The room fell silent, the surrounding movement was amplified, and after a pillar of incense, they heard unhurried footsteps in the stairwell.

"Check it out." Eleven Niang, who was bowing her head and playing a knot, suddenly raised her head and instructed Holly, "Look at what Sister Ten has to do!" ”

Holly has always been worried about the arrival of the eldest aunt, but Eleven Niang didn't move, and she couldn't say anything. Now when she saw that Eleven Niang asked her to find out the news, she immediately smiled, answered "yes" with a smile, and walked out lightly.

After a while, she turned back: "Miss Eleven, it's the eldest aunt - she just left." ”

Eleven Niang paused with her hand and said, "When the eldest aunt left, what was her expression?" ”

Holly groaned, "As usual, I don't see any difference!" ”

Sure enough, he is a master.

Eleven Niang thought secretly in her heart.

Light footsteps were heard again in the stairwell.

The two looked at each other.

Eleven Niang said in a low voice: "Go and see!" ”

Holly immediately responded and quickly turned back: "Miss Eleven, it's Miss Ten." Accompanied by Zhutao, he put on a gray crane-colored brocade cloak and came downstairs. ”

Eleven Niang's face was pensive.

Shi Niang goes up and down the stairs, and always steps on the floor slab "dong dong" straight sound, how can it be abnormal today, and the footsteps are so gentle...... Also, since she went out and didn't bring a hundred branches or nine spices, why did she bring the little girl bamboo peach? Or, in connection with the arrival of the great aunt!

The thought flashed, and Eleven Niang said: "You go and see, see where Miss Ten is going!" ”

Holly nodded and walked out lightly.

Eleven Niang finished fighting a bat, and Holly came back.

"Miss Eleven, Miss Ten went to Aunt Four." Her expression was a little solemn, "I wanted to go over and listen to what the fourth aunt and Miss Ten had to say, but the maid next to the fourth aunt was guarding outside the house, and I didn't dare to approach ......."

Three years ago, Shi Niang pushed Shi Niang to the ground, and in front of the people outside, the eldest lady said that "the ground was sliding, and Shi Niang accidentally fell", but in front of the eldest man, she lost her temper. said that the eldest lord connived at the concubine room, and several young ladies not only developed a high-flying and domineering temperament, but also did not have a half-brotherly relationship, let alone a young lady's bearing. The eldest lord didn't dare to refute.

The fourth aunt Yang was given by the eldest lord when he was in Shaanxi to participate in politics, and when the eldest lady knew that there was such a person, the fourth aunt was not only pregnant, but also took care of the eldest lord's fortune and the body silver sent by the family. As soon as the eldest lady thought about it, she sent the most beautiful maid Lu Shi around. When the old man saw it, he really liked it. Lu soon became pregnant. Before the child was born, the eldest lady raised the Lu family as the fifth aunt. Who knows, although the fifth aunt is beautiful, she is a cowardly character, and she was pressed down by the fourth aunt after a few face-to-faces. When the eldest lady saw it, she found a young and beautiful Lu from among the maids and sent it to the eldest master, giving birth to twelve mothers. At that time, the eldest lord had already served as the political envoy of Fujian, and the three of them all grew up with their father in office. Because of this incident, they were placed in the Green Tower, and the eldest lady sent a powerful maid to discipline them personally. And the fourth aunt Yang, who was not strict with her goddaughter, was punished by the eldest lady to kneel in the ancestral hall.

The weather was cold, and after kneeling overnight in the open space paved with blue bricks in front of the ancestral hall, the fourth aunt fell ill and was moved to a two-room wing room next to the Shuangxing Courtyard to recuperate.

This is only three years.

In the past three years, the number of times Shi Niang went to see the fourth aunt could be counted on one finger. Unexpectedly, as soon as the eldest aunt left, she would go to the fourth aunt.

To say that this is a coincidence, Eleven Niang doesn't believe it anyway.

What's more, the fourth aunt still asked the maid to stay outside the door while the two were talking......

Her fingers flew quickly: "You go find a flat box, and then you will put the two strings I made into it." ”

Holly was slightly stunned: "Do you want to personally send a message to the eldest aunt and the second aunt?" ”

Eleven Niang replied: "I'm going to say hello to the eldest lady, and by the way, I'm just sending this line." ”

******

When the eleventh lady arrived, the eldest lady was already laughing and laughing in the house.

Ziwei and Ziyuan stood in front of the eldest lady with a calligraphy and painting, and Wu Niang leaned on the eldest lady's side and pointed to the calligraphy and painting: "...... You see, this word is good-looking, it's an ancient seal that I imitate. And this one, it's imitating Wang Xizhi's walking grass......"

The eldest lady smiled and nodded, as if she was satisfied with the work in front of her.

Seeing Shi Niang walking in, the eldest lady beckoned to her: "Come, look at this hundred longevity picture written by your sister." ”

It was written so quickly!

Eleven Niang was secretly strange in her heart, smiled Yingying to greet the eldest lady, and greeted Wu Niang again: "Is this for embroidery?" Sister is so fast! ”

Wu Niang returned the gift to Eleven Niang, and said with a smile: "Thinking of giving a birthday gift to the eldest sister's family, I am also in a hurry." I'm afraid that there is something bad about writing, and even my sister can't embroider well. ”

"I don't see anything bad." Eleven Niang smiled and looked at the words written by Wu Niang.

On a six-foot square piece of rice paper, Kai, Li, Seal, Line, and Grass ...... The fonts are different, the sizes are different, and the variety is dazzling, which makes her secretly surprised.

Regardless of the skill of these words, this intention alone is admirable.

Unexpectedly, Wu Niang's calligraphy has reached this level.

The eldest lady also smiled: "I think it's well written when I look at it!" ”

"Thank you mother for the compliment." Wu Niang smiled and was modest.

