Yuan Pingping came out of the Zhan's courtyard with a heavy heart, immersed in her own thoughts along the way, thinking of the tears falling down from the sad place, and bumped into the person who came by the wind and fire without paying attention.

"Ouch~" The woman who was hit covered her chest and screamed, Pingping looked up and saw a bewitching face with heavy makeup, busy compensating.

The bewitching woman seemed to be in a hurry and waved her hand and hurried away, seeing that the direction she left was actually towards the Zhan family's courtyard! It turned out that she was the one the lady said about something! Pingping felt sorry for herself again in her heart, and slowly paced back to her house.

The next morning, there was no one talking back and forth, Zhan was curious, and suddenly heard the news from the concierge that the monk of the Great Compassion Temple had somehow suddenly come to the door, accompanied by two officials from Zongzheng Temple.

Yao Keqing was reading a book in the room, and suddenly heard that the third young grandmother Zhou was coming, so she hurriedly welcomed in, "Why did the third sister-in-law come over?"

Now that the Guogong Mansion should be lively, how could the Zhou family have the heart to visit the door?

Zhou smiled and asked, "Why don't you like to come over?"

There were seven or eight points of sincerity in Zhou's smile, as if she had encountered something that made her feel very comfortable, Yao Keqing seemed to understand something in her heart, and said with a smile, "It's rare for the third sister-in-law to come to me once, but it's not so easy to let you go!"

Saying that, he took Zhou into the house, gossiped for a long time, and brought chess pieces to kill time, Zhou saw that Yao Keqing didn't care about the movement of the Guogong Mansion, and he couldn't help it first, "Do you know about the old lady's wood?"

Yao Keqing personally shook this thing out, how could she not know? But she couldn't reveal it in front of the Zhou family, "Can you not know? I heard that they all made trouble with the saint! But the silver of the Zhenguo Mansion is already going back, and the old lady is afraid that she will lose a sum of money in vain!"

It was also the emperor who reprimanded Pingguogong, and after Pingguogong came back, he reprimanded the old lady, and the old lady returned the 80,000 taels of silver from the Zhenguo Mansion.

Zhou pursed his lips, looked at Yao Keqing, and suddenly lowered his voice, "Just now, the monks of the Great Compassion Temple and the two officials of the Zongzheng Temple came over, and it didn't take long for the old lady to call her mother, and it was Sixian who came to call her personally, and she didn't even let her mother bring her over!"

The old lady asked the first-class henchman Silk String to call Zhan to the upper room alone, it is definitely not a good thing, as an elder mother-in-law encountered this kind of thing, but as a daughter-in-law, Zhou's attitude was a little strange, although she lowered her voice, but her tone was strangely light, even with a hint of pleasure, as if looking forward to this moment, looking forward to what would happen next.

Yao Keqing pretended not to know, and said with a puzzled expression, "What is the old lady looking for the fourth aunt to do!"

Zhou glanced at Yao Keqing again, and didn't know if she knew that she was pretending to be stupid, or if she really didn't know, so she said, "The wood was bought by my mother, maybe I just called it over to ask questions, and the wood is worth 50,000 taels of silver, the same price as the fifth sister's dowry!", and then he didn't say more than half a word.

If it was really just a call to ask questions, how could not a single person who was personally serving him be allowed to bring it? Zhou's remark was very intriguing, as if there was a sense of pathfinding in it, and it was so dignified, why did he suddenly mention that Song Lanzhi was here? Zhou's purpose for coming here was a little unusual!

didn't figure out Zhou's intentions, Yao Keqing didn't dare to answer casually, only played chess with Zhou's without a match, a long time passed, Zhou threw away the chess pieces, glanced at Yao Keqing, and sighed, "It's boring!"

I don't know whether to say that this game of chess is boring, or that Yao Keqing is boring, Yao Keqing pinched the chess pieces and asked, "Why don't you say what is interesting about the third sister-in-law?"

Yao Keqing's hand holding the chess pieces was on the side of the chessboard, the sleeves of the green gauze were tucked into the green jade bracelet, the wrists were lowered, and the cheeks were sticking to the fragrant cheeks, which was beautiful and delicious.

Zhou shook his head and got rid of distracting thoughts, "I think it's interesting, but you don't necessarily think it's interesting, brother and sister!"

"Then the third sister-in-law might as well talk about it, maybe we just happen to have similar interests!" Yao Keqing put aside the chess pieces and said meaningfully.

Zhou's heart moved, some words had rushed to the tip of his tongue, but he was pressed back by her, in the end, he was suspicious, and he didn't dare to fully believe Yao Keqing, he paused slightly, and then said, "Actually, I envy your brother and sister!"

Yao Keqing was slightly stunned, and Zhou's gentle voice sounded again, "When I first got married, I was also your age, and at that time, both the third young master and my mother were excellent ...... to me."

At that time, Song Ziqi did not have a room, there was no concubine room, the husband and wife were tired of being together almost all the time, and her mother-in-law Zhan treated her from the bottom of her heart, because of her mother-in-law's thoughtfulness and her husband's gentleness, so that Zhou decided to repay them with more virtuous and filial piety, but in the end, her efforts were disappointed......

"When I got married for half a year, I was half a month late......" Speaking of this, Zhou's eyes were stained with indelible sadness, Yao Keqing had never heard of Zhou's pregnancy rumors, so it can be seen that the child is no longer there before he can be known.

"I haven't had time to ask a doctor yet...... "The sadness in Zhou's eyes finally turned into tears rolling down, "I went to ask my mother to say goodbye that night, and I was bumped by the fifth sister at the door, I felt a little bad at that time, and my stomach hurt, but I was afraid that the fifth sister would feel guilty when she found out, and I didn't want my mother to worry about it, so I pretended to be fine, and held on until I finished eating, and when I returned to my room, I saw that my pants were full of blood and ......."

Yao Keqing silently handed over the handkerchief, Zhan gently pushed it away, took his own handkerchief to wipe his tears, "I don't dare to say anything, I just said that the letter is coming...... Pity my child, I know that it has left me when it came into this world...... For so many years, I've been blaming myself, if I was hit by my fifth sister, wouldn't I have lost it...... At that time, if I couldn't bear it, I didn't care about it so much, that kid ...... My only child...... My baby might have survived!"

Yao Keqing has always known that Zhou has had a child, but it is not the one in Zhou's mouth, could it be that there is another hidden secret in the pregnancy that he knows? When Yao Keqing was suspicious, Zhou personally solved her doubts, "I have always felt sorry for that child...... It left before his relatives knew about it, how could he just leave so quietly, I must let them know that he had been in this world, but unfortunately...... It backfired, and I was exposed......" Zhou smiled desolately, but had no remorse.