Ziqin didn't explain much to anyone, lowered her head and smiled at Lei Lei, and said, "Miss, let's go." ”

Lei Lei nodded at Ziqin, and Ziqin took the hand and obediently followed Ziqin out of the crowd.

Everyone consciously made a way, looked at the direction the three of them left, and after watching the people walk away, they immediately started a heated discussion.

"Did you hear that? actually said that she was not the mistress of this house. It's shocking. You look at her dress, and that temperament, where can you see that she is a maid? ”

Someone immediately answered, "Isn't it?" Together, we all have lost our eyes? ”

Someone said, "It's not necessarily that we're looking away." It can only be said that this family is indeed a big family, and it is not a small family. You see, just a maid, the person who dresses up is different, I'm really curious now, that kind of person is not a hostess, so what should the real hostess of this house be? ”

"That's it!"

Everyone nodded their heads in response, and looked at the closed door in unison, becoming even more curious about the hostess who lived inside.

After Ziqin took Lei Lei to buy vegetables, she went to the herb shop.

"Miss, is this herb?" Ziqin held a medicinal herb and bent down to ask Lei Lei, who was looking around.

Lei Lei took the medicinal herbs handed over by Ziqin, looked at them carefully, and said, "That's not the case, Aunt Qin. ”

As she spoke, Lei Lei's eyes looked at another place, reached out and picked up a medicinal herb, and said, "Aunt Qin, this is what I want." ”

Ziqin looked over, picked up the medicinal herb in his hand again, compared it carefully, and said, "Miss, aren't these two medicinal materials the same?" ”

Lei Lei smiled, "Aunt Qin, they're different. You see, the texture of your herb is different from mine. ”

Ziqin took the medicinal herbs in Lei Lei's hand, fixed her eyes on identification, and smiled, "It's true." The young lady is really powerful, and she can see it at once. No wonder you just said that you want to accompany me in person, because you are afraid that I will buy the wrong one, right? ”

Lei Lei didn't deny it, smiled embarrassedly, and said, "Aunt Qin, don't be angry. ”

Ziqin smiled, "What did Miss say?" How could I be angry? Our young lady is so powerful, it's too late for me to be happy. ”

Lei Lei was praised by this, and lowered her head in embarrassment, with a shy smile on her cheeks.

After buying what should be bought, a few people went straight home.

Lei Lei went to study her medicinal herbs by herself, and Qiao Qiao also had a lot of fun with the three boys of the Chen family. Because of the lack of manpower, Jin Xin was afraid that Ziqin would work too hard alone, so he also began to cook by himself and cook with Ziqin. Fortunately, his cooking skills are good, his hands and feet are neat, and he does things in an orderly manner.

The whole family and the black spiders went to the table to eat.

Jojo had been playing for a day, and he was already hungry, and this meal was so delicious that he almost buried his face in it.

I finished a big bowl of rice without a grain of rice, and said that I wanted to drink soup.

Ziqin hurriedly served Qiao Qiao a bowl of soup and put it in front of him.

Qiao Qiao drank a few sips of soup, licked the corners of her mouth, looked very satisfied, and suddenly raised her head and asked Jin Xin: "Mother, how long are we going to live here?" ”

Jin Xin was stunned: "What, doesn't Qiaoqiao like it here?" ”

"No, I like it!"

Qiao Qiao gestured with both hands: "I like it so much!" ”

Jin Xin looked at him with great excitement and was puzzled: "Qiaoqiao, I see how you are very happy today." Did anything good happen? ”

Chen Mingxi said: "Madam, we have never been here before, today and Brother Qiao Qiao are like an adventure, going to play everywhere to see." So the mood is particularly good. ”

Jin Xin said: "That's it." ”

She bowed her head to Qiao Qiao and said, "Mother is still worried that you won't like it." ”

"I like it." Qiao Qiao said, thinking of something, the smile on his face suddenly fell, and he muttered in a low voice, "If only my father and brother were here." ”

Hearing Qiao Qiao think of Yu Zijing and Feng Feng, Jin Xin's face was slightly stunned, not as relaxed as just now, and there was a little sadness in his eyes.

Ziqin saw it in her eyes, hurriedly played a round, and said, "Little young master, don't worry, the general and the eldest young master will be back soon." ”

"How fast is it soon?"

Jojo asked inquiringly.

Ziqin was asked.

The other people present were also taken away by Qiaoqiao's question, and they all stopped their dishes and chopsticks, looking worried.

Jin Xin looked at it, smiled hurriedly, and said to Qiaoqiao: "Okay, okay, I will always come back." Jojo, aren't you going to drink soup? If you don't drink it again, it will be cold. ”

"Oh." Qiao Qiao muffled and obediently drank the soup.

Lei Lei on the side glanced at Jin Xin and didn't speak.

