Tables, wooden trusses, beds... The simple furnishings, except for the necessities that are a room full of books, make it easy to think that this is a study rather than a bedroom. But the whole room is very clean, there is not a trace of dust, and even the plaque on the door is clearly visible because of the frequent wiping, and the word "torch" is not clear in comparison. The doorposts on both sides are also spotless, and the "listening to the rain" on the right and the "reading" on the left are also somewhat diluted.

Mo Yi stood at the door and looked at Eru in amazement, and asked, "I was fine last night, why am I so haggard today?" ”

After just one night's work, the little girl who was beautiful and capable yesterday is now in a loose bun and haggard, especially the black circles under her eyes, which makes her eyes even more blank.

Hearing Mo Yi's question, Eru's tears almost flowed, she forcibly snorted and said, "Last night... Didn't sleep well last night..."

"Is your girl embarrassed you again?" Mo Yi asked with some annoyance. Watching Wan Tang leave in a huff last night, he knew that the Moon Pavilion would definitely be uneasy, and Eru must have suffered a lot.

"Brother Moyi, don't ask..."Eru finally couldn't hold back, and tears flowed down her face.

"I'll let Childe talk about her when I go back!" Mo Yi said indignantly waving his fists.

"Don't! Don't let Lanyang-sama go to see the girl again! Eru shouted, "Every time I see Lord Lanyang, the girl will get angry, and each time it is bigger than the other, especially last night, she tossed our subordinates in the Moon Pavilion all night without sleeping, either beating or scolding us, torturing us in a different way..."

is the same woman, the same age, but some people can be arrogant above others, and some people can only let others call and drink, and suffer a lot. It's not fair, but there's nothing anyone can do to change it! Mo Yi looked at Eru distressedly, and didn't know how to comfort her, so he thought about it and took out a small object from his body and put it in Eru's hand.

"What is this?" Eru looked at the object in her hand in amazement, a piece of jade only the size of a fingernail, moist and transparent, white with purple in the middle, carved into the shape of a ladybug, lifelike and very cute.

"This is the jade ladybug that Gongzi rewarded me, I sent it to you, ladybug, ladybug, all the bad things floated away and washed away!" Mo Yi said seriously.

E Ru burst into tears and laughed, she took the jade ladybug and played with it a few times, then held it up in front of Mo Yi, shook her head and said, "Brother Mo Yi, thank you, but I can't ask for your things anymore, you have given me enough!" ”

"Take it, it's not a rare thing, don't be polite with me. If you hadn't helped me, I don't know what I'd be like now! Seeing E Ru say this, Mo Yi was really a little anxious.

Looking at Mo Yina's still green but sincere face, Eru's heart suddenly swelled with sweetness...

"Then I'll take it, but for me, what you're giving me is a rarity!" Eru smiled sweetly at Mo Yi.

That's a smile from the heart, right? Childe said that a person's only heartfelt smile is the most beautiful, and Eru's smiling face is so beautiful! Mo Yi suddenly blushed a little.

Eru also noticed Mo Yi's abnormality, lowered her head a little embarrassed, stared at the ground and said intermittently: "Actually... Actually, I'm here... It was at the behest of my girl, who... She asked me to inquire about Lord Lanyang's movements, and... And what is that Zhuo Xi girl doing? ”

"Ah~ Oh, I know, no, it's Childe who knows, that's why he asked me to come to see you" Mo Yi slowly regained his demeanor.

"What? Did Lord Lanyang see me? But Miss Wantang asked me to come secretly so that no one else could see it. Eru suddenly became nervous.

Before dawn, she was wandering outside the door of the Torch Hall, and then saw Lan Yang go out and quietly came to find Mo Yi.

"It's okay, it's the same when Childe sees it and doesn't see it, you don't have to worry, just go back and report it directly to Miss Wantang." Mo Yi said with a relaxed face.

"But how do I report it?" I've been here for a long time, and I've talked a lot with Mo Yi, but the things I really want to inquire about haven't been settled yet.

"I'm going to go out with my son today, and it may take two or three days to come back, as for Miss Zhuo Xi, you just say that she stays in Hanmo Zhai all day to copy the songs." Mo Yi taught Eru according to what Gongzi explained.

