The door opened instantly, and Mu Niangzi walked out in a long white jacket supported by two women. Her hair is in a towering bun, a peony flower is inserted between her temples, and the pearls on her ears are fluttering, accompanied by a charming smile on her face, fresh and refined.

My eyes only lingered on her face for a moment, and then unconsciously fell on her abdomen, but because the months were too young, I couldn't tell that she was pregnant.

"Ouch, the sun looks warm outside, but there's a cool breeze." Steward Qian changed his face, rushed into the house quickly, took out a bright red cloak and tied it to Mu Niangzi personally.

"Okay, how can I be so squeamish." Mu Niangzi smiled helplessly, pointed to the stone table in front of her, and said to me, "Why don't you bask in the sun here?" ”

"Yes." I answered, nodded at the warm heart on the left of Mu Niangzi, and glanced at the woman on her right, who was also dignified and beautiful, looking older than warm heart, I don't know if it was the brocade in her early thirties that Wang Jiajia mentioned before.

"Sit! When did it become so restrictive? In the New Year's Day, you come to the door to be a distinguished guest, Xianglan, tea! Mu Niangzi smiled and sat down first.

I glanced at the matted stone bench and sat on it carefully, feeling softer than sitting on my own bed.

"Sudden visit today, disturbed." I bowed my head and said, I go to Wang Jiajia and their house on weekdays, and I am really not used to it.

"Jiajia's matter, I'm also sad. She was buried yesterday morning, and I prepared a good coffin for her. Mu Niangzi said, sighing heavily: "It's a pity, she is still so young, she said that she wants to learn makeup from me, and wants to marry herself beautifully, and she hasn't learned the technique yet." ”

"Lady, people can't be resurrected after death, please mourn, don't be sad, so as not to move the fetus." Warm-hearted persuasion.

I glanced at her suspiciously, thanks to Wang Jiajia still treating her as her best friend, how could I hear her without sadness?

"Please use it slowly!" A woman came over with a tray and placed a cup of hot tea in front of me, then handed another bowl with a spoon to Mrs. Mu.

"She is the maid I bought yesterday, Dongsheng named her Xianglan, the fragrance of the fragrance, the Lan of the mountain." Mu Niangzi introduced.

"Oh, thank you!" I nodded slightly, blurted out, and I was confused after speaking, as a guest, do I need to thank her maid?

Sure enough, Steward Qian couldn't help laughing: "Master, he's really polite!" ”

Mu Niangzi glanced at him, got up and grabbed the woman's arm: "Li Jianghu, look up, don't you think she looks like an old man?" ”

Old friend? I looked at it curiously, and suddenly I felt dizzy, and I couldn't help but call out her name: "Jiajia!" ”

Mu Niangzi smiled slightly: "Do you think she also looks like Jiajia?" ”

I carefully looked at the woman in front of me, and saw that her slender eyebrows, big bright eyes, her face was delicate and flushed, and her two red lips were slightly raised, and she smiled at me lightly, and quickly lowered her head.

"Like, face shape, lips, no, eyes, her eyes, especially like!" I became excited for a moment, looked at it again, and was disappointed: "It's just a little bit like it." ”

Wang Jiajia, a woman I know very well, she is no longer there. Even though the woman in front of her is similar to her between her eyebrows and eyes, her appearance is obviously different, her skin is delicate and shiny, and there is no unique scar on Wang Jiajia's left face.

"Yesterday I buried Jiajia and came back, and I suddenly pulled me and said that she and Jiajia looked quite alike, and I saw that it was so, and I saw that she was living alone on the street, so I bought it into the house." Mu Niangzi said, waving her hand: "You go down, and bring him a bowl of lotus root flour balls." ”

"Yes." Xianglan replied, and even her voice was much softer than Jiajia's.

I suddenly thought of what Xiao Mu had said, and asked, "Did you buy this maid?" ”

Mu Niangzi took a bite of the balls and pointed left and right: "Jinxiu has been serving by my side for almost four years. Warm-hearted, I just entered the house four months ago, don't you know? ”

"With such a big mansion, you are only three maids?" I glanced at the money steward, counting him, is it only four servants?

The corners of Mu Niangzi's mouth hooked up a vague smile: "There is another, hehe, a fine work, who is washing clothes in the backyard." Do you want to see it? is also good enough, but unfortunately, I am not kind and dare to calculate me.

On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, Dongsheng was wrongfully accused of cutting off Aunt Zhu's tongue, and it was that slut who encouraged me to go to Yunyin Nunnery to offer incense, and since then I have felt that there is something wrong with her. Since she is willing to be my maid, if she doesn't train her well, she really can't stand my Uncle Huang's hard work. ”

I finally breathed a sigh of relief: "You know everything? ”

"Of course, I don't have sand in my eyes!"

"Lady, the clothes and bedding have been washed." Another maid trotted over and said to Mu Niangzi, but her eyes secretly looked at me a few times.

Could it be that Xiao Mu mentioned her in the private room? She is the fine work that the lord planted in the Mu Mansion?

"Oh, Siyu, it's hard work, can you go and see if Ouyang's firewood is finished? Move all the firewood to the firewood room and stack it, and you will have to eat when you finish your work. Mu Niangzi said gently, but there was some viciousness in her words.

"Yes, lady." Siyu wiped the sweat from her face and went to the front yard.

