Rui'er put down the teapot, sat down beside Qiu Yue with the cup, looked at her, and said pitifully: "Sister Qiu Yue, the slave maid wants to take a leave from you today, the slave's little brother has been feverish for more than ten days, the slave's mother is worried, and wants the slave to go back, help the little brother invite a better Lang Zhong to see, the slave knows that it is not appropriate to take leave at this time, but the slave is really worried about the little brother's ......"

"It's been so many days? Why didn't you say it earlier? Look at you, or meet me, if the third lady knows that you haven't said it for so long and keeps this matter in her heart, I guess I'll talk about you again! ”

"It's not that the slave is bored, it's really ...... The slave's mother knew that our house was busy, and it was estimated that it was really out of line, so she had to come to the slave and maid for help. Rui'er lowered her eyes and said embarrassedly.

"Okay, don't follow the third miss today, let's go home and have a look, after a while, I'll go and talk to Sister Fangcao, I think it's okay for Mrs. to come, let Dong'er follow the third lady into the palace today."

"Thank you, Sister Qiuyue, do you want to report to the third lady?"

"I'll just go, you can quickly pack up, is there enough money? I still have some here, so if I don't have enough, I'll use it first. Qiu Yue turned around and lay on the kang, and reached out to take out the small box from the kang where the silver was stored.

"Sister Qiuyue, no, really not." Rui'er stretched out her hand to pull Qiu Yue up, waved her hand again and again, and said: "The slave and maid will go back to see first, if it is really not enough, the slave and maid will come to borrow money from my sister again, and now I don't need to use it, if I bring more money back, those relatives should be red again, and I will trouble the slave and maid's mother." ”

"Okay, you have to say something, don't get bored. Alas...... Each family has its own difficulties, you see the third miss, as the daughter of the third grade, alas, ......" Qiuyue sighed helplessly and distressedly, "The third miss has never treated us as outsiders, as long as you work hard, you will ...... in the future The third lady will definitely not treat us badly. ”

"Well, the slave knows, if she can, the slave will definitely try her best to help the third lady." Rui'er's sentence is said sincerely, if she can, she will definitely find a way to let the second miss think of a way to help the third miss get rid of this annoying marriage.

After Qiuyue reported to Fangcao, Mrs. Lu didn't take this Rui'er seriously, and soon allowed her to go home to visit her relatives.

Lu Fangfei specially explained to the purchased steward Dongchuan, and took Rui'er for a ride along the way, Rui'er bent her knees and thanked the steward of Dongchuan and climbed into the carriage.

As soon as the car came out of the corner gate, it stopped, and the sound of Fangcao outside the car came in.

"Steward Dongchuan, is this the third lady's house in this car?"

"Exactly, exactly! The third lady specially explained to the minions and brought Miss Rui'er to the town. ”

"Oh, that's it, just now the old man ordered, now is a special period, you have to check when you enter and leave the house, don't take out things that shouldn't be brought, you see......" Fangcao's voice is not loud, but it is as domineering as if it is giving orders.

Rui'er lifted the elephant eye checkered cotton curtain, jumped out of the car with the baggage, looked at Fangcao, and said with a sweet smile: "Sister Fangcao, I will carry this little burden, do you want to check it?" ”

Dongchuan frowned, he is the son of the Lu Mansion, Lao Tzu's father and Lao Zi Niang are all subordinates of the Lu Mansion with heads and faces, and he is also in charge of this position, where did he suffer this kind of anger on weekdays? ! But seeing that this Rui'er was so cooperative, he couldn't say anything, so he could only climb into the carriage and sit on the wheel and wait for them to finish checking and get on the road.

Fangcao didn't look at Dongchuan steward, and looked up and down a few times as if she was innocent, this old man is really, today is really abnormal, why did he listen to that Mr. He so much? The above sentence commanded me to run one more time, not to mention one more trip, and to be frozen!

The more she thought about it, the more angry she became, Fangcao dragged the burden in Rui'er's hand, trembled and searched it all inside and out, and found that except for a few broken silver, there were two or three small clothes.

"Who is this garment for?" Yerba asked, picking up her clothes.

"Back to Sister Fangcao, this dress was made by the slave maid for the younger brother of the family, and this fabric was given to the slave by the third lady." Rui'er replied unhurriedly, without any annoyance, and in order to make it clear, she even explained the origin of the fabric.

Fangcao picked up the clothes and looked at them, then looked at the things in the baggage, threw the clothes in her hand on the ground, stood up and patted the dust that didn't exist on her skirt, "Okay, let's go quickly, Madame has allowed you three days, don't go home and forget the time." ”

"Thank you, Sister Fangcao, the slave must follow Mrs. Ao's instructions and return home on time."

Seeing that Fangcao turned around and entered the corner door, Rui'er shook her head, squatted down and quickly packed her baggage.

"I've wronged you! This herb is just to make Madame spoiled, and now she doesn't even ...... a little bit of rules" Dongchuan complained as he watched Rui'er pack up her things.

"Steward Dongchuan, let's leave her alone, let's go, don't you want to go to Baishiqiao today to help Mrs. buy old man Qiao's pearl powder? His pearl powder is in short supply, don't be too late. ”

Rui'er climbed back to the carriage with her baggage, put down the curtain, and subconsciously touched her lower back, but fortunately, she didn't search her body!

"Okay, let's go." Dongchuan shook his whip, and the carriage ran out of the alley.

