"Really, you're so thoughtful." Xinghua looked at Xin Nian with great interest: "Auntie, why don't we go over and have fun?" It's to buy seven or eight girls, and grandma has nothing to say if you want to, and the situation in our yard is now here."

Xin Nian didn't know what she was thinking, Xinghua called twice in a row, she came back to her senses, raised her eyebrows, and said softly: "I should go to grandma's place, but we don't have to join in this fun, maybe, I may be there to spoil the fun."

"Huh?"

Xinghua and Jin Needle were stunned, but Xin Nian didn't say much, turned around and took off the cloak from the hanger, shook it off and put it on herself. Xinghua hurriedly rushed over to help her tie the belt, and wondered, "Where is my aunt going?"

"Go to the study, ask the prince for a show, and by the way, see if the two of them have finished the exam. You don't have to follow, just go over by myself, and the people in this house who can eat me have not yet been born."

"Hey! My aunt laughed again."

Xinghua stomped her feet, but when she saw Xin Nian's rare smile, she was also relieved: the princess has passed away for so many days, and her aunt's former spirit has finally returned.

When he came to the study, his homework had already been completed, and Xin Nian saw Gu Changting looking sullen, and couldn't help but be surprised: "What? Didn't Liuzai learn well? Then you don't have to be in a hurry, the child is still young......

"No, Liuzi is very good, better than when I was a child." Gu Changting handed a letter on the table to Xin Nian: "Eldest sister's family letter, brother-in-law ...... a few days ago He also passed away due to illness."

"Huh?" Xin Nian took the letter, and before he could read it, he was stunned by Gu Changting's words. It took a long time before he let out a long sigh and muttered, "What's going on? Are these days the days when Lord Yama receives people? How do you do this one by one...... No, my lord, let's invite the monks to come over and do a ritual."

Gu Changting smiled bitterly: "You're confused, aren't you? Although that's my brother-in-law, they are the Anguo Mansion, what does it have to do with our family? Besides, I have never believed in these monks, so when did my ancestor and mother have this idea."

Xin Nian sat down opposite Gu Changting, and when she saw Liuzai coming over, she hugged her son, took out a silk to wipe his face, and said, "It's too hot in this house, and since there is an earth dragon, you can remove those pots of charcoal fire, otherwise it will be warm at this time, go out and let the wind blow, maybe you will catch a cold."

Gu Changting hurriedly said, "You are right." So he asked a few pots of charcoal that were burning brightly to be removed.

I heard Xin Nian sigh again: "The eldest sister is also a hard worker, I just hope that after this blow, she will not be too depressed. Yes, did you send someone there?"

"It's already gone." Gu Changting rubbed his temples: "I haven't told my mother the news I just got, I don't know how sad she is going to be."

Xin Nian was silent, and secretly said in his heart: Isn't this retribution? It's just that it shouldn't be, one person does things and one person does it. It was the princess who was killed by the concubine, and she should not be retributed to her son-in-law's daughter.

Just thinking about it, I heard Gu Changting ask, "Nian Nian, you came here just to see how Liuzai's homework is?"

"It's not." Xin Nian shook his head: "I've been busy with my sister's funeral these days, and now that everything is over, I see that the manpower in my courtyard is really insufficient, so I came to ask you for an idea."

Gu Changting said with a smile: "Let's go, don't look angry at this time, if you don't have enough manpower, you can add it, if you don't have it in the house, you can buy it from outside, why do you still need to discuss it with me?" Isn't it hard for you?"

"How so? Don't wronged grandma." Xin Nian smiled: "I was thinking, my sister is gone, her courtyard will be empty, and there are not too many people over there, it is better to call a few to serve in my courtyard, I like them to follow my sister to do things steadily." In another year or two, Liuzai and Yaya should also have two more people who act safely, so it is better to let them help me take care of the little girls, and then it will be enough to add or subtract."

"That's better, they're all willing to follow you."

Gu Changting was the first to praise kindness. Xin Nian smiled, "It's good if you agree. I'm afraid that I will leave them behind rashly, and people will say that I am frivolous, and that an aunt is worthy of the people who serve the princess?"

"How can there be such a statement? Let me say, Fengrong Quanxia has knowledge, and she will be gratified, she has always been kind and gentle, if she knows that her girls have

She will be happy if you take care of it."

"Yes." Xin Nian nodded: "I will not let down my sister."

Coming out of the study, Xin Nian looked around, and then went to Princess Qin's courtyard.

In the cold winter, the dark clouds in the sky cover the sun, and the yard is full of old trees and withered vines, which is even more cold and desolate.

An old woman sat on the stone pier, her eyes were a little dull, her gray hair and shabby cotton jacket were blown by the wind, and when she saw Xin Nian, she didn't know how to salute, and she didn't even get up.

"What's wrong with Mother Hu?" Xin Nian frowned, feeling that something was wrong: "Also, what about the people in the courtyard? Where have they gone?"

After calling twice in a row, this Hu's mother came back to her senses, saw her, hurriedly stood up, and listened to Xin Nian ask where everyone had gone? She replied in a daze, "We all packed up our things, and my grandmother sent someone over, saying that as soon as the princess dies, we will no longer be from the Duanwang Mansion, and she will sell us, let us pack up our things, and Renyazi will come to collect people tomorrow morning."

Xin Nian sneered: "I'm really guessing correctly, grandma is grandma in the end, and she won't give up if she doesn't do things perfectly."

Then he asked, "Then all the people in this courtyard are going to be sold?"

"Not really. Sister-in-law Chen, Sister Lin, and Shuangyun and Shuangxi, the two girls, have all been arranged to do things elsewhere."

"Just a few of them? Everybody else wants to sell? No one else has been left behind?"

Xin Nian knew that the few who were left behind were the eyeliners that Concubine Liao and the Liao family had planted here, but according to the judgment, there should be one or even two people who would be left behind.

"Oh, Aunt Fang and Ling'er in the small kitchen were called by the concubine the day before yesterday, saying that the dim sum they made was good, and they would keep it in the concubine's courtyard in the future. They have a good life, and they have a good job with their skills."

"That's it."

Xin Nian's eyes turned red, and a wave of grief and indignation surged into her heart, she clenched her fists fiercely for a long time, before she slowly breathed and released her fingers one by one, nodded and repeated in a deep voice: "That's it."

"Auntie."

Mother Hu looked at Xin Nian blankly, and saw her waving her hand, "It's nothing. It's cold outside, you go and sit in the porter, don't worry, everything is with me, and I won't let you be sold."

"Auntie."

Mother Hu was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Xin Nian in surprise as if she had come to life, but saw that she had already gone up the steps with Shi Shiran, and soon entered the main room.