Aunt Qin comforted Aunt Wen: "That's good now, you can see Sister Zhen every day!"

Madam Wen bit her lip and said, "What's there to see? Can I find a good husband for her? Or can I support her if something goes wrong?" After saying that, she shook her sleeves and went into the house.

Concubine Qin hurriedly followed and heard Eleventh Lady talking to Amber: "...accompany Zhen Jieer to the warehouse to look at what she likes. Then go find Chief Steward Bai and ask him to calculate how much it would cost to convert the hall in our courtyard into three main rooms with side rooms, and add three side rooms with side rooms on the west side. It doesn't matter if we temporarily live in the east side room in winter, but it won't work in summer. After the hall is converted, I will persuade the Marquis to move the study there and give the west side room to Zhen Jieer..." Seeing Concubine Wen and Concubine Qin coming in, she stopped talking, "Here they come!"

The two men knelt and saluted.

Eleventh Lady asked the maid to bring small stools for the two of them to sit on.

Madam Wen changed from her usual noisy self and became very silent.

You can't just keep silent and let the atmosphere cool down. But Shiyi Niang rarely spoke when she met them.

Aunt Qin glanced at Aunt Wen and had to bite the bullet and talk to Eleventh Lady: "Madam, is Sister Zhen going to move in?"

Eleventh Lady nodded: "Madam Tai looked at the imperial calendar and the 28th of this month is a good day."

Aunt Qin smiled and said, "This is a big deal. If you need my help, please just ask."

"Not yet." Eleventh Lady said, "If I remember that there is something I need your help with, it won't be too late to ask you to come over then."

"Then I will wait for Madam's orders!" Aunt Qin responded respectfully. She couldn't find anything to say for a while. The atmosphere became cold, and she glanced at Aunt Wen, who had lost her former liveliness and sat there in a daze, oblivious to everything around her. Aunt Qin sighed in her heart and had to find something to say. She took a look and saw the daffodils on the kang table, and smiled and said, "Madam's daffodils haven't bloomed yet? Do you want to ask the people in the greenhouse if they have any secret recipe to make the flowers bloom earlier?"

Eleventh Lady smiled and said, "I plan to keep it until it blooms during the Spring Festival. There's no rush."

Aunt Qin nodded in agreement and then said nothing more.

Eleventh Lady looked at the two people, one of whom was absent-minded and the other was trying to make conversation. She really had nothing to communicate with them, so she served them tea and said, "It's getting late, let's all go!"

Qin Yi Niang heaved a sigh of relief and stood up. Seeing Wen Yi Niang still sitting there, she quickly poked her on the back with her finger. Wen Yi Niang came to her senses and quickly stood up. The two of them bowed to Shiyi Niang and retreated.

Eleventh Lady also breathed a sigh of relief.

Although it was customary for the aunts to visit her every morning and evening, she really had nothing to say to them. The less they saw each other, the more relaxed they would be.

Amber and her friends packed their things overnight and moved to the back room early the next morning. They sent someone to call Xiang Pozi, and gave her the job of cleaning the east wing. They also promised to give two strings of money to each person she invited. Xiang Pozi was very happy to hear this and went to call people. Eleventh Lady saw that it was getting late, so she went to see the old lady.

Zhen Jie'er and Zhun Ge had both received the news. Zhun Ge hugged Zhen Jie'er and cried, while Zhen Jie'er also kept wiping away her tears.

The lady looked at them and sighed, "You are all grown up now. You can't be together forever."

Eleventh Lady smiled and touched Zhun Ge's head: "We still live in the same courtyard."

Zhun Ge sobbed and said nothing.

The third lady came and said, "What happened? There's a flood!"

"I asked Zhen Jie'er to move to Shiyi Niang's place." The lady explained the matter briefly.

"This is a good thing!" The Third Lady laughed when she heard it. "Although people like us don't need to take care of our clothes and meals ourselves, a woman can't have her husband's underwear made by a needlework expert, right? Zhen Jie'er can take this opportunity to learn needlework from Fourth Brother's wife."

When Zhen Jie'er heard this, her face turned red. She took Zhun Ge's hand and went back to her own hospital.

The lady also frowned: "What are you saying in front of the child?"

The Third Lady said aggrievedly, "I am speaking the truth. Being able to read and write is important, but needlework is no small matter. Apart from other things, the family of Chen Zixiang and Chen Ge is not a poor family, but the first thing they look at when they marry a daughter-in-law is her needlework. If our Zhen'er marries into such a family, even if you buy her a dowry of 124 loads, I'm afraid it will be difficult to please her mother-in-law."

The lady frowned as she listened.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little awkward, Eleventh Lady hurriedly said with a smile, "Mother, I want to take Sister Zhen to the storeroom to pick out a few furnishings she likes - it's her own room, so it's better for her to decorate it herself!" She also told the Madam about her plan to convert the hall into a wing room, "It would be too unfair for Sister Zhen to sleep in the east wing."

The lady nodded repeatedly as she listened: "Then you take Sister Zhen with you! I will talk to Butler Bai about changing the hallway."

Eleventh Lady was worrying about the money, but now the Lady Dowager has taken care of it all... She happily thanked the Lady Dowager.

The old lady had a common problem among the elderly, she liked to be a money-spending boy to make the younger generation happy, and she urged her to go quickly with a smile. This made the Third Lady's plan fall through - she originally wanted to ask Eleventh Lady to go with her to the place where the matter was and meet the old women in charge.

