Lu Qingrong didn't stay in Qinyi Courtyard for too long, so he went to Jingchun Hall with the two aunts.

Mrs. Wu did not go with them.

Looking at Lu Qingrong's back, the corners of Mrs. Wu's mouth rose slightly, revealing a subtle smile.

Mother Lu, who was beside her, was a little worried.

"Madam, don't you see if you need a slave to follow them......

"Not necessarily." Mrs. Wu waved her hand.

"You're not afraid...... Mrs. Shizi saw something she shouldn't see......" Mother Lu said in a hurry, as if she couldn't figure out how to phrase it.

"What's there to worry about!" Mrs. Wu was quite unimpressed, "After so many years, if there is really anything, do you have to wait until today for her to find out?" ”

Lu's mother was still hard to be as relaxed as her, but she didn't say anything more.

"Besides, isn't there still Mother Cao over there!" Mrs. Wu is very confident.

Mother Lu nodded in agreement, but she always felt that something was wrong in her heart.

It's true that Cao's mother is their person, and she is very good with herself, but she just can't suppress the worry in her heart, and she can't be as calm and relaxed as Mrs. Wu.

Mrs. Wu didn't want to dwell on this matter anymore, and instead discussed with her about Jiang Ke's marriage.

The master and servant of Qinyi Temple gradually left everything else behind.

And Lu Qingrong's side has just begun.

followed the two aunts to Jingchun Hall, and Lu Qingrong was inevitably a little unfamiliar.

After marrying into the Hou Mansion for a few months, if you say that the most unfamiliar place, I am afraid it is Jingchun Hall.

I haven't been here a few times, and every time I've been in a hurry.

Only now could she slow down and look around at Yiqiē.

The red gate undoubtedly had the highest regulation in the entire Hou Mansion, and it was only slightly opened for a moment when Lu Qingrong and his party entered.

Looking back at the door behind me that closed again, I couldn't help but feel like two worlds here and outside.

The leaves on both sides of the corridor in the courtyard have long been yellowed, and occasionally a gust of autumn wind blows, there will be pieces of fallen leaves falling with the wind, but there are few leaves scattered on the bluestone corridor, which shows that the cleaning is very timely.

Just look around, but you can hardly see the people serving in Jingchun Hall, it looks very depressed.

Occasionally, I saw two maids walking side by side, both with their heads down, and the sound of walking was so light that they were almost completely drowned in the autumn wind, and when they walked to Lu Qingrong, they saluted in a regular manner, and then left quietly.

Lu Qingrong suddenly felt that this kind of atmosphere that was so quiet to the extreme that it had already made her feel a little chilled.

If it weren't for the fact that there were so many people around her, it wasn't certain that she would dare to walk here alone.

"Let's go and say hello to Master Hou first!" Lu Qingrong looked at the two aunts and said.

Now that I have entered the courtyard today, it is not always appropriate to pass through the door and not enter.

But the two aunts obviously didn't think so, and when they heard her say this, their faces showed embarrassment.

The two exchanged glances in an instant, and Aunt Wei just spoke: "Master Hou was unwell last night, and he couldn't sleep well, and he just rested after taking medicine this morning." Mrs. Shizi, you see ...... "The meaning is obvious, please be unnecessary."

Lu Qingrong frowned slightly, and then asked, "Don't you need to ask the imperial doctor to come and have a look?" ”

"The Imperial Doctor has already come, and it is the medicine he instructs." Aunt Wei thought for a while, and then continued: "When the imperial doctor left, he repeatedly told that Master Hou needed to recuperate. ”

"Then let's not bother." Lu Qingrong didn't have to go to ask for peace.

The two aunts breathed a sigh of relief.

Among the things that Mrs. Wu ordered, it did not include taking Mrs. Shizi to greet the Hou Ye.

Led Lu Qingrong into the main hall of Jingchun Hall, Aunt Wei said earnestly: "Mrs. Shizi will sit for a while, let's go and get the account books first." ”

Aunt Chen, who was on the side, saw Aunt Wei's eyes towards her, and also walked out together.

"What are these two people doing?" Lu Zhu stood beside Lu Qingrong and whispered.

Lu Qingrong was silent, and only calmed a little with his eyes.

And at this moment, Cao's mother actually opened her mouth.

"All kinds of account books in Jingchun Hall are not with Gongzhong, but are stored separately in the warehouse at the back of the courtyard, presumably the two aunts went to the back to pick them up."

"Oh?" This is also the first time Lu Qingrong has heard of it, "Jingchun Hall has always been like this? ”

"From the day the Marquis Jingyuan Mansion opened, it was like this." Cao's mother's tone was very affirmative.

Lu Qingrong didn't ask any more, but quietly waited for the two aunts to come back.

At this time, in the back storeroom, two figures were muttering together.

"Which play do you say Mrs. Wu is playing?" Aunt Chen was both puzzled and worried, "I usually manage Jingchun Hall strictly, why did I suddenly think of asking Mrs. Shizi to come over to the council?" ”

"How can you and I guess Mrs. Wu's thoughts!" Aunt Wei didn't care much, "What's more, what if you guess it?" It's not just obedient! Don't think about it so much, hurry up and take all the account books first, don't make Mrs. Shizi wait too long. ”

"Just take it directly? Don't have to pick and choose? "Aunt Chen is particularly cautious.

