In the evening, Hua Niang returned to hand over her duties. Although her complexion was still not very good-looking, compared to this afternoon, it had improved a lot. She sighed and looked at Song Chuyi: "Miss, I'm not saying this, but you've always been too indulgent towards Hong Yu and Luoyi. They also refused to yield to Mrs. Cui."

  She coldly sneered: "But Mrs. Cui didn't have your good temperament, and on the spot, she had two palace-trained wet nurses teach her a lesson. Mrs. Cui said that according to palace rules, this kind of slave who likes to gossip behind people's backs should have their tongue cut out as a light punishment, so she had the wet nurses knock out a few of her teeth."

  Madam Choi was raised in the palace for several years, and she had her own way of dealing with servants, rewarding and punishing them clearly. Those who betrayed their masters and forgot their kindness would not have a good ending under her rule.

  Song Chuyi had expected this, so she didn't feel surprised at all. She nodded slightly and told Permitted Concubine about Qing Feng and Qing Yu's matter. Finally, she asked her to assign tasks to Zi Yun and the others: "In principle, our rules have indeed been somewhat lax, Concubine, please take more care in the future."

  This time, because of Hongyu's matter, Mrs. Xu had already been self-reproachful and, upon hearing the words, she agreed without any hesitation.

  Song Yan was already impatient in the compartment, hearing that they had almost finished talking, and ran in to pull Song Chuyi to Grandma's room ----- This afternoon, Yu Shu came over and said that Old Lady Song had woken up and asked them to come over for dinner tonight.

  Song Chuyi stood up with the momentum, smiling and scratching Song Yan's nose: "You little glutton, you're not usually in such a hurry, could it be that you didn't like the snacks in your sister's room today?"

  Song Yan shook her head, waved at the sparrows hanging under the eaves, teasing them to chirp loudly, and turned back to ask Song Chuyi: "Sister, when can we move into our new house?"

  Their new home is close by, just a bridge away, making it much more convenient for him to come over from Third Brother's place. Moreover, after today's incident with Hong Yu, he suddenly felt an urgent desire to have his own courtyard, so that he could quickly have his own people and also be able to help his sister in the future.

  "Now the weather is hot, it's almost July, they are working slowly. I'm afraid it will be around August before you can move in." Song Chuyi saw that Song Yan seemed a bit unhappy, so she pulled him and smiled: "However, take advantage of Grandma being happy later, ask her and Auntie to urge the people below, maybe they'll speed up and you can move in sooner."

  Yu Shu saw them coming early and hurriedly smiled and opened the curtain to welcome them in: "The old lady has just prepared iced watermelon, it must be hot on the way here, come in quickly."

  The madam was indeed serving Song old lady with iced watermelon, seeing them smile and letting someone bring the watermelon up, also asking if they were hot.

  Mrs. Song leaned against the pillow, still panting slightly, and looked at her with a spirit that was not very good. She beckoned to Song Chuyi to come forward, tightly grasped her hand: "Don't worry about this scourge, it can't be kept. The people who went to Changsha with Erniu are all our family members, I will ask them to think of a way, if it's really unavoidable, then we can only take drastic measures."

  Song Chuyi looked at Old Lady Song with some surprise, she didn't think that the two old men of the Song family would really make such a decision-----after all, they were held back by Song Yi, and she originally thought that this matter might still have to be entrusted to the Cui family.

  Old Lady Song had already crossed over to instruct the senior lady: "The matters I previously entrusted you with, hurry up and do them. The people serving above and below should be replaced or withdrawn as needed. Wang's people were mostly dismissed last time, this time again thoroughly clean up the remaining ones. As for Li's side, no one is allowed to use their people anymore, whether it's the gatekeeper at the corner door or the person in charge of the outside carriages, all are withdrawn."

  If something else happens in the Song family's household, she won't have the face to see the ancestors of the Song family again, and even more so, she won't have the face to claim that she is the eldest daughter of the Wan family from back then.

  Madam Zheng nodded solemnly and agreed, then mentioned to Old Lady Song the two palace-born aunts who had arrived at their home, saying that once the weather cools down a bit, they would have the young ladies learn etiquette and rules.

  It's really not good to delay any longer, Song Chuming and Song Chubin both need to hurry up and learn. Old Lady Song nodded in agreement.

  The madam glanced at Song Chuyi and then brought up the matter of the British Gongfu tomorrow: "Since we've already agreed, I'll take Xiaosi and a few others over there tomorrow."

  "Foreigners are not allowed to see her." Old Lady Song looked at Song Chuyi with a serious gaze, then turned to instruct the first lady: "Just go and pay respects to the British couple, but try to avoid seeing other foreign guests. Once they have finished sitting in bed, come back immediately."

  These had all been ordered by Old Lady Song beforehand, and Madame hurried to comply, serving her half a bowl of watermelon before turning around with Yinger to take their leave.

  Li Qingzi was pregnant and a bit unsteady, although she had already passed the first three months. Everyone was being very careful. Old Lady Song didn't think much of it and waved her hand for Li to go back.

  Mrs. Song left, and Old Lady Song smiled as she watched Song Yan finish eating the watermelon, then turned to ask Song Chuyi: "I heard you've settled Red Jade's matter? Actually, there was no need to send her to your aunt; with a maid like that, it would have been perfectly reasonable for you to handle it yourself. In the future, when you should be firm, you must be firm; otherwise, if you don't cut off what should be cut off, you'll bring chaos upon yourself."

  Song Chuyi leaned on Grandma Song's knees, let out a deep sigh: "Yes, I know. But if Hongyu were to be punished by Auntie instead of me, it would be much more severe. Grandma wants me to punish her myself, but I'm afraid I won't be able to bring myself to do it."

  Old Lady Song stroked her hair, "Well, she's been with you for so many years, it's not good to personally create killing karma. By the way, I've picked two more maidservants for A Yun from your side, and I'll give him two more here. That makes a total of four big maidservants."

  Madam Song's two personal maids, Yu Shu and Yu Lan, were both skilled at training young girls. The ten second-class maids they had trained were all good ones, so naturally it was Madam Song who accepted the task on behalf of Song Xiang.

  Old Lady Song smiled and asked someone to come up and kowtow to Song Yan, then smiled: "Little Fourth, from now on you are an adult. If these people behave well, reward them; if they misbehave, just come find Grandma and I'll punish them!"

  Song Yan saw her sister nodding, and naturally had no choice but to agree. Hearing Old Lady Song say this, she also rushed over to her side, holding her hand and shaking it: "Yes, grandmother! But grandmother, you have to get someone to clean up my courtyard quickly."

  Old Lady Song smiled and poked his head: "You're so young but so mischievous! Don't you like staying with your grandmother for a few more days? Alright, alright, tomorrow I'll get your aunt to supervise them to start repairing the house."