The Red Mansion is so charming

Chapter 170 Who Falls into Whose Puzzle
The snow continued to fall until sunset. Steward Xing called the people who lived in the back alley in the house, and each household added an extra half a month of charcoal fires, and paid an extra month of monthly silver. According to the head of the errand, they gave more A new padded jacket.

The servants knew that the girl must have asked someone to do it long ago, and it would be sent out as soon as it snowed, so they were even more grateful in their hearts, and felt that it was a great fortune in their lives to be an errand in the Xing family.

Aunt Guo hugged the new things she got, and went home numbly. Her whole body was icy cold, except for the burning heat in her chest.On the chest, there is the letter paper stolen by Fang Guan.

"Sister, where is this going?" A woman next door who was also working in Xing's family saw Aunt Guo leaving the house in a daze, and asked casually, "I just happened to ask you something, and the girl gave it to me." I made clothes, the one I got last winter was still brand new, so I thought about making the new one smaller and giving it to our big girl, sister of the Guo family, you are the only one with the most exquisite craftsmanship in this alley, I still have the cheek to beg you, at least help me change this."

Aunt Guo didn't even think about it, she nodded and responded, but her footsteps didn't stop at all, she closed the door and went forward.The woman next door stretched her neck and looked around, muttering to herself, "Where are you going at such a late hour?"

Turn right from Houjiao Alley, walk along the path for a stick of incense, and then turn into another deep alley, where the slaves of other mansions live.

Mother Kang's family lives here. The yard is very large, but there are four families living in it, with more than [-] people.Aunt Guo wrapped her head in a coarse cloth, covered half of her face, and walked into the yard with her head muffled.

"Is Kang's sister here?"

"Who is it?" Kang's mother impatiently put on a jacket and pushed open the door. The Kang family was greedy to save money, and there were no lanterns hanging in front of the door. Kang's mother recognized it for a long time under the moonlight before she exclaimed. : "Oh, it's not."

Mother Kang had just spoken, she quickly covered her mouth vigilantly, leaped down the steps, dragged Aunt Guo into the house.The men of the Kang family were not there, except for a little girl, sitting on the kang table eating glutinous rice noodles and steamed buns. On the kang table were a bowl of hot roast pork, a plate of peanuts, and a pot of shochu. .

Kang's mother glared at the little girl: "Your Aunt Guo is here, hurry up and give up your seat."

The little girl was Zhu'er, the granddaughter of Kang's mother. The little girl looked eagerly at the roast meat in the bowl, reluctantly greeted Aunt Guo, and lifted the curtain embarrassingly to go into the inner room to play.

"I'm so spoiled by this damn girl, I don't understand anything." Mama Kang was about to add another pair of bowls and chopsticks as she spoke.Aunt Guo held her down: "You don't have to be busy, I just want to say a few words."

Although Aunt Guo said this, she looked at the inner room where Kang Zhuer disappeared.

Mother Kang understood, and shouted into the room at the top of her voice, "Pearl, go to your aunt next door and ask for two bulbs of garlic."

There was a wailing sound from the curtain, and after a long time, Kang Zhu'er came out with a sullen face, and reluctantly left the door of her room.

"You and I are not outsiders, so I just say it." Mother Kang poured a glass of wine for Aunt Guo, and Aunt Guo didn't refuse this time. Burning all the way to the intestines, it was indescribably happy.

Kang's mother laughed and burst into tears: "What's the matter today? I used to pull you to drink, but you didn't give me any face, today"

As soon as Aunt Guo took out the envelope, Mama Kang's words stopped abruptly.

"This is?" Kang's mother looked at each other in confusion, and Aunt Guo was expressionless, "This was brought by Fangguan. Miss Xing seems to be telling His Royal Highness the fifth prince to do something. This list is probably directed at them incriminating evidence." She then told Kang's mother that Fang Guan bumped into the eunuch's late-night visit in the palace.

Mama Kang snatched it over and read it from the beginning to the end, but she knew the words on it, and she didn't know the words.Aunt Guo knew about this "friend", so she was not in a hurry when the other party snatched the letter.

Mother Kang looked at Aunt Guo emotionally: "What do you mean?"

"This thing is for your old lady. Will she fulfill her promise to me?"

Mother Kang was anxious and frightened: "You are so crazy, I just thought it was a joke! So you took it all seriously?" Mother Kang stomped and clapped her hands: "No one else knows what Miss Xing's methods are, why do you Still don't understand? If this girl becomes cruel, I don't think anything can stop her. Besides, even an ignorant person like me knows that the fifth prince is close to the Xing family and alienated from the Ouyang mansion. Why do you have to go through this muddy water? "

Aunt Guo smiled wryly: "Sister of the Kang family, why would I want to? But you should also know that the old master and the old lady of the Fei family have treated our family with great kindness, starting from my grandfather, to my father, and even my parents-in-law. I have nothing to repay, but I can only help the Ouyang family out of conscience, and only hope that the Ouyang family can fulfill their promise, support the old lady's sons, regroup and return to the capital."

