Since the beginning of winter, the weather has become colder, and several heavy snowfalls have fallen in the capital one after another.

Ye Qiong finally received a reply from her aunt Ye Xilan recently, saying that she had sent a batch of good Su Jin to Ye Yao on the way, and said that her aunt would not arrive until a few days before Ye Yao's wedding, but she and her uncle had already sent someone north to rent a house near Xinghua Hutong, and decided to celebrate the New Year with the Ye family in the capital this year, and then leave after the New Year.

Ye Qiong read the letter carefully, but did not see a single word in the letter mentioning the Xie family in the capital.

It's really strange, since they are in the same capital, out of courtesy, the little aunt should also say a greeting in the letter, besides, the little aunt is already considered the Xie family, if you want to go to the capital, it is the most suitable to live in the Xie family in the capital, why rent a separate house?

Some things may not be known until I meet my aunt in person.

Ye Qiong simply put down the letter, picked up the pen and began to draw the drawings of the clothes to be given to Lu Shaodan.

The pattern of Ye Yao's wedding dress has been drawn, and it is being handed over to the embroiderer to make, and finally Ye Yao will embroider a few stitches by herself, and Ye Qiong will be able to free up her hands to start drawing patterns for Lu Shaodan.

promised Lu Shaodan, Ye Qiong has always kept it in her heart.

After finishing the stroke, Du Juan hurriedly entered the study, put the two letters on the table, and said, "Girl, Ye Er sent two letters, the above one is the news from the court collected by Lu Fuzi, and the following one is the letter sent by Pang Yujiao. ”

Ye Qiong bowed slightly, and first opened Lu Chunwang's letter.

Since Lu Chunwang became a staff member of the Ye family, Ye Qiong officially introduced Lu Chunwang to his eldest uncle Ye Zhujin. For Ye Qiong's optimistic person, Ye Zhujin naturally has nothing else to say, and Lu Chunwang has always followed Ye Zhujin to the household department as a personal scribe.

The letter wrote: Today, when I was walking with Uncle Zun in the household department, I happened to hear the household servant and Shangshu say that His Majesty reprimanded Xie Yongyan, a scholar of Dongge University, and Xie Maoshi, the left Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, for not cultivating personal morality and governing the family strictly, and handed over the errand of Xie Yongyan to host the year-end sacrifice to the head of the Ministry of Rites. Let me privately speculate that this move should be related to the previous incident at the Xie family's wedding banquet in the capital, in which the Xie family in the capital offended Wen Junbi, the servant of the ministry, and Li Guangji, the first assistant of the cabinet, and the Xie family in the capital was reprimanded for this, and the second girl Ye could take advantage of this matter.

Ye Qiong put down the letter with satisfaction, what Lu Chunwang guessed was probably the truth of the matter.

Lu Chunwang is really good, he said that he heard it by chance, how could he hear such news by chance? It must have been because he paid attention to everything and listened to all directions that he got these news.

Li Guangji's daughter is Wen Junbi's wife, Wen Aomei is Li Guangji's own granddaughter, Wen Aomei has suffered such a big grievance, Li Guangji and Wen Junbi, whether out of affection or reason, will not easily let go of the Xie family.

Ye Qiong smiled slightly and asked Du Juan, "How is the situation of the Xie family in the capital?" ”

The cuckoo also laughed and said, "I was about to talk to the girl." The rumor that Lord Xie was cuckolded and raised a fool for his brother-in-law spread all over the capital. I heard that the Wen family also hired someone to write a playbook, and they were about to spend money to arrange this matter into a song and put it on the stage to sing until the New Year. ”

"The Wen family knows how to be lively." Ye Qiong said with a smile, "Is there any news in the Xie Mansion in the capital about Xie Wanlan's elopement?" ”

Du Juan nodded and said, "Yes, and it's making a lot of noise, I heard that the Xie family pushed everything on Miss Xie's head, saying that she set up a bureau to slander her sister-in-law's innocence in order to elope, so that the fool was exposed to everyone." Ye Er also said that around the capital, the inventory has been much stricter in the past few days. Xie Fu sent many people, and they were asking around along the official road if anyone had seen Miss Xie. Fortunately, Miss Xie is still on the grange, otherwise she will be caught up sooner or later. ”

Ye Qiong bowed her head and opened the letter sent by Pang Yujiao again, her eyes lit up.

Although Pang Yujiao studied in the Ye family, she didn't learn it well, but the handwriting on this letter was super charming, and she knew at a glance that it was not written by Pang Yujiao. Since it is not Pang Yujiao, the person who wrote the letter must be Xie Wanlan, who lives in the Ye family grange.

