The thrush rubbed the corners of his forehead, and breathed a few deep breaths, and the resentment, grievance, and unwillingness were all pressed under the tip of his tongue. She has come to this point easily, she is already half the master of the Lin family, and she will enjoy endless glory and wealth in the future, and now as long as she has another heir, she will gain a firm foothold in the Lin family, if her brother's career is smooth, even if Lin Jinlou marries a noble girl, she will dare to compare with it. It's just that Chen Xianglan has been the sole favorite as soon as she comes, how can she still have a foothold for a long time? She doesn't want to be a cautious and compromised "aunt" for the rest of her life, she wants her waist to be straight, and she wants the women in the entire Lin family's house to dare not underestimate her, and she is a decent master!

The thrush groaned for a while, ordered the magpie to take the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, wrote a letter, put it in an envelope, and took out a cotton leg knee pad embroidered with Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum from the box, wrapped the letter clip in the knee pad, called a confidant, and said: "Tomorrow morning, send this to my house, and hand it over to my brother with my own hands." It's cold, he's a man on horseback, and he's always getting cold on his knees, which I've sewn for him lately. ”

The woman took the order to go down. The thrush no longer had the heart to look for the ring, so he sat silently again, poured a bowl of warm water, took a pill of medicine to purify the heart and mind, and then changed his clothes, removed the residual makeup, and lay down on the bed to sleep.

However, it was said that the first day of October was the day to send winter clothes, and the Qin family ordered people to prepare incense wax tribute paper money and other things early, and asked the little maid to buy colored wax huā paper from the clothes shop, and ordered the maids to cut a stack of clothes. Clean the ancestral hall in advance, prepare dried and fresh fruits, various pastries, and fresh huā, vegetarian food and other things, and light the lantern. Mrs. Lin personally presided over the opening of the ancestral hall and performed four kowtows in the order of the eldest and youngest, and the scene was extremely solemn. After the ceremony, Lin Jinting took the small man to the outside for incineration, and the people in each room dispersed, and the ancestral hall had its own subordinates to clean up, no problem.

Mother Wu is idle. It just so happened that the Qin family wanted to send a feather yarn dress to Lin Jinlou, so Wu's mother took the order and brought the clothes to the Zhichun Pavilion. When I entered the house, I saw Xianglan changing into plain white clothes, cleaning her hands and wiping her face in the house, her eyes were red and swollen, and she was obviously just worshipped, and she couldn't help but be surprised.

It turned out that Xianglan had to burn some paper money to her relatives in her previous life at this time of year, but now that Wu's mother met her, she smiled and said: "When I was raised in the temple when I was a child, there was a great monk who treated me like a son. But he died early. I didn't fulfill my filial piety, so I had to pay homage, and I returned to my uncle. He also complied, and allowed me to worship in the backyard. ”

Mother Wu hurriedly folded her hands and said, "Amitabha, it's rare for you to have such filial piety." So he sat down in the house and gossiped with Xianglan. As the night was getting darker, Wu's mother estimated that the sacrifice was about to end, so she got up and left. Go out through the backyard door.

I saw the magpie standing at the rockery, holding a lamp in his hand, stomping his feet and laughing: "Mother Wu, why are you here?" When we came, we didn't sit in our aunt's room, but we didn't follow it. ”

Mother Wu said secretly: "I don't like your master's trouble-stirring appearance, Aunt Lan was a good person before, and she instigated it." How could I come to you? But he said with a smile on his face: "It was my wife who sent me to deliver things, I still have an errand over there, so I can only come and deliver things and then go back." I'll go to your Aunt Mei next time, and I'll have to make me a good bowl of tea." Then he walked over and asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

The magpie said: "Grandma lost a gold ring and looked for it in the room for several days without seeing it." The pearl on the ring was specially given to my grandmother by my uncle, and I didn't say anything about her face. But I was really distressed, so I carried her out to look for it. If you find it. and took it back to make her happy; If she doesn't find it, it will save her from being disappointed and adding to her heart. ”

Mother Wu said: "My son, you are a good child, it is rare to think about your master like this." Then he turned and went out.

At this time, the lantern in the magpie's hand suddenly fell and smashed at Wu's mother's feet, and the magpie hurriedly said: "It's not good, it's not good, my hand is slipping, I didn't touch my mother?" As he spoke, he leaned over.

Mother Wu bent down to pick up the lantern, and said: "It's not in the way, fortunately, you are a brass lotus huā lamp, you are not afraid of falling, if it is an ordinary ......" Before she finished speaking, she saw a small cloth bag wrapped in a white cloth on the ground, triangular in shape, the size of a baby's palm. Mother Wu picked it up and pinched it, it was slightly hard, it seemed to be paper, she was an old man who had experienced a lot, and when she saw it, she knew that this thing was a talisman, and her heart suddenly jumped up, and she secretly thought: "The talismans that have always begged for wealth and peace are wrapped in red cloth, and this talisman is wrapped in a white cloth, which is obviously not a good thing." How could Chiharukan have this? He held it in the palm of his hand.

The magpie squeezed over and asked, "What did mom pick up?" Show me. ”

Mother Wu pushed her and said, "Little girl, ask about everything, go back quickly, it's too late for your master to ask." After saying that, he hurriedly went.

The Qin family had been busy for a day, and the red note helped her to sit down in the small side hall of the ancestral hall, and the green man came over with hot tea. Qin took a sip and said, "All the courtyards are locked?" Have all the mothers-in-law who patrolled the night gone? Are the little people who keep vigil in the neighboring garden outside the second gate all taken care of? ”

The red note said: "Later, the daughters-in-law of the housekeepers will come, I will ask, my wife has not felt comfortable these days, why bother with this." ”

Qin said: "I didn't want to care, but yesterday there was an accident in the second room, and at night the third girl's yard seemed to be a snitch, and I didn't know how to touch it, scaring a mother-in-law and a little girl." After the count, fortunately nothing was lost, only the three girls lost a box of jewelry. tortured and requited once, but he didn't find out who was hiding the traitor and leading the thief, but found out that there was someone who ate and drank and played money. The second old man was angry, and today he also asked Brother Lou to borrow a few nursing homes, so the door must be tight. ”

The red note hurriedly responded. Qin asked about the matter of cleaning up the ancestral hall in front of him, and as he was talking, he saw someone poking his head at the door, so he asked, "Who is at the door?" Sneaky. ”

The maid opened the curtain, but saw Mother Wu walk in, her face turned pale, and said, "Madam, the old slave has come back from the Zhichun Pavilion." ”

Qin Shi smiled: "It's all this day, if you don't rest, what are Baba doing here?" ”

Mother Wu said: "I have something to say back to my wife." As he spoke, he swept his eyes to the side.

When Qin saw her description, he was secretly surprised, so he retreated and said to Mother Wu: "Tell me, what's the matter?" ”

Mother Wu knelt on the ground and said with tears in her eyes: "Old slave, old slave just picked up something terrible in the Zhichun Pavilion...... Because of the seriousness of the matter, I begged Mrs. to adjudicate......" said and took out something from his sleeve and held it up.

PS: Thank you Jane and Rose, Zoeyhl, Ming Zixi for the peace charms, and thank you all for the pink tickets ^_^