June is hot.

There was ice in the room. The little maid sat in front of the copper platform where the ice sculptures were placed, gently shaking the fan, and sending a trace of cool air to the master. In front of the desk not far away, Du, who had just finished resting, was gently flipping through the collection of poems left to her by her niece Chen Youyou. Seeing the sentence "Warring for the crossing, a bunch of gulls and herons startled", she couldn't help but chuckled.

She likes this niece very much, too.

Putting down the collection of poems, Du turned his head and looked out the window, which looked a bit like the eldest son who was half a month away from home.

A slight movement suddenly came from outside, and Du raised his eyebrows and looked at the door of the inner room.

Her maid raised the curtain and looked at it. Seeing that the lady had already alarmed her, she hurried in and replied: "Madam, Ningxiang, who is beside the prince, asked for a meeting. Her family had just come to look for her and said that her brother had secretly ran to the river to play drowning. Although she was rescued, she kept crying and wanted to see her sister. Ningxiang wanted to take a day off to go back to see her brother."

Du was shocked when he heard this, got up and walked out.

Ningxiang was waiting outside. When she saw Du, she cried and knelt down and kowtowed: "Madam, I..."

"Go quickly. The prince is not here. You stay at home for two more days. The child is frightened and you should accompany him."

Du leaned over and helped the little maid who was crying with tears on his face. Ningxiang was just a younger brother, and the eldest sister was like a mother. Raising her younger brother was almost the same as raising her son. Such a thing happened. Du, as the mother of two sons, knew that she was anxious, turned her head and ordered the maid to invite the doctor, and went back with Ningxiang.

Ningxiang quickly refused and said, "No, Madam, my uncle said Amu is fine, but he was scared, really doesn't need to..."

She was really crying, and her mind was full of the cousin from her previous life who came to the Hou Mansion to find her and told her about the situation when Amu had an accident.

The little maid refused to ask for it, and Du didn't force her to ask Ningxiang. She knew that her family had borrowed the villager's donkey cart, so she asked her to go home first.

Ningxiang thanked her again and again and left with her eyes wiped.

Xu Shouliang came by himself, standing outside the corner gate waiting. When he saw his niece walking out with red eyes, he couldn't help but feel that he had been serving in the Marquis' Mansion for three years. Niece, who had always been simple, would pretend to cry. If he hadn't known in advance that this was the reason why his niece left the mansion, he wouldn't have seen that it was fake.

"Uncle, let's go quickly." Ningxiang urged in a low voice for fear of the elders' exposure.

Xu Shouliang said aloud, and drove the cart and left.

Under the sun in the afternoon, the father and father rushed all the way and returned home before dusk.

Of course, nothing happened to Amu. At this time, the little guy was lying in his house in the west courtyard, leaning in aggrievedly in the bed and no one wanted to see him.

After lunch, the second sister wanted to take him to Beihe to play. Amu remembered his sister's instructions and dared not go. The second sister said she would not tell her sister, so he went. When he arrived by the river, the second sister led him to play with water. Amu was unsteady and accidentally fell into the river. Her clothes were wet. She happened to be seen by the eldest aunt who was chasing him. She insisted that he secretly played with the water and slapped him hard. Her hips were several times, and it hurt a lot.

Amu cried all the way, and when he returned home, he didn't want to take care of his aunt, and he stopped going to their house. He ran back to his house with a whimper.

I fell asleep while crying. When I woke up, I still didn't want to go out, so I pouted and thought of my sister.

It seemed that someone had come over at the door, Amu curled his lips and pretended to go to bed.

Ningxiang walked in gently and saw her younger brother curled up pitifully on the kang. She felt soft and she tilted her head to look at her younger brother. When she met her younger brother's swollen eyes, Ningxiang couldn't help laughing and said softly: "Amu, who is back?"

"Sister!" Seeing her sister, Amu quickly got up, threw herself into her arms, crying and complaining about her grievances, "I didn't play with the water secretly, my aunt hit me!"

I cry while talking, and the more I cry, the more aggrieved I feel.

Under the eaves outside, Li was angry and funny, and said to the window: "You are all good people, let me be evil people! If Amu holds a grudge and marry his wife in the future, you have to talk to me!"

"I don't need to think about it all day long." Xu Shouliang glared at his wife and left with a smile.

Xu Qiuer followed her with her mother's hand, knowing that her cousin could coax her cousin well.

"Amu doesn't cry, it's my sister who asked my eldest aunt to beat you," Ningxiang sat cross-legged in the house, hugging her younger brother in her arms and comforted softly, "The eldest aunt said you were secretly playing with water, and when you cry, others believed it. It's like my eldest uncle went to the Marquis' Mansion to pick me up. When the lady heard that you were almost drowning, she immediately let me back to see you."

