When she returned to the second gate, Cai Wei took the two grandmothers to return to Mrs. Tai, and ran into King Yingchuan outside the city, which naturally could not be hidden, but did not say his identity, only said that it was an old master that Mama Du had served before. Anyway, at that time, the subordinates of the Bofu were all standing far away, and no one should have heard Mama Du's voice. As for the fact that her fourth uncle gave someone away and left her alone in the middle of the delivery, it is inconvenient to mention the fact that she ran away first.

When Mrs. Tai heard this, she frowned and said: "Although the matter is in a hurry, you don't have time to avoid it, in the end, it is not very good, if it weren't for the two gentlemen who sent you here, I shouldn't have let you out, I would have stayed in the house in the future and didn't go out to walk around." ”

After Mrs. Tai finished speaking, she glanced at the tips of the embroidered shoes slightly exposed under her skirt, and her brows wrinkled even tighter, "What's more, you are a Tianzu, the daughter of a big family like us, should have been wrapped around her feet at the age of four or five*, but your father refused to let you, although she married her husband, but your mother actually relied on your father in this matter, it was really wrong for you!" ”

Zhou Caiwei only lowered her head and said nothing, seeing that the old lady had nothing else to say, she offered the yam and jujube mud cake and red bean gold silk roll that she bought for her grandmother, and the old lady only glanced at it, "Put it down, I see that it is the meal, if I eat this time, I am too lazy to move the chopsticks." You're tired for a long time, so go back and rest. ”

Cai Wei quit and returned to her west wing, changing their clothes and wiping their faces. For a while, her nurse came in after changing her clothes first, and comforted her: "Old lady, don't go to your heart, what's wrong with Tianzu?" Our Hongwu Zhongxing drove away the Tatars, and built the first emperor of Yan Qin, and the grandfather married the cow queen is a Tianzu, and the people call her the big-footed cow queen! This bigfoot queen also saved the life of Grandpa Hongwu**? ”

Cai Wei smiled slightly, and sat down with her nurse, "I don't care about this, it's not that there are big families and Shili families who don't bind their feet, I just don't want to hear my grandmother say this about my father and mother, I am very grateful to my father and mother for loving me so much, and didn't let me suffer from that foot binding." ”

Mama Guo agreed, "When I was a child, I saw the young ladies binding their feet, and the suffering I suffered, alas! Fortunately, I'm a subordinate, not qualified to bind my feet, in fact, I want to say that I wrap a good foot like that, although it looks small, but I can't run, I can't jump, and I can't take a slightly larger step, so it can only be wrapped in young ladies to get this, if we are also wrapped in such a horned look, how can we wait for the girls and ladies? ”

"That's what Mama said!" Cai Wei also smiled, and saw that there were no other outsiders in the house at this time, so she asked her nurse, "The silver money can be exchanged." ”

It turned out that the one hundred and ten taels of silver she brought with her were either spent by herself on the way north to Yanjing, or when she saw that some poor people on the road were really pitiful, she quietly went out, and there was not much left when she arrived at Bofu. She had just moved in, and all the things needed for daily use in the boudoir were sent and not sent, and she had to be rewarded everywhere, and she didn't give her the monthly money for the first month, so she spent the remaining silver around her.

Fortunately, her father took care of her and prepared another five hundred taels of silver, all of which were ten taels or twenty taels of silver tickets, so he took advantage of the day to go out and let the nurse take the silver tickets to the money bank and exchange them for twenty taels of silver.

Her nurse took the silver out of her arms and showed it to her, put it in a small wooden box, locked it carefully, and said with a smile: "It's still the master's thoughtfulness, we have these five hundred taels of silver, even if the Bofu doesn't give us monthly money, it will be enough to use it for three or four years, and then the girl will also come out of the cabinet, and there will be no need to live here under the fence." ”

Zhou Caiwei didn't think about everything so smoothly like her nurse, "If something happens at that time, we have to live in this mansion for a little longer?" This money still has to be saved. ”

Mama Guo was stunned, and hurriedly smiled: "The girl thinks about it again, that is, this silver has run out, didn't the master say that we can still go to the silk shop on Zhengyang Street to get it?" Girl, although relax, since we have this money, why not let ourselves live more comfortably. ”

Cai Wei shook her head, "That being said, even if there is no shortage of silver to make money, we have to be more frugal, these days because we moved in halfway, and no one pays attention to it, we have to spend more money to help people, but we can't keep sprinkling money like this." If we are always so generous, how can we let our cousins and cousins reward people? From now on, let's slowly give a few less rewards, even if those girls say that they are poor, it is better than letting them feel that we have more money, otherwise if some words come out, it will be more troublesome. ”

Seeing that what her girl said was reasonable, her nurse had to agree, and remembered something again, so she lowered her voice and said to her: "There is another strange thing to tell the girl!" ”

Cai Wei smiled and said: "I was about to ask you, I saw that you looked a little wrong when you came back from buying pastries, and when you got off the car in front of the corner gate, you couldn't stop looking back for something, but is there something wrong?" ”

"This thing is a little strange, the girl doesn't know, I went down to finish our business, bought pastries and was about to get on the bus, but I didn't want to see a sedan chair following us."

Cai Wei became more and more puzzled, "I don't know how many sedan chairs there are on this street, or there are also people on the same road, how can I scare my grandmother like this when I take a sedan chair?" ”

"That sedan chair is no one else's, it's the one we just met outside the city gate!" Mama Guo pointed to the northwest direction and made a gesture.

