Because Wanquan Villa is a hot spring village, there are eight people inside and out, "four people in the garage, four people in the carriage, two people in the kitchen, plus miscellaneous guards, etc., a total of 25 people. Every time the master came to live here, he always had his personal servants and maidservants with him, so these people were also accustomed to serving only outside, and it was not their turn to come to them. Although the people who live in now are not serious owners, their status and identity are still excessive, and naturally some people have that kind of thought.

At this moment, seeing the servant woman pushing a cart out, the two rough servants in front of the second door immediately stepped forward, bent down with a smile on their faces, and said hello, and rushed to the door to help her push the cart, and said again: "Sister-in-law, take a break, how can you use such a trivial matter, let's do it." ”

Seeing that the other party hesitated, the other was busy holding her hand, and forced the person to sit down on a small stool in front of the door, and said diligently: "The old lady and the lady are both distinguished people, and the people on our brand names naturally dare not come forward to serve." However, where is the need for someone like my sister-in-law to do a clumsy errand like disposing of garbage like this? I know that Madame has always been careful, but when you get here, you have done what you have to do, and then it will be our turn. ”

"How embarrassing is this......", the servant woman said, but as soon as she turned her head, she saw another rough woman pushing the cart and disappeared, and Sifu couldn't catch up, so she showed a happy and lazy expression, because she smiled, "Then thank you two." Speaking of which, our wife came out of the Serious Hou Mansion, the rules are big, and she is never stingy when it comes to rewards, so none of us dare to slack off. ”

"It's not called slacking off today, is it just that everyone is doing their job?" The rough lady who spoke lightly and skillfully said this, and when she saw that the other party also smiled, she struck while the iron was hot, and said, "I heard that Mrs. was named the county lord before she got married?" We are stupid people, we can't tell the difference between the imperial court's edict, which one is more noble, this lady or the county lord? "Oh, I'm the right person to ask this if you ask. Although the mansion of the eldest princess and princess is compared to the first grade, the second grade of the county lord, and the third grade of the county lord, just by looking at the color of this commandment suit, you can know that the crown dress in front of our lady alone is more luxurious than the crown dress of the first lady! Moreover, the princess and the county lord are all in the palace, even if they are not summoned, they can enter the palace to ask for a meeting, unlike ordinary foreign women, who can only enter the palace during the New Year's holidays, and most of them are kowtows, and they can't even see the faces of the nobles. What's more, Madame's godmother is the eldest princess of Anguo, which Mrs. Yipin can compare with this heavy identity? ”

"Yes, yes, my sister-in-law is really a person from the capital, and she is more knowledgeable than us......"

As the other rough woman came back with an empty cart, the two of them naturally hurried to greet the servant woman, and a high hat made the servant woman smile all over her face, and even a few wrinkles seemed to be smoothed out. When Chen Lan sent Mrs. Jiang out, the servant woman before hurriedly dodged: "The two mothers-in-law also stood on the side with their hands down, and they didn't even dare to raise their heads." Until the people on both sides left, they hurriedly sent the disgusted servant woman into the second gate, and when the figure was gone, they looked at each other and smiled.

"Hey, we can't even see the face of the master here, and we can't even speak in front of Huang's mother, if we can really tie up with this Haining county lord, the second half of the generation will not be so bitter." ”

"Isn't it?"

In a small courtyard in the northwest corner of the outer courtyard, a man carrying a burden knocked several times in front of the door of the east wing, and a crack opened in the door. The man inside took the burden and immediately looked at the man with an inquiring gaze.

"Master, it's the car that Chen Po took from the person who took out the garbage, and all the words and paper are here."

"Got it."

With these three simple words, the door is very tightly remembered with our web address: shut. The person in the door carried the burden to the study in the inner room, "casually took it down and untied it, and saw that there were a ball of paper inside", so he patiently spread out the paper one by one. However, when he found the fourth one, he was stunned.

