Please have dinner with the whole family.

But it's usually the ladies and the children, plus Mrs. Yan and a boy.

Yan Zike, the old man of Yan, as an official, not only has complicated work affairs, but also has a lot of entertainment, and the number of times he can have dinner at home is really not much.

Yan San Master who served in the Splendid Academy is even more Shenlong to see the beginning and the end, this year there is the autumn of the autumn, I heard that the class he brought is still the "top class", from the teacher to the students are under great pressure, the three masters simply live in the academy, and the students who plan to try this year are also required to live in the school, for closed hard study, it is said that the Splendid Academy has an independent school building specially prepared for the students who are about to take the exam, separate from the main school building of the college, the environment is very secluded, and strive to ensure the ranking rate from all aspects of hardware and software.

Not to mention the fourth master, the one who is usually at home is very little, and it is American time to go to bed late and get up late, it is said that the style of life is also American, Yan Qi has never seen this fourth uncle a few times since he was a child, and this kind of ordinary dinner is not visible.

Yan Qi went home from school and freshened up as usual, changed into a homely dress, still tied sandbags to his legs, and went to the front hall with Young Master Yan Jiu, men and women were seated at two separate tables in turn, and the two concubines in the long room and the third room stood at the table and waited to serve the old lady Yan.

Yan Zike's concubine surname is Yang, gave birth to Yan San Young Master and Yan Sixth Girl, two of them, gentle appearance, quiet personality, silent all day long, if it is not for the day when the whole family eats together, it is basically not out of the house, Mrs. Yan rarely asks her to go to the upper room to set up rules, and she is almost blind to this concubine room, a pair of concubines seem to uphold Aunt Yang's temperament, one is taciturn, the other is introverted and cowardly, and the appearance is similar, especially Yan Liu, and Aunt Yang are like carved out of a mold, in front of the elders are always lowered eyebrows and low eyes, in front of Yan Wu, the sister-in-law, even less breathing。

Compared with Aunt Zhao, the concubine of Master Yan San, she was much more active, coaxing the old lady to eat this for a while, saying what to replenish blood and qi, coaxing the old lady to eat that for a while, saying what to nourish her face and beautiful skin, and she still flew her eyes to her own Yan Ba girl, Yan Ba girl learned from her to blindly pick up vegetables for Yan San, and the table showed that the mother and daughter were capable.

Mrs. Yan San squinted, with a smile on her face, let this mother and daughter appear there, how can they do it no matter how good they are? Aren't they all serving people, and don't they all have to act according to her face? In fact, Mrs. Yan San sometimes thinks that this Aunt Zhao is sandwiched between her and Master Yan San, and she also feels aggrieved.

This Aunt Zhao is not without identity, her mother's family is also a small businessman, and the shop in Yan Mansion has some business dealings, that year Yan San suffered from a serious illness, seeing that it is going to die, please all over the palace imperial doctor Xiangye Langzhong, all said that there is no cure, Mrs. Yan died as a live horse doctor, and carried the old lady Yan to invite a goddess back, the goddess looked at it all up, and the result was that it was necessary to be happy, and the newcomer had to be carried into the door within seven days.

You are in a hurry, no one wants to marry her daughter so sloppily, and Mrs. Yan is unwilling to marry a woman who is not four or six to be her son's daughter-in-law.

was rushing Aunt Zhao and her father to Yanfu to check the accounts, and by the way, she and her mother came in to kowtow to Mrs. Yan to say goodbye, Mrs. Yan was in a hurry to take a fancy to the picturesque Aunt Zhao on the spot, so in this way, Mrs. Yan did not object much, anyway, it is a concubine, apart from him these years, which man does not have a few concubine rooms in his family? If he didn't have a Hedong lion at home, he would have ...... Cough. Anyway, I agreed, and carried Aunt Zhao into the door within seven days, Master Yan San was so sick that he didn't know anything in the dark, the round house was impossible, and the illness was not cured, and in the end, it was Master Yan who went out to fish for the snow tree master of Lianhua Temple, who traveled all over the world, and he really got it back, so he took care of the disease.

Master Yan San woke up and was dumbfounded, there was still a book of "one life and one couple" at the head of his bed, which stuffed him with a concubine to come in, although the wood was not completed, but it had been cut down, and it could not be replanted back into the tree pit to continue to grow, which had to be collected if it was not collected.

After all, Aunt Zhao originally entered the door to make joy for Yan San, and she brought it in within seven days.

