Yuhua stood outside the main house facing the courtyard in a daze, and from time to time went to pull the newly transplanted Yueyuehong from the flower room at the turn of the corridor, and the little girl holding the fruit tea was not very old, standing aside and looking left and right, and the manna put down the clothes and walked back, seeing that Yuhua did not go in, she stood silently beside her without asking. When the little maid saw that Ganlu was coming, she honestly stood up straight and shouted Sister Ganlu. Yuhua glanced at the nectar and said, "Look at the moon and the moon is red, how good it is, it is better to draw a pattern for Mrs. to embroider on the handkerchief." ”

Manna nodded and said with a smile, "It's a pity that one of the flowers here is about to be bald by you." ”

Yuhua sighed and said, "I didn't pay attention for a while." ”

The two of them chatted a few words, as if they didn't care about the conversation in the room, and when they heard a movement in the room and beckoned someone to come in, they walked in quickly with tea. As soon as Yuhua entered, I saw that the lady in the room was slightly tired sitting on the Luohan bed in the east room, and Sister Songyan was sitting on the embroidery pier next to the Luohan bed for a long time, and she was unhappy.

Songyan on the Luohan bed took the fruit tea and said to the little maid, "Shui'er, you go to the hall and wait, if the Hou Ye comes back, come and greet me." ”

The little maid responded with a crisp sound, and went down in a panic with the tray. Yuhua saw her wife for the first time in these years and took the initiative to ask Master Hou, but she wanted to ask the reason but didn't dare to ask, and her face turned a little red. Ganlu glanced at the Yan Hibiscus on the embroidered pier.

Until the dinner was set up in the evening, Shao Ding never came back. Yuhua saw that Songyan was uneasy, so she persuaded, "If Master Hou has something to do and doesn't come back, will you wait until the next day?" ”

Songyan knew that what she said was reasonable, but she couldn't rest assured, so she sent Yuhua and Manna back with the unfinished Songyan's confession and the sluggish Shui'er, leaving only Yan Furong on duty at night.

Ganlu said, "Sister Songyan has a foot injury, how can she serve you at night?" ”

Yan Furong was silent.

Songyan smiled, "Let's go, let's go, give you a day off, I have something to say to your sister Songyan." ”

Manna and Yuhua went back to the back room, and Xueya and Yunwu had already slept, and when they saw them coming back, they came from their room with their clothes on, "Why did you come back?" ”

The little maid Yan'er with Ganlu had already gotten up to fetch hot water, and Shui'er also raised her spirit to serve Ganlu and Yuhua to wash. Manna put a hot handkerchief on her face and let out a long sigh of relief. Yuhua soaked her feet and said gloomily, "Mrs. Liusongyan and Sister Liusongyan speak alone." ”

Yunwu snorted, "I don't know what errand to do." ”

Xue Ya said, "Sister Songyan takes care of us a lot on weekdays, although she asks for more these days, just bear with it." After saying this, Xue Ya frowned herself, not knowing what she was thinking in her heart.

Yuhua said, "It's nothing to just call us, but I think she seems to have lost respect for Madame." ”

Manna took off the handkerchief on her face and threw it in the basin, and the smoke quickly wrung it out and put it up. Ganlu walked back to the kang to soak her feet and said, "Sister Songyan and Mrs. Songyan have experienced life and death, no better than us. ”

Yunmist's face was cold, and he went out and went back.

Xue Ya pulled her aside, and when she ignored her, she had to smile helplessly at Manna and Yuhua and follow her out. Seeing the two of them go out, Yuhua said to Ganlu, "I relied on my sister to be proud in front of the old lady all day long, so I was tall among the few of us." “

Ganlu smiled, "Isn't it much better than that cockfight?" “

Yuhua sneered, Ganlu herself pursed her lips and smiled slightly, and the two little maids couldn't help but laugh when they saw that the atmosphere between the two was harmonious. Manna then commanded the smoke to extinguish the candle.

In the main room, Yan Furong originally wanted to say a few more words to Songyan, but she didn't expect to be too tired today, so she just lay down and fell asleep with a pillow. Songyan lay side by side with her on the stepping bed, listening to her heavy breathing. Maybe it's because I took a nap in the afternoon, and the sleepless pine smoke simply stood up with embroidered shoes, the room was not dark, because it was summer, half of the window was opened, and the partition was also removed, the curtain was gently blown up by the evening breeze, and the bright moonlight was reflected on the green bricks on the ground, like a snow-white lake. Songyan walked out and leaned on the Luohan bed in the second room and looked into the courtyard. The patterns on the large water tank with lotus flowers in the courtyard of Zhengqiu Hall, and the delicate posture of the moon-red petals in the corner are all clearly seen in the moonlight. Her face was hidden behind the window, private and safe, and there was some pleasure in her heart as if she were voyeuristic.

I don't know how long I watched it, and suddenly a figure walked in bypassing the interstitial screen in the hall. The little maid who was in charge of guarding the door tonight tried to trot up to him with a lantern, but the man stopped and told the little maid to go to sleep. Songyan's heart skipped a beat, and the little maid handed him the lantern, but he didn't take it, nor did he take a detour along the winding verandah, and walked down the steps and went straight into the east wing in the moonlight.

The little maid turned around and yawned secretly, and went back to the courtyard gate in front of Zhengqiu Hall to watch the night.

The courtyard was quiet again, Songyan stood up, walked into the room and looked at Yan Furong sleeping on the bed, she couldn't suppress the thoughts in her heart, put on her clothes and went out. She went out to the left, at the end of the verandah, the small courtyard of the ear room can still faintly see the fire, the moon under the corridor is overflowing, delicate and dripping, and then turn to the right, there is no light in the east wing.

Song Yan knocked lightly on the door, worried that Shao Ding had already slept, and a deep voice in the room said, "Come in." ”

She felt her heart in her throat for a moment, and clumsily opened the door and walked in, the window in the room was slightly open, there was no candle flame, it seemed very dark, and Songyan walked towards the inner room according to the sound just now, and stopped outside the open partition door. Through the faint light through the gap in the window, I could vaguely see Shao Ding sitting up from the bed, and I don't know what it was on the pillow, reflecting a bright light two fingers wide.

Although he didn't know if he could see it, Songyan still saluted in a proper manner, "Master Hou." ”

That bit of light was put away with a bang, and Songyan heard Shao Ding say, "It's you, it's so late, what's the matter?" ”

Songyan was speechless for a while. He recognized Madame's body, it was so calm?

Seeing that she didn't answer, Shao Ding suddenly said, "You're going to get married, come to ask for a reward?" ”

Song Yan was stunned, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously curled, "Look at what you said, how can someone chase after the master to ask for a reward when he is on the third pole of the month, isn't this a trick for money fans?" ”

Shao Ding said, "You and I are a good master and servant, a woman marrying is no different from a new life, I will reward you, I wish you a smooth future, how can you be a fan of money." You come here. ”

Songyan walked over in the dark, and the candle flame in the room suddenly lit up, making Songyan, who was accustomed to the darkness, squint his eyes, and looked at Shao Ding, who was facing the candle flame head-on, defenselessly, and the smile on the corner of his mouth couldn't help but condense. There was a moment of silence in the room, Shao Ding's face was hidden in the darkness, so that Song Yan couldn't see it really, and he only heard his voice say without a little wave, "Madam, is it interesting to see that I recognized the wrong person?" ”

Songyan froze in place, Shao Ding put the Dushan white jade pendant with hibiscus red in his palm on the table, and said, "This is for your maidservant who married you, and Madame put it away." ”