At the right time, in Xiangyun Garden, Mrs. Su had dinner, and sent the housekeeper's daughter-in-law to inquire, the old man came back from the ministry, and asked the old man to come over and drink a bowl of beef bone marrow tea soup to relieve fatigue.

Mrs. Su lived outside for a few days, and the first thing she heard when she came back was that the seventh son Meng Xuan was sent away by the master, and then the seventh daughter-in-law had an accident there, and she made a fuss and investigated for a long time. Here, the seventh daughter-in-law has not been appeased, but the lord over there has sent a message to ban her, and he has not given any reason, which makes the daughter-in-law present look at the lawsuit, guessing that something terrible has happened, so that the old man who never asks about family affairs will interfere in the internal affairs.

Mrs. Su herself is also quite depressed, not to mention the grievances for the matter of the seventh daughter-in-law, just the lord "overstepping his authority" to dispose of her jurisdiction, which made her very unhappy. At that time, taking care of the lord's face, she couldn't help but do it, but it was too eye-catching to single one seventh daughter-in-law, so she asked people to seal three gardens, and grounded the seven daughters-in-law, Aunt Xun, and Aunt Bao. Now, she must call the master to ask for an understanding.

When the bowl of sweet soup was used up, the housekeeper's daughter-in-law trotted in return, saying that the master had gone to Aunt Li's place to rest, and asked the lady not to wait for him and go to bed early. Mrs. Su sneered a few times when she heard this, put the soup bowl in the spoon, and slept with her clothes.

Mrs. Su's main room is magnificent, with a seven-foot-wide agarwood dwarf couch hanging on the side of a silk treasure tent, and a dark red silk yarn brocade tent is embroidered with beads and silver threads wrapped in flowers, and the wind is moving, like a dream. The couch is set up with an autumn-colored gold thread python pillow, covered with soft silkworm ice silk, and stacked with twisted gold and silver silk slippery silk brocade quilt.

The old man Meng Shan is perennial laissez-faire, and the days of staying in Beijing are short, and more than a dozen wives and concubines in the family are easy to look forward to the time when he lives at home for a long time, especially a few young aunts, all of whom try their best to dress up, some write "whispers" and hand them to the master's study in the outer courtyard, and some make this soup and send that dew to the master. Mrs. Su is old and dignified, so naturally she doesn't fight with them about this, but just looks at their farce coldly.

There are so many things happening at home today, Mrs. Su is full of questions, so she called the master to come over and ask about the situation, but the master didn't even give this face! didn't go anywhere, and went to Aunt Li's room, didn't she deliberately block her?

Mrs. Su went to bed with resentment, and she felt that the room was stuffy, so she slept with the window wide open, and in the second half of the night, she felt heavy in her head and her nose was plugged. The maid who was on the night heard Mrs. Su's heavy snoring, and went over with an oil lamp to take a look, and saw that her face was flushed and a thin layer of sweat was on her forehead. The maid didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly called the female doctor Hu Yang, who had given the old lady a doctor, to see, and after the consultation, it was very similar to the symptoms of the epidemic, but a room of maids died, and Xiangyun Garden was in chaos!

Also in the second half of the night, Yitong, dressed in fish scales, suddenly emerged from the floor of a small black room, describing it as funny.

At this time, He Angelica was still sorting out her dowry at night, and Mrs. Su only blocked her garden gate, and did not force her to be locked in the house, of course she had to move in this limited space.

The master's grounding order came very suddenly, but Meng Xuan said before he left that in his father's mother, his father was "loyal" and his mother was "traitorous". Meng Xuan was not at ease, so he specially asked his father to take care of his daughter-in-law. Therefore, He Angelica heard that Master Meng forbade her feet, and he would not lock himself in the house and cry for a few days and nights as Lu thought.

After the grounding order was issued, the eldest grandmother Shang and Aunt Wang inevitably gloated a little, but the second grandmother Lu rarely asked for her mother-in-law's approval and accompanied He Angelica back to the room for a while.

When drinking tea in the room, Lu inadvertently mentioned that the Meng family's torture room was a very terrible place, and the last time she was sentenced to the torture room, Mama Moru was because she broke the oak wood of the uncle's son. Originally, the grandmother would not have received such a heavy punishment, but the eldest grandmother Shang had to go up and plead for a grandmother who had nothing to do with her, so the uncle was suspicious that the grandmother was instructed by the Shang family to deliberately break his concubine. Mama Usui's crime suddenly changed from "negligence" to "intentionally murdering the master", and she was punished to go to the torture room to do things, and Shang was also angrily reprimanded by the uncle, and was almost abandoned.

