The red lanterns have been hung under the eaves, and after the rain has passed, the air is still moist, and the light shines through the red silk veil, reflecting on the varnish pillars and hangings, illuminating the blue brick pedestal and the cobblestone corridor in the courtyard.

In the distance, the horse's head wall with narrow black cornices loomed in the dark night, and Xiusun took a deep breath of cool air, and then slowly exhaled it, and the feeling of uneasiness still did not dissipate.

The green tiles and red walls in the depths of memory, and the majestic palace with no end in sight, are already far, far away.

Where else can the intrigue be more tragic than the unsightly place, if there is wind and rain, just come, what means she has not seen.

Back at the Huanshi Mountain House, Xiusun went to greet the old lady, who was lying crooked on the Luohan bed, listening to the little maid read her a travelogue.

The old lady touched her head lovingly and asked what she had eaten in the main courtyard.

Xiusun smiled and sat next to the old lady, skillfully pinching the old lady's shoulder, and waited for the old lady to hum comfortably and told her to rest for a while, before she seemed to be uneasy and said, "Grandmother, how much silver is a piece of musk?" ”

The old lady frowned, her face suddenly turned solemn, and she turned to Shang Xiusun's black and white, clear and clear eyes, "What musk?" Who told you? ”

Xiusun blinked her eyes wide, innocent and harmless, "Today, the fourth sister came to beg me to save her aunt again, and when I entered the house, I saw Mama Chen instructing the little maid to take a piece of stinky things out, and asked casually." The wife said that although this large piece of stuff smelled stinky, it would be fragrant when it was made into a thin end, and it would be easy to sell when it was made into fragrant ink in the ink ingot. ”

She deliberately accentuated the word "again".

The old lady's face softened when she heard this, as if she didn't care about the number of times Xiusun was emphasizing Xiuguan's request for her help, but sighed, "Your wife, even if you can't forget to do business." ”

He no longer mentioned the topic of musk, but said, "If you have the opportunity, you can learn business with your wife, and if you marry someone in the future, you will also have to take care of the board of directors yourself." After a pause, he said, "I plan to learn it too, although we don't have to do business, but we can't understand the doorway." ”

Xiusun remembered the harvest she had heard a few days ago, when the old lady wanted to sell the property of the dowry to subsidize the family, she didn't check for a while, and was almost deceived by the gangsters, but fortunately met Ruan's grandmother Hu Shi rescued her and helped the old lady recover a large amount of property, and the friendship between the two families began.

These two old ladies, one went south and north, managed the family and started a business, and the other was a young widow who pulled out her young son alone.

The Ruan family has also produced a famous Confucian for several generations, and there are still works in the world, but unfortunately there are no children and grandchildren who can read, and the Ruan family is gradually not seen in the industry.

Later, he was forced to do business for his livelihood, and although he earned a large amount of family business, it was difficult to find a competent husband because he had not dealt with scholars for many years.

The old lady's father had been the first assistant before his death, and he served as the chief examiner twice, although he had passed away for many years, so there were still a lot of old ones, the old lady recommended a suitable gentleman to the Ruan family, and the uncle of the Ruan family took the exam in one breath and came back, which was the best result of the Ruan family in a hundred years.

Later, the grandmother of the Ruan family, Hu Shi, was dying, worried that her granddaughter would be left unattended and would be married at will by her unassertive mother and insightful eldest sister-in-law, so she asked the old lady of the Chu family, Shen, to take care of her granddaughter, and the old lady was also very happy and hired Ruan as her daughter-in-law.

Of course, the Ruan family's dowry was as much as 200,000 taels, which was also arranged by the Hu family during his lifetime.

The old lady Shen was born in a scholarly family, and her father was the first assistant, if it wasn't for the catastrophe back then, I am afraid that she would not have seen the way of the merchant in her eyes.

Now that she is persuaded to learn abacus from Ruan, Xiusun thinks to herself, what kind of desperate situation the old lady was in back then.

