Today, the second master accompanied the master to name the various places in the garden of the provincial relatives, so the maids did not have anything superfluous to do except for their own work, and the little maids squatted together in piles to play with grass, smoking spinning tops, giggling, the yard was full of laughter, among which the fan laughed the most, because in a group of spinning tops, she turned the longest, she was naturally the most proud.

And a few big girls are sitting under the porch, basking in the sun, busy with their own winter shoes, this year because the eldest lady in the family wants to come back to save relatives, the sewing room can not be busy, so the shoes of each big girl in the house, they gave the fabric to make their own, if there are no shoes, it is to give silver to buy, but as a big girl in the house, there are few who can't needlework, that is, they can't, but also take the fabric to do it to others. The house said that it was bought for silver, but the shoes bought with that little silver, I'm afraid it can only ensure that the shoes are warm, as for whether they look good or not, it is another matter, the house makes its own clothes, whether it is the hard cloth for the soles of the shoes, or the satin for the uppers, it is all good, much better than the outside.

They are all young girls, who want to show their ugliness in front of others.

Si Qi knew that Qingwen's embroidery was good, so he discussed it with Qingwen, and she and her mother were responsible for the soles of the shoes, and Qingwen was responsible for embroidering the uppers, because Si Qi and their soles had not been embroidered yet, so Qingwen was also idle for the past two days.

Although Qingwen can't wait to go to Mrs. Zhao immediately and ask about the things of the year, but these big girls have always had nothing to do with the sprinkling and sweeping mother-in-law in the yard, and now that so many people are watching, she took the liberty to talk to a mother-in-law, or behind someone's back, how can it not make people suspicious, especially now that there is an autumn pattern staring at herself, she has to stir up three waves when she has nothing to do, not to mention something.

Qingwen thought, it's inconvenient during the day, so it's better to find her at night, just because she has to keep vigil tonight. I called the little maid Fan Er again, and asked her to tell her aunt not to go to bed too early at night, she had something to look for her, and Fan Er naturally agreed.

Qingwen saw Fan'er enter her mother-in-law's room, and knew that she had gone to talk to Mrs. Zhao, so she tried to calm down and picked up the bag embroidered for Si Qi.

The pattern of the bag has been embroidered, and now it is only the end of the process, which looks simple, but in fact you have to be careful, otherwise you will not be careful, and you will cut a thread on the side, and the whole embroidery will be ruined. Qing Wenzai carefully made the bag and checked it again, it was indeed exquisite, and when she was collecting the embroidered basket and planning to give it to Si Qi, Baoyu came back. The four big girls went up together, although Baoyu didn't say anything, but the four big girls saw the grievances on his face, and knew that he must have been scolded by the lord again, in this mansion, few people can give Baoyu grievances, among these people, only the old man Jia Zheng is willing to scold Baoyu, and the others are all held in their hands for fear of breaking, and they are afraid of melting in their mouths.

After all, he was still a child less than 14 years old, and a few people said that they had bought a new rouge today, which was different from what they bought in the house, so Baoyu became interested and talked about the good and bad of all kinds of rouge with them.

Qingwen looked at this young master who was so squeamish that she seemed to be a woman, and thought to herself, if this second master was a woman, I am afraid that he would be more suitable than the other young ladies in the house, but unfortunately, he is a man, and what he likes cannot be of any help to his future career.

Then several people served Baoyu to change clothes and eat, and several people discussed rouge for half an hour, and when they saw that Baoyu was sleepy, they served him to rest. The other three retreated, leaving Qingwen behind.

After a while, Qingwen heard the sound of a fan outside the door, so she opened the door gently, and when she arrived at the door, Fan Er said that his aunt had a day of errand with the mother-in-law who guarded the door today, and now she was waiting at the door of the courtyard.

When Qingwen arrived at the gate of the courtyard, the woman had been waiting there for a long time, and it was still a little cold in the autumn night, so she lit a charcoal basin next to it, and there were two small chairs next to the basin.

When the woman saw Qingwen coming, she hurriedly stepped forward and whispered, "The girl is here, come and sit by the fire, the wind is still a little cold this night." After Qingwen sat down, she hurriedly asked, "Mom used to live in Lai's mother's house?" ”

Mrs. Zhao said calmly: "Whatever the girl wants to ask, I thought there would be this day." ”

"Then mom, do you know why the family next door to you was holding a funeral at that time?" Qingwen said.

"Naturally, because of the dead, I not only know why their family is holding a funeral, but I also know why the girl came to me today."

The woman paused and said, "Ever since I knew that the girl was the little girl I was back then, I knew that there would be today. Mrs. Zhao said sadly.

When Qingwen saw her like this, she knew that she knew the truth, so she didn't speak, just looked at her.

