Ding Yi looked back at Old Lady Wen and said with a smile:

"Old lady, the little one came this time on the orders of the master, and by the way, he sent a relative to your house."

Old lady Wen looked dazed and asked in a daze:

"Relatives? What relatives? Isn't the master in Shangling Pass? How can there be my relatives there? ”

Ding Yi laughed a little embarrassed twice, took a sip of tea, and then replied:

"The relatives of the old lady's family, the master must be clear, the master said yes, then it must be, old lady, what do you say?"

Old lady Wen suddenly understood, and hurriedly said:

"Da Ding is right, very right! Yes, yes, it must be! I never missed it! ”

Ding Yi lowered his head and drank tea, his eyes were full of smiles, the old lady Wen in the palace and the old lady Wen in the palace had the same belief in life: what the prince said was right!

"The lord said that it was the old lady's distant niece, named Li Qing, fourteen years old this year, with a few old servants to the Wenfu, the lord ordered the little one to be sent over, and now he is waiting in the warm pavilion of the second gate."

Old lady Wen nodded in confusion,

"Ye is right, he is right, it's not my niece who is here! Thanks to Da Ding for sending it! I'll let someone bring her in and let the second daughter-in-law settle it well. ”

As he spoke, he called the little servant to come in and ordered him to go down. Ding Yi drank another cup of tea and took his leave.

Li Qing took Mama Zheng into the inner courtyard with her mother-in-law, walked through a small garden, and came to a spacious flower hall.

There are hot charcoal basins in the four corners of the hall, which makes the room very warm, and there is a woman about thirty years old sitting on the couch in the front, wearing a big red forehead, wearing a jade wool embroidered jacket, a red crepe silver mouse skin skirt, a beautiful face, bright eyes, looking very capable, and her lips are slightly thin, bringing out a bit of sternness.

The mother-in-law smiled and said to Li Qing:

"This is the second grandmother."

Li Qing hurriedly bent his knees and blessed a blessing, please An Dao:

"Say hello to the second grandmother."

The second grandmother frowned slightly, turned her head to look at the mother-in-law, and the mother-in-law stepped forward to salute the second grandmother with a smile, and reported:

"This Li Qing girl is the old lady's distant niece, and she came to join her relatives, and the old lady instructed that the second grandmother should be well settled."

The second grandmother raised her eyebrows, turned her head to look at Li Qing, and after a while, Fang smiled a little and said:

"Young girl, please take a seat."

Ordered the little girl to pour tea again, Li Qing meekly thanked and sat down, Mama Zheng stood beside her, and the second grandmother asked with a smile:

"The young girl's voice is really gentle and beautiful, just listening to the girl's accent, it doesn't seem like she is from Pingyang Mansion, where is the young girl's home? I don't know which branch of the Wen family Lingmu is? I've only been in the literary family for more than ten years, and I don't know if I recognize it. ”

Li Qing hurriedly straightened up and replied a little timidly:

"I have always lived in Los Angeles, and my relatives here have never heard my mother mention it, and this time I came to Wenfu to join my relatives in accordance with the instructions."

The second grandmother frowned, turned her head and looked at the mother-in-law with some sternness, and the mother-in-law hurriedly replied with a smile:

"It was ordered by the old lady herself."

The second grandmother turned her head and looked at Li Qing with a smile for a while, Li Qing sat meekly with her eyes down, it was her, she had to wonder, and she had to think about it, this relative was really a little weird! The second grandmother picked up the tea, drank it slowly, and after a while, she opened her mouth and ordered:

"This is also about to enter the wax moon, the weather is cold, and I have to be busy with the New Year, and it is not good to clean up the yard again, the young girl will squeeze with Miss Wanru for the time being, and wait for the New Year, and then clean up a yard in the spring."

Li Qing hurriedly stood up and bent her knees to thank her, and the second grandmother ignored her, turned her head and instructed the mother-in-law:

"You took the young girl to meet Aunt Chen and Grandma Chen, and by the way, Aunt Chen also knew about letting the young girl and Miss Wanru squeeze through this winter."

The mother-in-law's face was stunned for a moment, and she immediately agreed with a smile and took Li Qing out of the flower hall.

The second grandmother watched the two go out, thought for a while, raised her hand and called a girl over, and commanded in a low voice:

"Yukou, you go and inquire, what is the origin of this young girl, there are many relatives of the old lady who come to fight the autumn breeze, and there has never been one who has been brought into the house, you go, inquire carefully."

Jade Buckle promised to go out.

Li Qing and his entourage walked all the way along the verandah, walked for a quarter of an hour, entered a tall and spacious courtyard, the house was painted with carved beams and paintings, rich and abnormal, there were three or four little girls standing respectfully at the door of the main house, seeing the mother-in-law with Li Qing coming in, a little girl lifted the curtain and went in, and after a while, the little girl came out and lifted the curtain and invited the mother-in-law and Li Qing to go in.

The mother-in-law took Li Qing into the main house, smiled and said to Li Qing:

"Young girl, please wait for a while, I went in and went back to my aunt, and then I came to ask the girl to come over and say goodbye."