Blinking her big eyes, the little girl with a small face still sallow and sallow, stared at a sparse yellow hair and nodded obediently, what should I do, she heard the word abacus and her scalp tingled.

I had to raise my head and smile as cutely as possible, "But grandmother, I don't need an abacus to calculate." ”

"Huh?" The old lady was surprised, "This housekeeper is not three melons and two dates, but it is not something that can be counted on ten fingers." ”

Xiusun continued to nod and patted her small chest again, "I don't believe that my grandmother will test me." ”

The old lady didn't believe it, so she casually reported a few numbers for Xiusun to add, and Xiusun thought about it for a while and really calculated it.

The old lady still didn't believe it, so she asked Mama Shen to take out a small pure gold abacus from the chest of drawers next to Luohan's bed, and broadcast two strings of numbers casually, Xiusun was faster than the old lady dialing the abacus.

The old lady gently patted Xiusun's slender back, and sighed complicatedly, "It is worthy of the blood of the Ruan family." ”

Xiusun secretly stuck out her tongue, she learned this in her previous life when she listened to the emperor's grandmother teach the prince's brother military affairs, the prince's brother calculated faster, and Ke Xuan...... Alas, Ke Xuan, calculate the time, if she hadn't died in her previous life, she would have married the guy who looked more beautiful than a woman......

"Xiusun, it's time for you to rest." The old lady saw that Xiusun's originally bright big eyes had become a little dull, and she should be sleepy, so she stroked the two poor little tugs on her head, and urged her to go to sleep.

Xiusun came back to his senses, smiled, climbed down the Luohan bed, walked through the hall, and went to the blue yarn cupboard where he lived at the east end.

Great, you don't have to learn abacus, she once learned, her fingers are about to break, she can't learn it, the guide zhì later heard the word abacus after the molars itched, so she had to practice mental arithmetic and beg the emperor's grandmother to let go, now it's really good, born in a scholarly family, you can pass the test by pretending to be high.

It is estimated that my wife will not teach her abacus when she sees that she can do mental arithmetic, hahaha.

Only the mandarin duck was in the house, and Xiusun asked the magpie about the situation, "My arms and legs are so sore that I can't move." ”

The mandarin duck nodded.

Xiusun pointed to the food box on the small pestle next to Luohan's bed and said, "There are two plates of dim sum in there, pea yellow is for you, and osmanthus cake is for magpies, you take her over to see her, and tell her to rub her arms and legs tonight, otherwise she will be uncomfortable tomorrow." And after eating snacks, you must rinse your mouth to sleep, otherwise she will suffer from worm teeth. ”

"Ask Yingge to come in and change my clothes and freshen up." She ignored the puzzled gaze of the mandarin duck and sat on the Luohan bed, picked up the small cup of azure glazed sunflower on the kang table, and poured herself a cup of water, she didn't drink tea at night, and everyone in the house knew it.

The mandarin duck took the order, Miss Seven is a fan, she looks weak on weekdays, but she has a natural arrogance in her bones, obviously a seven-year-old girl, obviously only five or six years old girl, but always calm like an adult.

Xiusun sat alone under the dim light of the blue gauze cupboard, sipping water, this cup has been used for a while, the inside of the water has appeared cicada wing pattern opening, the water reflects the candle flame nearby, and the light orange light points slowly flow between the cracks as thin as silk.

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps on the verandah, and she was lying barefoot on the partition to listen carefully, and sure enough, she saw Mama Shen walking through the verandah and entering the old lady's inner room, and then went out to the east again.

To the east is the direction of the main courtyard.

The old lady really noticed this, and since the wife personally told her about it, then she didn't have to hide it from the old lady.

The old lady must have known that Xiuguan often came to him to save his aunt, and after hearing too much, she would inevitably think that his wife was making a big fuss and treating his aunt harshly.

And this time, the aunts finally came up with something like musk that was only mentioned in the legends of the deep palace, and instantly elevated the small jealousy in the backyard of the old fourth room of the Chu family into a fierce battle that might hurt the heirs of the incense, which can finally show that the aunts are not completely at peace, and it is worth arousing the vigilance of the old lady.