In the letter, he first sincerely thanked Ye Qiong, and then talked to Ye Qiong in detail about Xie Wanlan's every move during the wedding banquet that day, and asked Ye Qiong to see if there were any omissions, please Ye Qiong be careful, she and Lu Yi are willing to listen to Ye Qiong's dispatch.

At the end of the letter, Xie Wanlan said another thing. It turned out that Xie Wanlan originally had a maid named Luo Xiang, who was given a second look by Xie Maoshi because of her beautiful appearance, and was forced to go over by You Shi, who didn't want to get along with Xie Maoshi, and turned around and gave Xie Maoshi as a concubine.

Xie Maoshi is not keen on women's affairs, because it was given by You Shi to spend a few nights here in Luo Xiang, but You Shi became jealous because of this, and put strong medicine in Luo Xiang's soup, making Luo Xiang unable to have children for the rest of his life.

Because he served Xie Wanlan and had to be helped by Xie Wanlan from time to time, he barely gained a foothold in Xie's mansion, and Luo Wanlan and Xie Wanlan had a good relationship, and Xie Wanlan only told Luo Xiang about elopement. Luo Xiang really hated You Shi and Xie Mao, if Ye Qiong still had arrangements for the Xie family in the capital in the future, Luo Xiang would be a good partner to work with.

At the end of the letter, it was also written that Luo Xiang had an elder brother outside, and he said how to contact Luo Xiang through Luo Xiang's brother.

Ye Qiong finished reading the letter and sighed deeply.

For Xie Wanlan, for Luo Xiang, and for himself in his previous life.

Ye Qiong stretched out her hand and threw the two letters into the charcoal basin, watching the flames in the charcoal basin swallow up the letter.

The cuckoo was beside Ye Qiong, looked at the charcoal basin and said in annoyance: "It's still too dangerous and inconvenient to send a message. If I can understand the affairs of the court and memorize it, if the girl wants to communicate with Lu Fuzi in the future, she only needs to pass through me. ”

Ye Qiong laughed, called for the cuckoo to come over, handed her a book on the shelf, and said, "I remember that you are literate, but as long as the sentences in the book are jerky, you can't read it." If you want to read, I'll teach you, you can take this book and read it first, and if you don't understand anything, just ask me. ”

The cuckoo was startled. Maids like them are already very outstanding if they can recognize a few words, let alone read.

Books are such precious things, and the study outside has to be sold for one or two pieces of silver, so the girl lends it to herself, and teaches her personally, which really does not treat herself as a person.

The cuckoo's eyes suddenly turned red, and he wanted to return the book, but he was reluctant to let go, so he only muttered: "Girl......"

Ye Qiong was about to persuade a few more words, but Su Kite knocked on the door outside the door and asked, "Girl, can I come in?" ”

Ye Qiong agreed, and Su Kite walked into the study with a happy face, and didn't even pay attention to the cuckoo who secretly wiped her tears, smiled and brought a piece of paper to Ye Qiong, and said: "Girl, look, this is a book sent by the yamen, my sister only glanced at it, and insisted that she must show it to the girl, so I took it over." ”

Ye Qiong was very pleasantly surprised and asked, "The verdict of the yamen has come down?" ”

Liuying also walked in, and said with a smile: "Come down, that Hua Xiucai was sentenced to a year and a half in prison, and Xiucai's reputation was also revoked." Such a big happy event, Su Kite can please go back to the east, girl, let's knock her bamboo bar together! ”

Ye Qiong chuckled, but Su Yuan blushed in embarrassment, took a sip of the liuying, and said, "Don't you know, I've been short of money lately, so how can I have extra money for you to eat." ”

As he spoke, Su Kite took out a small box from behind her, put it in front of Ye Qiong, and said, "Girl, this is a thank you gift from me and the Wandering Warbler and the Cuckoo. The girl was in a bad mood before, so we discussed and got together a part to buy you a gift, and I will pay the bulk of the money, I hope you can smile. However, seeing that the girl has been in a good mood recently, we can also rest assured. ”

Ye Qiong was stunned for a moment, with mixed feelings in her heart, and reached out to open the small box, which was an uncarved Shoushan stone, or a rare peach blossom jelly stone in Shoushan stone, the price was expensive, even if it was a big girl like Su Kite, it would cost more than half a year to buy such a small piece.

