An Jin took Ruan Anmei and left Shou'an Hall together, feeling Ruan Anmei's strange appearance, An Jin paid more and more attention to Ruan Anmei's expression along the way.

Among the five sisters, the second sister Ruan Antan is steady, the third sister Ruan Antong is arrogant, and the fifth sister Ruan Antong is lively, and the fourth sister Ruan Anmei is the most quiet and gentle, but her silence today is different from the quiet of the past, obviously with a depressed color, and seems to be suppressed with a little fear and anxiety.

The two walked through the garden together, and said goodbye to each other when they returned to the outer courtyard of the second room. Farewell to Ruan Anmei, An Jin took the maid back to the room slowly. After sitting down and thinking for a while, he called the little girl who was about eleven or twelve years old beside him and said, "Xueya, in the past few days, you have been going to the fourth lady's house to visit your sister more often, and inquire about the whereabouts of the fourth lady, who have you come into contact with and what you have said." ”

It is customary for the Hou Mansion that there are generally four attendant rings around the lady, two second-class big girl rings and two third-class small girl rings. The four rings around An Jin are called Biluo, Qi Hong, Xueya, and Xueqing. Biluo Qihong is older, both of whom are fourteen this year, and they have been waiting with An Geun since they were children, while Xue Ya Xueqing is twelve and ten years old respectively, and she was selected by herself after An Geun came in two years ago.

Xue Ya is a family child, very clever, and the door in the house is also light, although she is very good at chatting with people, but she is actually very strict-tongued, and she already knows what to say and what not to say when she is young. Moreover, Ruan Anmei's eldest girl, Huan Cuiman, is still Xueya's cousin, so if you want to know Ruan Anmei's situation, it is most appropriate to find Xueya to find out.

Xue Ya listened, didn't say much, and replied directly: "Yes, Miss Seven." And the big girl next to her, Qi Hong, glanced at An Jin thoughtfully, but did not say anything.

Breakfast is a simple few light dim sum, steamed vegetarian dumplings, radish cake, barley rice noodles, plus a bowl of osmanthus porridge, all of which are what Anjin likes to eat. An Jin deeply feels that this world that has been transformed by her predecessors is not bad, at least she can't eat and drink!

After breakfast, I walked around the small courtyard twice, and it was almost time to go to class.

At present, there are two gentlemen in the house who teach An Geun and her two sisters, Nguyen An Mei and Nguyen An Tong. Ruan Antan and Ruan Anzheng are older, one will get married at the end of the year, and the other has begun to prepare for marriage although he has not yet decided to marry, and he has to follow his mother to learn the housekeeping director every day, and even has begun to learn to take care of his future dowry. So I no longer have to study cultural talent classes with my younger sisters.

There are few girls in the big house, and the eldest sister Ruan Anhua from the eldest lady has already been married, and only the sixth lady Ruan Anshu is left, who is eleven years old. However, at the beginning, because there were no girls who needed to be taught in the big house, the second room invited Mr. to pay for it in his own room, and it had nothing to do with the big house and the Houfu, and the eldest lady refused to pull down the second lady for a concubine, so Ruan Anshu did not come to study with them, and the eldest lady only invited an embroidery girl to teach her embroidery skills in the big house.

Although Zhongyi Houfu still has a sign of Houfu, it is actually already beyond its means, but it is just barely supporting a pomp. Therefore, to teach the girl's family, the old lady should say, but to ask a literate gentleman to teach some words, not to be blind is enough, or to ask an embroidery lady to teach occasionally so that the girls have some pastime, but the serious still have to follow the wife of the house to learn the housekeeper director, so that you can get married and stand up, and not be bullied.

However, the two gentlemen invited by the second room are not ordinary people, and Shu Xiu has caught up with the annual salary of a seven-grade official. Mr. Zhu, an old gentleman who teaches classics, history and miscellaneous studies, used to be a staff member of an exiled official, and followed the officials to many places to become a magistrate. Later, the official was unfortunately involved in a single corruption case and was exiled, and Mr. Zhu was recruited by the Shunguo Mansion to go to the Gongzi Mansion, and when Ruan Antan was five years old, he needed Mr. Zhu, and after asking Mr. Zhu's meaning, he was sent to teach Ruan Antan, and he stayed after that.

