From Xifu to Jinghua Xie, passing by Shouzhongju, I happened to see Mei'er leading the little girl to bring pastries and rice porridge to the inside. Yu Qi knew that the old lady had woken up. After going in and asking for peace, the old lady stayed to eat something, and Yu Qi was all with her. After finishing, the old lady felt tired again, and wanted to lie down for a while, so she returned to the mirror and thanked her.

Zhu'er, Lan'er, and Ju'er waited for the old lady to remove the hair ornament before she started, and the old lady felt better and wanted to talk to them. Zhu'er wanted the old lady to be happy, so she told the old lady about the private discussions of the wives and the fact that Xianglian was kicked out the night.

The old lady was glad to hear this.

Zhu'er said: "The old lady is happy when she hears it, but the third wife is not very happy." ”

The old lady said: "Silly girl, if you know, I will look at Miss Qi's stability and etiquette." ”

Zhu'er said: "I usually can't see that Miss Qi has such ability." ”

The old lady smiled: "This girl's temperament is the same as that of the aunt who didn't come out of the cabinet back then, so she looks familiar." ”

Lan'er said: "The old lady likes it, it is better to think of it as her daughter, and she can't give it to the third master's mansion." ”

The old lady froze and smiled.

Zhu'er slapped Lan'er's hand and said to the old lady in a harmonious voice: "I said the wrong thing again, the old lady forgive her sins." ”

The old lady smiled again: "What happened to Xianglian later?" ”

Zhu'er said: "With Miss Qi's love, the third wife will naturally not be embarrassed." still stayed at the second master's place to serve, but the second master has restrained a lot. ”

The old lady nodded frequently: "Hmm! Fabulous. ”

When I asked the wives what the wives were talking about in Xifu on the first night, Zhu'er and the others didn't dare to talk too much. The old lady understood in her heart, so she only said "the matter of the second master" and didn't say anything, only sighed. In the end, he sent Mei'er to take a few pastries and send them to Yu Huaxie.

Mei'er got the order, carefully took several kinds of good-looking and delicious ones, and when she arrived at Jinghuaxie, she saw the three of Lu Qi's master and servant teasing the parrot and talking. After sitting for a while, Mei'er took her leave and left.

Mei'er only left on the front foot, and Xianglian in Zhuang Pu's room came on the back foot.

Sanxi quipped: "It's hot when you come together, and you'll come one after another, it's annoying." ”

Xianglian came in and gave a salute first, and then said: "In this way, the girl's popularity is like this." ”

Yu Qi asked Xianglian to sit, but Xianglian didn't dare, and she let it go a few times before she sat down.

Before she sat down, Huiyuan had already brought her tea, and after taking a sip of it, she thought, "If the girl didn't speak out about his wife, I would have been sent out." So, I came over to thank you as soon as I had time. ”

Yu Qi said: "Sister Xianglian doesn't have to be polite, the second brother treats us very well on weekdays, presumably you are not that kind of person." It's just a matter of effort. ”

Xianglian heard what Yu Qi said, shed tears, got up from the stool, and knelt down for Yu Qi.

Yu Qi hurriedly helped him up.

Yu Qi said: "My sister can't help it, and I haven't done anything to make a big contribution." ”

Xianglian burst into tears, and said in a quiet voice: "When I was a few years old, I was sold into the house to be a girl, and I was in a small position and spoke softly. Only others framed and fell into the well. I've never seen anyone save each other. The girl's great kindness, Xianglian is toothless and unforgettable. ”

Yu Qi smiled: "Who is without fault, who can seek peace and security in their lives?" Sometimes, it's a coincidence. Today's mistakes of others, we look at them coldly, and who dares to say anything about the mistakes of you and me in other days? ”

Xianglian said: "Although our second master doesn't often come to the girl, he often says that the girl is smarter than other girls in the house. The second master knew that the girl was asking for me, and said that he would thank the girl another day. ”

Yu Qi hurriedly took Xianglian's hand and said, "Sister, go back and tell the second brother, so you can see outside." ”

Xianglian lowered her head, and then took out a square handkerchief bag. Inside, there was a handful of broken silver and several silver bracelets.

Xianglian put the handkerchief on the table and pushed it to Yu Qi.

Yu Qi was surprised: "Sister, what are you doing here?" ”

Xianglian said: "Xianglian doesn't have anything to thank you, so she saved so much, thank the girl." ”

Yu Qi wrapped it up and pushed it back: "Sister is like this, what do you think of me." The second time, I still dare to say a word and a half. ”

Xianglian smiled with tears in her eyes, and slowly took it back: "The girl is like this, so I don't want others to know about it in the future, and I will have to worry about the girl a lot of things." ”

Yu Qi glanced at Sanxi and Huiyuan strangely.

