Although Ah Gui often fights with Zhaohui and never obeys him, he also knows that Zhaohui is not a person who talks nonsense, he will say this, he must have a lot of doubts in his heart, and nodded and agreed: "Okay, let's go to Chengqian Palace to see the fourth elder brother now." ”

Zhaohui nodded and Ah Gui turned back to Chengqian Palace, because they had to pay attention to avoid the palace people along the way, and it took twice as long as usual to get to Chengqian Palace, but when they got outside, the two of them made trouble at the same time, did they just go in and say that they wanted to see the fourth elder brother? I'm afraid that the palace people will directly ask them how they came here, and when the time comes, the dispute will be investigated, and it will be a big trouble, but if they don't let people pass it on, they won't be able to enter at all.

Just when they were in trouble there, Yang Hai, who happened to walk to the palace gate, saw the two people hiding in the corner, and walked over and said, "Young Master Zhaohui, Young Master A Gui, why are you here?" The inner garden is heavy, but it is not allowed to trespass. Because they have a very good relationship with Hongli, although Yang Hai is questioning, his tone is not very harsh.

Seeing that his whereabouts were discovered, Ah Gui hurriedly snorted, looked at Zhaohui and said, "Why don't you hurry up and tell Gonggong Yang what we are doing here?" "It was Zhaohui's proposal to come to Chengqian Palace, of course he said it, and besides, he didn't have Zhaohui's many crooked intestines.

Zhaohui glared at him angrily, and said half-truthfully: "Father-in-law Yang, we know that Lu Dao should not enter the inner garden, but when we were in the study before, we saw that the fourth elder brother seemed to be a little unwell, and we couldn't rest assured, so we came over to take a look." ”

"Fourth elder brother is unwell?" Yang Hai was slightly startled, when Hongli came back before, he was busy with other things and didn't see it.

Ah Gui hurriedly nodded and said, "If we weren't worried about the fourth elder brother, how could we knowingly break into the inner garden; Please also ask Gonggong Yang to make it convenient, let's go and see the fourth elder brother. ”

Yang Hai hesitated for a moment and said, "Since this is the case, then please wait here for the two young masters, and wait for me to go to the mother first." ”

Zhaohui knew that Yang Hai couldn't make up his mind about this kind of thing, so he nodded and said, "Then there is Gonggong Lao." ”

After Yang Hai went in and told Ling Ruo about this, Ling Ruo's heart tightened, and she quickly asked Shui Xiu to help her get up to see Hongli, and as for Zhaohui, they also let Yang Hai take it to Hongli.

As soon as he left the main hall, he saw Xiao Zhengzi walking by the other side with a nervous expression holding a large roll of paper, Ling Ruo didn't look right, and opened his mouth to stop him.

When Xiao Zhengzi heard Ling Ruo's voice, his expression was a little more nervous than just now, and he bowed his head and knelt down and said, "The slave has seen Niangniang, Niangniang is auspicious." ”

Ling Ruo glanced at the paper in his hand and said, "What are you doing with so much paper?" Didn't the fourth elder brother send a big stack of paper a few days ago, could it be that it was used up so quickly. ”

Xiao Zhengzi said: "Back to ...... Back to Niangniang's words, a few days ago I sent paper for learning calligraphy, and just now the fourth elder brother said that the paper used for painting was gone, so I specially asked the slave to go to the Internal Affairs Office to get some. ”

"Painting?" Ling Ruohu glanced at Xiao Zhengzi who was uncomfortable suspiciously, and said to Shui Xiu: "Take a piece of paper to show this palace." ”

When Shui Xiu took a piece of paper and handed it to Ling Ruo, Ling Ruo's face immediately sank, and he said coldly: "This paper is as clean as jade, thin and smooth, it is not rice paper for painting at all, but Chengxintang paper for learning characters, which is exactly the same as the one sent a few days ago." Xiao Zhengzi, you are so bold, you dare to deceive this palace. ”

