This room is full of sorrow, his mind is full of Qin Xing's little monkey cub trampling him, the more he thinks about it, the more he doesn't taste it, and he smacks his heart twice with hatred.

Suddenly, I heard a laugh behind me, and turned my head to see that it was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, who was covering her mouth and looking at him.

Presumably the scene was already peeped at, and he was even more panicked, and he wanted to scold, but if he looked closely, it was the second-class girl in Sun's room, named Xianyue.

So I couldn't be angry, so I had to slap myself in the mouth, and said angrily: "Now in this house, even if the master in charge breaks his heart, he is not as good as the pug next to the master barks, and now this old face is gone, I will go back to the eldest lady tomorrow, there are still a few acres of thin fields in the township, let me go back to farming." ”

"It's good if you really want to go back, if it's just a trick, go for three or two days and then shout to come back, Madame hates this the most, you have to be careful."

Xian Yue smiled and clapped her hands: "Zhang Wang's family comes to beg Mrs. to ask for an errand to do every other day, Mrs. is annoying, you go, but it happens to vacate a place, very good." ”

Steward Luo was frightened when he heard this, and he didn't dare to say more, so he immediately covered his flag and stopped talking, and he didn't know where to go.

Xianyue walked towards the garden, heard someone calling her faintly, turned around and looked back, it was the girl Xiaodie in the courtyard of the fourth master Yanhong, panting and running over, and said with a smile: "I'm looking for you everywhere in every courtyard, why are you hanging out here?" ”

"Serving by the grandmother's side, will there be idle times?"

Xianyue sneered and showed her a plate of hot cakes in her hand: "It's Sister Qing'er who wants to eat the red diamond snow cream with fruit filling, and I will go to the kitchen to let Mrs. Yan steam it." ”

Fluttershy took out a handkerchief from her sleeve and opened it to reveal a pile of scattered silver coins, and said, "This is what Qin Xing asked me to keep for you, he said that the young master was a good scholar, and he was admitted to the Guozi Prison, and he was rewarded with money from top to bottom, and the most of them were given to him, all of them are here, there are three hundred dollars in total, you can either count them, and don't wronged me more or less in the future." ”

Xian Yue's face turned red, and she pursed the corners of her lips and shirked: "I don't believe you, you are all staying in the same house, and you are not separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, why didn't he bring it to me in person, but it came to you?" ”

Fluttershy was stunned, and while measuring the meaning of the words, she was so anxious that she stomped her feet, gritted her teeth and said hatefully: "That young master was going back to Suzhou, and he packed up, but he suddenly didn't go back, and he had to go to Guozijian to study, and he disassembled and assembled in the room all day, but it was very time-consuming and laborious, and there were no people around that master, so he was counting on Qin Xing to take the lead in doing things!" I went to send a congratulatory gift for the fourth master, but when I crossed the courtyard, I was stopped by Qin Xing, secretly instructed these words, and gave this pile of money, I sent it baba, but where did you think of it? If so, it is better to give it back to him. ”

Angry, he turned around and was about to leave.

"You're joking with you, but you're serious." Xianyue hurriedly stopped her, took the silk handkerchief together, and put it directly into the sleeve cage without counting.

As if thinking of something, he looked at Fluttershy and said, "Your fourth master has done something righteous today." ”

Let her come closer, and muttered in her ear what she had just seen, listening to Fluttershy's smile, and then asked with a smile, "Steward Luo is going to find grandma to complain?" ”

"Whatever? The eldest grandmother is annoying him, and she is just annoying when she goes. ”

Xian Yue raised her neck to look at the sun, frowned and said: "I have to hurry back, if the smoke of this cake dissipates, Sister Qing will know that I will stay outside for a long time, and she will say that I am lazy, I don't know what means will be punished." ”

After speaking, he doesn't say goodbye to Fluttershy and hurries away.

........

Shen Zetang's sedan chair stopped about a mile away from Zhou Chen's Shangshu Mansion, listening to the noise of gongs and drums and suona from afar, the two stone lion necks in front of the door wrapped with white hydrangea, the hanging plaque above the door was wrapped with plain silk and cotton balls, a few white satin lanterns were hung on the eaves, and the word "lay" was filled in with black ink, and a few couplets that were newly pasted during the New Year of the thick pillars were also pasted again with white paper.

The main gate of the vision was wide open, and there were more than 20 domestic servants in white mourning clothes standing on both sides, looking in along the doorway, as if they had just let off firecrackers, and a stream of blue, white and gray smoke spread out misty, and the surrounding area was bleak.

From time to time, there are official sedan chairs carried in and out, and they look very lively.

Shen Zetang was not in a hurry to enter, but waited patiently and slowly, until the sedan chair at the main gate was only unable to enter and exit, and then Xu Jing was ordered to get up the sedan chair.

Carried dozens of steps to the front of the house, an old servant in charge of the house, Xu Jing handed over the obituary and the ceremony, the old servant knew that the person who came was noble, he did not dare to slack off, and led the way in front of the courtesy, and let the sedan chair stop after the second gate.

Shen Zetang got out of the sedan chair, dozens of monks in the courtyard were making incense, chanting scriptures and worshipping, and dozens of relatives in the house were wearing linen and filial piety, and they were crying while burning paper in the basin.

After a while, three or five other stewards came, holding two clean white silk round-neck suspenders, and changed them for Shen Zetang and Xu Jing.

Shen Zetang was served by them safely, and then stepped into the mourning hall, and saw a golden silk nan wooden coffin placed in the center, and a full-body portrait of Zhou Hai was framed in front of the hall, so he went to the table to add incense and oil, burned some paper, and then was led out of the main hall, around the back hall, and into the threshold, more than a dozen tables have been placed with fragrant banquets, and the banquet is being held.

"The funeral of the dog, Lord Shen stepped into the mansion to mourn, and the messenger in the house was lazy, so he didn't come to tell him, which is really disrespectful." He had just swept around in all directions, and Zhou Chen had already hurriedly greeted him, and he apologized deeply.

"I told you not to pass it on." Shen Zetang had a little compassion on his face, and seeing Zhou Chen's tired expression, he said gently: "Lingzi has talked a few times by chance, he is a person of the best nature, presumably he has entered the heavenly realm immortal class at this time, how can you and I be comparable to the layman, Zhou Shangshu must be obedient and broad-minded, so that the deceased can rest assured and the living be stable." ”

Zhou Chen thanked him with his head bowed, and suddenly heard someone calling: "That's Changqing here?" The voice is like a Hong Zhong, full of confidence, Changqing is Shen Zetang's word, and the only person who can call him like this is Xu Bingyong, the first assistant of the cabinet.

Sure enough, there was a table not far away, surrounded by officials, but I saw a person who was more than half a hundred years old, wearing a gauze hat and python clothes, eating tea with a bowl, but his eyes looked at him, his eyes were sharp and mighty, as if he could penetrate people's hearts at once, and he could probe you.

Shen Zetang's heart sank, and he stepped forward to salute with a solemn face, Xu Bingyong waved his hand: "It's not above the court, you don't need to be restrained and courteous, you can be more comfortable, you can sit next to me." ”

Chao Zhou Chen said: "You have been mediating non-stop so far, you must have been tired for a long time, and you should also sit down and eat some tea and wine to refresh your spirits." ”

While speaking, a seat was vacant beside him, Shen Zetang sat with a faint smile, and Zhou Chen looked sincerely frightened, and sat down on the side of Shaoqing Jiang Yan of Taichang Temple, full of gratitude.