Hui Yuan said: "Why? ”

Xianglian covered her mouth, embarrassed, and finally explained: "Our subordinates have rules, this is the 'Demon Fighting Ceremony'." Gone to the money, to eliminate disasters and difficulties. Everyone now knows that the girl can talk, and she will run to the girl if anything happens in the future. ”

Sanxi laughed and said, "But the disaster was given to our girl?" ”

Yu Qi pulled down the three joys, and the three joys stopped.

Xianglian bowed her head in embarrassment and said, "This is the rule." ”

Yu Qi patted Xianglian's hand again, and said awe-inspiringly: "I don't have that rule here, you take it back." ”

Xianglian got up and said, "Thank you, girl." ”

Then politely talk about other trivial things, not very related to the occasional words, Xianglian got up to say goodbye, and Sanxi and Huiyuan sent it out.

Sanxi walked back and said: "This kind of rule should be put in our Zhuo Mansion for the master to know, if you don't break your legs, you will also cut off your hands......"

When Yu Qi heard her say this, he hurriedly drank: "Sanxi! ”

Sanxi said the wrong thing and stayed aside.

Huiyuan said: "Girl, Sanxi is just a fast mouth." ”

Yu Qi said: "Throughout the ages, disasters have started to talk, and everything is bad in the mouth. You haven't grown at all these days. It doesn't matter who you hurt, don't regret it when you hurt yourself. ”

In this way, Huiyuan didn't dare to speak, and Sanxi was wilting on one side.

At the end of June, the Zhuang government received a letter sent back by Zhuang Xi, informing him that he would go to the area of Rehe in Fengtian to verify the case in the near future. The cause of the incident was in the Rehe area, there was a Jinli Church that was anti-foreign churches, and was slaughtered by foreign people, and the people's voices were very resentful, and the emperor and important ministers discussed, and the land of the ancestors was uneasy, and the country would be uneasy. Then Zhuang Xi was transferred to the north, and the matter of pacification was not mentioned.

At the beginning of July, Zhuang Xi came home one after another, informing him that the pacification of the people in Fengtian had been effective, and he would return to Beijing in the near future to resume his life. In addition, the emperor has given a commendation to the emperor, and hereby informs the family.

The Zhuangfu Hefu heard the family letter and the news, and they were all happy. Dongfu is even more respectable because of the great lord's meritorious contributions to the imperial court, and his uncle Cha Shide has proposed to the Qin family many times that he should be celebrated. Therefore, on the festival of the seventh magpie bridge in early July, the Qin family made the east and invited the relatives of each prefecture to make a table to express a little celebration.

This congratulatory banquet can be described as a few joys and a few worries.

First of all, it is natural for Qin, Aunt Xi, Little Aunt, and Zhuanghu Juste and his wife to be happy, and the old lady is even more happy.

Secondly, the second, third, and fourth masters were secretly happy when they saw that their brother was becoming more and more capable.

Third, the lord of the inner family, the phoenix, and the aunt echoed, and they were also happy.

In the end, the Cao family and Uncle Zhuang were not happy. Because of the second master, the Cao family got the old lady's consent, and it was justifiable to admit the women from the old department of Huijiang into the mansion and add a stomach. Dongfu Uncle Zhuang was imprisoned, even if his father was favored by the imperial court, after all, he felt that he had nothing to do with him, and he quarreled with the Qin family all day long, and the Qin family was afraid that he would be bad again, so he would rather be locked up and not given out.

Moreover, Zhuang Ji was imprisoned, and the blue pond where Qinyuan lived was even more cold and bleak, and no one cared about it. This banquet was celebrated, and the three of them had a very bleak life.

The relationship inside, everyone in the house can't know the details, but Yu Qi is clear in his heart.

On the third day of the seventh month, Zhuang Yu and Zhuang Ying came to sit in the mirror flowers, enjoy paintings and poems, and talk about some homely things. Zhuang Yingai mentioned her mother Cao's family, which was to tell her mother that her stomach was uncomfortable. When he learned that the Cao family had not eaten much in recent days, and when Zhuang Yu and Zhuang Ying left, Yu Qi ordered Huiyuan and Sanxi to make a few dishes and send them over, in order to curry favor with the Cao family and avoid the prejudice formed in the old days.

In the south, there is a good girl named Zisu in Jinlan, she has a good cooking skill, and a kind of "earthy chicken" is very fragrant, in the old days, nobles went to her house, they all wanted to eat this dish she made. As everyone knows, this cuisine is transformed from Nanyue cuisine, the chicken is boiled in water for six or seven minutes, and then wrapped in banana leaves, which is filled with fat ginger, tender ginger, old ginger, core garlic, clove garlic, red dates, star anise, cinnamon, tangerine peel, hawthorn, horn orange, herbs and other spices; Then use the deep soil red mud paste on the outside of the banana leaves, soak in the deep well water for half a day, then put the fish into the urn and bury it overnight, dig an earthen kiln the next day, put the chicken of the soil wrapped in the banana leaves, then burn a big fire on the top, wait for a few hours, only dig out from the earthen kiln, start another soil kiln, burn the red soil with wood, and then put the original soil bag banana leaf chicken into it, and finally the burned mud is broken and covered, it will be unearthed after half an hour, and it will be such a plate of fresh and fragrant dishes.

