Xiao Yuming limped back to his courtyard from Shi'an Yuan, reclining on the couch, squinting and thinking about what to do. After a while, he raised his hand and beckoned the inkstone over.

The inkstone approached him, and Xiao Yuming said: "Go and inform Yan Wu and Qi Er, and say that they will go to the horse farm tomorrow to ride a horse." ”

Yantai glanced at his knee and whispered to persuade, "Second son, you have just been punished, and your injuries are not healed yet." Besides, Yan Wugongzi and Qi Ergongzi may also be punished. ”

Xiao Yuming glared at him, raised his leg and kicked him in the ass, and suddenly pulled the wound again, causing him to wrinkle his face in pain, "What so much nonsense, let you go, you will go." ”

The inkstone had no choice but to do things honestly, and muttered that what if Mrs. Hou knew. After Xiao Yuming heard it, he pointed to his back and said, "If you talk more, I will change you and let you go to the fire." ”

The inkstone turned around and saluted him, said a word to the slave to know that he was wrong, and then went to do something. This scene happened so often that the people in the courtyard didn't take it seriously. They all know that although the inkstone is timid and naïve, the second son trusts him the most.

Here, the inkstone went out of the mansion, first went to the Nanlingbo Mansion, walked to the corner of the courtyard wall on the west side, raised his hand and threw a stone inside. In a few moments, the head of a small servant emerged from the courtyard wall. Seeing the inkstone standing under the wall, he said, "Your son asked you to deliver the message?" ”

The inkstone nodded, and the little guy sighed and said, "Our son was beaten and is lying on the bed." ”

Yantai had already guessed that this was the case, but he still said: "Our son-in-law is about five sons, and we will go to the horse farm tomorrow to ride a horse." ”

"Ouch, when is it now, still going horseback riding?" When the little guy said this, he was stunned for a moment and said, "Your second son was not punished?" ”

Yan Tai said honestly: "Punished, kneeling in the ancestral hall all night." ”

"And go horseback riding?" The little guy said.

Yan Tai was also a little impatient, and he said, "You should hurry up and pass it on." ”

The little guy sighed again and went down. After a while, his head popped out of the wall again, "My son-in-law said that it will pass tomorrow." ”

Yan Tai got the reply, turned around and went to Qi Mansion again, stopped at a dog hole outside the courtyard wall, looked left and right, saw that no one and then got into it very skillfully.

After entering, I followed a path to a courtyard and knocked on the door, and after a while, the door was opened, and when I saw that it was an inkstone, the little guy was startled, and hurriedly pulled people into the yard, and then lowered his voice and said, "Why are you here?" ”

The inkstone explained the intention, and the little girl was so surprised that she opened her mouth wide, "Your son-in-law was not punished?" ”

"Punished, kneeling in the ancestral hall for one night, what about your son-in-law." Inkstone Road.

The little guy sighed, "It's hidden in the old lady's yard." ”

That day, Qi Er was taken back to the mansion by Qi Liangsheng from the academy, and as soon as he got out of the carriage, he ran to the courtyard of Mrs. Qi. But Qi Er couldn't do anything else, this escape was a must, and more than a dozen little guys didn't catch up with him, so he rushed into the courtyard of Old Madam Qi.

Qi Liangsheng went to arrest people in person, and Mrs. Qi cried for a while, saying that it was okay to punish her grandson, and she was punished with her grandson. How dare Qi Liangsheng punish her, he was so angry that he dropped a cup in Mrs. Qi's house.

Then Qi Er has been staying in the courtyard of Old Madam Qi.

"Our son-in-law probably won't be able to go tomorrow." The little guy said.

"Go or not, you just go and spread the word." After the inkstone finished speaking, he left, followed the path to the dog hole, and climbed the dog hole to go out.

When he returned to the Yongning Marquis Mansion to see Xiao Yuming, he told him what had happened, and Xiao Yuming said with certainty: "Wait, they will definitely go tomorrow." ”

.......

West Hill Zhuangzi

It was already winter, and the villagers were busy going to the mountains to chop firewood for the winter. On the dirt path, the people walking were in a hurry, occasionally stopping to greet people, and the breath exhaled turned into white smoke.

Liu Biqin nested in the corner of the kang, wrapped in layers of quilts, and said to the maid Hong'er with a sad face: "You go and ask Sister-in-law Guan, if there is any charcoal, this is too cold." ”

Hong'er's face was so cold that her face was red, and she said: "The day before yesterday, the slave maid asked Sister-in-law Guan, and she said that Zhuangzi never uses charcoal. ”

"No charcoal?" Liu Biqin was shocked, "How can you pass this winter without charcoal?" Do you want to freeze to death? ”

After saying that, her tears fell down like beads. A beauty is a beauty, even if there is no luxurious Zhu Hai on her head, I feel sorry for her.

Hong'er's eyes were also a little red, "Miss, we have to think of a way, we can't stay in this village all the time!" ”

Liu Biqin gently wiped her tears with a handkerchief, "Brother Chen should come to pick me up soon." ”

"Ouch, my miss, why haven't you seen it clearly?" Hong'er sat on the edge of the kang, looked at Liu Biqin and whispered, "If Xiao Shizi will come to pick you up, why has it been so long and there has been no news at all?" I see, either she was locked up in the house by Mrs. Hou and couldn't get out, or she was hooked by a fox. ”

"No, Brother Chen won't." Liu Biqin still believes in Xiao Yuchen's feelings for her.

"It's that Xiao Shizi has always had you in his heart, but what about Mrs. Hou?" The maid Hong'er remembered Mrs. Hou's posture that night, and she was still too nervous. She said again: "Mrs. Hou is so strong, you will enter the Hou Mansion in the future, and life will be better?" ”

Liu Biqin also thought of Tang Shuyi's irrefutable attitude that night. She pursed her lower lip tightly and said with some sadness: "What can I do then?" Now only Brother Chen can help me. ”

"Not necessarily." Hong'er leaned closer to Liu Biqin and said in a lower voice: "Miss, you have such a look, which man can't put it on the tip of his heart when he sees it?" Without Xiao Shizi, there will be others. ”

Liu Biqin blushed at what she said, but her hands under the quilt were tightly clenched. In fact, she has been terrified, from the beginning of her father's conviction to the present, even if Xiao Yuchen rescued her, even if Xiao Yuchen treated her as always, she was still terrified, and now it is even worse.

"How much money do we have left, if not, we can buy some charcoal ourselves." Liu Biqin said, let's go over and talk about it now.

But he heard Hong'er say: "There is only one or two pieces of silver left." ”

Liu Biqin was shocked, "Why are there so few?" ”

Hong'er also had a bitter face, "Miss, the rouge gouache you bought before was eaten, but it all cost money!" ”

Liu Biqin was clothed and fed since she was a child, but later there was an accident at home, and she was rescued by Xiao Yuchen after she didn't stay in the cell for a few days. When I lived in Plum Blossom Lane, I was even better at home than I was at home. Later, when she suddenly came to Zhuangzi, she was not used to it, so she naturally bought it with the money in her hand. But twenty taels of silver, how can you hold back the flowers?

"Then you go and ask Sister-in-law Guan, is there any solution?" Liu Biqin's hand in the quilt was held tighter, and her long nails sank into the flesh. She even hated Xiao Yuchen a little.

If you can't protect her, why did you save her in the first place?