Several subordinates of the Xu family guard house watched this farce dumbfounded, and they couldn't help but slander, the fourth young lady who was silent and obedient in the past, one day she was able to sarcastically sarcastically Aunt Xu, wasn't she really beaten by the two slaps of the old man and broke her brain?

The subordinates who were originally busy couldn't help but stop what they were doing, and couldn't come back to their senses when they looked at the empty courtyard gate. Xu Shi was still standing in place, almost losing the posture of everyone he had cultivated over the years, muttering and scolding the market in his mouth, and Shi Huan frowned when he heard it.

"It's the other way around, it's really the other way around! Do you really think that the third lady is facing her! You still dare to sarcastically mock me, Kasuga! Come with me to find the eldest lady, I want to see how long she can be proud!"

Shi Huan was speechless, hurriedly grabbed Xu, and persuaded him with good words: "Auntie, don't be impulsive, haven't you forgotten why the old lady took her back to the house?"

Xu Shi said confusedly: "Isn't it because the Ding family, who was an imperial merchant, collaborated with the enemy and treason, and no one took care of her?"

Shi Huan sighed, "Of course it's not all, I went to ask the old lady to say goodbye that day, and I heard the old lady and Gui Mama say that the fourth sister met the mountain bandits when she came back, and it was the regent who sent someone to escort her, and the fourth sister picked up a life, and the old lady personally asked the eldest lady to pick up people at the post house for the sake of the regent's face!"

"Regent?" Xu's body shook, "How could the regent ......!"

"I heard that the regent lived in disguise and borrowed from Ding Mao Mansion for a period of time, and my aunt thought about it carefully, if it was just a one-sided relationship, why did the regent send someone to escort it? The letter was sent by the regent to the emperor, how could there be no matter of the fourth sister?" Shi Huan analyzed the head of the road, and immediately frightened the Xu family.

"It would be a good thing if these four girls really fell into the eyes of the regent. "The Xu family made a calculation in his heart, even if he can't be the regent princess, being a concubine in the palace is a great gift!

Xu Shi stopped thinking about continuing to trouble Shi Qingluo, after all, it seems that now it is possible for this girl to fly on the branches and become a phoenix, it is better to observe carefully for some days, if the regent does not have that reason, in this mansion, he has time to clean her up!

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Shi Qingluo didn't know anything about Xu's thoughts, and following the path in his memory, Shi Qingluo returned to the small courtyard located in the west of Shangshu Mansion.

Every courtyard in Shangshu Mansion is very exquisite, even if it is a subordinate room, it is not comparable to the next house. The courtyard of the concubine is only a little more remote than the courtyard.

The front of the courtyard gate was deserted, and when I looked in from the open courtyard gate, I could only see a few elderly grandmothers clearing the snow.

Shi Qingluo stepped into the small courtyard with the help of the threshold, and a few snow-clearing grandmothers over there put aside their work and stood in the courtyard to salute, "Welcome the fourth lady." ”

Shi Qingluo glanced at them, frowned and asked, "What about the other people in the courtyard? Why are you the only ones?"

"The other maids, after the fourth lady left, were all sent to other courtyards. The old lady in the brown gown said, "The old slaves only come to the courtyard of the fourth lady every day to clean, but the old lady has already ordered it yesterday, and the new people will come today." ”

Shi Qingluo nodded, motioned for them to continue, and led He Yi through the corridor to the boudoir at the back.

The house is very simple, a few red plums are inserted in the celadon vase placed on the round table, the incense burner on the side is emitting lingering fine smoke, and the heavy incense in the room is mixed with a faint mildew, Shi Qingluo covered the tip of his nose and pressed the corners of his mouth unhappily.

"It looks like those grandmothers are lying. He Yi put down the burden in his hand on the table, looked around and said: "The incense in this house is also deliberate, the musty smell in the house has not yet dissipated, and it can be mildew on such a cold day, presumably since the young lady left, no one has cleaned this house." ”

Heyi helped Shi Qingluo sit down at the table, there was no tea on the table, and Heyi was even more unhappy, "It's just that the eldest lady doesn't take the young lady to heart, why doesn't the aunt think more about the young lady, and the half-grown 'son' that she picked up halfway is more intimate to the young lady." ”

Shi Qingluo snorted, "How important is it for a daughter to have a son, you have been here for a short time, and you still don't know her, in her heart, I am the one who came to collect her debts, otherwise, how do you think my illness came about." ”

Shi Qingluo glanced at the window that was blown by the cold wind, and murmured as if reminiscing, "It's such a cold and windy day, she heard that her father was meeting guests in the reception hall in the front yard, so she dressed up and went to look for it, afraid that I would cry if I couldn't see her when I was young, so she smoked incense for me." When I went out, the windows were still open. The people in the house thought that she had taken me there, but no one knew that I was shivering from the cold wind in a coma, and I fell ill all of a sudden. ”

He Yi was so angry that his body trembled, "In the world, how can there be such a ruthless mother!"

"Old Taijun and Master Shi, didn't you punish Aunt Xu?"

"Naturally, it was punished. Shi Qingluo held his forehead and said lightly: "The old lady handed me over to the eldest lady to take care of and forbade Xu's feet." I stayed with the eldest lady for two years, and when I came out, the old lady gave me a new yard to live alone. ”

When she came to the eldest lady with a serious illness, she was only eight years old. Shi Jiaolan is a year older than her, at that time she was learning embroidery, writing and writing and writing poetry with the female master in the palace.

Only once, she secretly learned what her master had taught her and embroidered an embroidery, which was discovered by the grandmother who took care of her. The grandmother secretly told the eldest lady, and the eldest lady was very displeased, but Shi Jiaolan had other thoughts.

Then Shi Jiaolan entered the palace to go to the banquet, Shi Qingluo embroidered the picture as a congratulatory gift to the five princesses in the palace, that embroidery was the biological mother of the five princesses, the current queen mother greatly appreciated, and allowed her to enter the palace as the five princesses' companion, so that Shangshufu was greatly praised.

Since then, all of Shi Jiaolan's teachers have taught Shi Jiaolan on the surface, but they have taught Shi Qingluo secretly. Shi Qingluo suffers from the hardship, and the reputation and reward are all held by Shi Jiaolan, Shi Qingluo can't disobey the order of the eldest lady, so he can only endure it every day, and be a pawn for the eldest lady to make Shi Jiaolan famous.

The eldest lady is very conservative in this matter, except for Shi Cong, Lao Taijun and Aunt Xu.

Almost no one knows that Shi Jiaolan's reputation as a talented woman was created by Shi Qingluo for her.

Shi Qingluo hung his head, his eyes gradually darkened, and the tip of his tongue touched the roof of his mouth.