When Eleventh Lady returned to the room, Xu Lingyi was just closing his book and thinking. He looked up when he heard the noise: "You're back! How's Fourth Aunt's illness?"

"We invited Doctor Liu from the Imperial Hospital." Thinking of Si Niang's bulging eyes and thick neck, Eleventh Lady couldn't help but sigh softly, "He said that she needs to be nursed back to health slowly, maybe one or two years at the least, or two or three years at the most."

Xu Lingyi nodded: "In that case, see if there are any suitable herbs at home and send some over."

Eleventh Lady nodded and studied his expression.

Xu Lingyi was slightly startled: "What's wrong?"

"I wonder if the Marquis has calmed down!" Eleventh Lady looked at him with a smile, a hint of teasing and playfulness in her eyes.

Xu Lingyi was stunned at first, then he smiled suddenly.

"What if the anger has subsided? What if the anger has not subsided?"

"I'm not angry anymore... well, I'll talk to the Marquis. I'm not angry anymore..." Eleventh Lady pretended to be in deep thought, "I just came back and I'm covered in dust. I need to change my clothes and wash up."

Xu Lingyi burst into laughter: "Look at how disheveled you are - go change your clothes quickly. Come over and talk later."

The atmosphere became lively, and Shiyi Niang smiled and went to the bathroom. When she came out, she saw Xu Lingyi sitting by the table on the kang, looking down in deep thought, with a dazed look on his face.

Eleventh Lady tiptoed over and sat opposite him: "My Lord, are you worried about Aunt Qiao?"

"Aunt Qiao?" Xu Lingyi looked up, his expression blank for a moment, "Oh, no." He gradually came back to his senses, "The emperor met with Wang Jiubao today, and Wang Jiubao wrote a ten-thousand-word letter. Ma Zuowen copied a copy for me... The attitudes of Lord Chen and Lord Liang are very ambiguous..." Xu Lingyi was a little absent-minded.

Eleventh Lady tiptoed and made him a new cup of tea.

Xu Lingyi held the teacup and his expression calmed down again. He smiled and said, "By the way, the Liang family will marry a daughter-in-law on March 26th."

"Oh!" Eleventh Lady showed a happy expression, "Seventh Miss is getting married?"

Xu Lingyi nodded: "I will go to the Zhongqin Marquis's residence and you will go to the Liang family to attend the wedding banquet, right?"

Eleventh Lady was very surprised: "I was planning to send Lanting off!"

Xu Lingyi was also a little surprised: "Everyone is discussing the maritime ban. If I go to the Liang family, I will inevitably be asked all kinds of questions. There is Yuan Jie between our family and the Gan family, so you will inevitably hear some gossip if you go there. This is a good way to avoid it."

Although she knew that what Xu Lingyi said made sense, Eleventh Lady was still very disappointed.

Xu Lingyi could only answer vaguely: "It's still early, let's talk about it later!" Then he told her about Qiao Lianfang: "...I told the two mothers not to let her leave the yard without your permission. You should be careful in the future. Otherwise, she will get into trouble with the Qiao family."

The relationship between the Yongping Marquis's Mansion and the Chengguo Duke's Mansion is too complicated to be explained in a few words. Eleventh Lady naturally respected Xu Lingyi's decision.

She nodded and replied "yes". Xu Lingyi changed the subject and said, "You just said you had something to tell me... What do you have to tell me?"

Shiyi Niang saw that he looked unhappy before, and thought that he was sad about Qiao Lianfang's matter, so she teased him with words to lighten the mood. She didn't expect it to be a misunderstanding. She didn't expect that he still remembered this sentence and asked her seriously.

"Nothing!" Eleventh Lady said with a smile, "Just chatting with the Marquis."

Under the light, she smiled peacefully, and her sparkling eyes were like the reflection of the sunset on a lake, which made him a little dazzled.

Xu Lingyi couldn't help but touch her head.

Always treat her like a child.

Eleventh Lady tilted her head.

Xu Lingyi's hand missed.

He was stunned.

Eleventh Lady was already mumbling, "You messed up my hair again."

Xu Lingyi couldn't help but burst out laughing.

The unhappiness just now disappeared like smoke.

Seeing a hint of fatigue between Eleventh Lady's brows, thinking that she had just gone out today and had just taken over the household affairs, and that there would be many things to do tomorrow morning, she felt a little reluctant in her heart and said with a smile: "You go to bed first - I still need to think carefully about Wang Jiubao's ten thousand word letter!"

Eleventh Lady was indeed a little tired. She chatted with Xu Lingyi for a while and then fell asleep.

Half asleep and half awake, she fell into a warm embrace, adjusted her posture, and fell into a deeper sleep.

* * * * * *

The next morning, the news that Qiao Lianfang was under house arrest spread throughout the mansion. Both Concubine Wen and Concubine Qin carefully kept their distance from Qiao Lianfang. Xiu Li felt that people looked at her differently when she walked on the street.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but look gloomy.

I ran into Aunt Qin head-on.

She brought her maid Cui'er with her, her face full of joy.

Xiu Yuan dodged sideways.

Aunt Qin's smile faded slightly when she saw her: "Is it Miss Xiuyuan?"

Seeing Cui'er wearing a grass green vest and holding a scarlet felt, Xiu Li thought of the maids saying a few days ago that Shiyi Niang had confined the Second Young Master, and Aunt Qin was afraid that Shiyi Niang would be angry, so she made shoes for her overnight... She couldn't help but curl her lips and said, "Where is Aunt Qin going?"

"Oh!" Aunt Qin smiled innocently, "Master Jining came to see the Fifth Madam. I embroidered some scriptures and asked her to help me offer them to the Bodhisattva - the Second Young Master has been a little bit troubled these days."

How can someone who can't even read embroider scriptures?

