In the last book, it was said that the light moon painted the sound and color of the third lady Jiang Fusan, and the warbler returned, and the clouds made her laugh.

Before the two of them could recover their strength, Danyue said again: "Sister Yinggui, you are commenting, that is a good Longjing, this year Qingming Quanye specially went to Hangzhou Mansion to find it." When the old lady was alive, she said it was good, but she said it badly. Could it be that the old lady's insight is not as good as hers? It's really funny. ”

Weiyun chuckled: "But isn't it, on the day of the funeral, she wore a pair of jade bracelets on her hands, and she showed off a few times from time to time, and she was not afraid of freezing her wrists on a cold day." ”

"Yes, yes. The old lady gave Miss those objects during the New Year's holidays, which one was not better than hers, and Miss played for a few days, and then threw it aside, and I didn't see Miss care. Danyue hurriedly answered.

Weiyun pouted and smiled: "If she sees Miss's pair of bracelets, I'm afraid she won't know what her eyes will become." The old lady didn't see her shed a few tears when she was buried, and pretended to wipe left and right with a handkerchief, as if others didn't know that she was crying. If you want me to say, there are few sincere people. ”

Yinggui sighed: "Who can compare to our young lady's sadness." Listening to Sister Dongmei, I shed tears when I dreamed at night. ”

Weiyun sighed: "The old lady is also good to our young lady, but it's a pity that she went too early." I watched, except for the old lady and the young lady, the old lady also shed the most tears. ”

Danyue said disdainfully: "Our old lady is the most quiet person, and he is impatient for someone to cry." Like Aunt Zhou, I couldn't squeeze out a few tears if I tried my best, and I was crying out in my throat, I was afraid that the old lady would be unhappy when she heard it! ”

Yinggui scolded with a smile: "How can there be so many sincere people in this high-ranking family? Miss said that people who are really sad don't need to shed tears, her heart is crying, how good it is. After my father died of illness, my mother stopped crying. Now that I think about it, my mother is the saddest person. ”

Weiyun comforted: "Sister Yinggui, don't be sad, you have to look forward, you see you now, and Yanming, in front of Miss, you have to use it." ”

The little sisters eat and live together every day, and after a few years, who has something going on in their family, and who doesn't know?

Yinggui wiped away her tears and said: "My brother and I are all given by Miss, in this life, I don't want to get married, there are few good men, you see which of those sons and grandsons is not a three-room and five concubines, today is facing east, and tomorrow is facing west." I've been waiting for Miss all my life. ”

Weiyun furrowed her delicate eyebrows and said, "Sister Yinggui, don't blame me for not reminding you." Today, I see the second master staring at you, you have to be careful. ”

"Phew!"

Danyue said hatefully: "It's not a good thing at first glance, the first day he came back, he stared at the eldest grandmother, and his eyes were straight." It's a shame that he is still a scholar, and the uncle is so angry that his face is green on the side. ”

Yinggui said disapprerovingly: "Let's be subordinates, just keep our duty, those sons, young masters, are not something people like us can think about." Sister Dongmei said a long time ago, through the room, what is good about the aunt, she is the same as waiting for people, if she doesn't get it right, she will lose her life. Don't look at them wearing gold and silver, the delicacies of the mountains and the sea, life is not as comfortable as ours. ”

Danyue said: "That's it, don't look at Aunt Zhou now, as soon as the old lady closes her eyes, she won't be able to come out." I heard that the second master has been resting in the second wife's room for the past few days. ”

Yinggui said: "This is not something that our subordinates can inquire about, if you let the young lady know, you can be careful about your skin." ”

Danyue said angrily: "I also listened to what Aunt Zhou's maid said, where did I go to inquire?" ”

Weiyun said: "These maids are also bold, which room is the master resting in, and they are also talking about it?" I'm afraid it's not good. ”

Yinggui sneered: "That family of three, a few of us are still far away, if we go back with the young lady, we will also guard our own yard and live, just wait for the good young lady." There are big rules in Jiang's mansion. In the past few years in the old house, the two masters, Miss and the old lady, have been quiet and accustomed to it. I'm afraid that when the time comes, I will have to use a few more minds. Miss said, she can't protect us, we have to protect ourselves, not only to protect ourselves, but also to protect Miss, do you understand? ”

Weiyun said: "Sister Yinggui is right, I and Danyue will listen to you." ”

Yinggui sighed and said, "It's not that I want to scare you, the second lady's jacket was stained with some incense ash that day, and the little maid's face turned white with fright." The second lady is not a powerful person, which shows the rules of the Jiang family. We have a good life, we have followed Miss all these years, we have never been beaten, and we have never been scolded, and the most powerful thing is that Miss looks at you coldly, don't be in the blessing and don't know the blessing. ”

Danyue sneered: "The rules are all used to manage us, I think Aunt Zhou has no rules that time." ”

Yinggui sneered: "If the person standing behind you is the daughter of the Hou Mansion, you don't need to follow the rules, just walk sideways." Tell me, who is behind you? ”

Danyue said with a smile: "I just can't look past it, just talk about it." Who's behind me, isn't it your sister Yinggui. ”

Yinggui snorted and scolded with a smile: "Little hoof, die, you and I are the master of Guan, avoiding evil and preventing disasters." ”

Weiyun smiled: "Let me see what Old Man Guan looks like, how he is so smart." ”

The three of them laughed together.

