Seeing that the Chinese New Year was approaching, it suddenly rained in Yecheng. The rain was not heavy, but it made Yecheng in the middle of winter a little chilly. Yan Suwen felt stuffy in the room, wrapped in thick clothes, took a medical case and sat under the corridor reading page by page.

Occasionally, the rain crossed the eaves and hit her face, body, and even the medical case, but she only focused on the content of the medical case itself, and was unaware of it.

"On such a cold day, how can the second lady sit here and read. What are you still doing in a daze, why don't you hurry up and go to the house to get a big one for the second lady, the thick one. ”

Yan Suwen was looking at a case of typhoid fever misdiagnosis, and when he heard the voice, he raised his head buried in the medical case.

The one who came today was a rare guest.

"Aunt Xie."

"I rarely go out on weekdays, but today I went to visit my wife in Baifutang, and I took the liberty to come over when I passed by Ning Xinzhai. Su asks you, you don't mind, do you? ”

"Auntie is talking about something." Yan Suwen got up with a smile: "It's cold outside, please come in your aunt's house." ”

Xie Lingyun nodded, looked at Yan Suwen's medical case in his hand, "Are you reading a medical book?" ”

"It's not a medical book, it's a medical case, and it's all about interesting cases." Yan Suwen shook the book in his hand: "If you have nothing to do, you should read the story." ”

"It's also you who know, so you can read it as a story, if it is in my hands, I'm afraid that I will doze off when I look at it."

"I'll doze off too." Yan Suwen invited Xie Lingyun into the house, and then ordered Youbai and Er Rong to bring refreshments, and then said, "I haven't gone to say hello to my grandmother today, but my grandmother's body is better?" ”

"When I went, the old lady praised you for coming, saying that the medicine you prepared worked and that it had been a good day these days. The old lady knows that you have been busy with your own family affairs recently, so she will explain it and let us people not come over to bother you. I wonder how this dowry is being prepared? But there is a place where you need your aunt's dedication. ”

"Don't hide it from my aunt, these two girls are doing these things."

"They deserve it, but this dowry ......" Xie Lingyun's eyes rolled: "Look at my brain, our family is not an ordinary family to marry, and this dowry does not have to be prepared by yourself." Auntie, there are no good things here, this is to add makeup to Su Wen, you must not dislike it. ”

Xie Lingyun gave a jade hosta, which is excellent in color and texture. Yan Su asked thank you, and asked Youbai to find a brocade box to put away.

"There's something, I don't know if you've heard about it." Xie Lingyun saw that Yan Suwen had accepted the hairpin, so she spoke again, her tone was a little hesitant, as if she was tempting: "The master intends to choose a family affair for Mu Yun, and it seems that he intends to let her go out with Su Wen one after the other." ”

"The eldest uncle wants to choose a relative for the eldest sister?" This is indeed unexpected news: "I don't know that the eldest uncle and the eldest aunt are the sons and young masters of that family." ”

"The considerations of the lord and the lady are different. The lord is quite interested in character, and thinks that this character and knowledge are the most important, and the lady is more interested in the family. At first, it was this Gu Xiang that Mrs. Xiang liked, and in order to let Mu Yun get close to Gu Xiang, she also made up a lot of coincidences in private. It's just that this person is not worthy of heaven after all, even if this Mu Yun is so good, he still can't get into Gu Xiang's eyes. ”

"Marrying into the Gu family is not necessarily a good thing."

"Whether it's good or bad also depends on who marries it." Xie Lingyun put her hand on the back of Yan Suwen's hand and shook it affectionately.

Yan Suwen looked at Xie Lingyun and began to guess her true purpose for coming to see her today.

"Look at me, I can't control myself with one mouth. If you still have to see the doctor's case, I won't bother, and if you are free another day, you will come and sit in my courtyard. My daughter, whom you have also seen, is young, but she also likes to work with those herbs, and if I can learn some fur from you, it will be useful in the future. ”

"I like my sister very much, but I heard that my aunt likes to be quiet, so I didn't dare to go to the door. Today, since my aunt said so, don't feel a little annoyed in the future. ”

"No, it won't." Xie Lingyun said and got up: "It's not too early, I should go back too." It's cold, if you want to read outside, you also need to tell the young white to prepare a stove for you, a charcoal basin or something. You know how to heal, and you know more than I do, but don't take your body seriously just because you're still young. ”

"Yes, what my aunt said, Su Wen has written it down."

The two talked happily with each other, and they were even more smiling when they parted, but when they turned around, the smiles on their faces instantly disappeared.

"Miss, do you think this Aunt Xie came a little suddenly?"

"It's a little sudden." Yan Suwen stared at the brocade box containing the jade hairpin: "It's been a few days since I went home, and this aunt has never had anything to do with me." Today's sudden visit, I always feel that she has a deep meaning. ”

"I guess I want to win over you, Miss." Youbai said, and accepted the tea set prepared for Xie Lingyun: "Before Miss returned home, Madame covered the sky with one hand, and she was alone. Although the eldest lord doesn't like his wife, he doesn't do that kind of thing to spoil his concubine and kill his wife, and this matter on the surface is still taken care of by the eldest lady.

