"Fifth Miss is here?" The dilapidated wooden door was moth-eaten by insects, the door shaft was loose, and no matter how hard it tried, it could not be closed tightly.

She asked Xingyu to open the door and asked the maid, "What are you looking for me?" ”

The maid's eyes were full of timidity, and she stretched out her head to look into the room, as if she was worried that Feng would rush out at any time.

"The maid is the lotus fragrance in the second wife's house, and the second wife asked the maid to invite the fifth lady over."

Linglong nodded, glanced at her mother who was still asleep, and said to Xingyu, "Let's go." ”

No one noticed that when she left Rong Yuan, where her mother lived, there was already something more in Linglong's sleeve.

The second wife, Song Xiuzhu, lives in Bitong Courtyard, which is the closest to her father's study. Linglong remembers that when she left home eight years ago, Bitong Courtyard was still a very small side courtyard, no different from the other aunts who lived. Now it has obviously been renovated and expanded, and it seems that the two courtyards next to it have been merged, and the walls have been torn down to become a spacious and magnificent garden, which is a few points larger than the Rong Garden where my mother lives.

At this time, it is spring, the peach pink and pear in the garden are white, full of vitality, far from the dilapidated Xiao Suo of Rong Garden.

When Linglong came back yesterday, Song Xiuzhu accompanied her father out for entertainment, and there was no place for Linglong to live in the house, so the housekeeper placed her and Xingyu in Rongyuan for one night.

Of course, Linglong knew that this was Song Xiuzhu's dismount for her, and she was ready to live by her mother's side for a long time.

Song Xiuzhu is about the same age as her mother, but she looks much younger. The well-maintained face is round and jade, and the rouge spreads evenly on the cheeks, with a hint of blush that only a girl has. combed the fashionable peony head and wore a multi-treasure Ruyi crested hairpin. On the body, it is sprinkled with gold roses, and a pair of jade bracelets on the wrist are very water-colored.

The Song Xiuzhu in front of her is not the same as Linglong's memory, not the charming and lovely concubine, but more like the housewife.

In the past eight years, Song Xiuzhu has indeed been the same in the house, and now she is poor, and she only has the title of the eldest wife.

Linglong stood up straight and bowed slightly to Song Xiuzhu: "Second wife hasn't seen you for a long time." ”

Song Xiuzhu's face changed, she was waiting for Linglong to salute her, but she didn't expect Linglong not to move at all, but also seemed to be waiting for her, the second wife, to salute.

It's really the other way around! Jin Linglong thought who she was, but now, she was still holding her daughter's shelf, and she wanted her second wife to salute.

Seeing Song Xiuzhu's face different, Linglong smiled, sat down in front of the kang table, and sat side by side with Song Xiuzhu, only separated by a mahogany kang table.

"Look at my memory, I only cared about going out to socialize with the master yesterday, and I forgot the day when Miss Fifth came back, I really wronged you last night, and I just asked people to clean up the house."

After a while, Song Xiuzhu's face became amiable again, but she was just a twelve-year-old yellow-haired girl, I will put up with you for the time being, there will be a way to rectify you in the future.

"The second wife is really polite, this is Linglong's home, and it is the same wherever she lives. If the second wife has no objection, Linglong plans to live back in the courtyard where she was a child. It's closer to my mother, so it's easier to take care of, and Linglong went to see it yesterday, but it's still empty. ”

Song Xiuzhu scolded in her heart, this dead girl has even chosen a place to live, she knew that this girl was so difficult, she should have dissuaded the master, and let this girl marry directly in her hometown in Jiangsu, out of sight.

But she still had a smile on her face, the smile was a little stiff, but it was very beautiful, and Linglong guessed that she must have practiced in front of the mirror for a long time in private.

"Since Miss Fifth is going to live there, I can't stop it. But that yard has not been lived in for so many years, it will be more or less unclean, and there is only a wall away from Rong Yuan, I'm afraid"

Of course, Linglong knew what Song Xiuzhu meant by "I'm afraid", not that she was afraid that her mother's madness would infect her.

Haha, if mental illness can also be contagious, it is just a matter of deceiving the ancients.

"Let the second wife worry, Linglong is born to her mother, and she is not afraid. Since the second wife agreed, Linglong let people move things over, and gossip with the second wife another day. ”

As she spoke, Linglong stood up, didn't even look at Song Xiuzhu, and walked out with Xingyu.

She had barely reached the porch when she heard the sound of porcelain breaking from the room.

Linglong smacked her tongue, she just glanced at it, and recognized that the tea cup in Song Xiuzhu's hand came from the official kiln. It's a pity to smash it like this.

Walking out of Bitong Courtyard, through the dense foliage, Linglong saw a man walking this way. The man was a long man, and he was some years old.

After eight years, Linglong still recognized at a glance that this was her father Jin Min!

She came out from behind the bushes and stood in front of her father.

Jin Min was stunned, the girl in front of him looked strange at first glance, but when he looked closely, he gasped.

She is very much like Feng Wanrong when she was young!

At that time, the daughter of the Feng family was famous, and it was said that there was a daughter who looked like a fairy in Lin Lang of the military department, but unfortunately she didn't have the opportunity to see her.

Jin Min still remembers that when he first saw Feng Wanrong in Moon Shadow Lake, he actually fell into the water from the boat out of shape!

At that time, Feng Wanrong was fourteen years old, slightly older than the girl in front of her, so beautiful and delicate that the lotus flowers in the lake lost their color.

At this moment, he already knew who this girl was.

Linglong bent down and bowed deeply to her father: "Father is well. ”

Jin Min looked her daughter up and down, and saw that Linglong was combing her double screw bun, and the two water-red ribbons were the only decorations. The short skirt on the body is half-new, it is still a few years old, and the embroidery on the skirt has been washed off the color.

Jin Min frowned slightly, and said lightly: "Get up, it's good for you to come back, but have you been to see your mother?" ”

Linglong didn't get up, and lowered her eyebrows to look at her father's feet in soap boots. He said softly: "My daughter came back yesterday, there is no place to live in the house, and the housekeeper's mother settled her daughter in Rongyuan, and her daughter is with her mother." ”

Jin Min had a sudden break in his heart, he had a party with a few old friends yesterday, and they all brought their families, and he also took the Song family with him. But the matter of the concubine's return had been arranged by the Song family many days ago, how could she still let her live in Rongyuan, in case she contracted Feng's evil disease, how could it be good.

There was no trace of wave on his face, and he said to Linglong: "Your mother-in-law has already arranged it for you, but those subordinates don't know why, so you can move out of Rongyuan today." Also, when the Xu family comes in a few days, you don't have to lose your manners. ”

Watching her father's back disappear into the gate of Bitong Courtyard, Linglong straightened up. She finally understood why her father was taking her home now.

It turned out that the Xu family was coming.