Xinglan Courtyard is in the northeast corner of the whole house, located in the middle of nowhere, far away from the main house, if it is not the only lotus pond next to the whole house, it will come over in summer when enjoying the lotus and enjoying the shade, and few people will generally come here.

When Jiang Quinoa was settled here, it may not mean that everyone will not see it in the future. It's just that you must see it, and it's better to see it once, and it saves yourself from reminding yourself of the sad things you don't want to think about.

After stopping in front of the courtyard for a long time, Liu sighed and raised his feet into the courtyard.

She never thought that one day she would take the initiative to walk in here and come to meet the last person she wanted to see in her life.

The subordinates of Xinglan Courtyard were all driven away by Jiang Quinoa, and they didn't even have time to clean up their things, and they were shocked by the majesty of Jiang Quino's order to beat them, and even asked others to come in and help them clean up hastily.

Liu walked in all the way, the courtyard was quiet, and even a figure could not be seen, but the house was very lively, and there was a sound of laughter, if her current mood changed, she would not be infected by the simple and happy laughter of the little girls.

"Most of the people living in the village are from the Jiang clan, and a small number of people with foreign surnames have intermarried with each other in recent years, and everyone is related to each other, like a family. The people in the village are simple, although there are some bad people who are suspicious and bad-hearted, but most of them are still very simple. Rest assured, you will not be excluded from you. Jiang Chun appeased Caiyin and Cailu, pointed at Jiang Quinoa and said, "Ah Quinoa did a great deal last year. Last year's drought caused no crops, and there was not much grain in the yamen. Ah Quinoa saved food in advance and saved many people, and the people in our village received her kindness. You are her maids, and you are also welcomed and liked by everyone when you go to Jiangli Village. ”

Caiyin looked at Jiang Quinoa with admiration, and was full of expectations for going to Jiang Li Village.

She grew up in the village since she was a child, and she had seen the dirty things between the neighbors, and she followed the eldest lady to the countryside, thinking it would be very difficult. But I didn't expect the eldest lady to be so capable.

"Don't listen to her nonsense, it's true that the people in the village are hospitable and simple. It doesn't have much to do with me. And after all, the countryside is different from the capital, and even these clothes made of fine silk fabrics cannot be worn, and in the future, you will have to eat coarse tea and light rice, wear coarse cloth clothes, and live such a life. Be prepared. Jiang Quinoa said lightly. I don't know the decision to take these two people to Jiangli Village. True or false.

Cai Yin's heart was wide, and he patted his chest and said: "As long as you can eat and dress warmly, even if you go to the field to be a living slave, you are willing, that is, the eldest lady will not marry me to a lame coachman in the future, he can whip people." ”

Regarding the fact that Steward Liu wanted to buy Caiyin for two taels of silver to buy a coachman next door as his daughter-in-law, Caiyin was still frightened.

Cai Lu also knew these things, and she was also busy following: "As long as the slave and maid are not allowed to be small with others in the future, the slave and maid are willing to suffer any hardship." ”

It's a good thing that they're strong-willed. I'm afraid that they will change their minds twice in three days, if so. Then she didn't have to bother to take them away.

"Ah Quinoa, if you want to take away the green, you have to talk to Aunt Xun, otherwise her deed of sale is still in Jiangfu." Jiang Chun reminded.

Jiang Quinoa also remembered this, but she didn't think about how to talk to Liu. Jiangfu is not rich, and there are not many people in the family, each of them has their own position, she took away the green, and she can't say that the family has to buy another maid, and the newly bought maid has to be trained, which also takes time. I don't know if my mother is willing to give her people.

Cai Lu looked at Jiang Quinoa nervously, for fear that she would be too troublesome and unwilling to take her away, until Jiang Quinoa said that she would go to find Mrs. at night, she breathed a sigh of relief, and when she turned her head, she found a few people standing at the door, and muttered, "Madam." ”

When Jiang Quinoa and the others heard the words, they looked up at Liu and the others in surprise. Since she lived in this Xinglan Courtyard, the Liu family has never been here.

Is she leaving, and the Liu family is coming to see her off?

"You all go out, I have something to say to the eldest lady." Liu took two steps into the room as he spoke, with an irresistible strength in his voice.

Cai Lu hurriedly saluted and pulled Cai Yin out. Jiang Chun hesitated for a moment, looked at Jiang Quinoa worriedly, and followed out the door.

Yao's mother stood at the door, waiting for everyone to come out and close the door.

