On the night when Gu's mother and daughter were imprisoned in the ancestral hall by Tao Yongjin, Tao Jiang heard a report from someone - saying that the two of them were doing well in the ancestral hall.

The mother-in-law in the second room stuffed some broken silver for the guard, so she easily stuffed a brocade quilt inside, handed over the stove, and even more excessively, not only did she send three meals a day in the kitchen, but I heard that she also sent some sweet soup snacks from time to time.

Tao Jiang frowned and called Steward Chen, only saying that the ancestor of the Tao family had given her a dream, saying that there were unscrupulous descendants eating and drinking in the ancestral hall, disturbing them under the Nine Springs.

Steward Chen is a personal elf, and he understands it in a few words--

Where has Tao Jiang seen those ancestral immortals in the ancestral hall! It's just that I don't want the second room to have a good time!

So he immediately scolded the guard at the entrance of the ancestral hall, and gave a strict order - that is, flies can't fly in all the time!

There are no flies in this cold winter, it is nothing more than the idea of cutting off the Gu family's mother and daughter to get supplies from outside.

Kneeling in the ancestral hall, you have to have the appearance of a kneeling ancestral hall!

In this way, Tao Jiang was still not satisfied - compared to the damage inflicted on the original body by the Gu family in the book, kneeling in the ancestral hall was nothing.

So she asked him to find a reliable man, and when the night was dark and windy, she did something to the window lattice of the ancestral hall - there was no need to let the window be so bad that it needed to be overhauled, but two of them leaked a little wind for some reason.

In the second half of the year, everyone is very busy, and this window lattice, which can be repaired and not repaired, is naturally scheduled to be talked about after the new year.

It's just that the continuous northwest wind day and night almost froze half of Gu's mother and daughter.

On this day, Tao Jiang looked dizzy when he looked at the bill, and asked who handled this matter when he had nothing to do, and he didn't want Citrus Aurantium's face to turn red into a ripe apple.

Tao Jiang was interested.

After a long time, I saw Citrus with both hands twisting the handkerchief, and humming a few times in his throat and eyes like mosquitoes and flies:

"It's my distant cousin, the ...... who helped you send a letter to Wang San last time."

Tao Jiang then remembered that Tang Shi often mentioned her distant cousin, saying that she was smart and diligent.

This person entered the Tao Mansion a year later than Citrus Shi to work as a small servant, and he was a rough guy who did some sprinkling and sweeping in the outer courtyard.

The last time he told him to send the letter to Wang San, and spread the limerick poems in the streets and alleys of Dongcheng, this person did things quickly and well, took some copper coins to find a group of little beggars, and in one night the limericks were spread to everyone in the streets and alleys.

Because it was inconvenient for the foreign man to enter the inner courtyard, Tao Jiang did not specially recruit this person afterwards, but only instructed Tang Shi to take ten taels of silver to him, and he should be grateful.

Listening to the mention of Citrus Fruit again today, Tao Jiang will have the heart to see it.

Now all his thoughts are on the store, and there is always someone to help him keep an eye on the second room and the Gu family.

Citrus is loyal, but she is a woman after all, and she can't go to many places, and she can't get a lot of information.

If there is a person in the outer courtyard who can go out often and has an active mind for himself, then many things will be much easier to do.

Thinking of this, Tao Jiang said to the still red-faced mantra:

"Go and call this cousin of yours to show me."

Citrus didn't know why, stared at a pair of apricot eyes, and listened to Tao Jiang continue:

"If anyone asks, say that you recommended your cousin to be a groom for me."

With a stick of incense, Citrus Aurantium brought people to Tao Jiang.

was different from what Tao Jiang thought, she thought that this cousin was five big and three thick, but she didn't think that he was a white-faced boy with a slender body and sparse eyebrows and eyes.

"You're Citrus's distant cousin?"

Tao Jiang closed the account book and stared at the person in front of him with a smile on his face.

The white-faced little guy was shocked, and glanced at Citrus Shi in a panic, but when he saw Citrus Shi turning his face away in shame, he quickly lowered his head again, and a touch of red stained the root of his ears.

"Back to the girl's words, the villain's name is Qi Cang. The girl said that who I am, I am who I am! ”

didn't call my cousin, but called Miss Citrus, which seems to be similar to what I thought in my heart.

Tao Jiang pointed his finger on the table and called Qi Cang to get up:

"Qi Cang, I know that the relationship with you is not ordinary. Now I'll give you a chance to tell me what the two of you are all about. ”

Tang Shi knew that her young lady was smart, and her relationship with Qi Cang must not be hidden from Tao Jiang, but she didn't expect Miss to be so straightforward, and she blushed again:

"Miss!"

Qi Cang regained his composure, brushed his sleeves and stood aside, and after glancing at Tao Jiang, who was honest, he seemed to have made a lot of determination before saying:

"I and Citrus are not distant cousins, but fellow villagers from Hanjia Village."

Citrus Citrus entered the house at the age of eight to be Tao Jiang's personal maid, and the people in the tooth shop did mention that her hometown was Hanjia Village.

Tang Shi's parents also bought a few acres of land in Hanjia Village, so they were able to live and be self-sufficient, and they didn't get to the point of selling their daughter.

However, there are two unconscious brothers on the orange fruit, one is holding back his strength to study and gain fame, and the other is looking for death and life all day long to marry.

Two holes with money are together, where can this small family afford to eat and wear?

What's more, the citrus aurantium of that year had not yet reached the age of the Xu family.

There was no way to be ruthless to the father, so he could only sell his daughter to the tooth shop and exchange the bundle of repairs and bride price for the two unsuccessful sons.

Every time he mentioned that he had studied hard for three years and didn't even touch the door of Yiyun Academy, he gritted his teeth and was full of resentment when he forgot his father and mother with another brother who married his sister-in-law.

Tao Jiang recalled the life experience of Citrus Fruit, and listened to Qi Cang continue:

"If I want to start from scratch, my life is still given by the orange girl. My parents died young, and I grew up with my grandfather, and when I was five years old, my grandfather died of exhaustion in the farmland, and after that, my life was full of hunger. The hardest time was when I ate all the wild vegetables in my backyard. ”

Qi Cang's gaze swayed, and he went back to that extremely difficult time:

"One day I don't know how long I was hungry, I just woke up without the strength to get up. It was the citrus girl who stole two steamed buns from home and told me to eat enough and live well. ”

Citrus Solid's figure was sideways in the shadow of the candle, listening to the old past, trembling slightly.

"I relied on these two steamed buns, climbed all the way to Baihu Mountain, learned some boxing and foot kung fu, and worked as a dart master in the dart game for a few years."

"Since you are in the White Tiger Dart Bureau, why did you sell yourself to my Tao Mansion again?"

The White Tiger Dart Board is very prestigious in the Ambo Province generation, but anyone who wants to do business from afar will consider the White Tiger Dart Board.

Although the profession of a dart master is a knife head licking blood, the income is very rich, and it is much more decent than being a rough envoy for Tao Mansion.

"Qi Cang entered the Tao Mansion for me."

On weekdays, he is lively and cheerful, but at this time there is a hint of heaviness in his voice.