The warm winter sun shines in the spacious courtyard without hesitation, and it also shines into the room through the thick layer of Korean paper between the panes, giving the dim room a little more warmth. Chen Lan, who was lying on the bed, was covered with a thick brocade quilt, his eyes sometimes glanced at the stone blue embroidered flower gauze tent on the side, and sometimes looked at the roof. At this moment, the whispers outside also floated in through the layer of Korean paper, but because the sound was extremely small, it was impossible to distinguish it.

But after a while, those low voices were shaken away by a stern reprimand: "When is it, there is nothing else to do if the snake and scorpion are still muttering?" ”

As the courtyard fell silent all of a sudden, there was a sound of footsteps and talking outside, as if a group of people had entered. Chen Lan glanced at the girl who was sitting on the small pestle on the side, dozing off little by little, and wanted to open her mouth, but in the end she didn't make a sound. After a while, she heard the curtain of the door, followed by a cough, so she simply closed her eyes and pretended to sleep.

"Ah, wish Mom!"

The girl who was guarding the bedside woke up with a spirit, and was startled when she saw the person coming, and hurriedly saluted when she screamed, but knocked over the little pestle in a panic. Seeing this scene, Zhu's mother, who was the first to start, finally couldn't help it, and scolded angrily: "It looks like she is guarding the third lady, but she actually sleeps by herself, and she is so careless, with you serving like this?" ”

Hearing that the voice was getting higher and higher, Chen Lan turned his body slightly. Sure enough, an unhurried voice sounded next to him.

"Zhu family, the girl in the third lady's room, you should be outside if you want to teach, there is no reason to disturb the third miss."

Hearing this, the high-pitched voice was cut off at once. Chen Lan opened her eyes and saw a smiling face leaning over, and she frowned slightly when she said something earnestly. At this time, the girl who had been scolded just now with red eyes hurriedly stepped forward, helped her up carefully, and put a half-old ink silk face pillow behind her.

After looking at Chen Lan, the mother Zhu retreated, and said with a smile: "Third Miss, the old lady asked Mother Zheng to see that you are here." ”

At this time, an older woman stepped forward. I saw that her sideburns mixed with a lot of silver threads were neat, with only a silver hairpin inserted in her hair, and she was wearing a lotus-blue cardigan robe and a pine-colored armor. Such an extremely simple dress is more dignified than Mother Zhu, who wears a gold bracelet on her wrist and a beaded hairpin on her head, lest her satin clothes are not straight enough.

"Third Miss is better?"

After what happened three days ago, Chen Lan finally got rid of his helplessness and disappointment, and reluctantly accepted the current environment. She used to be an extremely adaptable person, so the company's CEO has changed several times, but her position has been steadily improved. However, the current situation and the change of boss are two different things, so she has to come up with the most appropriate excuse.

"It's better, thank you Mama Zheng for coming to see me. Only occasionally do I have a headache and my head is a little confused. ”

"Still have a headache?" Mother Zheng was a little stunned, then turned around and glared at the person next to her, "The old lady sent someone to ask three times and twice, you all said that the person woke up and everything was fine, why did the third lady still say that she had a headache?" The fourth young master is still young, are you also confused? Even if others are confused, you should know what happened to the family, the second lady has sent you to see it several times, why don't you know the return, how can you be so sloppy! ”

Chen Lan sat with his back against the pillow, seeing that Zhu's mother was just agreeing with her eyes down, but the corners of her mouth were curled, who didn't know that this person was just unconvinced. Her memory is still a little confused now, she remembers the two faces, and the title also has an impression, at this time she remembered that one was the old lady's confidant, and the other was the second lady's person, although they came together, it was not all the way, so she simply kept silent. After Zheng's mother finished training, she saw that everyone was silent, so she slowed down her voice: "Third Miss, the old lady has something to ask you." ”

Listening to this, although Zhu Mother was extremely reluctant, she still took the little girl who came with her to retreat, and the girl in the original room hurriedly moved Jindun to let Zheng's mother sit down. At this time, Zheng's mother changed her face to a look of concern.

