After serving Gu Ye's breakfast, Guan Pozi packed up the tableware and wanted to take it away, but Gu Ye's stopped her.

Mrs. Guan put down the things in her hand, "What does Madame command?" ”

At this moment, although the Gu Ye clan was neatly dressed, his hair was scattered. She looked at Mrs. Guan with a worried brow, "Passing the word to the housekeeper, Mrs. Ben is upset, and she wants to find someone to talk to, and ask him to send someone to invite Mrs. Bai." ”

Mrs. Guan agreed, and took the tableware away when she withdrew.

Gu Ye got up, looked out of the window, and saw Guan Pozi coming out of the door of Wenlan Courtyard, she hurriedly entered the inner room, took out the key she had with her, opened the cabinet, flipped through it a few times, took out a letter, and stood in place to unfold it. No matter how small the brush writing is, how small can it be, and the content of the paper is not long with only two pages. She quickly read the contents of the letter, and her sorrow dissipated, and a look of shyness appeared on her face. She folded the letter and pressed it to her chest for a while, and then reluctantly put it back in the cupboard and locked it. Then she went to the edge of the bed and sat down, smiled and picked up the needle and thread, and embroidered the purse.

Guan Pozi hid outside the window, looked at Yiqiē in her eyes, and walked out of the yard with an expressionless face, leaned against the fence and raised her foot to gently pat the dust stained with the soles of the cloth socks, and put her feet down and reached into the embroidered shoes left on the ground. The same is true for the shoes of the other foot. After that, she bent down casually and picked up the cutlery on the ground and went to Qingshu's yard.

Qing Shu lazily propped her head to look at Mrs. Guan, "A letter? ”

Guan Pozi knelt on the ground, "Yes, Miss." When the lady avoided the slave and maid and took it out to read the letter, she seemed very happy and happy. ”

Qing Shu pondered for a moment, "Meaning, you don't know when Madame got a letter?" ”

"Yes, Miss. The slave maid is derelict in her duties, please punish the young lady. ”

Qing Shu raised her eyebrows, she could avoid her ears and eyes and contact the outside world without leaving home, Gu Ye's family! "Who have you met lately?"

"Four days ago, I spoke to Mrs. Bai, the county assistant's wife, for half an hour. Three days ago, I invited Mrs. Bai to drink tea and gossip, and Mrs. Bai sat down for less than a quarter of an hour before leaving. Mrs. Guan replied carefully.

Qing Shu knew about this, and Guan Pozi had reported it at that time. Before that, it was a few days when the housekeeper closed his door. Recently, the Gu Ye clan had indeed only seen these two white ladies. Moreover, the two Bai Ladies have no friendship with the Gu Ye Clan, and they will come to visit, which is completely the result of Bai Xianfu and Bai Qingfeng Bai's instructions. The news that Gu Qingshu was crazy spread noisily for a few days, and as soon as the shop in the ancient mansion opened and the door of the mansion opened, the two white ladies came to visit one after another.

When they visited, they actually meant to show concern and friendliness. Naturally, they all came to Qing Shu's face, and sat down in front of Gu Ye's clan for a while, but they just went through the motions and rounded up a rule. So, where does the problem lie?

"Madame, are you sure you were all present at the time and never left?" Qing Shu didn't want to let go of any details.

Mrs. Guan replied very affirmatively, "When there was a visitor in the lady's courtyard, the housekeeper sent Ding Jiamei to help the slave and maid, and the slave and maid handed over all the things of making tea and pouring water to Ding Jiamei, and she stayed by her side wholeheartedly and never left half a step." ”

"Which Mrs. Bai is the White Lady that Madame ordered you to invite just now?"

"Old Man's wife."

"Then please." She wanted to see if the problem was here.

Guan Pozi got the order and hurried to do something. It's just that as soon as she stepped out of the inner courtyard door, she suddenly remembered something. She wasn't sure about it, so she turned around a few times in place and went to Qingshu's side again.

Qing Shu saw her go and returned, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

It turned out that Mrs. Bai came three days ago with two maids by her side. One of them, Xiao Tao, said that he accidentally dropped Mrs. Bai's veil when he left, and he went back to Wenlan Courtyard to look for it. Gu Ye was standing in the courtyard at that time and told Guan Pozi to go into the house to find it. Guan Pozi was instructed to go in and look for a long time but didn't find it, and when she came out to report, the little peach suddenly slapped her forehead and said that she remembered where the handkerchief fell, so she sued and left. At that time, the Gu Ye clan lowered his head and went into the house. Then throughout the morning, Gu Ye's mood was surprisingly good. It's just that when she got up early the next day, she said that she had nightmares and was in a bad mood, and asked Qingshu to go to the temple to burn incense.

In this case, it is even more time to invite Madame Bai to come. Qing Shu played with the teacup lid in his hand, "How many times have Madame and Madame Bai met?" ”

Guan Pozi replied, "I've seen it three times." I saw it once a month and a half ago, once half a month ago, and once three days ago. Every time they met, it was just a few simple greetings, and Mrs. Bai would leave after sitting for a quarter of an hour. ”

"Is the one named Xiao Tao going to follow Mrs. Bai every time?"

"Yes, miss."

After Qing Shu instructed Guan Pozi to step back, he pondered for a while. Madame Bai is a very good person, and occasionally visits, and has a lot to talk to her, not about gold and silver jewelry, but about health. On the side of the Gu Ye clan, Madame Bai didn't go before, but later once the Gu Ye clan walked out of Wenlan Courtyard, and happened to meet Madame Bai, so he invited Madame Bai to sit over for a while. Only then did we meet three times.

