At this time, fireworks exploded outside, and the ever-changing colors unfolded gracefully, and the night sky fell like petals, shining up the entire sky, as if it was within reach.

"Liang Gongzi lit it for the jade girl, this fireworks are worth five hundred taels of silver, and the Pomeranian smiled." In front of the door, a turtle slave ran in and stood in the middle of the lobby and sang harmony.

Yu Linlang turned her head to see the fireworks suddenly bloom, the dazzling color meteor falling from the sky, she looked at the gorgeous phantom, smiled slightly, but the loss in her eyes was deeper in this light, she blessed Song Yan, and turned around to go down to the table.

"It's beautiful!" Duan Ling'er and the others couldn't help but walk to the door, looked up at the fireworks in the sky, looked up in thanks, looked at it for a while, turned their heads, and saw Duan Ling'er beside him with bright eyes and bright teeth, extremely vivid.

For some reason, Xie Ci didn't want to take his eyes off her face.

Everyone was obsessed with the fireworks in the sky, and suddenly heard a shout from the back yard: "It's water!" ”

The fireworks' sparks ignited the firewood in the backyard, and the handymen focused on watching the fireworks, but they didn't notice that the backyard quickly burned into a sea of fire.

The guests were suddenly shocked and poured out of the gate of the Xiuchun Pavilion, and the old bustard waved his arms together, not knowing whether to order to put out the fire or stop the guests first.

The fans and girls rushed down from the second floor, running in a panic, I don't know who hit Duan Ling'er, Duan Ling'er fell to the ground in response, and was almost trampled on.

Duan Ling'er only felt that her leg was stepped on, and she saw that her little person was about to be stepped on by the fans who rushed over one by one. I only saw Xie Ci break up the people who rushed over a few times, and scooped up Duan Ling'er.

Song Yan was anxious to protect Yu Linlang, and thanked Duan Ling'er for protecting him.

"Are you alright?"

Duan Ling'er shook her head, only to feel that her wrist was very painful, and when she raised her hand, she saw that the Pei Cui bracelet she was wearing on her hand had broken and fallen, and her wrist was also bruised.

When the surroundings were in a mess, I heard a scream full of fear, and two frightened miscellaneous servants rushed into the lobby and waved their arms to Lao Bustard's mother: "Mom, Mom, there is a dead person in the back!" In the fire! Dead! ”

Xie Ci and Duan Ling'er glanced at each other, and at the same time had a bad premonition in their hearts, Song Yan escorted Yu Linlang to the carriage to hide, but Xie Ci and Duan Ling'er went against the flow of people and walked to the backyard.

When they walked quickly to the backyard and saw the object burning in the flames, they were all slightly stunned.

The person who died was not Pan He.

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Duan Ling'er has been confined by the Shen family for half a month since this day, and she is not in a hurry, the news of the missing Pan He from the outside world often comes, from avoiding debts to killing people and even ghosts and gods, and after half a month, people gradually stop talking about this disappeared businessman.

In the past half a month, the rumors about the fire in Xiuchun Pavilion have gradually moved closer to the ghost legend, some people say that it is because Yu Linlang's pipa alarm the god of fire in the sky, and the god of fire is jealous when he sees Yu Linlang so beautiful so he puts down the fire.

It's just that he accidentally burned to death a fat fan who had been on credit in Xiuchun Pavilion for many days, had no family and no friends, and was lazy in the Qinglou and didn't even know what his real name was.

Gu Changfeng has been to Duan Mansion a few times in the past half month, and he has been pestered by Duan Tong every time, every time Gu Changfeng comes, he will bring Duan Ling'er some interesting things and food, and Duan Ling'er often makes some small tricks to break Duan Tong, and then tells Gu Changfeng about his brother's schooling.

On this day, the peach blossoms filled the yard, and the sun was just right in the early morning of May.

Duan Ling'er suddenly remembered that she was busy with official business, but she hadn't seen it for half a month and had no news.

Only the trustee sent a brocade box, and there was a short letter of apology inside, which meant that he failed to protect her, nor did he protect her jade bracelet.

Duan Ling'er picked up the apology gift sent by the thank you in the brocade box, and couldn't help but be stunned.

It was a blue jade fish-shaped bracelet, and the letter of thanks said that it was a piece of jewelry that was paid to Duan Ling'er.

Duan Ling'er had seen this bracelet in his previous life, which was a token of love given by the prince of the Warring States Shuanglian to the princess of the neighboring country, and later the prince of Shuanglian hanged the people and seized the world, becoming the overlord of one party.

This is also a token of the covenant between Xie Ci and Duan Ling'er in the previous life, and after the Empress Dowager Duan received this token, Xie Ci raised troops to the north to capture the capital of Daliang in one fell swoop.

In two lifetimes, he gave this bracelet to his hand.

Is this fate?

Duan Ling'er stared at the clumsy carving but hard-to-buy blue jade fish-shaped bracelet, looking at this token symbolizing political alliances, hegemony, wealth and power, and felt that there were too many unreasonable things about Xie Ci.

In his previous life, he was a powerful minister, and it was natural to have such a bracelet, but now he is just a cloth-clothed catcher in Yangzhou, doing the lowest Yamen tolerance, where did this valuable bracelet come from?