Ye Qiong closed the box, she was so moved that she called the three maids over, took their hands, and said, "I just told the cuckoo, and now I will say it to the liuying and the su kite, if you want to read and write, I will teach you personally, if you have any questions, just come and ask me." ”

The faces of the warbler and the kite, who had always been cautious, asked, "Girl, is this too excessive?" ”

Ye Qiong shook his head and said, "Not to mention that I have already returned your deed of sale to you, you are already free." Let's talk about my current identity, I am a disciple of Mr. Zou, if my maid can also read and write, it is also a beautiful talk to say. What's more, reading is reasonable, there are only benefits, no disadvantages, which is not overstepping. ”

Su Kite nodded.

Ye Qiong said again: "This time Sumei's incident made me think of some things. Among you, the cuckoo twelve, the wandering warbler and the plain kite fourteen, when I am and Lu, you have all reached the age of marriage. Don't worry, my marriage is up to me, who you like, remember to tell me first, I'll help you check, if the other party is good, I will personally prepare a dowry for you to marry in style. Just remember, don't say nothing like Su Kite this time, with me behind, don't be afraid! ”

These words were all Ye Qiong's heartfelt words, and a few maids burst into tears when they heard it, and Liuying was the first to say: "Girl, I won't marry, I want to serve the girl for the rest of my life!" ”

Ye Qiong glared at her and said, "This can't be done, I can't support you for a lifetime." ”

A joke, I heard that a few maids broke their skills and laughed.

As for the friendship between each other, several people have their own numbers in their hearts.

Ye Qiong sighed in her heart.

In his previous life, if it weren't for the fact that these three maids were waiting for him in the Korean Mansion, and even lost their lives for this, I am afraid that he would not have survived for half a year in the Korean Mansion.

In this life, I probably have to take good care of them.

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On the other side of the capital Xie's house, Xie Yongyan was sitting on the main seat, listening to the visiting Ye Chanyan.

Ye Chanyan sat on the guest seat and said clearly: "Now that the Wen family has withdrawn from the Xie family, my Ye family wants to do the same." But I thought that since I had already decided to change the Geng post, it was a promise between the two families, and the Ye family should not be so treacherous as a scholar, so I came to ask the Xie family, what kind of explanation will this matter give me? ”

The sentence "the Wen family's treachery" appropriately slapped the sycophants, which made Xie Yongyan's mood very depressed by the impeachment a lot more comfortable, he squinted at Ye Chanyan, and said after a long time: "What kind of official is the Metropolitan Procuratorate Zhaoma, Maoshi has already told you." In this way, my Xie family still has two money houses in the capital, and they are also given to the Ye family as a dowry, how about it? ”

It means that you can't be promoted, but you can give more money.

Ye Chanyan smiled, with disdain in his smile, and said, "I don't know if Scholar Xie has ever seen my eldest son, Ye Huan, who is studying in Wenshan Academy and is outstanding in his studies. I've heard that Kyoto Kunikogen is the number one university in the world, and I've always longed for it. ”

Xie Yongyan's face was cold, what Ye Chanyan meant was that he didn't want money if he wasn't promoted, but he wanted Xie Yongyan to stuff Ye Huan into the Guozi Prison.

Stuffing a person into the Guozijian is just a gesture for Xie Yongyan.

What Xie Yongyan was dissatisfied with was Ye Chanyan's shameless attitude of sitting on the ground. The person who can sell his daughter, and must sell it for the highest price, has to be careful that he will be stabbed in the back.

Xie Yongyan took a sip of tea, changed his face instantly, and said with a smile: "This matter is easy to do, when Ling Ai marries, Ling Lang is the in-law of the Xie family in the capital, and the Guozijian will naturally sell me face." ”

Ye Chanyan's face flashed with a hint of ecstasy, and Xie Yongyan could see it clearly, and he was even more displeased with Ye Chanyan in his heart.

Such a trivial matter is worth being so happy, and it is still a broken household that cannot be put on the table. If it weren't for the fact that his son's mess was too big and needed to be suppressed by the marriage between the daughter of the Ye family and the adulterous son, Xie Yongyan was reluctant to come forward to talk to Ye Chanyan about the marriage in person.

After finalizing the marriage, Xie Yongyan said to his subordinates with a cold face: "Spread the news that the daughter in the second room of the Ye family is willing to take the initiative to marry that fool, remember to add the treacherous words of the Wen family, the more widely spread the better." ”

The subordinate responded, and Xie Yongyan asked again: "Is there no news from Visiting Lan yet?" ”

The subordinate said no, and Xie Yongyan said: "It doesn't work here, so let's go and find out who she has met before and who she has had a personal relationship with." I don't believe that such a person can disappear from the capital without the help of others! ”