There has always been a big court meeting on New Year's Day, and the big court meeting on Zhengdan Day is the most important, so Chen Jiu, the Marquis of Yangning, didn't sleep at all this night, and went out to go to the court before dawn. The ladies of the family also went to the palace early in the morning to pay respects to the queen according to their makeup. Although the queen has no children, the emperor and queen have respected each other for many years, and no matter how favored the other concubines are, they can't go beyond the mother of the country after all. And the rest of the young masters and young ladies can rarely sleep lazy, after all, last night's Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone was tired.

Chen Lan tossed and turned last night, and he didn't know how long it took before he fell asleep, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he knew that it was already three quarters of the morning. Hurriedly got up and dressed, and learned that the Zhu family and Mrs. Ma, who had entered the palace to pay respects, had not yet returned, she couldn't help but think in her heart, last night Hongluo said that only a few elders knew about it, and it should not happen in the first two days of the first month, but there is a way to plan things in people, and things are in the sky, and no one knows how to do it until the end. Thinking about it, she didn't notice that Yun'er brought Su Mu and Pepper to carry the food box to set the meal.

The Chen family pays attention to health dieting and chewing slowly, and it is more important not to get tired of eating, so even if it is breakfast, it is full of tricks. Today it is fish fillet porridge and red bean porridge, and the side dishes of the porridge are shredded radish, pickled cucumber, fragrant dried bean skin and plum peanuts, and then there are eight treasure steamed buns, stuffed steamed buns, steamed rolls, and jujube cakes.

Yun'er muttered while arranging: "It's just that in the past few days, seeing the old lady taking care of the young lady, they are more attentive, don't say everything in the past, and even dare to send the half-cold porridge here." ”

If it was a normal day, Chen Lan would have passed with an indifferent smile, but thinking of last night's words, she still didn't understand where Zhu's sudden favor came from. If what Zheng's mother said to that person was true, it can be seen that the Zhu family knew about the second uncle Chen Jiu's tricks in advance, and was even planning to change the title of the family.

It must be known that according to the rules of this dynasty, if it is not a great rebellion, after I take the title for sin, the title can also be inherited by my son or brother, and it depends on the emperor's mood. If it is true that the Zhu family and the Empress Dowager are cousins, then no matter what crime Chen Jiu committed, the title of Marquis of Yangning will definitely be kept, but whether he will be replaced is in the palm of the Zhu family.

She didn't like the feeling of being calculated, but she was now a thirteen-year-old girl raised in a deep boudoir without parental support, if she couldn't rely on that old lady, she and Chen Yan would have to be devoured alive by life. However, the Zhu family has a daughter and granddaughter as an assistant, but she and Chen Yan do not. She only inquired about the attack a few days ago, before the age of fifteen, there was only one prince of the Wenzong Dynasty, or because his father died in battle, he attacked the lord in a special case, such as Chen Yan's age, and his father is a guilty person who seized the office, it is almost impossible to do it. If that's the case, at this time, the old lady picks the head of the long house, then it will inevitably become a target.

After Yun'er commanded the little girls to withdraw the small dining table, she sat at the desk, but she couldn't read the book, and finally couldn't stand up, ready to go to Chen Yan's place, and then tell this younger brother well. Before she could give the order, the curtain was suddenly slammed open. Yun'er, who came in, didn't have time to take a breath, so she hurriedly rushed in front of her.

"Miss, Miss, Aunt Luo is back! It's the Aunt Luo in the third room! ”

Chen Lan was stunned, she didn't pay much attention to the aunts with many names in the family, but when Yun'er shouted again that it was Aunt Luo in the third room, she immediately remembered.

According to the usual practice, the military attache was stationed outside with the army, and the main room and children naturally needed to stay in the capital, but the concubines and so on were not in this case. The imperial court also knew that it was against heaven and earth that husband and wife had been separated from each other for many years, so they even encouraged military attachés to take concubines on the spot.

And the same is true of Chen Ying, Mrs. Xu is not a wife, but a continuation, this Aunt Luo was married in the south after the death of his wife, there were three media and six hires, and there was a princess of Weiguo married, treated as a wife, who knew that Chen Ying did not report to the family, and at that time the Zhu family had hired his niece Guangning Bo Xu's three daughters as his wife, so Chen Ying returned to Beijing for a while for this matter, and finally under the persuasion of many elders, Fang was extremely reluctant to correct the status of wife and concubine.

However, after all, Aunt Luo is a distant relative of the Zhennan general Wei Guogong, and now she has to live in the side room, in order to appease Chen Ying, the Zhu family treats the three children born to Aunt Luo very close, Chen Xi is the same as Miss Yan no matter what, Chen Qing and Chen Han brothers love martial arts, so they invited additional martial artists to teach, and followed with four generals. As for Aunt Luo, there are also benefits of not being in the main room, and after returning to Beijing, she followed Chen Ying to her post not long after, and no one can care about how others call her outside.

Therefore, Chen Lan instinctively thought of the things he heard last night, and his heart tightened at first, and then he pretended to be curious and asked, "Isn't Aunt Luo still in office with the third uncle?" Why did you come back all of a sudden? ”

As soon as Yun'er heard Chen Lan's question, she suddenly became more energetic, and casually drove out the two third-class girls serving in the house, and then said, "Miss, I have inquired, the third master is still in office, but I heard that he will be back in a few months." This time, Aunt Luo came back with Wei Guogong, because Wei Guogong was transferred back, and the third master was also going to be promoted, so she was very likely to come back to help with the dots. This is all said by Aunt Luo's girl Magpie, she was my playmate when I was a child, so I am willing to say these things to me, and others definitely don't know about it. ”

"You ghost girl, not only has a fast mouth, but also ears are faster than others!"

