"Miss, the old lady has sent someone to call you over."

Sanniang shook her hand when she heard this.

"Ding", Sanniang looked back and saw Bai Yingzheng, who came in with a tea bowl, looking at herself with worriedness, the crisp sound just now was the sound of the tea bowl lid touching the edge of the bowl.

Sanniang glanced at Bai Ying calmly and said: "Today is just the right day, Bai Ying, you move some of the books in the study to the yard to dry, yesterday when I turned the travelogue, I saw that there were worms on the pages." Bai Ying was infected by Sanniang's calmness, and finally calmed down.

"Yes, miss."

"Bai Zhi, you follow me to the old lady's courtyard." Sanniang walked to the mirror and tidied up her clothes that were a little wrinkled because she had been sitting.

Bai Zhi hurriedly responded and followed behind Sanniang.

"Who just came?" Sanniang asked casually as she walked out.

"It's a little girl, and the maid asked her what happened to the old lady and Miss at this time, but the little girl didn't know anything." Bai Zhi hurriedly replied.

Sanniang nodded: "You did a good job." And he asked no more questions.

On the way to Songling Hospital, Sanniang has been speculating about the reason why Sun called her over this time.

Bai Ying lost her temper just now, because she was worried that the correspondence between Hefeng Yuan and Mama Chang would be discovered by the Sun family, and this time she was asked to ask for the guilt. She had just heard that Sun had summoned her, and she suspected that Wang Zhang had informed Sun of what had happened in the garden today.

If so, how should she respond? Sanniang's brain was running at a high speed while walking, and when she walked to Songling Hospital, she already had a coping plan in her heart, although the plan was not mature in a hurry, but it was still okay to barely deal with one or two. She herself is the granddaughter of the old lady, and no matter how bad it is, it just makes the Sun family even more cold, so what she thinks about is how to excuse Mama Chang and Bai Ying.

When I arrived at the main room of the Sun family, it was the little maid Agarwood who was standing at the door and the curtain, Sanniang looked at the Agarwood carefully, and saw that she was just smiling sweetly, and there was no other expression, and her heart suddenly relaxed.

Sanniang nodded to Agarwood with a smile and asked softly, "Who else is in the room?" Will it bother me to go in at this time? ”

Agarwood replied softly: "If you return to the third miss, it is the eldest master who is inside." ”

Sanniang was slightly stunned, could the Sun family still have something to do with the eldest master when she asked her to come over? Sanniang thought about it for a while, but she really had no clue, and it was not good to delay at the door, so she said to Agarwood: "You can report it." ”

Agarwood made a crisp sound, and reached out to help Sanniang open the curtain.

Sanniang entered the main room, and saw that Sun and the others were not here, but there was a sound of talking in the right room, and Sanniang slowed down her pace slightly and walked to the right room.

"Why did Mama Li suddenly get sick?" Wang Bai's puzzled voice.

"When you're older, there's always something wrong with your body. It's good to find out early, after all, she has served in our family for many years, so it is better to help her cure her. Sun said.

"What did the doctor say?"

"She said that she should not work hard and should recuperate, so I asked her to go to Zhuangzi to live first, and then take her back when she is well adjusted. She was very sick this time, and said that she wanted her son to be by her side, and I agreed. Pepsi filial piety first, the errand of peace will be put first, and I will ask the housekeeper to help you find a clever one to serve first. ”

Sun said this, and when he saw that Sanniang had already entered, he stopped talking. Although Wang Bai had some questions, it was not good to ask again.

Sanniang stepped forward and respectfully saluted Sun.

"The three girls are here." Wang Bai greeted with a smile.

"Great uncle." Sanniang smiled again and stepped forward to say ten thousand blessings to Wang Bai, and then stood aside and waited for Sun's orders, and did not intervene to ask.

Sun raised his eyes and looked at Sanniang a few times, before he said lightly: "I called you here today because your eldest uncle received a letter from your grandfather who asked the prefect of Yanzhou. ”

Sanniang looked up a little stunned when she heard this: "Grandfather? Magistrate? ”

Sanniang's expression is not all pretended, when it comes to her grandfather, Sanniang feels really complicated. I remember the first time I saw this grandfather after coming here a year ago, it was on a tree.

At that time, she was just able to get out of bed and come to greet Sun, but when she arrived at the front yard of Songling Courtyard, she saw an old man over half a hundred years old holding a colorful bird lying on a tree and couldn't get down.

Someone else hurriedly said: "Master, I said that let the slave come, you have to go up by yourself, is this good?" ”

The old man in the tree roared without looking back: "His grandmother's! What should you do if you all have sharp-beaked monkey gills and clumsy hands, and you frighten my heart? Before you could climb up, it flew away. ”

As if to confirm his words, the bird that had been honestly in his hands struggled, and the old man shouted in fright: "Baby, baby, I won't let them touch you, don't be afraid, good, I only hurt you, master." ”

The strange scene at that time made Sanniang pinch her arm several times in order to stop a series of unbelievable speculations in her mind. Now this grandfather is said to have gone to Yanzhou Mansion to buy the nine-colored bird, which has always been extremely rare, and has not returned yet.