Mrs. Yan San deceived herself countless times to comfort herself, and the nursing grandmothers and intimate maids around her often enlightened her, so she reluctantly accepted the existence of this third party, fortunately, her husband is not a person who indulges in this way, and he has never been to Aunt Zhao's room a few times from beginning to end, and since he was pregnant with Miss Yan Ba, he has not spent the night with her, even if he goes, he just sits and chats, and then he goes to his study to read.

In this way, Mrs. Yan San was even more cured, and then look at her concubine Mrs. Yan, doesn't there also have an Aunt Yang in her heart every day, and she also gave birth to two people, and a son, and she will be able to share a family property in the future, disgusting and not killing her!

It's more balanced when you think about it this way.

But it's not enough.

The second sister-in-law followed her to the frontier thousands of miles away, and at that time, many people praised her for her second sister-in-law's love and righteousness, and the heroic among the women who valued her as a model for women, hey! All women in the world are the same, she didn't encounter anything that made her disgusting, and when she met it, she still pretended to be a virtuous daughter-in-law and a righteous woman!

Mrs. Yan San was unbalanced again, and the thought in her heart was a thousand times after eating, and everyone sat and drank tea and chatted after eating—you can't just pat your ass and scatter after eating, right? Mrs. Yan San took a sip of tea, and then said to Mrs. Yan with a smile: "Why haven't you seen a letter from the second uncle and the second sister-in-law these days? I heard that the frontier is quite dissipated now, and I don't know when the second uncle can come back, the border is so windy and sandy, and the second sister-in-law can endure the hardship, according to me, if you let the uncle go back again, think of letting people come back, even if you can't come back two, get the second sister-in-law back, in such a place, if you can't eat and sleep well, how can your body and bones stand it?" Mother, the second sister-in-law didn't reveal a happy letter or anything in her last letter? It's been ten years since I gave birth to Xiao Jiu. ”

Yan Qi is no longer good at being obedient, and at this time, he can roughly hear what Mrs. Yan San means, saying that Mrs. Yan has not had another one for so many years, because of her bad bones.

Mrs. Yan was more and more happy about her grandson, and she sighed when she heard this: "If there was a way, I would have got it back a long time ago, why drag it out until today? It is also a bitter second daughter-in-law, not to mention the lack of food and clothing in the bitter place on the frontier, even the climate is unbearable for ordinary people, not to mention a delicate person like your second sister-in-law? Even if you want to eat something to replenish your body, I am afraid that there is nowhere to buy it." ”

Mrs. Yan San glanced at Yan Qiyan and the nine sisters and brothers, and saw that they were all holding teacups and bowing their heads to drink tea, their movements were the same, but they were worthy of growing up with each other since childhood, and couldn't help but laugh secretly, but they no longer talked about this topic, after all, some things can't be said in front of the children, she just said it openly and secretly, but it was just to make her own heart happy, so she had to say it to make others unhappy.

After chatting for a while, everyone dispersed, Yan Qi and Young Master Yan Jiu walked to the Xia Ju, entered the door, Young Master Yan Jiu went back to his yard, turned his head, and saw that his sister was also coming, so he couldn't help but stop in the courtyard and asked her, "What are you doing?"

"I'm going to play with you for a while. Yan Qi said.

"What are you playing?" asked Young Master Yan Jiu.

"Play a game called 'Chat for a while'?" Yan Qidao.

"Not in the mood. Young Master Yan Jiu turned his head and walked into the house, and found that his sister had really followed in cheekily.

"Tell me what you want. Yan Qi sat on the kang by the window, there was a gauze table screen on the kang table, embroidered with two cartoon face buns: (〉_〉(--), the one on the left was embroidered with the word "nine", and the one on the right was embroidered with the word "seven", which was Yan Qi's birthday gift to Young Master Yan Jiu in a certain year.

Young Master Yan Jiu didn't want to say anything, walked to the window on the other side and sat down, took the book and began to flip through it. Yan Qi tilted his head to look at him for a while, and then said to him, "Do you know what I like to eat the most?"

Young Master Yan Jiu didn't seem to hear it, he was still flipping through the book there, Yan Qi didn't intend to wait for him to answer, and said to himself: "I like to eat pine nuts the most, I especially like to eat them, if there is such a plate on the table, I always want to reach out and grab a few to eat." And I know you don't like it, and even if it is in your hand, you will throw it away or put it back. ”

Speaking of this, I saw that Young Master Yan Jiu stopped turning the book and looked at the rising moon outside the window as if thinking.

Yan Qi leaned on the pillow and continued: "So that's it, if you don't like it, if someone else shoehorns it on you, you won't want it; ”

"What kind of person will he be?" Young Master Yan Jiu finally spoke, slowly, with a biased face, his delicate eyebrows frowning slightly.