Aunt Xie is well-behaved, good at observing words and feelings, and knows how to please and how to make the old lady and the eldest man happy. How could the eldest lady tolerate her in her eyes, and she also gave her a lot of ugliness in private. Seeing that the eldest lady is about to lose power, and the young lady still has a Gu Xiang behind her, she can't come over to say good things, give good gifts, and have a good relationship with Miss in every way. ”

"You're a human being, too."

"As a young lady, if you are stupid, won't it affect the young lady."

"I'm too lazy to pay attention to the intrigues of these women in the house, it's too sad and tiring. You should pay more attention to the affairs of Aunt Xie and Qin Wanru. There is only one principle for us to be fasting, and that is that if people don't offend me, I won't offend others. ”

"Yes, Miss, you've said you've got a good chance."

"It's me who is verbose, it's me who is verbose." Yan Suwen shook his head and picked up the medical case that he hadn't finished reading just now.

"There's something I seem to have forgotten to tell Miss."

"What's the matter?" Yan Suwen turned the page.

"Aunt Xie and the eldest master's first child is said to have been completely confiscated by the eldest lady."

"It's a story, tell me about it."

"It happened many years ago, at that time, Er Rong and I were still young, and I can't tell you the specifics, but I only know that Aunt Xie became pregnant soon after she started. The eldest lord liked her, and he often stayed in her yard. The eldest lady was snubbed here, how could she endure this breath.

It seems that when Aunt Xie was more than five months pregnant, the eldest lady somehow called Aunt Xie to her yard, and after some reprimand, the child in Aunt Xie's belly was gone.

Listening to the old man in the house, the situation at that time was particularly terrible, Aunt Xie was covered in blood, and wandered outside the ghost gate several times, and the eldest master and his colleagues spent a lot of effort to save her back.

This Aunt Xie was rescued, but the child could not be saved, and Aunt Xie was injured because of this incident, and she never conceived a child again for many years. Xu is God has eyes, and after raising them for a few years, he has the current son and young lady.

Although the matter has passed, Aunt Xie may not let go of it in her heart. ”

"The pain of losing a child, I can't forget it." Yan Suwen sighed: "Forget it, what Aunt Xie wants to do, we will know in a few days." ”

Here, Xie Lingyun took her own maid herb out of Ning Xinzhai's door. After walking a few steps, she turned around again and looked at the words "Ning Xinzhai" on the door's forehead.

"What is Madame looking at?" Vanilla asked.

"Didn't see anything." Xie Lingyun turned around.

"This second lady seems to be ordinary, but she can't imagine that she is a powerful person that even the eldest lady is afraid of. It's only been a few days since I returned home, and the eldest lady has been deflated again and again. The third lady lost her innocence inexplicably, and is now locked up in her own yard, and I am afraid that I will not be able to find a good family with the right door in the future. The eldest lady is even more ridiculous, she actually set a trick on herself, and she was lucky, this life was saved for the second lady, but she was also grounded by the master. ”

"yes." Xie Lingyun's eyes were deep, and she said quietly: "I didn't expect that this second lady from the countryside would be so powerful, and he would make the eldest lady and the eldest lady deflated again and again in just a few days." ”

"Then can we use Second Miss to help us take revenge?" Vanilla asked.

Xie Lingyun hurriedly glared at her, and her voice was inaudible: "Shhh, be careful that the wall has ears." ”

Vanilla hurriedly pursed her mouth and glanced around carefully: "Isn't it safe in our house either?" ”

"When has it been safe in our house?" Xie Lingyun sighed: "Let's go, be careful in the future, don't say what you shouldn't say." ”

Vanilla nodded: "Madame's clothes should be ready, or Vanilla will go and get it now." ”

"Go ahead!" Xie Lingyun glanced at the sky: "I don't know when this rain will fall, take my clothes back earlier, and see where it is not suitable." The marriage between the Gu family and the Yan family must not be paid attention to, although we are not in the main room, we can't dress too shabby. ”

"Madame is naturally beautiful, even if she dresses ordinarily, she stands out in the crowd."

"Shhhh If you say that, you must never say it again. ”

"The slave and maid understand." Vanilla covered her mouth, opened the umbrella she was carrying, and walked out of the house by stepping on the rain.

Xie Lingyun's clothes were made in Shili Shop on East Street. The shop is not a very famous shop, but the clothes made in it are quite liked by Xie Lingyun. The proprietress is a woman in her thirties, quite graceful, and the clothes that come out of her hands are also so coquettish.

Vanilla arrived at the door of the shop, raised her hand and knocked twice, but there was no response from the shop. She frowned, knocked again, and listened carefully with her ears sideways, and the shop was quiet.

"It's strange, this shop is usually not closed, why is there no one on a rainy day." Rubbing her hands, Vanilla clutched her umbrella and left the shop.

Inside the shop, it was pitch black, and the originally neat tables, chairs and benches were also scattered around. In the corner of the table, there was a broken white hosta, and the head of the hairpin was faintly stained with blood.