As the twilight deepened, on both sides of the stone-paved road, the servants were lighting the stone lamps one by one, the lights flickering, and the verdant paths of the trees showed that the courtyard was deep.

Aunt Zhao's round cheeks were slightly pale in the light, and she couldn't see the ripples of her eyes clearly in the twilight, but there always seemed to be a smile on her lips: "The fifth lady asked about the green sleeves, the concubine has no way to discipline her, so she let the girl steal the head and face, and let her Lao Ziniang lead it out." ”

Linglong seemed to ask inadvertently, with a faint expression, and said casually: "I said, when I heard someone talk about it yesterday, I remembered that there seemed to be such a person next to Aunt Zhao, and it turned out to be an unclean hand and foot, so it's no wonder." ”

After speaking, she took Xingyu's hand and walked forward. Although there are lights shining through the stone lamps, Miss Jin Wu is still young, and it is inevitable that she will be one foot deeper and one foot shallow when she walks on the road in the twilight, but fortunately, there are always maids to support her.

Aunt Zhao had already stopped her steps, looking at the little back in front of her, cold sweat was oozing from her palms.

"Auntie, Mrs. Song is going to come to greet the old lady in a while, let's not bump into each other, let's go quickly." Aunt Zhao came to Chunhui Hall to ask for peace, but she couldn't bring three or four maids like Song Xiuzhu, she only brought this one called Chunyu today.

When Fang just came, Aunt Li and Aunt You had just left, and Qingxing, the maid of Chunhui Hall, said that Song Xiuzhu hadn't come over yet, and she was going to bump into her if she didn't leave.

Aunt Zhao glanced at Linglong's back again, she and the two maids had disappeared at the turn of the road.

"You go and inquire, who went to Miss Fifth yesterday, if you can know what to say, it would be the best."

Miss Wu said that someone only talked to her about Green Sleeves yesterday, so she just met Aunt Zhao and asked about this maid.

How can this matter be so coincidental, although the fifth lady is still young, but she quietly posed with the Song family and Jin Yuan in front of the eldest lady of Dongfu and her own master last time, the children of the Jin family, which is not the seven tricks of exquisite heart, that is, the self-righteous Sister Yuan is the most stupid.

But with her current situation in the house, she can protect herself and snicker, and she will not take care of it anymore, maybe someone really told her that she wanted to fan the flames through her child's mouth.

Yes, it must be.

Chunyu nodded in response, helped Aunt Zhao to leave quickly, and went back to Changshuxuan.

After they left for a while, Song Xiuzhu brought Jin Xian and Jin Yu over to greet Mrs. Jin, she was well-informed, she already knew that Mrs. Jin had not seen anyone, she had already rested, she came late because she brought the almond milk that Jin Yuan cooked for the old lady herself.

"This almond is also milled by Sister Yuan, sieved very finely, I heard her say that with milk in it, the elderly people drink the most comfortable, if the old lady doesn't want to drink it, you remember to get up tomorrow morning to heat it up and bring it to her old man, and get up early to drink it to moisten the stomach."

Although Qingxing and Luping are from Chunhui Hall, they did not come from Jiangsu like Begonia, they were originally the maids of this Xifu, and Song Xiuzhu selected them to wait in Chunhui Hall.

Song Xiuzhu said this, they understood it, and they looked like they knew what to do, so Song Xiuzhu left with her two children satisfied.

Seeing her go away, Green Apple said to Qingxing, "The third lady doesn't touch the spring water with her ten fingers, she can cook this, I don't believe it." ”

Qingxing glared at her, but made a silent gesture: "Be quiet, is it the third lady who cooked it, whatever, just tell Mrs. Song's words to Sister-in-law Jin Lu as they are, she is also a newcomer, and she doesn't know anything." ”

Begonia brought two little girls to this side, they came to ask the old lady, who came to ask for peace today, the old lady said that she would not let people come to ask for peace, but in her heart she was worried about who came and who didn't.

But as soon as they walked to the door, they heard these words said by Qingxing, and the three of them stopped their steps, and after a long while, they came over

In the small courtyard, Linglong had already changed into a night dress, her long hair was hidden under a black hat scarf, and her face was also covered by a black scarf, revealing only a pair of sheared eyes outside.

An hour later, Xingyu lifted the curtain of the yellow oriole and came in: "Miss, Xi'er inquired, the third master came back after dinner with his colleagues today, and he didn't go to Bitong Courtyard, so he rested in Moliuzhai." ”

Hearing this, Linglong nodded, she pushed open the window and jumped out, like a civet cat disappearing into the night.

She did not leave the house as before, but relied on the shadow of the tree to go around and around and came to Bitong Temple.

Bitong courtyard is not far from Wanghe Garden, separated by bamboo lane and two small pavilions, more than a dozen tall sycamores are planted in the courtyard outside the courtyard, it has been some years, the green trees are like a cover in the daytime, the shadow of the tree is swaying, the word Bitong is derived from this.

She had been to Bitong Courtyard before, and the thief had already developed the habit of stepping on the point all the time, and she knew everything she saw in Bitong Courtyard, and at this time she jumped into the courtyard lightly, bypassing the place where the stone lamp and the glass lamp were lit, and turned around seven times and eight times, and came to the east chamber where Song Xiuzhu lived.

As she guessed, Song Xiuzhu really hadn't fallen asleep yet, sitting under a beauty lamp, her makeup had been removed, her long waterfall-like hair was tied with a rosé piping ribbon, and her body was a pink gown of the same color, not as plain as she was dressed in front of the old lady on weekdays, and she couldn't see her age under the light.

Song Xiuzhu rested on one leg on the footstool, the little girl Hexiang half-knelt and hammered her leg with a jade hammer, and Mrs. Zhang stood beside Song Xiuzhu, and the two were talking softly.

"I heard from Chunhui Hall that the old lady was in a very good mood these two days, and she rewarded the troupe with golden beans. In order to please the old lady, the cousin also specially invited a cook of Huaiyang cuisine from Yangzhou to come over, and introduced the old lady to several women with heads and faces in the capital, and Mrs. Zhang Da, who met on the road that day, was also there. ”

The footstool was cushioned with embroidered upholstery, Song Xiuzhu changed her leg and put it on it, and sneered: "I know that Mrs. Zhang is the aunt and grandmother of the Han family, and Liu Yuer still wants to invite her to come over, obviously I want to remind the old lady at all times, don't forget that file, why do you say that my life is so bitter, the master of Rongyuan has just been sent to Zhuangzi, and there is another fox who is waiting for the Jiao husband to remarry, people want a face, and trees want a layer of skin, she still thinks she is a yellow flower girl, and she really bullied me." ”

Mrs. Zhang pouted and took a sip: "She is also worthy!" The third master of our family is in the officialdom, how could she want her to be a crooked and restless widowed fox, she has the heart to pull down this face, but it is really better to learn from the senior Shu Xuan's master, get a smart little and send it over. ”

Speaking of this, Mrs. Zhang suddenly found that she seemed to have said the wrong thing, and stretched out her hand and slapped herself: "Look at my rotten mouth, I love to talk nonsense when I get angry, these things raised by little mothers are all made by a water." “