Chapter 12 The Marquis' wife (below)

　　Marquis wife looked at the hour is not early, called the accompanying mother-in-law maids wait, a line of people back to the Wang Fu went. 　　Mrs. Marquis busy people will be ready, jade cups, colorful satin, wrist incense beads and other fine things, plus just sing the concert troupe together with the offer. 　　Before leaving, the marquis wife and remembered what, ordered the maid to send a carved plum blossom of vermilion gold lacquer box, "you see me, see you a happy, actually forgot, a few days ago into the palace to observe the ceremony, the mother let me bring this to you." 　　First Mistress quickly took over, and then stood aside until Mrs. Cai's carriage could no longer be seen, and only then turned around to return to the house. 　　Along the hanging flower gate on both sides of the copious hand corridor into the inner courtyard, the first wife opened the box to see, is a "security life-extension scripture" pick up the scripture, underneath is also neatly stacked a piece of cloth, is only used in the palace of brocade, embroidered on the top of a peony. 　　The first wife could not help but "hmph" a sound, that year, if not to see her niece was born with dignified and beautiful features, people also know how to be reasonable, when she was born and accounted for a nobleman's hour, she will not send her to the palace, who knows that she is so bad luck, until now but a nobleman. 　　Chen mother looked at the sutra smiled and relieved the first wife, "Miss nephew is a filial, into the palace also do not forget that Mrs. like the sutra, entrusted with people to bring out." 　　The First Mistress sneered, "What's the use of being filial? Spend a lot of silver, also do not see her have what success, arrange for people to a little more silver in, let her up and down, how to find a way to fight for a higher position." 　　Chen mother hurriedly said yes, heart but some intolerance, nephew Miss that is a fairy-like character, good heart, stomach learning and not worse than the house of the five miss, then she also sought, do not know which family can marry such a young lady, but did not think to let the first wife sent to the palace. 　　So calm people, all trust the hand of the Empress to ask for help from the First Mistress, think the life in the palace must be very difficult. 　　Once in the palace can not please the dragon's heart, after a few years of people a old, even if the end. 　　The First Mistress closed the box in her hand and handed it to Chen Mama. 　　Chen mother hurriedly followed the past said: "six miss there is nothing suspicious, is the eight miss, and do not know where to go, I have brought the hibiscus, Mrs. want to personally ask?" 　　First Mistress said, "Bring it to my house." 　　The First Mistress led the people back, the atmosphere in the house was tense, most of the maids didn't dare to look at the face of the First Mistress, all of them were careful to serve. 　　Chen mom said, "I have sent people to quietly look for it, and it is not in the garden." 　　"What about the other young ladies?" 　　"Not in." 　　The First Mistress glanced at Mama Chen, "You give me a careful account of what happened when you went to the Sixth Miss's place." 　　Mother Chen hurriedly spoke carefully, not daring to drop a single detail. 　　"I was afraid that there was a fake, carefully checking, all the words are Miss Six's correct, so it seems that Miss Eight is more suspicious than Miss Six. Although Miss Eight has only just entered the mansion, but I heard that Auntie Seven is not an unusual master, teaching her something outside the mansion is also there. Before entering the mansion there will be more or less some preparation, and it's not strange to have dealings with maids and maids in other mansions." 　　"It is because those born and raised outside, the hearts of the people are even more unpredictable, which is why I asked you to pay more attention." 　　Mother Chen said, "Yes." The First Mistress never trusts people easily, the concubine's young lady who is separated from her belly, and then not having watched her grow up with her own eyes, it's even harder to say, "Or else call all those few maids who have contact with Granny Qian to ask them?" 　　The First Mistress said, "Are you still afraid that there are few people in the house who know?" The marquis wife just left, she made a big fuss in the house, if this matter is spread to the marquis house ...... side in case they also check up, maybe they will also pull out the eye line that she has planted, either way it is a trouble, before her plan is not carried out, she doesn't want to create a side issue. 　　Several people around her know that she is suspicious of the heart, it is all because of the five misses, that year that thing is not by the master to see the clues, she is still in the dark. In the end, Miss five died, the master will be the whole thing counted on her head, blame her housekeeping is not strict, there are always a few times a year to bring up, these years she has become a bird of prey, afraid of having a second Miss five out, so everything is concerned about, the suspicion of the heart is also a year better than a year, the people around her, if they are not benefited by her, she absolutely do not use, the House of the people do not go through a few temptations, she will not believe it. 　　Thinking of the fifth young lady, the first wife will hate to gnash her teeth, if you know that hoof will cause trouble, it would be better to dispose of her a long time ago. 　　Chen mom looked at the grand wife's gloomy face, before the eighth miss entered the house, the grand wife was thinking of marrying her off in a hurry, if today's incident is true, the eighth miss's days in the house are also counted as the end of the day. 　　Mugun in the back followed, the first wife did not ask, she did not dare to say anything, is walking, feel around someone to come up, she looked sideways, is Cui deacon's family, and then a pain in the arm, know that it is Cui deacon's family twisted her hard a bit. 　　Mu Hibiscus did not dare to speak out, only to hear Cui deacon's family scolded in a low voice: "Dead hoof, what have you made trouble again? If you are at fault, admit it yourself, don't implicate my mother." 　　