Laba porridge eaten, it officially entered the New Year's Pass, the number of people who came to visit the door began to increase significantly, but the Xuanguo Mansion is in the filial piety period, and there is no big day to invite each family to eat New Year's wine, just a few families gathered together, Beppu's private New Year's gift was received, and three percent of the gifts were added back to each family, Xu Shi for this reason, exempted from entering the palace to congratulate, and the end of the year is also nested in the long feast hall every day. But at the end of the year, the sacrifice is the most solemn, the ancestral hall burns every day, the courtyard where Cai's lived before his death still exists, the courtyard is set up with the heaven and earth paper horse incense offering, the doors in the house have changed the door god, couplet, listing, peach charm. Under the name of the Xuanguo Mansion, the Zhuangzi shops everywhere have handed over the general accounts for a year, and the masters are busy enough to calculate the accounts, and the slaves still have turns to go home for the New Year, and there are few things, in short, the New Year is much busier than in the past, until the Lantern Festival, it is slowed down.

More than ten days after the Lantern Festival, Zhu Qin took seven or eight entourages, out of Beijing twenty miles to meet the Qingping Bofu and his party, the next day, the old uncle of Qingping Qingping and Mrs. Qingping first went to the Xuanguo Mansion, in the warm pavilion is a plain clothes under the sedan chair, burned the pine and cypress lily grass, advanced ancestral hall solemnly worshiped Cai's, offered mutton fat candles and color pavilion paper, an hour later, a large number of people to Shuwei Hall.

The elders of the generation, Mrs. Qingping and Master Zhu San, first exchanged pleasantries, sat down as the guest of honor, and then invited the young masters and girls.

Li Fei was the first to enter the door, and saw that Mrs. Qingping was quite plump, with black hair, and deep lines at the corners of her eyes.

Mrs. Qingping squinted, and among the nephews and nieces in a row, she beckoned to Li Fei and said, "Fei'er, come up, I have something good to tell you." ”

Zhu Miaohua even looked sideways at Zhu Miaocong, Li Fei just cast Mrs. Zhu's eyes in the southwest, it is understandable to be close to each other, what does Mrs. Qingping in the northwest do is also a different look?

Li Fei and Mrs. Qingping looked at each other warmly, their eyes flickered, and their smiling faces were like snow.

"Good boy!" Mrs. Qingping personally took off a pair of mutton fat white jade bracelets in her hand and gave them to Li Fei as a greeting gift, holding Li Fei's hand and couldn't wait to rejoice, and said: "Huilan's child is pregnant, and the good news is reported on the road, and it has been four or five months now." ”

Ma Huilan is the niece and granddaughter of Mrs. Qingping, the Ma family has a lot of heirs, the old uncle of Qingping is a generation of six brothers, and there are many nephews and grandchildren, but this Ma Huilan is much special, she is the eldest brother of the old uncle of Qingping, and the only little blood under the direct line of the third generation of Qingping Uncle. The title that the old uncle of Qingping received from his brother was the most kind to this niece and granddaughter, and married her to Guo Kun's eldest son Guo Shaocheng.

This year has reached the twenty-seventh year of Yuanyou, and it is the fourth year that Ma Huilan has entered the Guo family, and finally there is good news, Mrs. Zhu San clapped her hands first and smiled: "Our aunt and wife are going to have great-grandchildren!"

Mrs. Qingping waved her hand and said, "It's good to have a great-granddaughter, I am just as happy as if it blooms first and then bears fruit." ”

Mrs. Zhu San's ass slapped too hard, and it was inevitable that she would overdo it, and Xu interjected and said: "What the third sister said is very true, the juniors are still young, and the flowers bloom first and then bear fruit very well." ”

Mrs. Qingping turned her head to see Xu's family, but smiled at her, still holding Li Fei's hand, and said: "Huilan's child, it was personally entrusted to me by the eldest brother, and I raised it from the moment she landed, and raised it until she left the pavilion, although it was in the eldest sister's house, separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, I didn't want her one day, I looked forward to her husband and wife and beauty, and both children and daughters, and I was worried about her strong heart in her bones. I don't think this kind of character is very good, she is a young daughter-in-law, it is the time of relaxation and cheerfulness, I often say, a wife to serve her husband as the key, housekeeper that mess, can let go of the hand, Qianguo Mansion, in the end is a big house. ”

Mrs. Qingping fell into a voice, and even Mrs. Zhu San accepted her laughter. Guo Kun wanted to drag out the Duke of Qianguo from his nephew's hands, not for a year or two, and now Mrs. Qingping's heart is all in the second room, but she is shouting, even Zhu Qin doesn't answer her words, this matter is too big, and the idlers are unwilling and have no qualifications to make do, Zhu Qin and Guo Kun are not very harmonious, and they have not been concerned about this matter.

Zhu Qin coughed lightly and said, "Third sister, let the juniors meet each other and recognize each other." ”

Mrs. Qingping nodded, and let Li Fei stand next to her.

A woman of the same age as the Xu family was the leader, leading the young masters and girls of the Ma family in.

