After a while, the two of them each collected their tears, Guo Wan wiped the corners of her eyes and said, "It's so easy to see each other today, so let's talk about the business first." ”

Sister-in-law Zhu also wiped away the tears, and when she spoke, her voice was still hoarse after crying, and she said in a low voice: "I was about to report to the girl, the harvest in the village in the past two years has been good, and the account slaves and maids of those shops have also been collected, and the account books are here." ”

As she spoke, she untied the burden behind her, took out a few thick account books, and piled them on the stone table.

Guo Wan ordered Lu Yi to accept it, and whispered: "Tell Hongxiang to be put into my clothes." ”

Lu Yi called Hongxiang over, and Guo Wan asked Sister-in-law Zhu again: "How is Jingli now?" Still can't hear from you? ”

When Sister-in-law Zhu heard this, she shook her head, let out a long sigh, and said, "Alas, if you go back to the girl, the news in the capital has been broken for a long time. Just a few years ago, the slave maid also sent Song Rui and his wife to Shengjing, planning to ask them to meet Yanliu and inquire about the news. But who would have thought that the people in Nafu had changed all over again, and the two of them used a lot of money, but they didn't find a way out, and they almost alarmed people, so they had to come back. ”

Guo Wan's eyes were still red at the moment, but her expression was a little calmer than Fang Cai, and when she heard this, she frowned slightly and asked, "Didn't they see the smoke willows?" ”

"Girl, forgive the two of them...... Nobody was seen. Sister-in-law Zhu whispered, her expression quite gloomy.

Guo Wan's expression was also a little gloomy, she lowered her head and was quiet for a moment, then raised her eyes and smiled lightly, and said, "That's it, Xu Yanliu is too busy for a while, and he didn't have time to contact us." ”

When Sister-in-law Zhu heard this, her face showed a little unbearable, and after thinking about it again, she finally said the thoughts in her heart, and said, "It's not that the slave said, the girl is too kind-hearted." The smoke willow may have already found another way out. There are not many people in the house who even know the girl now, and the old lady is a fake Bodhisattva, with a kind face, but the means are very tight, and they are used to winning people's hearts. ”

Guo Wan naturally understands this truth, and at this time, there is no difference in the words, and her expression is still light, and she said: "As soon as my mother died, my father married another, and I was sent back to Penglai early. ”

At this point, her eyebrows were pressed to the middle again, and she said in a deep voice: "Although I didn't see the smoke willows, I was too young back then, and I walked in a hurry, and more than half of my mother's dowry was gone. Even if Yanliu changes her mind, I always have to listen to her truth, so that I can feel at ease. ”

Sister-in-law Zhu nodded again and again, and said, "The girl is right like this." As he spoke, he rubbed his eyes with his sleeve again, and his voice was slightly choked: "Mrs. was also so rigid back then, and the girl was like this, so that the slave and maid remembered Madame again." ”

These words caused Guo Wan to feel sad again, and said sadly: "It's a pity that I didn't know anything back then, and I didn't have the strength to protect my mother's dowry, and I couldn't protect the people left by my mother." ”

"Don't say that, girl." Sister-in-law Zhu said, in the end, she suppressed that trace of sadness, looked up and said: "Back then, it was the Han family who memorized the words, and the business plummeted, and the old lady had no choice, so she begged the old lady in the mansion to go forward, and she took it to death, and those dowries were also unable to be recovered." ”

Guo Wan nodded slightly, something seemed to pass through the depths of her eyes, but she didn't speak.

However, Lu Yi, who was standing on the side, was slightly anxious in his heart, and said at this moment: "When the girl came out of the pavilion, a steward was sent from the house, and he sent a dowry to the girl openly, but secretly he was checking the few shops and fields that the girl gave to her sister-in-law. How is my sister-in-law okay now? Are there any new faces to go to investigate? ”

Sister-in-law Zhu hurriedly said: "Girl, relax, the slave and the slave are very careful, when the account was handed over to the slave and maid, the aunt also changed several hands, and he couldn't find it." ”

When Guo Wan heard this, a faint smile appeared on her face, which seemed to be cold and indifferent, and said, "Father...... In the end, he is also ......"

Her lips squirmed, but she never finished her words, and at the end, she only sighed, and the expression on her face became stunned, as if she was thinking about something, and she didn't say anything for a long time.

Seeing this, Sister-in-law Zhu and Lu Yi stopped talking, and there was only silence left in front of the clean room, only the autumn wind occasionally swept by, bringing the fragrance of cinnamon in the distance.

"Sister-in-law Zhu, I want to ask you, do you remember the last time Yanliu contacted us, when was it?" After a while, Guo Wanfang changed the topic, and the melancholy on her face disappeared.

When Sister-in-law Zhu heard this, she lowered her head and thought for a while, and then said: "If you go back to the girl, the last time the slave and maid remember to see the smoke willow was around the spring equinox three years ago. Because the weather was warmer at that time, the slave maid and the master went to the capital to buy jewelry for the girl, and asked someone to bring a letter to Yanliu, and Yanliu sneaked out to meet the slave and maid. ”

When Guo Wan heard this, her face was deep, and she didn't say anything for a while, so Lu Yi took half a step forward and asked in a suppressed voice: "Why didn't Yanliu give the dowry list to my sister-in-law at that time?" ”

When Sister-in-law Zhu heard this, she was a little eager to speak, and after being silent for a while, Fang said, "Three years ago...... It's in the limelight. ”

"Did you ...... three years ago" Guo Wan repeated, a trace of remembrance appeared on her face, but she already understood what Sister-in-law Zhu meant: "When you say this, I also remember, the early spring of three years ago, isn't it the time when I am preparing to get married?" At that time, the house happened to send a steward to give me a dowry, and I was afraid that someone was staring at the end of the smoke willow. ”

Sister-in-law Zhu saw that she realized the stakes, so she nodded, with a deep helplessness in her expression: "It's really not easy for a girl." ”

"That's it." When she said this, Guo Wan raised her hand and wiped it between her eyebrows a few times with some tiredness, as if she wanted to erase something, and said: "Grandmother is very shrewd, I think she guessed the property in my hand, if it weren't for the fact that Yanliu has been honest all these years, grandmother would have suspected her a long time ago." She's not easy either. ”

She sighed, her face confused: "It's really like time flies." I still remember when I put on my hijab, the sky was full of red, and when I closed my eyes, my eyelids looked like they were soaked in blood. It's just a blink of an eye, and I'm back in Penglai. ”