The moment she heard Xiaoxi say that the person who gave her the white jade box was Mei Zijin, Shui Qingqing was stunned, and her expression was full of disbelief!

She has guessed many people, but she has never thought of Mei Zijin.

Therefore, when she suddenly heard from Xiaoxi's mouth that it was him, Shui Qingqing's first reaction was to believe it.

She looked at Xiao Xi with a nervous look in her eyes, and asked anxiously, "Where did you get the news?" Is it reliable? ”

Xiaoxi nodded timidly and whispered, "When I went to the warehouse, I heard them all talking...... They said that someone once saw Hou Ye teasing Xiao Shizi with the box, and then saw the box appear on the young lady, so they ......"

Shui Qingqing's little face turned white——

Even Mei Zijin can tell the story of teasing Yun'er with the box, it seems that the matter is true.

Since it is true, then, when he went to the mourning hall to find the box, why didn't he return the box to himself at that time?

And what does it mean that he left the rouge box and returned the mint paste in the box?

Could it be that he knew the origin of that rouge box, or did he see something unusual about that rouge box and doubt himself?

Shui Qingqing's heart was disorganized, she had long lost her previous excitement and joy, and her mind was full of conjectures, Mei Zijin's purpose for leaving her rouge box that was related to the secret of her life experience......

Her heart was in turmoil, and countless speculations and worries were churning back and forth in her heart, making her confused and worried.

The light of his eyes fell on the white jade box on the small table in a panic.

The small box body is smooth and smooth, reflecting a soft light under the warm winter sun.

But at this moment, this light stung Shui Qingqing's eyes, making her dare not look directly.

She never thought that this white jade box, which replaced the rouge box and was by her side day and night, would be sent by Mei Zijin......

Xiaoxi on the side didn't know the panic and worry in Shui Qingqing's heart at the moment, she just thought that she was frightened by the rumors like herself, and couldn't help worrying and said: "Miss, not only this box, but also rumors outside, saying that the snow-sweeping guy by the arched bridge is also a ...... specially ordered by the Hou Ye for fear that Miss will fall when crossing the bridge."

The little face turned pale, Shui Qingqing gritted her teeth to suppress the panic in her heart, so she smiled indifferently: "Have you heard an old saying?" The widow has a lot to do! I'm a 'widow', and my every move is suspicious. ”

"And Master Hou is the male owner of this back house. No matter how innocent we are, there is always a way for troubled people to find fault with each other. Therefore, if we are careful about everything and listen to rumors as the truth, we are asking for trouble. ”

After listening to Shui Qingqing's words, Xiaoxi's uneasy heart finally calmed down.

And she followed Shui Qingqing day and night, she knew Shui Qingqing's mind the most, and knew that she really didn't think about Hou Ye.

But Hou Ye ...... to her Xiaoxi was a little unable to see through.

Pulled over the small bench and sat at Shui Qingqing's feet to help her cut the cloth, and said happily: "Miss, do you really want to live a lonely life in this Hou Mansion?" The slave maid looked, the aunts of this Hou Mansion, except for Aunt Tang, the others were not good at stubble. Miss is so cautious, they still won't let you go - if the Hou Ye takes a Mrs. Hou back in the future, if the person is good, it's fine, if the person is not good...... At that time, the old lady will also be old, but I am afraid that the young lady's life will be even more difficult......"

Xiaoxi's words made Shui Qingqing's heart more and more cold.

Yes, she has been in the Hou Mansion for less than two months, and so many things have happened in a short period of time. If it goes on like this for a long time, it will undoubtedly be surviving in the sea of swords and fires.

Fortunately, she never really thought of living in the Hou Mansion for the rest of her life, as long as she snatched Yun'er back, she couldn't wait to leave immediately, and stay away from the people here.