After hearing this, Xiu Li sneered in her heart, exchanged a few indifferent greetings, and then went their separate ways.

Qiao Lianfang cried for several times and vomited violently. She lost a lot of weight and looked very haggard.

Seeing Xiu Li coming back, she said weakly: "How is it? Can you find a way?"

Xiu Li shook her head, looking a little depressed.

Qiao Lianfang never dreamed that Xu Lingyi would treat her like this. She thought about every sentence over and over again in her mind countless times, but she didn't know which sentence she said was wrong. Now she was terrified and panicked, and she urgently needed someone to help her make a decision.

So he sent Xiu Li to find a way to see if someone could take a letter to his mother.

But when everyone saw that it was Xiu Li, they either refused or agreed immediately but asked for a huge amount of money for running errands, which was obviously blackmailing them. Xiu Li was also afraid that these people would take the money but not deliver the letter, and she would be left with nothing.

Qiao Lianfang leaned on the pillow and cried quietly again.

Xiuzhen was really afraid that she would cry and cause some harm, so she sat by her side and kept trying to persuade her.

Qiao Lianfang complained: "What's the point of saying all this now? If I had known this would happen, I would have just sent a letter to ask my mother to come and see me - I originally wanted to ask the Xu family to invite her, so that my mother would be more respectable!"

Xiu Yuan, however, suddenly had an idea: "Miss, Master Jining is at the Fifth Madam's place."

Mrs. Qiao San was a believer in Buddhism. Jining often visited the Chengguo Mansion. When Qiao Lianfang was young, Jining once gave her a consecrated agarwood Buddhist bead.

"You mean, ask her to help send a letter back?" Qiao Lianfang's eyes lit up.

"Yes!" Xiu Yuan said, "I heard from Aunt Qin that Master Jining came to visit the Fifth Madam today. While the two mothers are outside, you should write a letter quickly and I will go to see the Fifth Madam."

Qiao Lianfang nodded repeatedly and wrote a short letter. Xiu Li hid the letter in her knee pads and went to the Fifth Lady.

Who knew that the lady was there too.

Xiu Li didn't dare to go over and wandered there for a long time, then met Aunt Qin who came out from the Fifth Lady's house.

Aunt Qin was very surprised to see her.

Xiu Yuan felt guilty and quickly explained with a smile, "I came to the garden to relax."

Aunt Qin felt that this topic was unsafe, so she smiled and took Cui'er out to the garden.

Xiu Li heard some noisy sounds coming from the Zhaozhuang Hall.

She was afraid that the lady had gone home, so she had to go back.

Aunt Qin and Xiu Yuan were traveling the same way, always on the same road, and it would be a bit awkward if they ignored each other.

Xiu Cheng could only smile and greet Aunt Qin: "Has Aunt Qin's sutra been delivered?"

Don't hit someone who smiles at you, especially since they live in the same courtyard, so you will see each other every day.

"Send it out!" Aunt Qin said to her.

"Why is the Madam Tai also at the Fifth Madam's place? Is she going to see Master Jining?"

"The Madam was going to see the Second Miss." Aunt Qin said, "and she happened to run into Master Jining."

"oh!"

I can’t go on.

But there is still a long way to go.

Aunt Qin tried to make small talk and after thinking for a while, she said, "Is Aunt Qiao okay?" She regretted what she said as soon as she said it.

Xiu Yuan felt that Aunt Qin was asking knowingly, so she simply said, "Aunt Qin doesn't know why the Marquis is angry? He cries every day and has lost a lot of weight."

Qin Yi Niang heard this and exclaimed, "Oh, this won't do - she is a bisexual." After thinking for a while, she added, "The Marquis is a nostalgic person. He is just angry for a while and he is banning your Yiang from walking. It will be fine when Yiang Qiao gives birth to a son."

Giving birth to a son? Who can guarantee that the child born will definitely be a son!

It's really easy to talk without any pain in the waist.

She gave birth to a son and rose to fame...

My thoughts stopped at the last sentence.

"How did my aunt give birth to a son?" the words came out of my mouth.

Aunt Qin was stunned.

Xiuzhen immediately realized that she had said something wrong. She hurriedly said with a smile, "I asked Aunt Qin if she had any secret recipe for giving birth to a son?"

Aunt Qin was stunned for a while, then said, "I don't have any secret recipe for giving birth to a son. But the previous wife, the current wife's sister, asked the fourth young master of Changchun Dao for immortality. I think she should have a secret recipe, right?"

Xiu Li listened with her eyes sparkling, and she absentmindedly talked with Qin Yi Niang all the way to the East Corner Gate. When Qin Yi Niang went to see Shiyi Niang, she ran back to her own courtyard.

"Miss, Miss. I just heard something." She stood in front of Qiao Lianfang, panting, her face flushed with excitement. "Aunt Qin said that the reason Yuanniang was able to give birth to a son was because she took the secret recipe of Taoist Changchun."

With an unhappy look on her face, Qiao Lianfang sat up suddenly and grabbed Xiu Li's hand: "What did you say?" Her hands were trembling slightly.

Xiu Yuan took a deep breath, adjusted her breathing, and said clearly: "Auntie Qin said that the reason why Yuan Niang was able to give birth to a son was because she took the secret recipe of Taoist Changchun!"

"Master Changchun..." Qiao Lianfang was ecstatic, "He once visited Duke Cheng's mansion. I still remember that my uncle gave him a pair of red sandalwood rulers..."

"Miss, let's talk about this matter with Madam!" Xiu Li said as she took out the letter that Qiao Lianji had just written, "Ask Madam to help find out. If it's true, I can also help you with some planning. Look at Aunt Qin, isn't she where she is today because she gave birth to a son? In terms of character and appearance, there are many people in this mansion who are better than her..."

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