Duan Ling'er didn't have a chance to ask Xie Ci about the origin of this bracelet for the time being, and she didn't know if this sincere young man already knew the value of this bracelet, so she could only wear this bracelet on her wrist and accept the arrangement of fate.

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On this day, An Niang was carefully combing her hair with a peach wood comb, and Duan Ling'er watched her black hair being pulled up thinly, folded once, folded twice, and folded into a heart-to-heart bun.

The temples in the mirror are still the color of the crows.

"Girl, this bun was newly learned by the nurse, do you like it?" An Niang smiled.

In the mirror, the face is so young that there is no wrinkle, and the face is like a peach blossom spreading out on the cheeks.

Duan Ling'er nodded: "Thank you, nurse." ”

Shen sat on the chaise longue, looked at his slim daughter, and smiled with satisfaction.

Duan Yu walked in with a jade pendant and shook it at Duan Ling'er.

"Sister, you see I found another good thing for you!"

Duan Ling'er took it with a smile, looking at the rough workmanship and obvious impurities, she sighed in her heart, these little guys even dare to cheat their brother's silver, but their brother is an honest master who doesn't know how much he knows, and he won't pay back a penny of silver.

Duan Ling'er hurriedly put the jade pendant in the palm of her hand, and said with a smile: "Brother, is this expensive?" ”

Duan Yu grinned and said, "Two taels of silver, Xiao Zhou said that this is a good thing, and I specially found it." ”

Shen walked over, dragged it from Duan Ling'er's hand a few times before getting the jade pendant, looked at it and stopped, then glanced at his daughter, and said to his son: "Don't collect things from those people in the future, your sister has enough jewelry, don't spend any more money." ”

Duan Ling'er nodded: "Mother is right, brother, your monthly monthly silver is only two taels of silver, don't buy me any more." ”

Duan Yu nodded, not seeming to take this to heart.

Duan Ling'er looked at her brother's honest appearance, sighed slightly, and said to the Shen family: "Mother, my brother has recently finished reading the four books, and his articles are better than those official sons in the academy. ”

As soon as Duan Yu heard about reading, his eyes immediately lit up: "Mother, sister, I have been reading books a lot lately, and I don't feel tired when I pick up the lights at night. ”

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly stopped talking, in the past few generations of Duan Mansion, only the concubines can go to the academy to study and take the road of fame, but the concubines of the Duan family want to learn from a young age, Duan Tianya will give them a capital when they are thirteen years old, and let them choose a business in Duan Mansion to start running, once the concubines cannot maintain a livelihood of their own, they can only live in the mansion with moon silver, or rely on their other brothers, in this case, not only will they lose face, but also affect their mothers and sisters to live a hard life, Looked down upon by people in other rooms.

His father Duan Tianya is his grandfather's favorite concubine, even if his two uncles are sons-in-law, after his grandfather died, because he has achieved nothing, he now wants the whole family to live by his father, the most profitable brother.

Everyone in Duanfu is like this, so even if he likes to read again, his identity as a concubine, according to the family rules, his father will not allow him to take a career in office.

Duan Yu's eyes were red when he thought of this, but he immediately swallowed this grievance, in his impression, his mother was a delicate person like a wick, who could fall when the wind blew, and he was often sick, so he couldn't let his mother worry about himself.

What about my sister? My sister is so young, it was a miracle that she was able to save herself from the fire last time, but she was already thirteen years old, so she should have shouldered the responsibility of the ninth room, followed her father's intentions, helped Duan Mansion operate, and then earned some silver for her mother and sister to come back.

But now I still need my mother to work day and night, and my sister is worried, such a self is useless.

Duan Yu let go of the hand he had been holding when he thought of this, and said with a smile: "Studying is actually a waste of time, I think I still have to learn more from others, so that I can help my father do things in the future...... I'll burn those books in two days. ”

Shen's eyes turned red instantly, and just as he wanted to speak, he saw Duan Ling'er stand up and say:

"Brother, don't learn to do business, from Ling'er's point of view, you are born to be a piece of reading material, and you will definitely be able to be named on the gold list in time. You can study with peace of mind, and as for the livelihood of the ninth room, just leave it to me......"

Before she finished her words, Duan Yu shook his head like a rattle.

"How can you show up as a girl, you should stay in the house and do some female red painting and some flowers and birds, stay with your mother well, it's good to see other official ladies for your brother, sister, you are good-looking, you can't live worse than them." Duan Yu waved his hand vigorously and said, "My daughter's family should wait at home to meet a good in-law......

"Brother." Duan Ling'er interrupted him in a deep voice, "Ling'er is no different from you, they are both mother's children, and they are both father's children, you are good at reading and writing, if you suddenly give up today, you will regret it for the rest of your life." As for my natural love of business, if I am trapped in the inner house, I will waste myself as a person. ”

Duan Yu and Shen are both the same, only An Niang is used to it, after the previous few things, she is not surprised by what this little master does or what he says.

Duan Ling'er glanced at the blue sky, and raised the corners of her mouth slightly: "When my father comes back today, we will give him a try." ”