Jin Xin sighed secretly in his heart, it's not a way to go on like this, it's obviously a family, so you can't keep separating like this, right? The key is where Yu Zijing is doing now, she doesn't know, Chen Qing has not heard from her since the last time she sent a message, although she has always been calm on the surface, she has never taken the initiative to mention this matter, but in fact, she has never been calm in her heart.

However, two months have passed, and she still hasn't received any news about Yu Zijing.

Thankfully, for the past two months, they have lived peacefully and nothing has happened.

And Yuecheng, the capital city far to the north, has undergone earth-shaking changes again.

Shang Yu, who was originally in control of the imperial city, was taken down, and the one who took him down was a person who no one could believe, that is, Bai Jun, the Nine Kings.

It is said that Bai Jun conspired with the whole incident, and on a more revealing night, he suddenly led his troops to set off in three ways, and took the mansions of Shang Yu, Shang Yu's forbidden army, and several other ministers who conspired with Shang Yu to rebel, and imprisoned all the cadres led by Shang Yu.

No one knows where he came from as a powerless prince, and everyone is talking about it, speculating whether he has been plotting against him a long time ago, and has been recuperating, waiting for the opportunity, and trying to rebel.

However, to everyone's surprise, after taking control of the entire imperial city, the first thing Bai Jun did was not to dominate the imperial city as Shang Yu did at the beginning, but to lead people to break into the palace as soon as possible and invite the Empress Dowager Yirong, who was under house arrest in the harem, out.

The first thing the Queen Mother did when she came out was not to severely punish Shang Yu and them, but to issue a decree, vetoing the content of the decree issued when Shang Yu was under house arrest, solemnly stating that Bai Qi was the right choice of the emperor, and no one was allowed to question it.

At the beginning, overnight, Shang Yu took the entire imperial city and covered the sky with one hand. Now, also overnight, Bai Jun recaptured the imperial city, but he did not cover the sky with one hand, but was handled by the Queen Mother, and Shang Yu was reduced to a prisoner, and a large number of people were involved, including the Shang family.

Jin Xin was just listening to it and was suspicious of the letter until he received the letter from Green Bell, and from the letter that Green Bell gave her, he confirmed the facts.

Ziqin was the happiest person, "Madam, great!" Now, we don't have to hide in Tibet! ”

Jin Xin smiled at Ziqin: "Hmm." However, the situation is changing rapidly, and we still can't take it lightly. What's more, Yu Zijing and Chen Qing, and even Bai Qi, who is the lord of a country, are missing, and they don't know what else will happen. ”

Ziqin listened to Jin Xin's words, her originally joyful face was somewhat restrained, and she said solemnly: "Madame is right." What are we going to do next, ma'am? Now that we're safe, do we want to go back to Kyoto? ”

"It's better not to go back for the time being."

Jin Xin said: "That place is now a place of right and wrong, many people are eyeing us, although they don't want to say it, but they have to admit that if we go back, it is likely that we will be sheep in the mouth of the tiger." It's still safer here. ”

"That's right."

"I just don't understand, what's going on with Bai Jun?" Jin Xin looked puzzled.

"It's quite confusing, it stands to reason that the Nine Princes should be the person who has the least to do with these things. Why did you get involved? ”

"I'm afraid there are a lot of twists and turns in this that we don't know. Never mind. In any case, the fall of Shang Yu is a good thing for us. Stir-fry two more dishes today. ”

Ziqin nodded: "Hmm." I'll buy a few more dishes and cook them later! ”

Jin Xin smiled.

On the other side, Linzhou Jinfu.

Boxes of things were carried inside, in and out, looking extremely busy, which was very different from the atmosphere of the Golden Mansion in the past two years.

The butler stood at the door and commanded: "Alas, be careful, don't bump into it." ”

A family member stepped forward, pointed to a box of things carried by the two people behind him and asked, "Butler, where is this?" ”

The housekeeper looked at it and said, "This is the eldest lady's, and it will be transported to the eldest lady's house." ”

A maid came out of it.

A few family members saw it and hurriedly said, "Miss Luanming." ”

When the housekeeper heard this, he hurriedly turned back and smiled politely: "Luan Ming, what's wrong?" ”

Luan Ming looked at the progress of everyone's sorting and said, "Butler, it's almost, right?" ”

"Mm-hmm, it's pretty much it."

"That's right, Madame asked me to call you over."

"That's ......," the butler frowned slightly, looking a little embarrassed.

Luan Ming looked at it and was puzzled: "What's the matter, butler, do you have other things to do?" ”

The housekeeper smiled: "Just now, the third lady also asked me to finish the matter, and I went to her place, as if I had something to discuss." ”

Luan Ming blinked and looked at the housekeeper.

"This ...... Luan Ming, these three ladies let me go first, see if you can talk to the eldest lady......"

