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Grandmother cleared her throat and said, "Today is my last day at home. From now on, this house will be left to us, the Eldest Miss. "All of you have to work together to make life better …"

Everyone lowered their heads to listen to their grandmother's lecture. Only Aunt Wang couldn't hold back her tears for a moment.

After saying this, Grandmother left me and Aunt Wang. I had no choice but to ask Aunt Mo to send Aunt Chen and Aunt Yi back on my behalf.

Aunt Wang sat on the bed in front of the brick bed, covering her face with tears.

The grandmother looked at Aunt Wang, the corners of her eyes slightly red, and wiped her face with the handkerchief.

There was a warm and sincere feeling of kinship flowing between his grandmother and his wife.

I smiled as I took Aunt Wang's shoulder, and stuffed a daisy handkerchief into her hands, and advised her with a smile, "Mother, quickly don't be like this! Grandmother is leaving tomorrow, you should be happy! Why did it make her cry as well! This is too insensible of you! "

In Aunt Wang's heart, her grandmother was her mother.

His mother was already old, but she wanted to leave home and live alone. Who would not feel sorry for their children?

Grandmother also followed me to persuade Aunt Wang a few times, holding her hand and laughing, "Look at her, she's only a child, but she's already taught you a lesson! You're no longer an old man, you're shameless! "

Only then did Aunt Wang stop her from crying. "It's all Mother's fault for spoiling her all the time!"

"Warm, you have been a sensible child since you were young. Every time mother gets sick, you don't go anywhere, just sit at the front of mother's bed and pour tea, feed the soup, and hold mother's hand, and ask if mother is better. At that time, mother swore that no matter what happened, she would protect you well."

Aunt Wang lowered her head, her eyes sparkling and translucent.

"But in the end, mother wasn't able to do it …" Grandmother choked with sobs. I hurriedly poured a cup of tea and offered it to Grandmother. After serving her a mouthful of tea, I heard her continue, "Mother didn't protect you!"

Aunt Wang threw herself into his grandmother's arms and began to sob.

Grandmother patted her back gently as if she were coaxing a child. There were still tears on her face, but her lips were curled upwards: "But, you gave birth to a good girl! Yao Qin, this child, is smart and has some tricks up her sleeve. In the future … In the future, she will be the one to protect you! "

Aunt Wang wiped away her tears as she sobbed, "Mother, it's your daughter's fault …" In the past, mother had advised her daughter that as a person, one should not be stingy. Everything must be done at a later date. It was because her daughter was young and in high spirits, thus she didn't understand what her mother meant … "My daughter is unfilial, she hasn't raised my mother for an entire day, what worries my mother is that, what worries me with my daughter, are …"

Compared to me, Aunt Wang's heart was very pure and kind. She looked at things with a more grateful attitude. Therefore, she had never felt that her marriage was merely a contract for the sake of consolidating the alliance. The breakup of her marriage was not due to her fault, but rather to the current situation.

Not many people could maintain such a pure state of mind even after experiencing so many obstacles. I had never intended to destroy the pure land in Aunt Wang's heart, and naturally wouldn't tell her the ugly truth.

Grandmother hugged Aunt Wang as tears rolled down her cheeks.

I smiled to myself.

Was it that the more one was involved in a scheming fight, the more one yearned for pure kinship?

Grandmother had schemed for her entire life, but in the end, the one who was the most pitiful and couldn't let go of her was actually an adopted daughter who wasn't even related to her in the slightest.

After her grandmother and Aunt Wang cried for a while, the two calmed down a lot. Sitting across from her on the brick bed, Aunt Wang gave her grandmother a towel and said, "Let me sleep with you tonight!"

Grandmother smiled and nodded. She took a towel and wiped her face before she turned to me and said, "In my room, take some people with you. Leave some people behind. "Some of the unclean ones, I've already sent them to my manor, you don't have to worry about them …"

I smiled and replied, "Rest assured! I know very well that I will take care of your house! "

Although my grandmother had moved out, this courtyard was not to be tidied up for others to live in, so I planned to temporarily place the servants that my grandmother had left behind in this courtyard and observe them for a while before finding suitable positions for them.

On the surface, the people who were left to look after the courtyard were Mother Du, Big Servant Hong Chang, and many others who worked in the storerooms and kitchens. The maidservants dressed in palanquin clothes all became redundant and had to slowly identify those who were available or not to be used before they could be allocated to the other courtyards.

Grandmother also told me a few words, but only to look after the property in her house, often come to look after it, lest the servants stealthily take advantage of the mixed fish and dragons to get out of the good things. Also, he had to take good care of Aunt Wang, so she wouldn't suffer from any trivial words like that.

I agreed with a smile one by one. After Grandmother finished speaking, I brought Lan Lingyun back to my room.

After changing our clothes, Lan Li and I continued to do our usual needlework while chatting to pass the time.

Seeing Lan Lingyun powder her clothes, I couldn't help but laugh at her. "What are you up to, this late at night? "Do you want me to make a cotton coat for your lover overnight?"

What I said was only a allusion.

At today's banquet, the story that the first wife told was precisely the story of a woman who had been working all her life until her eyes went blind. It was a story about a man with a bad heart who had come to the capital to test for his name.

At that time, Lan Ling was just like the other ladies, lost in her thoughts. She couldn't help but shed a few tears of sympathy.

Lan Li did not stop with the scissors in her hand, but said in a reproachful tone, "How can you be like this, making fun of us with these dirty words! I want to make some clothes for Young Master Wen.

