Qin Hanzhen didn't know that there were so many cats in the Su family of Zhenxi Hou Mansion, and he was only angry at Mrs. Zhenxi Hou's attitude. When she got home, she complained to her grandfather Qin Bai about the matter, complaining: "If I knew this was the case, our family wouldn't help them at the beginning, and it was better than being thankless and being kind to be treated as a donkey's liver and lungs!"

Qin Bai just smiled and said, "What's this? I didn't open my mouth to the emperor to listen to the gratitude of the Zhenxi Hou family. Besides, I knew that the Marquis of Zhenxi didn't want to return to Beijing, because his wife and children couldn't bear to see him continue to be disturbed by the old troubles, so they begged to come to the door. What does it matter if Zhenxihou is thanking me or resenting me? What I want to help is just your little aunt and uncle. For nothing else, just for your little aunt's sake, I don't think there's anything to regret. ”

Qin Han really thought about it, and the resentment in his heart dissipated a lot: "That's right." Zhenxihou doesn't want his own life, as long as he has rights, but everyone in his family knows that his injuries won't last long, and if there is a good one, the little uncle will be worried, and the future will be blocked? With such a strict temperament as Mrs. Zhenxi Hou, she will definitely not be accommodating when she is filial piety. The little aunt and her children have suffered, and the eldest aunt and grandmother are not going to be distressed?"

Qin Bai looked at his granddaughter helplessly: "What do you say about the New Year? Zhenxi Hou is good, what do you say about filial piety?"

Qin Hanzhen grinned, thinking that that kind of disgusting old man would die sooner or later, she was just talking about the facts, what was there to taboo? Of course, such an obscure topic should not be mentioned in the New Year.

She said to Qin Bai: "It's okay for others, Mrs. Zhenxi Hou is only blindly strict, but she doesn't understand human feelings, she wants to listen to her husband's opinions in everything, regardless of right and wrong, and we don't bother to take care of it." It's just that the little aunt and uncle have to show a little bit, such as coming to the house to sit and sit on the New Year. But only my aunt went back to her parents' house on the second day of junior high school, and there was no news since. Although she used to be like this, but the situation has been different lately, and she should have said more. If you don't have time, send someone to deliver something and pass on a message. I see that my uncle and grandmother are not in a very good mood these days, and it stands to reason that nothing happened to her in the long room that made her angry, and I don't know if it was because of my little aunt. ”

Qin Bai said lightly: "I don't know about the affairs between their mother and daughter. However, when I entered the palace today, the prince of Zhenxi Hou came to talk to me with his brother in private. They avoided people, and I don't know if it was to hide from the town of Xihou, and they also said that they wanted to apologize for their father's rudeness. ”

"Huh?" Qin Han was really a little surprised, he didn't expect such a show. She remembered that when the eldest grandmother of Zhenxi Hou Mansion, Bian Shi, followed her mother-in-law, she only nodded to them and did not greet them, but when she left the palace, she specially invited them to go to the yamen of Guanglu Temple to rest and talk.

Qin Bai continued: "Actually, I wasn't very angry about the matter of Zhenxi Hou. It is a fact that he lost his authority, and it is also a fact that the emperor intends to let him live at home to recuperate. But it is also true that he has not recovered from his old illness and has injured Shou Yuan. The emperor's arrangement is a grace to the minister, and he should be grateful for it. Otherwise, the emperor would just not know, blindly appoint him, let him run around and work hard, and let him be in charge of the military power in the southwest alone, but he died of exhaustion in two or three years, and then took away the military power of his eldest son in the name of Ding Wei, who can say that the emperor is not? He felt that he had been calculated, and he was angry with me, and he ignored it. If he is confused, he will commit suicide, and I am not ashamed of it, and I am not afraid of him complaining. His two sons are willing to do favors for their father, which shows that they understand things. It's just an apology, and it shouldn't be hidden from their father. It's not them who are at fault, what do I want them to pay for?"

Qin Hanzhen smiled when he heard this: "Grandfather is right, since the little uncle and his brother understand that the Marquis of Zhenxi is unreasonable, then they should persuade their father to correct it, instead of hiding it from him to apologize." In that way, if Zhenxi Hou does not change his attitude, he will continue to offend people, and if he knows his son's actions, he will be even more angry with them. And the family who was offended by the Hou of Zhenxi, even if they accepted the apology of the little uncle and brother, they still had to be angry afterwards, and what was the point of not accepting this apology? We just had to take care of the little aunt and her children, so we tolerated the Zhenxi Hou Mansion. But our family doesn't have much contact with their family in the first place, so it's a big deal to have less contact in the future. We don't want to slap our faces in the face for the sake of the so-called relatives, we still have to smile at each other, round face and the overall situation, as if nothing had happened, and whitewash the peace. ”

Qin Bai smiled and said to his granddaughter: "We are just relatives of your little sister-in-law's family in the next room, and we don't have much interaction with outsiders. Zhenxi Hou Mansion is rude, we just ignore his family. It's just that over there in the long house, your uncle and grandmother are only afraid that they will feel uncomfortable. When you have leisure, you will go over from time to time, and you don't have to persuade her, you just need to go with your sisters to amuse her old man, and tell her not to think about those bad things all the time. ”

Qin Hanzhen naturally wouldn't refuse, so he readily agreed.

The next day, she accompanied her grandmother to the long house.

