After shopping for the lantern festival and returning to Chongming Tower, it was a little late, and Li Shi was indispensable to say two words to Yi'er, Yi'er knew that she was at a loss, and she didn't speak, she just shook Li's arm with a smile and was coquettish, Li was helpless, so she had to nod her forehead and shake her head.

On the way back, Du Ziwu and his wife took Xiao Du Yu to sit in the first carriage in front, Yi'er took the carriage alone and followed behind, and when he didn't want to pass a corner of the street, a woman rushed to the front of the carriage with a two- or three-year-old baby, forcing the carriage to stop abruptly, which startled the Li family.

Yi'er picked up the curtain behind and looked forward, and saw that the woman was very panicked, and hurriedly got up after falling down and was about to continue to run forward, but there were already seven or eight men dressed as thugs in the courtyard who rushed over, and the woman saw that she couldn't run away, and the baby in her arms was also crying, and there was nothing she could do, so she knelt down and kowtowed to the carriage, and called for help in her mouth.

Du Ziwu got out of the carriage, and the gang of thugs in the nursing home also rushed closer, perhaps realizing that they had collided with the nobles, so the man in the lead stepped forward with a saliva smile on his face, and saluted Du Ziwu first, and then explained the reason.

But it turned out that these people were the thugs of Baihualou, and the woman and the baby in her arms were only sold to Baihualou a few days ago, and they stole a chance to escape tonight.

The man was reasonable, and took out the woman's deed of sale and showed it to Du Ziwu, Du Ziwu nodded, and then the gang took the woman away, but the woman struggled desperately and cried and the baby cried, which couldn't help but make Du Ziwu frown, shake his head and sigh.

The carriage continued to move forward, but Yi'er sighed, summoned the tears, leaned down in her ear and commanded, the tears were satisfied, the horse's head was turned, and chased in the direction where the Baihualou thugs went.

After returning to the Qingxiang Marquis Mansion, Yi'er first went to the Ripple Courtyard with Du Ziwu and his wife, and did not stay long, Li Shi saw that it was getting late, so he sent her back to Qiuxia Pavilion.

Qingli Lanqiao waited for Yi'er to put on makeup, and when Qingli saw Hai, she asked, "Miss, are you going to freshen up and rest?" ”

Yi'er waved her hand, sat down on the soft couch, and said to Qingli: "Don't be busy first, you go and see if the tears are back?" ”

When Qing Li came back with tears, she was followed by the woman who was caught by the thugs of Baihualou at night, and the baby was especially in her arms, but she was afraid that she would fall asleep and did not make a sound.

Qing Li saluted Yi'er with tears, and Qing Li stood behind Yi'er next to Lan Qiao, and the tears guarded the door.

The woman didn't dare to look around, and after taking a few steps in parallel, she knelt down and was about to kowtow to Yi'er.

Yi'er smiled and said: "If you hold the child, these false gifts will be waived, just get up and talk back." ”

The woman answered, still kowtowing to Yi'er three times respectfully, and then stood up.

Yi'er said: "I see your demeanor, like you have learned rules and etiquette?" ”

The woman said: "Back to Miss, the slave maid was originally the maid of the Taiye's family in the original Shanfu County of Bingzhou Road, and she has learned some etiquette rules. ”

Yi'er nodded and said, "What's your name?" ”

"Slave Azusui."

"Azusa? This name is good to obtain. Since you are the maidservant of the former Shanfu County Taiye's family, why did you come to this capital again? ”

"My lord later suffered a lawsuit and was sent to prison, and the slaves and maids were all sold, but fortunately, a son named Yu Wei passed by the original mountain mansion at that time, and he ransomed himself for the slave and maid, and the slave and maid followed him to the capital."

Yi'er thought for a while and said, "The slaves in Baihualou said that you were sold into Baihualou, what's going on?" ”

Zisui gritted his teeth and said: "The slave maid followed the fish boy, and later gave birth to Wan'er, I thought that this life would be like this, but who would have thought that the fish boy had a good habit of gambling since he was born, and the slave gave him a daughter, he was not happy, and he has gambled more and more in recent years. Sold us together to Baihualou. ”

"I see." Yi'er sighed and said, "I listen to your tone, it doesn't seem that you hate that fish boy very much?" ”

Zisui hung his head and said: "The boy has always been very good to the slave maid, he wants a son, but the slave and maid are not angry, just gave birth to a daughter for him, he is depressed, but he has never scolded the slave maid, he is also desperate, this is this, this is ......"

Yi'er frowned and said, "Do you know that I have redeemed myself for you, and you are now my person." ”

Zisui fell to her knees with a thud and said, "The slave and maid know that the slave and maid also want to thank the young lady for her great kindness, and the slave and maid will definitely serve the young lady well after the scriptures, and will never dare to have any different hearts." ”

"It's good that you know, what kind of fish boy, don't think about it in the future. Get up, I don't have anything here to bow down at every turn, you have done a lot of work, and I am tired of watching it. ”

Zisui stood up with her head down, and Yi'er asked again, "When did you enter Baihualou?" ”

"Three days ago."

