"Got it." The beautiful woman inserted a golden hairpin in her hair, looked at her delicate face in the mirror, and slightly curled the corners of her mouth, "Go and invite the second lady." ”

"Yes." The maid answered.

After a while, light footsteps sounded outside the door, and a beautiful woman of twenty-eight years old stepped into the room. The woman fluttered and was blessed: "Madam."

"Get up." The beautiful woman looked at the woman with a smile, "Sit down." ”

The woman looked at the beautiful woman: "Is there anything important that Mrs. called Wan'er to come late at night?"

"Since the Yun Concubine in the palace two years ago, the saint has never entered the harem except for the fifteenth day of the first month, and the rest of the time has not entered the harem, but the rules of the three-year draft cannot be broken, the saint is still in grief, it is not easy to do a big job, this draft is all decided by the queen, I have arranged it for you, and I will send you to the palace in a few days."

"Wan'er is all up to Mrs. Arrangement."

"After you enter the palace, in addition to spreading branches and leaves for the saint, you must also take care of your mother's family and help your sister."

"Wan'er understands."

"Mother!" Qiu Tang exclaimed and sat up suddenly. "Mother......" Qiu Tang hugged his shoulders and cried quietly.

"All up! Get up! "Before dawn, the room where the girls slept was kicked open from the outside.

"All up! Get up! "Before dawn, the room where the girls slept was kicked open from the outside.

Qiu Tang was a newcomer, but last night I had a nightmare and cried for half a night, and I didn't know what happened for a while, so I was so shocked that I pulled over the thin quilt, covered my head, and curled up on the bed shivering.

"Get up! He is still blindfolded and pretending to be deaf! With the sound, there was a thin whip that fell, even through the quilt, Qiu Tang was still beaten and shrunk into a ball, crying and screaming.

"Don't fight, don't fight, Qiu Tang just came yesterday, I don't know how to get up early." The green bamboo pounced on Qiu Tang and blocked two more whips for her.

"She doesn't know, don't you know? Don't look at me, I don't know, this girl is for you to learn the rules! With the sound, two crisp whips landed on Lu Zhu's thin back.

"Master Quan, stop fighting, don't fight. Midoriku knew it was wrong. The green bamboo lay on Qiu Tang's body, trembling in pain.

"Get up! It's good to know that it's wrong, today you two kneel and wash, give me a good long memory! The hand holding the whip took the green bamboo by the ear and dragged the green bamboo off the bed.

"Yes." Lu Zhu held back tears and knelt beside the bed, blocking Qiu Tang behind him.

"Sister Luzhu, are you in pain?" Qiu Tang looked at the red blood stains that ran through the green bamboo on his forearm and the back of his hand, and tears crackled down.

"It's okay, I'm used to it." Lu Zhu ripped off his sleeve and covered his arm, "Don't cry, wait until your eyes are swollen from crying, my mother should be unhappy." Lu Zhu saw Qiu Tang's red eyes, and hurriedly wiped away the tears that Qiu Tang hung on his cheeks.

"Stand up, stand up, I haven't played for a few days, are you all itching? Get up and grind, don't you want to eat today? I tell you, in less than an hour the day will be light, and if you do not finish washing these garments before daybreak, you will be worried about your meal to-day. Do you hear me?! Wearing a silk gown, wearing a silk melon skin hat of the same color, and holding a small thin bamboo whip, the power master reprimanded and knocked the ground with the bamboo whip.

"Yes." The girls were all blessed and replied yes. Qiu Tang also learned from him, and obediently followed the blessing.

"How did you get back? What about the kids?" In Zhang Guoshi's mansion, Zhang Qingyan sat in the Taishi's chair, his face sinking like water.

"Kid...... The child lost his ......" The person who spoke was Chen Xiao, the housekeeper of the former Chen Guoshi's Mansion, who was like a sieve of chaff at this time, and was covered in cold sweat.

"Lost?" Zhang Qingyan grabbed Chen Xiao's neck collar, "You still have the face to come back!" A heavy snort sprayed on Chen Xiao's face, and Chen Xiao only felt that his soul was about to go out of his body.

"The adults are angry, and the small ones are going to look for them, and they are going to find them." Chen Xiao was so frightened that his face was like gold paper, his hands and feet were cold, and beads of sweat the size of beans crackled and fell.

"To live to see people, to die to see corpses!" Zhang Qingyan clutched Chen Xiao's neck collar, his eyes were round, and after squeezing out these eight words from the back molars, he let go of his hand and kicked Chen Xiao out, "Get out!" ”

The sky was slightly white, and more than a dozen girls had just dried their clothes on the pole, and before they could bother to wipe the sweat from their foreheads, Quan Ye appeared again unconsciously: "Hurry up, pour all the dirty water!" Then hurry up and eat, and learn the rules after eating! ”

When the girls heard this, they helped each other carry the heavy wooden basins and walked out.

"Eh!" Qiu Tang has never done rough work, the wooden basin full of water is cold and slippery, despite the help of green bamboo, Qiu Tang still feels as heavy as a thousand jun, kneeling for a long time legs have long been disobedient, the foot slipped, the dead wooden basin was taken off at that time, a basin full of water was poured down, green bamboo was also splashed half of the body, dirty water splashed on the ground.

"Let you be lazy! A bunch of rubbish! Quan Ye's voice exploded above his head, and the bamboo whip fell in response, and he slapped on Qiu Tang like crazy, and the hot pain penetrated his heart, "What are you raising for!" Can't even hold a basin, a bunch of useless things! The bamboo whip was densely pumped on Qiu Tang's body, and the crackling sound on the flesh made the other girls can't help but be frightened and tremble.

