"Tian'er? Why did she come at this hour? "Song Zhi woke up from sleep for the past two days because of a high fever, drinking medicine and eating porridge when he woke up, and rubbing liquor when he slept, and he felt very vaguely about the passage of time.

It's morning, but it's dark because of the hazy weather. Candles were lit in the house all the time, so that Song Zhi couldn't tell the difference between day and night.

"Madame, it's not yet lunchtime." Meteor commanded the little maid and changed a dry mattress for Song Zhi.

While the master and servant were talking, Cha Zhi led Song Tian in, Song Tian wanted to discuss with Song Zhi with a full stomach, but as soon as he entered the door, he saw Song Zhi holding a white porcelain porridge bowl and eating it in small bites.

I don't know if it's because of a single illness, her whole person is cold like a piece of white jade with a blue color, as if it will shatter in the sun at any time and turn into a cloud of smoke.

"Sister?" Song Tian hesitantly walked to Song Zhi's side and sat down, "Are you sick?" ”

"It's already great, it's okay." Song Zhi put down the porridge bowl and rubbed his lips with a handkerchief.

Meteor looked at the porridge bowl that was not much less at all, and tightened the corners of her mouth, she didn't say anything, just asked the little maid to clean up the porridge bowl, and secretly thought in her heart that Song Tian came at a very bad time, even if it was a quarter of an hour late, and asked Song Zhi to eat more porridge water.

Seeing Song Zhi's appearance of recovering from a serious illness, Song Tian's words seemed to be stuck in his throat, but Song Zhi urged and said, "What's wrong with you?" Baba came, but said nothing. ”

Song Tian opened his lips slightly, carefully considered his tone, and said: "My sister has always been cautious and thoughtful for her mother, why is she so reckless this time and told her mother all about the silk gold bag?" Didn't we say okay and deal with it privately? ”

Song Zhi was ill for a few days, and naturally didn't know anything about this matter during the illness, so he was subconsciously stunned, and then looked at the meteor waiting on the side.

The meteor was stared at directly by the eyes of the two, especially Song Tian, who seemed to be dissatisfied in his eyes.

Meteor waited in front of Song Zhi, and occasionally went to Shen Baiyan's outer study to deliver food, when Shen Baiyan faced outsiders, his unhappy cold face was much more visible, and Song Tian, a girl, couldn't scare the meteor at all.

Meteor still said in an orderly manner: "When Madame was sick, the water chestnut found some strange things on the gold bag, and then told the prince. The prince felt that this matter was basically a dirty dispute between the ladies of the back house, and the old lady would not even be able to deal with this matter, and Mrs. You were sick, so he asked the water chestnut to check carefully, and then told the old lady with full authority to deal with it herself. ”

"What did the water chestnut find out, a few friends of the mother's relatives came to visit her that day, and they quarreled, making the mother's relatives cry and cry, and the female guests also looked weird, including a female guest surnamed Liu, whose eyes were swollen, as if they had been scolded and cried fiercely."

Song Tian felt a headache when he thought of it, the Lin family was like a child, he refused to listen to it, and he refused to tell Song Tian the reason, and he even brought it to the palace in and out of his words, so Song Tian only came today.

In the end, it was the doctor who said that if she cried again, her eyes would be broken, not only would she fall into tears in the wind, but also it would be easy to get into eye dirt, so Lin rested.

Meteor lowered his head slightly and said to Song Zhi: "Then you have to ask about the water chestnut." ”

Song Zhi had just recovered from a serious illness, and his spirit was not very good, and after listening to Song Tian's words, he knew that it was the Lin family who caused the trouble himself, and he felt a little uncomfortable.

I don't know if it's because she has eaten too much bitter medicine, and the root of her tongue is a little astringent, so she is reluctant to speak, just nodding her head and motioning for the meteor to call the water chestnut.

Song Tian saw Song Zhi stroking his throat and coughing twice, and was about to get up and pour water for her, but Cha Zhi, who was waiting beside him, moved faster, took out a small dark brown clay pot from the cabinet of Huanghuali on the side, and dug out a spoonful of loquat honey from the clay pot and mixed it into the warm water.

Song Tian looked at the honey in the water with a trace of amber lines, and it was uncomfortable that there were few words between the two sisters, she opened her mouth, and was about to say something when the meteor led the water chestnut in.

Song Zhi took a sip of loquat honey water, cleared his throat, and said lightly to the water chestnut: "What did you find out about the silk gold bag, it seems to make my mother unhappy." ”

After the water chestnut told the Lin family about this matter, it was forgotten in a blink of an eye, which was just a trivial matter in her opinion, and it was worth always remembering.

However, since Song Zhi asked, the water chestnut still said honestly: "The curse seems stingy and narrow, I suspect that it is the filth between the back houses, and I checked the houses that are not stamped on the silk gold, and there is an orchid smell on the silk gold bag." And Mrs. Liu has liked the aroma of orchids since she was a child, and the flower water she uses on weekdays is the smell of orchids. ”

Water chestnut remembered that when she told Lin about this that day, her face became more and more embarrassed, and she said in her heart that she was afraid that she had caused trouble for Song Zhi.

