Mrs. Xu and Qi Yuzhi sat for a while and left, while Gu Xiyan and Liu Mei'er stayed until dusk.

When they came out of the courtyard, they saw a group of people dressed in red and green walking in the verandah opposite. Everyone hugged a girl wearing a white fur coat, and the girl was still holding a child in her arms, but the child's face was hiding in the woman's white hair, and she couldn't see the appearance clearly. The girl kept walking forward with the child in her arms, and a grandmother-like person beside her seemed to feel Gu Xiyan and Liu Mei'er's gaze, and looked at them coldly with a high-minded expression.

The maidservant who sent Gu Xiyan and Duan Yingluo out explained in a low voice: "That's the virgin mother, and they brought the three girls to greet the lady." ”

Qi Hongluan?

Gu Xiyan couldn't help but take another look.

Zhen Niang was holding Qi Hongluan around the corner, and her eyes met Gu Xiyan.

Gu Xiyan was slightly stunned.

Zhen Niang's eyes were very dark and bright, slightly turned, smart and pretty, as if she could speak.

The other party was also slightly stunned.

Across the plum tree in the atrium, the gaze of a beautiful girl with a strange face swept over her.

The medium one is dressed in a dark green cloak embroidered with pink hibiscus flowers, which is as white and delicate as her skin is as white and delicate as frost and snow, and her eyes are shining like jewels, and her expression is very quiet, giving people a sweet feeling.

In an instant, the girl was back, and she was gone side by side with her companions.

Zhen Niang also turned the corner and stepped on another section of the hand-copying verandah.

The Chinese New Year is the time when the female dependents of the Qi Mansion come and go most intensively, I don't know why. Zhen Niang remembered the girl.

Invited Mrs. Xu to return to Qiaoyuan, and rested Qi Hongluan's place, she called Mama Jin, who had always been very diligent in walking around the inner courtyard: "I saw a little girl in the corridor of Yingxiang Pavilion today, her face is very rusty, fifteen or sixteen years old, her skin is very white, her eyes are very bright, and she is very beautiful...... I don't know which family it is."

Mama Jin said with a smile: "I heard Mama Yu from Yingxiang Pavilion say that the two girls from Huaiyuan have come to see Miss Wei this afternoon, and they have stayed in Yingxiang Pavilion for an afternoon. When you go back, it is when you take the three girls to ask Mrs. Xu for peace, and you are afraid that it will be the two of them. == Miss Liu is older, she is eighteen years old this year, the one you are talking about, only fifteen or sixteen years old, must be Miss Gu"

"Miss Gu?" Zhenniang pondered, her smart eyes lit up a little dazzling, "Is it for Miss Wei, Miss Gu who knelt in Huaiyuan for a night in the Chinese New Year's Eve?" ”

Mama Jin smiled and nodded: "That's her." She is Mrs. Wei's cousin and niece. said that his parents were gone, and his uncle was gone, so he had to come to Mrs. Wei's land. I heard that people are very well-behaved, and they don't usually move around at will. Not much to talk about......"

Gu Xiyan and Liu Mei'er walked out of Xianji Courtyard, walked along the long bluestone alley to the south side by side, and entered the gate of Gongshun Courtyard, when an eleven or twelve-year-old girl suddenly jumped out from behind the wall shadow.

"Which one is Miss Gu?"

Gu Xiyan said in surprise: "I am Miss Gu, which courtyard is the little girl?" What's the matter with me? ”

The child smiled shyly. said: "I am the lotus who is waiting for Mama Wang, Mama Wang asked me to wait for the girl here and pass a word to her."

Doubts flashed in Gu Xiyan's eyes.

When did Mama Wang accept the maidservant by her side? What's the matter with her?

Na Lian'er seemed to know her thoughts, and said: "I was picking vegetables in Juzhengshang, and Mama Wang went this time, and when she saw that I was dexterous, she was going to come over, and I only arrived at Dihuai Garden in the second year of junior high school...... She said that several grandmothers had dinner today. Each of them will show their skills, so that the girl can take the time to go anyway and join in the fun."

Gu Xiyan asked Duan Yingluo with his eyes.

Duan Yingluo said: "Mama Wang is still in the Shangzheng Bureau. It is said that he will not return to Huaiyuan until after the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month......"

Gu Xiyan was still hesitating to go, but Liu Mei'er was like a frightened bird, and hurriedly pulled Gu Xiyan's hand: "I'll go with you." ”

Although Gu Xiyan felt that she was making a little fuss, she thought of the matter of Dexin Academy. I'm afraid there's something strange about this. When the time comes, it will affect her. And Mama Wang suddenly invited her at this sensitive time, and Gu Xiyan also felt a wariness in her heart. She thought for a moment. She said to Lian'er: "I also want to go, but this matter is still the right thing to ask Mrs. Wei."

The little girl may be a person who doesn't know, maybe this matter was originally Gu Xiyan's heart, Lian'er said: "Since that's the case, then I'll wait for the girl here"

Gu Xiyan and Liu Mei'er didn't put it back, and went to ask Mrs. Wei, Mrs. Wei looked at Gu Xiyan, a smile flashed on her face, and said, "Go, don't rush back, have a good time there."

Gu Xiyan didn't expect her to agree, and she agreed so happily that she was slightly taken aback. ^^^^

Liu Meier said on the side: "Auntie, I accompanied Sister Gu"

Mrs. Wei said: "Today, Mrs. Ditai of Jiufeng Cui Mansion will come to pay me a New Year's greeting, don't you have a few drinks, accompany me to accompany the guests, and accompany Mrs. Cui to drink a few cups." ”

Having said that, whether it is a tiger's den or a wolf's den, it is always necessary to go.

Gu Xiyan went out with Duan Yingluo.

