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Gu Shen was sick, and he was not lightly ill, and everyone in the capital knew about it.

In the early morning of the second day when Doctor Gu returned from the palace, a prodigal son from a declining family forcibly broke into Gu's house, it is said that he had a knife wound on his body that smelled rancid and smelly, and he needed two freshly picked herbs as a medicine primer, so he had no choice but to order Doctor Gu to order his son to take the prodigal son out of the city to collect medicine.

Outside the gate of the Gu family, many people who were anxious to see Dr. Gu witnessed the daughter-in-law of the Gu family reluctantly sending her husband out, waving goodbye to the carriage with tears in her eyes.

Oh, everyone suddenly realized that Doctor Gu was tired and sick, and the Son of Heaven was in good health, but Doctor Gu couldn't support it and fell.

Ji Yao also saw the carriage of the Gu family at the gate of the city, after three days of ritual work, she took the car from Wan'an Temple to Beijing, and quickly walked to the Dingding Gate, the coachman who drove the car recognized the Gu family's steward opposite, and greeted affectionately: "Gu Da Steward, early in the morning, where are you in a hurry?"

"Mr. accepted a patient, there is a shortage of a few medicinal primers in the house, my family Langjun took people out of the city to dig medicinal herbs, it is a matter of life, I dare not be in a hurry. The Gu family steward spoke with a trembling voice, Xu is he was really in a hurry to get out of the city.

"Hurry up, my lord is going to die, and you are still rambling here. A harsh and unusual voice in the car opposite.

After staying up in the temple for three days and three nights, Ji Yao was a little sleepy and crooked on the soft pillow, she didn't sleep well, and when she heard the voice, she opened her eyes, this is not the voice of the cousin who brought Qilang that night, and she will never forget it.

She glanced to the side, and the three ladies and the two maidservants were all sleepy and didn't notice the movement outside.

Ji Yao gently lifted the corner of the curtain, and there was a half-hundred-year-old servant sitting in the front of the car opposite, holding a horsewhip with a shocked face, the curtain opened a corner, and half of the young man's face was exposed, his eyebrows were unusually straight, his eyes were extremely sharp, and he was ruthless and resolute to scold the Gu family steward.

It's him! Ji Yao's heart tugged, Han Qi was in the car, what about his cousin, who would be injured?

She had countless questions in her heart, and she couldn't ask them clearly.

Xu is Ji Yao's gaze was too focused, and the person in the car opposite paid a little attention to her.

Han Qi raised his eyes to meet Ji Yao's earnest gaze, he remembered her, and put a dagger against his throat, and then that dagger really hurt him.

Han Qi opened the curtain in a bad manner, revealing a pus and stinky wound on his abdomen, staring at Ji Yaohua and covering his mouth, but he raised his eyebrows and smiled, and asked the Gu family steward loudly: "I forgot to say it before, who injured me like this." ”

"Having said that, the stone wicked man who hurt Langjun fled in the dark, and he didn't find his figure for more than half a month. The Gu family steward said tremblingly, for fear that Han Qi would repeat it again with a broken noise door.

The two cars were less than three feet apart, so close that Ji Yao could see a circle of fine fluff on Han Qi's lips, the corners of his mouth were slightly curved, and there was a joke in his bright eyes, which was clearly teasing her.

After a few words, the carriage of the Zhenguo Mansion and the Gu family's vehicle staggered, Han Qi stared back until the curtain of the Sujin car on the opposite side was lowered, and the last half of the fingers with powder were also withdrawn into the car, and the curtain shook slightly. He can only point to it, and whether he can realize it or not depends on her.

"When will the old man's daughter-in-law get out?" The bottom flap of the carriage opened and poked out a head, Gu Shenyi asked in a hoarse voice, and Gu Sheng next to him also looked expectant.

The smile on the corner of Han Qi's mouth had not disappeared, and he only lightly said, "Whether she can leave Beijing or not, I can only help half, and the other half depends on her ability." ”

Doctor Gu muttered something, and retracted into the dark compartment under the car, his grandson was sleeping in it, and he also went back to make up for sleep, thanks to his thin stature, he and his grandson squeezed into a square inch of land and secretly went out of the city.

*****

Outside the city gate, Han Qi and the Gu family steward asked and answered, and Ji Yao guessed that her cousin should be fine, so she put her mind at ease and was about to return to the Gongfu Mansion to deal with it.

Xiao Liang was busy with the house's internal affairs, the second lady and the fourth lady were waiting in the hanging flower gate, she was wearing a newly cut light pink palace skirt, covered with a hollow gold silk caryophyllum shawl, the cardamom girl was slim and jade, but the standing posture was slightly stiff, and she must have been trained by several teachers in recent days.

"Second sister is back?" Ji Yao stroked Ah Xiu's hand and got out of the car, rushing to the front to speak.

"I went home the day before yesterday, my grandmother was sick, and it was impossible to ask me to stay at a relative's house, so my aunt sent someone to Liang's house to pick me up. The second lady had something to say, but her face was not very good-looking, and she drooped her eyelids listlessly.

Ji Yao received the fourth lady's greeting, and motioned to the third lady to also salute the second lady, and after the false salute was over, she asked again: "Grandmother's body is better, is she awake this time?" I want to take the third sister to her old man's house to say goodbye. ”

"Forget it. The second lady refused directly, and the corner of her eyes swept to Sanniang, who was nestled behind Ji Yao, and said in a bad voice: "Grandmother is uncomfortable at most, and when she sees Sister A and Third Sister, her heart should be sick." Really, our family is losing face more and more every time. A-Niang didn't send someone to pick it up, and I couldn't live in my uncle's house, and even the cooks in Nafu were laughing at the concubines of the Zhenguo Mansion for eloping with people, and the rumors were spreading, and those who didn't know thought that the people in my father's room had done something ugly. ”

The second lady rolled her eyes and walked in front by herself, and the fourth lady carefully followed her sister to keep a distance of five steps.

