Song Yixiao walked out of the Song Mansion very depressed.

She came out today under the banner of visiting Yuan Xuexu, so although she was not in the mood, she still went to Zhaodebo Mansion.

Lu Guanlun's heir father died young, and he was only twelve years old when he died, and it was the old King Hengshan who was sad that his son was thin and his concubine died early, so he helped him ask the royal family for a posthumous title of marquis - it was just a holy decree, of course, there was no mansion that matched the title.

And after Lu Guanlun succeeded to the name of this uncle who died early, if it weren't for the fact that he was the cousin of Emperor Duanhua's bloodline, and King Hengshan also had some pity for this son, it would be difficult to even attack the lord.

The place where he lives at the moment is just an ordinary three-entry courtyard house.

Although there is a Zhumen beast ring, it can be roughly looked like an ordinary rich family, and it has no momentum that a powerful family should have.

If it weren't for the plaque on the door, Song Yixiao would have thought that he had gone to the wrong place.

"Why haven't you come until now?" Yuan Xuexu received the news and was already looking forward to it, but when she got out of the car, she hurriedly greeted her, and affectionately grabbed her arm and complained, "I waited until now in the morning, and the almond tofu and apricot cake I made myself are going to cool!" ”

"It's my fault, I met someone on the road to greet me, but I delayed the time!" Song Yixiao said casually, and while walking in with her, she asked, "Listen to Sister Jiang, what does Uncle Jinke plan to do?" ”

Yuan Xuexu first sneered: "It's not that you don't know your cousin, why do you shout like this?" According to me, although you are not officially my uncle's daughter, my cousin has always treated you as a younger sister, you just don't want to call him 'brother', and it is natural to call him 'third brother Lu'! After all, we have to communicate often, and if you shout like that, others still think that we are not in harmony with each other! ”

Fu Cai said, "Exactly! Originally, we planned to come back last year, just thinking that Zhuangzi was pure, which would be good for him to concentrate on his studies, so we stayed for a few more months, and we came back two days ago. Now he is still closing the door, just waiting for his cousin to come out of the examination room and talk about anything else. ”

He shook her arm again and said with a smile, "You are your own family, but you are not a guest!" ”

"Who still can't meet you?" Song Yi glanced at her with a smile, pursed her lips and smiled, "What about almond tofu and apricot blossom cake?" Hurry up and get it, I'm really hungry - wait! Why are both apricots, this is a good mouthpiece! ”

Because of the season, its list is also known as the apricot list, Yuan Xuexu will make almond tofu and apricot blossom cake for her friends, in addition to entertaining Song Yixiao, she did not have the intention of asking her husband for a lottery.

Hearing this, she really laughed: "I know I can't hide it from you!" Actually, my cousin didn't care, but I was unsure and had to do something to make up my mind. ”

"Third Brother Lu has always been calm, since he is determined to go down, I don't think there is any problem." Song Yi smiled and comforted, "Otherwise, if he is so young, why not wait for another subject?" ”

chatted with Yuan Xuecao for most of the day, and asked about the situation of Zhiqin - Yuan Xuexu was going to bring Zhiqin on this trip, but I thought that the couple had lived in Zhuangzi for two or three years, and they would come back.

"The Zhiqin couple is okay, their child is still young, I'm afraid that they will be quarreled with when they come, besides, it's always bad for children to come and go, and our place is not big." Yuan Xuexu explained, "So let them live in the Zhuangzi for a few more days." ”

Seeing that Song Yi was about to smile and stopped, he said, "Do you want them and their wife to go to you?" ”

"I do miss Chiqin." Song Yixiao didn't hide it when she heard this, when she asked Zhiqin and his wife to go to Yuan Xuexu, she was mainly afraid that the turmoil over the prince would affect them.

But now that the new monarch has ascended the throne, this worry is naturally gone, and Song Yixiao certainly hopes to be able to take care of the Zhiqin family in person.

Yuan Xuexu muttered: "I don't mean to rob people with you, but the Zhiqin couple have lived in Zhuangzi these days, and the people there are used to them and get along with each other very well. If you take them to your house, I'm afraid you'll have to start all over again. ”

Song Yi smiled when he heard this, thought about it, and said: "Then in a few days, I will send people to see them, and ask them what they mean before making a decision-the beginning of next month is Qingyue Manzhou, but that day I rushed to enter the third brother of Lu, I don't know if you have time to drink a glass of water and wine?" ”

"He got up early to get in." Yuan Xuexu said with a smile, "I have already said that I don't want to send it, how can I not have time to eat Qingyue's Manzhou wine?" Speaking of which, I am disappointed that you didn't bring her here today! ”

The two have been separated for a long time, although Song Yixiao is full of worries at the moment, and they have been thinking about it for most of the day, and when the sun shadow is slanting westward, they get up and say goodbye.

