This time on Monday, I didn’t respond so happily, and seemed to think about it for a while.

Zhou Chumu said "Huh?" and looked at him sideways.

Zhou Yiqing coughed slightly: "Master, the Marquis said that if you dare to come to see your master again, he will go and ask the emperor to grant you a marriage."

"So just don't let him know." Zhou Chumu frowned and waved his hand, "Let's go, hurry up."

It was Zhou Zhao's habit to get up early to practice. Zhou Chumu didn't want to be discovered by him, so he naturally had to go back earlier.

When Lin Qingluan woke up, the place next to him was already cold.

She sighed slightly, but she didn't feel relieved - Zhou Chumu's health was indeed much better, and all the fat he had lost before was back, and he still had that warm feeling. It was really comfortable to sleep with him in his arms in the winter.

It's a pity that such a useful hot water bottle cannot be used every day.

It snowed again in the middle of the afternoon, and stopped when it got dark. It was really cold outside, so Lin Qingluan didn't go out for several days in a row, finishing the November account book that she should have read long ago.

"Now that the calculation is done, Master can take a break." An Lan packed up the account books and put them in a box for future inspection.

Kapok gave her a cup of tea, and Lin Qingluan glanced at her and decided to resolve the last thing that happened some time ago: "How are the five new people?"

"Master, there are three of them who are quite diligent. The other one who was arranged in the yard probably felt that there was no hope of entering the house to serve, and was caught by Eunuch Li twice being lazy." Kapok replied.

As for the other one, it was discovered that he was communicating with Kunning Palace a few days ago, and Lin Qingluan ordered him to be sent directly to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the name of stealing.

Lin Qingluan nodded: "Then who do you think can enter the house to serve?"

If you can serve in the house, you have to be promoted to a second-class palace maid, just like Mu Yun and Mu Tang.

Kapok was a little hesitant to say, but An Lan said: "The one named Ying'er is pretty good."

"Call in and take a look." Lin Qingluan smiled.

Ying'er came in quickly. Her appearance could only be described as delicate, but her manners were elegant and generous. She was neither flattering nor respectful enough. Her posture when saluting Lin Qingluan was also very standard.

Lin Qingluan looked at it and raised her eyebrows slightly.

Okay, we are old acquaintances.

Zhai Hanjing had come to her Wan'an Palace on some pretext in her previous life. Although she was not able to serve her in the house, because she was very good at being a good person and was really neat in doing things, she had been serving her in the courtyard, so she became familiar with her.

Later, she was rejected by the emperor, and it was because of this person's handiwork.

Lin Qingluan just smiled and asked warmly: "Your name is Ying'er? Which Ying'er?"

"Back to your concubine, my father raises birds, and my tomorrow will be the oriole of Yingge." Ying'er replied.

Lin Qingluan frowned when she heard this. She looked at An Lan and said with some uncertainty: "Did I remember it wrong? How could I remember it? The Queen Mother's maiden name seems to have the word "orphan" in it.

"

Ying'er trembled when she heard this, and An Lan was also stunned: "This, this slave doesn't know."

The Queen Mother's maiden name has not been mentioned for many years, but even if she has heard of it before, she will probably forget it after so many years.

Lin Qingluan raised her eyebrows slightly, seeming hesitant. Ying'er immediately knelt down and said: "My name is not good, but it is up to the imperial concubine to give me a new name."

Everyone in the palace knows that the maids around the imperial concubine all have the character "wood" that starts with the character "wood". At this time, Ying'er has such an opportunity. If the new name she gets is related to wood, she will be the maid who can enter the house and serve her.

.

Lin Qingluan glanced at Ying'er's unconsciously clenched hand and smiled: "Speaking of which, you are destined to Qiu Baolin. The daughters around her are all cuckoos and magpies, and she also likes these birds.

of."

Ying'er was stunned, as if she didn't understand what Lin Qingluan meant, but Lin Qingluan patted the handrail and said: "It just so happens that Qiu Baolin is short of people around him, so be it, I will rename you Huamei, and go to Liangyi Palace in the future

Wait."

