The reborn poisonous woman is hard to abandon

Chapter 167 Someone is looking for trouble

"Ma'am, this servant has already spread the word of Young Madam's jealousy according to your instructions. Today, people from the Lu family and the Xiao family have come to invite her back, and they must arrange for her to be a housemate!"

In Zhucuiyuan, Mrs. Qian could hear the servant's report, and immediately showed a satisfied smile.

"From now on, the whole capital will know that she is a jealous woman. I wonder why she has the cheek not to add anyone to the house!"

Picking up a bowl of tea on the table, Qian blew lightly, and blew aside the tea leaves floating on the water.

She originally wanted to take advantage of Xiao Ruan's sale of the maid to have a good time in front of the old man, but she was blocked by this woman's eloquence.

Huo Xun protected her like an eyeball, there was no way for her to intervene directly, but this did not prevent her from finding another way out.

"Madam, the uncle's family sent someone to send a letter, saying that it must be handed over to you."

Qian shi took a sip of tea comfortably, and suddenly saw the little maid running in from outside, she paused, and immediately took the letter.

"What else did the messenger say?"

After reading the content on the letter paper, the smile on Qian's mouth completely disappeared, and his face became gloomy.

The little maid was frightened by Qian's sharp eyes, and immediately lowered her head: "Master asked the messenger to send a message, telling Madam to be more restrained, so as not to ruin the future of the young master."

"Just thinking about his child, why didn't he think about my situation!"

Qian slammed the letter paper on the table, and an angry look appeared on his face.

In the envelope, Qian's elder brother said that his son had committed the crime and it fell into the hands of the prince. He found out that Huo Xun would investigate this case, so he specially wrote to Qian and asked her to help his son and Huo Xun. Say nice things.

This elder brother knew that he hated Huo Xun to the core, and wanted to see that person making jokes all the time, yet he actually asked her to bow her head and plead with Huo Xun?
Huo Xun, that damned thing!The matter of breaking Huo Yuan's leg hasn't been settled yet, she wished he could die, but her brother actually asked her to restrain herself now?

He is really her good brother!

"You tell them, just say I know."

Qian Shi squinted her eyes, glanced at the maid in front of her who didn't dare to show her air, and finally replied with a calm face.

There are more and more rumors about Xiao Ruan's "jealous wife" in Beijing, but Xiao Ruan doesn't care about it, and he is very free and easy.

Zhuyun and Lianqiao were quite worried about their young lady at first, but after a long time, seeing that the relationship between Xiao Ruan and Huo Xun became closer and they were not affected at all, they were relieved.

As for the servants who secretly paid attention to Xiao Ruan's reaction, they saw that the new young lady had no fear of the second wife, and many of them felt reassured.

This morning, Linglong suddenly came to see Xiao Ruan.

"Sister Linglong, I haven't seen you for a long time, but now you look more and more like a shopkeeper!"

When Lianqiao saw Linglong, she surrounded her with envy.

Linglong had been walking in the outer courtyard all the time, after Gu's death, Xiao Ruan called Linglong back from Xiao Zhongheng, and was in charge of the dowry shop.

Linglong was already good at dealing with people, and within a few months she had a clear picture of the situation of Xiao Ruan's shops, and she followed several stewards to help Xiao Ruan deliver the news.

"If Lianqiao is envious, I can also arrange you to practice in the shop, what do you think?"

Xiao Ruan couldn't help but smile when he saw Lianqiao's eyes shining and holding Linglong's hand without letting go.

"Miss, is it true?"

Lianqiao looked surprised, and couldn't help but look at Linglong again.

Linglong used to wear men's clothing for convenience.Now that she has been walking outside for a long time, everyone has recognized her and occasionally resumes her women's clothing.

But perhaps because she has been away for a long time, Linglong's speech and demeanor are quite different from before.

If she didn't know that she was Xiao Ruan's servant girl just like herself, Lian Qiao would have regarded him as the proprietress of the rouge shop in Beijing.

Thinking that she could be like Linglong, Lianqiao looked at Xiao Ruan with a little more eagerness.

"Of course it's true."

Xiao Ruan looked at Lianqiao seriously, and agreed with a smile.

Lianqiao has been with her for many years, and she doesn't want to treat her badly.Since she wants to go outside like Linglong, it's okay, it's just a matter for her to find another maid.

Xiao Ruan was already thinking about where to put Lianqiao in her mind, but Lianqiao suddenly showed a hesitant look on her face.

"Miss, this servant really envies Sister Linglong, but after thinking about it, I feel that I should honestly stay by Miss's side to accompany you!"

Seeing this, Linglong, who hadn't had time to speak yet, patted Lianqiao's arm, showing a look of envy.

"You, you only see my glamorous side, but you don't know that the affairs in the outer court are more complicated. I still envy you who can stay by Miss's side."

Linglong's tone was full of helplessness, and Zhuyun beside Xiao Ruan immediately heard the strangeness, and asked curiously: "Sister Linglong also encountered some difficulties?"

"It's not just difficult? This time I can only come to Sister Xiao for advice."

Linglong smiled wryly again, then turned her gaze to Xiao Ruan: "Miss, recently there are always people coming to our cloth shop to make trouble, and the shopkeeper can't handle it, so let me report back to you."

