The moon is bright and the stars are sparse, the willow trees planted in the Bo Mansion have also sprouted buds, gradually revealing green branches, and the evening breeze blows exceptionally comfortably. The scenery makes people's hearts feel expansive and refreshing, but in the main hall of the second house, all the maids and servant women are walking with caution, afraid to provoke Second Madam's anger even more.

  The candlelight inside the house jumped and flickered, the fire gradually weakened a little, making the whole room dark.

  Su Xian carefully removed the glass lampshade and used scissors to trim the wick, making the room much brighter.

  Yu's mother was holding a set of eighteen Qinghua porcelain bowls from the Da Guan kiln, serving Li Shi with swallow's nest congee. She smiled and coaxed her to be happy: "In two days, our master will also return, so please cheer up, madam."

  When she heard the name Song Yi, Li's face relaxed a lot, and she waved her hand to signal to her mother to take away the bowl. She then narrowed her eyes and looked at Huang Yao, who was standing aside trembling with fear, and asked in a soft voice: "You just said that Sixth Miss had Red Jade and Green Clothes punished?"

  Huang Yao hastily nodded and then told Li Shi everything in detail, finally expressing some concern: "Sixth Miss seems to be different from before."

  In her mother's heart, this was no big deal, a seven-year-old little girl, how different could she be anyway.

  Li thought for a moment and said, "Oh? Is there something different?"

  Miss Huang Ya thought for a moment and slowly said, "Sixth Miss... she just came out of Old Lady's room a few days ago and then went to the ancestral hall."

  Ancestral hall? Go to the ancestral hall and kneel to my mother?

  Li's eyebrows furrowed even tighter, and his face immediately turned gloomy. After a long while, he sneered coldly: "Indeed, she's not my own flesh and blood, no matter how well I treat her, she'll still run to her birth mother to complain."

  "Actually, it's not her style at all. You've been keeping her by your side since you came in, and after so many years, I've been watching coldly, she really took you as her own mother......" As soon as she thought of this, Yu's mother turned cold and looked at Huang Yao, humming: "Won't someone have said something to her?"

  "No, no!" Huang Yao's face turned white with fright, and she hastily shook her head in defense: "How dare I? Even if I wanted to avoid it, I couldn't. How would I dare bring this up with Sixth Miss? Besides, there are others who serve Sixth Miss too, like Green Clothes, who is always by her side. She's Xu Mama's daughter, and they're from the original Cui family. Maybe it was them who said something, who knows?"

  She paused, as if remembering something, and Huang Yao hurriedly straightened up and added: "That's right, that day Sixth Miss was also very strange in Old Lady's room. If it were according to her usual temper, she would have made a scene long ago. But that day, Third Madam publicly reprimanded her in front of so many people, yet she didn't utter a word and even apologized to Old Lady and Third Madam herself."

  "Mother, you've been hitting the goose all day, has the goose pecked your eyes out?" Li smiled and said: "I told you before, that Xu mom beside her can't stay. She was brought from Cui's hometown after all, maybe she knows something or not. Moreover, even if she doesn't know our past, letting someone who followed Cui for twenty years stay by her side will eventually lead her astray. But mother, you didn't listen. Now it seems like keeping her has led to trouble."

  Her mother was also at a loss, with a bitter face seemingly very puzzled: "That Xu Ayi who stayed by her side for five years didn't do anything useful, how come it just took effect these few days..."

  Li lazily leaned on the soft pillow, propping up her chin with her hand and said: "Nowadays, what's the point of caring when that little troublemaker gets up? Master is about to bring back another big troublemaker, we can't find two troubles for ourselves, can we?"

  "What do you mean?" Yu's mother glanced at Huang Yao, who was kneeling on the ground, and hesitated: "Old lady's eyes are sharp, even though you've been serving her diligently these few years, she's still indifferent. If you're referring to Sixth Miss..."

  Su Zhi was the most agile, and when she heard them mention these things, she quickly bowed her head and beckoned to Huang Yao. Huang Yao was stunned for a moment, then reacted and realized that what came next wasn't something she could hear, so she quietly followed Su Zhi and Su Xiang as they lifted the curtain and went out.

  "What if she has sharp eyes? The efforts I've made in the past five years are enough, even the old master can't find any fault with me. This time those maidservants served poorly and caused this Sixth Miss to suffer, I was thinking of her and wanted to replace them with better ones, could it be that the old lady and old master would still try to control me? Li Shi let out a light laugh, her face full of disdain and disgust, continuing: "Besides, I don't need to deal with her now, wait until we leave this manor and go to where the old master is posted, when the sky is high and the emperor is far away, who can control how I treat her? Do you really think I'm not patient enough?"

  Isn't it that you can't bear it, Madam? Yu's mother sighed and felt relieved at the same time, nodding in agreement: "That's also true. Xu's mother is the nanny of Sixth Miss, but she doesn't take good care of Sixth Miss. The mistress should deal with them. But now that the year-end is approaching, isn't it a bit inappropriate to deal with them now?"

  The whole family attaches great importance to watching during the Spring Festival and rarely scolds people at this time.

  "It's better to deal with them now, otherwise when Master returns, they'll stir up more trouble." Li Shi rubbed her temples, feeling a headache coming on: "These two troubles are really hard to get rid of, just thinking about it gives me a headache. When Master returns, that Xu mom will cry in front of him and who knows, he might remember the good things about Cui Shi again. That Xu mom is used to causing trouble by crying, if she hadn't cried and begged Master to personally ask Old Lady for mercy, would Yuan Ge have been sent to his maternal grandparents' house to be raised for a year? Which family has ever had such a reason?"

  It was because of this matter that Li felt particularly disgusted with Xu's mother, and she found her even more unbearable than Song Chu-yi.

  According to her temper, it's really hard for her to tolerate Xu Mama for so long. Moreover, at present, Xu Mama is indeed incompetent in handling the matter of Song Chuyi's injury, and no one can say anything about dismissing her now. Upon thinking for a moment, she nodded and said: "What you said is also true, but what if Sixth Miss makes a fuss?"