After leaving the Zhaodebo Mansion, worries about his biological father and mother came to his heart again.

In the sound of the wheeling car, Song Yi looked at the pedestrians outside the car with a smile, feeling full of sorrow, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a shop not far away, Su Shaoge leaned over slightly, tidying up the clothes of a young man in a wheelchair - she hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help but call the coachman to drive over: "Second son Su, I don't know if you can take a step to speak?" ”

"Madame has a life, how dare she disobey?" Su Shaoge was very surprised when he heard this, and after thinking about it for a while, he said gently.

At that moment, Song Yixiao took the hat handed by the maid and put it on, got out of the carriage, bowed slightly to the young man, as a gesture, and walked a few steps away with Su Shaoge, and took out the token in his sleeve: "My father left this thing with me before his death, but the second son also knows that I left the Song family when I was young, and I don't know anything about it, I don't know if the second son can teach one or two?" ”

In fact, it should be more appropriate to ask Jian Limiao about this question, but Song Yixiao really didn't want her husband's family to know about the entanglement between her parents. What's more, although Jian Limiao was taught by Old Lady Duanmu according to the standards of Jinxiutang, he was not the real Queen of the Six Valves.

So when she bumped into Su Shaoge today, Song Yixiao thought about it, and felt that it was better to ask him - the inheritance of Fufeng Hall is the most complete one of the six valves in the sea so far, as long as Su Shaoge is willing to solve her doubts, what he can tell her must be much more than Jian Limiao knows.

Moreover, the Su family is now too busy to take care of themselves, and Su Shaoge doesn't have the time to investigate her for asking these questions.

"This should be related to the Song family's secret guard 'following the wind'." Su Shaoge glanced at the token, pondered for a moment, and then said, "If my guess is correct, this is only half of the token, merge it with the other half in the hands of the leader of the dark guard, and then give the order." ”

"What the second prince means is that this token is now in my hand, so no one else can send the secret guard?" Song Yi smiled and was taken aback, "Is it possible that there are several other similar tokens?" ”

Su Shaoge shook his head and said, "As far as I know, this kind of token can't be redundant. Even if the head of the family pampers a sibling or child and divides a part of the guard for him to drive, it is impossible to hand over the token directly, or make another piece for him - there were some heads of the family who did this before, but later they were abandoned by the elders of the clan and replaced with their brothers. After that, no one broke the rules. ”

"What if it's lost?" Song Yixiao thought for a while, and then asked, "It's impossible to lose the token and never instruct the secret guard again, right?" ”

Su Shaoge said: "This is naturally not going to be - let the head of the family order it, just make another piece." In the final analysis, the secret guard is the power of the head of the family, as long as the head of the family is there, the existence of this token is mainly due to the fear that someone will fake the order of the head of the family. ”

"According to the words of the second son, this token is used by the head of the family, and no one else, even if it is a brother or sister or a child, can not cross it without permission?" Song Yi smiled puzzledly and asked, "Then why did my father give it to me?" ”

"There have been examples of this before." I don't want Su Shaoge to disagree, "The main thing is that the fourth prince of Song is still young, and according to the rules, this token can not be personally taken in person until he binds his hair." Before that, he had to find a reliable person to take care of him—either a trusted servant or a brother or sister. ”

Song Yixiao said unexpectedly: "But my mother's grandmother and stepmother are still here!" ”

Even if Song Yibao and Song Yijiao are too young, it is said that with the Lu family's mother-in-law and Mrs. Pang's grandmother, the reliable person Song Yuan trusts can't take his turn, right?

Especially this token was given to her when she was pregnant with Jian Qingyue, and Song Yuan asked the Lu family to sandwich it between a pile of silver tickets and deeds. At that time, Song Yuan hadn't shown favor to his eldest daughter!

