After Xiao Qing and Zhou walked out of the restaurant, they went to the grain shop and bought some millet and white rice, as well as lard, as well as some pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and cabbage, pickled dried radish, salted beans, fresh bamboo shoots, kimchi, and other sun-dried beans, lentils, etc., and only went home after the dishes were ready.

Almost every time I come to the county these days, I go home with a full car, Zhou is used to it, it seems that there are a lot of them today, my mother is looking forward to Qiao Hong and Qiao Fang coming back, so I have prepared so much.

In the evening, Hou's house.

The Hou Mansion is the courtyard of the five entrances, Qiao Fang lives in the lower room on the edge of the wall on the outermost floor of the inner courtyard, which is reserved for the maids who live in the night room, and there are currently three maids in the Hou Mansion at night, one of the housekeepers and aunts, and two maids, one of whom is Qiao Fang.

It is only separated from the houses of the outcourt boys by a wall.

Tonight it was Qiao Fang's roommate Jiang Ling's turn to keep watch at the night door, last night, and didn't sleep well during the day, Qiao Fang went back to the residence early in the evening.

Qiao Fang was alone in the house with an abacus bead, which she picked up from the housekeeper's wife when she was sweeping the floor, she had seen the shopkeeper fiddle with this bead to calculate such a big number, she thought it was amazing, so she picked it up.

She likes the life in the Hou Mansion very much, although it is hard to stay up late, but there is food and bed to sleep here, and the aunt in charge does not beat her, at most when she looks at the night, she meets the little maids and little masters in the house, and from time to time she will tease a few words and pass, and will not do anything to her, the only bad thing is that there is too much free time, and there are many hours of being alone in a daze.

Many maids in the house have nothing to do and sit together and chat, talking about the prince and trivial matters inside and outside the house, but she doesn't like to talk to people, sitting alone and playing with her fingers, to Leng Hua.

Until now, many people in the house have not seen her, and they don't seem to know that she exists.

After Jiang Ling pushed the door in, the corners of his mouth were smiling, his face was ruddy, and he seemed to be thinking about things with disgust.

When Qiao Fang saw her, she just glanced at her, then lowered her head and continued to think about her own business.

After Jiang Ling came in, she saw that Qiao Fang was still indifferent and cold, and she lowered her head after a hurried glance.

She was in a good mood today, because she was an ambiguous little girl, and finally took the initiative to ask her to meet in private.

Today, she got the instructions of the jade shopkeeper, and asked her to let Qiao Fang meet the prince as soon as possible, offend the prince, before the jade shopkeeper asked her to promote Qiao Fang and the prince to meet as soon as possible, she was very unconvinced, why let Qiao Fang take a step forward, so she often inquired about the late return of the prince, and took the initiative to change to the night work, and happened to meet the son.

Now that the jade shopkeeper has made Qiao Fang offend the prince, it is a joy for her, she is going to make an appointment with someone, and she no longer thinks about the son, as for how to offend, Qiao Fang's expression will offend people wherever she goes!

She walked up to her, as if to show off and as if to question.

"Qiao Fang, you can help me go to the night tonight!" Jiang Ling said in a coquettish voice.

Qiao Fang: "......"

Jiang Ling talked to Qiao Fang ten times and got no response nine times, but her grinding skills are not comparable to ordinary people.

She walked up to Qiao Fang and pulled Qiao Fang's sleeve, and Qiao Fang reflexively withdrew her hand.

"Qiao Fang, he finally asked me to meet tonight, I can't miss the appointment, you help me for one night, and I'll help you for two nights in the future?" Jiang Ling pleaded.

Qiao Fang said, "No, I'm going to sleep." ”

With that, she turned around and took off her shoes, turned around and lay down on the bed.

Jiang Ling hugged Qiao Fang's upper body: "Please, please, you can help me go in the evening, I promise you, in the future, the jade shopkeeper will ask about you, and I will never gossip with her again." ”

Qiao Fang opened her eyes: "......"

She told the jade shopkeeper about her?

"Xiaofang, if you help me go for one night, I'll go for one night, and I'll help you go for two nights later, okay? This is the first time he has asked me out, if I don't go, I may have to find a slave to marry in the future, Xiaofang, you help me for one night? Jiang Ling begged unrelentingly.

Qiao Fang clasped her hands on her chest and closed her eyes, but she still shouldn't.

No matter what she said to the jade shopkeeper, she hadn't done anything wrong, and she wasn't afraid of her.

"Qiao Fang, please, if you don't speak again, I will treat you as a promise, you help me go to the night tonight, and I will help you go to the night tomorrow and tomorrow!" Jiang Ling settled the matter alone.

Qiao Fang wanted to open her mouth to refuse, but Jiang Ling got up and ran quickly to the door.

"If you agree, I won't tell my aunt, let's talk in private! lest my aunt scold the two of us again! Jiang Ling stood at the door and didn't allow Qiao Fang to refuse her

After saying that, he got up and closed the door with a smile.

Qiao Fang sat up, her mouth didn't have time to open, and when she saw her close the door, she shouted unhappily: "Jiangling...... JMC! ”

It's just that the Jiangling people have gone far.

After the others left, Qiao Fang's face was tense, since she came to the Hou Mansion, she never said much about big and small things, Jiangling, this woman, in order to meet her lover, actually let her go to the night for two consecutive days, and she would help later, but none of them would be cashed in, and she would not tell the aunt in charge every time, and let her not say it!

was forced to be helpless, if she didn't go, and it was found that no one kept vigil at night, and the two of them would be punished together.

Qiao Fang had no choice but to quickly close her eyes and rest, and when she was going to go to the night.

At the first watch, Qiao Fang sat alone under the porch and waited for the fifth watchman to change the door, and the hours passed little by little.

Qiao Fang listened to the second and third watch's sticks, thinking that no one was going back to the inner house this night, so she leaned on the porch and closed her eyes.

On weekdays, the latest person to come back at night from the Hou Mansion is Shizi, but when Shizi returns late, most of them are Jiangling guarding the door, and there should be no one tonight.

She squinted for a moment, feeling so cold, and got up to take shelter from the wind on the promenade.

The night breeze in autumn was still a little cold, so she sneezed so cold that she went into the porch.

I hadn't taken a few steps when I heard a noise in the grass in the inner courtyard around the corner.

"Oh...... Uh-huh......" A cry came from the grass under the porch, and the woman's delicate gasp was heard.

Although Qiao Fang is young, she knows the rules of turning a blind eye and hearing in the Hou Mansion, even if she really sees something, pretending to be blind and pretending to be deaf, don't say it if she bites her mouth, her aunt in charge said that only in this way can she live safely, so she has always kept it in mind.

"Uh...... Ning Jiao, my delicate ......"

"Second brother, second brother...... Quick, uh-huh......"

Qiao Fang was familiar with this voice, she had met it once or twice before, but she didn't know who it was, and she had never told anyone.

She realized that she had bumped into something she shouldn't have bumped into again, and turned around and quietly wanted to leave, hoping that the other party wouldn't find her, but at this time, she didn't have a nose and sneezed again.

As she walked around the corner under the cloister, the two men in the grass heard her sneezing.

"Yes...... People, people, second brother! ”

"Ning Jiao, how could there be anyone?"

"Second brother, under the porch, I heard a voice, he found us, quick!"

(End of chapter)