After Shuning suggested to her mother that the fourth elder brother should stay in the garden, a series of preparations were made.

Just a few days ago, there was a servant's child, who accidentally fell into the water while playing in the garden, although he was quickly rescued, he still fell into the cold, and soon there was a small servant who was stung by a bee in the woods, so he took the opportunity to announce a new family rule: the garden starts from the edge of the woods on the left side of the Linyuan Pavilion, and goes to the side of the Lingbotai Mountain in the northeast corner, this diagonal line to the right can be allowed to enter and exit, but the woods, pillow Xia Pavilion and mountain forests on the left, except for the servants everywhere, are not allowed to set foot without the permission of the master. Moreover, even if the family is allowed to enter and leave the half of the garden, when the sun goes down, the door must be closed and locked, and no one is allowed to enter or leave the garden at will.

Over there, several houses have been cleaned up, and there are special people responsible for cleaning them every day, and they can live in them at any time. But the clan did not adopt what his daughter said, let the fourth elder brother and his party come in through the small door on the mountain, which was a bit undignified after all. When I first bought the garden, the garden and the courtyard were actually separated, but later a wall was built to seal the passageway, which became an inner alley, and the doors were opened at both ends. The gate on the west side of the road is only blocked by a small tree, so that passers-by will not find it unless they know it in advance. The clan has already informed the fourth elder brother and asked them to come in from here when the time comes.

For the sake of safety, the family arranged Ma San'er and his family to a small cross-courtyard next to the aisle, and the whole courtyard only put some sundries except for the husband and wife. Ma San'er is also an insider, as long as someone knocks on the small door. He would quietly welcome people in and send them to the Pillow Pavilion. The servants who have been arranged along the way are all people who have spent many years and are very trustworthy.

Shuning knew very well about her mother's arrangement, so she began to be careful. As long as the atmosphere at home changes, she will restrain the maids in the courtyard from going to the garden, and repeatedly strictly order Frangipani not to inquire about the news at will. Even if you find out, don't just go around talking about it.

Fang Ning didn't know anything about these things, just lived her life quietly, copying scriptures and reciting Buddha. However, after changing the environment and not being entangled in mundane things, she was in a much better mood, and sometimes saw Xianning and Xiaobao. I will also talk and laugh with them. Shuning was very satisfied with this, and asked her to socialize with Xiao Liu more in her spare time.

Although Xiao Liu is nominally their family's concubine, they have always lived in a simple place when they were in the Earl's Palace, and they have not had much contact with the people in the mansion, let alone Fang Ning, who also lives in a simple place. For Fang Ning, she was almost half a stranger, but after a few conversations, Fang Ning found that this aunt had a gentle and peaceful temperament, was very easy to get along with, and was kind. Gradually, I became closer.

Today's small Liu family has changed a lot compared with that year. She is very close to her son, and his son knows how to be motivated, regardless of his homework and martial arts, he learns very seriously, and his body is gradually getting stronger. The family treated her very well. She never regarded her mother and son as outsiders, she positioned herself as a sister of the clan, no longer always avoiding Zhang Bao as before, and dared to say a few words and laugh when she met, behaving frankly, and the clan also agreed.

Xiao Liu is now happy with everything, he hasn't shed tears for a long time, and his face no longer has the sad look of the past. She was a gentle and amiable person. Naturally, everyone likes to spend time with her.

Shuning arranged for Fang Ning to make friends with Xiao Liu, just to let Fang Ning have new friends, and Xiao Liu loves her daughter and likes to nag about parenting. Fang Ning spends time with her, and naturally has less time to knock on scriptures and chant Buddha.

However, because she had already promised to take Fang Ning to worship the Buddha, Shu Ning still solemnly begged her father to arrange for the family carriage to send them to Yunju Temple on May 13 to participate in the Christmas consecration ceremony of Garan Bodhisattva.

Because they want to take care of the housework, they have no time to go, so they asked Xiao Liu to take them, Xiao Bao and Xianning were going to play, but Xiao Liu was worried that they would be mischievous and refused to agree, Duan Ning coaxed the two younger brothers, as long as they obediently completed their homework, he took them outside to ride horses, and the two children stopped.

Yunju Temple is a very prestigious large temple in the vicinity, covering a huge area, among which there is a large courtyard behind the Tianwang Palace, which is the place where the festival is held. Moreover, after the ceremony, there are senior monks in the temple who give a lecture in the courtyard in front of the Shakya Hall, and many believers go to listen. Shuning and his entourage also followed, Zhang Bao inquired about the situation in advance, and booked a small room for them, just like many rich and noble women who came to listen to the lectures, through a curtain to listen to the monks outside explain the scriptures, if there is something they don't understand, they will write it down with a pen and paper, and ask the little novice outside to send it to the altar, and their own monks will explain in public.

