The sun and the moon are coming, and winter has not yet begun, but the weather is gradually getting colder, and even the few pots of chrysanthemums that are the old lady's favorite chrysanthemums placed in the corridor along the corridor of the Prime Minister's Mansion are slightly sluggish. There was a big incident in the house, and the subordinates had no time to take care of it, so Qiu Ju stood alone.

Mama Qin rubbed her hands and walked into the Cixiao Garden, passed through the hall, stepped on the road paved with bluestone bricks, and hurriedly went straight to the main house, and the dark green fine cotton cloak was fan-shaped behind her because of her eagerness.

At the bottom of the corridor, there was a little girl who had not yet left her head and held a brass hand warmer with a moderate temperature in her hands, "Mama Qin is back." ”

"Hmm." Mama Qin glanced at the little girl with her eyelids, and the little girl immediately retreated.

Outside the door of the main house, the dark green Fushou continued to tattoo the brocade warm curtain was lifted, and it was the big girl who greeted her auspiciously.

Seeing Mama Qin, Ji Xiang hurriedly pulled her aside and whispered: "The old lady is getting better this time, and the girls are talking with her." ”

Mama Qin rubbed her cold hands on the stove and asked in a low voice, "Is the eldest lady here?" ”

Ji Xiang shook his head, nodded in the direction of Xingning Garden with his white fingers, and made a tearful gesture, "The second lady and the third wife are all persuading Xingning Garden." Then he asked, "Can the master bring people back?" ”

Mama Qin nodded solemnly.

At this moment, even the auspicious face became delicate.

The two lifted the curtain and entered the house, and put the hand warmer on the mahogany round table with bulging legs in the corner of the outer wall.

Mama Qin patted her cold and stiff face, squeezed out a modest smile, and then quickly walked around the black lacquer carving "Joy on the Plum Tree" interstitial screen to the side hall.

Compared with the outside, the side hall used by the old lady for weekday banquets is as warm as spring at this time.

Sunlight shines through the lattice windows covered with Goryeo paper, gilding the delicate mahogany carvings in the room, and the chairs are covered with pale green cloud brocade chairs, and the floor is covered with Persian brocade flowers. There is a charcoal basin in the ground, which has been lit with fine silver filigree carbon early, two bejeweled young women are moving the pestle and sitting next to the charcoal basin to keep warm, and five delicate girls are standing or sitting around the mahogany Ruyi carved Arhat bed placed near the window.

The old lady wore a tea-gold cloud brocade placket collar gown, wore a brocade inlaid jade forehead of the same color on her head, and obliquely inserted a gold-inlaid jadeite flower hairpin, sitting cross-legged on the Arhat bed, leaning on a light green elastic ink pillow behind her, and pulling a delicate girl wearing a light blue gown to speak, her expression was very loving, no different from the past.

Mama Qin's heart was awe-inspiring, the fourth girl was really the most favored, and after such a big incident, the weight in the old lady's heart did not decrease at all!

"Old lady." Mama Qin saluted.

The people in the room were silent, and looked at her with different expressions.

The old lady made a gloomy face and said in a deep voice: "The person is back?" ”

Mama Qin bowed her head cautiously, "Yes, the slave maid heard someone coming to the second gate to pass the word, saying that the eldest master, the second master, the uncle, and the second master brought the new girl into the Yimen, and the slave and maid hurriedly replied to your words." ”

The old lady's brows frowned a little tighter, "But what kind of person is it?" Without waiting for Mama Qin to answer, she said coldly: "Why do you say that that is the girl in our house!" Our sister Hui has been raising her for 14 years, and I hold it in the palm of my hand, it hurts like a jewel, how can I change from a granddaughter to a fake granddaughter! ”

As soon as the words fell, the blue-clothed girl sitting next to the old lady sobbed again.

The old lady sighed, took the hand of the girl in blue and coaxed: "Sister Hui, don't cry, your crying grandmother's heart and liver are going to break." ”

Qin Huining sobbed and approached the old lady's side, tears hung on her cheeks, and a pair of bright apricot eyes had already swollen into walnuts from crying: "Grandmother, your granddaughter has been cherished by you for so many years, and her granddaughter is ashamed of you and the Qin family...... How can a granddaughter be fake, how can it be fake......"

When she cried, the needle drop could be heard quietly in the room, and the girls all looked at the old lady.

The old lady couldn't see the only granddaughter in the long room crying, and hugged Qin Huining and cried out heartily, "Don't be sad, no one dares to call you out, you grew up under my nose, why wasn't it your parents?" There is no certainty in this matter, and what I can't bring back is a wild seed who is planning to climb wealth! In any case, grandmother wants you and likes you. ”

"Grandmother!" Qin Huining knelt in front of the old lady movingly, hugged her legs, and leaned her tear-wet face on the old lady's knees.

In any case, as long as the old lady is willing to take care of her, she will still be the daughter of the long house!

The old lady wore a jade ring, and her wrinkled hand stroked Qin Huining's head.

This scene is so warm, where can others not understand? The girls in the second and third rooms were all moved with a few tears.

"Old lady, the eldest master, the second master, the uncle, and the second master are back." Outside the door, the little girl's voice was very crisp.

As the warm curtain was raised, a cold wind poured in.

Everyone stretched their necks to look out, and saw the eldest master, the second master, the eldest master, and the second master came in around the screen one after another, followed by a tall girl with mountain eyebrows and watery eyes.

