Chapter One Thousand and Eighteen

By the time Erfu returned to the main courtyard with his shoulder, Zhang Bao's men had already taken away the water sleeves.

With the water sleeve being taken away, the atmosphere in the main courtyard was very weird, especially the green willow who lived in the same room with the water sleeve, because she clearly watched Zhang Bao's people take away the cage of the water sleeve luggage and all her own things, and the water sleeve looked like she would never come back, of course she would feel flustered, so as soon as Erf came back, she didn't care about her identity, and directly took out the speed of a 100-meter sprint and rushed to Erf.

This is also thanks to Delph's good temper, and he also understands that these servants and maids who listen to errands are uneasy at this time, not only did they not blame Green Willow for some gaffes, but they did not leave her to think nonsense outside, but they were very considerate and greeted Green Willow into the upper room to talk.

"Tell me, what's going on?" asked with a smile as she brought a cup of tea to Green Willow.

Green willow and water sleeves are both teenage little palace maids, leading the monthly silver of the rough palace maid, but they are real candidates for the big palace maid, and they can usually be regarded as the face-saving palace maids who can often enter and exit the upper room, which is more secure than the palace maids who do rough work below, but now even the green willow is like this, you can imagine how the lowest-level little palace maids below should be panicked.

In this regard, Erfu is also helpless, who let her, the incompetence of the master, not be able to escape those conspiracies and plots, and even the palace maids and servants who are involved in her are worried.

She secretly thought that when this bad thing passed, she would definitely give a generous reward to those innocent unlucky people who were innocently involved in this matter.

Drinking a cup of sweet tea, the flustered green willow is finally more relieved.

She didn't care about the sweetness of the cup of tea, nor did she care about feeling how the soft cushion of the embroidered pier under the seat was, and hurriedly said everything she had just seen, "Master, Zhang Baogong led the people to take away the water sleeves, and also took away the luggage in the bedside cabinet of the water sleeves, and also turned out a soft satin burden from under the blue bricks under the water sleeve bed, and the slave and maid peeked at it, although they didn't see what it contained, but judging from the shape of the baggage, it should be very weighty." ”

"You two usually live in the same room, but have you ever noticed anything wrong with her?" asked Erph quietly.

Although she pushed the investigation of the truth about Tong Jia's miscarriage to the fourth master, it was impossible for her to really ignore it, after all, this water sleeve was the person next to her, regardless of whether the water sleeve was involved in the assassination of Tong Jia's family, she always had to know whether the water sleeve had harmed herself.

When Lu Liu heard this, she shook her head with certainty, and said in a low voice: "Shui Sleeve has a quiet temperament, she doesn't like to move around, and she has no other relatives outside, so in addition to following Sister Shilan with the slave maid, more often than not, she stays in the room to do needlework, and she also said that if she has the opportunity, she will ask the master to send her to the needlework room as an errand boy, so that she can learn some skills, so as not to get the age to leave the house, and she doesn't even have the ability to settle down." ”

This is similar to the water sleeve that Erfu knew before, she smiled and beckoned Shilan to bring a small snack to Green Willow, sat on it alone and was silent for a long time, and suddenly asked, "Have you ever seen who she often interacts with?"

"No, it's just that the slaves and maids in our courtyard sometimes get together to do needlework, and the water sleeves rarely come.

The slave maid heard her say that when she was a child, the head of the family also sent an elder aunt into the palace to be a palace maid, because she was literate and hyphenated, and was valued by the palace maid for a period of time, and became the palace maid, but because she said a few words of gossip with her good sisters, she committed the opportunity of a nobleman, so she was caught in the Shen Criminal Division to do the coolies of the pestle, and even the father and brother who took the family on an errand in the Internal Affairs Office were implicated and took away the errand, so she has been cautious since she was sent to the Internal Affairs Office to participate in the small election, and she has not had much contact with other people, because she is afraid of repeating her aunt's mistakes。

Although the slave felt that she was a little too timid, she really didn't see who she was dealing with. Green Willow bit her lip and meditated for a while, and then dug up a little bit of news related to the water sleeve from the depths of her memory.

After listening to the green willow, Erfu saw that the green willow really had no other news to break the news, so he let the green willow go down.

"Although this is the most taboo in the palace to teach this kind of thing privately, but it will not be sent to the Shen Penal Division after a few words of gossip, what kind of mother must be so narrow-minded, and she can't allow the palace maids and good sisters around her to gossip, will there be other hidden feelings here!" Seeing the green willow exit from the upper room, Erfu beckoned Shilan to him, lowered his voice, and said the question in his heart.