Li Qing was slightly stunned in her heart, lowered her eyes, and responded with a smile, the mother-in-law turned around the Baibao Pavilion with various jade decorations, and entered the East Chamber, on the big kang near the window of the East Chamber, a woman in her forties, wearing a honey-colored cotton jacket, autumn fragrance embroidery makeup skirt, and a delicate and beautiful woman was lying on the dark green butterfly wearing a large pillow, looking at the two gorgeously dressed girls sitting next to them peeling lotus seeds, seeing the mother-in-law come in, the two girls got up and wiped their hands, smiled and bent their knees to bend their knees, and stood next to them. The mother-in-law nodded with a smile and replied to the two girls' salutes, hurriedly walked two steps forward, knelt in front of the couch with a smile on her face and kowtowed.

"Auntie, please!"

With a dignified smile, Aunt Chen raised her hand and said:

"Hurry up, Mama Zhuang is not waiting in the front yard, why do you have time to greet me?"

Mama Zhuang stood up, blessed again, and said with a smile:

"If I wasn't afraid of disturbing my aunt, I would have liked to come three times a day to say hello to my aunt! Today, the slave maid did not make a special trip to ask for peace, but on the order of the old lady, sent a relative to ask the second grandmother to settle, and the second grandmother instructed to live with Miss Wanru first, and then clean up the yard after the spring, and the slave and maid brought someone to ask the aunt to come here. ”

Aunt Chen sat up straight, her beautiful brows frowned slightly, and she asked puzzledly:

"Where did the relatives come from? How can you live with Wanru!? ”

Mama Zhuang smiled and looked back at the two girls, Aunt Chen waved her hand to signal the two girls to step back, Mama Zhuang watched them go out of the door, and then explained:

"The old lady said it was a distant niece of his, but ......"

Mama Zhuang approached the couch, lowered her voice and whispered in Aunt Chen's ear:

"But that girl herself can't tell what kind of relatives she has in our house, I heard Shuangzhe say that it was sent by Ding Yi, the little guy next to the prince."

Aunt Chen looked at Mama Zhuang in surprise, her face gradually sank, and her eyes became gloomy.

"Grandma, the young girl is still waiting outside, look ......?"

Aunt Chen woke up, raised her hand and combed the hairpin, still crooked on the pillow, and ordered with a cold look in her eyes:

"Bring her in."

Mama Zhuang beckoned Li Qing to come in, Li Qing stood in front of the couch, lowered her eyes, and bowed her knees:

"Say hello to my aunt."

Aunt Chen's eyes flashed with displeasure, and Mama Zhuang smiled beside her and introduced:

"Auntie, this is the old lady's distant niece, Miss Li Qing. The second grandmother instructed that Miss Wanru should live with her first. ”

Aunt Chen stared at Li Qing coldly for a while, and then said:

"Poor thing, on this cold day, there is not even a piece of fur! How did you lose weight like this? How old is this year? ”

Li Qing replied softly:

"Back to my aunt and grandmother, I will be fifteen years old after the New Year."

Aunt Chen looked Li Qing up and down carefully for a while before she slowly spoke again:

"In the future, let's live in the house with peace of mind, Wanru is a gentle and sensible person, let's get along well."

Li Qing bent her knees and agreed, Aunt Chen didn't seem to want to talk to her much, waved her hand to signal that she could go down, and Mama Zhuang took her out.

Aunt Chen sat up straight, frowned slightly and thought for a while, then raised her hand and called Jade over and ordered:

"You should go to the palace now and tell your wife about this."

Mama Zhuang took Li Qing and Mama Zheng, through a small garden, to a courtyard with many houses, pink walls and green tiles, into the main house, a group of gorgeously dressed, fat and thin concubines filled the house to the brim, on the front kang, sat a thin and pale, slender facial features, a somewhat old woman in her thirties, Li Qing stepped forward to ask for peace, Zhuang Mama was also busy stepping forward to give a blessing, and introduced with a smile:

"Grandma, this is Miss Li Qing, the niece of the old lady, and she will live in the mansion in the future."

The eldest grandmother glanced at Li Qing a few times absently, her eyes flickered, she nodded with a smile a little mechanically, and turned back to the girl waiting next to her:

"Listen to the book, take the right gold bracelet and give it to the young girl."

Listening to the book, he bent his knees, turned around, and soon used a small red lacquer tray to hold the shrimp bracelet, the eldest grandmother took it, and handed it to Li Qingdao with a smile:

"I don't know if my sister is coming, and I don't know if my sister likes this bracelet, if I don't like it, my sister will keep it for reward."

Li Qing hurriedly bent his knees and thanked him, and took it with both hands. Mama Zhuang next to her looked a little embarrassed, opened her mouth, but did not speak.

Mama Zhuang took Li Qing out, Li Qing already felt tired, this day, after driving for most of the day, she entered this Wenfu, for nearly an hour, she was following Mama Zhuang, and kept walking from one courtyard to another courtyard to say goodbye. Mama Zheng helped her and said softly:

"Girl?"

Li Qing shook his head at her, signaling that he was fine, Mama Zhuang heard it in front, turned around, and said with a smile:

"The young girl has been on the road for a day, and she should be tired at this time, so I'll take the young girl to Linghuayuan, the girl's luggage, I'll let someone send it to the girl later."