In the bright heart, Aunt Hai sat in front of the window in a daze. In the small courtyard, a few pines and cypresses are planted, all of which are perennially verdant plants. The pine and cypress are not afraid of the cold, it does not mean that winter will not come, the cold wind blows on her face, and after a while, she will freeze her to stiffness.

Caifeng cautiously walked to Aunt Hai's side and persuaded: "Madam, close the window, don't freeze sick, the master is likely to come tonight." ”

Aunt Hai turned around and glanced at her: "I know." ”

Now in Mingxinzhai, you can still find traces of snake plague every three or five days, but Aunt Hai has learned to be obedient and seals the mouths of the people in the yard tightly, and after a long time, Yan Songnian thought that the snake was gone, and occasionally came once or twice. Especially in the month when Aunt Chu was pregnant and could no longer sleep, Yan Songnian had already been here for four or five nights, but her stomach still didn't move.

Closing the window, Aunt Hai was a little depressed, and called Caifeng to come to her and ordered: "You go to the door to greet her, as soon as the second lady comes back, tell her to go back to the house, don't let others intercept her." ”

Caifeng respectfully stepped back and went out.

After two or three hours, Caifeng came in with Yan Shuyu. As soon as Yan Shuyu saw Aunt Hai, she jumped to her side and said, "Mother, the second uncle said that there is no other way except the medicine he gave you last time." ”

Aunt Hai's body trembled.

In order to win Yan Songnian's love and trust, she forced herself to go out and cry before she was confined, and fell into the symptoms of Gong Han.

At the time of treatment, she was taking medicine, but of course she couldn't get pregnant. When the illness was almost cured, she went to southern Xinjiang to take up her post.

Finally came back, when she was about to have a child, but she didn't get pregnant for several months, and after going back to her parents' house to find Lang Zhong, she learned that she had injured her soul before, and even if she cured the palace cold, it was not easy to give birth. It was the adoptive brother she had always disliked, and took out a bottle of Shengzi Dan, which was better than nothing.

Thinking of the side effects of that bottle of Shengzi Pill that made people age quickly, Aunt Hai felt numb all over. The news that Yan Shuyu brought back almost cut off her last hope.

Seeing Aunt Hai's gloomy expression, Yan Shuyu stepped forward to help her sit down, and persuaded softly: "Mother, don't be afraid, even if you don't have a younger brother, when I marry the prince in the future, my father will definitely straighten you out. ”

Aunt Hai reluctantly smiled, looked at Yan Shuyu's face, and said, "It's still my Shuyu who is the most intimate." ”

Speaking of marrying the prince in the future, Yan Shuyu came to the heart, she smiled and said: "That's right, mother, when I come back today, I went to Wufuzhai to buy snacks, and some people in it talked about the four talented women, one of them said that I am very talented, but I can be worthy of the prince." ”

Aunt Hai and Yan Shuyu have long spent money to buy people to promote Yan Shuyu, including rumors such as being worthy of the prince, and now these words are finally spreading.

After getting this good news, Aunt Hai laughed, touched her head, and said, "My Shuyu is so good, it's just right to match the prince." ”

As soon as the door curtain was lifted, Yan Songnian walked in, and he listened to Fang Cai's words for half an ear, and asked, "What is worthy of the prince?" ”

Aunt Hai pretended to be panicked on her face, waved her hand and said: "Master, it's all nonsense from outsiders, saying that Shuyu is the head of the four talented women in the capital, and her character and family background are good, and she is worthy of the prince." ”

Although she pretended to be panicked and scared, she was secretly happy in her heart. The fact that the concubine of the Yan family and the prince have a marriage contract is not a secret in the Yan family. Yan Songnian heard their conversation and let her take the opportunity to test whether Yan Songnian cared about marrying Yan Shuyu to the crown prince.

Yan Songnian just let out a faint oh and didn't say anything.

Aunt Hai was overjoyed, if Yan Songnian didn't like to let Yan Shuyu marry the prince, I am afraid that she would have been scolded a long time ago, it seems that the efforts of their mother and daughter during this period of time have not been in vain.

Yan Songnian stayed, of course, to spend the night. Yan Shuyu coaxed Yan Songnian to speak for a while, and then retreated with a very good look.

Out of Aunt Hai's bedroom door, Yan Shuyu returned to her bedroom, she washed her hands and face, sat under the light and asked her maid's words: "Yan Qingge went out in the morning, when did she come back, where did she go, did you inquire clearly?" ”

"Back to the second miss, the eldest lady came back in the afternoon, I heard that she went to the Wei family, and she should go to find Ning Minzhi, the second young lady of the Wei family. Today, the Ling Mansion and the Yan Wang Mansion also sent letters to the eldest lady, and there was no movement next to the Qingxing Garden. ”

Yan Shuyu sighed, pulled out the hairpin on her head and flicked the lantern to make the flame burn more vigorously. She listened to the laughter coming from Aunt Hai's house next door, and said lightly, "I'm going to sleep." ”

It's still early, but Yan Qingge hasn't slept in Qingxing Garden.

She received a letter from Yan Xiuyu. Because Yan Xiuyu was about to go to Bailu Academy to study, he specially invited her, Ling Xiao's brothers and sisters, and Le Xuan to play together in Beijing tomorrow, and the location was set in the Changsheng Building, the teahouse he often visited.

