Aunt Zhang said a little embarrassedly: "Here, there is something, I want to ask the third lady to help." ”

"Aunt Zhang is really polite," Wei Man said with a light smile: "Is there anything I can help, Aunt Zhang said directly." ”

said it directly, but there was no guarantee that they would help, Aunt Zhang's eyes couldn't help but flash.

"Oh, the third miss is really a kind-hearted person, but," Aunt Zhang looked at the food plate she was holding worriedly, and said to Wei Man with some embarrassment: "I don't know if the third miss can wait for a while, this soup has to be served to Mrs....... Tai while it is hot."

Wei Man glanced at the small stew pot with a faint aroma on the plate, smiled and agreed.

"Hey, then please wait a while, Miss San, I'll come when I go." Aunt Zhang's face showed a happy smile, and she hurriedly turned around and walked to the main room.

Weiman looked around at the quiet courtyard.

At the corner of the aural room, Vanilla, who was probing her brain, saw Wei Man looking over, and hurriedly smiled brightly, before turning around and running away.

"Miss, let's go and stand at Langxia for a while." As she spoke, Swift helped Weiman to the porch of the ear room.

It didn't take long to wait.

Aunt Zhang hurriedly came out of the main room, looked around, and soon found Wei Man's location, her face was obviously relaxed, and she turned her head and said something to Xiao Tao, the maid who followed her, Xiao Tao hurriedly bowed and turned to leave.

Aunt Zhang walked over with a smile.

"Miss Lao is waiting." Aunt Zhang stepped forward and said apologetically to Wei Man.

"It's out of the way." Wei Man said with a slight smile.

"Oh, in fact, it's not a big deal," Aunt Zhang saw that Wei Man didn't mean to ask, she thought for a moment in her heart, and said with some surprise: "...... made a spring dress for the eldest lady, but the pattern on the sleeve could not be found...... A few days ago, I happened to hear the eldest lady praise the third lady for the beautiful pattern on her sleeve, so I paid attention...... I finally met Miss Three today, and I wanted to take the opportunity to ask Miss Three for a few tricks......"

Wei Man hooked the corners of her mouth, thinking to herself, if Wei Ya knew that Aunt Zhang actually used her as a raft, her expression would not know what it would be.

"It's just a few embroidery samples, what can be tightened," Wei Man smiled: "I'll ask the maid to send a few to Aunt Zhang's yard when I go back." ”

"Hey! Thank you so much, Miss San......" Aunt Zhang smiled and thanked her, her eyes turned to look at the swift standing behind Wei Man, her expression was stunned, as if she was very confused that the swift appeared here, and asked a little puzzled: "Yo, why is the swift girl here, I just saw Mother Wu looking for you, I see Mother Wu is a little anxious, this, why did she finish talking so quickly?" ”

"Godmother?" Swift asked in surprise, "Is my godmother looking for me?" I, I haven't seen my godmother? Aunt Zhang, what is my godmother looking for me? ”

As soon as Yuyan heard that Wu's mother was in a hurry to find her, her face couldn't help but show anxiety.

"Look at what Miss Swift asked," Aunt Zhang said with an embarrassed face: "Mother Wu said to her goddaughter, I naturally don't know. ”

Swift looked at Wei Man with an uneasy face.

Wei Man bowed his head slightly and said, "You can go and have a look." ”

Swift saluted and hurriedly withdrew.

"Hey, I just saw it, and the embroidery on the little jacket on the third lady is also very special," Aunt Zhang said as she took two steps forward.

The two were very close.

Weiman knew that the "point" was coming, so he endured it and didn't retreat.

"Ah, this is Cheng's mother's craft, it's really exquisite," Aunt Zhang gently held up Wei Man's arm, pretending to be a serious observer, but said in a low voice: "Aunt Luo is seriously ill!" ”

When Wei Man heard this, he looked at Aunt Zhang in surprise.

