Zhou Shaojin came back to his senses for a while.

She decided to hurry back to the temple, lest she hear something she shouldn't have heard.

It's just that what she didn't expect was that she had just left the corridor, and the curtain of the main room was lifted, and Cheng Chi walked out.

Zhou Shaojin was shocked.

Wasn't he talking to Mrs. Guo? How did it come out so quickly? There was only one person in the courtyard quietly, and he didn't know if he would suspect that she was eavesdropping on him talking to Mrs. Guo?

She stepped forward nervously and saluted Cheng Chi and shouted "Uncle Chi".

Cheng Chi's expression was a little dazed, as if he hadn't noticed her before, and when she saluted him, he found out about Zhou Shaojin's existence.

"You're here!" He changed his previous gentleness and greeted Zhou Shaojin lightly, with a little tiredness between his eyebrows.

Is it because the conversation with Mrs. Guo is not going well?

Zhou Shaojin guessed in his heart and said with a smile: "I copied the scriptures in the Buddhist hall, and I just came over to drink a cup of tea!" ”

Although he didn't tell Cheng Chi everything about what happened, he didn't hide it.

"Really?" Cheng Chi responded casually, looking absent-minded.

Zhou Shaojin heard the words and said goodbye to him: "Then I will go back to the Buddhist hall to copy the scriptures." ”

Cheng Chi nodded, but after Zhou Shaojin walked a few steps, he stopped her again and hesitated: "The old lady is in the inner room, she is in a bad mood, since you are here, you might as well accompany the old lady to talk!" ”

She?

Speak?

Zhou Shaojin was stunned.

What can she and Mrs. Guo say?

And at this time, what can she say to Mrs. Guo?

Zhou Shaojin was embarrassed, but he didn't expect Cheng Chi to change his mind and said, "Forget it...... You have a quiet temperament, not as lively as Sister Sheng, I'm afraid it will be difficult to make the old lady happy even if you accompany the old lady...... Go back to the Buddha Hall and copy the scriptures! ”

Her face flushed, she whispered in response, and walked quickly towards the Buddhist hall.

But when he turned the corner of the house, Zhou Shaojin couldn't help but turn around.

Cheng Chi stood straight at the foot of the steps of the corridor of the main house, with his hands behind his back, quietly looking at the blue sky, peaceful, but full of loneliness.

What happened between him and his parents?

Why didn't he get married?

What happened in the Guo family?

Who is the old man referring to?

Zhou Shaojin felt like a marquee in her mind, and she kept turning and turning until she said goodbye to Mrs. Guo, and her mood could not calm down.

Mrs. Guo was tougher than she imagined. From the outside, she is no different from her usual days. If it weren't for Zhou Shaojin's certainty that she had heard Mrs. Guo's roar in the afternoon, she would have thought that nothing had happened. But that's just the appearance. Mrs. Guo uncharacteristically asked about the progress of Zhou Shaojin's copying of the scriptures, and when she heard Zhou Shaojin say that it could be completed before the year, she was very satisfied, and even showed a slight smile.

In Zhou Shaojin's opinion, it is not so much that Mrs. Guo is happy because of the progress of her copying of scriptures, but because this matter is being implemented smoothly according to Mrs. Guo's requirements, which makes Mrs. Guo feel a little better.

Back at Wan Xiangju, she asked her sister, "Do you know what happened to Uncle Chi when he was a child?" ”

Zhou Chu Jinqi said: "What are you asking for?" ”

"I met Uncle Chi in Hanbi Mountain House today." Zhou Shaojin said, "I'm curious. Why did he not enter the Jinshi after he was admitted. ”

Zhou Chujin didn't doubt it, and said with a smile: "What's so strange about this." To be an official, you have to leave your hometown for 500 miles, and how many places in the world can compare to the wealth of Jinling City? Instead of going to that bitter cold place to be a seven-grade petty official, it is better to stay in Jinling and be a merry celebrity! ”

Zhou Shaojin pursed her lips and smiled, faintly feeling that the reason why Cheng Chi was not an official was that simple.

Zhou Chujin gave her sister an idea: "If you really want to know about Uncle Chi when he was a child, why don't you ask the older servants in the long room." They know for sure. ”

Zhou Shaojin asked Fan Qi to inquire.

Fan Qi replied to her the next day: "The fourth master was born in the capital, when the old lady of Yongchang's fifteen-year-old house died, the fourth master was only six years old, and he returned to his hometown to keep filial piety for a year, and was taken to the capital by the second old lady. It wasn't until the thirteenth year of Zhide that the fourth master was twenty years old and was about to come to an end, so he came back. If you want to know what happened to the fourth old man when he was a child, then you have to ask the second old lady in the capital who served beside him. ”

"Huh?!" Zhou Shaojin's eyes widened.

In other words, Cheng Chi spent most of his time in the capital, and it was only a matter of the past few years when he returned to Jinling.

No wonder I hadn't heard from him before.

But that's not right!

When did he get a Yutai ticket number?

Since he studied with the second old lady of the long house, how did the second old lady of the long house make him "not do his job"?

Fan Qi lowered his voice again, and said in a chattering voice: "Second Miss, I also heard them say that the fourth master has a separate courtyard in the lime mountain thirty miles northwest of the city, which is called 'Algae Garden'. When the fourth master just came back, he didn't live in the house. Live in the algae garden. Later, it was the old lady who spoke, and the fourth master moved back. ”

Zhou Shaojin had heard about the affairs of Chengchi and the courtyard, but he didn't know that it was in Lime Mountain.