"Small money." Mu Niangzi beckoned: "You go to the backyard to see, are Siyu's bedding ready?" Don't fall to the ground when the cold wind blows, or you'll have to wash it again. ”

Steward Qian was slightly stunned, then hid his face and smiled: "Yes, the slave understands!" With that, he went to the backyard.

Mu Niangzi stirred the contents of the bowl with a spoon: "Hmph, if you want to spy on me, you have to have physical strength, since you want to be my maid, I'll let her do enough!" ”

"Lady, if you force her like this, I'm afraid that she will jump off the wall in a hurry, in case she secretly makes a bad ......," said warmly and worriedly.

"That's right, you should pay more attention on weekdays, if she dares to attack me, she will just beat me out, and let Uncle Huang see how incompetent his appearance is." Mu Niangzi smiled slyly, and it seemed that everything was under control.

"Lady." Xianglan brought another bowl of lotus root flour balls, still keeping her head down and not daring to look at me.

"Come, Li Jianghu, eat quickly."

"I ...... I have no appetite. I sighed softly and couldn't help but look at Xianglan a few more times.

"Xianglan, you feed him!"

"Huh? No...... ......I was ashamed of myself, and seeing that Xianglan had scooped up a ball and sent it to my mouth, I quickly took the bowl and spoon in her hand and ate it myself.

"How does it taste?"

I pursed my lips: "It's delicious." ”

"What Wen Xin said just now is right, people can't be resurrected after death, even if you don't eat or drink, Jiajia will come back to life? She has a spirit in the sky, and it will hurt to see you hungry. Mu Niangzi persuaded.

I stuffed another ball into my mouth and swallowed it fiercely: "Boss, do you know how Jiajia died?" ”

"There are rumors in the inn that she was given an ecstasy needle, controlled her mind, and wanted to assassinate Qincha, but you killed her by mistake."

"No, that's not the case." I put down the bowl and got excited again: "She just happened to come into the room, she didn't do anything." It was Xiao Mu, it was Xiao Mu who killed her with his own hands, and then framed us. ”

"Xiao Mu? You mean...... Wang Jiajia was killed by Qincha? Steward Qian just came back, looked at Mu Niangzi in shock, and wanted to say something, but swallowed it raw.

I also looked at Mu Niangzi sadly: "No one believes my words, boss lady, you ...... Believe me? ”

"Believe, of course I do!" Unexpectedly, Mu Niangzi actually replied affirmatively.

This flattered me: "Do you really believe me? Do you believe that Xiao Mu will kill people? Do you believe that he will betray Datang? ”

"Presumptuous, how could Qin Cha betray the Tang Dynasty?" Jinxiu on the side suddenly got angry, and then smiled and bowed to Mu Niangzi: "Lady, don't listen to his nonsense!" ”

"I believe him, what kind of person is Xiao Mu, don't you three know yet? That guy is a complete bastard, what can't he do? Mu Niangzi scolded.

I saw that Steward Qian, Nuan Xin, and Jinxiu were not at ease, the three of them glanced at each other, and Steward Qian finally asked with a smile, "Master, are you okay?" ”

Mu Niangzi took another bite of the ball: "What's wrong with me, it's that I'm watched by you all day long, I can't go anywhere, and I'm in a panic." ”

I thought of Lei Thorn Shi's entrustment, and respectfully bowed my hand to Mu Niangzi: "The boss lady is chivalrous and courageous, I don't know if she can help me dissuade Xiao Mu to protect the peace of Xiangzhou." ”

Mu Niangzi looked at me, her eyes seemed to be able to see me through, and she said slowly: "You are not small, aren't you small?" Do you want me to help you kill Chin Cha? ”

"No, I...... I just can't let him form an alliance with the Lord of Xiang and mess with my territory in Xiangzhou. "I tried to defend myself, thinking that if I put righteousness in front of personal vendettas, I would always let them take action.

Mu Niangzi smiled slightly, and called softly: "Senior brother, Li Jianghu asked us to help him kill Mu You, do you want to do it?" ”

"I've washed my hands a long time ago, how can I do these things again? Besides, I used to make a deposit of 2,000 taels of silver, can he afford it? ”

I turned my head to look, and I didn't know when Ouyang Daxia, who was still chopping wood by the stable in the front yard, stood beside me. His words were very soft, but they made people feel chills in their hearts.

"Silver? I haven't paid off the money he borrowed from him to build a house. How can there be a deposit of two thousand taels for you? Looking at him, I'm afraid he wants to ask us to do it for free, right? Mu Niangzi smiled and shook her head.

"Alright." Jinxiu said angrily, pulled Ouyang Daxia over, and carefully wiped the dust on his forehead with a handkerchief: "Didn't you say that you won't go back to your old business?" Xian'er is messing around, why are you going crazy with her? If County Lieutenant Mu knows, wouldn't he blame you for not taking good care of you? ”

Beautiful...... She is so intimate with Ouyang Daxia, and she still calls Mu Niangzi's maiden name? Hearing what she said, Ouyang Daxia was actually afraid of County Lieutenant Mu? Isn't he the master of Mu County Lieutenant?

Mu Niangzi frowned, and said in embarrassment: "Li Jianghu, you see, people's daughters-in-law don't agree with him to make a move, and I am also pregnant now, I'm afraid I can't help it." So, please go back to the history of the Thunder Thorn and the matter of Xiangzhou, and let him figure it out by himself. ”