Li Tian hurriedly nodded and motioned to take her in, Yuye stepped forward to open the curtain, Hu San's daughter-in-law was dressed in an indigo dress, and there was no trace of bright color on her head, and she fell to the ground and kowtowed a few times when she entered the door, Mama Xiong waited for her to kowtow, and hurriedly stepped forward to help her up, Li Tian's upper body leaned forward slightly and said politely: "Mama, don't be polite, the porridge and vegetables just now are excellent, Mama bothered." ”

"It's good if the five ladies like it, if they like it!" Hu San's daughter-in-law rubbed her hands on her apron, and bowed nervously and restrainedly: "I heard that the fifth lady is back, the slave and maid are very happy, the old lady ...... Early that morning, I heard that the old lady was gone, and the slave maid ...... "Hu San's daughter-in-law pulled up the apron and wanted to wipe the tears on her face, but the apron was not so long, so she had to stretch the sleeves and wipe it horizontally and vertically on her face: "The slave and maid thought of kowtowing in front of the old lady's spirit, the slave and maid were sluts, and they didn't dare to go, and the whole family kowtowed in the yard and turned paper for the old lady...... The slave maid ...... "Hu San's daughter-in-law couldn't cry anymore.

Li Tian was sad, Hu San's daughter-in-law is an old man in the hands of her grandmother, she is honest, hard-working, and makes a good vegetable meal, a few years ago, she gave birth to a child with heavy bleeding, and her grandmother sent someone to ask for a doctor for her, and sent ten taels of silver and two fifty-year-old ginseng to her, which pulled her back from the ghost gate.

"Your mother-in-law and I both know that birth, old age, sickness and death are common, and grandma is very peaceful, so you don't have to be sad." Li Tian persuaded in a low voice, Mama Xiong took out a handkerchief and handed it to Hu San's daughter-in-law to persuade: "Don't cry, if you cry again, the fifth lady can't stand it." Hu San's daughter-in-law nodded her head again and again, sobbed a few times, and choked for a while before she said with red eyes: "What do you want to eat...... Just instruct the slave maid to go to the East Market to buy clams as soon as the morning dawns, and ......"

"It can't be like this!" Li Tian hurriedly waved his hand and said, this is the Yongguo Mansion, if Mrs. Yang knows, she will not say that she is sad, but she is afraid that the third daughter-in-law of Hu will not be able to protect it, Li Tian glanced at Mama Xiong, Mama Xiong lowered her eyes, signaled that she knew, took the third daughter-in-law of Hu out, turned out of the weeping flower door, and then explained in a low voice: "You are a real person, your mind, the fifth lady is clear, but now the prince of this mansion is the eldest lord, and the lady in charge is the eldest lady, which is the old lady Ning at that time?" You have to hide it in your heart, Qingtong Courtyard should naturally have a share of tea and rice, you must not go beyond the rules, just quietly make the five ladies' meals clean, salty and delicious. ”

Hu San's daughter-in-law was honest and not stupid, she understood a little, and nodded busily: "Thank you for your advice, I know, don't worry, I will make the food of the fifth lady by myself, it is clean and delicious, and it is guaranteed." Mama Xiong showed a gentle smile, took out a purse from her sleeve and stuffed it into the hands of Hu San's daughter-in-law and said: "This is the reward of the fifth lady, take it back to buy candy for the child to eat, you and the fifth lady are still polite?" Take it, if there is anything, go to Ma Dalang's house in the back street to find Mama Wen. ”

"Mama Wen is back?" Hu's third daughter-in-law was pleasantly surprised, and Mama Xiong replied while leading Hu's third daughter-in-law out: "I'm back, and I'll live at my eldest son's house in the future." ”

Mama Xiong and Hu San's daughter-in-law went out, Li Tian stood up and stretched his arms and asked, "Is Yue Niang back?" ”

"I've been back a long time ago." Without waiting for Qingzhi to reply, Yue Niang answered by herself, and came out of the east chamber, Yue Niang was thirty-four or five years old, her eyes were extremely bright, and she was as tall as an aspen, and she didn't wait for Li Tian to ask, so she said first: "It's all arranged, Fayun Temple has rented a room in the easternmost part of the Jizo Temple, and there is a corner door next to it, from the corner gate to that courtyard, it will take a quarter of an hour to walk, and your small steps are slow, you have to walk for two quarters of an hour." ”

"You sleep in the East Wing?" Li Tian walked to the door of the east chamber, lifted the curtain and looked at it and asked, Yue Niang said 'um': "This courtyard is so good, it has been empty for all these years, really, I don't know how many battles you have fought in this capital, where has no one died?" ”

"It's as clear as you do, how can it be cheaper for us."

"Yes," Yue Niang dusted off her clothes and said: "Qiu Niang lives in the east courtyard in front, I will go to Qiu Niang to talk, I have seen the front and back of this courtyard, rest assured to live." ”

Mama Xiong greeted Yue Niang in, let Yue Niang go sideways, followed Li Tian into the West Chamber, sat sideways on the kang, and said in a low voice: "Mama Wen came back yesterday afternoon, and she has already seen three or four people, don't worry." ”

"Well," Li Tian responded, Mama Wen is the son of the Yongguo Mansion, and she is also the most useful confidant of Mrs. Ning before her death, before Mrs. Ning died, she sent her family's deed to Mrs. Lin, Mrs. Lin gave Mama Wen's family a naturalization, wrote a refuge paperwork, and turned from a son to Li Tian's righteous servant, Mama Wen's two sons first learned to do business outside, and now they are in charge of several small businesses that Li Tian did privately, and Mama Wen received silver from Mrs. Lin. Secretly take care of the old people used by Mrs. Ning in the past.

