In the Hanlian Garden, Tong Qingyan, who got up early to wash, chose a red embroidered poppy dress, and picked an apricot yellow mink dress.

"Miss dressed so festively to greet the old lady?"

"Isn't it good?"

"Of course, the old lady is willing to see the young girl."

"So you guys are also wearing festive clothes, this one is not good, go and change it quickly."

"Yes."

By the time Tong Qingyan's five masters and servants packed up and rushed to Songhua Garden, the Tong Manjiao sisters were already waiting in the warm pavilion.

"Big sister and second sister, why did you come to say hello to your grandmother today?"

Tong Qingyan took off her mink clothes, rubbed her hands and rubbed her cold cheeks.

"I heard that my grandmother used my sister's cough ointment, and now she is very good, so I came to say hello today."

Tong Manjiao smiled softly, took a sip of the teacup, and explained the intention.

Tong Manji glanced at Tong Qingyan's four maids, and looked at the four of them with their hands on their sleeves, greatly disappointed, don't they usually make some food, why not today?

Since the three sisters became the girls to be drafted, Tong Manjiao Tong Manjiao has more homework, in addition to what she learns daily, she also adds palace etiquette, and invites her aunt who is raised out of the palace to give a lecture at home, the class is expensive and you have to queue up, and it will take your turn to teach a lesson in ten days.

Looking at Tong Manjiao and Tong Manjiao, who have a completely different posture of drinking tea, Tong Qingyan feels that her braincase hurts a little, and she will marry the prince of Huai Wang in the future, as if she has to learn these by herself.

In the past, in Jiangnan, although the rules of Tongfu were a little looser, but the people lived together and were happy, but now in this capital, the rules have been lifted again, just to better integrate into this place.

Tong Manjiao Tong Manjiao became a show girl, and Zhou was more careful about the upbringing of his twin daughters while he was excited.

Now Tong Huaiyuan's official position is undecided, so it is not easy to go out and walk around, once the official position is determined, take advantage of the New Year's Festival to walk around, and there will be no good results in the draft next spring.

After Mrs. Tong got up, she knew that her three granddaughters had been waiting in the warm pavilion for a while, so she hurriedly called someone to the side hall.

glanced at the breakfast on the table, and then at Tong Qingyan sitting firmly on the stool, the old lady pouted, her face was full of displeasure.

"Sister An, did you forget something?"

"No, grandmother, you should have breakfast."

Tong Manji has been trained in the royal rules for a long time, and has reined in a lot of frank temperament, but when she encounters delicious food, she is still a little impatient, and now she sees that Tong Qingyan deliberately did not answer Mrs. Tong's words, and she suddenly became anxious.

"Third sister, you know what your grandmother is talking about, you can take it out quickly, who doesn't know that you are the most filial to your grandmother, and you personally went to Jishitang to buy medicinal herbs and come back to boil cough ointment on a cold day."

The speaker has no intention of listening, and a trace of deep meaning flashed in Tong Qingyan's smiling eyes.

I didn't deliberately cover up the matter of going out to buy medicinal herbs, and after a little inquiry, I knew that I was cooking cough ointment, but I could clearly know that I went to Jishitang, and it seemed that my whereabouts had received special attention.

Tong Manjiao wanted to stop her sister from talking, but it was too late, so she followed to make fun of Tong Qingyan.

"Okay, I really can't hide anything from my grandmother, my grandmother's cough is just right, I still have to eat something to nourish my lungs and protect my throat at this time, and I will eat meat later, I borrowed my grandmother's small kitchen to make a pear cup today, and my grandmother tasted it."

When she heard that it was not meat, the old lady was a little disappointed, but as long as it was made by the little granddaughter, there was nothing undelicious, and the old lady Tong quickly cheered up.

Sydney Cup, as the name suggests, is made by removing the core of the pear and digging out the meat, using the whole pear as a utensil, and putting diced pear meat and water chestnut meat inside, and steaming it with rock sugar.

Eating a bowl of pear cups, I feel that the whole road from throat to heart and lungs is extremely comfortable, Mrs. Tong looked at the little granddaughter's eyes full of love, for Tong Manjiao and Tong Manjiao, the old lady also has love, but little attention.

Tong Manjiao is more sensitive than Tong Manjiao, and knows that in the heart of the old lady, her two sisters will never be able to match the serious eldest lady Tong Qingyan of Tongfu, so when she appears in front of the old lady at the same time, Tong Manjiao will always be the well-behaved and quiet one.

Now that the three of them are all show girls, as long as their two sisters have a higher status than Tong Qingyan in the coming year, then the status of the mother in this family will be higher.

With these thoughts, Tong Manjiao is very serious in class, walking, sitting, lying down, drinking and pecking are strictly in accordance with the teachings of the aunt in the palace.

The three of them chatted and talked affectionately around their grandmother, Tong Manjiao saw that it was almost time for class, so she pulled Tong Manjiao to retire, Tong Qingyan also stood up and retired in the afterglow of Tong Manjiao's attention, and the old lady nodded and didn't stay long.

The three of them left the Songhua Garden with their front and back feet, and when they walked to the corner of the verandah, Tong Qingyan and the others flashed into another hand-copying verandah while there was no one around, and they took a detour and returned to the Songhua Garden, which was just the side gate of the garden.

Mrs. Tong was still sitting in her seat, changing her tea to a new one, looking at the little granddaughter who came in through the side door, and flipped through the tea lid.