Luan Ming smiled and said, "Housekeeper, it's not that I don't plan to help you accommodate your wife, the main thing is that now that the old lady is not here, such a big mansion is probably going to be run by our lady at present......"

As he was talking, a voice interjected: "Sister Luan Ming's words are inevitably too confident. ”

The voice behind Luan Ming stopped abruptly, and when he looked back, he saw Ji Hong, the personal maid beside the third lady, walking over.

This Ji Hong was originally just a third-class maid, but because of her clever and capable, she was promoted from a third-class maid to a first-class maid little by little, and was deeply valued by the third lady, although it was not as stable as Luan Ming's position in the mansion, but it was also quite trendy, since the old lady passed away, the Jin family was divided into the eldest lady Jin Zhao faction and the third lady Jin Liu faction, both sides are fighting for the right to manage the family, and Luan Ming and Ji Hong, the two big maids as the lady's side, naturally also have a clear position.

Ji Hong walked over, smiled at Luan Ming, and didn't speak, but turned to the housekeeper and said, "Butler, don't blame me for being troublesome and coming to quarrel with you again." The main thing is that our lady is really in a hurry and needs you to hurry over. I'm afraid of delay, it's not good. ”

When the housekeeper heard this, he smiled, but he beat a drum in his heart, while looking at Luan Ming, and at Ji Hong, both of them were smiling, but no matter how you look at it, the pressure on the smile made the housekeeper, who has been in the mansion for most of his life, couldn't help but secretly sweat.

Luan Ming looked at the housekeeper's embarrassed look and said with a smile: "Forget it." Since the third lady is in such a hurry, then the housekeeper, you should go over first. Just remember to go back to our wife. There's a lot going on here. ”

When the housekeeper heard Luan Ming's words, he immediately nodded happily and said with a smile: "Okay, okay." Miss Luanming, don't worry, I will do my best to pass. ”

"That's good." Luan Ming nodded at the housekeeper, smiled at Ji Hong again, and left.

Ji Hong looked at the back of Luan Ming leaving, raised her eyebrows, with some disdain in her eyes, but said with a smile: "Sister Luan Ming is really reasonable." Butler, then, come with me to meet our lady, right?" ”

The housekeeper listened to Ji Hong's words, but he had some calculations in his heart, and if he really calculated, Luan Ming's impression on him was actually much better than Ji Hong's. Although Ji Hong is smart and has some means, but in terms of life, he is really not as good as Luan Ming, although Ji Hong hides it well, but the housekeeper is an old man in the house after all, he has seen a lot of these intrigues, and he has also gone out with a few old men to see the world, which can be regarded as reading countless people, and it can be seen that Ji Hong is a mean force in his bones, and he is not so easy to get along with on the surface.

The housekeeper went to the third lady with Ji Hong, and along the way, without thinking too much, he knew very well that these two ladies were in such a hurry to find him one by one on the first day they came back from Yuecheng, just for the matter of the Jin family's property.

Because at the beginning, Shang Yu controlled zhì Yuecheng, the two masters had to deal with Shang Yu for the sake of their careers and the safety of the mansion, and now, Shang Yu has fallen, and many people who have been involved with Shang Yu have been imprisoned, and the two masters of their family are lucky, but they were relegated to other places to serve as officials, although they saved their lives, but because of the joint relationship, the Jin family is also in decline.

The two ladies couldn't stay in Yuecheng anymore, so they hurriedly moved their family back here.

In order to give the two masters some money before, almost half of the family's money was exhausted, and this big family is now like sitting on a mountain empty.

These two also couldn't sit still and were in a hurry.

Sure enough, when he arrived at the third lady, the butler's guess was confirmed.

The third lady first asked about the situation at home, and then, concerned about the housekeeper's body, and then, it was brought to the old lady and the two masters, and when it came to the sad place, she couldn't help but take out a handkerchief and wipe her tears, and finally, she pointed out the subject and asked the rest of the family property in the house.

When I got to the eldest lady, the eldest lady was not as sad as the third lady, but as always calm, sitting there, and did not pursue the housekeeper to go to the third lady first, nor did she ask the third lady and the housekeeper what they said, but directly went straight to the point and proposed how much money was spent to help the two masters, and now a large family is waiting for dinner, and can no longer sit and eat like this, so they ask the housekeeper how much money is left in the house.

It's no wonder that the two ladies don't understand, mainly because when they went to Moon City a few years ago, the money in the house was handled by the old lady, and they didn't let them know everything, only gave them a little wind. The old lady has passed away, and she didn't have time to say this before she died, and now, they only have a rough idea, and it's not accurate to think about it, so they can only ask the housekeeper, after all, it was the housekeeper who helped the old lady deal with these things.