Mother Zheng looked at Chen Lan for a while, and then sighed: "Third Miss, the Marquis of Dongchang's family sent people to apologize again and again, but there were many people at that time, and it was difficult to tell whose young lady and young master pushed it, so you can only be wronged." It's just that now the princes and uncles in the capital know that the third lady of our Yangning Hou Mansion loves her younger brother, and she is already bleeding, and she forced her younger brother to go ashore first. It's just that it's a good thing that sisters and brothers have a deep relationship, but this time if you are injured, the fourth young master won't even go to school, which is always bad. The young masters are all older, and some time ago, the second lady and the third lady also said to the old lady that they plan to find a good life, except for the sixth young master, the other young masters have moved to the outer courtyard. ”

Chen Lan was silent for a long time, and then nodded: "I understand what you said, thank you to the old lady when I go back." ”

"I know that the third lady is the most reasonable. Also, the subordinates have to be more strictly restrained, just now those little girls outside are like three-legged cats, they only know how to gossip, but they are not reliable in doing things. It was Qin Fang who was guarding the house just now, right? The big girl of the 14th Five-Year Plan, she is still so hairy, how can she care about those little girls? It's better to ask the old lady for a good call, first, to use it handy, second, to deter others, and third, to take care of you. ”

How to skillfully stuff people in, this kind of trick Chen Lan, who has been in the workplace for a long time, naturally understands, so the slight smile on his face has not changed at all, but he nodded more obediently: "Well, thank you for reminding me." ”

Mother Zheng nodded with satisfaction, but did not stop there, but gave Chen Lan another advice. Chen Lan was worried that he was in front of him now, nodded and echoed from time to time, and made an appearance of listening to the lecture with an open mind, and naturally dug up a lot of news and received a lot of kind reminders. After Zheng's mother personally served her to sleep and left with a large number of people, she faced inside and pondered.

If she comes, she is already a person who has died once, what else is there that she can't accept? Besides, even if she opposes it, even if she fights, can she return to the environment she is familiar with? In the past, she was poor and white, but now she has fallen in this pickled place that looks like a flower, and she can't accept her fate!

clenched her fists slightly, and she took advantage of Zheng's mother's words to recall the clues she had sorted out in the past few days. Now it is the Yongxi period of the Chu Dynasty, as for what is going on in the Chu Dynasty and what the territory is, she has to try to turn over the history books when she goes back, because she never remembers that there was such a dynasty in Chinese history.

This is the Jingshi of Da Chu, and the street where the house she lives in is called Yangning Street, which is named after her grandfather, Yangning Hou Chen Yong. Grandfather Chen Yong was originally just Yang Ningbo, but he followed Emperor Wuzong to overthrow the abolished emperor's country and sit in the world, and then rewarded him for meritorious deeds, so he entered the Marquis of Yangning.

Only Chen Yong's military achievements are impressive, and his kung fu in hunting for beauty is also famous, after marrying the main room, because he is out of town all the year round, the concubines in one room are not counted in the house, and the family is even more raised by dozens, and they are famous among the lords and nobles of the entire Beijing Division. Not only that, but he is even more famous for going through five dynasties, being convicted several times, and rising and falling back several times, and has always stood still, all the way to the age of eighty-eight.

However, although there are many women around him, the Yuan family died early, and no children were left, but the successor Zhu only had one concubine, and the remaining ones grew up smoothly only three concubines, in addition to several married concubines.

Changfang, that is, her father Chen Wei was awarded the honor guard in his early years, but he was repeatedly impeached by the imperial history because of his careless behavior, so after his father's funeral, those mistakes were shaken out, and the title that he should have inherited according to the eldest child fell into the second room, so he became more reckless and reckless, and even the post of the guard was dismissed, and he died three years ago. His wife, Fang, died earlier, leaving only Chen Lan and Chen Yan with a son and a daughter. Chen Lan is now thirteen years old, and Chen Yan is eleven years old.

The second room is her second uncle Chen Jiu, who is about to be satisfied after inheriting the title, and does not care about receiving idle jobs, has no children under his knees, marries his wife Ma, and the only concubine died of illness a year ago, only one and one two daughters, Chen Bing and Chen Yun.

As for the three-bedroom ...... Her third uncle, Chen Ying, had a military career in the army at an early age, and was promoted from Qianhu all the way to the commander, and now he is guarding southern Xinjiang with the army. I heard that it is a wide range of friends, and it has a reputation for righteousness outside. On top of women, he is even more fatherly, and he has never been less than a woman for many years. Now, Aunt Luo is with him in southern Xinjiang, and Mrs. Xu, the main room after the death of Yuan Pei, and the rest of the aunts and children are in the capital. Mrs. Xu's eldest son, Chen Quan, died when he was six years old, and now his youngest son, Chen Ting, is the sixth and only three years old. Aunt Luo gave birth to her daughter Chen Xi and son Chen Qing and Chen Han. There are also two concubines.

In any case, she and Chen Yan, a pair of sisters and brothers, are the most pitiful, lonely sisters and weak brothers, although they have grandmothers above, they are not relatives, and they don't know how they survived these many years. Moreover, if she is not "mistaken", she seemed to be a dough-like person in the past, so the big girl Ru Qinfang brought out is also a submissive character. is about a moment of silence, but Chen Yan is impulsive and irritable, otherwise he would not have made trouble with people when he went to be a guest.

While he was thinking, there was a rush of footsteps outside.

"Sister, sister, I'm back!"