Concubine's three acres of pastoral garden

Chapter 176 Demolition of the house (3)
Cai Qing said: "She said that if they are not allowed to enter, she will leave the mansion and follow her surname Shen. I thought that since they are Miss Xin, there is no reason not to let them in, so I asked the gatekeeper to let them in. .”

Mrs. Zhu gave her a hard look, and said: "Useless things, if you don't report to me, you dare to make decisions privately, and see how I deal with you when I have free hands!"

After speaking, he called the crowd and said, "Go, go and have a look."

So the three aunts, together with Lian Xiangjin, Lian Xiangyuan and Lian Gongliang's wife, Lin Shi, got up together and went straight to Ningfang Garden with Zhu Shi.

When they came, Xianglai and Yang Mengwan were instructing the men to move things, and Yang Mengwan's two maids were cleaning the dust in the cold room.

Mrs. Zhu walked in front of the crowd, and when she entered the yard, she immediately saw Xianglai standing beside Yang Mengwan, just when Xianglai heard someone coming in, she also turned her head to look.

The two looked at each other, Zhu Shi gave a light "ah" in surprise, and subconsciously took two steps back.

Although she had heard that Xianglai looked like Lian Fuxue, Lian Xiu kept saying that Xianglai looked like Lian Chongxue, and she believed it after all, but now at first glance, she looked like Lian Fuxue , and standing in the courtyard where Lian Fuxue used to live, it was like a dead person reappearing in front of her, which really scared her a lot.

Not only her, even the third aunt and fourth aunt who had seen Lian Fuxue were startled and stopped at the same time.

When Wu Yiniang entered the mansion, Lian Fu was dead, she didn't think much of it, and she looked at Xianglai and thought, maybe this is Lian Xianglai, she really looks a bit like Lian Chongxue.

Lian Xiangjin, who was standing beside Zhu Shi, looked at Xianglai with another thought. In the past, people said that her beauty was not weaker than that of her aunt Lian Chongxue, and she was the first wife of the Lian family. Her status is far more noble than that of Xiangluo, Xiangyuan, etc., so naturally she is arrogant from the bottom of her heart, feeling that no woman in the world can compare with herself.

But looking at Xianglai at this time, not only is she beautiful and refined, but there is also another woman who is not confident and dignified. She is not the humble and humble business woman she imagined. Then a strong jealousy was born, and the eyes changed from curiosity to hatred.

Zhu Shi was so shocked that she stopped, and the others also stood at the door.

Just when they were surprised or astonished, they heard someone behind them say: "Let's go, let's go..."

Zhu and others looked back, only to see a strong man and a man who looked like a buddy coming in with two arms of firewood.

The man and the man rushed in unceremoniously, Zhu and the others were worried about being scratched by the firewood and hurriedly dodged aside, the man and the man entered the courtyard in a big way.

Of course it was Xu Che who came in. One can imagine how cold the house would be in this winter when no one lived in it for a long time. After he unlocked it, he immediately took a clerk to the laundry room to remove the doors and windows as Xiang Lai said.

It was not easy for him to install the doors and windows, but he was very good at dismantling them. He and his buddies broke down the doors and windows over there and took them back to help Xianglai burn the house.

He squeezed through Mrs. Zhu and others into the courtyard, greeted Xianglai, and then went to the house to light the fire to warm the walls and the stove.

Before entering the hospital, Mrs. Zhu was frightened. Seeing the strange shape of the firewood Xu Che and his assistant were holding, she couldn't help but shouted, "Stop, what are you holding?"

Xu Che turned his head and glanced at her, but just pretended that there was no such person, and went in with his buddy.

Xianglai also guessed who she was by looking at her posture, but she deliberately asked Yang Mengwan: "It seems that this is another servant sent by the madam to receive our people, why is it so lenient, but to dismantle the doors and windows to make firewood, she unexpectedly Also yelling, even the servants in the mansion are really out of place!"

Yang Mengwan pursed her lips and smiled secretly, thinking that her "daughter" recognized her, she was really good at acting and speaking, she would never let her opponent gain the upper hand, so she just smiled and looked at Zhu Shi jokingly.

Their open and dark arrows here are true and false. Poor maid Caiqing, because she got the job of Zhu Shi to receive Xianglai's "mother and daughter", she had to go forward and introduce to both parties: "Yang, Mrs. Yang, Miss, this This is my wife, not a servant."

At this time, Zhu Shi was frightened and angry, his face was livid, he came into the courtyard after regaining his composure, and scolded Cai Qing: "Useless things, get out of the way for me."

Caiqing shrank her head when she reprimanded her, and stepped aside in fear.

Zhu came to face Yang Mengwan and met her eyes, looked at Yang Mengwan for a while and then at Xianglai, said coldly: "Yang Mengwan, don't play dumb with me, even if your daughter can't guess who I am, you won't refuse Knowing me, let her stop me from being rude, are you sincere?!"

Yang Mengwan deliberately looked her up and down, and said: "Oh, if you don't tell me, I really can't recognize it. 18 years is too long, people are too complacent, and even their appearance has become crooked. It's hard to recognize!"

"you……"

Mrs. Zhu was stunned for a moment, then calmed down, puffed out her chest on purpose, and said, "What's wrong with being proud? Some people don't have the qualifications to be proud. They don't recognize people because they have eyes. The cold water dazzled the eyes."

Seeing that she exposed Yang Mengwan's scars, Xianglai took two steps forward and gave her a very perfunctory blessing, and said, "Oh, so this is Madam. Before entering the mansion, I asked my father whether the people in the mansion are easy to get along with. Our mother and daughter were an eyesore, so we didn't come back, and we lived for 18 years without knowing why. I don't have to have an ancestor, but my father said that the women in the Houfu are gentle and virtuous, especially the wife, who is more tolerant and kind. , can be a role model for the whole family of women, and taught me to get along just like a mother, now it seems...it's true!"

Zhu looked at her and gritted her teeth again. All along, she was really trying to give Lian Xiu such an impression, but the old enemy she cared about the most returned home. Xu Che rushed, how could he have the heart to pretend to be virtuous under his rage, so he showed Yang Mengwan the old face, but it didn't happen that Xianglai would use such words to squeeze her, and she didn't know how to respond for a while.

Right here, a servant of the former mansion who often enters the inner house to do business hurriedly ran over, greeted Mrs. Zhu after entering the courtyard, and said, "Ma'am, there are Korean guests in the former mansion, and the master asked Miss Xianglai to meet them in the former mansion."

Mrs. Zhu was stunned for a moment, and said, "How come there are Korean guests? Why did the master ask Miss Xianglai to meet the guests?"

The servant said: "Because the guest came to look for Miss Xianglai, and he couldn't find it at Tianxiang Rice Shop, so he came to the mansion. The master thought it was inconvenient for foreigners to enter the inner house, so he let the lady go to the outer mansion."

Zhu and all the female relatives who came with her looked at Xianglai suspiciously, and Yang Mengwan also looked at her strangely, for some reason there were Korean guests coming to look for her "daughter".

(End of this chapter)