The heavy snow that had been sprinkled for three whole days finally stopped on the seventh night of the lunar month, and the small kitchen in the backyard of Cheng'an Houqin Mansion was still lit with candles, and medicine was simmering on the small stove, and a little girl in Tsing Yi sat next to him to watch the fire.

In the bedroom of the east wing on the other side, the candles in the octagonal plain yarn palace lamp have been burning silently, and there are two strings of citrine pendants on the two corners of the lake-green bed tent, and the candlelight is shining with soft light - a few days ago, the sixth lady who has not been well from the wind and cold has entered the wax moon and suddenly bumped into the flower god in the garden, and she has a high fever for a while, her face is pale, and the whole person looks like paper paste, as if the wind is blowing and it is gone. Mrs. went to Baiya Mountain Taoist Temple to ask for medicine during the day, and happened to meet a guest Jiang Niangzi who was proficient in pharmacology, and asked for a fever pill, but I didn't expect Miss Six to stop with a high fever, but Miss Six was still unconscious, Mrs. repeatedly begged Mrs. Jiang to agree to enter the house to regulate Miss's pulse - Miss Six finally woke up for a moment, and slept peacefully.

The candle flame suddenly burst into a spark.

Peilan, who was half-lying on the couch outside the bed tent, got up and put on a small jacket, took out a fine filigree copper scissors from the small box on the dresser, walked forward and cut the lamp, and after receiving the scissors, she opened the tent and looked at the sleeping Sixth Lady, seeing that her hands and feet were tightly wrapped, she turned around and poured a cup of tea to moisten her throat, and then lay down again.

At the third moment of the first month, a tall woman wearing a blue face and armor hurriedly knocked on the door of the small kitchen, and saw that the little girl in Tsing Yi was still sitting and had never fallen asleep, and the corners of her lips raised slightly: "It's really hard for you, good Aman, quickly put the medicine out, Miss Six can be regarded as awake!"

Hearing this, Aman folded his hands together: "God bless, Miss Six has been in a coma for three whole days! Madame, the old lady can be relieved!" After saying that, he quickly put a bowl of medicine and a bowl of white rice porridge boiled out of porridge oil, and put a plate of yam and red date cake and a plate of pea yellow on one side, and continued: "My godmother said that Sister Peilan and Sister Xifang have lost weight after working hard all night these days, and these two plates of dim sum sisters will take them to the mat first."

Yi Fang took the food box, took the silver ring on his finger and handed it to Aman. Aman smiled and thanked him, and handed the medicine residue divided into bags to Xifang as usual.

When she came back from the kitchen, a quarter of an hour had passed, and Miss Six was half-sitting on the bed, leaning on the soft and gentle pillow behind her, her face was a little red from sweating from drinking the medicine, and there were still some fine fluff on her porcelain-white skin, and her long hair was scattered, reflecting the soft light of the candle, and she was very quietly attached to her shoulder.

"Have the dregs been carefully disposed of?" How could the sixth girl Qin who spoke still be a little sick?

"Don't worry," said Yi Fang in a low voice as quietly as water, "It's the three packs that Aman personally divided, and the maid and Pei Lan have carefully wrapped them in paper and sprinkled them with medicinal powder, and the cigarette ash is no different from the soot on the small kitchen stove." While handing over the mixed honey, Xiefang continued, "It just so happens that tomorrow is Laba, and the rewards in the palace will come down early in the morning, and Fushoutang doesn't know how noisy it is, and the maid just sent a little girl to send a message to Mrs. Tai, and Mrs. told her that Miss was not in good spirits when she woke up, so that the girl could rest at ease and not let others disturb her." ”

Mother is worried about the others who come to disturb her, probably the fourth sister is old.

Hui Zhi changed into a lotus-colored neckline embroidered white plum pattern shirt, washed properly, and sat on the bed, with a large embroidered pillow of tender willow yellow behind her, a carved black lacquer table, a homely bun, and quietly drank white porridge.

"The fourth sister made a fuss at the grandmother's birthday banquet, 'Cheng'an Houfu is going to send a girl to participate in the draft this time', and my grandmother has no face to make, who did she choose in the end?"

"It's Aunt Zhao in the second room who got the news, and begged the second lady and said that she must send the third lady into the palace" said with Fang, Pei Lan had already brought the candied fruit and a box of silk candy, and waited for the sixth lady to drink the medicine.

When she had not yet "hit the god of flowers", her grandmother and Mrs. Sun did her birthday, and the guests not only had relatives and friends who were close to her on weekdays, but also the courtiers who were familiar with her father in the court, and there were countless ladies and ladies who came to the backyard, about Aunt Lin's idea, the fourth sister said unintentionally in the middle of the group of noble ladies and ladies: "I heard that the heavenly family is going to draft into the palace in the spring, and the queen mother wants to find a few people with good backgrounds this time, and there are a lot of them in our Hou Mansion."

"The hot spring pool next to the Liuyu Pavilion is just looking at it now, and the flowers next to it are also blooming early, if the sisters don't dislike it, my sister will take you to watch."

Hui Zhi heard that she had no score, so she categorically interrupted her and led everyone to a small garden with a hot spring.

Qin Sui secretly gritted his teeth, unwillingly chased after him, shook the handkerchief in his hand and whispered: "My sister is also older, she should know what it means to be orderly."

