The twilight was heavy, and the lights of the various courtyards of the Protectorate Mansion were lit up almost at the same time, and the huge mansion was suddenly brightly lit, as bright as day.

In fact, now from the accident on the canal, it has been more than a month, the funeral of the Yang family was started from the news of Yang Jie's death, ten days ago, Yang Jie's body was transported back to the capital, and the officials who had come to mourn before came to the door one after another, and some came from outside Beijing to send the silk gift, it is said that once the carriage and horse that sent the silk gift to the Yang family passed through the city gate, and happened to meet the team that gave the emperor to send the gift, and finally the gift was given to the side to let the silk gift go first.

Today is the last day of the funeral, and the reason why I have to wait until today is because I have to wait for Yang Jincheng to come back.

Yang Jincheng is the eldest grandson of the Yang family, and he must attend his uncle's funeral.

Tomorrow is the day of the funeral, the ancestral home of the Yang family is Qingyang Mansion, and the ancestral tomb and sacrificial field are also in Qingyang. Yang Xin, the sixth master of the Yang family, and Yang Jie's eldest son, Yang Jinting, helped the spirit to go south and sent Yang Jie's coffin back to Qingyang for burial.

The emperor is getting married in the spring next year, and the Yang family will have a happy event at that time, and now it is almost the moon, and the funeral of the Yang family should be completed.

Although the mourning shed has not yet been removed, but unlike a few days ago, there is no crying one after another, and the people who came to mourn have dispersed, and some of them want to show their faces in front of Yang Jincheng, although they have not left yet, but they are only around Yang Jincheng's Qingke, as for the fifth master of the Yang family who has not yet been funeral, he is not as good as Yang Shizi, who is about to become the uncle of the new Jin Kingdom.

A small man came out of the shadows of the trees, he was small, eight or nine years old at most. He was dressed in a green coat and a small hat, with a filial piety belt tied around his waist, probably from the cold, and he hugged his shoulders and shrunk in place.

There was a sound of footsteps approaching, and the little guy hurriedly stood up, standing straight with his eyebrows lowered and his eyes lowered.

"You, go and tell the fifth wife, the prince of the world invites the fourth prince to come over."

It was a young voice who spoke, and the little guy looked up and saw that this person was in his thirties, dressed as a scholar, like a Qing guest in the house, but he even did the errand of passing the word, and he didn't mix well with Yang Jincheng when he wanted to.

"Okay, let's go for the little one."

After the little guy finished speaking, he ran out, and just after running a few steps, he was stopped by the man: "Do you want to run to play, is this the way to the back house?" ”

The little guy stuck out his tongue, turned around and ran in the opposite direction, and the indignant voice of the scribe came from behind him: "The little rabbit cub who has no eyes can even call people." ”

It turned out that he was not polite, but how did he know which green onion this scribe was.

The small servants of large families, but when they reach the age of twelve or thirteen, they cannot enter and leave the back house casually, so whether it is the front house or the back house, there will be a few young people waiting for them in Pingsuri, and they are running errands between the front house and the back house.

The child ran farther and farther, and in the blink of an eye he didn't know where he was going.

Where's the back house?

Ask people? Is there anyone in this house who doesn't know about it besides her? Isn't it revealing when she asks?

Shen Tong turned around in a circle, and his eyes lit up.

A little guy walked over, the little guy was carrying a lantern, and under the light, he could see that the little guy was dressed the same as her, but he couldn't see his face clearly, and he couldn't see that his body had not yet grown up, and he should be a half-grown child.

Shen Tong walked over with his head held high, and said to the little guy: "You, go to the fifth wife, and the prince will invite the fourth prince to come over." ”

The little guy sighed and turned to walk down the other road.

Shen Tong breathed a sigh of relief, seeing a few more people coming over, worried that she would be assigned another errand, she pulled her legs and left, and soon disappeared into the shadows of the trees.

She had infiltrated while the men outside the gate were fighting.

She first squeezed into a group of mothers-in-law who watched the excitement, and then squeezed out of the group of mothers-in-law, just in time to see two mothers-in-law come out, and asked loudly: "Lotus Hutong Zhang's house, are they all there?" ”

The other shouted: "All those in Lord Mao's house in Wende Hutong will come back to me!" ”

This is the news of the fight outside spread inside, and the wives who mourned inside were worried that their subordinates would be rude in front of the Guogong Mansion, so they sent their personal mothers-in-law out to take a look, after all, there were already several subordinates fighting together.

Shen Tong followed the two mothers-in-law into the mansion, and bumped into a group of people who came out of it with a Qimei stick, and one of them asked her angrily: "What are you doing?" ”

The mother-in-law in front said: "We are from Lord Zhang's house." ”

Another said: "My lord is Lord Mao of the Ministry of Rites." ”

Those people didn't ask much, and they didn't even look at the little girl who was following the two mothers-in-law.

Because in their eyes, it's just a little girl.

Of course, the maid is next to the housekeeper, who else can it be?

Yes, even she didn't expect it to go so smoothly.

She is a child, a little maid from an unknown family.

It's just that there is one thing she hasn't figured out, that is, the six beggars who fought first outside, she thought that they were fighting to take advantage of the chaos, but she had been in for more than an hour, and she had already changed from a little maid to a little maid, but she didn't see any movement from those people.

Of course, they didn't come in either.

Protector Mansion, she can take advantage of the chaos to get in, but the six tall beggars cannot.

They are far more conspicuous than her.

At night, Shen Tong jumped out of the window of the large kitchen with a few vegetarian buns in his arms.

The predecessor of the Protectorate Mansion was the Prince's Mansion of the previous dynasty, which has a history of several hundred years. Towering ancient trees, rockeries and strange rocks can be seen everywhere in the house, and it is not difficult for her to find a place to hide.

Shen Tong shrank behind the rockery and gulped down the buns.

She needed to conserve her strength, and although she told Fang Fei to go to Sanlizhuang when it was time to pay the rent, in fact, she didn't know how long she would be here.

The Yang family has female dependents and countless maids, so the Yang family will not detain the arrested people casually, and it is still a woman.

The Yang family should have a secret room or something like that, and she had to find this place.

The top priority is to be familiar with the environment of the Yang family, and a situation like today, where you can't even find the back house, can't happen again.

Shen Tong quickly finished eating the buns and groped along the rockery little by little.

Many rockeries have caves, and I don't know if there is one in this rockery.

This is not a garden, and it is not far from where the people live, and the big kitchen is near here, and I don't know what the people who built the garden thought back then, and actually built a rockery here.

Soon, she touched the entrance of the cave, and there was indeed a hole here, and Shen Tong smelled a smell of defecation.

She covered her nose, heh, this hole has obviously become a place for people to defecate, the old men of the Yang family, I don't want to go this way.

She originally wanted to find a hole to spend the night, but now it seems that she has found it in vain.

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