The two returned to the courtyard after eating and drinking, and saw Fan Wei leaning against the courtyard gate at the door.

Seeing Xiao Qi coming, Fan Wei hurriedly bowed and said, "Miss, you're back." ”

"Thank you Uncle Fan, has everything been taken care of?"

"Yes." Fan Wei opened the courtyard door for the two of them, "Just now I took the initiative to find a few maids to clean up for the young lady." ”

"This..."Xiao Qi looked at Fan Wei very gratefully, and felt speechless.

Fan Wei saw Xiao Qi's appearance and rubbed Xiao Qi's head, "I'll retire." ”

"Goodbye, Uncle Fan."

Xiao Qi held back his tears and sent Fan Wei out, and Liu Yunhua went back to the house.

"Oops, no one has touched my house."

Xiao Qi lay on the stone table, ignoring what Liu Yunhua said in the room. I didn't know what to do, and I felt that I couldn't continue to worry about it like this, so I turned over.

When he turned over, he saw a maid named Yu Ni next to Zhang Li entering the hospital.

"Sister Yuni?" Xiao Qi sat up and straightened the hair that had just been messed up when he was lying down.

"The slave has seen Miss Seven." Because of the closeness between Xiao Qi and Zhang Li, Xiao Qi, the maid next to Zhang Li, is familiar, and this Yu Ni is a personal maid next to Zhang Li.

"Didn't Sister Yuni go to the clinic with her big sister?"

Yu Ni was obviously stunned: "Oh, Miss Seven went to the courtyard just now?" ”

"I just went to the big sister's courtyard and saw that you and Sister Qianzhi were not there, and I thought you all went out with the big sister."

Yu Ni suddenly realized, sitting on the other side of Xiao Qi, Zhang Li didn't set any rules for her maid, so Xiao Qi didn't care too much.

"I'm also coming back halfway, and the eldest lady said that I was asked to pick up a hairpin she sent a few days ago."

"Hairpins?" Xiao Qi wanted to get up and take out the hairpin, and then thought of what Zhang Li had explained, so he said again: "Did the eldest sister make a mistake?" I don't have a hairpin from her. ”

Yu Ni looked at Xiao Qi carefully, wanting to see Xiao Qi and said, "The eldest lady said that the hairpin she sent to Miss Qi a few days ago was confused with another one, so she asked me to pick it up." ”

"Sister Yu Ni, I didn't receive the hairpin brought by the eldest sister here" Xiao Qi looked at Yu Ni with an innocent face.

"Since there isn't, then I'll go back and talk to the eldest lady first."

"Sister Yuni, don't worry, I'll go with you, if you go back like this, won't my eldest sister blame you for doing things badly, I'll go and make it clear to my eldest sister this time."

Xiao Qi said that he was about to pull Yu Ni out, but Yu Ni hurriedly persuaded, "What nonsense is Miss Qi talking about, don't you know what the eldest lady is like?" How could she blame me? ”

Yu Ni took advantage of the situation to tear off Xiao Qi's hand that was pulling her sleeve and walked out.

"Miss Seven, then you are busy first, and I will go back to report to Miss first."

"Sister Yu Ni walks slowly."

Xiao Qi silently watched Yu Ni walk outside the house, and then looked at the surrounding roofs without a trace, and after making sure that there was no one, he sat on the rattan chair under the tree and stared at the canopy in a daze.

......

"Seventh sister, come here, come here." Zhang Zhuqi beckoned Xiao Qi out of the courtyard.

It was already evening, and after dinner, several sisters got together and came to Xiao Qi's courtyard to greet Xiao Qi, ready to go to the study to find their grandfather.

"I don't know what our grandfathers are looking for us." A milky little girl said angrily, quite unhappy.

"Yun'er, grandfathers must have something to do to let you come back." Zhang Zhumeng laughed.

This milky girl is Zhang Zhuyun, the sixth lady of the Zhang family, she is wearing a shallow water blue skirt, with a bun on her head, a hosta lightly pulled, the hairpin tip is as thin as a small chain of water droplets, a slight shake is like a rain, and the best silk material moves slightly with the action, like the first bloom of the light plum.

"Xiao Qi, I heard that you have a thief in the courtyard today, sister, I am busy with business outside today, and I don't have time to see you."

The one who asked was Zhang Zhuya, the fourth lady of the Zhang family, today, several stewards of the Zhang family were all busy when Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Yihui entered the palace and did not return, so the business could only be taken care of by the two young ladies Zhang Zhuya and Zhang Zhuyun. It was also in the morning that the two of them heard that their grandfathers were looking for them, so they hurried back home after finishing the matter at hand.

"Thank you, Fourth Sister, for your concern, with Aunt Liu here, nothing happened."

"That's good, if there is a shortage of silver taels in the yard, ask your sixth sister for it, she has a lot of them."

There were no outsiders present, everyone laughed, knowing that although these six young ladies were good at making money, they were a little iron rooster in spending money, and Zhang Zhuya's words were to make fun of her.

Although Zhang Zhuyun is the same age as Xiao Qi, just because he was born a few days earlier than Xiao Qi, he often appears in front of Xiao Qi as Xiao Qi's sister, and now when he hears his sister ridiculing him, of course he will not be down, patted his chest and said: "Seventh sister can't worry, if there is anything missing in the courtyard, come to me to pick it up." ”

Since that incident, in recent years, Xiao Qi has declined their kindness many times, and even so, these people have sent a lot of things to her yard in various names.

