The Great Zhou emphasized the east side of the city. Madam Hou never intended to give the eastern courtyard to him, but when Mu Jinzhi heard this, he felt that it was worth it. Even if they had to split up, it would be good if they could stay as far away as possible.
"I understand. Even so, you can take care of these things peacefully. I still need to leave some words for the Sang girl."
Old Madam Zuo waved his hand and sent Mu Jinzhi off.
"Dong Mei, bring the key over, I want to open the private storage!" Seeing that there were only so few people in the room, Old Madam Zuo suddenly ordered.
Mu Rousang immediately understood, and said: "Grandmother?!"
"I know what you're worried about, don't worry, those things were originally prepared for your mother. Hibiscus is a man, so he won't be able to use those hairpins."
The Old Madam Zuo then told the little girl to bring over the money box, and pulled out the copperplate s from the table and said: "Collect, put them away, today we are lucky, we won against many of the Little monkey's copperplate, and will keep them for wine and food."
He continued, "That card just now was obviously worth a hundred gold coins, and was also worth eighty points for you, Little monkey.
Mu Rousang agreed without knowing whether to laugh or cry. Then, he followed Old Madam Zuo into her own small private room, and discovered that Old Madam Zuo was truly rich. Just the three wooden shelves by the side of the wall had a lot of antiques, potted sculptures, and a one meter tall coral tree that looked like a child's face.
"But look at this coral?" Old Madam Zuo asked with a doting smile.
Mu Rousang nodded her head vigorously, this was indeed a rare object, it didn't matter if she was just laughing at the dirt or not, it was still the first time she had seen such a thing in her two lifetimes.
However, Old Madam Zuo's expression turned serious and said, "Sigh, it's a pity that I can't give it to you now. We can decide after discussing it with your uncle, and I also wanted to leave it for you.
Mu Rousang laughed: "Grandmother, thank you for your concern, I only thought that it was strange, I have never seen you in the past, this is my first time seeing you!"
"The coral on your child's face is hard to come by. This sort of powder is only suitable for you kids to display." Old Madam Zuo was actually thinking about how to get Zuo Renyou to agree to it.
"It doesn't matter. Grandmother will keep it for her future little cousin." Awoo, actually she also wanted it. This pink coral was really too beautiful. Even though she said that, it took a lot of effort for her eyes to stick to it before she could move it away.
Old Madam Zuo also did not expose her tricks as he brought her along to rummage through the boxes. Holding the booklet right, he muttered: "That's not right? The words on the Accounts are clearly written here!
Mu Rousang looked at the serial number on the book, it had 9 numbers on it, and then at the box at her feet, the numbers were clearly carved on top of the box, and suddenly, a flock of crows flew over.
"Grandmother, what's in that box?" She pointed to the box with the word "Nine" engraved on it. There was a copper lock of carp on it.
"Oh, I don't remember. Sigh, I'm getting old and my memory isn't good. Let's go over and take a look!" Old Madam Zuo, who was just thinking where the thing was, immediately responded to Mu Rousang's words and walked over.
Dong Mei pursed her lips and laughed at her, "Shh!"
Old Madam Zuo slowly picked up a bunch of copper keys. He searched through them, tried again, and after a long while, he finally found the right key, "Kacha!" With a light sound, the copper lock on the carp was opened.
Old Madam Zuo took out his reading glasses from his chest and stared at the lock for a long time before instructing Dong Mei: "Remember to drip some vegetable oil later on. This lock has not been opened for a long time, I'm afraid the light inside is not very bright."
Mu Rousang silently lowered her head and faced the little finger. Sigh, she should not say anything.
Old Madam Zuo opened the box and rummaged through for a long time before finally finding a one-foot square jewelry box. He happily carried it out and told Dong Mei to lock it up.
"Come, let's go back to the house and look at the baby." She held on to the box, refusing to let anyone who wanted to help her go.
He could even free a hand to pull Mu Rousang away and bring her back into the house. When he was outside his room, he came to the Rohan's bed s side and sat down!
"Dong Mei, bring the three of them to stand guard outside." The old mistress chased all the servants out of the room.
Only then did he reach out his old hands that were full of age spots and touch the box. He said, "Our family wasn't as beautiful as we are now. The dowry we gave to your mother wasn't that much."
She opened the box and looked at the old jewelry for a while. After a long while, she said in a lonely voice, "Back then, my hometown fell to the dike, after receiving the news, I hastily fled. I only had enough time to roll up my body, but I still firmly held onto her dowry and wanted to escape, so that I could find a good home for her.
After saying that, she reached out her hand to wipe her tears. Picking up a pair of golden butterflies, she said, "When your mother was young, she loved to play with butterflies the most. Back then, there was a small garden at home, so she often brought little girls to play with butterflies."
Mu Rousang looked inside the wooden box, and sure enough, it was as she had expected. Whether it was the hairpin or hairpin, most of them were butterflies, or all sorts of wings.
