What the seventh princess said in front of the emperor, Sister Hui didn't know. However, according to the discussion between her and her second uncle Chu Jinhui, as soon as the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month passes, there will definitely be a book on the emperor's imperial case to accept bribes.

"Hey, this year, the old lady is sick, and the fourth wife somehow changed the limelight and saw that the fourth master came to make trouble and split up. It's unlucky for the New Year! You see, no, Hou Ye was ordered to stay at home as soon as he went to the court for the first time this year. In the old lady's kitchen, Chef You, who has always been favored by the old lady, is chatting with another cook.

"No, I heard that the old lady began to cough up blood last night, and how many ladies who used to be envious of the black silk have come out with a lot of gray hair these days. The maid who combed her hair, the autumn frost girl, was made a lot of fire by the old lady. The other cook sighed and agreed

"Alas, it's so uneasy in our house, I saw this more than ten years ago when the old marquis was alive." Chef You couldn't help but recall

"Sister You, do you say that the old lady is sick?" the other cook, her eyes flowed, she hesitated a little, and whispered in Chef You's ear.

"What are you talking about? Mrs. Tai's medicinal diet is ready? Before Chef You could reply, Mrs. Zhou stepped into the door and asked with a smile.

"Mrs. Aunt is here, this medicinal meal is almost ready, and the slave maid will bring it to you." Chef You hurriedly got up and said

"Forget it, you're busy with you, I'll just come by myself." After saying that, he went to the stove.

"Speaking of which, this aunt is a kind person, and she has been respectful to our old lady over the years, and the old lady has been in poor health since last year, and she is taking care of her." When Mrs. Zhou left, the kitchen couldn't help but chatter.

Chef You nodded, and shook her head again, "She was not favored when she was young, although she was the original Mrs. Jiao's dowry girl and gave birth to a son, but she didn't make any good money." The old marquis was a careless person when he was alive, and the second master is also clever today, knowing that Baba served our old lady well. ”

The cook said this, in the inner room of Shoukang Hall, Aunt Zhou was also continuing to stutter.

Carefully knelt in the corner of the bed, waited for the old lady to finish drinking the medicine, and then coaxed her old man to finish the medicinal meal, and finally brought a bowl of yellow ginger soup, "Mrs. Tai, you drink this again, Mrs. Qingyun said, this rice wine and ginger juice can cure your disease the most." ”

"Oh, it doesn't taste good, let's forget about it today." I drank it every day since the beginning of winter, and now the old lady is disgusted when she smells the wine.

"It's spring, Qingyun Shi Tai'er didn't deliver the letter to say that you can stop drinking it after drinking this month, it's only ten days, you can drink a few more sips." Mrs. Zhou smiled and persuaded her, and at the same time she had already fed the spoon into the old lady's mouth.

In addition, Zhao's mother helped persuade her, and the bowl of yellow ginger juice was roughly drunk.

As soon as she finished drinking, a maid came outside to report, and the fourth wife asked to see her.

"Old lady, if you don't rest, slave and maid." Mother Zhao said with a frown

"Forget it, let her in." The old lady waved her hand, helped Mrs. Zhou's hand to get up, simply put on a fox fur, and then sat on the pit by the window with the stove.

Next to the window, a gust of wind blew, with a faint fragrance of flowers, which made her sad heart a little better.

"Mother." Xiao Li came into the house, squatted down, and said

"Qiushuang, move a small pestle for the fourth wife."

"Yes." Qiushuang moved the pestle, Xiao Li's was another blessing, and then sat down.

Xiao Li glanced left and right, and the old lady looked at her situation, and said, "You all go down, and I'll talk to the fourth lady for a while." ”

"Yes." Mrs. Zhou, Mother Zhao, and the maids all squatted for a blessing, and then walked away.

When everyone left, the old lady slowly spoke, "Our mother and son haven't talked together for a long time, how long has it been?" Well, after the fourth child did that foolishness? ”

"Yes." Xiao Li still had a cold face and nodded.

"I really don't like you like what you are now! It's still good when I was a girl, you see, it's like the flowers and bones in the yard, looking green is actually promising, who knows which day it will bloom proudly in the garden. The old lady pointed to the magnolia bones outside the window, squinted, and said slowly

"Auntie, your niece is not filial, and it was all your plan to marry your niece into the Chu family, and your parents and brothers in the family over the years, if you don't take care of it, you don't know what the situation is. But both you and your mother have taught your nieces and nephews to marry their husbands. The lord wants to divide the family, and the niece and nephew can't have children. Today, I happened to hear that the third brother and third sister-in-law are also there, and as soon as the first month comes out, the elders of the clan can also take the time to witness, and the family will be divided. Xiao Li didn't answer the words, but he came straight to the point

"Say, why? You are not a person who can beat around the bush, and your ability to hide your thoughts is not as good as your sisters-in-law. When the old lady heard this, she smiled faintly and said indifferently.

Xiao Li, I understand, the old lady asked her again why she also changed her mind and insisted on following the family to separate. She smiled and said coldly: "My aunt has really seen her niece thoroughly over the years, but she has never seen through you when she pities her niece." ”

"Auntie, do you remember my brother Ze? He was the first child of his niece. I still remember that when I first got pregnant, my lord was also very happy, and you were also happy. At that time, my mother came to see me and said to me, "You can give birth to this child, and after giving birth to this child, you can really marry into this family." Xiao Li smiled slowly, his eyes were extraordinarily gentle.

"Okay, what are you doing here? Brother Ze was killed soon after he was born at a young age, this was all done by Qin's mother and daughter, I have already beaten Qin's to death, although Sister Hui has not yet disposed of it, but she will never be cheap, you can rest assured. The old lady frowned and said

"Oh, my aunt asked what you were doing here? That's a good question! Why? Because my brother Ze pity him for dying at the hands of his biological grandmother at a young age, it turned out that his biological grandmother sank him in the pond! Little Lee said with a sigh of relief.

The stove in the old lady's hand fell to the ground with a bang, and the sparks in it splashed, and many of them fell straight on Xiao Li's embroidered shoes, and Xiao Li didn't realize it.

"Who did you listen to that?" The old lady asked sharply

"Does it matter? Seeing my aunt's gaffe like this, my niece and daughter have all been determined. It's just that my niece doesn't understand that even though he is disabled, he is your grandson, how did you get that hand? ”

Xiao Li's heart is like a knife, she has been working hard to make the knife in the old lady's hand for many years, she will poke wherever she points, she has been convinced for many years that her short-lived child was overcome by Sister Hui'er's life, because it was her aunt who told her, because it was her child's grandmother who told her. But when Zhou's mother told her everything, she realized that this was not the case at all.

"No, no, no, it's not like that, he accidentally rolled into it himself." The old lady seemed to be in a nightmare, her eyes widened, her throat was bruised, she kept shaking her head, and she choked up