Xie Yingqiao's companion Mama Li walked a step behind Xiao Zhisu's left, and when she heard Xiao Zhisu say that she wanted to understand Xiao Mansion, she also smiled and replied one by one, "The ninth girl was still young when she left, and there have been some changes in the house in the past few years, so it's good for the girl to understand." The vestibule will meet guests, and the back house is divided into two, and it is two houses. The partial house is divided into four courtyards, east and west, north and south, this east garden lives in the servant maid's shop, the south garden is a big kitchen, it can only be used when meeting guests, and the place where chopping wood and washing vegetables are in the south garden. Xiyuan is an ancestral hall and torture hall, if the people in the house make a mistake, regardless of the master and servant, they will go to Xiyuan to receive punishment. Beiyuan set up a banquet, divided into external banquets and internal banquets, these are exquisite. ”

Xiao Zhisu bowed, and the two walked through the corridor with red paint and green tiles and walked along the north side of the corridor. In the early summer season, everything grows, and the vines break free from the soil with bright green leaves, and go up along the red lacquered porch tiles, wrapping red columns, clinging to the eaves, forming a green natural curtain. Pass through a garden, neatly divided, with flowers of all colors occupying one side. At the end of the garden is a cobblestone path lined with locust trees, and the white locust flowers fall like snow.

Mama Li saw Xiao Zhisu stop and look at the locust flower, and said with a smile, "This acacia flower was planted by the ten girls, and it has been around for a long time." ”

"Ten girls?" Xiao Zhisu was puzzled at first, and then understood.

Mama Li smiled awkwardly, didn't say more, changed the conversation and continued, "This acacia flower road passes through, it is the main house, and it is also divided into four courtyards: east, west, north and south. The East Garden is home to the Fudong Garden, which is a big house, the West Garden is a three-room and three masters, and the north and south courtyards are for entertaining outsiders and the uncle's doormen! ”

"Uncle has received a lot of staff?" Xiao Zhisu asked casually.

Mama Li shook her head, "This old slave doesn't know, where is the matter of the court that the women should ask." ”

Xiao Zhisu was silent, knowing that Mama Li was implying that she had neglected to ask these politically related questions. Thinking about it, Xiao Mansion is quite taboo about this topic now, which means that grandmother has not yet made it clear.

The two walked together with a cup of tea before arriving at the Tiansu Pavilion where Hunan bamboo was planted in the outer fence.

Mama Li saw that Xiao Zhisu stopped again, and knew that she was cowardly in her hometown, so she covered her mouth and smiled, "Then the girl will go in by herself, the old slave will go back to serve Madame!" ”

Xiao Zhisu nodded, wanting to bless Mama Li, but she waved her hand again and again and said that she couldn't do it!

After Mama Li left, Xiao Zhi took a deep breath and slowly walked into Su Ge.

A path paved with bluestone slabs was opened up in the middle of the bamboo forest, and Xiao Zhisu stepped on the emerald green bamboo leaves, slowly approaching the long-lost Tiansu Pavilion. The three big characters of dragons flying and phoenixes dancing came into view, burning her eyes. There is the sound of water curtains rolling and spilling on the stones, the sound of the wind blowing the curtains, and the sound of old but still energetic.

Before he could step through the door, he heard a familiar conversation. It turned out that Mama Lin was asking Zi Nu Qingli about every bit of her at her grandfather's house, and everything was very clear.

Suddenly, there was a sour look in his eyes, and a moist water was about to be pushed out. Xiao Zhisu raised her head slightly, adjusted her mentality and pushed the door in, her original excitement and countless words to say turned into calm the moment she really spoke, "Nurse, I'm back." ”

When she left, the nurse was still full of green hair, but now that she has returned, she has several more gray and silver hairs. Mama Lin opened her mouth wide, although she had already prepared, she was also very nervous at the moment when she saw it, until Xiao Zhisu threw herself into her arms, she sighed, "Girl, you are finally back!" ”

"Well, I made the nurse worried."