Surprised, I asked her, "Why did you want to make clothes for him?"

Lan Li raised the sword and pointed it at the lantern for a long time, then said with a smile, "I saw the young master of the Wen family. He looks so good, and he usually only wears cyan and blue. Moreover, Miss Wen also sent you such a precious hairpin today. Why don't you at least return the gesture?

At this point, I remembered that Miss Wen had also given me a box, which was placed on the table in front of me.

A pair of scarlet golden swallows nests and Tian Yujue hairpins are lying at the bottom of the purple velvet box.

I picked one up and admired it for a moment.

At the front was the swallow's nest, and two golden swallows fluttered towards the nest formed by the golden threads. Behind them was a piece of Heaven-Revolving Jade, which was just right for a backrest. However, when they turned around, they saw that it was actually a full moon-shaped hairpin.

What an exquisite hairpin!

Just the weight alone would be about fifteen or sixteen taels.

When Lan Lingyun saw that I had carefully put the hairpin back into the box, she couldn't help but laugh and say: "This hairpin is really pretty, but it's a common hairpin. Who would wear it out? I think Miss Wen must have given you a box of hairpins! "

I glared at her and laughed. "Girl, you're getting more and more lawless! How dare you make fun of me! "Stop being so idle as to give me teeth. I want you to ask the various young masters what kind of things they have given us. Have you gone to ask?"

When Lan Lingyun heard this, she became spirited and threw away the work in her hands. She then sat in front of me with a face full of excitement. This servant went to ask, Miss Wen had given the three young masters four treasures in the study, but Second Young Master's was the rarest. There was a small monkey carved on top of the ink stone, and the warm inkstone underneath was shaped like a tree branch. When this servant left, Second Young Master was grinding the ink, saying that he would use his new inkstone to write a piece of paper for the Wen family's eldest young master … Do you think Miss Wen's gift is weird?! "

I smiled and nodded. "It's really hard on her. She really wants to do it!"

It wasn't easy for him to return Miss Wen's gesture. Madam Wen only had one daughter, so it was rare for her to bring Young Master back to her family. If he wanted to give them gifts, he would have to give them something new and intimate in return. Only then would he be able to stand out.

After thinking about it for a long time, I remembered that last year, when my father came back from the Tianjin trading company, he sent a pair of clay figures. It was indeed a couple of innocent children, and since it was appropriate to give them to Miss Wen, I asked her to find them and deliver them to Miss Wen before she returned to the capital.

The next morning, Lan Zhi came in with two big dark circles under her eyes. She replied that she had found the pair of clay figurines in the "C" class book. Soon, she would go find them, wrap them up in a gift box and send them over.

As I ate breakfast with Jiayi, I laughed at Lan. Push the work on her! "

Lan Li pursed her lips into a smile. Lan Zhi, however, hastily explained, "It wasn't my sister who asked me to do it. It was I who thought that my sister would have to go out with you today, so I stole your job …"

Lan Zhi was becoming more and more like a green bandit.

Lan Ling seemed to agree with me. She served me a cup of tea and smiled. "I went to see Big Sister Lu Kui this morning. She's much better now and is working on her needlework at home. She even asked me to send a message to Miss Lin saying that it's boring at home. I told you to bring her back quickly!"

Jiayi sat across from me, glaring. "My bow! My bow! "

I teased him, "What? When our family thinks of the Green Bandits, we think of them as a ball, but when we think of your big brother, what are they? "

Jiayi frowned, stuck out his tongue and said, "Cannonball!"

I couldn't help but laugh. With my family letter's calm personality, how could it be like a firecracker?

It wasn't until I paid my respects to my grandmother and arranged for everyone to get on the carriage that I understood why she said that if I saw her brother, I would think of a firecracker.

This was because during the new year, he had set up a firecracker to chase away the Nian beasts.

His family's original intention was to say that in his eyes, the letter was as terrifying as a young beast …

I touched my head and smiled.

After travelling for about four hours, about noon, the carriage stopped. Lan Li helped us two out of the carriage. In front of us, Aunt Wang and letters from home were already helping Grandmother through the front door.

I was too young and too clean to go to a place like this where the souls of the dead could be overrun by something unclean. Since it was inconvenient for Aunt Chen to put up her big belly, I repeatedly reminded her to leave Aunt Mo at home and asked her to take care of her.

Facing the fence, into the inner cypress, huts, small houses, plum trees, not like a hot spring courtyard, but more like a farmhouse.

I couldn't help sighing to myself. Grandmother had done everything I wanted.

A narrow path led to the main house and into the main house. On the long table in front of them was a map of Guanyin sitting on it. On both sides hung a pair of grass couplets [Jade Bottle Dew], [Purple Bamboo for the Wind]. In the middle of the table, there was a green glazed incense burner. On one side, there was a green glazed sea bowl with two orange buddhist hands, and on the other side, there was a green glazed pearl bottle with a white plum flower in it.

I stepped forward and studied it.

It seemed to be a fixture for the kiln, but it was not as uniform as the glaze at home.

Jiayi tiptoed over to touch the big Buddhist hand on the table. I took out the whisk from a large bottle of sweet white porcelain that lay on the floor and gave it to him to play with.

"It's all fake."

A cold voice suddenly came from behind me, scaring me out of my wits.

It was Grandmother who came out from the back room. She was standing at the doorway as she looked at me with a smile. "An old woman like me who lives alone outside. Didn't I prepare those toys for the thieves?"

I smiled and dragged Jiayi into the inner room.