Seeing that the lie was exposed, Xiao Zhengzi trembled, and kowtowed again and again: "The slave deserves to die, please forgive the mother!" ”

"Say, what is the fourth elder brother doing with these papers?" Facing Ling Ruo's questioning, Xiao Zhengzi didn't dare to hide it anymore, and said truthfully: "Today, the fourth elder brother was punished by Master Zhu for copying the texts he studied today a hundred times, and the fourth elder brother found that the Chengxintang paper was not enough, so he asked the slave to go to the Internal Affairs Office to get more." ”

Hearing that Hongli was punished for copying, Ling Ruo couldn't believe it, this son has always been studious and smart, and she has never had any heart in schoolwork, how could she be punished by Master Zhu for copying books this time?

Seeing that Ling Ruo didn't speak, Shui Xiu whispered: "Master, didn't Zhaohui say that the fourth elder brother is unwell?" Could it be because of this reason that the fourth elder brother did not perform well in class and was punished by Master Zhu? ”

"Let's go see Hongli first." Saying this, Ling Ruo walked quickly to the courtyard where Hongli lived, and in a hurry, she also forgot to ask Xiao Zhengzi about Hongli's physical condition.

When they came to the outside of Hongli House, Zhaohui and the others had just arrived, and Ling Ruo walked in quickly without saying much.

Hongli was scratching the itch in the room while copying books, and there were several books on the table that had been copied, but at the moment his beautiful hand was a little distorted.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Hongli only said that Xiao Zhengzi was back, and said without raising his head: "Just put the paper next to it, Xiao Zhengzi come over and scratch me an itch, I feel itchy all over." ”

Xiao Zhengzi, who came in with Ling Ruo, stood behind and called out tremblingly, "Four...... Fourth Elder Brother ......"

Hongli couldn't help but raise his head when he heard that the voice was wrong, only to find that Ling Ruo was actually standing in front of him, even Zhaohui and Ah Gui were there, he quickly got up and walked to the front of the desk to salute Ling Ruo, "E-niang, why are you here?" ”

Seeing that Hongli was fine, Ling Ruo's heart was slightly relieved, and then he said unhappily: "If this palace doesn't come, how can you know that you were punished by Master Zhu for copying books, and how can you see you like this." ”

Hongli glanced down at himself, only to see that one of his sleeves was high and the other was low, and his clothes were also wrinkled due to scratching, so he quickly straightened out his clothes and said: "Erchen knows his mistake, please punish Eniang." ”

Ling Ruo was about to speak, but although Hongli was standing there, he kept moving around, looking very uncomfortable, and frowned: "Hongli, can't you even stand well?" ”

Hongli was just about to speak, when suddenly a strange itch hit his body, so that he couldn't even speak, he looked like this in Zhaohui's eyes, and hurriedly said: "Fourth elder brother, is it still very itchy?" ”

Hongli barely endured it for a while, but in the end he couldn't resist the strange itch that was scratched by thousands of mosquitoes, and his hands scratched his body hard, and the clothes that had just been sorted out were scratched and wrinkled again.

Ling Ruo had never seen Hongli look so out of shape, so he hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed his hand and said, "Hongli, what's wrong with you, what's wrong?" ”

Hongli broke away from Ling Ruo's hand and continued to scratch his body incessantly, saying while scratching: "Eniang, Erchen is so itchy, and it's getting more and more itchy." ”

Ling Ruo saw that he had been scratching, and even the embroidery silk on his clothes was broken, to know that Lu Dao Hongli did not have nails, and it would undoubtedly take great strength to scratch the embroidery silk, for fear that he would hurt himself if he continued to scratch like this, Ling Ruo ordered Yang Hai and Xiao Zhengzi to come over and grab his hand, and he walked up to Zhaohui and said, "You said that the fourth elder brother is unwell, do you mean that it is like this now?" ”