Guo Jianyi stared at Ying Huaizhen, and the more she looked, the more she felt that something was not quite right in her heart, and suddenly saw her pinching the corner of her clothes, and asked: "Little cousin, what did those two people say about hanging, and who did they say about facing the saint? What does it mean? Little cousin is afraid that they will hold grudges, and it is not good to think about it?"

Guo Jianyi was stunned, only then did she know that she didn't understand everything, no wonder, she was only five years old, and what those people said was vicious and messy, it was difficult for a child to think so clearly.

Guo Jianyi breathed a sigh of relief, then smiled and said, "Actually, it's nothing, but it's all nonsense and nonsense arranged by these people, and they can't be taken seriously." Huaizhen, you don't have to pay attention to it, just forget it. ”

Ying Huaizhen looked up at him, blinked, and said, "Then since they love to arrange so much, I will have to stay away from them in the future, but I don't know who they are, can my little cousin recognize them?"

Guo Jianyi thought for a while, and said casually: "Look at Chunhui's grandmother who looks like the young grandmother's companion Chen Liu's grandmother and Chunhui's nurse......" Speaking of this, his heart suddenly moved, and he smiled again, and said: "I am not very familiar with the people in this mansion, and I haven't seen it really, and there are mistakes and mistakes." ”

Ying Huaizhen nodded and said, "I don't know who they are, so forget it, it's not a good word anyway, just don't hear it, is what my little cousin thinks is right?"

Guo Jianyi couldn't help but smile and said: "That's right, that's right." Remembering something again, he asked, "How did Fang Caihuai really recognize me at a glance?"

Ying Huaizhen looked at Guo Jianyi for a while, and said: "I also guessed, except for Brother Chunhui and Brother Pei in the house, the others are all children, but I didn't expect to guess it." ”

There is some truth in this, but it is a coincidence to guess so accurately. Guo Jianyi smiled and said, "It's sunny here, do you want to go back to the pavilion or to the house?"

Ying Huaizhen hurriedly said: "No need, Sister Jixiang said that she would come to pick me up in a while......" While speaking, I saw Jixiang jumping over from the road, and saw Ying Huaizhen and Guo Jianyi standing together, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

When he was in Taizhou, Ji Xiang had seen Guo Jianyi, so he recognized it, and said, "Why is the young master here? Why don't you go back to the house and sit down." ”

Guo Jianyi said another day, and corresponded to Huaizhen: "My little cousin will come to visit you another day." And so he went.

Ying Huaizhen looked at it for a while, turned around and walked back, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect Young Master Guo's family to also come to Beijing, so it will be much more convenient to get up later." ”

Ying Huaizhen saw that her face was full of joy, and couldn't help but say, "What is there to deal with? We don't have any special friendship with their family. ”

Ji Xiang said: "Although this is the case, I see that Young Master Guo is really good, he is still so young, and he is so appropriate to act partially, and he will not change it for an old adult." ”

Ying Huai sincerely knows to praise Jixiang like this, among which Guo Jianyi's good skin is naturally a big reason, and the other reason is that I am afraid it is also the credit of that box of fish maw bird's nest, but Guo Jianyi is a master who is pure white on the outside and black on the inside, and it is better for such a person to stay away.

Ying Huai was sincerely slandered, but if it was not good, he would say it to the girl.

As soon as he returned to the courtyard, he saw Li Xianshu coming back from outside, with a rather angry look on his face, Ying Huaizhen looked surprised, and asked, "Mother, where are you going?"

Li Xianshu was annoyed, snorted angrily, and was silent at first, but she couldn't help it, so she said: "It's a little hard to live here, and when your father comes back, you can move out and move out to live." ”

Ying Huaizhen said: "What's the matter? Who made my mother angry?"

Li Xianshu scolded and said, "It's nothing more than those things that look down on people with dog eyes!" but refused to say the reason, got up and went back to the room.

After a while, Ruyi also came back, and her face was not good, so Ying Huaizhen called her over and asked carefully: "What did my mother do just now, Sister Ruyi, can you follow?"