Fang Ning listened very carefully, and sent out a lot of notes, all of which were explained one by one, and she only felt suddenly enlightened in her heart. On the way home, she happily said to Shuning that she had benefited a lot from this trip, and she should have come a long time ago if she knew that there would be so many benefits to listening to the lectures of senior monks in such a big temple. Shuning smiled and agreed, but she was worried in her heart, I don't know if this is a stone to shoot yourself in the foot?

The fourth elder brother really came, and he arrived in the evening, when the Shuning family was preparing for dinner. As soon as the family received the news, he took Duan Ning to the back, and only Zhang Bao took Shuning, Xianning, Fang Ning, and Xiao Liu's mother and son at the dinner table. Although the courtyard was not closed to people as last time, and the closure of the garden after sunset had continued for a while, the family did not suspect much, but the atmosphere had changed somewhat. Fang Ning seemed to feel this change, and was slightly uneasy, and Shu Ning talked about what she had seen and heard at today's puja, which attracted her attention.

In the evening, Shuning also went to Fangning Courtyard and dragged her to chat with Xiao Liu, specifically to talk about their favorite topics, and did not leave until the first watch. The next day, after knowing what his daughter had done, he smiled faintly.

~~~~~~~~~~~=I'm the dividing line ~~~~~~~~~~~~ the transition scene

It is said that the Yu family, the original big landlord in the nearby village, has recently undergone new changes. The son, who was put on death row, was finally sentenced to be executed after the autumn, and it was useless for his parents to beg for help. Maybe it's because you're used to living a good life. Since the fall of the Yu family, they could no longer bribe the jailers as lavistly as before, and the son fell seriously ill and died in prison within two days of the verdict.

Yu Jiadi's parents were devastated, and both fell ill. The family money fell on the young daughter. In the past, they owed a large amount of silver taels to save their son, and those creditors also came to the door to force his family to pay back. The father of the Yu family originally planned to exchange his daughter Xu Ren for some silver taels, but his daughter Yu Tong refused. Yu Tong had already grasped the power of the family at that time, and resolutely asked relatives, friends and elders to come forward and sell the family mansion, and the silver money obtained to pay off the debt was only a little Chaos Knight of the Heroic World The latest chapter of the Chaos Knights remained, so she rented another small courtyard in the village and moved in with her parents and family. Make some female red needlework on your own, or do laundry

It's to bring a few Mengtong to earn money.

Her parents couldn't understand their daughter's behavior of selling their ancestral home, but they were sick and could only rely on her to support them, and they scolded them every day. But the villagers admired Yu Tong very much, and saw that she was good at needlework, literate, and kind, so they often helped her. Miss Lu. Originally, he had also ridiculed Yu Tong, but seeing her like this, he put away his ridicule and divided some work for her from time to time to let her earn more. Therefore, although Yu Tong's life is not very easy, he can barely support his family.

The matter of the Yu family soon spread all over the neighborhood. The Shuning family is naturally no exception. When talking about this matter with the female relatives of the family, he admired Yu Tongdi's heart and determination very much, and heard that she was good at flowering and good at playing knots, so he said that he would invite her to come to the house to help fight a few. Shuning noticed that Fang Ning's eyes were a little gloomy, and she seemed to be faintly sad.

Afterwards, Shuning privately asked Fang Ning why she was sad, and Fang Ning said: "I'm just sad for Miss Yu, she has done so much for her family." But in exchange for scolding, I was a little aggrieved for her. Shuning was silent, could it be that Miss Yu couldn't get the family's forgiveness, which aroused Fang Ning's knot in her relationship with her biological mother, Aunt Chen?

Two days passed. Shu Ning's mother invited Yu Tong to come to her home to teach herself to play with Fang Ning, and the location was in Zhilan Courtyard. Yu Tong taught them very carefully, and even the tricks of color matching were passed on to them, such as pine flowers with pink, green onion with willow yellow, etc., and taught them several tricks. Shuning studied for a long time before she learned the two styles of plum blossoms and Fang Sheng, while Fang Ning only learned one, but she played very beautifully.

When Yu Tong was leaving, Fang Ning specially gave her another five taels of silver, which was originally the money she had accumulated, but Yu Tong unexpectedly refused. Fang Ning was surprised and asked why she didn't accept it, Yu Tong still said with a hint of shyness: "Just teach the young ladies to make a few contacts, the housekeeper in the house has already paid, the kindness of the young lady, the little woman understands." ”

Fang Ning was silent for a while before she said, "I know that your family is not rich, but I just want to do my best." You will have more silver taels, and you will be less angry when you go home. Yu Tong shook his head lightly and said, "I can earn as much as I can with my own ability, and Miss should take back this kindness." Family ...... It's just a temporary grievance, and it's good to get used to it. ”

