"Don't tell anyone else about this." Mrs. Bai lowered her voice and told her daughter-in-law and granddaughter, "We can't bring trouble on our family."

The two white girls nodded together, but Mrs. Bai lowered her voice and asked, "How far away?"

Old Madam Bai shook her head, "Yuan'er can't do it either, he's still young, and he can't hide things in his heart."

The Yuan'er they mentioned is Bai Qingzhi's youngest son. He is nine years old this year. Although he is precocious, he is still young. Mrs. Bai dare not bet on whether he is strict enough.

She said to Mrs. Bai: "We have almost touched the nails at home over the years. When the child comes over tomorrow, you can find a way to transfer the two in my yard to other places."

Madam Bai nodded, "My daughter-in-law knows."

It just so happened that their house was preparing thick cotton clothes for the servants, and she could have the maids at home go to the sewing room to take measurements in batches tomorrow.

Thinking of a way to adjust the eyeliner, Mrs. Bai was full of expectations and apprehensions. She supported Mrs. Bai, took her two daughters, and walked out of the dark room at the back of the small Buddhist hall.

This small Buddhist hall with a dark room was built by the old lady of the Bai family when the Hou Mansion was just awarded to the Bai family. The dark room is hidden, and there is a secret door in the innermost. To the underground passage outside the mansion.

This is a retreat route left by the ancestors of the Bai family for the descendants of the Bai family. Walking along the underground passage, you can go directly to a second-entry small house under the name of the Bai family.

Since the house was bought by the ancestors of the Bai family, it has been in the hands of the mistress with the highest seniority and status in the family.

Because the location is good or bad, and the area is neither big nor small, the house is not eye-catching in a duke's house like the Bai family.

It has been passed down from generation to generation as a relic. To this day, except for Mrs. Bai, Bai Qingzhi, and Mrs. Bai, the rest of the Bai family don't even know that this house, which they didn't pay attention to at all, was actually their escape. stand.

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The next evening, before the Bai family had dinner, Ye Anlan brought a folded piece of yellow paper into Weipinghou's mansion.

The servant who led her way was changed. It was no longer the taciturn one yesterday, but a round face, who seemed to be extraordinarily kind.

This one is also more talkative than the previous one. She was always smiling and talking to Ye Anlan all the way to the second gate.

Ye Anlan knew it well, so she developed her acting skills with this round-faced maid at the scene.

The servant girl with a round face plays a charitable middle-aged woman who cares about little girls. She is a bit talkative, but warm and kind, frank and sincere, and has no evil intentions.

Ye Anlan played the role of a foolish, carefree, honest and honest fool.

The round-faced maid pretended to be afraid of Ye Anlan's restraint and fear, and used the name of small talk to talk about Ye Anlan's words, while Ye Anlan acted as a silly elder sister who knew everything and said everything with a grateful face.

Finally, the round-faced maid got her wish and saw the "yellow paper" that Ye Anlan sent to the Hou's Mansion.

The "yellow paper" is also a safety talisman, but it is obviously not the safety talisman Mrs. Bai asked for from Cangyun Temple outside the city.

Not only servants like the round-faced servant in the Hou's mansion, but also servants of other powerful families in the capital know that Mrs. Bai only goes to the tiny temple in Cangyun Temple to ask for a safe talisman.

The reason for being so single-minded and unanimous is also very simple—the previous abbot of Cangyun Temple once saved the life of the deceased Bai Laohou when he was traveling in the northern border.

Since then, the Bai family began to donate sesame oil money to Cangyun Temple every year, and went to Cangyun Temple every year to ask for a safe talisman.

As the saying goes, what the superior likes, the subordinate must follow, so many servants of the Bai family go to Cangyun Temple to seek peace talismans.

Baiyun Temple is a small temple. Even with the support of the Weipinghou Mansion, it is still not very popular these years.

Therefore, the peace talisman consecrated by Cangyun Temple is not a precious thing that is difficult to find. Even if it is just an ordinary person or a servant of a wealthy family, as long as you can spend enough incense money, you can get it from Cangyun. Yunsi begged for a piece of paper back.

The servant girl with a round face also asked for the peace talisman consecrated by the abbot of Cangyun Temple. She didn't even need to open the one of Ye Anlan's to see that it was not a peace talisman from Cangyun Temple.

After confirming that the talisman had nothing to do with Bai Qingzhi, the round-faced maid immediately speeded up her pace thinking that there was no trace.

Ye Anlan pretended not to notice anything, put away the amulet, and continued to follow the round-faced servant girl towards the second door.

The people guarding the second gate were Ye Anlan's familiar faces. The oldest gatekeeper woman among them asked the round-faced maid in surprise, "Why did you bring someone here? Where's Sister-in-law Qing?"

The round-faced maid answered with a smile: "Sister-in-law Qing has something to do at home, so I've been asked to take care of her errands for the whole afternoon."

The maid guarding the door did not suspect him, so she took Ye Anlan to meet Mrs. Bai and Mrs. Bai.

Old lady Bai didn't keep Ye Anlan waiting this time. Although she was still offering incense, she asked the big maid beside her to invite Ye Anlan directly to the small Buddhist hall.

The light in the small Buddhist hall was dim, and Mrs. Bai had a habit of not letting her servants guard her when offering incense, so when Ye Anlan walked into the small Buddhist hall, there were only old Mrs. Bai and Mrs. Bai who could not be seen clearly in the Buddhist hall. these two people.

Ye Anlan stepped forward a few steps to salute, and then took the opportunity of Madam Bai to receive the peace talisman from her hand, and quickly stuffed a purse containing a small scroll into Madam Bai's hand.

Madam Bai raised her hand. From the action, it seemed that she wanted to hold the amulet under the lamp to watch carefully, but in fact it was to let the purse that Ye Anlan stuffed slip into her cuff smoothly.

"No." After careful identification, Mrs. Bai returned the safety talisman to Ye Anlan with some regrets, and then asked someone to bring her a small satin purse embroidered with winter jasmine flowers.

The purse is exactly the same as the one Ye Anlan got before, even the silver peanuts inside are of the same style and quality.

Ye Anlan thanked Mrs. Bai, bid farewell to Mrs. Bai and Mrs. Bai, and was sent out by the servants of Weipinghou Mansion.

No one knew, but when handing back the safety talisman, Mrs. Bai also stuffed a small folded note to Ye Anlan.

There is an address written on the note, which is the location where Mrs. Bai married Zhuang Zi.

The purse that Ye Anlan gave Mrs. Bai was the one she got from Bai Qingzhi, and was embroidered for her husband by Mrs. Bai herself.

After Ye Anlan left, only Mrs. Bai and Mrs. Bai were left in the Buddhist hall.

Madam Bai didn't say much, she squeezed old Madam Bai's hand, and then the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law went back to Madam Bai's room for dinner.

After dinner, Mrs. Bai took care of Mrs. Bai to wash and change her clothes, and watched the little maid pinch her shoulders and beat her back.

It wasn't until Old Madam Bai finished all the procedures before going to bed that Madam Bai took her maid back to rest.