However, the housekeeper is also a shrewd person, and he can also see that these two ladies are ostensibly for everyone, but in fact, they are all thinking about themselves in their own hearts, if they really say it one by one, it is tantamount to handing over one of them to deal with, and the other is the fish and meat on the board, which can be slaughtered by others, and the situation is afraid that it will not be any better.

In other words, the entire Jin family is really ruined.

The butler was not happy to see such a thing happen, so both sides passed it vaguely and perfunctorily.

The two ladies heard his perfunctory appearance, and their hearts were not very happy, but because the housekeeper was an old man in the house, and he had always been favored by the old lady before, no matter how they were masters, they couldn't be too unhappy with him, not to mention, now that they know the specific situation of the golden house, they are only the housekeepers.

Therefore, they didn't ask immediately, they all endured it for the time being, and let the housekeeper go down first.

As soon as the butler went out, they all thought about it.

The third lady Jin Liu's side has Ji Hong there to help think of ideas, and the eldest lady Jin Zhao's side, not only Luan Ming, but she also specially invited someone to come, that is Aunt Yin.

Aunt Yin said: "Madam, I see that there must be a lot of family property left in this golden mansion, I am afraid that the old lady has specially instructed the housekeeper to keep it properly, so the housekeeper deliberately did not say it." ”

"Even if he doesn't say it, our side has to find a way to get him to say it."

Aunt Yin nodded and said, "It's natural. But there's one thing you can't forget, ma'am. ”

When Jin Zhao heard this, he asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Madam, don't forget, there are not only two people in this golden mansion."

When Jin Zhao heard this, he frowned at first, looking a little puzzled, but soon his eyes lit up and he remembered: "You mean, Jin Xin?" ”

"Exactly." Aunt Yin said: "Madam, the old lady was ready to divide the family, and this must be divided according to the three rooms. Although the second master and the second lady have passed away, the second room is not unmanned, right? That Aunt Zhao and the fifth lady are all from the second room. Even if she is an aunt and a concubine, she is also a second-room person who is like a fake. ”

Jin Zhao had already heard the meaning of Aunt Yin's words, frowned slightly, and his face was not very good-looking: "You mean, Jin Xin must also have a family property!" ”

"With the old lady hurting her, I guess I would have given her the key to the second room a long time ago!"

Aunt Yin said solemnly: "Madam, think about it, when the eldest master and the third master had an accident, you and the third lady almost exhausted the money they could use to help them dredge up and down, but the fifth lady didn't spend half a penny." Her share must be the most complete. In addition, she has been operating in the mall for many years, so she has long been rich. You say, how much does she have on hand? ”

"I'm afraid it's more than the sum of our two rooms!"

Jin Zhao said.

"Exactly!" Aunt Yin said: "That's why I reminded Madame not to forget this matter. Not only do we have to get back our own, we must not miss what we can take, compared with the third lady, isn't it more important here? ”

Aunt Yin's words seem to be vague, but in fact they are so straightforward.

Jin Zhao was also made clear by one point, and immediately the whole person was excited, and after thinking about it, he took the case: "Indeed, if you don't remind me, I will forget about it!" ”

On the side, Luan Ming listened to the conversation between Jin Zhao and Aunt Yin, and said, "However, since the last time Miss Fifth and her children disappeared from the General's Mansion, no one in the world knows their whereabouts, where are we going to meet Miss Five?" ”

Luan Ming's words once again reminded Jin Zhao that she was in trouble again.

"yes, I forgot about it." Jin Zhao said and sat back.

Aunt Yin looked at the two of them and suddenly laughed: "Madam, don't worry, Miss Fifth is far away in the sky and close at hand." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Jin Zhao looked up at Aunt Yin.

Aunt Yin smiled and said, "It's also a coincidence. A few days ago, the third lady encountered something and came to me to complain, so she mentioned the matter. I found out that Miss Wu had returned to Linzhou more than two months ago. ”

"What!"

Jin Zhao was shocked: "You mean, she is in Linzhou now. ”

"Exactly."

Jin Zhao nodded and said, "According to the third young lady, she is living in the Four Peaks Academy. ”

"How did Skim know she was there?"

"Well, it's a long story...... Aunt Yin said with some hesitation: "Madam, have you forgotten that the little cheap hoof who robbed the third aunt with the third young lady, she is the daughter of the dean of Sifeng Academy, Zhang Xi." ”

"You mean, Jin Xin lives in that Zhang Xi's house?" Jin Zhao was even more shocked, and there was anger in his tone.

Aunt Yin nodded and said, "Yes." The third miss went to Zhang Xi to settle accounts last time, and someone came out to stop her, it was Miss Fifth and Ziqin. Not only the third lady, but later the third aunt arrived and also saw the fifth miss. Later, the third miss specially asked people to inquire, only to find out that not long ago, the fifth miss had moved to Sifeng Academy to live. ”

“……”

Jin Zhao listened, frowned, and didn't speak for a while.