Chapter 1816

"Sister, what are you looking for?" Xing'er approached the little palace maid with some curiosity, bent down and asked.

"What kind of courtyard are you serving, why have I never seen you!" The little palace maid heard the voice, a cold light flashed in her eyes, and after seeing that the person who came was a little girl who was still growing hair, she seemed to be relieved, and raised her hand with a smile on her face to pat Xing'er's head, and asked without answering.

Although Xing'er has learned the rules from the House of Internal Affairs, she is also smart and clever, but in the end she has little knowledge, and she can't understand the indispensable truth of guarding against people, she saw that the little palace maid smiled sweetly, and her appearance was also very kind, and her courage became bigger, she proudly held up her small breasts, and said in a milky voice: "My name is Xing'er, and I have only been in the house for more than a month, so no one in the house knows me, but I am serving by Mama Gui's side, so I came here to play, you can't tell others, otherwise it ......"

As she spoke, she shook her small fist that was not threatening at all.

Seeing this, the little palace maid smiled even more, and hurriedly waved her hand and said, "Don't worry, my sister has the strictest mouth." ”

"Well, that's pretty much it!" Xing'er nodded with a smile, and was busy learning from Mama Gui to teach the palace maids below, deliberately with a fleshy little face, pretending to bow her head deeply.

The little palace maid also happily smiled happily, and talked with Xing'er for a while, making sure that Xing'er was a simple-hearted little girl, so she asked cautiously with a little temptation: "Sister Xing'er, you are playing here, have you picked up anything?"

"Hey, how do you know?" Apricot widened her eyes in surprise.

Seeing this, the little palace maid raised her eyes to look left and right, and saw that no one else around noticed this, and she was about to do it when she spoke, just as she bent her fingers to grab Xing'er and ask the whereabouts of the glass beads, she saw that Xing'er took out a snow-white but dusty handkerchief from her sleeve tube as if she was playing a trick, and said proudly: "Look at you, you are not a smart person, and you actually lost the master's personal things, but it is also thanks to your luck that I picked up this thing." ”

"I spent all the money I had saved over the years, and I asked the family to help, so I was transferred to the master to serve, who thought that one day I would follow the master out of the garden and lose the master's new handkerchief, if I let the master know, I am afraid that I must be driven out of the yard. The little palace maid glanced at the pure white from the corner of her eyes, and hurriedly restrained the fierce color on her face, her face was full of grievances, and she knocked her head again and again, as if she didn't notice the handkerchief in Xing'er's hand and the words she said, and muttered with remorse.

Xing'er didn't know that the little palace maid was making a show, and when she saw that the little palace maid looked very sad, she didn't think much about it, and hurriedly stuffed the handkerchief that she had worked hard to get down from the tree into her hand, and whispered comfortingly: "Sister, don't be afraid, do you see if the handkerchief that your master doesn't see is this?"

"Hey, how can this handkerchief be so dirty in my sister's hand?" The little palace maid took the handkerchief in her hand, and noticed at a glance the inconspicuous grass thorns on the handkerchief, but her face did not reveal anything, only a faint light flashed under her eyes, and she pretended to ask bitterly.

"I don't know, I found it in a tree over there, and I managed to get it down. Xing'er pointed to the ancient tree she had just climbed without the slightest defense, and replied casually.

When the little palace maid heard this, she followed the direction of Xing'er's finger, jumped to her feet and looked at it twice, pursed her lips thoughtfully, and said: "It's luck to be able to find this veil, and it's okay to wash the stains on this veil." As she spoke, she neatly stuffed the handkerchief into the purse she was carrying, and took out two marzipan candies from the purse and stuffed them into Xing'er's hand, half-squatting down and coaxing: "This time I have to meet my sister, but I just went to the master's side to serve and lost the master's personal things, if others know, I will definitely go to the master to complain, so I have to ask my sister to keep it secret for me." ”

"I know, I'm not going to tell anyone about it, but you have to be careful in the future. Apricot ate the sweet marzipan, laughing so much that her eyes were bent into crescents, she carefully received another marzipan in her purse, and pretended to preach to the little palace maid calmly and profoundly.

