Brother Niu was not taken to the Ewha Garden in the end. When Mrs. Ji knew that her son was going to take Brother Liu to Xun Lan, she refused without saying a word. Ji Shangqing felt ashamed and went back to the Ewha Garden He coaxed Xun Lan to say that brother Liu had already fallen asleep, and he would bring her to show her tomorrow.
Xun Lan took the medicine obediently.
Ji Shangqing ordered the kitchen to make some light dishes, and watched her finish eating before returning to Tongyuan.
I don't know if it was because Feng Qingge tormented her too much last night, Ji Shangqing fell asleep as soon as she entered the room, and didn't even eat dinner.
Tonight, it seems to be hotter than any other night before. Feng Qingge lay on the bed, sweating over and over again. Before, she never felt how hot Ji Shangqing was, but now it was like a stove, and she was about to be roasted to death. .
Feng Qingge simply hugged the quilt and fell asleep on the cool floor.
…
Qiao Wei didn't fall asleep so early, and Li Shi sent over the account books from last month. After Ji Shuang concentrated on taking care of Xiao Wu, the middle reward fell on Li Shi alone. When she came to Qinglianju, Qiao Wei had already read most of the books, and there were only three or four books left to finish reading.
The weather was hot, and she was wearing pajamas that had been improved by herself, thin ice silk, sleeveless design, although not as good as a camisole, it was already considered cool and comfortable.
Bi'er brought a basin of ice cubes into the room, looked at Qiao Wei, covered her eyes, and said no evil, no evil!
Qiao Wei shook her head amusedly, didn't she just wear sleeveless? I think her "hometown" is full of breasts, legs and stomachs in the streets.
Bi'er covered her eyes with one hand, and held an ice cube in the other. She accidentally bumped into the table, and cried out in pain.
Qiao Wei put down the account book she was reading, and said with a faint smile, "Okay, stop messing around, it's broken, and Xiao Wei should blame me for not taking care of his little wife."
Bi'er stomped her feet in embarrassment: "Who is his wife?"
Qiao Wei joked: "Haven't you come to your house to propose marriage?"
Bi'er murmured, "He said that at the end of the year, he would go there after saving the betrothal gifts."
Qiao Wei raised her eyebrows: "At the end of the year, I can save a lot."
The wages in the workshop are high, and three meals are all included. The ten or twenty bandits are all full of energy, hardworking and hardworking. They can make preserved eggs and beat bad guys. The merchant hooligans who come to find fault have now been awarded the title of honorary employee of the workshop by Qiniang. They can receive an allowance of one tael of silver every month, one tael per person. , and counting wages and bonuses, it can be said to be a very lucrative income.
They were reluctant to spend a cent, and saved it all for Xiao Wei.
Bi Er remembered what Xiao Wei wrote in the letter, and she was extremely shy.
It is worth mentioning that Xiao Wei was illiterate at first, so in order to write a letter to Bi Er, he specially worshiped A Gui as his teacher. Not to mention his literary talent, but writing a letter to his family is not a problem. He is a well-proportioned young man!
Qiao Wei looked at her face so red that it could bleed, and clicked twice: "Grandma is empty and lonely recently, don't show affection in front of me, you can't at all!"
Bea: "..."
Didn't you say it first
"Have the people in the kitchen slept?" Qiao Wei asked.
Bi'er said: "I'm asleep, I'll make whatever you want to eat."
Qiao Wei thought it was troublesome, so she said, "Forget it, go and rest, it's getting late."
Bi'er smiled and said: "It's okay, I slept through the day, and I can't sleep now, Madam, do you want some sweet soup or something to eat?"
Qiao Wei thought for a while: "Let's have a bowl of mung bean soup."
"Okay." Beer agreed.
Qiao Wei said again: "The sour plum soup is also being boiled, and it will be chilled for tomorrow morning."
"Hey." Billy nodded.
Not long after, the door was pushed open, and Qiao Wei flipped through the account book and said, "It will be all right so soon?"
The two pink and tender bodies walked around Shu Zhuo and squeezed into her arms.
When Qiao Wei saw these two little guys, her heart softened immediately. She put down the account book, hugged the two of them and said, "It's so late, why are you still awake?"
"Can't sleep." Wang Shu said, rubbing his little head softly in Qiao Wei's arms.
Since developing the skills of Little Hercules, she has seldom been so docile.
Qiao Wei rubbed her little head: "What's the matter? You don't seem very happy."
Wang Shu lay in her arms, and said with a hint of grievance: "I miss Daddy, why hasn't Daddy come back? He's gone for a long time!"
Qiao Wei didn't pay much attention to this issue at first, but she remembered it when her daughter told her that since they got married, their family has not been separated for so long, that is, they missed half a month on the way to Yinzu, but during that half month, The two little guys came here with the mentality of looking for their parents, and they get closer to their parents every day, unlike now, they don't even know when they will come back from meditation.
