The night in Jiangfu was exceptionally quiet, Su Xue cut a candle wick, covered it with a lampshade, and the curtain hung quietly, she looked at the dim light and was fascinated.

Last night, she went to help the old lady press her head, and the old lady's words mentioned the Marquis of Xiling everywhere, as if she was probing her thoughts. She coped with a few words, but did not say anything.

The old lady seemed to see her restraint and said directly: "Grandmother, you can see that Sister Xue'er is also a thoughtful person, you should understand the Hou Ye's heart for you." Grandmother and your father look good, then Pei Ye is the only son-in-law of Master Pei, and he is the eldest son, and he has already been crowned a marquis, as long as you marry him, you will have the glory and wealth for the rest of your life. ”

Seeing Su Xue bowing and pondering, the old lady paused, and then added: "Your father's career and the entire Jiang family are harmless."

Su Xue recalled the old lady's words, held her cheeks, and sighed softly.

"Pei Ziyu ......," she said softly.

Does he really want to marry her?

Thinking back on Pei Ye's actions, his intentions were true. It's just that she is still in a trance, she doesn't dare to believe all this, and she doesn't dare to imagine what the situation will be like in the future if she agrees.

The sound of the bead curtain shaking interrupted Su Xue's thoughts, and it was the wonderful dream that returned.

Su Xue raised her head inquiringly, Miaomeng carried the food box, and was a little disappointed (1) ≠ Chang (1) ≠ Feng (1) ≠ Wen (1) ≠ Studies, ◆▽ ±t shook his head.

Qianrou's palate still hasn't improved at all.

"I'll go to the hospital tomorrow and look through the medical books to see if there are any miracle prescriptions."

Nowadays, ordinary recipes are not effective. I can only hope for Qifang. I just hope that the last straw Qianrou can grasp.

Miaomeng turned around while packing up the food box and said, "The other ladies are clamoring to go to the Lantern Festival tomorrow, but you don't care about this, you just want to go to the hospital."

"What's so good about the lanterns, isn't it just a blind date for men and women......" Su Xue replied boredly, now that the old lady has almost finalized her family affairs, what is she going to do with that? She cares more about Qianrou's affairs.

Miaomeng put away the food box, took incense and lit it in the copper furnace of animal ears.

"Actually, Miss, it's okay if you don't go, just go to get food for Qianrou, I heard the little maid say, the second miss and the fourth miss are making a lot of trouble about this!"

Su Xue's eyes rolled. Miss Two and Miss Four?

I heard that this lantern festival was organized behind the scenes by the Chen family. Then Chen Gongzi will definitely go.

The eldest lady and the second lady have regarded this as their last chance, and they naturally want to go. And Shen Lang, who has been thinking about her in the bottom of the fourth lady's heart, definitely doesn't have the heart to join in this fun.

One of them wants to go tight, and the other doesn't want to go. Doesn't it just hit it off? What else is there to make a fuss about?

Among them. The one who really wants to stir up trouble is none other than the second wife.

Of course, you also have to take out Jiang Wanyue.

Su Xuewu shook her head, unintentionally paying attention to their affairs.

Originally. The second lady and the fourth lady really can't make trouble, the eldest lady and the second lady have their eyes on this lantern festival early in the morning, but who expected them to prepare everything they should have prepared, the old lady spoke, and what she said was to let the two girls in the second room go.

The eldest lady and the second lady immediately disagreed, and the eldest lady wanted to go to the old lady to say a few words, but was stopped by the eldest lady, saying that the second master had already told him about it, so he asked the girl in the second room to go.

The eldest man has said so, even if the eldest lady is a hundred unwilling, she has to swallow her grievances to the bottom of her heart.

Since the eldest lady passed away, the eldest lady's whole spirit seems to have been drained of half of her spirit, and occasionally she suddenly woke up from her dream in the middle of the night, crying and cursing Zheng Tingxuan.

