When Feng set this family affair for Linglong, Linglong had just been born, and Xu Tingshen was only three years old.

At that time, Feng's maiden family had not yet had an accident, and Feng was still a delicate Beijing celebrity. She married into the Jin family for five years, gave birth to a son Jin Zifeng in her previous womb, and now she has a daughter, making up a good word.

When the moon was exquisite, Mrs. Xu brought Xu Tingshen to drink the full moon wine, and when she saw Miss Jin Wu in her swaddling clothes, she couldn't like it, so she immediately mentioned that Yì and Feng had formed a family of children and daughters.

At that time, Xu Tingshen was three years old, and he already knew a few words, and the children were polite and polite, looking like little adults. Feng Shi looked happy, and without discussing with Jin Min, he promised this family business.

At that time, the Xu family's family background was worse than that of the Jin family and the Feng family, and the Xu family's wife was worried that the Feng family was joking, so she took off a pair of shrimp bracelets from her wrist and made a token.

Seeing that she was so solemn, Feng Shi asked someone to take an inkstone from Jin Min's study and give it to Xu Tingshen, and the two sides exchanged Wending.

Afterwards, Jin Min was a little displeased when he heard this, after all, the Xu family was not high, but since his beloved wife had already set the family matter, he did not blame him, and Jin Min was like a jewel to the Feng family at that time.

It's only been more than ten years, and the old man of the Xu family has made the country's prince of sacrificial wine, which is the fourth grade, and he controls the fate of the scholar in his hands.

The Feng family, which was at its peak in the capital of the year, declined after Feng Langzhong's death, and the two brothers of the Feng family died unexplained in the border pass. Feng's nephew was so young that he had to sell his ancestral business to make ends meet, and four years later, Feng also went crazy.

Linglong sighed, picked up the broom to clean the yard, Xingyu saw it, and hurriedly came over to grab the broom: "Fifth Miss, now that you are back at home, it is not as good as when you were in the old mansion, let the slave do these rough work." ”

Xingyu is Linglong's nursing sister, and her mother is Linglong's nursing mother. The nurse and her husband fell into the water and died when they went home to visit relatives, and Feng took pity on Xingyu for losing her father and mother at a young age, so he left her by Linglong's side as a playmate.

When she returned to her old house in Jiangsu, Linglong was only a five-year-old maid by her side. When they were in the old house, their grandmothers and aunts would often assign Linglong to do some rough work, and each time the master and servant would do it together.

Linglong smiled and pushed Xingyu away, this little work was nothing to her. Moreover, she wants to return to this courtyard because she sees that it is deserted enough, and she wants to use the fastest time to exercise herself and strive to recover her former skills as soon as possible.

She unfolded the bag of things that Congrong Yuan had brought from Rongyuan, and inside was half a piece of incense cake and a handful of incense ashes.

She was secretly proud, the incense ash was fine, but the incense cake was in an octagonal box on the top of the cabinet. She stole the fragrant cake unconsciously, whether it was Xingyu or the woman, no one found out.

This is where she lived when she was a child, a main house with two wings, and a room in the back, which used to be lived by the maids. Now there are only Linglong and Xingyu in this yard, and it is spacious to live in.

"Fifth Miss, I remember that there were more than a dozen people in our yard in the past, and they really couldn't live there, and the eldest lady still let people live in Rongyuan. The second wife is really, how can you say that she is also the eldest daughter, and you don't send a few more people over."

Xingyu, like Linglong, remembers things very early, and she still remembers the excitement here clearly.

Linglong smiled and comforted her: "I have hands and feet, how can I use others to wait, besides, I just like the quietness here, if there are too many people, it is not good." ”

No matter how many people Song Xiuzhu sent, they were all her eyes and ears. Rather than that, it's better to have only Xingyu alone, at least she is practicing here, and Song Xiuzhu won't know.

The master and servant were quick with their hands and feet, and in less than half a day, they cleaned the long-vacant courtyard. Although the house is dilapidated, it is much better than what they live in the old house in Jiangsu, and Linglong is not picky.

A rough maid came and brought a meal, four dishes and one soup, which seemed to be much better than the one for the mother.

"How many meals a day do I eat?" Linglong asked, her mother only had one meal a day.

"Fifth Miss, Mother Bear has ordered, in the future, your three meals a day will be delivered by your servant, three times a day."

Linglong glanced at those meals and said to the maid: "You sue Mother Bear, just say that I eat too much, these meals are not enough, and I will send more from tomorrow." I'm most afraid of being hungry, and I'll faint with hunger at every turn, if I happen to faint from hunger when the Xu family comes, then who will depend on this. ”

The maid seemed to understand whether she understood or not, and she was confused. Linglong was amused in her heart, knowing that the more this was the case, the more she would tell the mother bear what she said.

Seeing that the maid was gone, Linglong set aside part of the meal and left it for Xingyu, put the rest into a food box, and carried the food box and went to Rongyuan next door.

The mother only had one meal a day, and she asked the maid to send more meals in the future, just to save it for the mother.

As soon as I arrived at the gate of Rong Yuan, I saw a mother-in-law sneaking out of it, but it was not the one who had always served the Feng family.

The woman clutched her sleeves as if she was hiding something. Linglong didn't say a word, and a few dodges came to the woman.

The woman was stunned that a person appeared before the meeting, and she was so frightened that she almost screamed, she had a ghost in her heart, and subconsciously grabbed the sleeve tightly with one hand, as if she was worried that the thing in the sleeve would fall out.

She didn't know Linglong, so she was startled at first, and when she saw that it was just a little girl, she breathed a sigh of relief. It's just that this little girl doesn't dress like a maid, but she doesn't look like a master, but like a poor relative from somewhere.

"Jump out in broad daylight, you want to scare people to death!" When the mother-in-law saw the person coming, she was no longer afraid.

Linglong's eyes were fixed on her sleeve, and she said coldly: "Take out the things in your sleeve, don't let me do it." ”

"What is it, where did you come from, I don't know that no one can come here without the orders of the second wife."

Linglong sneered: "Since the second wife doesn't let people come here casually, then what are you going to do, in my opinion, it's either a traitor or a thief." ”

Before the words fell, before the woman could react, Linglong had already grabbed the woman's shoulder.

With a pull and a pull on her hand, the mother-in-law exclaimed, and her right arm hung down softly and was dislocated.

With a pop, something fell out of his sleeve. Linglong stretched out her hand to catch it, and saw that the thing was wrapped in a handkerchief, and pinched a thin one.

Linglong opened the veil and saw that what was wrapped in it was a silk crested hairpin.

She remembered correctly, the hairpin was still on her mother's dressing table yesterday.

No wonder she didn't see her mother's jewelry, it turned out that these things were taken away.

"No wonder you are panicking, it turns out that you stole the eldest lady's things, go, follow me to see the official!"

Linglong said that she went to pull the mother-in-law's other arm that was not dislocated, and scared the mother-in-law half to death, and she didn't know where this was the little demon star from, so she pulled it like that, and she couldn't even lift her arm.