The movement in the hall is getting bigger and bigger, but Lian Zhenyun has no time to pay attention to the letter he received, and without waiting for the Wugang Cao boat of the Jiangsu Cao Gang to sail to the Zhangjiawan Wharf in Tongzhou, he has hurried out of the capital, day and night, and returned to Yangzhou.

In the Shuanghong Courtyard in the capital, Qi Su Niang sat on the kang table, looking worried, "Hai Jing has a serious illness, I see that Lianxiang is very scared in the letter, and the big boss also rushed back to Yangzhou, and also took Dr. Cui of Tongrentang to go back with him......"

Bi'er took the Lianxiang letter from Qi Su Niang's hand and read it carefully for a while, "Grandma, the slave maid looked at Hai Jing's illness, although it was serious, it seemed that it had stabilized. But Mrs. Lian read between the lines, full of fear and panic, and the slave maid thought that there was always some reason. ”

Qi Su Niang was stunned for a moment, "What do you mean, Hai Jing's sick child and Lianxiang ......?" ”

Bi'er shook his head, "The slaves and maids are not sure, one is too far apart, and the other is that even the big boss's back house must be chaotic now." Lian Da Dang helped two side houses, carried three concubines into the house, and there were many masters in the back house, and it was time to make rules, but even the big boss happened to go to Beijing, and the chief steward and the second steward came out. ”

Qi Su Niang nodded slowly, "That's true, there is no rule, and the back house can't be stable, if Lianxiang can be suppressed"

Bi'er glanced at Qi Su Niang and said softly: "Mrs. Lian's foundation is insufficient, and she is not enough to be favored, so it's okay to be a partial house, and I'm afraid I can't hold it down as a main room." As long as there is a mess in the back house, anything can happen. After a pause, "In the uncle's mansion, it has already been calculated." The eldest grandmother is the person in the uncle's heart, and she is from Miss Xiangmendi, and she is brought in by the first-class courtesans in the courtyard, and small things are inevitable, and big things will not happen. ”

Qi Su Niang sighed, "You're right. No matter how chaotic my brother's house is, as long as my sister-in-law can tolerate it, no one dares to touch the child in Caiyun's belly. ”

Bi'er suddenly laughed again, and was blessed, "The slave is not afraid of grandma's blame, grandma is thanks to the head of the palace waiting, and she is a person under the fourteenth master, and she is worth a lot." The uncle chose the slave and maid to come over, and wanted to give birth to a son for the master to be a concubine, but he also saw that the slave and maid had no foundation and couldn't make trouble......"

Qi Su Niang smiled bitterly and muttered, "I don't understand, I was just a fugitive slave who couldn't see the light of day. I'm afraid it's not as good as the sisters in the courtyard and the drama in the garden. If there is no father and mother to accept me as a daughter, my mother-in-law will appoint me as a daughter-in-law, and the emperor will watch Brother Chen send me to the queen mother to wait for me, where can I be a wife in the main house."

"What did Grandma say," Bill whispered. I couldn't help asking.

Qi Su Niang raised her head. Reach out and hold Bill's hand. Patting slowly. "If I didn't have the Fourteenth Master to protect me. Seven years of marriage. I don't know how many concubines are crammed into this mansion that are more rooted than me......"

Bill was about to be comforted. Suddenly, there was the sound of hurried footsteps outside. "Grandma. The palace arithmetic Hongwen Museum sent someone. Prince Cheng summoned his grandmother to the palace.

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The carriage of Chen Fuli left Xizhimen Street. All the way to the Forbidden City.

Qi Su Niang wore a royal blue magpie Dengmei eighteen-trimmed cheongsam. Green satin small silver flat square. The left and right sides are inserted with golden hairpins and hairpins. Stepping on the water blue bamboo shoes at the bottom of the short flower pot. Step by step, he shook into the Qinggong Left Near the Arithmetic Hall. Throw the veil and give a salute. "The courtiers greet the third master."

