Lin Xiaoyu took the maid to the South Wilderness Courtyard, which had not been inhabited for a long time, and the flower path that passed through it was not very neatly pruned, and compared with other places in the house, it was quiet and desolate.

Lin Xiaoyu stopped at the door, she turned around and asked the maid behind her, "Have you ever seen a dumb person?"

The maid thought for a while: "When the slave was a child, there was really a mute in the village, but it was a man. ”

"What?"

"It's sturdy and strong, fat and fat, and a mouth is whining, and everyone doesn't know what he's talking about, looking stupid. ”

Lin Xiaoyu smiled when he heard this: "Go and call the door." ”

The maid hurriedly said yes.

Ling Nan and Monday recited the classification of medicinal materials in the room, and only then did they start, Xin Wen antidote pills, no way, to be someone else's maid to learn knitting and sewing, to be a young lady's maid, whether you like it or not, you have to learn medicine first.

Then I heard a noise in the courtyard.

Monday put down the book and stretched his neck, and whispered, "Who will come?"

Ling Nan thought to himself, it wouldn't be the second master who came to see the young lady, since the young lady entered the mansion, no one in this Lin Mansion has ever come.

Ling Nan stood up, beckoned to Monday, and the two were ready to greet the guests.

But who knew that it was a younger lady who came in.

Lin Xiaoyu's maid looked at these two country girls dumbfounded, and hurriedly reminded: "Our fifth young lady has come to see your young lady, where is your young lady?

Fifth Miss? Their young lady is only the fifth, right?

Monday glanced at Lingnan.

Ling Nan lightly blessed: "My young lady is resting, it's inconvenient to disturb now." ”

"Our young lady was kind enough to come and see her. What do you call disturbing? What kind of sleep do you sleep in the middle of the day?" the maid looked unhappy.

Monday glared to open his mouth.

Ling Nan grabbed her with one hand, looked up at the quiet young lady in front of her, and said, "My young lady should not be disturbed now, if there is anything wrong with the young lady, the slave maid will tell her." ”

Lin Xiaoyu shook his hand gently: "It's okay, you guys should be busy first." ”

Does it mean to leave her alone? Ling Nan was puzzled and at a loss for what to do.

At this time, I saw her looking around with light and casual steps.

"I haven't been in yet. Lin Xiaoyu looked around and turned to his maid.

The maid lowered her head and smiled: "Why did the young lady come here if she is fine?"

Lin Xiaoyu didn't say anything to her, and suddenly turned her head to look at the two maids who were really going to be busy.

"Do you know that there have been people dead here? or hanged, aren't you afraid?"

The hanged ghost here is the young lady's mother.

I really can't help it on Monday.

Ling Nan whispered to her, "You go to the back room first to see if the young lady is awake." ”

Monday couldn't hide his anger, knowing that if he stayed any longer, there might be conflict. She twisted. Rushed into the inner room.

Seeing her leave, Ling Nan smiled and said: "The slave maid has beaten up with Miss, I have seen all cows, ghosts, snakes and gods, and it is not enough to be afraid of a hanging ghost." ”

Lin Xiaoyu listened to the maid's words very impulsively, she pretended not to understand. He smiled and said, "What about my sister?"

She has a sister in one bite. It's Lin Xiaojue.

Ling Nan smiled lightly and shook his head: "Miss is naturally not afraid." ”

"That's right. She is mute and may not know to be afraid. Lin Xiaoyu lowered her face in sympathy.

Ling Nan folded his hands in front of his lower abdomen, lowered his head and said nothing.

Lin Xiaoyu glanced at her and asked, "You are the big girl next to the third aunt?"

Ling Nan nodded: "It's the slave." ”

"I said. What did she say? Only asked, "And what is your name?"

"Wednesday. Lingnan said categorically.

"What's this name?" Lin Xiaoyu frowned.

"You mean there's one or two in front of you?"

"Exactly. ”

"Are there four or five in the back?"

"Not yet. "Lingnan told the truth.

Lin Xiaoyu suddenly smiled, beckoned the maid over: "Come here." Later, the maid opened the burden in her hand, and said to Ling Nan with a smile: "I have some old clothes here, but I have only worn them once, and they all look new." In order to prove the truth of what she said, she picked out a pink skirt and showed it to Ling Nan: "Your young lady has just returned home, so she must not have anything to wear, I don't want this, just give her it." ”

said that he didn't care whether Lingnan picked it up or not, so he asked the maid to send it to Lin Xiaojue's room.

Ling Nan hurriedly stopped the maid: "I will wait for my young lady to receive the young lady's wishes, but ......"

"Nothing though. Lin Xiaoyu's face suddenly sank: "We are sisters, can I see my sister dressed very shabby?" You have to be careful, you are just a maid, you can only take my sister to thank me when he is away, but you have no right to say whether you want it or not." ”

Ling Nan raised his head and looked at her fearlessly.

