He calculated the time, Lin Yulan and her mother Wang should be coming soon, as soon as the thought started, he heard the noisy footsteps outside the door, and the Wang family shouted outside the door: "Can you see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince coming this way?" ”

There was a voice that responded "yes", Zhao Ling glanced at Lin Qingmei and found that she was so frightened that her face was pale, and she didn't dare to move by holding on to the bedpost. frowned and asked, "Mei'er is afraid of her?" ”

Lin Qingmei nodded, and plucked up the courage to pull him behind her: "Brother Ling, don't be afraid, Mei'er will protect you." ”

How did this bedpost hide people? Zhao Ling touched her head and was relieved: "Brother Ling is not afraid of her, and Mei'er doesn't need to be afraid." From now on, Brother Ling will let them not dare to bully you. ”

Lin Qingmei's big eyes were full of hope, and she looked at him watery: "Really? ”

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince doesn't have to promise anything, he just needs to do it.

He responded lightly and flashed out, just as the door was pushed open with a "squeak", and the Wang family led a group of servants in, Lin Yulan beside him was mottled with tears, and I felt pity.

When she saw Zhao Ling, she showed an incredible expression, and she was a little sad and couldn't help herself, her eyebrows were poignant, as if she couldn't say a thousand words.

Zhao Ling sneered in his heart: How many times has she pretended to be in front of him with this coquettish appearance? hated that he was blind, and he was easily deceived by her every time.

"What a coincidence, Madame." Zhao Ling said sarcastically.

The Wang family suddenly felt guilty of making a mistake and being caught: "Your Highness is too worried." The affairs of the palace are all presided over by the courtiers, so it is not surprising that some of the courtiers know about it. Mei'er, as a girl from Shangshu Mansion, had the audacity to seduce her brother-in-law, and the courtiers couldn't help but teach her a lesson. ”

"Seduction? The seven girls are sitting at home, and the disaster comes from the sky, she is embroidering in the room in a good manner, but she is alone in the wrong place and trespassing, how to seduce? In this way, Lone will help you call the old lady to judge the judges. Zhao Ling glanced at it, and Quan An, who was standing at the door, immediately went to look for the old lady.

"Meier." Zhao Ling called Lin Qingmei behind her, she was still trembling against the bedpost, afraid of the Wang family. Seeing this, Zhao Ling supported her: "Brother Ling will come to see you tomorrow." He glanced at Wang with a warning look.

With such words, I think the Wang family and daughter didn't dare to embarrass Lin Qingmei.

He walked out, and Lin Yulan called him pitifully: "Why is Your Highness like this?" Is Magnolia doing something wrong? ”

Zhao Ling chuckled: "The fourth girl is always so understanding, she takes all the fault on herself, and she is embarrassed to blame you." He went out with his sleeves up, and the room suddenly went dark.

Zhao Ling was personable, and when he was there, he was dressed in white to make the dim room suddenly bright, and Xuan Xuan rose like a morning glow. As soon as he left, the room darkened, and the atmosphere froze.

"Hmph," Wang said with a voice from his nose, and said in a strange yin and yang manner, "for you to eat and drink, and to respect you as a bodhisattva." It's good that you can't learn everything about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and the ability to seduce men in the Goolan courtyard is easy. Why aren't you stupid? ”

Lin Qingmei couldn't understand her sarcasm, but she could hear the contempt in her tone, and subconsciously felt that she was stupid, she bit her lip and held back the tears in her eyes: "Mei'er is not stupid." But she was afraid of the Wang family, and this argument seemed pale and weak, and she had no confidence.

Wang stretched out his hand to fight, but Lin Qingmei shrank to dodge, and then the majestic voice of Old Madam Lin sounded at the door: "If you want to hit Mei'er, hit me first!" ”

Wang's raised hand retracted violently like a needle, and glanced at Lin Yulan: This old woman's heart is tight, and she is not easy to fool, she is afraid that she will not be able to calculate Lin Qingmei.

Wang laughed and went up to help her, but the old lady avoided it, didn't give half face, and walked straight to Lin Qingmei. Wang, who had fallen behind her, pursed his lips.

