So she said to treat her like a treasure. Bao Qian is not her child, and neither is Qi Yun. A bowl of water is flat, that is, it is really said after taking this matter into consideration.

He Jiaxian was praised and smiled embarrassedly.

Aunt Lin said some more words, and when she saw that it was not early, she got up to say goodbye.

After the Qingming Festival, the ancestral hall was opened to worship the ancestors, Master Fang, and Mrs. Fang, and Aunt Mei was about to step out, when Aunt Lin suddenly shouted: "Second sister!"

This is still the name of Chan when he was alive. At that time, their concubines were all sorted by size.

Aunt Mei is a girl, and now the people in the house call her family, and no one calls her that.

She turned around and saw tears on Aunt Lin's face: "I dreamed of my lord yesterday." ”

Aunt Mei was a little shocked, but after a while, she regained her composure and got up to pull her: "Master has been gone for many years, go back and rest." ”

"Nope. Aunt Lin sat on the mat, she ate fasting and chanting Buddha for a long time, and this posture is now very standard: "The master said something to me. ”

Aunt Mei was already very impatient, and the third lady and the fifth lady were not as polite to her as before because she couldn't settle the matter of losing her official position, and there was often a sense of contempt for her in her words, "she is just an aunt".

This made her, who had been high up since Master Fang passed away, very mindful.

She is now racking her brains to use the connections she knew from the past to try to regain their support.

It's still better than the previous one.

Aunt Lin was still chattering: "...... The lord said that he was not feeling well down there, and there was no wine to drink......"

Aunt Lin took out a pot of wine from her baggage, poured a glass, handed it to Aunt Mei, poured two more glasses, one poured on the ground, and one was held by herself: "Now there are only two of us left in front of the master, second sister, let's have a drink with the master." ”

Aunt Mei looked at her suspiciously, didn't drink, but put the wine glass on the ground: "You drink with the master, I didn't dream of him." ”

"But what did the master say about the second sister. Aunt Lin touched the wine glass to her lips and held it in her hand, with a lot of sadness in her eyes: "The master said that the only person he has ever loved in his life is not his wife, nor your ......"

Aunt Mei thought of the deed of sale that had been hidden for decades, and she had a bottom in her heart, but when this secret was known to others, she was embarrassed and embarrassed: "The master is confused, his love for me over the years, but he is not blind, he can see it." ”

"Yes. Aunt Lin smiled, but insisted: "...... I thought it was my sister, after all, my sister has been spoiled all these years. But the old man clearly said, no. ”

"Who's that? It can't be you. Aunt Mei didn't want to make senseless entanglements on this kind of issue, she sneered and wanted to leave.

Aunt Lin didn't hold back, she only shook her head, as if talking to herself: "The master said a person that you and I would never think of...... This man is not you, but he has something to do with you!"

Aunt Mei was a little curious.

Aunt Shen is naturally not, so how many of them are not, who are they?

Aunt Lin approached her and whispered in her ear, "Master said...... It's ......"

Aunt Mei only felt a pain in her lower abdomen, heartbreaking, so painful that she couldn't shout, and pierced it with a sharp blade, but she didn't pull it out.

Rao is she reacted quickly, and immediately stopped it with her hands, but only slightly stopped.

She looked down, cold sweat dripping from her forehead, and she saw a dagger shining with cold light, half of the blade and handle were left outside, the clothes around her were stained red, and her stomach was gradually numb.

"Yes...... Who is it?" Aunt Mei gasped, still asking the question.

Aunt Lin smiled faintly, took the glass of wine she kept and drank it all, and said with a smile: "...... It was the third sister who was killed by you and your wife. ”

That's Fang Yuting's aunt.

Aunt Mei was in disbelief and wanted to curse and struggle wildly, but the strength of her body was gradually drained with the blood, and she fell to the ground with a fierce look in her eyes.

Aunt Mei fell to the ground, and Lu Yan reacted and went over to help her.

At this time, Aunt Lin slowly knelt down, "Master...... For the children of the Fang family, for the future of the Fang family, who can make a comeback one day, the concubine, everything that can be done, has been done. She leaned over and kowtowed heavily to Master Fang's tablet, a trace of black blood spurted out of her mouth, her forehead hit the ground, her body bent into a bow, and gradually stopped moving.

Lu Yin screamed loudly, "Come on, come on!", and went to see Aunt Lin again, but was so frightened by this strange situation that she screamed, trembling like chaff, unable to say a word.

Aunt Mei was seriously injured and was carried back for treatment.

Aunt Lin, she only said to the outside world that it was because of the memorial to Master Fang, who was old, and her grief was excessive, and she was mourned.

Even Aunt Shen's coffin and shroud are not as good as Aunt Shen's, and Aunt Lin's burial place is not as good as the mother-in-law of ordinary poor families.

It is said that after Aunt Mei woke up, her voice was hoarse, but she also shouted: "Don't buy a coffin for her and throw it in a mass grave!"

He also ordered Fang Qiyun to stop the drug. Tell Fang Qirui and He Jiaxian to go home and take control of the house.

After the third and fifth masters came to condolence a few times, they heard that Fang Qirui did have the intention of coming back, so they stopped coming.

On the contrary, the third lady and the fifth lady came over from time to time to find out He Jiaxian, when they could reopen the silver in the public for them to withdraw, and the family was almost unable to make ends meet.

He Jiaxian doesn't understand this kind of thing, and he doesn't know if he has the obligation to support them.