The guy suddenly looked like an injured fawn, and he dodged away at once, and then said to the maid next to him aggrievedly: "I came to see my sister, but my sister didn't have time to entertain me, let's come back another day." ”

Which one is this singing? Ling Nan clenched his fists with his baggage.

In the end, Lin Xiaoyu returned to her previous quietness, and smiled kindly at Lingnan: "I'll go first, remember to say hello to me when my sister wakes up." ”

led the maid out dignified and polite.

The afternoon of late autumn in the north was much darker than in summer, and before the palace lanterns were lit, Fang Jinglong was summoned by Fang Guifei.

The concubine was dressed in a purple dress, with flowers and treasures on her head, graceful and luxurious, nearly forty years old but still undiminished, such a beauty stood in the curtain to greet her relatives.

As soon as Fang Jinglong entered the house, he looked at her, and was stunned: "What are you doing standing here, looking for the wind again." ”

"I'm not anxious to see my eldest brother. ”

Seeing her brother's serious face, Concubine Fang hurriedly asked someone to sit down, and then sent all the people in the house, leaving only one of her henchmen to add tea and pour water.

This maid was brought from Fang Jinglong Mansion when the concubine got married, and her loyalty cannot be doubted.

Fang Jinglong glanced at her, then turned his gaze to the little sister sitting opposite.

"What is the matter with my sister urgently summoning me into the palace?"

Fang Guifei whispered: "Emperor Fang Cai called a few loyal ministers and officials to go to the Yangxin Pavilion, and I also heard that the emperor refuted the excerpts of the imperial history in the early dynasty. So I was a little worried. “

Fang Jinglong said solemnly: "The four princes are all adults, why are you still so unstable." Seeing that Fang Guifei lowered her head, Fang Jinglong felt that his words were serious.

He softened his tone and said, "The bandits in Jiangxi have existed for more than 20 years, and once they were quelled, the emperor has been in a good mood recently. ”

"Then he still treats our family like this?" Fang Guifei was not angry.

Fang Jinglong glanced at him and sighed: "It's not that your second brother is not angry, if he hadn't abandoned the city and fled, there would have been nothing wrong with Junyuan and Feng Shaoyu, if he took Jiangxi City in one fell swoop, I would have confidence in my heart." It's good to persuade the emperor to set up a prince. ”

The emperor has not established a crown prince since the death of Empress Zhou. Fifteen years ago.

Fang Guifei's fingernails were embedded in the flesh, and she asked unhappily, "Didn't the eldest brother say that Jiangxi City was beaten down by the second brother?"

"That's all the fake folds of those villains in order to pat the horse's ass, the people of Jiangxi know about this, if the emperor really investigates it, he will check it accurately. I can hold on until now, but the emperor hasn't let people check it. ”

The concubine listened to it in her heart: "What does the emperor think?"

"Who can guess Junxin. Especially this one. Fang Jinglong told the truth. Then he whispered: "If I guess correctly, the emperor wants to turn a blind eye and not blame our Fang family for the past." Reward Lan Junyuan and Feng Shaoyu for their contributions. ”

"Junyuan doesn't matter, after all, he has the bloodline of our Fang family in his bones, but if Chen Guogong gains power, how can I survive in the palace, don't talk about me, even the eldest brother can't easily trigger Chen Guogong." ”

Chen Guogong's sister is the imperial concubine, and after the emperor is not established, she is the head of the harem.

"The emperor's trick is called balancing gifts, since he doesn't let my Fang family gain power, he won't let Chen Guogong become bigger, otherwise why doesn't the imperial concubine have had children all these years? How do you think she got the position of the imperial concubine? It's because she has no children. ”

"On the contrary, if I give birth to a fourth prince, it is better to have one who can't lay eggs?" Fang Guifei was confused.

Chen Guogong whispered: "Her imperial concubine has nothing to envy, the eldest prince born to the queen is disabled, the emperor will not make him the prince, looking at the entire harem, we are the most outstanding in the high tunnel, if the emperor does not set up the prince, the prince is more urgent than the high tunnel." ”

"That's right. Fang Guifei was embarrassed on her face, and muttered in a low voice: "But for so many years, the emperor has not set up a prince, I thought he was thinking about that cripple in his heart." ”

"The emperor is thinking about him. Fang Jinglong pointed his finger on the table: "Today I learned that the emperor is different from the people of the Zhou clan. ”

"I heard that the emperor met Zhou Huizu?" the concubine was a little dazed in her eyes.

Fang Jinglong's eyes narrowed slightly: "Yes, but I didn't take any other care of him, just let him see a portrait that looks like Queen Zhou's imagination." ”

"Portrait of a woman?" Fang Guifei said in a strange voice.

