CHAPTER XIII

Today, Zhou Yunxue led lychees and grapes to Zhou Qingzhi's courtyard, it's been almost a month, the doorkeeper is slowly getting used to the initial surprise, Zhou Qingzhi is still waiting for her in the study, recently she comes over every day, staying in this study for a day, and slowly this study also licked some of her things, such as the books she likes to read, such as the pastries she loves to eat, and then the soft couch that people move behind her now.

Seeing that Zhou Yunxue ordered someone to carry a soft couch in, Zhou Qingzhi's eyebrows under the mask were slightly raised, and he said playfully, "You're welcome, you really use this as your place?" ”

Zhou Yunxue said: "It's easy to say." "She stays here every day, how comfortable she is, if she is not happy, you can order her to go back, she is very happy.

Zhou Qingzhi glanced at her, raised his hand and turned the pages of the book, and didn't pay much attention.

After pressing the soft couch, Zhou Yunxue made a pot of tea as usual, and then took the book and leaned on the couch to read, and there was a coffee table between the two couches.

Zhou Qingzhi took the teacup, took a sip, and said, "How's your matter?" ”

Zhou Yunxue looked at the book and didn't look up, and said, "It's going well." ”

Zhou Qingzhi put down the tea cup in his hand, stared at her, and said, "Third niece, I didn't expect you to be such an interesting person, I was really frustrated before." ”

Zhou Yunxue's red lips hooked slightly, and said, "The second uncle is wonderful, and the niece knows that she can't compare to the second uncle." ”

"I'd like to ask my niece, how did you know about that maid?"

Zhou Yunxue chuckled, put down the book and said, "On the day of the Peach Blossom Banquet, the skirt of the maid was slightly wet, and I happened to see it when I got into the carriage." ”

"Oh? Does this make you guess that it has something to do with Miss Cao? ”

"Naturally not, combined with Miss Cao's hostility towards me before, I understand that Miss Cao must be very happy with Wu Changjun, and before the peach blossom banquet, it was rumored that the marriage between the eldest sister and Wu Gongzi was rumored, then I guessed that if Miss Cao asked the eldest sister to meet in the pavilion, it was not only for the menstrual affair."

"It's a bit of a possibility to hear you say that."

Zhou Yunxue smiled, not to mention a little possibility, from Aunt Jing's courtyard Fang'er knew that Mo Tao would go out of the house every ten days, she let Hawthorn follow behind her, but she didn't expect to see Mo Tao take out a pack of white medicine powder from her arms to her brother, looking at her brother Seeing the crazy appearance of the medicine powder, Hawthorn knew that it was a banned medicine in the middle of the court, that is a banned medicine and got so much, she couldn't imagine that Aunt Jing was so powerful, when she knew that Pomegranate was sure that she could quit Xiaoyaosan, she asked Hawthorn to knock Mo Tao out late at night and bring her to negotiate conditions, At first, Mo Tao didn't agree, because if this Xiaoyaosan was dyed, it would be a lifetime, and no one could quit it, so she asked Pomegranate to help her brother quit addiction first, and let her watch from the side, and his brother quit Xiaoyaosan in less than ten days, and now Mo Tao has been sent by her to Aunt Shen, the favorite concubine of Zhongshu Ling, and her brother is naturally still in her own hands, and Mo Tao will not admit that Miss Cao was killed by her, of course, there are others, as for how Mo Tao wants to tell Aunt Shen, then she can't care, Presumably, in a few days, someone will come looking for her.

However, if it weren't for the hawthorn and pomegranate sent by Zhou Qingzhi, she wouldn't have gone so well, she reached out and picked up the teapot to refill the empty teacup in front of him, and said a little dog-legged, "It's still the second uncle's people, in order to express my gratitude, my niece will fill the second uncle." ”

Zhou Qingzhi raised his eyebrows to look at her, took a sip of tea with satisfaction, then lay back on the soft couch and continued to flip through the book, and for a while only the sound of turning the pages of the book was left in the room.

Sure enough, Aunt Shen didn't let Zhou Yunxue wait too long, and two days after Mo Tao was sent, she went out to buy grapes to buy snacks in the Yingke Building and brought a message. On the second day, Zhou Yunxue went out with two maids, hawthorn and pomegranate.

When she came to the welcome building, Xiao Er led her to the box on the third floor, pushed open the door, and saw a woman sitting inside through the screen. ”

Zhou Yunxue hooked her lips slightly, and said, "Aunt Shen doesn't need to be polite, is there anything wrong with asking me to come here today?" ”

Aunt Shen stretched out her hand and motioned for Zhou Yunxue to sit down, and said, "The county lord knows why the slave family is looking for you, so let's not play that Tai Chi." ”

Zhou Yunxue raised her eyebrows and sat down, Aunt Shen sat opposite her, raised her hand and poured her a cup of tea, "County Lord, why did you send that maid to me?" ”

Zhou Yunxue played with the cup of tea and said, "No, I just think that Miss Cao Wu died too unjustly." ”

Aunt Shen's eyes showed a fierce light, stared at her deadly, and said, "What that girl said is true?" ”

"Is it true that Aunt Shen knows it in her own heart." Zhou Yunxue looked at her with a faint smile