The other is a female gentleman, Mr. Min, who used to be a female official in the palace, in the early years, the princess Zhao in the palace gave the eldest daughter of the princess of the palace to teach the princess of the palace, and now the third princess Zhao Minyi, after teaching Zhao Minyi, but refused to go to the palace with her, nor did she want to marry, so she stayed in the palace to continue to teach the ladies. Later, Zhao went back to his parents' house to ask for a husband who taught his daughter, and he was invited to teach Zhao's daughters together with Mr. Zhu.

The sisters' classes are not tightly arranged, every morning at an hour with Mr. Zhu to learn classics, history, astronomy, geography and arithmetic, with Mr. Min at an hour in the afternoon to learn calligraphy, painting and piano skills, and occasionally embroidery can also be instructed. Mr. is very good at teaching according to his aptitude, and he is a girl, and his family is not high, unlike the Guogong Mansion who is waiting to marry a prince or a top nobleman, so he teaches more casually.

An Geun likes to attend classes very much, and the gentlemen are experienced and well-informed, and sometimes when I talk to them, I have a sense of sudden enlightenment, and my understanding of this era can always be deepened. And both gentlemen have a free and uninhibited temperament, which can always make people relax and live a more pleasant life.

When An Jin arrived at the class with the little girl Huan Xueqing, it was not yet class time, and the husband had not yet come, but Ruan Anmei had already sat at the table and practiced calligraphy, and it seemed that she had been practicing for a while. An Jin looked from behind, the girl had black hair, bowed her head slightly, and two strings of thin pearls on both sides of her head flashed with a light light, lined with snow-white skin, which was extremely soft. The enthusiasm that Anjin brought from outside couldn't help but dissipate.

Ruan Anmei should have sensed that her sister was coming, and after writing a word, she raised her head and smiled at An Jin, and said faintly: "Seventh sister is here, it's very hot outside, let's sit down first." ”

An Geun answered yes and walked straight to his desk and sat down. As soon as I packed up my pen and ink, I saw Ruan Antong's eldest girl Huanqiaoyun coming in from outside and waiting aside, but Ruan Antong was nowhere to be seen. I said in my heart, it's not good, this troublemaker won't really go to Liu Huanzhu, right? Is this a pig brain?

Daqi is open to the atmosphere, it is normal for women to go out, Ruan Antong only needs to take enough girls to escort out, and tell the porter that he has obtained the permission of the elders, and the porter will not stop it, and will only report to the steward afterwards. It only depends on whether Ruan Antong can explain his housekeeper and grandma and arrange a guard for her.

After a while, Mr. Zhu entered, and the Anjin sisters got up and waited for Mr. to sit down slowly, and saluted together before sitting down again with Mr. permission. At this time, Qiao Yuncai bowed down to Mr. and said, "Mr. Zhu, the old lady is slightly ill today and has a bad appetite, Miss Fifth is very worried, so she personally made some snacks and brought them to the old lady." specially ordered the slave maid to come over to ask for leave for Mr., and I hope that Mr. will not be strange. ”

Mr. nodded, although he knew Ruan Antong and knew that there might be something weird, but his personality was not strange, and he said: "That is the case, it is also the filial piety of the fifth lady, you can step down." ”

"Yes, sir!" After Qiaoyun finished speaking, he bowed down and left again.

An Jin glanced at Xue Qing next to her, and Xue Qing understood, so she quietly retreated and walked out with Qiaoyun.

An Geun then spread out his book and listened to Mr. begin to talk about some historical chronicles of the previous dynasty. Mr. Zhu is very good at soliciting and quoting, and occasionally talking about some interesting customs and anecdotes of the time, and the dry words in the book are interesting, as if the characters of the old times are vivid. Although there was something on her mind, An Geun was slowly attracted to the past and concentrated.