The day after Jiang Yashuang had a long talk with Qiu Yulan, the Dou family's crime was really decided, and the ending was exactly the same as what Jiang Yashuang said - all the houses were beheaded, and the family members who were less than sixteen years old were exempted from death according to the law, but all of them were sold by officials, and they were not redeemable. []

A few days ago, he was still a nobleman who was proud of everyone, but in a blink of an eye, he fell to this, and Qiu Yulan couldn't help but feel a sense of weakness when she thought of what her husband said.

When I went to the third room to help, I found a time to see He Shuijin alone, and said to her: "Although Nineteen didn't guess the truth, he kept doubting it, and he beat me again yesterday." He actually suspected that he had gone to the court, ...... you say? ”

He Shuijin understood what she meant, and said cautiously: "Don't worry, I understand the truth that there are no eggs under the nest!" If I really don't care about it, why should I ask you to keep it a secret when I was in Dizi Mountain? This matter will always be limited to the backyard of this three-room room! ”

Qiu Yulan breathed a sigh of relief: "Sister-in-law, don't blame me for being a child, it's really the Tao family, the Dou family, and the Duan family that fell so suddenly and so quickly, even though I am a bystander, I feel unsteady!" ”

"Why shouldn't I?" He Shui Jin sighed, feeling the same way, "It's cold in high places—so we all have to take care!" ”

"If you want to take care, I should advise my sister-in-law." Qiu Yulan looked at her pale face, although she knew that part of it was because of the powder, but the two black blue under the moment were definitely not drawn by charcoal, but caused by continuous labor, "The day after tomorrow is the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, does my sister-in-law want to take leave?" ”

The Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, with the Jiang family's current prominence, as long as they want to go, large and small are qualified.

However, even if you don't need to tremble much at the banquet as a descendant, it is definitely time-consuming and labor-intensive to participate in this tedious ceremony with a strict makeup dress.

With the current responsibilities of Heshui Jin and her health condition, she is really not suitable to go to this banquet.

Fortunately, she didn't mean to hold on, and shook her head and said: "I have already sent someone to tell the elders not to go, after all, the things at hand are piling up, and I don't dare to toss this body now." "If you can go to the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, wouldn't it be known that she still has some spare energy? How to combine work and rest next? If you don't combine work and rest, what should you do when you are tired and watch others give birth to your husband and give birth to a son, or even give up your position to future generations when you close your eyes? !

Qiu Yulan didn't know that she was thinking about these questions viciously in her heart, so she breathed a sigh of relief for her: "That's okay, sister-in-law is indeed better to recuperate now." ”

"You go to the palace, if you meet Fu Bing, stay with her more!" And Shui Jin said suddenly.

"Sister-in-law is still worried that she won't be able to open it? Zhuang Man and Ah Xing went to see her last time, and when Zhuang Man came to me later, she said that she sincerely wished that Ah Xing's brother would grow old with Yongfu! Qiu Yulan smiled, "Oh, or is my sister-in-law afraid that she will hate you?" It shouldn't be, Fu Bing was not happy at the beginning, but it was not against her sister-in-law, but it was just a fire. ”

He Shuijin shook his head and said: "Although Fu Bing is a little temperamental, he still knows the general situation in the end, otherwise why did he get into the eyes of the fourth aunt?" I'm not worried about anything else, but - do you think that in the current situation, Fu Bing, as the quasi-fiancée of the Seventh Prince, who knows if someone will be calculated at the table? ”

Her voice was lowered, "It's not just the Queen Mother's faction, it's our own side, and there are many people who want to be the future Middle Palace!" That's why I asked you to spend more time with her, if someone wants to hurt her, I think you can always block some for her! ”

Qiu Yulan suddenly knew that he was really inexperienced, and he was far less thoughtful than He Shuijin, so he was busy and humbly asked: "Then do you still have to pay attention to other people and things?" ”

