Qingrong Marquis Mansion, Stacked Color Pavilion.

Mrs. Hou Xu took the two big girls Xiangzhi and Guilan and was hurriedly walking inside. The maid Qiqiu hurriedly came out to open the curtain and said, "Madame......"

Xu interrupted her and said, "Where's Miss?"

"Mademoiselle is still combing her hair."

Xu's footsteps did not stop, and he entered the inner room, and sure enough, he saw his daughter Qin Jinxiu sitting in front of the dressing table mirror. Wearing a gold hundred butterflies, wearing a flower cloud brocade jacket, and a goose yellow scattered flower eight Luo skirts. The big maid Xia is combing her hair.

Qin Jinxiu held two earrings in his hands, a greenstone agate water drop pendant, and a pinched gold silk plum inlaid with yellow tourmaline. I didn't know which one to choose, and when I looked up and saw Xu Shi coming in, I asked her with a smile: "Mother, which one does I look good on?"

When Xu saw her leisurely appearance, the turmoil in his heart unconsciously dissipated a lot. took the two earrings and looked at them for a long time, chose the pair of yellow tourmalines, and said while putting them on for her:

"I'm afraid your sister has already entered the house by now. The old lady has been looking forward to it for many days, and when you see her for a while, it is better not to offend her in words. ”

"Mother, how can someone like her be my sister?" Qin Jinxiu's voice was slightly cold, and her expression showed some disdain. But he hurriedly straightened his face and hid his disdain.

She is the eldest lady of the Qingrong Marquis Mansion, her parents and elders value her, and in the eyes of the sisters in the mansion and even the entire Jianye City, she is also the most outstanding.

Next year, the queen will choose a concubine for the crown prince, and she is also on the waiting list, which makes Qin Jinxiu even more self-conscious. She is proud, how could she be qualified to be her sister to Shangxiutang who was sent to Shangxiutang by her father at the age of six? Disdain, she doesn't even have the qualifications to disdain herself.

Xu looked at his daughter dotingly, stretched out his hand to slick the black hair on her double-ring bun, and said, "Next year will be to be chosen." My daughter is so good, in terms of life experience and appearance, it is certain to stay with the prince. ”

"You are the one who is going to enter the palace in the future, and there are your own people in the harem, and the benefits are needless to say. She has been in Shangxiutang for so many years, and the skills of female officials must be not bad, so in the future, she will take care of her under your hands, isn't it more reassuring? Anyway, she is also your father's daughter, who else can she rely on but us? Such a person should be relieved, otherwise I would not have begged your father to let her come back, wouldn't it be better for her to die in that kind of place...... Of course, she can't compare with you, but you also have to win her heart for your own future plans. ”

"Mother, don't worry, I'll hold her!" Qin Jinxiu smiled, her delicate eyebrows and eyes glowing with confidence.

After packing up, Qin Jinxiu took the two big maids to serve Xia and Qiqiu, followed the Xu family out of the Stacked Color Pavilion, walked through the lacquer painting verandah, and went to the grandmother's main house in front.

In the inner room of the main room of Fuxi Hall, on the red Fushou pattern arhat bed, Qin Jinyi was sitting next to Mrs. Qin, talking in a low voice. The old lady stroked her hand from time to time and wept.

Lao Qingronghou died young, but fortunately the heirs were not thin, leaving four sons and one daughter.

The Qin Li family is a strict person, and there is no difference between thick and thin, so the Qingrong Marquis Mansion has never been separated, and the four rooms are clustered together. The second son of the grandson took the title, and it was Qin Jinyi's father, Qin Zhili.

Qin Zhili's wife was originally the daughter of the righteous prince of Yekang in the Western Regions, the lord of Jirou County, nine years ago, Kang died in the country, and after the news came, he has been sick and bedridden, and then somehow, he hanged himself. On the grounds that the family was ugly and not publicized, the Marquis of Qingrong sent his daughter Qin Jinyi, who was only six years old at the time, to Shangxiu Hall.

Old Madam Qin didn't agree, but when she heard the rumors in the court, Dao Yekang's death was secretly granted by the emperor, and after thinking about it for a few days, she finally acquiesced to the arrangement of sending Jinyi away.

Now that she is old and has a second daughter-in-law to manage the affairs of the family, she often recites Buddhist scriptures, is supported by filial piety to the children and grandchildren of the family, and enjoys her old age in peace.

"I had asked your father to pick you up a long time ago, and one of your daughters' family suffered so much there that I feel very sad every time I think about it. The year before last, I had already sent someone there, but I said that you had followed Zeng to study the technique of retreat and the golden needle, and if you had come back at that time, it would have been inevitable that the efforts of the previous years would have been in vain. You wrote again and said that you would continue until the end of your medical practice......" and burst into tears again.

Yingxue, the eldest maid of the old lady Qin on the side, took over the words and said to Qin Jinyi with a smile: "That time, the old lady was sad for more than half a month because of this, and when she talked about Sister Yi'er, she wiped her tears. ”

Qin Jinyi glanced at Ying Xue who was standing on the side of Luohan's bed, wearing a brocade jacket with a dark pattern of elastic flowers, and a hairpin on her head. and dared to cut off the old lady's words, presumably the most trusted person by his grandmother's side.

smiled at Yingxue, and said softly to Old Madam Qin: "When I first arrived at Shangxiu Hall, I was still young, so it was inevitable that I would not be able to adapt to it. It's okay for the rest, but I think about my grandmother so much that I can't wait to come back immediately. I've gotten used to it in the past few years. When I came back this time, I brought a few agarwood begonias for my grandmother and put them in the house, the fragrance of the flowers can calm the mind and calm the nerves, relieve asthma and relieve cough. Do you remember that you used to have pharyngeal problems, but now you are better? ”

Old Madam Qin stroked Qin Jinyi's hand, turned back to Yingxue with a smile and said, "Look, my sister Yi is still good to me, and she still remembers my illness after so many years!" ”

As he was talking, there was a crisp laugh outside, a maid opened the curtain, and the mother and daughter of the Xu family entered the house, Qin Jinxiu smiled and said, "Ancestor, isn't your granddaughter good to you?" It's still my sister who comes back, so I only feel sorry for my sister, and I don't hurt anymore! As he spoke, he sat down next to the old lady with a look of disobedience.