"Tut-tut, if you want to talk about embroidery work, this whole house, I am most convinced by Mother Cheng next to Miss San, look, that is, Mother Cheng, can embroider a simple dead branch so vigorously......" Aunt Zhang glanced at Wei Man meaningfully, and then, while pretending to be very interested in the pattern on Wei Man's sleeves, she sighed quietly: "I have no choice, no matter how I persuade her, Aunt Luo just doesn't listen, and she has to pray for the third miss in front of the Bodhisattva for three days......

For her? Pray in front of the Bodhisattva for three days!

Isn't it, it's kneeling for three days and three nights without dripping water, right?

Wei Man's eyes were surprised.

Aunt Zhang seemed to know what Wei Man was thinking, and she nodded helplessly, confirming Wei Man's conjecture in her heart.

Such weather! Wei Man frowned, Aunt Luo is not only weak, but also old, how can she stand such a toss!

"How can this work!" Weiman whispered.

"Ouch, Mother Cheng's embroidery work is really ingenious...... Aunt Zhang's grandmother praised loudly, and sighed in a low voice: "Aunt Luo's grandmother didn't listen to any persuasion, the gardenia next to her, in order to beg her to take care of her body, her forehead was about to bleed, but Aunt Luo's grandmother was determined to pray for the third lady, saying that she was entrusted by Mrs. ......"

The sound stopped abruptly.

Wei Man looked at Aunt Zhang, who was covering her mouth and looking frightened.

"Ma'am?" Wei Man looked straight at Aunt Zhang, and asked in a low voice, "I don't know, which lady is Aunt Zhang referring to?" ”

"No, it's not ......" Aunt Zhang shook her head in a hurry, and before Wei Man could speak again, she hurriedly said: "Oh, look at my memory!" I just remembered that the kitchen fire was still simmering with the soup that Mrs. Tai was going to use at noon, and that couldn't be separated from people, no, I had to go to the kitchen to take a look, and the third lady walked slowly. ”

"Aunt Zhang, you ......"

Aunt Zhang ignored Wei Man's call, and left in a hurry as if someone was chasing after her.

……

Entering February.

On this day, the weather was just right.

On the second floor of the famous restaurant in Beijing, there is a private room called "Meditation".

Wei Man was looking at the layout of the private room.

Xia Qing was discussing the dishes with the woman who called herself a.

Xia Lan frowned, her eyes were bright and she groped back and forth on the faces of and Xia Qing, looking like she was trying to steal the teacher's art.

In front of the delicately carved window, on a saf-flowered pear-colored shelf about 70 centimeters high, a blue and white peony vase stands quietly.

Wei Man stepped forward to take a closer look.

The bottle is delicate, the glaze is uniform, the whole body is decorated with blue and white, the decoration is full and dense, the lines are smooth and beautiful, Wei Man can't help but reach out and gently caress the blue and white on the bottle.

The who was discussing the dishes with Xia Qing, saw Wei Man's movements, a proud look flashed on her face, and her eyes looked at Wei Man very quickly, thinking, I don't know which lady this is, maybe, it is difficult to find an object comparable to this bottle in the treasury of the house.

Not for a while.

After discussing the dishes, the smiled and retired.

Xia Qing stepped forward and poured a new cup of tea for Wei Man, who was sitting by the window.

Wei Man picked up the tea cup, and the elegant tea fragrance was fragrant.

Seeing Wei Man take a sip of tea, Xia Qing seemed to finally can't help it, and she asked in a worried tone, "Miss, are you really planning to visit the Kindness Hall?" ”

To visit Shanxin Hall is to visit Aunt Luo's grandmother.

"yes." Wei Man responded casually and took another sip of tea.

These days, Wei Man's heart has always remembered Aunt Zhang's sentence that seems to be a slip of the tongue, and it seems that she deliberately "accepted the commission of Mrs. ".

The meaning of Aunt Zhang's words is very obvious, Aunt Luo's grandmother cares so much about Wei Man's body, completely because she was entrusted by "Madame".

But which lady is it?

There are two people in the house who can be called Mrs. Zhang by Aunt Zhang, the second lady Cao, and the third lady Chang who is far away in the north, but these two people will never care about Weiman's life and death, let alone entrust Aunt Luo......