Aunt Guo began to wipe her tears after thinking about it: "You haven't seen what the girls I have been serving since childhood have become. Even the third-class maids around Miss Xing are more decent than them."

Kang's mother sighed helplessly: "You, what can I say about you! Is there any comparison between the two? No one in the alley knows the wealth of the Xing family? I work here, and I don't know how many people envy you Sister, I’m not saying you don’t like to hear it. Even if the Fei family is still here, can you give this kind of dignity? But the idea is your decision, and I can’t persuade you. You just keep things, and I will Now I'm going to see the old lady, whether it's useful or not, and how the old lady manages the Fei family is not up to me!"

Although Aunt Guo had a feeling of unreliability in her heart, she always regarded it as her own problem and didn't think too much about it. She left the prescription list and gave a few words to Kang's mother carefully before covering her face again. , Braving the wind and snow to go home.

Aunt Guo didn't go far, when Kang Zhu'er slipped back, seeing her grandmother was the only one in the room, she ran up with a smile, picked up a piece of roast meat with one hand, and opened her mouth to send it in.

"I've said it a few times, and I'm going to learn from those ladies. Why can't I get rid of this cheating habit for a while!" Kang's mother looked at her granddaughter with resentment.

Kang Zhuer flattened her mouth aggrieved: "I don't want to make do with the two of them, why do you want me to suffer like that?"

Mother Kang secretly cursed something useless, and told Kang Zhuer to clean up the kang table: "I'll go to the old lady's place, and you go and send a message to Miss Xingxing, saying that Aunt Guo just left, and told her to rest assured, I You must live up to your entrustment and do things beautifully. Remember, don’t let people see you!"

Kang Zhu'er put away her playful look, nodded cautiously, but hesitated for a while, and then said: "Grandma, Aunt Guo is your good friend, isn't it a bit unkind for our family to do this?"

Mother Kang spat at her granddaughter: "Fool, what is kindness? Ms. Xing is such a good person, what does your Aunt Guo do? I have done a good deed! Besides, Ms. Xing promised that as long as I make it This matter will be done by your father and your two uncles as shopkeepers. You girl, go around and ask around. Even if you are a small apprentice, you can enter the pastry shop of the Xing family casually? Our family will buy it in the future. Tian, ​​Miss Xing agreed to study for your nephews, so I will fight this time just for this."

When Kang Zhuer heard her grandmother say this, all her persistence turned into water, and all the puddles flowed away.

That night, Mother Kang met the old lady of Ouyang's family. It was already time for bedtime. The old lady Ouyang's habit was to touch two dominoes before going to bed. Mrs. Kang has something important to report to the old lady.

The old lady Ouyang looked at her confidant suspiciously: "Mrs. Kang? Which one is it?"

The confidant's birth mother hurriedly laughed and said: "The old ancestor forgot? It's Mrs. Kang who helped us match up? Now her granddaughter Kang Zhu'er is still serving in front of the old lady!"

The old lady Ouyang suddenly said: "Call in!"

Mother Kang had to be summoned, and when she came in, she knelt down on the ground with a thud, "Slave maid greets the old lady."

The old lady Ouyang smiled kindly: "Birth mother, help her up quickly." The maid next to her handed over the tortoiseshell glasses, and the old lady looked at Mother Kang carefully, with a vague impression in her heart: "It's so late, you have What do you want to say?"

Kang's mother looked at the people around her in embarrassment. The birth mother understood, and hurriedly sent the maids away, leaving only herself in the house to serve.

Mother Kang took out the envelope from her bosom, and presented it to the birth mother respectfully: "This is what was handed over by the mansion over there. A little eunuch came to the Xing family last night. He is a member of His Royal Highness. It is said that he came from the Xing family. The young lady asked for two pills. The prescription came with the pills, and the nails placed by the ancestors managed to get them out. I knew that the matter was not easy, and I didn't dare to delay, so I submitted it to the ancestors overnight. Look."

"Bring it quickly!" The old lady Ouyang almost snatched the medicine list from the birth mother.This old lady has fought in the inner house all her life. I have heard of the medicines on this list, but no one has heard that they are poisons!
"The people inside didn't say anything, who were those two pills for?"

"The sister of the Xing family told the little eunuch that the fifth prince should be more careful when taking it. I wonder if the servant will give it to His Highness the fifth prince?" Kang's mother looked at the old lady Ouyang tentatively.

The birth mother also looked at the master, "Ancestor, this matter can't be sloppy, we should ask the second master to find someone who knows how to appraise it, so we can know how to deal with it."

The old lady Ouyang frowned: "My second son is reckless, if you ask him to investigate, you will startle the snake. Go and call Jingde!" Ouyang Jingde happened to be at home, and when he heard the news, he hurried to greet the old lady, and heard that the old lady asked him to investigate the matter. What is the medicine on the list, how dare Ouyang Jingde delay?Although it was already curfew time, he still led people out to find a doctor.

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PS: Ya’an, hold on~~
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