"After the fifteenth sister came back from Dizi Mountain, she lived outside the city for a long time on the grounds of 'being sick and needing to recuperate', and it is estimated that she will not come back this time." He Shuijin didn't hide his selfishness, and told her 1510, "She's not here, there is one less person on our side who chokes with Princess Yan and Princess Zhou, but you also know that she is not only powerful to the outside world, but also no better than her own people!" So it's actually a good thing not to come back! But something happened to the Dou family, and the eldest aunt must be in a panic! We can't afford to deal with her, so that people know that it will be reported to grandfather, and it will inevitably seem to be a failure! So you pay attention to the wording, and don't irritate the aunt or sister-in-law! ”

He also said, "I don't know if Princess Lu will participate this time, but if she is smart, she should participate!" After all, her position as a princess is actually the last dignity that the fourth aunt and grandmother gave to the Tao family in love! If she is sick this time, it will not only be easy to dislike the fourth aunt, but also miss the opportunity for the fourth aunt to give her dignity - it is always the concubine that the fourth aunt gave to King Lu, she herself did not make any mistakes, in front of everyone, the fourth aunt must not lift her up? So if she attends, you should also be careful not to mention what makes her unbearable. ”

Qiu Yulan muttered in her heart: "Thinking about the love to give the Tao family the last decent share? I think it's throwing an unimportant prince and paralyzing the Tao family, right? Whether it is the Queen Mother or the Tao family, seeing that Queen Jiang actually gave up Zhuang Man, and Miss Shi also chose Tao Yibin as Princess Lu, she must feel that this is the queen and Mrs. Tao are thinking about the Tao family, where would you think that the Jiang family is already digging a pit for the Tao family? ”

Fortunately, King Lu is similar to King Qi, both of whom are honest and weak. Otherwise, Tao Yibin doesn't know how to live?

He Shuijin explained some things that people who should do and pay attention to when going to this kind of banquet, and said with a smile: "I don't know if the eighth sister-in-law will also feel uncomfortable, if she goes, then you can follow her." The eighth sister-in-law will not make a mistake after all! ”

"That's right, but the eighth sister-in-law is easy to get pregnant, this will not be three months old, I'm afraid that my grandmother will let the eighth sister-in-law spend Chinese New Year's Eve at home for the sake of safety!" Qiu Yulan smiled slightly and said.

It really made her guess - the next day, Old Mrs. Tao announced that the people who would go to the banquet on Chinese New Year's Eve, Xiao Tao, Shi, and the four granddaughters-in-law of Shui Jin and Sheng Shushui were not among them.

Among them, the reason for Shui Jin's absence is tacitly understood; Xiao Tao is pregnant because it is so easy, and Mrs. Tao is afraid that something will happen to her, so she will directly make the decision for her not to go out; Sheng Shushui has two reasons: the first is that her daughter is still young, and she is not at ease when she leaves; The second is that Mrs. Tao is worried that Jiang Yadan's backyard will take advantage of the fact that the family is going to the banquet, what kind of moth will she make, and she will leave a serious granddaughter-in-law in the fourth room to sit down.

The reason for the four granddaughters-in-law is more complicated: she began to call herself sick when He Shuijin asked the concubines to help settle the accounts, and basically she was sick when He Shuijin didn't need the help of the concubines to get better. Everyone knows this in their hearts, but they don't blame Shi - after all, anyone who has lost his own son can't accept following his son. People who are all in the relationship are always in front of each other.

And Shi didn't quarrel with He Shuijin, she just didn't want to see this brother-in-law, so as not to be sad.

So the elders also pretended to be confused, and Mrs. Tao treated her as if she was also sick and couldn't go to the banquet.

In this way, everyone who went to the banquet began to prepare—in fact, the clothes and things had already been prepared, and after the list was settled, it would be taken out and checked again.

In the blink of an eye, in the evening of the next day, the ladies who were dressed up according to their grades gathered in the back hall to wait for Mrs. Tao.

On this day, the Dou family and the little Dou family came strongly, Qiu Yulan looked at the appearance of this pair of people who were both aunts and nephews and mothers-in-law and daughter-in-law who were so emaciated that they almost had to rely on the support of the maid to move, speculating that they still did not complain and insisted on entering the palace, probably because they wanted to take the path of Queen Jiang and try to give the remaining people of the Dou family a glimmer of life?

It's just that Qin Guogong has decided to abandon the Dou family in exchange for Jiang Tianqiao's innocence, and most of them will be disappointed on this trip.

