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When I came out of my grandmother's room, she pulled me to the corner and spoke to me.

"Miss!" Mother Du frowned with worry, "If the old lady were to leave home, wouldn't us personal servants...?"

Listening to Mother Du's words made me want to laugh three times.

This was what it meant to be in trouble!

Who knew if Grandmother had ever thought that after following her for more than ten years, the mama in charge that she trusted the most was actually unwilling to go out with her!

Even without looking in the mirror, I can feel the joy that I feel from the corner of my eye:

"Mom, don't worry!"

"When this person leaves home, he naturally has to bid farewell to the people he used to have in the mortal world."

I smiled and winked at her.

It would be a mistake to think that his grandmother would control the house even though she had already moved out of the house!

Since he was already out of the mortal world, how could he bring along a serving maid?

One had to know that the servants in Grandmother's courtyard were not ordinary people. They were either husband and children who worked in other houses or in the outer court, or their families were the most important stewards and mothers in other courtyards. If these people moved out with their grandma, they would inevitably become grandma's eyes and ears. If these people's indenture contract were all in grandma's hands, then wouldn't that mean that grandma would be able to handle it?

I didn't want to spend so much money to send my grandmother, this Buddha, out of the door. She even wanted to watch my every move from behind while I was unprepared. She only wanted to stab me when I wasn't prepared!

After receiving my letter of approval, Mother Du's expression immediately relaxed. With a smile, she bent her knees and sent me out.

Lu Kui was waiting at the entrance to the courtyard. When he saw me coming out, he hurriedly and anxiously walked over and forced a smile at Mother Du.

Mother Du was also a clever person. She smiled as she met up with the green bandits and turned around.

"Miss, it's bad!"

The green bandit whispered what had happened in my ear, and quickly pulled me to the parlour.

I had thought that Jiayi was good at settling debts, and Sister Ji was also good at doing calculations. The two of them had done the job of settling debts together. Wen Lian and Ying'er, one meticulous and one lively, happened to be working with each other on the task of collecting the items to be checked and accepted into the warehouse. As long as Lan Ling looked after them from both sides, there would definitely be no problems.

Unexpectedly, the family wasn't as good as I expected them to be. Instead, they personally brought the maidservants here to inspect the items one by one. Because these cups and plates were originally not worth much money, no one would steal them. Before the funeral, I had instructed that as long as these small items were signed by the supervisor's mother and the examiner, they could be put into the storehouse without any verification. Because of this, Ma, who was in charge of the storehouse, suggested something to Jia Yi. This was the first time the housekeeper had been strong, so he scolded Mrs. Ma without knowing where.

That old woman Ma has always been a respectable person in the inner chamber. Even if I saw her, I would have to respect her a bit. He had been scolded by the young master of the family. Although he didn't show it on the surface, he could not help but feel a bit more biased towards the family. More importantly, Old Mrs Ma's daughter was the daughter-in-law of the Outer Court's Shopkeeper Lu. After offending Old Lady Ma, even Shopkeeper Lu would be dissatisfied with her. In the future, she would be sent to Eldest Manager Lu to study.

I couldn't help but to blame Aunt Mo in my heart.

As a five-year-old child, he was usually raised in the inner chamber. How could the people below dare to speak such nonsense in front of their master? It must be that Aunt Mo secretly cursed someone to be remembered by this child.

"Go to the kitchen and bring a box of chestnuts! They were brought in in red boxes! "

I stood on the path beside the rockery outside the parlour and told the green bandit who was following me.

I remember that Ma Zi loved to eat chestnut cake.

"Yes sir!"

The green bandit immediately curtsied and left.

I stood in the cold autumn wind for a long time before I saw Lu Ke carrying the big box of food I mentioned and coming over in a flurry. I quickly took her into the parlour.

The room was filled with people. When I left in the morning, not a single one of them was missing, and all of them were standing on both sides of the hall with serious expressions. In the middle of the row were large mahogany chests, all of which were open and were filled with dishes, cups, plates and other daily necessities. Jia Yi stood in front of the box with an object book in his hand and Lan Li was at his side recording. The four maidservants each took an item from the box and showed it to his servant before placing them in the box.

