Because of suspicion, when the couple went to bed and returned to the room after serving the Jiang family on this day, Chen Lan poured out all these messages during the day to her husband. Jiang's main bed and the couple's courtyard were only separated by a xiǎo road dozens of paces away, and at this moment, the sound of footsteps behind them was almost inaudible, only the rustle of their thin soles on the gravel road. Chen Lan only felt that his hand was tightly held by Yang Jinzhou, but when he saw that his well-defined face was full of solemnity, he looked sideways for a while.

"Did you mention it to Ji Xi?"

"Not yet! The others haven't come back yet, and besides, I'd like to hear your thoughts first. Chen Lan felt that his palms were a little greasy, so Suo Xìng broke free of his hand, but grabbed his arm, "If it's just him, I'll just go and say hello to Luo Shizi directly." But since there are more than ten or twenty a day today, there is no need to say something about this, and Luo Shizi will feel that something is wrong when he thinks about it. I'm just afraid that if this situation provokes ......"

"We big men are here, you don't have to worry!" When he said this, Yang Jinzhou's eyes were full of blazing light, and then he said lightly, "You and Xiao Shizi can hold up to that first, let alone now." When it came to this, we had already prepared for it. Lan Lan, borrow me your princess sword tomorrow. "Huh? ”

Chen Lan only felt a throbbing in her heart, but when she met the deep-nosed eyes, the question she had on her lips finally swallowed. If it is the government situation, Yang Jinzhou, who can say it, will not avoid her, but if it is military affairs, "Even if she opens her mouth, what can she ask and intervene?" So," she nodded lightly after taking a deep breath.

"Since you want to bring Niang's sword, then bring xiǎo Ding and xiǎo Wu together." Seeing that Yang Jin frowned as if she wanted to refuse, she lowered her face and said, "I have a long dysprosium red tassel here, plus those generals outside, and Steward Zheng." At worst, Boss Mu is also very familiar with the land in the south of the Yangtze River, and he is not afraid that no one will call him. You take them with you, and my mother and I are all settled. ”

"You!"

Yang Jinzhou couldn't help but stretch out his hand to róu róu Chen Lan's smooth forehead, as if he was worried that there would be wrinkles on his head early, and then nodded and said: "Okay, I'll bring the two of them, after all, it's the eldest princess who gave it to you" It should be good to be improvised...... By the way, I suddenly remembered one thing, go outside first, you go back to your room first, and I'll be back in a while. ”

Seeing that Chen Lan hesitated for a moment, he agreed, and after a while, Aunt Liu and Hongluo Changdi, who were accompanying her, followed her and gradually moved away" Yang Jinzhou turned around and walked straight out. It wasn't until he came out of Ermén that he immediately summoned a xiǎo to give an order, and then immediately turned around and went to Ertang. A short time after he sat down, a burly figure lifted the mén curtain and entered the room.

"Your Excellency, you're looking for me." ”

"Tomorrow you stay."

Hearing this, Qin Hu's eyes widened suddenly, and he instinctively asked, "But, didn't the Lord say before that I would go with you?" Although there are people left by the eldest princess back then, but in the blink of an eye, several years have passed, "there must be a ...... in case"

"Where did you get so many just in case?" Seeing Qin Hu staring at him, his face was full of disapproval, "Yang Jinzhou didn't bother to say more to this big guy, and immediately ordered in a deep voice, "This is a military order, not to discuss with you!" Tomorrow xiǎo Ding and xiǎo Wu will go with me, and I will bring a few more people, so the rest of the people in the General Military Mansion will be under your control, and you will take care of this place for me. ”

"Your Excellency!" Qin Hu was a little anxious all of a sudden, "How can you say that there is still a guard in this Nanjing City, he has already put on a posture before, and he will definitely not stand idly by, but you, with those few local generals leading the horses, God knows if he will encounter what happened when we returned." If you really want to keep me at home, or you can't tell Xiao Shizi or Luo Shizi to accompany you, otherwise, ......"

