By Jia Xiuzhen

Besides, Baochai sent a letter to the capital, and she didn't bother with the Wang family's affairs anymore. She only had to do as much as she could, and she had no time to spare.

But the busier she was, the more things came to her. She was really tired today, and Yinger persuaded her: "Grandma, please take a rest. If you suffer like this, you will suffer from old illnesses again soon." Come on, we don't have Leng Xiang Wan anymore."

Hearing this, Baochai put down the pen and paper in his hand, and sighed: "Although there is a place to stay now, I see that the master doesn't want to stay here for a long time. Besides, the ancestral tablets have been cleared out, and no one is invited. The reason for coming here, how can I explain if I don’t hurry to find a place to live? After another day, I can only go out but not in, and I don’t have any income, how long can I survive. I really can’t live with Qiao’s dowry.”

Ying'er curled her lips and said: "Then what can we do? Even the master of Xue's house is not willing to live for a long time, and naturally he is not willing to spend our family's money, let alone we have nothing left."

Baochai said: "That's why I wanted to take Sister Qiao's dowry and deposit the silver first, and then quickly find a living, and then redeem the things when I make money, and return them to her. Do the math, don't you?" in a hurry."

Ying'er said: "Grandma just thinks too much. I think Second Master doesn't think about anything all day long, but just sighs."

Baochai glanced at her and said, "Stop talking nonsense!"

Ying'er pursed her lips and snorted softly, obviously not convinced.

Baochai said: "Okay, okay, can I rely on you? Let's just rest for a while."

Ying'er laughed and said, "That's right." The servant Baochai lay down on one side of the bamboo couch, and she started sewing beside it.Baochai peeked at the needle and thread in her hand, and sighed inwardly, feeling wronged by the girl.

When she was about to fall asleep in a daze, she suddenly saw Xiangling walking in from outside, and Baochai didn't know how to treat her for a while.Xiangling was the same as before, saluted and said: "Miss."

Baochai sighed softly, "Are you okay?"

Xiangling smiled, she was still as charming as before, and replied: "I'm looking for my mother, and I also know my original name!"

After hearing her answer, Baochai couldn't gather up all her resentment, so she nodded and said, "That's fine."

But Xiang Ling said: "I came to find the girl because I have something to tell the girl."

Baochai asked, "What's the matter?"

Xiangling said: "It's about Third Sister You."

Baochai asked, "Have you seen her?"

Xiang Ling nodded and shook her head again, frowned and said: "Does the girl know about the Xining Palace? Well, she was the one who started the fire, and she also killed the prince of Xining. It turns out that she sneaked into the palace to avenge the uncle. The prince was a lustful hungry ghost, she used a trick to kill him, and set fires everywhere in the palace. I wanted to save her, but she said it was meaningless to live alone, so she wiped her neck and fell There was a fire. I had no choice but to bring her body out, and buried her in Qianqingpo outside the west gate of the capital, and set up a big stone as a monument. I thought, she really has a deep affection for the uncle, if... well, It's not my turn to talk about this matter, the girl has her own ideas."

Baochai was stunned for a moment when she heard this, only to feel that it was incredible, but thinking of Third Sister You's usual life, she intuited that this matter was true.Suddenly my heart ached, and wept, "Oh, we really mistreated her in the past."

But she never thought about how Xiangling met Third Sister You and rescued her again.

"Don't worry, when I find her burial place, I will move her into my Xue family's ancestral grave."

Xiangling said happily: "Then I can thank the girl on behalf of the third sister!"

Seeing her like this, Baochai felt more and more complicated, so she asked, "You came here just to tell me this?"

Xiang Ling nodded, hesitated for a while and said: "No, I came here to repay my kindness."

Baochai looked at her and said nothing, Xiangling said cautiously: "The fate is like this, I can't blame anyone. Only when I was in the mansion, the girl taught me how to read and read, and the girl Yun taught me to compose poems, and I dirty my skirt. The second master also borrowed an attacker for me. Sigh, you all treated me very well, and I will keep it in my heart."

