The next day, when she woke up early in the summer night, she sat down in front of the mirror, intending to give herself a makeover, as Mo Liang had instructed.

However, when she saw the face in the mirror, she couldn't help but feel a little familiar, by the way, isn't this what Concubine Ze looks like, but she is much younger, and her face is more round, it should be the inheritance of Emperor Qi's big round face.

At this time, she suddenly heard a knock on the door, and Qi Fu's voice shouted outside: "It's not early, go to the chores room to report." ”

Xia Ye immediately stopped Gu Ying's self-pity, quickly picked up the charcoal used for the thrush on the table, and nodded it densely on her face, at this moment, even Concubine Ze couldn't recognize her.

Opening the door, Qi Fu swept Xia Ye's face with his sudden goldfish eyes, seemed to be very satisfied, and did not speak, beckoned to her and turned away, Xia Ye hurriedly followed.

This garden is quite large, it is the end of winter and the beginning of spring, the trees in the garden are beginning to spit out green shoots, and the plum blossoms are blooming. Qi Fu took the summer night to a courtyard in all directions, and heard the noise from inside from the outside, and as soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw that many girls were busy, some were drying clothes, some were rolling up their sleeves, barefoot, and washing pots of clothes like a mountain of clothes...... Seeing Qi Fu coming in, they all raised their heads and greeted: "Steward Qi is here." ”

"Uh-huh." Qi Fu responded in a good mood, stood in the courtyard and asked a few girls who were doing laundry, "Where is Sister-in-law Lu?" ”

At this time, a stout girl who looked quite good at things raised her wet hands from the laundry tub, greeted her with a smile on her face, and said, "Steward Qi, Sister-in-law Lu is in the repair house, or shall I invite her over?" ”

"No need Xiaohong, I know where it is, do your job."

"Yes, yes, you have something to order." Xiaohong smiled and blushed, and Xia Ye couldn't help but feel good about her.

Qi Fu led the summer night to a room on the second floor, and from time to time there were girls coming in and out, and they also greeted Qi Fu respectfully when they saw it.

When I entered the door, I saw rows of shelves like a library, and there were baskets of clothes on the ground, and there was a thin girl, who was laboriously sorting the things in the basket and putting them in a grid of shelves, climbing high and lying low, and from time to time there were girls who instructed her to find things, and she was busy like a spinning top.

"Qi is in charge, do you have something to find an old body?" A lifeless voice suddenly sounded, startling the summer night.

I saw a plump middle-aged woman, coming out from behind a table, and on a summer night, I saw that her figure was big at both ends and thin in the middle, like a gourd, with her eyelids lowered, and a look on her face clearly written: Tell me something quickly, the old lady is very busy.

"Hehe, Sister-in-law Lu, Summer Night has been here since today, you are good **her." Qi Fu's attitude towards this sister-in-law Lu is not strange, only things to say.

Sister-in-law Lu seemed to raise her eyelids and glanced at Xia Ye, nodded at Qi Fu and said, "The old body knows." ”

Qi Fu didn't seem to be finished, he walked a few steps closer and whispered a few words to Sister-in-law Lu's side, her eyes glanced at Xia Ye intentionally or unintentionally, Sister-in-law Lu nodded and looked at Xia Ye as well.

After speaking, Qi Fu raised his head, just in time to see a golden hairpin with complicated workmanship on the table, he couldn't help but pick it up, and exclaimed in his mouth: "Ah, if I'm not mistaken, this is the crested hairpin that Linglong girl likes the most, right?!" A few days ago, I heard that it was broken, and you actually repaired it as if it was newly cast, or Boss Mo valued you, tsk, good! Good! ”

"Steward Qi praised it." Sister-in-law Lu didn't have a smile on her face, but she owed a little.

At this time, Qi Fu suddenly remembered something and said to Sister-in-law Lu: "I heard from the nursing home that wild dogs appeared in the abandoned garden at night recently, and they couldn't get rid of them. ”

"This old body will check." Sister-in-law Lu said expressionlessly.

"Okay, I'll rest assured that Sister-in-law Lu will do something." After Qi Fu finished speaking, he turned around and left.

"Follow me." As soon as Qi Fu left, Sister-in-law Lu took Xia Ye downstairs.

She was led to the well, and Sister-in-law Lu said, "You are responsible for fetching water, filling these tanks to the brim, and filling them again when they are shallow, understand?" ”

Summer Night looked at the three major water tanks in surprise, swallowed and nodded with a mouthful.

In order to save time, the water used by those girls for washing is scooped directly from the large tank, and now because they are busy washing clothes, no one is fetching water, so the tank is almost bottoming out.

"Don't be stunned, don't do it quickly!" Sister-in-law Lu was also expressionless when she was angry, but her impatience could be clearly felt in her voice.

