Chapter 423: Talkative and Bad-hearted
Seeing that his wife was in a daze, Shen Wenchen couldn't help but feel worried. He only gently held her cold hand and said slowly: "The new yard of the eldest brother and the second brother is not far away. It is only separated by a street, and it is also far away from us. It’s only half an hour’s walk away, and if you miss your parents-in-law, we will bring them all to live at home.”
"never mind."
Nanzhi shook his head and took a sip from the soup bowl.
My parents now have shops to be busy with. If they really move to the city lord's mansion and see themselves like this every day, they will be delayed.
She felt that her brain was a little slow.
The business of Sanweiju is good or bad. When the weather gets colder, there are fewer people eating barbecue. Xu Chou and Lu Daliang are good at cooking, and they can boost the restaurant's business with a pot of soup.
Although now it is not as good as the original daily income of several hundred taels, I can still make an income of fifty or sixty taels a day. In addition, I can sell more than twenty taels of wine every day.
The business of the Lin family's food shop is getting better and better. Now that Sun Cui's belly is getting bigger, Chen Qiulan and Lin's mother are mostly busy in the shop. She can only do some preparation work. Sometimes the business is too good. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have to work until late at night.
As a result, the number of visits to Nanzhi at the City Lord's Mansion was also reduced.
Originally, Nanzhi was bored at home, and wanted to invite some friends to the house for a gathering, but there were only Miss Zeng and a few other female shopkeepers. Miss Zeng is now learning to run the shop like a shopkeeper, so naturally But she couldn't come, and the other female shopkeepers were not very close to her. In the end, she could only read the story books at home to pass the time.
Shen Wenchen has been a little busy recently. He has to go out of town for a few days from time to time. He only has a few children who have free time all day long and can talk to Nanzhi at home.
This kind of day passed for most of the month, and Nanzhi, who was holding back, felt panicked.
Shen Wenchen left the city the night before yesterday and said that it would take five or six days to come back at the soonest. The ladies in the academy also took nearly two hundred children, large and small, on a sketching tour in the suburbs yesterday. In an instant, there were only a few left at home. She got off alone.
Mapo is in her forties, and although she has nimble hands and feet, she has a very boring temperament. Apart from reminding Nanzhi to pay attention to things, she just does things in a muffled voice, which is a bit too boring.
Looking out the window at the cold weather, Nanzhi lost interest in the soup in front of him.
"Madam, this soup will replenish qi and blood, and it will be good for you and the young master." Mapo saw her frown and immediately said softly.
"I don't want to drink these soups anymore." Nanzhi pushed the porcelain bowl towards the opposite side, with some depression on his face.
If she drinks soup all day long, she will turn into a soup can if she drinks any more.
"Madam..." Mapo knew that there was a lot of soup being served recently, and it was normal that Madam didn't want to drink it, but her appetite was poor. She could drink two more mouthfuls of soup than eat, and she looked better in the past two days. .
"Ma Po, I'm fine. I just want to eat something sour. Go to the kitchen and get some for me." Nanzhi knew that although Mapo didn't like to talk much, she was soft-hearted and couldn't really force herself to drink. When it comes to soup and meat, he said in a coquettish tone.
"Okay, then I'll go get some sour fruit for Madam. If Madam doesn't want to drink the soup, just leave it there."
Mapo bowed and then left the room.
Nanzhi watched her walking out of the courtyard, then stretched out her hand to move the bowl of soup out.
After waiting for a quarter of an hour without seeing Mapo come back, Nanzhi became a little confused. Just when he wanted to go and have a look, he saw Mapo coming in with a gloomy face.
"Ma Po, what's wrong with you?" Looking at her gloomy face that looked like it could drip water, Nanzhi couldn't help but frown.
Mapo was specially invited by Shen Wenchen to take care of him. Few people in the house dared to be disrespectful to her. Why did she become so angry just after going to the kitchen?
"Madam, I happened to hear something when I went to the kitchen just now."
Mapo saluted and told what he had just witnessed.
Just before she went to the kitchen, she heard the cook inside chatting with the little girl.
If they were talking about gossip, she would just pretend not to hear it, but what they were talking about was that Madam was bullying others outside and tried to force the death of a girl who was under her control.
She heard something was wrong, so she entered the kitchen, but the cook shut up when she saw her coming in.
Even the two little girls ran away with pale faces.
If this matter is left to other people, it will only punish the servant and hide it from the master.
But Mapo is from Yancheng, and she is the most well-informed in terms of information. She knew the matter clearly at the beginning, and the government had posted a notice about Qian Er's matter. Now that it has been brought out again, I'm afraid No good intentions.
"Really?" Nanzhi raised an eyebrow and headed to the kitchen with the heater in hand.
Mapo was afraid that she would catch cold, so she went to get a shawl for her, and then followed her to the kitchen.
As soon as he arrived outside the kitchen, he saw two girls in their 16s and 17s nibbling their ears together. Nanzhi had no expression on his face, but Mapo frowned.
These two girls are really a bit weird.
I just said it two-quarters of an hour ago, and now I'm biting my ears again?
And she's a maid in the kitchen. Why is she dressed like this?
She hadn't paid much attention to it just now, but looking at it now, it was really a bit weird.
There are not many maids in the city lord's mansion, and the few maids are arranged elsewhere. The only ones who have the opportunity to contact the city lord are the people in the kitchen.
Mapo mostly understood the little thoughts of these maids. Seeing that they hadn't noticed her yet, she coughed lightly.
Hearing the movement behind them, the two little girls stopped talking and quickly turned around and knelt on the ground.
They were all paid with money from their families a year ago.
At that time, there were rumors everywhere in Yancheng that Shen Wenchen was an evil god, and the affair between him and Su Tao was widely spread, so some people started to have some thoughts.
The two families spent fifty taels of silver to get them into the city lord's mansion.
As a result, because Shen Wenchen didn't like being served by maids, they had not changed to other positions even after one year of working here, but it was also because they had been working as a handyman in the kitchen.
When Shen Wenchen sold the maids in the house half a year ago, the two of them stayed.
The city lord's wedding happened two months ago, and soon after it was reported that the city lord's wife was pregnant, they both felt that there was hope again.
When the mistress of the house is pregnant, she will always arrange for her husband to have two sexual intercourses. This can not only show her generosity as the mistress of the house, but also prevent men from having sex outside.
Both of them are women of the right age, and their appearance is not bad. There are few maids in the house now. As long as Madam has this idea, they will be the best choice.
The two of them felt happy, and their work began to lose its previous meticulousness. Now they were caught slacking off, and they met the real owner. Their faces turned blue and white, and they could only kneel on the ground and wait for punishment.