"It's really a little wrong, and even if there are elders in the family who have suffered in this regard, but Shui Sleeve has been sent to the Internal Affairs Office to participate in the small election since he was five years old, and he has been learning the rules from his grandmother for many years, how can he remember this kind of thing so clearly, and besides, although she is young, she has also been honing in the Internal Affairs Office for some years, and there should always be three or two sisters who are good friends, but looking at the meaning of Green Willow, it seems that Shui Sleeve is like a lone ranger, how can such a person be promoted to run errands next to the slave maid!" Shiran Bilf thought more, because she Bilf knew more about the operation of the internal affairs election, so she was even more suspicious of the origin of the water sleeve.

"Maybe this water sleeve was already sent over on the first day he came to our hospital on an errand!"

"Now it seems that there is such a possibility, but when you arranged for the slave maid and Shiqing to select the errand maid from the new palace maids in the house, you also specially asked Zhang Baogong to investigate the origin of Shui Chong and others, if someone really deliberately arranged her to serve in the main courtyard, how could you hide the eyes of Zhang Baogonggong in the front yard!"

"It's too late to say this, just listen to the results of the investigation in the front yard.

In the future, you and Shiqing should also be more vigilant, especially the little palace maids who run errands around you, you must keep an eye on it, and send people away as soon as possible if you find something right, don't let people take advantage of the loopholes, the left and right internal affairs government will send the palace maids of the right age to come over every year, and we are not afraid that we will not find a satisfactory one, we would rather lack than abuse. Erfu can't figure out the matter of the water sleeves, but the biggest advantage of her is that she doesn't think about it if she can't figure it out, and she will definitely not get into the tip of the horns, and she is really tired and hungry in the morning of her busy work, so she quickly put an end to the matter of the water sleeves, urging Shilan to go to the small kitchen to pass the food.

While she was washing, she didn't forget to let Zhao Dezhu run to the front yard, and through Chen Fu's father-in-law's eyes and ears, she informed Bai Jiao that she wouldn't go over to check the accounts today.

If it was in the past, she would have directly arranged for Zhao Dezhu to go out, and would have asked Zhao Dezhu to bring some street food back to Xiao Qi and Hongxuan to try it out for the children, but now at this time, she had to avoid suspicion and choose to pass the word through Chen Fu's people, lest the people behind the scenes take the opportunity to pull Bai Jiao and give her a messy charge, so as to provoke the suspicion of the fourth master.

In the main courtyard, Erfu was passing the dishes here, and on the side of the East Courtyard, after the fourth master saw Tong Jia's who had fallen asleep, he waited for the imperial doctor to give the diagnosis, and went directly back to the front yard, neither staying in the East Courtyard to guard the physically and mentally injured Tong Jia's side Fujin, nor going to the main courtyard to talk to Erfu, his actions like this made the people who plotted against Tong Jia's behind the scenes secretly happy.

Although she has long known that Erfu's position in the fourth master's mind is as solid as a cornerstone, she believes that as long as she is willing to work hard and swing the hoe little by little, she is not afraid of digging up the big Buddha of Erfu, and the current performance of the fourth master makes her feel that her hard work is not in vain.

But the main messenger behind the scenes didn't know that the fourth master returned to the front yard with his front foot, and arranged for the inconspicuous little eunuch next to him to run to the backyard, and sent the diagnosis results from the imperial doctor's side and the results of Zhang Bao's inquiry about Shui Sleeve to Erfu, and he never suspected Erfu at all, and the reason why he acted like he was suspicious of Erfu was just a strategy to catch out the big fish of the main messenger behind the scenes.

Speaking of the main courtyard, Erfu looked at the little eunuch in front of him who couldn't find anyone in the crowd, and he understood.

She took the letter sent by the little eunuch and looked at it a few times, put it aside casually, and ordered Shilan to send a silver money reward, without saying a word, picked up the porridge bowl, and let the little eunuch go back to the front yard on an errand.

With the trust of the fourth master, she will be able to feel completely at ease.

As for the origin of the water sleeves, she didn't care much about who Tong Jia's family was plotting against, but she wouldn't be vague about what she should say, while taking a small bite of the exquisite snacks sent from the small kitchen, she told Shilan to find a booklet from a private library, and quickly selected some nourishing medicinal materials from them, and selected two pieces of fine jade materials, and instructed Zhao Dezhu to send them to Tong Jia's in the East Courtyard.

"Tong Jiashi was wronged this time......"

With Erfu's words and the act of ordering people to send gifts to appease, the female relatives of the other courtyards are not good to continue to pretend to be stupid, in the east courtyard, Tong Jiashi has not woken up, and the gifts sent by the female relatives of each courtyard have been piled up in the hall, but I believe that no one will like to be so appeased and sympathetic. Even the gifts of schadenfreude, at least Mama Huo, Tong Jia's grandmother, was not so generous, so except for the gifts sent by Erfu that she left in the hall and waited for Tong Jiashi to wake up and check, the gifts sent by other women were all stuffed into the warehouse by her.