Baochai listened to her talking about fate, and thought about how prominent Jia Wang Shixue's four families were in those days, people designed it so far, even if someone deliberately targeted it, in the end it was her own body that was not clean.It's ridiculous to blame Xiangling for Xue Pan's matter.Xue Pan hurt someone with a knife, could it be the knife's fault?From Xiangling's point of view, it was Jia Yucun's misfortune. She used to be a good lady of the official family and became a concubine. Why should she blame her now.

Thinking of this, Baochai sighed: "It turns out that you have a sweet temper, so it counts... and it counts as our fate."

Xiang Ling was overjoyed when she heard this, blinked her eyes and said, "Girl, don't you blame me?"

Baochai froze, and said angrily, "What's your fault? You girl, why haven't I seen you for a few years now, and you are not as calm as before."

Xiangling smiled: "In the future, I will be calm again."

Suddenly sighed again: "Oh, it's really interesting to be a human being. By the way, girl, on the day those ancestral tablets in the mansion were invited out, two old men with white beards entrusted me with a dream, saying that they left some money for their children and grandchildren. In the field of sacrifice, it seems to me that it is on the sloping land allocated to you. Miss, go and have a look when you have time, there are two white stones on the side."

Baochai was startled, and when she was about to ask, she saw Xiangling smiling and said, "I have to go, there are still things to do!"

Baochai stopped her in a hurry, but she had nothing to do. When she realized that her hand was empty, she woke up.

Seeing Baochai move, Ying'er put down her work, looked at Baochai and said softly, "Grandma has only been squinting for a while, don't rush to get up, rest for a while."

Baochai felt dizzy, frowned and asked, "How long have I been asleep, and when is it?"

Ying'er raised the work in her hands, "My sleeves haven't been up yet, how long did grandma say?"

Baochai knew that it was just a dream, and she was no longer sleepy, so she sat up and said, "I had a dream, so I won't sleep."

Ying'er said: "Grandma just has too many things on her mind all day long, and she can't even rest for a while."

Baochai said to herself, "I'm dreaming about Xiangling... She also told me about Third Sister You, everything was true, but it turned out to be a dream."

Seeing Baochai mentioning Xiangling on her own initiative, Ying'er glanced at Baochai and said, "Grandma is kind-hearted, and she still misses them."

Baochai didn't say a word, and didn't know what to think.

At noon, Xue Biao brought someone to Baochai. When Baochai saw it, it was Grandma Liu.Very surprised: "Grandma, why are you here? Are you here to visit relatives?"

Grandma Liu waved her hand and said, "Where, I wanted to visit you a few years ago, but I was told that you were all arrested and sent to the yamen! I couldn't be bluffed, so I went home to discuss it. I wanted to go to the prison to find out I didn't know where it was for a long time. After finally inquiring about it, it was said that it was Dali Temple. I hurriedly went there, but was kicked out.

I had no choice but to go back and ask, and none of the military men had anything to talk about.Later I heard that they were all released, so I hurried to look for them in the mansion, but you didn't go back.I can't find anyone to inquire about either.Later, I found out with great difficulty, and said that you have returned to the south.It just so happened that there was a merchant ship coming to the south from our village, so I followed. "

Baochai hurriedly helped her sit down, and asked Yinger to pour tea. Hearing that she missed the house, she was very grateful, and said with a smile, "Please worry about it. We left in a hurry and didn't have time to inform our relatives and friends." us."

Grandma Liu sighed: "Hey, it's really that our countryside is closed. We only know about four seasons of planting and harvesting all year round, and we don't even know about such a big thing. We farmers are stupid, so we can't find out... Madam and Second Mistress Is everything okay?"

Baochai's face froze, and she forced a smile: "My wife and Sister Feng... both passed away..."

Grandma Liu was there in shock. For a long time, she wiped her eyes with her sleeve and said, "What are you talking about? They are all young...God is too unblessing of good people!"

Baochai then told Grandma Liu about the affairs of the mansion in the past few years. Although Grandma Liu was on the way, she also inquired a few bits and pieces. , I couldn't help crying again.Baochai was afraid that she would lose her spirit due to her old age, and she would go a long way again, so she hurriedly persuaded her.

