Chapter 932 Xiaowu Sets Out for Beijing
"You guys who serve closely were prepared by your mother-in-law, so you should be dedicated. But the master is two months pregnant, and no one noticed. It's okay for other maids, after all, they haven't experienced it, but you are an experienced person, if you don't know, it's a joke."
"I can only say that you put too much thought on other things... No matter how many things you have on hand, it's not as important as your master, right? Now she is sick again, and you, the head mother, don't even know. How negligent must you be to have frequent accidents?"
Hearing Bai Yunxi's accountability, Zhang's face tightened, and she knelt on the ground with a plop.
"Please forgive me, my lady, I dare not slack off. I will do my best to do what my lady asks me to do. Since I followed my lady to the capital, I have always been doing my duty."
"I know that my lady values the baby in her belly, so I dare not be careless about food."
My lady got pregnant too suddenly, and it was indeed her negligence. But she didn't expect my lady to be so fragile and couldn't bear anything.
She just casually mentioned the matter of arranging a concubine for her son-in-law, and she became anxious and sick. What should she say?
In the end, life was too smooth, and she couldn't stand any trouble.
Listening to Zhang's mother's voice, Bai Yunxi raised her eyebrows.
Arrange a concubine?
Is that what she meant?
How dare she instill such dregs into her daughter-in-law?
No wonder the maid was so anxious that her mouth was blistering. Which woman can tolerate her man having other women, let alone when she is pregnant.
This is designed to poke people's hearts.
Bai Yunxi watched Zhang's mother kneeling on the ground, moving her knees from time to time. She has been the head mother for several years and has been used to superiority. Yishan has always respected her, and even the maids and women in the yard follow her lead.
If she always abides by her duties and does not make mistakes, her life will be safe.
After kneeling for a while, her knees could not bear it.
"You are trained by your mother-in-law. You are asked to stay with Yishan to help her take care of the backyard. When she is bored, help her to relieve her. You are not asked to add to her worries. People like you who make trouble at a critical moment are really derelict in their duties."
"I dare not, please understand."
She is very thoughtful. The master is the mistress, and no one can change this. But if the people serving the Fifth Master are not arranged in advance, they will really lose control.
If there is really a mess, and the mistress is jealous of a concubine, wouldn't it be a loss of status?
Listening to Mother Zhang's voice, Bai Yunxi finally understood.
So that's it.
"How dare you to quibble. The master gave you face, not to let you cross the line. You, on the contrary, take advantage of your seniority and do things against the master's wishes in the name of doing good for the master. To put it bluntly, you are restless and have a desire to control, and want the master to listen to you. To put it more seriously, it is a slave bullying the master, and his heart is worthy of death."
Zhang Yisan: "..."
Slave bullying the master?
Hearing Bai Yunxi's rebuke, Mother Zhang's face turned pale and she immediately kowtowed to apologize.
"I dare not, my wife is pregnant, and it is not convenient for her to serve me. As the mistress, I should relieve the worries of the fifth master and arrange for the concubine to serve, which can also show my wife's generosity. I am the head mother of my wife, and I have to think of the master before everything and give advice."
She is thinking about my wife wholeheartedly. How could a talented man like the fifth master have only her wife as a woman?
It is better to take the initiative to arrange it instead of letting other women take advantage of the loopholes.
Hearing Zhang Mama's matter-of-fact tone, Bai Yunxi was so angry that she laughed.
"I see you've done a lot. You control the affairs of Haitangyuan, and my daughter-in-law indulges you, so it's not my turn to teach you a lesson. But can you offend the family rules of the Bai family? I took the trouble to teach the descendants of the Bai family to be upright, but you secretly poached me. You instigated the master to do stupid things. What's your intention?"
"You don't want to control Haitangyuan, but the entire Bai family."
Bai Yunxi sat on the chair and looked down at Zhang Mama.
"Do you want me to give you the seat?"
"Please forgive me, my old servant, even if you have ten courage, I dare not have any unreasonable thoughts." Zhang Mama's face turned pale with fear. She was careless and shouldn't mention the matter of the concubine to her wife at this time.
Zhang Yishan leaned on the soft couch, listening to her mother-in-law's questioning, turned her head to look at Zhang Mama's flushed face, and couldn't help thinking in her heart.
It was her negligence. She always felt that the people she brought from the Zhang family were on her side.
On weekdays, she always tried her best to make them live comfortably and not be wronged. She even made an extra set of clothes for them in addition to the ones in the quota.
Especially for Zhang's mother, she was considered older and her mother specially prepared them, saying that she would discuss things with her. Therefore, she was specially assigned a maid to serve her, so that she could have more free time.
She racked her brains, but she never suspected that Zhang's mother had ulterior motives.
Bai Yunxi looked at her crawling on the ground and snorted,
"You have to know your duty as a person. Don't stretch your hands too far. How can you interfere in the affairs of the couple?"
As she said that, she looked at the maid kneeling behind her. She was wearing a green vest with a pink skirt inside, and her waist was slender.
"This girl looks unfamiliar."
When mentioning Cuizhu, Madam Zhang quickly explained, "This is Cuizhu. Madam specially assigned her because I am old. She usually helps me with odd jobs."
"Yishan is really good to you, you have to repay her well." Bai Yunxi looked at her and spoke quietly.
"Yes," Mother Zhang lay on the ground and spoke carefully.
"Get up, don't kneel all the time. You are old, don't say I treat you harshly."
Bai Yunxi sent people out, and didn't get up and leave until the maid boiled the medicine and watched her daughter-in-law drink it.
"You have a good rest, don't think about those things. Mother solemnly tells you again that the sons of the Bai family don't have a concubine, let alone a concubine."
"Mother, I know." Zhang Yishan blushed and wished she could find a hole to crawl into.
Mother Zhang did something stupid, and she was so angry that she got sick, and she also alarmed her mother-in-law. It was really embarrassing.
Bai Yunxi shook her head and took Wenyou out. Mother Zhang was her daughter-in-law's person, so she couldn't make a decision, so as not to create a rift.
As long as the old woman behaved herself in the future and didn't interfere in the affairs of the Bai family, she could live in the mansion in her old age. If he did it again, she would definitely send him back to the Zhang family.
In a blink of an eye, the day for Xiaowu's departure was set.
Bai Yunxi prepared two carriages in advance, one for luggage and one for passengers. The journey was long, so Bai Yunxi asked Nanny Zhu to prepare soft padding to reduce the bumps.
On the day of departure,
Bai Yunxi and her family personally sent him out of the city, watched the carriage go away, and turned around to see Zhang Yishan's red eyes.