The fourth master was summoned by Kangxi to Beijing to attend the funeral, leaving Li alone with Hongshi and Da Gege to live in Zhuangzi. Sifu Jin estimated that the fourth master would go back after the funeral, so he told him all the things in the house early. The fourth master listened silently, and only then did he say: "You can decide everything, if it is really difficult to choose, then order someone to pass it on to Zhuangzi." "Sifu Jin responded, and stayed with Siye for one night. Early in the morning of the second day, the fourth master entered the palace to ask for peace, and still went back to Zhuangzi to farm.

Sifujin sat on the edge of the kang with his head propped up, closed his eyes in a daze, and Mrs. Liu, who served below, looked at her with concern, looking like she wanted to speak and stopped. As the sky grew brighter, a girl tiptoed to blow the lamp in the house, and said, "Master, breakfast has been arranged, please take a seat." Sifujin said angrily: "Alone, what kind of banquet do you eat?" She had always been dignified and kind, and she was rarely so angry, and the girl was half frightened to death, her face was flushed, and she knelt down, and said, "The slave should die!" ”

Mrs. Liu took half a step forward, picked up half a bowl of unfinished Qingxin tea, and said, "Master, take a sip of tea to moisten your throat, you can't be angry for the minions." Sifujin suddenly came back to his senses, with some remorse, and said in a low voice: "You all go down." Mrs. Liu knew that she was unhappy because of the fourth master and the Li family, and she wanted to comfort her for a few words but didn't know where to start, so she pestled for a while, and led the girls to retreat. The room was empty, and Sifu Jin raised his face in panic to look at the increasingly bright sunshine, and his heart was burning.

- Last night, the fourth master didn't touch her.

Wu Gege, Song Gege, and Geng Gege knew that after the fourth master returned home, he only rested in the Fujin house for one night, and hurried to Zhuangzi. I really don't know what my lord likes about her? The appearance is not as good as the age, the figure is not as good as you and me, and the youth is not as good as the Manbian Fujin, let alone the family background, it is more and more incomparable"

Song Gege smiled softly and said, "You don't know that the master has favored the Li family for more than one day or two. ”

Geng Gege shook the silk handkerchief and said, "This is fate!" People are more angry than people. Then he said mysteriously, "Have you heard of it?" Wu Gege was anxious and asked, "What did you hear?" Geng Gege made a gesture, the three of them formed a circle, she squinted her eyes and looked to the east, and said faintly: "I heard that Gege was taking fetal pills in the previous year."

Wu Gege was shocked, his voice was an octave higher, and he said, "How is it possible? I haven't even been to her house for more than half a year" Song Gege hurriedly put his finger to his lips and said, "Be quiet, don't shout." He stared at Geng Gege again and said: "Don't talk nonsense about this matter, if it makes a big fuss, the palace will be alarmed, and his brother is the governor" Geng Gege raised his face at his personal girl and said: "Qiaoyun, you come." A maid wearing a bud yellow skirt by the door responded to the call, blessed the body, and said: "The slave maid is listening to the sprinkling and sweeping slave Wugouer on the porter, Wugou'er's mother has rheumatism, he often buys plasters in the Chen family pharmacy in the back streets and alleys, once, he happened to meet the girl Bi'er who is a young man, and somehow asked the medicine boy Bi'er who picked up the medicine what kind of medicine Bi'er bought, the medicine boy and the five dogs are familiar with each other, so they all said, saying that they bought abortion pills"

Speaking of this, several people's hearts jumped, and Song Gege said cautiously: "Maybe Bi'er stole someone by herself."

Geng Gege said: "Don't say it, I really asked Bi'er if she was boiling medicine, and there was a smell of medicine." Na Bi'er didn't say it at first, but then Qiaoyun went to talk to her, and she said that she missed her mouth for a while, and then she said that it was Nian Gege who ate it. You think, Nian Gege once said that she had studied medicine herself, and it was difficult for her to prescribe and buy medicine! ”

Wu Gege said suddenly: "Why don't you give Ming Fujin? How can you indulge in such pickled things in the house? Geng Gege pouted: "How dare I?!" Wu Gege said arbitrarily: "I'll go with you!" Song Gege said: "The stakes are very high, don't say that the wind is the rain!" I don't think Nian Gege is like that kind of person" Wu Gege sighed again and again: "You, you, isn't the lesson of the last time enough?" At the beginning, I didn't think it through, I always felt guilty that I made you take Nian Gege's medicine, and then I thought, why is it the same fake medicine, you take a serious illness, and she will be fine if you take it? It can be seen that she is making trouble from it! ”

Song Gege was weak and kind, and said with a smile: "What's the use of harming me? If you want to be jealous, you should be jealous of the one who followed the master to Zhuangzi, what should I do? Wu Gege rolled his eyelids and said, "How do I know? He said bitterly, "Don't believe in her too much!" ”

It is said that there is a rumor suddenly: "Nian Gege is coming"

The three of them were taken aback, and hurriedly booed, Ailian's smiling face came out of the window, and said, "What are the three sisters whispering, let the younger sister listen to it too." She was dressed in a rain-soaked azure rose-patterned satin robe, holding a bun, and pressing two pink and white petal peonies, lining her skin like snow, not at all like a weak person who had been born in a weak place.