In other words, this person who hides musk will not be a deep palace dialect book, how can it be so easy to harm individuals in the palace, those are all poor sour scholars who can't pass the imperial examination to cheat the remuneration.

Not necessarily, Aunt Mo and Aunt Zhao don't know how to read.

When Yingge came in, she saw Xiusun's small hand holding the teacup in front of her to observe carefully, the precious teacup, the naïve child, and the old look, but this picture seemed to be extremely harmonious, and the sounds around seemed to dissipate all at once.

Just as she was about to see the young lady's eyes again, she saw the little girl turn her face and smiled, "Hurry up and bathe me, and cover your hair with black sesame seeds tonight." ”

There are many skin care and hair care recipes among the ladies in the palace, after all, there are not many opportunities for ladies to see the emperor, and this beauty has become an important magic weapon for favor, and no one dares to despise it. Mrs. Ruan's family also runs a pharmacy, and seeing that her hair is thin and yellow, she also prescribed a prescription for her.

It's just that most of those prescriptions are medicinal material configurations, and they are poisonous in three parts, and Xiusun's body is still weak and not suitable for use, so she has to use the most conservative method.

Black sesame paste is so delicious, if you eat too much, you will get angry at most, and there will be no side effects.

Soaking in the hot water dripping with flower dew, Xiusun breathed deeply, in her previous life, she was the queen mother's side who wanted to hide all the feelings of tranquility, and those maids, princes, palace maids, and eunuchs fought back and forth and did not particularly come to her, nor did they need to avoid her.

Because of this, she has seen a lot of the world, and deeply developed her imagination and creative power.

In this life, she is the only daughter of the old fourth room of the Pukou Chu family, and the situation has changed from dark to bright, and many private things can not be seen from her point of view, but it does not mean that there is none.

What's more, she may have more opportunities to experience the various conspiracies firsthand, perhaps in the role of a lamb, or perhaps she herself will become a sharp butcher's knife.

So, she needed someone who could do something for her.

After being reborn for more than half a year, Xiusun, who has been flickering and lazy for a long time, finally began to think about some issues related to his personal livelihood.

Alas, forget it, sleepiness hits, anyway, I can't die today, let's think about it tomorrow.

In a trance, I caught a glimpse of the window, the sky was dark, was it the night sky?

In the dark night, the silver plate is in the sky, and the silver frost is on the ground.

There seems to be the sound of silk and bamboo in the ears, looming, it is a new song composed for the Mid-Autumn Festival night banquet.

The clusters of jewels in front of me are swaying and making people dizzy.

Oh, I think about it, this is not the Mid-Autumn Festival Palace banquet, I vaguely feel that something is wrong, and I can't remember it for a while.

"County Lord, the grandmother of the Chen family is waiting for you next to the rockery of Taiye Pool." Du Ruo, the personal palace maid, said in her ear.

She was sitting in the corner behind the Queen Mother, and when she heard this, she knew that Ke Min was looking for her, so she quietly got up and walked out of the hall.

Ke Min married Chen Gelao's eldest son, and it has been more than three months since she got married, and they have not seen each other. On this day, the Mid-Autumn Festival night banquet coincided with the 65th birthday of the Queen Mother, and the emperor used the name of the Mid-Autumn Festival Night Banquet to congratulate the Queen Mother on her birthday, and invited the families of the noble ministers of the court to enter the palace.

Ke Min, as the wife of the Chen family, also followed her mother-in-law into the palace, but what did Ke Min do to secretly call her to Taiye Pool, this big night.

I heard that she married into the Chen Mansion and did not get along well with the eldest son of the Chen family, and she also heard a lot of gossip in the palace.

Some people say that the second lady of the Liangguo Mansion is arrogant and rude, disrespectful and respectful, and often has a verbal dispute with her husband, but Ke Min, whom she knows, is the smartest woman she knows.

She was anxious to know the truth and went to the Taiye Pool, not suspecting him.