Yuan Xiang snorted lightly and said, "What my brother said is right, you should wait for your father to come back and let your father reason with you." ”

Yuan gradually immediately made a bitter face.

Zhao Qingqing chuckled, then ignored the pair of brothers and sisters and turned to He Linwan and said, "Didn't you ask about the pendant last time?" I asked my brother to call the shopkeeper of the pawnshop. ”

Zhao Yingchuan glanced at He Linwan, took out the pendant that He Linwan handed to Zhao Qingqing last time, handed it to the maid beside He Linwan, and then said lightly: "It was this Tang shopkeeper who received your pendant at the beginning." If there's anything you want to know, ask him face to face. ”

Shopkeeper Tang bowed his head and saluted.

He Linwan took the pendant from the maid's hand, subconsciously rubbed it slightly, and then said with a smile: "Thank you Zhao Gongzi for bothering about this matter." ”

Zhao Yingchuan bowed slightly: "It's a matter of raising your hands." ”

He Linwan looked at Shopkeeper Tang: "Shopkeeper Tang, do you remember who took this jade pendant to the pawnshop in the first place?"

The shopkeeper Tang arched his hand and said: "Miss Huihe, originally our pawnshop received a lot of guests every day, if you ask other small objects, you may not remember the pawn person, but the small one who took this pendant is remembered." ”

He Linwan's heart moved when he heard this: "Oh?

Shopkeeper Tang smiled: "Because the one who came to the pawnshop with this pendant is a waiter." ”

He Lin was taken aback: "Waiter, shopkeeper Tang, you are not mistaken, right?"

Shopkeeper Tang smiled confidently: "The little one is not mistaken, although the waiter is just dressed as an ordinary person and is not dressed in the clothes of the waiter, but as soon as he opens his mouth, he will show his stuffing, the little one has been working in the pawn industry for nearly twenty years, and he just eats with his eyesight, and he has not made a mistake so far." ”

"It's an attendant?" He Linwan muttered.

The inner servant is the eunuch, how can Jie Ge'er's ornaments be in the hands of the eunuch? Could it be that my cousin and Jie Ge'er were arrested? No, even if they didn't escape from the capital and were arrested in the end, it had nothing to do with the inner palace. He Linwan was anxious and dazed in his heart.

According to the original idea of her and her cousin, they were going to Jiajing Pass to find their eldest uncle, although the border pass was bitter and cold, but as long as they could be with their relatives, this bitterness was nothing. Later, however, my cousin learned that my eldest uncle and fifth brother had been sent out to mine shortly after my grandfather and father died of illness, and finally the mine collapsed, and my uncle and fifth brother were buried in the mine.

She was already ill, and after a series of blows, she finally couldn't hold it anymore, and never woke up after a high fever. She didn't know where her cousin would take Jay Ge'er after her death. They have no relatives in this world except each other.

Zhao Qingqing asked with a smile: "Even if the eunuchs in this inner palace are less than 10,000, there are 8,000, with the vision of the shopkeeper Tang who has been in the pawnshop for 20 years, I don't know if I can see where this eunuch is on an errand?"

He Lin came back to his senses and looked at the shopkeeper Tang.

Shopkeeper Tang smiled a little embarrassedly when Zhao Qingqing teased him, then thought about it carefully, and suddenly said: "This chamberlain is about his early twenties, and he took several things to pawn at that time, and they were all pawned. You ask the little one to guess where he was on an errand, and the little one really can't guess it, but the little one remembers that before he left the pawnshop, another little waiter came to him, and the waiter asked where the little waiter went, and the little waiter replied, 'The fifteenth day of the next month is the master's birthday, and Sister Laneige can't come out, so she asked me to send her monthly money to her blind aunt.' The day of the little one was the sixth day of the previous month. ”

Yuan Xiang tilted his head and thought for a while: "Then what he said about the fifteenth of the next month refers to the fifteenth of this month? Today is the seventh day of the fifth month, which master in the palace was born on the fifteenth day of May?"

Several people looked at each other and shook their heads.

He Linwan opened his mouth and said, "It's Concubine Liu Xian." ”

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but look at He Linwan.

Yuan Xiang was surprised: "Is it the virtuous concubine Niangniang who co-manages the harem with Concubine De? How would Sister He know? This lady has always been low-key, and she has never held a palace banquet in the name of her birthday." ”

He Linwan lowered his eyes slightly: "Listen to what my grandmother said." ”

Yuan Xiang thought for a while and nodded suddenly: "Oh, Mrs. Cheng Enbo has been summoned by the queen mother several times, and she must have learned about it by chance when she entered the palace one time." ”

Zhao Qingqing couldn't help but glance at He Linwan thoughtfully, but she just smiled and didn't say much, only said: "Since this chamberlain took several things to be a pawn, and Gu was a dead person, presumably this pendant is not his own, it must have come from somewhere, so he exchanged it for silver." Sister He wants to find out which jade carver this pendant comes from, I'm afraid it's difficult. ”

He Linwan sighed lightly: "Okay, I forced it, let's have a fate in the future." ”

Zhao Qingqing: "Everything should be about a fate, many things you can't find, but maybe one day it will appear in front of you." ”

He Linwan nodded: "What Sister Zhao said is true." Thank you Sister Zhao, Brother Zhao, and Shopkeeper Tang this time. ”

Shopkeeper Tang didn't dare to say anything.

