After seeing Second Lady Fang and Fang Xiuting leave, Qiao Ran turned her head to look at Qiao Shu and said, "This matter should have nothing to do with your mother's business, you don't have to think about it." ”

Qiao Shu nodded, leaned over and picked up the bucket and walked out.

The young man was thin and struggling to carry the bucket out of the yard.

Qiao Ran looked at his back and sighed.

"Sigh what?" Pei Qingqing climbed over the roof and landed lightly and skillfully with a paper bag in her arms, and then took the mooncake and handed it to her, "Eat?" ”

Qiao Ran shook her head and said, "Qiao Shu's mother entrusted him to me before she died, asking me to take care of him. I thought it would be an easy task, after all, he couldn't wait for a bite to eat here. But just now, I suddenly felt that just giving him a mouthful of food, but ignoring him, did I really take care of him? ”

After asking this sentence, without waiting for Pei Qingqing to speak, Qiao Ran continued: "He is thirteen years old, so it's okay to stay here with me to water the flowers and carry water." What about a little bigger? Will you stay with me and be a little boy for the rest of your life? "That's not going to work." ”

Pei Qingqing took a bite of the moon cake and muttered: "His body is not as strong as mine, and if he is too big in the future, he will not stay with you for a lifetime, otherwise I am afraid that there will be no place to ask for it if he is released." ”

Qiao Shu is obviously not a material for manual work.

Qiao Ran thought for a while and said, "I want to send him to study, read a book, if he can take the exam or something, he can always find some work to do." ”

Pei Qingqing stuck out her tongue, and her little face made a serious statement: "My father said that he used to want to take the test to recognize a few words and then do the account room or something to support my mother, but he also has a lot of strength, and he doesn't take the show to go out to live and eat with his strength, and he can be a porter or something, so he doesn't have to worry about finding a place to make money to support my mother." ”

Qiao Ran was a little surprised when she heard this: "Your father...... Is it a showman? "Listening to this, he is still a show talent with a lot of strength.

For a while, Qiao Ran couldn't tell whether it was disappointment or something else. Looking at Pei Qingqing's appearance, she thought that her parents must be the dragon and phoenix among those people, but it turned out to be just a showman. It's not that her parents are bad, but she purely thinks that the person described by Pei Qingqing is a little different from what she thinks.

Pei Qingqing shook his head and said with a regretful face: "No, he didn't take the Xiucai exam, he is too old, and he won't be able to do anything if he gets out of the exam." ”

Well, not even Xiucai. Qiao Ran was silent for a moment and said, "Then what is he doing now?" ”

Pei Qingqing said: "I saved some money before, and I saved enough to spend it." But he is good-looking, my mother said that his face can go to eat soft rice, looking at this face, my mother said that if he has no money, she can raise it. ”

Qiao Ran: "...... Don't talk about your dad. ”

If you eat soft rice like this, don't use the premise of Qiao Shu anymore, after all, a normal man still has to support himself at least.

In fact, in addition to this, it is more important to let Qiao Shu find something to do. Like this time, didn't the Furong case find a lot of children of the big clan who were idle and had nothing to do, so they went astray? What she was worried about was not that Qiao Shu had gone astray, but that it was his mother's business.

Jiao's family.

Like the original family, these two families are not something that she and Qiao Shu can provoke now.

……

The Mid-Autumn Festival always admires the moon and eats moon cakes and reunion dinners, because Qiao Ran is going to His Majesty's birthday banquet, so he only eats two bites, after all, I heard Zhen Shiyuan say that I still have to keep my stomach to eat the food of the imperial kitchen to not go to this trip in vain.

Before leaving, Pei Qingqing swallowed her saliva and told her repeatedly: "Don't forget to bring back the moon cakes and birthday bags." ”

Hongdou said on the side: "You've said it many times." ”

Pei Qingqing didn't care, watched Qiao Ran climb into the carriage, and added: "Don't forget!" ”

……

"Don't forget!" Zhen Shiyuan learned from Pei Qingqing and smiled, "At that time, the official will also remind you." ”

Approaching the evening, every family began to go home to prepare for the festival, so the road was extremely empty, and the carriage also traveled fast, almost all the way to the gate of the imperial city, and then got off the carriage to show the invitation to enter the imperial city.

