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At night, Ah Xiu helped Ji Yao bathe and change clothes, untied the skirt of her hood, and asked in a low voice, "Girl, why is the dagger you brought on your body missing?"

Ji Yao glanced at the empty calf, nodded and said: "Yes, I didn't see it on the first day of Wan'an Temple, there were many people at that time and it was not easy to make a noise in the temple, that thing fell silently with boot covers, who knows when it was lost." ”

Ah Xiu sighed, her faint eyebrows were lightly locked, and she turned her head to talk about what she had just gone out to inquire, "That day, the girl went out on the front foot, and Mrs. Tai made an appointment with a large group of poor relatives on the back foot. ”

"What about later?" Ji Yao's face turned cold, she untied the hairpin on her head, and the black hair that was as black as a waterfall poured down, she stretched out her legs and entered the wooden barrel, letting the warm water cover the top of her head, only the green wisps floated on the water.

Waiting for Ji Yao to poke her head out, water droplets dripped from her forehead and chin, her complexion was white with powder, her willow eyebrows and apricot eyes, and her face was like a hibiscus coming out of water, which was beautiful and incomprehensible.

Ah Xiu wanted to praise the girl for being so good-looking, and continued: "The girl also knows that Mrs. is always better than other people in this house, she even coaxed and deceived the gang to send away the gang, slapped Mrs. Lin hard, and ran to quarrel with Mrs. Tai for a few words, it is said that Mrs. Tai's face was so blue that she couldn't speak for a long time. ”

Ji Yao smiled, "So, she was really angry, she didn't pretend to be sick this time." ”

Ah Xiu also smiled happily, combing Ji Yao's hair with rhino horn, and her mouth was not idle, "That's not all, Mrs. took someone to copy Mrs. Lin's family that night, turned out a lot of valuable things, and drove all seven or eight members of their family out of the house." Mrs. Ke's heart ached, and she kept saying that she couldn't leave Mrs. Lin, and she cried in Anshoutang with San Langjun, complaining that Mrs. was not filial. Mrs. had no choice, so she had to let Mrs. Lin enter the house alone, and as for the rest of the Lin family, she was driven to the remote Zhuangzi in the north. Speaking of which, Madame is doing things fairly and fairly. ”

Xiao Liang's things are fair, that's because Ji Yao didn't get in the way of her eyes, she knew that the eldest granddaughter of the Guogong Mansion was a false name, and she didn't need to worry about it. If Ji Yao blocks Xiao Liang's path one day, she will not be relentless and take action.

Seeing that the girl was in a bad mood, Ah Xiu didn't dare to speak much, and grabbed the bath beans on the side to smear it for Ji Yao.

"How is the third sister?" Ji Yao said coldly, so frightened that Ah Xiu knocked over the tray and jingled the bell.

Ji Yao smiled and said with a smile: "You don't have to care about me anymore, take someone out to pick up the third sister, just say that I can't sleep at night and want to find someone to be a companion." ”

Ah Xiu stared at the mess and sighed, and reminded in time: "The girl has brought the third lady, and Mrs. Tai has something to say when she turns around." ”

"I'm afraid of her, even if I have the good character of a saint, she doesn't like her. People look at people wrongly, and everything they do is in vain. Ji Yao looked at Ah Xiu and asked Ah Xiu to go quickly.

According to the eyes of the world, Ji Yao is so miserable that she can't be more miserable, her father and mother are not there, and there is no effective brother to support her, her uncle's family was destroyed overnight, not to mention the marriage, everyone knows that good people will never dare to come to the door to propose marriage.

Even if she was defeated to this point, Mrs. Tai still felt that Ji Yao's life was too comfortable, and there was only one explanation, that is, Mrs. Tai thought that she was in a more difficult situation than Ji Yao, and she had a good life with flowers, but she had to come to drill the horns of the bull, and she was not happy to find it.

Since Ji Yao figured it out, she felt that Mrs. Tai's tricks were really ridiculous and generous.

When Ah Xiu returned to Zhuxinyuan with the third lady, Ji Yao had just come out of the bathtub, and Ah Jin took a big towel to dry her hair.

The third lady's eyes were red and swollen from crying, and she entered the house and sat on the bamboo couch silently, looking aggrieved.

Somehow, Ji Yao's heart ignited, and she waved her hand to order all the maids in the house to go out, she stared at the third lady and asked, "What are you crying again, crying Qiu Niang or yourself?"

Ji Yao suddenly became angry, startling the third lady, she snorted: "No, I just have a blockage in my heart." ”

"What Qiu Niang is doing, you know it in your heart, and I'm not stupid. Taking a step back, there was no such thing, and she didn't give our sisters a long face. She would be angry, and Ji Yao didn't expect that she would have nothing to be angry about. At this time, she simply opened the skylight and said something bright, otherwise a mere Qiu Niang would have to disgust her to death, and sooner or later she would be a little bit so that she couldn't eat or sleep.

She's bad enough to know where her future lies. When other Chinese girls get married in Heluhua, they choose a handsome gentleman from the family, and sit in a sedan chair with a rich dowry, and the concubine is willing to live a peaceful life.

But Ji Yao, the dowry is a large sum, but no one dares to come to the door to ask for marriage. No one in the family really thinks about her, and she is only fourteen years old, not only thinking about herself but also protecting her sister. Can't protect it like this, one day she won't be able to protect it, the three ladies want to stand up by themselves, not for anything else, just because their father is Ji Yanzhong - the Great Zhou Dynasty was once a famous hero, his arms can open a bow, and he can govern the army and calm the people when he gets off the horse.