The two followed Lian'er out of Gongshun Courtyard, but Lian'er took them into Xianji Courtyard.

Gu Xiyan couldn't help but be surprised: "This, where is this going?" ”

After Mrs. Wei's incident, Duan Yingluo no longer had the heart to be proud of her skills before, and when she heard Gu Xiyan's words, her hand quietly touched her waist, and her scarlet sweat towel was wrapped there.

Lian'er looked clear and beautiful, and her smile was innocent: "The grandmothers are setting up wine in the small kitchen in the outer courtyard, this is a shortcut." ”

Gu Xiyan and Duan Yingluo exchanged a cautious look with each other, and then they followed Lian'er forward uneasily.

Lian'er led them into the weeping flower gate of the Xianji Courtyard.

Probably because of dusk. It was the time to eat, and there was no one in a small space formed by the weeping flower door and the wall shadow, Lian'er looked left and right, took a bunch of keys from the waistband of her trousers, and opened a corner door next to the weeping flower door.

Gu Xiyan was slightly stunned.

That corner door is so cleverly made that if you don't look closely, you think it's a decorative wall panel.

Behind the corner gate is a straight alley facing south, which is no more than a meter wide but dozens of meters long, and is flanked on both sides by high whitewashed walls. The soles of the feet are slippery bluestone slabs, which look cramped and boring.

Gu Xiyan couldn't help but reach out to pull Duan Yingluo.

Duan Yingluo also returned her hand and shook Gu Xiyan.

Lian'er leaned sideways to let them in, then closed the door and led the way forward.

The two of them held hands one after the other, and followed Lian'er vigilantly forward.

Walked to the end of the alley, there was another small corner door, Lian'er opened the corner door with the key, and turned sideways to let Gu and Duan in, and then closed the corner door.

Behind the corner door is another hanging flower door. The door of this hanging flower door is closed to the ground, and the corner door looks like a decorative wall panel. Lian'er used the key to open a small corner door directly opposite them, and there was a long alley inside. This time, at the end of the alley was a tall wall.

Lian'er took them for more than half the way, and a corner gate opened next to the alley, and Lian'er used the key to open the corner door again. Led them in.

Behind the corner gate, there is another corner gate, and the second corner gate is opened, and there is an open verandah.

As soon as the three of them got on Youlang, the figure of Siping was looking forward to it in front of the open building.

As soon as he saw Gu Xiyan. Immediately ran over, with an anxious face: "Ouch, my girl, why did you come at this time, hurry, hurry, hurry, come with me"

Siping, waiting for her

Could it be...... Mou Sang......

Gu Xiyan's heart was beating wildly. His face was flushed, and he coughed: "What, what, what's waiting for me?" ”

Siping circled around her, looking like he wanted to pull her but didn't dare to pull her, and said hurriedly: "Grandma." I've been waiting for you all afternoon."

"Qi Maosheng. Qi Maosheng is back," Gu Xiyan's eyes lit up.

There was a faint hope in her heart, but now it was confirmed. I can't believe it again.

Siping nodded hurriedly, and hurriedly led the way: "Miss Gu, come with me." ”

Gu Xiyan only felt that his legs were weak, and he calmed down, and then followed Siping towards the inside.

Behind the open building is a rather large courtyard, on one side is the towering tree that hugs the thick, on the other hand is the flower frame fish tank, the white jade paved road leads directly to the five heavy eaves house, and all the northern buildings are similar, red pillars and red windows blue bricks and gray bricks, walk over, you can feel the fineness of this house.

In front of the front wall is a screen of eight pear blossom wood screws for the four seasons, in front of the screen is a mountain-shaped Arhat bed, on both sides of the bed stands a silver vertical melon-shaped palace lamp, on both sides of the table there are sixteen pear blossom wood Taishi chairs, between the chairs there is a coffee table, the ground is paved with gold vine bricks, shining brightly, reflecting the red glass flower lanterns hanging on the eaves.

Siping took her directly into the dark room in the east.

It was a bedroom. Dengque Dengmei's falling flower cover divides it into two parts, the front is facing the window is the kang, the front of the kang is the corner door, the corner door is Duobao Gege, the falling flower cover is next to the cyan woolen curtain, the middle of the curtain is a silk yarn screen embroidered with a young chicken peony, through the blank space of the screen, the eight-step bed facing the wall is faintly visible, and the silver-red futon lies a figure wearing a white silk robe.

There is no charcoal in the house, but there is a feeling of warmth like spring.

The temperature difference between the inside and outside was too large, and Gu Xiyan felt a little difficult to breathe as soon as he entered, so he hurriedly took off his hat.

Duan Yingluo helped her take over the command, and Siping explained in a low voice on the side: "Girl, you don't usually use the fire wall, this is because I am afraid that the girl will freeze, so I specially ordered to light the ground." If the girl feels hot......"

"No," Gu Xiyan said in a low voice. This kind of private meeting is better to be more hidden. Eating, drinking, and Lazar are inseparable from servants, and it is generally difficult to escape the eyes of people's hearts, just as things in the company rarely escape the eyes of cleaners, which is why Gu Xiyan chose to start from the kitchen as soon as he arrived in Qi Mansion.

Qi Maosheng must have made a lot of arrangements for this meeting, so why bother to cause any trouble for a wall of fire.

Siping listened and gave Duan Yingluo a look, and Duan Yingluo smiled and walked out lightly with him.

Gu Xiyan hesitated for a moment before tiptoeing around the seat screen.

It's really Qi Maosheng.

It may be that the temperature in the room is too high, and he is only wearing a thin moon-white silk robe, and he is lying on his side with his arms and pillows bent over, and there is a messy title page by his side.

I thought it was too boring to wait for her, so I fell asleep when I looked at it