Chapter 355

Erfu instructed the palace people to prepare hot water, washed up in the service of the palace maids, took off the dazzling beaded hair ornaments in the hair room, changed into light home clothes, and sent the little palace maids in the room who were ready to cover the night, and led a pair of children into the inner room.

The charcoal stove in the inner room has been moved out and extinguished by the palace maid, but the earth dragon under his feet is still burning, the temperature in the house is not low, and the doors and windows are inlaid with glass, which is much better than the winter of previous years.

Erfu, who was wearing long hair, held a cup of tea mixed with honey and sipped it carefully, and from time to time took the words of the little seven children's shoes, and fiddled with the food prepared by the little child on the table, so that the two children who ran for most of the night and didn't eat much at all filled their stomachs, mixed with the smiling face of the soft eyes of maternal love, which made her look a little more beautiful.

After simply eating, Erfu did not beckon the palace maids who had rested in the tail room to come and clean up, blew out a few lighting candles, and changed into muslin bedding for them, and lay side by side in the spacious stepping bed.

In the dark curtain, Hongxuan seemed to have opened the chatterbox, from the ancestral etiquette to the rules taught by the grandmothers, and struggled to go to the kang in the east to rest, but Erfu didn't pay attention to this stubble at all, just raised his hand to suppress his action of wanting to get up, and at the same time told him to reason.

The struggle was fruitless, Hongxuan resigned himself to his fate, and he really liked the feeling of having Eniang by his side, so he rubbed the arm that Erfu had been holding on his pillow to find a comfortable angle. closed his eyes and vaguely said about the grievances and unhappiness of Eniang's absence these days.

Listening to the little people, they seem to be very sensible and say that Eniang should take care of her younger siblings more. When she had no time to take care of him, tears oozed from Erf's slightly squinted eyes, Xiao Qi's soft and glutinous little voice was full of satisfaction, and her soft and boneless little hands caressed her somewhat sore scalp that had been combed all day, and she felt that her whole person was cute.

The meeting did not last long, and the two children, who were children, fell asleep one after another, and Erf got up again and tucked the corners of the quilt for the two little ones. moved both of them to the position in the bed, and then got up lightly and went to the clean room to wipe the corners of his tear-stained eyes with cold water in the copper basin, and lay back in the bed. Facing a pair of children sideways and not looking very real, he smiled sweetly and fell asleep.

The next day, the plain white parrot hanging under the porch was already chirping, 'Hello'. Erf lazily brushed the curtain of the bed that hung beside him. Place a faint ray of sunlight hidden by several layers of bed curtains into the bed.

"E-niang!" the little ones were all sleeping soundly, and when they felt Erf's slight movements, they opened their hazy sleepy eyes, and their tones were full of the laziness that they had just woken up, and they called sweetly.

Erfu smiled and stroked the hair on Xiao Qi's cheeks, and touched Hongxuan's light head again, "You two lie down for a while!", and then turned around and walked out of the bed. He instructed the palace people to bring the hot water and charcoal stove that had been prepared into the inner room.

It wasn't until the temperature in the room rose that she asked the palace people to lift the bed curtain and close it. got up and returned to the bed to stand still, but the palace maid held the hot robe in her hand, and dressed Hongxuan and Xiao Qi with her own hands, and then combed a soft bun for Xiao Qi, and led the two little guys to the east room to sit down, waiting for the palace people to set up a meal in the hall.

As Niu Hulu was taught a lesson by the fourth master during the New Year's banquet, the house really stopped for a few days.

Su Peisheng was so busy that he was dealing with the stewards of the outer courtyard without touching the ground, and he wanted to summon the officials who were released by the fourth master, and when he took Chen Fu to the west courtyard of the Guerjia clan to find out the truth from the hometown of the Wang brothers and sisters, the fat that he had accumulated to survive the winter was gone.

"Master Guerjia, these are the crimes of the Wang brothers and sisters, they have already let Chen Fu take someone to take it down, if you want to meet it, you can do it!" Su Peisheng carefully sent the prepared file book to Yaoqin, and said respectfully.

Erfu flipped through a few pages casually, looked at the neat ink characters, and showed a touch of ruthlessness, "Wang Hu is a man in the end, and a foreign man, I will be gone, so as not to spread any unpleasant gossip, let the rough mother-in-law send Wang Hua over, I have to ask her why she hates her half-sister so much!"