"I don't think I need it!" Aunt Wei didn't care, "Besides, how can you choose?" Since Mrs. Wu didn't give a special explanation, let's not do much. ”

Seeing that Aunt Chen was still stunned, Aunt Wei then persuaded her: "Don't worry about it, there is nothing for her to find here, not to mention that it is just a teenage child, and Mrs. asked her to be a director, it is nothing more than a passable scene, can you really toss the wind and waves?" ”

Aunt Chen didn't treat Mrs. Shizi as a child, but she didn't know how to refute her words for a while, so she had to follow Aunt Wei to get the account books and directories and return to the main hall.

Lu Qingrong saw a row of maids behind them, each holding a large stack of account books in their hands, and he was really a little surprised in his heart.

Is this going to be true?

After the maids silently put the ledger on top of the black lacquered wooden case, and retreated in a stumbling manner, Lu Qingrong got up and walked over.

I saw that those ledgers were placed in different order, and there was a big difference between the old and the new.

The front one looks slightly newer, and the back one looks more and more old, and even from the side, you can see that the paper inside has yellowed to the point that it is not looking.

"So much?" Lu Qingrong sighed.

"This is Jingchuntang's various account books and records for nearly twenty years." Aunt Wei didn't dare to slack off.

Lu Qingrong casually picked up the first volume and opened it to read.

What is recorded in it is the daily accounts of Jingchuntang in recent months, and almost half of the expenses are used for various medicines. There are a lot of names of medicinal materials written on each page, although Lu Qingrong is confused, but it is not difficult to see from the number of silver taels marked next to it that they should all belong to very precious medicinal materials.

Lu Qingrong closed the book in his hand and picked up the one next to him.

When I opened it, it was the list of maids and servants in Jingchun Hall, and next to it was written in detail the monthly money received by each person, as well as some simple information, including the year and month of Jingchun Hall and so on.

"So many people have only come in in the last two years?" Lu Qingrong flipped through the list in his hand and felt a little strange.

"The one you're looking at happens to be the latest." Aunt Wei hurriedly responded, affirming her statement.

"Is that earlier?" Lu Qingrong continued to ask.

"This ......" Aunt Wei was obviously hesitant before pointing to the back stack, "The one over there should be earlier." ”

Looking in the direction she was pointing, she did see that the booklets were very old, and there was even a lot of dust on them.

Lu Zhu went over and took one of the volumes, brushed off the dust on it with a handkerchief, and then handed it to Lu Qingrong.

Lu Qingrong found that this was also a roster, and the people listed on it were completely different from just now, they were all on an errand in Jingchun Hall more than ten or even twenty years ago.

She also saw Cao's mother's name on it, which shows that it is indeed a long time ago.

Lu Qingrong began to look at it seriously, but gradually frowned involuntarily.

"Can I take these account books back to Yuyuan to see?" Lu Qingrong suddenly raised his head and asked, "It's too much, I'm afraid I won't be able to see it all in a while." ”

Aunt Chen didn't say a word from the moment she entered the door, and she was still silent at this time, just looking at Aunt Wei with some embarrassment.

"Mrs. Shizi, it's not that we deliberately block it, but it's really out of order." In the end, it was Aunt Wei who opened her mouth, "Jingchun Hall's account books can't be discharged from the hospital, this has always been a common practice in the Hou Mansion, even Mrs. Wu has never made an exception, otherwise we should take these to Qinyi Courtyard today, instead of bothering you to follow along." ”

Seeing that she said so eloquently and clearly, Lu Qingrong did not insist anymore, and continued to bow his head and look carefully.

For a whole day, Lu Qingrong stayed in Jingchun Hall for almost all day.

Only at noon went back to Yuyuan, because Jiang Xuan did not come back, she had lunch alone, and went directly to Jingchun Hall again, until it was just time, the sky was getting dark, and she left.

Walking on the way back to Yuyuan, the oncoming autumn wind already carried a hint of chill, which couldn't help but make her shiver a little.

And the qiē she saw in Jingchun Hall today made her feel even more cold.

The personnel changes in Jingchun Hall are obviously very strange.

As early as more than ten years ago, the maids and servants in the courtyard were still relatively stable, and there has not been much change in a few years, but occasionally older maids will be released.

But in the last decade or so, there have been great changes.

First of all, almost all the people were changed at one time, and in the following ten years, the turnover of personnel was also very frequent, and it was extremely rare to last more than two years.

Lu Qingrong soon discovered that the obvious contrast between before and after was the year when Mrs. Jiang died.

It was in that year that Jingchuntang could almost be said to have undergone a major blood change.

Except for Cao's mother who followed Jiang Xuan to Yuyuan, the others faded out of sight.

Lu Qingrong asked Cao's mother at that time, where those people went, and only got the response of "going to the grange outside the city", and he couldn't say anything else.

And Mother Cao, who was following her at this time, was even more apprehensive in her heart.

Today, Lu Qingrong's various expressions in Jingchun Hall made her inevitably a little frightened. R1152