Erfu watched the Ulanala clan walk away, pointed to the place where the Ulanala clan had sit, and whispered to Shilan, who was still stunned: "Send the tea sets and dishes to the kitchen to be steamed and washed, and then replace the soft cushions on the embroidery pier with new ones." With that, she reached out and pushed open the hidden window, letting the cold wind blow away the smell of the Ulanara clan in the room.

"The New Year's gift over there in Enjizhuang should be sent earlier. She flipped through the ledger that the Ulanala clan had sorted out, and casually instructed Qinglan.

"Yes. Qinglan clearly recorded Erfu's instructions in the small notebook she carried with her.

Erph nodded in satisfaction and returned her attention to the ledger.

Although these accounts have been counted by the housekeeper, in order to avoid the joint action of greedy ink, Erfu will still habitually check a few books.

"Ulanala is careful in his work, look how clearly this account is copied......" Erph casually complimented, and then threw aside the account book that had read most of it, and continued to look through the other books.

The end of the year is the busiest time of the year.

Although the Ulanala clan took the initiative to share a lot of Erf's work, some work involving more critical positions still required her to come forward in person, after all, it was really not easy to give up the right to take care of the feed to the Ulanala clan.

Erfu is busy, and the fourth master in the front yard is also busy.

Originally, Emperor Kangxi was distressed that he was in the pain of losing his son, and did not arrange other errands for him, but as his investigation became bigger and bigger, more and more people were involved, and the Zongren Mansion intervened, and Emperor Kangxi had to come forward to restrain the behavior of the fourth master.

In this way, the fourth master was sent by Emperor Kangxi to Shengjing to worship his ancestors.

The others are no longer in Beijing, but Chen Fu did not give up pursuing the truth of Honghui's death, but Honghui died in a small seaside fishing village thousands of miles away, and after such a long time, Song Ci is alive and Di Renjie is resurrected, I am afraid that there is no way to find the real truth from this fragmented clue.

And at this time, a secret letter for help was sent to Enjizhuang.

The person who sent the letter was a student who had gone to Beijing to study and was waiting for next year's big exam, and sent the letter to Zhuangshang, explaining that the letter was a very embarrassed young man crying and begging him to bring it to Beijing.

Zhuang Tou saw that the envelope had the exclusive mark of the Fourth Master's Mansion, and sealed it with wax paint, he didn't dare to open it without authorization, so he had to send the letter to Erfu, the hostess of the Fourth Master's Mansion.

Elder received the letter, but did not take it seriously.

After all, for such letters from unknown sources, the Fourth Master's Mansion can receive two large baskets every day, including a letter written by a bitter master who has no way to ask for help, and an excerpt sent by some local officials who want to bridge the line between heaven and earth...... In short, there are all kinds of things, so such a letter sent to Enjizhuang, even if the envelope has the exclusive mark of the Fourth Master's Mansion, it is not enough for her to care too much.

The so-called no coincidence is not a book, and this letter, which was not taken seriously by her, was seen by her by coincidence.

On that day, she went to the house of the elders of the clan as usual to deliver the New Year's gift, and returned to the house tired, seeing that the palace maids had not prepared the hot water for her bath, she walked into the study, she was going to find a book to flip through, just saw this letter on the desk, and tore the envelope casually.

When Erf read the contents of the letter, she could no longer sit still.

While carefully tucking the letter into the secret compartment on the bottom of the bookcase, she pointed to the envelope and asked Shilan, "Who sent this letter?"

Shilan took a closer look and replied softly: "This letter was brought back by Mama Gui to Qinglan, and I heard that Mama Gui and Qinglan said that it was sent to the house by the head of Enji Zhuang Zhuang, and it was not written by the head of Enji Zhuang, saying that it was sent to Enji Zhuang with a student who entered Beijing to take the exam, and the head of Enji Zhuang saw that there was a mark on the envelope on our house, so he asked someone to loosen it into the house!"

Speaking of this, she scratched her head and asked cautiously, "Master, what are you asking about this ......?"

