Peach Blossom at the Bottom of the Fan

Chapter 20
Mother Xu frowned, and before calling someone to see, she heard a familiar voice asking in surprise, "What's wrong? Yucui, what are you doing?"

This voice is familiar not only to Xu's mother, but also to Gu Sixiao.

Raising her eyebrows, she squeezed her hands, suppressing the urge to go out and see what happened.

Mrs. Xu is the most important thing for Mrs. Zhang in the back house. She has always been accompanied by a little girl, Mei Xiang, who runs errands and passes on messages. However, recently, Chunhua, who has not been in the mansion for a long time, often works with Mrs. Xu.

It is said that Mrs. Zhang was afraid of Mama Xu's hard work, so she let Chunhua come in and follow Mama Xu, but in the eyes of discerning people, this is clearly to let Chunhua follow Mama Xu to learn how to do things, and when she marries Steward Fu in the future, it is a matter of course. She entered the back house and became the lady in charge.

Everyone else thinks so, and Xu's mother naturally thinks so, and now she hears Chunhua scolding people outside, and she is even more furious.

Feeling angry, she couldn't sit still anymore. Mother Xu stepped out of the door and saw Chunhua yelling at him, "Where is this girl like you? You just sent this girl over there, so you just bring her back! Yu Cui , you are going to slap our mother Xu in the face!"

"Cough..." Mother Xu coughed heavily, she rolled Chunhua's eyes before turning to Yucui, "You're not serving Aunt Liu at Muchun Courtyard, what are you doing here?"

Turning her gaze, she saw the little girl Xiaohua timidly following behind Yucui, Xu's mother raised her eyebrows, guessing somewhat.

No wonder Chunhua really came to slap her in the face when she said that.

"What's the matter? Didn't this little flower just get sent to Mu Chunyuan to be a rough envoy? Why did you bring her here now? What's wrong with this girl?"

Yucui's eyes flickered, and although there was a flash of nervousness, she still said in a sharp voice: "Mother Xu, there are not many maids in our Muchun Courtyard, like our Aunt Liu and Aunt Feng, each of us has only one close-fitting girl. A rough girl can't do so much work at all. I heard that there are a new batch of girls in the house, and they will give us a few in Muchunyuan, but now, there is only such a small one. She went to Muchunyuan. , Do you want to work? Or do you want to wait for us to serve her?"

Mother Xu squinted her eyes, looked at Xiao Hua, and asked with a smile: "Xiao Hua, did you let your sister Yu Cui serve you?"

"Xiao Hua dare not..." Xiao Hua trembled in fright, and only waved her hands vigorously, "No, no, Xiao Hua is here to serve the master, not to be served by others—I, I can watch everything, sweeping the floor, cooking, Laundry, as long as the master asks me to do anything, I will do it..."

"Did you hear that?" Looking at Yu Cui, Xu's mother said calmly: "Xiao Hua didn't intend to ask you to serve her!"

Yucui snorted, "That's what you said, but everyone knows that such a small child can't do much work! Besides, there is only one girl, how can the two aunts be divided?"

"Oh, not enough? Who said that? You? Or Aunt Liu? Could it be that Aunt Feng said it?" The smile on Xu's mother's face suddenly disappeared, and she called Mei Xiang, the girl beside her, "Mei Xiang , Tell me, what did you say when you sent Xiaohua to Muchun Courtyard just now?"

Mei Xiang said in a deep voice with a wooden face: "Mom, I told the two aunts at the time that Xiao Hua is a little girl assigned to Muchun Courtyard. If there is any rough work, just ask her to do it--I never said that Xiao Hua is a girl assigned to Mu Chunyuan." For which aunt! "

"Did you hear that?" Mother Xu asked with a cold face, but seeing that Yu Cui was silent, she yelled in vain: "Did you hear that?!"

"I heard..." Yu Cui was startled, and hurriedly said: "Mother Xu, we really don't have enough manpower in the courtyard. Why don't you call us again—it's like this girl, isn't she also a newcomer to the mansion?" No matter what? It’s better than this!”

Hey, how did you pull her up so well!

Gu Sixiao scolded in her heart, but still lowered her head, pretending to be honest, but kept silent.

"This refers to a famous person!" Xu's mother smiled, but her eyes couldn't hide her disgust, "Yu Cui, is your score too big? Bah, when is it your turn for the Gu family to talk?" What?! Don't say it's you, a stinky girl, even Aunt Liu doesn't have the right to come to me to ask for someone!"

"How does mother talk? After all, our aunt is also the master..."

"Damn," Xu's mother spat at her face, "I'm ashamed to talk about your aunt. You came to me to make trouble because of your aunt's order? Do you want me to ask your aunt Liu? Or Your aunt personally ran to the lady to reason about why the lady gave Mu Chunyuan a girl?!"

Yucui wiped her face, angry and resentful, "We don't need our aunt to stand out, I'll go to my lady right now, and talk about how unfair Xu's mother is..."

"I'm afraid you, a dead girl, will sue?!" Mother Xu snorted coldly, "Don't talk about you, even if your aunt goes to sue, I won't be afraid..."