While listening to her, Hui Zhi silently paced to the flower tree not far from the county lord of Ren'an, and said in a soft voice: "The affairs of the heavenly family, how can you and I talk about the women of the boudoir in private?

Then she happened to smell the fragrance of flowers on the tree, Hui Zhi raised her hand to support her forehead, and she was about to fall to the ground softly, the county lord of Ren'an quickly supported her, and a group of people returned to the flower hall in a panic.

Qin Suifen was just stabbed by her sentence "There is a difference between the concubines", and saw that she fell to the ground and did not look fake, so he hurriedly followed, and was told that Hui Zhi had a high fever.

So after the birthday banquet, the sixth lady was in a high fever, and the old people in the house said that they had hit the god of flowers, and the fourth lady who caused trouble was grounded for more than a month and knelt in the ancestral hall for twelve hours. However, the news that the Cheng'an Hou Mansion is going to participate in the draft girl is also boiling in the capital - the Cheng'an Hou Mansion, which has the merit of founding the country, has not sent its own girls to the palace for the draft since the founding of this dynasty, but this time it is going to choose people to enter the palace, which has to make people think. Everyone knows that the prince is mediocre, Queen Yuan's old illness is difficult to treat, and the emptiness of the middle palace is just the situation of the past two or three years.

And Mrs. Sun was distressed by Qin Sui's anger.

She just entered the palace as usual to greet the queen mother, and when she returned home, she happened to meet the four girls who came to ask for peace in the courtyard, but she said a few words, and she looked well-behaved and rewarded her with two Xingong flowers, a hosta and a peony, but at that time she forgot that they were all the patterns that Queen Yuan liked when she was young. I didn't expect Qin Suifeng to want to be crooked in the matter of entering the palace draft, and even wanted to enter the palace as the emperor's concubine.

The girls of the Qin family are expensive, and the harem of the former dynasty is one with each other, the slightest carelessness is a catastrophe, the grace of the Hou Mansion is continuous, where to send the girls into the palace to earn wealth?

The good birthday banquet was messy, and Hui Zhi, who hit the god of flowers, pretended to sleep in the house refreshed.

Father Qin Weien traveled to the rivers and lakes when he was young and worshiped under the door of the Silent Valley, and today's Silent Valley Lord happens to be his father's senior sister Mrs. Qiwu, Mrs. Qiwu has learned a lot, and when she and her brother like it, they will recognize her and her brother as apprentices. As a man, my brother was arranged by his father to study at the Qingsong Academy, which is very close to the Silent Valley, and he can often go to the valley to study, and her boudoir status is not easy to go out of the house.

This year, it was Jiang Caiqiong, who was extremely proficient in pharmacy, who came to guide her. took advantage of her "coma" and high fever to go into the house to regulate her body.

"The third sister can enter the palace, it's better than the fourth sister" Hui Zhi took a nest of silk candy into her mouth, and the bitterness was suppressed sweetly. She finished eating the sugar slowly, and asked Pei Lan: "Are you staring at the side of the Hidden Cui Pavilion, is there any movement?" Aunt Lin's style is afraid that she will stop her father in the past two days" Pei Lan said: "The maid has been sending someone to keep an eye on that side, the news that the third lady is going to enter the palace is only known to the lady of the two rooms, and the news of the lady is tight, and when the lady sent Mrs. Jiang to come yesterday, she told the maid to tell Miss Sù when she woke up." The aunts of Cong Qingyuan haven't heard any news yet, the girl is doing well today, and tomorrow will be the Ba family banquet, I'm afraid they will all know."

Hui Zhi listened, and then ordered: "You pick up two novel and interesting books about the customs and food of various places and send them to the third sister from the mountains and rivers that my brother brought back last time, this is my intention, and the third sister will definitely be useful when she enters the palace." In addition, pick a silk satin with light and elegant floral pigments, the third sister is beautiful and gentle, not suitable for the cloth of flowers" bowed her head and drank sweet tea, "The fourth sister is really a joke this time, but relying on her aunt's favor, it is just a matter of sharpening her head and wanting to enter the palace, and she actually said that she is like this on such an occasion, if she enters the palace, there may be no bones left to be eaten in a few days." Speaking of the things for the third lady, "I chose another fox skin, took the white one sent by Uncle Chu Dong, wrapped it carefully, and carved a silver box inlaid with colorful glass, loaded with the red gold and red sapphire head brought by my grandmother last month, a pair of bracelets carved with lotus flowers in Hetian jade, and a pair of purple jade bracelets, and sent them to the third sister tomorrow with Laba porridge." ”

After saying that, she bit another piece of candy, and Pei Lan, who saw it, stretched out her hand anxiously to stop her from eating, "Miss Caiqiong has just instructed, the girl should drink the medicine immediately when she wakes up, if she is afraid of bitterness, she can only eat a piece of sugar, and it will spoil the effect of the medicine - this is the secret medicine of the Silent Valley, and the girl will fall short carefully." ”

When Hui Zhi heard this, she happily spit out the sugar in her mouth, pointed at Pei Lan and feigned anger, "It's not that I don't know! You are really a housekeeper, I just have a bitter mouth and a taste" This medicine strengthens the body, can penetrate the meridians, has clear eyes, and most importantly, Senior Sister Jiang follows the words of Mrs. Qiwu, so that she will not be afraid of poison from now on.

Perrin laughed at her, and as soon as she received the box containing candied candy, she heard the curtain of Mrs. Greensleeve Daodao coming.