Chapter 88: Out of the House (1)
Three days later, in the morning, the weather was very bright, Xiao Jinxuan stood by the window, leisurely looking at the maids in the yard, busy cleaning the courtyard.
Coming out of Lu Wei Courtyard that day, not long after she and the Zhao family separated and returned to the Forsythia Courtyard, there was an aunt in charge of the backyard who was responsible for dispatching the subordinates, and took away all the people originally assigned by the Qian family, and replaced them with new people to serve.
And although Aunt Tian has not been replaced, she has stopped a lot now, at least the things in this courtyard, she will come to inform Xiao Jinxuan first, and she doesn't dare to make decisions in private.
Xiao Jinxuan looked at it for a while, and suddenly saw the courtyard door opened, and then Baizhu's figure walked in from outside.
Seeing this scene, Xiao Jinxuan smiled lightly, then left the window, and instructed Zhu Xin in the house to help her bring the cloud gauze shawl.
And after she got dressed, Baizhu also came in, and approached Xiao Jinxuan in a few steps and said softly:
"Miss, what you said is really right, Miss Yu really left the house today, and the slave watched her go out, and then came back quickly."
Xiao Jinxuan nodded, because she kept the memories of her previous life, she was naturally very clear about some of Xiao Jinyu's habits.
asked Baizhu to take the two brocade boxes wrapped on the table, and told Zhu Xin to recuperate with peace of mind, Xiao Jinxuan hurried out of the courtyard and went straight to Zhao's residence.
After a while, the master and servant came to Shuxiang Courtyard, and after the Yahuan was transmitted, Aunt An Rong, the most trusted aunt of the Zhao family, personally greeted her from the courtyard.
When he came closer, An Rong smiled and gave Xiao Jinxuan a blessing, and said politely:
"Fourth Miss, please come to the house, Mrs. just talked to me about you, Miss is here, you and my wife are really in love."
As he spoke, everyone entered the house, and Zhao sat in the hall and saw Xiao Jinxuan coming in, and cordially beckoned the other party to come and sit beside her.
After saluting each other and taking their seats, Xiao Jinxuan motioned for Baizhu to hand the two brocade boxes brought by Baizhu to Zhao.
"Auntie, Jinxuan has been in the house for a while, thanks to your care, I can live in Shuaifu safely, these two brocade boxes are the gadgets that Jinxuan brought from Yangzhou, you must accept them all when you talk about your heart."
After Xiao Jinxuan finished speaking, Baizhu opened the brocade box, and then Zhao saw that there were two brocade silk handkerchiefs with hundreds of flowers in the box, as well as a pair of bracelets with a clear texture like water, plus two urns of tea.
The Zhao family was born in a famous family and has lived in the Shuai Mansion for many years, so he naturally has eyesight
So she immediately recognized that the silk handkerchief that was as thin as the cicada's wings and embroidered was made of high-quality soft smoke yarn, which was very precious, produced in Yangzhou weaving, and produced less than ten horses per year.
And the embroidery method on this is also Yangzhou's unique embroidery, Jingshi popular flat embroidery, although the atmosphere is not as delicate and graceful as Yangzhou embroidery, so these two squares, Zhao liked it at a glance.
At this time, Xiao Jinxuan picked up the pair of bracelets, personally put them on for the Zhao family, and said with a smile:
"This bracelet with a texture like water, is made of a whole piece of dripping jade, the inside of the bracelet is engraved with the Guanyin Heart Sutra, which corresponds to the elegant name of the dripping Guanyin, grandmother believes in Buddhism, and the eldest aunt carries this bracelet every day, and grandmother will be happy to see it."
As soon as Zhao heard this, he hurriedly put down the handkerchief, happily fiddled with the dripping jade bracelet on his wrist, and looked at Xiao Jinxuan gratefully.
"You are still delicate and know how to help your aunt please your grandmother, and Jinxuan is much more stable in my heart."
Xiao Jinxuan shook her head with a smile and handed the two urns of snow plum blossom tea to the Zhao family.