Jing Yun also buried his little head in his mother's arms.
Qiao Wei's heart was about to melt, she touched the heads of the two, and said softly: "Do you want to sleep with mother tonight?"
"want!"
The two said in unison.
Qiao Wei: "..."
Why does it feel like you guys are actually here to rub the bed
The two little buns climbed onto the bed with short legs, and lay down very obediently, without even somersaulting. Of course Wang Shu lay in the middle, squeezed his brother to the innermost side, and patted the small bed : "Mother, come quickly!"
I knew you were rubbing the bed!
Qiao Wei was angry and funny, went to the kitchen and told Bi Er not to do it, then went back to the room, turned off the light and lay down on the bed.
Wang Shuli rolled into his mother's arms.
Qiao Wei is so hot by this little guy, is this little stove going to heat her to death
Qiao Wei took the fan and fanned it once and for all.
The cool wind was blowing slowly on the face, the two of them each yawned a little, their eyelids gradually sank, they closed and then opened again, after repeated several times, they fell sweetly into sleep.
Repeating a single movement before going to bed is always very easy to get sleepy. Qiao Wei slapped her eyes for a while, her eyelids began to fight, she kissed Wang Shu on the forehead, and squinted on the pillow.
Ding!
Jing Yun opened his eyes, crawled over his sister, squeezed into his mother's arms, and wiped off the little beads of sweat on his forehead!
Qiao Wei remembered that she hadn't kissed her son yet, so she opened her eyes in a daze, and kissed "Jing Yun" who was sleeping on the inside over "Wang Shu" in her arms.
Jing Yun: "..."
…
After several consecutive days of sweltering heat, a heavy rain finally fell in the second half of the night. In the early morning, the rain stopped, and there was still a little bit of coolness in the air. Jing Yun still woke up early, sitting by the window and reading a book, looking relieved. Drooling from sleep, Qiao Wei dragged her up on the bed, changed her clothes, and asked her to wash up by herself.
Wang Shu closed his eyes and entered the ear room in a daze.
Qiao Wei waited outside for a long time without any movement, and when she went in, she found that the little chubby fell asleep sitting on her small golden toilet!
It was half an hour after breakfast, brother Liu came over with a book bag on his back, the old lady wanted him to rest for two more days, but it was too boring to be alone in the mansion, he couldn't hold back, took advantage of Seeing that the old lady was not paying attention, she grabbed her book bag and ran out.
Qiao Wei sent Bi'er to report a message to the old lady, while she led the three children out of the mansion and boarded the carriage to the academy.
Since Fu Xueyan was pregnant, she didn't like to move around very much. She was bored in the house all day. It was rare that the weather was cool today, so she took the basket and went for a stroll in the garden.
There are quite a few small gardens in the Ji family, the most beautiful one is the one near the lake. There are many kinds of flowers and plants in it, and you can see blooming flowers all year round. Fu Xueyan stood in front of a clump of violets and picked two. , gently cut down.
Xiuqin grabbed a jasmine and said, "Miss, the jasmine here is so fragrant!"
Fu Xueyan also cut a few jasmine plants.
"This smells good too!" Xiuqin sniffed the rose beside her, "And this! This! This!"
Fu Xueyan stuffed a basket full.
Xiuqin picked a white jasmine, put it on the tip of her nose and smelled it carefully, the more she smelled it, the more she liked it, and she said enviously: "The Central Plains is great! There are so many flowers! I heard that we can see them all year round. It would be nice to be able to do that.”
Fu Xueyan didn't speak, walked to the water tank, looked at the water lilies inside, hesitated for a moment, stretched out her hand, and was about to pick them off, when a maid's voice came from behind: "Miss Fu, what a coincidence!"
Fu Xueyan withdrew her hand, turned around slowly, and looked at the strange maid.
Hongmei smiled and said: "The servant girl is Hongmei, who works in the Ewha Garden. On the first day Miss Fu moved in, I also cleaned in Xiaoyuxuan. I met Miss Fu!"
Fu Xueyan nodded slightly, but her eyes passed over Hongmei, and fell on the woman in white clothes beside her. She had seen this person by the lake, and it was the dog-tailed grass Xun family that Feng Qingge was talking about.
Looking at it from a distance, I only feel thin, but when I get closer, I realize that she is also a beautiful woman.
"Miss Fu." Xun Lan greeted.
Fu Xueyan nodded slightly as a response, then turned around and continued to pick water lilies.
Xun Lan glanced at the water lily in the water tank and said: "This water lily is not blooming very well. I planted a few big ones in the greenhouse before. If Miss Fu wants it, I'll send someone to fetch it for you."
Before Fu Xueyan could open her mouth, Xiuqin came over with a cold face: "No need, we just pick the water lilies here, and Madam Xun's flowers, let's keep them for ourselves!"