Summer Night hurriedly picked up the bucket and went to the well, and clumsily fetched water. She thought that although it was hard here, it was better than asking her to pick up customers, and she would rather do this kind of rough work and tiring work, as long as the wind outside was not so tight, she would find a chance to escape. Therefore, the summer night was very hard. Sister-in-law Lu stood behind her and watched for a while, seeming to be quite satisfied, and was about to go back, when suddenly a frightened scream came from the second floor.

Sister-in-law Lu threw down the summer night and ran upstairs.

Summer Night didn't dare to meddle in things, so I had to listen with my ears sideways while fetching water.

"Damn, whose iniquity is this? Yes! The gourd sister-in-law's voice drowned out the noisy sound of labor and echoed throughout the courtyard.

The girls involuntarily stopped what they were doing, and the conversation upstairs was clearly transmitted.

"Aunt Cui, it's Aunt Cui."

"Dead Nizi, you're going to die! I'll just walk away for a moment......"

"It's not me, ah, don't hit me, ah, ah, it's not me, really-"

"Still hard-mouthed, hard-mouthed!"

Upstairs, there was the sound of slapping meat and the screams of girls in the mending room.

This voice stabbed Xia Ye's heart all at once, reminding her of her former self, whenever something was not in line with Uncle Qiang's wishes, he would beat him regardless of the occasion, slap, belt, and even hammer...... At first, she still cried and pleaded, but then she only gritted her teeth, because she knew that no one would speak for her, and Uncle Qiang would not be soft-hearted because of her tears.

Summer Night felt her hands tremble violently, and her feet involuntarily moved in the direction of the stairs.

"You're going to be nosy again? Don't go, lest you burn yourself! Wuye, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly warned her loudly.

But Summer Night did not listen to her, but quickened her pace, and soon ran to the mending house.

There were eight or nine people in the room, and Sister-in-law Lu was holding a palm-wide bamboo board, and kept beating a thin figure kneeling on the ground, that small figure made Xia Ye's eyes tingle for a while, and she rushed up in a hurry, grabbed Sister-in-law Lu's fat lotus-like wrist, and blocked it in front of Cuigu.

"You! What a guts! Sister-in-law Lu stared at Xia Ye in disbelief.

Xia Ye stubbornly looked at Sister-in-law Lu, hoping that Wuye would be able to say a few fair words, but she was silent. was so anxious that Xia Ye stared at her, but she didn't expect that the words didn't force a sentence, but it made Sister-in-law Lu misunderstand.

"How dare you stare at me, how dare you stare at me!" Sister-in-law Lu was so angry that she showed an angry expression on her face for the first time, and she couldn't help but feel a little uneasy in Xia Ye's heart, did she stare out of trouble?

Here, Sister-in-law Lu raised the bamboo board and angrily struck down on the summer night, but just halfway there, she stopped suddenly, as if she remembered something.

"Sister-in-law Lu, don't be angry, be careful of getting angry."

Xia Ye saw that the girl named Xiaohong was also in this house, she graciously handed a chair to Sister-in-law Lu, and Sister-in-law Lu just found a step to sit down.

"Sister-in-law Lu, I, I was wronged, that, that, crested hairpin, I touched it, I haven't touched it." Behind the summer night, Cui Gu intermittently argued, her voice very weak.

"Ha, who else would it be if you didn't break it, Xiaoyun, did you say yes?" Xiaohong seemed to be very excited, her already red and simple face turned even redder, and while she blamed Cui Gu, she asked a girl with slender eyebrows and eyes next to her for confirmation.

Xiaoyun's eyes flickered, he bit his lip and said, "That's it, Xiaohong and I were coming in with a basket of clothes to be repaired, and you ran out in a hurry, knocking us over more than once, and touching the crested hairpin on the table." ”

"You, you wronged me, obviously it's your ......"

"Who will wronged you, it's not one or two things for you to mess up, why don't we wronged others?" The one named Xiaohong said with a white face, turned around and knelt down for Aunt Lu as he spoke, and swore to the sky: "Sister-in-law Lu, if I do this with Xiaoyun, you will hand us over to Steward Qi and ask him to beat us to death." ”

Xiao Yun also whispered on the side: "Aunt Lu, there are not only a few of us here, but there are other sisters here, you can ask them." ”

Sister-in-law Lu looked at the other girls in the room and asked in a muffled voice, "Tell me about it." ”

"Oh, I was setting things up, I don't know."

"I just came in."

"When I turned around, the crested hairpin had already fallen to the ground, and Cui Gu was squatting aside......