The third elder brother smiled: "Get up." The emperor said that you are a female school teacher, and now I am going to call you a gentleman, you come and have a look, and tell them about the Western virtual method. The emperor and Chen Bianzhi are not there, there is really no way. ”

Qi Su Niang took over the "Mei's Arithmetic Series" from the hands of the eunuch, and He Tuhua led Zong Wenge, Ne Dingsu and other eight people to salute and said: "Sir." ”

Qi Su Niang was startled, and hurriedly turned sideways to avoid it, "The concubine doesn't dare." ”

The third elder brother looked at Qi Su Niang and didn't dare to sit on the master's seat, standing sideways at the table, explaining the Western virtual method to He Tuhua and the others, and smiled slightly, "...... The rules are sufficient...... Know ...... proportions."

Rao is Western virtual method is far from being a profound technique, Qi Su Niang still spoke dryly, so He Tuhua, Zong Wenge, and Ne Dingsu were roughly understood, and the others were still half-understood.

Seeing that the sun was sinking in the west, Prince Cheng smiled and said, "That's it for today, Mrs. Chen will go back, and I will send someone to pick it up tomorrow when I am old." He smiled again: "Mrs. Chen needs to understand He Tuhua's teaching, he is Lord Chen's proud disciple, just wait for him to learn the virtual method and the triangular deduction method, and he will immediately go to Zhili to follow the river patrol." ”

He Tuhua was originally the most outstanding among the crowd, and Qi Su Niang inevitably looked at him differently, but now he heard that Chen Yan loved him very much, and he looked at it with his eyes. I saw that He Tuhua was about twenty, with red lips and white teeth, and polite literary quality, because he was born in a full banner and noble, he was a five-grade official at a young age, and he was dressed neatly in a stone green court robe. When he saw Qi Su Niang looking over, he saluted respectfully, "Master." ”

Qi Su Niang laughed, but this time she didn't dodge, "Lord He is polite." ”

He Tuhua bent down and arched his hand, didn't dare to raise his head, and sent Qi Suniang all the way to the door of the arithmetic hall, Qi Suniang hurriedly thanked him, please

Go.

Qi Su Niang walked on the palace road, looked back at He Tuhua, who was still bent over the stone steps, and smiled and sighed.

The emperor is not there, there are few people in front of the palace gate, only scattered eunuchs leading the masters in and out, Qi Su Niang boarded the carriage, and saw a eunuch leading the master out, looking at it from a distance, it was the figure of the fourth master and the eighth master of several brothers.

Qi Su Niang sat in the carriage, wondering how the fourth master and the eighth master walked together, and returned home.

Early the next morning, Qi Su Niang went to Qi Qiang's mansion to see Shen Yuezhi and Caiyun.

"I didn't expect such a full-fledged nobleman to respect Confucianism so much." Qi Su Niang sat in Shen Yuezhi's room, drinking tea and smiling, "I saw him bending over and not looking up, and I felt that his back was sore." ”

Shen Yuezhi laughed, "The emperor respects Confucianism, and some talents in the banner are naturally easy to be favored. I have also heard of He Tuhua you are talking about, it seems that he is a son of the Niu Lu clan, and he was born above the Dong E clan. The emperor attaches great importance to it. I heard that there are also relatives in the fourth master's mansion. ”

Qi Su Niang laughed, "I think so, I'm still wondering, when did our family have a proud disciple, I'm afraid it's the emperor's proud disciple." ”

The two laughed and talked for a while, and Qi Su Niang said goodbye and went back to the hall because she was worried that someone would come to pick her up in the afternoon and she didn't need to eat. Shen Yuezhi wanted to send it, but Qi Su Niang left her at the gate of the courtyard with a smile.

