When it was dark, Gu Shi came to Yirong Xuan, the two maids behind were still holding things in their hands, not long after the lights under the eaves were lit, the lights in the corridor were dim, and the Gu family in the house ordered the maids to put things down, beckoned Qi Xiangsi to come over, pointed to the small box and said: "This is given to you by the old lady, it should be regarded as the New Year's money made up for so many years, you should have recognized the words for a few years when you were in Huizhou, isn't it?" ”

Qi Xiangsi nodded: "My aunt also knows some, and later my father asked someone to teach and study for two years." ”

"The house invites Mr. Teacher, you will start to study together tomorrow, if you can't keep up, it doesn't matter, take your time." Gu Shi thought that there were still a few people missing in this house, "Tomorrow, you can pick two more maids by yourself." ”

"Thank you, Mother." Qi Xiangsi nodded obediently, Gu Shi looked at her hands and patted them gently, "If you don't know anything, just tell me about jade, your father has been busy these days, and when he is done, he will come to see you." ”

"Yes." Qi Xiangsi got up to send her out, Gu Shi looked around, and his expression faded a little, "It's always a little small for two people to live in one courtyard." ”

Qi Xiangsi raised his head, the lights in the main house over there were all on, and there should be another lamp on the windowsill of the inner room, highlighting the two figures.

Gu Shi turned around: "But don't worry, you and Minlan have known each other since childhood, and they are familiar with each other quickly, and it is not too late to arrange a yard for you when your second aunt comes back." ”

"Mother walks slowly." Qi Xiangsi watched Gu take people away, the figure on the window of the main house over there moved, about someone came out, and after a while, a maid came out of the main house and walked towards this side room, the maid was still holding a small stove in her hand, Qi Xiangsi recognized her, it was Qi Minlan's maid Mingcui who was serving closely.

"Fifth girl, you don't have an incense burner in the house, this is what our girl ordered me to send to you, there is also a box of incense to calm the nerves, if you can't sleep well at night, you can light some, it can be much more comfortable." Mingcui put down the incense burner and incense box, and looked at Qi Xiangsi with a smile, "The fifth girl just came back, there are many places that you are not used to, although you come to find our girl, there is no sister in this house who is closer than you and our girl." ”

"Thank you for me." Qi Xiangsi asked Jade to send Mingcui out, and after a while, there was another figure on the window on the side of the main house.

Qi Xiangsi opened the box sent by the Gu family, there were two ingots of silver in the small box, and two brocade bags were stuffed in the lattice on the side, which contained some silver nude and gold nude, which was more than a hundred taels.

I can't count the specific amount of New Year's money in the past twelve years, but it will never be the amount in front of her, Mrs. Qi is just sending her some silver taels from the beginning, and the young lady and young master in the courtyard in the house didn't order her own small private room.

"Jade, how much is the moon in the house?"

"The young master and the young lady are all three taels of silver, and they also added three taels of silver for tea and fat powder." Jade put away the silver for her, and opened the drawer in front of the dresser, which contained the broken silver and copper coins that she usually supported, and the rest were to be locked in the cabinet.

The Qi family has a lot of such monthly stipends, but the young ladies and young masters in the house are not enough to rely on these monthly stipends, and the six taels of silver in a month are not enough to buy this exquisite small incense burner in front of them.

Qi Xiangsi looked back at the jade: "What about you." ”

Jade Shi smiled: "When I was by my wife's side, it was eight dollars of silver a month. ”

Jade was only the fifth girl before her life was hard, and now she is more sensitive to silver, but Qi Xiangsi is calculating the final destination of the money that Aunt Lu sends to Huizhou every year.

Wu Jishun is a bad gambler, where is the possibility of the silver given at the end of last year to be left this year, even if there is, there can't be more than two hundred taels left, so the silver that was searched out was not the one given to him by Aunt Lu, and the money that Aunt Lu gave at the end of the year should have been shared with the people in the house when he went to Huizhou.

Qi Xiangsi looked at Aunt Lu's reaction in the past two days and knew that she knew very well about the affairs of Huizhou, from Aunt Lu's point of view, she robbed someone else's son first, lied later, and Aunt Qian died of illness and Ying'er was living on the street, how could she hope that Ying'er would come back, maybe she just wanted Ying'er to die outside.

