After His Majesty was reborn, the poor little girl in his previous life was spoiled to death

As the saying goes, don't look at the monk's face, look at the Buddha's face. In front of the siblings Shen Chengying and Shen Ruyao, the Shen and Luo families finally took a step back.

Madam Zhu took the initiative to say, "Xiang Ming, you will be in charge of most of the things in the front yard. Go find a reliable and smart boy, harness a horse, and follow Mrs. Luo's people to the Liu family in Jinhua Lane."

Luo's mother nodded and said, "Okay, let's do as the old lady wants." She turned around and told the maid she brought with her, "Since you are familiar with Madam Liu, you can go with her."

Then they went back to drinking tea and chatting, trying to put the matter behind them for the time being.

When Shen Ruyao came out again, she had washed and dressed. Except for the red circles under her eyes, there was no trace of her previous crying.

Without waiting to be invited, she sat down next to her grandmother affectionately, one hand on Mrs. Zhu's arm, and her head tilted on her chest, looking like a very intimate grandmother and granddaughter.

Old Madam Zhu was very pleased with the closeness of her granddaughter and smiled, "Good child, are you all right now?"

Shen Ruyao nodded somewhat embarrassedly, and she whispered coquettishly: "Grandma told them not to laugh at me."

Old Madam Zhu smiled with her eyebrows curved, and said in a gentle voice: "We are all family members, who dares to laugh at you? Besides, it's not for other reasons. The most precious thing is that our Yao'er is so filial."

Ning'er thought that this was quite true. Except for herself, the people sitting here could be considered her closest relatives.

While picking up the tea clock, she looked up at Mrs. Luo. Her daughter, son, mother, and mother-in-law were all around her, but she, like herself, was obviously distracted and absent-minded.

Ning'er was curious about what she was thinking about at the moment. Was she thinking about her missing wet nurse, or was she worried about her husband who was seriously injured outside the courtyard wall?

Xiu Yu smiled and said, "Miss Yao has been gone for a few days. Our old lady missed her so much that she couldn't sleep well and couldn't eat well. When Miss Yao came back, I saw that the old lady looked a little better."

Upon hearing this, Shen Ruyao hurriedly pulled her grandmother closer. She glanced at Ning'er with some pride and said in a tender voice, "My brother and I also miss grandma and father. We are not going anywhere after returning today. We must stay by your side."

Ning Er was stunned by her slightly proud and warning look, and couldn't help wondering, was she showing off to herself how much Madam Zhu loved her? Or did she think that she had replaced her and enjoyed the old lady's affection while she was away from home?

Ning'er didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Shen Ruyao really overestimated her. Not to mention that in the eyes of Old Madam Zhu, she was just an irrelevant pauper and could not be compared with her own granddaughter.

Besides, these days, her mind was full of conspiracies, adventures and pursuits, and she had no intention of serving the old lady. She just hoped that she would not catch her mistakes and would be thankful if she found that she had sneaked out of the house.

Shen Ruyao was worrying about this kind of thing, but she was really worrying about the wrong thing.

But then, she saw Luo Miaoyun's face change, and she called out with a little anger: "Yao'er." But Old Madam Luo immediately raised her eyebrows and looked at her, forcing her to swallow the words she had not said.

Ning'er thought, this is really interesting. Shen Ruyao, as a daughter, obviously has different thoughts from her mother, but Mrs. Luo is also like this towards her own mother.

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"Girl, girl..."

When Ning Er looked up, she saw Chuncao looking at her with a worried look on her face. She called her several times, "What's wrong with you today? You looked so distracted after coming back from the old lady."

"But when you met the ladies, did you suffer any injustice?"

"Don't talk nonsense. What kind of injustice can Madam let me suffer?" Ning'er reached out to take off the pair of delicate pearl earrings on her ears and complained, "These things look light, but they hurt my ears when they are worn."

