When they arrived at the Jiang family's courtyard, Lian Chen and the others, who were still living here, were very surprised: "Didn't you say that you went out of the city?" ”

"I went to see the concubine and the concubine, and talked to them." Concubine Lian's tomb is close to Princess Ruan's tomb anyway, when Qiu Yulan wanted to talk to Princess Ruan alone, he ordered Su He and others to clean the concubine's mausoleum, and he didn't feel empty when he said this, "I only remembered on the way back, and when I left, I was in a trance, and I forgot to say it to my uncle." ”

"Well, we should have gone and seen it too." Lian Chen stroked his long beard, sighed, and said, "Now that Qiu Mengmin's true face has finally been revealed, and the Lu clan has died in fear of sin, it is natural ......for you to go and comfort the elders in the spirit of the sky."

Qiu Yulan was stunned: "The Lu clan died in fear of sin? ”

"It's a matter of heaven." Lian Jianhao said with a smile.

Qiu Yulan suddenly understood, this must be Empress Jiang's conclusion-she asked, "What about my uncle?" ”

"Because the two little princes of the Xihe Royal Mansion refused to take the throne, the Queen Mother insisted that Qiu Mengmin be restored as the King of Xihe on the grounds that the Xihe King had no other blood and blood." Lian Jianhai said, "But the queen fined him another ten years and took away all his titles except for the king......"

Speaking of this, he reminded, "The queen should be praised and relieved by you, but she prefers you to go out of the city." When did you come back? Have you never been to the palace? I think you might have to say thank you. ”

"Thank you, Cousin." Qiu Yulan nodded, thinking to herself, how could Empress Jiang let Qiu Mengmin reset so easily? It seems that there must be something inside. She added, "This time I was able to avenge my grandmother, thanks to the hard work of several of you who came from afar to corroborate it. ”

Lian Chen hurriedly said, "What are you thanking us for?" Your grandmother is my sister, we speak for you, shouldn't we? Over the years, we have not been able to protect you because we are far away, and your mother and daughter have suffered a lot of grievances, where can we still have the face to thank you? ”

Qiu Yulan was naturally busy saying that the Lian family did have something worthy of her thanks-after such a greeting for a while, she turned to the topic: "Although the Lu family died in fear of sin, she is the biological mother of her uncle in the end. Now that she's gone, I'm afraid my uncle won't say it, and he will always have some guilt against me in his heart. ”

She bit her lip and looked at Lian Chen, "Please also ask my uncle to give me some advice, so that I don't anger my uncle more and more in the future." ”

"That's a problem." Lian Chen glanced at Lian Jianhao and Lian Jianhai, and said, "It's a pity that you don't have a female dependent, and now you can't help but continue to raise them in the palace." ”

He pondered for a while, and then said, "Either way, I'll let your two cousins stay, and I'll pick up your aunt and aunt over to them, so that I can visit you from time to time." In this way, Qiu Mengmin should be jealous, and he dare not be openly harsh on you. ”

Lian Jianhao seemed to want to say something.

Lian Chen glanced at him and said, "What?" ”

"After the Xiang family came, although they could often visit their nieces in the house, it was on the surface after all." Lian Jianhao hesitated, "In addition to Qiu Mengmin, who is his wife and concubine and children in Xihe Palace, how can the people not be the prince of the house, but the young county lord?" ”

Qiu Yulan frowned slightly, and seemed to feel very annoyed.

"Do you have an idea?" Lian Chen asked with a deep groan.

Lian Jianhao said: "After the little sister was widowed, in order to concentrate on raising Qian'er, she vowed not to marry again......"

These words reminded Lian Chen, and said to Qiu Yulan: "Your cousin is carefully taught by your great-grandmother, and her husband is a person of both talent and beauty. It's a pity that your cousin Fubo, who vomited blood after taking the township exam at the age of 20, didn't survive, and later came out of high school third but it was also boring...... There is only one girl under the two of them, and her name is light, and she is a year younger than you. ”

The point is, "Your cousin is thinking about the love between husband and wife and being young, and although she is widowed in her youth, she doesn't plan to remarry." At the beginning of last year, the township also set up a memorial arch for her. ”

Darui is open, and divorce, remarriage is not new, so there are not many arches of chastity. But the role of the archway is just as huge - although this cousin has no fate, but with her chastity archway, the wife has to be polite when she sees it, and it is not good to treat it as an ordinary woman.