On her face, she said with a gloomy expression: "Xiaoxi, I am sure that I overestimated myself, thinking that as long as I am safe and disciplined, I can live a stable life here." But now it seems that the world is not at all something that I can predict and control...... When the marriage between your eldest lady and the second lady is completed, let's leave - it will only be a year! ”

Sheng Fang, the daughter of the Sheng family, is scheduled to marry into the Shilang Mansion after the beginning of spring, and the second daughter Sheng Hui is also scheduled to marry, and within a year, the two daughters of the Sheng family will get married.

The time set by Shui Qingqing for herself is also one year.

Within a year, she will definitely find a way to take Yun'er away!

Hearing her words, Xiaoxi looked up at her happily and said with a smile: "This is the best, the slave maid will accompany the young lady to stay here for another year, and after a year, when the eldest lady and the second lady are married, we will go back to the Sheng family." ”

Looking at Xiaoxi's innocent smiling face, Shui Qingqing felt bitter in her heart-

If she can snatch Yun'er back to her side as she wishes, then the Sheng family, even the entire capital, and even Dajin, she is afraid that it will be difficult for her to stay any longer......

And Ximo, the border town where she had lived with her adoptive father for eighteen years, couldn't go back. Because that's where she got out......

Therefore, she has a lot to do next, she not only has to find a way to take Yun'er away, but also has to think about the way back and livelihood.

The road ahead was confused, and Shui Qingqing's heart was even more messy and confused.

She looked out of the window in a daze, and in the next moment, she was in a messy mood, but she was caught by the scene in front of her-

In the courtyard full of the warm winter sun, a bird cautiously poked in, carefully looking for food in the open space in front of the small kitchen. It soon found Xiaoxi's polished rice hanging in a dustpan on the stone pier, but the bird fluttered and flew away.

After a while, the bird returned to the yard with two more small birds.

The two little birds followed the old bird and landed directly in the dustpan, and did not raise their heads to peck at food, but the old bird has been vigilantly raising its eyes to look at the movements around it, even if it occasionally bows its head to peck at food, it is not greedy, and it immediately raises its head after pecking, and carefully guards the two birds from being discovered.

The bird's heart to protect the calf deeply moved Shui Qingqing.

Her eyes became firm again, Shui Qingqing thought, no matter how difficult the road was, she just tried her best to protect Yun'er, she didn't believe it, the world was big, and there was no place for their mother and son.

Retracting her mind, Shui Qingqing looked at the table in the middle of the room, Xiaoxi brought back the New Year's things from the warehouse, and thought, it's about to be the New Year, and it's time to send New Year's gifts to the Sheng family.

However, in addition to leaving five taels of silver every month for her and Xiaoxi's daily expenses, the rest was used to repay the arrears of Jade Village, and she was ...... I really can't take out the extra silver to buy New Year's gifts for the Sheng Mansion.

But as a married 'daughter', she still marries into a rich and powerful place like the Hou Mansion, if she doesn't express it, she will definitely make the neighbors laugh at the old lady and the old lady.

Thinking of this, Shui Qingqing asked Xiaoxi to divide the silk and satin that the Hou Mansion had divided and made new clothes for her for the New Year, and then went to the cabinet to save Yun'er from the mouth of the snow wolf dog, and the two precious cigarette Luo Yunjin that the old lady rewarded her, and the precious blood swallows and ejiao that she was reluctant to eat, all moved out, packed them in gift boxes, and sent them back to the Sheng family early tomorrow morning.

These silks were given to the lady and the two young ladies for the New Year's clothes. These two cloud brocades let the lady make two new clothes respectively, add dowries to the two young ladies, and take them to her husband's house to wear. And these supplements, too, give it to Madame. ”

After dividing it, Shui Qingqing found that there was nothing to give to Master Sheng, and there was nothing to give to the two young masters, so she couldn't help but get up and go to the cabinet to rummage through it.

Xiaoxi looked at the things listed by Shui Qingqing, and basically emptied all the things around her.

In this way, in her house, except for the furniture and utensils configured by the Hou Mansion, there is really nothing of value.

With a sour heart, Xiaoxi stepped forward and said softly: "Miss, you gave all these silks to the eldest lady, what are you wearing for the New Year?" The two clothes on your body were brought by you from marriage, and everyone in the house laughed at you...... Dressed too shabby......"