"Mrs. Song doesn't know, this is mainly because she is worried that the son is weak and the mother is strong." Su Shaoge said gently, "So this token, even if it is handed over to you who has already left the cabinet for safekeeping, it will not be handed over to Grandmother Ling and Stepmother Ling for safekeeping - of course, this is not to say that Grandmother Ling and Stepmother are not virtuous, it is also that similar things have happened before, and the experience that has been summed up has become a habit to pass it down." ”

In the past, the six valves in China only thought that they were a good match if they intermarried with each other, and they regarded themselves as so high, so their requirements for themselves were not low. Therefore, even in the era of openness, this kind of family also pays attention to good women and husbands.

Therefore, when a young widow appears in a family like theirs, she will be allowed to raise her children if she has children; If you don't have children, wait for the right time to give her an heir - the result of the problem of mother-son dependence, although most of them are still good, but there are also a few who are used to being the head of the house, resulting in the head of the family still being set aside when he becomes an adult.

There are even some people who are interested in their mother's family, or want to use their mother's support to consolidate the power in their hands, and do not hesitate to harm the interests of their husband's family to contribute to their mother's family. After several similar incidents, the families decided to decentralize the power of the head of the family when the head of the family was young, and put it in charge of several people, so as not to have a situation where one person covered the sky with one hand and blackmailed the head of the family to order the family.

The mother and grandmother of the head of the family are clearly restricted to prevent them from dominating the head of the family by virtue of filial piety and affection.

Su Shaoge explained briefly, "I think Ling Zun went suddenly, so I didn't have time to explain this to Mrs. Song." ”

Song Yi smiled and heard this, and his heart was shocked: "It turns out that my father handed over this token to me for safekeeping, but he came according to the rules!" It was only when he gave me this thing that I became pregnant with Qingyue - could it be that my father had murderous intentions towards my mother at that time?! And it's very likely that my father still plans to kill my mother...... And with it?! ”

Otherwise, Song Yuan was so dignified at the time, why did he feel that he would not live to the day when his young son became an adult and taught his ancestral industry in person?

And the silver tickets and other things given with the token, even including the dowry that Song Yuan personally handed over to Jian Qingyue before his death, may not be, or may not all be compensation for the eldest daughter.

It is very likely that it is also because he wants the eldest daughter to take care of the younger brother - Song Yixiao recalled that when Song Yuan took the initiative to come to the door before, he had mentioned that he had transferred the compensation given by the Hengshan Mansion to Lu Guanlun without taking a penny.

At that time, she didn't pay much attention to this matter, but now that she thinks about it, the reason why Song Yuan took the initiative to come to the door, I'm afraid the real reason is here!

- Even if Song Yixiao became the wife of the country, in Song Yuan's eyes, she was also strapped for money, but she still ceded the property equivalent to half of the Guogong Mansion to Lu Guanlun, just because Lu Guanlun took care of her very much in the past!

With such a character, Song Yuan is not worried that she will deduct the token and not give it to Song Yiyao in the future.

And as long as she is coaxed to change her mind and reconcile with her mother's family, it will be impossible not to think about her half-brothers and sisters in the future!

If this speculation is true, then in the final analysis, Song Yuan has never really loved her eldest daughter, giving money to Tian and things, it seems that she regrets the beginning, but in fact, it is just to pave the way for her son's future.

For a while, Song Yi smiled and had a lot of flavors in her chest, and she didn't know what it was like, she tried to calm down before she confirmed: "So, my mother's grandmother and mother's stepmother can't use these secret guards?" ”

"This is natural." Su Shaoge said without thinking, "To be precise, like the current situation of the Song family, if there is no accident, before Ling Brother ties his hair, the secret guard will only be responsible for guarding the Song family, and the rest will not matter." ”

He never asked Song Yixiao why he asked these questions - in the end, Song Yixiao explained himself: "I thought about if my grandmother and stepmother can use this token, should I return it to them?" After all, the two elders are virtuous people, and they will not suppress my younger brother. Now the Song family is full of loneliness and weakness, which really makes me feel at ease! ”

Su Shaoge smiled: "Madame is kind." ”

Then the two didn't say anything else and said goodbye.

"Is that Mrs. Yan Guo?" After Song Yixiao boarded the car and left, Su Shaoge returned to the wheelchair boy's side, and before he could speak, the young man asked first, "Yan Guogong is a confidant today, and he is not all the way with our family, what is the matter with her, so that she asks for help from the second uncle in front of everyone?" ”

"Just a few words." Su Shaoge said gently, "I just asked about the secret guard, I think something went wrong in her mother's house, and it has nothing to do with us - it's not early, let's go back!" ”

When the young man heard this, he thought for a while before he said, "Okay." ”