Zhuang Meiyan and the three of them lived in the "Phoenix Nest" village, and although their lives were hard, they were still comfortable.

Zhuangfu's housekeeper Liu Ma deducted their regular share of money, causing them to lose their financial resources. After settling in the house, his mother was treated, and all kinds of expenses were large, and there was not much left of the thirty taels of silver given by Jiang Fubai when he left. Fortunately, Zhuang Meiyan was more clever, so Chunju went to the town to buy a few brocade fabrics, because of the exercise in Zhuangfu over the years, her female red did a particularly good job, and the embroidered patterns were vivid and beautiful. The embroidered brocade, which she hand-crafted, was especially popular in the town.

Unknowingly, I have been living in the "Phoenix Nest" for a month, and the deep winter is quietly coming.

The north wind howled, mercilessly sweeping away the last remaining yellow leaves from the trees, and the poplar trees on the opposite side of the stream were only bare trunks, silently pointing to the sky.

Zhuang Meiyan took Han Niu'er's carriage to the town's silk village and returned the embroidered cloth. This should have been Chunju's thing, but this girl has suffered from a cold and has a high fever these days. Zhuang Meiyan had no choice but to run for her, and at the same time, she was also worried about her younger brother, and wanted to go to Zhuang's mansion to visit the seventh brother, and then go to Jiang Yutang's medical hall to get some medicine for her mother and Chunju.

Zhuang Meiyan first went to the silk village to hand over his work, and the boss of the silk village smiled, and praised Zhuang Meiyan's ingenuity. Isn't it, since Zhuang Meiyan helped him do embroidery, the sales volume in the store has increased significantly this month, and customers like to ask Zhuang Meiyan to do embroidered brocade.

The boss also gave her some handkerchiefs, purses and other things to make a living. These jobs are very easy in comparison, most of them are asked by large families, and the price is fair, but the embroidery skills are very demanding, and only people like Zhuang Meiyan who do a good job in female redness, the boss dares to give her to do.

Zhuang Meiyan collected the fabric and silk thread and put it on Han Niu'er's car, and she quietly followed the back wall of Zhuang's mansion to the North Point Gate, which was rarely entered, so it was not easy to be noticed when entering from here.

Zhuang Meiyan pushed the iron door and did not move.

Zhuang Meiyan was surprised, and walked around the wall and walked through a few corner doors, but they were all closed and locked. Zhuang Meiyan had a vague bad premonition in her heart, the house used to be very lively, and you could hear the frolicking sound in the garden when you walked outside the wall.

She walked around the mansion until she reached the front door, where the two vermilion gates were closed, and the bluestone-paved street was covered with dead leaves, except for the two stone lions in front of the door.

Zhuang Meiyan's brain buzzed - although she knew that her father had the support of Changxin Hou, and it would be a matter of time before she returned to Beijing, she didn't expect it to be so soon.

It was too late to say anything now, Zhuang Meiyan leaned against the wall weakly, letting her body slowly slide down. Knowing this, she should have listened to Chunju's words and took the seventh brother out of the house together. The seventh brother is only a teenager and a child, he is helpless, how can he survive in that big family? besides, he still has such a controversial background.

The seventh brother was born after his mother went crazy, so his life experience was criticized, and even his subordinates looked down on him. Although he is the son-in-law born to Mrs. Yan, he can't enjoy the treatment of his son-in-law at all, and his situation is not as good as the eldest son and sixth brother born to Aunt Su.

Zhuang Meiyan regretted that it was useless, and wandered in front of the door for a while, and finally returned to the main street of the town full of loss.

Qiyang Town is an important frontier town, and thousands of soldiers and horses are stationed on Qiyang Mountain outside the town. Qiyang Mountain is located in the gap between the three countries, over the mountain to the north is Wuyang Kingdom, over the mountain to the west is the Ming and Tang Dynasty, and the east is adjacent to the sea. In the mountains here, it is not suitable to station too many soldiers and horses, however, the nearest garrison is only a hundred miles away from here, if you see the danger of the beacon fire, the army can come to the rescue in half a day at most.

The main street is paved with bluestone, which looks clean and tidy, and there are many pavilions on both sides, clothing, food, housing, transportation, singing and laughing, and many industries show their own abilities, decorating Qiyang Town with a prosperous state of peace and prosperity.

Walking on the street, Zhuang Meiyan had no intention of watching the lively scene on the street, and only cared about bowing her head and moving forward. Suddenly, she bumped into something and staggered.

"Miss, miss, have mercy on us!"

"Miss, take a bite of food. ”

"Miss, let's get a few copper plates. ”

A chaotic begging sound sounded in her ears, Zhuang Meiyan looked around in horror, she found that she was surrounded by a group, with dirty faces around her, and a pair of hands that were also dirty and black constantly waving, which were people begging on the street. They scrambled to reach out to her, and some even stepped forward to grab the corners of her skirt with a dead face, Zhuang Meiyan retreated again and again, until she retreated to the wall, and finally was surrounded by them, unable to get out at all.

Zhuang Meiyan was flustered in her heart, and quickly took out a handful of copper coins from the purse on her waist and scattered them, and the beggars cheered, just bending down to grab the money. Zhuang Meiyan was about to take the opportunity to leave, but in a hurry, she stumbled under her feet and couldn't help falling to the ground. Zhuang Meiyan didn't feel pain, on the contrary, the tentacles were extremely soft.

"Lady. ”

The voice --

Zhuang Mei's face was shocked, and when she looked up, a pair of bright and clear eyes were flashing in front of her eyes.

It turned out to be that crazy teenager again.

A few days ago, he followed Han Niu'er's carriage to the "Phoenix Nest" by mistake and had a meal at Zhuang Meiyan's house. Zhuang Meiyan looked at his appearance and clothes, not like an ordinary beggar, but this guy was crazy and stupid, and he didn't remember his name at all, let alone his life experience.

In the afternoon of the same day, Han Niu'er put on a carriage and half-coaxed and half-deceived the boy back to the town, and after that, Zhuang Meiyan never saw him again--I thought that there would be nothing to do from now on, but who would have thought that this town was too small!

Zhuang Meiyan found that she happened to be in his arms, and she couldn't help but be embarrassed, and quickly struggled to get up.

The young man leaned weakly against the corner, his face was emaciated, his eyes appeared bigger and more energetic, staring innocently at Zhuang Meiyan.

"Lady. He muttered softly, his eyes full of anticipation.

Zhuang Meiyan frowned, fortunately, there were people coming and going on the street, and they all took the initiative to avoid these beggars, so no one heard him talk nonsense. Zhuang Meiyan hurriedly lowered her head, pretended not to see him, and continued to walk forward.

It's just that, along the way, those big helpless eyes always dangled in front of her eyes, making her uneasy.

When she arrived at Jiang Yutang's "Qiu Family Pharmacy", Zhuang Meiyan was a little absent-minded when talking to Jiang Yutang, Jiang Yutang was a little puzzled, stretched out his hand and shook it in front of her eyes, and said with a smile: "Third Miss, what is this called being lost?"

Zhuang Meiyan came back to her senses at this time, and looked at Jiang Yutang with some embarrassment and ordered the little apprentice to beat her medicine into a bag and bundle it. Zhuang Meiyan remembered that the last few times she took the medicine was to keep accounts, and it was not a reason to drag it all the time, and it happened that the boss of the brocade village had settled this month's account for her today, and there was some broken silver in her hand.

So Zhuang Meiyan touched the purse on her waist, and this touch was empty, and she quickly looked down.

Oh my God! Her purse is gone!