For his father, Second Master Yan, Young Master Yan Jiu has no impression of Yan Qi, and he may have instinctive respect for his elders, but how close he is, he is reluctant.

"I don't know. Yan Qi said truthfully.

"What if he reaches out and takes it?" asked Young Master Yan Jiu slowly.

"I said, if he likes this, no one can stop him. Yan Qi's tone was unexpectedly cold.

"What should I do?" Young Master Yan Jiu finally expressed his worries and vulnerabilities in line with his age.

Yan Qi also sighed rarely: "I don't know what to do with my mother, but if it was me, my husband really reached out to take the little concubine, and I would go and throw a copper coin to take a look." ”

"What are you doing with throwing copper coins?" asked Young Master Yan Jiu.

"The front side represents the husband, the back side represents the concubine, throw a copper coin, whichever side is up, kill whichever one is up. Yan Qi's tone was like saying, "Eat which bun is bigger", and added at the end, "If the copper coin stands, the two will be killed together." ”

"......" Young Master Yan Jiu dropped the book in his hand, got up and walked towards this room, "You are too cruel, I express my heartfelt sympathy for my future brother-in-law." However, it is not cost-effective for you to pay for your life if you kill them. ”

"I just made it hidden. "Yan Qidao.

"How can you hide?" asked Young Master Yan Jiu.

"After killing them, I went into hiding. "Yan Qidao.

“……”

After being teased by Yan Qi, Young Master Yan Jiu's mood seemed to improve, he sat on the other side of the kang table, took out a black lacquer luodian round box from the black lacquer and gold plum pattern kang head cabinet behind him, put the box on the kang table, and motioned to his sister with his chin: "Open it." ”

Yan Qi opened the lid of the box, and saw that there was a box of small snacks stacked in the yellow and round inside, and the fragrance of milk and eggs came to his nose, and Yan Qi's hand reached in: "Custard nectar crisp? ”

Young Master Yan Jiu raised his chin: "Actually, your favorite food is not only pine nuts. ”

"Well, there's nothing I don't love to eat. "Yan Qi has already started eating.

Young Master Yan Jiu has a sense of success in feeding domestic pets.

After adding a few pieces of after-dinner snacks, Young Master Yan Jiu watched his sister get up, close the lid of the box, hold it in his hand, and then he was about to go out.

"I can't stop it," said his sister, turning back to him before she stepped out of the room, "but you can always send a letter to your mother to say hello in advance, and the letter will always arrive faster than the person." ”

Young Master Yan Jiu also had such a plan, and after sending his sister out, he sat in front of the bookcase and dipped the paper in ink, but he stared at the paper with a pen for a long time, but there were only three words that fell: Song Qiuying.

Song Qiuying is the maiden name of Mrs. Yansan.

Yan Qi returned to his yard with the food box, and sat in front of the bookcase when he entered the house, Chen Baluo left his homework, which was nothing more than some copying and writing things, which took half an hour to complete, Yan Qi took out Zhang Xing's paper again, and asked Cooking Yun to take a piece of green ink to grind, this ink was given to her by Cui Xi, and the words written were also dark green, and the apricot yellow paper was very good-looking.

She also had to send a letter to Mrs. Yan, her daughter was her mother's intimate little padded jacket, this kind of thing, how could she help her mother solve her worries, although she had no experience in this matter.

"Mom, your concubine is so idle that it hurts you to make it bad, and you want to stuff a concubine next to my father, you should be careful, if you can't do it, you will die directly in the frontier, anyway, the land over there is vast and sparsely populated, and if you kill it, you will be buried directly in the desert, which will save more trouble." ”

Yan Qi really wanted to write about the past so simply and rudely, but although her cheap mother was the daughter of a family of military generals, she had never studied martial arts, and she had the courage to find a husband for thousands of miles, but she did not have the courage to kill people...... Of course, this is not the case for ordinary people.

Yan Qi pondered the content of the letter until he was urged to wash up and go to bed, and finally decided to talk directly to the person in charge - Second Master Yan, her father. Her legendary father has never sent back a word to her sisters and brothers over the years, and everything she wants to say is done by Mrs. Yan Er in the letter, and Yan Qi's sisters and brothers have not sent him a letter directly, and what they want to ask and say is only written in the letter to Mrs. Yan Er, Yan Qi feels that this person is a bit like a traditional ancient parent, not smiling, rigid and conservative, and always maintains a sense of distance that is not allowed to be crossed between him and his children.

This is the first letter Yan Qi wrote to him, changed to white paper and black ink, with only a few words: I don't want you to take a concubine.

Simple and rude, Yan Qi felt that this was still the most suitable style for him.