When Tong Qingyan and the personal maid converged and sat up, the carriage had not yet returned to Tong's Mansion, and there were already more people walking in front of Tong's Mansion.

One by one, intentionally or unintentionally, he stared at the gate of Tongfu, walking back and forth, Lao Zhangtou felt that his eye disease might be aggravated, how did he feel that there was a double vision in watching people?

The two carriages stopped at the gate one after the other, and Tong Manjiao took the lead in getting out of the carriage, and walked to the house without waiting for the personal maid to help her, describing her anxiety.

Tong Manji got off the carriage with the support of the maid, just raised her feet and walked up the steps, retracted her steps and walked to Tong Qingyan's carriage, and personally reached out to help Tong Qingyan get out of the carriage, and was stunned by the pearl that was squeezed aside.

Oh my God, the second lady is coming to grab her errand? Isn't it enough to have a delphinium?!

"Second sister, what are you?"

"I'm not afraid of my sister's jokes, that rose crisp is really delicious, remember to tell me the next time my sister makes it, I... I spend money on it. ”

"What did the second sister say, I can still ask you for money for this idea, but if you are really willing to give, then you might as well call the maid to buy a double-petaled red rose and come back, and I will make you as much as you want."

"Really? Okay, I'll ask the little kite to buy roses for you later. ”

Tong Manji happily jumped into the house with the personal maid, and in the slightly shocked look of the old man, he hurriedly waved his hands and feet, and returned to the usual appearance of everyone's ladies.

Tong Qingyan looked at the stunned pearl, stretched out her hand and snapped her fingers.

"Look, go home."

"Oooh."

Tong Qingyan never expected that the speed of this small episode at the door would spread all over the major wealthy families in the capital, but the version that spread was that the third lady of the Tong family was arrogant and greedy for money and mistreated her subordinates.

On the second day, these rumors were transmitted back to Tongfu through the people who went out to buy, and everyone in the whole house knew about the tea time.

At this moment, sitting in the hall of the restaurant she had just bought, Tong Qingyan was biting the glutinous rice balls, and at the same time glaring hatefully at Song Zhan, who was sitting opposite and couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth.

"How so?"

"Those spies from all over the province who don't enter the stream say that you have to be supported by your sister who is also a show girl when you get out of the car, isn't it arrogant?"

"She did it voluntarily, but what about greed for money?"

"I heard that you asked your sister for money to buy flowers and make snacks."

"Is it too much for me to make dim sum for others to eat, and to collect some ingredients? Besides, the raw materials are not cheap. I can understand these rumors, what the hell is the mistreatment of people?! ”

"This is supposed to mean that you are gesturing to the pearl."

"Oh my God...... What kind of spy is so inadequate......"

Song Zhan glanced at Tong Qingyan, who was full of dejection, and flicked his sleeves in a good mood.

"So you still care about fame?"

"What a rare question, can I not care?"

Song Zhan looked at Tong Qingyan who was thunderous, and couldn't help but stretch out his hand and nod her smooth and white forehead, but he didn't expect to poke it so casually, and a red mark appeared, and he immediately withdrew his hand with a little weakness.

"The first time I saw you, I was a woman dressed as a man, and then I came to the capital, what you did was not like an ordinary boudoir woman, and I thought you didn't care about your reputation."

"I didn't think it would be any better, but at least it couldn't distort me, right? My father and mother would have been angry if they knew, and they should have known that they shouldn't have come out today. ”

"If you don't come out, you can stop them from knowing? As far as this Shizi knows, yesterday's Tongfu was not peaceful, right? ”

mentioned yesterday's incident, Tong Qingyan wanted to scold, from beginning to end, it was four words: inexplicable.

The plum banquet has a thrilling past, and there is no news from the palace, I thought that the world was peaceful, who would have thought that there would be a follow-up.

After returning to Tong's Mansion yesterday, Tong Qingyan did not go back to Hanlian Garden, but went to Songhua Garden.

The old lady was obviously waiting, the tea and snacks were ready, and Tong Qingyan knew that she had come to the right place as soon as she saw this battle.

"Grandmother ......"

The old lady lifted her eyelids, glanced at the flattering Tong Qingyan, and snorted coldly.

"Got into trouble?"

"Whether it's difficult or not, it depends on what grandmother thinks."

"Tell me, did you offend someone in the palace?"

"No, no, my granddaughter is so well-behaved, where will she offend people. It was the emperor who said that he wanted his father to be the secretary of Guanglu Temple. ”

"Huh?"

"Then the concubine said that she would recognize me as a righteous daughter."

"Huh?"

"On the spot, he said that the title was Lord Yanyang."

"Bang-"

Tong Qingyan looked at the old lady who suddenly stood up, and the teacup that had fallen on the table, and swallowed.

The old lady glanced Tong Qingyan up and down, and suddenly felt that it was dark in front of her, and stumbled onto Tong Qingyan, holding the little granddaughter's white and slightly cool hand, and said in a trembling voice.

"Quick, go and call your daddy."

Followed by Tong Huaiyuan to Songhua Garden was the doctor of Jishitang, the old lady paced back and forth, and when she saw the doctor with the medicine box on her back, she waved her hand again and again.

"I'm not sick, I'm fine, you go and treat the people who need treatment, Mother Wang will send the doctor away."