Qiao Wei and Xiuqin said that Xun Lan had a feud with her, and Xiuqin took this sentence to heart. Xiuqin's logic is very simple. Qiao Wei is her own person, and anyone who has a feud with Qiao Wei cannot be close people.
Fu Xueyan said to Xun Lan: "Thank you Madam for your kindness, I will just use the water lilies here."
Seeing her wife being rejected, Hongmei felt very uncomfortable. She felt that her wife was so pitiful. When she returned to Ji’s house, she was not welcomed by everyone. She desperately wanted to give birth to a child for the master. It's gone, the old lady wanted to drive her out on the day of the tire failure, and she finally stayed, and she had to live with that girl Li's face.
Miss Li is just an outsider, and Madam is the first wife who had a relationship with the master. Besides, Miss Fu, a friend of the young lady, is also an outsider, but now, she can ride on Madam's head , No, it's not her riding it herself, it's her maid.
Hongmei held back a small fire in her heart, she defended Xun Lan and said, "Madam has a kind heart."
Xiuqin snorted, "We don't need her kindness! She is here to curry favor with my young lady, why not go back and curry favor with your master!"
Hongmei has always had a good temper, but this time she was also irritated by this arrogant maid, her chest heaved and said: "How can you talk like that? Who is fawning on your lady? If you don't appreciate it, you don't appreciate it. Why do you treat her kindness like that?" Is it all malicious?"
Xiuqin said disdainfully: "As soon as she came, accidents happened one after another in the mansion. Who knows if she has good intentions or malicious intentions?"
Hongmei blushed anxiously, squeezed her fingers and said: "How can you say that about Madam? The accident in the mansion didn't happen after you came? I heard that the last time the fake monks fought, all of them were You Xiao Yuxuan did it!"
Xiuqin's eyes flickered, and she said with the lines she had prepared: "That's... that's because the Second Young Master is in Xiaoyuxuan! They are here for the Second Young Master!"
People's whispers flashed in Hongmei's mind, and she blurted out: "Why is Second Young Master in Xiaoyuxuan? It's not you..."
She paused.
Xiuqin looked at her with her arms akimbo: "How about us?"
Hongmei faltered and said nothing.
Xiuqin grabbed her arm: "If you don't speak clearly today, don't let me go. What's wrong with us?"
Hongmei was in pain from being pinched, she was timid and couldn't stand being frightened, in fact, she wouldn't do anything to Xiuqin if she didn't tell her, but she was afraid, so she resorted to all of them: "You...you seduce the second young master …”
Xiuqin was so angry that her eyes widened: "Who seduced your young master? He can't even distinguish red flowers. Can my lady like him?! It's him who depends on my lady all day long, and he can't even beat him. Why? Is my lady seducing him?"
Hongmei flushed anxiously: "Don't say that about Second Young Master! Second Young Master is not this kind of person!"
Xiuqin smiled lightly, "Then what kind of person is he?"
"He... he is..." Hongmei didn't understand why after a long time, the second young master is so handsome, in the hearts of these little girls, he is like a god, only the girls he doesn't like, without him I can't catch the girl, so this maid named Xiuqin must be lying, "You are the ones who seduced the second young master!"
Xiuqin smiled coldly: "Did you say this yourself, or did that woman teach you to say it?"
Hongmei was frightened by Xiuqin's powerful momentum: "You, you, you... don't slander people! I'm not wrong!"
Xiuqin said: "Do you know who my young lady is?"
"Xiuqin." Fu Xueyan said lightly.
Xiuqin retreated to Fu Xueyan's side, and said in a low voice, "I know, I won't talk nonsense."
On the other side, Xun Lan also said: "Hongmei, you step back, don't be rude."
Hongmei backed off both angry and relieved, angry because Xiuqin was so arrogant, and relieved because she was afraid that Xiuqin would hit her.
Xun Lan took Hongmei and left the garden. Xun Lan didn't say a word, and didn't even argue for herself, which made Hongmei feel more pitiful for her, as if the whole world was bullying her, and she could do nothing but I can swallow my breath.
On the surface, this incident seems to have been uncovered. After Xun Lan returned to the yard, he neither complained to Hongmei nor Hongmei. During the meal, Ji Shangqing came once, and Hongmei did not hear Xun Lan and Ji Shangqing. What bitterness to spit out.
In the afternoon, Xun Lan felt unwell again, her face was pale and her body was weak. Hongmei boiled the medicine prescribed by Dr. Lu for her, but she couldn't drink it down.
Hongmei was going to ask a doctor, but Xun Lan stopped her.
Hongmei said: "Didn't you agree to treat the symptoms? Why is it getting worse?"
Xun Lan was lying on the bed, she didn't even have the strength to speak.
Hongmei stood up and said, "I'll call Master!"