Chuncao leaned over and carefully checked her ear holes, saying with a smile, "Don't worry, young lady. You just had your ears pierced not long ago, so if you wear them for a little while, it will inevitably hurt. But if you don't wear them because you're afraid of the pain, the hole will grow back in no time. Then you'll have to endure the pain again."

Ning Er frowned and said, "It's really troublesome, why don't you just not wear it?"

Zishan came up from behind and said with a smile, "That won't do. The girl is still young, but it's too late to put it on. If you don't put it on now, what will you do when you get married in two years?"

According to the old custom in Beijing, after a girl reaches the age of 15, she must wear earrings in addition to her hair tied up and hairpins, to show that she has reached adulthood. When the two families meet, if they like each other, they will first give a pair of earrings to test their feelings. When the two families have reached a tacit understanding, they will give a hairpin as a token of trust.

It was after she entered the mansion that the old lady arranged for her to have her ears pierced. She kept it in place for quite some time, and only recently changed to small earrings, but she still wasn't used to it.

Ning'er felt a little stressed when she heard this. She inexplicably thought of what Chu Huan said last night that Lu Kui "liked" her, and she felt a little upset.

She frowned and said, "Don't talk nonsense about things that don't exist." Ning'er was like all teenage girls. She was either shy or annoyed when talking about her future life.

Zishan and Chuncao looked at each other and smiled: The girl is still young, but she doesn't know how fast time flies. The weather is getting hotter day by day. After summer and autumn, she will be fourteen years old after this year.

I'm afraid that by then, if the girl is not in a hurry, the Marquis will also pay attention to her.

Ning Er asked, "Is the old lady of the Luo family still with the old lady at this moment?"

Lingzhi replied, "The old lady has invited me to stay for lunch, and maybe dinner as well. I don't think she will leave for a while."

Ning'er nodded. They came here under the guise of visiting the old lady and the marquis, but in fact they were here for Liu Kui. They would not leave in a hurry without finding out the truth. "What about Master Ying and Miss Yao? Which side are they following?"

Lingzhi smiled and said, "The old lady hasn't said anything yet, but I think it's more likely that she will stay in the Marquis' Mansion."

Ning'er asked: "Madam, have you given any definite answer? When are we going to move back from here?"

Now that the fire has been put out, there is no reason for a large group of people to live in the Marquis's yard. Although the place is spacious, the coming and going of people will inevitably disturb his peace and quiet.

Lingzhi was calm but not dull. After hearing this, she only said, "If the two young masters stay, I'm afraid we will have to move back immediately. If we still go back with old lady Luo, then we will probably have to stay for two more days."

Ning'er concentrated and thought carefully. If that was the case, if she wanted to see Han Guang today, she would probably have to leave the yard.

She suddenly remembered something else and asked Lingzhi, "I ran into a girl who looked so familiar. My name was on the tip of my tongue, but I just couldn't call it out."

As she recalled the girl's appearance, she said, "She looked about eighteen or nineteen years old, quite charming, with willow-shaped eyebrows, a thin waist, and a cherry mouth, but she was dressed roughly."

Lingzhi frowned and thought for a while, then suddenly smiled and said, "I remember now. That girl was very delicate when she spoke, wasn't she?"

Ning Er nodded quickly: "That's right."

Lingzhi said: "Then it cannot be wrong, it must be Qiujun."

"Qiu Jun?" Ning'er was a little unfamiliar with this name and didn't react for a while.

Lingzhi explained, "She is so clever and dressed as a servant. There is no other one like her. Miss, don't you remember her?" She smiled vaguely and lowered her voice, "She was the girl who climbed into Master Ying's bed a few days ago! She was sent away by the Madam to do the servant job."

It was her! It was her.

Ning'er was suddenly horrified: the head maid in Shen Chengying's courtyard, the daughter of the young master's wet nurse, the personal maid who had served him for more than ten years since she was a child... turned out to be Ye Zhen's person!