Song Xiaochi understood the minds of Du, Xia, Tao and others, and just felt that stepping into Mingxuanju, which could no longer maintain the grandeur of Bofu, would lower the vision of his children and grandchildren, and even affect their state of mind.

The big family and the raised children are often raised by the wealthy, that is, let them see and listen more, and they will not panic when they see a big scene in the future.

At this point, Song Xiaochi was noncommittal, but as far as the current Bofu was concerned, Song Xiaochi really didn't think it was any good.

"Is there a little maid here today? And Eissong-in, did you send someone? ”

Song Anming didn't have time to pay attention to Qiao's sour tone, and continued to ask with a calm face, he asked not only Fang's Qiao's, but also a few maids of pearl jade magnolia, "Have you seen people?" People who come may not have seen the lady and grandmother, have you noticed? ”

Everyone shook their heads, and they all said that there were no outsiders coming to Mingxuanju today, and the old lady did not send anyone over.

"Could it be that he originally came in to look for someone, but he overheard the conversation in the study, and he ran back directly for fear of being discovered?" Song Xiaochi pondered, "Yulan, you go and call Mother Chu and Mother Liu." ”

Chu and Liu's two mothers are the two rough mothers-in-law of Ming Xuanju.

Calling them to come, it was just to ask with the hope of what happened, but I really asked for a news, the mother said: "The eldest girl asked, the old slave remembered, just now the old slave saw that there was a window open in the wing room of the courtyard, thinking that the sky was very gloomy today, afraid that it would snow, so he asked the pearl girl to get the key, went in and closed the window, when the old slave came out, it seemed to see a figure from the courtyard gate flashed and disappeared."

"Figure? What figure? When did you see her? Song Anming immediately asked.

Chu's mother thought for a moment and said: "It just disappeared in a flash, and the old slave didn't care about it at the time, but now that I think about it, it should be a little girl, not tall, twelve or thirteen years old." It was about the hour when the slave went to close the window, and it was about the same time when she saw that figure. ”

"Don't see who it is?" Song Anming frowned, according to the time, the little maid that Chu's mother saw should be the one who eavesdropped on the conversation in the study.

Mother Chu shook her head, "The slave didn't think much about it at the time, she just thought it was a little maid who came to play." ”

What she didn't say was that she thought that Wutong Yuan and Yiliuyuan had sent a little maid to find Jade to receive the monthly money, after all, Jade had only received the monthly money of the entire big house from Rongsong Yuan yesterday.

Wutong Yuan is the courtyard where Song Anming and Qiao's family live, while Yiliu Yuan is the courtyard where Song Shaoyan's concubine Ding and concubine Song Anrui live.

It's just that Chu's mother can't say this directly, after all, from the atmosphere in the room and the uncle's face, she can also see that this little maid who appeared at the gate of the courtyard must have done something bad.

But Fang Shi brought it up, "Did Aunt Ding send someone to receive the monthly money, I remember that she had two twelve or thirteen-year-old girls there." ”

Yiliu Courtyard because of the Ding family and Song Anrui's mother and son, so there are two little maids and a rough envoy in the courtyard to serve, of course, according to the current rules of the Bofu, the concubine and the concubine can only leave one to serve each side, and the extra quota in Yiliu Courtyard is said to be raised by Aunt Ding herself with private money.

As for the specifics, Fang didn't care.

Jade hurriedly said: "Yesterday, after the slave maid went to Rongsong Courtyard to receive the monthly money, she sent Aunt Ding and the fifth master's share."

This is still what Fang's told her before, about the matter of Yiliuyuan, try not to delay, no matter the money or things, give them back to them, so as not to complain about Aunt Ding.

If it is said that Fang's wife seems to be a little hiding from Aunt Ding's concubine, the reason is naturally Fang's own fear of stability, but it is more about the relationship between Aunt Ding and Mrs. Song, Aunt Ding is the distant niece of Mrs. Song's mother's family, after the death of her parents, she defected, and was finally directly given to Song Shaoyan as a concubine by Mrs. Song.

This is Aunt Ding's dependence, and it is also the most fundamental reason why Fang's family avoided Aunt Ding.

"Pearl, do you know anything?" Song Xiaochi suddenly asked, she saw that Pearl looked a little speechless and stopped, hesitated a few times and didn't speak, and simply asked directly.

Pearl was startled, and hurriedly blessed Song Xiaochi, "Back to the eldest girl's words, slave maid...... The slave maid suddenly remembered that when the slave maid went to the kitchen to bring lunch at noon yesterday, she met Ruoshui on the road, Ruoshui said that the house has not issued winter clothes this winter, looking at this situation, it should not be sent again, but this winter is really cold, so she dismantled a few old cotton clothes from before, and wanted to piece together a warm cotton clothes.

It's just that she said that she can make ordinary clothes, this kind of dismantling the old cotton clothes and then making new cotton clothes, she is afraid of wasting cloth and cotton, and she can't make a warm clothes, so she said to find a time to come over, and come to Mingxuanju to find the slave maid to help advise her, but she didn't say the specific time, and the slave didn't know if the little girl that Chu's mother saw was her. ”

Ruoshui is the little maid of Yiliu Courtyard, fourteen years old this year, because the number of people in the house has decreased sharply, even if Song Xiaochi, the maid and wife in the inner courtyard, can't say their names to everyone, but when others mention it, they have some impressions.

What's more, if Na Ruoshui is the maid of Yiliu Courtyard, he is considered to be the descendant of their big house, and Song Xiaochi is naturally more familiar.

And the familiarity between the subordinates and the subordinates is naturally much stronger than that of Song Xiaochi, who is the master.

Mother Chu's eyes lit up when she heard Pearl say this, "When Miss Pearl said this, the old slave felt that the figure was really a bit like Ruoshui next to Aunt Ding." ”

Song Xiaochi looked towards Fang, while Song Anming looked towards Song Shaoyan.

However, as soon as Song Xiaochi turned his attention to Fang's, he felt that he was wrong, and it was probably impossible to let Fang's deal with this matter.

It's Song Shaoyan, no matter what, the Ding family is also his aunt, whether it is his aunt or the maid next to his aunt, it is easy for him to take care of it.

Song Shaoyan stood up, "I'll go to Yiliu Courtyard to have a look." ”

As soon as Song Shaoyan left, Song Xiaochi immediately said: "Big brother, do you want to ask Lord Gu again, I think this matter should be settled as soon as possible, otherwise...... Magnolia, you go back to Jinxia Courtyard and bring my purse. ”

Yulan was stunned, the girl deliberately let herself go back to get the purse, although she didn't mention which purse, but she immediately understood that the girl was asking her to go back to get her private silver, and all the girl's private silver was put in an azure purse.

Although she understood, Yulan still asked, "Does the girl want the azure purse that is placed at the bottom of the box?" ”