Mrs. Zheng thought that Chen Muzhi was polite, and was about to speak, when Zheng Cunfang quietly touched Mrs. Zheng.

They are all ladies from big families, and Mrs. Zheng is also shrewd, knowing that her daughter must know some inside information, she immediately changed her words. took Chen Muzhi's little hand and pinched her little round face: "Poor people, but I haven't lost weight." ”

Chen Muzhi didn't follow: "My aunt bullied me, obviously I'm dark and thin now." ”

"Haha, talk nonsense with your eyes open." Mrs. Zheng laughed.

patted Chen Muzhi again: "It's decided, just wait for you to come over tomorrow, the old lady is looking forward to it." I asked your uncle to come back from the yamen earlier, and he kept talking about you. ”

Uncle Zheng Mu, Shaoqing of Dali Temple.

In addition to his father Chen Yu'an, his uncle Zheng Mu is the wisest person in Chen Muzhi's heart.

She misses her uncle, too.

On the way back to the mansion, Wang Hualan was extremely excited, and always felt that many noblewomen at the banquet looked at her differently and pulled the Wang family to inquire about everything.

The Wang family was a little lazy, Wang Hualan asked which one, and she said it briefly. In Wang's heart, he was always thinking about another thing.

Wang Hualan's excitement continued until she returned home.

In the Garden of Ingenuity, the Xu family has long been pulling his head to "look forward to the return". As soon as Wang Hualan came back, Xu rushed to her house.

"How is it, is our Lan'er the leader today?"

Wang Hualan washed in front of the mirror: "Don't say it, the goose egg powder and rouge on my aunt's side are better than ours in Wuzhou." After applying it, it covers the scars again, and it still looks white and red, and the skin tone is even. ”

"That is, the reward of the Guogong Mansion, which is not a fine product made in-house, is naturally better than what we use."

Wang Hualan stopped, and her eyes shone with greed.

"Our Wang family is also the richest family in Wuzhou, and we can buy the best goods. However, mother, when you open your eyes and take a look, you will only know when you arrive in the capital that the real best is not bought with money at all, and you have to enter the most upper-class circle to be eligible to enjoy it. ”

Of course Xu Shi understood, and the fat on his face trembled: "Or, your father must bring you to the capital?" ”

"It's still my dad who has insight. My aunt lived such a good life, but she didn't think of us until she was in trouble, hehe......"

Wang Hualan's face became gloomy.

"We can't turn our faces with my aunt now, we have to rely on the signboard of her Guogong Mansion to choose a son-in-law." Xu's little abacus crackled, and said, "I have seen so many female dependents of dignitaries and nobles today, is there a suitable one?" ”

Wang Hualan said: "There are several ladies who are very enthusiastic about me, and I am afraid that they want me very much." ”

"Really?" Xu became excited.

"But ......" Wang Hualan's gloomy face became clearer, but she still gritted her teeth, "The first choice in my daughter's heart is still the son." ”

Xu immediately turned his head, looked at the door, and found that there was no one around, so he said in a low voice: "This is an extravagant hope, Lan'er, you are still realistic, you can be like your aunt, and it is also a top family to marry into any Guogong Mansion." ”

"To fight for it, naturally we want the best. Compared with the son, the other men are turbid. ”

"This ......" Xu rolled his eyes, stroked Wang Hualan's face, and said, "With our Lan'er's appearance, we are naturally worthy of the world." However, you also don't want to hang yourself from a tree and look at other targets. ”

Wang Hualan smiled at the mirror: "This is nature. ”

*

When night fell, Liuxiangju was silent.

Chen Muzhi sat under the lamp reading a book, and the rattan flowers and catkins were preparing to go to Zheng's house tomorrow.

Fujika spread her clothes on the couch outside, wiped the wrinkles from her clothes with an iron filled with boiling water, and hung them up so that she could wear them early tomorrow morning.

"Cuiyunxuan is also so fooled now, this material is at least the backlog of materials from the year before last, not only is the color not new, but the color is not fresh enough."

The vine flower whispered to the catkins.

Liu Fu said: "Sister Fujihua knows so much, I didn't see it at all, but the ones that Mrs. Dao personally brought to buy, they must be of the highest quality." ”

"Good things can never be bought in a hurry, and there must be no good things in a hurry. What's more, it's still so much at once. ”

Hearing what the vine flower said, Liu Wu also reacted a little, and asked in a low voice: "Sister, I used to think that Madame was kind to Miss, just take this time to buy clothes, Miss is going to a banquet tomorrow, and Madam can take her to the best silk shop to buy it immediately, which can be regarded as putting Miss at the tip of her heart......"

"Well, outsiders will see it this way, and it's not surprising that you see it this way."

"But now that I have served Miss closely, I have seen more than before, and I always feel that Miss and Mrs. are not actually the most intimate. Hearing my sister say this today, I feel that Mrs. didn't put Miss at ease. ”

Fujihua smiled slightly: "How can you see it?" ”

Liu Wu nodded his fingers: "You see, if Mrs. really hurts Miss and knows that Miss is going home, she should restore the staff of Liuxiangju to its original appearance as soon as possible; And the young lady is growing her body, she has been outside for nearly half a year, she must have grown taller, how can she not even prepare new clothes when she returns home, and still buy them now? ”

Fujihua nodded approvingly: "I have grown, it doesn't seem stupid." ”

"Thank you, Sister Fujihua, for the compliment." Liu Wu smiled innocently.

Under the lamp, Chen Muzhi turned the pages of the book, his expression was focused, but a shallow smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

After the two of them finished cleaning up, closed the door and went out, Chen Muzhi gently put down the book in his hand and opened the huge camphor box in the room. Pull out an object from the mezzanine of the camphor wood box.

It was a small object hidden here on her first day back home.

This object is only the size of Chen Muzhi's palm, made of pure gold, and resembles a sea shark. Turn the shark over, only to find that the shark is only half of it, and there is a bracket in the belly of the fish that can be matched.

Obviously, there is another half of the sea shark that is exactly the same, and if the two sides can fit together, it will be a whole sea shark.

This is the supreme command talisman of the Dashun Chaodong Sea Division - the Sea Shark Talisman.

After looking at it for a moment, Chen Muzhi put half of the Sea Shark Talisman back into the mezzanine of the box. The first day she returned home, she hid the talisman here without telling anyone.

When she came back from the sea, the talisman had been hidden on her body. Even if the people in the court interrogated her in every way, she didn't reveal the slightest bit.

Although Chen Muzhi couldn't remember the experience before her near-death at sea, she vaguely knew that this talisman might hide the secret of her father's disappearance.

She didn't know if there would be any ill-intentioned among those who interrogated her, and she didn't dare to hand over this talisman.

However, she didn't know when she would be able to unravel the secret of the disappearance of the entire ship, and the talisman was in her hand, maybe it was a key, maybe it was a disaster.