Chen Muqing understood Yingfen's meaning, went to the account room with the little maid, cleared the accounts, and chatted with Lin Jincai's house for a few words. The Zao Xiu came over and said, "Grandma Qi, our wife invites you to go!"

She frowned slightly when she heard this: "What's wrong? I still have the accounts to settle."

Zao Xiu smiled slightly and said, "I don't know what's going on. I'll know when my grandma goes."

Chen Muqing looked at Zao Xiu.

Seventeen or eighteen years old, with almond eyes and peach cheeks, very beautiful.

Seeing Chen Muqing looking at her, she was not nervous, but instead smiled at Chen Muqing.

Chen Muqing nodded secretly, stood up with a smile and followed Zao Xiu to the fourth wife's place.

"What's going on?" The fourth wife's sideburns all burst out and she asked Chen Muqing loudly, "Where has the uncle been?"

Chen Muqing looked at Huang with confusion.

Huang stepped forward and explained softly: "The tea show at my uncle's house has arrived. I knelt at the gate and kowtowed, and my head was bleeding. I also said that if my uncle didn't go out to see her, she would die at the gate..."

Chen Muqing looked at the fourth wife in panic: "What should I do? If it is a big deal, it will make people laugh at it as a little bit, and it will be a big bit of being impeached by the censor. Mother, you don't know that those censors are in charge of all their affairs. Last time, the wife and concubines of the Chengbo Hou family competed for favor, and caused a murder case. They were impeached by the Censor, saying, "A gentleman cultivates himself and manages his family and can't manage the world, and he can't manage the family, so how can he govern the country?" The emperor actually heard the Censor's words and dismissed the position of the Ministry of War of Chengbo Hou's Five Cities... Mother, what should I do?"

"He is the concubine of my uncle's family, not our concubine." Eleventh Master said disapprovingly, "What does it have to do with us?"

The fourth wife drooped her eyelids and showed a thoughtful expression on her face.

"Master Eleven, you know that this tea show is not a member of our family, and I also know that this tea show is not a member of our family." Chen Muqing looked worried, "But others don't know!"

The fourth wife's eyebrows and eyes moved slightly, and she ordered Eleventh Master: "Go and invite that tea show in!"

Master Eleven was stunned when he heard this, and was a little reluctant, and whispered: "Mom, what do we care about her for such a dilapidated house? What's more, Xiao Cheng..." As he said that, he glanced at the fourth wife.

The fourth wife looked unwilling when she heard this, and said, "If you ask you to go, you can go, why do you say so much?"

Eleventh Master left helplessly.

The fourth wife smiled coldly and began to teach Chen Muqing a lesson: "...Don't say I didn't remind you. This is a human being, you can't just look at whether you have money or not. Sometimes, Qingtai and Ping An are better than anything else. If you don't have seriousness like them, something will happen sooner or later. Look, you will be implicated this time! If you are really impeached by the censor, Xiao Sa will be afraid that it will not be enough to win a hundred battles in the northwest..."

Chen Muqing knew that the fourth wife was pointing at the mulberry tree, so she could only lower her head and listen and respond timidly.

After she trained about a cup of tea, Eleventh Master walked in slowly and slowly: "Mom, that tea show is unwilling to come in..."

The fourth wife raised her eyebrows and her expression was a little sharp: "Don't come in?"

Master Eleven looked very embarrassed: "After all, she is an elder, so I can't force her!"

The fourth wife's face turned pale and she didn't say anything for a long time. The atmosphere in the room became stagnant.

"Mom, I, I..." Eleventh Master seemed a little timid in this atmosphere.

The fourth wife stood up with a cold face: "Let's go and have a look. I want to know what kind of person she is. If a man meets him, he won't even say anything."

When Huang heard this, his face immediately turned pale as paper.

Chen Muqing saw it and could only sigh.

The group went to the gate.

In the winter, Cha Xiu was wearing only a moon-white silk jacket and was kneeling at the gate. His white forehead was covered with blood. His thin body was trembling in the cold wind, looking pitiful.

Nanxunfang, which is usually rare, has stood in groups of people at this moment, and several carriages parked far away on the side of the road.

Chen Muqing hurriedly whispered to the fourth wife: "Look at those carriages...there are silver dragon patterns on the blue curtains...what should I do?"

Only the curtains on the carriage of ministers above the third rank can be decorated with the embroidered belts with silver dragon patterns.

The fourth wife's face changed slightly, and her expression became a little colder.

She stood on the steps from a high place and said loudly: "This lady, this is the mansion of Xiao Sa, the governor of Sichuan and the governor of Gansu. I am Xiao Sa's mother. You kowtowed and petitioned at our door and insisted on meeting our master. I asked you to come in and talk to you, but you refused. I'm blunt, who are you? Why do I look at you very much? Why do you have to meet our master?"

When Cha Xiu saw that the fourth wife was coming out, disappointment flashed in her eyes. Now, after hearing what the fourth wife said, she saw someone around her pointing fingers, and then stood up tiltedly toward the fourth wife. She said softly: "Don't the fourth wife remember me? I am Lu."

"Lu?" The fourth wife was confused and thought for a moment, showing a sudden realization. "It turned out to be you, the uncle's concubine. The uncle kept you in Yangzhou, and you never go back to your ancestral home. No wonder I don't recognize you. I wonder what you have to ask our master?"