If you want to speak, you will stop, and shake your head and do not speak. Ying Huaizhen asked again and again, and Ruyi said: "Girl, I told you, don't you tell grandma that I said it...... It's because these days, we adults are always running outside, and we don't see results, we don't work hard, and we just changed the water and soil, don't you see that you have lost a lot of weight? In the past two days, there was a little cough, and my grandmother was naturally distressed, so she asked me to go to the kitchen, and wanted to ask them to make some soup to clear the fire and moisten the lungs...... Always unwilling to do it, I have no way, come back to tell grandma, grandma is very angry, personally went over, those people saw, only to accept the soft, but only to send the soup, grandma looked, the pear is also good and bad, there are not a few pieces of lily, the soup is not sweet, grandma simply dropped the jar, and went to point to those people and scolded. ”

Ying Huaizhen heard it and exclaimed: "Mother scolded them, they didn't dare to say anything on the surface, and they must have chewed their tongues again." ”

Ruyi sighed and said, "But isn't it? I'm also worried like this, just now I was behind, and I faintly heard them talking about our grandmother's ......" Speaking of this, there are bad words going on, and Ruyi stopped.

Ying Huaizhen thought for a while, and then said, "Don't be afraid. It's their fault, but who's in charge of the kitchen?"

Ruyi said: "The person in charge is called Aunt Qin." Although she didn't show up today, she must have been the one who instructed to deliver that soup. ”

Ying Huaizhen asked: "She is bold, she dares to bully people like this, I don't know who borrowed the power behind it?"

Ruyi was a little surprised, thought about it and said with a smile: "The girl's mind is really lively, she actually thought of this, don't you say that I don't have an idea, I vaguely remember that this Aunt Qin is a relative of the grandmother's family with Fang Chen Liu." ”

Ying Huaizhen said casually: "I don't know any of these people, what does the Chen Liujia look like?"

Ruyi smiled: "The girl naturally doesn't know, how long have we been back, but I was in the house before, Chen Liu's family has a disc face, and it has no characteristics, but there are more whites of the eyes, which is commonly known as the three white eyes." ”

Ying Huaizhen grinned and said, "It's so interesting, I'll see you another day." ”

Ruyi said: "When the girl sees what those little people are doing, it's better not to look at their faces, lest they get angry when they see that face!"

Ying Huaizhen talked to Ruyi for a while, then went to find Li Xianshu, pushed the door in, and saw Li Xianshu sitting on the edge of the bed, wiping tears with a handkerchief, Ying Huaizhen was shocked, and hurriedly called: "Mother......"

Li Xianshu didn't expect someone to come in suddenly, so she hurriedly turned her head to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and hurriedly put away the handkerchief before getting up and said, "What's the matter, Ah Zhen, have something to look for me?"

Ying Huaizhen looked at her tears and asked, "Mother, even if those people are bad, why don't you tell the third aunt?

When Li Xianshu heard her ask about this, she understood that she already knew, so she said, "Ah Zhen, you are still young, you don't understand these things...... There were already shortages at first, and I looked for them a few times, but we just came back...... Even though she looks down on each other, they get along with each other well, but they always bother her, and she can't help but feel that I am troublesome. ”

Ying Huaizhen nodded. Li Xianshu saw her as if she understood, so she hugged her on her lap, hugged her and said: "Since I came back, I only feel inconvenient everywhere, and I even have to look at people's faces to eat soup, don't you think that your father can't get a good official position to bully people like this......?"

Li Xianshu stopped, with tears in her eyes, and said: "Although I don't want to be angry with this villain, but now I really caught up, while worrying about your father, and at the same time putting up with them, I was really fed up, so I went to the kitchen to have a fight with them, and now although I regret it a little, I did it...... When your father comes back today, I have to seriously discuss with him to move out, and we will go back to your grandmother's house to live for a while, where there is no one to live, it is better than shrinking here!"