The Lian family said this, and the meaning was very clear: I hope that Qiu Yulan will take the initiative to speak and ask to take this Aunt Lian and her daughter to Beijing and accompany her to live in the palace.

After all, Cousin Lian is the same generation as Qiu Mengmin, and her identity is the niece of Qiu Mengmin's mother, as long as she doesn't make a big mistake, Qiu Mengmin can't do anything to her on the scene. Especially since she has the identity of a festival woman, she is Princess Yang, and she can't pinch her at will.

With this cousin by her side, Qiu Yulan can save a lot of trouble in private - but who knows if it will cause other troubles?

Qiu Yulan has never seen this cousin, in case she is the kind of master who abides by the rules and is almost pedantic, isn't that a shackle for herself! When the time comes, people will be invited, and it will not be so easy to send them away, if one is not careful, even the Lian family will be offended.

So Qiu Yulan said quietly: "Aunt Lian's martyrdom is really admirable!" But he said nothing else.

Seeing this, Lian Chen stroked his long beard and exchanged glances with Lian Jianhao and Lian Jianhai - because he had felt that Qiu Yulan was not like an ordinary thirteen-year-old girl, and she was not easy to coax, so they would not be disappointed, so they only said kindly: "Your cousin Lian has a good temperament, and the shallow child under her knees is also a good child." If she comes to Kyori too, you'll have more than one sister to walk around. ”

"It's fantastic." Qiu Yulan agreed, but that's it.

Lian Chen knew from this that even if she knew that there would be a lot of trouble living alone in the palace in the future, she still didn't want to make a decision without seeing the aunt and grandmother of the Lian family.

So he didn't mention it anymore, and turned to something else: "I heard that the heir of General Ruan Lao won the apricot list this time, which is gratifying!" ”

Sure enough, Xueba's relatives can grow faces everywhere - because they are cousins, Qiu Yulan doesn't need to be humble on behalf of Ruan Qingyan, so he said with a smile: "Cousin Ruan is indeed a good learner." ”

"I heard that General Nguyen Xiao is the youngest in this Kogonshi." Lian Ding, who was standing below and had never dared to speak, had sparkling eyes, and couldn't help but interject, "I'm ashamed to say that I'm two years younger than General Ruan, and I'm not even a showman so far!" ”

Lian Jianhai snorted: "You are not a good son, how can you compare with General Ruan?" ”

Qiu Yulan secretly sighed with emotion: Jiang Yashuang is the son of Jiang Banchao's family, and his father, General Zhenbei, has a heavy army, so even if he is only a white body, he will be respectfully called General Jiang Xiao when he comes out.

And Ruan Thanh Yan, who is also the heir of the general and the only grandson of the old general Ruan, was admitted to the Gongshi, and everyone remembered that there was actually a general behind him.

Lian Chen rounded up the scene, ordered Lian Jianhai not to train his son anymore, and said to Qiu Yulan: "I'm afraid there will be a lot of visitors to General Ruan's mansion these days, you lived there before, and now you don't know if it's convenient or not?" ”

Qiu Yulan said: "On the day the court will disperse, I will take people to move back to the palace. ”

"Be careful, then." Lian Chen frowned and said, "The heart of guarding against people is indispensable...... After all, now your uncle is the prince. Alas, it's a pity that we left in a hurry and didn't have time to bring our daughters, otherwise we would have kept you here. ”

"Uncle, don't worry, it's only been a few days since the Lu family committed suicide in fear of crime? Even if my uncle is angry with me because of this, he doesn't dare to do anything to me so quickly, otherwise wouldn't he despise the queen too much? Qiu Yulan smiled slightly and said, "I came today, but I have a big matter, I want to ask my uncle to be the master!" ”

Lian Chen was surprised and asked, "What is it?" ”

"You know that my grandmother and mother are the only ones alive now." Qiu Yulan sighed, "It is said that their dowry should also belong to me - it's not that I'm greedy for money, but how can the things left by this elder be given to people as casually as ordinary things?" Before the mother was seriously ill, the aunt and aunt took the opportunity to take a lot of ...... I'm worried, outsiders don't know what happened, and they think that I don't care about my grandmother and my mother's things! ”

The Lian family's face changed when they heard this, and said: "This is not a matter of greedy for property or not, a woman's dowry, except for her own flesh and blood, no one can touch it!" This is a rule that has been established since ancient times, and it is also written in the law of Darui! Why did the palace not only disobey the concubine, but even the concubine's things?! ”

Lian Ding was very angry and said: "Grandfather, they don't even pay attention to the meaning of their aunt and grandmother, they have raised the Lu family in the palace for more than ten years, how can they not use the things of aunt and grandmother and Aunt Ruan!" This is really bullying Cousin Qiu! ”

"How many things did they take? Have you seen the list? Although Lian Chen's face was not very good-looking, he was not in a hurry - this kind of thing that is clear at a glance who is right and who is wrong, as the party who occupies the reason, he is actually not very worried in his heart, anyway, the Xihe Mansion is still there, if it is gone, he will call them to pay for it!

