The early morning of Xinglan Courtyard is the quietest place in the entire Jiang Mansion, there are few people and many things, and you need to do it yourself everywhere, but fortunately, Jiang Quinoa and Jiang Chun are not pompous.

Cai Yin brought water to wash them, and Cai Lu went to the big kitchen to get breakfast.

After breakfast, Caiyin stayed to sweep the floor and look at the yard, Jiang Quinoa and Jiang Chun took Cailu to the main house.

The two young ladies brought a maid, and such a poor and sour pomp was not good, and only Jiang Quinoa had them. Liu had vaguely mentioned that there were few people in Jiangfu before, and there was no income recently, so he would have to wait for a while for the family to have a harvest before he could buy people in, so that Jiang Quinoa would take back the maids from Xinglan Courtyard who had been driven out before, and make do with it for a while. Jiang Quinoa pretended not to understand and resigned. She would rather do everything by herself like now, rather than have those who are not in Xinglan Courtyard by her side.

Liu was annoyed that she was too stubborn and didn't know how to be soft, and wanted to learn from her, so he no longer mentioned the matter of arranging maids in Xinglan Courtyard, Jiang Qu also felt that it didn't matter, there were four people in Xinglan Courtyard every day, and they had a good time.

In the main room, the Liu family had just lost the bowl, Jiang Zhi and Jiang Weiran also had breakfast in the main room, and after eating, the two sisters and brothers made a carriage and went to the Chen family to study together.

"Sister." Jiang Zhi and Jiang Weiran put down the bowl and saluted Jiang Quinoa.

Liu couldn't see that they were close here, so he said: "After eating, quickly pack up your things and go to the school, and if you go early, you can take advantage of this time to see more of the homework taught by Mr. Er yesterday." Then they each told Jiang Zhi to talk to Miss Chen more together, and told Jiang Weiran to be obedient in the school. It is not allowed to fight and quarrel with the people in the school, etc., until Jiang Weiran's little face showed an impatient expression, and then he sighed and stopped. instructed the maid and the maid who followed the two to take care of the two, and then let the two go.

The Liu family didn't like Jiang Quinoa, and she didn't like to provoke the Liu family here, so when Jiang Zhi and the others went out, she said that she wanted to go out today.

"Going out again?" Liu raised his eyebrows, and his voice raised unconsciously: "Take a look at yourself, which young lady runs out all day long?" Are there any rules? ”

Jiang Zhi, who had just walked to the gate of the courtyard, heard a voice behind him. He paused and said in a low voice, "My sister has made my mother angry again." ”

There was a little maid in the courtyard who said with a flattering smile: "Not everyone is like the second lady, well-behaved and obedient." Every time Madame sees the eldest lady, her head hurts for a long time. ”

Jiang Zhi felt that she was kind and asked, "What's your name?" Didn't you serve in your mother's yard before? ”

The little maid didn't expect Jiang Zhi to still have an impression of her, so she replied with a smile: "The slave maid is called Xiao Bottle, and she was sent to Xinglan Courtyard to serve before. The eldest lady dislikes us for not serving well. The whole courtyard was driven out, and the lady temporarily let the slaves and maids do the sprinkling and sweeping in the main room. ”

Jiang Zhi nodded and said, "Do a good job, do a good job, and my mother will be rewarded." ”

The vial was even happier, praised Jiang Zhi a few more words, bowed down and sent her out of the main room, and then hurried to the porch of the main room again. Listen to the conversation through the half-open window.

"It's not the first day I've been out, I've been out before. What's the big deal. Jiang Quinoa muttered.

Liu slapped the table angrily, "It's just that there were no rules before, and now I want you to learn the rules well." You ask yourself Mama Zheng, there are so many ladies in the capital, who is like you, like a wild horse, running out of the sky? Tell me about yourself, how do you learn the rules, and you still want to go out to play like this, just like you, how dare I let you go to the banquet with confidence? ”

"It just so happens that we don't feel comfortable going to the banquet by ourselves, why don't we go?" Jiang Chun said happily.

Liu's eyes swept over, Jiang Chun shrunk his neck, and hid behind Jiang Qu.

"Are you threatening me?" Liu gritted his teeth and said word by word.

Jiang Quinoa raised her eyebrows and said with a smile: "Mother, what a big deal, I have something to do with Chun'er today, and I need to go out, so I specially came to inform my mother." ”

The notification was not here to get permission, and the Liu family hatefully waited for Jiang Quinoa's back when they were far away, and resented Jiang Xun for the first time.

Out of the main room, Jiang Quinoa and Jiang Chun went to Xinying Courtyard again, saying that they were looking for Mama Zheng to accuse them, and they couldn't follow the rules together in the next day.