As he spoke, Erfu had already thrown the booklet that revealed the resentment of the Wang brothers and sisters towards Mama Shen at Su Peisheng's feet, and turned to look at the red plum and Mo Ju outside the window to adjust his mood.

Su Peisheng had long known that the Guerjia clan would have such an arrangement, and the reason why he asked was that he didn't want to be too smart, but at this time, Erfu was obviously angry, and he was too busy to claim yes, and turned around and let Guzheng take his waist card to the second door to call someone.

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Before Su Peisheng's people came over, Erfu specially asked the palace people to comb her more formal shelf, and chose a red gold and ruby hairpin of Danfeng Chaoyang to shake the hairpin, and replaced her red home jacket skirt with a dark red hook gold silk line.

Wang Hua had already been taught by Chen Fu's people several times, and as soon as she entered the main hall, she collapsed on the orangutan felt carpet of the red tuanhua as if she had no bones, and bowed her head again and again to beg for mercy.

Erfu pursed her lips and frowned, she was going to take a closer look at the kneeling person, but she only saw a back, she was very dissatisfied, and shouted coldly: "Raise your head and speak!"

Wang Hua raised her eyes full of panic and uneasiness in response, trembling as if she was swinging, her slightly trembling lips were covered with thin dry cracks, and her hands were dead on the white-washed gray pants on her body.

Although it didn't look very pleasing to the eye, Erf finally saw the appearance of the person in front of him clearly.

The Wang Hua in front of her is similar to Mama Shen's size, although she is not a little powdery, and her face is a little old, but her face can faintly see Mama Shen's shadow. It's just that the slightly raised eyebrows and the thin corners of her mouth reveal her splattering shrewd temperament everywhere. is very different from Mama Shen, unlike Mama Shen's appearance of smiling before speaking, she looks kind and has eyes.

Clenching the trouser legs on his hands. In addition to the thick cocoons on her fingertips, even the palms that only showed a little were yellow calluses, which showed that her life was not rich, and it was not satisfactory, just looking at the yellowing bruises exposed between her wrists, you can get a glimpse of a few points, it is definitely not the mark left by Chen Fu's people.

Chen Fu's subordinates are all eunuchs, perhaps because they all had a not a good childhood when they were young. The psychology is dark, the means are ruthless, but he doesn't like to be rough. My favorite is to take a small needle used for women's embroidery and prick it indiscriminately with a small needle for embroidery, and several of them have served the imperial doctor and learned to combine it with acupuncture points, the technique of using needles. It is no worse than a doctor who heals the sick and saves people. Looking at the silent hands, it is more painful than sticks!

After a few reciprocal encounters, Erfu was naturally very sure that the injuries on Wang Hua's body were left before she was caught.

"You and Mama Shen are half-sisters?" Erph hated the root of her teeth, but her face was silent, but the hand holding the wide couch and gold armrest had slowly tightened, and the white knuckles revealed her inconspicuous emotion.

Wang Hua saw that Erfu asked kindly, and a trace of joy flashed on her face, and then she wrinkled her brows. Squeezed out a few crocodile tears and opened his mouth with a grin. "Your nobleman, although the slave and Mama Shen are half-sisters, they really have no connection with her, and the things that appear in the house have nothing to do with the slave!"

"Then why is there the handprints of your brother and sister on the booklet sent by Grandpa Su?" Erfu smiled coldly, but quickly retracted, and asked with a suspicious look in his eyes.

"The slave is a farmer, a rough person, and he doesn't know a basket of big characters.

Two days ago, they were caught in the house in a daze, and they answered whatever they asked, but they didn't want those people to be bad-hearted to detain the crime of killing people on the head of the slave, and the slave would never dare to endure such a sinful thing, but he couldn't bear the pain of flesh and skin, so he listened to what they said!

The noble man is a living bodhisattva in the world, and the slave is really aggrieved!" Wang Huaxu felt that Erfu was very kind, compared to those eunuchs and servants with honey and swords, it was like a bright light that illuminated her way of life, and the whole person seemed to come to life, and climbed forward a few steps with her hands and feet, seeing that it meant that she wanted to hug Erfu's thigh and cry a good time, but Yaoqin's eyes were bright and she stopped her movements, so she retreated and knelt on the palace carpet, crying with a handful of snot and tears to tell her grievances, patting her chest again and again, as if she had really suffered a great grievance.