"Ahh I don't dare! Don't dare! Please, spare me! Qiu Tang rolled on the ground in pain, crying and begging for mercy.

"Don't fight, don't fight." The green bamboo protected the begonia, and also received a few whips.

"Beating you is to make you remember it for a long time! Don't be ashamed! You two are kneeling right here! No breakfast! Quan Ye whipped a few more times before he stopped, and left step by step with a bamboo whip.

The girls looked at Luzhu and Qiutang, their faces full of sympathy, but no one helped them. Because if you help, it means that you will be hungry too.

Seeing that everyone was almost gone, Qiu Tang got up from the ground with the help of green bamboo, lifted his clothes, and the mottled whip marks on his legs, back, and arms were shocking, and he couldn't touch them.

The two of them knelt on the wet and cold ground with each other's arms, their soaked clothes sticking to their skin, and Qiu Tang shivered coldly.

"Sister Luzhu, I'm sorry, I let you be beaten and punished with me again." Qiu Tang sobbed in a low voice.

"It's fine." Lu Zhu touched Qiu Tang's wet hair and smiled reluctantly.

"Sister, how long are we going to kneel?" Qiu Tang's teeth chattered, and she felt that she was about to die of cold.

"When Master Quan's anger subsides, it'll be fine." Luzhu hugged Qiu Tang into his arms.

"Sister, I'm cold, I miss my mother." Qiu Tang's nose was sour, and two lines of hot tears slid across his cold face.

"Niangniang, the fifth prince is here." Concubine Rou was just about to have breakfast when she heard the footsteps outside the door and the news of the palace maid.

"Yu'er is here." Concubine Rou's face was full of love.

"Erchen asks Concubine Rou Niangniang to say goodbye." Mu Lingyu knelt in front of Concubine Rou in his robe. A crescent white robe matched Mu Ling's appearance like jade.

"Hurry up." Seeing Mu Lingyu making a big salute, Concubine Rou got busy, "Today is your coming-of-age ceremony, and you won't be allowed to do this in the future." ”

Mu Lingyu got up and sat down next to Concubine Rou: "Since the death of the concubine, only Concubine Rou is the best for me, and as an adult today, it is also appropriate to pay a big respect."

"If my sister saw you today, I don't know how happy I would be." Concubine Rou's voice did not fall, and tears fell first, "When you are young, when your father finishes canonizing for you, remember to go and put incense on your mother's concubine." ”

"Erchen understands." Mu Lingyu stretched out his hand and filled a bowl of soup for Concubine Rou.

"Alright, let's all get up." Just as the young ladies were snuggling up to each other to keep warm and resist the cold of the early autumn morning, the voice of Mother Xu's head was colder than ice.

"Thank you, Mom." Green bamboo helped Qiu Tang to stand up tremblingly.

"Thank you, ma'am." Qiu Tang's voice trembled slightly.

"Go change into clean clothes, and be a little more sloppy." Mother Xu glanced at the two little people who were shivering from the cold, threw down a sentence, and turned to leave.

"Send this portrait to the cities, and let the lords of the cities find it according to the portrait! Reward for what you find! The national teacher said, you have to see people when you live, and you have to see corpses when you die! Chen Xiao was locked up in the house for two days, and finally finished painting more than a dozen portraits, and instructed his subordinates to send them to the city lords of Lingcheng and the surrounding cities. People are lost in the mausoleum, so start from the mausoleum!

"Mother Xu, don't come unharmed." A delicate voice peeled back the morning mist.

"It's Mother Liu, what kind of fragrant wind is blowing you here today?" Mother Xu walked out from behind the screen with a handkerchief, and saw a beautiful woman dressed in flowers, "Mother Liu sits." With a false lead, he let Mother Liu sit aside, "Pearl tea." ”

Mother Liu took a sip of tea and took out a small embroidered bag from her arms: "Mother Xu will see if you like it."

Mother Xu put the embroidered bag on the wooden table next to her and slowly opened it, and there was a pair of palm-sized crystal clear jade lions inside.

"Pearl, let the girls dress up and stand in the yard, and say that Mother Liu is here to pick someone." Mother Xu put away the embroidery bag, took a sip of tea and ordered.

"I've thanked Mother Xu first." Mother Liu's happy eyes were bent into two Xuanyue.

In the yard, warblers and swallows are ringing. Mother Liu and Mother Xu stood outside the corridor on the second floor of the small building next to them, looking at the girls in the courtyard.

The two mothers exchanged words for a while, and Mother Xu looked downstairs and said, "Ruoyun, Ruyi, Linghua, the three of you come to the front hall." Qiu Tang, after a cup of tea, you will come too. ”

The three girls whose names were named burst into tears instantly, trembling and thanking them.

"Sister Luzhu, why are the sisters crying?" Qiu Tang pulled the sleeve of the green bamboo, and his eyes were full of confusion.

"They were sold to Caifeng Tower by their mother." Green Bamboo seemed to have lost its soul, and her voice was weak and desperate.

"Caifeng Building ......".

The girls all dispersed, only Qiu Tang was still standing in the courtyard, judging from Ruoyun's reaction, Caifeng Tower seemed to be a more terrible place than Linglong Pavilion, she didn't know why Xu's mother wanted her to go too, was it because she did something bad, so that Xu's mother was disgusted and wanted to sell herself to Caifeng Tower...... Qiu Tang felt an inexplicable fear.

A cold wind blew, and Qiu Tang shivered, and she knew that she couldn't help but go. Qiu Tang leaned against the wall and walked to the front hall, Wan Fu said, "Madam."

"Qiu Tang is here, sit." Mother Xu glanced up at her.