Jiang Quinoa and the others hadn't left the Xinying Courtyard yet, and the news of their argument with the Liu family in the main room in the morning spread all over the house.

The next people spread the word of mouth how the eldest lady was unfilial, how she threatened Mrs. in order to leave the house, and finally had to shake her head and sigh, the eldest lady is really unfilial, too unfilial, there is no little bit of the rules of the eldest lady of the family, but I also know that the eldest lady is completely let go like this, and Mrs. has many scruples, and in the end she must not be able to leave her.

There were only two people who came out of Xinying Courtyard, Jiang Quinoa and Jiang Chun, and the maid was afraid of Jiang Chun's violence, and she didn't dare to provoke the eldest lady who couldn't even control her wife.

Not long after returning to Xinglan Courtyard, Cai Lu came back breathlessly.

"Miss, someone is really out of the house." Cai Lu said with a calm face.

Jiang Chun jumped up in shock, and when the words came to his lips, he lowered his voice violently: "Is there really a traitor?" ”

Cai Lu looked at Jiang Quinoa and said angrily: "Miss would never have thought of who went out?" She guarded the corner gate for a long time, and no one came, and thought that the eldest lady was wrong this time, and no one passed the news outside, but after a while, there was a sound of a picker outside, and someone came out here and called the picker to stop, when she saw the person who came, she was so shocked that she almost screamed.

Seeing that her face was wrong, Jiang Qu guessed, "Could it be that we know this person?" Or, was it once from Xinglan Academy? ”

Jiang Chun was bluffed, pursed his lips, and said in disbelief: "Won't it?" At most, those maids are not dedicated to serving each other, where do they dare to collude with outsiders to frame their masters? ”

Cai Lu squinted his eyes and said resentfully: "How could not! I used to think that since the eldest lady didn't like them, it would be too serious to let them serve them closely, and it would be too serious to drive them out, but now I know that the eldest lady is still too kind to them. The one who went out to deliver the news today was the vial that was sprinkled and cleaned in our yard before. ”

"How could it be her?" Jiang Chun exclaimed.

"Okay. I would like to know who this girl is doing for the bottle, and I can meet the master behind her today. "I have long had speculation in my heart. Jiang Quinoa was not surprised.

At the end of the morning, after lunch, the door of Jiangfu opened, and three girls in coarse cloth clothes and a young man who looked like a small maid swaggered out, turning left and right along the way, and finally entered a teahouse.

A few people swaggered along the way, not knowing that someone had been following them to the teahouse. When they entered the teahouse, the people behind them were confirmed, and they hurriedly turned around and trotted away.

It didn't take long. There was a sound of fighting in the box on the second floor of the teahouse, and as soon as the people downstairs heard the sound and looked upstairs, someone fell down from the upstairs and smashed the table. If it weren't for the people downstairs jumping fast, they would have been smashed.

Blink of an eye. Someone kept being thrown down from the second floor, and there were five people lying in the hall on the first floor holding their stomachs in pain, and then everyone found that on the railing on the second floor, I don't know when there was an extra person shaking a fan, take a closer look, this is not the overlord of the capital who is recuperating in the house.

Summer in the north is hot and muggy, and as the sun sets, smoke wafts from the camp. It adds a touch of irritability to the sultry summer.

In the distance, a team of more than a dozen horses went to the camp, and the camp guards saw who was coming from afar. Unhindered, they rode straight into the camp. But as soon as he entered the door, the leader dismounted first, tied his horse to a post, and walked into the tent.

Although the person in front of him is not very old, no one here dares to disrespect him, not only because of this person's identity, but also because of his kung fu.

When Yuan Zheng saw him coming back, he hurriedly walked forward and saluted, handed over the letter in his hand, and said, "The letter from Mrs. and the prince was sent here today." ”

The leader is not someone else, it is Xu Yaoxuan, who was sent to Biansai by the eldest princess more than a month ago.

In a month's time, the young man's face was no longer as white as when he first came, and he had more of the solemnity of a soldier.

After receiving the letter, Xu Yaoxuan walked to the coach's tent without stopping. It's been ten days since they've been here, and every day he's going to walk around with a small group of skilled riders who are familiar with the terrain. This area is occupied by the Tatars every winter, and it is the one that fights with our army the most. Soon after he came to Biansai, he was called by General Qin, who was guarding Biansai, and asked him about his plans, and learned that he was not here to play, so he sent a team of soldiers to him and asked him to come here to inspect and prepare for a tough battle this winter.

General Qin and Xu's father have been old friends for many years, and the two were also friends of life and death on the battlefield. General Qin received a letter from the capital and learned that Xu Yaoxuan was going to come to Biansai for training, so he was ready.