Liu looked around, all the furnishings of Xinglan Courtyard were moved out of the warehouse, and she knew what was in the warehouse. These things are all these years in the capital, bit by bit to buy down, good things she doesn't want them to be dusty, are placed in the main house, Xin Ying Yuan and Cangwu Courtyard early, the rest of the warehouse, although there are some good things, but they are all pieced together, and the Xin Sakura Courtyard, Cangwu Courtyard Those complete sets of furniture are incomparable. In addition, the maids and mothers-in-law of Xinying Courtyard and Cangwu Courtyard are also carefully selected by her, strictly taught, with good vision and dedication to work, the whole courtyard looks like the courtyard where the young lady and the young master live, with the solemnity of the family. In Xinglan Temple, none of this can be seen.

Xinglan Courtyard is like a dilapidated courtyard that has been abandoned for many years, and there are some things in it, trying to pretend to be noble, but it can't stop the barren nature inside.

"Are you used to living here?" Liu asked.

Jiang Quinoa couldn't figure out the purpose of her coming here, thinking about how she said it last time, she broke up unhappily, she has caused a lawsuit these days, and even if she doesn't go out, she knows that the rumors outside are very ugly. Ever since Zhi came to see her on the day she was injured, she didn't come again. She didn't care about it at first, but she thought that Ah Zhi was busy with her studies and didn't have the time to come over. Until Jiang Chun found out, Ah Zhi entered the door crying the next day, as if it was because the news of her lawsuit spread, and several young ladies of the Chen family made it difficult for Ah Zhi for this matter, and even the wife of the Chen family asked Ah Zhi to question. Ah Zhi felt aggrieved and felt that she Jiang Quinoa had brought humiliation to the Jiang Mansion, so she was reluctant to come to see her.

Anyway, she was leaving, so she didn't take it to heart, just when the truth was revealed, after she cleared her grievances, everyone didn't get along with each other, forgot about it, and after that, forget it

Jiang Quinoa looked left and right, and sincerely thanked: "Thank you mother for taking care of me these days." Great stay these days. ”

Liu sat on the stool and looked up at her with inquiry in his eyes: "You are very smart. It's very similar to the old man. ”

Jiang Qu didn't know that she was agreeable when she mentioned Jiang Xun at this time, so she smiled and didn't answer. She never thought she was smart, or she wouldn't have ended up like that.

"You know I don't like you. When you first came, you called me mother, but now you call me mother politely. Liu sneered: "Everyone is a smart person, so it's okay, it saves me from being angry for so many years, and in the end, no one knows why I'm angry." ”

The suspicion in my heart was confirmed. Jiang Quinoa couldn't tell what he was feeling at this moment.

"It snowed heavily that year, and I was holding you, and I hadn't given birth at that time. The posture of holding you is rusty, but you don't cry all of a sudden. The lord said, you like me. Liu still remembers crying heart-rending little babies who stopped crying, and looked at themselves with tears in their big eyes.

"I thought about it too. Anyway, you're the flesh and blood of the master. Now that he has brought you back, I just don't like it in my heart, and I will show my bearing and raise you well. But after returning to Jiangli Village, your grandmother saw the signs, and in order to keep me from resentment in my heart, and for me to be able to spread the branches and leaves for the Jiang family as soon as possible, she left you behind with a strong attitude. Your father sat quietly all night. I know, as long as I go to your grandmother. Tell her that I am willing to take you, that I will treat you as my own, that I will not complain, and that your grandmother will give you back to me. That way, your father won't have to make such a difficult choice, and he will be more grateful to me. But I didn't. These words have been held in her heart for many years, and she can't mention them to people who don't know, and the only person who knows is Jiang Xun, and she is ashamed to say it.

Before Jiang Xun went to Beijing to take the exam, she went back to her parents' house, and her mother called her into the house and told her that Jiang Xun was talented, and she would definitely be able to pass the Jinshi examination in the future.

At that time, her family was still a well-known businessman in the county, and the Jiang family was poor, and even the money to go to Beijing to take the exam was collected by the clan.

But even so, Jiang Xun was unwilling to accept his own funding, and her mother said that Jiang Xun had such an upright temperament, and the thing he decided was that ten cows could not be pulled back, so she had to be more obedient.

After getting married, she was submissive everywhere, and many things were based on Jiang Xun, but that time, she didn't want to. Why did she compromise on everything? Why did she take Jiang Xun as the sky everywhere, but he took the child back from the birth?

She had many nightmares in those days, each of which showed her killing the child, all in different ways. When she woke up, she was frightened by her dream self, she never knew she could be so cruel.