The Old Madam Zuo saw her curiosity and said: "These butterflies were painted by your mother. I took it out to give to the jewellery master, but who would have thought that after we left that day, it would no longer be there, and by the time we found it, it was already a piece of dirt."
was not a hard-hearted person to begin with, and her tears also caused her eyes to turn red, not to mention that these remnants were left behind by her mother.
"Grandmother, don't cry anymore. Your body must have been hurt. When the time comes, uncle and aunt will have to worry again."
Under her persuasion, the Old Madam Zuo slowly stopped. She choked on her sobs, "Now that this jewelry is in your hands, she can definitely be at ease."
Mu Rousang wanted to take away the inheritance left by the original mother, but she was worried that the Left Lady and the others would be unhappy.
Seeing her indecisive expression, how could she not know what she was thinking? Her old face turned serious and said, "I'll give it to you, this is your mother's inheritance, she will leave her marriage items for her children, and a piece of ancient ink stone from the previous dynasty, a few solo books, I'll leave those for Jin'er."
Mu Rousang did not care about all these things. Naturally, it was left behind by his mother, and was naturally inherited by her two siblings. Grandmother, I won't hold back. Since it is my mother's inheritance, I also want to leave behind some thoughts. "
Old Madam Zuo touched her tears and said: "I know your mother has suffered through a lot, and have extinguished all the oil lamps, so naturally there is nothing for you to think about. Today, I have brought out these things for all of you to think about, and when I return, I will have someone send the ancient ink stone and the solitaire over to Jin'e.
She had never seen her original mother before, but from the depths of her memories, a blurry figure would occasionally float out. She said in a low voice: "I can't remember what she looks like, but I don't know what she looks like."
"Not to mention you, back then, she was still young. Even I, as an old woman, can't remember what she looked like. I can still remember her smile even after a few years, but it's getting more and more blurry now." Old Madam Zuo felt another wave of sadness, and the grandfather and grandson stayed in the room sad for a while.
In the end, Mu Rousang was afraid that the Old Madam Zuo would be too sad, so she called the little girl over and washed her face. After helping the Old Madam Zuo wash up, she helped her to lean on the Rohan's bed and took off her shoes to sit on the side of the Rohan's bed and said: "Grandmother has a headache."
Old Madam Zuo cried for a while, feeling a headache coming on, just as she was groaning in pain, Mu Rousang extended his hand and pressed her forehead, after a while, she heard Old Madam Zuo's snores.
Only then did she get off the Rohan's bed, and carefully covered Old Madam Zuo with her blanket. Only then did she quietly walk out the door with her jewelry box, and the Old Madam Zuo, who was originally sleeping soundly, turned around and looked at her back, and muttered: "It's been hard on this child!" Then he fell asleep again.
In the blink of an eye, three days had passed. It was the time for the warm sun to light up and for the fragrant summer to come.
Mu Rousang woke up early in the morning and brought the four girls to Old Madam Zuo's room to ask for leave. Coincidentally meeting Mu Jinzhi who was with them, Old Madam Zuo was extremely reluctant to leave, she tugged on the corner of Mu Rousang's clothes, causing her to almost nod and continue staying in Zuo Mansion.
Mu Jinzhi said from the side: "Grandmother, little sister has only changed fields and slept, it's just like when she moved out of the blue screen and into the small courtyard. Every day, she still comes to pay respects to you."
Old Madam Zuo's heart was in extreme discomfort, and he said: "My Little monkey has finally found it with great difficulty, and it's not even been a few good days. When I live together with my grandfather, I've been counting with my fingers, and after every day of peace, I, this old woman, feel like I've earned another day, but who would have thought that I would have to leave again today."
When the Left Lady brought Yu Xiuzhu to send him off, seeing that everyone in the room was red-eyed, she understood the old lady's personality, she walked up to her and greeted her before persuading: "Don't be sad old madam, it's not like Sang girl won't be able to return, she's just living outside, everyday she'll have to come back to play, eat and hang you. Didn't you say that she cheated twenty minutes of your copperplate, you can call her over next time, I'll beat her up with you, and win this little girl's copperplate over for sure."
After she said it, Old Madam Zuo also said: "You are also a solid-looking monkey, this sharp mouth is right, we cannot let her get away with those twenty percent of the copperplate, you better remember this, we must win them back."
She then said to Mu Jinzhi: "Jin'er, after you enter Office of the Crown Prince, it can be considered as you have half a foot in the government, so you should be repaid quite a bit. Grandmother is afraid that you might be too tired from working here, so you should keep Mu Xiutian here to visit me, or when you're free, you should bring Little monkey over for dinner.
When the crowd heard her plan, they all became happy. There really wasn't much difference between moving out and not moving out. The Mu siblings had just moved to another place to sleep, and the day was still the same as usual.