If Xu Yaoxuan is a soft egg, he has his own way to polish the soft egg into an iron man. Fortunately, Xu Yaoxuan did not fall into his father's name, although he was young and his ideas were immature, he was delicate, noble and approachable, and he was worried about his family and country, but it was also worth cultivating.

General Qin loves the people like a son, of course, he will not let Xu Yaoxuan come to patrol such a sensitive area at will, and sent a team of guards to him, not to mention, but also let a brave and resourceful deputy general personally teach Xu Yaoxuan.

Xu Yaoxuan stuffed the letter into his arms, walked straight to the largest tent, and waited for the soldiers to report, then he went in and reported to the deputy general that he had gone to those places to inspect today, and if there was anything he didn't understand, he wanted to ask for advice.

Until the sound of gongs came outside, dinner was ready, Xu Yaoxuan and the deputy general had not finished speaking, they had dinner at the deputy general's place, and the two took out the map again, and said for an hour, Xu Yaoxuan said goodbye from the main account.

returned to his tent, briefly freshened up, and took a map and a booklet and looked carefully for a long time, Yuan Zheng came to urge, and Xu Yaoxuan reluctantly put down the book. took off his clothes, something fell out, Xu Yaoxuan picked it up and remembered the letter he received today.

His mother's letter was as simple and clear as ever, with two thin pieces of paper telling him that everything was fine at home, asking him to take care of himself outside, to read more, to listen more, to learn more, and so on, nothing special.

The other letter is a thick pile, Xu Yaoxuan smiled while opening the letter, cousin Zhou Yan is not a penny, and the guards around him are almost as virtuous as him, this letter must be written by which guard, I don't know if it is pine or paulownia that is unlucky this time, it is really hard to write so many letters.

Unfolding the letter, the smile on the corner of Xu Yaoxuan's mouth froze at the corner of his mouth, and the first line of the letter clearly read, "Do you remember Miss Jiang who met in the countryside of Huguang last year?" ”

Seeing this line of words, Xu Yaoxuan's half-cut hair suddenly flashed in front of his eyes. This Miss Jiang didn't seem to have a good thing every time she ran into him, but that time he chased down the thieves and forced these people to Jiangli Village, causing her to be kidnapped by the thieves and seriously injured, and she died for life. On the way to the capital, he was accidentally injured by his arrow, and his hair was cut off in half. The parents of the body are skinny, to say that, he still owes Miss Jiang a lot, and I don't know how Zhou Yan could mention her for no reason.

Zhou Yan was also worried that Xu Yaoxuan, a little girl from the countryside who was nothing special, would not be able to remember, so she also briefly introduced Jiang Quinoa below, and then wrote about her acquaintance with Jiang Quinoa.

The letter is written for a long time, and the causes and consequences in it are clearly written, Zhou Yan is usually heartless, although he is merciful everywhere, but he is also ruthless, this time he actually took care of this idle matter kindly, and even had the determination to manage this matter to the end, which is rare.

When the letter saw the last page, Xu Yaoxuan knew how he could be so kind to take care of this matter this time.

"Brother Xuan, this little girl is stupid, stupid doesn't like words. The fool in the cell was provoked by others to bite her face, and she was stupid enough to let people bite it, and she was afraid that it would not look good if she bit her face, so she stretched out her neck for others to bite. You say she's stupid like this, how did she grow so big? If she bites her face, she will at least still live, and if she bites her neck a little more, she will be dead. I thought she was as beautiful as the girl next to me, and I didn't want to be so stupid and stupid because I didn't want to have a wound on my face, but when I heard her talk to the people around me in the hospital, I realized that she didn't want to bring up her slave at home to be sad, so she wanted to keep her face intact and undamaged. I listened, she was also a poor person, so I was kind enough to help her, who knew that this girl was ignorant, and she would cause a lot of trouble. It's not true that people say that stupid people have stupid blessings, she plans to leave Beijing and go back to the countryside, and even donated the house rewarded by the imperial court to the Changsheng Academy, you say that this is not to make trouble for your aunt, alas, you are not by your aunt's side, I have to do my filial piety and help solve this matter. You don't know, this matter has casually involved several big fish, and in a few days things will be progressive, and I will write to you to let you know. ”

After receiving the letter, Xu Yaoxuan was stunned for a while, a little crying and laughing. The eldest lady of the Jiang family, I don't know what kind of mildew she is stained with, these days are unlucky everywhere, even a good court reward can cause her to be killed, fortunately, she can always turn the corner.

looked at the date on the letter, and thought that when the letter arrived in his hand, Zhou Yan's investigation would come to an end these days. (To be continued......)