Zhao Qingqing asked the shopkeeper Tang to step back first.

Yuan gradually lectured himself for fear of attracting his sister's attention, and he didn't speak just now, but at this time he couldn't help but jump out and say: "How boring is it for us to sit here? Sister, didn't you say before that you wanted to go boating in the lotus pond to pick lotus flowers? I asked someone to make a few small boats a few days ago, and we went into the water to play for a while?"

Yuan Xiang was inexplicable: "When did I say that I wanted to go boating in the lotus pond?"

Yuan gradually distracted, but secretly glanced at Zhao Qingqing.

Yuan Xiang glanced at Yuan Yan, and then at Zhao Qingqing, who was smiling and silent, as if he understood, he couldn't help but roll his eyes and glared at her brother, and then turned his head and asked Zhao Qingqing and He Linwan: "What do Sister Zhao and Sister He think?"

Glancing at Yuan Yan, who was looking at him, He Linwan couldn't help but smile: "This idea is good, I haven't taken a boat for a long time." ”

Zhao Qingqing also smiled: "Then let's go together." ”

Yuan gradually immediately showed a big smile, and then jumped down the pavilion: "I'll go get the boat, you guys wait for me here." Brother Cangyu, come and help. ”

Zhao Yingchuan, who didn't talk much, nodded to them and followed Yuan Yan.

Yuan Xiang took them downstairs and out of the pavilion.

Zhao Qingqing said: "I just drank some more tea, and I want to go to change clothes." Are you going?"

Yuan Xiang said: "It's just right, I want to go back and change into lighter clothes." ”

He Linwan smiled at them: "I won't go with you, I see this scenery is good, take a walk by this pool." ”

"It's okay, Sister Zhao and I will be back soon. ”

Yuan Xiang took Zhao Qingqing and walked away.

The two walked halfway, Zhao Qingqing didn't know what he thought, and shook the fan in his hand and chuckled.

Yuan Xiang looked at Zhao Qingqing a little inexplicably: "What's wrong with my sister?

Zhao Qingqing glanced at Yuan Xiang and said with a smile: "It is said that the eldest lady of the He family is arrogant and rude, stupid and brainless, but from the two times I have met Sister He, these people are blind people with eyes and beads. ”

Yuan Xiang thought for a while, frowned, and said, "Although I had good contact with Sister He before, and I didn't have any friendship, but every time I met her, she ...... She really doesn't have a very good temperament. ”

Zhao Qingqing smiled: "Oh? This is the reason why the lady and godmother don't want you to associate with her?"

Yuan Xiang was a little embarrassed when he heard this: "Grandmother and mother are not preventing me from intersecting with Sister He, I really didn't get along with Sister He in temperament before." And Sister He, she ...... to my second brother My mother wasn't happy about that. You know my mother, who, like my grandmother, liked mild-mannered women. ”

Zhao Qingqing smiled: "I look at Sister He's fine, maybe you all have some misunderstandings about her." Like the last time it happened at the temple. The girl from the He family looked like she was knowledgeable and gentle, but what she did was ......"

Yuan Xiang sighed: "What you said makes sense, I will say more good things about Sister He in front of my mother in the future." After some contact, I prefer people like her. ”

Speaking of this, Yuan Xiang suddenly glanced at Zhao Qingqing.

Zhao Qingqing raised her eyebrows: "What's wrong?"

Yuan Xiang hesitated for a moment before saying, "Sister Zhao, my eldest brother is him, he ...... you"

Zhao Qingqing interrupted with a smile when she heard this: "Sister, my wife is my godmother, you are my sister, Brother Yuan and Second Brother Yuan are my brothers." ”

Yuan Xiang sighed: "But I'm afraid my eldest brother won't think so, although he looks very arrogant, but he and my second brother are with my grandfather, and he is a stubborn character." Sister Zhao, don't you think about my eldest brother?"

Zhao Qingqing couldn't help but laugh when she heard this, she reached out and gently pinched Yuan Xiang's face: "Sister, you say this as if I dislike Brother Yuan, you must know that he is the son of an official family, I am the daughter of a merchant, and I am not worthy of him." ”

Yuan Xiang hurriedly said, "Sister Zhao, don't say that. Although I said that my mother and grandmother liked women with gentle temperaments, they were not powerful people, and they did not mean to despise your status. ”

Zhao Qingqing patted Yuan Xiang's hand and comforted: "I naturally know this, at the beginning, just because my wife went out to pass by Taolin and happened to be rescued by me and my brother, the Yuan family regarded me as a life-saving benefactor, and later learned that my brother and I had no relatives in Beijing, so I helped me and my brother gain a foothold in Beijing, and my wife accepted me as a righteous daughter." I know what Mrs. and Mrs. are. ”

"Then you ......"

Zhao Qingqing put his finger to his lips and blinked: "Shh...... Say no more, sister. ”

Yuan Xiang couldn't help but stop talking.

Zhao Qingqing bent her lips: "Sister, in this world, sometimes what you say doesn't count, what I say doesn't count, and no one counts." So let's not talk about it. ”

Yuan Xiang pouted dissatisfiedly: "Then who has the final say?"

Zhao Qingqing tilted his head and thought about it, then sighed and said with a light smile: "I don't know, maybe it'...... Destiny. ”

Yuan Xiang thought that Zhao Qingqing was joking again, so he glared at her, but he didn't mention it anymore. ・