Thinking of this, Qi Xiangsi raised her eyebrows, then she must be eager to kick herself out of the house

Qi Xiangsi went to the front yard early the next morning, followed Qi Minqing to read and read together, and came with Qi Yanhui, who was more than two years old, he was young and not yet enlightened, and he couldn't sit in prison for a stick of incense and clamored to go out to play, and then the maid led him out of the house before he stopped, Qi Xiangsi looked up at the teacher who was about to fall asleep, and Qi Minqing pulled her on the side, covered his mouth and said softly: "Look." ”

"Sir." The maid serving at the door couldn't stand it anymore, and called out to him, and the old gentleman raised his head excitedly, as if he had just woken up from a dream, raised his hand and touched his beard, picked up the book in his hand and said slowly, "Come, let's continue." ”

Qi Xiangsi smiled, opened the book and read it with Mr., Qi Minqing originally wanted to say a few more words, but when she saw that she was serious, she felt a little bored, so she had to read it along.

After the class ended in the morning, Qi Minqing naturally followed Qi Xiangsi back to the inner courtyard, and asked her a lot of things along the way, from Huizhou to Yongzhou, and from Yongzhou to Xianyang, so after more than ten days, after class this day, Qi Minqing finally asked about why Minying left Huizhou to live in Yongzhou.

Qi Xiangsi flipped through the books she borrowed from her husband and glanced at her casually: "What are you asking these for?" ”

"I'm just curious." Qi Minqing smiled and leaned towards her, "Good sister, just think that you went out for a trip and tell me, I haven't been out of Kyoto since I was so old." ”

Qi Xiangsi put down the book and looked at her and was about to speak, when he suddenly looked towards her neck, pressed her hand and reminded: "Don't move, there's a bug here, I'll help you catch it"

Before the word 'drop' could be spoken, Qi Minqing jumped up from the stone bench with a scream, and didn't care which side Qi Xiangsi was referring to, he quickly patted his hands on his shoulders, and urged the maid on the side: "What are you still doing in a daze, take a look." ”

The maid looked at her neck, and the insects that looked like big ants crawled on Qi Min's white neck, with a black head, tail and abdomen, and the tail was still upturned as if it were dangerous.

"Shoot it to death!"

Qi Minqing also caught a glimpse of the worm, and the maid reached out and pinched her neck, but was suddenly stopped by Qi Xiangsi: "Don't move." ”

"Fifth sister, what are you doing?" Qi Minqing didn't dare to reach out and pinch it herself, and was a little anxious when she saw Qi Xiangsi stopping Xiaoxiang, "Help me get it away." ”

"Don't worry, this thing can't be pinched, it's poisonous." Qi Xiangsi pinched her shoulders and blew towards her neck, and the insects that had been standing at her neck for a long time were blown away, and flew towards the plane tree on the side when they were in mid-air.

"What do you say, poisonous?" Qi Minqing's little face turned pale with fright, she subconsciously covered her neck, and vaguely felt a little burning, "It hurts." ”

"Don't catch it." Qi Xiangsi stopped her from reaching out to scratch it, and saw a little red mark on her neck, "It's okay, just take water and wash it, just apply some ointment, as long as this green-waisted insect is not killed, it will not be a big problem, there are a few sycamore trees planted here, this insect likes to stay on the sycamore tree." ”

Hearing her say this, Qi Minqing didn't dare to touch it: "Then what if you die?" ”

"If you kill it, your skin will fester." Before Qi Xiangsi's words fell, Qi Minqing directly pulled out her legs and ran out of the pavilion in fright, her maid hurriedly followed, and the pavilion finally quieted down.

Qi Xiangsi picked up the book and continued to read, the new little girl on the side looked a little nervous, looking left and right for fear that there would be insects flying in, the leaves blown by the breeze outside the pavilion were fluttering, and a few insects flew around the branches in the high places, and no one saw them.

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In the next few days, Qi Minqing refused to come to Yirong Xuan again, I heard that when I went back that day, I was washing and taking medicine, and I didn't have much to do, I scared myself a lot, the girl's multiple appearances, ruining a little skin can make her cry and grab the ground.

After another three or four days, it was noon, Qi Xiangsi was about to go to the study to read a book for a while after lunch, and the maid in the Splendid Garden suddenly came to invite her over, saying that the master had been invited.

