Zhao Xiu's frowning brows and strange tone made Meng Xin understand what he meant. "Then I'll step back first." Meng Xin glanced at Zhao Xiu and retreated.

Only Jiang Wanqing and Zhao Xiu were left in the house, and the other subordinates of Nian Ciyuan were standing in the courtyard, not daring to come forward to disturb.

Jiang Wanqing stretched out her head to look outside, obviously waiting for someone.

Zhao Xiu patted the table and asked in a low voice, "There's something I want to ask you." ”

Zhao Xiu's cautious appearance made Jiang Wanqing feel a little strange, "What's wrong?" What is there that my wife knows, but you don't? ”

Zhao Xiu's middle finger of his right hand unconsciously drew circles on the table, and he leaned closer to Zhao's mother and asked, "It's the map that my uncle gave me, and it's the one handed down by the Jiang family." ”

Jiang Wanqing thought for a while and then reacted, "Ah, that's what the Jiang family has passed down from generation to generation, and I heard that our generation has been passed down for thousands of years. Only the heads of the Jiang family in the past were qualified to keep this map. The reason why your uncle handed it over to you is also because of the decline of the Jiang family, and he wants you to take the Jiang family to rise again. Although you can't do Jiang, it seems that you have already regarded you as the head of the Jiang family, and you can't live up to your uncle's wishes. ”

After the Jiang family suffered the catastrophe of annihilation, the Baishi clan only survived two heirs, one was Zhao Xiu's mother Jiang Wanqing, and the other was Zhao Xiu's uncle Jiang Jun.

Jiang Jun escaped death, and after the Jiang family was rehabilitated, he came to Liaozhou, and was appointed by Zhao Xiu as the right manager of Liaozhou, becoming one of Zhao Xiu's few cronies in Liaozhou.

Zhao Xiu frowned and said, "I have a lot of questions about this map, I don't know if you know it?" ”

Jiang Wanqing shook her head and said: "This map belongs to the heirloom treasure of the Jiang family, it is passed on to men and not to women, I just know that there is a real thing, but I have never seen it, and I don't know the secret." If you ask me, you might as well ask your uncle. ”

Zhao Xiu nodded, he also thought that his mother had probably never seen this map. Just as he was thinking about it, his stomach suddenly made a "growling" sound.

As soon as Zhao Xiu looked up, she saw the strange expression on Jiang Wanqing's face, her eyebrows were raised, her eyes were wide, and her mouth was fixed into a circle. Then he smiled again: "Just talking patronizingly, my son is hungry." ”

Jiang Wanqing shouted outward: "Old Feng, old Feng! ”

There were many servants standing in the courtyard of the back room of Nianci Garden, and standing at the back was Meng Xin, who commanded the people beside him from time to time, and then these people hurriedly looked at the courtyard and walked towards the east courtyard.

Standing at the front, but closest to the main hall of the back room, was an old woman, dressed in a dark brown coat, hunched over, half-squinted, and tired in front of everyone.

Her surname is Feng, and she used to be a servant of the Jiang family, and she has always served in front of Jiang Wanqing. She has passed the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, and she is an old man who has watched Zhao Xiu grow up since she was a child.

Although Mama Feng is old, she is still tough in all aspects of her body, but her ears are sometimes not very good. Jiang Wanqing spoke twice before she heard it.

"Hey, here we are." Mama Feng followed the moonlight and the candlelight in the house, and walked into the back room step by step.

Jiang Wanqing asked, "Is the meal ready?" ”

Mama Feng's rickety body seemed to be bowing even if she was standing. "The meals are ready, and they are all hot in the side room, are you waiting for the princess to come, or?"

As soon as Jiang Wanqing wanted to speak, she heard many subordinates shouting in the courtyard outside: "Niangniang Makeup."

I saw Wang Miao wearing a dark purple skirt, draped in a light purple gauze dress, the pleated skirt of the skirt flowed like snow and moonlight pouring on the ground, three thousand green silk tied up with a hairband, a blue butterfly hairpin was obliquely inserted on the head, her cheeks were as delicate and lovely as petals, and the whole person was like a butterfly floating in with the wind, and it was like a clear and transparent ice and snow.

As soon as Wang Miao entered the house, she couldn't help but look at Zhao Xiu, but she didn't dare to speak, but she just blessed Jiang Wanqing slightly: "Mother is fine." ”

"Come, sit down, sit down, sit beside me." Jiang Wanqing saw Wang Miao as if she had seen her long-lost daughter, and the smile on her face and the love in her eyes couldn't be hidden.

"Hey" Wang Miao smiled and nodded, walked to the left side of the old lady and sat down, and glanced at Zhao Xiu again, very happy in his heart.

Jiang Wanqing looked at the wonderful man in front of him: "I was still thinking about when you will come just now, no, you have arrived." ”

"Lao Feng, hurry up, hurry up and pass the dishes. My son is hungry. ”

Mama Feng nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, yes, the old slave will order someone to pass the food." After saying that, she stepped up her pace and went to the side room to be busy serving food.

Jiang Wanqing looked at one left and one right, both of them were her closest relatives, and she was very happy in her heart. She took Wang Miao's slender jade hand and said, "There have been a lot of days in the house, so I didn't tire Miao'er." But looking at you, your face is more rosy than before. ”

The two strands of green silk on Wang Miao's forehead swayed in front of his eyebrows, and he wanted to hold it to his ears with his hands, but both hands were held by Jiang Wanqing, and he couldn't pull them out, so he had to side them slightly. "Mother, most of the things in today's Xia Yuan Festival were arranged by the fifth brother, and I didn't make any efforts, I wasn't tired at all, but it made you worry about the child."

