Eleven Niang sighed softly in her heart and reminded Xu Lingyi in a low voice: "There is a little guy over there." ”

A trace of nostalgia flashed between Xu Lingyi's eyebrows, and he turned around and shouted to the little guy: "What's the matter?" ”

The voice is calm and majestic.

Eleven Niang believed that his expression must have returned to its former mildness and calmness.

"Master Hou!" The little maid panted and ran all the way over, "There is news from the palace, the Queen Mother has just died." ”

Eleven Niang "glared" in her heart and grabbed Xu Lingyi's sleeve tightly.

Xu Lingyi shook her hand with her backhand.

Warm hands, wide and powerful.

"Where's Linbo?" He asked in a deep voice, looking very calm, so that Shi Niang also slowly calmed down, and gradually felt a little sad in his heart.

It dragged on for so long, and finally passed away. All that much was done in the end......

"The few adults in the Beijing camp who came to greet the Hou Ye have not left yet," the little servant said respectfully, "The nobles in the palace said that they were afraid that they would fall behind the palace if they went back late, so Lin Bo accompanied the nobles in the palace out of the temple through the side door." ”

Eleven Niang listened to this little guy's speech in a clear manner, which was in stark contrast to the anxiety just now, and couldn't help but look at him twice.

Xu Lingyi turned around and whispered to her: "You go back first!" The mourning in the palace was not so fast. We'll just go back to the city at the same hour. Don't make a noise about this matter for the time being, so as not to make everyone's hearts unhappy. ”

Eleven Niang also agreed.

It's not too late at this moment anyway.

She nodded, and went back to the wing room with Mother Song and Amber the same way.

Mrs. Tai and Mrs. II were still talking, Mrs. Fifth and a few children were still playing, and everything was no different from when she left. Seeing her come in, everyone just smiled and said hello to her, and the hand-made version was first published in the 55ab community. Clearly, her departure did not attract much attention.

Eleven Niang let out a long sigh, said a few words with Mrs. Tai, and packed up her things and left Huguo Temple at the scheduled time.

Xu Lingyi, Xu Lingkuan and Mr. Zhao rode together, and when they encountered a good scene, several people would stop their horses and comment, Xu Lingyi did not have any unusual expressions.

Back in the lotus, the mourning in the palace has arrived.

Although she had been prepared in her heart, Mrs. Tai couldn't help but sigh when she heard it: "...... I'm only forty-four years old this year! ”

"Life and death are fateful, wealth is in the sky." The second lady persuaded Mrs. Tai, "This is also a personal blessing." He added, "The Queen Mother is also a blessed person." ”

Mrs. Tai nodded slightly when she listened, and said in a low voice: "The Queen Mother was from a humble background, compatible with ordinary, and her conduct is not obvious, but she was made the queen because she had no children, and she met such a filial son as the emperor, she tolerated everything and tolerated everywhere...... When you think about it this way, you can be regarded as a blessed person. As he spoke, he thought of the high-flying Jianning Marquis and Shou Changbo, and couldn't help but look at Xu Lingyi.

I saw that he was whispering to Eleven Niang: "... Replace all the colored things overnight. Be sure to pack up early tomorrow morning. ”

Eleven Niang replied in a low voice, resigned Mrs. Tai and went back to her yard, while sending someone to call the mothers in charge, while having a hasty dinner, and then instructed Amber to tell Yang about it, and began to distribute things when the mother in charge arrived.

As soon as Yang heard this, he fell on the pillow and cried, which startled Amber.

Mother Yang was afraid that Amber would be displeased, so she stuffed two pieces of broken silver into Amber while explaining: "Our aunt is too sad and the ants are playing in the group as soon as possible, and I ask the girl to bear more." ”

Anyone would do that, right?

Amber didn't make a sound, took the money and persuaded her, then got up and took her leave.

Mother Yang personally sent amber out of the hall in the east courtyard, and then turned back to the house.

Yang had sat up straight, and there was no tear on his face.

"The Queen Mother is really dead?" Her voice was cold.

Mother Yang was stunned, and then said: "Miss Amber came on the orders of Madame, it should be true, right?" ”

"Then go out and watch!" Yang said, "If the Queen Mother really dies, the Gongqing's family will be mourned." The lantern will inevitably be changed to white. ”

Mother Yang didn't know what was suspicious about this, but she still walked away quickly, and after a while, she replied: "The people in the house have begun to hang white lanterns and filial piety cloths." ”

Yang let out a long sigh of relief and smiled brightly.

"Auntie." Mother Yang looked frightened and reminded her, "The Queen Mother has passed away, you will ...... in the future."

"I know." Yang interrupted Yang's mother. Her eyes were bright and she looked refreshed, "If she doesn't die, I really can't do it!" As she spoke, she smiled and instructed Mother Yang, "Go and see where Madame is?" What to do? Get me some more chili peppers. ”

"What is my aunt going to do?" Yang's mother asked dryly.

For some reason, she suddenly felt a little cold.

"Madame handed me over to Aunt Wen," Yang's eyes lit up, "I begged Aunt Wen several times to present the patterns I had drawn to Madame, but Aunt Wen pretended to be deaf and dumb and prevaricated in every possible way, and I couldn't go past her to talk to Madame......... Now that the Queen Mother is dead, there is no better machine than this. Don't ask if there's more, you don't know even if I said it. Just do what I say. After speaking, he walked to the mirror and sat down, and carefully brushed his hair, "Go and come back quickly, I'm waiting for your breath." ”

Mother Yang was confused but did not dare to slack off, and followed Yang's orders. While handing the chili pepper to Yang, he said, "Madame is waiting in the ear room next to the main hall for the mothers in charge to talk back." ”

Yang nodded, squeezed the chili water into his eyes, and his eyes were immediately filled with tears. While exhaling pain, I washed my eyes with water, and by the time I could see clearly, my eyes were already red and swollen.