"Why bother?" Chunhua came out to smooth things over at this time, first she grabbed Yucui who turned and walked out, and then turned to look at Mama Xu, "Mom, don't be angry, I think Yucui loses her senses in a moment of impatience. Your lord has a lot, don’t be as knowledgeable as her, I’ll send her back to Muchunyuan right now——Yucui, it’s not a sister talking about you, how could you do this! Who is our mother Xu? The entire Gu family Who doesn't know that Mother Xu is the most fair, how could she deliberately..."

Seeing Chunhua pulling Yucui to go out, Xu's mother snorted coldly, "Hey, it's fake—what are you still doing here? Do you want me to send you back to Muchun Courtyard in person?"

After being yelled at by her, Xiao Hua was also startled, turned around in a hurry, and chased after her.

Patting her chest, Mother Xu calmed down and called Mei Xiang: "You, send the painting to the back study, don't say anything..."

Looking at Gu Sixiao, her voice slowed down, "You do things well and keep your duty, the Gu family will naturally not treat you badly."

This Gu family naturally refers to the Zhang family.Gu Sixiao understood what he heard, and naturally responded with a full mouth.

Following Mei Xiang all the way to the garden, Gu Sixiao was thinking about what happened before.

Unexpectedly, Mei Xiang stopped in front of her suddenly, if Gu Sixiao hadn't stopped in time, she would have almost bumped into Mei Xiang.

"Mei Xiang!" Chunhua turned around with a smile from the front corner, glanced at Gu Sixiao from the corner of her eyes, and then looked away.

Mei Xiang smiled, her face was still dull, but just when Chunhua was about to turn around, she suddenly said: "Today, the beads on Yucui's head are full of beautiful flowers, that bead is very big! Look, sister Chunhua The flower on your head really looks like..."

The smile on Chunhua's face froze immediately, she turned her head to look at Mei Xiang, and after a while she blinked and smiled and said, "What pearl flower? I didn't notice it! You have sharp eyes, but Mei Xiang, it's better to be greedy when you look at other people's things." Go buy it yourself too! Like sister’s bead flower? Tell me earlier, I’ll just give it to you..."

As she was talking, she really turned her back to pick the pearl flower, Mei Xiang laughed dryly, "I'm not as good-looking as sister Chunhua, how can I wear such a beautiful thing! My sister should wear it herself!"

Blessing her lower body, Mei Xiang said lightly: "I won't delay Sister Chunhua..."

Chunhua smiled and didn't stay, but silently watched Meixiang leave with Gu Sixiao.

Unable to hold back after all, Gu Sixiao turned her head to look, only to see the beautiful figure of Chunhua standing there.

It looked so familiar, yet so strange.

She knew that Chunhua was smart, but Chunhua in her memory was never like this.

"I thought others were fools..." Mei Xiang turned her head and saw Gu Sixiao was turning her head, so she gave her a hard tug, "What's so interesting?! I said Huaer, but you didn't hear anything just now ..."

"What did you hear?" Gu Sixiao pretended to be stupid.

Seeing her ignorant expression, Mei Xiang didn't know whether she really didn't understand or she didn't understand, so she hummed twice after thinking about it, "It's okay to be stupid, to save so many calculations—really, put you and that Caiyi in the In one place, it must be eaten alive..."

Gu Sixiao blinked, pretending to be stupid no matter what.

Although the Gu family is not considered a wealthy family, there are nearly forty to fifty people, up and down, including the master and the servants, how can it be harmonious?
Even the hostesses and hostesses are fighting each other, let alone those servants?

According to what Mei Xiang pointed out, Yu Cui came to make trouble just now, and she was clearly instigated by Chun Hua.

Seeing what that meant, Chunhua didn't want to make a big fuss, so she didn't let Yucui make a fuss in front of Mrs. Zhang, but sold it in front of Xu's mother.

It seemed, like a small matter, that it was resolved quickly.

But this matter will reach Mrs. Zhang's ears sooner or later. At that time, Mother Xu's ability to handle affairs will definitely be questioned, and Chunhua may take this opportunity to go further.

Really, why didn't I realize that Chunhua was such a scheming girl before?At that time, she only thought that the girl serving in her yard was eloquent and capable, but she never thought that she would do something behind her back.

Now it seems that she was probably kept in the dark at that time.Maybe Chunhua fought for power and profit in the same way at that time, squeezing out other girls and becoming the first-class girl in her yard!
And it's not just that, in the inner house, she actually hooked up with Gu Fu, and even entered Donggu with Gu Fu, which shows that she is really capable.

It was God's ingenious arrangement that they met again, but this time, she was no longer the little lady who didn't understand the world and let others deceive her.

Although Mei Xiang was not the kind to be provoked, after sending Gu Sixiao to the back study, she still couldn't help telling her quietly, "Don't think that everyone is good-you don't understand? Forget it, say You don’t understand so much, anyway, remember, don’t trust people so easily!”

After saying this, she turned her head to look at Caiyi who had been smiling, left Gu Sixiao behind and left.

As soon as Mei Xiang left, Caiyi looked at Gu Sixiao with a smile, and said softly, "You are here, Huaer..."

It was as if she had been looking forward to Gu Sixiao's arrival.

Gu Sixiao smiled and did not expose her, "Sister Caiyi, I need you to take care of me in the future..."

(End of this chapter)