The little palace maid smiled and nodded, and sat next to the rockery with Xing'er for a while, and then found an excuse to leave, but she didn't go far, so she carefully hid her figure, and under the cover of the shade on her side, she poked her head and secretly stared at the apricot who was still sitting next to the rockery and playing with the blades of grass, until the apricot clapped her hands and walked away, then she hurriedly returned to the side of the rockery, carefully inspecting the grass near the rockery.

Although the glass bead was picked up by Erph and destined to be lost, she still found the shoe print of a soft-soled embroidered shoe on a shady and relatively wet grass, and followed the shoe print and the trampled lawn, and finally found the very hidden gazebo.

"Heilan Pavilion, when did you have such a small and delicate pavilion here!" she stood on the grass outside the pavilion, raised her eyebrows and looked at the plaque hanging on the pavilion, muttered in a low voice, and walked towards the pavilion at the same time.

In the pavilion, when Erfu left, Shilan had carefully packed up all the things she and Shiqing had brought from the main courtyard, but she did not remove the celadon drum stool that had been moved next to the pillar.

The little palace maid came to the pavilion, half-squatted on the side of the celadon table, took out a pure white muslin cloth handkerchief from the sleeve tube, carefully wiped the ground where the drum stool was missing from the table, and wiped the ground in other positions, and then took out the handkerchief that was deceived from Xing'er's hand, carefully checked the stitches and materials, and finally stood up with a heavy sigh.

From the dust that the handkerchief wiped on the ground, it can be seen that the drum stool that was placed next to the pillar was moved over this day, combined with the fine grass thorns and dew marks on the silk handkerchief, the little palace maid was basically sure that the owner of the handkerchief had picked up the glass bead that she had inadvertently lost next to the rockery, and then thought about the reason why the glass bead fell and the drum stool in front of her that obviously changed its position, and she had a hint of foreboding in her heart.

The little palace maid sat on the drum stool in a little flustered and frustrated, stunned for a while, and finally gritted her teeth and got up to leave, but when she left, she did not take the handkerchief that she had deceived from Xing'er's hand, but threw it in an inconspicuous corner near the pavilion.

This kind of silk handkerchief can only be used by female dependents of the Fujin and above in the middle of the house.

No master can let his own things be thrown outside, she was able to meet this handkerchief from Xing'er is accidental, but soon someone will come to look for it, if she takes this handkerchief away, the person who lost the handkerchief will definitely look for it with great fanfare, not for anything else, just to prevent being framed by others, the person who lost the handkerchief, it is impossible to easily leave this matter behind, and then the somewhat delicate Xing'er will find that what she said is a lie, and she will not cover it up for her, but will sell her completely, so in order to prevent this from happening, she doesn't want to be contaminated with human life, can only lose this clue that may help her find the person who picked up the glass bead she lost.

As she expected, not long after Erfu returned to the main courtyard, she found that her handkerchief had fallen in the gazebo, and hurriedly instructed Shilan and Shiqing to lead people to the gazebo to look for it.

Finally found the handkerchief from the side of the gazebo, and Shilan, who came back with beads of sweat on her head, reminded her with some hindsight: "Master, you have to be careful in the future, if this kind of self-respecting thing falls into the hands of others, I am afraid that there will be endless troubles, this time the loss is that the location of the gazebo is secluded enough, otherwise I don't know how much work it will take!" After speaking, she took the handkerchief and wanted to go down to clean it, because this handkerchief was already very dirty and dirty.

"Wait!" Just as Shiran was about to walk out of the eastern room, Erph beckoned to her.

"Do you have anything else to order, master?" Shilan asked softly, looking back a little puzzled.

