Today is already the sixteenth day of the lunar month, and it is approaching the end of the year, and my brother Qin Yuan sent a message a few days ago that he will definitely be able to arrive home before the twentieth day of the lunar month.

Father Cheng Anhou recently heard that he seems to be very busy, and his mother is not happy to tell her father what he is busy with. The fourth sister was confined to the courtyard for a long time, very quiet, and even took Aunt Lin to stay in Congqing Courtyard peacefully, which was very different from the previous frivolous appearance.

It seems that he can only wait for his father to be idle and his brother to return to the house, so that he can ask about the things in the Silent Valley when he was a child. She was thinking about it now, and she couldn't remember what Senior Sister Jiang said about how she did the apprenticeship that day, how she caught butterflies and picked flowers on Mrs. Qiwu's orchid platform, and as a result, she picked a medicinal herb that was quite difficult to cultivate.

Maybe she was too young at the time, and she doesn't remember it now?Or maybe it was really like in the dream that she probably fell or got sick and had a fever, and her head burned and she forgot about it?

But the dream she had yesterday was too long, and now she has a headache when she pulls her head and thinks about the things of Wuyin Valley. She decided to think about the recent incident with the long house.

Hui Zhi took Yifang on the way to Jiamutang to ask for peace, and slowly thought about the days when Changfang had been too quiet recently. Aunt Lin didn't recruit a little maid to chew her tongue and gossip behind her back, and even Sui Feng copied the "Paro Paramita Heart Sutra" every day after copying the "Female Rules" and "Female Rings", and I heard that my grandmother and mother had received the "Heart Sutra" copied by Sui Fen's hand.

Aunt Lin is not a person who was born too peacefully, she was born in the same vein as her, and she is not a person who can endure copying books. Now the two of them are so quiet as if they don't exist zài, it's too abnormal.

Abnormality is a demon.

Hui Zhi walked and peeled off the cocoon with extreme patience.

Her father once said to her, like a messy line, find the head and then find the tail, drag the two ends and shake and pull, and the original way of things can be roughly understood.

But where did she think it would be so easy as her father had said?

Behind the Shen family is the concubine, but the concubine is now in power in the court, and her purpose must be the back position, and she is only one prince away from the back position. Shen Guifei didn't take a fancy to anyone else, it happened to be the Cheng'an Hou Mansion that had no relationship with the Shen family on the surface, she didn't just like the Cheng'an Hou Mansion, but also pointed out that she wanted to enter the palace every year!

Could it be that Concubine Shen and the Shen family sent a message to Aunt Lin through Aunt Lin's mother's brother, telling Sui Fan to enter the palace, what they want is for a good-looking and stupid person like Sui Fan to be a puppet and give birth to a child who can be recorded in her name?

And then what?

Thinking of this, Hui Zhi couldn't help but feel chills.

The intrigue in the harem is cruel and fierce, Shen Guifei is in power, once she gets what she wants, I am afraid that she will die without a place to bury!

Maybe she will take the opportunity to involve the Cheng'an Marquis Mansion in the prince's partisan dispute!

But now the person who is going to enter the palace has been replaced by Sui Hua in the second room, and by mistake he has been replaced by a girl who really has nothing to do with Shen Guifei's eight poles, what will Shen Guifei do?

Now that Aunt Lin is so quiet, she probably got some entrustment or news. And the grounding ordered by her father made her unable to meet with her fourth sister for many years, and she had no way to receive news from the outside. The top priority is to know who can pass the news to Aunt Lin during the lockdown ordered by her father.

As a chess piece that was abandoned by the Shen faction, of course, there will be no important news to her aunt now, so it can only be news from the outside. If Aunt Lin's maiden brother heard something, or if the Shen family behind her brother had some decision and needed to communicate with Aunt Lin, then they would definitely find a way to spread the news in.

Although the mother takes care of the middle feed of the Hou Mansion in an orderly manner, although it is not impregnable, the subordinates can be regarded as very loyal and capable.

But under the heavy reward, there will be brave men. In the corners that the rulers of power can't see, there will always be some trivial things happening, just like weeds living in the corners, which will grow verdant if they are not noticed for a while.

Hui Zhi suddenly thought of the sewing room, and the masters and half-masters of the two rooms of the Hou Mansion in Layue would rush to make new clothes. The sewing room is convenient in the inner courtyard, and it is often necessary to deal with the stewards of the outer courtyard and the silk village in the capital, and even find some embroidery girls from familiar shops to do some work when they are busy.

She asked Xiefang, "Have the people in the needlework room been to Congqing Courtyard recently?"

Xiefang thought for a while, "On the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, the people in the sewing room went to Congqing Courtyard with a few pieces of cloth as usual to measure the size and pick out the clothes for the aunts. ”

"But there are other people who have entered Cong Qingyuan?"

"Miss Jade moved into Congqing Courtyard last month, and a few days ago there was a big kitchen maid named Nuo'er, who went to see her and sent some snacks. The two seemed to be very good in the past, and Noel stayed in Jasper's house for two hours before leaving. ”

The jasper girl was a roommate, and she was a girl who had to be used by her grandmother's side, and she didn't want to be married off by her brother and sister-in-law to pay off the gambling bills, so she used her own means, but her grandmother was very angry, and she was only allowed to be a maid and not an aunt.

In the summer, Biyu entered Jiamutang, and at first she still lived in the house of a second-class maid, but she didn't expect to arrange for her to move into Congqing Courtyard in winter.

Congqingyuan is the courtyard where the aunts live.

Biyu lived in Congqing Courtyard, although her name remained the same, she was no longer a maid that everyone could instruct.

"Is there a close relationship between Biyu and the aunts?" asked Hui Zhi again, frowning.

"Miss Jade has been making snacks for her aunts every day lately, and she is very gentle in her service. She is the person next to Mrs. Yuan, she is ingenious, and the things she makes are particularly attractive, and the grounded Aunt Lin is almost always sent over. What is evident is that Jasper is slowly gaining a foothold in Cong Qingyuan. ”

The large kitchen is similar to the sewing room, and it is a place where the inside and outside are closely connected.

In this way, jasper is also doubtful

Hui Zhi felt that her head hurt a little again, why did this mess seem to be shaken and pulled by her, and it became more and more messy?

When I looked up again, I had already entered the courtyard gate of Jiamutang, so I let go of the heavy thoughts in my heart, and entered the main hall with a smile to greet my mother.

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Aunt Lin sat in the room and embroidered a moon-white straight hem with stitches and threads, and embroidered slub patterns very seriously. Xiao Nian saw that it was coming, and she must find a way to end the lockdown early, or ask for a day to go out and spread the news.

She put down the straight jacket she made for Hou Ye, took out a cut purse material, unhurriedly picked up the lining, and took advantage of the gap between the mother-in-law who was guarding the door to change the value, sewed a thin strip of paper that had been placed in her sleeve into the sandwich between the purse surface and the lining, and then slowly sewed it up.

Then a circle of orchids of varying heights was sewn around the strip of paper, then threaded, finely pleated, and finally embellished with a dale and tassels.

Holding the finished round waist purse, there is no trace of the note in the mezzanine.

That's fine, she thought silently to herself, and she couldn't help but laugh out loud. In this way, even if the grounding cannot be lifted, she still has the ability to send a few purses to familiar aunts.

She continued to cut the cloth and draw patterns, planning to make a few more purses and give them to the aunts in the long and second rooms.