In the past nearly 30 years of life, one of the habits that Li Ran has developed is to sleep at any time during the day, but only for a short time at a time.

This habit came here, even if she lay down and slept well, covered with the quilt, and there was no quiet sound around her, she still only slept for about ten minutes before waking up.

Qiu Yue hadn't come back yet, and the little girl standing in the corner of the room was very flustered, and she hurriedly glanced at the other little girl standing at the door.

Li Ran got off the bed, walked to the dressing table, looked at the little girl with an obviously panicked face and asked, "Do you know how to comb your hair?" Comb my hair up. ”

The little girl was pardoned, and hurriedly came over to comb Li Ran's hair.

Li Ran sat bored, opened the box on the dressing table, took out the golden hairpin in the box, and the headdress she didn't know the name of, and looked at them carefully one by one.

The gold ornaments she had seen in museums were nothing compared to these.

This piece in my hand, how can this gold wire be so thin? She is not obsessive-compulsive, but looking at these incomparably delicate and smooth gold threads, she also feels quite comfortable and decompressed.

What is this pattern? It's so pretty!

The little girl was scared by Li Ran.

This girl's clothes and jewelry are all purchased from outside, so isn't it a good thing at first glance? But no decent person would wear a needle or a rough piece of clothing like this.

There are also these golden hairpins or something, they are not as fine as those used by Sister Qiuyue, this one in the girl's hand is outdated, and no one used it last year......

The girl looked so closely that she must have seen it, and if it were to be asked, what would she say?

Why hasn't Sister Qiuyue come back yet?

Probably in order to delay for a long time and wait for her sister Qiuyue to come back, the little girl combed Li Ran's extremely complicated hairstyle, and finally when the hair was combed, Qiuyue came back.

Qiu Yue is not better than this little girl.

As soon as she entered the courtyard gate, she heard that the girl woke up, and when she trotted all the way into the upper room, she had not been able to calm down, of course, it was probably because Cuiweiju was too small, and the time to walk from the courtyard gate to the upper room was too short.

"The girl woke up and didn't sleep well? I just saw that the girl was asleep, the girl was tired for a day, and I thought the girl was going to sleep a little longer, so I went out and got something......" Take something, Qiu Yue said extremely vaguely, "I went to the kitchen again, what do I want to eat for dinner?" ”

"Can I order something to eat?" Li Ran raised her eyebrows in surprise, looked at Qiu Yue and asked.

Qiu Yue choked, she didn't dare to answer.

"Did the old lady let you come, or did the lady let you come?" Li Ran looked at Qiu Yue, whose choked face was about to turn red, and wanted to laugh.

This girl is very much like those newcomers in the workplace who have seen a bunch of promotion techniques and learned the rules of thick black, and they are gearing up, thinking that they can fight all over the company.

"I used to be an errand boy in the old lady's yard." The smile on Qiu Yue's face couldn't be contained, is the girl beating her?

"In the future, I have to report something, I don't have to be sneaky, and it's not something unsightly. What is the old lady's last name? What about Madame? ”

Qiu Yue's face turned blue, and she didn't even know how to answer Li Ran's question.

"What's the old lady's last name? What about Madame? Li Ran looked at Qiu Yue, who was stammering, and asked again.

"Yes, yes, the old lady's surname is Chen, and the lady's surname is Zhang." Qiu Yue only felt a layer of cold sweat on her back.

"Your Hou Ye's surname is Li," Li Ran laughed.

The surname Li is really good, if it is a different surname, she will have to adapt to it for a while.

"Do you have a concubine? How many are there? Li Ran then asked.

"Not a single one." Qiu Yue's head was dizzy.

"Is it not now, or was it not there before?" Li Ran thought about her biological mother.

"The maid doesn't know." Qiuyue Khan is going to come down.

This girl is the daughter of the Hou Ye, but she was not born to the lady, so she must have had a concubine or something before, but in the seven or eight years since she entered the house, she has never heard of the Hou Ye having any concubines, and she can't answer this.

"Oh, I don't know." Li Ran slanted the cold sweat on Qiuyue's forehead, and with these few words, the cold sweat came out, what a little girl.

"Then how many sons and daughters does your Hou Ye have? All of them were born to a lady? Li Ran then asked.

"Three sons and three daughters...... No, four daughters. This time, the sweat on Qiu Yue's forehead really dripped down, "Except for the girl, they were all born by Mrs. ”

"Let's talk about it." Li Ran looked at Qiu Yue, a slight smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, she liked this little girl a little.

"Yes." Qiu Yue swallowed with a snort, "Uncle, second master, third master......" Qiu Yue was stuck, her whole body was in a mess, and she didn't know what to say anymore.

"Uncle is the boss? How old is this year? Li Ran glanced at Zhou E, who was probing into the house from the door.

"Yes, Uncle is twenty-eight years old this year."

