Chapter 698 The Foot-Washing Girl Wants to Get Promoted (41)

Yuanyuan returned home, feeling very regretful.

So many things had happened at home in the past few days. Her father was also ill. However, as a daughter, she was not able to stay by his side to improve his favorability.

If she had known earlier, she would not have agreed to her father's request to go to a girls' school.

"Miss, the eldest lady is here." Seeing that she could not stop her, Aunt Zhang immediately informed her in the room.

Li Muting, why is she here? Yuanyuan narrowed her eyes slightly.

"Yuanyuan, how are you doing in school?" Li Muting walked straight to her side and raised her hand to touch her hair.

"Thank you, Madam, for your concern." Yuanyuan turned her head to the other side.

Li Muting didn't expect that she would openly show resistance. She looked unhappy for a moment, and then a smile gathered on her face. "Yuanyuan, you don't know how much the master missed you when you went out to study." "

Yuanyuan has already met her father."

"Alas, you child. You talk to me so hard. People who don't know would think that we are not in harmony." Li Muting flipped the textbook she put on the table, and saw that there was nothing new about the poems on it, so she pushed it aside.

So many things happened in the mansion, and everyone was affected, but she was not affected at all, so she didn't want to be hypocritical with her. Yuanyuan was pulled back and placed in front of him, "The first wife and I have never been close, you should go back."

"Okay. Then Yuanyuan, make sure to rest." Li Muting stood up and walked out. When she reached the door, she raised her hand and touched her temples. Suddenly, she turned her head to look at her as if she remembered something. "I heard from the master that he is going to marry Shiyi as the fourth wife. From now on, you have to call Shiyi the fourth concubine."

"She?" Yuanyuan frowned. I didn't expect that she had such a skill that she could coax her father to take her as a concubine in such a short time.

"Okay, I'll go back. When Yuanyuan has rested, come to Chunyuan to talk to me." Li Muting put her hand on Lianlian's wrist, and the style of the first wife was well grasped.

Nanny Zhang closed the door, stood beside the eldest lady, and said with a happy face, "If Shi Yi really becomes the fourth wife, relying on the relationship between you and her, you will have an extra helper in this mansion." "

Helper?" Yuanyuan, who was still young, scratched the table with her nails heavily, "I'll be glad if she doesn't kill me."

"The eldest lady?!" Nanny Zhang didn't know what happened to them, but based on the fact that Shi Yi had saved the eldest lady's life before, she could judge that Shi Yi had no bad intentions towards the eldest lady.

"Mammy, please go down. I'll be alone for a while." Yuanyuan lay down on her bed, her eyes empty.

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Lianlian felt that she was really unlucky.

When her good sister Sui'er was serving the eldest lady, she was jealous and reported Sui'er for getting the job of serving the eldest lady. She thought she would have a good life by following the eldest lady, but she didn't know that the eldest lady was a trap, and a big trap that would eat people without leaving any bones. She thought Shiyi could replace her to serve the eldest lady, but in the end, Shiyi was smart and climbed up the high branch of the master. Only she, pitifully stayed by the eldest lady and suffered from the eldest lady's torture.

"Lianlian, go find Sui'er. Tell her that I have something important to discuss with her."

Hearing the eldest lady's gentle voice, Lianlian got goose bumps all over her body. She almost didn't need to think about it, she knew what the eldest lady was going to plan again.

"Lianlian, what are you thinking about?"

"Okay, okay, eldest lady, I'll go right away." Lianlian put down the things in her hand and trotted out.

Li Muting's eyes darkened. I thought that this stupid maidservant could be cultivated to be loyal by following me, but now it seems that she has two minds.

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The matter of Wang Qiyun's wife eating Zong's rice, which resulted in two deaths, was investigated in a few days, and Wang Qiyun was sentenced to death. However, the people still have concerns about Zong's rice, which has had a particularly bad impact on Zong's rice business.

When Zong Ying had a headache, Shi Yi gave him advice. He adopted Shi Yi's method, selling old rice at a low price and selling carefully selected refined rice at a high price, and took the initiative to treat customers in different levels.

After half a month, Zong's business finally eased today. With

the business affairs resolved, Zong Ying certainly had the energy to think about him and Shi Yi.

These days, he has been trying to please Shi Yi in various ways, either sending cloth, flowers, or balsam. This is a bigger show than when he was young to pursue any of his wives.

The servants in the mansion saw his thoughts clearly, and naturally treated Shi Yi with respect.

Sui'er was furious.

The old housekeeper was grateful to Zong Ying for letting him off the hook for cooking the books, and he would often advise his daughter not to be so carefree. He had only one daughter, so if he didn't worry about her, who would?

Sui'er nodded actively every time, but she disagreed in her heart. She thought to herself, if someone else said this, she would find it understandable, but she couldn't admit it because it was her father who said it. If she admitted it, it would be giving up on herself.

She would be more active in running to the first wife.

Shi Yi just came out of her room and ran into Sui'er who came back in a hurry. She greeted him in a friendly way, but was glared at by Sui'er angrily.

"Go away, don't get in the way." Sui'er didn't even look at her. So what if she was favored by the master, she was the apple of the old housekeeper's eye.

"Sister Sui'er, I have to go out in the evening. The master may need your help." Shi Yi grabbed her wrist.

Sui'er wanted to shake her off, but after hearing what she said, she hesitated and asked again, "What did you just say?"

Seeing that she listened to him seriously, Shi Yi immediately let go of her hand and said solemnly, "I'm going out tonight, and the master needs you, Sister Sui'er, to serve him when he comes back."

"I have something to do." Sui'er's attitude improved a little.

Thinking about the days she spent in the East Courtyard, she was worried about everything inside and outside, but because of the dead girl Shi Yi, it was always difficult to find time to be alone with the master.

Now, this opportunity finally came for her.

"Yeah. Something." Shi Yi took out a red envelope from his sleeve and handed it to her, "This is the money I saved this month. I don't have any big expenses, so I'll give it all to you, Sister Sui'er."

Sui'er pulled the red envelope over, weighed it in her palm, and snorted, "You're sensible. Go ahead. I'll serve the master on your behalf tonight."

It happened that she had a lot of expenses this month and was worried about not having money to spend. Now, isn't this ready-made?

"Then I'll go." Shi Yi bowed to her again, with a smile spreading from the corners of his eyes to his face.

Some money is not taken for nothing. Moreover, it depends on whether there is a chance to use it.

(End of this chapter)