She didn't take this matter to heart, but asked Fan Qi: "You can help me inquire about when the Yutai ticket number was opened." ”

"I know," Fan Qi told her with certainty, "it is the eighth year of Zhide, the ninth day of the ninth month. ”

Zhou Shaojin was puzzled: "How do you know?" ”

Fan Qi smiled hesitantly: "When I was in the village, Xiao Xiucai next door wanted to go to Yutai to be an apprentice, and he sued me." He also told me that every September 9th, Yutai ticket numbers will be shimi, and many people line up to get rice. ”

The ninth day of September is not only the Double Ninth Festival, but also the birthday of Mrs. Guo.

Doesn't it have anything to do with that?

In the eighth year of Zhengde, that is, ten years ago, Uncle Chi was fifteen years old...... He was so small and his family was rich, how could he think of leaving his family's business aside to create a ticket number?

The people who manage the housework at home are usually hopeless, and at that time, the family should not have decided that he will take care of the housework? And it turned out later that although Uncle Chi ended late, he didn't delay a single subject, and he didn't have very solid basic skills, even if he had the uncle of the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy and the brother of the two Jinshi, it was impossible to be so smooth.

Mrs. Tai asked Uncle Chi not to blame the deceased old lady of the long house, could it be that Uncle Chi was delayed because he had prematurely decided to let Uncle Chi manage the general affairs, and he didn't get off the exam until he was twenty-one years old?

That's not right either!

Didn't Mrs. Guo also take care of the housework in the early years? If Uncle Chi is a seed of study, with the strength of Mrs. Guo, she will definitely continue to manage the housework, how can she delay her son's future because of this?

The more Zhou Shaojin thought about it, the more he felt that his head was as big as a fight.

She waved her hand and asked Fan Qi to go down and rest: "If there is anything in the future, come and sue me again." ”

Fan Qi said with a smile: "There is really something to tell Miss Sù Second - the Heming girl of Xiaoshan Cong Guiyuan is going out of the cabinet, and she is married far away to Huzhou, and there is a quota for a big girl in Xiaoshan Cong Guiyuan, and many people want to figure out that Guò Qin will go to Xiaoshan Cong Guiyuan, but Qin Da Guan said that Xiaoshan Cong Guiyuan does not add people...... Is that a thing? ”

Zhou Shaojin was very surprised and said, "What you said is true!" ”

"It couldn't be more really!" Fan Qi promised, "If you don't believe it, wait for two days at most, and there will be something out of Chief Manager Qin." ”

Attaboy!

Zhou Shaojin almost touched Fan Qi's head.

In the morning, when she was in the Hanbi Mountain House, the little maid asked Jasper when Jasper hadn't heard a word, but it had only been a few hours, and Fan Qi had already received the letter.

She happily rewarded Fan Qi with a tael of silver.

Fan Qi smiled and put it in his arms, and said, "Second Miss, there is one more thing, but it has nothing to do with Xiaoshan Cong Guiyuan, it is a second room matter, do you want to listen?" ”

Dare to love this, there is still a gift!

Zhou Shaojin was not interested in the affairs of the second room, but she felt that she knew more about the affairs of the Cheng family, and it would be convenient for her to act in the future, so she smiled and said, "Tell me what is going on?" ”

Seeing that Zhou Shaojin was interested, Fan Qi was also interested, and said, "Didn't the second aunt and grandmother in the long room give birth to a son a few days ago, and the grandmother in the second room also gave birth to a young master?" As a result, the long room and the second room raced the long room, because the third washing ceremony given to the second aunt and grandmother was praised by the mother-in-law, and the second room was uncomfortable......

Zhou Shaojin felt ridiculous when he heard it, and said, "Aren't the people who know the grandmother's family angry?" ”

She didn't expect that someone as shrewd and powerful as Donald would do such a foolish thing!

Fan Qi smiled hesitantly: "I heard others say that Grandma Zhi's maiden family is an empty shell. ”

After he finished speaking, he waited for Zhou Shaojin to continue to ask.

Zhou Shaojin didn't say anything.

He looked up suspiciously, but saw Zhou Shaojin sitting there with a shocked face.

Fan Qi didn't know where he said wrong, he was a little scared, and cautiously shouted "Second Miss", "You, what's wrong with you?" ”

"I'm fine!" Zhou Shaojin took a deep breath.

She remembered.

Cheng Xu, the ancestor of the second room, was Zhengde who was sick for eight years.

In other words, Uncle Chi opened the Yutai ticket number after Cheng Xu did not become an official.

Why?

Because the Cheng family is an empty shell?

Zhou Shaojin didn't believe it.

There must be something to do with this!

It's just that she doesn't know.

Zhou Shaojin's mind was a mess.

She asked the old servant at home about the Cheng family's food and clothing back then.

The old servant smiled: "The water of Mochou Lake has not dried up, how can Jiuru Lane be less chewable?" Don't say that this is a peaceful and prosperous world, that is, when the dynasty was changed, my grandfather said that there were people outside Jinling City who changed their children and ate, and the Cheng family did not lack food and clothing. ”

Is the Cheng family so rich?

Zhou Shaojin felt that he knew something, but after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't tell what he knew.

In her slightly anxious mood, Lan Ting was ordered by Zhou Zhen to send a box of Dongzhu to each of her two daughters.

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Sisters, today's update!

PS: I believe that the sisters who left messages in the comment section are all because they hope that I can write better.

Today, a sister gave me a link, talking about the issue of male and female defense. I think that compared with male and female defense, Zhou Shaojin should feel that how to make Cheng Chi believe in himself is more important. Otherwise, her relatives might only have thirteen years to live at most.

O(∩_∩)O~

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