The moment the boat docked and stepped on the boundary of Hangzhou, Mu Qingling was in a trance, her fate in her previous life began to collapse from this moment, and slowly walked into the trap carefully designed by the Xu family, and when she understood, she was already a disgraced and unfilial daughter who had tarnished the Mu family's name for a hundred years, and was imprisoned in a side courtyard and called heaven should not be called earth, and everyone could abuse and accuse the sinner.

This time when she returned to her hometown, everything followed the trajectory of her previous life, her father was gone, and she still didn't see him for the last time. There is still a group of "for her sake" relatives in the Mu Mansion, in her previous life, she only cared about being sad, and the Mu Mansion cleaned up and down, all of which were completed by Yu Wenyuan alone, she remembered that the old housekeeper in the house had vaguely persuaded herself not to trust the people of the Yu Mansion too much, but she couldn't listen to it at all.

I wonder if in the last life, did the old housekeeper finally learn of her death?

On the dock, the little guy waiting for Mufu early in the morning, the middle-aged man in the lead has thick eyebrows and thin eyes, and he is tall. He was dressed in a crisp teal shirt with his hair meticulously tucked into a turban. Seeing Mu Qingling and his entourage getting off the boat, he hurriedly stepped forward, shook Yu Wenyuan and Mu Qingling to the end, and said: "Young master, young lady is fine, the little one is the foreign housekeeper Fu'an, the sedan chair has already been prepared, and the young master and young lady have been waiting in the house for a long time." ”

Yu Wenyuan wanted to instruct someone to take care of the accompanying luggage, so he went to the front first, Mu Qingling looked at Fu'an, raised his hand and gathered the cloak on his body, and asked casually: "Fu'an?" I hadn't heard of you before, when did you get there? What about the original steward Jiang Bo? ”

Fu'an paused, bowed his head and replied: "The little one was originally an errand run by Jiang Bo's men, the old man went, and the young lady hasn't returned to the house yet, and there are many things at home, so I can't be busy, so I specially brought up the small one to take care of the chores outside." ”

Mu Qingling turned his head to look at Fu'an, and just when Fu'an thought that Mu Qingling was going to attack him, Mu Qingling took Yunqiao and followed the mother-in-law who came to lead the way to the place where the sedan car was parked.

Fu An'an was relieved, and secretly said that he was too cautious, but a yellow-haired girl, where is it worth him to deal with so carefully.

Mu Qingling and his entourage went all the way to the inner city of Yangzhou, and after crossing Xishi Street, the road surface suddenly became clear, there were shops, and there were mostly quiet and elegant places such as gold and stone shops and studies. Although the Mu family has settled in Hangzhou since Mu Qingling's father Mu Jiangxuan, the Mu family has accumulated for several generations, and Mu Jiangxuan is a provincial member who supervises weaving, so the Mu family is in the south of the Yangtze River, which can be described as the premier family.

Mu Qingling studied under Yangzhou Confucianism at a young age, although she was a daughter, but Mu Jiangxuan only got such a pearl in her hand, so she was only regarded as a male upbringing, four books and five classics, a subset of scriptures and history, and those who could enter Mu Mansion to teach Mu Qingling were all famous for a long time. In terms of talent and knowledge, Mu Qingling does not lose to the prince and grandson.

The sedan chair entered the Mu Mansion from the side door, there were no elders in the family, and the people directly sent Mu Qingling and Yu Wenyuan to the main hall where Mu Jiangxuan stopped, Mu Qingling got off the sedan chair, because he came back to mourn, so Mu Qingling was wearing mourning clothes under the cloak, and there was no need to change it at this time, the housekeeper of Mu Mansion waited under the corridor early in the morning, and when he saw Mu Qingling getting off the sedan chair, his eyes were red, and he walked quickly to Mu Qingling, and said in a trembling voice: "Miss, you are back." Master...... My lord has been thinking about you. ”

Mu Qingling helped the old housekeeper up, and said with tears in her eyes: "Uncle Zheng, hurry up, Ling'er has not been able to fulfill his filial piety by his father's side all the year round, and his father will rely on you to take care of him, so Ling'er should thank you." He turned over slightly and gestured to the old housekeeper, "This is cousin Wenyuan of the Yu family, my grandfather and uncle specially ordered cousin Wenyuan to send me home, and I relied on cousin Wenyuan to take care of me along the way." Mu Zheng wiped his tears, and then looked at Yu Wenyuan who was standing aside, only to see that Yu Wenyuan was a young man wearing a light blue plain suit, with a good appearance, and about twenty-four or five years old. ”

Yu Wenyuan waved his hand and said, "Uncle Zheng doesn't need to say thank you, uncle Xianyou, it's within my duty to send my cousin back to his hometown." Not much else, my cousin and I have arrived home, and we will first put a pillar of incense on my uncle to tell him about his spirit in the sky. ”

Mu Zheng hurriedly turned sideways, Mu Qingling and Yu Wenyuan walked into the mourning hall, Bai Aya hung high from the beam of the room, and on the spirit table, the pitch-black tablet was placed in the middle, coldly facing the people who came to pay respects.