It's a lot of work.

Zisu's dish was not self-created, but was taught to her by a centenarian. Every time she made this dish, she didn't want to visit anyone, so she asked Yu Qi to help. Therefore, Yu Qi knows the method of this dish. Today, I concocted this and sent it to the Cao family.

Unexpectedly, this dish is delicious, the food on the process is hot, because Cao's anger attacks the heart for days, after eating, not half a day, the mouth is dry and the eyes are red, the throat is sore and swollen, and he can't speak at night. Later, I asked a doctor to come for diagnosis and treatment, and I prescribed a prescription to eat.

The Cao family was originally grateful to Yu Qi, but because of this matter, he didn't want to see Yu Qi even more in his heart, even more so than before.

Huiyuan felt that it was not worth it, and sighed day and night: "Good heart and good lungs, wasting such a good dish, and being disliked by others." ”

Yu Qi didn't care when he heard it, but said: "Filial piety is over, God's will is like this, what can I do?" ”

She thought that she had good intentions to do bad things, but after all, she would bear it herself, and it didn't matter. But who knows, when such things are involved, where is her own face? The faces of the old lady and the county lord were put in it.

After thinking about it, I was too naïve and reckless, too ignorant.

Fortunately, Zhu'er knew and told the old lady that the old lady didn't know Cao's heart, so she asked Zhu'er to go to Beifu to inform Cao's that she intended to let Yu Qi bother to do it, and she wanted to feel sorry for Cao. Hearing this, Cao's heart was comfortable. The heart of hating Lu Qi is a little less, but there is a faint suspicion that Lu Qi is jealous of the old lady's affection for herself, and secretly put some poison to herself. In short, no matter how the old lady helped Yu Qi get away, it was not good.

After that, the county lord found out and called Yu Qi to Xifu, and he didn't speak to her very harshly. He mentioned it lightly, and roughly said: "The girl has such kindness, it is better to give it to the old lady." Some are good, but others may not see them as good. ”

Yu Qi was ashamed of himself, and he did such a thing privately, and it was rumored again. Not to mention that he didn't honor the old lady like this when he came to the house, and even the county lord who was a parent after the ceremony didn't have this treatment.

It can be seen that the county lord is uncomfortable in his heart.

The county lord said: "If you have less thoughts, you will naturally have fewer troubles, blindly thinking about who is good and who is not good, and you will be embarrassed all day long." ”

These words, the county lord not only accused Yu Qi of not behaving properly, but also scolded people like Cao.

After listening to this, Yu Qi's face was red and spicy.

The county lord ordered to the end, and wanted to hear what Yu Qi had to say, but fortunately, Yu Qi's temperament was stable, and he didn't say a word, and he humbly understood it.

Until the sixth day of the first month, when I went to the old lady to say goodbye, everyone didn't treat Yu Qi like they did every day. Inside, Yu Qi understands the reason. The sisters also tacitly understood that they were indifferent to each other, and they all had the estranged boundary of "knowing how to protect themselves".

When he returned to the mirror at night, Sanxi couldn't hold back his anger, and said angrily: "On weekdays, my sisters and sisters are affectionate, look at these faces, when there is something, they all seem to be hiding from the plague, and they don't know anyone with their eyes." ”

Huiyuan said: "It's not that serious, but everyone is embarrassed to say anything." The second wife was always present. ”

Yu Qi sat coldly, not caring about these. In fact, there is not much in the day, the girls are not as enthusiastic as before, and they are just dodging a little bit intentionally or unintentionally.

Sanxi said again: "Who knows which one will say anything bad about our girl." Don't get a bad name for poisoning. ”

Yu Qi listened to Sanxi's words and said, "The head is on someone else's neck, and the mouth is on someone else's teeth." You are shaking your head and chewing your tongue, which is worse than poisoning. It's so unhappy at this time, it's better to go to sleep happily, and it's your own to sleep well. ”

As soon as the words stopped, Sanxi smiled, grabbed Huiyuan and said, "Look, this is my girl." It's back again. ”

On the seventh day of the first month, everyone in Hefu went to the East Mansion to have a banquet, and all joys were in the same cup, and the scene of bliss was not mentioned. On that day, because of this, Yu Qi was not welcomed in the past few days, so he went lightly, entered the table lightly, and responded to the façade. When the banquet was about to disperse that day, Yu Qi left the banquet abruptly, and the others didn't notice it, only to see her master and servant come out of the Dongfu banquet hall.

Yu Qi didn't want to go back at the moment, and she was lonely and sad and remembered a person who was sympathetic, and that was Bichi. was about to go over there, but unexpectedly, Zhuang Jue came out with him for no reason, and twisted her vigorously, insisting on giving her a baby.