After Princess Xuanxue came down from the mountain, the whole capital was in chaos.

Chapter 6: A show of force

When a corpse appears in Xiuzhuang, it is natural to report it to the official, but Yuan Qi does not need to take care of this. Bai Youhui, Feng Zhaolin and others will take care of it.

Yuan Qi waited at the bank entrance for Bai Youhui to come back with the banknotes, bought some pastries from the pastry shop and sneaked back.

No one noticed her when she returned to the ancestral hall. She took back the paper doll and sat on the round futon to eat cakes.

With a "squeak" sound, the door opened. Yuan Qi quickly hid the pastries in the cloth bag and turned to look at the door.

Aunt Li and Jiang Jiulu came in. Jiang Jiulu helped Yuan Qi up and wiped the cake dregs from the corner of her mouth: "Aunt Li begged for you in front of my father, so you can go back."

Yuan Qi was a little embarrassed. She was caught eating cakes secretly, but she still acted clever and made people laugh.

Aunt Li saw it and felt that Yuan Qi's embarrassed appearance was cute. She couldn't help but giggled: "I see you are hungry. Dinner is ready. Let's go and eat together."

Yuan Qi curved his lips and smiled, looking very sensible: "Thank you Aunt Li, thank you Fifth Sister."

Aunt Li felt very distressed and reached out to touch her head: "What a good child, but she was punished to kneel down in the ancestral hall after telling a few truths. When I saw you, my wine dew sounded when I was a child. Such a well-behaved child, I don’t know how they can bear to bully you if you don’t have the love of your aunt!”

Regardless of whether what Aunt Li said was true or not, Yuan Qi did see the love and distress in the other person's eyes.

The masters of the Jiang Mansion had three meals a day together. Yuan Qi met the Jiang family again in the dining hall, but this time one of them was missing, that is, Mrs. Bai was not here.

Jiang Zhengqing, who was on the throne, was not in a good mood. Yuan Qi could tell yesterday that he was having bad luck. The sunken father's palace indicated that the old lady was seriously ill. There were horizontal lines on the mountain roots, and the husband and wife often quarreled.

But this time she won't tell it to avoid being punished again.

She obediently lowered her head and started cooking. When we were almost done eating, a servant came to report that the old lady had fainted.

The masters of Jiang Mansion all went to Songhe Hall in droves.

Yuan Qi was left in the courtyard by Xiangli Mingzhu: "You just bumped into your grandmother, so don't go in, lest your grandmother wakes up and sees you and gets angry again."

Yuan Qi pouted and snorted: I don't want to see her yet.

After some treatment by the government doctor, Mrs. Bai's condition stabilized an hour later.

Jiang Jiulu came out of the house and pulled Yuan Qi: "I will take you to your residence."

Yuan Qi thanked her sweetly: "Fifth sister, you are so kind."

Jiang Zhengqing's daughters all live in a large courtyard - Xichun Courtyard. There are several houses in this yard. Jiang Jiulu took Yuan Qi to a very unique house. The word Shaoyaoju was written on the plaque above the house.

Early the next morning, Yuan Qi was sleeping soundly when she was rudely woken up by the maid Lu Zhu, who was much older than her: "Miss Qi, you have to go and pay your respects to the old lady."

Yuan Qi didn't open his eyes, and turned over in a daze, facing away from Lu Zhu: "Didn't grandma say she didn't want to see me? What should I do?"

"The Marquis asked the master to calculate and said that the old lady's illness was caused by you. Only by getting you back can the old lady's illness be cured. So the madam asked you to go early today. Hurry up, everyone will wait. You alone."

Luzhu was a little rude at the end and had a very bad attitude.

Yuan Qi was irritated, turned over and sat up, and reprimanded her with a flushed face: "I am the master and you are the slave. You'd better be polite to me in the future, otherwise I have all the means to deal with you."

Lu Zhu didn't take her words to heart. The entire Jiang Mansion looked down on the seventh lady. She was also unlucky to be assigned here. If given the chance, she wanted to serve the fourth lady.

"That depends on whether the lady has the ability." Lu Zhu took the clothes roughly and gave them to her to wear.

Yuan Qi was so angry that even a maid dared to bully her, so he stood up from the bed with his butt stuck out, and gave her a slap in the face: "Kneel down!" Luzhu's cheeks felt burning pain, and he felt something flowing down, and when he touched it, It turned out to be blood.

Miss Seven is so strong.

She glared at Yuan Qi angrily, speechless.

Yuan Qi put her hands on her hips, her pink face full of anger, and she repeated word by word: "Kneel down."

Luzhu hesitated for a moment before kneeling down.

"Do I have what it takes?" Yuan Qi raised his chin and asked fiercely.

It's not that she doesn't want Green Bamboo. It doesn't matter who she uses it. Others may not be more loyal or useful than Green Bamboo.

She had no intention of slowly training the maid, as long as the maid did her job well, she didn't care whether she was loyal or not.

People's hearts are unpredictable. There are only interests between people, and there is no loyalty or disloyalty.

Luzhu knew that an ordinary nine-year-old girl would never be so strong and could smash her face with just one slap.

"The young lady has this ability, but the servant has blind eyes and cannot see the mountains. If the young lady atones for her sin, the servant will never dare to do it again."

Yuan Qi hummed and lay down again.

Luzhu was afraid of Yuan Qi, and also afraid that he would be beaten to death for wasting time to see the old lady.

She urged tremblingly: "Miss Seventh, you'd better get up. The old lady can't be delayed. The Marquis, madam, several young masters and young ladies have all arrived, and they are waiting for you alone."

After urging once, Luzhu didn't dare to urge again and knelt down quietly to wait.

After sleeping for a while, Yuan Qi felt that it was almost done, so he got up to change clothes and wash up.

When she arrived at the old lady's Songhe Hall, she saw Jiang Zhengqing sitting on the Grand Master's chair with an angry look on his face.

Although Jiang Zhengqing is not a very good person, he is still very filial to his old mother.

"What time has it been? Why did you come here? Don't you know we are all waiting for you?" Jiang Bailu showed off her sister's momentum and scolded Yuan Qi.

Then Luzhu also came in with his face covered, not daring to raise his eyes to look at the masters, and found a corner to stand by himself.

She was injured, and Yuan Qi didn't tell her to rest, so she had no choice but to follow him. It was also a good time for the masters to see how cruel this seventh lady was.

Jiang Bailu was shocked when she saw this: "Did you hit this?"

"You are disrespectful to your master, you should be beaten." Yuan Qi said angrily, pointing at the green bamboo with her delicate little finger, "She spoke disrespectfully and was mean to me, so I punished her. Is there any problem?"

Luzhu knelt down with a plop: "No slave, it's Miss Seven who was in a bad mood. She took the slave to vent her anger. The slave was very respectful..."

Aunt Li glanced at the maid next to her, and the maid went up and slapped Lu Zhu again.

Aunt Li said: "I'm just a servant. The master just beats me. What's wrong with you? That's because you look down on you. In my opinion, you must look down on Miss Qi because she comes from a Taoist temple and you are disrespectful to Miss Qi. Tell me, Qi Even if the lady hits you, it will be light."

Luzhu looked at Xiangli Mingzhu. Madam asked her to bully Miss Qi. Why didn't Madam say anything now?
  Xiangli Mingzhu didn't think it was Yuan Qi who was great, but that the green bamboo was useless and couldn't even handle a child: "Okay, what's the big deal? If Qi Yatai doesn't like the green bamboo, just change it."

(End of this chapter)