Xue Wan liked the golden chrysanthemum all her life, but missed the last golden chrysanthemum blooming.

"The mother of the little lady, but Xue Wan, the daughter of the Xue family?"

"Mama knows my mother too?"

"When the concubine Niangniang was a child, she often played with the young lady of the Xue family, and later the concubine Niangniang entered the palace, and the young lady of the Xue family often sent things to the concubine Niangniang, and the slave maid has been following the concubine Niangniang, so she naturally knows that this Miss Xue is a very good person."

Meng Jiao's eyes turned red unconsciously, and Mama Lin said that her mother was a very good person, and she herself had always believed in it.

Mama Lin opened the box in her hand, there was nothing in it, only a piece of clothes that was almost rotten, and a rusty long-life lock, on which a little mark could be vaguely distinguished, it seemed to be a "Jiao" word, about when Xue Wan was pregnant, she knew that this child was a girl, so she asked someone to create this long-life lock, and engraved the name given to Meng Jiao.

"I have never brought a longevity lock, I remember when I was on the small Zhuangzi, there was a cleaning mother-in-law, her daughter-in-law gave birth to a son, she happily found someone to play a longevity lock, pure gold, very small, but very beautiful, I was very envious at that time, wanted to touch it, was opened by the mother-in-law, said I am an ominous person, is a bad star, if you touch the longevity lock will not work... I didn't expect that my mother had also given me a longevity lock, which was much better looking than hers. ”

Meng Jiao said that in the back, she held the rusty longevity lock in her hand, as if she held it so tightly, she could feel a little bit of her mother's breath, she was trying very hard to imagine how her mother gently sewed clothes for her back then, and how she carved it carefully to create this longevity lock.

"This longevity lock, exquisite workmanship, even if it is rusty, it is difficult to hide its good looks, so the slave maid thinks that Miss Xue must love the little lady very much, so even if it is a longevity lock, it takes all her thoughts."

Yes, Xue Wan must love Meng Jiao very much, and she is the person who loves her the most in this world.

However, the person who loved her the most left so early that he didn't even have time to meet her, and even this longevity lock could only come late after thirteen years.

"Mama Lin, in fact, I entered the palace today and heard a lot of things from the concubine Niangniang, she told me that my mother was killed by someone, and the person who killed her was Liu Qingqing, the second mother who has always been kind to me now."

Meng Jiao suddenly mentioned this matter, Mama Lin was a little stunned, she glanced at Meng Jiao's face that couldn't see the joy and sorrow, and cautiously said, "What the concubine said must not be groundless... The little lady didn't go back to the yard directly after returning home today, but went to the second lady to inquire about the matter? ”

"Yes, what the concubine said may not be groundless, but after all, there is no actual evidence, I bluntly said that I didn't believe it all, and after returning home, I went to Erniang and inquired about my mother's affairs back then."

"What did the second lady say?"

"She told me that my mother did not taste pain in her life, and that she had been in harmony with her husband and wife since she was a child, and that her father did not reject her until she died... Mama Lin, in fact, I want to believe that my mother is such a good person, she deserves to be treated like this, but Yuanyuan took me to the Tonghua Pavilion where my mother lived before her death, where the dilapidated courtyard gate, the depressed pavilion, and the golden chrysanthemum that was allowed to grow, broke all my self-deception. ”

After the defeat of the Xue family, Xue Wan must have had a bad time in the Meng family, and Meng Zhongting is definitely not the kind of husband and wife made up by Liu Qingqing.

"In this way, compared with the two, what is the truth, the little lady should already have the answer in her heart, the slave doesn't dare to say anything, but she just thinks that since Miss Xue died strangely, no matter how she covers it up, it will definitely leave traces, if the little lady doesn't startle the snake and looks carefully, she will definitely be able to find some clues."

"What happened back then, there should be very few people who know the situation and can survive well, but among the maids who have been following Erniang for so many years, there are not necessarily no people who know the old things, if you want to start, I am afraid you will have to look for clues from them."

Mama Lin shook her head, lowered her voice and said, "The second lady can hide it for so many years, she must be very vigilant, if the little lady does it, she will definitely startle the snake, and when she destroys all the evidence, we will be helpless, according to the slave maid, not only the people around the second lady know the old things, and the people around Master Meng may not be innocent." ”

Mama Lin's words reminded Meng Jiao, indeed, Liu Qingqing does not show anything, if she really starts this matter from her side, I am afraid that she will inadvertently startle the snake, once she senses a little wind and grass, she will definitely destroy all the evidence she can think of, so it is difficult to investigate again, so thinking about it, Meng Zhongting, who has no defense, is indeed a good breakthrough.

However, even if Meng Zhongting is defenseless now, Meng Jiao can't act rashly, she has to wait for a better time, but this doesn't mean that she can only stand still now, she still has a place where there is a person in it, who can let her intuitively understand the events of the year.

In the early morning of the second day, Meng Jiao took Mama Lin and Cui Sleeve to drive to the Meng family's small Zhuangzi in the suburbs of Beijing, Meng Jiao remembered that among the people who served above the Zhuangzi, there was a mother-in-law who was sent down with her thirteen years ago, and it seemed that she was the mother-in-law of the small kitchen of Tonghua Pavilion, and she should know a lot about the things of the year.

"I don't know what day it is, why there are so few people on the street, Mama, don't we go out today and don't look at the day, what solar terms have we caught up."

Cui Sleeve, who was sitting in the carriage, glanced outside, and asked with some doubts, Meng Jiao also lifted the curtain, and sure enough, few people appeared on the street, and even if there were a few, they were all in a hurry.

"Counting the days, it's not the turn of the solar term today, it's about that the weather is not very good today, and it's cold and swishing, so everyone doesn't come out."

Walking to the outer gate of the capital like this, Meng Jiao sat a little drowsy in the carriage, and suddenly the carriage stopped by inertia, and the three people sitting in the carriage were not because of the quick reaction, I am afraid that they would have been thrown out now, Cui Sleeve opened the curtain and reprimanded the coachman under the signal of Mama Lin, and before he could speak, he saw a team of sergeants in front of the carriage staring at him, and he couldn't see it very really, but he could see the banner hunting, which general was this, and returned to Beijing today?

Meng Jiao was in the car, and saw Cui Sleeves looking ahead in a daze, so she got up and got out of the carriage, but coincidentally saw a white horse appear behind the opposite team, and immediately sat a general, with a silver gun and white robe, with a young man's wanton appearance, but the murderous aura on his body, even if it was a little restrained, it still made people tremble.

"I returned to Beijing today, and when I got here, I didn't see Miss driving, it was abrupt, please don't blame Miss."

"The general is polite, but I didn't know that the general was returning to Beijing today, so I walked through the main gate, collided with the general, and asked the general Haihan."

The other party was so polite and polite, Meng Jiao was not a person who caused trouble, she said what she should say, bowed down, and planned to go back to the carriage to continue her journey.

The moment he turned around, he heard the general ask behind him, "I don't know which lady the lady is, in Xiayanmen, the coach Shen Yunxiao, when I saw the young lady today, I admired it and wanted to keep my name." ”