Chapter 842 Deceiving
The next day, Prince Xiang's mansion started to sweep up the dust. There were still ten days before the New Year's Eve. The dust was supposed to be swept up on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, but worried that it would be too late, Xiao Lingsu advanced all the preparations.
Xiao Lingyue came early as expected. She followed Xiao Lingsu like a little tail, listening carefully to her orders to the stewards, and occasionally asking questions if they didn't understand.
Xiao Lingsu patiently explained to her, which made Xiao Lingyue admire, and sincerely praised, "Big sister, you know a lot!"
Xiao Lingsu said, "I learned all these from my sister-in-law. Fourth sister, I originally planned to take you out tomorrow, but this time my sister-in-law took me out because of important matters, and it is not convenient for me to take you with me for the time being." out."
Xiao Lingyue waved her hand, "Big Sister, I'm just talking. If you have something important to do, just focus on handling it and leave me alone. But, Big Sister, can you tell me what it is?"
Xiao Lingsu blushed, shook her head and said, "I don't know either. I asked Sister Bailing yesterday, but she didn't say anything."
Xiao Lingyue naturally didn't believe it, but she was already eleven years old, she was not an ignorant girl, she said with a smile, "Did the elder sister go to see you?"
"Oh, I'm ignoring you. Who did you listen to?" Xiao Lingsu pretended to be angry, and Xiao Lingyue's silver bell-like laughter came from behind her.
As soon as Xiao Lingyu came in, she heard Xiao Lingyue's laughter. She was taken aback for a moment. It turned out that her fourth younger sister could still laugh. Didn't she always look like a wooden block?
"Fourth sister, what are you laughing at?" Xiao Lingyu asked.
Xiao Lingyue hurriedly came forward to salute, "I met the second sister, I was just laughing at Xiangqiao, she almost fell."
Xiangqiao is Xiao Lingyue's servant girl. Hearing this, she hurriedly said with a smile, "If the slave girl falls to the ground, there will be no one around the girl to serve her."
Xiao Lingyue smiled and said, "It's also fortunate that you were quick and held it up. Thinking about it now, it is indeed dangerous."
Xiao Lingyu came late. Seeing that there were no servants working anywhere, she asked, "Why is there still no one here? Where is the manager here? Let her come to see me!"
Xiao Lingyue said, "Second Sister, you can do your work here first, I'm going to find Big Sister."
In case the second sister reprimanded the steward, she would also stand aside and be hated by others.
The steward came soon, and although he was very respectful in front of Xiao Lingyu, his eyes rolled around, and he didn't take Xiao Lingyu seriously. Hearing Xiao Lingyu's question about sweeping the dust, the steward said, "If you go back to the second lady, the dust will be blown away." I’ve passed, I’ve seen everything everywhere, look, what time is it, since yesterday I said to fight the dust today, I naturally have to do it early in the morning, so as to avoid the dust on the masters when they walk around , this is the rule over the years."
Xiao Lingyu was so angry that she was trembling all over. She suddenly felt that the servants all around were laughing at her. She was just a little girl, and she had never encountered such an embarrassing thing. She almost burst into tears.
Xiao Lingyu's maid, Xianglan, saw this and hurriedly dismissed the steward, "You go, the girl is just asking."
The steward glanced at Xiao Lingyu indifferently, and stepped back respectfully. When he got outside, he snorted coldly with contempt, and left with a sneer on the corner of his lips.
Xiang Lan glanced at the little maid, who hurried away.
"Girl, let's go back!"
"Big sister is simply too deceitful. She really thinks that I really want to follow her as a housekeeper?" Xiao Lingyu moved out step by step, trembling all over.
"Girl, go back and talk about these words!"
When Xiao Lingyu returned to the house, the little servant girl soon came and said, "I heard that the fourth girl followed the elder girl to listen to the affairs of the stewards, so she got up at Maozheng, and arrived at the affairs hall in Maoshizhong. My son accompanied the eldest girl to the eldest girl's yard."
"Hehe, sure enough, everyone is not a fuel-efficient lamp. I used to say that she might be just like her mother. Who knows, she is also a scheming person." Xiao Lingyu said coldly.
Xiang Lan handed a cup of tea to Xiao Lingyu's hand, "Girl, don't be angry, let's drink some tea first!"
Xiao Lingyu took a sip and asked, "Have you not found out what the princess wants big sister to do at Zeng's house tomorrow?"
Xiang Lan said in a low voice, "I heard that the fourth girl also asked today, and even annoyed the eldest girl. It must be because of that matter."
Xiao Lingyu's heart was filled with hatred, "Then what's so good about the eldest son of the Gu family? He's not a relative of the emperor."
Xiang Lan said with a smile, "Look, the girl is confused. The palace is originally a clan. If you are relatives of the emperor, cousins are okay. If you are of the same clan, how can you talk about marriage?"
Xiao Lingyu became irritable when she heard the word "marriage", but Concubine Ma never allowed her to treat the people around her harshly, so she said, "Stop talking around me, go to the kitchen and order, I want a bowl of tender meat for lunch eggs, steamed with milk."
Xianglan was in a hurry, but the kitchen said that at this time, it was already time for lunch, and the dishes were already in the pot, so it was really difficult to adjust. The meals in each courtyard had their own rules. , is to add silver. "
Xiang Lan thought she heard it wrong, and said, "It's not that we want to eat, but the girl wants to eat."
"It doesn't matter who wants to eat it. If we tell in advance, we will remove the regular dish and replace it with this one. If it exceeds the price of the regular dish before, each courtyard will also have to add money. It's too early. There are rules."
"What year is this rule, I have never heard of this rule."
Just as I was talking, a little girl from Xiao Lingsu's yard came, and she said with a smile, "Aunt Liu, the fourth girl is in the big girl's yard, and we have to have lunch together. The big girl said, today's order It’s enough to send one set of dishes, it’s five taels of silver, Aunt Liu saw how easy it is, so she helped the girl cook four dishes and sent them over, and if there were any more, I would reward the aunts.”
Aunt Liu hurriedly took the money, and said with a smile, "How can you reward us? Girls don't want to eat? According to me, give the girls what's left over for the older sisters to eat, and then give the older sisters to us." .”
"No, Sister Citron said that she just wanted to eat something lighter. Today's dishes are all heavy in oil, and she is not used to it." The little maid left after finishing speaking.
Xiang Lan was furious, she must have made this rule when the princess was in charge of the house, but no one told them that she was ashamed to come here for no reason.
The second update!
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