The news that Aunt Qiao was sent to Dajue Temple soon spread throughout the house.

The maids who usually liked to chat in the alleys of the East Courtyard were nowhere to be seen. The servants standing under the eaves were more respectful than usual, and the old women who relied on their seniority to sit in front of the hanging flower door and enjoy the breeze also hid in their rooms and did not come out. The Yongping Marquis's mansion suddenly became quiet, and the only sound in the mansion was the cicadas.

"That child, every step she takes is wrong." Summer always makes people feel lazy. The lady leaned on the big kang by the window and sighed to Mother Du who was fanning her, "Now she has become unrecognizable." She felt sorry for Qiao Lianfang.

"This is also a personal fate." Mother Du comforted the lady, "Our Lord is kind to others, and the fourth lady is kind to others. She can't live well when she meets such people, so she can't blame others."

"Hatred, anger, and resentment are all obstacles." The lady nodded, "Send her to Dajue Temple to meditate in silence for a few days, maybe she can find her way back to the right path."

"That's exactly what you said." Mother Du smiled and handed the fan to a maid beside her. She took the lotus seed and lily soup from another maid and offered it to the lady. "Look, Master Hong's eldest brother in Nanjing is getting married. What should we send him?"

A few days ago, a letter came from Nanjing saying that Xu Linghong's eldest son was scheduled to get married on September 18th.

"He is the eldest son and grandson of that branch, so we naturally cannot be careless." The lady smiled, "But now I am not the head of the family, so we will eat and drink well and wait for your orders."

Mother Du laughed when she heard this: "From the tone of your voice, do you still want to go to Nanjing?"

"Ah," the old lady sat up, her face full of excitement, "Your idea is not bad. I'll talk to the fourth brother and the eleventh lady about it. If I can really go to Nanjing, I won't have any regrets. I went there once when I was seven or eight years old, also in this season. I only remember that my father and many people were drinking in the riverside house. I was clamoring to go back. I don't know whose servant it was, but he spent five copper coins to buy a bag of water chestnuts wrapped in lotus leaves. I still remember the fragrance of the lotus leaves..."

The topic was changed and no one mentioned Dajue Temple anymore.

Yang took a deep breath and said, "Sent him to Dajue Temple?"

Madam Yang nodded: "No one of the servants around Aunt Qiao was taken away, including Xiu Li. I heard it from Ruizhu. She was also present when Madam Song said this, so she can't be wrong."

Yang's brows gradually furrowed, and her expression became somewhat solemn.

"Auntie," Mother Yang, who was looking at her, said hesitantly, "Auntie Qiao was sent to Dajue Temple. Is that bad for you?"

"With one less person, things will naturally be simpler." Yang looked towards the main house where Eleventh Lady lived in the west, "But there is something that I am afraid I need to reconsider."

Mother Yang didn't understand: "What do you want to reconsider?"

Yang knew that her mother was honest and loyal. She was not a counselor, but a loyal servant. She turned around and smiled at Yang's mother, saying, "Of course, it's about how to please the lady!"

After hearing this, Mother Yang felt sad and didn't know what to say.

Yang had already instructed Madam Yang with a smile: "Take out all the patterns I brought into the house, and I will see if there are any suitable ones for the wedding."

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Madam Wen was wondering: "...Dajue Temple, why does it sound a little familiar? But when I think about it carefully, I can't remember it."

"Then forget it!" Qiu Hong laughed, "It's not a good place anyway. Otherwise, why would they send Aunt Qiao who had contradicted Madam there?" She was more concerned about another matter, "Aunt, has Madam said how to deal with Xiu Li and the others?"

Madam Wen fanned herself vigorously twice and said, "Keep them in the house and let them help the needlework workers with sewing."

Qiu Hong burst out laughing: "Madam likes to have people do needlework the most!"

"It's good to do needlework," Madam Wen said nonchalantly, "lock people in the room to do needlework. Prevent them from wandering around and causing trouble..." As soon as she finished speaking, she was already stunned.

"What's wrong?" Qiuhong looked curiously.

"Nothing! Nothing!" Madam Wen seemed to be thinking about something. "I was just thinking that Madam often asked Madam Qin to do needlework..."

"What's so strange about this?" Qiu Hong asked in confusion, "Shouldn't Auntie help Madam with needlework?"

Madam Wen said nothing and seemed a little absent-minded.

When she went to pay her respects to Shiyi Niang in the evening, she seemed quieter than usual. However, this did not attract the attention of Qin Yi Niang and Yang Shi. Compared with the two of them, she still seemed to talk a lot. Shiyi Niang, who noticed it, thought to herself: Everyone will have some feelings about what happened to Qiao Lianfang.

After a few words, she served tea.

The next day Master Jian visited.

"Prince Shun has introduced another business to us." She said with a smile, "To make the Magpie Bridge patch for the Qixi Festival."

"Our shop has become a shop specializing in mending." Eleventh Lady laughed and asked, "How much do you offer?"

"It's the same as last time." Master Jian smiled, "but the number is twice as much as last time. The shopkeeper asked me to come and discuss with you about hiring a few more people."

In other words, you can make a small profit.

"Business is good, so we naturally need to hire a few more people."

Master Jian got the confirmation and said goodbye with a smile.

It just so happened that the gardenia that Ji Ting had grown for Shiyi Niang in the greenhouse had bloomed. After the Taifu, Second Madam, Fifth Madam and others gave away the flowers, only four or five were left. Shiyi Niang had two sent to Grandma Lin and took the other three to Madam Gan.

