Zhao Qin got up early in the morning and found that the sky was gray, and the sky was covered with dark clouds, and it was a rainy day.

Bihan said: "When I woke up in the middle of the night last night, I felt that the breath outside was wrong, with moisture, and I guessed that there must be rain today, and sure enough." Liu Lu answered: "Then what can I do?" The old lady and the girl are going to Cao's house today, if it rains, wouldn't it be inconvenient?"

The two girls looked at Zhao Qin together, but Zhao Qin was a little absent-minded. Bihan had to ask her again: "Girl, the weather is like this today, why don't you go to Cao's house another day?" Zhao Qian came to his senses: "I'll ask my grandmother what she means in a while."

Liu Lu tilted his head to look at Zhao Qin's expression: "What's wrong with the girl?" It doesn't seem to be very energetic. But you didn't sleep well yesterday?"

Zhao Qian shook his head, and he was also a little depressed: "Since last night, I have always felt depressed, as if something bad had happened, but I can't think of what it is. Maybe it's because of the bad weather? Don't worry about it, Bihan will take care of the house, and Liu Lu will accompany me to the West Courtyard."

The West Courtyard she said is Zhang's Sanjin Courtyard, because it is on the West Road, covering a wide area, the people in the Hou Mansion are referred to as the West Courtyard on weekdays, and they talk about Zhang's gossip in private, also known as "the West Courtyard", Zhao Qin heard a lot, and also called the West Courtyard, but never said "the West Courtyard". She also knew that she lived on the east road, next to the garden, and was in charge of the middle feed, and the people talked about it secretly, so she called herself "the one in the east" or "the master behind the garden".

She, the "master behind the garden", began to be a housekeeper at a young age, and she didn't want to add a private house for herself, and she couldn't tolerate corruption and dereliction of duty among her subordinates. But the benefits of the New Year's holidays are very good, the work is done well, and the rewards are also generous; She also set up a family medical center outside as a designated medical office for people, so that they can see a doctor for free with their identity card. The money for medicine is also in the middle of the public; Boys and girls from the family read and read and learn the rules of needlework, and there are new schools, which are also free; People gossip about it on weekdays, as long as she doesn't deliberately make up a bad reputation, she doesn't care. Her combination of soft and hard means tossed the subordinates of the Hou Mansion into a losing temper.

Everyone came from the old Hou Mansion in the past, and some came from their hometown. There are almost no new entrants. The people in my hometown have long been accustomed to Zhao Qin's style, and the old people of the Hou Mansion have suffered for ten years, and they feel that it is not easy to have a good errand. It's better to be honest, lest something bad happen and be kicked out, then you will really lose your future. So everyone behaved obediently, did things according to the rules, and didn't bully people when they went out just because they came out of the Hou Mansion. Now that the reputation of the Hou Mansion in Jiannan is good, many people have begun to realize that the daughter of the Hou Mansion is quite capable and has managed a huge Hou Mansion in an orderly manner. I can't help but praise it when I talk about it in private.

Zhao Qin himself has little communication with outsiders, and he doesn't pay much attention to these discussions. This is her home and she hosts the feed. The power is in hand, the grandmother and brother love each other, what do you want to add to yourself, you don't need to take money out of the private house at all, what private house do you have to add to yourself? The whole family has money left to her, and only a large amount of money needs to be approved by her grandmother and brother. But that is the case. It was when she added property to her own family, and she couldn't succeed. And what does it have to do with her personal little coffer? She was very confident. Take 10,000 steps back and talk about it, if there is a day. Her housekeeper power has fallen, for example, her brother married his sister-in-law and took over the feed, and she is not afraid. Take some private money and go out to do some small business, why worry about running out of money? She has the capital, the experience, and the way to get a little bit of a point, so she naturally doesn't look down on the things that are on the sidelines.

Zhao Qin took Liu Lu out of the courtyard, crossed the back porch of the main courtyard, and walked towards Zhang's Sanjin Courtyard on West Road. Now it's not as good as when I lived in the Drum Tower Mansion. At that time, she lived close to the Zhang family, and she only needed to walk a few steps to get there, but now she has to walk for ten minutes, and most of the Hou Mansion has collapsed. Living so far away, the grandparents and grandchildren don't seem to be as close as before, but relatively speaking, she has a higher degree of personal freedom, and she is quite satisfied. Sometimes she doesn't want to read poetry books, practice needlework, read some miscellaneous books, draw something she wants to draw, or even make a little needlework for someone, and she is not afraid that her grandmother will see it; If she wanted to work out, she wouldn't have to avoid her grandmother boxing, and even if she ran around the yard ten or eight times in a skit, and did a set of calisthenics, no one would say anything more.

When Zhao Qin walked into Zhang's house, Zhao Wei had already arrived first. He lives in the main courtyard, so it's easier to come over. Seeing his sister coming, he greeted him with a smile. Zhao Qin saw that his dark circles were getting worse and worse, so he couldn't help but persuade him: "Brother stayed up late again yesterday?" Beware of the body that burns out. There are still a lot of days to go away from home, so you can take it easy. At your age, it's better to get more than four hours of sleep a day."

Zhang smiled when he heard this: "It's a good thing that your brother is willing to study hard, which talented scholar doesn't get up early and work hard in the dark?" You're fine, but persuade your brother to sleep more."

Zhao Qin said: "No matter how hard you work, you must pay attention to the method, if you toss your body badly, what can you do if you pass the exam?" It's a lifetime thing. Grandmother, don't say that a scholar should get up early and touch the dark like this, there are many examples of scholars in the world who are so weak that their bones are broken by the wind. My brother can't be like them. I believe that my father is in the spirit of heaven, and I don't want to see my brother burn down his body for the sake of his death."

