The summer of Yonghe 23 years was hotter than in previous years.

A moment ago, the sun was still shining, and I knew that I was hiding among the leaves and branches, calling non-stop. The next moment the sky suddenly darkened, and several gray and heavy dark clouds seemed to appear out of thin air, covering the high hanging day, and muffled thunder rang out, and in an instant, a heavy rain fell without warning.

Tong Jiayan lay on the bed with his eyes closed, as if he was asleep.

The sound of the rain gradually subsided, and there were only a few sporadic sounds of dripping water from the eaves. The screams of knowledge gradually returned, one by one, louder and louder, denser and denser, and it seemed clearer and louder in the air after the rain.

Through the rosewood carved begonia embroidered screen, there was a whispered conversation between the two little maids outside.

"It's so noisy, these are starting to call again."

"No way, there are too many trees near our Zhuangzi, and it's summer again."

"Even if it's in the daytime, at night, when I know that there are frogs crowing again, I can't sleep well when I know it's resting, let alone Miss. Alas, I don't know when the old lady will be angry and take our young lady back. ”

"What are you going to do? I think it's good to live in Zhuangzi. No one looks at it and no one cares, you can cook whatever you want to eat, and you can go out to Zhuangzi with the young lady to play. If it's in the house, let alone going out to play, we can't even get out of the second door, and every day is like going to prison. ”

"Shhhh You're crazy! Dare to say anything! A little maid hurriedly covered the mouth of another little maid, "Be careful that Mama Zhao heard your mouth!" ”

"Mama Zhao, isn't she here?" Another little maid also showed a little fear after hearing the words Mama Zhao's mouth, "I won't say anything about her when she is here, don't tell her." ”

"Got it, I'm not stupid."

"Be quiet! Be careful not to wake up Miss. ”

The conversation stopped suddenly, and then two black heads appeared behind the screen.

Tong Jiayan slowly opened his eyes.

"Green oranges."

"Miss is awake?" The maid wearing a green bikini standing on the left side of the screen was stunned when she heard this, and quickly walked out from behind the screen.

"Help me up."

Tong Jiayan stretched out his hand, Qingju hurriedly stepped forward, holding her arm with one hand and holding her back with the other hand to make her sit up. Another maid, who was also dressed and had a more mellow body, also hurriedly walked over, and quickly put a large azure pillow embroidered with lotus leaves and lotus flowers behind her.

"Water."

After saying just one word, Tong Jiayan frowned slightly.

She had slept in bed for too long, her throat was dry, and her voice was a little hoarse.

Qingju hurriedly poured water and fed her to drink.

The warm water ran through my throat, and the dryness in my throat was a little better.

Qingju handed the empty teacup to the other maid, Luwu, who put the empty teacup back on the log table beside her.

Tong Jiayan glanced at Qingju: "What about Mama Zhao?" ”

Mama Zhao is her grandmother, and she was bought by her biological mother Daji from the ** mansion when she was alive.

Daji's gave birth to her when it was a difficult birth, she heard people talk about the situation on the day she was born, a basin of blood and water from the delivery room to the outside as if she didn't want money, Daji's pain for a day and a night, and finally even ate ginseng tablets, and finally gave birth to her, saying that it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a life of nine deaths.

After Da Ji saw that she was born safely, she fainted with no strength, and her postpartum physical condition plummeted, lying in bed day and night, relying on decoction to hang her life, and she didn't have much energy to take care of her.

Daji's own milk was insufficient, and Tong Jiayan was waiting to be fed, so he had to spend a lot of money to pick a grandmother from the ** house outside to feed her.

Because of this milk love from childhood to adulthood, Tong Jiayan has never refuted Mama Zhao's words, and the maids and mothers-in-law in Fangzhi Courtyard are all afraid of Mama Zhao's prestige.

Gradually, Mama Zhao became the invisible person in charge of her yard.

Until something happened to her......

"Mama Zhao went to the kitchen, this morning the cow steward on Zhuangzi sent two big watermelons, Mama Zhao asked someone to freeze in the kitchen, saying that she was going to take a look." Luwu replied.

"Hmm."

"Why go to the kitchen to see, in my opinion, she just went to the kitchen to steal food by herself!"

Qingju has a straight temperament, and when she speaks in front of Tong Jiayan, she often says whatever she wants, especially to her closest confidant, Mama Zhao, Qingju has mentioned Mama Zhao in front of her more than once.

In the past, she listened to Mama Zhao's words, and felt that Qingju was deliberately playing with Mama Zhao's rights and wrongs in front of her. Mama Zhao asked her to drive Qingju out of the house, and finally Qingju knelt on the ground and kowtowed, saying that she had promised her mother to stay by her side for the rest of her life and take care of her and not go anywhere, unless she died.

She saw that her forehead was bleeding, and her heart was moved. I was afraid of Mama Zhao's feelings, and I was afraid that she would be unhappy, so I had to take a compromise method and punish Qingju to a third-class little girl, and I never had a chance to serve her closely.

But in the end, when the Tong family wanted to sell their daughter for glory, Mama Zhao got Aunt Luo's permission to go to the Tong family's other village to retire. She had no way to survive and was locked in the room, but Qingju stole the key to open the door at night and took her out.

is also Qingju, when people are about to chase after her, at the great risk of being beaten and killed, he insists on changing clothes with her and acting separately.

Thinking of this, Tong Jiayan felt a pain in his heart, his head sank, and he couldn't help but shake his body.

"Miss, what's wrong with you? Dizzy again? Qingju anxiously reached out and pressed her forehead, asking in an eager tone.

"It's okay, I'm fine." Tong Jiayan shook his head and smiled comfortingly at her.

"Are you hungry?" Lu Wu asked tentatively, "Miss, you have been asleep for a long time, and you haven't eaten yet." ”

"Maybe." Tong Jiayan closed his eyes and sat on the bed for a while, until his head was no longer dizzy, and then he had to get out of bed and change his clothes.

"Miss, aren't you resting anymore?"

Qingju carefully looked at her face, and seeing that she was still pale and unrefreshed, she couldn't help but ask with some concern.

"Go get a basin of cold water." Tong Jiayan instructed Luwu to fetch water, then turned his head again and looked at Qingju with a slight smile, "I've been asleep and always groggy, I've been lying long enough in the past few days, I want to get up and take a walk." ”

Qingju and Luwu are both small and serve by her side.

Luwu is the son of the Tong family, Lao Tzu Niang is doing things in the house, and there is an elder brother named Jixiang in the family, who works in the stable in the outer courtyard.

And Qingju is the Daji family went out to Puji Temple one day to incense, and saw her fainting on the road, thin and small person, looking very pitiful. Da Ji's heart couldn't bear it, so he took her back to Tong's mansion, and from then on, let her learn the rules behind Gui Mama, and finally was assigned to Fangzhi Courtyard, where Tong Jiayan lived.

On the day of her accident, Qingju changed her clothes with her and asked her to run, while she herself wore Tong Jiayan's cloak and pretended to be her to the other end of the city gate, using her example as bait to divert the attention of those people and create time for her to escape.

She later heard that the seventh lady of the Tong family was abducted, and she was humiliated, so she died with her ambition, but the maid who betrayed the master was nowhere to be found.

The Tong family is looking for people all over the capital.