Xiao Yiran was satisfied, she was new to the city, and she didn't know about many people and things in the Hou Mansion, if she wanted to investigate those who harmed her, the most important thing was to cultivate her own power.

Although Xianglan is just a maid, she can be regarded as her first move to enter the inner courtyard of the Hou Mansion. You know, it is also a technical job, if you use it well, then you can save yourself a lot of energy. But if it is not used well, then a fire in the backyard can kill people!

"How much do you know about the Hou Mansion?" Xiao Yiran asked her to sit down and tell her everything he knew.

Xianglan is not a big one, and immediately said everything in 1510. From her words, Xiao Yiran had a general understanding of the current situation in the Marquis of Zhongyong's Mansion.

After Xiao Zhiyuan straightened the white painting screen, he accepted three concubines, namely the Liu family, the Su family and the Fang family.

When Bai Huaping was pregnant with his eldest son Xiao Zijun, he took the initiative to stuff it into Xiao Zhiyuan's room, saying that he was afraid that he would have a body and would not serve him thoughtfully. The Liu family's stomach was also angry, and soon behind the white painting screen, she was pregnant with the fourth young lady Xiao Yiling and the second young master Xiao Zichuan, and became the most beautiful concubine in Xiao Zhiyuan's inner house.

And this Su's identity is a little embarrassing, she was originally a singer bought by Xiao Zhirui from Fireworks Willow Lane in the second room, but she had a relationship with Xiao Zhiyuan in a banquet, and in the end, this incident made the big room and the second room a little unbearable, or the old lady gave her to Xiao Zhiyuan. But after this incident, her life was very difficult, and she only gave birth to the fifth lady, Xiao Yiwan.

As for the Fang family, she was a good concubine of the True Scriptures, but she died in childbirth when she gave birth to the third young master, Xiao Zijing.

In general, now the Xiao family's big house and even the inner courtyard of the Zhongyong Marquis Mansion still have the most right to speak in the white painting screen, and they are also the most trusted by Xiao Zhiyuan.

Xiao Yiran's eyebrows frowned slightly, this white painting screen is really a difficult character to deal with! This time she suddenly picked her up and went home, what was the couple's idea?

"Third Miss, Madame asked the slave maid to send you someone to serve!" Just as he was thinking, someone shouted outside.

Xianglan opened the curtain, and saw a round-faced maid leading more than a dozen people towards her.

"It turned out to be Sister Cuihong!" Xianglan smiled and invited them in, and the room suddenly became crowded.

Cui Hong walked in front of Xiao Yiran and saluted her: "Madame said, let Miss pick out six of them." ”

Xiao Yiran bowed, she walked in front of this row of girls, looked carefully for a while, and picked out a few who seemed frivolous and unresponsible, leaving only the more loyal and honest ones.

"Just these five, and one is pandan."

Hearing this, Cui Hong looked at Xianglan in surprise, but she didn't say anything, after all, she was just an inconspicuous little girl. She smiled and said, "Yes, the slave will go back and talk to Madame first." ”

After she left, Xiao Yiran handed over the five maids to Xianglan to manage, and after a while, she assigned several people and began to work in an orderly manner.

During dinner, Bai Huaping really sent someone to invite Xiao Yiran to Qingshoutang for dinner.

Xiao Yiran looked up puzzled, and Xianglan hurriedly reminded her: "Qingshoutang is the old lady's residence. ”

Old lady? There seems to be such a person in the memory of the original owner, but after so many years, the impression of her is almost completely gone.

"In that case, then lead the way." Xiao Yiran lightly instructed the little girl who came to pass the word.

After passing through the verandah, turning eastward, and after going to the south hall, he looked up and saw the vermilion gate of the January Cave, Xiao Yiran looked at the stone road behind him, and quietly asked Xianglan beside him: "Why is it getting farther and farther away from the main house?" ”

Xianglan cautiously looked at the little maid who was leading the way in front of her, and covered her mouth and said, "The old lady has always lived in the second room of the second master. ”

Hearing this, Xiao Yiran understood, it seems that she is an eccentric old mother again! It stands to reason that as the widow of the old Marquis Zhongyong, no matter which son is the lord, Mrs. Zou should live in the main house. But she prefers to live with her youngest son, and this partiality can be said to be on the bright side.

followed the grandmother at the door into the back room, and in an instant, the eyes of everyone in the room focused on her.

Bai Huaping greeted her, smiled and took her hand, and brought her to the old lady with silver sideburns on the main seat: "Mother! Look, the third sister is back! ”

Mrs. Zou is almost sixty years old this year, but she still wears a bright vermilion outline treasure pattern blouse with a dark feather satin skirt, her silver hair is meticulously combed to the back of her head, and she wears a set of sterling silver on her head, her face is unnaturally white, and the red lipstick is very eye-catching.

The whole person looks ...... Very undignified.

Hearing Bai Huaping's words, she raised her shrugged eyelids and glanced at Xiao Yiran carelessly, then took a sip of tea from the teacup in her hand, and said coldly: "Hmm." ”

I didn't expect her to ignore her in front of her juniors, the smile on Bai Huaping's face stiffened unnaturally, and a trace of shame crossed her eyes: This old immortal!

But she quickly restrained her emotions and continued to smile and take Xiao Yiran to meet the rest of the Xiao Mansion, "This is your third aunt, this is your second sister, fourth sister, fifth sister, and cousin Yishu." Xiao Yiran said hello one by one.

"Why don't you see your second brother and sister?" After a round of the white painting screen, he found that there was a person missing the second room, and turned his head to ask Liu Shidao in the third room.

Xiao Zhirong, the lord of the third room, is not born to Mrs. Zou, he is just a concubine, plus he has always been wooden, and his wife Liu is not also a frivolous person, so in Xiao Mansion, the third room is the most nonexistent.

Hearing Bai Huaping ask her, Liu Shi hurriedly smiled: "It should be there in a while." ”

As soon as the words fell, I heard a sound of footsteps at the door, and a five or six-year-old boy lifted the door curtain, ran to Mrs. Zou, hugged her legs and shouted softly: "Grandmother! ”

"Slow down!" There was a helpless reminder behind him, and as soon as the curtain rang, another woman came in.

When Mrs. Zou saw Xiao Ziang, who was almost hanging on her lap, she immediately smiled, her eyes were soft, and she hugged him and called out "heart, liver, and flesh".

Let Xiao Ziang sit beside her, and she said to the visitor: "It's a good thing for children to move more, and you of the second family, don't be too restrained by him." ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" Zou stepped forward with a smile and touched Xiao Ziang's head.

Xiao Ziang sat on the couch, holding a snack in one hand and the silver fruit given to him by the old lady in the other, his big eyes were dripping in the room, and he suddenly pointed at Xiao Yiran and said, "Is that the third cousin?" ”

Zou also followed the direction of his finger, and saw a young girl standing there quietly, although there was no expression on her face, but it did not give people a sense of alienation.

She smiled and asked Bai Huaping, "Sister-in-law, this is the third girl, right?" ”

Xiao Yiran walked in front of Zou without waiting for the introduction, and bowed to her: "Second aunt! ”

Zou is gorgeously dressed, his body is rich, and his pair of Danfeng triangular eyes look extremely shrewd.

She smiled and helped Xiao to get up: "I didn't expect to become a big girl in a blink of an eye!" It's good to be back, it's good to be back! Then he turned to Mrs. Zou and said, "What a well-behaved and sensible child." Mother, look, are these three girls more and more similar to Sister-in-law Chu? ”