A few more people gossiped for a while, and then they went out and went back.

At dawn the next day, Li Xiaoqi went out of the willow alley, and went out of the city to visit Mrs. Shen, Li Xiaoxiao's car out of the willow alley not long after, Su Zicheng took Dongping, Nanning and a few other personal servants, rode to the door of the Li house in the willow alley, it happened that Mama Zhang was going to Wei Shuisheng's new residence and had not gone out, and hurriedly came out to kowtow to see the salute, and did not dare to disobey Li Xiaoyi's instructions, and replied respectfully and carefully: "Back to the second master, the girl went to the temple outside the city to incense, did not say which temple to go to, and did not say when to come back, He was only instructed not to come back for dinner at noon. ”

Su Zicheng's face turned slightly pale, he looked at the ginkgo tree next to the shadow wall with his hands behind his back, did not speak or leave, Mama Zhang glanced at him quickly, weighed it for a moment, and said with a careful smile: "The girl said, it's still empty in the past few days, and when the happy event of Second Master Wei is over, the girl will have to be busy with Zhang Luo's family study and sacrificial fields, the girl said, this is the foundation of the family, these two things are done, the foundation of the family is established, listen to the girl's words, it is necessary to do it before the spring of next year, It's almost the end of October at this time, and it's all a big deal••••••" Su Zicheng turned his head violently, staring at Mama Zhang sharply, Mama Zhang swallowed back the words in fright, stood with her hands down, and didn't dare to move, Su Zicheng closed his eyes slightly, took a few deep breaths, opened his eyes and looked at Mama Zhang and said coldly: "This is your heart, when she comes back•••••• send someone to Liang Wangfu to say something." ”

Mama Zhang hurriedly bent her knees to agree, and before she could straighten up, Su Zicheng had already turned around and strode across the shadow wall.

Li Xiaoyi's car walked unhurriedly for nearly two hours, only to reach the foot of the mountain where the cicada nunnery is located, the car can't get up, Li Xiaoqi got out of the car, this place is not a bustling and lively place, there is no sedan chair driver who does business on the mountain, Danyue and others accompanied Li Xiaoyi, all the way to enjoy the scenery and walk slowly, but after walking for a quarter of an hour, they arrived in front of Shen Pozi's courtyard.

"The Cicada-Nunnery is there." Qingcheng pointed to a white-walled and gray-tiled courtyard halfway up the mountain and said with a smile: "The nunnery is notoriously bitter, but this piece is a good place, it is the courtyard of the rich and noble people in the city, although the autumn scenery here is not as good as Xuefeng Mountain, but in spring, there are flowers everywhere, which is not worse than Xuefeng Mountain." Qingcheng pointed to the courtyard of the house hidden in the flourishing forest and gossip, Li Xiaoqi followed her words and looked around, Danyue walked to the courtyard door and buckled the knocker a few times, and after a while, the courtyard door opened from the inside with a 'squeak', and a neat mother-in-law poked her head out, looked everyone up and down, and asked politely: "Which one are the girls looking for?" ”

"Mama Shen is here? The girl came to see her. Danyue smiled, the mother-in-law was stunned, and hurriedly glanced at Li Xiaoqi a few more times, and said hesitantly: "Here, I just came back from morning class on the mountain, and I came •••••• from the willow alley in the city?" ”

"Well," Danyue said lightly, and the mother-in-law hurriedly pushed open the courtyard door, piled up a smile on her face, and took three steps from the door and made two steps out, and before she could go down the steps, she was about to kneel down and kowtow, Li Xiaoqi hurriedly motioned to Danyue to hold on: "No need to be polite, look at the dirty clothes." Danyue stretched out her hand but didn't hold her mother-in-law, the mother-in-law had already knelt down neatly and kowtowed, Li Xiaoqi had no choice but to smile and signal Danyue to reward a purse.

The mother-in-law got up, respectfully let Li Xiaoqi in, and shouted after her: "Little Tao, tell Mama quickly, the girl is here!" Standing under the door of the moon cave, looking curiously at the lively little peach, she jumped and ran into the yard in fright.

Li Xiaoqi walked through the courtyard, just arrived at the bottom of the steps, Shen Pozi had not put on one of her shoes, and dragged her out of the house in a hurry, Li Xiaoqi hurriedly walked a few steps up the steps, stretched out her hand to support Shen Pozi and smiled: "Grandma, I came to see you, see that Grandma is very energetic!" ”

"I'm so good! The girl is still skinny! Mama Lu just came over to see it this month, and I heard her say, you are working very Huainan Road, are you tired? If you look at your skinny body, you must be tired. Mrs. Shen pinched Li Xiaomi's hands and arms, and said with joy and emotion, Li Xiaomi smiled and didn't answer, only helped Mrs. Shen into the house, sat down on the couch under the south window of the east wing, and took off her shoes to sit on before smiling: "It's the same hard work everywhere, which Huainan Road, Mama Zhang and they are also working hard in Kaiping Mansion, and grandma is also working this mountain." ”

"Where is this? Can this be the same? Don't talk about this, you arrived so early, did you eat breakfast? Yesterday the hunters under the mountain came to sell game, I asked people to buy a few pheasants, this autumn pheasants are the fattest and tender, the stewed soup is very fresh, you also drink a bowl? Mrs. Shen looked at Li Xiaoqi and suggested pityingly, Li Xiaoqi nodded a few times in a hurry: "I have eaten, but I am also hungry, just drink a bowl of soup to go to the cold, if there is more, they will also serve bowls to the light moon, they have worked harder than me these days." ”

"The girl said that, where can we afford it? I went to the kitchen to see if the girl's soup couldn't be oily. Qingcheng said with a smile, saw Li Xiaoqi smiled, beckoned to cherries, followed a mother-in-law, and went to the back kitchen to serve soup.