On the day they entered Beijing, Jiang Quinoa, who was still in swaddling clothes, was hoarse from crying, and the old lady was still sitting beside her, urging: "You guys go quickly, it will be too late to delay any longer." Jiang Xun glanced at her several times, but she didn't see it, and finally Jiang Xun sighed, reluctantly kissed the infant child, and left ruthlessly.

From that day she knew that the old lady would not love this unknown child, and knowing that she would not have a good life in the future, she was ashamed to give birth to pleasure in her heart.

Why did your sudden appearance disrupt my life and shatter my dream of happiness, but you can be pampered in every way? You should go to hell with me, too.

"You didn't know I existed?" Jiang asked Quino.

Liu shook his head: "I never heard your father mention it. Before I got married, my sisters were envious that I had married a scholar, and I was a talented scholar, and I would not be able to be an official wife in the future. And at that time, your father's reputation was also very good, and he never went to the land of fireworks, even after getting married, a classmate invited your father to drink flower wine, he would find an excuse to resign, such a glorious man, I really can't imagine that he caused a romantic debt outside, and hugged back such a big you. ”

It turned out that she was born in the outer room.

Jiang Quinoa suddenly remembered that there was a woman in the next village a few years ago, who had a head and tail with a businessman in the city, and hid in the house with a big belly, originally wanted to wait to give birth to a child, and the mother was more expensive than the child, but in the end, the main room with a group of people found the village and smashed the house, the woman was frightened, and she had a seizure that night, and because of premature birth, she did not find a good midwife, and the child was not born all night. In the end, the child was suffocated to death, and she herself died due to dystocia. At that time, she heard that giving birth to a child is like walking through the ghost door for a woman.

What did her mother think when she was pregnant with her? Do you also want to rely on her to make the mother more expensive than the child? It's a pity that she's a girl, so this bargaining chip may not be enough.

"What about my mother?"

Liu looked at her fiercely, "Why do you still want to take her into the house?" ”

Jiang Qu shook her head: "I just want to know where she is?" ”

Liu Shi also realized that his reaction was too aggressive, and said bluntly: "I don't know where she is, I haven't even seen her." The master just hugged you back and said that I would take good care of you, just as if you were my own flesh and blood, and nothing else was mentioned. If you want to know, just ask yourself. ”

"I'll go back to Jiangli Village tomorrow, and I'll ask my father in person when I get to Huguang." With this opportunity, Jiang Quinoa still wanted to know what happened back then, why her father hugged her back, but didn't mention her mother at all. And where is her mother?

The things she said tonight made Liu upset, and she said impatiently: "The master wrote back and said that you are not young, let me pay attention to it in the capital, and tell you about a mother-in-law." These days, you stay in the house, there is a banquet or something, I will take you out and walk around, if someone takes a fancy to you, it is naturally good, if not, I have done my best, and I will come back to give your father an errand. ”

"I'm only thirteen years old, so it's too early to find someone." Jiang Quinoa snored, in the country girl's family, she generally started to look at each other at the age of fourteen or fifteen, saying that she would marry at the age of sixteen or seventeen, and give birth to a child at the age of eighteen or nineteen.

Liu raised his eyebrows: "I haven't said kiss at the age of thirteen, and I don't even have anyone to look at, so it's not a shame." ”

What's so embarrassing about this, Jiang Chun is fifteen years old, isn't there no one to look at him, didn't he say kiss? Jiang Quinoa thought in his heart, but he knew that he couldn't say this.

"Anyway, I wouldn't have said goodbye so early, let alone married to the capital. Ming'er, I will go back to Jiangli Village with Chun'er and Brother Shunzi, and after two years, let Qingbo find me an honest and reliable person near Jiangli Village. Anyway, I have so much land, and whoever I marry will have food and clothing for the rest of my life. As long as I let out the news to say goodbye, the matchmaker will definitely have to break the threshold of our family. Jiang Quinoa said confidently.

Liu was angry and spit out a mouthful of blood, this is the eldest daughter raised in the countryside?

"The eldest girl's family is ashamed to say that she is married? Don't think I'm trying to mind your business, since your father wrote back, I'll worry about it no matter what I say. I didn't say that I would take you to the capital, although your father didn't say it in his heart, he still complained about me in his heart. This time he opened his mouth, and I will do it with my heart no matter what. I don't care if you want to listen to my arrangement or not, whether you want to stay in the capital or not, from now on, you have to listen to me. ”

"Jiang Quinoa, this is you and your mother, you owe me!" (To be continued......)