Mama Shen looked at the old lady in amazement, she didn't expect the old lady to ask such a question, she thought for a while, and said: "At that time, Sister Rong'er's table was all the sisters in her own house, and there were the third young ladies from the Lu Mansion, the eighth and tenth ladies from the Cao Mansion, and the ninth miss from the Zhao Mansion, and there was no one else. ”

"Miss Zhao Fujiu?" the old lady muttered. It stands to reason that only those who are familiar with each other will sit together, like Lu Mansion and Cao Mansion, both of which have dealings with Gu Mansion, and the ladies of each province are also familiar with each other. As for the Zhao Mansion, it seems that there is no contact.

Mama Shen also felt that there were some problems: "This Miss Zhao Jiu, I heard that it was raised by Master Zhao in the outer room outside, and she only entered the mansion not long ago. Maybe there is no place in other places, so I inserted it into our table. ”

"But ......," Mama Shen wondered, "The slave remembers the Zhao Mansion who went to the Princess's Mansion for a banquet, but she brought several young ladies and occupied almost a whole table. A student like Miss Zhao Jiu may have been ostracized, so she squeezed to our Gu Mansion's table."

Speaking of this, Mama Shen sighed deeply and said, "In the end, it was Sister Rong who was careless, why did she take the letter out, and it just so happened that she almost fell at that moment, and the letter fell out." Fortunately, the girls in the princess's mansion are very eye-catching, and they immediately picked it up, and returned to the princess, who has always respected the old lady, so she forwarded the letter to the old lady and covered up such ugly things......

At this moment, Mama Shen suddenly seemed to be choked by the throat, her eyes stared straight ahead, and her voice changed slightly: "...... No, on the way back, Cuihuan beside Sister Fang kept complaining that it was Miss Zhao Jiu who stepped on Sister Rong'er's skirt, which caused Sister Rong to almost fall...... "Mama Shen only felt cold sweat oozing from her head, "Why is Miss Zhao Jiu again?"

Sister Fang is Gu Yuanfang, the second lady of the Gu Mansion, and Cuihuan is the first-class girl next to her.

The old lady snorted heavily, and her voice was obviously a little stern: "Go, let me check on that Miss Zhao Jiu, a daughter raised in the outer room, how did she enter the Zhao Mansion? Also, how was she invited to the banquet in the Princess's Mansion?"

Mama Shen looked up at the old lady and knew that the old lady was really angry this time. You must know that the old lady is Princess Zhaomin's own aunt, after Princess Zhaomin's mother Chen Guifei entered the palace, thanks to the old lady sending silver everywhere in the palace, this ensured that Princess Zhaomin was born safely and became the only surviving princess in the harem. So all along, Princess Zhaomin has been very respectful of the old lady.

And that Zhao Mansion is just Wupin Shuntian Mansion Yin, I heard that there is an outer room outside, which makes the back house very uneasy, and Mrs. Zhao is also angry and goes to Xiaogu Mountain to recuperate. Now it is the outer room with a woman to enter the room, and there is a suspicion of "spoiling the concubine and killing the wife".

Seeing that the old lady's face was getting more and more ugly, and her breathing became heavier, Mama Shen hurriedly made a cup of mulberry chrysanthemum almond tea, put aside some rock sugar, and held it in a painted teacup from the official kiln in Jingdezhen, and held it to the old lady: "Old lady, don't worry, drink a cup of tea and go to the fire." ”

The old lady drank a whole cup of tea, and then eased her mood a little, and said hatefully: "Sister in my house, when will it be the turn of outsiders to calculate? ”

Shen Mama knew that the old lady was an unusually shrewd person, she was not deaf or dazzled, and the accounts in the house were calculated accurately, in short, the sisters in the house were all her pawns in this account, and whoever was most beneficial to the Gu Mansion would spoil whomever she wanted, like the second lady who was one of the four famous ladies in the capital;

As for dealing with a daughter raised outside the room, if the old lady doesn't even have this means, then she really underestimates the old lady.

The slave and maid immediately went to find out. Mama Shen quickly walked out.

When the lamp was in charge, Mama Shen came back, and sat in the old lady's room for about a pillar of incense, and then Mama Shen walked out and went to find the chief steward Lin in the outer courtyard, saying that she wanted to set up a carriage, and early tomorrow morning, the old lady would go to Xiaogu Mountain.

When the news spread, two people in the house changed their faces, one was the eldest lady, and the other was the second lady.

There was no word all night, and the next day some news came and went from the mouth of the girl below. First, the eldest lady accidentally burned her hands last night, and she took leave from the old lady this morning and did not go to ask the old lady for peace. The second is that the second lady, who has never been late, actually overslept and did not ask for peace before the old lady went to Xiaogu Mountain. The girls at the bottom speculated that the two rooms did not go to the old lady to say goodbye today, the big room was frightened, and the second room was overjoyed.

After noon, the old lady came back, her face was gloomy and terrible, and the people in the house were so careful that they did not dare to walk and speak loudly, lest they might touch the bad luck of the master and fall into bad luck. Only in Liu Yun Courtyard, Gu Zhirong still ate and slept, slept and ate, and then sat under the grape trellis and read a book, and the days passed lightly.

In the evening, before the lamp, the eldest lady and the second lady were called to the old lady's courtyard.

The sun sets in the west, and the orange-red sunlight penetrates through the rhombic lattice window, penetrates the soft silk gauze curtain, enters the room, and shines on the dark red floor, so that the whole main hall is immersed in an orange yellow.

In the southwest corner, the half-walled square-eyed copper furnace of plum bone leaf bamboo is spitting out light smoke, transmitting the quiet aroma of peony and lily to all corners of the house.

The old lady sat on the top, closed her eyes slightly, and the Bodhi Buddha beads in her hand turned slowly. On the carved Taishi chair below, there is a mat woven from the reeds of Taihu Lake. Taihu Lake straw mat is famous all over the world, I heard that it needs to be processed from the reed grass on the edge of Taihu Lake for more than ten years, which is flexible and cool, and it is the most suitable for use in summer.

On the left side of the next head, there is the eldest lady, except for the slightly heavier fat powder on her face, she is still as calm as usual, and she can't see a trace of specialness.

On the right side of the lower head, the second lady was sitting, her plump face was full of spring, a pair of eyes glanced at the old lady sitting on it, and then turned her gaze to the big lady opposite, and smiled gloatingly.

The eldest lady ignored her and continued to sit still like a bell.

The girl at the bottom put on the tea, and hurriedly retreated, in the old lady's room this almost cold atmosphere is rare, everyone faintly felt the heavy depression inside.

Finally, the emerald crutch in the old lady's hand slammed into the ground, and the crutch hit the floor, making a dull loud noise, breaking the silence, and then, the majestic voice broke through the air: "The eldest daughter-in-law, the second daughter-in-law, you two should tell me, how should this Sister Rong and King Su privately accept the matter?"