After Deaconess Cui's family finished saying this, Dongrui, the maid beside the First Mistress, glanced at Mugun thoughtfully. 　　When the first wife entered the courtyard, she saw Chun Yao coming out of the house, Chun Yao's needlework is good, she specially instructed Chun Yao to think more about making some patterns on the needlework in the past few days, seeing that the old lady's seventieth birthday is coming up, the relatives in the clan will inevitably have to get together, so it is inevitable to make some things to give away. 　　Chun Yao looked at the first wife followed so many people, but do not know what is in it, hurried to come forward, and then look at the back of the hibiscus has been scared to no one, the heart of a thought, will understand a few points. 　　First Mistress said, "Today should not send you errands, should let you follow the eighth miss is, have seen the play, the eighth miss went to the garden, and now I do not know where, will not find the wrong way." 　　Chun Yao hurriedly said, "This is the slave girl's fault, the slave girl knows where the eighth miss is, and even forgot to ask someone to tell madam." 　　First Mistress could not help but be a little surprised, her eyes flickered as she looked at Chun Yao carefully. 　　Chun Yao nodded, "The eighth young miss is in madam's house." As soon as the words fell, the curtain moved again, and the eighth young miss indeed picked the curtain and walked out. 　　Rong Hua saw that it was the First Mistress outside and hurriedly went forward to bow, the First Mistress froze for a moment before complaining with a smile, "This child of yours, how did you get here, I thought that they had lost you again and were about to ask the maids to look for you everywhere." 　　Rong Hua hurriedly said, "Let mother take the trouble, I was looking around the garden, but I didn't think to walk to mother's place, I happened to see Chun Yao, I thought I had something to ask her, so I followed her in." 　　The First Mistress smiled, "If it were usual, it would be just fine, today there happens to be a playwright in the inner courtyard, I'm afraid you'll meet someone you shouldn't." She also reached out her hand and pulled Ronghua up, "It's cold outside, let's go inside to talk." 　　Chen mother saw that the eighth young lady had already found, knew that the previous plan was no longer valid, then dismissed those irrelevant, leaving only the two maids in the wife's house, Xia and Dong, and the eighth young lady's house, Mugun, to stay. 　　The first wife sat on the main seat, let Rong Hua sit on the right hand, wait until the maids served tea, the first wife picked up the cup of tea to sip, and then looked sideways at the next Rong Hua drinking tea. 　　Waiting for Rong Hua to put the tea cup down, the First Mistress then smiled, "What are you doing in the house?" 　　Rong Hua couldn't help but blush, "It's nothing, mother will laugh if she sees it." 　　As the words were being said, Chun Yao had already taken the needle and thread colander from the round stool, and took out something from it as he walked away, and everyone took a look at it, and a small half of golden stamens had been embroidered on the autumn-scented satin. 　　Chun Yao said, "Miss Eight is trying to make a leg warmer for Mrs., some of the needles and threads inside don't quite understand, and happened to ask me." 　　"This is for leg warmers?" 　　Ronghua nodded, "I heard mom Chen say before that mother has leg problems and is most afraid of the cold, and I've used similar ones before, so I thought that with winter just around the corner, mother might be able to use it when the weather gets cold." 　　Chen mother smiled next to her and said, "I've seen it at the eighth young lady's place, looking at the delicacy, I said, I didn't expect the eighth young lady to be a thoughtful one." 　　First Mistress revealed a kind smile, "Quickly bring it for me to see." 　　Chun Yao is busy handing over the item in her hand, the First Mistress carefully scrutinizes it for half a day, "It is said that people with good stitching have good temperament, there are quite a lot of young ladies in this mansion, but none of them are as good looking as the flowers that you tied up." 　　When Ronghua heard the First Mistress' appreciation, she couldn't help but smile shyly, "I don't know anything about it, I just have nothing to do and do it on my own." 　　The First Mistress patted Ronghua's hand and said, "It's best for a girl to learn this, when I was young, I also like to do some sewing, but now I'm getting old and my eyes are not good," she also looked at Chunyao, "I'm just worried that there's no good young lady in the house to help me with these things, but luckily you're here, so I'm going to leave it up to you. It's good that you're here, so I'll leave this matter to you." 　　Rong Hua did not know what the matter was, and only listened obediently. 　　The First Mistress said, "The old lady's birthday is coming up, relatives will come to celebrate," the First Mistress paused and then continued, "Gifts for the female relatives are indispensable, and some of them have to be made by yourselves in order to have a novelty, Chunyao is a good maid in the mansion, so you guys can discuss and see what kind of good you can make, but please think carefully and not be afraid of trouble. But please be thoughtful and not afraid of trouble." 　　Ronghua hurriedly promised, "Yes." 　　The First Mistress said, "If you need an embroiderer, have Chun Yao look for Deacon Cui's family, and it would be best to come up with a few patterns for me to look at." 　　Speaking of the embroiderer, Chun Yao's heart stirred, remembering the hibiscus flower on the handkerchief and his own life, he couldn't help but look at Miss Eight a few more times. Looking at the quiet and easy-going eighth miss, Chun Yao couldn't help but be glad that this matter fell on the head of the eighth miss, when the time came for her to propose that she wanted the eighth miss to introduce the embroiderer who could embroider that kind of hibiscus flower stitching before, the eighth miss would most likely agree. 　　Ronghua said, "My daughter will do her best." 　　The First Mistress nodded with satisfaction, "Your Sixth Sister's stitching is quite passable, I'll let her help you out as well." Saying that, the First Mistress called Chen Mama, "Go and invite the Sixth Miss here."