When Grandma Liu first saw this mansion, she was very spacious, and she thought that the Jia family had a good life, but now I heard that it was a borrowed place, and everyone in the Jia family didn't even have a place to live, so they hurriedly grabbed the baggage in their hands. Sending it to Baochai, she said: "Girl... no, grandma, in the past, it was the old lady, wife, and second grandmother who helped us, so that we lived a stable life. Now... we don't have much ability, This is because we are a little poor, so please accept it, grandma."

Baochai was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that the old man came with the caravan to find them, and he wanted to help them. When he thought of the Wang family's divorce and the Jia family's affairs, he couldn't help but blushed and said: "Grandma, this is terrible. I love you."

Grandma Liu hurriedly waved her hand, and said again: "I originally brought the teacup that Second Master Bao gave me, but I met the female master from the garden on the way. Oh, there are such fierce people in the world, they insist on taking That master can’t be sold. He’s a monk, so he’s not afraid of being punished by God. I want to save people, but fortunately, the shopkeeper in the commercial firm knows how to trade, so he took the cup to change people out. When I left the mansion, I I didn't let go of someone's idea of ​​playing this cup, but fortunately I stayed. I said that if it was given to gold and silver, the other end would not be rare. Sigh..."

Baochai was dizzy when she heard that, she came to her senses and said, "Miaoyu? Grandma is talking about Miaoyu?"

Grandma Liu said: "It was when the old lady took me to visit the garden last time, in that very clean nunnery, tea was presented to the old lady's female master!"

As soon as Baochai knew it was Miaoyu, she hurriedly asked, "Where is Miaoyu now?"

Grandma Liu said: "Although the female master was rescued, she refused to eat or drink. The shopkeeper said that if she was left there, she might be taken away again in a blink of an eye, so he simply brought her here with me. I inquired about it." You are here, you originally wanted to bring her here, but she didn't say a word, so I came by myself. She is still living in the guild hall where the firm is located here, and I asked Qing'er to accompany her."

After hearing this, Baochai got up and said: "Grandma has great merit, I thank you on her behalf! She has such a temper, and I don't know how she got here. I am afraid that she has suffered a lot. Please take care of her. "

Grandma Liu quickly shook her head: "Oh, grandma is so right, I don't know what to do. I got the cup to save the female master from her before. I just changed hands, so there is no merit. She suffered It's a big disaster, how can I care about her. It's not a problem if she keeps doing this, and there needs to be someone I know well who can untie it."

Baochai nodded: "Grandma said yes, may I ask where grandma said the trading house is, so I can send someone to pick her up."

Grandma Liu said: "It's the guild hall of the Four Seas Commercial Company. I don't know where it is, but the people pulling carts outside must know."

As soon as Baochai heard it, he said, "It's enough to have a name." Then he said to Ying'er beside him, "Go find the second grandma, and tell her that Miaoyu lives in the Sihai Commercial Hall, and let her send someone to pick her up. It's a matter Just now you listened, remember to tell her." Yinger hurriedly agreed to go.

Only then did Baochai turn back to Grandma Liu and say, "Don't blame me, grandma. The two of them are old acquaintances. If I know the letter, I'm afraid I'm more anxious than anyone else."

Grandma Liu waved her hand again, and then asked, "Grandma, this... the second grandma is gone, what about the eldest sister?"

Just now Baochai didn't mention the matter of Sister Qiao's resignation. After all, the bandits were involved. If more people know about it, they will be more right and wrong.Seeing Grandma Liu's worried face now, she cut the head off and said that because of the decline of the mansion, the Wang family resigned, and sister Qiao didn't want to go south, so she stayed in the capital.

Grandma Liu slapped her legs and said, "I didn't inquire about the news!"

Baochai said: "She is with the sister-in-law, and the sister-in-law is probably going to Zhuangzi now. It's really hard to inquire about it."

Grandma Liu said: "Grandma told me a place anyway, so I have to see my sister anyway."

Baochai laughed and said, "The name of my sister was chosen by my grandma. If my sister-in-law is in the city, she will live next to Fengqi Academy; if she is not there, she will live in her north village. It’s from Caotianzhuang. I’ll write a note to grandma when the time comes, and grandma will find it when she returns to Beijing.”

Grandma Liu said with a smile: "Caotian Village! I know this. The shredded shreds and pickled eggplants we eat all come from them. But I don't know that it is Grandma's Zhuangzi."

Baochai nodded, "This is even better."