"Such a mysterious and secretive, has something happened? If you don't have meat to eat, you don't have the strength to think about things. ”

"Grandmother ......" Tong Qingyan brought a round pestle and sat at the feet of the old lady, stretched out her hand to knead the old man's calf, and looked flattering, "Grandmother, you are the best, when you are diagnosed with cough and no longer recur, will I give you fried crispy meat to eat?" This crispy meat should be selected from the tip of the pig's back buttocks, which is fat, three and seven, stirred with egg juice, coated with flour, and put into the oil pan to fry, ouch, that is called a crispy oh......"

"Stop, stop, stop! You're deliberately greedy for me, an old woman. Old Mrs. Tong rolled her eyes inadvertently and elegantly, stretched out her finger and pointed at Tong Qingyan's forehead, and sighed resignedly, "Say, what the hell is going on?" ”

"Grandmother, you and Daddy don't want me to be selected, do you?"

"Hmm...... Did your dad tell you? ”

"No, Daddy has been busy with things outside lately, I guessed it myself."

"You're the goblin."

"If I lose the election, how will my grandmother arrange my marriage?"

Mrs. Tong put down the teacup and gently pinched Tong Qingyan's face.

"The little girl's family is not ashamed! How could you ask about marriage so bluntly?! Besides, this marriage is naturally the order of the parents, the matchmaker's words, why are you worried about this? ”

"Marriage is a big event for a woman, that is the second reincarnation, I ask what is wrong with such an important matter. Grandmother, don't scare me, you and your parents are definitely not willing to marry me to a casual family, yes or no? ”

Having said this, Mrs. Tong finally straightened her expression, helped Tong Qingyan up from the round pestle, watched the person sit on the chair next to her, and asked in a deep voice with a solemn face.

"Ann girl, you are honest, is there any man involved?!"

"What my grandmother said is not good, why is it called involvement......"

"Tell the truth!"

"The granddaughter has a friendship with the prince of Huai, and asks her grandmother to fulfill it!"

Tong Qingyan knelt down straight, and told the truth straightforwardly, but she didn't get a response from Mrs. Tong for a long time, and she carefully teased her eyelids, but saw the shock on Mrs. Tong's face, and the shock was mixed with a hint of secrecy.

The incense stick burned out, Tong Qingyan felt that her knees were unconscious, and Mrs. Tong didn't call people up, so they knelt and sat quietly with each other, and Mother Wang, who was guarding outside, couldn't help it and knocked on the door.

"Old lady, are you going to pass the meal?"

"Pass it on—"

With a sigh, she spit out from the old lady's mouth, and looked at Tong Qingyan, who was still kneeling upright, and the mood fluctuations in her eyes returned to calm.

"Get up."

"Ask my grandmother to do it."

Tong Qingyan bit her lip and bent down her sore waist, and slammed on the green brick.

"Why him, you should know what your grandmother and father think."

"The granddaughter understands that if she is still in Changchun Mansion, her granddaughter must be far away from the people in Huai Wangfu." Tong Qingyan straightened up and stared at the old lady's expressionless face, "But grandmother, at this moment, the Tong family is already in the capital, and my granddaughter is willing to have the confidence to protect the peace of my Tong family for the rest of her life, and ask my grandmother to be fulfilled." ”

"So...... You don't love him. ”

Tong Qingyan didn't expect the old lady to say this, and after pondering for a while, she raised her head and looked at the old lady, her eyes were clear.

"Yes, but that doesn't stop me from being a good wife."

"Hey...... Get up. The old lady looked at the tea soup that had become cloudy and closed her eyes, "Do whatever you want, grandmother can't stop you if she doesn't stop you." ”

"Grandmother ......"

"One day you will understand that it can be painful for two people to be together without love, and I hope you don't come to that day."

When Tong Qingyan returned to Hanlian Garden, she slowly felt a tingling sensation in her knees, and all the nerves began to recover.

A Tong Qingyan who was on the verge of falling down was supported by Feiyan, Feiyan pursed her lips, and helped Tong Qingyan to the back room without saying a word.

"I want to be left alone, you go and eat, leave me alone."

"Yes."

In the pine and birch garden, Mrs. Tong looked at a table of meals and did not mean to move chopsticks.

"Old lady......"

"After going around and around for so many years, I still came back, and I don't know if it's fate or ...... sin"

"Fate! Of course it's fate, old lady, don't ......."

Mother Wang looked at Mrs. Tong with a look of pity, the years did not treat this woman well after all, and what remained after her face grew old was some pain that she never wanted to recall in her heart.

"You're right, of course it's fate, she is like me and not like me, they will be fine."

Mrs. Tong glanced at a table with more than half of the lunch of meat dishes, it was rare to have no appetite at all, Mother Wang usually took care of more, I wish the old lady would eat a few chopsticks and meat dishes, but today I wish she had eaten all the meat dishes in one go.

"Let's take it down and let everyone share it, Fluttershy... I'm sleepy, help me go back to sleep. ”

"Yes, old lady."

Song Zhan picked up the note handed to the table by the secret guard, glanced at it and burned it on the candle flame, looking at the light of the fire that was clearly extinguished, and the bead string in his hand casually played around twice.

"Tong Huaiyuan's official position, there is no news from the Ministry of Officials?"

"Yes, it should be the meaning of the above, press it for the time being."

"Got it, stand down."

The study fell silent again, Song Zhan pinched his sour eyebrows, and threw the beads in his hand to the table at will.

Now the emperor's mind is really difficult to fathom......