"How can the old slave worry, Master Hou will definitely take good care of the girl. Girl, I've already asked someone to prepare a bath soup, so you can take a bath first. Mama Lin secretly wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and said with joy.

"It's still the nurse who thinks thoughtfully. Zinu, Qingli, you should also go and rest for a while, it is enough to have a nurse here. She was about to ask the nurse about the current situation in the house.

"Yes, girl." Zi Nu and Qing Li retreated. They also have a lot of things to do, and they still have to tidy up all the things that the girl brought back.

Behind the four folding screens of milky white painted red plum cranes, smoke curls behind them, and the folding screen dimly reflects the woman's slender figure.

Xiao Zhisu was soaking in the bath while listening to the nurse talk about the situation in the house. Roughly not much different from what she knew, Xue Shiyan is not yet correct in terms of status, but her status is comparable. The servants have all been married to a third lady, and even Xiao Zhiyan's sisters and brothers have followed their later generations and changed their names to ten girls and eleven sons. Later, his father also accepted an aunt, but this Aunt Xu was beautiful and favored but had no heirs.

Xiao Zhisu felt a little strange when she heard it, Aunt Xu? She remembered that one of her father's concubines gave birth to a son and was raised as an aunt, and then the child accidentally drowned when he was five years old, and it should have been a month later. The aunt was so sad that she hanged herself in her room that night.

I didn't pay much attention to it, but I sighed after hearing about it. Later, because of this incident, my grandmother was very angry, and because of the insult to the lintel, she was pressed down and no one was allowed to mention it again.

However, she seems to remember that the aunt is not surnamed Xu, and now according to the nurse, everyone still doesn't know about this child. If there is still this child now, then Xiao Zijing will no longer be the only boy in the third room, and at that time, what will happen to Xue Shiyan?

"Nurse, you can help me find someone later, is there a boy about five years old in Xiao Mansion?"

Mama Lin was surprised, "Girl, what is this?" ”

"Don't ask, I'll explain it to you then. By the way, this matter must be kept secret, and no one must know about it, otherwise there will be endless troubles. Xiao Zhisu advised. Things have changed, but she has to be prepared. For a month, she still has a month to find the child in front of Xue Shiyan.

Although Mama Lin was puzzled, she still responded.

As soon as she mentioned this matter, Xiao Zhisu thought of her aunt, anyway, the nurse also felt strange at this time, and it was not bad, so it was better to ask clearly, "Nurse, in the six years that I was away, was there any movement in my aunt's stomach?" ”

When she asked, Mama Lin was even more strange, and the girl asked what the big house was doing. But seeing the girl's clear gaze, she still shook her head honestly.

No? Xiao Zhisu leaned back weakly, could it be that because of her rebirth, many things have changed?

With countless complicated questions, Xiao Zhisu was instantly tired along the way after taking a bath, and soon fell asleep in bed.

Xiao Zhisu slept very deeply, and was woken up by the nurse in the evening, woke up in a daze, rubbed her sleepy eyes, yawned and said, "Nurse, when is it?" ”

"The girl gets up and freshens up, and then she can go to the North Garden for a banquet."

"Okay." Xiao Zhisu got up from the bed and let the maids serve to dress and comb her hair. I chose a set of snow-blue embroidered begonia clothes, because she was not yet of the age of Jilu, so she was not so troublesome, and chose to decorate it with ribbons of the same color as the clothes, and buried a few newly bloomed begonias in her hair.

Taking advantage of the glow of the evening sunset, her snowy skin is beautiful, and she looks particularly beautiful and tall with her slender and tall figure.

The dinner party was accompanied by Zi Yu Qingli, Tian Su Pavilion was in the West Garden, and it was only two incense sticks in the North Garden of the partial house, and it was still early, so he abandoned the chariot and changed to walking.