"Well, I know" Eru nodded obediently, and finally waved her hand to Mo Yi with the jade ladybug tightly in her hand, and said, "Thank you, Brother Mo Yi, I will cherish it!" I have to go back to my life, Brother Mo Yi farewell! ”

Mo Yi looked at the back of Eru's reluctant departure, and sighed secretly. Although Childe treats him very well, what future can he have as a scholar? Even if he is very interested in Eru and likes it very much, he doesn't dare to think anything wrong about Eru, let alone promise her anything, after all, in another year or two, or less, Eru will be like those girls before, and set foot on her own way.

"What's going on?" Pan'er muttered while lowering her head and stepped into Hanmo Zhai, only to collide with Ping'er, who was about to bring tea to Zhuo Xi.

"Hey, hey, Pan'er, be careful, you almost spilled my tea" Ping'er turned around quickly, and finally protected the cup of tea.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Sister Ping'er." Pan'er glanced up at Ping'er, then tilted her head and pondered.

What's wrong with this Pan'er? On weekdays, people talk fast, but they don't get so stuffy. Ping'er asked curiously, "What's wrong with you?" Uncomfortable? ”

"No," Pan'er said, pouting.

"Then why are you like a stuffy gourd?" Ping'er glanced at Pan'er carefully, it was no different from usual.

"I ran into Eru just now, she ran out in a panic, how I shouted in the back, she didn't stop, I was thinking about what happened to Eru."

So that's the case, Ping'er chuckled, put the tea tray in front of Zhuo Xi and said, "Girl, let's take a sip of tea first, and then take a break." ”

"Put it there first, I'll finish copying it in no time." Zhuo Xi didn't raise his head, and continued to transcribe.

Ping'er then turned around and said to Pan'er: "If you don't stay in the Moon Pavilion early in the morning, what is Eru doing in Fushan Courtyard?" Could it be that Miss Wantang is embarrassing her again? ”

Pan'er frowned and said, "I don't know either, so I can't figure it out." Alas, in fact, Eru is also quite pitiful, if the Wantang girl is happy, she will be rewarded with gold and silver, and if she is unhappy, she will be beaten and scolded. After all, it's our girl who is the best," after speaking, Pan'er showed a pair of little tiger teeth and smiled.

Maybe it's because Zhuo Xi treats people well, these two maids don't shy away from her when they talk on weekdays, and they just say anything in front of her.

"Is the Eru you talk about on weekdays the maid of Miss Wantang? Is it the Wantang I saw last night? Zhuo Xi spread out the scroll of songs that he had just copied, and was about to put it on the table to dry, and when he heard them talking, he turned around and asked.

"Yes, girl" Ping'er hurriedly took the scroll from Zhuo Xi's hand and put it on the table on the other side.

Pan'er handed over the tea, Zhuo Xi waved her hand, signaled her to put it down, picked up the scroll next to her, opened it and looked at it, raised her head and asked, "What kind of person is this Wantang girl?" I think she's very special, different from other girls. ”

"It's not like, it's just." Pan'er snatched it and said, "At present, she is the most noble in the entire Condensation Hall. ”

"Origin?" Zhuo Xi paused, didn't the women who came here have cut off their relationship with the past? What good or bad background does it do to them? Zhuo Xi asked abruptly: "Isn't it not that you don't see your background here?" ”

"They don't let us see, they just make us forget everything, but they still talk about our origins!" Ping'er was a little sad and angry, and said helplessly.

"Who are they?" Zhuo Xi asked.

Ping'er said angrily: "It's the ones who traded us!" ”

"But it's different for people to be a Tang girl, people won't be traded." Pan'er said with some envy and some unwillingness.

"But why?" Listening to the words of the two maids, a trace of sadness rose in Zhuo Xi's heart. Yes, what about the status and status, sooner or later it will be traded; What about talent and ability, it is just a bargaining chip for them!

"Because Miss Wantang is Mr. Hong'an's niece," Pan'er said with a pout.

Mr. Hung On's niece? It's unlikely, right? Zhuo Xi felt unbelievable, even if Mr. Hong'an was the owner of Fushan Courtyard, or one of the builders of Ninglu Hall, he couldn't raise his niece in such a place!

"Where is the niece, but the daughter of Mr. Hongan's deceased, entrusted to him to take care of." Ping'er interrupted Pan'er's words, squeezed in front of Zhuo Xi and said: "Pan'er must have listened to what Mo Yi said, where does Mo Yi know so much, but I often meet Uncle Tong when preparing meals in the lower courtyard, and I often hear Uncle Tong mention the past." ”

"Okay, okay, you're right, listen to you" Pan'er made a grimace at Ping'er and flashed to the side

"Actually, this Wantang girl's surname is Changkong, and her father was originally the Great Sima of Qi State."