"Twenty-eight, did you marry a daughter-in-law? Do you have children? How many children do you have? Boys and girls? How old are they? What is the uncle doing now? ”

"Marry...... has been married, there are, two, a man and a girl, the eldest brother is six years old, the second sister is two years old, the uncle is now in the north, under Huo Shuai's account, he is a general. Qiuyue didn't dare not answer, didn't dare to answer more, and asked one question after another.

"Then let's talk about the second one, so let's say so." Li Ran glanced at it again and quietly entered the house, standing in the corner of the house to watch the lively Zhou E.

"Yes, the second master is twenty-six this year, he has already married, he has a daughter, the eldest sister, who is four years old this year, the second master gave him the Jinshi background, and now he is an official of the Liupintang.

The third master is nineteen this year, and he has not yet discussed his relatives, and now he is studying too much, and he is the prince's companion.

The eldest girl is twenty-three this year, she is married, and she went to work with her uncle at the beginning of this year.

The second girl is twenty-one this year, and she is also married, and her uncle ...... "Qiuyue's tongue turned, what does my uncle do, it should be needless to say, she didn't ask her uncle." “…… Studying. The third girl is seventeen years old. ”

Li Ran sighed softly.

Three girls seventeen, she also seventeen.

Li Ran then sighed, men are all big pigs' trotters, and it is also a wise saying to travel through time and space.

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Dinner was delivered to Cuiweiju by several servant women carrying food boxes.

Radish pork rib soup, braised mutton, shrimp skin winter melon, roasted cabbage, mixed mustard shreds and red oil bean curd two pickles put together in a plate, the rice is almost transparent, very beautiful and delicious, and there is a plate of three very small steamed buns.

It was very hearty and tasted very good, and Li Ran was very satisfied with it.

Waiting for Li Ran to eat, Qiu Yue said that she was going to return the food box and eat by the way, Li Ran simply agreed, and she also went out of the house, preparing to take a good look at her small courtyard several times, and take a walk to eat by the way.

Qiu Yue returned the food box and went to find Guo Wang's house first.

"Sister-in-law, you are too careless to be a messenger, no matter what happens to that girl, it is also ...... That's right, look at today's dinner, the pork rib soup and roasted cabbage have been delivered, and the braised mutton, this is dinner, such a greasy thing, this is too much, right?

Master Hou pointed Aunt Zhou to the girl's side, have you heard about this?

No matter what, you can't find fault with it, can you? Otherwise, if it really makes trouble, wouldn't it be our bad luck? Sister-in-law, let me tell you, I don't look at that person, it doesn't seem to be a trouble-free person. ”

Qiu Yue's complaint is not malicious, she is still close to Guo Wang's family.

"It's not that I'm careless, just for her meal, I have several gray hairs." There was even more resentment in Guo Wang's belly, "Let's go to the house, Master Hou, the old lady won't talk about it, and she won't wait here for me." Madam, second grandfather, second grandmother, third master, third lady, what you eat every day, you are all bought and made on demand, you say, you guys, can you do the same? What does she order, what does she buy, what do I do here? ”

Qiu Yue is dumb, how does she know if she can? But according to her instincts, nine times out of ten it can't.

"If she can't eat anything, then who will decide what she eats every day? I went up and asked Mama Ren, do you know what Mama Ren said? Mama Ren said, aren't there rules in the house? Is this still to be asked? Is there such a rule in the house? ”

Qiu Yue leaned back when she was asked by Guo Wang's family. How does she know if there is such a rule in the house, it seems that there is really none.

"There has never been such a person in our house!

I have six masters here, the eldest sister doesn't talk about it, the child who has just been weaned, the third master eats at most one or two meals at home for ten meals, and the third lady eats ten meals with the old lady, and the rest is the second grandfather and two grandmothers, as well as the two dinners of the lady, who do you say I compare?

The second grandfather and the second grandmother are together, she can't eat the amount of two people alone, right? Which dish is removed and which one is left? Who's in charge? Or do you have to compare yourself to Madame? But can she compare with Madame? Definitely not, right? Then it's only Mama Ren, right? What else do you think I can do? ”

"Okay, okay." Qiu Yue listened to the first two big, "I don't care, I'm going to eat." ”

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By the afternoon of the third day, Li Ran had basically determined one thing:

From Shanxian to here, she is a bird kept in a cage, the difference is only that it is a wooden cage in Shanxian, and here it is replaced by a golden wire cage.

The bird and its owner don't often tease her, and she can't even see the face of the owner.

She even suspected that when she was in Shanxian, it was this grandfather Hou who raised her, exactly the same style.

Li Ran sat under the porch and thought seriously for a long time.

This sudden life, tentatively she can live a lifetime, where is her bottom line in this life?

Well, life is too long, let's think about where her bottom line is now.

As for the idea of what kind of life she wanted, she had never had it in her previous life, and she didn't have to think about it now.

Life is not about living whatever life you want, you can only live the life you can.

So for life, she has always had only one bottom line. As for the rest, it depends on the conditions of the dishes.

