The Hou Mansion is very large, much larger than Anyuan. Naturally, it would take a long distance to get from where they were now to that backyard. So Mo Song called a soft sedan chair and led Shen Nanzhi and Lilac all the way to the backyard.

In each family, there is a rough place for the people to live, and they are contracted to wash the clothes of the people in the house, dirty work (such as cleaning the buckets), etc., if the door is smaller, there is no such thing, and the clothes of the people are handled by themselves, and the dirtier and more tired ones are either regularly invited to come outside, or they are sent out in various courtyards.

Like the Hou Mansion, it is not an exaggeration to have such a place.

Of course, the backyard is not dirty, after all, there are still people to live.

After walking around for a long time, I walked around a large pebble wall of ink and bamboo monks, and finally arrived at the scope of the so-called "backyard".

Here are a neatly arranged low tile houses, the interior of the house is spacious, for a few people to rest, the outside yard is also very large, basically no decorative furnishings, but also for the people to work more conveniently.

The status of these rough envoys is not as good as that of the rough maids in the courtyard, either they have committed something at home and have been assigned, or they are stupid and can't do things well.

As soon as I entered the yard, I saw a lot of people in Huanyi, these people saw a well-dressed little girl who walked in, and they all looked over curiously for a while, although they were assigned to the back to do rough work, but there were also people who had done things in front, they looked at Shen Nanzhi, but they only felt very angry, and they didn't know who this person was.

But there are also two who are clever, as soon as they see a gorgeously dressed nobleman coming, they can't care who it is, these two were originally carrying a cup from outside to go back to the house, but as soon as they saw someone coming, they glanced at each other, and the two of them walked towards Shen Nanzhi together: "Ahem...... Madame, Madame, why did Madame get to the backyard? ”

What are their thoughts, how can Shen Nanzhi not know? But she didn't come today to save people and be a living Bodhisattva in the sea of suffering, so she only glanced at Xue Ying on the side, and Xue Ying hurriedly took out a purse with a light cyan embroidered daisy from his body, and grabbed two ingots of broken silver from it and gave them to the two people: "The second grandmother came here to find someone, called ...... Begonia's, do you know each other? ”

A moment of loss flashed in the eyes of the two girls, but they carefully looked at the silver nude in their hands and confirmed that it was full of weight, so they smiled lightly: "It turned out to be the second grandmother!" It's really like what Steward Cui said, just like the people in the painting......"

And the other girl smiled and put away the silver nude that the cloves gave out, and then smiled: "Second grandma, we know the begonia you are looking for, and at this time it is behind the, the slaves and maids will take you over to find her!" ”

Shen Nanzhi nodded, and the two of them led the three comers to walk inside together.

The courtyard was full of some female envoys who were bored, and if Shen Nanzhi didn't look up, he couldn't tell who was who, so he followed the two female envoys all the way inside, only to see a neatly dressed woman with meticulous hair squatting in a corner, wiping the beads of sweat on her forehead with the back of her hand.

The two female envoys walked over with Shen Nanzhi, although their tones were much more restrained because of the presence of the master's family, but Shen Nanzhi still heard the disgust and impatience of the two of them: "Oh, Begonia!" Second grandma looking for you! ”

Jiang Wantang turned her head sharply when she heard this, and looked Shen Nanzhi up and down in disbelief, Shen Nanzhi didn't move, let Jiang Wantang stare at herself back and forth, and after a while, she seemed to react, she didn't care about the clothes in her hand, she got up in a daze, took two steps towards Shen Nanzhi, knelt in front of her with a "poof", and cried: "Slave, slave and maid, see the second grandmother!" ”

Everyone was stunned, Jiang Wantang walked a few steps to Shen Nanzhi's feet, and grabbed her skirt weakly: "Second grandmother, you are finally here, the slave maid has been waiting for the second grandmother to pick up the slave since the day I heard that you and the second master got married...... Woo woo, second grandmother, the slave knows that she is wrong, please save the slave and the maid! ”

"What are you doing here!?" Shen Nanzhi stepped back, but he only hated that he couldn't break free from her hands, Mo Song and Lilac reacted at this time, and hurriedly stopped her behind her, Lilac's eyes were full of disgust: "You, you have done so many things that can't help your aunt and grandmother back then, but now you know that you beg your aunt to save you!" Hmph, it's really self-inflicted! ”

Jiang Wantang didn't seem to hear Lilac's cynicism, and grabbed the corner of Shen Nanzhi's clothes by herself, she cried twice, and suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly lifted her sleeves, only to see that the smooth two arms were covered with red and purple whip marks, horizontal and vertical criss-cross, some places were just whipped red and swollen, and some places were directly peeled and fleshy, and at this moment it had formed a black blood scab......

The state of the wound is different, at a glance, you can know that it is a new injury and an old injury, in short, it is shocking, and Lilac also took a breath at a glance.

"Second grandma, this backyard is comparable to the Xin Zheku in the palace!" Jiang Wantang cried and shouted, angrily pointing at the two people standing on the side, "Second grandma, you don't know how many beatings the slave maid has suffered after coming here!" ”

The two female envoys who had just received Shen Nanzhi's silver were shocked, and hurriedly pointed to the person kneeling on the ground and scolded: "You, what nonsense are you talking about!" If it weren't for the fact that you were so hypocritical every day and delayed a lot of work, my mother wouldn't have asked us to punish you! If you can't do it yourself, you blame someone else for punishing you!? ”

Shen Nanzhi turned his head and glared at the two people viciously.

She didn't think Jiang Wantang was pitiful, but she was also disgusted by such people who beat and scolded at every turn, such things were not uncommon in the big portal, and there were even more such subordinates who bullied people and dogs fought against others, even if Shen Nanzhi wanted to take care of it, it was too difficult.

Shen Nanzhi exhaled heavily, and said to the two people with a cold face: "Tell you in charge, I took the begonia." ”

After saying that, he waved his hand and asked Mo Song to take Jiang Wantang and leave here together.

However, although she is the second grandmother of the Hou Mansion, after all, she lives outside, and she does not have the power to manage the entire Hou Mansion, so if she wants someone to leave from the Hou Mansion, she still has to talk to the person in charge, and now the Hou Mansion is the steward of the Dong family and the Kong family, Shen Nanzhi thought about it, and decided to go to the eldest sister-in-law Kong to talk about it more conveniently than facing the Dong family.