As soon as I entered my mother's bedroom, I could smell a lingering fragrance, which was a spice from the Western Regions, which could clear my heart and sleep peacefully. Ji Shu likes to burn a piece before going to bed, and the aroma has not completely dispersed until early in the morning.

Ji Shu was concentrating on embroidery, which was a small pillow embroidered with acacia flowers she made for her daughter. On the pure white silk, the pink velvety petals seem to dance in the wind.

She put the broken sachet and book on the table, took off her shoes, and leaned on her mother's lap, admiring her needlework, full of joy, she couldn't help but turn over, face up, carefully look at her mother's eyebrows, and greedily smell the fragrance on her body.

"Sister-in-law," Ji Shu put down the work in his hand, held his daughter's head, and stroked the broken hair in her ear, "Why did you come back so slowly?" Your head is sweaty, where have you been? ”

Yan'er enjoyed her mother's gentle touch, and replied: "Brother Yu and Cousin Heng went to play chess, and Brother Han was going to practice martial arts for a while, and he didn't let me see my little fox, so I had to put down my things and come back." ”

"You don't know how to take care of the little fox yet, don't always try to tease it."

Yan'er was not satisfied with the united front between her mother and the second brother, so she sat up and resisted: "But it was given to me by Brother Yanwang, and the second brother always occupies it." In fact, the second brother won't take care of the little fox! ”

Ji Shu rubbed his daughter's little head and said with a smile: "His Royal Highness King Yan is the prince, don't always call him brother, he is different from your brothers." ”

"Why is it different? I think he always goes to his grandfather's house to visit the door. Mother, King Yan is cold, I don't like him. ”

Ji Shu smiled, and seemed to like her daughter mentioning Yanwang Zhou Yu very much.

But Chang'er didn't want to continue talking about the ice cube, so she changed the topic: "Mother, I saw a letter in the study, but I couldn't recognize the words inside, can you teach me to read it?" ”

Ji Shu said angrily: "Stinky girl, do you know that your father's things can't be moved, take them back quickly." ”

"But ......," Chang'er took out the envelope and handed it to her mother, "I saw the words 'Ji family' in it." ”

Ji Shu said again: "You haven't recognized a few words yet, how do you know what the 'Ji family' is?" Hugh nonsense! ”

"I'm not talking nonsense!" Yan'er firmly believed in her own ability, and opened the letter and put it in front of her mother, "Otherwise, you can see it yourself!" ”

Ji Shu couldn't help it, he took a few casual walks, and his face suddenly changed. She snatched the letter and read it carefully and over again, and her whole body couldn't help but tremble!

She suddenly felt a roar above her head and a buzzing sound in both ears. She didn't believe every word of the letter, just as she didn't believe that what was in front of her wasn't a dream.

"Mother's ......" Yan'er saw that her mother, who was still gentle just now, suddenly changed her expression and ran out of the room, and she couldn't help but get scared and ran out.

Through the moon gate in the backyard, you can see that in the small pavilion on the other side of Luoqing Pond, Li Xingzhi's face is serious and nervous, and he is looking down and whispering something to the equally nervous housekeeper. When Li Xingzhi saw the questioning eyes on his wife's pale face, his body was obviously shocked. He saw Ji Shu holding a piece of paper full of words in his hand, and the slender jade hands were trembling incessantly at this time.

Li Xingzhi didn't wait for Ji Shu to speak, so he took her wrist and went into the backyard.

Yan'er was terrified, she had never seen her parents in such a state. But when she leaned over, she was held down by her father's cold and stern eyes.

Li Xingzhi and Ji Shu entered the bedroom and closed the door. Yan'er quietly stood under the window and eavesdropped.

At first it was quiet, with only brief conversations, but before long, the pitch turned high and the attitude became stern, and later on, it turned into a heated argument, and there was even the sound of things scattering and vases breaking.

"You...... You guys...... How would you do such a thing! Ji Shu shouted in a trembling voice.

"What? You want to denounce me? Denounce your husband? ”

"Why can't I? People like you, everyone in the world will be punished! ”

"I've told you, I'm in trouble."