The scene of the imperial city naturally cannot be the same as the scene of the market, Zhen Shiyuan coughed, paying attention to the girl on the side, but seeing her curiously looking around at the beginning, he calmed down and walked quietly beside him.

This kind of reaction made Zhen Shiyuan a little puzzled. He still remembered the first time he entered the imperial city, looking left and right, looking excited, and when he came to her, except for the initial curiosity, it seemed that there was no more.

This appearance of being accustomed to seeing big scenes made Zhen Shiyuan puzzled, and in the end, he had no choice but to give himself an explanation: after all, she is not an ordinary person, and it is possible for anything to happen to her.

Along the way, there was no one except for the occasional colleague who had a familiar face and said a polite word or two to him because he had benefited from the case.

"My lord, it seems that your popularity is really not very good." Qiao Ran looked at the few talkers who had come along the way, and said.

Zhen Shiyuan glanced at her and pointed ahead: "It's here." ”

The full moon lanterns hanging among the treetops already have a festive atmosphere, not to mention the sweet fragrance of osmanthus in the air, after reporting their names, the two of them sat down on their seats under the leadership of the palace people.

One person and one table, cold dishes, melons, fruits and snacks have been placed in front of him, Qiao Ran grabbed a shou bao and took a bite, and listened to Zhen Shiyuan on the side sigh: "This son is also at ease." ”

is not a close minister of the Son of Heaven, let alone a relative of the emperor, so naturally he will not be arranged in the most important position.

Qiao Ran looked at His Majesty's seat, which was so far away that he could barely see it, and said to Zhen Shiyuan: "So far away, I'm afraid that Your Majesty can't hear anything clearly!" ”

Zhen Shiyuan said helplessly: "So, I'll tell you just to eat, and when the time comes, just get up with everyone to celebrate your birthday." Your Majesty is not a person who is too particular about red tape, and will not embarrass us in these little things. ”

It's good for them to be a foil.

Qiao Ran was surprised, and began to concentrate on studying the melon and fruit snacks on the table, just as Pei Qingqing said, of course the things made by the imperial kitchen would not be bad, no wonder she thought about it again and again.

However, their sub-committee is really not very good, except for the fireworks in the sky, the hotel singing and dancing juggling is not real, Qiao Ran can only bow his head and eat and drink seriously.

Halfway through eating, Qiao Ran got up.

Zhen Shiyuan on the side hurriedly looked at her, and his voice couldn't help but be a little nervous: "What are you going to do?" ”

Qiao Ran said, "...... Toilet. ”

Zhen Shiyuan was silent for a moment and said, "...... You're pretty busy. ”

Qiao Ran replied to him unceremoniously: "Your Excellency, you have been there twice, but I have never been there once!" "The implication is that Zhen Shiyuan, you are busier!

Zhen Shiyuan also knew that he was wrong, and turned his head to the other party who had just led the way for him: "I'm tired of leading the way for Lord Qiao." ”

He didn't know why, he was always panicked in his heart, for fear that something would happen, so he deliberately pointed to a palace person who was guiding the way for him and looked at the unlikely problem to help guide the way.

Qiao Ran, who looked cautious and cautious, smiled: "Lord Zhen, you look like there will be ghosts in this imperial city." ”

There was no problem with the palace people who led the way, and they led her all the way to the Gong room, and Qiao Ran came out of the Gong room and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Miss Joe." A woman's voice rang out at that moment.

Qiao Ran was startled by the sudden sound of "Miss Qiao", and the person also stood in place.

There are indeed ghosts in this imperial city.

There are inner ghosts.

The palace man who led the way stood respectfully aside, and someone walked out from behind the rockery on the side.