Soon after the Lantern Festival, the weather warms up day by day.

In the blink of an eye, the spring has begun, and Kyoto is full of peach and willow green, warblers singing and swallow dancing, birds singing and flowers, and thousands of trees showing, and the scene of spring is strong.

Chi Linglong and Chi Mingxuan have a good relationship like sisters, and now that the day when Chi Mingxuan will leave the pavilion is approaching, she has to run to the Zhongyong Marquis Mansion a few times.

"Grandmother's body looks worse than before, doesn't it mean that it is getting better day by day, why do I look ......at it?"

Chi Linglong went to the Mansion of the Marquis of Zhongyong, and took the lead in going to Rongshoutang to say goodbye to the old lady who was paralyzed in bed and couldn't get up.

After staying in Rongshoutang for a long time and expressing concern for the visit, Chi Linglong was accompanied by Chi Mingxuan, and the two walked out of Rongshoutang together and went to the courtyard where Chi Mingxuan lived, and did not forget to whisper and whisper along the way.

Thinking of the old lady she saw today, Chi Linglong's distant eyebrows couldn't help frowning even tighter.

The last time she came to the Zhongyong Marquis Mansion to see the old lady, it was when she returned to her parents' house on the second day of the Lunar New Year, when the old lady was paralyzed in bed and couldn't speak, but fortunately, although she was paralyzed, half of her body was still conscious.

It's just that the old lady I saw this time, she was breathing heavily and rapidly, her eye sockets were deep, her hip bones were high and protruding, her body was so thin that only a layer of dry skin remained, and her whole body couldn't move, and she didn't even know anyone anymore.

Chi Linglong's words fell, Chi Mingxuan looked back at the many maids who were following the two of them far away, gritted her teeth for a while, and then came to Chi Linglong, and whispered to her: "Grandmother's body is indeed not as good as before." …… Externally, my grandmother's body is slowly recovering, and there is no way to do it. Fifth sister, you know, our house is different now, how many people are staring at it, if there is bad news about my grandmother outside, my uncle and my father, at least they have to take leave and go home to wait for their grandmother. It's just that, you know, the position of my uncle and my father ......"

Ji Mingxuan said this, but it is not easy to talk about it later.

It's just that although she didn't make it clear, how could Chi Linglong not know such a simple truth?

It's nothing more than that his father Chi Zhongyuan and third uncle Chi Zhongli are now pampered and well-treated, one is in charge of the 200,000 garrisons in Kyoto, and the other is now serving the king every day.

But now that the careers of both of them are on the rise, if the mother-in-law is just sick, it is better to say, at most, it is to take leave and return home for a few days; If they are seriously ill or even die, the two of them will have to go home.

This Ding worry, at least three years to go out of the door, it is even more difficult to see the king, and it will be three years before he can recover; And even if it comes to the day of recovery, His Majesty may not still remember you, even if it is really smooth, the official position and the emperor's heart may not be as good as it is now.

Therefore, even if it is not for her own future, the future of the Marquis of Zhongyong's mansion, the old lady cannot die now; Even if she is really bad, her news will be covered up, even if it is hung with the most precious medicinal herbs, it must be hung until the best time, and it will be the most valuable for her to die.

Chi Linglong nodded, indicating that she understood what Ji Mingxuan was going to convey to her.

However, when she thought of another thing, Chi Linglong couldn't help but chuckle, "Fortunately, the day when you go out is not far away, otherwise, if the old lady is really gone before this, I am afraid that your family affair will have to be postponed for a few years." ”

When Chi Mingxuan heard Chi Linglong talk about her marriage, she was a little embarrassed, and her little face was full of redness, but after hearing the possibility that Chi Linglong talked about, Chi Mingxuan was a little afraid.

She took Chi Linglong's arm and got closer to her, before whispering to her, "That's it, my mother has been worried before." …… Fifth sister, you don't know, my mother and aunt originally discussed, saying that I should go out again in May, but seeing that my grandmother was not doing well day by day, my mother was worried and worried,...... Only then did I find my aunt again and move forward my life by three months. ”

Chi Linglong nodded, looking at her family affairs funny, and shrunk into a shrimp-like girl with shame, with a smile between her eyebrows.

No matter how you get out, she is still a little girl in the end, and she is embarrassed, this is a normal reaction.

The two were talking, and in a blink of an eye they arrived at Chi Mingxuan's yard, and the girls quickly served tea and snacks, and the two of them used less, and then they drove out a few girls and whispered alone.

Chi Linglong's news is relatively closed, in the palace of King Qin, although Qin Chengsi does not hide the rest of her affairs, but if she does not take the initiative to ask, that person will not take the initiative to tell her the news of others.

Originally, all the gossip news that Chi Linglong knew came from Chi Mingxuan, but since the sixth girl, Chi Mingzhu, got married in October last year, Chi Mingxuan's family affairs have also been put on the agenda.