Amu blinked his eyes and seemed to understand a little, "Sister lives at home today?"

Ningxiang nodded with a smile.

Amu immediately burst into tears and smiled, and sat up happily, "Then let my aunt hit me next time!"

As long as my sister can come back, he is willing to be beaten every day, but it won't hurt after a while.

The little guy thought it simple. Ningxiang, who was just smiling and coaxing her brother not to cry, cried and pressed her brother into his arms to prevent him from watching.

After calming down for a moment, Ningxiang helped his younger brother straighten his brother and solemnly instructed: "Remember, today you ran to the river by yourself, and almost drowned when you fell into the water. The eldest aunt and her second sister went to find you and rescued you. You cried because you missed me, so my uncle went to the city to pick me up. No matter who asked you in the future, you will tell him this, do you know? Otherwise, let the wife know that I lied to her, and she will never allow her sister to come back again."

Amu immediately shook his head and hugged his sister tightly, "I won't say it, sister is back!"

"Well, my sister will beg her to beg her to return the contract to me tomorrow. Then, my sister will hold Amu to sleep every day in the future and stay with Amu every day." Dear my brother's head, Ningxiang smiled and told him the good news.

Amu was very happy to hear this, and was so happy that he didn't know what to do. He hugged his sister and kissed her on the face.

The sunset shone in outside the window, gently covering the siblings.

At the same time, Lu Cheng, a neighboring village family, looked at his third brother Lu Ding when he came back. Because of the backlight, he narrowed his eyes slightly.

The second brother Lu Yan was cooking, and the sister went to play with her second uncle's house, so the responsibility of taking care of Anan fell on Lu Ding's shoulder. The young man looked at the squatting next to him who seemed to be stinking and actually wondered when the goat would take the initiative to drip milk. Shui's nephew, he replied to his brother's eyes concisely and asked, "I didn't see it."

Lu Dingzhen felt that his elder brother was going crazy.

Miss Xu said that she would redeem herself this month. My elder brother would go to the orchard to do things and couldn't stare at the Xu family every day, so she sent him to the fork in the east of Liuxi Village to wait. Once she saw Miss Xu coming back, he would know immediately. Including today, Lu Ding had been there for four days in a row. He set off half an hour before lunch and waited until the west side of the Hongri before returning, because Miss Xu was about to get home in the morning or at noon.

It is rare that the eldest brother has a sweetheart, and Lu Ding himself is quite satisfied with his sister-in-law. He has nothing to do with him, so he just waits hard. The second brother said that waiting with his hands is too obvious, and it is not good to see it by Miss Xu, so he asked him to lead the sheep and pretend to be herding sheep. Lu Ding felt something was right, but before Miss Xu, he was not able to wait for Miss Xu, somehow he was discovered by a girl from the village opposite the fork in the road. He actually stayed at the intersection, holding a curly sheep in his hand.

Lu Ding endured it yesterday, and today the girl actually brought a sister. The two of them gathered together from time to time while watching him and laughing. Lu Ding couldn't stand it, so he came back with the sheep. The Xu family was so close that Miss Xu redeemed her, they would know sooner or later, and it would be two days later at most. The eldest brother was just too anxious.

But Lu Ding didn't dare to say that he had sneaked back in advance, and just said that he didn't see it.

Lu Cheng was a little disappointed.

At the entrance of the kitchen, the second brother Lu Yan looked at the two brothers outside, and his lips raised high. Before going to bed at night, he pretended to ask casually: "Where did you place the eagle today? The rabbit I caught was so small. I guess there must be a rabbit nest nearby. I will go there to try my luck tomorrow, and maybe there will be other rabbits."

The general was able to hunt, but his prey was relatively small, and he was only enough to eat it by himself. At least he could avoid the three of them catching sparrows and rats to feed it.

Lu Cheng was wiping Anan's butt with a veil on the kang, and he paused when he heard this.

Lu Ding was about to get on the kang, but now he didn't want to get on, so he turned around and walked out, "I'll go to the cottage."

As he said that, he quickly walked out of the house.

Lu Cheng handed his son to his second uncle with a calm face, and chased him out in his shoes.

A movement came soon outside the window. Anan was lying naked and playing. He heard the sound curiously turning over to look at the window, and the movement disappeared again.

Anan whispered softly and looked back at her second uncle, but saw her second uncle covering her mouth and her shoulders trembling.

Anan didn't know why his second uncle was laughing, but when he saw his second uncle laughing, he also grinned.

The next day, before Lu Cheng left the door, he looked at his two younger brothers, and finally chose the honest third brother, stared at him and said, "Let's try back early."

Lu Ding couldn't twist his thighs, so he had to go there. This time he didn't lead the sheep, so he chose a place where he could see the fork in the road.

But I didn't know that when he arrived here, Ningxiang had already entered the city again.