Qi Xiangsi followed the maid to the Splendid Garden, which is the main courtyard of the third room, Qi Xiangsi will come here every morning to say goodbye, but the atmosphere when she entered the house today seemed a little unusual, her father, who had not seen her for about half a month, was also there, Aunt Lu was also there, and there were three people who Qi Xiangsi didn't know kneeling there, Qi Minlan stood there and looked at her from time to time, with a look of schadenfreude in her eyes.

"Father, mother." Qi Xiangsi saluted respectfully, and then stood there with his head bowed slightly without asking or speaking.

Qi Herui hummed and pointed to the two of them kneeling there: "You can recognize them." ”

Qi Xiangsi turned his head to look at the two of them and shook his head: "My daughter doesn't know me." ”

Aunt Lu's face suddenly flashed with excitement, and her heart became more and more determined.

"Then you know who they are." Qi Herui asked her again.

"My daughter doesn't know who they are." Qi Xiangsi continued to shake his head.

Qi Herui frowned: "Then do you know who this is." ”

Qi Xiangsi looked over, it was a slightly younger man kneeling on the left, the two looked at each other, Qi Xiangsi skimmed lightly: "I don't know." ”

"Master, how could Ying'er not know who her uncle was. This is still the person who waits in the house in Huizhou, Ying'er was already five or six years old at the beginning, and her young appearance will change, they won't, how can Ying'er not know her. Aunt Lu looked unspeakable, "I shouldn't have investigated this matter, but I always feel restless these days, and I often dream of Xiangyun at night." ”

Aunt Lu was about to cry and be sad when she said it: "I always feel that this is strange, so I sent someone to investigate, but I know that not long after Xiangyun passed away, Ying'er also disappeared, and she has not appeared in Huizhou for so many years, let alone come back to recognize her relatives." ”

"At first, I couldn't believe it, so I invited someone to Kyoto, but I didn't know her if I really didn't know her." Aunt Lu turned her head to look at Qi Xiangxi, very sad, "Where did your pendant come from?" ”

The implication is that the one in front of him is not Qi Minying at all, but someone else is impersonating.

The people in the room all looked at Qi Xiangsi, Qi Herui frowned and obviously believed Aunt Lu's statement, the people who served in the Huizhou house plus Aunt Wei's brother, she couldn't recognize these people, and the reason was not enough.

"If it's not Minying, how can you know so many things about Minying." Gu Shi pondered for a moment and looked at the three people who were kneeling, "Do you recognize her?" ”

The housekeeper and mother-in-law who were serving in the Huizhou house looked at Qi Xiangsi, and then the mother-in-law shook her head: "No, this is not Miss Ying." ”

The steward also nodded, and then Aunt Wei's brother looked at Qi Xiangsi a few times and shook his head: "Not like that." ”

The room was quiet for a while, and Qi Herui suddenly scolded Qi Xiangsi: "Kneel!" ”

Qi Xiangsi looked up at him, and a touch of stubbornness flashed in his eyes: "I'm not wrong, why do you want to kneel." ”

"What Madame said is exactly what I want to ask, girl, who are you, how do you know so much about Ying'er, you still have her pendant in your hand, what did you do to Ying'er!" Aunt Lu looked at Acacia with a sad expression, "Did you hurt Ying'er?" ”

Qi Xiangsi lowered his head: "My name is Qi Ying." ”

"Shut up." Qi Herui scolded loudly, "You still have to make up nonsense here, where did you get this pendant!" ”

Seeing this, Aunt Lu hurriedly asked people to hold Qi Xiangsi, don't let her run away: "Master, this person pretended to be Ying'er to come to the Qi family to recognize her relatives, and she still has her pendant in her hand, we almost let her be deceived, you see how she looks like Aunt Wei's child, I had an impression of that child back then, it was definitely not like this." ”

Qi Herui's face became more and more heavy when she heard this, and Aunt Lu hurriedly lit the fire: "I think it's better to drive people out of the house quickly, such people continue to stay in the house, and it's a big joke to spread it, and I don't know where she picked up the pendant, saying that she wanted to come to the Qi family to try her luck by hearsay in Huizhou." ”

The woman's strength to grab people was too great, Qi Xiangsi's whole arm was grabbed as if it was about to be dislocated, she bit her lip tightly and didn't say a word, and the deep voice of Mrs. Qi came from the door: "Who are you going to drive out of the house." ”