Everyone thought that Shang had planted a big fight, but they didn't expect that a few days later, Mama Mortar fainted in the torture room, and the doctor showed her, and everyone knew that this Mama Mortar had already had a stroke and was unable to hold things in her hand, saying that she deliberately broke the little master, and she was really wronged, and even Shang was wronged. Mrs. Su asked the uncle to make amends to his daughter-in-law, and the Shang family was really beautiful.

This is not the end, Shang has a younger brother Shang Jue, who wants to find a vacancy in the military department, and he will arrive in those two days sooner or later, as soon as Shang asks the uncle, the uncle will help him, and Shang Jue easily enters the department. Originally, according to the Meng family's family style, this kind of private teaching was a big taboo, but the uncle was ashamed of his words a few days ago, and he had the right to compensate for this matter.

Lu sighed faintly, don't look at the sister-in-law who usually looks reckless and impulsive, when it comes to fine schemes, ten is not as good as one of her.

He Angelica thought about it and asked Lu to send a message to her mother-in-law, saying that she selfishly felt that Lu Yao's punishment was too heavy, so it was better to beat her out a few times, so as not to frighten the other maids in her garden.

Lu nodded in agreement, she just wanted to remind He Angelica that her mother-in-law likes supple women, and it is not good to leave a "little pepper" impression as soon as she comes up. Although the mother-in-law set a heavy penalty for Lu Yao, it may also be a test to see if He Angelica will intercede and whether his temperament is soft.

After sending the Lu family away, He Angelica took Mama Jing and a few maids to check the dowry against the gift list, and found that the valuable things in the room were indeed the dowry given by Princess Yan. And the gift list does not clearly list the preciousness of these things, are "red brocade thirty horses", "pearl head face eight sets" and other words to summarize the past, if not to see with your own eyes, who can know that the brocade is Shu brocade, pearl is the south pearl, the night pearl!

A rough estimate shows that these things are no less than 20,000 taels of silver, and as a dowry from the mother-in-law to the concubine, it is no longer so simple to send it as a favor.

He Angelica only knew that Princess Yan Xu Wuhan was the daughter of the famous general Xu Da, who was able to write and martial arts, and had a virtuous and virtuous reputation, and it was not clear if there were more. This matter is strange, why did Concubine Xu give her such a heavy dowry, she had to try to find out. The dowry that has been carried into her mother-in-law's house is taboo to carry it out, so the things can no longer be returned to Concubine Xu, but if Concubine Xu has any other ideas or requirements, and she can't agree, then she can only spend money to "buy" these things.

He Angelica's ears were very pointed, and he suddenly heard a strange movement from a room not far away, as if an animal was digging the ground with its claws, and it seemed that something came out of the ground directly......

Hearing such a movement in the middle of the night, it can not be said that he was not shocked, He Angelica's heart suddenly jumped hard, grabbed a gem short bow to defend himself, and planned to go to that room to have a look.

Looking back at Mama and Mint who were still holding on to their spirits, He Angelica smiled: "Look at me, I can't sleep on my head, and I have detained you!" You have to take a breath when you hang yourself, not to mention that we have time, Mama, you and Mint should go down and rest, and if you have enough spirits, let's continue tomorrow. ”

Mint yawned and said, "I'll serve the young lady to bed, the pot is still simmering on the fire, I'll go pour water." ”

"Don't bother," said He Angelica, "I'll lock the door when I look at that set of snuff bottles, you don't have to worry about me, go to bed!" Mint has always been clear about the temper of the young lady, and she doesn't talk about the rules of being vain to her subordinates, saying that one is one, so she took Mama Jing to the pine garden to rest.

In the afternoon, He Angelica asked Mama Jing, the seventh master also looks like a literary son, why doesn't he even have a decent name where he lives? I learned from Mama Jing that this matter was also caused by the eldest grandmother Shang, who loved the plum trees in the three gardens and wanted one of them, so he made trouble for a few years about the unfairness of the garden, and secretly blamed Mrs. Su for being too partial.

Meng Xuan used the garden where he lived as a martial arts training ground, and even Yitong and other attendants did not dare to approach his garden easily. Meng Xuan was afraid that she would live too close to the ladies of the big house, and when she was too attentive to practicing swords, she would accidentally hurt people, so she pretended not to know her sister-in-law's intentions at all. After a while, when he was practicing martial arts, he "accidentally" cut down more than a dozen plum trees in the three gardens, and said that the gardeners' movements greatly affected his study, and he no longer let the gardeners come to tend the plum trees in the garden. The garden soon became deserted, and the Shang clan stopped thinking about the garden.