Erfu beckoned to Shilan, motioned for her to hand over the dirty handkerchief, pointed to the plum blossom branch embroidered on the corner of the handkerchief, and said in a deep voice: "I remember that this handkerchief was embroidered by Yujie two days ago, and this is the first day I have used it in my hand, but you see this fine embroidery work, but it has been twisted into a crumpled mess, and even the center of the silk handkerchief is a little slighted, I am afraid that this handkerchief has fallen into someone else before you find it." ”

Shilan, who was going to take the handkerchief down to clean, heard this, and some things that had been neglected by her also came out, she took a step forward, pointed to a few more subtle thread positions on the silk handkerchief, and analyzed carefully: "The master doesn't say, the slave and maid really haven't noticed, the slave and the maid remember that the master used the handkerchief to wipe the glass bead you picked up, but the glass bead is well-made, The texture is delicate, and it will definitely not hook such a thread, and then look at the silk is hooked with thin burrs, which should be caused by something like a branch.

And the slave and maid remember to pick up this handkerchief, it is a relatively hidden corner next to the rockery, although it is not very conspicuous, but it is just on the side of the road back to the yard, if this handkerchief is there at that time, you and the slaves and maids will not be invisible, I think someone picked up this handkerchief, and I don't know why I threw it there, waiting for the slave and maid to go to look for it. With that, she stepped back to the side, waiting for Erf to make her final decision.

Elder was silent for a moment, then took the veil in his hand again, examined it repeatedly, and finally placed it on the tea table.

"No matter who picked up this handkerchief, it will inevitably be seen that this handkerchief is not used by ordinary palace maids, and they dare not discard it easily, and they will definitely hand it over to the housekeeper and grandmother layer by layer, but now the handkerchief I lost has been picked up by someone, and it is discarded between the gazebo and the rockery, if that person has no other plans, it must be impossible, but the back garden is full of people, and trying to find out who has picked up my handkerchief is no less than looking for a needle in a haystack, so this matter is a confused account.

Okay, let's not worry about this matter, just destroy this veil. After saying that, she asked Shilan to take the veil off.

Because there was no way to find the person who had picked up the veil from a number of servants and maidservants in the house, and there was no way to determine whether anyone was trying to frame him by using it, Erfu could only destroy the silk handkerchief that had just been obtained in a violent manner.

But she didn't just leave this matter behind, she turned her head to look at the poetry waiting next to her, cleared her throat, and commanded in a low voice: " Remember to remind me to lose a handkerchief in the fourth master to cross the road, and then put away other handkerchiefs embroidered with the same batch of materials as this handkerchief, after all, we overheard the conversation between the two little palace maids on the rockery, it should be a very hidden thing, I also think that I can use this to find out some restless people from the head, but don't expose our eavesdropping for such a handkerchief!"

With that, she got up and walked into my inner room.

In order to find this handkerchief as soon as possible, and was afraid that the whereabouts would be noticed by others, the lost handkerchief that no one noticed fell into the hands of others, so Erfu could only let Shilan and Shiqing, who were serving beside her, be trusted close servants to look for it, so that she didn't even have a person to serve in front of her, and the clothes on her body were not changed.

Although she went to the Hailan Pavilion to enjoy the cool water, it was also breezy, but this tossing back and forth, she was still sweating, and the muslin clothes were attached to her body, which was really uncomfortable.

After a while, the small kitchen sent hot water, and Shiqing also prepared dried flower petals and fragrant pancreas and other things on the rattan trellis next to the bathtub, Erfu took off her robe, hugged her shoulders, and buried her whole body in the warm fragrant soup, her nerves that had been tense before, can be regarded as relaxed, but this relaxation, the exhaustion and sleepiness of the whole body came up, she covered her lips and yawned, instructed Shiqing to light a soothing incense beside her, told her to carefully watch the time and water temperature, and fell asleep in the water with her eyes closed。

There were about two incense sticks, the water temperature was getting cooler, and the poetry woke up Erfu softly, and suggested: "It is better for the master to rest on the chaise longue next to you, and the slave and maid will take the shoulder for you, and refresh your muscles and bones." ”

Erfu half-squinted her eyes, raised her hand and pinched the bridge of her nose, woke up, stretched out her arm to Shiqing, motioned for Shiqing to come over and help her, and whispered: "Okay, you come and help me up, I don't know if I'm really tired, I don't have any strength in this leg." ”

Although Erf's voice was low, the poetry standing beside Erfu could still be heard clearly.

A glint flashed in her eyes, and she helped Elder to lie down on the bamboo chaise longue against the wall, and whispered a few words in her ear.