Fang Jinglong glanced at her and signaled her to be calm: "The emperor never forgets Queen Zhou, but he didn't prepare anything after looking at the portrait, just took a look, but this made me know the weight of the Zhou family in his heart." ”

"Then what if the Zhou Zhou clan ties up the eldest prince and makes a comeback?"

"The eldest prince can't stand up. Fang Jinglong looked at her firmly: "So the emperor takes care of the Zhou family's talents, not for Chinese use, you can rest assured." ”

After the emperor doesn't stand for a day, if he doesn't set up a prince for a day, he can't make people feel at ease, and Concubine Fang feels very upset when she sits.

Fang Jinglong thought for a while and comforted her: "We are both wise and brave, and there are many loyal ministers in the court who are optimistic about him, don't worry, I mediate in the court, and now we will finish Jingkui's affairs first, and our Fang family can't die in vain." ”

This matter seems to be more tricky than the crown prince, and the concubine said: "Didn't I tell my brother, the emperor convened the ministers to discuss things in the Yangxin Pavilion, and it was Junyuan who returned to Beijing with the army, I think the emperor meant to reward the army." ”

"That's not going to work. Fang Jinglong's eyes narrowed: "Don't say that they can't get anything, those Diao people who killed Jingkui also have to die." ”

He said that he was hateful and resentful.

It stands to reason that Lan Junyuan is the nephew of his family, if he is in harmony, it is also a good thing that the labor army will be rewarded, but now the family is in turmoil.

Fang Guifei glanced at her eyes, and said angrily: "The eldest sister is really, giving birth to such a dazzling goods, where did our family offend him?"

Fang Jinglong listened to her words and knew that she was scolding the nephew with a conscience, he drooped his eyelids and hated from his heart.

Lin Xiaojue has been sleeping more and more recently, and waking up later and later.

Everyone had eaten dinner before she got up.

Monday and Lingnan waited left and right, and the maid of the third aunt pouted as usual, looking aggrieved.

"What's the matter, tell me. Lin Xiaojue looked in the mirror, didn't look at her, and asked.

Monday looked at the young lady in the mirror, stopped talking, and lowered his head.

Lin Xiaojue smiled: "I've been holding back for so long, just waiting for me and asking." I asked, but I didn't say, so you kept holding back. ”

"Miss. Zhou Jiaojiao chopped her feet, looked at Lingnan, looked back and said: "There is a fifth miss suddenly today, you think, when we were in Wuxi, the third lady said that you were the fifth miss, how did you return to the capital and come to another fifth miss, I guess it is the woman's child." ”

Lin Xiaojue nodded: "You guessed right." ”

Monday was even more angry when he heard this: "Then why did she occupy the position of Miss, where are you going, Miss?"

Lin Xiaojue thought for a while: "I was born with talent, I have my own place to put it, wait." ”

Seeing that Miss was not angry on Monday, her mouth was pursed higher, and Ling Nan couldn't help laughing.

Monday said angrily: "Sister Lingnan, you laugh too, you're angry with me." ”

Ling Nan put down the comb in his hand and said, "Yes, yes, if you are angry, we are not angry." ”

I was speechless on Monday. She nunu mouthed, and then looked at Lin Xiaojue: "Miss, I'm sorry, I'm not here to make you block, it's because they are too insulting, the clothes that the young lady doesn't wear, pick the rest and send them to the young lady, and the young lady doesn't ask for food, why do you want her tattered, isn't this obviously insulting? I'm just angry about this." ”

Lin Xiaojue turned his head to look at Lingnan when he heard this: "Sent clothes?"

Ling Nan bit her lip and nodded: "Before I could say that Miss is not rare in other people's things, the Miss forced it into my hand, and then left with someone." ”

"It's good to die. Lin Xiaojue muttered to himself.

The two maids didn't hear clearly: "Miss, what did you say?" Ling Nan asked.

Lin Xiaojue's eyes became serious: "What about the clothes?"

"Ahh Ling Nan said the arrangement he had envisioned.

Lin Xiaojue looked back at the mirror, and the woman in the mirror ...... It was getting better and better, and she smiled: "Bring it to me." ”

"Miss. "I'm really afraid that Miss will wear it on Monday.

Lin Xiaojue's eyes gradually disdainful in the mirror: "I have received everything, and I owe favors, so I naturally have to wear it out to show others." ”

"Do you really want to wear it?"

The two maids' facial features urgently gathered together: "Miss, you are going to be wronged again." "Monday pouted and wanted to cry.

Ling Nan said in her heart: It's not that she doesn't dare to be strong in the face of the second lady's daughter, it's that the identity of the young lady is really embarrassing, if it really makes a big fuss, they can't win if the fish dies and the net is broken.

A sigh, helpless. (To be continued......)