Dong Gong Mei

Chapter 149 A Man's Token

"You little hoof is trying to annoy me, isn't it? She is so capable, why don't you go to her side as an errand?"

"Miss, please forgive me!" Cuilian fell down on the ground with a thud, her shoulders trembled and said: "I didn't do it on purpose, it's just because, because I went to the Rose Garden today, chatted with Pearl for a while, and listened to her ..."

Zhao Chengyu suppressed his anger: "Pearl? What did you say?"

Cuilian gritted her teeth, and shook out the words in her stomach in one breath: "The slave girl originally wanted to borrow some silk thread from Zhuzhu for you to tie a knot with, but when Pearl heard that I wanted silk thread, she said that she gave it to Miss Wei last time. There are still some good nets left, so I want to look for them in the cabinet. Unexpectedly, I accidentally dropped a box and knocked it over on the ground. She was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she quickly picked it up to protect it. In my arms, I was afraid that people would see some flaws. Fortunately, I have sharp eyes, and I can see it for real, it is a man's jade pendant!"

"What?" Zhao Chengyu regained his spirits all of a sudden, "A man's jade pendant? Are you sure you read it right?"

"It's absolutely true!" Cuilian blushed, and said embarrassingly: "Because the servants often accompany the miss to those shops, so they are a little familiar with what men wear. Although women also have pendant jade, but women wear Jade is relatively small and exquisite, the piece I saw in the rose garden was as wide as four fingers, when did you ever see a woman wearing such a big piece of jade?"

"Oh..." Zhao Chengyu nodded, and then a smug smile appeared on his face, "You are a clever one."

Cuilian breathed a sigh of relief, the young lady was in a good mood, and she was also relaxed as a servant, so she smiled and bowed again.

Just about to retreat, Zhao Chengyu said: "Where are you in a hurry, I will tell you."

"Yes." Cuilian had no choice but to back away: "Miss."

"Isn't that wild girl hiding a man's jade pendant?" Zhao Chengyu snorted through his nose, "Let's make a plan tonight, so that everyone in the house will know her true face!"

As he spoke, he explained in such and such a way.

Cuilian showed hesitation: "Miss, will this work? What if it fails?"

"You coward! What are you afraid of? We are not the ones who did bad things. To get the jade pendant is to get evidence. No matter how eloquent she is, it's useless!"

But Miss, you forgot, you have also contacted Mr. Wang privately...

Aren't you afraid of that wild girl turning against the general?

Cuilian shrank her neck and swallowed the last few words.

The master and the servant were plotting, and the second wife, Yuan Shi, came back.

As soon as Zhao Chengyu saw his mother's gloomy face, he knew that it must be related to business again - apart from business, there was nothing else that could make her take care of it.

"Mother, you are back." Zhao Chengyu squeezed out a cute smile and greeted her.

"Go, get me a glass of water." Yuan Shi sat down on the chair by the window and told her daughter to make tea.

The corner of Zhao Chengyu's mouth twitched, feeling a little lonely again inexplicably.

Again, every time.

As long as there is any trouble in business, he will not have a good face when he comes back.

Ever since she was a child, she has seen Yuan's face like this countless times.

She squatted next to the stove, adding good charcoal to it, and carefully fanning the fire with a fan.

A puff of smoke rose from the stove, choking Zhao Chengyu to cough several times.

Yuan's impatient tone became even more obvious: "If you boil water and cough like this, what can you child do!"

Zhao Chengyu hurriedly covered his mouth carefully, but his heart felt like being cut by a blunt knife, the pain was continuous and deep: Mother, in your heart, my daughter is actually not as important as a piece of goods, right?

When it goes well, it hurts like a jewel, and when it doesn't go well, you can use me as the current person.

What's the use of earning so much money? Can that money buy happiness?Can it bring us mother and daughter closer together?

But she just thought about it in her heart.

Because in her heart, although she was dissatisfied with her mother a lot, she still respected and feared her.

She knows her mother's means, she knows her mother's intelligence, so she knows one more thing:

In her mother's heart, money is really more important than anything else.

Zhao Chengyu brewed a pot of tea in a strange way, and then brought it to Yuan Shi on a tea tray: "Mother, the tea is ready."

"Okay." Yuan Shi rubbed her temples, picked up the tea and took a sip, then spit it out with a "poof".

Zhao Chengyu panicked: "Mom, what's wrong with you?"

Yuan wiped the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief, and glared at Zhao Chengyu angrily: "What do you think your child can do? You don't even know how to test the temperature if you make a cup of tea. Are you trying to scald me to death with such hot tea?! "

Zhao Chengyu didn't speak, but rolled his eyes fiercely in his heart: I'm not your maid, how can I do such servants' work as boiling water and cooking!
Thinking about it, she didn't dare to refute, so she had to hold the tea and prepare to go down to cool it down, but Yuan Shi raised her hand to stop her: "Forget it, let's put it away first."

"Yes." Zhao Chengyu stayed where he was.

Only then did Yuan Shi notice her daughter's aggrieved expression, and sighed "Hey", then waved her hand: "Come here, mother, give me a hug."

Zhao Chengyu didn't react for a while: "What?"

Yuan Shi repeated: "Come here and give mother a hug."

Zhao Chengyu looked at his mother's face again, and made sure that she had really calmed down, so he moved over: "Mom!"

"My dear daughter." Yuan Shi put her arms around Zhao Chengyu, rubbed her face lightly with her fingers, and asked with some surprise: "Why are your eyes so red? Who made my sister Yu angry?" ?”

Zhao Chengyu naturally didn't dare to say that he cried because of Wang Fan's matter, so he lowered his eyelids to avoid his mother's scrutiny, and said vaguely: "No, no one pissed me off."

Yuan Shi took a closer look at her daughter again, and saw a little ashes rubbed on her face carelessly.

Quickly took out a handkerchief and wiped it gently for her, said: "Did you get smoked by the fireworks when you boiled the water just now?"

Zhao Chengyu nodded ambiguously.

Yuan's heart softened, she patted her daughter's head, and said softly: "It's your mother's fault, I shouldn't have lost my temper with you just now."

"Mother, my daughter is not angry." Zhao Chengyu rolled his body into his mother's arms and acted coquettishly.

The servants had been sent away a long time ago. At this moment, there were only mother and daughter in the room, and Yuan's tense nerves had relaxed a lot. She sighed faintly, and poured out all the grievances in her heart. "It's not that mother doesn't love you, it's just that sometimes she is a little harsher on you. You have to know, mother is doing this for your own good."

(End of this chapter)