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Lowering the curtain of the carriage, Mo Ye sat back in the carriage and did not speak again.

After the carriage drove slowly into the Hengtai Pavilion neighborhood, it didn't go far before stopping. The young coachman jumped off the front panel of the car, stood by the door, and somewhat casually picked up the corner of the curtain with the verbena handle, signaling that Mo Ye could get out of the car. And it wasn't until then that Mo Ye realized a very embarrassing problem, she didn't have any money on her.

She originally thought that the carriage would send her directly to Dongfeng Tower, and she would naturally find someone to pay, so she didn't think about it so much when she left Ye Mansion and got on the car. When she first entered the neighborhood, she thought that the driver was just passing by because he thought the road was quiet and easy to drive. But she didn't expect that her final destination would be here.

The coachman runs around for business all the year round, his mind is very flexible, and the most important thing is that he is not a cunning person, after seeing Mo Ye's somewhat strange face, he understood her difficulties, but he did not take the opportunity to make crooked money, only smiled slightly, and said: "Don't worry about me, the car money has been given as early as when I came." ”

Mo Ye breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, got out of the carriage, she looked around, and found that the carriage was parked in front of a pavilion with a sign of "Flag Return". Mo Ye subconsciously turned around to look at the coachman, and saw that the other party had already sat back in the carriage, whipping and about to leave.

Seeing Mo Ye coming over, the coachman hesitated for a moment and said, "Jiu Niang will let me send you here, I really don't know who wants to see you, just stand here and wait for a while!" Don't be afraid, I think the safest place in Kyoto is the Imperial Palace. ”

When he said that, he lingered any longer, urged his horse, and drove away.

"Thank you." Seeing the carriage leave, Mo Ye retracted his gaze, his body was slightly sideways, he looked at the gate of the building next to him again, and muttered in his heart: The flag is still there? Or return the flag? What exactly is this place?

That's when it happened. A familiar figure appeared in the gate, Mo Ye's eyes lit up, he pounced, and shouted with some excitement: "Aunt Jiu!" ”

……

Mo Ye didn't expect that although the carriage didn't send her back to Dongfeng Tower, she changed her location and met Jiuniang here.

After entering the Qihui Building, Jiu Niang took Mo Ye to a room on the second floor. This room is not big, but the interior furnishings are quite elegant, but there is not the slightest wind and dust.

Surrounded by such a house, Mo Ye naturally asked first what the place of this building was. This is also the question she has been wondering about since she was transported into this neighborhood with a strange architectural atmosphere.

After Jiu Niang's explanation, she knew. The so-called "flag return" is to commemorate a certain battle in the early years. Because that battle did not damage a single soldier of their own side, that is, the enemy abandoned his weapons and surrendered, and the results were good, which can be regarded as a legend in the history of war. When the enemy commander surrendered, he took the initiative to present the flag of the commander to show his sincerity. The current emperor built this building and placed the handsome flag in the building.

There were other uses for this building, which are not to be elaborated on, but it must have been one of the components of the nation's prestige to the Gentiles.

After entering the building and taking a seat, Mo Ye told Jiu Niang all the things that had happened to him in the past few days. In fact, she believed that Jiu Niang should have known about this qiē from Wu Shu as early as two days ago, otherwise she would not rest assured that she would temporarily live in Ye Zhengming's house to recuperate. But nevertheless. She still felt the need to do it again in person to reassure her.

It's just that for sneaking into the Commander's Mansion in the middle of the night to steal the "Qianzhao Sutra". But she did it to hide.

Knowing the details of Mo Ye's injury, Jiu Niang showed an extremely apologetic look on her face, blamed herself several times, and said again and again that she didn't take care of Mo Ye instead of Lin Shan... Speaking of this, Mo Ye couldn't help but feel sad.

……

The adjacent oblique angle of the private room where Jiuniang is located. There was also a private room, and there were two people sitting opposite each other at this time. One is middle-aged in fancy clothes, and the other is very young.

The young man, dressed in an azure brocade shirt with a faint smile on his face, was looking at Mo Ye who was sitting sideways by the tea table through a thin slit in the screen between the two private rooms.

Looking at Mo Ye and Jiu Niang, who were sitting next to the tea table, they began to cry, and in the private room here, the young man stretched out his finger and dipped some tea on the table and wrote: She is my sister?

Obviously, he was asking the middle-aged man in gorgeous clothes who was sitting with him, his eyes slightly lowered at this time, as if he was listening.

Seeing this, the middle-aged man in Chinese clothes raised his eyebrows slightly, did not write with tea like him, nor did he speak, but just nodded.

The young man nodded slightly, reached out and took out a dry cotton cloth from the mezzanine under the tea case, wiped his fingers, and then continued to look at the other side.

……

After using some fine pastries, the two calmed down, and Mo Ye asked Jiu Niang why he brought her here today, and Jiu Niang happened to talk about this, so the two opened the conversation together.