The first three are just symbols that have no meaning, but on the fourth piece of paper, there is only one large inkblot written on the paper, which is "I". Suspicious, he immediately stepped up his movements. After a while, all the papers on which the letters were written were set aside by him, and in their place were the sheets of paper on which the letters were written. Putting them together and moving them left and right, he quickly arranged them in the right order.

"I know who you are!"

As he muttered to himself, his brow suddenly twisted into a knot, and then he threw all the papers on the table to the ground with one hand. After a long while, he snorted softly: "Do you know who I am? How can you possibly know who I am! I only live in this place for three or five days a year at most, and it is the puppet garden, which is just a cover for me...... If you want to startle the snake, wouldn't it be too self-righteous to use this trick? Wait, those books...... Could it be that she can really understand? ”

He suddenly took a deep breath and turned his gaze away. He walked almost to the window, and to make sure that there was no one in the courtyard outside, he took two steps back, but his expression did not slow down much.

Seeing off Mrs. Jiang Da, Chen Lan only felt that the steps under his feet were extremely heavy.

She is not worried about her promise to Mrs. Jiang, with her mother-in-law's sex, except for the fifteenth master who has moved to the capital, "The Jiang family is just a stranger." If the third old lady who started the work can be stepped down, I think my mother-in-law will always be happy to see it. The point is, if you really want to hit the ground...... If that's really the reason to fight......

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel numb, so she first called Aunt Yun to go inside to see what the Jiang family was doing, and then summoned Hongying to whisper a few words. When they left, she walked slowly a few steps, and suddenly caught a glimpse of Hongluo's preoccupied appearance on the side, she asked coldly: "Hongluo, let me ask you, if a hundred years ago, a person's ancestor had a feud with someone else, because the enemy's family was powerful, he was defeated and died, and then let Sun or the people who followed him run thousands or even tens of thousands of miles away to hide, and gave them the law to live and work in peace." Now, after all these years, these people have come back to take revenge" Is this possible? ”

If it was someone like Aunt Yun, Aunt Liu, or Changdi Hongying, who was well aware of the affairs of the court, she would definitely have another association, but Hongluo had always only cared about what was in front of him, no matter what was going on, and when he heard this, he immediately lowered his head and thought about it. After a while, she looked up at Chen Lan and shook her head again.

"Madam, the slave doesn't know how others are, but the slave knows that if I am the descendant of that person, it will be more than a hundred years ago" Where is it worth taking revenge wholeheartedly? Not to mention more than 100 years, that is, when my aunt drove away my mother and me, and my uncle sold me again, now I hate it, but if I really want to say that I grit my teeth and want to take revenge, it may not be. One drink and one x have their own destiny, if it weren't for what happened back then, how could I meet Mrs. Chen Lan was stunned by these words, but she breathed a long sigh of relief. Yes, she took it for granted that the hatred of more than a hundred years ago may be maintained to this day, but it is not so easy to turn this hatred into a driving force. There are only interests, and only interests can make people shipbreak!

Thinking of this, she showed an approving expression, and then took off a bracelet on her hand, and put it on the red snail without saying anything. Hongluo was about to refuse, but when Chen Lan said the next words, her face turned red.

"Your simple words have solved a problem in my heart. This is not a reward, it is a thanksgiving gift, firstly for what you just said, and secondly, for your loyalty for more than a year, and I can be so obedient this day. It's just that now there is only one, and the other one will be added to your box when you get married. ”

"Ma'am......,... You...... What do you say! ”

If she just blushed, Chen Lan wouldn't think much else, but Hongluo actually stammered even when she spoke, she unconsciously remembered her last banter, and immediately looked at this henchman again thoughtfully for a while, and then turned around with a smile. The thoughts that she was still entangled in the affairs of her family and country just now gradually dispersed for a while - she is already married, and these girls who she makes handy can't just be delayed, and they can't stay for a few years......

