Xiuguan hurriedly blessed herself and followed Mama Chen to withdraw, she couldn't wait to put her face against her chest so that her grandmother would not see her expression.

She went out of the hall, and saw Zhao and the other three getting up under the support of the maid, she pursed her lips, and did not step forward to help Zhao, but went directly along the eaves to the backyard, from the back corner door of the main courtyard to the verandah, and only after entering the garden was relieved, and then became angry.

Now the whole house will know that she is going to embroider a spring river flower moon night kang screen for the old lady as a birthday gift, this is already the beginning of May, the old lady's birthday is in early July, just two months, embroidered a pair of kang screen, at her speed, I am afraid that these two months will not be out of the yard.

If it weren't for Xiusun's lack of embroidery, she would have suspected that Xiusun was deliberately embarrassing her.

Also, the old lady is a person from the capital, so she loves the kang screen, and the house in the south does not use the kang, and the fence of the Luohan bed itself is embedded with marble or decorated with all kinds of complicated carvings, and there is no place for the kang screen.

So the old lady got the kang screen, and she just put it in the library, and she forgot about it after a long time.

It's better to embroider a wipe on the forehead, the old lady can use it, so that she can always remember it.

She originally planned to embroider a forehead for the old lady's birthday gift, but now she had to embroider the kang screen.

When Xiuguan left the house, only their mother and daughter were left in the room, Ruan Shi took Xiusun and nodded her temples fiercely, "You little fool, that little leaf red sandalwood is with Venus, what a rare wood, I planned to keep it, ask a famous family to carve something for you to dowry, you are good, give it away for nothing." also let others take it to the old lady for nothing. ”

Although it was a tone of hatred that made iron but not steel, it did not have the sound of a loud bell when she quarreled with her father, but it was full of love and doting.

Xiusun arched into her mother's arms, hugged her slender waist and said, "Where am I stupid, that little leaf red sandalwood didn't fall from the sky, and the old lady is not stupid, I can definitely think that it came out of your marriage, doesn't this show that you are virtuous, how can you be cheaper." Besides, you can find an ordinary piece of red sandalwood for her, you have to take out the piece with Venus, mother, you are too sincere. ”

"You're smart." Ruan Shi was helpless, so he had to poke Xiusun's forehead again.

Mama Chen is back, "Mrs. ......"

Mama Chen wanted to speak and stopped.

Ruan Shi raised his eyebrows, and a fierce look flashed in his eyes.

Mama Chen lowered her eyes and shook her head unwillingly, and her wrinkled face was also dyed with anger.

Xiusun sat up from her mother's arms and said dissatisfiedly, "What kind of dumb riddle are you playing? ”

He rolled his eyes and asked, "Why did you let the aunts kneel in the courtyard again today?" ”

Ruan sighed, since her daughter fell into the pond and fell ill, she suddenly opened her mind, she dared to speak, she dared to do things, and she became lively, she was half relieved, and she finally didn't have to worry about her mother-in-law teaching this baby daughter too much.

She was born in a businessman, and since she was a child, she followed her grandmother around to do business, and at the age of five or six, she was able to play the abacus quickly to help her grandmother settle accounts, and it was from that time that she gradually understood the deception between merchants.

Marrying into the Chu family, she thought that the scholarly family would be upright, but she didn't expect to encounter even more troubles.

Xiusun looked at Ruan's and sighed, only when she still wanted to hide it from herself, thinking that she was going to her grandmother's side to inquire about this matter again, she rolled her eyes, considered her beard for a moment, and thought of Xiuguan's abnormal behavior, "Mother, why is it that every time the fourth sister goes to my grandmother's yard to ask me for help, the sixth sister and the ninth sister never come." ”

Ruan Shi was stunned for a moment, thinking that her daughter was really smart, and she found out the strangeness here, and then thought about these things she would have to face sooner or later, so it was better to let her know as soon as possible, and the girl would be alone as soon as possible, and she would have nothing to worry about.

"It was Aunt Zhao who sent the little maid around her to call her in the garden, don't worry, the people in the mother's yard know everything."

Xiusun put her mind at ease for the time being.

Ruan hesitated for a moment, but finally sued her.

"Under the ashes of the incense burner in Aunt Zhao's house, a large piece of musk was found."

"Musk?" Xiusun jumped up suddenly. First, I was shocked by this object, and second, I was happy that my mother was finally willing to tell her about the things in the yard, and she would no longer have to lie on the old lady's couch to listen to the corner.

A large piece of musk is still buried under the ashes, is this to make Aunt Zhao unable to give birth?

The awe-inspiring expression and the immature image did not match at all, and Ruan Shi was puzzled, "Have you heard of musk?" ”

Xiusun remembered that she was a seven-year-old child, so she had to pretend to be indignant and said, "My daughter heard that musk is expensive, could it be that her father secretly gave it to her aunt without her mother?" ”

You must know that this Chu Baye's pocket money is not much, and the old lady is stuck tightly, according to the rules of the clan, five taels a month before the entrance examination, in order to prevent him from developing a habit of being a gentleman, a motherly heart.

And the wife won't give him a penny here, Ruan Shi had clearly let go, and wanted her to take the money to his concubines, don't think about it. So she was often scolded by the eighth master as a jealous woman.

Therefore, if this musk was privately given to his aunt by the lord as property, then he must have secretly sold some antique inkstone or celebrity calligraphy and painting in exchange, then this matter is a big deal.