I sighed to myself.

No matter how clever Lan Li was, she was still a servant girl. The original look will not cause trouble, so by the family code will listen to Lan Li's words, I did not expect that I was wrong.

When the other wives saw me enter, they hurriedly paid their respects. At the back of the crowd, Old Madam Ma's face revealed a complacent smile.

"Mothers, you've all worked hard!" I smiled as I greeted the mothers. I personally supported Old Mrs Ma up and smiled. "Thank you for your concern, mother!" His second brother was young, and he had to do it because I was his big sister. I was afraid that there would be some mistakes. "Grandmother just gave me a box of chestnut cake. When I thought that you like it, I gave it to you!"

Sometimes, people only care about that kind of atmosphere when they are alive. At this moment, I threw the reason for the conflict between me and my family onto my own body and gave her some pastries. Her face lit up, and although her anger wasn't completely gone, the serious expression on her face eased up a little.

"Elder sister!"

Jiayi also came to pay his respects with a tense little face.

He took advantage of the moment when I wasn't paying attention to steal glances at me from the corner of his eyes.

Could it be that this child was also anxious to break my rules?

I crouched down and put my arm around his shoulders.

"I would never have thought that my sister would be so careful and prudent!"

"It's just that Jiayi wants to do his job, and so do the other mothers who are waiting for him, right?"

"Now that Jiayi is standing here facing the objects, all the mothers can do is wait. "When the family's justice is done with this matter, I'm afraid that the key will fall at night, and then the mothers will have no choice but to hurry out, how can they handle this matter for the family's justice?"

In the end, it was a matter of priority.

I let Jiayi sit in a leadership position, but the child did not know who he was.

The most important thing for a superior was not his ability to handle matters, but his ability to recognize other people. Only by seeing who was capable of handling what kind of tasks would he be able to form an efficient team. On the contrary, the boy had only thought of taking her in and not letting her go. A good man needed three helpers, and these minutiae were originally the tasks of the mothers in charge.

I see the family in my arms.

The boy already had a picturesque appearance, but now that he was deep in thought, a crafty light flashed in his eyes.

"I can finish it before the key drops!"

He retorted with a pout.

"It's just that mothers have to be faster!"

I laughed and ruffled his hair.

Family righteousness is very stubborn and forceful, this way of saying it is in agreement with my words.

"How about this, your sister will come to hear about their return home."

Jiayi nodded slightly.

As expected, it was the right time for family matters to fall, and it only took me two hours to finish what I needed to do. I had no choice but to take out the flower shed to accompany him in making the flowers.

On the way back to Zhu Xuan, he remained silent, not saying a word.

I secretly sighed and kept the words I wanted to say to this child back into my stomach. I smiled as I sent him back.

In the evening, Lan Qingqiang and I picked out a blue and white boat with a round belly and a bamboo hat. We went out to find a gift box and prepared to send it to Manager Lu tomorrow as a gift for him to study in the outer court.

"Are you really going to send Young Master Jiazhi to study his concubine service?"

Lan Li asked hesitantly as she helped me to arrange my clothes for tomorrow.

Even Lan Ling felt that Jia Cheng was not one of them.

"Now that he is the eldest son, it is reasonable that he wants to take over the family's affairs. My sister is in charge of internal affairs, she should have avoided any suspicion. "At that time, who knows how many nasty words will come out. I might as well let him try it first."

"But …"

I looked at Green Cock.

When he saw these maidservants, he greeted them very courteously. One 'big sister' and the other 'big sister', these maidservants all liked him very much. Even Lan Ya, who was an expert in worldly affairs, could not help herself.

I took a sip from the teacup on the table beside us and continued,

"That child is an indefatigable young man who is usually good at reading. Why did he suddenly ask for a housekeeper right after his mother passed away? The letter for the funeral has not been replied to for seven or eight days. Seeing that father has not returned, some people must be worried, but have no energy left, so their thoughts are focused on the young master. "

Lan Li's pretty face turned white and red. She immediately understood what I meant.