Shilan will have this question, she is really frightened by the glorious history of Erf's past, her own master is good at everything, but she is too nosy, but some bitter masters who have no way to ask for help will write to the house for help, but whenever they are turned over by their own masters, they always have to ask what is going on, she secretly wondered to herself, if it weren't for her master being a woman, she would definitely be able to become a famous detective like Bao Qingtian and Di Renjie......

It's a pity......

Whether his master is a woman, or the concubine of the prince's mansion, as a family member, often asks about this kind of thing, then it is not so justifiable, or at least someone will be said to be a dog and a mouse - nosy, to put it seriously, I don't know what kind of crime I have to bear!

Because of this, they have been very, very, very careful with the letters that come from the front yard.

The more Shilan thought about it, the more she regretted it, why didn't she deal with this letter earlier, in case it was another letter of complaint, when the fourth master came back, I was afraid that they, the palace maids and servants who were on an errand in the main courtyard, would have to carry the black pot again......

Just as her brain was filled with joy, Erff spoke.

"Don't poke it there, you let Zhao Dezhu run to the front yard, pass on my instructions, and let Chen Fu come to see me!"

Look, it's a complaint again!

- Shilan thought so in her heart, but she couldn't help but do what Erfu told her, so she drooped her head and walked out with a bitter face.

Erfu didn't know how Shilan had arranged herself in her mind, she only knew that she was now at a fork in the road of choice, on the one hand, she told Chen Fu the contents of the letter truthfully, and on the other hand, she hid the letter, and the two choices represented two completely different life experiences.

If you tell Chen Fu the contents of the letter......

Then Honghui, who has been declared dead, will come back to life in the fourth master's mansion, and he is still the son of the world, the result is that the fourth master is pleased, the Wulanala clan is satisfied, and Honghui will also be happy, after all, she has been carrying the blame for so long in vain, and she has lost the position of the prince who belongs to Hongyu.

Hide the epistle......

The best case scenario is to keep the status quo unchanged, and the worst case scenario is that she steals chickens and rice.

In fact, this choice is not difficult, Erfu sat still in place, but she didn't know how to express her complicated emotions for a while, since she had asked Zhao Dezhu to invite Chen Fu over, then her choice was already very clear, she was not a virgin who repaid her grievances with virtue, she just couldn't dispose of a life at will like the Ulanala clan.

Thinking of this, she looked out the window at the gloomy sky and grinned self-deprecatingly.

"Master, the slave and maid are waiting for you to change your clothes!" At this moment, a pleasant and crisp voice disrupted Erf's thoughts.

Hearing this, Erfu shook his head with a smile, and commanded softly at the poetry on his forehead: "I forgot that you don't have to prepare hot water, because I still have some things to tell Chen Fu to do in a while, so you can lead someone to move the bathtub behind the screen first, and let me deal with the matter here first." As she spoke, she pointed apologetically to the bathtub inlaid with copper hoops carved peony flowers in the warm pavilion.

Because she likes to take a bath, even the bath tub in her house is larger than the bath tub in other rooms, and the bath tub is full of hot water and flower petals.

"Alright!" said Erf's voice, and the poetic voice was noticeably lowered.

Erff smiled apologetically, after all, after reading the letter, she was too nervous, so she completely forgot her previous plan to wash and rest, and let the poets work in vain.

She looked back and forth several times through the letter that was stuffed into the secret compartment by herself, and even found out a birthday blessing that Honghui had written to the fourth master, compared the handwriting, and confirmed that it was Honghui's own handwriting, and then sat back behind the bookcase.

This thing is really more exciting than the play, ups and downs, peaks and loops!

It turned out that this letter sent to the house from Enjizhuang was a distress letter written by Honghui himself. In the letter, Honghui described in detail how he escaped from the wolf's den and entered the tiger's den all the way, and expressed at great length how he regretted what he had done, hoping that the fourth master could forgive him for his mistakes and save him from the fire pit as soon as possible.

Yes, the person who died in a small fishing village by the sea was not the real Honghui, just a passer-by wearing Honghui's close-fitting jade pendant.

