All the way, I helped Yu's mother carry the flowers to the second lady's residence, named Qinyuan. At this time, the sky was already bright, and a sharp-eyed girl in the yard saw Yu's mother and greeted her from afar. Wisteria knew that she couldn't enter this garden with her own identity, so she helped pour the flower pots at the gate of the garden to the girl who greeted her.

"Do you have to work in the garden today?" Yu's mother asked while patting the wet soil on her hands.

"yes, I'm thinking about scrubbing out all the leaves of the canna plants that I didn't clean up yesterday."

"Okay, then you go back first, I'll talk to Zirui for a few words, and go to my house to eat at noon."

"Hey!" Wisteria replied crisply, watching Yu's mother enter the yard before turning her head and walking back.

"Oh, Mother Yu, it's good for them to take such a heavy basin, why do you still do it yourself." A girl dressed in a light blue and green cloth cardigan, with a red bikin, a pair of double snails, and a pair of white beaded flowers came by.

"It's not so delicate, but it bothers the red girl."

The girl who was called Jiao Scarlet pursed her lips and smiled, helped Yu's mother to the verandah outside the door of the main house, took off the handkerchief in her shirt and beat a stone pier.

"Mother Yu is sitting first, and Sister Zirui is grooming the second lady." After speaking, he turned around and instructed a little girl who had not left a head to pour tea for Yu's mother.

Yu's mother hurriedly waved her hand and said, "Miss Jiaohong doesn't have to worry about me, there are many things to do today, you go and get busy, because this flower has a few words to tell Zirui, I'll wait for a while."

Jiao Hong took the tea handed over by the little girl, put it on the stone table, and left after a few more words. Yu's mother sat slowly on the stone pier, maybe she had been carrying the flower pot for a long time just now, and her arm was really a little sore. While pressing gently, he looked at Xiao Qinyuan.

The Zhongguo Mansion is one of the few remaining Guogong Mansions that followed the first emperor to fight the country. The first generation of the old grandfather was to grab the horse and fight the world with Emperor Taizu, because in the most important battle, in order to protect Emperor Taizu, he was blinded in one eye by a stray arrow. After Taizu won the world, he was crowned the prince of the country and given the name of loyalty, which shows the importance and favor of Cheng dù.

Liuhe Zhuangzi is one of several Zhuangzi in the Zhongguo Mansion, not the largest, nor the most recent, but it is better than the mountains and rivers. And the top of the top is special is that the water here is good, the villa is built according to Qingming Mountain, there is a Bailao Spring in Qingming Mountain, whether it is spring, summer, autumn and winter or dry season without rain, it always has spring water gushing out. It is rumored that when Taizu fought the world, when he was about to arrive in the capital, he suddenly committed an old disease, and how much he took the medicine did not get better, and everyone was helpless. So after Taizu won the world, he built an ancestral hall at the spring of Qingming Mountain, called Baiquan Temple, and the originally nameless spring was also named Bailao Spring. And the best place under the Qingming Mountain was assigned to Zhongguo Gong, and Liuhe Zhuangzi was built.

The Zhuangzi is not big, and there are no tenant farmers, and they are just some old servants who manage them on weekdays. This Xiaoqin Garden is not far from the Evergreen Garden where Mrs. Lin lives, originally the second lady was arranged to live in the Evergreen Garden with the old lady, because there is a small pond in the Xiaoqin Garden, the second lady is young, like some novelties, after fishing in the pond a few times, she clamored to live here. The second lady is the youngest daughter of the Duchess of the country, Tan's 30-year-old little daughter, due to the age of the time spent some energy, hurt their vitality, was carried to the old lady's house to raise, coincidentally and the old lady is a day of birth, plus is a daughter, beautiful and delicate, natural baby tight. The old lady couldn't resist the second lady, so she asked the people in her care to keep an eye on her from time to time, and she went.

The courtyard of Qinyuan is not large, and a small pond alone takes up half of the land. Facing the garden gate is the main house, two rooms in the east and west, and the middle is the central hall for hospitality. There are wings on both sides, and on the east side of the rising sun live two first-class Yahuan and two second-class ones. On the west side, there lived a few third-class and little girls who had not left their heads, and a few rough mothers-in-law, who filled the yard to the brim.

Because the main family came to live temporarily, the walls were repainted, and the pillars were also newly painted, and the most eye-catching thing was that the windows of the living room of the main house where the second lady lived were actually inlaid with glass. Although it is not very transparent, it is enough to see the exquisiteness and luxury of the Chungkook Mansion.

When I looked up, I saw a few strings of pendants with small bells hanging in the cloister of the main house, which was also fun to be blown by the wind. Two unknown wild birds were lying on their stomachs in their cages, not having the same cheerfulness as they had last time they had come to see them. A few days ago, the second lady was interested in raising birds, and those noble ones didn't like it, but they just wanted this kind of flying on the mountain to be happy. After getting two, he asked the servant to tie the bird's legs with a strip of cloth, and dragged it all over the yard, and after the two birds lost their feathers and were injured and couldn't fly, they lost interest.