Xun Lan shook her head, turned sideways with difficulty, turned her back outward, closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Seeing that her body was covered with sweat, Hongmei hurriedly fetched warm water and wiped her carefully. Just as she was about to change her hand after wiping one hand, something slippery and greasy crawled up her face. Bed, then vomit snake letter, climbed onto the quilt.
Hongmei screamed in fright, and threw the quilt to the ground! The snake was also thrown to the ground, and ran away in a limp.
The little maids in the yard obviously saw it too, and they all screamed.
Ji Shangqing was nearby, and when he heard the screams one after another, he moved his ears, walked over with a heavy expression, looked at the servants in the yard who were panicking, and said word by word: "What happened?" ?”
Everyone suddenly fell silent.
Hongmei reported with a pale face: "Master, there is a snake in the house! It looks like a poisonous snake. I just beat it away. I don't know where it went. Will it come back..."
"Look for it." Ji Shangqing said.
Hongmei was taken aback.
Ji Shangqing entered the house.
Hongmei and the servant girls looked at Ji Shangqing's back and frowned strangely.
A housewife who cleaned the house asked, "Do you think the master is acting weird today?"
Hongmei took it seriously: "Did you quarrel with someone?"
The servant woman said: "Don't talk about it, go find it quickly! Don't run away later, you won't be able to find it."
They went to the outer courtyard and called a few brave boys, and then called the guards in the mansion, and searched hard. Although they saw it leave the Ewha Garden, it was hard to guarantee that it didn't come back through some dog hole. They searched again, but couldn't find it, so they split up and went to Qinglianju, Xiaoyuxuan and Qingfengyuan respectively.
When she heard that she was looking for snakes, the corners of Bi'er's mouth twitched, Xiaobai, you bastard, are you letting baby snakes around again
Xiaobai spreads his claws, he obviously doesn't have one!
Nothing was found in Qinglianju and Qingfengyuan, and when Xiaoyuxuan was searched, there was no poisonous snake that frightened everyone to death. However, just as everyone was about to leave Xiaoyuxuan, a servant found a The brocade box was covered with thorns and leaves. The box looked old, wet and stuck to the soil. Everyone thought he had picked up some treasure and came over curiously.
The boy opened the box, and everyone stared at it, all dumbfounded.
He was actually a little man covered in long needles all over his body, how could he be like this
Moreover, the little man's clothes and face are almost exactly the same as Mrs. Xun's.
There was a line of writing on the back of the little man. They were illiterate, so they didn't know what was written, so they hurriedly sent the things to Lihuayuan.
There are many literate people in Lihuayuan, such as Ji Shangqing, Xun Lan, and Hongmei.
After reading the words above, Hongmei frowned and said, "This is a birth date."
She opened her fingers and counted, which was almost Xun Lan's age, and with the same clothes and face, even a fool could guess that it was Xun Lan's birthday.
Hongmei thought of the fact that Xun Lan could not be cured no matter how many medicines she took, she suddenly realized: "No wonder Madam is always getting better, someone is cursing Madam!"
It's just a small number of people who don't speak strangely, even the emperor believes in this, let alone them
Hongmei was so frightened that she hurriedly put the things back into the box.
Ji Shangqing ordered a thorough investigation into the matter.
When Qiao Wei returned to Ji's house after sending the child off, the curse incident had already begun to take shape. The thing was discovered in Xiaoyuxuan. The murderer should be from Xiaoyuxuan, and there are not many people in Xiaoyuxuan who can write. There are even fewer people who can write and write when Lan has festivals, and they are ruled out, leaving only Fu Xueyan and Xiuqin.
After comparing the handwriting of the two, Xiuqin was also ruled out.
This is not the first time that the other party has used this method to do evil. Not long after Qiao Wei married into Ji's family, Zhou's mother tried to use poisonous snakes and villains to make trouble, but Qiao Wei and Xiao Bai destroyed it in time. After half a year, the other party did the same old trick again!
From afar, Qiao Wei heard the quarrel between the leader and Ji Shangqing: "I told you, she didn't do it! Don't frame her at will! Isn't she just a villain? Who can't do it? I also Can do it! Shall I make one for you to see!"
"Mingye, calm down, and speak up if you have something to say."
It was Ji Sheng's voice.
Even the second room was alarmed.
Qiao Wei stepped into Xiao Yuxuan.
Mrs. Li hastily walked down the steps and came over: "You are here, if you don't come, the two of you will fight."
Qiao Wei had already learned what had happened from Bi'er, without saying anything, she called her second aunt and entered the house together with Li Shi.
Ji Shangqing sat on the main seat, Ji Sheng sat beside him, on the left were Fu Xueyan and Xiuqin, on the right were Hongmei and several servants of the Ewha Garden, the leader stood in the middle, with his arms akimbo, swearing at the sky He hates Ji Shangqing.