After He Angelica listened, he roughly understood that Meng Xuan did not name the garden, and he was deliberately burying these three gardens. But now that this has become her home, she still has to choose a name, since this garden used to be famous for plum trees, and it happens to be three gardens next to each other, it is very appropriate to nominate the "Three Friends of the Cold".

The room where she lives is called "Bamboo Garden", the person on the left is called "Pine Garden", and the aunt lives in "Plum Garden". Another day, she wrote a few big characters, took them to the craftsman to carve a plaque and hang it, and then called the gardener to clean up the half-dead plum trees in the garden, and give the pine, bamboo and plum orchard a new look.

When Mint and Mama had walked far away, He Angelica was fully armed and walked towards the room where the sound came out. Now is the middle of the night, in case this uninvited guest is a big man, and it will not be good to be seen by Mama, let her come alone to meet the visitor......

"Ahh You, you are! ”

As soon as He Angelica pushed the door, he saw a sleek man's back by the moonlight and frightened her. When you look closely, who is this naked man, not Yitong! She angrily asked, "What do you mean by that?" Want to deliberately frame me? Could it be ...... The man in black that Mama saw during the day was you! ”

Yitong also had a frightened expression, hurriedly put on his middle shirt and buttoned it, and then knelt down on one knee and replied: "Don't be afraid, grandma, the little one has absolutely no malice, he came in specially to report the news, and the man during the day is not me." ”

"Oh?" He Danggui came to his senses, "You still know about the man in black!" Could it be that you were there at the time? ”

Yitong nodded and said, "That's right, that person has been restrained by me and is now being held in a secret place. In the afternoon, I heard about the old man's grounding of the seventh grandmother, and I was very anxious, and the seventh master strictly ordered me to take care of my grandmother before leaving, and if my grandmother was missing a hair, he would pull a hundred from my head. The little ones are afraid of becoming bald, how dare they not be dedicated? ”

He Angelica was amused by Yitong's expression and asked him to get up and talk back. Now the question she is most concerned about is-"Why did the master ground me?" Am I at fault, or is there something else? ”

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Xiangyun Garden is a mess! The female doctor Hu Yang diagnosed Mrs. Su with the epidemic, and said that the epidemic was not infected at that time, but at that time, and it was very likely that it was infected a few days ago, and the cool breeze also showed signs today. This epidemic is different from the large-scale outbreak in the north, it is very contagious, and there is no cure at present, and if you are infected, it is a terminal disease. There have been three dignitaries and nobles in the capital who have been infected with this epidemic, and they have seen the best imperial doctors and used the most expensive medicines, but none of them can save their lives.

What made everyone panic the most was the last sentence that Dr. Hu Yang said: Anyone who has been in contact with Mrs. Su is at risk of contracting the disease, and it is best to isolate it immediately!

A room full of maids were frightened and cried, and the crying woke up Mrs. Su, and Dr. Hu Yang asked her if her throat was severe and difficult to speak; A few maids knelt on the ground and cried for grace, wanting to let go out of the garden and go home to see their fathers and mothers; The housekeeper's daughter-in-law, Zhang Ba's family, was quite calm, and stepped forward to ask Mrs. Su, did you call the master over first?

Mrs. Su's cheeks were red, and the whites of her eyes were full of bloodshots, she coughed violently a few times, and hissed: "What do you want him to do?!" He died when I died, and I died when he died! Get lost! Get out of here, let me die a clean death! ”

Zhang Ba's family knew that the reason why Mrs. Su was angry was because the master went to Aunt Li, who was not compatible with her, but it was still when Mrs. was in a hurry to find the master. But now it's a matter of life and death for Mrs., where can a group of their subordinates survive? So Zhang Ba's family made the decision, and drove a room of crying maids into an empty room, and locked the doors and windows with two locks. He also asked a fourth-class servant woman in the courtyard who had never had close contact with Mrs. Su to go to Aunt Li's side to report to the lord and tell her about the situation here.

When the old man Meng Shan heard half of it, the robe was not too thin to wear, so he staggered to Xiangyun Garden, and when he arrived here, Mrs. Su just vomited indiscriminately, and her nose suddenly bleed, and she couldn't stop it for a long time, and her appearance was very miserable.

Without waiting for the old man to come into the house, Zhang Ba's family hurriedly said: "The doctor said that this disease is very contagious, and it will be dangerous after the illness, so please stand outside the house and talk." ”

Meng Shan turned a deaf ear, rushed to the couch with an arrow, grabbed the pillow towel to stop the nosebleed for Mrs. Su, and said with tears in his eyes: "You hold on, I heard that the Luo family has a treasure medicine that can cure all diseases, so I'll find you medicine!" ”