First of all, she can't tolerate being detained in this small quadrangular courtyard like a prison.

Well, that's the only bottom line in the limited number of cases that are currently known.

If she wants to break through this limitation, where to start first?

Li Ran stood up, put his hands behind his back, shook along the verandah, and stood in front of Qiu Yue, "Is there a study in this mansion?" ”

"Yes." Qiu Yue replied completely subconsciously.

It's been three days, except for that time when she asked her what the old lady's surname was, what the lady's surname was, and who was in the family, and after that, she hadn't said a word again.

Now that he suddenly opened his mouth and asked such a question, Qiu Yue couldn't react in a daze.

"Take me to see it." Li Ran raised his feet and walked out.

"Huh?" Qiu Yue was dumbfounded, glared at Li Ran, watched her take four or five steps before she reacted, rushed to Li Ran with her skirt, and stretched her arms, "Girl, girl!" ”

"Huh?" Li Ran looked at Qiu Yue's anxious and panicked face, and the two arms that subconsciously stretched out, and replaced the question with a hmm.

So far, one of the most satisfying things about this place is that when she doesn't want to talk, no one has to talk to her, which really makes her very happy.

"Which study is the girl going to? No, no, I mean, the study in the house and the study of the Hou Ye are all official business, and no one is allowed to enter, except for those who wait in the study. The second master's study, that, the third master's study......"

Qiuyue's tongue is knotted, the study of the second master and the third master, the old lady and the second grandmother and the third lady can enter casually, but this girl may not be allowed to enter.

"What about the other study?" Li Ran looked at Qiu Yue, who was blushing.

"Other...... Aunt Zhou! Aunt Zhou! The girl is going to the study, Aunt Zhou! Qiu Yue was sweating in a hurry, and when she saw Zhou E coming in from the backyard, her eyes immediately lit up.

Li Ran turned her head and looked at Zhou E.

"What is the girl doing in the study?" Zhou E asked with a smile while meeting Li Ran's gaze as she walked.

"Find a few books to read." Li Ran smiled.

"There is a book building in the house, and there are a lot of books hidden, let Qiuyue take the girl there to have a look." Zhou E walked four or five steps away from Li Ran, stood and said with a smile.

"Okay." Li Ran agreed extremely simply.

It doesn't matter if she wants a study room, what she wants, first, is to see if she can get out of this small courtyard, and second, if she can find some books to understand this world and this era, it will be better.

Qiu Yue followed behind Li Ran, and while walking out, she glanced everywhere.

Zhou E looked at Li Ran, who was walking leisurely, hesitated for a moment, and followed with his hands behind his back.

Li Ran didn't go far out of the courtyard gate, and everything that the house should know about her leaving the courtyard is known.

When the little girl who got the wind of Qiuyue's eyes rushed into the upper room of Rongxuan Courtyard in one go, Li Mingshui, the Marquis of Chang'an, had just come in and had not yet sat down.

"What's wrong? How did it run like this? Mrs. Zhang, the Marquis of Chang'an, frowned and reprimanded first.

"Yes, girl, out!" The little girl gasped and looked panicked.

"Where did you go?" Chang'an Hou leaned forward and immediately asked.

"Go to ......," the little girl stammered.

She received Qiuyue's eyes when she first entered the courtyard gate, and she didn't know it, so she saw the girl walking out of the courtyard door with her hands behind her back, and she didn't know anything else!

"Look where she's gone!" Old Madam Chen angrily ordered Mama Qian, who was standing next to her.

Mama Qian agreed and motioned for the little girl to go out with her.

Watching the little girl go out, Chang'an Hou looked at Mrs. Zhang and said: "These girls are going to wait for her, and they are also going to watch her, you should pick some clever ones, you can look at ......"

"I picked the people, and you watched me talk." Old Madam Chen interrupted Chang'anhou's words, "Don't do these things that accuse Sang and scold Huai, if you have something to do, you will know that you are angry with your daughter-in-law, isn't it embarrassing?" ”

"Auntie, how dare I? You see you. Chang'anhou looked helpless, "I'm just saying, Xiaoran's side, you have to look at it, A-Niang is thoughtful, I just mean that this person has to be smart." One more thing. ”

Chang'an Hou looked at Old Madam Chen with a distressed expression, "I came back early today just for this matter." The emperor said that the day after tomorrow, the Double Ninth Festival banquet, let you bring Xiaoran with you, saying that it means that you want to see Xiaoran. ”

Old Madam Chen snorted with a cold face.

She didn't have too many surprises about this, if the emperor didn't want to see this evil seed, then it would be strange.

"I see, you're tired from the day, go back and rest." Old Madam Chen coldly instructed Chang'an Hou.

Chang Anhou stood up, "Yes, I'll go and see where Xiao Ran went, don't cause anything." ”

"In this house, she doesn't cause trouble, and no one messes with her." Old Madam Chen answered angrily.

"That's what A-Niang said." Chang'an Hou smiled dryly and withdrew with a little carelessness.