"Don't be wordy" You didn't talk that much before! Yang Jinzhou looked at Qin Hu with a solemn face, "They have their affairs, and I have my tasks." Right now, you should go back and prepare immediately, and if you are not at ease, you will choose all the strong generals for me. Don't think that staying behind will have nothing to do, don't forget that Deng Ji is still in custody in the General Military Mansion, if he has something to do with three long and two short, even if my trip is done, it will definitely not be successful! ”

Qin Hu clenched his fists and wanted to defend, but finally lost in that cold gaze, knelt down on one knee and gave a military salute in frustration, and then withdrew from the room without saying a word. As soon as he left, Yang Jinzhou sat for a while and then got up and walked out of the study, and when he went out along the moon, he turned straight to the west, and there was still a long distance from the courtyard."

"It's you who play chess, and it's you who regret chess" How can you play like this! ”

"Don't worry, don't worry, playing chess to calm down, what's the matter with your hurry?"

"You...... No more! ”

Hearing these two familiar voices, Yang Jinzhou couldn't help but stop and stay, until a person inside came out of the courtyard in a rage, and he walked two slow steps to meet him. Sure enough, I saw that after Xiao Lang saw him, his hurried and fast steps slowed down all of a sudden, and he looked behind him before walking towards him.

"Brother Yang, this is ...... here"

"I have something I want to discuss with you."

Seeing that Yang Jinzhou was not here to find King Jing or to find himself, the frost on Xiao Lang's face immediately melted, and as soon as he sank, he said: "This is not the place to talk, let's go back to the room and talk." ”

After talking a few words, the two of them walked in the other direction, and at the entrance of the courtyard, a sneaky person who poked his head out to look quickly retracted his head, ran back to the room with a smoke, and tiptoed behind King Jing to stop: "Your Highness, it was Lord Yang who found Xiao Shizi, and I don't know what to discuss." He's too, and he doesn't say hello to you......"

"Palm!"

King Jing, who was holding the chess piece in one hand, didn't say a word back, and after only a moment of hard work behind him, there was a loud slap behind him, and he said casually, "If you let me hear this kind of bastard again in the future, you don't have to stay by my side any longer!" Remember your duty, what to say and what not to say! ”

When the eunuch heard this, he was silent, and knelt down and kowtowed to the swollen old cheeks, and he should have "left the room with his head down without saying a word." As soon as he left, another middle-aged eunuch who was waiting on the side coughed lightly, and when he was about to apologize, he saw that King Jing had already dropped the sunspot on the chessboard, and then clapped his hands and stood up. Frightened by this sudden action, he immediately closed his mouth cautiously.

"Go outside and say casually, just say that the capital is coming, and this king will return to Beijing in ten days."

"Huh?" The middle-aged eunuch's eyes widened suddenly, and he instinctively asked, "Your Highness, didn't you say ......,... before?"

"Don't you understand what this king says?"

"Yes, yes, xiǎo's will do it, this will do it, and it will definitely let those people know about it."

King Jing nodded with satisfaction, "When the middle-aged eunuch also left, he moved to the back of the bookcase on the side, opened a wooden box at the head of the case with a key, and took out a book inside." Flipping through the pages of the yellowed paper, he suddenly snorted angrily.

"This old eunuch" joked with him and he took it seriously, saying that this ghost drew a talisman and thought that this king was a pedantic celestial? ”

Angrily putting things aside, he took out another letter with a precious heart. Compared with the inconvenient royal flag, this light and fluttering codex has a lot more meaning. But he weighed the weight, "but for a long time he did not open the envelope and take out the contents," but freed up all the other letters in it, and "pressed them to the bottom."