Everyone noticed the usual flamboyant downfall of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, but they all had the ambition to be silent together. Obviously, no one is a fool, the Dou family is a tragedy, but the Dou family and the little Dou family have long been the wives of the Jiang family, both of them have their own sons to support them, according to Qin Guogong's consistent emphasis on the bloodline of the Jiang family, they will not be abandoned because of the fall of the Dou family.

Blatantly ridiculing at this moment will cause Qin Guogong's dissatisfaction, and he will brush up on the sympathy points for Dafang.

In a silence different from the noise of previous years, the daughter of the Jiang family entered the palace.

With the preferential treatment that Mrs. Tao received, she didn't have to wait at all to enter the warm palace room to rest. Watching Empress Jiang receive many noble ladies - of course, as granddaughters-in-law, all of them are standing......

As the only granddaughter-in-law whose mother-in-law was not in front of her, Qiu Yulan stood behind Mrs. Tao as a matter of course, swept around, and was slightly surprised: "Princess Chunfu didn't come?!" Now the queen and Mrs. Tao must ask - you are miserable in the autumn wind!! ”

Sure enough, the queen wanted to perfunctory the wives, and her eyes swept the seats prepared for Jiang Qizheng a few times, and it was hard to say anything. Old Madam Tao was just chatting softly with a few nearby Yipin orders, and it was easy to take time to turn her head and tell Qiu Yulan: "Why hasn't Zheng'er arrived yet?" You go out and ask, is it too much snow and is immediately delayed on the road? ”

It's better if she is really delayed, I'm afraid that she will fall ill with the autumn breeze and don't want to go out!

Qiu Yulan smiled bitterly in her heart, but she had to take this errand.

Fortunately, when I went out of the palace to ask, a palace man said: "There is a message from the palace gate, saying that the long history of Princess Chunfu's mansion is asking to see her at the palace gate, saying that Her Royal Highness Princess Chunfu twisted her foot when she was going out, so she had to confess." I also have to say something for the concubine, and the concubine is not worried that Her Royal Highness the princess is in the mansion, so she can't come. ”

She thanked the palace people, went back to the palace and lay on the shoulder of Mrs. Tao to repeat the words, Mrs. Tao was slightly surprised when she heard this: "That sprained so badly?" ”

"The palace people said that it was not a big problem, but it couldn't be landed for two or three days."

"Well, that shouldn't be a big deal." The old lady was relieved, and a slight smile appeared on her face, "It's okay if people are fine, if you don't come, don't come, it's not a big deal...... The colt cares so much about the kite, and I'm relieved. ”

Qiu Yulan stiffly smiled: "What you said is true! She can't imagine at all now, what kind of anger the Jiang family will be when the truth is exposed in the future?

"It's better to persuade my brother to take away the autumn wind sooner!" She thought bitterly, "With the autumn wind gone, Chunfu can still act well alone...... Coupled with the autumn breeze in front of her every day, it's no wonder that she is hiding from her mother's family everywhere! What's good about going on like this? ”

It can't be put off any longer!

Qiu Jinglan said that he would solve it before, and he hadn't seen Jiang Qizheng return to his parents' house happily for so long, I'm afraid that either he would fail to go out, or he would fall short in advance of his westward journey - in short, Qiu Yulan decided that he must go to Jiang Qizheng and his wife for a showdown in the first month!

was thinking about how to persuade this awkward couple at that time, and a crisp voice sounded: "Lord Ningyi? ”

Qiu Yulan turned her head, but saw a palace beauty walking not far away with a smile and a salute to herself - this person is slightly plump and has an excellent complexion, and it is none other than Princess Yan Tang Xinqiong!

…… Naturally, it is not good!

After the two saw the ceremony, Tang Xinqiong smiled and said, "I heard that Cousin Ruan Qingyan is still on his way to Shazhou Governor Shi Ren?" You have to mention him well, so as not to learn from some people......" His gaze swept to the Dou clan and Xiao Dou clan not far away, which was meaningful, "Changshi can have the right to enter the military treasury in Zhenxi, and I hope you can warn your cousin not to make mistakes, let alone the country!" ”()