Mrs. Qingping has three sons, the eldest son is a wild horse that has escaped, I don't know where to run, the second son inherited the title in Lingzhou, the third son is a general in Qinzhou, and now the eldest son's daughter-in-law Lei Shi is on the side, two girls and two children in the grandchildren, Ma Shulan, Ma Luo, the eldest son's eldest son, Ma Xiao, and Ma Zhenlan, the youngest daughter of the third son, are young.

Turning the New Year, Ma Shulan is already sixteen years old, white and tall, clear and beautiful, holding the three-year-old Ma Zhenlan into the door, bowing to Li Fei and Zhu Miaohua several groups, calling her cousin.

As the saying goes, a table is three thousand miles, this relationship has been estranged, Zhu Qin's descendants are a full generation behind, and they will be more than ten years behind in the future. ”

The older the family is, the more generations go down, the generation is not clear, there is no need to calculate it clearly, they are about the same age, they come and go with each other, as long as they are not directly related to the same clan, it is nothing to call a name.

Ma Shulan's pair of danfeng eyes turned to several cousins, especially on Li Fei's body.

Mrs. Qingping's eyes and eyes also mostly fell on Li Fei, asking her when she would enter Beijing, she was used to living in the capital, and often went to Mafu when she had time, and finally asked her: "When will your mother come to Beijing, I think she misses it very much." ”

These words made the atmosphere in the hall stagnant, Xu Shi Zhu Qin, Zhu San, Zhu San's wife, etc., all looked at Li Fei and spoke.

Li Fei lowered his head slightly and said softly: "About ten days, it will be there in early February." ”

"Early February?" Mrs. Qingping counted the days and said, "Ah Yue, this is not a New Year at home!"

Xu pulled the handkerchief tightly, two rows of back molars were grinding there, and it came up in February, Xu didn't want to be late, and called Li too early, and the people of the Ministry of Rites had been in private contact with the Xuanguo Mansion during the year, Li Fei went out of filial piety in March and immediately went to the ceremony, temporarily circled the day of the ninth wedding in early May, February, March, April, May, and when King Xiang returned to the fiefdom after marriage, I don't know, how long will Li stay in the capital?

Li Fei sighed heavily and said, "It's all me, and my mother can't be reunited with her family." ”

"That's what the words are. Mrs. Qingping said with a smile: "Men have become officials from all over the world, and some of them have not been able to serve their parents for ten or twenty years. ”

This is too high to look at the Li family, it is to compare the Li family with those men with eyebrows and seals, Xu said with a smile: "For women to become women, it is still important to serve their parents and run the family." ”

Women, those who stay at home are good women, and they run out every day and can't come back for the New Year, and they are no longer the image of women in the traditional sense.

Li Fei's eyes were gloomy, if there was a second person who could help take it, she didn't want her mother to be alone like this all the time!

Mrs. Qingping looked up and down at Xu's family, Xu's today is wearing a light purple collar embroidered bamboo branch long jacket, a light yellow embroidered peony horse-faced skirt is tied underneath, the hairpin ring on the head of the body is buttoned to the collar of the shirt buckled to the bracelet ring on the hand, it is a whole Nanzhu red gold ornament, Xu's face is also carefully modified today, looking at a woman who is not more than thirty, graceful and innocent, Mrs. Qingping smiled coldly, and said: "You are blessed, you can enter the door of the Zhu family in this life, you must always remember to cherish the blessings." ”

Xu's face turned pale all of a sudden, ten years have passed, her son has people, her daughter is about to get married, Mrs. Qingping still has to face her in front of everyone, so she has to beat her, saying that she has climbed the door of the Zhu family!

Mrs. Qingping threw down this sentence, and her eyes swept out, and the old lady of Qingping was very blessed, and said to the old wife: "You don't know how to change your temper." ”

"I've been like this all my life, what to change. "Mrs. Qingping has treated her husband to death for more than 30 years.

Mrs. Zhu San covered her mouth and smiled: "If you want to say that the third sister is a blessed person, there is an old man in the boudoir who is pampered, and the old uncle who is out of the pavilion is also a love for decades." ”

A few people gaged, and Xu's face came back a little.

Back in the carriage of the Ma Mansion, the old uncle Qingping held the old wife's hand, and read it in pieces: "The title has been passed to the son, we are just an old man and old lady who live a leisurely life, you should worry less, whether it is the Qianguo Mansion or the Xuanguo Mansion, they are all the territory of the juniors, and they like to make trouble as much as they like." ”

"If she can really subdue me, I will accept it willingly. Mrs. Qingping shook her husband's hand at once, and said disdainfully: "Xu thinks that after eating in the Zhu family for so many years, she can stand up in front of me? ”

Eight days later, the Xuanguo Mansion first followed the letter, Li Yue had arrived in Zhigu, and arrived two days later, Zhigu to the capital, and returned to a hundred miles away.

Li Yue did not come from the southwest, but took the official ship of the Municipal Shipping Division and went north from the coast of Guangzhou. Li Fei couldn't sit still holding his mother's handwritten letter, so he immediately stood up, walked around and sat down again, and asked Ah Ju to leave the mansion and said: "You go to Xiangwang's Mansion and tell His Royal Highness that my mother is almost here, ask him to come over, and escort me to meet my mother." ”