Ping'er's first sentence surprised Zhuo Xi, Sima? That's the position of a general in charge of a country's soldiers and horses! But how did Sima's daughter end up here?

"I heard that this Wantang girl can speak and sing since she was a child, when she was five years old, she sang to death Huang Li, and when she was ten years old, she danced for the king of Qi, and she was proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting at a young age, and she was famous in the capital. Especially dance, it is a must, and some people specially praise her, saying that her dance is like swimming fish and flying or something. ”

Ping'er depicted beautifully, but Zhuo Xi was thinking, how beautiful the dance should be if she could get such an evaluation!

"This Wantang girl is the pearl of Changkong Sima, she is only twelve or thirteen years old, and those who propose relatives can squeeze through the door, and they are either royal relatives or nobles. But later, I didn't know what happened, offended the monarch of Qi, was caught and put in prison, and sealed my home. I heard Tongbo say that it was so pitiful at that time, all the men over the age of ten were killed, and all the women under the age of ten were relegated to the border as slaves, and all the female dependents entered the Jiaofang Division, and the most terrible thing was that all the wives and concubines and daughters of Changkong Sima were directly sent to the military camp as military slaves..."Ping'er stopped when she said this, her face full of unbearability and sympathy. Although I only heard it in casual chatter with others, I still feel sad for what happened to these people, and I hope there are fewer innocent and poor people in this world.

"What a sin did you commit that your house was raided and destroyed?" Zhuo Xi asked curiously.

"Seems to say... The sons of the monarch of Qi fought very hard with each other for the matter of establishing the prince, and Changkong Sima colluded with the fifth prince at that time to prepare a rebellion but was discovered, saying that he had committed a conspiracy... Inverse... Yes, it's a major crime of rebellion, so I raided my home, and it seems that a lot of people were implicated..."Pan'er felt that she was more familiar with this paragraph, so she continued.

"Well, it seems like that. Didn't Mr. Hongan also serve in the Qi State Palace, so he and this Changkong Sima are also old acquaintances. But in the affairs of Qi State, it is inconvenient for Mr. Hongan to show up, so he can only ask our Ke Qi Master of Ninglu Hall to help find out the news. How big is Ninglutang's ability, where there is a stir in the wind and grass, everyone knows, and later found out the whereabouts of Changkong Sima's wife and daughter, so he robbed people in the middle of the road, and bought several daughters of Changkong Sima. Ping'er struggled to remember what she had heard from Tongbo and connect them together.

I didn't expect the arrogant Wan Tang to have such a tragic encounter, think about her indifference, probably because of this.

Ping'er eased up, sighed and continued: "I thought I could come back smoothly, but who knew that Changkong Sima's enemy didn't even let go of his daughters, chased and killed all the way, and finally returned to Ninglu Hall, the other daughters died and lost, leaving Wantang alone." In order to protect her, Mr. Hongan changed her name and put her in Rongfang Hall to eat and live with other women, and only said that she was a green seedling that she bought. ”

Falling from the clouds into the mud, presumably Wan Tang's first days were not easy, and he must have suffered a lot. Right? Zhuo Xi sighed secretly.

"A noble lady must not be able to stand it all of a sudden, at first she refused to be disciplined, and she was not less punished. At that time, Miss Zhaoqian was responsible for her dance teaching, but Miss Wantang's dancing skills were far above Miss Zhaoqian, and this Miss Zhaoqian was not convinced and made it difficult for her. Later, Mr. Hongan found out, so he arranged a banquet for Miss Wantang to dance, and I heard that Miss Wantang shined at that banquet, and all the guests were shocked by her dance. Mr. Hongan took this opportunity to send the Wantang girl to the Fushan Courtyard, and fortunately, through that banquet, he was favored by Mrs. Fengqi, recognized the righteous daughter, and gave the house, so far the Wantang girl can be regarded as bitter. Ping'er said this, showing a relieved smile, and was also happy for Wantang at that time.

"This Wantang girl seems to be cold and arrogant, but in fact she is ill-fated, although the women of this Ninglutang have different backgrounds, they are actually all the same miserable!" Zhuo Xi sighed with emotion.