Seeing her so solemn, Zhang was a little surprised, Zhao Wei hurriedly smiled: "Where did it come to this?" My grandmother told me to take more supplements every day, and I listened to them, and my sister always told me to pay attention to rest, and I never listened to the wind. Today, because of the strong wind last night, the window was blown loudly, and I was woken up a few times, and I didn't sleep well. After I got back to lunch, I took another nap and recuperated."

Zhang also nodded when he heard this: "That's good. I told them to give you lunch. [,！ Prepare a soup that soothes the nerves. But how are the people in your house waiting? Why don't you close the windows before going to bed? The first time I was woken up, how many times did I quarrel? Don't they know how to close the windows?"

Zhao Wei smiled and said, "It's closed, but it's blown open again." Then quickly changed the subject, "Speaking of which, when the wind blew last night, I thought the weather might not be good today. Sure enough, when I woke up in the morning, it was dark clouds, and I was afraid that it would rain for a while. Are grandmothers and sisters really going to Cao's house? What if it rains on the road? Why don't you go another day?"

Zhang said: "It's okay for now, let's go over early. It's all agreed, how can you break your promise?"

Since she said so, Zhao Wei and Zhao Qin's brothers and sisters are not easy to persuade much. The three of them had breakfast. Zhao Wei went to the study, Zhao Qin went to take care of the daily housework, and after a while, seeing that the time was almost up, he first went back to his yard to change his clothes, and then went to the west courtyard to meet his grandmother. The grandparents and grandchildren went to the Cao family.

The sky is not beautiful, and when they are halfway there, the rain begins to fall. When I arrived at Cao's house, thanks to Mrs. Cao, I sent many mothers-in-law and girls with umbrellas to greet her. Their skirts and uppers are still a lot wet. Fortunately, Zhao Qin had long expected this to happen, so he brought clean clothes and borrowed the Cao family's house to change his clothes, so that he could come out to meet Mrs. Cao and Mrs. Cao.

Mrs. Cao and Zhang's are old friends, and when they meet, they are naturally affectionate, and she also likes Zhao Qin very much, and she keeps praising her mouth: "The girl is getting more and more beautiful now, I like it when I see it. It's rare to not only look good. Knowledgeable and courteous, as well as a good housekeeper. Where can I find such a good girl? Big sister, you might as well give me your girl to be my granddaughter-in-law."

Mrs. Cao didn't know whether she was sincere or polite. Zhang's heart was so happy that he just missed his eyes and caught a glimpse of Mrs. Cao's stunned look on her face, although it quickly disappeared, but the expression didn't look like a happy one no matter how you looked at it. Zhang was secretly a little hesitant, and smiled and said a few words of modesty. quickly got to the point: "I'm here today to ask you about something, old sister. I heard that the lady in Yingtai is gone. I was very surprised, and I didn't know what the charter was. What do we foreign women need to do?"

The expression on Mrs. Cao's face suddenly became very strange, and she looked uncomfortable, thinking of what her husband said this morning, she suspected that Fang Cai's own expression showed traces, which made Zhang unhappy, so the other party specially said such things to mock herself.

As soon as Mrs. Cao saw her daughter-in-law's expression, she knew what she was thinking. She also saw the performance of her daughter-in-law just now, and she couldn't help but have some hatred in her heart. She knew that her daughter-in-law was not happy that she said that, and she disliked that Zhao Qin was not a lady from a famous scholarly family, and she didn't want to think about it, the eldest daughter of the Fang family's branch could be married to the second son of the Bofu as a wife, and what qualifications did the daughter of the Fang family's side branch have to find fault with the daughter of the Hou Mansion? Mrs. Cao sighed in her heart, only feeling that her grandson was probably not blessed.

She said to Zhang: "You don't have to worry about this matter, that lady in Yingtai is not dead, she is alive and well. The previous rumor was just a trap for a few remnants of the rebel king, but now they have been caught, and none of them have escaped."

Zhang and Zhao were both taken aback. Zhao Qian remembered Gao Zhen's actions a few days ago, and vaguely seemed to understand something. Zhang asked Mrs. Cao, "What do you say?" Haven't they all been wiped out? Who survived? Did the imperial court deliberately release the news so that it would attract those people to worship and throw themselves into the net?"

Mrs. Cao sneered: "Where do you want those people to worship?" Speaking of which, the news of the death of that lady in Yingtai will be due to them! I heard that they were unwilling to let their group be defeated, so they deliberately found someone to enter Yingtai with poison, intending to find an opportunity to poison the lady, and then blame the emperor, so that the young master mistakenly thought that the emperor wanted to kill their mother and son, so as to provoke the young master's hatred for the emperor. When the Mid-Autumn Festival Palace banquet comes, the Queen Mother will graciously order him to attend the banquet, and then he may poison the emperor's family! Listen, what a wicked mind! If it weren't for the emperor's holy candlelight, the guards would have discovered the poison hidden in the body of the fine work sent into the palace by that group of people early on, I am afraid that they would really succeed! "

Zhang was amazed when he heard this: "There is such a thing?" After reciting a few words of Buddha, I also felt a little scared in my heart.

Zhao Qin felt that there seemed to be something wrong with this statement...... If Princess Qianying is really dead, will the Queen Mother still be kind enough to ask the prince of Ying, who has just died, to attend the palace banquet? Even Gao Zhen, the prince of Guangping, did not attend the palace banquet during the filial piety period. Can this flawed ploy really succeed?

And the expression on Mrs. Cao's face seemed to be even more uncomfortable. (To be continued)