"I hope there won't be a useful opportunity, otherwise things are really going to make a big fuss...... Chen Lan, who returned to the room, packed up everything and went to bed, originally planning to wait for Yang Jinzhou to come back, but in a daze, she also heard movement around her, but her eyelids just couldn't open them, and in the end, even that little bit of sober consciousness was gone. It wasn't until one turned over and vaguely noticed that there was nothing around her that she woke up suddenly, and then she realized that there was a rare sweet fragrance in the room.

She has always been a person who uses less spices, and she uses lily incense at most on weekdays, but like those spices that help her sleep, she used them for her grandmother Zhu when she was in the Yangning Hou Mansion, so where could she not smell them? Thinking of the situation last night when she couldn't even open her eyes, she couldn't help but sink her heart, and then immediately shouted: "Someone! After a while, someone reached out and opened the tent, and it was the red snail. I saw that after she hung the tent on the silver hook with one hand, she bent down and poked her head in: "Madame is awake?" The lord went out early in the morning, and specially ordered a few of us to wait outside, so as not to disturb the lady. ”

Chen Lan's Shen face softened a little under Hongluo's explanation, but he still didn't let go. Sure enough, the next moment, Hongluo frowned and sniffed, and finally said in a low voice: "Madam, this incense seems to be a calming incense commonly used by the old ladies of the Hou Mansion in the past, and it is the most calming and invigorating to promote sleep?" It is by virtue of this that the old lady has been able to sleep at least three hours a day over the years. ”

Knowing that Hongluo was careful and served the Zhu family in the past, Chen Lan also nodded lightly, and was silent for a while before asking, "When did Shuquan leave?" How many people did you bring with you, what did you do before leaving, did your mother have anyone there? ”

"The lord came out of the mén at midnight, and only ordered not to be disturbed, and said nothing else. However, Changdi came to speak before, saying that Xiǎo Ding and Xiǎo Wu left with the master, and the sword on Hongying's body seemed to be brought with the master. As for the old lady's room, there was no other movement, only Mother Zhuang said as usual, saying that there was no need to wake you up because of the morning province. ”

Knowing that Yang Jinzhou had brought the Sword of Heaven that Hongying had kept, and that Xiǎo Ding and Xiǎo Wu had also followed him, Chen Lan couldn't help but feel a little relieved. However, after getting up and washing, when she was dressing up in front of the dressing table, she only heard a noise outside, and then a person slammed into the mén curtain and rushed in. She originally thought that Yun'er, who was coming towards the storm, but she couldn't help but be a little surprised when she saw through the glass mirror that it was Changdi. And Changdi's next sentence immediately made her ignore the half-combed bun and stand up suddenly.

"Madam, just now I went to the front yard to talk to the other two family members who came out of the eldest princess's mansion like us, but I happened to see the tiger master. I felt strange, so I asked him why he didn't follow the master, but he said sullenly that the master told him to stay at home, but when I asked him why, he refused to say. Something really wasn't right, so I was back in a hurry! ”

Yang Jinzhou used sweet incense to let her sleep well all night, and quietly left with the princess sword and xiǎo Ding xiǎo Wu early in the morning, but left Qin Hu behind, what is going on?

Chen Lan took a deep breath and calmed down, then looked at Changdi and ordered: "Go and ask Ah Hu to wait in the xiǎohuā hall, and I will go to see him immediately......,... Wait, see Hongying, whatever she's doing, let her come over first. ”

Seeing that Changdi agreed and immediately ran out, Chen Lan asked Hongluo to simply put his hair in a bun, and told him to stay in the house, and if there was anything in the Jiang family, he would prevaricate for the time being. When the red tassel entered the mén, she called out of the mén without saying a word. Walking on the bluestone road, she had to whisper about Yang Jinzhou asking for something in the morning.