……

In the middle of the night, the sound is silent, and the night is as cool as water.

Two figures, one fat and one thin, secretly came out of the small doorway hidden in the bushes in the back garden of the old mansion and got into a carriage that had been waiting for a long time.

In the night, the carriage slowly drove out of Qingyang Town, entered the trail, and galloped away.

An hour later, the carriage drove into Zhuangzi.

Xin Yao followed Jiang Fu into a courtyard deep in the Zhuangzi, where Jiang Quan was sitting at the bottom of the hall and drinking tea leisurely. Seeing Xin Yao enter the house, she hurriedly put the brazier at the top, made a cup of hot tea herself, and handed it to the young lady.

Jiang Fumali closed the door, personally brought a small bench, and stood guard in front of the door.

Jiang Quanzhi took off her cloak, sat down, drank hot tea, and said, "Miss, there is not much time, so I won't beat around the bush." ”

Jiang Xinyao nodded and made a gesture of please.

"Fifty years ago, there were two wealthy families in Suzhou Mansion, and one of them was the Jiang family, the young lady's own family. The ancestors of the Jiang family made a fortune in silk, and then studied and took scientific examinations, and became officials, until the generation of the old lady Jiang, that is, your great-grandfather's generation, the official residence is a scholar.

The other family is the Xu family. The Xu family has been dealing in jewelry and jade for generations and is famous. At that time, the jade workshop in Suzhou Mansion was the first to recommend the Xu family. Mrs. Xu is young and smart, and Mrs. Jiang has a friendship with her classmates, brotherhood, and the two are commensurate with each other, and the good ones are like one person.

When they grew up, the two married and had children. Mrs. Jiang had two sons successively, and the Xu family only had one daughter. Old lady Jiang's eldest son, that is, your grandfather, is very happy with the second elder of the Xu family. The Xu family has no children, and only treats your grandfather as half a son, and Xu Jinxin, the only lady of the Xu family, is a childhood sweetheart, and the two have no guesses. ”

It is no wonder that the Jiang and Xu families have such a deep relationship...... Jiang Xinyao suddenly realized.

"When your grandfather was young, his face was like a crown of jade, and his appearance was extraordinary, and Miss Jinxin was even more slim and beautiful. What is rare is that although she is an only daughter, she is gentle and lovely. The parents of both sides saw that the two were in love and decided on the family affair early.

Later, Mrs. Jiang went to high school and went to Beijing as an official, while Mrs. Xu was a businessman in Suzhou. During the New Year's holidays, the two families give each other gifts. The Xu family has carved jade for generations, and there are often good jade pieces in the festival rites, and the jade carvings are sent to the capital.

Mrs. Jiang's top boss is called Shi Mingwei, and that year, Mrs. Jiang gave Shi Mingwei a New Year's gift and chose one of the white jade carved cockroach beast face patterns. Although the jade quality of this object is ordinary, the carving is first-class, the upper part is carved with a curved body of the cockroach beast, and the lower part is a circular cloud pattern, which is a typical Suzhou jade carving. Who would have expected that Mrs. Jiang would give it away casually and send a great disaster. ”

Jiang Xinyao was shocked, and listened more and more carefully.

At that time, the imperial court was quelling the rebellion in Xinjiang and controlling the Kunlun Mountains and Hotan. The mining of jade was concentrated in the hands of the royal family, and the emperor specially set up a jade official to supervise the jade mining. Except for less than two taels, all the stones were tributed, but the imperial court did not explicitly prohibit the flow of jade, and merchants and jade sellers could bring jade into Jiayuguan as long as they paid taxes and obtained a permit.

At that time, in Hotan, Xinjiang, a pound of white jade, estimated a penny of silver, but when you arrived in Suzhou, a pound of white jade had to be exchanged for two catties and three taels of silver. The Xu family has a special caravan that goes to Hotan every year to buy jade.

Such a large price difference has also caused many wealthy officials to meddle in the jade business. Shi Mingwei's cousin is the new Hami conductor Shi Liuming. He took advantage of his position to secretly swallow a lot of good Hetian jade materials, and let his henchmen transport them to the mainland through the secret compartment on the carriage, and let Shi Mingwei help sell the dirt.

Shi Mingwei saw the jade pendant sent by Mrs. Jiang, which was exquisite and extraordinary, so he sent people to inquire. Knowing that the worker was from the Xu family in Suzhou Prefecture, he wrote a letter to inform Liu Ming of the matter that night.

The young lady should know that the jade material is wrapped in stone, and it needs to be cut to know whether it is good or bad. The price of a good stone is not much different from that of an ordinary stone, but the price of a high-quality finished product and a rough finished product is a world of difference.

At that time, a finished product of jade quality and excellent carving was as little as a thousand taels and as many as tens of thousands. This stone that Liu Ming is worried about taking risks gets, and the benefits are not big. This time, it is equivalent to falling asleep and sending a pillow.

Suzhou is far away from the capital, the old lady Jiang is an official under Shi Mingwei, and the Jiang and Xu families are world friends, so the unique conditions can be described as a godsend.

So Liu Ming told his cousin that no matter what method he used, he would definitely have a relationship with the workshop, process jade for him, and after this stone inscription was believed, he sent his henchmen to Suzhou immediately to find the Xu family's century-old jade workshop - Cuiyuxuan. ”

Jiang Xinyao tried her best to restrain her strong curiosity and waited for the following.

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