After sending Xiao Zhengwen away, Xiao Jing stayed awake all night.

The first rays of sunlight in the morning shone into Xiao Jing's house, indicating that a new day had arrived, and yesterday was a thing of the past.

The old lady also got up early, still looking at Xiao Jing with a smile, without a trace of unnaturalness, gentle and peaceful, which seemed to hurt her to the bones.

Aunt Li still stood calmly beside the old lady and served, without a trace of pampering and arrogance.

Aunt Wang arrived at Baishoutang early for the first time, with dark circles around her eyes, and her eyes were bloodshot because she had cried all night, and she seemed to have aged several years overnight, which made the old lady particularly disgusted.

Xiao Qing knelt on the ground without saying a word, her eyes stared at Aunt Wang fiercely, she pulled her over, and before dawn, she knelt here to beg for forgiveness from the old lady and Xiao Zhengwen.

After all, it is his own flesh and blood, Xiao Zhengwen does not have many heirs, he felt distressed when he saw her kneeling for a while, and ordered the maid to help her back, and found a house doctor, afraid that he would leave the root of the disease in the future, Xiao Qing is his favorite daughter, and he has always wanted something. Although he also loved Xiao Jing, he was snubbed a lot because she looked like Shangguan Wuyu, he gave all his father's love to Xiao Qing alone, and it was only now that he found out that he had a well-behaved and sensible little daughter Xiao Yu.

The old lady didn't seem to be too lazy to care, and ordered the people who came to ask for peace to retreat early.

Aunt Li quietly followed Xiao Jing back to Mantuo Garden, and her appearance of wanting to speak made Xiao Jing a little impatient.

"Say it." In the end, Xiao Jing opened her mouth first.

"Recently, I feel that something is wrong with serving the old lady, some time ago she always urged me to count the dowry of the lady as soon as possible, but after the birthday banquet, she seems to be intentionally or unintentionally preventing me from counting the dowry, the eldest lady sees, there will be anything strange in this." Although I respect the old lady, I can't help it.

"Is the old lady short of silver?" This was obviously interested in the dowry, otherwise she would have no reason to stop Aunt Li from counting the dowry.

"It's also strange to say, since the last time the old lady met the second master on her birthday, this is the case, in your opinion, will it have something to do with the second master?" Aunt Li's words made Xiao Jing fall into deep thought, the second master Xiao Zhengjie had appeared at the birthday banquet but didn't show his face much, and it could even be said that he was a little low-key, only he and her wife Lin came here, and they didn't even bring their children, isn't it a little strange?

"Only the second uncle and second sister-in-law came last time, how could the cousin and cousin not show up?" Xiao Jing looked at Aunt Li, hoping to know some valuable clues from her mouth, after all, this is related to the Zhenguo Mansion.

"If you want to talk about this, very few people in the house know about it, and a few old people around the old lady know that when I was serving by the old lady's side, I heard the old people say that the old lady was not born to the old lady." Aunt Li was extra careful when she said this, for fear that Xiao Jing would lose her temper, but these words really shocked Xiao Jing.

Seeing that Xiao Jing didn't get angry, Aunt Li sighed boldly, "I heard that the old lady was still young at that time, and she was the eldest daughter of Lu Guogong, at that time, the old town Guogong was handsome and chic, erudite and talented, and once went out to meet the old lady and her sister-in-law, the old town Guogong fell in love with the sister-in-law Lu Fangmei at a glance, but who knew that the old lady was also secretly promising him at that time, and the two sisters fell in love with the same man from then on. The two quarreled for a few days and finally came up with a solution, that is, to marry the sister as a wife and sister as a concubine, the two sisters got along very harmoniously after entering the door, the old town often stayed in the sister's room, and soon the sister was pregnant, and it happened that the sister was also pregnant, but the sister was blessed, and died of dystocia when giving birth, and the child was raised by the sister after that. Aunt Li didn't say any more, she knew that with Xiao Jing's intelligence, she must not need to explain anymore.

Xiao Jing smiled slightly, and took a sip for a long time before coming back to her senses: "I see." "No matter how close and filial a son is, he can't compare to his own son.

"When the lord was eighteen years old, the old Zhenguo Gong handed the excerpt to the emperor, saying that he would pass the position of the Zhenguo Gong to the eldest son, which really made the second master move out of the Zhenguo Mansion in a fit of anger. This incident really made the old man feel guilty for half his life, so he was obedient to the old lady's words and filial piety in every way. In his life, he almost never objected to the old lady's decision. ”

"If you don't say it, I really didn't know there was such a history." Xiao Jing smiled slightly, looking indifferent, but in fact, her heart was already like a stormy wave, I was afraid that no matter how filial my father was, he couldn't make them really happy, after all, he was the position of the prince of Zhenguo. But what does it matter to Daddy? Taking this position, being glorious and wealthy, becoming a high-ranking official and nobleman, but turning against his mother and brother, if he doesn't take this position, he will be killed by disobeying the holy decree, and it will be difficult to do anything.