After a few words were completely ignored, Chen Muqing did not expect that the fourth wife would be so neat in her words and actions.

Cha Xiu's eyes flashed and she said, "I'm not here to find the fourth master, I'm here to find the eldest master..."

Before the fourth wife could finish her speech, she immediately retorted: "This is strange. Since I had you, I have followed you in Yangzhou for several years. How can you find our home when you are looking for your uncle? What does this have to do with our master?"

"Fourth wife," Cha Xiu said, "When you are not here, the eldest wife lives here..."

"The eldest wife is Xiao Sa's aunt. The eldest wife lives with you in Yangzhou and never goes home all year round. She is here to relax, which is also Xiao Sa's duty as a nephew." The fourth wife stole the conversation, "What does it have to do with our master?"

The people watching the fun whispered to the tea show.

Cha Xiu pursed her lips a little uncomfortable, ignored the fourth wife's nonsense and said, "I'm not here to find the fourth master, I'm here to find the eldest master!"

Chen Muqing saw the fourth wife and breathed a sigh of relief: "Uncle is not here. You have found the wrong place!"

The expression on Cha Xiu's face was cloudy and sunny.

The fourth wife smiled and said, "Who am I? Can you still lie to you? My uncle is indeed not here with us. He and his sister-in-law went to Guangdong. The weather in Kyoto is too cold, and my sister-in-law is not used to this kind of weather, so she went back to Guangdong."

Chen Muqing was very surprised.

Cha Xiu also looked at the fourth wife in surprise, with disbelief in her eyes.

The fourth wife hummed coldly, her eyes sarcastically: "For the sake of uncle, I will forget about your troubles in my case. Come in and have a cup of hot tea!" As she said that, she raised her head proudly.

Cha Xiu was stunned, silent for a while, and said, "Thank you, the fourth wife. Since the master is not here, I will leave first. I will pay my respects to you if I have the chance in the future!" As he said that, he staggered away from the gate of Xiao Mansion.

"I've really spoiled my uncle." The fourth wife was very dissatisfied, "I don't even know the ranks and the inferiors." As she said that, she coldly ordered the doorman: "Close the door. If you come to someone who doesn't understand the rules in the future, there is no need to open the door for her." Then she turned around and headed into the door.

Chen Muqing and Huang, the Eleventh Master hurriedly followed the fourth wife inward, while the gatekeeper closed the door tightly.

The people outside the door dispersed, and the carriages were "hard" and drove again in their respective directions.

*******

"Mom, did my uncle really go to Guangdong with my aunt?" As he walked on the road, Master Eleven asked hesitantly, "Why don't I know?"

The fourth wife looked disdainful: "Will I let her do this in front of me? As for whether your uncle is in Guangdong or not, she will know if she goes there!"

"But if Xiao Cheng knows..." Eleventh Master looked a little panicked.

The fourth wife stopped suddenly, turned to Chen Muqing and said, "What are you doing in the kitchen just now? Have you finished it?"

Chen Muqing was obedient and immediately said: "It's the account of food, rice, oil and salt in the past few days. It's a lot and complicated, and it won't be clear for a while."

The fourth wife nodded and said, "Water dripping with stones. Don't underestimate these small accounts. Go and do your business, just have Huang to serve here. Please worry more about the trivial matters at home!"

"Yes!" Chen Muqing bowed and took his maid to the kitchen.

The fourth wife looked at Chen Muqing's back as she was leaving, her face suddenly pulled down and she said sternly: "Follow me!"

A hint of panic flashed in the eyes of Master Eleven, and he slowly followed the fourth wife into the house.

As soon as he entered the house, the fourth wife's resentment was revealed without any concealment: "What are you afraid of Xiao Cheng doing? Did you owe Xiao Cheng's money?"

"No, no." Master Eleven explained hurriedly, "He doesn't know about my gambling..."

The fourth wife was completely unbelievable: "Since that's the case, why are you afraid of offending Xiao Cheng?"

Master Eleven whispered: "I think my grandfather values ​​him very much... Brother Fifth also has a good relationship with him... so I want to make friends with him..."

"Why did I give birth to you, a fool?" The fourth wife was furious, "How come the old man valued him? If he really valued him, he would have raised him to the name of the eldest wife long ago. Why do you have to let him be so confused and unclear in the Xiao family?" At this point, she couldn't help but suppress her displeasure and whispered, "You have always been confused, I will just explain it to you clearly! The old man's wife who looks at the most is Zheng Yueniang, and the only grandson he likes the most is Xiao Sa. He always feels that Xiao Sa has the blood of the Xiao family and the Zheng family, which is a combination of the smart, intelligent, handsome and strong child of the Xiao family. He doesn't have any other sons and grandsons. Take it seriously. So he didn't ask me back then, and immediately adopted Xiao Sa to my name. He didn't take us daughters-in-law seriously... Your father's dowry with me was yours, but now he has to share it with him... Not only that, Zheng Yueniang is cunning and treacherous by nature, I'm afraid that the property under her name will try every means to secretly give it to Xiao Sa..." Speaking of this, her eyes were too long, "Now Xiao Sa has become a climate, and she lives in Xiao Sa all day long... Humph, this son was neither born nor raised by me, and I never thought of getting an imperial decree for it. But if Zheng Yueniang made this idea, it depends on whether I agreed or not..."

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