In fact, what Li Xianshu said was not all, and the reason why she couldn't help but be angry was one of the small things.

At first, the first two times, sent Ruyi to ask for soup, but repeatedly did not get it, Li Xianshu wanted to endure a moment of calm, but the next day, the concubine Yang of Ying Lanfeng actually came, with a little girl behind her, holding a colorful pattern of the cup, which turned out to be the lily lotus seed sweet soup.

Yang said softly: "This is what I boiled myself, I heard that my sister has been looking for this recently, if you don't dislike it, just use this first." ”

When Li Xianshu saw this, she was furious in her heart, but her face was not revealed, she only smiled and said: "My sister is a capable person, since she is enthusiastic, then I will stay." ”

Yang only said: "Sister, don't dislike me for being stupid, just let our second master leave Beijing, because Rui'er is still young, Mrs. is in charge and let me stay and take care of it, and I am not allowed to accompany it." The second master has been outside for so long, and my sister has worked hard to take care of it, and it is very hard, I feel ashamed, and now that I am back, let me do my best......"

Wen Sheng was very respectful in a soft voice, and didn't say anything else, only asked about Ying Lanfeng slightly, Li Xianshu only said that he had been busy recently, and he went out early in the morning, and he had to come back in the middle of the night, so Yang retired.

The next day, the more Li Xianshu thought about it, the more wrong it became: Why didn't she go to ask for things, but Yang was able to "boil it by herself" like a trick? So she asked Ruyi to urge the kitchen, but it still didn't work, Li Xianshu's original temperament was a little fierce, because she had to endure it again and again when she entered the house, where could she endure it again and again, the fire in her heart couldn't be suppressed no matter what, and finally she made such a fuss, although she secretly regretted it, but it didn't help, so she had to grit her teeth.

Ying Huaizhen heard it from the beginning to the end, and said: "Mother, don't regret these little things, don't think about anything else, according to me, they dare to act so blatantly, and when the time comes, there will be people to clean them up." In addition, you don't have to worry about your father, don't you say that 'good things are more grinding'? Taizhou has passed five years, what are you afraid of? You have to be impatient, I'm afraid that when your father is promoted to an official, you will cry happily. ”

Li Xianshu listened to such reassuring words, burst into tears and laughed, and hugged Ying Huaizhen tightly in her arms.

Two days later, in the evening, Li Xianshu took Ying Huaizhen and went to the old lady's place for dinner.

Ying Huaizhen ate a few bites, turned his head to look around, but saw Xu Yuan's pair of girls, the eldest Ying Cui was eight years old and was still eating in a regular manner, and the younger Ying Yu was six years old and had already finished eating, so he went outside to play by himself.

Ying Huaizhen also followed, and when she saw Ying Yu playing with a beaded abacus, she leaned over and said, "Sister, how do you play with this?"

Because Xu Yuan listened to Ying Zhuyun's words and had the heart to be friendly with Li Xianshu, the two sisters often played with Ying Huaizhen, Ying Yu saw and asked, so he shook his head and said, "I don't know, I just see how well others play." ”

Ying Huaizhen smiled and said, "Then we don't play this, I have a ragdoll tiger there, do you want to play with my sister?"

When Ying Yu heard this, he said, "You said that, we also have it, and Sister Cui and I have one by one...... Didn't you see it last time? Your legs and eyes can still move, can yours move?"

Ying Huaizhen was surprised and said: "I didn't pay attention, I haven't seen anything that can move, sister, don't lie to me." ”

Ying Yu listened, and wanted to show off, just as Ying Cui also ate, Ying Yu called Ying Cui, and the three little ones called the maid to lead back to the room, and the two sisters found the puppet, Ying Huaizhen looked at the tiger really realistic, but the eyes were made of black crystal stone, and the bones were spinning around when he pushed it, and he couldn't help but marvel.

The three of them had a good time, and before they knew it, half an hour later, they heard someone coughing outside and said, "Grandma is back." ”

The faint sound of footsteps came, and Ying Huaizhen heard it clearly, so he fiddled with the puppet and said to Cui: "Do you sleep with the tiger at night?"

