In the afternoon, Shuiyan's little servant sent a bag in, and reported respectfully: "Fifth master, the car is already waiting outside the west gate." Li Xiaoqi nodded to indicate that she knew, the little girl withdrew from the east chamber, Li Xiaoqi signaled the girl to close the door, and after carrying the burden to the screen, the two girls waited for her to change her clothes, Shui Yan asked people to send her a new set of maid clothes, the moon white covered narrow sleeve silk blouse, the water blue skirt with a long lake blue palace silk, as well as hairpins, earrings, sachets, purses and other things, even the handkerchief is complete, Li Xiaoqi raised his arm and waited by the two girls to change clothes, and combed his hair into the most common hanging bun among the girls in Kaiping Mansion, Wearing a flower and a leaf of red blonde hairpins on both sides of the bun, Li Xiaoqi stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling copper mirror, looking at himself in the mirror, it is still a copper mirror, the mercury mirror is delicate, too real, it is best to look like this slightly blurry, Li Xiaoqi gently turned half a circle, the skirt rose and fell, she still likes skirts, likes such a skirt that is as long as the feet, likes to shake, likes tassels, next time I don't know when I will have the opportunity to wear it again.

Li Xiaoqi took half a step back, glanced at himself in his glasses again, took the handkerchief from the girl's hand, and just stepped out of the hanging flower door of the main courtyard, and bumped into Su Zicheng head-on, Li Xiaoqi hurriedly stopped his steps, clasped his hands on his waist, and paradoxically bent his knees to say hello: "You're back, I'll go out, and I won't come back if it's late." ”

"What about the water rock?" Su Zicheng looked Li Xiaoqi up and down and asked, Li Xiaoqi smiled and nodded: "That's it, I'll go see someone." ”

"Well, be careful." Su Zicheng gave up half a step to the side and explained, Li Xiaoyi's smile was even thicker, and he was about to thank him, Su Zicheng frowned and confessed again: "Don't laugh at nothing, it's too eye-catching." Li Xiaoqi was stunned, hurriedly covered his face with one hand to block his smile, and nodded again and again: "I won't laugh when I go out, I really can't help it at this time." While speaking, he flashed past Su Zicheng, along the verandah, all the way out quickly, Su Zicheng put his hands behind his back, watched Li Xiaoqi go out of the moon gate, and then turned around and entered the weeping flower door, the girl's family still looks good in skirts, let people send her a few skirts tomorrow, if she is willing to change to a skirt, willing to enter his house•••••• Su Zicheng stopped at the door of the main house, turned his head to look at the east chamber that was covering the door, she smiled like the rising sun, like the lotus blooming crescent, this smile is too happy.

Li Xiaoqi ran to the side door, outside the door, a big car with elephant eye checkered cloth was already waiting outside the door, Shui Yan's little guy was standing in the side mouth and looking inside, seeing Li Xiaoqi coming, he hurriedly led Li Xiaoqi to the car.

Li Xiaoqi sat in the car, lifted the curtain and looked out, the car walked for half an hour, stopped in a secluded alley, and asked Li Xiaoqi to get out of the car, and changed to a car opposite, on the opposite car sat a woman about fifty years old with a dignified face, stretched out her hand to help Li Xiaoqi up, let her sit in the middle, and kowtowed to Li Xiaoqi without saying a word, Li Xiaoqi hurriedly reached out to help her up: "What is this doing, Mama." ”

"The slave maid's surname is Wu, she is grandma's nurse since she was a child, and she followed her to marry into the Chen family, and the slave maid thanked the girl for her grandmother••••••" Wu Mama said and kowtowed again, Li Xiaoqi hurriedly reached out to help her up, looked at her and whispered: "You still don't know about this, it's better to be with your grandmother." Mama Wu's eyes flashed with a hint of understanding, she agreed, sat upright and didn't speak again.

After a while, the car stopped, Li Xiaoqi got out of the car first, turned around and helped Mama Wu down, picked up the suitcase in the car, and didn't dare to look around, followed closely behind Mama Wu, passed by the gatehouse, and walked inside. Li Xiaoqi peeked around while walking, there is no gloom of the prison here, but more like an ordinary house, Mama Wu walked to the last row, turned in, there were two jailers sitting in front of the door in the middle, and there were four or five girls in brocade clothes, seeing that Mama Wu was coming, the girls and mothers-in-law were busy bending their knees to salute, and the two jailers hurriedly stood up and greeted with a smile: "Mama Wu is here, the seventh lady is also here, just arrived, and I am talking to Shui Da/Grandma in the house." Mama Wu smiled, stood and said a few words politely to the jailer, while talking, one handed a purse over, the two jailers were overjoyed and grateful, one kept bowing down to let Mama Wu and Li Xiaoqi in, Li Xiaoqi carried the suitcase, quietly hung her head and followed behind her mother-in-law, Mama Wu took two steps, stopped, turned her head to look at the leading mother-in-law and smiled: "I want to say a few words quietly with your girl." The woman smiled and raised her hand, and led everyone to retreat more than a dozen steps, standing far away and waiting, and the two jailers saw this, and hurriedly retreated dozens of steps away, leaning against the wall, gossiping and watching from afar.