In fact, from the first day Shui Qingqing stepped into the Hou Mansion, everyone's attention was not only on her relationship with Mei Zijin, but also on her every move.

Although the Sheng family is also a wealthy family, it is not as good as the Hou Mansion, just like the Yunmian that the old lady rewarded Shui Qingqing with, it is a tribute to the imperial court, even if you have money, you can't buy it.

And Shui Qingqing was really busy when she married into the Hou Mansion instead of Sheng Yu, and the Sheng family didn't have many things to prepare for her, and how can these ordinary cloth styles commonly used by the folk compare with the rich and monstrous Hou Mansion?

In addition, Shui Qingqing saved all the money to pay off the debts of Jade Village, and she has never bought a new dress for herself after entering the mansion for so long, so seeing that she always wears a few old clothes every day, the people in the Hou Mansion have long secretly laughed at her for being a small family......

Hearing Xiaoxi's words, Shui Qingqing looked back and smiled disapprerovingly: "I'm so shabby, they don't worry about me." If I learn from them to dress up, I won't really become a vixen who seduces Hou Ye in their eyes! ”

Seeing that she couldn't find a suitable gift for the master, Xiaoxi couldn't help but speak: "Miss, ...... before" Didn't Aunt Bai send us something once? It's the time you saved Xiao Shizi in the grave mountain, and there are a few jade artifacts in it, and it's just right to give them to the master......"

"No, you don't! Bai Lingwei's things, I won't ask for them. That's why I won't give it away! ”

In order to show the old lady and Mei Zijin before, Bai Lingwei pretended to personally send a lot of things to Tingsheng Courtyard.

But as soon as she left, those things were thrown into the vacant house behind by Shui Qingqing, and if she didn't want to attract attention, she wanted to throw them out directly.

So, what she regarded as an enemy, how could she give it to her benefactor?!

Seeing her disgusted and resolute look, Xiaoxi didn't dare to say anything, so she had to move the other things down and put them away.

Shui Qingqingfu went back to the window and sat down, wanting to continue to make a puppet for Yun'er, but there were too many things in her heart to be too messy, so she couldn't calm down, and her brain hurt for a while, so she had to put down the cloth bag and lie down to rest for a while.

After closing my eyes, the people and things in my mind became clearer and clearer. And among these things, what makes her most troubled is - how can she open her mouth to get her rouge box back from Mei Zijin?

If someone else had picked up her box, she would have immediately gone to the door and asked him to get it back, without hesitation.

But now the person who picked up her box is Mei Zijin, but she is hesitant.

The more she thought about it, the more headache she felt, Shui Qingqing habitually wanted to open the white jade box and apply mint cream, but as soon as her hand touched the cool box, she suddenly thought that this box was given by Mei Zijin, and suddenly retracted like an electric shock, and looked at the box on the small table again with a complicated expression.

She had mixed feelings in her heart, and the next moment, she got up and went to find another box in the makeup, and poured the mint cream from the white jade box into her own box.

After pouring out all the mint paste, Shui Qingqing was about to close the lid of the white jade box and put it into the cabinet, when her eyes inadvertently saw the pattern shape exposed at the bottom of the box, her hands shook suddenly, and she almost threw the white jade box to the ground-

When the box was hollowed out, the three petioles connected to the linden leaf at the bottom of the box were revealed!

And the rouge box has been by her side for more than ten years, and Shui Qingqing has already discovered that there are three identical leaves on the bottom of her rouge box!

The heart was pounding, Shui Qingqing had been looking for the origin of these three Bodhi leaves before, but there had been no clues, but she didn't expect to find it at the bottom of the white jade box that Mei Zijin gave her today!

Although Shui Qingqing has been to Emerald Village twice, she was bent on choosing the right thing for Yun'er at that time, plus there was no obvious Bodhi leaf store logo in Emerald Village, and even Mei Zijin didn't know that the store logo of Emerald Village was three Bodhi leaves, so Shui Qingqing, who didn't understand this, didn't know the source of the rouge box she was looking for so hard, which was Emerald Village.