Seeing her, everyone's eyes couldn't help but light up.

The girl is thirteen or fourteen years old, wearing a new goose yellow face makeup and flower gown, walking with a light gait, although the figure is thin, but there is a kind of bearing in the bones, the long hair of the crow green is combed into a double flat bun, only fixed with two goose yellow ribbons, the powder is not powdered, the cherry lips are slightly pale, the willow eyebrows are into the sideburns, the apricot eyes are shining, and the bright is very.

Her appearance is seven points similar to that of Qin Huaiyuan, the eldest master of the Qin family, when he was young!

Obviously, the girl is not seen in such a big battle as the Qin family, and at this time, she bows her head slightly, although she is quiet and graceful, she is also a little timid and cramped, and she looks even more pitiful.

The Qin family is a beauty, Qin Huaiyuan is a leader in his generation, when he was a teenager, he was listed as the head of the "Four Gentlemen of the Capital", how many ladies flock to it, if you take a car around the city, flowers and fruits must be full of carriages.

He is knowledgeable and scheming, at the age of twenty-three, he made the divisive plan to get rid of the enemy country's protector general Xiao Zhongzheng, to make the Northern Hebei chaos gradually perish, since then his career has been smooth and prosperous, and has been the prime minister of Dayan so far.

Although now that the Northern Hebei Kingdom has changed to the Great Zhou, the widow of the protector general Xiao Zhongzheng has been killed all the way to Dayan, and he is about to enter Kyoto, but Qin Huaiyuan's talent and appearance are still well-known, and there has always been a paragraph of "Zhi Pan An's clever plan to eliminate traitorous generals" in the teahouse in the first few years.

The appearance and character of the girl in front of her is the appearance of "Zhi Panan" when she was young, and she doesn't have to track it down to confirm that this is definitely Qin Huaiyuan's biological daughter.

However, if she is Qin Huaiyuan's daughter-in-law, who is Qin Huining, who has been raised in the long house for fourteen years?

Everyone's eyes couldn't help but go back and forth on Qin Huining and the girl. Qin Huining's face turned purple when he saw it.

The old lady pursed her lips, patted the back of Qin Huining's hand comfortingly, and looked at the girl in front of her critically.

Although he was dressed decently, he didn't dare to raise his eyebrows and eyes, and he looked like a countryman who had never seen the world in the city...... Except for the eldest son who looks like her, the others really don't see the demeanor that the concubine of the family should have.

It's better to raise Sister Hui in front of her!

The old lady held Qin Huining's hand tightly again, bringing her infinite comfort.

"Mother (old lady) is fine." Qin Huaiyuan, the second master Qin Xiuyuan, the second master Qin Yu, and the second master Qin Han all saluted the old lady.

The old lady waved her hand lightly: "Get up." His eyes were still fixed on the girl.

"Sister Yi'er, why don't you know how to kowtow to your grandmother?" Qin Huaiyuan said coldly.

"Sister Yi'er?" The old lady raised her eyebrows.

"Yes, mother, she has only had a small name outside all these years, and her son has given her a big name, called Yining." After that, he stared at the girl who was still poking stupidly.

After all, I grew up in a rural mountain village, and I didn't know any rules, and I had a lump in elm.

The girl pursed her cherry lips, recalled the etiquette taught to her by her second cousin Qin Han in the inn, and knelt down obediently to salute: "My granddaughter has seen my grandmother." "The sound is like a new warbler coming out of the valley, which is very beautiful.

The old lady squinted at her movements, barely passed, and snorted lightly: "Now it's called Yining?" And what was your old name? ”

"Back to my grandmother, it used to be called a creek."

"Why is it called such a name?"

"Because my adoptive mother picked me up from the creek and went back, she called me the creek."

The people who listened to the words had different thoughts, some mocking and some sighing.

Qin Huining clenched her fists tightly, but there was an unbearable expression on her face.

Qin Han sighed pityingly, he felt pity for this cousin who had been rough since childhood.

The old lady smiled sarcastically: "The one you picked up by the stream is called a stream?" If you pick it up in the kennel, it won't be called a dog? Ignorant fools don't even have a name. I don't think you should call it Yining, you don't deserve to be called Yining, just call it Xiaoxi. ”

The crowd was silent.

Qin Yining looked up at the old lady in surprise.

It seems that she is not welcome in this family, and this grandmother is especially displeased with her.

Also, I heard that the concubines of big families in the city can secretly fight for a long time because of a little hole in the winter, and now she was found by her father and rushed back to the house, she must have taken someone's position and hindered someone's eyes......

Actually, she thinks it's better to call it a creek.

But she was originally the daughter of the Qin family, and it should belong to her, so why should she give it away? Could it be that it was her fault that she was replaced by her father's political enemies? Shouldn't she go home because she survived hard?

Looking at her clear and bright apricot eyes, the old lady felt a little uncomfortable inexplicably, and said coldly: "I heard that you have been hiding alone in the mountains all these years? ”

"Yes." Qin Yining lowered his eyes again.

"How did you remember to go up the mountain?"

"Because of the war, the people in the city are not able to make a living, and there are many people who make a fortune to sell, and after my adoptive mother died, I was afraid that I would be abducted and sold, so I went to the mountains alone."

Liangcheng is located on the border between the two countries, and the war has not stopped for more than ten years.

The old lady snorted coldly: "You are clever, and you know how to hide in the mountains." ”