The girl listened to the next words, but she must calm down. After all, you have just come and don't know your cousin's family, and I, a widow who has been a neighbor with them for several years, can see your cousin's family clearly, your cousin is a kind person, and he is diligent and capable, and he is very trusted by his mother's family, but your cousin's aunt, her temperament is difficult to say.

I still remember the second day since you sold yourself, I got up every morning, and I didn't smell the medicine, at first I thought it was your mother's illness getting better, and there was no need to take medicine, and then one night, because it was the Mid-Autumn Festival, I drank more wine during the day, and I slept without eating, and I woke up hungry at night, and I wanted to get up to find something to eat, and I just walked to the door, at this time, I heard a message from outside the house, and I looked out through the crack in the door, and I saw your mother lying on the ground, struggling to crawl out, And your cousin and aunt hit her on the back with a rolling stick, shouting while beating back, saying that your mother, your family wasted her money and food, and your mother was probably already terminally ill, and that day when she returned to the light, she wanted to run away and see you for the last time, so your vicious aunt didn't move after a few hits, and then your aunt dragged your mother's feet to the house, girl, you don't know how terrible the scene was, the moon in the sky was as white as a piece of ice, and the yard was bright. Your aunt is like crawling out of Hades' palace.

Your uncle was not at home for a few days, and I was too scared to go out in the house. The next day, I heard that your mother was sick and died, and I was scared and guilty, so after a few days, I asked my brother to help me come to Jiafu. Girl, don't blame me, that night, I was so scared, your aunt was like a yaksha, I was afraid that she would know that I saw her enter, and my life would not be saved. As she spoke, Mrs. Zhao knelt in front of Qingwen and confessed with tears in her eyes.

Qingwen didn't help her up, but just said in a daze: "I don't blame you." So he went back to the house.

When she got to the house, Qingwen let the fan go back, and sat on the chaise longue by herself, and suddenly Qingwen felt as if she had lost all her strength all of a sudden, Qingwen knew before that her mother's death was related to her cousin's aunt, but she thought that her cousin didn't give her mother medicine, which caused her mother to die, but Qingwen didn't expect that her cousin was so vicious, she beat her mother to death with a rolling pin at the door on a day of family reunion.

Qingwen thought about how helpless and unwilling her mother was before she died, and she couldn't see her, so she could only die at the hands of that woman.

As soon as Qingwen thought of this, she burst into tears, but she didn't dare to make a sound, for fear of waking Baoyu up, so she had to put her head in the pillow, biting her lip so hard that she didn't dare to let go, for fear that if she let go, she would cry loudly.

What Qingwen didn't know was that her every move these days, including every word she said when she just met Mrs. Zhao, fell into Shuilu's eyes.

And at this moment, Shui Rong sat on the roof, listening to the suppressed sobs of the little maid from time to time below, Shui Rong couldn't help but feel a trace of heartache.

Since I went to inquire about her life experience before that day, I thought that I was just joking by the lotus pond that day, but I didn't expect that since then, I couldn't help but care about everything about her, he knew that she recognized a righteous sister, and he also knew that she was arrogant and domineering before, but then it seemed to be restrained all of a sudden, and he also knew that her parents were dead, and there was only one cousin who was not close, and he did a good needlework. The water is soluble and just finds it interesting.

Later, Zhibai told him that she planned to save money to leave the house in private. Shui Rong heard that she wanted to go out of the house, and she was inexplicably very happy, this kind of happiness was not like winning the battle before, thinking about celebrating the whole world, but a kind of stealing joy, just like a person who has a treasure, is reluctant to show it to others, only secretly at night, lighting candles, watching carefully, and not willing to look at it for too long, and wrapping it up, but can't help but want to see it again, but is afraid that others will find out.

Shui Rong finally understood that he might have thought about this little girl.

So on the day of the dissolution, on the street, I saw her at a glance.

Seeing her sadness, Shui Rong felt that her heart was also pinched, and she didn't care that she was still discussing with the dark guard, so she ordered Zhibai to inquire about what she had been through recently.

At night, Zhibai went back and forth, and he realized that she had just returned from her aunt's house during the day, and before going out, he heard from the maid in Jiafu that she was still fine, and that was the case after she came back.

Zhibai began to think that her cousin was angry with her, so she went to her cousin's neighbor to inquire, saying that the family had a good lunch meal, not like she was angry at her cousin's house.

After hearing this, Shui Rong only felt that her little girl was pitiful, so she ordered Zhibai to visit around in the past two days, and finally found out from her cousin's neighbor that when she was at home today, when her cousin and sister-in-law quarreled, she mentioned what her cousin had murdered for money, Qingwen thought about hearing it, maybe it was because of this.