The Third Madam was also very surprised. When the others came back with the news, she drank a sip of water from the maid's hand, thought for a while and said, "What should we do with Chunyun and Xiayu? Go and ask Miss Seventh what she thinks, and ask her if she wants us to pick two suitable maids to replace her."
When Madam Kong came, Madam Wang glanced at the lights in the room and said, "You came here in the middle of the night just to ask about this?..."
The Third Madam is indeed a wonderful person. No wonder even though she has no blood relationship with the Kong family, she can live so well outside by relying on the Kong family's reputation.
Doing good to smart people always gets you equal rewards. Wei An smiled, rubbed his eyes, and asked Qiu Yun to invite Madam Kong in. While continuing to draw the pattern, he said, "Madam, please go back and tell Third Aunt that I already have the shortage of Chunyun and Xiayu. There's no need to trouble Third Aunt. I will ask Grandmother for them myself. It's just that we are still short of some other maids and servants..."
The Third Madam had never liked Wei An in the past, but of course she didn't blame her. She just turned a blind eye to many things. Many of the maids and servants working for Wei An were not dedicated in their duties, and some even used their own connections to leave her place and work elsewhere. There was indeed a shortage of servants in the yard.
Madam Kong didn't find it strange that Wei An wanted someone. What surprised her was that Wei An had just said that she would go to Old Madam Wei to ask for the two older maids, Chunyun and Xiayu.
What a big tone! Madam Kong wanted to laugh. Thinking about Wei An's recent words and deeds, she didn't know why she felt that Wei An was not making a fuss. She agreed gently and asked Madam Wang for a list so that she could arrange people.
At a glance, she saw the pattern that Wei An had just finished drawing. She couldn't help but widen her eyes and took two steps forward, looking at Wei An in disbelief: "This... Is this the pattern you drew, Miss Qi? This pattern is really... so lifelike..."
Wei An painted a picture of a magpie climbing a branch. The style was not unusual, but what was rare was that the magpie was clearly visible in every detail, as if it could flap its wings and fly away from the branch at any moment. Its head was tilted to the side, looking at people, with a naive and endearing look.
Old Mrs. Wei has no other hobbies except these birds. Wei An is really...
"She put her heart into it." The third lady heard this after washing up the next day. She was a little surprised at first, then she sighed and shook her head: "She has become a different person in the past few days. I don't seem to recognize her suddenly..."
Jingui was combing Third Madam's hair. Upon hearing this, she tied up Third Madam's hair and said, "Seventh Miss never had such a way of pleasing others before. I wonder who she learned it from."
Madam San looked at the fairy bun she had done today in the mirror. The golden and jade-like hairpin on it was dangling on her forehead, making her look even more like a silver basin, and her complexion was extremely good. She put away the cloisonné peep-toe mirror with satisfaction and sighed, "Madam Wang was given to her by the princess after all. I heard that she served the old Princess Zhennan in the past. After such a big incident, she learned a lesson, so she will naturally give Xiaoqi some advice."
Fei Tao brought up the lip balm and applied it on Third Madam's lips: "It's just that Madam Wang is very patient. She hasn't taken good care of Seventh Miss for so long. She just got impatient recently and finally got wise."
The smile on the third lady's face faded.
Could it be that he felt that it was impossible to mend his relationship with the old lady and planned to start with his daughter
"But how did Miss Seven know that the old lady was willing to give her the girl?" Madam Kong shook her head. "The cats and dogs around the old lady are more noble than those around other places. She suddenly asked the old lady for two big girls..."
If it were in her previous life, Wei An would never have asked this question, and she indeed had never asked it, but Lan He and Yu Qing still came to her side.
She always remembered why. It was because she had made a huge fool of herself in Puci Temple, bringing disgrace to the Wei family. Old Madam Wei originally didn't want to bother with her, but she knelt in front of the small Buddhist temple for a whole night, and until the next day she still refused to admit that she had stolen anything. Old Madam Wei just glanced at her, pursed her lips, and asked Madam Hua to go down and pick out two servants for her.
No one else knew the reason behind this, except the old Princess Zhennan, who once hugged her and sighed, "It has come to this. I didn't expect her to forgive Changning and me... Who would have thought that she would be willing to show you a way forward? You should be content."
The old Princess of Zhennan told her why Old Lady Wei disliked her mother, Princess Changning, and also told her the deep meaning of the old lady's choice of man for her: "The person the old lady personally pointed out to you has no other choice but to serve you well, and you can't try to get other connections. You can't be foolish anymore. You have to treat others with your heart and be a little better..."
Later on, she was indeed better to Lan He and Yu Qing than she had been to Chun Yun and Xia Yu before, but compared to what Yu Qing and Lan He gave her in return, this little bit of kindness was nothing.
In this life, she was not accused of stealing, but she still wanted to go to Old Lady Wei to ask for the person back.
She thought of the past and sighed slightly with an air of old age. She handed the sutra in her hand to Aunt Hua first, and then spoke respectfully to Old Madam Wei: "My third aunt originally wanted to marry me to an eldest maid, but I still want to ask my grandmother for two sisters..." She lowered her head and looked at her toes: "Sister Yuqing and Sister Lanhe in my grandmother's room are very nice... I like them very much..."
"You need more appointments." Old Madam Wei glanced at her with a smile, but before she could say anything, Feicui came in with a smile and reported that the eldest lady had arrived.
The eldest lady has been a widow for ten years. Apart from paying her respects to Old Madam Wei, she hardly goes out. Old Madam Wei values and likes her very much and is much closer to her than to Princess Changning, who is also her daughter-in-law.
When the eldest lady came in, Mrs. Wei saw that she still looked pale, so she frowned: "Didn't you say you were well? Why do you still look so haggard?" She asked the eldest lady's personal maid to come up, and personally asked about her diet and prescriptions. Then she took the eldest lady's hand and said: "You should also take care of your own body. I, an old woman, look better than you. How can Ah-Min and Ah-Mei feel at ease with you like this?"
The first lady had no sons, only two daughters. The eldest daughter, Wei Yumin, was twenty years old and married the prince of Pingyang Marquis's Mansion. She gave birth to a son at the age of sixteen and later gave birth to a daughter. The second daughter, Wei Yumei, married the second son of Hu Siye, the deputy director of the Imperial College, and has no children yet.
Speaking of her daughter, the eldest lady's eyes immediately turned red: "Mother... I heard that Amin..."
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