Sister Song Ruoying went out with the Song brothers. When she heard that Song Ruoman was missing, Song Lian was not very anxious and asked calmly: "When did the fifth girl disappear? Where did the third girl disappear? Where is the third girl now?"

"The third girl is in the noodle shop there..." The old lady pointed in a direction, "The third girl met the girl from Zhu... and said a few words to her. When she turned around, she found that the fifth girl was missing. The servants and the Zhu family were looking for the fifth girl."

"Let's go to the noodle shop first." Song Lian stared at the old lady, "You lead the way."

The group followed the woman to the noodle shop, and Song Ruoying and a man and a woman chatted and laughed. The man was Zhu Qianli, who was engaged to Song Ruoying, and the woman was Zhu Qianli's sister Zhu Qianyao. A trace of contempt flashed in Song Lian's eyes. What a polite third girl.

"Third brother." Seeing Song Lian walk in, Song Ruoying stood up, her pretty face blushing slightly.

"Brother Song San." Zhu Qianli is older than Song Lian, but when he got engaged with Song Ruoying, he became Song Lian's brother-in-law.

Song Ruoying and Zhu Qianli have not yet officially got married, so Song Lian couldn't call him his brother-in-law, so he said politely: "Brother Zhu."

"Brother Ji San, you can also come out to enjoy the lanterns." Zhu Qianyao saw Ji Yunxiang and her eyes shone.

Ji Yunxiang pulled the corners of his lips.

"The streets are crowded, and I am worried that the third girl is anxious to find the lost fifth girl. If something happens again, it will be bad. I take the liberty to ask the third girl to wait in the noodle shop and let the people look for it." Zhu Qianli sat in the noodle shop and chatted with Song Ruoying, but did not help find a reasonable reason for finding someone.

"Brother Zhu thought very carefully." Song Lian smiled faintly, "Huai'er, you and cousin Li escort the third sister back first. I'll search around to see if I can find the fifth sister."

"Okay." Song Huai and Ji Yunli sent Song Ruoying home.

Zhu Qianli also asked the Zhu family's entourage to send Zhu Qianyao home. He and Song Lian and his brothers were looking for the lost Song Ruoman nearby. After searching for a while, they could not find Song Ruoman. They met several other brothers of the Song family. Knowing that Song Ruoman was missing, they also joined the search team.

After expanding the scope of search, Song Ruoman still failed to find him. Just as everyone was considering whether to find more people to find him, the Song family sent someone to say that the fifth girl had already sent her back. So the Song brothers thanked Zhu Qianli, Ji Yunzhen and the other brothers, and went home.

The person who sent Song Ruoman back was Ye Shuhua. He was sitting in the small hall with Old Master Song.

"Since Young Master Ye is my seventh girl and his senior brother, you have to come and go often in the future and don't see each other." Old Master Song smiled so hard that he couldn't see him. Ye Shuhua was the emperor's cousin, and he was also the young city lord of Dengying City. Dengying City lord is a king who is not the king. He is in charge of the nineteen states and is independent of the five countries. The seventh girl cannot enter the palace, so he can marry him, and it is also good to be the wife of the young city lord.

"The little monks often come to discuss Buddhism with their junior brother." Ye Shuhua clasped his hands together.

The two of them were polite again, and Ye Shuhua stood up and said goodbye. Old Master Song personally sent him to the gate before turning around, "Come on, go and tell the third master that he will bring the seventh girl back tomorrow."

The next day, Song Sui and Ji Yun took Song Ruoxi back. In order to show his love for his granddaughter, Mr. Song asked the inner housekeeper to go to the kitchen to pick a few clean hands and feet. His wife, who was good at making vegetarian dishes, went to the kitchen of Zhuyinyuan to serve Song Ruoxi during the illness. She also exempted Song Ruoxi from the morning and evening settlement until she recovered.

Old Mrs. Song was so angry that she smashed a tea set. Mrs. Ma's concubine also knelt in the yard with a burn on her face for half an hour.

Song Ruoxi was puzzled by this and asked Ji Yun: "Mom, I'm not going to the palace anymore. Why is the old man still so kind to me?"

"Last night, the third girl and the fifth girl went out to watch the lanterns. The fifth girl got separated and was sent back. The man's surname was Ye and his name was Shuhua. Do you know him?" Ji Yun asked.

"I know, he is a lay disciple accepted by Master Jueming, and I call him Senior Brother."

"This young master Ye is not only the emperor's cousin, but also the young lord of Dengying City. When the old man saw him, he was like a cat seeing a fish, and his mind became active again." Ji Yun's tone was a hint of mocking.

"I'm afraid the old man will be disappointed again. Senior brother is devoted to Buddha and has no intention of getting married." Song Ruoxi smiled.

Ji Yun's eyes flashed slightly and she asked, "Xi'er, do you think Jinting is better, Yunzhen is better, or Yunxiang is better?"