After being stimulated like this, it is already more than enough to deal with these things in the mansion. Therefore, seeing that the old lady and the second master over there had already joined the caliber, she no longer competed, and she recognized it.

The second miss was naturally aggrieved in her heart, but she had to secretly scold her mother for being incompetent, but who would have thought that the fourth miss over there would be cheap and behaved, and after dinner, she actually pulled and scolded her for being unproductive, and the second miss was so angry that she burst into tears, and almost slapped the fourth lady in the face.

The old lady thought that the second lady was unwilling to make trouble with the fourth lady, and immediately called the second miss to the room to scold, and in the end, the lantern festival was still given to the two girls in the second room.

The second lady was so sour in her heart, but she didn't know who to say, her father was cowardly, her mother couldn't speak, the eldest sister died, and Brother Jun also went to Zhuangzi, she really had to be bullied.

Fourth Miss Jingxuan didn't care about the lantern festival, she just wanted to go through the motions, and by the way, she was angry that the big house was unproductive.

Wanyue was very nervous, and she picked out clothes and jewelry in the room for a long time, and finally chose a pink embroidered lily skirt with a small row of pearls nailed to the collar, which looked particularly bright.

When Jingxuan was led out by Qin's mother and was about to get into the carriage, she was really taken aback when she turned her head and saw Wanyue.

Su Rili, the sixth sister was silent and low-key, as quiet as air, and she didn't think that after a little makeup and a little powder, she would have such a complexion.

After getting into the carriage, Jingxuan couldn't help but turn her face to stare at Wanyue, why didn't she notice it before, this sixth sister is really a living beauty. Looking at his outfit again, he suddenly felt a little annoyed, why did he choose a dress casually, the more he looked at it, the more inconspicuous he became, and he taught a sixth sister to steal the limelight.

Although she didn't plan to compete for the limelight, but when she went out like this, she became a foil, and she lost her sister-in-law's demeanor at all.

This made Jingxuan a little sulky.

The second wife was supposed to accompany her, but she asked for a date, these days are not suitable for travel, she considered it a few times, and simply pushed it off because she was unwell, but she couldn't rest assured, so she asked Qin's mother to accompany Jingxuan together.

Jingxuan's life's events are important, but her own body is even more important, and she didn't want to touch that bad head again when she suffered something like that in Beijing last time.

Not afraid of 10,000, just in case, she is living more and more cautiously.

The lantern festival was set up on Chengnan Street in the capital, and they got up in the afternoon in order to arrive at the twilight.

The lantern will be less than two hours. It is definitely impossible to go back to Jizhou in the dark, but I am not worried at this time, because the second master is in Beijing, and he has already had a house in the capital, and it is still a big mansion with five entrances, but the second young master still often returns to Jizhou, and the house in Beijing does not live permanently.

When they come to Beijing, they can go and rest, which is a lot more convenient.

Mother Qin muttered to Jingxuan all the way, just saying that Chen Gongzi would go to this Lantern Festival, how important it was. Jingxuan didn't want to listen to Qin's mother's chatter. Instead, he glanced at Wanyue who was sitting on the side from time to time. This sixth sister, the sixth sister she has never put in her eyes, how can she look at it now, how is it unpleasant......

The carriage traveled fast, and they settled in the house of the second master. Eat some snacks first. Then rush to Chengnan Street.

Wanyue only drank some honey water and hurried back to the carriage to wait. Thinking that she would be able to go to the lantern festival in half an hour, she was already so nervous that her palms broke out in a cold sweat.

In the past, except for the begging and Lantern Festival, the Great Calendar Country generally did not hold lantern festivals. And the prince is heavy on courtesy and light on martial arts. The emperor planned for the crown prince in the long run, and also promoted that the peaceful and prosperous era should worship literature and weak martial arts, and ordered the Ministry of Rites to step up the establishment of various lantern festivals and poetry meetings to demonstrate the great calendar's advocating etiquette.