"Aunt's words are too outward, now in the Shuai Mansion except for me, all the sisters are all concubines, Jinxuan is afraid in her heart, I can only be taken care of with you. Today, Sister Chang can go out of the house to play, but Jinxuan's status is humble, but she doesn't even dare to mention it, after all, I'm just a concubine, where can I really compare with my sisters. ”
When Zhao heard this, he glanced at Xiao Jinxuan with pity and couldn't help sighing.
In fact, except for Xiao Hua in the second room, who died prematurely, the other three rooms all have concubines, and the big room also has two concubines, but they are not in Beijing, and they are just in the mansion where the uncle Xiao Ting is stationed.
So it's really like Xiao Jinxuan said, now this handsome mansion is really just her.
Seeing that Xiao Jinxuan said pitifully, Zhao frowned and said: "Actually, after you come back, this token for leaving the house should be given to you, but at that time, the old lady said to let you learn the rules first, and when it is safe, you will be allowed to leave the house, and now according to the aunt, Jinxuan is no worse than the lady in the house, I will give you the token, and you will be able to enter and exit this handsome mansion freely in the future." ”
Hearing this, Xiao Jinxuan's eyes flashed with satisfaction, but her face immediately revealed, and a girlish look of joy came out.
When she got the token in her hand and listened to Zhao's instructions on what to pay attention to when she went out of the mansion, she said goodbye to the other party and went out of the mansion directly with the token.
After Xiao Jinxuan left, Zhao looked at Aunt An Rong on the side and asked:
"Auntie, you've seen this fourth lady now, do you think it's worth wooing?"
An Rong bowed down and said: "According to me, this fourth young lady is rushing to the mansion token today, she is bold and decent, how do you look at the other party, she really doesn't look like a down-and-out concubine, and since she has an enmity with the Qian family, she will wholeheartedly help Mrs. in order to protect herself, and the slave maid feels that it is worth wooing." ”
Although the Zhao family is not as delicate as the Qian family, he has lived in the deep house for a long time, and he is also cautious in the heart of the rectum and knows how to plan for himself.
And now Aunt An Rong's meaning coincides with Zhao's, the smile in her eyes is even stronger, and she nodded with satisfaction.
Speaking of Xiao Jinxuan's side, now she is sitting in the carriage and driving on the streets of Changping City.
After another quarter of an hour, the carriage drove into the most prosperous East Street, and stopped in front of a restaurant called Jude Restaurant.
As soon as she entered, someone greeted Xiao Jinxuan, and this person turned out to be Xiao Wenxin, who had been separated from her for a long time.
The two didn't speak, just nodded to each other, and then Wen Xin led the way, and Xiao Jinxuan went up to the third floor of the restaurant and was taken to the door of the Tianzi No. 1 private room.
Xiao Jinxuan pushed open the door and saw Zhou Xianrui wearing a brocade python pattern dark purple robe, sitting inside, looking at her with a smile in his eyes.
With a slight smile, Xiao Jinxuan walked into the room and sat down, and then asked directly:
"Your Highness, the first few **** entrusted you to help me do, I don't know if there will be results."
Looking at Xiao Jinxuan, who didn't say a word of greeting and talked directly about business, Zhou Xianrui shook his head with a wry smile.
"The fourth lady commanded, how dare I not do it, after the partridge sent me the news that day, this king went to the Fuyin prison according to your words, and interrogated the old way, and as expected, it was indeed the princess of Huayang, as for what you wanted, I also got it for you from the old way."
Partridge is the code name of the eyeliner that Zhou Xianrui planted in Shuaifu, and as soon as the sneaky thing ended that day, Xiao Jinxuan got on the partridge and asked her to bring news to Zhou Xianrui to help investigate the cause.
Xiao Jinxuan knows very well that the Qian family is an inner house woman, and it is difficult for her to get a brazier, which is within the other party's ability, but she is pretending to be a ghost and robbing Zhuxin, and then she also found an old Taoist priest, Xiao Jinxuan doesn't think that Qian has this ability.