Although Changshenglou is a teahouse, it is a good place to spend time singing and storytelling, the food is delicious, and there is an Accord private room, which is a good place for recreation.

Yan Qingge hadn't visited the teahouse yet, had never heard storytelling and singing, and was full of interest for a while, and wrote back to tell him that he would arrive tomorrow.

Ruyi saw that Yan Qingge was busy preparing snacks, and said helplessly: "Miss, I went to the teahouse, there was nothing to eat in that place, why do you have to prepare it yourself?" ”

"I'm afraid the outside isn't clean." Yan Qingge thought for a while, and greeted Ruyi again: "Wrap some of the tea I brought back from Heshan, and take it to everyone tomorrow to drink." ”

Ruyi reluctantly went out to work.

At this time, a stout woman walked in, she was one of the four servants that Yan Xiuyu left for Yan Qingge to guard the door, her name was Aunt Liu.

Aunt Liu kowtowed to Yan Qingge and said, "Miss Yan, Master Yan was in Mingxin at night, and now that he is freezing, the snakes should all wake up, do you want to make some noise." ”

Yan Qingge bit his lip and smiled: "Don't use it tonight, I'll talk about it after the sting." ”

These aunts are very skilled, after Yan Qingge left, they continued to carry out all kinds of "evidence" that artificially created poisonous snakes were still following Aunt Hai, until it was too cold to stop, and Aunt Hai was tossed enough.

As soon as the sun came out the next day, Yan Qingge went out in a carriage.

She just left here, and Yan Shuyu received a report over there.

The direction in which Yan Qingge went out was not towards Le Yi, but seemed to be walking in the direction of Outer Chengfang City. Yan Shuyu couldn't figure out where Yan Qingge was going, she groaned slightly, propped up the window and looked outside, and saw that Aunt Hai and Yan Songnian hadn't gotten up yet, so she immediately decided: "Clean up and dress up for me, ask someone to decorate her car, and report it to me at any time when you get there, I want to go and see." ”

Yan Shuyu packed up, and the people she sent out to follow came back to report the news, Yan Qingge arrived at the Changsheng Building and entered a private room. Yan Shuyu rewarded the person with a few dollars, and her eyes lit up, and she estimated that Yan Qingge was a classmate of her White Deer Academy.

She wanted to seize this opportunity to spread her reputation among the students of White Deer Academy, so that they could know how powerful she was.

The house where the Yan family lived was closer to the outer city, and it took not long to get to the outer city, and it didn't take long for Yan Shuyu to come to the door of the Changsheng Building.

Changshenglou really began to be lively, it was at night, although it was also open during the day, but the people were cold, and there were two men and women, an old man and a young man, who were standing on the platform babbling and beating drums and telling stories, and the little guys who swept the floor and ran the hall were also lazy.

Yan Shuyu walked in, and Dr. Tea greeted her and asked, "Girl come to drink tea?" Reservations are available. He asked, while wondering in his stomach, there are very few women who usually come to the teahouse, and today's feng shui monster has several before and after.

"Ordered. My companions have arrived, and they are all students of White Deer Academy. Yan Qingge raised his chin and said proudly.

Although when Yan Xiao Wang Ye booked a seat, he used the name of Yan Wangfu, but this early this morning, only the table of Yan Wangfu was booked, Dr. Tea was clever, he looked at Yan Shuyu's dress and talked well, and knew that this female guest was looking for someone from Yan Wangfu.

Yan Qingge was led by him to the door of the box on the second floor, pushed the door in, and saw six people sitting inside, three men and three women, with pastries and tea fruits on the table, and fragrant tea brewed in exquisite porcelain cups, and a few maids standing next to them.

This box is large and gorgeous, facing the performance stage downstairs, and there is a small red clay stove with boiling water on it, so that guests can access it at any time.

The three men and three women looked over, Yan Shuyu recognized Yan Shuyu and Ling Lie at a glance, she looked at Ling Lie, and was so frightened that she took a small step back.

Last time, when the lotus party was held on the Zhuangzi of Princess Rouhui, she deliberately stepped on Ling Lie in order to become famous. Later, the grandmother sent by Princess Rouhui to send her bluntly taught her a lesson, saying that she wanted to eat swan meat as a toad, and offended the Ling family today, and some of them will look good in the future, so let her do it herself, explain as soon as possible, and don't make the rumors bigger.

She thought that Ling Lie was a foreign man, and it was impossible for the two of them to meet again in their lives, so she didn't take those words to heart, but she didn't expect that it was a ghost who sent them to meet again today.

Of the six people in the house, she knew all four of them, but the rest of the men and women were tight-eyed.

Yan Shuyu forced herself to straighten her spine, showing a smile that could show her beauty and condescending, and opened her mouth to Yan Qingge: "Sister, I didn't expect that I could meet you just by going out shopping and drinking tea." Dr. Tea downstairs said you're here, I don't believe it yet. ”

Yan Qingge was speechless for a while, she turned her head to look at Yan Shuyu, and asked, "Oh? Dr. Tea was divine, and I came back without giving my name, but he could recognize who I was. ”

Yan Shuyu smiled slightly and said, "Sister, meeting is fate." I know the sister of the Ling family, the son of the Ling family, and the little prince Yan. The remaining two would like to ask you to introduce one or two. ”