"Your grandfather wrote that your grandmother was very ill, and that she was crying the names of your mother and your brothers and sisters all night long. Somehow, this matter spread through the mouths of the officials and wives of Yanzhou Mansion. When the prefect of Yanzhou heard about this, he thanked your grandfather for telling your grandfather about it, and your grandfather immediately repaired a letter and asked the prefect to send the letter to your uncle from the post station. Take a look at it. As soon as Sun's words fell, Gan Song, who was waiting on the side, handed an unsealed letterhead to Sanniang.

Sanniang opened it and believed that it must be her grandfather's handwriting. The words on the entire letterhead are dancing with dragons and phoenixes, and several places have been scribbled and changed. Although she is no stranger to traditional Chinese characters because she has been practicing calligraphy with her grandfather since she was a child, she grew up learning simplified Chinese after all, and this letter is too much for school people. She couldn't help but admire Sun and Wang Bai's ability to discern.

Sanniang tried her best to read the letter without frowning, thinking that Sun also knew that this was not an easy thing, so she didn't urge her, just let her watch from the side, and she talked to Wang Bai about other things.

"What do you think of the He family's case?" Sun asked Wang Baidao.

"What family?" Wang Bai glanced at Sun with some weakness when he heard this.

Sun nodded as if he hadn't noticed: "The He family in the west of the city." Speaking of which, the deceased old lady of their family is also a distant relative of your eldest uncle's family, and the day before yesterday, Mrs. He begged me to help me with the sale of illicit salt for the head of his family. ”

Wang Bai was relieved to see that the Sun family did not mention the matter of the garden, and then frowned again.

"What? Is this not feasible? If it's embarrassing, it's fine. Sun said casually.

"Has my mother heard of today's Hubu Shangshu Shen Huaizhong?" Wang Bai shook his head and asked.

Hearing this, Sun thought for a moment: "But the proud protégé of the former first assistant Ke Zhizhong, and later became the fast son-in-law of Lord Ke, the father of the current queen?" ”

"That's the man."

Sun nodded: "I heard it when I was in Beijing, saying that this Lord Shen was born as a scholar from a cold family in Jiangnan, and his father died early, so he relied on his mother to do some sewing and pulp washing work for him to study. Because the family was unmarried, it was not until he was twenty-five years old that he married his daughter to him because of the appreciation of Kojizhong. ”

Wang Bai sighed: "Although this Lord Shen is from a poor background, he is very good. Now that he has entered the cabinet, even the second uncle has to avoid his edge. ”

"Oh?" Sun raised his eyebrows, and then said with some understanding: "It's no wonder that he is the biological father of the current queen, and ordinary courtiers naturally want to give him three points." ”

Wang Bai shook his head and said: "The queen has not given birth to a prince ...... so far" Speaking of this, he realized that this was the emperor's family matter, and his subordinates could not criticize it casually, so he changed his words and said: "Lord Shen is highly used, but it has nothing to do with the queen." In that year, the emperor sent troops twice to expel the Mongols from Mobei, and his merits will be recorded in the annals of history. It's just that years of conquest inevitably make the treasury empty, and after the death of the first emperor, His Majesty is now in the old age, but he is burdened with the burden of people's livelihood. Later, under the recommendation of Lord Ke, Shen Huaizhong was appointed as the right attendant of the household department, and it was precisely because of this Lord Shen that the treasury changed the situation of making ends meet, so even the emperor called this Lord Shen Huaizhong the first capable minister of my dynasty. ”

"What does this Lord Shen have to do with the affairs of the He family?" Sun asked.

Wang Bai shook his head and said, "Naturally, it is related. This household department, to put it bluntly, is the money bag of the imperial court, if there is something, the household department Shangshu is naturally the first to stand up and share the emperor's worries. ”

While reading the letter, Sanniang, who listened to the movement here, was a little helpless. In front of his own family and his own mother, is it necessary to be so pretentious and appetizing?

Wang Bai saw Sun looking over, and hurriedly said: "I heard that some time ago, there was a dispute between the northern Warat and the imperial court over the matter of tribute, and the current leader of Warat, Kasen, is the grandson of the former Mongolian chief. In recent years, there have been many skirmishes on the border, and I heard that the emperor intends to use troops against Warat again. The soldiers and horses went first before the grain and grass were moved, and this war required silver. Mother, have you forgotten where did the silver come from when the emperor personally conquered Mongolia? I heard Lord Tongzhi say that Lord Shen gave a death order to his subordinates this time. ”

Sun shook his head and sighed, "It's not easy to settle down. ”

Wang Bai also shook his head: "So, this He family is being targeted, and I am afraid that I can't get out without shedding my skin." ”

Sun said: "The He family has this understanding, so they only hope that their master can come back safely, and they don't dare to hope for anything else." ”

Hearing this, Wang Bai groaned: "If this is the case, this matter is not impossible. ”

"If this is possible, you might as well help, and it is always a distant relative of your eldest aunt."

Wang Bai nodded in response.

Sun stopped mentioning the topic of the He family, turned his head and asked Sanniang, who was standing on the side, "Have you finished reading the letter?" ”