Aunt Shen tightened the brocade handkerchief in her hand, her eyes were covered with a layer of mist, that day the old man was hurriedly called away from her room, she thought it was the matter in the hands of the master that would be so urgent, but when the old man came back, what he brought back was the cold corpse of the daughter who had happily gone out to the banquet in the morning, looking at the swollen and white daughter, she didn't know how many times she fainted crying, and when she cried and asked the lord who killed her Jiao'er, she didn't expect that what she got was that her daughter drowned in the lake in order to pick up the handkerchief, how could this be, How could her daughter fall into the water and drown, others don't know, she knows, her daughter loved to play with water when she was a child, she was afraid that something would happen to her one day, so she let the mother who knew the water around her secretly teach, so she must have been killed, she told the lord about it, but he didn't believe it, he said that she had a magic barrier, she was his pillow person who knew what kind of person he was, he had many daughters, and the death of one would not change anything for him, but it was her daughter, she had been in the palm of her hand since she was a child, she begged her brother to help her check, Unexpectedly, it didn't take long for her brother to bring a girl, and she finally knew who killed her daughter, it was the slut who kept saying that she had a good relationship with Jiao'er, and she also found out that this girl was following the slut on the day of the peach blossom banquet, and she tortured her to find out that she was actually sent by Miss Yan of the Marquis of Yongning's mansion.

That's why she found someone to send a message and invited someone to come, Aunt Shen closed her eyes fiercely, and said, "The slave family has something I want to ask the county lord to help." ”

Zhou Yunxue put down the teacup, picked up the handkerchief and wiped the tea on her hands casually, and said, "Oh? Listen to it, I don't know if I can help. ”

"Xia Er come out and let the county lord see you."

Aunt Shen's words fell, and a person came out of the room, Zhou Yunxue raised her eyes and didn't feel too surprised, because when she first entered the door, Hawthorn told her that there was another person in the house.

The girl who was called Xia Er saluted Zhou Yunxue and said, "Xia Er has seen the county lord. ”

"What does the county lord think?" Aunt Shen said

Zhou Yunxue looked the Xia Er girl up and down, and chuckled, "There are indeed six or seven points of similarity." ”

"So the slave family dared to ask the county lord to open a convenient door in a few days."

"Well said." Zhou Yunxue responded without a trace of hesitation

Aunt Shen got up and saluted her, and said, "The slave family has thanked the county lord first." ”

Zhou Yunxue nodded slightly, Aunt Shen ordered Miss Xia Er to take the hat and take someone out, and when she walked to the door, she turned back and asked, "Why does the county lord want to help the slave family?" ”

Zhou Yunxue was silent for a long time before she said, "It's just that there is a blood feud with her relatives." ”

Aunt Shen didn't ask much, and led people out of the door, she had seen Mrs. Hou, that woman was very beautiful and good-hearted, and she also remembered the woman who ran into a concubine more than ten years ago in the Hou Mansion, although she was also a concubine, but she also spit on this kind of woman, and there were many dirty things in the high-ranking households, and she didn't have the leisure to care about other people's affairs now.

Zhou Yunxue waited for Aunt Shen to walk for about a cup of tea before coming out of the welcome building, and Pomegranate had an extra box of dim sum in her hand, which was the old lady's favorite Ruyi cake, and people were not good when they were old, so they loved this kind of soft and effortless dim sum.

I went back to the Hou Mansion, went to the old lady to send pastries, and went back to the house, I rarely saw Zhou Yunxia go out recently, I heard that it was embroidering a wedding dress in the house, Zhou Yunxue smiled, people who have nightmares every day can calm down and embroider wedding dresses? Aunt Jing's yard she can't get in, it doesn't mean that she can't arrange Zhou Yunxia's yard either, she has been tortured by the pomegranate's little powder recently, don't let her down in a few days, her good sister.

On this day, Zhou Yunxue went out again, in order to prepare for the birthday gift, I don't know what kind of wind her second uncle smoked, so many years have not been his birthday, this year I have to let her give him a gift, in the name of increasing the friendship between uncle and nephew, listening to the tone of his speech at that time, I almost poured the hot tea in my hand on the silver mask, but for the sake of hawthorn and pomegranate, she endured it, didn't she just give a gift, she had money.

Zhou Yunxue took hawthorn and lychee to Kyoto's largest silver building Duobao Pavilion, which sold jewelry, and as soon as she entered the door, a small servant greeted her and said, "What do you want to buy?" ”

Zhou Yunxue looked around for a while before saying, "Is there anything suitable for giving away?" ”

"I don't know what kind of person Miss wants to send."

"My uncle, I don't know what he likes."

"The third floor is the most appropriate place to send calligraphy and paintings to the elders, but the young lady wants to pick and choose?"

Zhou Yunxue thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "He doesn't seem to like calligraphy and painting very much." "His study only hangs things that he writes and paints himself, and she seems to have never seen him hang other people's things after so long.

The little girl still smiled and said, "Then it's better to move to the fourth floor with the little one, it is a special sale of men's jewelry, Miss can go and see if there is anything you like." ”

Zhou Yunxue nodded and said, "Then Brother Lao will lead the way." ”

The little maid hurriedly said, "Miss is polite." ”

The three of them went up to the fourth floor with the little maid, which was full of things used by men, Zhou Yunxue did not often come to Duobao Pavilion in her two lives, she was the daughter of the Hou Mansion and was rewarded by the queen from time to time, and the belts she wore were the latest nowadays, so she didn't need to come out to buy them herself, and she was also afraid to go out in her previous life, and as soon as she went out, she would meet other young ladies in the house, because Wu Changjun's relationship would always become the object of ridicule from everyone, and she was meaningless in what she was under everyone's eyes, and over time she gradually didn't want to go out, And now, for example, even on the men's jewelry floor, you can meet Zhang Xiaoxiao, the third daughter of Zhang Dashan, a Hanlin bachelor who loved to sarcastically mock herself.