The third lady was blushing and about to drip blood, and her head hung low.

Ji Yao saw that there was no one else in front of her, and persuaded her sister: "She has that temper, she doesn't hold back her words in her heart, you all regard it as a deaf ear, if you really take it seriously in your heart, you will be angry and disobey the wishes of others." ”

The third lady nodded, holding back the tears in her eyes, maybe she had a ghost in her heart, and she always felt that the servants and women everywhere she went pointed fingers at her.

Ji Yao was calm and composed, Zhen Guogong and Xiao Liang, one wanted to steal people, and the other wanted to get rid of their henchmen, and no one considered the situation of their sisters. said that Qiu Niang was cheap, why didn't you say that the uncle didn't want to climb into the bed of the deceased brother and concubine with shame.

As soon as this thought was revealed, Ji Yao was also frightened by herself, what was wrong with her, she thought of some strange ideas that were deviant all day long.

A few people bypassed the flowers, and the peonies in the flower beds bloomed just right, competing with each other, and the fragrance overflowed everywhere, attracting several sisters to stop and enjoy the flowers.

The second lady took a crimson and nearly purple peony flower, came close to smell the fragrance, the delicate face and the flower complemented, the person is more beautiful than the flower, look at her eyebrows and eyes are sure to think of something interesting, she is happy.

"My cousin asked me to return a box of things to you, all of which were a few stubborn things when I was a child, and she said that she was going to be selected soon, and it was inconvenient to bring it to the palace, so I returned it to you for safekeeping. She also said that when her grandmother is well, she will take us to the Jingyi Marquis Mansion to enjoy the flowers, and she has a few private words to say to you. If you don't talk about it, you can't talk about it when you meet in the future, and you won't have a chance. The second lady asked for scissors from the little girl's hand, cut off a peony and pinned it in her hair, and asked Ji Yao with a smile if she looked good.

"It's good-looking!" Ji Yao praised from the bottom of her heart, and easily cut off a small yellow peony and inserted it into the fourth lady's bun.

Xiao Siniang touched the petals on her head with her little hands, and showed a shy smile at Ji Yao, she was timid and shy, she didn't dare to talk to others, she didn't need Xiao Liang's deliberate suppression, and she would not cross the limelight in the future.

"To her, it's really a blind flower. The second lady said a set in her mouth, but she took a double fish head phoenix tail bead from her hair and pinned it to the fourth lady's bun, looked left and right and said with a smile: "Don't say it, she looks weird and looks good when she wears it." ”

The fourth lady glanced at her sister timidly, looked up from the bottom of her eyes, couldn't suppress her joy, and her mouth was about to grin at the root of both ears.

Ji Yao found that the second lady was in a particularly good mood for a while, and she was still pulling her face when she entered the door, and since she came to the flowers, she seemed to have completely changed into a person. What is the reason, Ji Yao can't guess.

"Second sister has a happy event, hurry up and say it, don't hide it secretly, so that we can all have fun." Ji Yao asked jokingly.

The second lady is in a really good mood today, sitting on the stone bench next to her to untie the fourth lady's hair bun and comb her hair, while muttering that the nurse is too careless, and the fourth lady's hair is knotted and she doesn't know how to wash her once.

The fourth lady has never received such good treatment, she is flattered, she doesn't know where to put her hands and feet, she straightens her neck and lets the second lady toss there, she wants to look back at her sister and endures, and then wants to see and endure, not to mention how cute the small appearance is.

The second lady had a smile on her face, and denied it: "Where, sister, don't tease me, my grandmother is sick, what do I have to be happy about." ”

She denied it in her mouth, but the look on her face couldn't deceive people.

Ji Yao was already asking, she didn't plan to dig into the roots, but seeing that the second lady refused to say, she smiled and turned her head and took the third lady to enjoy the flowers.

Among the four sisters of the Ji family present, only the third lady was preoccupied, like a puppet, you say the east and she goes to the east, and you point to the west and she goes west.

Ji Yao understood that Qiu Niang's matter could not pass in a day or two, so she let the third lady digest it slowly by herself, so she didn't persuade her much. The sisters were in unprecedented harmony, talking and laughing, and they went back to their rooms.

As soon as the old woman who stayed behind in Zhuxin Garden saw Ji Yao, she handed over a beautiful carved box and said, "The second lady sent it yesterday, saying that the eldest lady in the Liang Mansion entrusted her to hand it over to the girl." ”

"I heard from my second sister. Ji Yao nodded, holding the box in her hand and her heart sank, she was a little timid about to see it.

After entering the house and changing clothes, Ji Yao opened the lid of the box with her own hands, two beads and earrings that she gave to Liang Hengli, the eldest lady of the Liang family, and a piece of magnolia embroidered handkerchief is also her craftsmanship in the old years.

Ji Yao was stunned with the pair of jade bracelets, this is a pair of twin cousins from the fourth aunt, the bracelets are emerald green and transparent without a trace of flaws. When the two cousins celebrated their tenth birthdays, my grandmother took out a piece of jade rough at the bottom of the box and ordered someone to build it, and said with a smile that she would have no gifts to give when they left the cabinet in the future.

Things are dying in people, and sure enough, stones live longer than people.

Liang Hengli made an appointment to meet her, she also wanted to see Liang Hengli, and wanted to ask face-to-face: Who sent the non-eleventh cousin not to marry, saying that it was a child's joke and not being true, but why did he turn his head and squeeze into the East Palace with one mind?

Ji Yao wanted to ask herself clearly, if the old friendship was not there, she would not have to be nostalgic anymore.