The poor old doctor was dragged all the way to Songhua Garden by Tong Huaiyuan, and before he could stand still, he was invited out of Tong's Mansion by Wang's mother.

The movement of Songhua Garden, Zhou paid close attention, and when he heard that the doctor was invited away without sitting down to check the pulse, he thought about it and went in the name of visiting the old lady.

"Mother, don't you go to Grandmother?"

Tong Manjiao looked at her mother who walked to the gate of the courtyard and walked back, and asked a little anxiously.

"The doctor was asked to leave, the old lady didn't look at the doctor, I think it should be fine, so if you go to a bad one and make her old man angry, let's wait."

"What else is Mother waiting for? For such a big thing, my grandmother called my uncle to go home, and we are also from the Tong Mansion, is it wrong to go to Songhua Garden to discuss together? ”

Zhou glanced at Tong Manjiao, whose eyes were red, sighed heavily, pulled the reluctant Tong Manjiao into the room, waved away all the subordinates, and the two of them closed the door and said something considerate.

"Jiaojiao, mother knows that you are in a hurry, but this matter has not been decided after all, and it is not good to go to the old lady's yard rashly."

"Mother is confused, what kind of people are the emperor's concubines, they are all people! How can I talk nonsense, I don't see that the three-day decree should come down. ”

"If it's really like you said, wouldn't it be a great thing for you and your sister-in-law? Guanglu Siqing, no matter how idle it is, it is also from the third grade, and your value has to rise. ”

"Uncle became Guanglu Siqing, the real light is not me and Ji'er, it is her Tong Qingyan! Now people are going to be county lords, and they are the most favored concubines today, their mothers! I've been studying hard for so many years, what else can I fight with her?! ”

Zhou looked at his daughter, who was like the two of them in the past, and suddenly felt that he didn't understand her a little.

"Fight? Fight for what? You are you, she is her. Since you were a child, your mother spared no expense to ask her master to teach you, hoping that you would have a day to get ahead, but not to fight with your sisters, Tong Qingyan is your uncle's daughter, and she is a serious official lady, and your future path is different. No, it's not you, but from the beginning when your father and uncle chose different paths, you are destined to be different, and there is nothing to fight about. ”

Tong Manjiao was completely stunned, she always thought that her mother took Tong Qingyan as an example and taught the sisters to study and learn etiquette by heart, in order to suppress Tong Qingyan's limelight, but it turned out that she had always misunderstood?

"Mother, are you lying to me, I remember that winter I really couldn't get up to bed to practice calligraphy, it was you who said, you can't live like the third sister who is not enterprising and muddy. And also! When I was still twelve years old, I begged my third sister to make food, but my mother said that the appetite of the mouth is not greedy, and women should be good at managing their figures. Mother, now you say that I shouldn't fight with my third sister? I don't understand, mother, you've changed, haven't you? You're afraid of her lordship, aren't you?! ”

"It's not!"

Zhou interrupted Tong Manjiao's words sharply, looking at his daughter who was covering his heart, Zhou took a deep breath, and was just about to open his mouth but was interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Mother, sister, are you in there?"

"Get out! No one is allowed to come in without my orders! ”

There was no movement outside the house, Zhou calmed down, pulled Tong Manjiao's stiff wrist, pulled the person to sit on the round stool in the back room, reached out and took the teapot and poured a cup of tea and pushed it in front of her.

"Jiao'er, my mother only has you two sisters, so she naturally hopes for your well. Otherwise, why does my mother have to please Princess Huai, isn't she just hoping that she can say a good word and raise your worth. Now that you have become a show girl, the future future is much better than in Changchun Mansion, once your uncle really becomes Guanglu Siqing, my mother begs your uncle again, not to mention the princess, at least the high-ranking officials in the capital can still get married. ”

Zhou's mouth was dry, so he picked up the teapot and poured himself a cup and drank it all.

Tong Manjiao looked at her mother with anticipation, smiled miserably, and pushed the teacup away.

"Mother, for so many years, I have been working hard to surpass the third sister, and now you tell me that I can't compare to her from beginning to end, no matter how many etiquette rules I learn, how many poems and books I read, I am not as good as her! Just because she is the daughter of an uncle, and I am just the daughter of an ordinary merchant! ”

"Jiao'er...... How can you look down on yourself like this, even if your father is not as official as your uncle, but your father has run the family industry for so many years, it is not easy for you sisters to have no worries about food and clothing, if you really want to blame, you should blame your grandmother! ”

Tong Manjiao looked at the hatred that flashed in Zhou's eyes, and was stunned, from childhood to adulthood, she had the impression that her mother had always been respectful and filial to her grandmother, and she was more humble than her uncle.

"Mother...... What are you talking about? ”

"I'm talking about the facts, do you think your father gave up studying and taking the scientific examination because he didn't have enough qualifications?"

"Could it be...... Could it be grandmother? ”

"That's right! It's your grandmother! It was your grandmother who broke off his idea of studying for the scientific examination, and it was your grandmother who supported your uncle and threw the family's shop business to your father, otherwise why did your uncle enter Beijing to take the exam, and why did he become the top student in high school? ! It's all your dad! ”

Tong Manjiao was shocked and speechless, all she heard since she was a child was that her father voluntarily gave up studying, because her qualifications were not as good as her uncle, how could this be?