"Slave...slave..." Ying'er, oh no, should be called Huamei now, but she was stunned on the spot. It took a long time to murmur, "Slave, this slave is here to serve the noble concubine."

"I have enough people here. If Qiu Baolin gives birth in the future, more manpower will be needed. An Lan said that you are very steady and tight in work, and your name is related to Qiu Baolin. I would like to give you a road to Qingyun..." Lin Qingluan

He smiled and sighed, "If you absolutely don't want to, then just let it go."

Huamei's hand tightened, knowing that after changing her name, she would no longer be able to serve the imperial concubine closely even if she stayed in Wan'an Palace. She remembered Aunt Jinru's instructions before Wan'an Palace, and relaxed her hand slightly.

: "Slave Huamei, I would like to thank the imperial concubine for giving me the name, and thank you for planning for me. I would like to go to Liangyi Palace to serve Qiu Baolin."

"Okay, then you can go there in the afternoon." Lin Qingluan tilted her head slightly and said, "An Lan, bring me ten taels of silver for Huamei. You can send Huamei there by the way, and you can also go and see how Qiu Baolin and Yu Baolin are doing.

"

"Yes." Although An Lan didn't understand why Lin Qingluan did this, she always obeyed and blindly trusted Lin Qingluan and never asked more questions.

Watching Huamei leave, Kapok was a little puzzled: "Master, don't you think she can do it?"

"It doesn't suit my taste." Lin Qingluan took a sip of tea and said lightly, "Call the other three people over and have a look."

There was no need for the remaining three people to come over one by one. Kapok called them all over to show Lin Qingluan to see which one was more eye-catching.

In the end, Lin Qingluan chose a round-faced palace maid originally named Pearl, renamed her Mu Tao, and stayed in the house to serve her.

The other two were still in the corridor at first. As for the one who was always lazy, Lin Qingluan really didn't like her appearance, so he simply sent her back to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and refused to stay in Wan'an Palace.

"When you go to Liangyi Hall, you tell Qiu Baolin like this..." Lin Qingluan gave An Lan a few more words and asked her to take Huamei to Liangyi Hall. After a while, An Lan came back and said

Qiu Baolin is still in good health, and Yu Baolin has less nausea and vomiting recently and can use a bowl of porridge at each meal.

"That's good. I hope they are all safe and give birth to a prince as soon as possible." Lin Qingluan said it sincerely, and the palace people standing in front of them all agreed when they heard it, but they didn't know what they thought.

No one knows anymore.

After entering the inner hall and letting Kapok and others go down first, An Lan said: "Master, the servant has already brought the message. Qiu Baolin said that Master, don't worry, it will be absolutely fine if the thrush is placed with her, and it can also do her a favor."

Lin Qingluan raised her eyebrows slightly, and after thinking for a moment, she guessed what Qiu Baolin was going to do. She didn't know whether to laugh or sigh, she just pursed her lower lip, feeling slightly uncomfortable.

Two days later, it was almost the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Lin Qingluan's birthday. On the night of the seventeenth day, Zhou Chumu finally sent the imitation tiger charm.

Looking at the two tiger charms that were almost identical, Lin Qingluan couldn't help but marvel. The fake piece of jade was almost exactly the same as the original, and it had also been aged. Even the inconspicuous dark brown lines were imitated.

Already.

If Lin Qingluan hadn't touched the almost invisible small gap with her fingers, she really wouldn't be able to tell which piece was real and which was fake.

Zhou Chumu only looked at her with a smile. Seeing that she really could tell the difference between true and false, he slightly raised his eyebrows in interest: "Is there any difference?"

"I won't tell you." Lin Qingluan snorted at him cutely, "If you do it so seriously, if you know what's the difference, then you can carve a piece of jade yourself to abduct my brother's army.

coming."

Zhou Chumu looked at her with a half-smile but not a smile: "That's right, I'll go and bring all the 100,000 Lin family troops to the capital, attack the palace, steal the noble concubine, and then fall in love with the bandits and let Aluan be my wife. How about that?"
Chapter completed!