It's just that those rare items Xiao Qi let Fan Wei sell them, and now Zhang Zhuya must want to seek some benefits for Xiao Qi in the name of being robbed in the courtyard, although he was moved, he couldn't accept it.

"The fourth sister and the sixth sister are at ease, there are still things distributed in the house in my hospital."

In a big family like the Zhang family, there will naturally be arrangements for the food and clothing of the young ladies in the house, and as for how you want to live, it depends on your own ability in each yard. Several sisters are not speechless, and every family has a difficult scripture to read, in which only the parties themselves know.

While it was not yet completely dark, the maids and servants were busy hanging lanterns in the courtyard, and when they saw a few young ladies coming, they hurriedly greeted the young ladies.

The old housekeeper Huang Shengrong also greeted him and said, "The young ladies are here, and the old men are already waiting for you in the study." ”

The old housekeeper Huang Shengrong followed Zhang Yizhi when he was a child, and like Mo Yan, he was Zhang Yizhi's right-hand man, and his status in the family was only a few principals in the house.

So the girls respected the old housekeeper very much, "Thank you, Grandpa Huang." ”

Huang Shengrong led the way in front, followed by the women, all the way to the courtyard of the study, and there seemed to be a noise in the study.

"Sir, the ladies are here."

"Come in." The noise in the study also stopped abruptly.

When the women went in, they saw Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Yihui sitting opposite each other at the moment, and the two of them were still a little angry, and there seemed to be residual anger on their faces.

Zhang Yizhi let go of the hand holding the armrest, suppressed his anger, and smiled: "You guys are here, sit down first." ”

Several girls felt that the atmosphere in the study was wrong, so they naturally didn't dare to be sloppy, and sat there obediently, waiting for Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Yihui to speak.

"I have called you here today to tell you that another distinguished guest will come to our house. This distinguished guest will stay at my Zhang house for a few days, and you ladies must not be rude. ”

"I wonder who came to the door?" As the eldest sister, Zhang Li naturally had to ask a few girls to make a good plan.

"You'll know when the time comes, I just want to give you a wake-up call today, and there are still a few days to enter the palace, and you can't be rude in front of the palace." Zhang Yizhi waved his hand, "Okay, you guys should step back first, I still have something to discuss." ”

"Xiao Qi, you stay." When everyone got up, Zhang Yihui spoke.

"Yes." Xiao Qi's head agreed, and he returned to his original seat and sat down.

Xiao Qi originally wanted to talk to Zhang Li about the hairpin when he went back, and it seemed that he was going to visit another day. Xiao Qi saw that the faces of the two grandfathers were not very good-looking, it should be due to the fatigue of the past two days.

The mysterious silence made Xiao Qi a little overwhelmed.

"Xiao Qi, do you know anything about your mother's family?" Finally, Zhang Yizhi broke this tranquility.

"When my mother was still alive, she didn't talk to me much about her family, but in recent years, Aunt Liu mentioned it to me, saying that my mother was originally the princess of Yue Kingdom, and she lost to my father in the competition, and then secretly eloped with my father to our country."

"Ahem." For Xiao Qi's words, two people over half a hundred years old still sound a little embarrassed. "Well, just ask your Aunt Liu, your Aunt Liu knows the most."

"You go back and talk to your Aunt Liu about the Liu family." Zhang Yizhi closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair, "Okay, you can go down too." ”

Seeing Xiao Qi squirming and staying in place, Zhang Yihui asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

"There is indeed a matter to be discussed with my grandfather."

"Oh? Let's take a look? ”

Xiao Qi told Zhang Yizhi about the process of picking up the hairpin, and repeated Zhang Biao's words to Zhang Yizhi.

"A hairpin?" Zhang Yizhi pondered for a moment after hearing this, "Well, I'll think about this matter first." ”

"That little seven retired first."

"Big brother, what did you say about this Xiaoqi?"

"Since the gentleman has spoken, there can be no falsehood."

"Why does the eldest brother believe in that yellow-haired boy so much?" Zhang Yihui is really not optimistic about that Zhang Biao, I don't know why Zhang Yizhi takes such a fancy to him.

"Second brother, you can't be so rude, you don't know Mr.'s talent yet." Zhang Yizhi smiled slightly, but there was a respectful look on his face, "There is no need to discuss this matter first, when the time comes, I will tell you some secrets of my Zhang family." ”

Zhang Yihui was very shocked, thinking that this person was actually involved in the secret of the Zhang family? There are some secrets of the Zhang family that can only be known by successive generations of family heads, and now Zhang Yizhi wants to say to him, doesn't it have another meaning?

Zhang Yizhi seemed to see what Zhang Yihui was thinking, "It's time to tell you these things, after all, the Holy Lord has made up his mind, and I don't have to keep this matter a secret." ”

Seeing Zhang Yizhi's loneliness, Zhang Yihui wanted to say something but didn't say it after all, he had already quarreled over this matter just now, and it was another argument when talking about it, so he could only sigh.

"It's all up to the eldest brother."