After Liu Zhen returned to the door, only three days passed, and Eleven Niang received the news that she was going to visit Xie Xiangfu - Mrs. Xiangguo, who is now one of her aunts and grandmothers, is about to celebrate this year's birthday, although it is not a full birthday, but as a sister-in-law, Mrs. Tai of course has to go to congratulate, Wu Niang, Qi Niang and Jiu Niang have to accompany her, and Eleven Niang has not been left behind.

She didn't have any pressure to meet Mrs. Wei, but she knew that she couldn't avoid Xie Raoping this time, although this person was not the culprit who caused her clan to perish, but he was also the main accomplice.

I am very familiar with the old times, and the personnel are completely different.

The car entered the house, although Eleven Niang heard the noise around her, but she was not interested in looking through the screen window, and even after getting out of the car, she also maintained her eyes without squinting, only worried that a casual glance would touch the flood of heart, and she reddened the corners of her eyes for no reason, and described angrily.

Although the Xie family did not invite guests and friends, the visitors who heard the news crowded in front of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and the stewards and servants were not at a loss.

The Liu family came early, but to the surprise of Eleven Niang, she did not experience the scene of the enemy seeing each other, and Mrs. Xiangguo gently confessed that "Xiangguo is entertaining guests in the front yard", and did not mention Xie Raoping a word.

Although Eleven Niang has to be valued by her grandmother, of course, she is not more conspicuous and outstanding than at home on such an occasion, and after following Wu Niang and others to bow to Mrs. Xiangguo, she sat beside Xiao in a daze for a while, and when Xiao and Wu Niang were led to the banquet hall, she was left by Mrs. Tai alone, and let the servants and maids lead them to the hall after the door, and talk to the two girls of her age in the Xie family.

The older one is called Xie Fei, the granddaughter of Xie Raoping's brother, at a young age, she has become accustomed to rolling her eyelids and looking at people, but the corners of her lips are always smiling, Eleven Niang took a closer look, only to find that the pear vortex on both sides of her grew too deep, and the corners of her lips were naturally upturned, in fact, she didn't smile at all, but she looked like she was laughing.

The younger one is called Xie Ying, the same age as Eleven Niang, this is Xie Raoping's son-in-law, her mother is also Wei's daughter, and she is the niece of Mrs. Xiangguo, she looks very weak, her eyebrows have been slightly frowned, quite sad, and silent, Eleven Niang has the heart to talk to her, she also ignored it, and even Xie Fei accosted her, but she just glanced at the past, fortunately, with this glance, Eleven Niang was convinced that she could hear people.

Although the three girls are close in age, because of their strangeness, Eleven Niang is naturally repulsive to the surname Xie, and is impatient to deliberately please, so the longer they sit, the more lonely they become, and then Xie Fei simply leaned on the couch and dozed off, and Eleven Niang and Xie Ying were even more relatively speechless.

In this way, Eleven Niang can easily hear the conversation between Mrs. Xiangguo and the visiting guests on the other side of the door.

Most of them are flattering and have little value.

Until a noble lady said: "I only recently heard that the Queen Mother actually helped to review the recital as early as the reign of the first emperor, and many government affairs were handled by the Queen Mother." ”

Eleven Niang immediately concentrated.

She had never heard of such a thing, and this woman had heard of it, and there must have been a reason for it.

Then Mrs. Xiangguo asked, "Where do you start with this?" ”

The woman was astonished: "Madame doesn't know?" This thing is by no means out of nothing, I have a cousin, married to Xuanpingfang Lu Zhai, not long ago invited a retired Si Zan for worship, is the queen mother served by the side of the female official, it is this Si Zan mentioned the old things, there is a well-founded, just one example, nine years of locust plague in Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places in Jiangnan Province, many officials think that it is the anger of the heavens, and the upper admonition should not exterminate the locusts but should sacrifice and pray for blessings, that is, the queen mother persuaded the first emperor to also focus on exterminating locusts and helping the disaster, so as to avoid thousands of people from starvation. ”

Eleven Niang seemed to hear Mrs. Xiangguo's cold snort, and as if she was stopped in time, so she didn't interrupt another eyeless lady to interject-

"Yes, yes, I also heard this, and even heard that one year on the eve of the Queen Mother's Thousand Autumns, Xianyi Guanxuanqing lay suddenly had a dream, saw an immortal lead her to a realm, fingered the fairy pond silently, after the Xuanqing monk divination, calculated that the fairy pond is in the south of the Yangtze River, so thousands of miles away, salvaged a stone from the fairy pond, there is handwriting, for the Virgin Hui Shi, Our Lady can not refer to the mother of the saint that is the current queen mother, it should be the immortal of Jiangnan also grateful for the queen mother has benefited the common people, so see the spirit stone praise."