Wei Man thought about it, there is only one person who meets the conditions of "Mrs." in Aunt Zhang's mouth, and that is Wei Man's biological mother, the late Mrs. Cheng of Zhenguohou.

At that time, Wei Bai and Cheng met and married in northern Xinjiang, and the two got married in the 26th year of Daxing, and did not return to the Zhenguo Houfu until the 28th year of Daxing...... Wei Man thought of the rumor that Aunt Luo's disappearance was taken to the north by the old marquis......

Perhaps, Aunt Luo's grandmother really went to Northern Xinjiang in those years, and met the Cheng family, who was also in Northern Xinjiang, and had a good relationship!

"Why did Sister Xia Qing say that again?" Xia Lan said a little helplessly: "Didn't we come out today just to buy pea yellow from the Chen family's shop that Aunt Luo likes?" It's all come to this point, why are you worried again? ”

"I know, I know," Xia Qing seemed to be very distressed, she sighed and muttered: "It's just that I'm always very uneasy in my heart, and everyone in the house knows that Mrs. Tai doesn't like Aunt Luo...... But we went to visit the Good Heart Hall in a bright way, and I was afraid that Mrs. Tai's heart would ......"

Wei Man didn't know that she was jumping into a game that Aunt Zhang's grandmother had set up for her, and she could choose not to enter this game, but thinking of Zhen Guohou Wei Bai's complicated gaze when she looked at her, and Mrs. Tai's inquiring look...... The crux of all the problems may be in her biological mother Cheng......

The hand holding the teacup couldn't help but tighten, Wei Man thought, I'm afraid, Aunt Zhang just knew Cheng's attraction to her, so she used the word "madam" ambiguously, but, after thinking about it, Wei Man felt that Aunt Zhang was so impatient, if she didn't succeed Aunt Zhang's plan this time, it might not be long before Aunt Zhang would come up with other strategies, but, no matter what the situation, she was always in a situation of being passively beaten, so, Why didn't she enter this game with Aunt Zhang's wishes this time, and only when she was in the game could she see what Aunt Zhang's intentions were.

"Miss, or not, or ......" Xia Qing hesitated, entangled for a long time, and then said: "Why don't you go home and ask the slave's grandmother?" ”

"Sister Xia Qing, don't you say goodbye," Xia Lan heard this, and hurriedly interrupted Xia Qing's words, and said urgently: "Be careful that you didn't hear the news, but were trampled on by her......"

There is a reason why Xia Lan said this.

Back then, when Xia Qing was just born, her grandmother disliked Xia Qing as a girl, and in the middle of the night, she actually hugged Xia Qing and threw her into the snow, wanting Xia Qing to fend for herself.

Although, Xia Qing was finally rescued by a sister next door, and the neighbors also blamed and dissuaded Xia Qing's grandmother, although Xia Qing was not killed, but he also stumbled and grew up, and after entering the house as a maid, Xia Qing rarely went home.

"No need to do this," Wei Man didn't want to have anything to do with the person who murdered his own granddaughter, let alone Xia Qing being trampled on for her, so he hurriedly shook his head to stop Xia Qing and said, "Your grandmother was just working in the pulp washing room back then, and we may know more than she did, so you just listen to Xia Lan and don't go back." ”

"Okay, okay." Xia Qing responded with a somewhat depressed mood.

"Okay, don't think about it anymore." Wei Man smiled: "You go downstairs and arrange some meals for the coachman and the mother-in-law who follows you." ”

"Oops, I almost forgot," Xia Qing suddenly bowed, and said, "Slave and maid, let's go." ”

The door opens and closes.

That man! It's that person!

Weiman stood up suddenly.

Although it was only a side face, Wei Man was sure that that person was the figure she saw on the day of the Shangyuan Festival, the man who made her sad and cry!

"Miss?" Xia Lan looked at Wei Man, whose face suddenly changed, and asked in confusion, "What's wrong?" ”

"Wait......" Wei Man said as he walked to the door.