After Huo Laowu turned Honghui hemp with anesthetic, he sold the gold lock and jade pendant that Honghui wore closely, and Honghui himself was sold by him to a large local family, the master of that family had unknown special habits, and he was unwilling to go to the kind of place that provided special services, so he paid a lot of money to buy a big toy that belonged to him.

When Honghui woke up, he saw himself lying neatly dressed in a well-appointed room, and there was a little maid with neat eyebrows and eyes waiting for him, and then he thought of the situation when he suddenly fell asleep before, he noticed that something was wrong, but he did not act recklessly, but cautiously talked to the little maid, and after some side knocks, he finally figured out his own situation.

For a moment, he wondered if he was having a particularly absurd nightmare.

However, Honghui was not crushed by the predicament in front of him, he chose to run away very decisively, and he never lost his fists and feet, otherwise he would have been caught by those guards before he ran out of the hospital.

Honghui ran out, but he was penniless.

Fortunately, not all the bad people in the world are here, he has gone through several twists and turns, and he will not die of great disasters, and he will always meet three or five good people to help him.

Honghui first met a kind aunt with a fat round face, subsidized him with food and clothing, and was very enthusiastic to stay at home for two days, so that he avoided the nursing homes sent by big families to chase him, and then met a juggling team with a bit of charlatanism, so that he could go all the way out of the Jiangnan water town.

As for the students who went to Enjizhuang to deliver letters, they were already one of the first good people he had met.

Although Honghui is a boy who can't lift his hands and can't shoulder it, his knowledge is far from being comparable to the small people in the mountains and fields, and his knowledge is also carefully taught by several great Confucians.

And the student who went to Enjizhuang to deliver the letter was a student in the private school.

In fact, Honghui originally planned to directly find the local yamen to identify himself and let the local yamen send someone to escort him back to Beijing, but he thought that the personal jade pendant that he could prove his identity was gone, and he was afraid that some people in the house would send someone to assassinate him before he returned to Beijing, so he gave up this plan.

The reason why he didn't send the distress letter to the house was because he was afraid that it would be intercepted by someone in the house.

To put it bluntly, the person Honghui guarded against was the person who received the distress letter from Erfu.

After reading the distress letter, Erfu figured out the ins and outs of this place, she could intercept this distress letter, not tell anyone to know, and then send someone to get rid of Honghui, but in the end she couldn't pass the level in her heart, so she asked Zhao Dezhu to invite Chen Fu to come over, make a decisive choice, and save her from wasting her thoughts.

Thinking of this, the expression on Erf's face became even more calm.

When Chen Fu hurried over from the front yard, she didn't go around the bend with Chen Fu, and directly slapped the distress letter in front of Chen Fu: "Look, this is a distress letter transferred through Enjizhuang, I look at the handwriting seems to be Honghui, and the content of the letter also matches your previous investigation results!"

"What?" Chen Fu's eyes widened in surprise.

Erph said that this was the kind of reaction she had when she saw the distress letter, and she was very surprised.

"When did you receive this letter?" Chen Fu asked as he clutched the letter with trembling hands and looked shocked, as if he had seen the sun rise in the west.

Erf is not surprised by this.

How much does the fourth master value Honghui, how strong his desire for knowledge is for the truth, and how tight the steps of persecuting Chen Fu are, that is, Chen Fu's psychological quality is high, otherwise he would have been driven crazy by the fourth master, at this time, seeing this distress letter, Chen Fu seems to see the hope that he can live until next year, how can he not be surprised!

Erfu smiled and repeated what Shilan and herself had said before to Chen Fu.

Then, she spread her hands, smiled and gave Chen Fu an eviction order, and said, "I also know this, and you need to investigate other things by yourself." ”

To put it in my heart, Erfu really doesn't want to deal with these people who specialize in serving the fourth master in the front yard, if you get too close, the fourth master will suspect your intentions, go farther, and I'm afraid that these people will stumble on you in front of the fourth master, anyway, it's not good to be close, and it's not good to be far, and it's embarrassing to die.

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