Eleventh Lady entered Zhen Jie'er's warm room, where Zhen Jie'er was quietly persuading Zhun Ge: "...If grandma agrees, you can also stay the night at my place!"

Seeing Shiyi Niang coming in, both of them stood up. Zhun Ge even stood in front of Zhen Jie'er, as if he was afraid that Shiyi Niang would take Zhen Jie'er away.

Eleventh Lady thought for a moment and sat down.

Xiaoli hurriedly poured her some hot tea.

Eleventh Lady asked Zhen Jie'er in a low voice: "Do you really not want to move away?"

Sister Zhen had a complicated expression.

"I don't mean anything else." Eleventh Lady explained to her as if she were a friend, "I always feel that you are old enough to not just hide in your own warm room. You should go out and make some friends. Do you want to give it a try? If you really don't like it, I will discuss it with Grandmother and let you move back."

Zhen Jie'er suddenly burst into tears and shook her head: "I just can't bear to leave my grandmother and brother Zhun. If I move away, who will take care of them?"

Seeing that she was so young, yet she said such considerate words, it was clear that she was someone who had never known what it meant to be willful. Her eyes also became wet.

"Even though you live with me, you still have to come with me to visit grandma every morning and evening. It's the same if you stay and talk with grandma." She glanced at Zhun Ge and said, "This is good for Zhun Ge. After all, he is a boy. He can't be kept in the inner house, right?"

Zhen Jie wiped away her tears and nodded, "I understand."

But Zhun Ge shouted: "I just want to play with my sister!"

Eleventh Lady smiled and said, "It's not that I don't allow you to play together. It's just that both of you are accompanying grandma, so one of you has to accompany me, right?"

Zhun Ge was stunned when he heard this: "Why should we accompany you?"

"Because I'd be scared if I were alone!"

Zhun Ge pouted but said nothing more.

Eleventh Lady smiled and squatted down to talk to him: "If you miss Zhen Jie'er in the future, come to our place to play. This way, you have two places to play, isn't that good?"

Zhun Ge thought that this sentence was wrong, but he couldn't say what was wrong. He tilted his head and thought for a long time, then said, "I need my grandmother's consent before I can go."

"Our Zhun Ge is really sensible." Eleventh Lady immediately praised him, "He knew to ask for Grandmother's approval so as not to make the adults worry."

After hearing this, Zhun Ge had a hint of smile in his eyes.

Eleventh Lady took the opportunity to pull Zhun Ge's hand and said, "How about we go with Zhen Jie'er to choose furnishings for her home? Then we can decorate Zhen Jie'er's room beautifully, what do you think?"

Zhun Ge immediately said loudly "OK".

Eleventh Lady took her to the Madam's place and said, "We are going to the storehouse. We must tell Grandmother. Otherwise, Grandmother will be worried."

Zhun Ge nodded and immediately took Zhen Jie'er's hand: "Let's go pick out something beautiful for you."

Zhen Jie'er looked at Shiyi Niang with some worry, and hesitated, "Is this okay?"

Eleventh Lady showed her the pair of cards in her hand: "My grandmother gave it to me."

Zhen Jie'er's eyes turned red as she watched, but she said nothing and followed Shiyi Niang to bid farewell to the Lady Dowager. Wei Zi and a few maids followed them to the warehouse.

Eleventh Lady stopped on the steps in front of the storehouse and said with a smile, "Sister Zhen, this is your own room, you can decorate it however you want. Zhun Ge and I will wait for you outside. Once you have chosen, make a list, in duplicate, and then ask the maid to help move the list to where I live. I'll wait for you outside." After that, she asked the maid to move two armchairs, and she and Zhun Ge sat on them, one on the left and one on the right, to play rope-twisting.

Sister Zhen stood in front of the warehouse with the door half open, looking at Shiyi Niang playing cat's tether with Zhun Ge with a smile on her face, feeling very confused.

Because of this person in front of her, her quiet days seemed to have suddenly changed dramatically. Faced with this change, she didn't know what to do...

Wei Zi looked at Zhen Jie'er in a daze, smiled and called out softly, "Zhen Jie'er".

Zhen Jie'er came back to her senses with a start, and hurriedly nodded to Wei Zi with a smile, then went into the warehouse.

Eleventh Lady deliberately did not follow in. She did not want Zhen Jie'er to guess her preferences and choose those decorations accordingly. She wanted Zhen Jie'er to choose what she liked.

When she and Zhun Ge were happily playing tumbling, a little maid ran over and said, "Madam, Mrs. Qiao San from Duke Cheng's mansion is here."

I forgot about this.

She said a few words to Zhen Jie'er, and coaxed Zhun Ge to go back to the lady's place. Then she took Luyun and Hongxiu back to her own residence.

Mrs. Qiao wore a royal blue brocade jacket with embroidered patterns, and her expression remained reserved.

Eleventh Lady asked the maid to bring a small stool for Madam Qiao to sit on. After the maid brought hot tea, she slowly said, "I asked Madam Qiao to come. First, Madam Qiao is not in good health. She thought that if you come, she will have someone to talk to and her illness will get better faster. Second, there is something I want Madam Qiao to make a decision on."

Mrs. Qiao sat there straight as a pine tree, and smiled faintly, "I wonder if there is anything I can do to help Madam Four?"

He only asked questions, but did not guarantee that he would help Shiyi Niang.