Ying Cui said: "I'm older, where can I still hold this, even Ayu doesn't hug it, are you still hugging?"

Ying Huaizhen was a little embarrassed, scratched his head and said, "I didn't hold it originally, but I always had nightmares in the past two days, so I told my mother...... My mother told me to hold the tiger, saying that the tiger would scare away all the bad things. ”

Ying Cui's eyes widened and asked, "What kind of nightmare are you doing, and what kind of bad thing is it?"

Ying Huaizhen deliberately looked around, and when he saw that no one came in, he said: "I didn't even say anything about my mother, I told my sisters, and you don't tell others." ”

Seeing that it was so mysterious, the two sisters hurriedly urged her to say that Ying Huaizhen said: "I heard that people have hanged people in the house, what is it called Xiaocha...... Have you heard of it? I don't know, but I heard it the other day...... When I go back, I have nightmares, so I'm afraid of people. ”

Ying Cui was already a little sensible, but Ying Yu didn't know anything, Ying Cui was about to speak, when he heard Xu Yuan's laughter outside, and said, "You little ones, the food is not delicious, what are you doing here to twitter?"

Ying Huaizhen hurriedly stopped, Xu Yuan glanced at her, and said to Cui: "Cui'er, you see that your sister has been here for a long time, and you don't bring her the delicious food you have hidden in Suri, just patronize and talk, go and get it!"

Ying Cui understood her mother's intentions very well, and agreed at the moment, so she pulled Ying Yu again, Ying Yu said: "I haven't finished listening to it......" Before the words fell, Ying Cui was dragged into the inner room.

At that moment, only Xu Yuan and Ying Huaizhen were left in the house, Xu Yuan pulled Ying Huaizhen to sit beside him, and said affectionately: "Zhen'er, tell the truth to your aunt, what did you say to Cui'er Yu'er?"

Ying Huaizhen said: "I, I didn't say anything......"

Xu Yuan deliberately looked down at her and said, "It's not good for children to lie...... Watch out for that little devil coming to catch you!"

Ying Huaizhen stretched out his hand to cover his face, and only said after a while: "Auntie, don't scare me, I've always had nightmares for the past two days." ”

Xu Yuan asked: "Then what nightmare do you have, because what are you dreaming about? If you say it, that little ghost will go to catch other children who love to lie." ”

Ying Huaizhen pondered for a while, then looked at Xu Yuan, and whispered: "Then I'll tell my aunt, don't tell others." Don't tell my mother. ”

Xu Yuan said: "Don't worry, my aunt's mouth is the strictest, what's going on?"

Ying Huaizhen said: "This was originally something I overheard...... I was in the yard that day ......"

At that moment, Ying Huaizhen went to 1510, and told Guo Jianyi how to avoid the situation when he met Guo Jianyi, heard the conversation, and picked up most of the dialogues between Chen Liujia and Chunhui's nurse.

At the end, Ying Huaizhen said: "I didn't know who was talking, I only saw that person's eyes were whiter, it was the little cousin who inadvertently said who they were, but it may not be true, the little cousin said that he was not familiar with the people in the house, maybe he would be wrong, and told me not to talk to others......"

Xu Yuan listened, her face was red and white, she was originally a person with a seven-trick heart, with eighteen kinds of flowers, I had heard that Li Xianshu had made a fuss in the back kitchen two days ago, if it was Ying Huaizhen who took the initiative to "tell" Xu Yuan this time, I was afraid that she would feel that Li Xianshu instructed Ying Huaizhen to take revenge on Chen Liujia and the Qin family who were in charge of the kitchen.

Also, if Ying Huaizhen said these things alone, Xu Yuan probably wouldn't believe it all, and now there is another Guo Jianyi on the scene, Xu Yuan listened to Ying Huaizhen's Guo Jianyi's behavior, which happened to be in line with Guo Jianyi's cautious and unwilling temperament, which is naturally certain and unmistakable.

