Reluctantly came back from the street, it was almost lunch time, and everyone was full of loads.

I only selected a few plain ready-to-wear clothes in the shop, and asked the tailor to make a few 'spring' and summer skirts and blouses, and repeatedly told me that the style should be simple, remember not to be too cumbersome, and those arm-stretching skirts can save money.

Lan'er lowered her head and smiled, her shoulders shaking. When I was trying on clothes in the inner room just now, Lan'er went to the outside to change my belt, and I turned the clothes into a 'mess' and changed beyond recognition, and I didn't figure out how to wear it for a long time. In the end, I clumped it up in a ball and threw it into the corner of the house, and Lan'er leaned forward and backwards with laughter, which already made me angry.

Qingyin brought back the most things, rouge gouache, hairpin ring beads 'flowers', silk handkerchief fans, sachet silk threads, pastries and snacks, piled up half of the carriage. Qingqing and Qingchou saw that I gave all the silver taels to Shopkeeper Li, and when I picked up things in the rouge shop, almost all of them were selected in double copies, packed and 'handed over' to Lan'er without saying anything. Qing Lian is always more childlike, and she picks out a few kinds of face makeup and childish things for herself, and she is happy to play with it all the way.

At the entrance of the house' door, there was a brown 'color' lacquer fine texture carriage parked, not carved, simple and atmospheric, there was a slight fragrance in front of me, I was curious to take a look, the whole body was actually made of rosewood. Rosewood is precious, it is a good healing 'medicine' material, I don't know who is so generous, it is so extravagant, used to make carriages.

Qingqing saw the carriage and said happily: "Today, my father actually came back at noon. "I realized it was my own thing. I couldn't help but secretly feel a pity, I just wanted to move it back to Yunwu Mountain and give it to the master for the benefit of the people of Fangyuan.

Everyone laughed and got out of the car, and told the subordinates to move their things into their yards, and to go to their mother's yard to ask for peace. I found out that Qingqing and the others had all brought back pastry gift boxes to my mother, and I was the only one empty-handed. I don't have much silver left, and most of the silver taels paid by my sisters on the street, I only brought back some candied snacks for Xuan'er and them, and I couldn't take them out at all.

My father was also in my mother's house, sitting with my mother and eating tea. We kowtowed respectfully together, thanked our mother, and when Qingqing took the snack to her mother, she deliberately said, "This is my heart and that of Qingwen." ”

I looked at her with emotion, and she turned around and winked at me mischievously, smiled coquettishly, and 'revealed' two lovely pear vortices.

At that moment, I only felt warm in my heart, when I was in Jinling, I heard too many big families of sisters and sisters bullying and abusing each other, fighting to the death, so I was worried all the way back on the way, and I was mentally prepared to kill. Unexpectedly, after returning home, in addition to Qingyin's angry hostility towards me, Qingqing and several people were very warm and friendly to me, and many times they could put themselves in my shoes, which was really rare.

The mother simply asked a few words about the new cloth 'flowers', 'colors' and ready-to-wear styles in the shop, and then said to my father with a smile: "If you look at the oil stains on Qinglian's mouth, you will know that a few people must have eaten secretly on the street, and lunch will be saved." ”

Qing Lian hurriedly wiped her mouth with a silk scarf, and it was clean, only to know that her mother deliberately teased, and her little face turned red.

Her mother continued to tease her: "This time, I bought some fun and rare things, and took them out for us to see." ”

Qingyin preemptively said: "If you want to talk about rarity, my mother has to ask Qingwen." We just bought some vulgar things of rouge and gouache, but she 'spent' a thousand taels of silver to buy a dagger that was not the slightest inconspicuous, and that was elegant. ”

I was standing at the back, and my father and mother turned their inquiring eyes to me.

Originally, I just wanted to 'hand' the silver to the 'door' room after I came back, and I didn't want to alarm my father, but Qingyin was so sarcastic, I couldn't hide it, so I stepped forward and saluted: "I'm going to ask my father to know about it after a while, and I want to ask my father for help." ”

"Oh? Something, but it doesn't hurt to say. My father looked at me gently, without the slightest blame.