As a result, Qiu Yulan said helplessly: "The problem is here, I haven't seen any of the dowry lists of the concubine and the mother." When I asked the people in front of my mother, they also said they didn't know. I suspected that my aunt or aunt had taken it, but they had asked me for it before! I don't know, if it's true or not, they didn't take it? ”

"It's nothing." Lian Chen's brows furrowed when he heard this, and then he stretched out again, and hummed, "The dowry of the concubine when she left the pavilion, we also have a list at home!" Although I didn't expect to bring it with me this time, it would be good to send the message back and pick it up. ”

"I'm afraid of ...... on the road," Lian Ding couldn't help but remind.

Thinking of the swords and swords along the way, as well as those Jiang family dead soldiers who died in front of him, Lian Chen couldn't help but twitch!

Qiu Yulan rushed to discuss this matter with the Lian family non-stop, just because he was afraid of this - the Jiang family had sacrificed a lot of manpower in order to escort the people of the Lian family and the letter into Beijing, even if the Jiang family had a big business, and they were not summoning beasts, they didn't say they would help.

And even if the Empress Dowager Gu no longer interferes in the dowry list, the Lian family can't fight the Xihe Palace.

She was about to say that Qiu Mengmin and his wife are now "sick", should they take advantage of this situation to go back as soon as possible...... But I heard Lian Jianhai say: "Didn't Ding'er say two days ago that he saw Qiuxia in Beijing?" ”

"That's right!" Lian Ding couldn't help but be happy when he heard it, "Why did you forget Qiuxia?" If Qiu Xia is willing to make a move, as long as it is not as difficult as when he came back here, it is expected that it will be fine! ”

Qiu Yulan was stunned and said, "Qiu Xia? ”

"It's a charlatan." Lian Jianhao explained, "It seems that he also came out of a scholar's family, but somehow he didn't take the right path again, and he strayed into the rivers and lakes......"

"Second uncle, Qiu Xia said that the eldest husband should read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles." Lian Ding looked very impressed by the so-called "Qiu Xia", and actually argued with Lian Jianhao in public, "Qiu Xia is still young, how does the second uncle know if he will regain the imperial examination in the future?" Moreover, Qiu Xia is heroic and uninhibited, walking thousands of miles, and doing countless chivalrous things, according to his nephew, he is more ...... than many scholars."

Lian Jianhai frowned and said, "Shut up!" Who allows you to be disrespectful to your second uncle! ”

Lian Jianhao was busy and had nothing to do - Lian Chen didn't bother to pay attention to some trivial matters of the juniors, and said directly to Qiu Lulan: "A few years ago, there were several murders in Lanxi, and after the culprit was determined, the officials went to arrest them, but they had already flown away!" The family members of the murdered family naturally refused to stop there, and after being introduced, they invited this person from the south - there is indeed no false person under the fame, and he sent the head of the criminal to the yamen within a month, and what is even more commendable is that he will recover the bounty of the head of the criminal and the several families killed, and he actually took only a fraction of it, and then floated away! ”

Lian Ding said excitedly: "He has been to our house!" ”

"Your second cousin guessed that he came out of a scholar's house and was here, and that time he quietly went to our door to post and borrowed our family's collection of books to read for a few days." Lian Chen stroked his long beard and said, "So there are some old feelings...... This person is very famous in the rivers and lakes, and his martial arts are said to be extremely high, if he helps, he can indeed rest assured...... Just ......"

Qiu Yulan asked curiously: "Just what?" "Suddenly a wild hero came out, she really wanted to go and pay her respects!

"It's just that this person's origin is unknown." Lian Chen groaned, "Qiu Xia is the honorific title for him on the rivers and lakes, it is said that when he first debuted, it was Xiao Xiao who fell under the wood, and someone asked him for his name in the restaurant, he looked at the boundless falling wood outside the railing, and said the word 'autumn wind', no matter how you listen to it, it is taken casually - the dowry list is now a copy, in case it is not ......."