When they arrived at the gate of Yusheng Courtyard, Aunt Yun, who had just come first, came forward: "Madam, the old lady has had lunch, and Young Master Bi has taken a nap after taking a walk with her, and no one has woken up yet." ”

"In that case, let's not bother. Jun'er is in the East House right now? ”

"Yes, Young Master Bi is here."

After thinking about it for a while, Chen Lan dismissed his plan to go in at this moment, saying that he wanted to take a walk in the garden. Hongluo and Aunt Yun were about to follow, but she just waved her hand. After walking a stone's throw along the path in front of the courtyard gate, and passing through a sluice, she saw the small river that led directly to the Slender West Lake, and on the edge of the small wharf, there was still the small boat that Jun'er had used before. She walked up unconsciously, and when she saw that there was no one around, she stood there and looked at the water. I don't know how long it took, but she suddenly felt something on her back, and hurriedly turned her head.

"Ma'am?" Hongluo was taken aback by Chen Lan's sudden action, and pulled a handful to keep people away from the water, and said angrily, "How can Madam come out without taking someone with her?" After all, this is someone else's property, what if there is a person with bad intentions hidden somewhere? This is a slave just now, if someone pushes it behind......,... Phew, I mean, it's a must-have to be guarded! ”

Hongluo said, while putting the cloak in his hand on Chen Lan's shoulder, and said: "That's right," my sister's order I did, and my sister-in-law said that as soon as her little cart went out of the second door, it was snatched by two rough envoys on the second door. I whispered to Xiao Ding again, he also came out of the eldest princess like Hongying and them, and he was clever and clever. He managed to find it, "Madame, the paper you wrote is not in the garbage. ”

"Is that so?"

Chen Lan frowned, and then laughed: "I thought it would be at least a few days, but I didn't expect that." In the past few days, it has been handled like this, but after this time, the words and paper and other discarded things are burned according to the previous rules and are not allowed to be kept. ”

"Madam, don't worry." In the next few days, Chen Lan only heard that the two people on the other side of the puppet garden were very free, and even went to observe the selection of the Hu Kui conference on the Slender West Lake the day after the meeting.

When Xu Yang, the Nanjing garrison, resent the deed of Xiaotaoyuan with both hands, this kind of conviction was naturally deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. And Aunt Liu and Changdi also went into their minds, but after a few days of hard work, she had already collected most of the sets of "Twenty Years Chronicles" at hand, and after looking for a translator, under her hint, those x copies were naturally picked out.

However, after Yang Jinzhou went to Nantong, the news has been very rare, but fortunately, there is also a ventilated Jiang Shilang, plus Mrs. Ai also comes and goes from time to time, often revealing some information from all over Jiangnan, Chen Lan can roughly sense Yang Jinzhou's movements, so he does not use the letter of his stepmother, Princess Anguo. However, without him by his side, although the days passed leisurely, her mother-in-law was still loving, Jun'er also showed a jumping side, and the people around her were laughing and relieving boredom as always, but she was still a little lonely.

On this day, Mrs. Ai came to the door again. This time, she didn't come alone, but brought Mrs. Liang with her. Chen Lan greeted the two with a smile, and after laughing for a long time, Mrs. Ai went to the hot spring. Chen Lan had heard Mrs. Ai mention this stubble before, but she was not surprised, and although Mrs. Ai's identity was a little hindered, her words and deeds were still kind to her, so she naturally would not refuse. But Mrs. Liang on the side hesitated for a while, "This reluctantly agreed."

It's just that when the two of them followed Chen Lan to the back and saw those sets of intimate clothes specially prepared for bathing, Mrs. Ai's eyes lit up and she immediately praised her, and Mrs. Liang breathed a sigh of relief, and the embarrassment on her face disappeared a lot.