The three ladies were ashamed and embarrassed, and they couldn't wait to find a hole to get into.

Ji Yao is also ashamed, ashamed of her father, and hates Qiu Niang and her uncle for humiliating their deceased father.

"Cry, cry happily, wait until tomorrow to get up and wipe your tears as if you were nothing, what life I live, what life you live, as long as you don't be hungry. One more point is not allowed, and it is not allowed to take oneself seriously without fighting. You have a bitter face, and you can't get others to feel distressed, they will only laugh. Laugh at Qiu Niang, laugh at you, laugh at me, and laugh at our daddy even more. If you don't raise your head yourself, others won't take you seriously. Ji Yao finished speaking word by word, and stuffed the handkerchief into the hands of the third lady.

The third lady raised her teary eyes, Sister A's black hair and shawl, her skin was white and snowy, her apricot eyes were mighty, and she hated her with iron bones, she choked up and responded, but she stopped thinking about crying, and took the initiative to admit her mistake: "Sister don't worry, I don't understand, in the future, when she dies early, I will let it go." ”

Ji Yao reached out to the third lady's hand, her ten fingers clasped tightly, the sisters were united, they still had a long way to go.

*****

Three days later, there was another big news in Luoyang City - it had been three days since Doctor Gu was kidnapped by thieves and left Beijing.

It turned out that in the early morning of this day, the daughter-in-law of the Gu family cried and ran to Jingzhaoyin to complain, saying that her father-in-law and husband were forced to get in the car and leave the capital.

The reason why the strange-tempered Doctor Gu got into the car obediently was because the man took Da Lang's life as a threat, forcing Doctor Gu and his son to agree.

Those who had good deeds responded immediately, and they saw the Gu family's daughter-in-law in tears at the gate of the Gu family that day, and everyone was still wondering at the time.

The disappearance of Doctor Gu is not trivial, and even the coachman of Ji Mansion was called to Jing Zhaoyin to ask for a confession, after which the government issued a notice to arrest Han Qi, ordered people to post it at the gates of various cities, and sent people to chase them out of the capital to search.

Ji Yao got up early and took the car to the Jingyi Marquis Mansion, and he could still hear the coachman boasting to others, saying that he saw that something was wrong that day, and how frightened the Gu family steward was, and how Xiao Langjun in the car on the opposite side was extremely vicious, and secretly hated him for why he didn't think to stop him in the first place.

"That's it, why don't you stop it?" asked a narrow house slave next to him, and the coachman was speechless.

"Sister, Doctor Gu is gone, what can I do when the saint gets sick again?" The second lady crawled on Ji Yao's shoulder and bit her ear, she has been in a good mood lately, she is like a butterfly shuttling through the house all day long, and her laughter can be heard everywhere.

Ji Yao was stunned, the second lady's expression was not worried about the condition of the Son of Heaven, but a posture of waiting to see a good show, she warned: "Be careful Aunt Niang hears it, arrest you and go back to kneel in the ancestral hall." ”

was robbed by Ji Yao, and the second lady was not angry, and sat back in the gold wire cushion, and Su Jinpa was thrown quickly by her.

Ji Yao noticed that there was purple bamboo embroidered on the corner of Jinpa, and the second lady had always liked bright peony peonies, and it was the first time Ji Yao had seen it with bamboo on her clothes.

Among the people she knows, there is really one who loves Zizhu, but he is a young man, it is Liang Hengwen, the son of the Marquis of Jingyi.

Ji Yao turned her head to observe the second lady carefully, and saw that she was wearing a pipa blouse, her waist was tightly squeezed out of a little breast, and she was wearing a newly made silver embroidered hundred butterfly flower skirt, and she was dressed in a shining and dazzling dress, not to mention a pair of purple jade jades on her hair bun.

Moreover, Ji Yao took a closer look, and the second lady secretly plucked her eyebrows as thin as willow leaves and painted with green daisy, and her mouth was smeared with shiny rouge, and her face was like a peach blossom, gorgeous and moving. This girl, she secretly whispered.

There is a custom in the pavilion that the daughter's house that has not left the pavilion cannot clean her face and trim her eyebrows, so the word open face is used to describe those concubines who are not famous.

"What has Sister been staring at me all the time, I have something on my face?" The second lady also noticed it, and pushed Ji Yao with a smile.

"Look at your great change, sure enough, you are the one who is about to enter the East Palace, and you haven't paid attention to it for a few days, it's not an ordinary beauty. Ji Yao tried a sentence lightly, and the second lady's face changed, and she turned her head and lifted the curtain to look out of the car.

With her straight temper, she is still in love with other sons in her heart, and entering the palace is a catastrophe.

Ji Yao sat upright and compared in her heart, in fact, the elder sister of the Liang family is more suitable for court life, but the second lady has the taste of being driven by Xiao Liang's duck on the shelf.

"Here, this time my cousin is waiting for us at the gate in person. The second lady almost cheered, and she was anxious to get out of the car but was stopped by Ji Yao, she frowned and was not very happy.

"Before you enter the gate, you are in a hurry to enjoy the flowers. Ji Yao pretended to be confused.

The second lady realized the gaffe, and laughed, but the person was sitting in the car, but the heart flew outside, and the car curtain was opened early to look out, and the smile was like a flower and asked: "Cousin, how long have you waited?"

"But as soon as I came out, your car arrived, and A-Yao was also in the car? The young man outside the car had a clear voice, standing at the foot of the stone steps like a green bamboo, clear and elegant, his eyes were staring at the car window, but unfortunately only the second lady poked her head out and smiled at him.