"This Aunt Hong has made him more and more spoiled, how can I rest assured? Leaving such a woman in the house, I really don't feel at ease! Feng Lao'an said as he used his hand to hammer the soft couch beside him.

Fortunately, there was a layer of cashmere blanket on the soft couch, and even though Feng Lao'an made a great effort to hammer it up, the cashmere wool only sank down slightly.

Ordered the maids who were waiting in the house to go outside to guard, Chunyan hurriedly brought a basin of hot water, waited for Feng Lao'an to clean his hands, and then handed the soup woman who had ordered the maid to be loaded into Feng Lao'an's hands.

Chunyan wiped the water droplets on Feng Laoanren's hands with the cashmere cloth placed on the top of the high table, and couldn't bear it in her heart, but she still persuaded her.

"Old lady, although Aunt Hong did really not do well and framed Mrs. Qi, after all, there is a master behind her who spoils her, and the old lady should say a few words for the sake of the master! There are some things that are out of sight, and naturally the old lady can't be annoyed here. ”

After the water droplets in Feng Lao'an's hands were wiped dry, Chunyan took out the water in the copper basin and poured it, took the refreshments handed over by the pantry, and placed them on the small table beside Feng

"Old lady, this candied fruit was sent by the steward of the big kitchen to honor your old man, Mrs. Chen's family in the big kitchen had an emergency, saying that she was going back to the countryside to deal with it, and she had already taken leave with Aunt Hong, and she also sent this candied fruit before leaving."

Looking at the blue and white porcelain lotus pattern plate with a few pieces of candied fruit covered with frosting, Feng Lao'an took a piece and tasted it a few times, and finally put it back because the candied fruit was too sweet.

Next to the candied fruit there is also a plate of triangular lying cakes, small dozens of sugar cakes, stacked on the small plate in a staggered manner, as soon as you bite the sugar cake, the sugar juice contained in it flows out along the opening, dripping on the clothes, very viscous.

As soon as Feng Lao'an looked at the plate of sugar cakes, he knew that Aunt Hong personally called the little maid to send them, and only Aunt Hong liked to eat such sweet and greasy food.

Feng Lao'an didn't look at the plate of sugar cakes in front of him anymore, but ordered the maid to take it down.

"Mrs. Chen called someone to bring candied fruit, and she called someone to send sugar cakes, what did she want to do? A few days ago, I heard that Mrs. Chen and Aunt Hong have always been at odds, and the meals in Aunt Hong's house are all made by herself in the small kitchen in her own yard.

This time Mrs. Chen returned to her hometown, could it be that Aunt Hong secretly did her hands and feet? Do you want to take advantage of Mrs. Chen's return to her hometown in the next few days to put her hands in the big kitchen?"

Aunt Hong did this, and Feng Lao'an had reason to suspect her like this.

Chunyan listened to Feng Lao'anren say this on the side, and hurriedly replied. "Old lady, when the slave maid went to the big kitchen two days ago, she saw the green girl waiting beside Aunt Hong, and came to invite Mrs. Chen to Ruiyue Courtyard.

However, Mrs. Chen refused to go, and the green girl had no way to take Mrs. Chen. Could it be that Aunt Hong felt that Mrs. Chen would not stand on her side, so she secretly did something to force Mrs. Chen to leave the house?"

Listening to Chunyan say this, Feng Lao'an also felt that it was a little strange that Mrs. Chen suddenly came to take leave, Mrs. Chen's family has always been fine, how could something suddenly happen and ask her to rush back to deal with it?

Besides, Mrs. Chen has served in the big kitchen for many years, and Feng Lao'an has more or less some understanding of her family, and Mrs. Chen is by no means the kind of person who throws the trivial things in the big kitchen to others in order to return home.

The more Feng Lao'an thought about it, the more wrong it became, so he gave a few orders to Chunyan who was waiting beside him.

"Chunyan, you call three or five maids who are waiting, go to the big kitchen and ask the maids and servants who live with Mrs. Chen, and ask me clearly, has Mrs. Chen seen anyone who shouldn't be seen these days? Are there any unusual reactions?"

Listening to Feng Lao'anren talk about whether Mrs. Chen had any abnormal reactions these days, Chunyan seemed to remember something, put down the tea tray in her hand, and said

"Old lady, when you say this, the slave seems to have remembered something. Before Mrs. Chen left the house, the little maid who was waiting in the outer courtyard handed her a letter, and Mrs. Chen seemed to have read the letter before she knew that something had happened at home. ”

"Chunyan, where is that letter now?"