The three of them got down a soup pool with tangerine peel and other traditional Chinese medicines and sat on the stone bench below, and Mrs. Liang, who was bathing in the hot spring for the first time in her life, actually moaned comfortably. She is less than forty years old, she is Liangwen's step-mate, raising a son and a daughter, just the careful budget has already entrusted her with too much energy, where is the time to enjoy? After running a cup of tea in the hot water, she turned her head and said to Chen Lan: "I have lived in Yangzhou Mansion for many years, but I never knew that there was a hot spring on the shore of Slender West Lake. ”

"Yo, you don't know, I thought I was lonely!" Mrs. Ai smiled and said to Chen Lan, "I heard that the county lord is also a person who loves to read miscellaneous books, and so am I." Yanshan Huaqing Pond is the best in the world, but it is the frequent wars, although it is good to hear now, but it is far away after all. Nanjing's Tangshan is good, because my old brother is all over the world, and finally bought a piece of land with a spring. As for Xiaotangshan in the capital, in fact, the hot springs are not good. I have never heard of this hot spring in Slender West Lake, and I think the owner is also a broom cherished by himself, for fear of being taken away by the powerful. ”

"Look at what my sister said!" Mrs. Liang was already a little less embarrassed at this time, and after glancing at Chen Lan, she glanced at Mrs. Ai, "Since the county lord has lived in this place, others will not be so bold when they think about it!" "Hey, Fang, I forgot this stubble, yes, yes, no matter how bold the person is! I also have to think about Xu Shoubei returning all the little peach springs, not to mention this Wanquan Villa! ”

Seeing the two laughing like this, Chen Lan was silent with a smile. only asked the red snail who was waiting next to her about the hour, she stood up and said, "The water in this pool is hot, and soaking too much is not good for your health, let's change the pool." ”

The guest was as he pleased, and Mrs. Ai and Mrs. Liang naturally agreed. When they got up and went up the steps, they changed to a warm pool with the support of the girls on both sides, and took the chrysanthemum tea handed over to the side. Seeing that there was also a herbal medicine bag tied to the edge of the pool, Mrs. Ai naturally asked curiously.

"It's about Aiye." Seeing Mrs. Liang nodding thoughtfully, Chen Lan explained, "It is said that all of these pools were added by the master and various materials as needed. Some are traditional Chinese medicine, some are various colors, and there are even essential oils bought from overseas......... Speaking of this, she couldn't help but pause, and continued after a moment of silence, "All in all, I'm just sitting back and enjoying it, and I'm not thinking about it myself. ”

"It's a blessing to sit back and enjoy it, isn't it?" After all, Mrs. Liang rarely deals with people, and at this time she blurted out, "With just one sentence and one look, someone will help iron things, which is better than everything is not as good as it should be, even if you are lucky, you have to be dragged behind." ”

As soon as these words came out, seeing Chen Lan and Mrs. Ai looking at her together, Mrs. Liang realized that she had lost her words, but it was too late to regret it at this time, so she had to reluctantly squeeze out a smile: "The county lord forgives the sin, I only have a spoon,... Momentarily disagreed. For most of my life, I have hardly had a good time, such as making people think that I am happy, but they don't know my suffering—... To put it irreverently, I'd rather not have this noble person in my family than cause so much trouble! ”

"Mrs. Liang hasn't received a letter from the eldest lady yet?"

Chen Lan asked, and when he saw Mrs. Liang shaking her head in amazement, she didn't explain, but intentionally or unintentionally diverted the topic. However, Mrs. Ai realized something, and when Chen Lan turned her head and ordered to prepare the fruit, she gently attached herself to Mrs. Liang's ear and said, "If you want to come to the county lord, you don't have to worry about it." As long as Jingli dialect, this thing is very easy to do! ”

Mrs. Liang was stunned for a moment, and then showed a deep joy: "I hope so, I accept your auspicious words." ”

Chen Lan just didn't see the two of them whispering, and after a while, he led the two to continue to change pools.

After walking around this circle of bubbles, she asked Mrs. Ai about Jinling Academy again, and when she was comfortable, she went out of the hot spring to the other side of the bath room to shower. When she had changed into clean clothes and dried her head, she came out and sat down the corridor to the side of the guest room, and Mrs. Liang said another meaning of the trip.

