Soon night fell, Su Mengtang personally led people to place Qiuqiu and Yunhua in the guest room on the east side of the Liudan Pavilion Courtyard - Towering Cui Zhai, and ordered Ziyu and Zifeng to keep vigil here. Unexpectedly, Ximen March didn't get up, arguing that he hadn't had enough fun with Qiuqiu, and wanted Qiuqiu to live in the Lan Zexuan courtyard where he lived with Su Mengtang, so that he could play for a while. Su Mengtang couldn't help Ximen's central notice, and looked at Yunhua with a smile: Brother Yunhua, if you don't mind, I will take Qiu'er to Lan Zexuan. Yunhua looked at Qiuqiu and asked for her opinion with his eyes. Qiuqiu thought of the conversation between Su Mengtang and Yunhua that she had just overheard, and thought in her heart that if she lived in Lan Zexuan, she might be able to learn more about her life experience, so she nodded happily and agreed.

Su Mengtang instructed the maids beside him to go to Furong Zhai next to Lan Zexuan to clean up the room first, and prepare an extra set of bedding, while talking, Qiuqiu suddenly heard the sound of horns sounding on the corner towers on all sides, and couldn't help but look out of the door with great curiosity. Ximen March stood at the door with her and said, "Xiao Qiu'er, you forgot, this is the urging signal of our villa. Qiuqiu turned her head to look at Ximen March and said, "I know." Before the words fell, Qiuqiu saw that starting from the main gate below, the courtyard wall around the villa, a string of red lanterns every few zhang lit up in turn, and the faint light took the lead in surrounding the villa. Then, from front to back, Chunfeng Pavilion, Chengjiang Building, Yiqing Hall, Leng Yunxuan, Rosin Xiang Zhai, Liudan Pavilion, Lan Zexuan, Qixing Tower, the courtyards where these main buildings are located, also lit bright lanterns on the porch outside each room, and for a time the dark villa became bright inside and out, and the lights were bright.

As he was watching, he suddenly saw the Cuihu girl he had seen in the morning, walked into the courtyard of Liudan Pavilion, gathered the little maids in the courtyard, and ordered each of them to light a lantern. After a while, Ziruo and Ziwen under the corridor came to report to Su Mengtang and said: Girl, the lights of you and the little master have been lit, the lamps of Lan Zexuan have been lit, and the lights of the other courtyards and the surrounding gables are also aligned. Qiuqiu wondered in her heart, did things like lighting the lamp also use such a cumbersome return?

Ximen March quietly bit Qiu'er's ear and said: Xiao Qiu'er, tell you a secret, now we are here, every lantern represents a person, even me and Master are counted in it. If the light is gone, it means that this person is not here. Qiuqiu looked at Ximen March in disbelief and asked, "What about the lanterns on the wall?" Is it counted in it? Simon March nodded: "That's the lamp of the housekeepers, they hear the lantern call, and they will climb the gable from the nearest stone staircase to light their lamp." My master said that if one day a bad guy came to attack the villa, everyone would stand guard under their own lamps, and guard one by one, and if they all rushed to the gate, there would be chaos, and the enemy would take advantage of it.

When Su Mengtang heard Ximen March's words, he came over and patted his head and said: Be careful, don't scare your sister Qiu'er. After that, he smiled and explained to Yunhua: This villa is too big, I just came up with this way to count the number of people, if someone sneaks out to play, the big girl in each courtyard counts the lanterns, you can know how many people are missing, who is running, and will not let people take advantage of the loophole. Yunhua and Qiuqiu both admired Su Mengtang's method very much, and they also found that there were really a lot of people in Jiangnan Villa. However, Qiuqiu still felt that Aunt Mengtang was a little too careful.

After sitting for a while, Su Mengtang led Ximen and Qiuqiu back to Lan Zexuan behind Liudan Pavilion, and on the way, Ximen March pointed to the largest and brightest lantern in the entire mountain villa at the top of the Qixing Tower, and said to Qiuqiu: "Look, Xiao Qiu'er, the lamp at the top of the tower is my master, and the one on the sixth floor is me. By the way, now that you're here, I'll give you a light too. Qiuqiu smiled: I'll leave in a few days, if you give it to me, I won't know it in a few days, how unlucky. Ximen March grabbed Qiuqiu's sleeve and said: That's right, Xiao Qiu'er, you and Uncle Yunhua will live in our villa, I want to play the game with you just now every day. Qiuqiu laughed in her heart: just now she just taught this child to play the game of "one, two, three wooden people" with a few idle maids, and they were very happy, and they all praised her for her wonderful ideas.

Su Mengtang said with a smile: You can't sit still when you read every day, but Sister Qiu'er wants to go back to study with your Uncle Yunhua. Ximen March felt that he had lost face in front of Qiuqiu, so he denied it, saying that it was not that he didn't read, but that he couldn't stand the smell of ink on the book, and he had a headache when he smelled it. As they spoke, the group came to Lan Zexuan. This courtyard is smaller than the Liudan Pavilion just now, the main seat facing south is Lan Zexuan, and there is a wing room built opposite each other in the east and west, which is called Furong Zhai and Suo Si Zhai respectively. It turns out that on weekdays, Lan Zexuan is Su Mengtang's boudoir, where the terrain is very high, and it is convenient to look down on the entire villa. Behind the highest perched star tower, is surrounded by a small pine forest surrounded by a wall, outside the wall, is a cliff, such a natural danger, even birds and birds are difficult to fly up, let alone people, so it is extremely safe.

Ximen's daily life in March is all in the Si Zhai, and Ziwen is mainly responsible for it. These four maids dressed in purple are the highest status among the subordinates of the entire villa, and they were all personally selected by Mr. Su for Su Mengtang back then, and they are very capable and loyal. At present, Ziyu and Zifeng are being left in Zhucuizhai to listen to Yunhua's dispatch, Ziwen is taking Ximen March in the bath, and Su Mengtang is only Ziruo busy with the little girl, so Su Mengtang asked Ziruo to move the futon prepared for Qiuqiu to his bed, let Qiuqiu sleep with him, thinking that he will transfer Zifeng from Zicuizhai back tomorrow and take care of Qiuqiu alone in Furong Zhai.

After washing, Qiuqiu and Su Mengtang lay side by side on the brocade couch, Su Mengtang specially asked people to bring another soft pillow of jasmine to Qiuqiu, and replaced the jade pillow, she was gently coaxing Qiuqiu at the moment, humming a nursery rhyme in her mouth, Qiuqiu was very embarrassed, Su Mengtang's age, Xu was about twenty-four years old, and Sun Xiaowen was almost different: it was really awkward to let a peer slap herself to sleep. Qiuqiu was thinking about how to make Su Mengtang realize that he didn't like this, when he suddenly heard a noise outside the door.

"Who?" Su Mengtang turned over and sat up. Ziruo came over and reported: Girl, the little master is here, saying that he has something to give to Miss Qiu. Su Mengtang looked down and saw that Qiuqiu hadn't slept yet, and was looking at himself, so he smiled and said: Let him come in, see what big gift he wants to give.