This was because Aunt Mo was afraid that something might have happened to her father, so I took the opportunity to take care of the inner and outer court. The inner courtyard … My nails are too deep. She had no choice but to send her eldest son to the outer courtyard.

Although I could understand what she was thinking, I was still more or less unhappy.

This person's heart was not clean. Anyone who looked at his every move would feel evil. If I wanted to meddle in the affairs of the outer court, it wouldn't matter even if I learned from Manager Lu.

"Then wouldn't that Young Master Cheng be delayed because of this?"

I couldn't help but sigh to myself after hearing what Lu Kuo had said.

Merchants like us are rich, but we are unable to beat the upper class. Although the officials invited us to their banquet, they would never let the elders of the family welcome us. Unless it's someone with exceptional talent, no matter how many betrothal gifts we offer, normal brothers and sisters would never be able to marry someone like us. So people who came from a business background, either encouraged their son to take the Imperial examinations or spent a large amount of money to donate to their children, were trying to change the family name.

In such a social atmosphere, Lan Li's views would be affected, feeling that this would delay the future of her family's glory and good fortune.

"We'll just wait for father to come back and invite a good teacher for him!"

I bent over to make the bed, and Lan Lingyun hurried over to help.

"There has been no news from the old master. Tell me …"

I shook my head.

"Father brought at least 500,000 silver this time. If something were to happen, it would be impossible for this matter to be completely silent."

Lan Lingyun nodded and helped me to rest before moving the light. She then stood on the brick bed in the outer room to keep watch.

The next morning at breakfast with Jiayi, before I mentioned yesterday's inappropriate actions, the child first opened his mouth to admit his mistake:

"Sis, I shouldn't have scolded Mama Ma yesterday."

I smiled and nodded my head, but my heart was a little unsettled. Although he was stubborn, he wasn't the kind of kid who didn't know how to randomly throw a tantrum. How could he suddenly start scolding people?

"Why did you check them one by one yesterday?"

I picked up a piece of pickled radish and placed it on a small plate in front of him.

Jiayi only lowered his head to drink his porridge. It seemed that he was unwilling to bring up what happened yesterday.

"Young Master saw that there was a big hole on the big plate of the sweet and white porcelain and was afraid that the other vessels also had a hole, so you wanted to check them one by one."

The two maidservants by Jia Yi's side lowered their heads, not daring to speak.

"Stop it!"

Jia Yi turned his head back and scolded his sister, who glared at him.

I laughed to myself.

I know the hole in the sweet white china plate.

It was originally placed in his mother's room, with three to five waxy yellow jade buddhist hands. When my mother and father had quarrelled, I didn't know what had touched me, but I was missing a corner. Mother Wang from the courtyard came to ask me if I still wanted that disk. I saw that the surface of the disc was smooth and there was not even a hole in it, and I thought that if I had made a gold border, it would not be very obvious, so I let her put it away in the warehouse.

I didn't expect this to be such a coincidence!

In that case, it was really my fault.

I explained everything to Jiayi with a smile, and the tension on the face of the little person sitting across from me eased.

"Although this is my sister's negligence, in the end, my family should not be scolding people. You are a young master, so even if you don't speak elegantly, you still have to act elegantly. How can you be like those shitty women in the market and say those obscenities? Ma Ma didn't do anything wrong in this matter, it's just that she listened to me and wanted to remind the family to waste some time, yet you used such malicious words to make her sad.

Jia Yi pursed his lips tightly, staring at the rice bowl in front of him without saying a word.

This child's personality was too stubborn. Sooner or later, he would suffer a loss.

Even royal sons like King Qi need to know how to bend and bend, let alone a bastard son of a merchant like him. He should know when to straighten his back and lower his head!" When he was young, if he made a ruckus like this, people would think that he had let them off at a young age, but once he became a family business, who would be humble to him just because his family used to be pampered by him?

It would be better to let him know from now on than to allow him to crawl and crawl all over his body with wounds. However, as long as a person lives in this world, they would not be able to stay in an invincible position forever.

"Go!" Tell the kitchen to get out two boxes of pastries! "Pick a gold hairpin from my dowry and wrap it up!"

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