After sending Mrs. Li away, Zhu leaned on the kang, his eyes were half-open and half-closed, and a second-class girl kneeled on the kang and beat her legs with a beauty hammer, and the other two girls worked together to remove the smoke cage in the corner on the side, and saw that the balm in it had bottomed out, and one of them tiptoed out of the door, and went straight to the jade peony and green calyx who were talking in the bright room.

"Sister, the balm in the smoker is almost gone? A few days ago, I didn't see much stored in the box, only enough for a month or two, did I report it to the third lady and let it be picked up as soon as possible? ”

"The balm is almost gone, why didn't you say this earlier?" Yu Shao's face sank suddenly, staring at the girl who had only been promoted from the third class to the second class a few days ago, and said angrily, "The balm used by the old lady has always been handmade by us, and she never buys it outside. Nowadays, there is no one in ten plum blossoms outside, where to find fresh plum blossoms? ”

Green Calyx saw that although this girl lowered her head, her face was a little unconvinced, she didn't know that these little ones were looking at the top seats, but they were prevaricating and picking. She was about to speak, when a faint voice came from outside.

"Who is looking for plum blossoms?"

"Third Miss!"

If it is said that he showed favor to Chen Lan earlier, just to make a good relationship and make it convenient in the future, then after the previous encounter, the green calyx is genuinely grateful. At this time, she stepped forward, relayed what the girl had just said in three or two sentences, and then blamed herself and said: "It's all slaves, isn't it, the old lady's favorite is plum blossom balm, which has always been taken from the plum blossom stamens after the snow, and the dew drops in the stamens, and then steamed with incense and then cellared, at least for 100 days." Now if this ointment is really exhausted......"

"Plum blossom stamens, I remember that Rui Xue picked a lot of them very early and hid them, originally prepared to make tea, and even the dew drops and snow water were hidden in several urns and buried under the roots of the flowers in the courtyard, if necessary, let someone go to the Splendid Pavilion to get them." Speaking of this, Chen Lan was fortunate that he had picked a lot of meticulous people by his side, and seeing that the green calyx and the jade peony were all relieved, he said again, "The two of you are also busy these days, so you are negligent, so pay attention in the future." ”

After saying this, she nodded and entered the east room. The moment the curtain was lowered behind her, she keenly caught a glimpse of the grateful expressions on the faces of the green calyx and the jade peony, and couldn't help but smile slightly. Seeing that Zhu was crooked there as if he was asleep, the girl who was serving the smoked cage was busy saluting, and the girl who was beating her legs was bowing her head to make a gesture of concentration, she didn't wear it, she just stepped forward on tiptoe, stood beside Zhu, and glanced at the face. Sure enough, the next moment, Zhu Shi opened his eyes.

"Coming back?"

"Old lady."

After Chen Lan saluted, he saw Zhu smiling and sat down on the edge of the kang. It wasn't until Zhu waved his hand to signal the two girls to retreat that she whispered about the situation when she sent Mrs. Li out, and naturally she would not skip the sneering of Mrs. Ma and the matter of the girl mentioned by Zhu's mother. Sure enough, as she expected, Zhu didn't care about any of these at all. It's just that Mrs. Li tempted her son to marry, but she hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to tell the truth.

"Even if you are in a hurry, you would say such a thing to one of your juniors......" Zhu Shi took a deep breath, and the five points of worry in his heart suddenly turned into seven points, and he frowned and said, "But if it was really Dongchang Hou who did such a thing, he must have done enough work to cover up the confusion, how could it be easily exposed because of two assassins, how did Yu Shi know about it?" Lan'er, think about it again, the two assassins at that time looked like people in the army? ”

"This ...... I'm really hard for sure. ”

Although Chen Lan's heart moved, this kind of remark could not be arbitrarily judged, so she had to shake her head in embarrassment. Seeing Zhu's face full of amazement, she thought about the other meaning of what her mother said, and was about to make a tactful statement, but there was a burst of words outside, followed by the curtain of the door, but it was Zheng's mother who entered the house in the dust. When she saw that Chen Lan was also there, her face changed slightly, and then she stepped forward to salute with a smile, but she did not report it directly. Chen Lan pondered the situation, so he found an excuse to make incense and got up to leave, although Zhu's color moved slightly, in the end he still did not leave the exit, but just gave an order.