The father's voice and smile were still in front of him, and in the blink of an eye, there was only this one tablet left to hang on. The coffin after the spirit case has been closed, and one life is dead, and yin and yang are separated.

"Father......" Mu Qingling walked to the spirit case and knelt down, "Father, Ling'er is back." Mu Qingling looked at the tablet above the spirit case, looked at the huge cold and hard coffin behind it, looked at this full house, her heart was distressed, and her tears broke the embankment, "Dad, why don't you wait for Ling'er anymore?" "Even though God has mercy and is reincarnated as a human being, her father's voice is no longer visible, and only a coffin is left waiting for her.

She hasn't been in time, she hasn't discussed her relatives, she hasn't said goodbye to the high hall yet, and she hasn't taken her children home to Chenghuan on his knees. He can't see her grow up, he can't see her start a family, and he can't see her being a wife and mother. Her unfinished filial piety and untold love can only turn into eternal regret and accompany her for the rest of her life.

The sadness spread invisibly, and Yunqiao knelt behind Mu Qingling, looking at her with some concern. Mu Qingling has consumed too much in the past few days, and Yunqiao is worried that she will hurt her body due to too much grief. was hesitating to open his mouth to persuade him, when he heard someone outside the door announce: "Miss, Grandma Qiu is here." ”

Mu Qingling's tears were not dry, and when she heard this, she frowned immediately, and said to the housekeeper who was standing aside: "I just arrived at home, let alone kneel for my father for three days, and I have no skills. These three days are closed, and if there is any neglect, Qingling will come to the door to apologize in the future. ”

Steward Mu was worried that Mu Qingling had just returned to Yangzhou and was not familiar with the personnel, but now that he heard her say this, he knew that she knew what he knew, so he immediately put his mind at ease and turned around and went to the front hall.

"Cousin Wenyuan, put aside the words on the boat a few days ago, the top priority is to mourn for my father, after all, I am a daughter, everything is inconvenient, this should be a miscellaneous matter, I will trouble Cousin Wenyuan." Mu Qingling stood up and faced Yu Wenyuan, who was standing aside, and blessed her body, "Where is my cousin, this is also my own uncle, don't say the word trouble." Everything will be planned after my uncle is buried in the ground. Yu Wenyuan hurriedly turned to the side, only to accept the cold half of the curtain and sighed.

The Mu family is well-known in Hangzhou, and the matter of this family fell on Mu Qingling, a little girl who was less than fifteen, and Yu Wenyuan couldn't bear it. Seeing that the sad look on Mu Qingling's face had not diminished, Yu Wenyuan thought about it, and persuaded him: "The deceased is gone, no matter how sad you are, you need to take care of yourself, the old lady is still waiting for you to go back in the capital, cousin, don't be sad." I'll go outside first, my uncle has been thinking about you, and now that you're back, let's stay with his old man. ”

Mu Qingling heard the words and sent Yu Wenyuan out of the mourning hall, turned back to Yunqiao and said: "I haven't come back for a long time, and now there are many things in the inner courtyard, you take someone to see it first, and I will go back to Chunxi Hall directly later." Seeing Yunqiao's uneasy look, Mu Qingling said, "Go ahead, what else can I do in my own home?" Let me be alone with my father for a while, and go. ”

Yunqiao saw that although Mu Qingling was sad, she was in good spirits, so she took the order to go to the inner courtyard. Mu Qingling sent away all the other subordinates in the mourning hall, and the door was closed by the subordinates who went out, Mu Qingling slowly walked to the brazier and knelt down, while putting paper money in it, and said in a low voice: "Dad, my daughter is not filial, I can't see you for the last time, if you know under the spring, and return to the soul in seven phases, you will come to see your daughter, okay?" ”

"Do you know about your daughter's adventure?" The tongue of fire licked the paper money and quickly burned out, Mu Qingling looked at the beating flames, and slowly said about his rebirth: "All kinds of things in the previous life were like a dream, but fortunately, God had mercy and let my daughter live again." In this life, my daughter is destined to die with Xu, you bless your daughter, you can successfully dismantle Xu's painting skin, and make her dirty thoughts public, so as to comfort the hatred of my grandmother and my grandmother in my previous life. ”

Another handful of paper money was thrown into the basin, and the flames leaped up, rolling it into his arms and turning it into ashes. The firelight was imprinted on Mu Qingling's pale and weak face, but it was like the return of Shura, awe-inspiring and cold.