The eldest lady asked Ziwei and Ziyuan to give the calligraphy and painting to Eleven Niang: "Just embroider according to this!" ”

Eleven Niang bent her knees to "yes", and Amber hurriedly stepped forward to collect calligraphy and paintings.

The eldest lady pointed to the box in Amber's hand, "This is ......"

Eleven Niang smiled: "That's a call for Brother Xu." ”

The eldest lady's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she said, "Bring it to me and take a look." ”

Amber listened, hurriedly opened the box, and handed it over.

Two white, blue, black, red, and yellow silk coins representing the five elements are colorful, lying quietly in the big red velvet box. When I looked closely, I found that the two threads of silk money were woven into a circle of plum blossoms, and there were five bats the size of jujube in the middle.

"It's ingenious." The eldest lady praised it in her hand, "Don't say anything else, just with these two threads, the female celebrity of Eleven Niang is one of the few in Hangzhou Mansion." ”

Wu Niang's eyes flashed when she listened.

Shi Niang said with a smile: "My daughter can play such a network, and it is also because my mother invited us a master from Hangzhou Mansion." ”

The eldest lady listened, and her eyes showed a little relief: "Go and send it to the two aunts!" Lest it get late! ”

Eleven Niang responded with a smile, and was about to bow and retreat, when a little maid came to say that Shi Niang was coming.

Everyone showed a surprised face, even the eldest lady, and also raised the corners of her eyebrows.

Since she accompanied her fourth aunt to kneel in the ancestral hall three years ago and suffered from the wind cold and asthma, when winter comes, the eldest lady will avoid her morning and dusk.

Thinking of what happened before she came, Shi Niang couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive, and always felt that Shi Niang's sudden arrival was not so simple.

"Let her in quickly, lest the cold wind blow and pant again!" The eldest lady instructed the little maid, but her tone was a little disdainful.

The people in the room looked around, pretending not to hear.

Soon, the little maid walked in with a man wearing a gray crane-colored brocade cloak.

Eleven Niang was slightly stunned.

She didn't even change her clothes, so she came directly from the fourth aunt to the eldest lady......

The little maid carefully untied her cloak, revealing a half-new grass-green persimmon pattern carved silk gown.

"The daughter visits her mother." She knelt down for the eldest lady with a liness like a willow.

The eldest lady accepted her full salute, and then raised her hand: "Why are you here in such a cold weather?" If it's frozen, how can I rest assured. As he spoke, he instructed Mother Xu beside him, "Simmer a cup of ginger soup for Miss Ten." Her body is weak, no more than Wu Niang, a monkey that popped out of the cracks in the stones, and she is not afraid of wind and rain. It's no better than Eleven Niang, the north wind hasn't blown yet, and she wears a cotton dress and a cotton skirt on her body, so I don't have to worry about it. ”

She smiled and groaned when she spoke, and her tone of voice was also very concerned, but in the ears of Eleven Niang, there was a strange feeling.

Wu Niang listened and pulled the eldest lady's sleeve to be coquettish: "My daughter has grown up now, and my mother still uses this to tease her daughter." My daughter doesn't follow - how did I just pop out of the cracks in the stones, the tenth sister you hold it in the palm of your hand, and the eleventh sister will be well-behaved so that you don't have to worry about it. ”

"Look at it, it's shaking my head. What is not a monkey? The eldest lady smiled and held her forehead.

Everyone laughed at the occasion.

Eleven Niang stepped forward to greet Shi Niang.

There was a hint of a smile on Shi Niang's tense face on weekdays, which made her thick eyebrows bloom like summer flowers, which was a kind of touching amazement.

Eleven Niang looked at it and her heart tightened.

I thought of the scene when I met the fourth aunt for the first time.

At that time, it was also winter, and the fourth aunt wore a brightly colored grass-green persimmon pattern engraved silk gown, a scarlet and white sable cloak on the outside, and a royal blue painting enamel flower and bird hand stove in her hand.

She just woke up, hazy, and thought she was confused, dreaming that the beauty in the picture of the ancient lady walked down. It wasn't until the warm softness of the fourth aunt gently stroked her forehead that she had a sense of reality.

Shi Niang still remembers that her face was full of love and pity at that time: "Poor children, it's all wrong with our Shi Niang." I'll let her come and give you the sin later. ”

When she said this, the fourth aunt's willow-like eyebrows frowned slightly, as if she was very worried.

It's just that before the fourth aunt walked out of her yard, she was called by Mother Xu to the eldest lady's house. She hadn't seen the fourth aunt since...... I don't know what she looks like now.

The thought flashed, and she shuddered.

The dress that Shi Niang wore was worn by the fourth aunt back then, but it was old......

Shi Niang didn't dare to think about it, Shi Niang had already greeted her: "My sister is also here!" ”

"I'm going to Aunt Duan and Aunt Yuan." In front of the eldest wife, Eleven Niang never called Duan's aunt.

Shi Niang smiled and nodded.

Eleven Niang has taken the opportunity to say goodbye to the eldest lady: "Mother, the child will go to the aunt." ”

The eldest lady's attention was all attracted by Shi Niang, and she nodded absentmindedly.

Eleven Niang was relieved and hurriedly retreated with Amber.

When the curtain of the door fell, she heard Shi Niang laugh and said, "...... The daughter thought that it was cold and didn't know how her mother was doing, so she came over to take a look. ”

She couldn't help but quicken her pace.

Amber didn't make a sound, and hurriedly left the eldest lady with Eleven Niang, and then stopped Eleven Niang: "Miss, you better put on your cloak!" ”

Eleven Niang slowed down and went to the two aunts.

(Sorry, power outage...... ⊙_⊙b Khan! ）