Chapter 197 Drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle

Xun Qingran was sitting in the carriage, and Mama Xu and Citron were in the same carriage with her. The words passed on by this mother-in-law, and the citron naturally heard it.

Xun Qingran glanced at the citron, "Let's go to the city and settle down first." ”

Qi You's convoy was divided into three parts. Tang Younian walked in the front with some personal soldiers and staff. Xun Qing's carriage and the personal maids were in the center, Qi You personally guarded them, followed by the carriage with luggage, furniture and other things, and licorice with the family, personal guards, and the queen of the palace.

Xun Qingran's carriage was in the middle of the convoy, so it was not good to stop like this on the road and delay the vehicles behind.

Xun Qingran asked Citron again, "Why is your brother here, do you know what is going on?" ”

Citron shook her head, a little uneasy in her heart.

"Grandma, Citron's brother said that there was an emergency." The woman outside replied.

Xun Qingran couldn't help but groan, the citron held the handkerchief in his hand, and he was very afraid of hearing bad news.

The Qi brothers, as well as Xun Junhui, were sent all the way to Tongzhou, and they also planned to spend the night in Tongzhou before returning to the capital tomorrow morning. So the brothers were at the back of the convoy, chatting as they walked. It was also because it was the first day on the road, so the convoy walked slowly.

By this time, Citron's brother had already chased to the back of the convoy, got out of the carriage, and was talking in front of Qi You's horse.

“…… Fourth master, the old lady in the young family suddenly fell seriously ill, and the medicine invited by Langzhong was useless, or it would be bad. The little lady only has a little girl, a girl, who was sold to the house when she had no way to live, and she was treated well by the house. The little one is now bold, and he has to be cheeky, and ask the fourth master for a grace, so that the little girl can go back with the little one and see the old lady. ”

Qi Xiu, Qi Yi, and Xun Junhui were all on the horse, so naturally they all heard Brother Citron's words.

"Take him to the front." Qi Yu instructed the skullcap.

Some of the girls who followed secretly poked their heads out of the car, wondering what the citron brother was doing at this time, it was not to see him off.

Skullcap took Citron's brother to Xun Qingran's carriage, and Citron's brother knelt on the ground.

Xun Qingran had no choice but to stop the carriage.

"You don't want to show up, so come with me in the car." Xun Qingran said to the citron.

Citron nodded, her identity was different from that of ordinary girls, so she naturally became noble.

Citron's brother said that his wife was seriously ill, and he was afraid that he would die, so he wanted to take Citron to see him.

"I've been back to the fourth master. The house has always been benevolent, the fourth master and the fourth grandmother are lenient and peaceful, and the little courage dares to come to pray. ”

Citron shuddered when she heard this, and her heart churned like boiling oil. That is her own mother, although she was sold, but there is always a mother-daughter relationship. When she heard that her mother was seriously ill, how could she not be concerned. The next thing that came to mind made her even more worried. Qi Mansion is filial piety and pays attention to rules. Although she is not married to Ming Media, if her mother really dies, she will also wear filial piety. The three-year filial piety period cannot be accepted at all during this period. For three whole years, who knows what will change in it.

Citron bit into her lower lip unconsciously, her old lady was really sick at the wrong time. Even if she can stubbornly ignore her, but Qi You and Xun Qingran know it, what will they think of her? When it reaches Rong's ears, she will be regarded as a person without a heart. Xun Qingran faced the deliberate difficulties of the second lady of Qi, served without undressing, and was tired and sick, how did the whole family treat it, if she ignored the old lady's illness, then she would not be able to stand in Qi Mansion.

"Brother, what kind of disease does my mother have, but I can invite Langzhong."

"My mother is still that old problem, I invited a few Langzhong, and I took all the medicines I could take, but it didn't work, my mother was groggy and called my sister's name, saying I was sorry for my sister, and I wanted to see my sister." Citron's brother said.

Xun Qing was beside her, watching the citron's reaction. She wants to see what the citron will decide.

Citron struggled inwardly. If she doesn't go back with her brother to see the old lady, she can't go back to see it, if she can save it, it's the best, if she can't save it, she can also discuss with her brother and hide the news of the old lady's death. When she arrived in Pingxi Town, so far away, the news of death would come to her ears every year or two, and no one would be able to say that she was not. At that point, it won't matter.

Citron made an agreement in his heart, and in the car, he knelt down to Xun Qingran.

"The maid is grandma's person, and she has sold the deed of death. Because of my grandmother's compassion, I was able to communicate with my family. Now at this time, the maid is reluctant to give up her grandmother, but she misses the old lady, and the maid lets her grandmother decide. ”

But he kicked this problem to Xun Qingran.

Xun Qing said secretly, what a treacherous girl.

"It's the big event of your life, you can make up your own mind." Xun Qing said.

Seeing that Xun Qingran refused to solicit, the citron had to say, "The maid begs for the grace of grandma, and lets the maid go home to see the old lady." The ancients said that loyalty and filial piety cannot be both, and the maid saw the old lady, fulfilled her filial piety, and rushed back overnight to serve the fourth master and the fourth grandmother. ”

"Since you want to go back to fulfill your filial piety, I naturally won't stop you. The Qi family is not such a mean family, you just serve your mother to recover, and I will send someone to pick you up when the time comes. Xun Qing said.