It was getting dark, the lights began to be lit up in the house, and the housekeeper hurriedly walked to Mu Qingling's side and said in a low voice: "Miss, you have a hard time traveling today, go back to Chunxi Hall to rest for a while, the master is absolutely reluctant to let you work so hard." Mu Qingling knelt in front of the spirit for a long time, and was a little tired at this time, so she invited the little maid to take care of the brazier, and Mu Qingling helped the housekeeper who was standing on the side to stand up.

After kneeling for a long time, it was inevitable that her legs would be numb, Mu Qingling stood for a while, and waited for her legs to ease up before she said: "I will ask Yunqiao to return to Chunxi Hall first during the day to see if there is anything you can help with in housekeeping, and then you will come to look for me, but what is the matter?" Don't hide it from me, you can write it clearly on your old face, now that the Mu family only has me, what else do you want to avoid me, just say it. ”

Steward Mu's face was entangled for a while, and finally sighed: "Miss go back to Chunxi Hall first, Miss Yunqiao has been waiting, and she has been making trouble all afternoon, and now it is finally stopped, just wait for Miss to go back and deal with it." Mu Qingling's face turned cold, and she said to the housekeeper: "Although my father is gone, there are no rules in this mansion to mess around at will." Don't go back to Chunxi Hall, clean up the wing room on the west side of the main courtyard, and let Yunqiao bring someone there to come back to me. ”

Seeing that Mu Qingling was in an orderly manner, Steward Mu seemed to have the intention of rectifying the inner courtyard, and instantly felt that he had a backbone, so he hurriedly went out to take care of it. Mu Qingling sent someone to invite Yu Wenyuan again, and when the others were almost there, they went to the west wing.

Entering the west wing, Mu Qingling took the main seat, and Yu Wenyuan sat on the lower right of her, and didn't ask much, making it clear that she was here to witness and support the scene. The two sat down, Yunqiao walked in with a few housekeepers, knelt down in the hall, Yunqiao said: "Miss, today I am ordered by Miss to return to Chunxi Hall to do something, although Miss has not returned home for a long time, but I have been serving Miss since I was a child and living in Chunxi Hall, even if I leave home for a few years, I can't forget the grass and trees in Chunxi Hall." Today back to Chunxi Hall, I think the layout has changed, thinking that the old man cherishes Miss, how can he take advantage of the fact that Miss is not in the boudoir of Miss, so he called the housekeeper Zhao's mother to ask for the account book of Chunxi Hall, who knows that Zhao refused to give it in every possible way, seeing that I insisted, and changed to say that the master left after the person was troubled, this Chunxi Hall has no master for a long time, and the account book can't remember where to put it for a while. I saw that her words flickered and her expression was strange, so I went back to the housekeeper and asked him to send someone to go with me to Zhao's room to find the account book, who knew that Zhao immediately turned his face, not only stopped me from going out, but also gathered a few housekeepers and mothers to denounce me together, saying that I was relying on the young lady's momentum to come back and step on the faces of these old people. ”

Behind Yunqiao, there were several middle-aged women kneeling with their hair tied up, and the one in the lead was tall and thin, lying on the ground at this time, unable to see clearly, but she was dressed up, and she was the top among several housekeepers.

Mu Qingling put the teacup in her hand on the table and sneered: "But it's strange, it's the first time I've heard this reason, Mother Zhao, let me ask you, you really can't remember where to put this account book?" ”

Zhao took a few steps forward and cried: "Eldest Miss Mingjian, I have been loyal since I entered the Mu Mansion. Before my lord's death, I asked me to take care of Miss Chunxitang's affairs, and the little one was very careful for fear of betraying the trust of the lord, Miss I grew up watching, how could I have that dirty heart and lungs to harm Miss! ”

"That's it!" Mu Qingling frowned, stretched out her hand to rub her forehead, and said: "Answer whatever you ask, where did you learn the market methods, and when you come up, you cry and scream, when this is a vegetable market, do you splash it?" You only reply to me, this account book is not with you, can you still find it? ”

Zhao choked, and when he saw that Mu Qingling didn't eat her set, he sobbed and said: "The master left in a hurry, and there was no backbone in the house all of a sudden...... The little one really couldn't remember where the account books were collected for a while, and the young lady forgave the little one for two days, and the little one went back...... Find out. ”

Mu Qingling said coldly: "The master is gone, and you haven't counted the things you put there." I don't think you're a person who understands. Father has always been lenient to people, usually you just have a small mistake, he is not harsh, but this house can not be without rules, my Mu family in Yangzhou is also one of the best people, can not father go, this Mu Mansion is not like a joke to go, today with this matter, let's simply talk about it once, save yourself in the future you blame me for not being emotional. ”

Mu Qingling looked at the housekeeper and instructed, "Uncle Zheng, you take a few people, together with Yunqiao and Qi's mother, to the Zhao family's house to find out the account books for me." In addition, let the stewards of each hospital bring people to wait here, right and wrong, let's make it clear at one time. ”