This lantern festival is run by the Chen family.

As soon as they entered the night city south street, it was already brightly lit and crowded, and when their carriage was about to enter, a guard with a knife stepped forward to stop them, and the two old mothers lifted the curtain to inspect them one by one, confirming that they were all female dependents, and then let them go.

Jingxuan didn't have any intention of this lantern festival, and she didn't care about grooming today, so she became more and more interested, but after getting off the carriage, there was a jubilant scene all around, with all kinds of lanterns dazzling, red and illuminating the lonely night sky.

Because of the big face of Chen Shilang's family, most of the people who came this time were nobles in Beijing, and even they put down their nobility, talking and laughing while admiring the lanterns, Jingxuan couldn't help but be interested, forgot the previous unhappiness, and took Wanyue's hand to look around.

Wanyue was smiling and talking and laughing with Jingxuan, while secretly looking around, now the south street of the city was full of people, but Chen Yijin never saw anyone.

Her eyebrows twisted slightly, and a little loss welled up in her heart.

only followed Jingxuan's steps to come and go, and the smile on her face gradually disappeared.

Jingxuan didn't care about others when she played, she became more and more interested, shopping for lanterns and guessing lantern riddles, and also showed off her skills to draw a Phnom Penh orchid with a pen and made a small lantern.

Chengnan Street is very lively, but Yiguofu, which is two streets away, is quiet, although there are lights everywhere, but it seems to sink into this deep night, with a bit of indescribable dullness and tension.

There was only one lamp lit in Pei Ye's study, which was a little dim, reflecting his side face flickering, and he stood with his hands in his hands, quietly listening to Chen Yijin tell him about tonight's deployment.

"In order to avoid too many idlers, I instructed the guards to allow only female dependents to enter, with the exception of Yiguo Mansion and Chen Mansion, where the security is not too strict except at the entrance to the street, so as to ensure that the lark relaxes his vigilance and does not see the clues. If the lark really appears at the lantern festival, I will immediately send people to the high platform to recite poems and select the lantern nobles, with gongs and drums as a signal, as soon as the gongs and drums sound, you will lead people to block Chengnan Street and encircle and suppress the larks. ”

Pei Ye closed his eyes and nodded slowly.

The crown prince attaches great importance to this operation, and if they don't clash head-on with King Qinan this time, they can also let go of their hands and feet.

The prince meant that it was best to catch it alive, and if not, he would never release this cunning lark into the forest.

After a short silence, Pei Ye suddenly turned around, looked at Chen Yijin and asked, "But, how can you be sure that the lark must be a man?" ”

Chen Yijin said: "Liuli said that she had seen the back of a lark from a distance in the palace, and she was about eight feet tall and agile. ”

Liuli was Chen Yijin's henchman, and Master Chen saw that she was smart and well-behaved, bold and careful, and loyal to the Chen family, so he asked Chen Yijin to arrange for her to go to Qinan Wangfu to do internal response.

Ya Pozi said that her parents died, and the palace bought it to be a rough maid, and Liuli did not live up to the trust, and soon became a third-class maid in the palace, and sent clean bedding and clothes for the princess on the side of the palace.

was able to walk around the inner courtyard of the palace, and gradually found out a little bit about the movement of the lark.

When Chen Yijin said this, Pei Ye was relieved and said with a smile: "Da Liguo has indeed never seen his eight-foot-tall daughter's family. Rest assured, I'll be here with my men. ”

Chen Yijin choked for a moment: "It's not early, what's the matter, do you still have any inconvenience?" ”

Pei Ye sighed, and was about to say that he had to appease the eldest lady at home before he could get out, but before he could say this, there was a commotion outside the study.

"Miss, the eldest young master said that no one is allowed to enter the study, you better go back and wait first......" The maids outside the study were about to cry.

Pei Jin ignored the maid, and was about to kick the door when she lifted her dress, but the maid knelt down in fright. (To be continued......)