Therefore, after thinking about it, Xiao Jinxuan felt that someone must be secretly helping, and the object of suspicion was naturally Huai'an Houfu, in order to determine what strength the enemy she was facing now was, so she asked Zhou Xianrui to help.
Sometimes the enemy is strong and not terrible, but what I am afraid of is that I can't see through the enemy, which is very passive, and this is the reason why Xiao Jinxuan must find out everything.
At this time, Zhou Xianrui also handed a yellowed and broken booklet to Xiao Jinxuan.
"Fourth Miss is not asking this king, let me be sure to help you figure out how the old Taoist tricks were done that day, I think this book will answer for you very well."
Taking this booklet in her hand, Xiao Jinxuan saw that there were four big characters of Xuanhuang thaumaturgy written on it, and after opening it curiously, she saw that inside, there were mysterious and magical small spells recorded in the form of pictures and texts.
Of course, it is more appropriate to say thaumaturgy than magic, and this book records many strange occult techniques that use drugs and special means to make the interpreter do something, contrary to common sense.
And after a hurried look, Xiao Jinxuan had already seen that the old way was to let the embroidery needle float on the surface of the water without sinking.
According to the book, the interpreter would smear the peachwood sword with a layer of oil to dry, and then put the wooden sword into a bowl of water, so that the oil on the sword would seep into the water and form buoyancy on the surface.
The Shaksha then burns the rune paper, but it must be around the water bowl, so that the burning paper scraps fall into the bowl, and the tiny dust will scatter on the oil slick, which can not only cover the oil stains but also deepen the buoyancy.
At this time, the practitioner picks up the needle, plugs the needle hole with dandruff, and then gently places the embroidery needle on the water, and the needle will be supported by the oil slick and will not sink to the bottom.
As for the bleeding of the yellow fu before, when she was at the scene that day, Xiao Jinxuan saw some clues, and her intuition told her that the strangeness inside must have come from the so-called spiritual liquid in the gourd.
Afterwards, Lao Dao was arrested, and all the strange things in his bamboo basket were brought back to Forsythia by Xiao Jinxuan, and then she took out the rune paper and the water in the gourd, and tried it herself.
At the beginning, there was nothing wrong with the two things meeting, until she accidentally discovered that there was a box of separately placed rune paper in the bamboo basket, and after taking out one of them, it was dripped with spiritual liquid, and sure enough, she saw the water into the rune paper and immediately turned red.
At that time, although she deciphered the old method, but according to the principle of this phenomenon, she has not studied and understood, until now when she sees this book, she understands that the so-called rune paper bleeding is just a reflection of the encounter between turmeric water and alkaline water.
And the one in the gourd is alkaline water, and the rune paper used to see blood is soaked in turmeric water in advance, and it is said that everything will not be difficult, and it will not be difficult.
Originally, in Xiao Jinxuan's eyes, the mysterious and abnormal thaumaturgy now understands the reason, and it doesn't feel mysterious.
Zhou Xianrui on the side, staring quietly, Xiao Jinxuan looked down at the book, although it was just a silhouette, but he felt that this moment was very warm and comfortable, and even he didn't dare to make a sound, for fear of breaking the silence.
After a while, it wasn't until Xiao Jinxuan closed the book and raised her head from scratch that Zhou Xianrui said calmly:
"Actually, compared to the mystical thaumaturgy in this book, I am more curious about the fourth lady, now that she is so comfortable in the Shuai Mansion, you can enter and leave the mansion at will, it seems that the old lady has changed a lot of opinion of you."
He would ask this, one is because Xiao Jinxuan's status in the Shuai Mansion is directly related to whether he can control the Shuai Mansion and support the prince in the future. And another reason is that he really wants to know whether the other party is doing well or not, and he can't help but worry about one or two.
When Xiao Jinxuan heard this, she put the booklet away, and then shook her head and smiled:
"Your Royal Highness thinks too highly of Jinxuan, my grandmother is disgusted with me, where is it so easy to change, I can leave the house today, I really want to thank you for all this, my sister Xiao Jinyu."