First, I went back to Lengmei Pavilion to meet Su Yue, returned Su Yue's money to him, took out Lu Cheng's money bag and said, "Last time I went home, I met a wealthy wife in the neighboring village. Her family was doing business in the city. Because of her fate, she was willing to lend me money to redeem her. I didn't want it at that time, so I borrowed ten taels of taels of money from her this time. Su Yue, you have collected these money and you stayed here alone, so you need more money to respond to the emergency."

Su Yue was unhappy and held her hand and said, "Why do you want to borrow it from someone? You..."

Ningxiang looked her in the eyes, "If you don't take it back, I won't leave."

The little girl was more stubborn than anyone else, and Su Yue had no choice but to accept it.

Ningxiang also told her about something, "I don't want to implicate others in this matter of redeeming my life. If the prince asks you where I got the money, you will say that I had saved fourteen taels in my hand, but my aunt's family saved three taels, and the remaining three taels were borrowed from Madam Li."

Lu Cheng must not be involved. The only ones who can borrow money from her are except aunt Li and Su Yue.

"If I don't say I'm borrowing it from me, I'm afraid the prince will blame me for helping you?" Su Yue said with tears in her eyes, not expecting that Ningxiang was so thoughtful.

Ningxiang looked at the tears in her eyes, felt sad, and couldn't help but persuade him again: "Suyue, you..."

"Go quickly." Su Yue didn't want to say more, and pushed her out with a smile and sent her out.

Ningxiang suddenly felt reluctant to leave and walked out of Lengmei Pavilion. When she turned around, she saw Su Yue standing there smiling and looking at her with encouragement, tears bursting out from her eyes.

"Go." Su Yue urged softly. After saying that, she saw Ningxiang not moving for a long time, she went back to her ear room impatiently.

Looking at her walking step by step, she never saw her again. Ningxiang stood there for a long time before stopping her tears and went to the main courtyard with a complicated mood.

Ningxiang is very familiar with Du's side. She went to the servant's room to look for Madam Li and asked her for help. If Pei Jinghan asked, please don't mention Lu Cheng.

When Madam Li learned that it was Lu Cheng who borrowed her to redeem the money, she patted Ningxiang's hand with emotion and whispered: "Don't worry, Madam knows what to say. Lu Cheng is a good person, and Madam is relieved to have him take care of you. But since you can think of hiding Lu Cheng, then you should understand that before you make sure that the prince will not get involved. You and Lu Cheng should not be too anxious, right?"

Ningxiang understood, and she was also afraid that Pei Jinghan would take his anger out of Lu Cheng.

So even if Lu Cheng was sincere to her, Ningxiang didn't want to consider the love between children now.

Before Pei Jinghan completely gave up on her, whoever she liked would harm her.

"Oh, stop crying. Madam is just a few taels of silver. I'll lend it to you first. Let's go, I'll take you to see the lady."

After whispering, Madam Li deliberately raised her voice. She was an old woman, and she was not suspicious of competing for favor with Ningxiang, and she was even less likely to have the idea of ​​competing with the prince, so she was not afraid to let the prince know that she had borrowed money to Ningxiang. The prince should not be too stingy to deal with the old madam who had to use by his mother.

The old man was so kind to her, Ningxiang really cried.

After asking for help from Du like this, he became determined to go home to take care of his younger brother.

"Madam, I am only Amu, a younger brother. He is young and ignorant, and almost drowned. I am really worried about keeping him at home. Over the years, I have saved some money. I just borrowed three taels from Madam Li, and I barely collected enough twenty taels. I beg my wife to let me leave the house! Ningxiang will repay her wife's kindness for her in the next life!"

He kowtowed while crying.

Madam Li's eyes were also red and she begged for Ningxiang.

Du's face looked embarrassed and asked Mama Li and others to retreat for the time being. She helped the little maid who had her forehead bruised and said, "The prince is to you..."

Ningxiang cried and looked up at her, her tone was as firm as iron, "Madam, in the countryside, concubines will be stabbed by others when they are in the house. I have never thought of being a concubine, nor have I ever thought of competing with the prince and the cousin to compete for favor. Madam, I beg you, let me go home, otherwise the prince will come back, and I will have to die..."

As he said that, he knelt down again and cried bitterly.

Du looked at her pitiful look and whispered: "But have you ever thought about it? If the prince doesn't give up, I will let you go back now, and he will still have a way to steal you back. At that time, he will hate you, it's better..."

"I am not afraid. Mrs. Zhenru said that at least it was the girl of the Xu family when I died."

Ningxiang said word by word to face Du's skirt.

As long as she can leave the house today, she will never come back alive.

Hearing the determination in her words, Du was shocked and sighed after a long time: "Forget it, since you have decided, I promise you."
Chapter completed!