The second lady tried to see something from Aunt Mei's eyes, and said, "Aren't you recuperating in Zhuangtou?" Could it really be as the third family said, Yun'er and they bumped into ghosts in the garden? ”

Aunt Mei nodded: "The eldest lady should have been in this house for a long time, I heard about the Qingming Festival, there was a woman who broke into the Qingqiu Pavilion in the middle of the night, and shouted to her mother in a crazy mouth, saying that she wanted to go home." ”

The second lady's face was full of consternation: "Hanzhi is crazy? ”

Aunt Mei responded: "Actually, everyone has long suspected it, I haven't seen anyone for so many years, and now that the Jizhou Royal Mansion is asking for someone, they can't hand it over, and if the eldest lady is either dead, she will never see anyone again." ”

The second lady said anxiously: "Quickly find Yunzhi, I want to ask this child, why is she hiding it from me." ”

Aunt Mei said: "How can our girl listen to the words of the eldest lady, it must be the old lady's instructions, she hid it, it is useless for you to ask, and the old lady is suspicious." ”

The second lady said hatefully: "This child just doesn't face me, she was conceived and born in October, and she listens to the old lady for everything, and she doesn't have me as a mother in her eyes." ”

Aunt Mei didn't want to instigate other mothers and daughters, and persuaded: "Yunzhi also has her difficulties, is she willing to bump into the eldest lady, don't blame the child." ”

The second lady calmed down a little, glued her fingertips with sporadic gold leaf, and tapped lightly on the table, and suddenly there was a heavy sound, and she said to Aunt Mei: "On the day of the hunt, when we all go out, you bring your sister-in-law, take the children, and you go to the garden to see if there is anything suspicious, but be careful not to startle the snake." ”

"Yes." Aunt Mei responded, "But the concubine thinks that she doesn't have to wait for her own eyes to find the whereabouts of the eldest lady, so she can spread the word first, so that the eldest lady will move the eldest lady away, and it will be more eye-catching and easier to find if there is movement." ”

The second lady was not in a hurry at this time, and said: "This matter, when I ask the concubine Niangniang, please show the Niangniang." ”

And said that in the evening of this day, after Zhu Rong changed the guard, he went straight to the yamen of Guanglu Temple, in order to prepare for the banquet when the emperor hunted, he had to be busy for a few days.

Guanglu Temple holds the heavenly family sacrifices, court meetings, banquets, wine and food shame, and does not stop all year round.

Although it is trivial and ordinary, there are many benefits on weekdays, and it does not involve military affairs, but after all, there is no great future.

The second son of the Zhu family, from the Guanglu Temple of the sixth grade, or the second master Zhu Chengye spent a lot of effort to promote him, and he only received the position of the chief bookkeeper before, and he was pure every day, and he looked very unproductive.

But Zhu Pingrui was the master when he had the opportunity to leave the capital to seek purchases, and he met Rouyin.

Zhu Rong came to his brother to discuss important matters, so the second son didn't go around the bush and asked with a smile: "You told your grandmother?" ”

"I still want the second brother to say it himself." Zhu Rong said, "The ins and outs of the situation, I have made it clear to the old lady at one time, and I always have an unknown explanation here." ”

Ping Rui smiled: "It's not that I don't want to say it, but I think it's okay to say it, Rouyin She doesn't want to marry me, for fear of delaying my future career." I just gave her a place to stay, and I visited her from time to time to give her some nourishment. ”

Zhu Rong asked: "But once you are discovered, outsiders will not believe that you are not husband and wife, and the girl of Rouyin clearly didn't get anything and did nothing wrong, but she had to bear the infamy, and it would be difficult to get along with the second aunt in the future." ”

Ping Rui's eyes widened and said, "What do you want, I can bring Rouyin to this house, so I'm not afraid that when I go home one day, she won't even have any bones left?" ”

"Second brother ......" Zhu Rong is also helpless.

"So are you." Ping Rui said solemnly, "Miss Yan's background is not worthy of the uncle's expectations for you, even if you are barely fulfilled, the uncle doesn't like it from the bottom of his heart, and it will be difficult for Miss Yan to be sandwiched between your father and son in the future." ”

Zhu Rong smiled and said, "The second brother and the old lady said the same thing. ”

Pingrui asked, "Did you tell your grandmother?" ”

Zhu Rong shook his head: "Grandma is very happy, I didn't dare to say anything about you anymore, but it's not a way to drag it out, Yunzhi is still jumping up and down, waiting for me to tell her the results of the investigation." ”

"This little girl." Pingrui said, "I'm still afraid that she will bully Rouyin in the future." ”

Zhu Rong said with a smile: "Although she is naughty, she is not a person like other people's daughters, she has no problem of disliking the poor and loving the rich, in her eyes, everyone in the world is the same, as long as the second brother likes it, she likes it." ”