Although Chen Lan felt that Yun'er was too drilly, her mouth was unforgiving, and she was even wary of people scurrying in front of Chen Yan, she had to admit that such a girl who could fight with her face and pull down her face to inquire was still extremely useful. Therefore, this matter is a matter of this matter, she had to praise Yun'er twice, but she told her to be careful when inquiring about this kind of thing, and not to spread the word outside.

Yun'er was full of promises, and said with a smile: "Miss, don't worry, it's not the first time for me, how can it be so easy to grab a handle?" It's easy for us to live in a long house, and I'll never get into trouble! ”

Although it is not the main room, but Aunt Luo is different from ordinary concubines after all, and as soon as Zhu and Mrs. Ma and Mrs. Xu came back, she went to the Tatexiang Courtyard to say hello, and at the same time sent gifts to each room. Sent to the Splendid Pavilion was a woven carpet, a pair of jade pendants, four silver knick-knacks, and a package of medicinal herbs, except for the woven carpet, which was held in a carved lacquered camphor wooden box. In less than an hour, Yun'er inquired about the news, saying that the etiquette of several young ladies is the same, the etiquette of several young masters is the same, and Mrs. Ma in the second room and Mrs. Xu, the serious housewife in the third room, are also exactly the same thing, and there is no intention of favoring one over the other.

Although Chen Lan was a little curious about this Aunt Luo, she was not a proper wife, although she was suspicious in her heart, she could only suppress her curiosity for the time being, and just asked Qin Fang to invite Chen Yan over. Chen Yanzheng, who got a burmese inkstone, was so happy that as soon as he sat down, he praised the sharpness of the Burmese knife, and finally sighed reluctantly

"It's a pity that the Burmese knife was only in hand, so the old lady sent someone, saying that it was stored in the treasury, and that she could give it to me when I was older. The third aunt is usually the most stingy, where is like Aunt Luo, who is cool and generous. ”

Although children often only look at the surface of people, Chen Yan, who can make people big, give such a comment, Chen Lan has to feel that this Aunt Luo is really a character. However, she had other things to do now, and the words she heard last night were like a sharp thorn in her heart. Therefore, looking for an excuse to send Yun'er out of the house, she glanced at the red snail again, and asked people to guard outside, so she pulled Chen Yan to sit down on the warm kang.

"Do you remember what I told you the other day?"

"Remember, sister, I know, isn't it just flattering and flattering in front of the old lady, don't fight with people outside?" Chen Yan spread his hands indifferently, and said with a smile, "But that day, my brother Li Zheng took me to the backstreet to play, and I saw a few old generals who had fought with my grandfather before, and they all had a hard time haha." Although it is not enough to eat the last meal and not the next meal, they used to be the first to eat everything, but now it is much worse than before. Li Zheng kept muttering to me about twenty years of Hedong and twenty years of Hexi, and thought I didn't know what he meant. ”

Chen Lan vaguely remembered that there had been no war for more than ten years now, so when she heard Chen Yan talk about those old generals, she couldn't help but think about it in her heart, and had some vague thoughts, so she asked: "Those people don't have children to work in the house?" ”

Chen Yan didn't expect Chen Lan to ask so carefully, and he frowned on the edge of the kang table and thought about it. Before he could come up with an ugly man, the voice of the red snail came from outside: "Third Miss, Fourth Young Master, Aunt Luo is here!" ”

Hearing this, Chen Yan immediately jumped off the ground with his legs stretched, and Chen Lan was also stunned. She is very curious about Aunt Luo, but the Hou Mansion has its own rules of the Hou Mansion, since the husband and wife of the long house have died one after another, the aunt has been sent away by the Zhu family, and there are several aunts in the second and third rooms, but she has not seen any of them in the past month or so, which shows the strictness of this wife and concubine. Even if it was because Aunt Luo was a relative of Wei Guogong, she became a side room by mistake, but the Zhu family was the most disciplined person, and Mrs. Xu was also harsh, how could she watch her walk around the mansion like this?

While he was thinking, the red snail was already leading people into the western room of this warm pavilion. I saw that the woman behind her was about her early thirties, wearing a peach-colored makeup silk placket jacket, a white gauze thread woven gold skirt, and a jasper hairpin obliquely inserted on her sideburns.

"I just came back, and I heard that the third lady was not in good health a few days ago, so I reported that the old lady came to take a look."

Aunt Luo's voice was also low and beautiful, and the etiquette was also thoughtful, Chen Lan hurriedly pulled Chen Yan to see it. When she got to the seat, she saw that Aunt Luo took the initiative to sit on the first chair on her right hand and insisted on refusing to go on the kang, and she couldn't help but feel that this was a very shrewd person. After a few words, Hongluo personally brought the tea up, Aunt Luo thanked her, and then smiled at Chen Lan: "Hurry up all the way, but it turned out to be today, don't say it's me, even Wei Guogong is not annoyed." Just before the Chinese New Year, my cousin had just entered the concubine, and Weiguo Gongyuan was still thinking about asking for a meeting on New Year's Day, but now he can only wait for the Lantern Festival. ”

Chen Yan is still young, but Chen Lan has tasted a bit of the deep meaning. Aunt Luo only sat for a quarter of an hour before leaving, but the message she left behind was much more than that.

Her third uncle, I'm afraid that this time I will not be an ordinary high promotion!

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