"All three cousins ​​are very good."

"If you can only choose one, which one Xier thinks is better?"

Song Ruoxi thought to himself. The meaning of this was like asking her to choose a husband. Her cousin got married was a way of marriage recognized by people of this era. She lowered her head and took a copper hairpin to pull the silver charcoal in the hand stove. The words said: "Mom, I have seen a pair of twin girls in Jinglian Temple. They look exactly the same, their eyebrows are far apart, their noses are collapsed, and their mouths are as wide as basins. When they were thirteen years old, they all became big girls, but they didn't know anything, they only knew to smile and make their bodies dirty."

Ji Yun looked at her in confusion and said, "Of course the two fools don't know anything."

Song Ruoxi's eyes were flowing, "I asked my master why they are so stupid? The master told me that because their father and their mother are cousins. Their blood ties are too close, and they are prone to giving birth to freaks and fools."

Ji Yun was stunned for a moment, "Is this what God Ni told you?"

"Master also gave me several examples. Some people have given birth to four-legged children and a pair of hands with twenty fingers, which is scary." Song Ruoxi looked at Ji Yun with a serious expression, "Mom, monks do not lie, Master will never make any mistakes out of nothing."

Ji Yun frowned. Some families in Beijing were brides, and the children they gave birth to were indeed unsatisfactory. You have to inquire about this matter more. If you really have a freak or a fool because of your blood relationship, you can't get married.

Song Ruoxi saw Ji Yun's thoughtful look and breathed a sigh of relief.

In the afternoon, Song Ruoxi fell asleep. Xiangcao walked in and kowtowed desperately. Song Ruoxi was startled and stepped forward to help her up, "Vanilla, what's wrong?"

"Girl, the parrot sent by the fifth young master has not eaten for a long time." Qiao Tao followed in, and the parrot, rabbit, and Song Ruoxi were all given to Vanilla. If the parrots do not eat, they will starve to death, but Vanilla is not taken care of, so Vanilla will kowtow and apologize as soon as they enter the door.

"When did it happen?" Song Ruoxi asked.

"It's been a few days ago. A few days ago, it was willing to eat some millet and broken rice, but from yesterday, it refused to eat anything. I asked the third young master and the fifth young master to see it. The fifth young master said that the parrot was sick, and the third young master said that the parrot was making a tantrum, and the two young masters also told me what the reason was." Qiao Tao reported truthfully.

Song Ruoxi put on a fox fur and walked to the outer room. The bird cage was hung on the shelf. The parrot closed his eyes and shrank his neck, and squatted under the cage dyingly, unlike when he was standing on a perch. "It was still fine when I left, why did it become like this in the past few days?"

Vancao knelt down again, Song Ruoxi turned around and helped her up again, "Vancao, I don't mean to blame you. Let's find the reason and save it."

"This bird is spiritual. It would be a pity if it starves to death." Xiangduo sighed softly.

"Girl, this bird did not starve to death. Vanilla helped it bathe yesterday. The bird got sick from the cold." Liu Siniang walked in and told Vanilla about it.

Vanilla shakes hands.

"The parrot is wild, with feathers on its body, and it will not cause it to get sick even when it gets wet in the rain." Song Ruoxi stared at Liu Siniang, "Vanilla brings millet and water."

Vanilla went out to get millet and water. Liu Siniang retreated aside in frustration, and she said something the girl didn't like to hear.

Song Ruoxi was holding a corn in his hand and teased the parrot, "Good, come and eat something."

The parrot hid in its original place, still moving.

"Be good, you will starve to death if you don't eat!" Song Ruoxi opened the cage and put his hand to the parrot's mouth, "Eat some, can you eat some?"

"Girl, be careful, it will peck people." Xiang Xiu reminded.

"I would rather it peck on people than it doesn't move." Song Ruoxi raised the parrot's head with his hand. The parrot opened his eyes slightly, as if he looked at Song Ruoxi, and closed it again, still looking like he was dying and angry.

"Miss, I've tried it all, it's useless. The parrot just refuses to eat. It's better to catch it and force the millet into its mouth." Qiao Tao suggested.

Song Ruoxi ignored her and said to the parrot: "Do you don't like staying in the cage? That's all, if you eat these millets obediently, I'll let you go."

"Girl, the parrot doesn't understand you." Xiangduo smiled.

"The parrot can learn to learn, and it will definitely understand my words." Song Ruoxi put the millet into the food box and poured some water, "If you eat the millet, I will let you go."

After repeated several times, Song Ruoxi saw the parrot's wings move slightly and laughed, "Hang the cage into the corridor, don't close the cage door."

"Girl, if you don't close the cage door, it will fly away." Qiao Tao said anxiously.

"It's better to let it go early instead of locking it in a cage and starving to death." Song Ruoxi sighed lightly, with a slightly lonely expression on his face. "The sea is wide and the fish leaps, and the sky is high and the birds fly. The cage is not its destination, let it go."

