Sheng Leyun was annoyed that she had said the wrong thing, she shouldn't have said more in front of her cousin, she was muttered by her cousin, and she was said by her grandmother and said it implicitly, which was boring.

Seeing that her grandmother was the same, she was already vigilant in her heart, and said with a smile: "Grandmother, it's just that she looks similar." I'm not going to talk too much anymore. ”

Mrs. Sheng knew that she had misunderstood, so she hugged her in her arms with a smile and said, "Grandmother didn't blame Sister Yun, she just wanted to find out the reason." Just the two of us, it's okay to talk privately. You tell your grandmother why: How can you see that the pendant on the late girl of the Xue family is your father's thing? ”

In the end, she is a nine-year-old girl, no matter how cautious she is, she is limited, and her natural curiosity and desire to explore make her a little naïve.

She looked at her grandmother's eager gaze, her heart was slightly hot, and her words were no longer hidden, and said: "At the end of October last year, I took Brother Yu to play at Aunt Tao's place, and I saw Mother Tao come in with a fine sandalwood box from outside, which contained a transparent blue-green jade gourd pendant, and said, "The jade gourd that my aunt wants, the people of Duobao Zhai rushed to work overnight." , Brother Yu asked if it was for him to wear the violet straight *, and Aunt Tao smiled and said that it was a gift for his father's birthday at the beginning of the winter month. Brother Yu was clamoring to see, and I also watched it from the sidelines. The next day, I went to my aunt's place, and she was making tassels, and the cherry red tassels were vivid.

I looked funny and asked my aunt whose tassels to give, so laborious? The aunt said that she and Aunt Tao were going to give her father a birthday gift. It is also said that it is the meaning of Aunt Tao, according to the rules of the south, every 28th birthday, a man needs a jade gourd pendant to hang, with bright red tassels, which means that he is blessed and smooth, and his official fortune is prosperous. Daddy was exactly twenty-eight years old on the first day of the first winter month last year."

Aunt Tao is the biological mother of Sheng Xiuyi's concubine, Sheng Leyu.

Since Chen's violent death, most of the things in Sheng Xiu's room have been managed by Aunt Tao.

Aunt Tao was originally the aunt and sister of Ge, the second young grandmother of the Sheng family. Although she is a concubine of a small family, she is clever and well-behaved, and she is a little better than those big ladies.

will be courteous in front of Mrs. Sheng, and Mrs. Sheng likes her very much.

Aunt Tao gave birth to a concubine, Sheng Leyu, and added a boy to the Sheng family, which can be regarded as a great contribution to the Sheng family.

Because the Sheng family has always been unprosperous.

The three aunts in the room of the second young master of the Sheng family have not come out: after the second grandmother gave birth to her daughter Sheng Lehui, there has been no movement: the third young master has not yet married. The grandson is especially precious to the sparsely populated Sheng family. Whether it is a concubine or a concubine, Mrs. Sheng loves it the same.

Because Aunt Tao gave birth to a concubine and was very knowledgeable, Mrs. Sheng originally planned to take charge of Sheng Xiuyi's step-room in the spring of this year. But last year, Layue encountered a marriage with the Xue family, and then decided that Sheng Xiuyi would marry the daughter of the Xue family and raise the noble concubine as the stepfamily.

The "my aunt" in Sheng Leyun's mouth is her biological mother Shao Shi, whose name is Zi Sandalwood, and she is Sheng Xiuyi's maid who has served her since she was a child. After the original Chen entered the door, he let the Shaw family make a room, and after giving birth to Sheng Leyun, he carried his aunt.

The Shaw family served Sheng Xiuyi wholeheartedly and loyally, and she had been in the house for a long time, she was docile and kind, never caused trouble, and Mrs. Sheng also liked her.

Because Mrs. Sheng likes the two aunts in Sheng Xiuyi's room, she never restricts the children from associating with these two aunts.

Sheng Leyun is even more of a person, and she doesn't call Aunt Shao's surname, but only "my aunt".

Hearing this, Mrs. Sheng also remembered that she did remember that there was a jade gourd pendant on Sheng Xiuyi's waist seal last year, which was very good-looking, and asked him where he got it. Sheng Xiuyi just smiled at the time, saying that what others gave him did not elaborate.

Mrs. Sheng thought it was very vague and couldn't say it. It's just a stubborn child, and Mrs. Sheng didn't dig into it.

Later, I have always seen him wearing it by his side.

Later, in the middle of the month, Mrs. Sheng's eldest sister who married in Anqing Mansion, Anhui Province, died suddenly, and Sheng Xiuyi went to mourn. When I returned, I was going to rush home on Chinese New Year's Eve due to heavy snow, but I didn't arrive home until the eighth day of the first month. She was married the day after she got home, so Mrs. Sheng remembered this day very well.

He never wore it again after he returned.

Mrs. Sheng thought she didn't like it, so she put it aside.

Now listening to Sheng Leyun's tone, it seems that she has given it away,...............

"Sister Yun, do you really see it? The jade gourd on the late girl in Xue Mansion was given to your father by your two aunts? Mrs. Sheng's heart froze, and she looked at Sheng Leyun with serious eyes.

Sheng Leyun affirmed the leader: "The tassel made by my aunt is a coiled cockroach from the front, if it is the other way around, it is a bat-like appearance, which she has figured out by herself, and no one else will do it." I looked at it carefully three times, and there was no doubt that the aunts sent their fathers. Mrs. Sheng's brows couldn't help frowning.

Aunt Tao asked Daddy, where was the jade gourd pendant, and Daddy said that he lost it.

Aunt Tao didn't believe it, and complained to my aunt that my father didn't pay attention to what they made, and he must have rewarded some little guy casually. At that time, Brother Yu and I were on the side, and we both heard it.