After chatting a few words, Mo Ye knew that she couldn't stay in Dongfeng Tower any longer, and what she was going to next was a family surnamed Song. She will live there temporarily, and her future plans will be slowly planned, but her trip to the Song family will not be accompanied by people from Dongfeng Tower, which makes Mo Ye slightly worried.

Picking up the tea soup boiling on the small tandoor next to the low case, she poured half a bowl for Mo Ye, put down the small red clay pot, added some mountain spring water to it, and covered it, Jiu Niang turned her gaze back to Mo Ye's face, and then slowly said: "Although it is a sojourn, you don't have to worry about anything." The Song family is withered, there is no one left, and now the one who is in charge of the legacy of the Song family is the only nephew of Song Gong. This person has a good character, and you should be able to get along well with him. ”

Mo Ye looked at the tea bowl on the table in front of him with some loss, and after being silent for a while, he asked, "That... Childe, is it also my master's old friend? ”

It was not difficult for Jiuniang to hear the meaning of Mo Ye's words, but she just smiled slightly, and said very frankly: "This nephew of Song Gong is surnamed Ruan, called Ruan Luo, he has never met San Lang, but Wang Zhe, who introduced Ruan Luo to your temporary residence, and San Lang are a bit of a shallow friend. ”

Mo Ye groaned and asked, "What do I need to do when I go to the Song family to live temporarily?" It's not just going to be a guest, is it? ”

When Jiu Niang heard this, her face showed a hint of embarrassment, and after hesitating for a moment, she said: "Actually, there is a condition for Ruan Gongzi to take you in, and you need to take care of his life in the future." However, this condition was not said by Ruan Gongzi himself, but by the introducer Wang Gongzi. ”

"Living in someone else's house will always bring trouble to others, so it is also appropriate to help others do something." Hearing this, Mo Ye nodded, and did not show any obvious inappropriate reaction.

It's just that after she was silent for a while, she asked with some confusion: "But I don't know what care this Ruan Gongzi needs... What are the details? If I think about it carefully, I used to be taken care of more than others, and if I were asked to take care of others, I don't know if I would be able to do it. ”

Jiuniang said with a gentle smile: "You don't have to worry about this, there are naturally maids and maids in the Song family for trivial work, all you have to do is take care of the balance of work and rest of Ruan Gongzi." ”

Seeing that the puzzled look on Mo Ye's face was even heavier, Jiu Niang breathed a sigh of relief and simply said the details: "This Ruan Gongzi is a well-known 'Golden Abacus' in the industry, but he often forgets to rest because of checking the account books, it is best to have a careful person by his side and always advise, otherwise he may often stay up all night without caring about his body." This time, he has just returned from recuperating in Bojun, and his health is fine, but in the near future, he still needs to pay great attention to the combination of work and rest. ”

Next, Jiuniang told Mo Ye what are the specific matters of the so-called "combination of work and rest", and Mo Ye's understanding of this matter gradually became clear.

……

When Jiu Niang began to talk about the details of taking care of Ruan Gongzi, in the private room diagonally opposite, the young man facing this side retracted his gaze, lowered his eyes as if hesitating, and then he got up and left the private room. The middle-aged man who was sitting with him took a step behind him, got up in silence, and left with him.

When Tong Guò first took her seat, Jiu Niang's introduction to this 'Qi Hui Building', Mo Ye not only knew the origin of Qi Huan, but also knew exactly that all kinds of buildings in this neighborhood were open to the outside world - of course, the people who could come here, as the young coachman who had just sent her here said, were either rich or expensive - so the sudden sound of footsteps in the corridor next door was not something that would make Mo Ye feel strange.

However, Mo Ye would never have thought that the reason why Jiu Niang wanted to take her here to talk was not only because the venue of Dongfeng Building was not suitable, but also because the two people who had been sitting extremely quietly in the private room diagonally across the corner could also hear it.

Mo Ye didn't expect that Wang Gongzi, who introduced her to the Song family to take care of Ruan Gongzi, was sitting next door, watching her words and actions. She wouldn't know that this prince was actually her half-brother.

And what she couldn't imagine was that there was not only her brother sitting next door, but also her biological father who she had always wanted to know but wondered if he was still alive in the world. The middle-aged man, who was also the emperor of the dynasty, had never been able to take his youngest daughter into the palace to recognize her, giving her the identity she deserved, tossing and turning, but finally came up with a way to entrust her to the care of the Song family.

This Song family is not a fixed family composition to be exact, but a special institution created by him, which has no obvious title in the law, but can often have the power to transcend the restrictions of the law, and at the same time, it is also to do something for the emperor that needs to break free from the conventional restrictions.

For example, taking care of a princess with an unjust name.

……

Leaving the private room, going downstairs, standing on the stone steps at the gate of the 'Flag to the Building', Wang Zhe's eyes naturally turned into the distance, and finally settled on a pot of four seasons with a new layer of green branches in the corner of the house, and then retracted his gaze, and said thoughtfully: "Time is really amazing, unconsciously my sister who has never seen me has grown to ten years old, but it may be because of the same vein, although today is the first time I have seen her, but I don't feel how strange." ”