"Did Madame send someone over there?" Li Tian changed the topic and asked, Mama Xiong pouted: "Since we came in, except for a few probes peeking through their brains, there is not a single person who has seen a line, alas, how did the Yongguo Mansion fall to this one?" Look at this action, it is worse than that small door. ”

"It's better, you don't know what's going on in this house, grandmother...... How ruthless that hand is, she left an empty shelf, she has not been easy these years, sticking to the dowry to support this family, the eldest uncle does nothing except drinking, two rooms and three rooms all day long to know that trouble, one patronizes to his own small family to hold money, usually stand on the dry shore to see the lively even if it is okay, but also from time to time to set the fire, we and they had better not violate the river water, and wait for the next year to get married, just leave a layer of face for each other. ”

"That's right," Mama Xiong replied cheerfully: "Let's only guard our one-third of an acre, you've been tired for three or four days, hurry up and rest." As he spoke, he stood up and asked Yingluo and the others to come in and wait for Li Tian to freshen up.

Li Tian changed his hair and changed his clothes, and just crooked on the bed, Yingluo motioned for Qingzhi and the others to go out first, sat sideways on the footbed in front of the bed and asked in a low voice: "Wu Niangzi, you asked me to go to the library last night, and you want those books today, and there is no one arranged in that place...... Do you want to deliver a letter in? Or have you arranged it all? ”

"No," Li Tian looked at Yingluo with a smile in her eyes, Yingluo is the big girl in charge that her grandmother picked for herself, loyal and reliable, steady and careful, and with good character, she often can't react to these little tricks, but her grandmother said that the big girl in charge is the best girl, which she agrees with very much.

"Do you think there's something mysterious about that library?"

"The fifth lady never does useless things."

"Even you think that there is a mystery in the library, so they should think so, if the silver tickets, title deeds or something, if they are sandwiched in the book one by one......" Li Tian smiled sarcastically at the corner of his mouth, and Yingluo suddenly realized: "So that's the case, there are thousands of books in the library, and this has to be turned over one by one...... What do they have to be tired of? ”

"It's just that they are tired, they don't have time to think about anything else, there are nearly 10,000 books in the library, enough for them to keep turning day and night until grandma's funeral, we also have to have the time to take a breath, tired for a few days, you should also rest quickly." Li Tian commanded gently, Yingluo answered, stood up and waited for Li Tian to sleep, turned off the lights, put down the curtain and went out lightly.

In the main courtyard of the Yongguo Mansion, Zhou's mother-in-law Mrs. Yang had a meal, and was about to go back to eat with her husband, but she heard Mrs. Yang instruct: "Go and see, has the flower list on the fifth sister's side been sent." ”

Zhou had no choice but to agree, took the flower list sent by Mama Xiong and handed it over, Mrs. Yang stared at the list for a long time, her eyebrows twisted to one place and shouted at the list: "Four teaching grandmothers, two rough mothers-in-law, two big girls, two little girls, twice as much as the third sister, she is so pompous!" Zhou glanced at her and hung his hands silently.

Mrs. Yang held the list in front of her with two fingers, squinting her eyes and staring fiercely, that evil woman emptied the Yongguo Mansion, if it weren't for her, why would the Yongguo Mansion be like this...... Mrs. Yang raised her hand to hold her chest overflowing with hatred, and tried to inhale her breath, what kind of pomp was the Yongguo Mansion back then...... When Yuerong got married, he wanted to cry when he got married with forty dowries!

Zhou looked at his mother-in-law's pale face, paused for a moment, and then reported in a soft voice: "Mama Xiong, who sent this list, said that since the fifth sister is back, she has to follow the rules of our house, how many months are there in the third sister in their courtyard in a month, and how many months are there on the fifth sister's side." ”

"This life is only monthly? You are still from everyone's background, and the monthly case is only a few dollars of silver? Seven things to open the door, which one is not money? Mrs. Yang reprimanded sharply, Zhou's head was hanging down and her teeth were wrong, and she didn't plan to speak again, Mrs. Yang said a lot, and when she saw Zhou's wooden person, she waved her hand irritably and said: "Okay, Da Lang should have come back a long time ago, if you don't go back and wait, what are you doing here?!"

Zhou withdrew, turned a few corners, and saw that there was no one around, one hand crossed his waist, and the other hand touched his chest, panting heavily.

"Grandma is patient, which daughter-in-law didn't boil it out like this, ...... back then," Zhou's nurse Mama Xiao persuaded softly.

"I know, I don't need your persuasion, I'm just going to breathe." Zhou took a deep breath and exhaled several times, remembering the events of the morning, he couldn't help but purse his lips and smile again: "She ate other people's rows in the morning, and she just took me out of anger, let her be, I will let her ...... What the hell. ”

"Grandma understands." Mama Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, Zhou took a deep breath and exhaled a few breaths, and while walking back, she muttered to Mama Xiao: "I'm afraid, there are more than a dozen people in this family, and she wants to knock and beat me to take the dowry silver out to make up for it, she takes her own dowry to make up for it, I also admit it, and wants me to take the silver, but there is no door!"

"Grandma is a person who understands, it's not reasonable, it's the same, grandma can't get angry with the uncle because of this."

"Don't worry," Zhou smiled sweetly: "If it weren't for him being so good to me...... Alas, as long as he is good to me, that old woman, I will ignore her!"