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"Mother Duan!" Hui Zhi's eyes lit up when she heard this name, "Yes, I actually let her forget her! Father and mother trust her, if this matter is picked out by Mother Duan, it will naturally be better than me to come forward to deal with it." ”

Then he pulled Yifang and arranged a few words in a low voice, saying: "Today, the time is a little tight after all, and it will take three days for me to enter the palace for the audience, and tomorrow there will probably be a palace rule grandmother to come to the house, and I can go to the front at noon today to take a look at the day after tomorrow at the latest, and this matter will be over." ”

Xiefang nodded, "I'll go to find Duan's mother at noon and tell her to clarify the situation in the front yard, since Aunt Lin can hide things in the cloth so blatantly, I want to come to the stewards to investigate, but the stewards are all from the outer courtyard, if you want to check them, I'm afraid you have to talk to Master Hou." ”

"Didn't my father ask me and the fourth sister to join hands to manage the yard? The fourth sister is so busy now, and I should take care of it more. The things outside can enter the inner courtyard so casually, I am in charge of the courtyard, can't I check them?" Hui Zhi raised her eyebrows impatiently, her demeanor was quite similar to Wang's, "No matter what, I am also the master of this Hou Mansion, and I have the right to act willfully and recklessly, and I want to go to his place to play tricks, will my father still punish me?"

The puffing appearance makes people look like they want to laugh very much.

Xianfang finally couldn't hold back, Hui Zhi thought about it again, and simply called Pei Lan into the house, changed into a set of homely jackets and skirts with a plain color, covered with a blue bottom plain armor with tender yellow teeth, and took a little emerald pearl on her head, and arranged for Xianfang to find Duan's mother.

Xiefang hesitated: "I usually have no contact with Duan's mother, so what excuse do you have to find to find her like this?"

Hui Zhi thought for a while and said, "Isn't the excuse ready-made? You just go and say that I heard that my mother's feet have been a little swollen recently, and I want to make a few pairs of soft satin embroidered shoes for my mother to wear. ”

Xiefang nodded, and said with a somewhat embarrassed smile: "I've been recuperating for more than half a month, and my brain is stupid, so I really shouldn't let the girl think about such an excuse!"

Hui Zhi looked at her with a smile: "You are injured, it's not because of me? Find two more pieces of cloth for Duan's mother to see, which one is better? I really plan to make soft shoes for my mother. ”

With Fang's order, she went to the small warehouse to find materials and went to Jiamutang, and Hui Zhi directly took Pei Lan and Ah Man to the front yard to find her father. But I didn't expect that as soon as I arrived at the door of the study, I heard the little maid reply: "The Hou Ye handed the boy and went into the palace." ”

Hui Zhi's footsteps couldn't help but be stunned.

My father entered the palace at this time, was it because the Empress Dowager summoned her to the palace three days later, and went to inquire about the news?

I don't know what's going on these days, and I'm always upset and irritable. Is it too hot?

After learning the news of her father's absence, Hui Zhi's heart suddenly became a mess, and she hesitated a few steps in place, Hui Zhi turned her head and whispered to Aman to bring the cards, Aman asked puzzledly: "Isn't the pearl sister next to Mrs. Bring it over sooner or later, and arrange things in the backyard with the girl, and then take it back?"

"Hengzhu has come to the front yard, went to get the right cards, let's go to the back office to see how the stewards in the front yard do things on weekdays. ”

I can't find out the letters with silver tickets stuffed in the cloth, and it makes people angry when I think about it.

Aman immediately said "hey" and walked back quickly to get the right cards, while Pei Lan accompanied Hui Zhi to the office.

The sun was shining in the courtyard, and the corner gate of the return was next to the garden in the front yard, Hui Zhi followed the garden, and the two little girls led the way, entered the entrance from the corner gate, raised their eyes and looked at it silently.

A black lacquered table and stool furniture, a large plan with pen, ink, paper and inkstone, all kinds of red seals, gifts, and famous posters are neatly placed on the black lacquer cabinet next to the wall. The bluestone brick floor is polished brightly, and the room is dressed in a simple and elegant manner, which makes people's hearts feel smoother.

Since she made up her mind, Hui Zhi sent the maid to the front yard to spread the word early, so in the bustling office on weekdays, the unequal subordinates were no longer in the house, leaving a few stewards who spoke in front of the masters.

The chief steward must have entered the palace with his father, and the few stewards who can occasionally be seen on weekdays are not there, almost all of them are people who have not seen much, Hui Zhi sat on the top without squinting, and Pei Lan beckoned a few little girls to take a screen and come over to block it.

"Can you take a look at the gift list in the backyard this month?"

Although what he said was a question, the meaning could not be refused, and his expression was indifferent, although he was young, he should not be underestimated.

A second-class steward standing at the bottom, surnamed Liu, was very disdainful in his eyes. I thought, let you be the concubine of the Hou Mansion, just read and play the piano in your own yard, the woman in charge of the inner courtyard has already stood up to the sky, no matter what, you shouldn't go to the steward of the outer courtyard to point fingers - thinking about it, she opened her mouth in a weird way: "I don't know what kind of wind is blowing today, and I actually blew the six girls to the right place." Yesterday, I just received a box of ghee abalone snails, so I brought it up and gave it to the girl to taste. ”

After finishing speaking, he put his hand away, and stood by the screen neatly, not taking Huizhi's words seriously at all.

Pei Lan couldn't help but get angry, looked at Hui Zhi's color, and saw that she was not angry, so she retorted: "Steward Liu is cautious. The sixth girl is now in charge of the backyard, so it is reasonable to go to the front to look at the gift list, and there is nothing wrong with it at all-is it possible that in the past, the lady and the second lady want to check the gift list, and Steward Liu is also such a box of ghee abalone snails can be sent away?"

Steward Liu was in his thirties, and he was choked by a teenage maid like Peilan, and his face was very unbearable, and his old face suddenly turned red, and he didn't know what to say, and there was another second-class steward surnamed Zhang standing next to him, and he glanced at Steward Liu, and his heart was really useless, a little maid said a few words, and he couldn't speak, he really grew these years in vain.

Steward Zhang then took a step forward and came closer, explaining: "The girl often doesn't know anything in the inner courtyard. When the gift lists of the various prefectures were sent, they had already been sent to the inner courtyard and checked by the lady. I don't know which gift list the six girls want to see? But what's wrong? If there is anything wrong, it should have been Madame who sent a few girls around her to take a look, but today it was the six girls who came in person, and it was really brilliant. ”

Hearing this, Hui Zhi couldn't help but raise her eyebrows like a mother.

This steward Zhang, who spoke with a prickly voice, even compared her to a maid beside her mother.

is so bold, to say that there is no one behind her, she doesn't believe it!

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