Ruan Shi breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this doubt, glad that although her daughter was smart, she had not passed to the point of being terrible, and said, "This musk is an extremely rare spice, and when you write and paint on weekdays, add a little in the ink, which can keep the ink color long and new, and the fragrance sold in the spice shop where the mother is married also has a musk in it, which can make the fragrance last." ”

"It's just that this thing has a very good effect on breaking blood and removing blood stasis, and it is rumored that pregnant women will slip the fetus when they use it, and women will often be sterilized."

Since Ruan decided to tell her daughter about the private affairs of this inner house, she didn't plan to hide half of it, and she could make a correct judgment when she saw the whole picture of the matter, and she knew that raising her child to be ignorant of the world would really hurt her.

And she believes that her children can understand and understand proportion.

Xiusun then asked, "Could it be that someone wants Aunt Zhao to not be able to give birth to children?" ”

Xiusun nodded secretly, she grew up in the palace in her previous life, and of course she understood how taboo musk was for the women in the palace.

This is because the legendary Zhao sisters of the Han Palace were defeated by the polypin pill, and the most important formula in the recipe of the polypcubus pill in the world is a taste of musk.

In fact, musk does not directly guide the tire, but only has the effect of invigorating blood and removing blood stasis, and the dosage needs to be controlled.

And because the musk is too famous and the smell is strong and easy to be discovered, the nobles in the palace have long been out of favor and have become an outdated legend.

You must know that the land of Kyushu is full of herbs, and it is difficult to find something colorless and odorless, and to use a safe abortion pill?

So musk stepped down from the front line of the competition for favor and was used instead......

Wait a minute! Something is wrong!

Xiusun had an epiphany, "Does anyone want to harm my mother?" ”

She vaguely remembered that when she was young, she heard the imperial grandmother say that there was a Lu Zhaoyi who was mistaken by Concubine Tian Hui today, but she was extremely calm, and she was not in a hurry to find Concubine Tian Hui for revenge, but took a small amount of musk herself, and then indexed the line to the palace of Qian Guiren, the biggest competitor at that time.

The emperor was furious, and saw that the sachet containing musk foam was found in the palace of the rich nobles, and some palace people risked death to testify, and when the evidence of the crime was conclusive, he killed the staff.

Because the musk smell is long-lasting, it is easy to distinguish, and it is not often found in the palace, as long as it is cleverly arranged, it is used to frame people, and it is simply a hundred shots.

Seeing her ask this, Ruan Shi thought for a moment, and bowed his head proudly and gratifyingly.

is worthy of the girl she gave birth to, and when she saw the subtlety, she understood the key to the problem at once.

First of all, what's the use of drugging an aunt alone? The people who served the master in this courtyard were not only the three aunts who lived in the Bifen Pavilion, but also the two girls in the mother's house.

And, a chunk of musk? It's not a bit of musk, it's rare and expensive, where did you get it? There is only the treasury of the family, the treasury of the old lady, and there may be in the treasury of the mother.

Ruan nodded, "I personally saw that piece of musk, it is a whole piece of woolly musk, so the color of my dowry has a total of ten pieces, today you came to say that you want to find Xiaoye red sandalwood, I can just count the private treasury of the dowry." ”

"The aunts and sisters were punished for kneeling, and Mama Chen went to the Bifen Pavilion to search for it, but I didn't see any clues."

Then the only way to track down the origin of the musk deer is to find out.

Xiusun pursed her lips, this incident was too unusual, and it happened at the wrong time.

A few days ago, her father had already set off for Jinling City, planning to study behind closed doors in Zhongshan Linggu Temple in order to prepare for the Autumn Festival.

The father is not at home, and there is no point in stumbling on other aunts, unless the murderer is specifically targeting Aunt Zhao and planning to sterilize Aunt Zhao, but when the hair musk deer takes effect, it will take three years and five years, plus the hair musk deer has a strong fragrance, it is easy to be discovered.

Xiusun pondered, "Could it be that someone stole a piece of musk deer and wanted to hide it in that incense burner for the time being, but was unexpectedly discovered." How did Aunt Zhao find that musk? ”

Aunt Zhao is ostensibly a victim, but in fact, she should be suspected first.

Aunt Zhao is scheming, and her mother brought her from the Ruan family, the Ruan family started in the pharmacy business, does she know the true effect of musk?

Knowing it or not can stem from completely different intentions.

There is also the process of discovering this musk deer.

If Aunt Zhao found it herself, then it couldn't be hidden by Aunt Zhao, otherwise it would be inconsistent. In the same way, if Aunt Zhao hid it, it must have another purpose.

"Don't think about it anymore," Ruan patted his daughter on the shoulder and passed the meal, "This matter is just to tell you that I will ground the aunts first, and then make plans after taking inventory of the treasury." ”

She was afraid that her daughter would not be familiar with the world, and she was also afraid that her daughter would think too much.

Xiusun nodded, and happily sat down with Nguyen at the round table with a black lacquer-inlaid vase pattern in the eastern room, pretending to eat her lion's head with relish.

Today's lion's head can't eat anything delicious, and she has a bad feeling in her heart.

There are too many doubts in this matter, even if the identity of the murderer is assumed, there are many possibilities, and there must be some key information that they are not aware of.

After dinner and a short rest, Xiusun obediently followed Ruan Shi around the corridor ten times before returning to the old lady's courtyard.