"Mei'er told grandmother, what did your eldest aunt find fault with today?"

Naked eccentricity! Lin Yulan also pouted secretly.

"The eldest aunt said that Mei'er seduced Brother Ling, but Mei'er didn't, and the eldest aunt was going to beat Mei'er." Lin Qingmei looked at her grandmother with tears in her eyes, looking aggrieved.

Wang stepped forward with a smile and explained: "Mother doesn't know, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has drunk too much and trespassed on Yiyi Mei Courtyard, and my sister has lost her reputation, so for the sake of other girls, it is better to send it to the temple to cultivate." ”

Old Madam Lin's eagle-like sharp eyes stared at her for a moment, and she smacked her face: "Black-hearted and venomous woman, don't my wife know what you are thinking?" It's just that she wants to share a dowry for eating and drinking for nothing, and you are unwilling to drive her away! ”

Wang stood in place and didn't dare to move, quite conscious of spitting on his own face.

After Lin Qingmei's mother died, the dowry was all taken back by her maternal grandfather's family. If she marries in the future, the dowry will naturally come out of the Shangshu Mansion, as a girl from the concubine, the weight of this dowry must not be less, Mrs. Lin has already spoken, saying that her own body will be given to Lin Qingmei in the future. provoked the Wang family to complain constantly behind his back, and he looked at Lin Qingmei more and more unpleasantly.

Old Madam Lin warned the Wang family with a stern face: "If you dare to spread a little rumor outside today's matter, you can go to the broken temple for Mei'er to practice!" ”

The Wang family only agreed, and ran away with Lin Yulan.

*

The next day, Mrs. Lin took Lin Yulan and Lin Qingmei to the Ziyun Palace on the outskirts of Beijing to worship God. The Purple Cloud Palace is built in the middle of the mountainside, the stairs meander up, the long pine sandwich road, and the wind comes leisurely.

Today is the ninth day of the new year, and it should not be the day to burn incense, but last night's incident made the old lady uneasy. Lin Yulan relied on her good looks to pick and choose until she was eighteen years old, and finally found an opportunity to climb the prince, and the old lady couldn't let this marriage go wrong.

Entering the view, a little Taoist priest led the old mother of Taishan who worshiped the heir of the pipe and the mother who was in charge of the child's disease, and the old lady asked Lin Yulan to add some sesame oil money, and then took her two granddaughters to the backyard to sit.

An old Taoist with a whisk in his hand walked in good spirits, and smiled at Lin Qingmei: "Xiao Mei'er has grown so big." ”

Lin Qingmei was especially close to the old man because she was brought up by her grandmother since she was a child, and she stepped forward and asked, "Does the birthday father-in-law also know Mei'er?" But Mei'er hasn't seen you. ”

Lin Yulan on the side pouted: Is this fool really stupid? actually knew that the old man was called a birthday star.

Lao Dao laughed, and took out a piece of osmanthus cake from his sleeve: "Lao Dao and Xiao Mei'er haven't seen each other, but they know that Xiao Mei'er is greedy, take it and eat it!" ”

The old lady said "don't dare" repeatedly, the pastries in the eunuch's house are often made in very small pieces, and the nails are as big as they are eaten with tea. The pastry given by this old Taoist is the size of a palm, Lin Qingmei looked at the strangeness and reached out to take it, and thanked her sweetly.

She showed it to the old lady and Lin Yulan as if she was offering a treasure, but when she looked up, she found that the old way had already left, she broke off a small piece and gave it to the old lady: "Grandmother, eat it quickly, you can live a long life if you eat it." ”

The old lady took it with a smile, and praised the heart and liver again, and only when she took a bite did she find that this pastry was made extremely exquisitely, and the bite was full of fragrant, refreshing, and the whole body was as comfortable as if ironed.

Lin Qingmei broke a small half again, Lin Yulan thought that she was going to share it with herself, but she didn't expect this little fool to wrap it in a handkerchief and put it in her sleeve like a baby, and she was very angry at the moment, only because Mrs. Lin was not good at being present.