Jiang Wanqing's heart warmed even more when she heard this, "It's good that you're not tired." As he spoke, he glanced at Zhao Xiu and said, "Don't talk to him, he can help you with the affairs of the palace?" , I really don't know what he's been busy with all day? ”

Zhao Xiu smiled a little embarrassedly: "Mother, what you said, why can't I help Miao'er take care of the affairs of the house?" ”

Jiang Wanqing frowned and asked, "You don't come to the West Courtyard every day, how can you help me Miao'er?" ”

Zhao Xiu understood what Jiang Wanqing meant, and after saying a lot, he still had to talk about the fact that he often didn't come to the West Courtyard. The Chengwang Mansion covers a huge area, which is really unimaginable to ordinary people. Although the east and west courtyards of the palace are only separated by a middle courtyard, it takes half an hour to walk from the east courtyard to the west courtyard.

Zhao Xiu dealt with the things in the East Courtyard, and at night, he didn't have time to walk such a long way to sleep in the West Courtyard. Most of them stayed in the study room of the East Courtyard to rest.

Zhao Xiu didn't dare to pull her face with Jiang Wanqing, so she could only smile and say: "Mother, I slept in the West Courtyard yesterday, and I stayed in the West Courtyard all day today, and I have been helping Miao'er take care of the affairs of the house." ”

Jiang Wanqing had an expression of disbelief on her face, and she turned her head to Wang Miao with an inquiring look, "Really?" ”

Wang Miao smiled and nodded, her smile also had a woman's unique happiness charm, this expression Jiang Wanqing understood as a person who had come over.

"Mother, you really wronged the fifth brother, from last night to today, the fifth brother was busy with the arrangement of the next Yuan Festival for the children in the west courtyard."

Wang Miao's words made Zhao Xiu a little ashamed, although he arrived at Cuixiu Garden last night, but he had been busy with his own business, and he didn't help Wang Miao at all.

Jiang Wanqing still said with a straight face: "Son, you finally have time to relax, why don't you stay, the three of us will have a good chat, and you will live in Cuixiu Garden at night." ”

Zhao Xiu understood what Jiang Wanqing meant, and glanced at Wang Miao's slightly lowered pretty face, "Okay, I haven't talked to you for a long time, I'll stay here with you tonight." ”

Jiang Wanqing's face softened, but holding Wang Miao's hand, she secretly exerted force. Wang Miao looked at Jiang Wanqing, only to see the latter wink at the former without a trace. While Wang Miao wanted to laugh, she felt warm in her heart.

Mama Feng brought more than a dozen maids to present the prepared dishes one by one, and the first thing to be served was two things that were indispensable for the Xia Yuan Festival, a huge warm pot. The hot pot was steaming, and it was carried to the center of the table by six people.

The hot pot is filled with unoiled water, and the clear soup is filled with a variety of ingredients to enhance the freshness. Underneath the pot is charcoal that has long been red. Immediately after that, the maid who came in the back brought more than a dozen kinds of meat and vegetarian side dishes, including spinach, mushrooms, vermicelli, iced tofu, and thinly sliced mutton.

The second one to come up is hot roasted wheat, which is also served with a bowl of hot shredded egg soup or chicken and duck blood soup. This siu mai is the most authentic oil enamel siu mai in Liaozhou, which is made of diced oil, walnuts and white box filling. The skin is in the shape of a painting, the thickness of the center is uniform, and the outer edge needs to be folded with a folded pattern, and the upper end of the siu mai presents a pomegranate flower-like pattern.

The maids outside walked in rows and put the dishes in their hands on the table one by one. In a few moments, a dozen dishes filled the table.

Almond bergamot, candied green plum, golden cake, milk corner, dragon beard noodles, lotus pod tofu, straw mushroom broccoli, red bean porridge, five-spice cooked mustard, jade shoots and bracken. The dishes on the table are all vegetarian, and most of the families in the Xia Yuan Festival have been vegetarian, and Chengwangfu is no exception.

Mama Feng saw that all the dishes were ready, so she saluted Zhao Xiu, "Your Highness, the dishes have been prepared and can be eaten." ”

Zhao Xiu is the head of the family, and only when he speaks can everyone move chopsticks, it's just the rules. "Mother, let's eat."

Mama Feng didn't say anything when she heard this, and retreated carefully.

At the same time, a courtyard in the east courtyard was full of men in black suits. They were all burly, with long knives on their backs, standing straight in the middle of the courtyard. More than thirty men stood in three rows, their black clothes making them blend in with the night.

There was not a single sound in the courtyard, and everyone was waiting for the orders of the three people in the room. There was only one candle in the room, and three people sat around them, sitting on three chairs, looking at a map that had just been drawn under the candlelight.

Turing, the youngest of them, was the first to say: "The sect master only gave five days, and we have to fight for speed, not manpower." Tonight, when you explore the road house at night, there will be many people who will reveal their whereabouts. So all the people outside responded to it, and I only brought one person into the Lu Mansion. Which of you two is going? ”

To Turing's right sat a large man with a black face, a burly man with a body of flesh. He raised an objection, "No, Demon King, you can't take risks, the Lu family's deep mansion compound is crowded, and if it is discovered, it will be dangerous." If you want me to say, your skills are far inferior to ours, and if you go, you may expose your whereabouts, but you will add more variables. ”