I thought about the wording for a while: "On the mountain road back to Yangzhou, the 'girl' encountered a startled horse, but fortunately thanks to the help of a young knight, she was not buried in the valley. I didn't want to meet him on the street today, he came to Yangzhou City to look for relatives and didn't meet him, he was no longer entangled, and he was selling his ancestral dagger. The 'girl' was grateful for his life-saving grace, and he was afraid that if he gave him silver, he would feel embarrassed and refused to accept it, so he 'handed over' all the two hundred taels of silver on his body to the shopkeeper Li, and entrusted him to buy the dagger, and the remaining amount was insufficient, and asked the chivalrous man to come to my Su Mansion in the afternoon to pick it up. It was not convenient for the 'daughter' to come forward, so she asked her father to arrange it. ”

"Thanksgiving, this is the way it should be." The father nodded and said, "Don't say a thousand taels, any more should be." ”

"When the horse was startled, the knight was afraid that he would not be able to surrender the horse and hurt us, so he used this dagger to cut the car sleeve, and really sharpened the iron like clay, and a thousand taels was worth it." I took out the dagger and respectfully presented it to my father.

The father took the dagger, his eyes lit up obviously, and he was full of praise: "It turned out to be a rare black gold forging, don't say a thousand taels, if there is a connoisseur of goods, those who are good at this thing, thousands of taels are decimals." ”

I couldn't help but secretly speak, one is because my father went south and north, and really knew a lot, and the other is that I heard my master talk about this Ujin, the legend is a strange stone from the sky, hidden deep in the ground for 10,000 years, excavated within a hundred years, after forging, it can be made into an indestructible divine weapon. If it is more than a hundred years, the ore will be wasted, and it depends on chance, which is really rare, and it is a weapon that people in the martial arts dream of.

"I didn't know it was so precious, so I beg my father to 'hand' it back to the knight. originally accepted his life-saving grace, but he couldn't help it. ”

My father groaned for a long time: "If we give him back the dagger, I am afraid that he will not accept our gift." Take it for the time being, and I will give him some more taels of silver, and redeem it when he is free. ”

I took the dagger: "Originally, the 'daughter' wanted to buy it to honor her father, so in this case, I will keep it for a few days." ”

The father smiled gently: "Since he is the life-saving benefactor of my 'daughter', I can't fake others in this matter, I need to see him in person and thank him in person." Also, you asked the girl to go to the account office to withdraw two hundred taels of silver, and the money came out of the family. ”

At the moment, he called the little guy at the entrance of the 'door', and asked him to go to the 'door' mouth to hand over the 'door' room, if Lin Gongzi came, he would take him directly to the study and treat him politely.

We were so tired that we said goodbye to our mother.

Back in the courtyard, it was silent, but it was empty, not even the little ones who liked to stand at the 'gate' on weekdays and watch the wind.

Lan'er raised her voice strangely and called twice: "Small! Hui'er! It's delicious! ”

Hui'er came out of the back room when she heard the sound, her head lowered, and her eyes were a little red.

"Hui'er, what's wrong? What's wrong? ”

Hui'er's tears couldn't help but fall down, like beads with broken threads: "Miss, I'm sorry, the slave is derelict in her duties, you can beat me." ”

"Am I fierce? Why do you want me to beat you at every turn? I said with a frown.

"I just remembered your instructions and went to boil water to make tea, only to find out that the master's purple clay pot was broken by someone!"

"What?" I exclaimed, "Okay, how could it be broken?" Who fell? ”

Hui'er was so anxious that she almost cried: "I don't know, it was fine yesterday, and the slave maid put it on the table facing the 'door' in the outhouse, and I haven't touched it for a day today." ”

I was a little flustered, and walked into the room a few steps, the box was still in place, the lid was open, and the teapot was still neatly resting in the box, the teacup was intact, only the teapot body was broken and cracked.

The maids in the courtyard were all summoned by Xuan'er in the house, bowing their heads and not speaking, and they didn't dare to take a breath.

The atmosphere in the room was oppressive and uncomfortable.