"Is that really the case?"

"The Xuanqing monk also invited the spirit stone back to Kyoto as a congratulatory gift, but the queen mother ordered that it should not be publicized, so it was not spread."

Mrs. Xiangguo finally couldn't help it: "Since the Queen Mother has an order first, how dare the retired female official spread it casually?" ”

Eleven Niang couldn't help but cover her mouth: Mrs. Xiangguo is really a straight person, listening to this tone, it is quite true that she is not in harmony with the Queen Mother.

But I heard Mrs. Tai cough lightly: "The Queen Mother is merciful and has always been generous, so those female officials dare to do this." ”

The noble lady who mentioned Liu Xuanqing just now also smiled dryly: "This is not a bad thing, presumably the first emperor was also well aware of the queen mother's talent, so he was specially allowed to discuss national affairs, and the immortal manifestation praised it more auspiciously, the queen mother did not want to make a noise, it should be unwilling to take credit, and the female officials said it at this time, also because they admired the queen mother's talent." ”

Eleven Niang secretly thought about it, originally still speculating about when the Queen Mother would act, but she didn't expect that she had started the layout silently, but fortunately, she had already placed Yaoying's chess piece in place, and when Liu Xuanqing became more famous, it would be time to reveal the truth.

At this moment, Xie Ying, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly burst into tears, making Eleven Niang stunned, looking at the child like a ghost.

Many women on the other side of the fan also heard the sound, Mrs. Xiangguo simply and neatly let her daughter-in-law lead the guests to the table, and her birthday star walked around with Mrs. Tai, seeing that the servants and maids were in a mess, Xie Fei, who had just woken up, was rubbing her eyes in a daze, and her granddaughter was crying breathlessly, and she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.

"What's going on?"

This is also the doubt in Shi Niang's heart, she almost thought that Xie Ying was planning to frame a kind of trick because she didn't like her, but it turned out that Shi Niang was too "conspiracy theory" and overestimated Xie Ying's scheming.

The slaves knelt on the ground and couldn't answer a complete sentence, Xie Fei shook her head again and again to say that she didn't know, Eleven Niang also signaled to her that she didn't know what was going on in the face of Mrs. Tai's gaze, and Xie Ying finally turned from crying loudly to sobbing and choking under the comfort of her grandmother, and finally revealed the mystery: "Ying'er feels hungry ......"

"This child, if you feel hungry and ask your maid to offer a snack, today is a good day for your eldest mother, but you can't cry." Mrs. Tai couldn't help but teach.

Mrs. Xiangguo hurriedly defended her granddaughter: "Ying'er has always been timid, and besides, she is still young at this time, and she doesn't know these etiquette......"

"The ladies of the Wang family, at this age, some etiquette should be taught slowly, and you shouldn't get used to it." Mrs. Tai also taught her sister-in-law.

Mrs. Xiangguo said with a smile: "Ying'er is my eldest granddaughter, and it is inevitable to be accustomed to it. After speaking, in front of the three children and a room of servants and maids, he stabbed and asked, "Sister, in your opinion, what kind of idea is the Queen Mother playing?" ”

Mrs. Tai glanced at her sister helplessly, and didn't know what to say for a while.

Eleven Niang hurriedly interjected: "Eldest mother, granddaughter also feels hungry ......"

Mrs. Tai looked at Eleven Niang approvingly, and took Mrs. Xiangguo out: "Okay, okay, let's go to the table first, even the children are hungry." ”

Eleven Niang was led out by the nurse, and heard Mrs. Xiangguo complain in a low voice: "According to my temperament, I am really impatient to accompany him to act, this is my birthday, and I am most comfortable with a lively family for a day. Only then did Eleven Niang know that today's guests were all uninvited, which shows Xie Raoping's powerful position at this time, and thinks of the praise of the two ladies earlier for the talent and benevolence of the Queen Mother, so she naturally knows the name behind the "uninvited", slightly curled the corners of her lips, and her eyes were cold and cold.

And along the way, it is inevitable to witness the old scenes, a palm hanging down on her side is firmly clenched, Eleven Niang can only put all her attention on the unhurried pace, in order to ease the grief and nostalgia surging in her heart, but when she realizes that this winding road is leading to a very familiar place, she still almost can't hold herself.

At the end of the corridor, a turquoise screen door is wide open, the sound of silk and bamboo music has been faintly audible, Eleven Niang finally relied on gritting her teeth again to endure the tears that almost wanted to snatch her eyes back, she subconsciously raised her eyes, of course the old plaque was not there, black lacquer vermilion pen, at this time three big characters were written.

Bijing Garden.