However, Shen Baiyan nodded in charge of this matter, and in the end it was not on the water chestnut, she said cautiously: "This matter has not been checked, but it is just one of my own thoughts." So tell the old lady, first, I don't want her to be in the dark and be friends with the villain. Second, I also want to ask the old lady to check it herself, after all, she is still clearer about some things. ”

Song Zhi listened to the water chestnut explanation and said to Song Tian: "What did my mother say? What happened between himself and Mrs. Liu? Make others so jealous? ”

This Mrs. Liu, Song Zhi also knows, her mother's family is not high, her father and brother seem to be petty officials in the city guards, and married a concubine of Secretary Liu as a concubine.

Song Zhi had seen her a few times, but he only thought that she was a shy and gentle person, and he never thought that he would sit down and do such a vicious thing.

Song Tian frowned and said, "If my mother is willing to say, why should I come here?" It was precisely because I didn't know what was going on, and I didn't have a foundation in my heart, that I came to bother my sister. ”

Song Tian said that, feeling that he seemed to be a little alienated from what he had just said, he added another sentence and said, "But it was also me who came to know that sister, you are sick." ”

"We're sisters, what are you talking about?" Song Zhi waved his hand and said, "Since my mother doesn't want to say it, then let's go and ask that Mrs. Liu tomorrow." ”

"This ......

Song Tian was a little hesitant, but curiosity accounted for the majority, she still nodded, and said to Song Zhi: "Then tomorrow I will come to the house to go with my sister." ”

"Okay." Song Zhi said simply, glancing at the water chestnut. The water chestnut knew what it meant, bowed his head slightly, and turned around to go out to find Mrs. Liu.

"Can the fourth lady stay for dinner? The slave asks the kitchenette to add a few dishes of your choice. Meteor said to Song Tian.

The dishes in Song Zhi's small kitchen have always been excellent, although Song Tian is willing to stay and eat this meal, but he can't do it, and regrets: "No." Sister, I have to go back to eat with my mother, I don't know what's wrong with her, after giving birth to my younger brother, my temperament is more childish, and I want to be accompanied by someone every day. ”

"Speaking of my younger brother," Song Zhi bent his eyes, showed a smile, and said, "Does my father have a letter?" Did you get a nickname? ”

"Yesterday just arrived in a letter, my father was happy to be tight, the words were scribbled, sprinkled a few large sheets, but it can be said that it means the same thing, how is the child? How is Mother? I also asked my sister and I how you are. In the end, he said the child's nickname, saying that he wanted to call it a crossbow, but he didn't give an explanation or a head. ”

"Crossbow? The bow and crossbow is the favorite weapon of the people in the west, but now the technique of making bows and crossbows in our Su Dynasty has far surpassed that of the west. Song Zhi thought of something, so he said casually.

Song Tian saw that Song Zhi was gossiping about these things casually, and he was inexplicably a little envious in his heart, and said, "My sister is really knowledgeable. ”

"What's this? It's nothing more than reading too many idle books. Song Zhi didn't care, the two talked for a while, and the small kitchen gave Song Zhi an appetizing bowl of hawthorn syrup, and Song Tian pinched the hour and went back to Song's house.

"I looked at Miss Fourth as if she wanted to stay and eat, and the small kitchen happened to have her favorite stewed cured meat with winter bamboo shoots." Meteor commanded the little maids to cloth vegetables while saying.

Song Zhi showed a look that seemed to be smiling, and at this time, Zhuyue led Man'er in, Man'er had not been close to Song Zhi for many days, and the table was obviously so big, but he wanted to sit next to her.

The moon is on the left, the meteor is on the right, and the soup is added with a dish, which has a bit of the previous artistic conception.

After dinner, the master and servant took a walk in the courtyard and enjoyed the remnants of the snow on the red plum branches. Song Zhi saw that her skin was shining day by month, and she knew that she was in a good mood and said with a smile: "Yang'er is good?" ”

When Yang'er was mentioned, Zhuyue's face seemed to be illuminated by the soft moonlight, and he looked extremely gentle, and said: "Thank you for the relationship with Mrs., Yang'er is very good, and it has been a lot heavier recently, and I can't hold him anymore." ”

"Isn't that the case at the beginning? The joy of the calf kick is so happy that I can't hold it anymore. Song Zhi thought of his son's white and tender calves like lotus roots, and couldn't help laughing.

Zhuyue and Meteor also laughed, and saw Cha Yun holding an urn of snow water from a distance from the small kitchen, and the smile on Zhuyue's face was slightly condensed, and he smiled again, and said to Cha Yun, who was saluting Song Zhi: "Why did you go to the small kitchen to get tea by yourself?" ”

Song Zhi often drinks a tea called plum soup on weekdays, which is boiled with snow water, and most of the snow water is stored in the room next to the small kitchen.

Cha Yun smiled and said: "Those girls don't know where to go, I have nothing to do, so I will go by myself." ”

Hearing Cha Yun's words month by month, the smile on his face changed unchanged, as if he didn't hear the meaning of Cha Yun's words at all, and he didn't seem to realize how Cha Yun happened to meet them here.

As soon as he came back month by month, the position of Cha Yun was more awkward, and the meteor was more accustomed to calling Cha Zhi, so Cha Yun was idle these days.