"Madame ordered it last night, so if the master wants it, I will give it to him immediately." Although Hongying didn't know what was going on, she couldn't see that Chen Lan's face was not so good-looking, she tried her best to recall the situation at the time, and after a pause, she couldn't help but gently close her palms" "By the way, there is another case, the master specially mentioned it, saying that it was for me and Changdi to stay away from Mrs. for the past two days, if there are any messy people who go to mén to climb relatives and friends, etc., they will all block the car first and say" Just say it is his words "Mrs. is not in good health, she is tired these days, and she must recuperate well." ”

Hearing this, Chen Lan no longer knew whether to lament Yang Jinzhou's thoughtful arrangement that lived up to his name, or to be annoyed that he had left her no room to question this time. However, when things came to this point, she could only put these aside for the time being, and stayed in the xiǎohuā hall, when she saw Qin Hu jumping up from his seat all of a sudden, and bowing his head in a hurry, she nodded at him, and after sitting down, she ordered him to sit down.

"Ah Hu, where did Uncle Quan go today?"

Qin Hu was originally a person with solid eyes, although he arrived here a quarter of an hour earlier, and he also had a lot of rhetoric in his heart, but at this moment, he was smashed by this straightforward question, and his preparations immediately came to naught, and he hesitated for a long time, and finally sighed in frustration under Chen Lan's direct gaze.

"Madam, my lord won't let me speak." He didn't dare to look up at Chen Lan's eyes at all, so he only said to himself, "My lord instructed me before leaving, saying that I should transfer all the generals of the family, together with the dozens of relatives who originally existed in the General Ping Mansion, as well as the servants of His Royal Highness King Jing's * son Luo Shizi, you must see this place as if it were an iron bucket." The lord said that if Madame had anything to say, I would wait for him to come back and explain it, and I was not allowed to reveal half a word casually, otherwise I would be served by military law when I returned. ”

Chen Lan originally thought that Qin Hu was honest, as long as he got the law, he would always be able to ask the truth, who knew that Yang Jinzhou thought of it in advance and blocked this road for her first. At this moment, although she was still quite angry in her heart, since she couldn't ask anything, she didn't want to force Qin Hu, a simple man, to beat around the bush anymore, so she said after a little thought: "That's the case, the outer courtyard is all for you." In addition to those pro-soldiers and family members, even mén zi xiǎo and so on are also at your disposal, if there is anything else, you can also ask people to go to Steward Zheng and Boss Mu to spread the word. There is only one way, no matter what happens outside, give me a word, and don't hide it from me.

"Yes, yes, Madame, rest assured."

Qin Hu, who had passed this level, breathed a sigh of relief and agreed repeatedly. When they came out together, he personally escorted Chen Lan to Ermén, and when he saw that Changdi was several steps behind, he suddenly coughed. Sure enough, the next moment, the man quietly flashed over, but when he got closer, he looked him up and down with a smile, and then snorted softly.

"Master Tiger is getting more and more horizontal now, even if he is hesitant in front of me, he doesn't even have a word in front of his wife, and he prevaricates vigorously! What do I have to say at this time, so mysterious! If I were to give a message to any sister or sister, I wouldn't have that effort, and if I offended my wife, no one would pay attention to you! Qin Hu was dumbfounded by Changdi's cannon-like words, and after a while, he scratched his head embarrassedly and said: "I didn't mean that, it was really an adult who gave a strict order, I didn't dare to disobey the order, at that time, it wasn't a military stick that could be passed, maybe the adult kicked me somewhere else...... Girl, don't scold me, just rely on me as a rough man, you don't always help me sew and mend my clothes on weekdays" Where do you really like me? Ahem, I didn't dare to say it in front of Mrs. just now, the master will go for a day or two, and the old lady will not be sure, you must persuade Madame, don't go outside, just recuperate in the house, and the old lady is the same. ”