Erff just watched her play so calmly, watching a little dust fly out of her body under the sun, the whole person seemed to be shrouded in the fog of the forest, and refused to say anything until she finally couldn't pretend anymore, wiping the thin tears on her face, twitching and matching floating eyes, and then slowly opened her mouth.

"Are you saying that what is written in the booklet is not true?" Erfu asked someone to give her a wet handkerchief to clean her face, ignoring Su Peisheng, who looked like a stroke patient with the corners of his mouth twitching on the side, and asked with a smile.

According to the records in the booklet, this Mama Shen's biological mother's ex-husband's family is a poor household, and there is a little money left by the Lin family's sale, but it is just a fool's life, so this Wang Hua married a family with the same surname in the same village at only fifteen, but the man who married was too uncompetitive, and liked to play with money and ghosts, and his life was not as good as day by day.

In the first few years, there was a mother-in-law and father-in-law to take care of, and the man Wang Da was also a filial piety, and he would also take care of the family's food and clothing, just play two handfuls, and winning or losing was just a pot of wine and a chicken bargaining chips, but it did not affect the family's life.

But with the death of his mother-in-law and father-in-law, several brothers in the family separated, and this Wang Da became a wild horse that broke free, sold most of the family's ancestral property and bought a courtyard in the nearby town.

Wang Hua couldn't endure such hardship, so she found a rich family in the town to do some rough work of sewing and mending, washing and washing, one to earn a few dollars of silver in case Wang Da lost money to ask her, and secondly, there was also a place to eat, plus she had a good temperament, and she got along well with several other maids who worked in that family.

At the beginning of last year, Wang Da lost money in gambling again, and actually bet his little daughter who was less than five years old to the owner of the gambling house, which made Wang Hua crazy at once, she was busy begging her grandfather to tell her grandmother to find a good little sister to borrow silver, but everyone knew the situation in her family, and naturally did not want to waste a lot of money, although she had worked hard to borrow money, but to redeem her daughter was a drop in the bucket.

At this time, a strange mother-in-law found her head, promised to give her twenty taels of silver, and redeemed her daughter and the property that had been pressed out for her, and would give Wang Da a good errand on the condition that he would come to Beijing to do things.

Wang Hua knew that it would not be a good errand, but on the one hand, her daughter would be sent to the kiln in the future to do the business of ushering in the delivery, and on the other hand, she still planned to fight for twenty taels of white flowers.

When she entered Beijing, she immediately contacted Wang Hu, who was doing rough work and odd jobs in Beijing, but found that her brother, who had always been reliable, was also involved in gambling, and was even coaxed and sent to the Internal Affairs Office as a eunuch.

Wang Hu had already been squinted by the flowery capital, and heard that there was a reward of twenty taels of silver, no matter what the person who hired Wang Hua was, he even recommended himself to go to the mother-in-law's house with Wang Hua, begging the mother-in-law to find him a good errand too, so that he could no longer be looked down upon as a coolie in the internal affairs office.

The mother-in-law was a hundred willing, rented a small courtyard for Wang Hua in Nancheng, and got Wang Hu's errand from the rough eunuch who did chores in the internal affairs mansion to the fourth master's mansion, and it was not until the first two months that Wang Hu was arranged to sneak into the medicine warehouse to steal things, and let Wang Hua go to the Zhuangzi where Shen's family was located to be an aunt who made a fire and cooked.

At this time, the two brothers and sisters had already been brainwashed by their mother-in-law, seeing that Mama Shen's family was living so well, they were unwilling to live a hundred or a thousand, and they felt that everything that Mama Shen had now should be theirs, if it weren't for their sacrifices, where would it be Mama Shen's turn to live such a rich life.

As soon as he heard that he was going to put a small snake in the courtyard where Shen Mama lived, Wang Hu directly patted his chest to ensure that no one would find out, and contacted Wang Hua, who was silently recording the information of Shen Mama's family in Zhuangzi, and Wang Hua, who was five points similar to Shen Mama, changed into Shen Mama's robe and took Wang Hu into the west courtyard of the fourth master's mansion so magnificently. (To be continued.) )