And Erfu's side, after ordering someone to send gifts to Tong Jia's side, breakfast was almost finished.

She twisted the handkerchief and touched the corners of her lips, explained that Yujie guarded the door, restrained the maids who were waiting in the room and in the courtyard, and led Xiao Qi, who was on vacation today, to see Xiao Qi's new courtyard.

Xiao Qi's new courtyard is not far behind the main courtyard, close to the lotus pond, there are five upper rooms in front, surrounded by wings and inverted seats, behind the room is a corner of the newly repaired water pavilion, to the pool, hanging on the Xiangfei bamboo curtain to shade the sun, the beauty couch is arranged inside, it is definitely a good place.

"Xixiaoyuan, Eniang used to live, and you and Hongxuan lived in the cross-courtyard, so naturally there was no problem.

But now that the new side of the Wulanala clan is about to enter the door, we have to hurry up and vacate the yard, lest some people say that Eniang, the new Fujin, does not understand the rules. Because he came with Xiao Qi, and Tingyu Zhai and the main courtyard were not far away, Erfu did not let people prepare for the shoulder, but walked hand in hand with Xiao Qi on the cobblestone path, smiling and talking privately.

Xiao Qi is not an ignorant child, and she doesn't like to live alone in the west courtyard that is too far away from Eniang, and she has long known that her Eniang has the idea of letting her move the yard, so she is not surprised, and there is no so-called resistance, but she listens to her Eniang's words at this time, and it seems that something is wrong, she can't help but hurriedly ask: "But someone said something messy, which annoyed Eniang, it is better to talk to Xiao Qi!"

"It's nothing, E-Niang just said casually, don't think too much. When Erfu heard this, she was slightly stunned, then smiled and patted Xiao Qi's head, and warned in a deep voice, she didn't want to use Xiao Qi to compete for favor, let alone let Xiao Qi occupy the West Courtyard, which should have belonged to the courtyard of Fang Fujin's residence, she just kept thinking about Tong Jia's affairs, and her heart was a little unhappy, so she unconsciously brought out a little whining when she spoke.

Seeing this, Xiao Qi blinked his eyes, smiled and grabbed Erfu's arm, waved his hand to let the palace maids who were waiting behind him stay away, and asked in a low voice: "E-niang is jealous, jealous Ama didn't accompany you, but stayed in the East Courtyard for so long!"

"Why do you say that?" asked Erph, puzzled.

"Xiao Qi listened to the palace maid who was waiting beside him, Ama hurriedly left from the Eniang courtyard early in the morning, and then went from the front yard to the east courtyard after a while, and he has been accompanying the one in the east courtyard to have breakfast, and then returned to the front yard, that is, when Xiao Qi heard about this, he was a little unhappy, not to mention Eniang!" Xiao Qi said with a smile, because of Tong Jia's miscarriage, it is not good to talk to an unmarried girl like Xiao Qi, so even the palace maids in her courtyard know about it, but Xiao Qi doesn't know yet, what she knows is that her own Ama went to the East Courtyard early in the morning to accompany Tong Jia is side Fujin, and she naturally thought crookedly without any surprise.

In this regard, Erfu was very helpless to hold her forehead, and at the same time knocked Xiao Qi's head hard, and warned in a low voice: "Don't talk nonsense, Eniang is not as stingy as you think." ”

While speaking, Erfu and Xiao Qi had already walked to the gate of the courtyard where they listened to Yuzhai.

In the middle of the courtyard wall of blue bricks and tiles, two vermilion lacquer portals inlaid with copper knockers, although they are newly built, they also reveal a bit of simplicity and chic, especially the deliberately old white marble steps, which are very vicissitudes, that is, Erfu, a modern woman who has visited the Forbidden City, sees this simple and elegant courtyard in front of her, and also greatly sighs about the architectural art of the ancients.

The entrance to the courtyard is a shadow wall carved with the word Yingfu and cloud patterns.

Bypassing the shadow wall, the bluestone paved cross road, leading directly to the upper room and the wings on both sides, between the wings and the upper room, there is a corridor to connect, and the vacant land next to it, is planted with a few evergreen trees moved from other places, and does not plant more flowers, which is also a special request of Erfu, one is that the flowering period of flowers is limited, and the florist needs to take care of it carefully, this gardener is in and out, it is easy to give people the opportunity to exploit loopholes, and secondly, I am afraid that someone will use strange flowers and plants to make a black hand on Xiao Qi, it is better to simply plant a few trees, which can not only shade and cool down, but also avoid unnecessary risks, the only Erph is worried that Xiao Qi will not like such a simple arrangement, that's why she specially led Xiao Qi over for a walk.