Mrs. Cao didn't even look at those drawings, she tore them with both hands and threw them on the ground.

Tao hurriedly went up to appease Mrs. Cao's back, and said: "Don't be angry, Ruoxue's child is a measured person, and he won't do anything too out of the ordinary, I received a letter from her third uncle to the family this afternoon, which praised Ruoxue!" ”

Mrs. Cao didn't know when she was talking about, so she immediately asked her why Mei Jitan praised Ruoxue and why.

When the epidemic in Gaochun County was serious, Tao sent a letter asking the family to help him walk the way and dredge up the Jinling officialdom, so as not to wear small shoes for him when he was appraised in the future. He also said how Ruoxue asked people to urgently buy a batch of medicinal materials and send them to Gaochun County in the name of Mei Jitan, and asked them to check with several officials in Jinling City.

"In this way, her third uncle can do things over there with peace of mind,......" Tao said.

Old Madam Cao looked at Tao, and then at Ruoxue, and waved her hand in great annoyance, "My wife can't live for a few years, you can toss as much as you like." She said.

Back in Guanfang Courtyard, Ruoxue lay on the big bed in the bedroom, and Ruohong took a homemade cotton swab to apply stick medicine to her.

As soon as Ruoxue came back, she asked Lianxin to go to the outer courtyard to call Zheng Ru's sister-in-law in, and asked Zheng Ru's sister-in-law to bring in more than a dozen small servants, and tied up several servants' mothers-in-law who came to Guanfang Courtyard to search, and searched their bodies.

After a while, Zheng Ru's sister-in-law said back and forth that she found a few pieces of eldest lady's jewelry on those people, all of which were small earrings and rings, gemstones, gold and silver, and pearls. And he asked what to do with them.

"Beat twenty boards and send them to Zhuangzi for hard labor." Ruohong said.

Zheng Ru's sister-in-law stood there stunned for a moment, and when she saw that the eldest lady didn't speak, she didn't dare to respond, until Ruoxue said, "That's it." ”

She answered with a "yes" and turned to go out.

"It's still my sister's words that work!"

Ruohong said with a smile, her subordinates gently smeared the red marks on her back with ointment, and she counted as many as thirteen, "If only I went up and blocked it, you wouldn't have been beaten so much." She said.

Ruoxue's white bare back, there are more than ten red marks obliquely, the red is so dazzling, every slight touch makes her body tremble, and she endures the pain and lets her tears flow silently on the incense pillow.

"Don't let Grandma breathe, I'm afraid she'll get sick." She said.

In the middle of spring at the end of March, the air is filled with the smell of grass, the stars twinkle in the quiet night sky, and the breeze blows the green leaves that have just emerged from the pomegranate bushes, swaying on the ground as a broken shadow.

Two days later, Meijia's boiled fish shop in the south of Jinling City opened.

Outside the boiled fish shop, gongs and drums sounded in unison, firecrackers exploded, and the dragon dancers playing lions occupied half of the street, attracting people from Sijiu City to see the excitement.

Whether the food is delicious or not, some people know and some people don't know, but the name "boiled fish" quickly spread all over the corners of Jinling City, and the well-known Chengdu will ask when people meet, "Have you gone to boil fish?" ”

There is another news that has spread among some large merchants, saying that the cargo ship that was hijacked by pirates more than a month ago has been recovered.

It is also said that the people who went to find the ship destroyed the pirates, even the pirates' nests, and killed thousands of pirates.

That night, the prince of Jin Zhangwang stayed in Jinling City, the head of the guards, Li Ying, and Jinyi came to Mei's house, so that the gatekeeper would return to Ruoxue to tell him something.

At that time, Ruoxue and Ruohong had just come out of Tian's place, and the two of them walked to Guanfang Courtyard while talking, followed by six or seven maids, holding yarn lanterns in their hands, and the scenery from far and near was like daylight.

There were still two steps away from Guanfang Courtyard, and the night lady on the second gate shouted from behind, "Is the eldest lady in front?" ”

Ruoxue turned to look at the way she came, and the woman walked a few steps to the front, bowed down and said, "Miss, someone in front said that Li Ying, the guard of the Jinzhang Palace, asked to see you, and I have something important to tell you." ”

"Let someone take him to wait in the small flower hall for a while, and I'll go over."

The woman took the order and hurried to the front to deliver the message.

"It can't be that the son of the world is back, right?"

Ruohong guessed that the prince had been gone for more than a month, and it was almost time to come back.

At this time, the rumors outside had not yet reached their ears.

"That's supposed to be it."

Ruoxue raised her hand and stroked her forehead bangs as if she was relieved, raised her head to look at the stars in the distant sky, and a good-looking smile bloomed at the corner of her mouth.

Ruohong also smiled, one thing finally had a result, and the stone in her heart could be put down, looking at her like that, her body and mind were going to float!

I don't know when the big rock below will be removed?

In the past two days, Mei Jishan went to Huang Bingshan and Duan Jie with embarrassment, and he didn't know how many baskets he had to say, but he couldn't let the two of them relax and say that the gambling contract was just a trick they played to make Ruoxue play, and they didn't count.

Huang Bingshan said that the gambling contract had the seal of the head of the Mei family on it, how could he not count.

Duan Jie said the same, but his tone was much more gentle than Huang Bingshan.

Mei Jishan lost face, he was holding back a fire in his heart, and he fell ill with heat outside and inside, and he recuperated at home for the past two days, so he didn't go to the school to teach.

Mrs. Cao was also a little angry, so she asked Dr. Xiao Qi to check her pulse, and prescribed two doses of decoction to clear away heat and relieve depression, and she was already better after drinking it for two days.

When he arrived outside the flower hall in the front yard, he saw Li Ying standing in the courtyard under the corridor, and beside him stood a member of the Mei family.

Ruoxue came over and invited him into the hall to speak, but Li Ying politely refused, "I didn't have a few words, I'll go back when I'm done." He said.

Li Ying took out a note from his waist, handed it over, and said, "This is a letter sent by the prince with a flying pigeon, please take a look." ”

Ruoxue stretched out her hand to take it and unfold it, Lianxin hurriedly raised the yarn lamp and approached, Ruohong tilted her head to look, it said: I arrived in Ningbo on the sixth day of the fourth month of April, and I asked for goods to talk.

Ruoxue read the note and returned it to Li Ying, and said, "I know, it's hard for you to run." He glanced back at Lianxin and motioned for her to reward Li Ying.

Lian Xin gave the lantern to the little maid behind her, reached out and took a two-tael gold nude from her purse and handed it to Li Ying.

Li Ying thanked Ruoxue, bowed down and went back.

Ruoxue watched him go away, stood in place for a while, and ordered: "Go and prepare a boat, and go south to Ningbo the day after tomorrow." ”

"The great river goes east, the waves are exhausted, and the romantic characters ,...... through the ages"

Ruohong stood on the side of the boat, looking at the waves and rivers, and sighed.

Mei Zhigao stood next to her and listened to her read two lines of poetry, feeling quite tasteful, very in line with the current scenery, thinking about listening to her read out the next few sentences, and waited for a while to see her speak, so he asked, "What about the back?" ”

"What?"

"The great river goes east, the waves are exhausted, and the eternal romantic characters. What about the back? ”

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