"This is some jewelry that our lady gave to Miss Four, and our lady said that she would take Miss Four to the Sumu Hou Mansion as a guest in a few days." Mama Liao bent her knees slightly, raised her hand and pointed to the gold and jade jewelry in the tray in the hand of the maid behind her.

Xie wanted to say something, but was stopped by his daughter.

"I also ask Mama Liao to tell the second aunt on my behalf, thank you for the reward of the second aunt."

Mama Liao responded with a smile, ordered someone to put down the jewelry, and hurriedly said goodbye.

"Zhaozhao, you, why are you...... I'm thinking about your father these days, you, you're confused! ”

Xie Shi's face was full of sadness.

In fact, she and her husband know that this marriage, in the final analysis, cannot be pushed off in the end.

can be a parent, no matter how bad she is with her husband, she still does her best to hold up the sky above her head for her children.

"Mother, I'm only thirteen now, and the Hou Mansion just wants me to get married for the time being, and when I get married, I don't know what the situation of the Hou Mansion will be."

Ye Jingzhao helped his mother to lie down.

He also said: "My parents raised me, loved me, and were children, so I should relieve my parents' worries." This family business, in the final analysis, I am also a high climber, does my mother really think that I can't break through on my own? ”

Xie sighed again, she knew in her heart that her daughter's words were just to appease herself.

At the moment, she knows better than anyone else about this marriage.

Can't push it off.

Ye Jingzhao left the main house, and Xie ordered someone to go to Honglu Temple to deliver a letter to the master.

When her father returned home, it was the end of the day.

Knowing that his daughter had already taken care of his family, the third master Ye Shu wanted to go to the second room to ask for an explanation, but he was pulled down by the Xie family.

One is late at night, and the other is that my brother and sister-in-law may have rested.

The third master planned to go to the second room early tomorrow morning to ask for an understanding, so as to ask his daughter, but he was wronged in the second room.

If he is really wronged, then even if he shows his face, he will make a fuss, and his daughter's marriage is more important than his own future.

But at the beginning of the rooster's crow, Honglu Temple came with an urgent letter and summoned the third master back to discuss matters.

The third master hastily changed his official uniform and went out, never even seeing his daughter.

Ye Jingzhao went out to study in the past few days, and the carriage still sent the master and servant to the city gate as usual, and the coachman invited people out.

Yuming Academy is ten miles outside the city.

Because of her previous refusal to respond to family affairs, the second aunt secretly had a lot of difficulties.

Therefore, every day the coachman only sent her out of the city, and the remaining ten miles were asked for her to walk away on her own.

"Red dates, you go and investigate, and when I get out of school, we will still meet here."

The red dates didn't dare to delay too much, so they should get off the errand, turned around and avoided the sight of the coachman, and quietly entered the city.

There are many official patrols on these ten miles of official roads, and she is not worried about anything wrong.

I just hope that the jujube can find out some useful news.

She was worried about her mother's health and wouldn't be able to drag on for long.

Until I got out of school, when I met the red dates again, I saw her shaking her head slightly.

Ye Jingzhao was a little disappointed in his heart, but after thinking about it, he was afraid that this matter would not be in a hurry for a while.

"That's it, you've been investigating carefully in the past few days, I don't believe it, we really can't find out any news."

The third master has never returned home since returning to Honglu Temple.

Xie Shi knew that his daughter should get married, and his already weak body became a little haggard.

She knew that the master must have something important, and if she didn't get out, she would naturally go back to the house to discuss her daughter's marriage.

For three days in a row, Ye Jingzhao was always distracted in the school every day.

Fortunately, on this day, the red dates finally brought back useful news.

"Miss, the slave happened to bump into someone who came to Sister Qiuhong's house to collect debts today." The red dates are seen today.

Ye Jingzhao motioned for her to go down in detail.