Zhou Caiwei immediately understood, isn't Rizhongfang just in the northwest direction? couldn't help but be surprised: "It's really that one's sedan chair, are you right?" ”

"I just saw the sedan chair I saw before, where could I be wrong? I will never look away again, to the corner gate, when we get off the car, I just turned back to find the sedan chair, sure enough, I saw its green shadow flashing, from the mouth of the alley turned a corner and disappeared, it can be seen that before this, the sedan chair was all the way with us! ”

This time Zhou Caiwei also muttered in her heart, and after thinking about it for a while, she didn't figure out a clue, so she said: "Mama Du seems to be an old acquaintance with him, wait for her to come over, just ask her." ”

While she was talking here, Mama Du came in and asked her with a smile, "What are you waiting for me to do?" So looking forward to me coming! ”

Cai Wei smiled: "Naturally, I asked Mama to answer our questions!" Mama sat down and drank warm tea first, and when she moistened her throat, please tell us about today's 'reunion of old people'? ”

Mama Du smiled and said: "I never thought that I would meet that noble person again today, I thought that I would never see him again in this life!" How could the girl forget, I had been a palace maid in the palace for more than 20 years, and I first stayed in the library pavilion. Later, Prince Yide died of a violent illness, followed by Emperor Guangzong and died, and not long after, the Xinyou Rebellion occurred. It's easy to wait for Qiē to settle down, the original Princess Yide became the princess of Yingchuan, and together with Jin Liangdi, she moved from the East Palace to Shun'an Palace with three small county kings, and I was transferred to Shun'an Palace with more than 20 other palace people at that time. ”

"It's also my fate, I was sent to serve the princess of Yingchuan, and I didn't give it to Jin Liangdi, at that time His Royal Highness the king of Yingchuan was only half a year old, I served their mother and son for twelve years, and I watched him grow up, if it wasn't for the release of our group of palace people from the palace, I still want to wait by their mother and son."

"I didn't expect the old sister to have such a deep affection with His Royal Highness, no wonder His Royal Highness's sedan chair followed us all the way to the front of the mansion, I thought I would come to recognize the door first, and then turn around to pick you up and go to the palace to shop!" Mama Guo joked.

Mama Du was surprised: "What? Are you saying that His Royal Highness's palanquin followed us all the way? ”

"I have just confirmed with the nurse twice, and she swore that she would never be wrong again, saying that the sedan chair was only following from a distance, and if you don't pay attention to it, you won't see any clues."

Seeing Cai Wei say this, Mama Du couldn't help but sigh: "I'm afraid that he is not only to see where I live now, but also to think about a few of our women's families, and there is not even a serious relative in charge except for the next person." In case something happened on the way back, and there was no man to come forward to agree, so he followed all the way from a distance and escorted us back to the house, which was really embarrassing for him to be so careful! ”

Zhou Caiwei listened to her explanation, and couldn't help but be stunned, "I can't imagine that this Highness is such a thoughtful and meticulous person?" ”

"The girl and he are just the first time to meet, naturally I don't know who he is, I watched him grow up, he is a kind-hearted child, although he is a little cold, he does not like to talk, always like to read and write by himself, but we are very sympathetic, never scolded us. is not like his half-brother, who is the son born to Jin Liangdi, who likes to cause trouble the most, and beats people and scolds dogs all day long like a monkey. It's a pity that such a good child as him was born with such a chronic disease, alas! ”

Guo Mama said: "Before, outside the city, I saw that His Royal Highness's face was not very good, he was still wearing so thick clothes on such a hot day, listen to the meaning of your words, he has this disease for a long time, why hasn't it been cured for more than ten years?" But the root cause of the disease in the womb? ”

Mama Du shook her head, "He is not congenitally weak, he was born by Li Liangdi at term, this child is also a bitter life, born less than half a year old, his father Prince Yide and his grandfather are gone, and his mother is gone in a few days." ”

"When the first emperor and Prince Yide died, the crown princess and Jin Liangdi had just given birth to a son and were in confinement, so Li Liangdi took His Royal Highness King Chu, the eldest grandson, to the Renzhi Hall to mourn. I don't want to because the crown prince and the emperor are gone, the remaining princes in order to seize the chair, there was a rebellion in Xinyou, and as a result, Li Liangdi and the emperor's eldest grandson died in the palace chaos. ”

After beating there, the crown princess loved him as her own son, and her own youngest son was named the king of Dongchuan, but she didn't let people call her the princess of Dongchuan, saying that her eldest son was gone, and the second son was the king of Yingchuan, so she should naturally be called the princess of Yingchuan. Speaking of which, this lady is also miserable, her husband is gone, her own eldest son is gone, and her youngest son, King Dongchuan, also had acne rash when he was two years old, and only one son like King Yingchuan remained. I didn't want to be five years old, and I fell into the pool of liquid in the coldest time in the winter, although I was lucky to be saved, but in the end I got frostbitten and got sick, and since then I have fallen into the root of this cough. In those years, the concubine didn't know how many doctors she found to see him, and they all said that this disease was difficult to treat, and I am afraid that it was not a long-lived person, alas! ”

When Mama Du said this, her eyes were already wet, and she kept wiping her eyes with a handkerchief. Hearing this, Mama Guo also felt strange and sad in her heart, and couldn't help but say: "I listen, this princess is also too unlucky, why are the two sons either sick or suffered?" There are so many eunuchs and palace maids in that palace, they can't take care of a five-year-old child, and they watch such a noble dragon son and grandson fall into the pool? ”

"This—" Mama Du hesitated a little, "I heard that the child didn't fall into the pool by accident, but was pushed down by someone." ”

"Oh my God! Who can do that? Mama Guo exclaimed.

"The eunuch and palace maid who followed him that day said that it was his younger brother King Linchuan who pushed him."

"King Linchuan?" Mama Guo repeated these three words, and suddenly slapped her thigh and said, "It turned out to be that little overlord!" ”