Dong Liang bowed slightly, and replied respectfully: "Mrs. Hui's words, there is a time for the house to distribute pen and ink, and every late month of the month, that is, within the days of the twentieth to the twenty-fifth, each room will be notified to get the pen and ink. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Well, that's what I remember." Mrs. Tai said, her tone was still very leisurely: "Since there is a fixed number, why has it been delayed for a few days this month, and it has not been sent until today?" Is something going on? ”

"Mrs. Hui, something is indeed wrong." Dong Liang said unhurriedly: "Master Tao took charge some time ago and accepted more than a dozen children from the poor family to study, presumably Mrs. Tai also knows. Because of this, the pen and ink in the school were used up faster than usual, and the steward of the clan school took some out of the library for emergency. It wasn't until this month that he reported it to me. I asked someone to count the number, and found that the existing in the library was not enough to distribute it to each room at one time, so in order not to favor one over the other, I made the decision to postpone the day, and only today will it be sent together. ”

Mrs. Tai's brows moved, but she didn't make a sound, and the Zhong family on the side glanced at her, and then asked, "Since there is a reason for the incident, why didn't you remind us earlier?" ”

Dong Liang lowered his head and said: "If you go back to Mrs. Xiyuan, this kind of thing has happened in the past, especially in winter, the pen and ink are easy to freeze, or sometimes you can't buy it, and it will drag on for a few days." At that time, Mrs. Dongyuan said that there is no need to report such a trivial matter, as long as we make our own decisions. ”

As soon as he said this, Zhong's face was slightly gloomy.

She frowned and looked Dong Liang up and down, and after a while, she changed the question again: "That's it, since there is a precedent for this matter, then let me ask you again, who is the person who is scheduled to renovate the shack today?" ”

Although I don't know why the two ladies are so concerned about these little things today, Dong Liang still looks at ease, and said respectfully: "If you go back to the lady of the West Courtyard, the matter of renovating the shack was decided last month. ”

"Last month?" A look of doubt flashed in Zhong's eyes, and he looked Dong Liang up and down again, and asked, "Who set it?" And who is the steward who reported it? ”

Dong An replied: "The date was set by Mrs. Dongyuan, and no one reported it, it was directly arranged by Mrs. Dongyuan." ”

Zhong pressed his eyebrows and turned his eyes to look at Mrs. Tai on the side.

Mrs. Tai nodded slightly, and Zhong asked again: "If this is the case, then, who reported to you for today's account curtain?" ”

Her attitude was not soft, and even a little condescending, which was very different from usual.

However, Dong Liang still looked unhurried, and said slowly: "If you go back to Mrs. Xiyuan, the matter of receiving the tent curtain is the same as the matter of renovating the shack, and it was also decided a month ago. Here, the good teacher lady knows that the small auspiciousness in the house has passed, and all the sheds, curtains, utensils, clothes, shoes and socks, etc., must be replaced again. It's just that after Xiaoxiang, there is the twilight of the year, there are a lot of things everywhere, and then I have to be busy with Cao Yun and the Xiao family's attached school, etc., Mrs. Dongyuan didn't make a move for a while, so she postponed these two things to deal with. ”

Xiao Xiang is an important day of mourning in the decay and re-mourning, after Xiao Xiang, linen cloth, white flags and other things need to be removed, and all the utensils in the house must be replaced with new ones, which is the ancestral system. And some time ago, there were indeed too many things in the Qin family, so it was delayed, and the rest of the ladies also knew about it.

Hearing Dong Liang mention the past, Mrs. Tai nodded slightly, and said, "There is indeed such a thing, I heard Yu mention it before, and now I remember it as soon as you say it." ”

Zhong lowered his head, the eagerness in his eyes had dissipated, but his face became more and more gloomy.

This afternoon, Qin Yanzhi suddenly came to visit, and as soon as he came, he told the Zhong family everything that happened in Xixue Pavilion, as well as some other things that others did not know.

After hearing his words, Zhong's hands and feet were immediately cold, and he almost fainted to the ground.

She really didn't expect that such a thing would happen right under her nose, and her second son almost fell into the way.

In addition to internal and external collusion, Zhong couldn't think of a second way to do this.

She slowly took out the cloth towel from her sleeve, wiped the corners of her lips lightly, and Qin Yanzhi's words seemed to sound in her mind again:

…… Mother, I remember very well, after lunch, I was reading in the east of the house, and somehow I felt very sleepy, and when I was drowsy, suddenly a little mustache came and said vaguely that someone had come to talk to me, and he didn't say who it was. I was so tired that I wanted to say no, but I couldn't open my mouth. And the little mustache was also strange, and it didn't matter if I wanted to or not, he dragged me and Ah Zhi out of the door, and somehow walked to Qiu Nuanzhai......

…… In the autumn warm fast, the sleepiness of the child gradually subsided, and then he felt that this matter was strange, so he was anxious to go out, who would have thought that it was so coincidental that he actually ran into the sixth sister and walked in......

…… The sixth sister said that she was called by the fifth sister's maid, saying that the second sister had asked her to talk here, and she didn't want to meet the second sister, but she met me. The sixth sister asked me if I was joking with her, and asked her to come over in the name of the second sister, I just wanted to go back quickly, so I responded perfunctorily, and I didn't want the sixth sister to keep talking to me, but I couldn't go back......

…… Now that I think about it, I'm really scared. If it weren't for that strange little mustache who forced me and Achi to go to Qiu Nuanzhai, and I was very lucky enough to meet the sixth sister to testify for me, then I wouldn't have been the one who slept with the handmaid in the western room. Or maybe the sixth sister hadn't spoken to me for a long time, and I had returned to Xixue Pavilion earlier, then I would have been in the same room with those two little mustaches, and the sisters would have seen me on the spot......

…… I remember that when I first read in my study, the people in my yard were almost gone. In addition to Ah Zhi accompanying me, Fei and Cai Su went to the treasury to collect the tent curtains and other things, and two other servants went to collect pen and ink, and the rest were called to help renovate the shack. In other words, before I fell asleep, Xixue Pavilion was already equivalent to an empty city, and anyone could come in......

…… I have no contact with my third brother, and I wonder why his maid appeared in my residence. Besides, where did the little mustache in the main courtyard sneak into my room, and he still wore a man's hair......

…… Mother, if this matter is not clarified, it will be difficult for the child to sleep and eat. Mother must not forget that the second brother was also calculated like this at the beginning......

These words echoed in Zhong's ears repeatedly, and her face became more and more gloomy.

Today's events are not so much a conspiracy as a conspiracy, but it makes people have no idea where to start, because everything is based on the word "skill".

It so happens that the day of the distribution of pen and ink is today;

It happens that the day of the curtain is also today;

It happens that the days of renovating shacks and borrowing manpower from everywhere are still today;

It also happened that the old woman guarding the corner gate of the west courtyard today was the laziest one, and the corner gate was left unattended for an extraordinarily long time;

The most coincidental thing is that today, the girls of the Qin Mansion gathered in Xixue Pavilion to enjoy the flowers, and they put this matter in front of everyone.