Memories of the past suddenly popped up in Chunying's mind. She remembered that she had suggested that the third young master try to make Zhou Nian "return" to the capital as an upright person. lest the people on Taishi Liang's side seize the handle of the Hou Mansion again. And Zhou Nian was demoted to an official slave since he was a child, and entering the Hou Mansion as a slave was the most operational method. When he appeared today, his words and deeds didn't mean to hide from people, and he obviously didn't need to hide his whereabouts anymore!

Chunying immediately became happy for Zhou Nian, and she was a little nervous in her heart, wanting to ask Zhou Nian for clarification. However, since Zhou Nian signaled her not to talk to him, there must be something inconvenient. He is a small maid, it should be in the outer courtyard, she is a girl in the inner house, it is not easy to avoid others seeing him. It would be nice if he had a place to live in the back streets, and she could stop by when she took time off to go home. As for now......

Chun Ying's eyes rolled, and he suddenly remembered the third young master, Zhou Nian's matter, he must be very clear. He's supposed to be home now, right? Just go to Huanhuaxuan and ask him! Thinking of this, Chun Ying had a little complaint in her heart, the third young master had long known that she cared about this matter, Zhou Nian came back, why didn't he tell her?

Make up one's mind. Chunying quickly poured the tea and sent it into the main room, but the tortoiseshell had already gotten up and said goodbye. Chunying shrank her head a little weakly, and was ready to be scolded a few times, but who knew that Miss Biao had been sitting at the table in a daze, with a faint sadness on her face, until Linglong stepped forward and called her, she stood up and returned to the room without saying anything.

Chunying watched her turn around and leave, and suddenly felt a little distressed for her. This quiet girl, in modern times, is just the age of graduating from elementary school, but every move is no different from an adult, not only to be bound by the ancient boudoir etiquette norms, but also to take on the responsibility of supporting the family after losing her father, it is really not easy.

Chunying left the tea on the table, returned to her room sullenly, and after a few minutes of sadness for Miss Cousin, she came to her senses and knocked her head.

Everyone has their own destiny, and no matter how pitiful Miss Biao is, there is no sign of collapse. The deity didn't say anything, what did she care about as an irrelevant outsider? Let's get back to what we care about!

She looked out, Shi'er went to talk to the other maids, Mrs. Gu fell asleep, and Miss Biao also went back to the room. At this time, Aunt Qing is either at the bedside of Mrs. Qing or with Jinxiu and Linglong to do some luggage, from now until dinner, she should be able to get a spare time, and she can find an excuse to go back to Huanhuaxuan.

She took out a belt from the burden given by Xia He, hid it at the bottom of the suitcase, and then found Shi'er and said, "Shi'er, what Xia He gave me, it seems that a belt is missing, I am worried that it fell in Xia He's house, I want to go back and look for it." ”

Shi'er and Sang'er were talking about it, and when they heard the words, they hurriedly said: "Then you go, go early and return early, someone calls you, I will answer for you." ”

Chunying thanked her with a smile, turned around and hurried out, but she didn't watch out for someone running from the other direction of the corridor, and just bumped into it, and the other party said "ouch", took two steps back, and fell to the ground.

Chunying hurriedly apologized to the other party: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you didn't fall, did you?" "Take a closer look. It turned out to be Magnolia. She thought of the rumors and incidents before Mei Xiang's marriage, and her heart began to feel uncomfortable.

Magnolia sat on the ground and screamed in pain: "Ouch, I fell to death!" Where are you going to go with such recklessness? ”

Chunying naturally didn't answer, but just stepped forward and pulled her up. Yulan limped to help her sit on the railing next to her, inspected her ankles, and complained: "You girl, you can hit me hard!" It's just a matter of bumping into me today, but if I bump into someone else tomorrow, it's not so easy to talk. ”

Chunying twisted her hands and whispered, "I'm sorry......" Yulan glanced at her, tilted her head and thought about it, and said with a smile: "Okay, since you feel sorry for me, you can do something for me to make amends, right?" ”

"What is it?"