"It's all spoiled by you." Pingrui said, "Big brother told me that we felt sorry for that little girl, but seeing that you are so spoiled, we can only sing blackface, otherwise she will go to break the sky." ”

Zhu Rong smiled and said: "Since the second brother feels sorry for her in his heart, I will tell the truth, Yunzhi is afraid that your matter will implicate her, she knows that she is not good, but she can't do it." ”

Pingrui didn't blame his sister for being selfish, it was originally something that had to be solved, so he only smiled bitterly: "But isn't it, when my father and mother are mad, Yunzhi will be even more hopeless, so I can only honestly wait to be sent to the palace to be the side concubine of the fourth prince." ”

Zhu Rong said: "For the sake of Miss Rouyin, and for the sake of Yunzhi, please bother the second brother to deal with this matter." ”

Ping Rui sighed helplessly: "I'm not you, I'm not the eldest brother and I'm not peaceful, I've never been pinned on by my father and mother, I naturally don't resent or hate and have no intention of fighting, but even so, I can't be free, it's really boring." ”

Zhu Rong said: "The elders have hope, that is also their business, our future is still in our own hands, so why care about what they expect." ”

Zhu Pingrui smiled: "You sit down, wait for me to finish the business at hand, and go home with you to see your grandmother." ”

Seeing that the second brother was busy, Zhu Rong waited with peace of mind, but he didn't wait for the elder brother to come out after he was busy, but he saw that the little girl who had always followed the second son in the family came in from outside the door.

At first glance, when he saw that the third son was here, the kid was so nervous and embarrassed, and after nodding his head, he went straight to find his son-in-law.

After a while, Zhu Pingrui hurriedly ran out and said to his younger brother, "Rouyin is gone." ”

The two brothers rode out of the city, and happened to be seen by Zhu Chengye's subordinates, and returned to the official department to report to Zhu Chengye, he didn't understand how the youngest son mixed with the third child, so he immediately ordered someone to investigate.

I couldn't find anything for a while, and when I returned home at night, I didn't see the second son, and asked the second lady: "What are Rui'er busy with these days?" ”

The second lady also didn't care, and asked rhetorically: "He's not doing well, what's wrong?" ”

Zhu Chengye said angrily: "Today, someone saw him and Zhu Rong galloping on the street, all the way out of the city, when did they get so close?" ”

The second lady disagreed: "The children in this family are close to each other, and it's not a day or two, why do you feel strange now?" ”

Zhu Chengye slapped the tea bowl on the table: "I'm worried here, you still look indifferent, how did you behave as a mother?" I don't know what my son is doing all day, what are you thinking about all day long? ”

The second lady was angry in her heart, but she couldn't be as strong and domineering as the eldest lady in front of her husband, she didn't dare to argue, she only turned her back and squeezed out a few tears: "You are angry outside, don't always come back to look for me, don't I, can I still be sorry for you?" ”

Zhu Chengye felt that he was simply playing the piano to the cow, and he didn't care about his wife, Lang Sheng called all the mother-in-law and the little maids who followed the second son on weekdays, but they didn't know about the second son's house outside, only said that the second son went out early and returned late every day, and the time at home was getting shorter and shorter, almost just a sleep.

But some people noticed the strangeness of the details, and replied to the old man: "There are many fewer books in the child's study, at first one or two, they were placed elsewhere, and then they thought they were lent out, but recently there are more and more of them, and I don't know where they have gone." ”

Zhu Chengye got up when he heard this, went straight into the courtyard of his second son, and rummaged through his study, sure enough, it was no longer like a scholar's room, the pen and ink were dry, the stacked books were neat, and most of the bookshelves were empty, and there was no more bookish gas in this room.

"Where did he move his things?" Zhu Chengye has been immersed in officialdom for many years, and he can still make some calculations in his heart, and he can see at a glance that his youngest son must have another place to live.

But no one in this family of servants knows, and they are afraid that the second master will be angry, so they all prevaricate.

In the end, it fell on the little guy who followed the second son every day, and it happened that he was not at home at this time, so he must be with the second son.

Zhu Chengye was very uneasy in his heart, and coldly ordered: "Go and guard outside the gate, as soon as Pingrui arrives home, he is not allowed to go anywhere, bring me immediately." ”

At this hour, before the city gate put away the drawbridge, the Zhu Rong brothers finally came back with the soft sound who was going away, all the way to the private house in the west of the city, Zhu Pingrui ordered the younger brother to go home first, he will not go anywhere today, to guard the soft sound.

Zhu Rong couldn't persuade him, so he returned home first, but as soon as he entered the door, he noticed something unusual, and Zhengming waited for him in the middle door, and when he saw the son, he said: "I don't know what's wrong with Dongyuan, the second master wants to ask the second son, do you see it when you come in, several people are guarding it." ”

Zhu Rong's eyebrows frowned, left the controversy, tossed and turned, and left home again, going straight to the west of the city.