Today, the Gu Ye clan made an invitation, and Madame Bai did not come that day, but promised to come the next day.

Sure enough, on the morning of the second day, Madame Bai arrived as promised. Similarly, Madame Bai couldn't sit for an hour and left Wenlan Courtyard and returned home. It would be like this, it was really that Gu Ye's person was too boring, and Madame Bai couldn't talk to her at all.

After sending Mrs. Bai out of the house, Qingshu came to Wenlan Courtyard and entered Gu Ye's room, "Did my mother sleep well last night?" ”

Gu Ye glanced at Qing Shu and lowered his eyes, "Hmm." ”

Qing Shu suddenly smiled and narrowed her eyes, "Mother, take it out!" ”

Gu Ye didn't react, "What? What do you want? ”

Qing Shu was still smiling, "Mother, this family is in charge of the daughter, and what the daughter doesn't like the most is being calculated." Mother, is the daughter too good to the mother, otherwise how would the mother do the trick of calculating the daughter under the nose of the daughter. ”

Gu Ye gasped, "You...... You...... You actually said that about your own mother. ”

Qing Shu put away the smile on his face, and ordered indifferently: "Madame has been stuffy in the house for too long, and I want to go out to bask in the sun, you can accompany Madame!" ”

Guan Pozi and Xiaojuan agreed, and without saying anything, they helped Gu Ye's left and right, carried Gu Ye's out of the house, and left Wenlan Courtyard straight to accompany Gu Ye's to bask in the sun.

Qing Shu picked up the axe that Xiao Juan had brought over just now, weighed the weight, looked at the target, picked up the axe and chopped it. Just listen to the click, not to mention the deformation of the lock on the cabinet, and the body of the cabinet is cracked.

Qing Shu was slightly annoyed, "Why did you split it wrong!" It costs money to rebuild the cabinet. She said this, but in fact she did not even frown, and rudely raised her foot and stepped on the cabinet, and pulled out the axe that had been cut into the cabinet. She removed her foot and immediately picked up her axe and chopped it down. Now, the antique cabinet has been chopped off, and the lock has been chopped off.

Qing Shu put down the axe, opened the cabinet, picked up a plain white silk robe and threw it on the bed, picked up a plain white undershirt and threw it over, and then saw two boxes of different sizes. First of all, I took out the relatively large box that was locked, it was quite heavy, probably containing gold and silver. Then I took out another relatively small box that hadn't had time to be locked, and it was very light. When I opened it, there was a half-box of letters inside.

Qing Shu suddenly remembered something at this time, the box that Zhou Boyan asked her to keep was still with her, she forgot to give it to Zhou Boyan, and Zhou Boyan never asked her for it, what is this called? She is not Zhou Boyan's housekeeper, why should she keep it for him all the time!

She shook her head, ignoring him first, and it was important to get down to business. He set aside the box containing the letter, took the axe, and forcibly broke the lock of the other box, and when he opened it, he found that it contained ten gold ingots, and under the gold ingots were silver bills of fifteen hundred taels.

She snorted, the gold ingot was left behind, and the silver ticket was confiscated. She decided, and once the Gu Ye clan found trouble, she confiscated part of the Gu Ye clan's property. She wanted to see how much property the Gu Ye clan had available for her to confiscate. She put away the bills, took the letters, threw the two boxes back into the broken cupboard, and went back to her yard.

Gu Ye, who came back from basking in the sun, was stunned for a moment when he saw his cabinet, and immediately checked it in a panic. When I looked at the box containing the silver coins, I saw that the gold ingots were there, so I didn't notice whether the silver tickets below were there. Looking at the box containing the letters, all the letters are gone. She staggered, sat on the ground and wept, cursing the brute in her mouth.

Guan Pozi was doing things outside, as if she didn't hear the crying and scolding, silently doing her own thing, and didn't go in to watch.

At this time, Qing Shu was reading the letter in a crooked chair. The first letter is a letter written by the general's father to the Gu Ye clan back then, the content is not long, and it consists of three parts, greetings, instructions, and missing his wife and children. This is true from the second to the eleventh.

However, when it came to the twelfth letter, a warning appeared in the content, and the general's father warned Gu Ye to be cautious in his words and deeds, otherwise it would lead to death, but he did not specifically refer to it.

In the thirteenth letter, the general's father only wrote one sentence: The princess is the princess, you are you.

The thirteen letters are stacked in chronological order. Qing Shu stared at the ancient days of recording the year, month, and day of the sexagenary branch for a long time to figure out that the time of the last letter was actually a day more than a month before the general's father died.

A princess is a princess and you are you. What do you mean?

Qing Shu put this question aside for the time being, picked up the fourteenth letter and opened it to look at it, and immediately frowned. The content of the letter is very short, and there is no signature, just to tell Gu Ye that Gu Yunhu died for the eldest princess's evil son, and it is self-evident who the woman in Gu Yunhu's heart is. The person who wrote the letter should have been a woman, because the font was very beautiful.

Last year, when worshipping the general's father, the Gu Ye clan's abnormal table xiàn, it turned out that the crux was here. The eldest princess's son, does it mean Zhou Boyan? That's not right, Zhou Boyan is the only son of the eldest princess, and Zhou Boyan's father is the eldest princess's concubine, where did you say that the son of evil came from?