It turned out that it was Liang Gong, who was studying in Yuelu Academy, who was about to return to get married, and invited her to watch the ceremony. For such a happy event, Chen Lan naturally would not refuse, knowing that there was still a month or two in the time, and Mrs. Liang would come to send the wedding card in person, she thought about herself and went to Nanjing, and it was not difficult to take the time to cross the river to Yangzhou, and immediately agreed. But Mrs. Ai, the escort, didn't say anything, as if she was just accompanying Mrs. Liang on this trip. Just when the two of them had already gotten up to say goodbye, and Chen Lan was about to send people out, he saw a person rushing in as if he was flying.

"Madame, ma'am!"

Seeing Aunt Yun, who had always been moody, rushing in like this, Chen Lan couldn't help but feel extremely surprised. Fortunately, when Aunt Yun saw Mrs. Ai and Mrs. Liang, she suddenly came to her senses and came to her senses, and lowered her hand and said, "Madame, forgive me, there was a letter from the capital just now, and the slave maid forgot for a while. ”

"Since there is a letter, the county lord will read it first. Mrs. Liang and I went first. Mrs. Ai didn't wait for Chen Lan to agree or refuse," and said with a smile, "The county mainly felt that they didn't send us out, and they were a little sorry, so they simply let us take a pound of the fresh cherries that we just entertained." ”

Since Master Ai said so, Mrs. Liang naturally followed suit. Chen Lan saw that Aunt Yun's face was unconcealably pale, so he immediately responded with a smile, and ordered Hongluo to send a small basket directly to each person. Until a few girls hugged the two of them and went out" She looked sideways at Aunt Yun, and there was an indescribable sharpness in her eyes.

"What's going on? Who sent the letter in the capital? ”

"It's not the capital, it's the soldiers who went to Nantong with the master, someone came back from Nantong and said to go......,... said that it was originally scheduled to go back" As a result, when I went back to the dock to discuss things, several large ships suddenly sailed. After that, he was going to Yamen to find someone, but there was a fire at the dock over there, so he hurried back, "It's not proper on the road!" ”

"What did you say!"

Chen Lan only felt as if he had been hammered hard by a big hammer in his heart, and he was already stunned for a while. When Aunt Yun repeated it again with a worried face, she staggered back a few steps, and then strongly supported herself to sit down on the chair. Although she inhaled heavily, she still felt as if she was drowning and suffocating, her hands were tightly grasping the armrests on both sides, and her heart was churning with indescribable emotions.

At this time, be calm, be calm!

I don't know how many times she hinted at herself, but she finally got rid of the extreme emotions after hearing the shock. Seeing that Aunt Yun's hands trembled slightly and brought a cup of tea, she took it and took a big sip without looking at it. When she felt that it was not the expected hot but cold and biting, she didn't have time to think about Aunt Yun's properness, so she unconsciously closed her eyes and groaned.

"Take a good look at the person who sent the news back first, and I'll go over right away. Don't leak the news, especially don't leak half a word to the old lady for the time being. Take the letter of the eldest princess of An Guo to inform those people, and tell them to inquire about the news immediately. Find someone to go to the old lady to inform her, and she said that the puppet garden has something to look for me, and I want to go out. Go get ready for the car now! ”

"Yes, slave and maid are going!"

Seeing Aunt Yun rushing out of the door in a hurry, Chen Lan couldn't help but rub the short sword that he had just put in his sleeve after bathing, and after a long time, the whole person leaned on the back of the chair as if he was paralyzed. She had already followed her mother-in-law to practice the three sword moves extremely well, and she planned to show him when he came back, but now, ...... Even on the battlefield in the north, he can retreat with his whole body, there is no reason why he can't cope with this seemingly calm Jiangnan, he will come back!

She sat up straight, then took a deep breath. She had to carry the next wind and waves first