"Half a year ago, Qiuhong's father was addicted to gambling, and now he is in debt, and the person who came to collect the debt today sent a message that if he can't repay five hundred taels of silver within three days, he will send Qiuhong and her mother to a brothel to pay off the debt."

Red Jujube showed a hint of shock on his face, and continued: "And I saw Qiuhong and her mother today, but she was not sick. ”

The coachman of the Chengenbo Mansion at the gate of the city had beckoned to them.

Ye Jingzhao had to signal the red dates to go back to the house first.

Sitting in the carriage, she pondered the matter.

She suddenly remembered that in the previous life she experienced in the dream, Qiu Hong had returned three days later, and since then, her mother's health has not been very good.

I used to be able to stay and walk around every day, but then I couldn't even go down to the ground.

If it weren't for her brother who found a century-old ginseng from outside, he would have hung the breath that her mother was holding for half a year.

After the ginseng was exhausted, the doctors who came shook their heads and told them to prepare for their mother's funeral.

Within two days, my mother died in my father's first seven nights.

Since Qiuhong's mother is not sick, why did Qiuhong take a leave of absence because her mother was terminally ill?

Why didn't Wang's mother notice anything unusual when she went to investigate?

She motioned for the red dates to come closer, and then lowered her voice and asked, "Qiu Hong's mother is really not sick?" ”

The red dates nodded.

"Where did you get this news?"

"When the slave maid watched the excitement with everyone today, she learned from Qiuhong's neighbor's aunt that Qiu Hongniang had taken medicine before, so that she could look seriously ill, so as to trick her daughter back, saying that Qiuhong's father wanted to take Qiuhong to pay off the debt, but those debt collectors did not follow, in the end, Qiuhong is now selling herself in Chengenbo Mansion, and those people don't want to go to the government."

"Yes, yes." Ye Jingzhao muttered to himself.

The red dates were a little confused, and they didn't understand what the fourth miss meant, "Fourth miss? ”

But Ye Jingzhao had already fallen into contemplation now, and he didn't hear the sound of red dates.

Qiu Hong's mother took medicine and pretended to die not long ago, all of which Qiu Hong didn't know before, so when Wang's mother went to investigate, she didn't find any clues.

Now that I think about it, if I hadn't happened to meet a debt collector today, I would have heard these news from the mouths of others.

Who will talk about Qiuhong's family outside? Everyone didn't want to get involved with the debt collectors.

After all, they were the most vicious people.

Mother's death must be inseparable from Qiu Hong.

It's just that nothing unusual has been found now, and she can only wait for Qiuhong to return three days later, and then secretly investigate.

After returning home, Ye Jingzhao thought about going back to change his clothes first, and then going to the second room to say goodbye to his second aunt.

Who knew that before he stepped into Zhiting Garden, he saw Wang's mother looking panicked at the door of the main house.

Ye Jingzhao's steps couldn't help but quicken.

I felt uneasy.

This scene has never happened in a previous life.

"Four ......"

"Mother Wang, what's wrong?"

Ye Jingzhao stopped Wang's mother, who was about to salute, interrupted her and asked.

The door of the main room was closed, and no movement could be heard.

Mother Wang frowned, and glanced into the house, "The second lady has been here for half an hour, and the old slave is not allowed to go in to serve ......"

Her eyes were full of worry and panic, and she wanted to send a little maid to invite the third master back, but she was worried that if she acted so recklessly, she might make the second lady disgusted with their wife, what should she do at all times?

"Red dates, you go and prepare two teas."

Ye Jingzhao's face was calm. commanded them one by one, but in his heart, he was already panicking.

In the days since returning to the house, my mother has been mostly sick, but she has never had any dispute with her second aunt.

The second aunt only made it difficult for her to make things difficult in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation, and the people in the house were also used to worshipping high and stepping on low, but the second aunt did not blatantly come to the door to bully the third room.

But today, she actually came to the door.

She raised her hand to knock on the door, but her hand stopped in mid-air, and after a pause, she took a deep breath and knocked on the door.

"Second aunt and mother."