Dong Gong Mei

Chapter 162 Useless Things

Cuilian turned pale with fright, and hurriedly covered Pearl's mouth.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Chengyu threw the bowl in his hand, "Wow", and cried too: "My mother doesn't want me anymore!"

"Hey!" Recalling the past, Cuilian shook her head slightly, then carefully crossed the mess on the ground, knelt down in front of Zhao Chengyu, picked up the papers on the ground one by one, and persuaded softly: "Miss, you finally copied a few pages, and you tore it up again, but when will you copy it?"

"I want you to take care of it!" Zhao Chengyu was so angry that he pushed Cuilian away.

Cuilian tilted her body and fell to the ground. Regardless of the pain in her body, she quickly got up and knelt down again: "Miss, calm down, slaves shouldn't talk too much."

Zhao Chengyu's eyes were red with anger: "Didn't you say that Pearl is your good sister? Didn't you say that the news is reliable? How could you be deceived by that wild girl again?!"

Cuilian repeatedly admitted her mistake: ""It's the servant who is useless, it's the servant who didn't inquire clearly! "

"It's useless, it's useless! I know it's useless all day long!" Zhao Chengyu spat, "It really is a useless thing!"

When there was a lot of commotion, a servant girl's announcement sounded outside: "Madam is back."

Zhao Chengyu crawled up from the ground.

Cuilian also happened to tidy up the pieces of paper on the ground.

As soon as the curtain was lifted, Yuan Shi walked in quickly, and seeing Zhao Chengyu's face, which still had wet tears on it, felt uncomfortable for a while.

Although she knew that her daughter had made a mistake, she couldn't see her daughter being wronged, so she coaxed her: "Sister Yu, be obedient, and copy the house rules carefully. Mother will let the kitchen make cherry cheese for you tonight, okay?"

Zhao Chengyu felt a little more at ease in his heart, and before he nodded, he heard Cuilian stammering: "Ma'am, I'm afraid it won't work..."

Zhao Chengyu immediately turned cold: "Why not? Cherries are not something you can't afford!"

Yuan frowned.

Cuilian had a bitter face, and her voice was like a mosquito: "The two baskets of fresh cherries in the kitchen were taken away by Rose Garden..."

"What did you say!?" Zhao Chengyu jumped violently.

"The old lady gave an order, saying that Miss Wei is weak, and she is taking medicine recently, so... so the kitchen gives priority to supplying Rose Garden..."

"Too deceiving!"

Zhao Chengyu was so angry that he gritted his teeth, "Mother, look at how arrogant this wild girl is! I have no problem with her wanting to eat cherries, so she just took away both baskets and left none for me! She did it on purpose!"

"Okay." Although Yuan Shi was also angry in his heart, his face had regained his composure.

He ordered the servant girl to fetch hot water, wrung the veil herself, wiped off the tears on her daughter's face, and carefully washed the ink on her hands, then said calmly:
"Sister Yu, mother knows that you have been wronged, and that girl stepped on you in everything, and mother feels uncomfortable. But she is the lady of the family after all, and her father is the prime minister, let alone our mother and son. Put up with her, even Da Furen and your sister Yan have to avoid her.

After all, she is now at a good time, and now she has won the favor of His Royal Highness, otherwise the old lady can support her like that?What do you think it is for?It's not just pointing at her to curry favor with the nobleman!
My silly daughter, you should learn from your sister Yan, you see, you are so angry with her that you cry all day long, where is your sister Yan?Never took her seriously!In the future, you can hold your breath in your heart, and don't rush to get ahead when you hear the wind, that's not okay.You must know how to wait for the opportunity to accomplish great things. "

"Mother!" Zhao Chengyu looked at Yuan Shi with red eyes, and said unwillingly: "Then I can only bear it? She is so arrogant and doesn't take us seriously. If she is promising in the future, wouldn't she be more concerned about her?" Are we trampled to death?"

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Yuan couldn't help but knocked her daughter on the head, and said seriously: "She is also from the Zhao family. If she is promising, she will naturally take care of us. For example Didn't the Qiao family's business last time rely on this girl to help the mother win over?"

"Mother! You are also facing that wild girl!"

Mrs. Yuan shook her head lightly: "Mother is not looking for her, she is just discussing the matter. If she can fly on a branch and become a phoenix, then our family will also rise with the tide. Mother is doing business outside, and people will give more praise to her in her name." A few cents of profit, isn’t that reasonable?”

Zhao Chengyu was puzzled: "Does that mother mean that we can only be stepped on by her like this?"

"How could it be!" Yuan laughed, with a confident expression on his face and an indifference that was used to the wind and waves, "The world is impermanent, how can people always be at a high place? Just wait quietly, seeing him in a tall building Seeing his tall buildings collapse, Miss Wei, there are always times of bad luck!"

At this time, there was another servant girl reporting outside the door: "Ma'am, the shopkeeper of Taihe Rice Shop is here."

"Let him in."

Zhao Chengyu wanted to avoid it, but Yuan Shi held her back and said, "Sit by and listen, and learn more. Even if you don't understand business matters, it's good to learn how to behave in the world."

"Yes." Zhao Chengyu curled his lips and sat down on the chair.

The shopkeeper of Taihe Rice Shop is very honest and honest.

He has a square face, pale skin, short eyebrows, and narrow eyes. He wears a sheepskin bowler hat on his head and a squirrel hair scarf around his neck.

He respectfully kowtowed to Yuan Shi, and then bowed to Zhao Chengyu: "Little man Deng Ming, please greet Madam, please greet Miss."

"Get up." Yuan raised her hand expressionlessly, "Look at the seats."

A maid came over with tea.

"Mrs. Xie." Deng Ming didn't dare to sit down, so he bowed and handed over the ledger: "Madam, this is the record of the imperial court dispatching grain from our rice shop. Wheat, rice, soybeans, millet, and sorghum, respectively. Part of it has been shipped."

Yuan Shi took it over, looked it over carefully, then closed it and put it aside, and asked: "Has the compensation money promised by the crown prince arrived?"

"Reporting to Madam, the 5000 taels were divided into two allocations, and two thousand silver was allocated first. His Highness's people came over and said that the remaining 3000 taels have been approved by His Majesty, and they only need to be approved by the treasury. It will be given to Taihe by the end of the month at the latest."

Yuan's heart was even more unhappy: "Isn't disaster relief the top priority? It takes two or three days to approve the bank balance? We do business, and the circulation capital is the most important thing. Now that there are so many goods gone, the bank balance has to wait. After so long, who will bear the loss?"

Deng Ming's back felt cold, and he stammered hurriedly: "Ma'am, at that time, the villain thought that he would have to wait for ten days, and then he heard that the two thousand silver that was given earlier was allocated by the crown prince from his own private treasury, so he panicked for a while. , it’s not easy to care about.”

(End of this chapter)