PFC Chapter 151 Review with the Girls
Chapter 151 Review with the Girls
"I'll say this one last time. Do your part. I won't treat you unfairly. If you're unfaithful once, you'll be unemployed forever! Do you understand?"
Zhao Huanxi said coldly. She didn't want to push anyone into a desperate situation, but Linghua was simply rubbing her IQ on the ground. If you keep someone like this around, you never know when they will stab you in the back.
"Yes!" everyone agreed.
Zhao Huanxi thought for a moment and said, "Lock them both in their rooms and keep them safe. Tomorrow, Chunliu and Xiahe, you two will accompany me to town to buy whatever is needed. Yuanzhen will come with me next time and stay at home to look after the house tomorrow."
"Yes, ma'am."
"Also, there will be more and more people in the Zhao family in the future. With more people, there will naturally be more right and wrong. I hope you can supervise each other and support each other. If there are any mistakes, please speak up as soon as possible so that they can be corrected, instead of being like Linghua, watching her slowly fall into the abyss until it was too late. Do you understand?"
They nodded in agreement. He left the rest to them to clean up, and then he took the three maids into his study.
Today, I asked them to watch how I dealt with Linghua and her son. I wanted them to see the wickedness of human nature. I also wanted to teach them how to handle it so they wouldn't become so pedantic.
"Tell me, the three of you, what have you learned from this?"
The first to speak was Xiao Nian (Jingshu). She stepped forward, bowed, and said sweetly, "My sisters and I all know what Mother meant. Master once said, 'When you see good, you should try to catch up to it; when you see evil, it's like touching hot water.'"
Huanxi nodded and said with a smile, "Yes, bad people like this should be avoided as far as possible. Xiaonian is awesome. What about you guys?"
She then asked the two older girls.
"Mom, my younger sister is right. But in this matter, is Xiaodan innocent?" Xiao Pan (Qingchuan) hesitated for a while before speaking.
Xiao Yin (Sang Yu) frowned when she heard this. Xiao Dan was not innocent. She already knew right from wrong at the age of six. Back then, when she went out to pick wild vegetables, she would not go to the ridges of owned fields, but to the wasteland.
Xiaodan, however, repeatedly tolerated her mother's thefts from the master's house without reporting them. This was abetting the evil, a failure to distinguish right from wrong. Furthermore, her eldest sister only rebuked Xiaodan that day, leaving no clue as to how she had privately cursed the three sisters. Her mother was furious because Xiaodan had cursed behind their backs.
"Big sister, what you said is wrong. Xiaodan is not innocent, she is the source of this whole thing. If she had promised to work when her mother went to ask our mother to intercede, if she had stopped her mother the first time she stole something, or if she had been nicer to Baoer and not said those things behind her back and let Aunt Yuanzhen hear them, then perhaps none of this would have happened."
Such a long paragraph made Xiao Pan's scalp numb. She had never thought that there were so many things connected. Now it seems that her brain has not kept up.
"Xiao Yin is right. It seems that she has nothing to do with the matter, but in fact, she is both a beneficiary and pretends to be innocent. Linghua is hateful, but this is what mother wants to tell you. You must see the essence of things through the facts. Although Xiao Dan is younger than you two, she knows how to take advantage of her weaknesses.
"Mom isn't saying that what she did was wrong, it's just that we were the ones being harmed. She didn't dare to say anything to you directly, but she dared to boss Bao Er, who was younger than her, around. What does this mean?"
Xiao Yin quickly answered: "It means she thinks Bao Er is soft and easy to bully. I don't want to be that kind of soft-hearted woman."
She nodded happily and contentedly, "Yes, it's not about being overbearing, but about standing up straight when faced with problems and not being afraid. The more those wolves and tigers see you're afraid, the more likely they are to ride on your head. But I was also wrong in this matter, who knows?"
It was Xiao Nian who spoke first: "Mother is not soft-hearted, she is just too soft-hearted."
"Mom, I understand. You should have told Linghua the first time she stole it. Because of your soft-heartedness, you not only lost the precious golden thread vine but also many medicinal herbs." Xiao Pan spoke slowly.
Seeing that she had finally gotten the hang of things, she nodded happily and contentedly. Of her three girls, the smartest was the youngest, who was still a blank slate after all and learned quickly.
The second child was a bit impatient, but his mind was quick. But the one who made him most happy and worried was actually the oldest and most sensible child, Xiao Pan.
Growing up in such an environment, she appears to be sensible and well-behaved, but in her heart she is inferior and timid. She dares not express her true thoughts for fear of being denied and ignored.
So they were asked to study and learn skills.
She looked at the three good girls with open arms and said with a smile: "You three all said great things. This is also the first time for me to lead people. Let's learn together, how about it? Come, let me hug you. It's been a long time since I hugged you. I miss you so much."
The three girls rushed into her arms together, buried their heads in their mother's arms, and kept sucking on them like they were sucking on a cat.
Unexpectedly, Xu Qingzhao came back at this time and called out from outside the door: "Huanhuan, are you asleep?"
Xiao Pan and Xiao Yin immediately looked at each other, then looked at their mother meaningfully and secretly covered their mouths and laughed twice.
Huanxi glared at the two girls, thinking they were too precocious. Xiao Yin stuck out her tongue, opened the door, and welcomed Xu Qingzhao in.
Xu Qingzhao felt awkward being stared at by these two girls, but he made up his mind and said:
"Qingchuan, Sangyu, Jingshu, can I be your mother's husband? I will do my best to take good care of your mother, and I will also take good care of you. This is all my wealth, and I will give it all to your mother."
She took out a few neatly laid silver bills from her bosom and placed them neatly on the table. She disappeared at night and went home to take out all her savings, leaving a silver bill of one hundred taels for Xu Jinchu and the rest as her dowry.
Over the years, she had lived alone, and her life wasn't low quality, but rather mediocre. Besides banknotes and various leathers, there was little else.
She lived in extreme poverty, so no one had come to propose marriage to her over the years. Only one or two people who saw her beauty had a crush on her, but were stopped by her family. Recently, when they found out that she was actually wealthy, they hurriedly approached her.
Huanxi was bewildered by her actions. How could this guy have even prepared his own dowry after not seeing him for an entire afternoon? And…was this guy actually so rich? There must be at least four hundred taels on the table.
Xiao Nian seemed to have been waiting for this moment. She ran forward, looked at Xu Qingzhao and said, "Then Uncle Xu, when will you give me a sister?"
Zhao Huanxi: Xiao Nian! You are truly a good daughter of your mother. Your train of thought...
Xu Qingzhao appeared extremely calm on the surface, but her red ears gave her away.
"If I marry your mother, I promise that we will only have you three children, and I will treat you as my own children, just like your mother does."
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