"Don't understand? Then I'll tell you something you understand. Nalan Qi glanced at Qiu Ju lightly, and her lips opened slightly.

She stretched out her hand again to sort out the slightly messy cotton satin in the flute, and then spoke unhurriedly: "If I remember correctly, Sister Qiu Ju entered the house in the fifty-fourth year." ”

"Yes, Miss was just born that year, and the house recruited a group of eight to ten year-old maids, including slaves and maids. But what do you ask for, Miss? Qiu Ju was stunned for a moment, lowered her head and thought about it and agreed.

"It's just a whim" Nalan Qi casually fiddled with the beaded flowers worn on the two buns, and said casually: "Qiu Ju, my father once told me that when the first emperor was alive, the rule of law was governed by Taoism, but after the new emperor ascended the throne, he respected the Legalist family alone, and punished the families with different concepts.

The criminal minister Xuanyuan directly urged the new emperor to disobey the edict of the previous emperor, tyrannical and unkind, and raised troops in anger and rebelled in the eastern suburbs.

He originally planned to win over the then head of the Nalan family, my grandfather Nalan Yurong, to rebel together. However, the grandfather took a hexagram, shouted and screamed, overflowed on the hanging beam, and left a legacy to strangle the descendants of the Nalan family from learning easily.

After the defeat of Xuanyuan, nine times out of ten the powerful families in the national capital were slaughtered by blood, but the Nalan family, which started by Yishu, was lucky to save the life of Qingqing of a house because of the trial of the situation. “

Nalan Qi paused slightly, poured Gu tea and took a sip, his face changed suddenly, and he said coldly: "Although the affairs of the Nalan family are not secrets, but after the war was settled for fifty-four years, the old lady of Nalan ordered the maids in the house not to talk about the old things anymore!" Violators pull out their tongues!

Qiu Ju, you said that you listened to the rumors among the servants in the house, and only then did you know that the ancestor of the Nalan family was diviner-telling, this is really nonsense! ”

"Miss... I... I" Qiu Ju straightened up when she heard this, she trembled, and poked in the sedan chair at a loss.

"Fuli... Some... Ya Yang Feng··· I disobeyed and didn't take the old lady's orders seriously. After a long while, Qiu Ju came to her senses, she held back a sentence, but her heart was very weak, her eyes flickered and she didn't dare to look directly at Nalan Qi.

"Hehe, you girl is outstanding, but you can't do this ability to lie. What are you doing there? It's like a stake! Nalan Qi was silent for a moment, shook his head with a chuckle, raised his eyebrows and said: "The situation in the DPRK and China has been chaotic in recent years, and a small family has been annexed every now and then, and the status of our Nalan family is as solid as a rock in this change, mainly relying on the old lady's resolute and decisive temperament. ”

Qiu Ju looked at Nalan Qi with a light and light smile on her face, and she only felt a shock to her heart.

She used to think that although her young lady was smart and clever, she had a soft temperament and was an excellent person to get along with. But now, she felt an indescribable deterrence in her clear eyes, which were the same as in normal days.

"Miss, the slave maid did lie, there is something that has been pressing on the slave maid's heart for many years, and the slave maid dare not say it." Qiu Ju clenched her fists with some uneasiness and fell to the ground heavily. Although she was very frightened, she still mustered up the courage to finish speaking.

"Get up and talk about it, I know you won't mean to deceive me." Nalan Qi slowly glanced at Qiu Ju, and saw her curled up in a ball and prostrate under her knees, so she hurriedly dragged her up, and comforted her softly.

"Miss, the slave gets up by herself." Qiu Ju didn't refuse, she stood up along Nalan Qi, she carefully sorted out her thoughts, lowered her voice, and said: "Miss, the slave was bought when you were born, and she lived in the outer courtyard and was trained by the grandmothers with dozens of maids.

At that time, the slave maid was still an ignorant little girl. One night, the slave maid got up at night, passed by a lower room, and smelled a rich aroma, which seemed to be roast goose. The slave was hungry and there were no rules, so she simply hid under the window, thinking that although she could only smell the smell, it would be an unexpected joy.

Then, the slave maid... Slave Maid... Through the crack in the window, I heard the two sisters chatting inside, and one said that the old lady was really generous today, but let them bury something and reward them with a hundred taels of silver. The other said, naturally to give more, the Holy Capital clearly ordered the family in the imperial capital to burn the books of the I Ching and the Sixty-four Hexagrams, and the old lady dared to do such a bold thing as burying it privately, even if Nalan Mansion started with these books, it would be found that the Nine Clans would be punished!

Immediately afterwards, the two sisters quarreled, one scolded the other for not understanding the rules, and the master's things dared to be dismantled privately! One quibbled that he was just looking at it, and didn't tell her.

Slave Maid... The slave didn't dare to move, and spent a long time under the window, until she heard that there was no movement in the house, and then she had the courage to lick a hole in the window paper and look inside. See... I saw the two sisters lying on the table, bleeding and trembling!

The seven souls and six spirits of the slave and maid were all frightened, and they didn't dare to take a closer look, so they ran away in a panic. On the second day, the housekeeper beside the old lady persuaded the old lady that two of her personal maids were released from the house, and the old lady ordered her to choose a few older ones from our new batch of little maids. ”

"Hehe, look at your timid appearance, if I were an old lady, I would also let the personal maid hide the book. But Sister Qiu Ju is so cute, I am reluctant to kill her, at most she is poisonous and dumb. Nalan Qi, who was teasing the finch, turned his gaze to the anxious Qiu Ju, pursed his lips and laughed.

Qiu Ju's face turned white in an instant because of nervousness, she pursed her lips, and only reacted after a while, and complained aggrievedly: "Miss! When is this all about? You also scare the slaves! You have such a good temperament on weekdays, how can you poison a dumb slave. ”

"Come here" Nalan Qi beckoned to Qiu Ju, motioning her to come closer, and then said softly: "If there is really a day, I won't kill you, not because I have a good temperament, but because I believe in you." Also, I know your temperament, and I forget about big things when I sleep, unless you hear more than that, tell me where the book is buried. ”