"How can the things that are used to being free on this mountain be kept in a cage, this second lady still wants to come out one by one." Yu's mother said in her heart.

At this time, the bamboo curtain of Xiangfei in the main house was picked up from inside, and a handsome girl of seventeen or eighteen years old came out. The body is slender, the skin is fair, a pair of almond eyes, and two curved willow eyebrows. The hair was neatly combed back to reveal a smooth and full forehead. There is a small red mole on the left corner of her mouth, which adds a little playfulness to her.

The girl walked quickly towards Yu's mother, and when she got closer, she bent down to give a blessing.

"Auntie, why did you come here so early, didn't I tell you that I wasn't in a hurry?" Listening to this tone, it is the niece Zirui in Yu's mother's mouth.

Zirui helped Yu's mother and said, "Auntie, go to my house and talk about your son, the last time you came, I didn't talk to you about the second lady raising wild flowers."

"Second Miss doesn't need to wait there?"

"I don't need to be on duty today." Zirui said as she helped Yu's mother out of the corridor and walked towards the first room in the east wing.

Because she is a first-class maid next to the second lady, she naturally lives not badly. As soon as you enter the room, there are two Taishi chairs, in the middle is a pear blossom wood table, on which is a set of pink tea sets, and behind it is a flower and bird screen.

Zirui helped Yu's mother around the screen, only to see a bed on the left and right, with bed nets tied to the four corners, covered with brocade quilts, and two wooden boxes set up at each bedside and a small Duobaoge. Zirui walked briskly to the bed on the right, tugged at it, and turned back to beckon:

"Auntie, sit down, the old lady gave you a snack yesterday, and I'll give it to you."

As he spoke, he opened a cabinet door above Duobaoge, took out a round food box, put it on the wooden box, and turned around to go out to pour water for Yu's mother.

Yu's mother grabbed her busy niece, "What is this for, it's not a distinguished guest, sit down, let's talk." ”

Zirui poured a cup of tea for Yu's mother and sat on the bed together.

Yu's mother took Zirui's hand and stroked it over and over again. "Why don't you be on duty today, aren't you here for the prince and the eldest young grandmother? But if something happens, I won't tell you to go forward. ”

Zi Rui turned over her hand and held Yu's mother's, and said with a smile: "No, it's just that the menstrual matter came this morning, and I really can't wait in front of me." ”

Yu's mother breathed a long sigh of relief after hearing this, and asked, "Is there anything uncomfortable?" ”

"No, drinking red ginger water, don't worry about it."

Mother Yu took out a hand and pinned the broken hair scattered on the sideburns behind her ear, and said:

"You are a cultivator, you have such a good errand, and the old lady is a Bodhisattva-like person, and she has set such a good family for you, and now your aunt has nothing to worry about, and when you see your mother underground a hundred years later, it can be regarded as an explanation."

Zirui is 17 years old this year, and at the beginning of the year, the old lady pointed her to Lin Qing, the youngest son of Lin Dazhong, a second-class steward in the house. Lin Qing is not only energetic, but also kind, following the second young master to hand over a word and run an errand or something, very clever.

Yu's mother was worried when she first heard this letter, and when Zirui came to Zhuangzi and asked, she found out that it was the young man named Lin Qing who once sent something to the second young lady on behalf of the second young master, and met Zirui teaching a little girl, so she was fascinated and begged the sister-in-law who was on an errand in the old lady's small kitchen to help make peace.

Sister-in-law Yao naturally helps her brother-in-law, because the second miss has been living in Mrs. Lin's yard until she was ten years old, she is familiar with the girls around the second miss. I know that Zirui is a good person, and she is also handsome, but the important thing is to speak and act sincerely, and she is responsible, and it is not bad to think that she has this. I asked someone to inquire about the meaning of Zirui. At first, Zirui wondered why the second young master saw the world and sent things to the second young lady, but after turning around and knowing the reason, his face turned red. Lin Qing sent something again and said that he would not show up. Sister-in-law Yao begged the powerful Mother Lu in front of the old lady, and this matter was done.

When Zirui heard her aunt say this, tears flowed out of her eyes and she leaned her head on her mother's arms.

"If it weren't for my aunt, I don't know if I can live in this world now, I just wish my aunt a long life, and let Rui'er wait for her old age."

"Silly boy, it's your turn to serve, as long as you are good, your aunt will have nothing to ask for."

The two of them talked for more than an hour, until a girl came in the house and said that the second lady wanted the red coral bracelet, and Zirui took her to get it, and Yu's mother left Qinyuan.