was because of his dream that day that his biological son's face turned into that of the young prince, which made Yunchu feel a natural affinity for the child.
She couldn't help but stretched out her finger and poked the child's face.
Chu Hongyu usually hates people pinching his cheeks. Even if it is Grandpa Huang, he will feel very uncomfortable.
But now, he has no objection at all, and even hopes that this woman will poke him again.
Yun Chu knew that enough was enough. After poking him, he withdrew his hand and said, "My illness has been cured. You see, I'm fine. I'll have someone take you back to the palace."
The little guy's eyes widened.
He has just arrived and this woman wants to drive him away. It is so heartless.
He was about to speak when footsteps suddenly came from outside the door.