Li Xiaoqi drank the soup, simply widened the big clothes outside, crooked comfortably on the couch, withdrew the girls, yawned and said: "Grandma, I'm tired these days, I won't go anywhere today, just rest here for a day." ”

"Done! If you are tired, rest for a few more days, and it will be too late to go back on the 25th! Mrs. Shen smiled, Li Xiaoqi stretched her waist, sighed and said: "It's good to steal half a day of leisure, and then you want to rest more is greedy, you have to rush back tonight, Shui Yan will come back tomorrow, there are a few things you have to ask him, discuss with him, and then the day after tomorrow I want to watch the miscellaneous drama of Luo Yan's new row, I want to put it on the wedding of Brother Shuisheng, if I can perform well, Luo Yan's business can also be better, big brother They are also coming back, and there are a lot of things•••••• Grandma, you see, it's all things!" Li Xiaoqi complained in a low voice that seemed to be true and false, but it was really sad, and Mrs. Shen reached out and patted Li Xiaoyi's hand with pity: "You kid, you are worried about your life, if you marry someone in the future, you have to take good care of yourself, no matter how much you do, you have to rest first when you are tired." ”

"Grandma, I don't marry, there is no one I can marry." Li Xiaoqi half-lay back, and said lazily, Mrs. Shen was stunned, hesitated for a moment and asked in a low voice, "Where is Lord Liang?" ”

"He's not a good person," Li Xiaoqi stretched his arms over his head, closed his eyes and said: "He can't marry me, even if he does, he can't just guard me in the future, let me and a group of women dig out their minds to grab men, I can't do this in my past life and in this life!" Why bother? Why should women be embarrassed by women. Mrs. Shen sighed for a long time: "You, since you were in the Taiping Mansion, I have seen that you are an arrogant character, and I don't advise you, this person's temperament, what he is born with, is what he is, the country is easy to move, and his nature is difficult to change, even if this is the case, you want to open, you should eat, drink, play, don't wronged yourself, you can be happy as you want, look back and be old, take in a girl who looks at you and raise it, don't raise a boy, turn around and marry a daughter-in-law, it is a white-eyed wolf, the girl is so ••••••" Mrs. Shen kept chattering.

Li Xiaoqi became more and more sleepy in the chatter of Mrs. Shen, yawned a few times, and said in a vague and soft voice: "I know that Grandma is the best, Grandma, I'm tired, just sleep here for a while." As he spoke, he rubbed it down, moved himself comfortably, put his head in the big pillow, curled up and closed his eyes, Grandma Shen agreed softly, stood up, and lightly took the thin quilt placed in the corner of the couch and covered it on Li Xiaoyi.

This sleep lasted until the afternoon, Li Xiaoqi stretched his waist and opened his eyes, and Mrs. Shen took the needlework in her hand and said with a smile: "Wake up?" Hungry? ”

"Well, I'm hungry." Li Xiaoqi sat up, rubbed his stomach that was almost rumbling and smiled, Danyue and the others did not wait for instructions, their hands and feet quickly put a table full of food up, Li Xiaoqi cleaned his hands and face, ate with relish, looked at the outside half-cloudy and half-eyed, the weather was excellent, and simply walked out of the courtyard with Mrs. Shen and walked towards the back mountain.

"Mrs. Fan, is she feeling better for a while?" Li Xiaoqi held Mrs. Shen in her arms, and while walking slowly, she asked in a low voice,

"Alas! It's not good, it's not bad, it's always like that, people are very thin, thinner than you, in fact, it's nothing to be thin, every day coarse tea and light rice, even the oil star is less, all have to be thin, it's just as bad, no spirit, people say that the heart is like an ancient well, she is not like that, her heart is not quiet, every day is self-blaming very, last month, I don't know who said a sentence of blood copying scriptures can atone for sins, just pricking fingers every day to copy blood meridians, I persuaded a few times and couldn't persuade it, so I had to find Qingshen Shitai, Mrs. Qingshen hates this kind of crooked reasoning that copying the blood scriptures is called piousness, and she said it fiercely, and that's it, Mrs. Qingshen is a good person, and found a few books on the cause and effect of Buddhism for her to copy, saying that she should be reasonable. Mrs. Shen sighed, Li Xiaoqi listened carefully, frowned slightly and asked, "Then did she realize some truth?" ”

"Copy every day, Wu must be able to realize a little, but her heart is not quiet at this time, I knocked on the side, carefully weighed, her mind is the same, she is afraid that your eldest brother will regret this family business, and throw her in this cold cicada nunnery from now on, alas! This can't be blamed on her, isn't the biggest thought of the girl's family just thinking about marrying a good family, teaching each other husband and children, and living a good life? She originally went well, a man like your eldest brother who was affectionate and willing to take care of him, but it was difficult to find a lantern, and she had a good future, but she made her confused to get to this point, and was detained in this cold cicada hermitage, you say, can she not regret it? Not afraid? Mrs. Shen let out a long sigh, and Li Xiaoqi was silent for a moment, and said in a low voice: "What's the use of just regretting and being afraid?" The eldest brother said that when he sent her to this nunnery, he told her that he would not regret this family business. ”