"Okay, needless to say, you all go to work." Sister-in-law Lu suddenly interrupted them, but she pointed to Xia Ye and said, "You stay." ”

Xia Ye understood that Sister-in-law Lu completely believed Xiaohong and Xiaoyun, and at this time, her expressionless face was even more chilling than anger, only to see her stand up and say gloomily: "Aunt Cui, this crested hairpin old body has finally repaired it, this time it is broken, it will be difficult to repair it again, I think you should go with me to explain to Miss Shui Linglong, otherwise, she still thinks that the old body has not done what she has to do." ”

"No, I was wronged." Cui Gu was so aggrieved that she cried.

"You two pull her up for me!"

"Yes." Xiaohong and Xiaoyun seemed to be waiting for this sentence, rushed up, and dragged Aunt Cui, who looked like an undeveloped child.

"Sister-in-law Lu, I think this girl is also Cuigu's accomplice, and I can't let her go." Xiaohong pointed to Xia Ye and said to Sister-in-law Lu.

Sister-in-law Lu glanced at Xia Ye coldly and said, "You go with you." ”

Xia Ye looked at the little red hair stunned, thinking that I still think that you are a good person, it seems that you are a smiling tiger, I will go with you to take a look, but I am not used to you bullying honest people, so I followed very angrily.

Halfway through the garden, they came to a detached embroidery building.

"Sister-in-law Lu is here to see Miss Linglong? Unfortunately, the third prince is in the room today. A girl came up to her at the door.

"This ......" Sister-in-law Lu smacked her lips in embarrassment, then whispered to the girl, and handed the crested hairpin that was broken in two into her hand, and said, "I'm afraid that the old body will not be interesting today." ”

"Oh, that being the case, Qiao'er will go and ask the girl first." This girl named Qiao'er is very good.

Sister-in-law Lu said that there was a lot of work, Qiao'er smiled at her humbly, turned around and opened the curtain and walked in, and after a while came out to say that the girl was invited.

The group went up to the second floor, and as soon as they reached the staircase, they heard a young man's clear voice chanting poetry on a summer night: "...... One look at the city, and then look at the country. Rather than know the city and the country? It's hard to get a beautiful woman! ”

"The beauty in the mouth of the third prince, but exquisite?" A woman's voice asked sweetly.

"What do you say?" The man asked softly.

"Giggle......" the woman let out a pleasant laugh.

"Ahem, ahem." Sister-in-law Lu cleared her throat and said hello to the people inside.

"Is it Sister-in-law Lu? Come on in. The woman's voice changed from the previous softness, and even a little refreshing.

Sister-in-law Lu led everyone across the threshold and walked in, the room was elegantly decorated, all beautifully made mahogany furniture, a picturesque, slender and slender young woman was reclining on the couch, and a long, well-dressed man, with his back to everyone, slowly turned his head at this time.

"The slave and maid meet the third son." Sister-in-law Lu respectfully took the lead and knelt down to the man.

Everyone knelt, but Xia Ye froze there as if struck by lightning, staring at the man in front of her in a daze, and slowly a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and finally she couldn't help laughing.

Because the moment she saw the man, she felt that the whole room was bright, she knew that he was handsome, but she didn't expect that he was even more personable in ancient costumes.

"An Hao, you're here too!" Summer Night thought silently in her heart, she was so glad that he hadn't changed at all.

"Why are you standing stupidly, and you don't kneel." At this time, Sister-in-law Lu noticed something unusual, and secretly pulled the trousers of the summer night on the side.

Xia Ye didn't realize it, and slowly walked towards the third son.

"What are you doing on a summer night?" Wuye's tone was full of deep helplessness.

Linglong had already stood up 'Huo', blocked between the third prince and the summer night, and shouted: "Bold slave, don't be disrespectful to the third prince, don't stand still!" ”

Xia Ye looked at the angry woman in front of her, she was very beautiful, her facial features were three-dimensional, and even a little too tough, but she was indeed a rare beauty, but unfortunately the powder on her face was too thick, and the makeup was too thick, how could she look at it was always a little unnatural, how could An Hao like such a woman, she reached out and pushed her away.

At this moment, Xia Ye's eyes only have 'An Hao', and it is a very happy thing to see an old man here, not to mention, it is the man she gave her first kiss.

She stood in front of the third prince, staring into his eyes, she hated herself for not being able to speak, she wanted to tell him: It's great to see you here, An Hao, I'm a summer night, but I have changed my appearance, has it become beautiful, do you like it?

Seeing the third prince looking at her blankly, Xia Ye suddenly had a bold idea, she wanted to remind him of her, so she pounced on him and hugged his face and kissed him on the lips domineeringly.

"Ah——! Come on, give me a slap. Linglong seemed to be greatly frightened.

"Wait, you can't fight!" Sister-in-law Lu was in a hurry to stop it.

"Why?"

"Boss Mo instructed not to be rough with her."

"Then, take this to the old house in the abandoned garden and lock it up!"

The summer night was forcibly dragged away.

She saw the third prince looking at her with a stunned expression.