Ying Huaizhen saw that Xu Yuan was silent, but he frowned again, and asked blankly: "Auntie, is there really a little tea that hangs you? Will you become a little ghost? I always have nightmares." ”

When Xu Yuan heard this, he was very stinging, and when he saw her stupidly, he felt guilty in his heart, and thought: "What does such a young child know?

At the moment, he hurriedly hugged Ying Huaizhen into his arms, but instead comforted him in every possible way, and said: "Don't listen to them, where can there be such a thing! They all make up to scare people, if there are really any little ghosts, the first one will go to catch this thing that has lost his conscience! You are a good child, and you are protected by Bodhisattvas all over you, don't be afraid." ”

As he spoke, Xu Yuan hugged Ying Huaizhen, stroked her back, and shook her gently, loving her very much.

It just so happened that Li Xianshu couldn't find Ying Huaizhen, so she inquired about the maid and said that she was here, so she looked for it, and when she saw this situation when she entered the door, she couldn't help laughing and said, "What are you doing?

Xu Yuan hugged Ying Huaizhen and said, "Don't be greedy, our mother and son have a better relationship than you two!"

Li Xianshu was surprised and laughed, so she also quipped: "You also have two daughters, but you want to take in a goddaughter?

Xu Yuan just laughed, and when he was about to let go of Ying Huaizhen, he quietly said in her ear: "What you just said Aunt will keep it secret for you, and you are not allowed to tell the second person?"

Ying Huaizhen nodded: "I know, auntie." ”

Li Xianshu laughed more and more: "You two are really good, you even have a whisper?"

Xu Yuan smiled and said, "Isn't it?" Huaizhen, but remember not to tell your mother." Do you know? Otherwise, my aunt won't follow her. Ying Huaizhen nodded obediently.

Li Xianshu sat and laughed for a while, and then took Ying Huaizhen back to the house. Xu Yuan sat under the lamp for a while, thinking: "Because my sister-in-law doesn't care about things, I will take care of the house, and those who follow her can't get a good errand, so they naturally don't accept it...... I didn't expect it to be all white-eyed wolves that I couldn't feed, and on the surface, the three grandmothers were long and the three grandmothers were short, and behind my back they actually uncovered my skin! Although I also knew that they wouldn't say everything about me behind my back, I couldn't imagine that they would say it so badly, and they didn't know how to avoid it, so it can be seen that they already hate me to the bone......

Then I thought again: "This time I was fortunate to hear it to Huaizhen, an ignorant girl, what if I heard it to others? I want to be a good person in vain, but I have raised these bastards and who have a bad name for me!"

Xu Yuan thought for a while, then gritted his teeth for a while, all kinds of thoughts came flooding up, his heart was blazing, and he wanted to call someone to come and beat Chen Liu's family and Chunhui's nurse to death immediately, but this is an angry idea after all, these two people are not ordinary subordinates, and they will offend people if they act lightly, and they will offend people on the contrary.

Xu Yuan thought about it for a long time, and his eyes gradually revealed a bit of sharpness.

Let's say that Li Xianshu led Ying Huaizhen back to the East Courtyard, and asked her on the way: "What do you say to your third aunt?"

Ying Huaizhen smiled secretly and said, "It's all inconsequential gossip, the third aunt coaxes you." ”

Li Xianshu also felt so, otherwise Xu Yuan would have no idea what to say to a child, so he only smiled, and said in his heart: "I didn't think that Ah Zhen would fall in love with her, recently I have heard more and more faintly that she is a powerful person, if such a person has always been good friends, it would be fine, but if he turned his back, it was not a joke." ”

Li Xianshu was full of worries, and she didn't make a sound, Ying Huaizhen asked, "Mother, is Dad back?"

Li Xianshu said: "I'm back, I'm having dinner at this time, and when I saw that you weren't in the house, I was busy asking me to come out and look for it." ”

When Ying Huaizhen heard this, he quickened his pace, and finally trotted up, Li Xianshu hurriedly chased after him, while shouting: "Be careful to fall in the dark!"