The two entered the house, the room was very spacious, in the middle with a child's arm-thick iron rod stood up to the sky and divided into two rooms, the outside was empty, there was a master and a servant standing in the middle, the seventh lady saw Mama Wu come in, and was busy wiping her tears with a handkerchief, and whispered hello: "Mama is here." Mama Wu bent her knees to salute, didn't answer her words, and looked back at Li Xiaoqi hesitantly, Li Xiaoqi lowered her eyes, nodded as if nothing, and swept the suitcase in the hand of the girl behind the seventh lady and the boxes on the ground in the room, and also squatted down with the suitcase, opened the suitcase, and put the boxes inside into the ground one by one.

The seventh lady stared at Li Xiaoqi closely, and suddenly turned her head and ordered the girl behind her: "You wait for me outside." The girl hung her head and exited the house, walked over and waited outside with the girls, and the seventh lady bowed her knees to Li Xiaoyi, who was squatting on the ground and packing up the suitcase, and thanked her: "My name is Shuilian, if I can save Sister Tong's life, Shuilian will repay her great kindness in the future." After speaking, he didn't wait for Li Xiaoqi to answer, straightened up and looked at Mama Wu and said goodbye: "I'll leave first, and I'll come over to visit Sister Tong in two days." So saying, he took his skirt and went straight out.

Li Xiaoqi stood up and exhaled, this water family, all of them are human spirits, Mama Wu looked at Li Xiaoqi with an apologetic face, Li Xiaoqi shook her head, signaled that she was okay, turned her head and looked at the room, there was a bed, a table and a chair in the room, the bedding on the bed was clean and tidy, there were more than a dozen books piled up on the table, there were pen and paper, and a woman with a heavy filial piety and a thin back was sitting at the table writing something, just now, it seemed that nothing had happened to her.

Mama Wu stuck to the iron railing and called softly: "Grandma, someone saw you coming." After the mother-in-law finished speaking, she hurriedly retreated to the door, sticking to the door frame, and was vigilant of the movement outside. The pen in Shui Tong's hand paused, lowered his head and wrote a few more words, before putting down the pen, slowly turning around and looking out of the railing, Li Xiaoqi looked at her carefully, her appearance was not outstanding, but it gave people a feeling of light breeze and great generosity, there was no expression on her face, as if she was already a dead person, her eyes looked at Li Xiaoqi in silence, Li Xiaoqi simply doubted that she saw that she didn't see herself.

Shui Tong looked at Li Xiaoqi indifferently and quietly, did not move, and did not speak, Li Xiaoqi sighed secretly, mourning is greater than heart death, this Shui Tong, the heart is dead at this time, Li Xiaoqi took half a step back, Shui Tong slowly turned around, picked up the pen and continued to write, Li Xiaoqi took a few steps back, and said in a low voice: "Let's go." The mother-in-law looked at Li Xiaoqi in a daze, and then looked at Shui Tong, tears kept falling, bent down to lift the suitcase, Li Xiaoqi hurriedly stepped forward to take it, Wu Mama looked at Shui Tong with regret, and said goodbye in a low voice: "Grandma must take care of yourself, I will come again tomorrow." ”

Li Xiaoqi then carried the box, lowered his head and followed Mama Wu out of the car, the car shook, Li Xiaoqi watched the car go out of the courtyard through the curtain crack, walked for a while, then put down the curtain, turned to look at the mother-in-law and asked: "The seventh lady is the sister of Shui Da/grandma?" ”

"It's a cousin, our grandmother and the sister of the seventh lady's sister, the third lady, is the same age, is a handkerchief since childhood, the affection is excellent, and then the third lady died of illness, our grandmother will be the seventh lady as her own sister love, all day long to send letters and send things, and then we came back to the capital, the two met, although the age difference is a lot, but the temper is very good, better than the sisters, grandma has this incident, the seventh lady is the most anxious, begging everywhere."

"Well, the Seventh Lady and the Second Master of Jingjiang Houfu are relatives?"

"No, there is only one girl in the Jingjiang Hou Mansion, the fourteenth lady Shui Ying, the seventh lady and the second master of the water have the same great-grandfather, the father of the seventh lady, the fourth master of the seventh lady, and the marquis of Jingjiang and An Yuanhou have been close since childhood, and they usually walk around very diligently." Mama Wu patiently explained, Li Xiaoqi was silent for a moment, and then changed the topic: "How long has your grandmother been like this?" ”

"That's it after my grandfather's death." The mother-in-law wiped her tears and said,

"Have you seen a child in a while?"

"Since grandma came in here, the little master has been here once, and it's the same."

"It's like that across the railing?"

"Yes."

Li Xiaoqi twisted her eyebrows and thought for a while and asked, "Does she usually care for children?" ”

"How can a mother not hurt her child, the little master is the life of grandma."

Li Xiaoqi exhaled: "That's good, she can't go on like this, otherwise, her heart is dead, and there is no difference between life and no life, you go back and tell your master, think of opening up the joints, take the child to the inside, go every day, let the child hold her, pester her, call her, and cry to her." ”

"The little master is sick, and the master said that he was afraid that she would be worried, so he didn't let him tell her." The mother-in-law said in a low voice, and Li Xiaoqi sighed: "If she thinks that without her, the child will live like a child, and she will not worry about it, so she naturally only wants to die quickly, and if the child is sick, she will have to show her, let her watch the child be sick, watch the child hurt, watch the child cry, and see if she, a mother, can still die like this." The mother-in-law blinked, nodded again and again and agreed: "Thank you girl for your advice, I will tell the old lady when I go back, and I will bring the little young master over tomorrow." ”