Since Chunyan said that before Mrs. Chen left the house, she received a letter from home. So in that letter, it must have been written that something happened to Mrs. Chen's family, the situation was critical, and Mrs. Chen needed to go back in a hurry to deal with it, otherwise Mrs. Chen would not have been so flustered?

Chunyan thought about it carefully, carefully recalled the location of the letter, and said.

After Mrs. Chen read the letter, she went to take leave from Aunt Hong that night, and on the second day, Mrs. Chen called the maid to send the candied fruit, and asked the mother-in-law who was waiting at the second door to prepare the car and go back to her hometown. As for the letter handed to Mrs. Chen by the little maid, the slave maid never heard of it again. ”

In the matter of Mrs. Chen's hurried departure, Feng Lao'an really had no evidence to prove that this incident was done by Aunt Hong behind her back. But she can be sure of one thing, this matter must have nothing to do with Aunt Hong.

As long as Aunt Hong secretly called someone behind her back to do something, she called the maid to go down to investigate, and the evidence would always come out.

Feng Lao'an thought like this, and said to Chun Yan who was waiting beside him.

"Chunyan, you tell me to go down and let a few maids follow that Aunt Hong for me in the next few days, if you find any evidence, or see her see Master Chen or others, don't be in a hurry to startle the snake, first call the maid to come back and report me, I must rectify the Aunt Hong."

Chunyan got the order, nodded to Feng Lao'an, and immediately retreated.

In the middle of the night, the lamp was already on the side of the hall. After Gu Yutang came back, he didn't rush to ask Lin for peace, but went back to his house, cleaned up and dressed up, brought a bowl of osmanthus rice wine dumplings that he had boiled himself, and brought them into the warm pavilion where Lin was reading.

Lin had already changed into the plain white clothes of the home, put on a white fox fur coat outside, leaned under the window, and looked at the letter handed down by the Yang family from Chengjiang by the candle flame placed on the small table.

seemed to be fascinated, Gu Yutang sat in the room for most of the day, and the Lin family didn't even realize that Gu Yutang had come in.

Seeing that the Lin family was fascinated by things, Gu Yutang didn't want to disturb her, and put the osmanthus rice wine glutinous rice balls on the top of the high table that night, and was about to withdraw, when the Lin family seemed to hear her footsteps, raised his head and glanced at Gu Yutang.

Then he said: "Since Sister Tang is here, let's accompany my grandmother to talk well!" It just so happened that your mother called the maid and sent the letter down, and you also took it and took a good look. ”

As Lin spoke, Mama Liang, who was waiting in the house, had moved a bamboo chair and placed it beside Lin, roasting the stove in the house with Lin.

Lin turned his head and saw that there was a bowl of osmanthus rice wine glutinous rice balls that were still steaming on the high table next to him, and looking at the appearance of the rice balls, Lin knew that this was Gu Yutang's craftsmanship. Gu Yutang's craftsmanship is not refined, and some of the glutinous rice balls are naturally big and some are small.

Lin instructed Mama Liang to bring over the bowl of osmanthus rice wine decoction, and said in his mouth: "Don't you stay in your house at night, what do you do when you come out against the cold wind, and you are not afraid of catching a cold?"

Gu Yutang smiled faintly, didn't care too much, and said: "Tang'er thought about her grandmother in her heart, so she wanted to make 10,000 osmanthus rice wine dumplings by herself and let her grandmother try them."

What does Grandmother think it tastes like, but are you satisfied?" Gu Yutang watched Lin pick up the bowl of osmanthus rice wine dumplings, and after tasting a few bites, Lin, who had not smiled for a long time, actually showed a little smile this time.

It seems that Lin is quite satisfied with the bowl of osmanthus rice wine dumplings he made.

"This rice wine is well done, but the rice balls are too unqualified, right? This osmanthus rice wine glutinous rice ball of yours, I think I taught it hand-in-hand at the beginning, why did you learn it for so long, this glutinous rice ball is still big, small, small?"

Lin didn't mean to blame Gu Yutang, seeing that her face was indifferent, he wanted to make fun of her.

"If it weren't for the big and small rice balls I kneaded, how would my grandmother know that this bowl of osmanthus rice wine rice balls was made by me? However, Tang'er also got the true inheritance of your old man, and the taste of this rice wine is the same as what you made at the beginning. ”

As soon as Gu Yutang finished speaking, he remembered in his heart that his grandmother was reading the letter that his mother had just called, and since they were going back, his mother rarely called someone to write a letter.

Mother personally called someone to write a letter this time, didn't something happen?