"Bitter? What kind of hardship can make a dignified marquis do this? You don't make excuses! You are trying to destroy the entire Ji family to cover up your crimes, this is impossible! ”

"If I don't, we'll all die!"

Then there was the sound of Li Xingzhi's heavy footsteps, as well as the sound of Ji Shu's entanglement, and the sound of things colliding.

and Ji Shu's cry.

They quarreled fiercely. She didn't know what to do, she just squatted under the window and cried.

After a long while, the door finally opened, and Li Xingzhi strode out of it, and instructed the housekeeper who came to the housekeeper: "Let the subordinates fence off the exits of the backyard, and say that the lady is sick and can't take the wind, let alone go out." ”

The housekeeper should go down and immediately bring in his subordinates to guard the door.

When she re-entered the bedroom, all traces of incense had disappeared, and the room was in shambles. Ji Shu sat paralyzed on the ground, his face full of tears, his eyes were blank, as if he had been drained of energy. Her wrists were red and swollen, and she looked shocking.

Yan'er was bold and shouted timidly, but Ji Shu did not respond. Yan'er had no choice but to shake her mother's arm, and finally aroused her reaction.

Ji Shu suddenly hugged her daughter like crazy and pulled her to rush out of the yard. But how could the woman in the deep courtyard be the opponent of the servants. After entangling for a long time, Ji Shu finally failed to take a step past the courtyard gate, she gave up the struggle, knelt on the ground in a dejected manner, and cried helplessly.

Ji Shu was dragged into the room by two strong maids.

Although she doesn't know what happened, she can be sure that her father is going to be unfavorable to the Ji family. She cupped her mother's crying cheeks and said, "I have a way to get out." ”

Ji came to her senses and looked at her daughter in a daze: "You? What can you do? ”

"I'm going to find a set of maidservants' clothes for my mother to change into, and I have a way to sneak out."

Although Ji Shu was suspicious, he also knew that his daughter had a lot of ghost ideas, so he did what his daughter said.

Yan'er took Ji Shu, who had changed her outfit, to the northwest corner of the courtyard, and pushed away a pot of newly planted begonia flowers placed here, leaking a hole more than two feet high. This hole is connected to Li Yuhan's small courtyard.

"This hole ......," Yan'er explained with some embarrassment, "I dug this hole yesterday because I wanted to see my little fox." ”

Ji Shu naturally didn't care about blaming her daughter, and according to her appearance, she came out of the hole.

Different from the orientation of the gate of the inner courtyard, the gate of Li Yuhan's courtyard is facing his own martial arts training ground, through the martial arts training ground, bypassing a corridor, you can get out of the Hou Mansion, but this is not easy for Ji Shu at all. Once seen by Li Yuhan or his subordinates, who have no idea, the escape plan will be in vain.

So she took the little fox out of the elaborate nest she had built in pain, hung the little silver bell on her wrist on her lap, and let it out of the yard.

The lively, suffocated little fox obviously didn't understand why the little thing on its feet rattled, and it didn't know whether it was excitement or fear, and it ran away from the corner of the wall.

Li Yuhan, who was practicing his sword, heard the sound of a crisp bell, looked up and saw that his beloved pet was about to escape from his control, and immediately panicked, and loudly ordered people to chase after him. The subordinates didn't dare to be ambiguous, and they had to run over to chase after them, and in an instant, there was no one on the martial arts training ground.

There were two guards standing at the gate.

Yan'er asked her mother to cover half of her face with a scarf, took her hand, and walked out generously. The little guy guarding the door greeted with a smile: "Miss wants to go out?" ”

Yan'er replied solemnly: "My second uncle will be back in the next two days, and my mother allows me to prepare some gifts for him." ”

"Oh, our second uncle is a celebrity next to the prince, and when he comes back this time, he will definitely be added to the rank and enter the knighthood, Miss is so worried about his uncle, it's really heartfelt!"

Yan'er smiled very satisfied, and led Ji Shu to leave, but the guard asked again: "Miss, who is this leader?" It looks a little familiar. ”

Ji Shu's mother and son were shocked.