Citron nodded in response.

"Go find all the champling's luggage and bring it back to her." Xun Qingran commanded.

Citron waved her hand hurriedly, she didn't believe that Xun Qingran was really so virtuous, and she would send someone to pick her up. The luggage is all brought back, but it is not a fact, she can't bring luggage. She made up her mind, went back to take a look, turned around immediately, and said that her mother was already well.

"Go and come back quickly, and you won't take those cumbersome things with you."

Seeing that Citron said this, Xun Qingran was not reluctant.

"Alright then, don't be in a hurry when you go back, serve your mother well." Xun Qingran ordered the citron.

Citron said goodbye to Xun Qingran, got into the carriage that her brother had come, and went back and forth.

Mama Xu closed the curtain tightly, and the convoy continued to move forward.

"This girl is extremely hard-hearted." Mama Xu said.

Xun Qingran snorted, if an ordinary girl heard the news that her mother was critically ill, she would cry early, but Citron could still be so calm and planned, shirk responsibility, and could drive others to explore the way for her at the cost of her life, naturally she was not soft-hearted.

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Citron sat in the carriage, anxious. Her brother did the same as her, driving the carriage to and fro as fast as he could, as if he were afraid of being overtaken.

Before dark, I finally entered the capital. The carriage turned around and stopped at the back door of a large cart shop. Without waiting for the carriage to stop, Citron jumped out of the carriage and went straight into her mother's house. There was no crying, no hanging, and the citron's heart was relieved.

"Niang" citron threw herself into the house, but was stunned for a moment.

The old lady of the citron is sitting on the kang, eating fried beans with a clatter.

"Girl, you're back, and you're worried about your mother to death." The old lady of the citron saw the citron and said happily.

Citron's heart sank, and by this time Citron's brother had unloaded the carriage and entered the house.

"This, what's going on." Citron looked at the old lady, then at the brother, and said hurriedly.

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In Tongzhou City, the Qi family borrowed a house from a large family to rest. In the house, Xun Qing took off the decoration and was grooming, and Mama Xu took a few jewelry, hairpin rings, and clothes with bellflowers.

After Xun Qingran finished washing, he sat on the couch and glanced in the direction of the capital. At this time, the citron should have arrived home and knew that it had been fooled. But there is no way to do it, she can't put such a scheming and terrible person by her side.

In this era, information is not so developed, especially ordinary people, most of whom are closed to information. The town of Pingxi, in the eyes of the people, is a desolate and terrible place, because the exiled prisoners have not returned. Even businessmen who run the business rarely go to that place. Citron's wife and brother naturally think so.

Pay attention to the citron, Xun Qingran has to let people investigate the situation at the citron's house. The citron lady, like most feudal women, is not bad, but she has no knowledge. Citron's brother is hardworking and capable, quite loyal and honest.

Because the money obtained from the sale of citron did not save the life of Daddy Citron, but it gave the family the capital to do some small business. Citron's brother relied on this money to accumulate little by little, and now he has partnered with someone to open such a big car shop, and his life is quite passable.

The mother and son thought of the citron and wanted to make amends, so they came to find it. Citron's brother had plans to redeem Citron, but after Citron returned to visit his family, he dispelled this idea.

Before leaving, Xun Qingran deliberately controlled the citron by his side, cutting off the contact between the citron and the outside world. In the end, the citron couldn't and came to her to pray. She asked Citron to carry a letter to her family. Citron looked for Xiao Ding, and as soon as Xiao Ding went out, he was stopped by Chen De. Between Citron and Grandma Qi Si, Xiaoding has only one choice. Ding Ding came back and told Citron that the message had been delivered, and the other Ding did not go to Citron's house at all.

Early this morning, Xiao Ding and Chen Decai found Citron's house and reported the good news that Citron was going to follow Qi You to Pingxi Town, and was about to make Qi You's room.

Citron's brother knew his sister's plan, so he was naturally happy and left the two to drink. When people drink too much, they talk a lot, and the truth that should not be told is also spoken. Both of them were arranged by Grandma Qi Si to endure hardships, and they were very resentful of Grandma Qi. The two took Citron's brother as a confidant, so they opened their mouths, talking nothing more than how the fourth grandmother of Qi was sweet-mouthed and bitter, even more ruthless than the second grandmother in the family, and she was going to end up with Citron on the road.

"People can't fight with fate, the fourth grandmother is now in honey with the fourth master. The fourth grandmother was born in the Yingchuan Xun family, her father was the imperial history of the imperial court, and her brother just ordered Tanhua and became a Hanlin. She's going to kill someone, not like crushing an ant. Poor citron girl is infatuated, a flower in the water, want, hey"

The two of them talked about Grandma Qi Si's methods again, "...... Another girl, even was taken out of the door by her grandmother, and never came back, tsk, I don't know if she is dead or alive, she is just dead, and she is guilty of living, which is even worse. ”

Citron's brother was terrified when he heard this.

"Good girl, how can I watch you jump into the fire pit. I'm going to catch the car and pick you up. Citron's brother said to Citron.

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Today's weak face has changed 10,000 words. The month is over in a few hours, so let's get pink a little harder, clenching your fists.

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