Xiangxiu went out with a bird cage. About a quarter of an hour later, she came in and reported, "Girl, the parrot has flew away."

"Birds can still fly out of the bird cage and be reborn, but I can only be trapped in the house. From this house to another house, I first made reservations for the elders, and then the younger generations made reservations for the morning and evening, and I can't get there." Song Ruoxi fell on the couch and said with infinite emotion.

"The girl is just getting sick. Get more rest and don't think about going out to play all day." The silkworm came in with the medicine.

Song Ruoxi smelled the medicine and wrinkled her nose and sighed. She was self-prone to seeking pain, and she had to endure the pain even if it was too short. Otherwise, she would be locked in a golden cage forever and could not even go to the street. Thinking about it this way, she was quite lucky.

On the 18th day of the first lunar month, the Queen Mother's imperial decree was promulgated, and fifteen were selected and five were selected in the ten surrounding cities. Girls aged 13 to 17 entered the palace on February 17th.

Old Mrs. Song said with a sour taste: "Although Qi Yatou missed the Lantern Festival to enter the palace to watch lanterns and listen to music, now with this imperial edict from the Empress Dowager, she can enter the palace with justification. She is so lucky."

"The seventh girl won't enter the palace." Old Master Song said lightly as he savored the tea.

"Ah?" Old Mrs. Song was stunned for a moment, "I won't enter the palace?"

"The girls in our group do not participate in the alternative." This is the result of discussion between Mr. Song and the old master.

Old Master Song's attitude changed so suddenly that Old Mrs. Song was shocked, "Why?"

"You don't need to ask more about this matter." Old Master Song put down his cup and lifted his legs and left.

Old Mrs. Song curled her lips disdainfully at his back.

Song Sui's position was also implemented, and he was promoted to the first level, and was promoted to the fourth-rank Honglu Temple. Before Mrs. Song had time to be happy that Song Ruoxi could not enter the palace and was favored, she heard the news and was hit hard, and her fat face was distorted and deformed. It was not that this low-class person was promoted to half a level, so why was she promoted to one level? Her son didn't even have a single official position, and the illegitimate child was stronger than the legitimate child. She couldn't swallow her breath.

Unable to bear to scold his son, Old Mrs. Song called Wen over and said sternly: "Kneel down."

Wen knelt down obediently.

"As a good wife, I didn't know how to persuade my husband to study and be motivated, but instead instigated him to go out to raise birds..." Old Mrs. Song slapped the table. She had just started to curse. Wen's body softened and fell down. The old lady was stunned. After a long time, she came to her senses, "Come, go and invite the doctor."

The doctor invited me to take the pulse and the fourth wife was three months pregnant. The legitimate son had no son, which also made Mrs. Song worried. Although she didn't know whether Wen's fetus could give birth to a son, she always had hope and happily spared Wen's morning and evening settlement. But then she added another block to her and pointed the maid named Sui'er beside her to Song Shu.

Looking at Wen's face lying on the bed, Ji Yun reached out to tuck the quilt, put it in front of her ear, and whispered: "Fourth brother and sister, your health is important, you don't need to be angry about those things that can't get on the table."

Wen took a deep breath and said calmly: "Check out Lingxuan."

Sui'er lived in Lingxuan. Song Shu was concerned about Wen's mood. He didn't go over and stayed with Wen's side. Wen's heart felt a little more comfortable, and his resentment towards Old Mrs. Song increased a little.

The next day, Song Ruoxi was going to Taohua Temple to copy scriptures, but Ji Yun disagreed, "You are just sick and can't go out for a breath."

"Mom, I'm going on a carriage, not riding a horse, I can't blow the wind, so just let me go!" Song Ruoxi said coquettishly.

"Xi'er, I can't accompany you if I have something to do today. Your elder brother went to the Imperial College again. Huai'er also has to go to school. If there is no one to accompany you, it's better not to go. OK? It's the same for copying scriptures at home." Song Sui was promoted, and some people who were icing on the cake wanted to congratulate him in the mansion, but Ji Yun was not easy to go out.

"Mom, you promised me to copy scriptures in the temple. You can't keep your word." Song Ruoxi held Ji Yun's arm and shook her without hesitation.

"Mom agreed, but no one accompanied you, so mom is worried. I will go with you next time."

"I will take Cannibal with me. Cannibal has good martial arts skills, and none of the five or six big men are her opponents."

"Is she that powerful?" Ji Yun asked in disbelief.

"Mom, do you still remember the affairs of the Jiang brothers and sisters? It was the one who captured those people. With her by my side, I guaranteed that there was no danger." Song Ruoxi tried hard to convince Ji Yun.

Ji Yun looked at her, "My must go?"

"Mom." Song Ruoxi continued to shake her.
To be continued...