She excitedly wondered that since the white jade box given to her by Mei Zijin had the same mark as her rouge box, did it mean that he knew the origin of her rouge box related to her life experience?!

In this case, if you ask him clearly, you will be able to find your relatives and know who you are......

didn't have time to think about it, Shui Qingqing forgot to put on her cloak, held the white jade box tightly in her hand and walked out, opened the courtyard door, and went straight to Mei Zijin's courtyard Siyi Courtyard......

Walking all the way, Shui Qingqing was so excited that her whole body trembled, her steps were fast and urgent, and her heart was even more upside down-

She will never forget how shocked and hesitant she was when her adoptive father told her about her life before he died.

Since she was a child, she knew that she was not the biological child of her adoptive father, because her adoptive father was born in a bitter cold and never married.

From childhood to adulthood, her adoptive father told her that her parents and relatives were no longer alive, so he would take her in and raise her.

On that day, she escaped from the death of the Wang family and fled back to her adoptive father's small cave, and saw her adoptive father being cut by horse bandits and lying in a pool of blood, with only one breath left, she hugged her adoptive father and broke down and cried.

What would she do if her adoptive father was gone? She really became a helpless orphan......

And the Wang family will not let her go, if she chases her, what will she do?

She lay in her adoptive father's arms and cried helplessly and sadly, and her adoptive father caressed her thin shoulders with great difficulty, telling her not to be afraid, she may still have relatives alive.

"Girl, go find them. Let them protect you...... Daddy is leaving, and the Wang family is bullying you again, so you leave here to find them......"

She looked up in shock, couldn't believe what she heard, looked at her adoptive father in a daze, and couldn't come back to her senses for a long time.

"Before, Daddy didn't tell you...... It's because you were abandoned in the desert. Daddy thought, maybe they have a hard time and think you can't be saved, so they leave you behind...... But now that you're alone, and you've grown up, they might recognize you...... Let's go, go back to the capital and look for them......"

Shui Qingqing's heart was desolate and sad, and she was even more surprised, "Does Daddy know who they are?" ”

The adoptive father shook his head with difficulty, and said with difficulty: "The day before I picked you up, the witch woman helped a baby from a noble family in the capital who passed by here to see a doctor...... When I picked you up, you cried and cried, and I took you to show the witch, and she told me that she knew the little quilt you were wearing, and she recognized you......"

But the witch didn't know the family's name, only that they were from the capital...... When I took you to them, they were already gone......"

“…… Your name is taken from the word 'qing' embroidered on the small quilt that wrapped around you, and the rouge box you have carried with you since you were a child is what you held in your hand when I picked you up......"

After his adoptive father took his last breath, Shui Qingqing buried his adoptive father and hid in the desert alone for a month.

At that time, her heart was very painful and entangled, she wanted to go to the capital to find relatives, and she thought that she had been abandoned since she was a child, and the resentment in her heart made her reluctant to see those relatives who abandoned her......

But a month later, she found out that she was pregnant.

She can wander the world alone and live in the desert with difficult conditions, but the child can't—even if this child is the result of her enduring shame and nightmares, she can hate the Wang family who doesn't treat her as a human being, and hate the man who abused her that night, but she won't hate the child, because he is the only relative in this world who is connected to her flesh and blood......

Therefore, for the sake of the child, she went on the road alone and alone, trekking from the distant Western Desert to the prosperous capital, to find her parents and relatives, hoping that they would take her and the child in her womb......

However, the people who waited for her were more frightened nightmares than that night......

The warm winter sun shone on her body, but it couldn't bring her any warmth.

The whole body was cold, Shui Qingqing stumbled to the arched bridge, walked too quickly, and after climbing the bridge steps, her legs couldn't stop trembling.

Holding on to the bridge railing, tears fell into the clear water under the bridge one by one, breaking her pale face reflected in the water, and it was messy......