Yi'er said: "Before the lantern festival tonight, a rich lady went to Baihualou and picked up a girl, have you ever seen it?" ”

Zisui looked dazed, shook her head, and said, "That Baihualou is a dirty place for flowers and willows, how could a serious rich lady go to that kind of place?" The slave does ......"

Yi'er waved his hand and said: "If you don't know, just go down and rest first, I will arrange a job for you tomorrow, you can stay and talk about it first." ”

Wu Er once said that Jiang Mingyu had been to Baihualou before going to Sitanji to watch the lantern fair, and also picked up a girl, Yi'er didn't care when Wu'er said this, and then this Zisui fled, which happened to be a matter of Baihualou, so she had the mind to redeem Zisui and came out to inquire.

In fact, she had already known that Zisui would definitely not know anything, speaking of which, she redeemed herself for Zisui in order to ask Zisui about Jiang Mingyu, or was she moved by compassion and had the intention to save people, so asking for the news was just an excuse to save her? This couldn't be more obvious!

You must know that the world is hard, and there are countless poor people like Zisui, Yi'er knows that she can't help everyone, so many times she forces herself not to see and listen, like tonight, she didn't plan to save Zisui, but the baby cried so much that she really couldn't bear it, so she found such an excuse and sent tears to redeem people.

It's just that although Zisui is not very old, she is already a woman who has given birth to a child, Yi'er is still Yunying's unmarried boudoir girl, and it is not appropriate to leave her by her side to wait, not to mention that her child is only two or three years old, it is the time when someone needs to take care of her, Yi'er thought about it, and recruited Lou Da over on the second day and let Lou Da lead people away. Lou Da is a careful person, Zisui's mother and daughter were handed over to him to take with him, and Yi'er was very relieved.

On the second day after the Chinese Valentine's Day, Princess Mingwei also made a small lotus lantern on a whim, and brought her lotus lantern to Kunning Palace early in the morning, and presented it to Queen Jiang for enjoyment.

The lotus lamp was indeed exquisitely made, and Queen Jiang couldn't help but be amazed when she held it in her hand, and naturally she had to praise Mingwei well.

After receiving the queen's praise, Mingwei was happy, sat down under the queen's phoenix, and said: "Erchen thinks, since the queen mother likes this lotus lantern, when it comes to the queen's birthday, Erchen will make a lantern with a hundred birds and a phoenix for the queen mother's birthday." ”

Empress Jiang smiled and said, "How can you ask a guest to kill a chicken like this?" Besides, even though your lantern is exquisitely made, you told the queen mother early on, and when the time comes, won't it be worth the loss to lose that amazing surprise? ”

Ming slightly pursed his lips and said, "Why don't Erchen know this? It's just that Erchen has spent a lot of effort to make this lotus lantern, and even his fingers have been scratched by the fine stripes, and it is even more difficult to think of the big lantern of the hundred birds and the phoenix. ”

Queen Jiang laughed, and after laughing, she pointed at Ming Wei and said, "You girl, you are almost in time, you are also the princess of a country of my Dahui, how can you say such a child's words?" If the queen mother really did what you said, wouldn't it be that the queen mother is forcibly asking you for this birthday gift? ”

The corners of Mingwei's mouth curled higher, and he didn't answer, but he turned his head and saw a few notes on the table, so he picked them up and read: "Du Feiyuan, female, fourteen years old, the eldest daughter of Du Ziwu, the head of the household, once ...... when she was young" Mingwei was stunned, looked up at the queen, and said, "Queen Mother, what is this?" ”

Empress Jiang said: "This is a little news that your father asked your mother and descendants to inquire about a few days ago. ”

Mingwei's eyes widened and said, "This Miss Du family, Erchen has met once in the Ningguo Mansion." Mother, queen mother, why did you say that your father asked you to inquire about these news? ”

Empress Jiang took the note from Mingwei's hand and said, "You, you, have nothing to do with you, why do you care about these things?" ”

Ming Wei shook Queen Jiang's arm and said coquettishly: "What does the queen mother say, you just tell your son, what does your father want Miss Du to do with all this information?" Could it be that her father wants to marry her? ”

Empress Jiang glared at Mingwei and said, "You said you are a ghost spirit, you are going to tell me how you guessed it?" The day before yesterday, the prince of the north of the town entered the palace and begged your father to come to him, just to ask to marry this Miss Du family, so your father let ......"

Who knew that Queen Jiang's words had not yet been finished, and she suddenly stood up and said categorically: "No." ”

Princess Mingwei's reaction startled everyone, Queen Jiang was a little strange, and looked at the palace servants who were still waiting in the palace, frowned, and sent out all the palace attendants, and then took Mingwei's hand and sat down on the phoenix again, and asked, "What happened, tell the queen mother." ”

Mingwei bit her lip and said, "Queen Mother, Miss Nadu can't marry the Hou Shizi of Zhenbei." ”

"Why?"

"Because she is the person that Fifth Brother likes!"