"Madame's business, where is we in charge!" Changdi glanced at Qin Hu obliquely, and when she saw that he sneered, she was holding on to the wall with one hand and making a difficulty, so she stopped playing with this stupid big man, stretched out her hand and shook it in front of him, and then said seriously, "Don't worry, I and Hongying know this matter, and we must pay attention to it when we look back." It's what you just said, I have to remind you, the four of us who follow Mrs., I and Hongying's needlework are just improvising, Yun'er is the most reluctant to do this, only Hongluo is careful, so most of your work is done by her, don't forget to thank the people when you go back. You don't know how to dress all day long, and it takes twice as much work to mend your clothes as you do for them! Leaving these words, she didn't look at Qin Hu, who was stunned, and turned around and walked straight inside. Her footsteps were fast, and it didn't take long for her to catch up with Chen Lan and Hongying. She followed behind step by step, originally wanting to report after entering the house, but Chen Lan suddenly asked without looking back: "It's rare for a person as sincere and thoughtful as Ah Hu to play tricks, did you tell you to watch me carefully again and don't let me run outside?" ”

"Huh?" , Changdi was stunned for a moment, and then smiled and took two steps in parallel with the red tassel, "How does Madam know, you are really a god...... ",......"

"What kind of god, Hongying just said that Uncle Quan told her again when he left, but it turned out that the two of them were really the same mind, and he babbled to leave you for this."

Chen Lan was angry and funny, but seeing that she was about to arrive at the Jiang family's courtyard, she didn't say anything more, and only warned the two of them to be cautious in front of the Jiang family. However, when she entered the house and saw that Jiang was teasing Jun'er and reciting poems, and she didn't even notice her entering the house, her mother's initial worry gradually let go.

Although Jun'er is sensible, she has never had much free time, and she has very little time with him, but Jiang often takes him to read, write, and practice the piano, treating him like a grandson. Thanks to having such a child, the loneliness of the Jiang family was relieved and her mother-in-law was distracted, otherwise many things would not have been hidden.

After reciting a poem, Jiang noticed that Chen Lan had come. Seeing Chen Lan come forward to salute, she pulled someone to sit down beside her, and after Jun'er was serious, she sensibly followed Zhuang's mother out of the mén, and she used her eyes to support a few girls out of the mén, and then said in a low voice: "I am naturally happy that you are in love with your husband and wife, but after all, you are too old to do everything by his xìngzi hu." Even if there are those soups, they are not guaranteed, if there is a case, you are so young, and you will suffer at that time. If you have a tender face, I'll tell you there! ”

Chen Lan thought that her mother-in-law was going to say something, but she was still a little nervous, but after hearing such words, she was suddenly confused. It's been a long time" she barely held back a sentence: "Mother, it's not as ...... as you think"

"Okay, okay, I know you're embarrassed. You meet again after a long absence, he is greedy for tenderness, and you can't push him elsewhere, so naturally you won't be able to get up in the morning. When Jiang said this, he saw that Chen Lan's face was quite delicate, so he didn't continue to say this, and said with concern, "By the way, I heard Aunt Liu say that the woman who came to Ping Jiang yesterday was your second aunt?" Although it has been vague for the time being, it can't be delayed forever. You handled the affairs of the Jiang family properly, so that I would have less trouble with the boss, and the affairs of your Fang family, it would be better for me to block it for you. I'm an elder, and it's much easier than you to turn them down or send them away. After all, your surname is Chen, and now you are a Yang mén woman. This Fang family is better than the Jiang family......"

Jiang didn't mention the most embarrassing thing, and Chen Lan was naturally relieved. Only for the Fang family, she also had some plans in mind, and she thanked her mother-in-law for her kindness at the moment. After all, if the troubles of his mother's uncle's family end up with his mother-in-law, it is really impossible to say anything. So, when she got out of the house, she walked slowly on the road, and suddenly stopped and called Aunt Liu up. However, before she could say that the Fang family's stubble was doing, Yun'er poked her head out from the previous month.

"My lord, there is someone outside kneeling at the entrance of our General Soldier's Mansion, it is said to be the eighteenth master of the Jiang family