Xiaoxi chased after her from behind, looked at Shui Qingqing's appearance, was startled, and said in a lost voice: "Miss, what's wrong with you?" ”

Shui Qingqing, whose thoughts were deep in the pain of the past, was startled by Xiaoxi's abrupt voice, her hands trembled, and the white jade box in her hand slipped from her hand and fell into the flowing water under the bridge.

"Miss, why did you run out all of a sudden...... I didn't wear a cloak, and although the sun was out, it was still very cold, so you must not freeze......"

Xiaoxi's words of concern, and her calling her 'Miss', finally made Shui Qingqing come back to her senses.

That's right, she is only Sheng Yu, the youngest daughter of the Sheng family, how can she take the white jade box and ask Mei Zijin about the origin of the four Bodhi leaves?

is as shrewd as he is, and may have already discovered the suspicion of her identity, but he is afraid that he will wait for her to come to the door and throw himself into the net......

She can't, can't ignore the Sheng family and Yun'er......

The cold wind blew on her face, and after Shui Qingqing shivered excitedly, she completely sobered up.

She wiped the tears from her face, and was about to lead Xiaoxi to go back, but there was a loud 'flutter' sound under the bridge behind her, and when they looked back, it was the snow-sweeping boy who was guarding the bridge on the other side braved the cold and jumped into the water.

It turned out that from Shui Qingqing ran up to the arch bridge alone, the sweeping guy saw her, and when she saw the box in her hand falling into the water, she couldn't help but get anxious for her.

The incident happened suddenly, and Shui Qingqing didn't even have time to stop it.

But Shui Qingqing didn't plan to find the box, so she looked at the little guy who was frozen purple in the water, and shouted anxiously: "Come up, I don't want that box...... You don't want to fish! ”

The water is clear and not too deep, so when Shui Qingqing called him ashore, the little guy had already found the box, held the box and smiled at Shui Qingqing: "Miss Cousin...... The minions picked it up. ”

After the little guy went ashore, Shui Qingqing was afraid that he would freeze, so she asked him to go to her Tingsheng courtyard to change out of his wet clothes, but the little guy refused, put down the box, and ran away.

Looking at the white jade box that returned to her hand, Shui Qingqing's mood was extremely heavy and complicated, and she didn't know what kind of turmoil Fang Cai's matter would cause in the Hou Mansion?

And looking at the background of the little guy in the distance, Shui Qingqing's cold heart finally swelled with a trace of warmth, and sighed that there are still people willing to help him in this deep mansion of the Hou Mansion......

As Shui Qingqing expected, the matter of Fang Cai, along with the previous rumors, reached the ears of Mrs. Hou.

It was already strange that she suddenly did not die this morning, but when she heard that Mei Zijin specially sent someone to clean the arch bridge in the garden for her, and gave her a white jade box, she was already in a heavy mood.

When she heard this, Shui Qingqing threw the white jade box into the water, and the old lady's face became even more solemn.

And Tang Qianqian, who said these words to the old lady, looked at the old lady's obviously sinking face, was overjoyed, and said: "Regarding the matter of Bai Wei Courtyard, although Sister Bai did not do it properly, there is one thing that Sister Bai did right-the concubine body also feels that Miss Biao's age should not be guarded in the Hou Mansion, but she should find someone to marry." ”

Hearing this, the old lady didn't speak for a long time, and then sighed slowly for a long time: "Her identity, where can I help her find the right person for a while?" ”

Hearing that the old lady relieved her consent, Tang Qianqian smiled happily: "This old lady doesn't have to worry. There is a well-known matchmaker in Beijing on East Street, named Pei's mother, call her tomorrow and ask her to find a good family for our cousin. It can be done. ”

So, the next day, when Shui Qingqing and Xiaoxi sent a New Year's gift from the Sheng family to the Hou Mansion, they heard a report from the next person, and the old lady called her to die in the hospital, saying that she had invited a matchmaker, and officially told her that the matchmaker was coming......

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