She stood up: "Let's go to Madame!" ”

Mother Yang hesitated for a moment, and helped Yang to go to Eleven Niang.

Hearing that the Yang family asked to see her, Eleven Niang was a little surprised, and couldn't guess what was wrong with her, so she asked the little maid to bring her in.

If you want to be pretty, you must be filial. Wearing a moon-white plain makeup gown and a Hangbai upline skirt, Yang's eyes were red and standing in front of Eleven Niang, his eyes were sad and resolute, like a white plum Ling Han was not afraid, which made Eleven Niang's eyes flash.

Seeing Shi Niang, she knelt in front of Shi Niang in three steps and two steps: "Madam, I dare to ask you for something, if you agree, I will repay you as a cow and a horse in the next life." As he spoke, he kowtowed.

Eleven Niang's brows frowned almost invisibly, and said, "If you have anything to say, stand up and say!" ”

As she spoke, Amber stepped forward and grabbed Yang.

Yang couldn't get up on his knees, but he didn't say anything when he spoke: "Madam, I want to beg you to send someone to my house to see what happened to my brother!" ”

Eleven Niang was slightly stunned in her heart, but her face was not revealed, and she said, "But what happened at home?" ”

Yang gritted his teeth when he heard this, and said after a while: "Our family was originally a side branch. Later, my aunt praised me for being smart and clever, so she took me to my own family to raise me. I haven't seen my little brother for five or six years, and I don't know if this hand-made version of this article was first published in the 55ab community. Please send someone to my house to see my brother. As he spoke, he kowtowed again, "Madam, I beg of you!" ”

"I'll talk to the steward of the outer court." Eleven Niang motioned for Amber to help her up, "I'll let Amber give you a reply when the time comes." ”

Yang kowtowed three more times before standing up: "Madame's great kindness, I will never forget it in my life." Her forehead was flushed.

Eleven Niang stared at her forehead and didn't make a sound.

Yang's face was full of shame: "Please forgive me, Madame, I'm honestly afraid I don't know what to do." Then he retreated with Amber.

Eleven Niang asked Luyun to take the pair of cards to the outer courtyard to find Mr. Bai, and asked him to help him go to Yang's house to have a look. I told Xu Lingyi about it again in the evening.

Although Xu Lingyi was very surprised when she heard this, she didn't ask much, only urged her to rest early: "...... You have to enter the palace for three days in a row, don't drag people down. ”

Eleven Niang responded with a smile and blew the lamp to stop.

The next morning, I went to the palace according to the big makeup. Jianning Hou and Mrs. Shouchangbo had already arrived, crying like mourning. Seeing Mrs. Tai and the others crying even more.

Mrs. Tai ignored them, led the ladies of the family to incense, cried a lot, and then went to the side hall to rest under the guidance of the chamberlain, talked to the acquaintances, had lunch, cried again in the afternoon, and then went back to the house.

Yang stood under the eaves and waited.

Seeing Shi Niang and Xu Lingyi coming back, she stepped forward to salute the two of them, and opened the curtain to serve the two of them into the house. He was still standing outside the curtain, with a respectful attitude and suppressed expectations.

"Your home is in Huguang, how can you get news so quickly." Eleven Niang said, "You better go back first!" As soon as there is news, I will let the ant hand fight group and tell you about the hand beating people as soon as possible. So many years have passed, and there is no rush at this time. ”

Yang's eyes showed gratitude, and he bent his knees to salute Eleven Niang: "Thank you, madam!" ”

staggered away with Mother Yang.

Eleven Niang entered the palace for two days in a row to worship, and on the fourth day, she cried for three days outside the Cining Palace with the foreign women of the fourth grade or more in Beijing, and the Ministry of Rites set the emperor and the queen to mourn for 27 days on behalf of the month, the princess, the prince, and the county lord to serve for nine months, the prince to serve for five months, the princess's clothes for three months, and the common people to mourn for three days.

Xu Sizhen led Xu Sijie to silently collect the watermelon lanterns, sesame lanterns, fish scale lanterns, and straw lanterns made a few days ago into the library - the success of the river lantern made the two brothers extremely happy, and they made lanterns early to prepare for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Shi Niang smiled and hugged his shoulder: "It's the same when you take it out during the Spring Festival." ”

Xu Sizhen smiled and looked up at Eleven Niang with a sideways face: "When the time comes, we will make a marquee." ”

"Okay!" Eleven Niang smiled and patted him on the shoulder.

A little guy ran in: "The second young master sent a letter from An Le." ”

A thick stack.

Eleven Niang took Xu Sizhen and Xu Sijie to Mrs. Tai.

There are for Mrs. Tai, some for Eleven Niang, some for the second lady, and some for the fifth lady. The content is much the same, all of them say that he is very good, let the people in the family not worry, and wish everyone a happy Mid-Autumn Festival.

Mrs. Tai smiled when she saw it, and the more she wrote the words of the edict, the better she became.

When Eleven Niang returned to the house, she asked Xu Sizhen to reply to Xu Siyu on her behalf.

Xu Sizhen listened with great interest and wrote for several days. I also went to consult Mr. Zhao, and then wrote a letter to my family and sent it to Le'an.