Qi Su Niang took Bi'er all the way to the outside of the second gate, but saw a faint scolding from the courtyard of Yuegou'er, "Where did the slave and adulteress come from and instigate the masters every day, and bully the old lady"

Qi Su Niang frowned, "Who is Yue Hook scolding?" "I vaguely heard someone persuading me," ...... This daughter-in-law is not an ordinary ......."

"The daughter-in-law I pulled down from his father is naturally not an ordinary and even good wife, and it is not in vain to call him a man to be held hostage like this, this and that are all let his man go, this house is a serious slave and does not become an old lady is also a forgiving person, if I call this slave adulteress still hanging in the Qi family, it will be considered an aunt"

“…… Aunt and grandmother make decisions for the slave man......"

Qi Su Niang's footsteps paused, and she was about to go to the Yuegou room, when Bi'er persuaded: "Grandma, the time has come, and the palace is not sure when to pick it up, the third elder brother has already told grandma yesterday that the third elder brother must not be asked to wait." ”

Qi Su Niang sighed, "You inquire about what's going on." "I went all the way back to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Hall, but I didn't expect that Rong Xi'er in front of Prince Cheng would come earlier than yesterday, and he was bumping into him at the door, and he went immediately.

Qi Su Niang had time to change her flag outfit in the future, wearing an emerald blue lotus spring shirt and a phoenix tail broken gold hundred folded skirt, and followed Rong Xi'er into the door of the arithmetic hall.

She was about to make a blessing salute to say goodbye, but when she saw a bright yellow figure, she was immediately shocked, and swallowed two mouthfuls of spit, "Courtier...... The courtiers asked the prince to say goodbye, and the third master said goodbye. ”

The prince was talking to He Tuhua and the others, and when he heard the sound, he looked over and looked at him for a while, "Third child, who is she?" ”

Prince Cheng smiled: "The prince doesn't remember? He is Chen Bianzhi's wife, Qi Shi, who served the queen mother in the palace at the beginning. ”

The prince was stunned, "It's her?" He looked at it a few more times, "Get up." He turned his head and said with a smile: "I remember that Huang Ama praised her for her good studies and was better than all of us, and specially sent her to shock the Western priests." At this time, you called her to tell them about arithmetic? ”

Prince Cheng nodded and smiled bitterly, "If I can barely teach arithmetic on our side, the emperor wants to teach them Western arithmetic, and my old bottom has been hollowed out, and there is still a gap of 108,000 miles." On weekdays, it is the religion of Chen Chang, and the emperor also teaches in his spare time, but now he is not there, so he only called her here. ”

The crown prince nodded and waved his hand, "You start, just do what you want." ”

Qi Su Niang glanced at the bright yellow figure on the throne out of the corner of her eyes, only to feel that the hairs on her back stood on end, whether it was a misunderstanding or not, her fear of the prince had never stopped from Changchun Garden, to the Nine Emperors' Mansion, and then to the imperial ship.

When the crown prince was deposed, she hid in the inner room of the Yahou Mansion in Yangzhou Mansion and shouted long live happily, but she did not expect that in less than a year, she was reinstated by the emperor.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but sigh secretly in her heart, no matter how powerful the eighth master is, there is only one wife and a few concubines in the house, and she has never heard of the death of a woman.

With her little insight, looking horizontally and vertically, she felt that the eighth master was more emperor than the crown prince......

Prince Cheng looked at Qi Suniang wiping her sweat while explaining in a whisper, and said that He Tuhua and the others were like falling into the clouds. After a while, the prince got up and went, and she was immediately energetic and articulate, and couldn't help laughing.

Rong Xi'er, who was standing beside Prince Cheng, whispered: "Mrs. Chen, I'm afraid I still remember the things in Changchun Garden." After a pause, "The servant heard that now the business of the Ninth Master Mansion in Jiangnan is all in the hands of this Mrs. Chen......

Prince Cheng sneered slightly, "Didn't you see the prince staring at her for a long time?" Is it possible to watch her go out now? The old fourteen tossed around at the beginning, but he actually accepted a good minion......"