The two went back to the courtyard one after the other, just as Ying Lanfeng was eating, standing at the door and looking, they saw Ying Huaizhen running in, and shouted: "Dad!"

Ying Lanfeng was overjoyed, so he leaned over and opened his arms and hugged her high.

Ying Lanfeng also giggled when he saw that he was quite interested, and that he was held high again, which was a little novel and interesting.

Li Xianshu came from behind, and was out of breath because she was in a hurry, so she stopped and held on to the pillar and said, "You are one big and one small...... It's really going to toss the dead!"

Ying Lanfeng hugged Ying Huaizhen and said, "I've been waiting for a long time, just waiting for you to come back...... Can you guess who I've met today?"

Li Xianshu chirped: "You started selling Guanzi before I went to find Ah Zhen, but now you still haven't had enough? You go out to meet hundreds of people a day, I know which old acquaintance you saw?"

Ying Lanfeng laughed and said, "You're right, I did meet an old acquaintance...... I'll mention to you again, I've seen it in Taizhou. ”

Li Xianshu was stunned for a moment, and blurted out: "Did you see your mother?"

Ying Lanfeng glanced at her, and Li Xianshu had already shouted like a cannon: "Or are you brothers and sisters?"

Ying Huaizhen stood beside him, looked up at Ying Lanfeng, and suddenly shouted, "I know!"

When the husband and wife heard this, they looked down together, and Ying Lanfeng asked, "Does you really know?"

Ying Huaizhen said crisply: "It must be Xiao Tang...... Uncle Don!"

Ying Lanfeng was originally full of jokes, but when she heard this, she smiled and asked in surprise, "How does Zhen'er know?"

When Li Xianshu saw him ask like this, she knew that Ying Huai really guessed correctly, and hurriedly asked: "Is it really to meet Xiao Tang...... Ahem, is that the awesome Lord Tang?"

Ying Lanfeng glanced at her, and replied with a smile: "Isn't it this amazing Lord Tang?" Zhen'er, tell your father first, how did you guess so accurately?"

Ying Huaizhen rolled his eyes and said, "I guessed blindly." I didn't expect to really guess it. ”

Ying Lanfeng laughed again, hugged Ying Huaizhen again, and exclaimed: "Zhen'er is smart, and he can guess right with a casual guess, unlike your mother, who can't guess left or right." ”

When Li Xianshu saw him like this, he said again: "You praise your daughter, why do you step on me?" Speaking of which...... I know why Zhen'er guessed right, do you know?"

Ying Lanfeng and Ying Huaizhen looked at her together, and Ying Huaizhen was also curious. I saw Li Xianshu smile and said: "That Tang Da is a good life, he is generous, and he is very close to Ah Zhen, your daughter must have fallen in love with others, so she remembered it in her heart, and naturally she guessed it!"

Ying Lanfeng laughed when she heard her laugh like this, and deliberately teased Ying Huaizhen, saying, "Zhen'er, what your mother said is right?"

Unexpectedly, Ying Huaizhen listened, first opened his mouth, stayed for a long time, and then slowly blushed, the expression on his face slowly turned into annoyance and anger, as if he was really angry, and finally raised his fist, slammed Ying Lanfeng a few times, and when he let go, he left the two and ran into the door.

It made Li Xianshu and Ying Lanfeng stunned for a while, and Li Xianshu said: "What's the matter, I'm just joking." ”

Ying Lanfeng thought for a while and said, "Ah Zhen's eyes are big, about ...... Do you know how shy you are?"

Li Xianshu snorted: "What do you see when you are older, only five years old!" Suddenly remembering the serious matter, he hurriedly asked again: "Don't interrupt! You are happier today than before, could it be that it has something to do with meeting this Lord Tang?"

Ying Lanfeng listened, but the smile on his face slowly subsided, and sighed: "I didn't do anything, we just said something...... You can't imagine what he said to me again. ”