Dou Mansion is different from Luo Mansion, and it is also very different from Jinxiang Hou Mansion. It is the traditional northern four-entry courtyard, but one hundred and ten steps after the hanging flower door, bypassing the water mill carved shadow wall, it is the wide upper house main courtyard.

The upper room of the carved beam painting building with the ear room and the eaves corridor, the lintel is hung with three big characters of "Zhengyang Ju". In front of the door, a low crape myrtle flower grew bare outside the verandah, and the two tall ginkgo biloba trees under the stone steps had already lost their leaves.

Zhengyangju also has two cross-courtyards on the left and right, and the door is open behind the verandah, and the second entry is where the long house lives.

Seeing this, Luo Huanyan couldn't help but wonder if her previous guess was wrong, at least the long house is still living in the upper room of this main courtyard, but according to the attitude of the second aunt before...... Maybe it's not safe to live in.

Of course, Luo Huanyan will not participate in these, today she is just accompanying Jingyun to pay New Year's greetings to his cousins.

The little maid in the courtyard saw that the second wife and the fourth lady came with the young lady and the young grandmother, and she didn't have to ask to know that the distinguished guest had arrived.

Without waiting for Luo Huanyan and the others to enter the house, the eldest aunt, who described her emaciation, came out surrounded by three young girls.

Jing Zhi and Luo Huanyan glanced at each other, and without waiting for anyone to approach, they hurriedly stepped forward past everyone, both of them bowed, and after Mrs. Dou screamed repeatedly, she got up and held her aunt's arm, and said angrily: "It's windy outside, and my aunt has been suffering from the cold and hasn't recovered yet, how can I come out to attract wind again?"

After speaking, Luo Huanyan and Jing Zhi helped Mrs. Dou happily, and together with the three cousins, the second aunt, the fourth aunt and all the cousins and sisters-in-law entered the house in one step.

In the middle of the five upper rooms is a hall house, which is separated by carved doorways in nan wood on the left and right, and hung with heavy velvet woven satin curtains.

A pair of "Apricot Blossom Brocade Chicken Picture" straddles the wall of the hall, and the flat-headed case is not like the tables and chairs placed by the northern people next to it, but a rosewood landscape arhat bed, to a bit of southerners' taste, Luo Huanyan can't help but guess, maybe the ancestors of the Dou family are from the south of the Yangtze River.

The eldest aunt pulled Jingzhi and Luo Huanyan to sit down beside her, and when the second and fourth aunts came in with their sisters-in-law, everyone returned to sit before pointing to the three cousins and smiling: "Sister Zhi'er hasn't come for a long time, and Huanyan has come back for the first time, I'm afraid I didn't recognize who they were in a hurry last time." ”

said from east to west one by one: "This is your second cousin Chaoxia, that is your third sister Chunlu, and that is your little sister Caihe." ”

The eldest aunt didn't deliberately divide it, who was in the long room and who was in the second room, that is, it was now divided into four rooms, and she didn't go to detail them one by one.

Although Luo Huanyan knew it in her heart, she didn't show it when she went, and with the introduction of her eldest aunt, she got up with Jingzhi and greeted her one by one.

The eldest aunt pointed to Jing Zhi again and said, "This is your cousin's aunt's daughter, your cousin went early, leaving only Sister Zhi and Brother Yun'er two siblings." As he spoke, he pointed at Luo Huanyan and said with a smile: "This is the cousin-in-law that your cousin Yun just married, I think you all remember it." ”

The three girls didn't say much when they heard this, and they smiled slightly and bowed dignified and elegantly, so that they had seen each other.

Luo Huanyan smiled after sitting down: "There are no good things to bring to the sisters-in-law for the first time, and I am afraid that ordinary things will not be able to enter the eyes of the sisters-in-law, and I dare not offer ugliness, I singled out a few pairs of bracelets, and it is also good for the sisters-in-law to pick up and reward people." ”

As soon as Luo Huanyan's words fell, Caiying stepped forward with a magpie climbing tray, and on the big red velvet, she was holding no more than five pairs of Hetian green jade bracelets with different carvings, which could be seen to be from the same seed material, obviously Luo Huanyan had put a lot of thought into it.

Sister-in-law Lin was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly smiled: "This is the rule from there? The new daughter-in-law came to her uncle's house for the first time, and she didn't get the red envelope yet, so she gave a gift first." ”

Regardless of the attitude of the others, he said to Caiying: "Why don't you put it away for your grandmother?"

Caiying didn't know what to do for a while, and looked at Luo Huanyan meaningfully, but Luo Huanyan smiled disapprerovingly: "I knew that I couldn't get into the eyes of my sisters-in-law, but it's my intention, isn't it?"

At this time, the eldest aunt smiled and said: "Where is such a rule, it stands to reason that your sisters-in-law should give you a meeting gift." As he spoke, he smiled at the big girl behind him: "Go and take out the meeting gift I prepared for Sister Zhi and Wan Yan." ”

After speaking, the eldest aunt patted Luo Wanyan and Jingzhi's hands, and smiled very kindly: "It's my dowry back then, it's not a good thing, take it for fun." ”

After a while, the maid came out with a tray, and what was given to Luo Huanyan was the fulcrum emerald crested hairpin, and what was given to Jingzhi was a mutton fat white jade bracelet, which was not very valuable in Luo Huanyan's opinion, and Jingzhi was even more unimpressed. Because of the words of the eldest aunt, the two of them did not excuse themselves, and both respectfully saluted and accepted it.

The eldest aunt gave a meeting gift, and naturally the second aunt and the fourth aunt would not be left behind, so after such a circle, Luo Huanyan did not give it away, but received a lot, especially the second aunt was very willing to prepare a bowl of gold-dotted emerald sideburns for Luo Huanyan and Jingzhi.

Fortunately, a few cousins-in-law didn't say what they wanted to give them a meeting gift, which made Luo Wanyan quietly relieved.

Luo Huanyan handed over the meeting gift given by the three aunts to Caiying, and then chuckled: "I don't let my sister-in-law give gifts to my sisters-in-law, and I'm a cousin to my cousins......"

Before she finished speaking, the eldest aunt interrupted: "Sisters just mean the same thing, in my opinion, don't deliberately give any gifts, they are all their own family, and it is good to exchange objects for each other." ”

As soon as the eldest aunt's voice fell, the cousin named Chaoxia took off the jade bead string from her hand, and took off a silk inlaid treasure title hairpin from her head, and said with a smile: "It's not a good thing, but it's also my beloved thing, and I hope my sister-in-law and cousin don't dislike it." ”

What else could Luo Huanyan say? She glanced at Jing Zhi, and both took one off their bodies and exchanged them with her. The same is true for spring dew and lotus picking.

After the exchange between the three of them was completed, Luo Huanyan sighed, took her aunt's arm and said angrily: "It seems that this gift is really difficult to give today, but it is the New Year, I will be my cousin's meeting gift to my nephews and nephews, and my aunt will not allow it again, right?"

At this time, Luo Huanyan really had a good impression of this eldest aunt, and couldn't help but even use the method of coquettishness, Jingzhi naturally helped Luo Huanyan, and also took the other arm of the eldest aunt and shook it.

The eldest aunt was very happy when she saw that Luo Huanyan and Jing Zhi were not as combed as before, and she pursed her lips and smiled: "That's your intention to be an elder, and it's for the children, what does it have to do with my old woman?"

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