The girl in charge of sprinkling and sweeping was the most trembling: "Miss Bao, I was responsible for cleaning this room when I got up in the morning, and I cleaned the corners carefully, and the box was not opened to take a closer look, nor did I see broken porcelain on the ground." ”

"Who came in this morning?" Xuan'er asked sharply.

The two girls looked at each other: "Miss was not here this morning, we all kept our duties and never stepped into the house." ”

"Could it be that the teapot will break by itself?" Xuan'er was angry: "It's good if I admit it frankly, but it's just a mistake, if I find out, it's not just a matter of playing the board." ”

The maids were so frightened that they all knelt on the ground and kowtowed again and again: "Sister Xuan'er, it's really none of our business." ”

"Did any outsiders come in that morning?" Lan'er also asked out loud.

"Xiaoxiang has been guarding the 'gate' of the courtyard, looking forward to the young lady's return, and has never seen anyone come in." Hui'er replied.

"Didn't you hear any movement, and there must always be a sound when this pot is broken?"

"No, there hasn't been any movement. We stayed in the yard to do our work, never laughing or making noise, and the 'door' of this house was wide open, not to say that the teapot fell to the ground, even if it was a slight bump, we could hear it clearly. ”

I wrinkled my brows and waved my hand helplessly: "Forget it, Xuan'er, it's none of their business, let them go down." ”

"But, Miss......" Xuan'er stomped her feet in a hurry, and waved her hand angrily: "Go down, go down!" ”

"Miss, it's all my fault, I didn't pay attention to it." Xuan'er was busy going in and out today, and Hui'er stayed in the yard, so she blamed herself the most.

"There is not even a broken porcelain on the ground, it can be seen that it is not broken, this is someone deliberately doing it, you can't prevent it, you don't have to blame yourself too much, just pay attention to it in the future." I picked up the shattered teapot and looked at it carefully.

"Miss," Xuan'er hesitated, "Miss Qingyin once used the excuse of tidying up her clothes to enter the yard today, could it be ...... She must have known the old man's tea set, and she had a grudge yesterday. ”

I smiled bitterly and said, "Even if you know that she broke it, is it possible to go to my father and sue me without evidence?" ”

"But..."Hui'er cried out anxiously: "The master blames it, how can it be good?" ”

"Or I have no way to discipline my subordinates, Miss, I'll go to the master, and say that the teapot was broken by me and has nothing to do with Miss." Xuan'er stomped her feet and turned around and left.

"Come back!" I exclaimed, "It's not irremediable. ”

Xuan'er turned around in surprise: "Miss has a way?" ”

I carefully checked the body of the pot, although it was broken, but I don't know if it was because the bump force was not large, so it was just broken into two or three petals, and I could piece together a complete body of the pot.

"I have seen a fine curium bowlmaker in Jinling City, and the pattern of curium is lifelike, and it is more 'fine' than the original object, but I don't know if there are such craftsmen in Yangzhou City?"

"I grew up in the house since I was a child, don't say I've seen it, I've never heard of it." Xuan'er shook her head and said, "The Su family has a big business, so they don't disdain to use tattered objects. ”

"I've seen such craftsmen at home, but they are all rough pots and bowls in the countryside, and I haven't seen any fine work." Lan'er said.

I lowered my head and pondered for a moment: "Xuan'er, you accompany me to the housekeeper to inquire." He walks around on weekdays and should be well-informed. ”

"The housekeeper said today that he would take stock of the things in the small storeroom in the afternoon, and he would probably go there." Xuan'er said: "Don't bother Miss, I'll just run by myself." ”

"It's okay," I called Lan'er: "Hui'er's eyes are crying like a rabbit, it's not easy to see people, you go with Xuan'er, just say I want you to pick two 'flower' bottles and 'insert' 'flowers'." Then look for something worthless......"

Lan'er was smart and immediately understood what I meant, "Miss, I know how to do it, you can rest assured." After speaking, he pulled Xuan'er out of the courtyard together.

I closed my eyes, leaned back in my chair, and put my hand on my forehead, finally able to calm down and think about a thing or two. This teapot is obviously deliberately damaged by someone, such painless hands and feet, and it is obvious that there is only one purpose, which is to destroy my image in the eyes of my father and divide our relationship.

So who is trying to harm me? Accidental or deliberate?

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