"Boil the medicine!" Yulan said dryly, "Aunt Qing asked me to boil medicine for her, saying that it was a headache cure." Now I have injured my foot, and it is not convenient for me to work, so I need to find someone to treat me. Will you do it for me? ”

Shi'er came out of the room and looked at her feet suspiciously: "Is it really so badly injured?" It's just a bump. ”

Yulan flattened her mouth, took Chunying's hand and said with a smile: "Good sister, just help me this time, my feet really hurt, I can't delay any longer." 100 days of broken bones, you know best, don't you? ”

Although she was skeptical about Yulan's character, it was a fact that she bumped into her, and Chunying had no intention of shirking: "No problem, I'll go out for a while, and I'll help you boil it when I come back." Where are the herbs? ”

Yulan hurriedly helped the pillar to get up: "If my sister is not in a hurry." Let's go out after boiling the medicine, the things are in Linglong. I was in real pain and had to go for treatment immediately. With that, he limped out of the gate.

Shi'er frowned and said, "I hurt my foot, can I still walk so fast?" It doesn't matter if you boil the medicine, why did she tell you to do it?! ”

Chunying was also muttering in her heart, the other party walked so fast that she didn't even have the time to interject, and her plan had to be moved back. After thinking about it, she shrugged: "Forget it, no matter how injured she is, I did accidentally bump into her." Besides, Aunt Qing has always taken good care of me, and it's nothing to help her boil medicine. ”

She turned to look for Linglong. The other party listened to Chunying's words and squinted his eyes: "Yulan went out?" Wasn't she badly wounded? Can you still walk? "It looks like a dissatisfaction. Chunying had no choice but to say: "She looks in pain, probably because she is worried about the sequelae and wants to find someone to treat her, right?" Excuse me, sister, where is Aunt Qing's medicine? Is she sick? ”

"It's not a big deal, it's just an old illness, and my aunt has to do it every month." Linglong took out a packet of medicinal herbs and a crockpot from the inner room, and pointed to the corner of the corridor: "That's the downwind place, you boil it there, three bowls of water boil into a bowl, remember to send the medicine over." Bring two red dates. ”

Chunying took the medicine and the crockpot, looked at the place she pointed, and couldn't help but think in her heart: Shouldn't the medicine be boiled in the tea room? At that corner, whether it is from the main house or the room of the two of them in Jinxiu and Linglong, you can see it clearly, can it be said that ...... Linglong is still guarding herself?

She felt a little disappointed, in the past few days, Aunt Qing has relaxed her discipline a lot, and this morning she went back to Huanhuaxuan with Shi'er to play, and no one said anything, she thought that she had gained a certain degree of trust.

She sullenly followed Linglong's words. Take a small bench and sit around the corner of the hallway, and raise a small medicine stove to boil the medicine. The smell of the medicine was not unpleasant, but the process of watching the fire was very boring, she began to look forward to Yulan coming back soon, she changed hands to find the third young master, but she kept waiting, waiting, waiting

Who did Magnolia go to for treatment? If she was injured, she would definitely stay in the room and ask someone else to bring the medicated oil. What if you rush out to find someone, but what if you can't find anyone? What if I fall down again and aggravate the injury?

While she was thinking nonsense, she fanned the stove weakly, and a gust of wind blew, vaguely bringing a few words: "...... Don't teach your mother to worry about ...... "It sounds like the voice of my aunt."

Chunying stopped and looked around, but she didn't see Mrs. Gu's figure, but the window behind her was open, and the wind penetrated through the window on the other side of the room, bringing the sound of the room to her ears.

There seemed to be someone crying quietly in the room, Chun Ying didn't hold back her curiosity, looked left and right, and saw that no one was paying attention to herself, so she carefully moved the bench in the direction of the window so that she could hear it clearly.

Mrs. Gu continued to speak in the room: "...... My brother is still young and has mediocre qualifications, so he can only keep it in the future...... After two years, it will be possible...... Miss Biao's anxious voice came from the room, ...... missed the flowering period," she seemed to be a little excited, coughed several times, and the anxious voice of Miss Biao came from the room: "Mother, mother! ”

After a while, Mrs. Gu's breathing calmed down, and she said slowly, "Your grandmother's house...... The family is prominent, and it is a close relative of the mother, for the sake of the mother, I will protect you thoroughly...... Brother You'er has a pure character, although he is a little out of the woods, he is still young...... Although he is inferior in learning, he will inherit your uncle's title in the future. That's enough......"