She was held by the third aunt Jiang all day long to embroider the wedding dress, learning the way of the housekeeper, from the dawn of the morning to open her eyes, every day to be busy until the night does not stop, every time lying in bed, tired like a dog, even the strength to lift the pen is gone, let alone to Chi Linglong gossip anecdotes.

Without Ji Mingxuan, a jack of all trades, Chi Linglong is like missing an ear, and the news is even more closed, so she is still very interested in what Ji Mingxuan wants to say to her.

I heard Chi Mingxuan put down the cup, and said to her very worriedly: "Fifth sister, soon after I get married, the eighth sister and the ninth sister will enter the palace." ”

The eighth girl and the ninth girl are this year's show girls, because Chi Mingxuan was engaged to her cousin long before the news of the "draft" was announced, so although her age is also within the scope of the draft, she does not need to enter the palace to participate in the draft.

Ji Mingxuan escaped by luck, but the eighth girl and the ninth girl, two girls of the right age, were not so good.

The two are slightly younger than Chi Mingxuan, but they are both fifteen years old this year, if it weren't for the fact that the eighth girl had no biological mother, and Lin's mother-in-law didn't care about her family affairs, and the Zhou family was busy with Chi Mingzhu's family affairs earlier, and they didn't care about the nine girls' family affairs, maybe the two could get married this year.

But in fact, the two of them happened to catch up with the "draft" craze, and they were both on the draft list, so it was impossible not to enter the palace at all.

However, in the end, they are the daughters of the family, and they don't have to start training years ago like ordinary folk show girls, they only need to enter the palace in mid-February.

As for the etiquette practiced by folk women earlier, these women of the family have long learned it in their bones, so it is appropriate to enter the palace at a later date.

Speaking of the eighth girl and the ninth girl entering the palace, Chi Linglong was also very worried, those two, the eighth girl was a stubborn and willing to fight since she was a child, in order to survive when she was a child, she was willing to treat herself as a monkey and dress up as a clown, just to set off the second girl Chi Mingwan's beauty and kindness, in exchange for the opportunity to settle down.

That's a girl who can endure anything in order to survive, such a girl who can endure what ordinary people can't bear, but she was born as a concubine, and there is a mother-in-law like the Lin family, so, Chi Linglong thinks that maybe her eighth sister will enter the palace and fight for a future.

If she really asked the Lin family to arrange family affairs for her, I am afraid that the Lin family would decisively sell her to a merchant family because of money; Or let her fill the house for her step-room, so that the second master Chi Zhongde can seek a future.

For the eighth girl, it is a good thing to enter the palace, but for the ninth girl whose origin seems to be a little unknown, Chi Linglong thinks about meeting today, and the thin waist of the ninth sister seems to be able to hold with one hand, and she shakes her head helplessly.

"The eighth sister may be happy to enter the palace, but I don't think the ninth sister seems to be willing."

"What can she do if she doesn't want to?" Ji Mingxuan said entangledly: "The name of the girl has been reported a long time ago, and it is impossible to change it now." However, if she really doesn't want to enter the palace, she may beg her aunt, and the aunt will make a effort, maybe the first two links will make her eliminated. But, fifth sister, you also know, her aunt ...... The fourth sister's aunt, Aunt Xiaolin, pretends to be an invisible person all day long, and the eldest aunt still has to learn about the relatives of the fourth sister, let alone the ninth sister? Her Aunt Li is the most fond of telling right and wrong, and when she was favored a few years ago, she was signaled by the old lady, and she was simply without the king's law. For this reason, the eldest aunt has suffered a lot in her hands. ”

"Now, the eldest aunt finally has a chance to clean up Aunt Li, you say, even if the ninth sister really goes to ask the eldest aunt, will the eldest aunt probably agree?" He giggled twice, and then muffled his throat again, and said unhappily, "However, the ninth sister is not happy to enter the palace, maybe Aunt Li is happy, she can't wait for the ninth sister to enter the palace, so that she can be a concubine and a concubine, and she can also give her a certain fate." ”

"Naughty, even if the ninth sister really enters the palace, the emperor loves him and is willing to give an order, then he will reward his mother. As for Aunt Li's fate...... Don't say this outside, otherwise, it will reach your mother's ears and designate another lawsuit. ”

"Hee-hee, of course I know that. Didn't I just say it in front of you, if it was someone else, I guess I wouldn't bother to pay attention. Halfway through the words, Chi Mingxuan regained his faceless appearance earlier, and leaned on Chi Linglong, like a boneless flower, unwilling to get up.

"However, the tenth sister is a good fate, tsk, she and I have the eighth sister and the ninth sister were born in the same year, if it weren't for the regulations above, there would only be two places in each house, maybe she would have to enter the palace draft this time."

Ten girls are sick in bed all the year round, and rarely appear in front of people, this is a girl who is more invisible than the nine girls, although they are sisters in the same house with Chi Linglong and Chi Mingxuan, but the two of them are now stunned by the faces of the ten sisters, and they can't remember it. R1152