The two little guys replied, and got the errand assigned by Lu Jiayue again, and went out.

Lu Jiayue hugged the brocade quilt and leaned on the warm kang, without saying a word, silently.

Until lunchtime, Xin Zhu came to coax her to eat, but she just had no appetite and asked the maids to remove all the food.

Xin Zhu tried hard to persuade her, but Lu Jiayue just didn't listen. In the end, it was Xin Zhu's casual words that made her seem to be awakened, and she ate half a bowl of red dates and ejiao porridge, and used a few chopsticks and side dishes. Because I hadn't slept peacefully last night, I felt a little sleepy at this time, so I went to the bed and fell asleep.

Xin Zhu was afraid that she would stay up like this and get sick again, and she was relieved to see her eat and sleep as she did.

On the bed, Lu Jiayue wrapped her body tightly with a brocade quilt.

Xin Zhu is right, "When you are full of food and take care of your body, you will have the strength to do what you want to do." ”

In the future, I should indeed take care of my body, so that I have the strength to change and save the fate of everyone around me.

*

The next day, it is the eighth day of the lunar month.

Early in the morning, Meng sent a maid to pick her up and go to the main room, and drank laba porridge with Qu Ying and the three of them.

The small kitchen of the Qu family has always been good at making all kinds of rice porridge. Today's Laba porridge is made with four kinds of rice: small, Jiang, white and yellow, accompanied by four kinds of nuts of peaches, apricots, melon seeds and peanuts, and then boiled with red beans, jujube paste and rock sugar.

The entrance is sweet and glutinous, and the taste is rich, but Lu Jiayue tastes the same as chewing wax.

Although she was worried about Tong Guan and the two of them, she also forced herself to laugh in front of Meng, lest she show the slightest difference, which would cause Meng to worry about her.

As she was drinking porridge, Qu Ying whispered in her ear: "The snowman in my yard has been piled up, and it is two people tall - do you want to take a look at it later?" ”

Lu Jiayue didn't have the heart to look at any snowman at this time, but seeing that Qu Ying was full of interest, she didn't want to spoil her fun.

I had to smile and respond.

After drinking Laba porridge, Lu Jiayue and Qu Ying went hand in hand.

Behind him, Meng Shi looked at the backs of the two of them, couldn't help sighing, and said to Mama Zhang beside her: "This Ying'er is getting bigger and bigger now, but she is also getting more and more naughty, it's better to be stable in the past, I don't know what kind of family I want to find for her in the future?" ”

Mama Zhang smiled and comforted Meng's family: "Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, why should you worry, maybe the good marriage of the eldest lady is just around the corner." ”

*

accompanied Qu Ying to watch the snowman in her courtyard, and after being stubborn for a long time, Lu Jiayue's mood finally relaxed a little.

When it was time for lunch, the two came to Meng's main room again, and after lunch together, Meng asked Mama Zhang to take some new embroidery patterns from the market, and asked Qu Ying and Lu Jiayue to embroider a few square brocade handkerchiefs and cut a few sachets.

"This is already the lunar month, and the New Year is coming soon, and relatives and friends are walking around, giving each other their own gifts. When you girls come and go, you can't help but send some gadgets to each other to show friendship, and if there is nothing to do recently, you will slowly embroider and play. ”

Qu Ying understood in her heart, and behind Meng's back, she muttered to Lu Jiayue: "This is because my mother has seen that I have been making too much noise recently, and she wants to restrain me." ”

But just built a snowman to play, my aunt was disgusted, if I let my aunt know what she was doing without telling everyone, I don't know what would happen to my aunt?

Lu Jiayue's heart couldn't help but add a little melancholy.

It was easy to embroider half a begonia patiently, but was teased by Qu Ying.

"Is my sister's embroidery a begonia flower that has been bitten by insects? Look at the edges of these petals, they look like jagged teeth. ”

Lu Jiayue's embroidery has never been too delicate, not to mention that yesterday morning, he had instructed the two little guys to pay attention to the news of Tong Guan and the others outside, and they were always concerned about this matter in their hearts, so how could they have any intention of embroidering?

I took the half of the begonia in my hand and took a closer look, it was really ugly, so I simply threw it aside, took off my embroidered shoes and climbed onto the warm kang, looked at the gloomy sky outside through the window, and was silently in a daze.

Qu Ying's embroidery has always been exquisite, took the brocade handkerchief dropped by Lu Jiayue, and made up a few stitches, and then looked at it was really much more pleasing to the eye.

The two of them said a word, and I passed the time for a long time, and when it was time to hold the lamp in the evening, I accompanied Meng Shi to dinner.

It's just that after the meal, the sky was already dark, and Lu Jiayue suddenly noticed that her uncle Qu Hong did not come back on time as usual.

Lu Jiayue had a faint intuition in her heart - there must have been news about the matter of Tong Guan and the two.

Therefore, he only wandered in the Meng family's house and refused to return to the Chuntang residence. At the time of the second watch, Qu Ying also went back to rest, and Lu Jiayue sat with Meng for another half an hour before Qu Hong came back.

Lu Jiayue quietly looked at her uncle Qu Hong's expression, and it was really dark and unclear.

My heart sank.

Could it be that Jin Yuwei's people didn't believe what the letter said, and didn't go to save Tong Guan and the others?

Or did they go too late, and Tong Guan and the others died as in their previous lives?

Lu Jiayue anxiously speculated that Meng had stepped forward, personally changed the official robe for Qu Hong, replaced the homely Chu color moire brocade robe, and took the hot tea handed by Chunxia, and personally held it to Qu Hong, before he asked with concern: "Why did you come back so late?" But what happened to the DPRK? ”

Qu Hong didn't answer, took the tea bell in his hand, sat down on the warm kang, only holding the tea lid in his hand and slowly skimming the floating leaves floating in the tea, but his eyes fell on the ground. The expression on his face was complicated, as if he was annoyed, lost, and frightened.

After a while, he sighed heavily and said, "Tong Baili is dead." ”

When Meng Shi heard this, he didn't come back to his senses for a while, but just looked at Qu Hong in amazement.

Lu Jiayue screamed miserably in her heart.

After all, he still couldn't save Tong Guan and the others... They died, and the two most important witnesses in the Lianghuai Salt Transportation Tax Silver Corruption Case disappeared like this, and the only opportunity that could be used to suppress the King of Wei was missed in vain!

The little boudoir woman, after all, can't compete with the nobles of the sky, one is like an ant in the dust, and the other is a big tree with lush branches. With the meager power of ants, how can they shake the big tree in the slightest?

Lu Jiayue's heart was only desperate at the moment.

Her face was pale, and her whole body seemed to have been drained of all her strength, and she slumped weakly on the back of the chair behind her.

The voices of Qu Hong and Meng Shi in their ears were ethereal, and they seemed to come from far away.

"Are you talking about Tong Baili, the governor of the Lianghuai Salt Transport?"

"Who else but him?"

"Isn't he going to be escorted to Beijing in the near future...? How could it be dead? ”

"Died in front of Jin Yuwei's eyes, how can it be fake."

What does that mean? Although he is guilty, the salt tax case is a case personally adjudicated by the Holy One, and the trial has not yet begun, so who dares to touch him? ”

"It's because someone doesn't want him to live until the trial of the case goes on that he will assassinate him..."

Before the words fell, Meng Shi stood up suddenly, looked at Qu Hong dumbfounded, and was speechless.