Geng Gege sneered on his face and said, "Yesterday, my lord returned home, and we have nothing to talk about." ”

Ai Lian turned the window, entered through the door, entered the water pavilion hall, and said with crooked eyebrows: "I just fluttered butterflies by the water, and occasionally I heard you say who is "buying medicine" and "having an abortion", who are you talking about? She smiled, and there was not a hint of anger on her face. Where are the butterflies at the water's edge? Everyone could understand the meaning of her words.

Wu Gege's temperament swelled up, and said: "You even heard "buying medicine" and "abortion", didn't you hear who we said? Song Gege knew that Wu Gege was jealous of the fact that Gege had almost died in Huangquan after taking fake medicine last year, so he was busy making peace, and said: "None of us said anything, just talking about the things at home in the past" and pulled Wu Gege outside, and said, "Don't you want to eat hot bird's nest porridge?" I'm going to stay up there, and you're going to eat with me."

When Geng Gege saw this, he shook off the embroidery handkerchief and said, "It's so hot."

I also went.

The wind in the water pavilion was very strong, and it poured into the robe violently, almost blowing Ailian's waist up. She shivered, and the heat in her chest rushed into her brain, burning her dizzy. Bi'er saw Ai Lian standing uncertainly, carefully guarding the side, and said, "Gege, what's wrong with you?" Ailian's eyes flashed with two clusters of flames, and she slapped her backhand fiercely, saying, "Slut! ”

Bi'er didn't have protection, she was slapped coldly, her body tilted, and she fell to the ground. She didn't dare to cry out in pain, turned over and knelt down, and shouted: "The slave should die, the slave should die, the slave should die" She didn't even know what she had done wrong.

In the evening, the servant at the back door sneaked into Ailian's courtyard, handed over the note of Second Young Master Chen and disappeared into the night. Ai Lian opened the note, which read: "See you tomorrow." The bottom of the inscription is a "Chen" word. Her eyes widened, and she hatefully crumpled the pieces of paper into a paper ball, and then spread them out and tore them into powder.

She wrote a letter to Ji Ziran and ordered him to wait in the back streets and alleys of Prince Yong's mansion.

Ji Ziran is loyal to Nian Qianyao, and after following Ailian, Ailian is also loyal, and he will do whatever Ailian says. His Ji Ziran's task is to listen to Ailian's words and help her clear the obstacles.

Second Young Master Chen didn't know that his death time had come at this time.

He wandered leisurely in the alley, the morning sun poured crimson light all around him, he hummed a little song proudly, and hid a sandalwood box in his arms, and in the box were two crystal clear green jade earrings. He waited and waited, and finally a familiar figure came slowly around the corner, he smiled and pushed the box in front of her, and said, "Look what I bought you?" ”

Ai Lian was alone, and said with a smile: "Thank you, Second Young Master." And said shyly: "Let's go to the side to talk." ”

It was rare for her to be obedient, Second Young Master Chen couldn't help but be more and more happy, threw herself forward, and took Ai Lian into the corner of the dead end, pressed her under the wall, moved her hands indiscriminately, and said in her mouth: "I miss the dead master" Before the words were finished, he felt a heavy pain in the back of his neck, his eyes were dark, and he fell to the ground as if he was going to die.

Ai Lian straightened her clothes unhurriedly and said, "Do you have the medicine I asked you to prepare?" ”

Ji Ziran understood, took out a small porcelain bottle from his cuff, poured out a black pill, choked Second Young Master Chen's chin, and forced him to swallow it before saying, "I will send him to the official mansion, and you don't have to worry about the rest of the matter." Ai Lian nodded, her face was like cold frost and said: "The person who usually gives you and me the messenger can't stay, and there is more" She thought for a while and said: "There is a royal physician in Yuquan Mountain, who used to be an errand in the palace, and he also knows my identity. After a long pause, he said, "In the future, all those who know my identity will not be able to stay." ”

She turned her back to Ji Ziran, the scorching sun inlaid her body with layers of scorching golden light, she was so beautiful, so cold, and her eyes contained bottomless sadness and sorrow, which made him throb with compassion. Ji Ziran looked at Ai Lian and disappeared from the stone alley of Qingjie, before he carried Second Young Master Chen to the official mansion, he reported to the official and slandered Second Young Master Chen for stealing his jade pendant. The people in the government are not stupid, so they naturally don't believe it, but with Nian Qianyao's letter in front of him, Chen Erjuan was quickly imprisoned and died violently at night.

Ai Lian can finally sleep peacefully.

After about ten days, the fourth master took Li and his two children back to the house, Fu Jin led a group of people to greet him at the door, Li held his stomach, and he was three months pregnant. The fourth master treated her very well, and Li said that she had been in the carriage for a long time, and her legs were numb and she couldn't walk, so the fourth master carried her all the way to the side hospital, and even the An who should have been invited to Fujin was exempted. Fu Jin was unhappy in his heart, but he couldn't show it on his face, so as not to dislike the fourth master. opened the warehouse again, and asked Mama to find half a catty of bird's nest and ginseng to reward the Li family.

The Li family was pregnant and couldn't sleep, and the fourth master had been in the hospital for a long time, Fu Jin didn't dare to leave the fourth master in his house, so he persuaded the fourth master to go to a few Gege houses to show her virtuousness. The fourth master nodded and said, "Let Nian Gege prepare." Fu Jin was slightly sour, and with a smile on his face, he instructed Mama Liu, "Hurry up and let me pass the word." Mama Liu opened her mouth, and said after a while: "Yes." ”

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