"Do you know who is looking for trouble?"

Hearing Linglong's words, Xiao Ruan's face suddenly turned pale.

The cloth shop in her dowry shop is the dowry left by the Lu family. It has been in Beijing for more than 20 years and is quite famous. I have never heard of anyone coming to make trouble.

Now that Linglong is specifically reporting this matter to her, she must have encountered some difficult troubles that even the shopkeeper can't solve.

"Someone wanted to buy fabrics from us at a low price. The shopkeeper disagreed, but that person cooperated with other cloth shops to lower the price maliciously. Now our cloth shop's business is really tense."

"Aren't other cloth shops afraid of lower prices?"

As soon as Linglong's voice fell, Zhuyun made a sound out of curiosity.

If other cloth houses lowered their prices in the same way, they would definitely lose money. How could it only affect their cloth houses?
Linglong shook her head: "They deliberately arranged entrustment and bought it wildly, but they didn't actually sell it. As a result, our profit is very small and we have to lose money."

Forsythia reacted, and immediately showed an angry expression: "They are simply targeting our cloth village on purpose!"

"Who said no?"

Linglong sighed, and then turned her gaze to Xiao Ruan: "Miss, the shopkeeper is now inquiring about the identity of that person, I hope you can ask the general or Taifu Lu to come forward and teach these troublemakers a lesson."

Because of Linglong's words, the room suddenly fell into silence. Xiao Ruan pondered for a moment, but did not immediately agree.

"You ask the shopkeeper to find out the identity of the other party as soon as possible, and come to me when you know who that person is. If necessary, you can let them know that Buzhuang is under my name."

Xiao Ruan wanted Huo Xun and Lu Taifu to come forward, but she heard from Huo Xun that the current situation in the DPRK and China is complicated, and all forces are secretly competing with each other, so it is really inappropriate to use the identities of Lu Taifu and Huo Xun to come forward.

Linglong vaguely guessed the worry in Xiao Ruan's heart, opened her mouth but swallowed the words in her throat, and left in a hurry after not staying for too long.

"It turns out that these foreign affairs are so complicated!"

After Linglong left, Lianqiao smacked her lips with a look of surprise on her face, and finally brought a plate of pastries to Xiao Ruan to flatter her.

"Miss, the servant has already made a decision. The servant will stay with the lady and serve her well. Please don't arrange me out again."

Xiao Ruan was thinking about who deliberately suppressed her cloth business, when Lian Qiao's nervous voice suddenly made her feel a little funny.

I thought this girl really wanted to go outside to do things, so she was so timid, but hearing Linglong say that someone suppressed her, she actually felt like retreating.

"Okay, since you are willing to stay by my side, just stay over there."

Smiling back to Lianqiao, Xiao Ruan looked outside the door unconsciously: "Linglong came here today, someone must have noticed it, why don't you two take this opportunity to get rid of the half-hearted people in our yard?" Find them all."

Noticing that Xiao Ruan's voice suddenly became serious, Lian Qiao and Zhu Yun exchanged glances, and Qi Qi responded and immediately retreated.

The afternoon sun was quite bright, Xiao Ruan walked to the door and saw a maid cleaning the fallen leaves in the yard.

The woman was not even a few years younger than Forsythia, perhaps she had worked for a long time, her forehead was covered with a thin layer of sweat, and it shone brightly under the sunlight.

Xiao Ruan saw that she was about to clean up the fallen leaves in the yard quickly, so she walked over slowly without realizing it.

"What's your name?"

The maid obviously didn't expect Xiao Ruan to take the initiative to talk to her, she was stunned for a moment and immediately dropped the broom in her hand and saluted her.

"Miss Hui, the maid's name is Qiushuang." The maid looked anxious, she lowered her head and dared not raise her eyes, and hid her hands behind her back awkwardly.

It had just rained heavily last night, and the water on the ground hadn't dried yet. Qiushuang's body was splashed with a lot of mud, and her arms were still stained with grass leaves from tidying up the flowers and plants. It looked really messy.

"Well, I see."

Seeing her nervousness, Xiao Ruan nodded, and went back to the room without saying anything.

A few days later, there was no more news from Linglong, so Xiao Ruan took Zhu Yun and Lianqiao to Buzhuang when she was free.

"Your siblings don't know where to go?"

Just as Xiao Ruan walked to the door, he suddenly heard someone tell him to turn around and saw that it was Huo Yuan, the eldest son of the second house.

Huo Yuan was wearing a black robe trimmed with gold, and there was an indescribable gloomy air exuding from his whole body, Xiao Ruan inexplicably felt very displeased.

"I've seen big brother."

After paying a salute to him, Xiao Ruan didn't say much, and stood silently by the side of the road with her maid to make way for him.

"We are a family, siblings don't need to be so polite."

Huo Yuan walked over slowly and stood beside Xiao Ruan, but he didn't intend to leave at all.

Xiao Ruan lowered her eyes and waited for a long time. When she looked up, she saw the other party looking directly at her. For some reason, Xiao Ruan suddenly felt a little more cold.

Different from Huo Xun's indifference, Huo Yuan felt a kind of coldness.

Huo Xun has been on the battlefield all year round. Even though he has a cold personality, his whole body is full of masculinity.

(End of this chapter)