Green Tao shook his head at first, but he couldn't stand Wen Qingzhu's request, so he could only sit down.

The sky was blackened with ink, and there was no moon, only stars dotted the night sky.

Wen Qingzhu finished washing and went to bed early.

As soon as the lights and candles were extinguished, Xi'er's panicked voice came from outside the house.

"Miss, have you slept?"

"Not yet." Wen Qingzhu responded.

Green Tao had no choice but to light the lamp again and bring Xi'er in.

As soon as Xi'er came in, she knelt on the ground and stammered: "Slave, the slave went to find Sister Ruyun just now, and she was caught by Aunt Yue in the middle of her words......"

"And then?" Wen Qingzhu smiled slightly.

Xi'er continued: "Aunt Yue asked the slave and maid all the things, and the slave and maid said everything, and then Aunt Yue gave the slave and maid a reward of two taels of silver, and also said that she would come to apologize in person in two days, but she was not strict in discipline!" ”

After speaking, Xi'er lifted the two taels of silver in her hand.

After listening to Xi'er's words, Lu Tao was also a little puzzled, Aunt Yue gave a reward and said that she wanted to apologize?

Wen Qingzhu and Lu Tao glanced at each other, and then said to Xi'er: "You get up, put away this silver, don't let Huan'er steal it." ”

After hesitating for a moment, Xi'er still took the order to retreat.

The lights went out again in the room, and Green Tao slept on a small couch outside the screen.

In the silent night, the green pottery turned over and over, but still didn't understand Aunt Yue's intentions.

Listening to the ringing in his ears, Wen Qingzhu opened his eyes, looked at the dark tent top and said, "Ruyun is Aunt Wu's person." ”

"What!" Green Tao sat up suddenly.

"Go to bed early, and I'll talk to you slowly tomorrow." Wen Qingzhu yawned, a little sleepy.

Green pottery is very clever and quickly figured out the joints in it.

But the more she thought about it, the more angry she became, and she didn't fall asleep until late at night.

In the dead of night, Wen Qingzhu finally fell asleep.

It's just that not long after she fell asleep, a long bell rang in her ears.

Wen Qingzhu woke up suddenly and sat up.

One after the other, twenty-seven times.

National mourning!

Who is it?

Wen Qingzhu thought carefully.

The green pottery outside heard the movement and hurriedly put on his clothes and walked into the room.

"Miss! What's wrong? Why did the bell ring all of a sudden? ”

Green Tao was only twelve years old and didn't know a lot of things, so she was a little nervous.

It's Empress Zheng!

Wen Qingzhu suddenly remembered that on October 27, the twenty-ninth year of Shunde, Empress Xianzhen died, and the whole country mourned, and Emperor Shunde never had an early dynasty for seven days.

"Green Tao, what is today's day?" Wen Qingzhu immediately realized that the time was wrong.

Green Tao immediately said: "Today is October 17. ”

Ten days ahead of schedule!

Wen Qingzhu hurriedly got up, and before he had time to put on his clothes, he opened the door.

There were continuous voices of people outside Yan Yuan, and the lights were lit up in the West Courtyard and Tingqin Xuan.

"Quick! Go and call Xi'er and Huan'er up! You may not be able to sleep tonight! Wen Qingzhu immediately commanded.

Lu Tao immediately received the order and ran to the wing room to call people, while Wen Qingzhu went inside to change his clothes.

After a while, Green Tao led the two of them to him.

"Miss, the person has arrived." Green Tao stood back to Wen Qingzhu's side.

Xi'er was nervous and waited for instructions.

Huan'er yawned and said lazily: "Miss, is there anything wrong with this midnight?" ”

"If you don't want to stay in the East Courtyard anymore! Mademoiselle can let you go right away! Green Tao scolded sharply.

This courtyard has always been managed by green pottery and chunbi.

Just sold Chunbi, Huan'er didn't dare to continue to be presumptuous, and immediately smiled and said: "Sister Green Tao, don't be angry, the slave is young and ignorant, don't be surprised." ”

As she spoke, Huan'er quietly glanced at Wen Qingzhu.

At this time, Wen Qingzhu didn't have the heart to care about the little maid at all, she stared closely at the outside of the courtyard.

Outside, there was more and more light, and the sound was getting louder and louder.

Half an hour later, Huan'er shrunk her neck and couldn't help muttering, "It's not about our East Courtyard, why are you standing here?" ”

Hearing her words, Wen Qingzhu glanced at her coldly, and Huan'er trembled in fright.

Two quarters of an hour later, someone knocked on Yan Yuan's door.

After the people came in, they went straight to the west courtyard.

After a while, Aunt Wu came out and sent a message to the two maids.

One went to Tingqin Xuan, and the other came to their east courtyard.

The person who came was the big girl Dew Drop next to Aunt Wu.

When she saw Wen Qingzhu, Dew Drop was stunned.

She didn't expect that the people in the East Courtyard were all dressed and were already standing in front of the house waiting.

"Miss Seven, my aunt instructed you to go to the front garden." After Dew Drop finished speaking, she couldn't help but look at them twice.

Wen Qingzhu nodded and said, "I see." ”

Then, she turned her head and ordered: "Green Tao and Xi'er go with me, and Huan'er guards the east courtyard." ”

As soon as Huan'er heard that it was Aunt Wu's order, she immediately became excited.

But as soon as Wen Qingzhu's words came out, her face suddenly changed, and she said unwillingly: "Why are slaves guarding the yard!" ”

Wen Qingzhu squinted at Huan'er, and she felt a sigh in her heart.

Huan'er shut up and had no more objections.

When following Dew Drop to the front garden, on the other side, Lu Yu was leading Aunt Yue and Wen Qingmei over.

Aunt Yue and Wen Qingmei were both plain, and when they walked, they lowered their eyebrows and asked Aunt Wu to say goodbye.

Wen Qingzhu walked over, glanced at everyone, and only looked at Mama Lu who came from Huayuan.

In the entire Yan Garden, except for Wen Qingzhu's father Wen Shuquan, the serious master who lives here, in fact, only Wen Qingzhu is alone.

Mama Lu glanced at everyone, and finally looked at Wen Qingzhu and Aunt Wu and said, "Since everyone is together, the slave maid began to speak." ”

After saying this, everyone became nervous.

After Mama Lu left, they all went back to the yard.

Huan'er was left behind and held her breath.

In order to be angry, she took a stone and smashed it against Wen Qingzhu's window.

"What are you doing!" Green Tao appeared coldly behind him, startling Huan'er.

Huan'er hurriedly turned around, threw away the stone in her hand, cheekily, and smiled stiffly: "Sister Green Tao, the slave didn't do anything, why did you go back so quickly?" ”

"The queen has passed away, don't mess around lately!" Wen Qingzhu ignored her and helped Lu Tao's hand into the house.

The next morning, as soon as Lu Tao got up, he saw Wen Qingzhu in front of the desk, with black hair scattered, sitting and contemplating.

"Why does Miss wake up so early?" Green Tao hurriedly got dressed, walked over and said, "The slave maid will go and bring water and wait for you to freshen up." ”

"Hmm." Wen Qingzhu took a deep breath and responded.

After freshening up, Green Tao was ready to go to the kitchen to get breakfast.

Wen Qingzhu stopped her: "You let Xi'er go." ”

"But ......" Lu Tao was not at ease, but it could be seen that Wen Qingzhu's eyes insisted, so he had to agree, "The slave maid will order." ”

When Xi'er came back, she was a little dirty, and the porridge in the food box was spilled a little.

Green Tao subconsciously wanted to teach her a lesson, but was stopped by Wen Qingzhu raising his eyebrows.