Chunying pursed her lips, feeling that Mrs. Gu's vision was very problematic, the third young master's character was pure?! He's the master who can be ruthless and calculating if he doesn't like the eye! At a young age, everyone pretended to think he was a good child, and from this alone, he knew that he was not pure and good......

The conversation in the room continued, and Miss Biao seemed to be trying to convince her mother: "Mother must have known about my brother's affairs, and my aunt ...... about it," and when she said this, Chun Ying suddenly caught a glimpse of Jinxiu coming out of the room, startled, and hurriedly sat back in her place, pretending to fan the stove as if nothing happened.

Jinxiu walked past her and glanced at her: "Don't fan too hard, the fire is too strong, you will overboil the medicine." ”

Chun Ying responded with a dry smile, lightened the strength of the fan, and waited for her figure to disappear before she put her head back back to continue listening.

“…… How could your grandmother and uncle let her come? It's just a few years of escrow...... You are still young, where do you know how to take care of it? Leaving it to the housekeeper is not a long-term solution. Your second uncle is also a scholar and is not familiar with popular affairs. Your uncle has many capable butlers, so let them cook for him......"

"Mother!"

"Don't always think too badly of people...... Your uncle has his own family wealth, where will he covet the Huo family's property? He has been the most painful mother since he was a child...... In the future, if there is a good thing for your mother, you will never be wronged in this family......"

"Mother's ......"

"I know...... Ahem...... You read the Lan Zhang...... You have known each other since childhood, and you know the roots, Lan Zhang's child is smart and has good conduct, but ...... Your Uncle Gu has known your father for more than ten years, and he has served three terms as a prefect alone...... In the future, at most, he will be a political envoy, and his foundation in the DPRK and China is also shallow, where can he compare to your uncle's family...... I heard your aunt Gu say that when she became an official in a poor place, she had to cook, do laundry, and grow vegetables herself...... Yi'er, you have been pampered since you were a child, where can you suffer from this? ”

Miss Biao was silent, and Chunying felt that she had heard the big gossip, so she was busy holding her breath and listening more attentively.

Mrs. Gu coughed for a while before continuing: "Don't be unconvinced, it's also for your good to be a mother...... Lan Zhang is an old man, and after two years, he must marry...... You have to keep filial piety, Brother Rong is young, how many years can he wait for you? Besides, our two families have not decided to marry, but it is a verbal agreement between your father and Uncle Gu, and there is not even a token...... Good Yi'er, you just listen to your mother's advice...... Don't worry about your mother......"

There was a low sobbing voice from the window, but there was no clear answer. Chunying sighed silently, sat back in place, and felt that Miss Biao was even more pitiful, and there was no ** to continue to gossip.

The medicine was finally boiled, Chunying carefully poured it into the porcelain bowl, thinking that there were still a few red dates missing, and she wanted to get up to look for it, but she saw Yulan running into the courtyard door in a hurry, and she couldn't see that she had hurt her foot at all. She was about to call the other party, and Yulan came over first: "The medicine is cooked?" My sister has worked hard, I'll send it over! "Grab the bowl and leave. Chunying was so anxious that she chased a few steps, remembered the red dates, and turned around to look for them.

When she found the red dates and rushed outside Aunt Qing's room, she saw Yulan standing by the door, listening to the sound inside, and in the room, Aunt Qing was talking to Jinxiu.

Chun Ying walked over hesitantly, hesitated for a while, and then didn't make a sound, only silently nudging Yulan.

Yulan seemed to be taken aback, let out a short exclamation, and when she looked back and saw Chunying, her eyes widened.

The people in the room had already heard the movement, and Aunt Qing asked sharply, "Who is outside?!" ”

Magnolia's face turned white.

(Everybody's eavesdropping...... Ask for a pink ticket...... ）。.。