In the spring of the tenth year of Jiasheng, it was extremely cold, and in front of the Zhongguo Mansion, the little man who guarded the door froze his toes and didn't dare to shiver.

Finally, it was the turn of the guard, and four or five people came in from the corner gate, and they happened to meet Dongyuan Zhou's mother who had returned from shopping.

Several people stepped forward to greet: "On such a cold day, you go to buy something important, and you can go on a trip in person and send us there." ”

Zhou's mother carried the basket and said: "The charcoal used in the second miss's study should be smokeless, dustless, and not choking. ”

Everyone looked at the basket, which was of ordinary size and could not hold a few catties of charcoal, and said that she had worked hard, so why not buy more.

Mother Zhou said angrily: "It's that you don't understand, such things are so expensive, these are easy to find, and the white flowers cost more than 20 taels of silver." ”

After that, I left the surprised few boys and walked all the way to Qingqiu Pavilion, at this time the morning class in the study should be over, and while the second lady was resting, I could change all the charcoal in the house.

After the middle gate of the compound, it is the place where the little maid and the foreign man are not allowed to enter easily, and the guards under the door have also changed the mother-in-law and maids, and they are very polite when they see Zhou's mother one by one, and the young maid Cuizhu took the initiative to help her carry the basket and lead her to Qingqiu Pavilion.

"Our second girl, can you rest?" Zhou's mother asked.

"The old lady passed the lunch, and the second lady has been over for a while." Cuizhu replied, "If you want to see it, I'm afraid you will have to wait, or go to the old lady's side." ”

"Madame ordered me to come and take a look, and I didn't dare to alarm Miss." Zhou's mother smiled, "It's rare to ...... now"

Before she finished speaking, she had followed Cuizhu into the study, and was greeted by a pleasant fragrance, only to see that on the table, the pen and ink scrolls were neatly placed, a game of chess under the south window, and two kites under the west window.

Mother Zhou couldn't help laughing and said, "This is what Miss Gaomen's Mansion should look like in the study." ”

Let's say that the Great Qi was founded for 300 years, the Zhongguo Mansion is one of the few remaining old nobles, the ancestors raised troops with the Taizu Jizhou, made outstanding achievements, and was crowned a duke by the grace of the saints.

However, at the Lantern Festival banquet in the palace this year, the queen took the ladies to the garden to guess the lantern riddles, several young ladies in the Prime Minister's Mansion were smart and clever, so beautiful, the girls of the Zhu family were stupid and stupid, and the second lady Zhu Yunzhi was even more ugly in public, and even Chanjuan didn't know that Mingyue was bright.

When the state banquet returned, the second master was furious, and he invited a gentleman for his daughter before the first month, but the delicate girl was afraid of those rigid and stubborn old pedants, so she changed two or three gentlemen before and after, and it was a lot of trouble.

Although the second master is not the old lady's biological son, his daughter has been raised by her grandmother since she was a child and has been pampered.

Now that the granddaughter went to the palace and lost someone, the old lady asked herself to be responsible, so she came forward to order her eldest son to wish her grandfather a post, and invited a new gentleman from Kishu all the way.

It has been three days since this new gentleman arrived in the house, and the house is fresh and curious up and down, a seventeen-year-old girl, who is the same as her second lady, how can she become a gentleman to teach people.

At this moment, Zhou's mother ordered Cuizhu to replace the charcoal in the house with fine ones, touched the desk of the second lady, looked at the unfinished words, and smiled: "I heard that in the past three days, our young lady has changed her mind, look at how well these words are written, it seems that Miss Yan really has a way, in the end it is the old lady's family." ”

"Mother Zhou, we don't understand, none of the aunts and relatives in the clan have surnames." Cuizhu handed her a cup of hot tea and asked, "Our old lady doesn't have a surname." ”

Mother Zhou ate tea, wiped her mouth and said: "Miss Yan is the grandniece and granddaughter of the old lady's sister-in-law, a scholarly family, and the family opened a academy in Jizhou, I don't know much about the details, although there are several doors separated from our Zhu family, in the end they are also relatives, the old lady likes it like this, let's naturally take a look at it." ”

When the words fell, the door curtain was lifted, and I saw a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl walking in, wearing a green winter jacket, with snow-white hair on the neckline, and a delicate face.

"Sister Citron, this is Mother Zhou, the head of the second old man's house in Dongyuan." Cuizhu hurriedly introduced both sides, "Mother Zhou, this is the maid that Miss Yan brought from home, called Citron." ”

"Mother Zhou is polite." Citron was blessed and said with a generous smile, "The second lady and my girl are having dinner with the old lady, I will take the words written by the second miss in the morning, and the old lady will take a look." ”

Mother Zhou secretly thought in her heart, the people around this Yan family girl are all of such a character, no wonder everyone in the house said that Qingqiu Pavilion came to the Heavenly Immortals.

She hurriedly said, "You just take it, don't dare to tell the old lady to wait." ”

After that, she followed the citron who had learned the character all the way to the door, politely greeted each other, watched the child walk away, and then laughed with a few people in front of the door, and it was time to leave.

Zhu family's huge house, from here back to the East Garden and some way to go, although the old man has been ancient for a long time, but the old lady is alive, this generation has not yet been separated, only outside the main courtyard, and then divided into two gardens.

The old lady followed her eldest son Zhu Gongye to live in the main courtyard, the second son of the first grandfather lived in the East Garden, and the younger son of the old lady lived in the third room of the West Garden.

And Qingqiu Pavilion was originally the boundary of the main courtyard, Zhou's mother, the head of the East Garden, should not have come and walked around at will, and walked all the way back, and was glad that she didn't meet the serious master of the big house, and she saw a young man coming this way from afar.

Mother Zhou squinted her eyes and looked carefully, like the third son, and when she saw that there was no one on the side, she hurriedly bypassed the path behind her.