Sheng Leyun was afraid that her grandmother would not believe it, so she added.

Mrs. Sheng pondered for a moment and said with a smile: "Sister Yun, don't talk about this matter to others again, only you and your grandmother know, and don't even tell Aunt Tao and your aunt." ”

Sheng Leyun hurriedly nodded and said, "I gave the birthday gift from the aunts to others, and the aunts are not happy, and they want to complain about their father." The late girl is not from our family, and her father should not give her personal things privately. Grandmother, Sister Yun understands that it is not good for both father and late girl to say it, and it will not be happy when mother enters the door in the future. Sister Yun only told you. If someone else asks, I'll say it's bad. Seeing that she was so sensible, Mrs. Sheng was relieved: "Yes, yes! Sister Yun is the most well-behaved child! Sheng Leyun's cheeks were shy.

At the end of the second day, Mrs. Sheng got up.

But I heard the noise of people outside, and called my close mother Kang to take a look. Kang's mother went out to take a look and said with a smile: "It's the people from Xue Mansion who are preparing to go down the mountain." said that the masters said that Mrs. Xue led the Xue family to get up and worship the Bodhisattva at the beginning of Yinchu, and made merits, and now she has gotten up and returned to the gate of the temple. Mrs. Sheng was slightly surprised: "Why are you in such a hurry?" ，…

Mother Kang pursed her lips and smiled: "Our mother is pregnant with a dragon seed again, and when Mrs. Xue heard this, she felt uncomfortable, and she couldn't live in the temple, right?" ”

Mrs. Sheng smiled faintly, but frowned slightly. Old Madam Xue is not so breathless, something must have happened to make her go down the mountain in such a hurry.

Just as he was about to say, the prince Sheng Xiuyi came over to ask for peace, and said to Mrs. Sheng: "The third brother Yinzheng went down the mountain, let me tell my mother, he won't come to resign, so as not to disturb my mother." ”

Mrs. Sheng didn't blame, said that the errand was important, and said to Sheng Xiuyi: "The people from the Xue Mansion are going down the mountain, you go and resign." ”

"I've quit." Sheng Xiuyi said flatly, "The Xue family said that they were in a hurry, and they didn't dare to disturb our rest, so they only said goodbye to our housekeeper." ”

Mrs. Sheng turned to look at her eldest son and asked Kang's mother to go out first, and she had something to say to the prince.

Mother Kang led the eldest lady Sheng Leyun to salute the prince, and went to the wing of the dining room to eat first, leaving only Mrs. Sheng and Sheng Xiuyi in the house.

"Do you know why the people from the Xue Mansion are in such a hurry?" Mrs. Sheng asked Sheng Xiuyi, with three points of inquiry in her eyes.

Sheng Xiuyi remembered Emperor Yuanchang who deliberately went down the mountain in front of him last night, and the Xiuyan jade pendant that was thrown under the ginkgo tree, and vaguely understood in his heart. But he didn't want his mother to worry about the affairs in his room: the affairs of the court, and he didn't want his mother to be worried, so he said: "The people of the Xue family were originally scheduled to go down the mountain today." I heard that the night wind was strong in the mountains, and there were many female dependents from their family, and several of them were infected with the wind and cold, so they went down the mountain a few hours early. Sheng Xiuyi couldn't help but think of Emperor Yuanchang and the others he met last night.

If it weren't for the intention, the second-grade sword guards beside Emperor Yuanchang had already told Emperor Yuanchang that Sheng Xiuyi was here, and Emperor Yuanchang could have avoided the Sheng brothers. But he is still in front of Sheng Xiuyi, since he was a child... Trail down the mountain: There is also Xue Dongyu's jade pendant, if he didn't deliberately let the Sheng family know, he wouldn't let Sheng Sanye see the picture he drew, and he wouldn't let Sheng Sanye see the rare Xiuyan jade.

hurriedly went up the mountain to return the jade pendant to Xue Dongyu, did you want her to take it to the Sheng family when she got married?

made up so many coincidences, didn't you just want to warn the Sheng family and Sheng Xiuyi, although Xue Dongyu is the stepwife of the Sheng family, she is the woman that the Son of Heaven cares about?

Sheng Xiuyi couldn't help but sneer in his heart.

He understood Emperor Yuanchang's thoughts.

It's just that he doesn't know, is Xue Dongyu an innocent person or an accomplice?

Sheng Xiuyi's heart turned a thousand times, but his face did not show anything.

How did Mrs. Sheng know that his mind at the moment had already jumped so far from the matter of the Xue family going down the mountain, and still said: "When I go back, I have to tell the girls of our family to be careful, the night wind on the mountain is the most powerful, and if you are not careful, the wind will be cold." When Sheng Xiuyi heard this, he smiled faintly.

Mrs. Sheng hesitated for a moment before she said, "Brother Yi, my mother asked you something, and you told your mother honestly."

His face couldn't help but be solemn.

Sheng Xiuyi was puzzled, and asked with a smile: "My son doesn't dare to hide it, what does my mother ask?" ”

"There is a young lady in the Xue family named Xue Jiangwan, do you recognize her?" Mrs. Sheng asked bluntly. The family waited for their mother and son to have breakfast, and she didn't have much time to go around with Sheng Xiuyi.

Sheng Xiuyi didn't think about it, shook his head and said, "I don't recognize it!" On weekdays, I'm either at home or in Yamen, where can I recognize the young lady from the Zhenxian Marquis Mansion? Besides, where is the young lady of their family who can easily get to know each other? ”

Indeed, it is not easy to get acquainted with a lady from a wealthy family. Then Xue Jiang is a guest house in the evening, and it is even more difficult to come out to meet outsiders.