Fang Ning took back the money bag and didn't speak, Shu Ning saw this and picked out all the corners of Yu Tong today, leaving only two or three as models, and the rest were wrapped in a silk handkerchief and stuffed into Yu Tong's hands, seeing that she was surprised, she said: "This was originally done by Miss Yu, we don't dare to occupy more, as long as we leave a few to make a show, you can take it back." Yu Tong understood her intentions, and was hesitating, Fang Ning spoke: "Are you really determined to reject our intentions?" They are all girls of the same age, why do you want to refuse people thousands of miles away? Yu Tong smiled and accepted it.

She was about to say goodbye and leave, but was stopped by Fang Ning again. Fang Ning bit her lip before asking, "Miss Yu, I want to ask you...... Have you ever had any resentment when your parents treated you like this, and even wanted to exchange you for money? Yu Tong was stunned, and said with a slight smile: "They gave birth to me and raised me, providing me with brocade clothes and food, it is a great kindness, although they have had confused thoughts, but blood is thicker than water, in my heart, they are still my most respected and beloved parents." ”

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Shuning sent Yu Tong out of the courtyard gate, and when she turned around and saw that Fang Ning was still in a daze, she pushed her. Fang Ning suddenly woke up, and said to Shuning: "Third sister, I have something to think about, you go back first, and come back tomorrow." ”

The next day, when Shuning saw Fang Ning again, she found that the melancholy between her eyebrows had dissipated most of the time, and her smile was warmer than before, so she asked her if she had encountered something happy, and Fang Ning just smiled and said nothing.

Maybe it's because of a change in mood, maybe it's a nutritious diet, maybe it's often walking around outside the house, Fang Ning's face is gradually ruddy, and she is fatter. She was very happy about this and told her to continue, not to eat vegetarian food all the time, and to eat more meat and drink more milk.

Fang Ning has been eating vegetarian dishes for many years, and even if there is meat, it is not much, so it is very distressed. Shuning snickered and brought the goat's milk to her. Fang Ning glanced at her, drank it with a bitter face, and then brought another bowl of goat's milk to Shu Ning, and couldn't help but smile: "Now it's your turn." This came back to Shuning's bitter face.

Recently, she was supervised by her mother to drink goat's milk, and Shuning had a headache. She knew it was good for her body, not only to grow taller, but also to whiten, but she couldn't get used to that smell anyway. She vaguely remembered that she had seen the method of removing the smell of goat's milk in the past, which seemed to be using almonds, and she didn't remember whether she saw it before or after wearing it, so she simply asked someone to try it. As a result, the goat's milk boiled with almonds was added, and the smell disappeared a lot, and it was already in the mouth. From then on, she no longer regarded drinking goat's milk as a torture.

June 19 is the day of Guanyin Bodhisattva's enlightenment, and there is a puja in Yunju Temple. Because Xiao Liu had some heat stroke and couldn't go with him, Shuning and Fang Ning brought a few more family servants. The puja was a little long, and the sisters had to stay in the monastery and eat fast.

There were four female guests at a table, and among the people at the same table with their sisters, there was an old woman in her fifties, although she was not gorgeous, but her clothes were clean and tidy, and her behavior was elegant, which made people feel very good. Another woman, who seemed to be a merchant lady, was dressed in fine clothes, but she was often rude when eating, not only chewing loudly, but also coughing a few times from time to time, as if trying to cough up the phlegm in her throat. The old woman frowned frequently, and Shuning was also a little frightened, wondering if she would cough up phlegm into the food on the table.

Fang Ning lightly advised the woman that if she wanted to spit, she might as well spit into the spittoon in the corner of the house. The woman glared at her, saw that everyone else around her was displeased with her, pulled the corners of her mouth, and reluctantly got up and walked to the corner of the house. The old woman deliberately glanced at Fang Ning a few times, but Fang Ning just smiled lightly.

After the meal, Shuning planned to walk around and eliminate food, and Fang Ning readily agreed. The sisters only brought Chunyan and invited a little novice as a guide to think about the stone tower. The little novice consulted the deacon monks, and replied that he could only walk around the outskirts of Tallinn, and Shuning agreed. The group walked around several stone towers of different sizes, and listened to the little novice tell some allusions to the origin of the stone towers, but they were not bored. Besides, the grass here is forested, and it is much cooler than the main hall outside.

After walking around these stone towers, he was about to go to other places, when Shuning noticed that there was a familiar person standing there on the edge of another tower not far ahead, looking in another direction.

It was Lin Xi who had a one-sided relationship.