At night, Yuanning Hou Mansion, Agarwood Courtyard.

There were only two illuminated lanterns left in the courtyard, and the orange candle flame could only be seen about a foot around, and it was hazy.

Miss Gu Yuanqin stood in front of the stone steps in the main hall, and when the candlelight reached the stone steps, she suddenly lost her trace, hiding her face in the dark night, making it impossible to see her expression at this moment.

"Miss, it's more exposed outside, so let the slave help you into the house. Shen Gui, the first maid, walked out and looked at the back of the fourth lady and said.

"Okay, help me in. The fourth lady turned around as she spoke, and her voice sounded crisp and bright, not at all like a patient who had just recovered from a long illness.

Walking to the threshold, the candle flame in the inner room was projected and fell on her. I saw that she was dressed in a light green embroidered water and grass long jacket, and her figure was exquisite, and the dark green Doro's silver fox cloak swayed in the wind, and she actually gave birth to a trace of elegance. Look at the face again, the white is pink, where is there a trace of sickness, what a young girl with a red complexion and a radiant look!

Shen Gui glanced at Gu Yuanqin and couldn't help laughing: "Miss hasn't taken any more medicine in the past few days, and her complexion is as good as usual, but she looks good." ”

Miss Gu Si Gu Yuanqin snorted coldly: "Those are medicines that make people's faces sick, how can they be eaten as meals? Besides, I've been sick for so long, medicine, supplements, etc., I've also eaten a lot, it's time to get better." ”

Shen Gui grinned and said: "Miss is sick for a long time, you see, these days, the old lady has been nervous, Taibai Mountain wild ginseng, snow clams, blood bird's nest and so on, one by one sent people to us." The young lady ordered the slave maid to keep these things in the Duobao Pavilion. Now the Duobao Pavilion is full, and it can't fit it. ”

The fourth lady said "oh?", and then thought for a moment. Fang Dao: "What about the second lady's side, you can also send some over." ”

Shen Gui said: "What Miss thinks, the slave has already thought of." Yesterday, the slave maid went to the second lady to take a look, and there were a lot of supplements that she hadn't eaten. After this catastrophe, the second lady finally picked up a life and came back, the second master was very nervous, you know that our house is an imperial businessman, and there is something I haven't seen. Is there anything that can't be obtained? The second master is quite willing, whether it is a few hundred taels of silver or a few thousand taels of silver. He didn't frown, and he was very good to the second lady. ”

The fourth lady didn't speak, and her heart was already thinking about it quickly.

Her mother was ill, and she was afraid that the silver in the second room would be lost. The relationship between father and mother has always been excellent. Although my father has accepted two aunts over the years. But one died early, the other came out of nothing, and his father gradually forgot about these two concubines, but he was getting better and better for his mother, especially his brother, Gu Jinli, the second son of the Yuanning Marquis Mansion, after he became more and more promising, his father put all his thoughts on the second brother, hoping that he would get ahead. Add glory to the second room.

The second brother wants to get ahead, and this will naturally cost a lot of money. But now his mother is seriously ill. The cost of this medicine alone is a big account, and according to her guess, I am afraid that half of the property accumulated in the second room will be filled in. And the other half of the rest is only afraid that it will be used to dredge the relationship between the second brother's career. So in this way, where is his dowry, it seems that there is no place.

The fourth lady is not a person who sits still, she deliberately found a monk from Youfang, and bought from him a medicine that can make people look sick and weak, coupled with her superb acting skills, she quickly deceived the old lady's sympathy, and those precious medicinal materials were sent over in a steady stream.

Then, the next step she has to do is to resell these medicinal herbs and make a lot of money, which will be the dowry that the old lady has added for herself.

If it were other people, I am afraid that the old lady would not value her so much, why should she value her so much? This is because she grasped the old lady's weakness.

She knows the old lady's mind too well, and the old lady is obsessed with making the glory of the Yuanning Marquis Mansion to a higher level, so she attaches great importance to the position of the crown princess. And the position of the crown princess has already released the news that she wants to choose one between her and the second lady. According to the old lady's safe temperament, that is, before the selection of the crown princess is decided, she and the second lady, no matter which one, cannot have an accident, this is a foolproof strategy just in case. Therefore, when the old lady saw that she had an accident, she was very nervous, and it was reasonable to do everything possible to heal herself.

It is precisely because of this that she simply pretended to be sick like this, taking retreat as advance and deceiving the old lady's sympathy.

Originally, she was so angry that her mother fainted and broke the back of her head, she had an unshirkable responsibility for this matter, but when she pretended to be sick like this, the second master and the second brother wanted to reprimand her, but they couldn't do it anymore. The old lady also spoke in time, saying what are you two doing, don't you see that Sister Qin'er is sick? You want to stimulate her again, so that her condition will worsen, and I, the old woman, will not finish talking to you!

Of course, in addition to faking illness to escape responsibility, she has a more important purpose.

Shen Gui helped the fourth lady sit down on the couch, handed her a small hand stove the size of an apple, and sighed: "People often say that an autumn rain is cold, the weather here in the capital this year is very strange, there has not been much autumn rain, just go to winter, this autumn has not yet started, when the second son has to wear a few more clothes to take the exam, look at this weather, how cold it is." ”

Miss Gu Si looked at the hand stove she was holding in her hand, although it was not big, but it was very exquisite, and it was carved with a claw pattern around it, and she felt very luxurious when she looked at it.

This is what the second brother bought for her at the market this year, and she likes it so much that she has been using it all the time.

Hearing what Shen Gui said, she smiled: "For the sake of the second brother giving me such a valuable hand stove, I will ask the second brother to prepare more clothes." ”

Now that the second lady is sick, and the second master is a man, of course he doesn't know how to say things like letting the second son remember that the weather is cold and he wants to add clothes, so only she, the younger sister, will worry about the second brother.

Shen Gui said with a smile: "Miss must be kind to the second son, in the future, the title of the second son's gold list, won't you also be stained with it?

The fourth lady snorted coldly: "Except for the prince, when did I catch up with those stinky men in the world?"

Unexpectedly, the fourth lady spoke amazingly at this time, and Shen Gui was stunned for a moment.

Ziyan just came in, hurriedly walked over, glared at Shen Gui fiercely, sent her away, and then turned to the fourth lady and said with a smile: "Miss, don't worry about Shen Gui's dead girl, she is still quite loyal to Miss, but her brain lacks tendons, and she needs to be mentioned a few more times before she can turn the corner." ”

The fourth lady said coldly: "I knew that she was loyal, otherwise, I would have kicked her out." ”

"Yes, yes, Miss said it perfectly. Ziyan nodded hurriedly, put down the saucer in his hand, handed a freshly brewed tea to the fourth lady's hand, and put the previous tea on the saucer to replace it.

"What did I ask you to inquire about, how did you inquire?" the fourth lady asked as she flicked the tea leaves floating on it with the tea lid, and spoke in the mist of hot tea that was rising. (To be continued......)