"That balm is not an essential thing, you can do it when you are free, you can just be free when you are not available. As for what the Zhu family said, you and the third lady will talk about it, and the two of you can do it carefully. Choose once among the girls who have jobs in the family now, and choose again among the children of the family when they are old. If there are no good candidates for the two first-class vacancies, it is better to be empty! ”

When Chen Lan agreed to leave, Zheng's mother asked the little girl who followed her to guard the door, and then sat diagonally on the edge of the kang, lowered her voice and said, "Old lady, the news has come out." The news handed out by the father-in-law in the palace, the Marquis of Dongchang was punctual in Datong Town in the early years and did business with the Tartars outside the Saiwai, and he also made a murder and extinguished the mouth, and later when he was a battalion officer in the five military camps, he was consumed by the desire for profit, and he refused to let go of this line. ”

"What about the Assassins?" Although the Zhu clan had heard similar reasons from Madam Li, his heart was still hanging in the air, "Is the assassin in Jinyiwei or somewhere else, what did he recruit?" ”

"The assassin recruited everything in the first instance, this is what the assassin himself said, and it was the people around Gonggong Qu who handed over the news, and there will be no fake. Moreover, the meaning in it is about very clear, at most, the crime and the Dongchang Hou family can be regarded as killing chickens to show monkeys. Over the years, the border army has become more and more unorganized, and it is not surprising that the emperor has moved. ”

"That's not the case, our family and Dongchanghou are not ordinary, aside from the kinship, don't you know the money transactions on the books? In the early years, Dongchanghou said that he was short of money, so he asked his wife to take it three times, each time it was 50,000 taels of silver, and later when the settlement was calculated, it was calculated according to the dry shares, and he repaid a total of 300,000 taels of the capital of 150,000 taels of silver. This alone, if someone pulls it on, it will be a great thing. Moreover, I'm afraid that the third child will have any hands and feet. ”

"Old lady, after all, the third master has just come back, how can he have the ability to meddle in this kind of matter? Besides, he is now the Marquis of Yangning, what good is it for him to pull our family in? Besides, there's another piece of great good news that I didn't mention just now. ”

Mother Zheng leaned into Zhu's ear as she spoke, muttered in a low voice for a while, and saw that Zhu was startled at first, and then showed a very happy face, so she smiled and said: "I couldn't believe it at first, but then I repeatedly confirmed that it was true, so I was relieved." The emperor is never ambiguous in major matters, and he can see his thoughts just by respecting the queen. His Royal Highness King Jin is the best among the princes after all, and he accounts for the elder, and now he has ...... The emperor will not implicate many people in the big prison because of a little thing, after all, in this prosperous world, the young prison is also the most important one. ”

"Also, it seems to be a false alarm after all...... If this is the case, Dongchanghou is also to blame, so it's better for us to ignore it. In this way, when you release the news, you will say that I am sick, and invite Imperial Doctor Liu to check the pulse, and don't let outsiders in the door again in the next few days. Mrs. Dongchang Hou came again and let the third daughter-in-law deal with it. ”

Chen Lan didn't know what kind of news Zheng's mother brought, but when she went to greet her again that night, Zhu's mood was much better, but she could see it. Knowing that Zheng's mother Fang is the real confidant of the Zhu family, she doesn't care that they hide anything from her, after all, there are not a few things she hides herself. Moreover, seeing that the old lady was in a good mood, she simply ignored the news she heard from Zhu's mother, and only gave instructions to Yun'er Qinfang Hongluo after returning to the house.

Yun'er was the most efficient bag to inquire after all, and the next afternoon, she came back with the news. Sitting on the small pestle, she said with a smile: "Miss, Aunt Luo has a bad weather these days, and even a favored magpie has been slapped once, so this time I didn't use much effort to get the words out." said that before the fifth lady came back, the third master quarreled with Aunt Luo. According to Magpie, the third master wanted to take the opportunity of the second concubine of the Jin Dynasty to send the fifth miss over, but Aunt Luo refused at first, and then there was no movement, and the fifth miss was grounded as soon as she came back, which is said to be extremely reluctant. The third old man stayed in the Zuojun Governor's Mansion and didn't come back, most of them were hiding from the old lady, and they didn't want to come back to see Aunt Luo crying. ”

Chen Xi and Luo Xu, the prince of Weiguo, did not succeed, Chen Ying actually started the idea of the second concubine of the Jin Palace, did he really plan to part ways with Luo Mingyuan, the prince of Weiguo? It must be known that the Luo family has a concubine and a prince after all, and they may not think of a big position!

The left army is on duty in the west of the governor's mansion.

Nowadays, there are not many military affairs, and the governor stays behind just to make a show, and at night, the remaining chief officials of the other yamen often sneak out to have fun, but Chen Ying has always stayed in the duty room, and even rarely drinks wine. Seeing that it was about to come to the day of stopping the kang and removing the brazier on the first day of March, the weather was still unusually cold, so he handed over the paperwork and received a few hundred catties of firewood and charcoal for use in March.

At this moment, a little official stood in front of him respectfully, not even daring to raise his eyes. After a long time of finishing his words, he lowered his hand and bowed his head, until a faint command came from above, and he was overjoyed and raised his head at once.

"If what you said about Han Gong is verified to be true, I naturally can't treat you badly."

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

However, before this grateful little official knelt down and kowtowed, Chen Ying's voice suddenly deepened: "If you dare to deceive and coax in the slightest, then, don't say it's you, even your family can't want to live, understand?" ”

Facing the cold gaze, the little official shuddered, and agreed with a trembling voice, but his legs were a little weak. However, thinking that this trip would become a benefit for himself, he threw all these concerns out of the clouds.