Rui'er got off the carriage in the northern urban area, said goodbye to the Dongchuan steward, and walked back and forth a few streets vigilantly with a small burden, making sure that no one was following, and then went straight to the head of the road and turned two alleys, and turned into the back door of Liu Yunyun's ready-to-wear shop "Yunshang Huarong" from Houjie Alley.

Aunt Ge was in the backyard, sitting on the small pestle with the newly bought silk thread, seeing Rui'er quickly walk in and turn around and close the door tightly, she stood nervously, "What's the matter?" How did you get out of the house? ”

"Aunt Ge, hurry up, call Brother Liu out, I have something urgent!" Rui'er walked up to Aunt Ge and said quietly but eagerly.

"Okay, you go into the house first, I'll call Da Lang. The second young master is also back today, don't worry! ”

Aunt Ge pushed open the door of the house, let Rui'er enter the house to rest for a while, walked quickly to the front yard through the bluestone road, and called Liu Dalang, who was sharing accounts at the counter.

"Mother, what's the matter?" Liu Dalang was thinking about the accounts at the end of the year, as well as the expansion of the shop next year, and when he saw Aunt Ge's panicked look, he frowned and asked.

"You come with me first, hurry up." Aunt Ge put the account book in Liu Dalang's hand in the cabinet behind the counter and locked it, turned around and dragged Liu Dalang with a blank face and left.

Crossing the bluestone road, Aunt Ge elaborated on the situation and look of Rui'er coming, looked at her tall son, and said worriedly: "You say, why did she run out of the Lu Mansion?" Has the second lady explained recently? ”

"No, but it looks like she should have heard something, let's go ask first." Liu Dalang shook his head, rolled his eyes and thought about it, and quickened his pace as he spoke.

Seeing Liu Dalang and Aunt Ge enter the house, Rui'er hurriedly told what she heard in the Lu Mansion, looked at Liu Dalang who was sitting on the chair by the kang, and asked: "I have to report this matter to the second lady quickly, I am afraid that the letter will not be clear and delay the matter, so I asked for leave to come out of the house, today, the third lady of the Lu family is going to enter the palace, and Mrs. Lu must accompany her, but listen to the meaning of Mr. He, Lord Lu should have already set off to the Zhenguo General's Mansion at this time, we have to hurry." ”

Rui'er spoke very quickly and said to Liu Dalang, "Oh, also, this is the whereabouts of Lord Lu that I have recorded in the past few days, and, this, this is the waist card that Lord Lu was drunk that day and fell from his body, I don't know what it was for, so I picked it up." Rui'er took out a letter from the waist wrap around her waist and handed it to Liu Dalang.

Liu Dalang took the waist card, touched it, stood up again, pushed open the window, looked at the sun carefully, squinted his eyes and thought for a while, turned his head, looked at Rui'er and said, "You change your clothes, I'll take you to find the second young master and the second miss, how many days have you been off?" ”

"Three days, the day after tomorrow, I will return to Lu Mansion before the time of the day." Rui'er replied.

"Mother, you find clothes and change them for Rui'er." Liu Dalang looked at Aunt Ge and said, thought about it, and added: "Don't worry, this is a good thing." ”

Aunt Ge was confused when she heard this, and she couldn't tell the right and wrong from the north and the south, but she didn't ask much, "Okay, then don't wait for the second young master?" ”

"The second young master can only come over after the time comes, let's go now, I'll run a little faster, I can block him."

Rui'er quickly changed her clothes, wearing the cyan cloth shirt of the little maid used by Liu Yunyun to change clothes, Aunt Ge helped her comb a child's bun, Liu Dalang did not set the carriage, and let Rui'er ride with him, "You hug me." Rui'er put her arms around Liu Dalang's waist, and the two of them galloped out of the city.

Ding Hai listened to the porter's report, quickly opened the back door of the courtyard, welcomed Liu Dalang's horse in, and instructed the porter to close the door and set up a sentry, Liu Dalang turned over and dismounted, and hugged Rui'er, who was a little pale and a little trembling legs, and after meeting Ding Hai, he introduced: "This is our second young lady's girl, there is something important to return, Lao Ding is in charge, take the two of us to meet our second young lady and second young master." ”

Ding Hai glanced at Rui'er, did not delay for a moment, and quickly led Liu Dalang and Rui'er to the outer study.

Liu Yunyun was burying her head in the west side of the house, Huanhuan and Xiaoxiao were sitting on the side of the warm road doing needlework to pass the time, when they heard the sound of footsteps going up the stairs approaching, Xiaoxiao put down the silk thread in her hand, opened the door and took a look, and was stunned for a moment.

After being stunned for a moment, Xiaoxiao hurriedly turned around and said to Liu Yunyun: "Second Miss, Second Miss, Xiaocao is here!" ”

As soon as Liu Yunyun put down the pen, Ding Hai took Liu Dalang and Rui'er to the door.

Xiaoxiao opened the door for a few people, Liu Yunyun told Ding Hai to invite Liu Zhenhan to come over, and Ding Hai took the order and left.

"Xiaocao, what's wrong?" Liu Yunyun pulled Rui'er to sit down and asked nervously.

Rui'er took a sip of the hot water handed over with a smile, breathed a long sigh of relief, put down the cup and quickly said everything she saw and heard in the morning, and also learned the expression that Mr. He made behind Mr. Lu's back, "Second Miss, I just feel that Mr. He, the staff member of Mr. Lu, thinks that he has some selfish intentions, and his idea is not for the good of Lord Lu, if Lord Lu really does this, there will be endless troubles!" ”