Grandfather asked a few old friends to drink tea and talk today, and Grandmother Niu had nothing to do, so she went to talk to the old woman. Qin Hanzhen sat in Songfeng Hall with her for a long time, listening to her and the Xu family talk about some trivial matters, gossip about relatives and friends in Beijing, and the marriage of the children of various families, etc., and gradually listened to it a little impatiently. When Qin Jinhua, Qin Jinrong, and Lu Yueniang came, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

However, the Xu family and the Niu family were talking about the rise, and they couldn't take care of the children for the time being, so they sent a few granddaughters, nieces and grandnieces to the west room to play by themselves, but asked someone to invite a few former housekeepers who were old and idle at home to come over and chat gossip together. Those grandmothers are familiar with the various ranks of the high-ranking officials and nobles in Beijing, and they are very good at reading people's faces. Niu has never liked to interact with the ladies in Beijing, but listening to the stories of the grandmothers, he can also be fascinated. The two daughters-in-law of Yao and Min were busy with the things in hand and also rushed over to accompany them. The latter was reversed, and the former quickly got involved, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law and servant talked lively. Xu Shi has a smile on his face all the time, where is there any worry?

Qin Han said sincerely, for middle-aged and elderly women, the parents are short, and entertainment gossip is really a good weapon to pass the time.

After listening to it for a few ears, she turned her mind back to the promotion chart game of the sisters.

Recently, Qin Jinrong has been obsessed with the promotion chart, and since she lost chess on the second day of junior high school, she has been practicing hard in her room, asking the girls to play with her. After practicing for a few days, she thought that she had made great progress, and she was planning to be ashamed. It's a pity that Qin Hanzhen has an adult core, and the game level is not bad, Qin Jinhua is also a master, and Qin Jinrong still only loses chess. Fortunately, Lu Yueniang was depressed when she saw that she had lost two games, so her subordinates put water and told her to win a small victory. Qin Jinrong showed his smiling face again, and then he simply pulled Lu Yueniang to play, ignoring Qin Hanzhen and Qin Jinhua.

Qin Hanzhen and Qin Jinhua just retreated to the side and talked in the corner.

Qin Hanzhen asked Qin Jinhua in a low voice: "Have you inquired about what happened yesterday?"

Qin Jinhua whispered to Qin Hanzhen: "I asked my mother, but she refused to say, and told me that the children's family should not care about the affairs of adults." I am no longer a child, and I will be married in a few months, but my mother still says such things, which is really annoying! Fortunately, my mother called my brother and talked behind closed doors for a whole hour, and I don't know what to say. I'm thinking about it for a while, so I'll go with you and ask my brother about it. ”

For Qin Jian, Qin Jinhua is very confident, as long as it is something she wants to know, her brother has never hidden it from her.

Qin Hanzhen had a cautious and optimistic attitude towards this, and felt that it was good for him to accompany him to ask, and Qin Jian would not be so easy to fool the two of them together.

While he was talking, someone outside reported that someone from the Yao family had come and was looking for Yao's. Yao could only retire to his mother-in-law and aunt. After two quarters of an hour she came back with a smile on her face and said, "My mother has sent me." Today, someone came to the door to pay New Year's greetings and gave her a few things, she felt that it was just right for us Jinhua, and remembered that she had seen three girls in the palace yesterday, and she liked it very much, so she asked her sisters to send it over. It's some great fabrics, and a few delicate things for little girls. ”

Xu Shi smiled: "That's a rare Qiao Zong'er." It's hard for my in-laws to think that we must thank us and don't slack off in return. ”

Niu also said: "Thank you so much Mrs. Yao for thinking about our three girls." I have a few packets of newly prepared incense there, which are made according to the prescription of our Hou Ye, and ask someone to take good spices and medicinal herbs, which is the best to calm the mind and calm the air, and the Hou Ye and I often light them in the house, and sleep sweeter. I'll ask people to go back and get it, and the second nephew and daughter-in-law will bring it to your mother for me, and thank her for giving us three good things. ”

Yao's knew that the incense was also commonly used by her mother-in-law Xu, and she had already thought about asking for a prescription, so she gave it to her parents. The Niu family was willing to send it, she was naturally happy, and quickly thanked her, and asked someone to follow the Bai Li sent by the Niu family to Xifu to get incense.

Qin Hanzhen and Qin Jinhua held hands and accompanied the Yao family to Shengyiju to pick up things.

After entering the door, the Yao family sent most of the girls away, leaving only one henchman, Yulan, to guard the door, and then said to his daughter and Qin Hanzhen: "The things sent by Jinhua's grandmother are indeed for the two of you by name, but they are not sent by relatives and friends of other families when they pay New Year's greetings, but the princess and concubine in the palace quietly send people to reward them." If nothing else, just because yesterday the two sisters sent a letter to our mother and daughter in time, so that Jinhua's grandmother could arrive to relieve the siege of Wang Concubine. It's just that this matter is related to the reputation of the daughter of the Wang family, and it is not easy to spread the word, so you just don't know, and don't tell anyone, even if you saw the quarrel between the princess and her nieces in the palace yesterday, you can't tell anyone. ”

Qin Han really thought that he was about to tell his grandfather and Zhao Mo, how could he agree? So he asked Yao: "What happened yesterday? How could those aunts and grandmothers of the Wang family quarrel with Wang Concubine? Wang Concubine Niangniang is their own aunt and palace concubine. Even if there are princes and concubines among those aunts and grandmothers of the Wang family, they shouldn't even forget the etiquette. "That's right, she is talking about that little Wang, Zhao Mo's stepmother.

Yao smiled wryly: "How can I ask so much about the elders?" In fact, she was by her mother's side at the time, and it can be said that she saw the end from the beginning to the end, how could she know nothing?

She changed the subject: "Go and see the things sent by Concubine Wang, they are all excellent, you will definitely like them." ”