"It smells better than lily and jasmine, and is bigger too." Madam Gan was very pleased with it. "Only your family can raise one!" Then she told the maid to find a small red bowl from the bottom of the box to put it in, and asked the maid to cut some watermelon for it to eat.

Seeing that she liked it, Eleventh Lady was happy too. While eating the fruit, she talked to her about things in the shop.

Madam Gan smiled happily: "On the New Year's Day, you have to wear the gourd patch, on the Lantern Festival, you have to wear the lantern patch, on the Dragon Boat Festival, you have to wear the five poisonous mugwort and tiger patch, on the Double Ninth Festival, you have to wear the ** patch, on the Winter Solstice, you have to wear the Yangsheng patch... There is endless business all year round. You must thank Prince Shun very much."

"I think so too." Eleventh Lady said with a smile, "I would like to ask Master Jian to embroider a jacket with a hundred children playing with babies for Princess Shun. What do you think?"

"This is a good idea." Madam Gan nodded repeatedly, "It's auspicious and can show off Master Jian's embroidery skills."

The two of them talked a lot of things, and Eleventh Lady didn't say anything until she had dinner at Madam Gan's house.

Mother Song greeted her at the door of the hanging flower garden: "Madam, you have been gone for less than two quarters of an hour, and Mr. Zhu and Seventh Aunt are here. The Madam stayed for dinner and is talking in the west room now!"

Eleventh Lady was very surprised: "When she wrote to me a few days ago, she didn't mention going to Yanjing..."

Mother Song helped her onto the Qingwei oil truck: "They said it was a last-minute decision."

This is more like Qinnan's character.

When Eleventh Lady returned to her room, the three concubines were standing under the eaves waiting to greet her. She said a few words quickly, sent them away, changed her clothes and went to the lady dowager.

As soon as she entered the room, she heard laughter and chatter. When she entered the west room, she saw Qi Niang and the Fifth Madam sitting on the left and right of the Madam, talking happily. Xu Lingyi, Xu Lingkuan and Zhu Anping were sitting on the armchairs beside them, listening with smiles on their faces.

Seeing Eleventh Lady come in, Seventh Lady, Fifth Lady, Xu Lingkuan and Zhu Anping all stood up and greeted her.

Eleventh Lady greeted everyone with a smile, and then Seventh Lady took the arm of her.

"We've been waiting for you to come back." She said quickly, "We are discussing the Qiqiao event on the Qixi Festival." She added, "Danyang and I have agreed to invite Seventh Sister on that day. Fifth Master has promised to help us get some Qiqiao needles from the Armory."

The Chinese Valentine's Day is originally a women's festival, and the Xu family would make grand preparations every year, playing games such as throwing needles and tying spiders.

"Don't worry, don't worry," Eleventh Lady said with a smile, "I will prepare fruits, tea, flowers and incense burners when the time comes, and I will not delay your business."

After hearing this, Qi Niang smiled at the Fifth Lady and said, "My Eleventh Sister will definitely do what she promised. Don't worry."

The Fifth Lady smiled and thanked the Eleventh Lady: "Then I'll have to trouble the Fourth Sister-in-law!"

She is in charge of the household chores, which is part of her job.

"Why are you being so polite to me, Fifth Brother's wife!" Eleventh Lady said a few words with a smile, and then turned the topic to where to invite Seventh Sister.

Qi Niang and Wu Madam started a heated discussion.

Seeing that it was getting late, Xu Lingyi stood up and said, "The Qixi Festival is still a few days away, and it's curfew time now. Why don't you rest here and talk about it tomorrow morning."

Madam Wu and Madam Qi really got along well. Upon hearing this, she kept Madam Wu: "You can stay at my place today. Let Master Wu accompany Master Zhu to stay in the west wing."

After hearing this, Xu Lingkuan hurriedly said to Zhu Anping: "That's right, that's right, you and I can stay in the west wing! We are about the same height, so just wear my clothes." As he said this, he winked at him with his back to the Fifth Madam.

Zhu Anping remained calm, and after thinking for a while, he said, "It's hard to refuse such a kind invitation, so I'm sorry to bother Master Wu and Madam Wu."

Xu Lingkuan was delighted: "Don't disturb me, don't disturb me."

The old lady always felt that the Xu family had few offspring and was too thin. Zhu Anping was both a relative and a steady person, and the old lady liked him very much. Naturally, the old lady was happy for them to get close to each other, and said to them with a smile: "Go and have a rest!"

Several people left because they were afraid that the old lady was tired. Upon hearing what was said, they smiled and bowed to the old lady, then left the old lady's yard together, and returned to their respective rooms with Xu Lingyi and his wife.

Xu Lingyi immediately called Lin Bo over: "Go and see what Fifth Master did tonight?"

Eleventh Lady stopped him immediately: "Fifth Master is already such a grown man. Besides, Zhu Anping is following him. He is not the kind of person who doesn't know the importance of things."

Xu Lingyi thought about it, washed up and went to bed.

But I slept restlessly.

The next morning when I went to pay my respects to the lady, I saw that Xu Lingkuan looked tired.

He chuckled a little embarrassedly and said, "I talked to my seventh brother-in-law for most of the night."

The result was that Zhu Anping went directly from being Grandpa Zhu to being the Seventh Brother-in-law.

Eleventh Lady pursed her lips and smiled.

Xu Lingyi coughed twice somewhat awkwardly.

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I wish all my sisters a happy holiday!

(*^__^*) Hehehe…