If it weren't for Fang Qiyun, who pitied his aunt to death, He Jiaxian really didn't want to come back.

After the first month, Fang Mansion still looked lifeless.

The second master came back for the New Year, couldn't stand it, and talked to Fang Qirui all night.

The next day, Fang Qirui came back with red eyes and said solemnly to He Jiaxian: "It's all over, in the future, the Fang family's vein will be topped by our branch." ”

The result was expected, and Ho Ka-yin was not surprised.

The reason why ancient society favored sons over women was not because men could set up a family and start a pedigree?

The housekeeper Fang Fu saw that Fang Qirui cheered up and came over to resign.

Once a son of heaven and a courtier, Master Fang and other people of the older generation are all gone, why is he staying?

Previously, he disagreed with Aunt Mei's management, but when he saw that a family was about to fall apart, he cared about his only sister-in-law, Fang Qiye, so he reluctantly kept it.

Now that Aunt Mei is recuperating from her injuries and is closed, Fang Qirui is back to take charge of the house, he really can't help it.

He Jiaxian stayed for a while, and seeing that Fang Fu had made up his mind, he suddenly asked: "The chief manager has no wife and no descendants, so what should I do if I go back to support the elderly?"

Fang Fu smiled: "I still have some savings in my hands over the years, go back and buy a few acres of thin land and send them to cultivate, I always have something to eat." ”

Looking at He Jiaxian's fingers on the top, it seemed that he had something to say, but he didn't know how to speak, Fang Fu suddenly said: "It's just that the old slave has a reluctant request." ”

He Jiaxian naturally agreed to this no matter what the request, and the old man who had dedicated his life to the Fang family.

"The old slave has no children, and he wants to ask the second grandmother for Miss Yumei to go back to upbring. Fang Fu seemed to have made up his mind: "The old slave is forty-five this year, and if he lives for another fifteen years, Miss Yumei should also get married." ”

This is the promise to raise Yumei to adulthood.

He Jiaxian's nose was sore, and the tears of gratitude were about to fall, she lowered her head and wiped it, raised her head and said, "I want to discuss it with the second master." ”

Fang Qirui must have agreed.

When taking over the mess of the Fang family, this was already a very tricky question: what should I do with the daughter left by Aunt Shen?

Stay, mixed with the bloodline of the Fang family, if you don't stay, where can such a young child go?

Fang Qiye named her Yumei.

It is Aunt Mei's.

Now the little man is thin and pitiful, with a pair of big eyes, innocent and cautious, always observing the surroundings.

Fang Fu said that he was a young lady, but he actually brought a little temptation to see what He Jiaxian's attitude was towards this child.

Speaking of which, she is not of the Fang family's bloodline, so naturally she can't afford the name of Miss.

I told Fang Qirui in the evening, Fang Qirui also sighed that Fang Fu was loyal, discussed for a while, and decided to give Fang Fu an extra five hundred taels of silver, only for the cost of raising children, and the rest did not need to be said.

If the child grows up, tell her a passable family affair.

After Fang Qikai set up his own door, he was willing to recognize this sister, and it was all up to him.

The two of them called Fang Qikai over to talk again.

He was already a fifteen-year-old boy, and he understood things very well. Probably knowing that such an arrangement is best for Yumei, there is no objection.

Instead, he respectfully kowtowed to He Jiaxian and Fang Qirui, thanking them for thinking so thoughtfully for their sister.

When the child followed Fang Fu on an errand in the future Fang family, his original surname was Yang.

After sending Yang Yumei away, everyone in the mansion was obviously relieved.

At the beginning, for the sake of this child, he did not suffer less splint gas.

Aunt Mei has to be treated harshly, and Fang Qiye is like a baby, for a long time, when it comes to this inexplicable young lady, she is afraid of being blamed by any party.

He Jiaxian temporarily sealed the luxurious courtyards that Aunt Mei built later.

Only her own accommodation remained.

Fang Qikai and Fang Qiyun moved to one place to facilitate care.

Fang Baoqian is the eldest grandson of the Fang family, He Jiaxian thought about it all night, and finally decided to take it with him to raise him, regardless of the difference between his grandparents and his descendants.

Ran Ran was older, and it was a girl again, so she opened another yard to live in.

In this way, the Fang family's huge family business, except for the two of them, are now all half-grown children.

In March, Fang Qirui began to take care of the business again.

All of Fang Baoqian's family property was sealed, except for the shop rent and kept for public use.

At the beginning of April, after seeking the consent of the two, He Jiaxian married Mengli Xu to Shengcai, and accepted Heqi as the new big housekeeper.

Both were given surnames. They are named Fang He and Fang Cai.

Fang and manage the general affairs of the outer court.

Fang Cai followed Fang Qirui up and down when he went out.

also released Chunxing and a group of school-age girls, and dismissed some old wives who were not needed.

There were less than twenty people left.

Just do your best in ethnology.

Chen Min'er regarded herself as Fang Qiye's widow, and made trouble a few times, but she didn't get any benefits from Aunt Mei, so she gave up, and then remarried, and didn't mention it.

The Fang family, in the eyes of the people of Yanzhou City, quietly started their lives in a strange mode, and they were no longer the center of the topic.

He Jiaxian realized that he was old.

She's about to celebrate her thirtieth birthday. Of course, it's not the real age, but the virtual two years old, ahead of schedule.

Ran Ran took her hand coquettishly, still as innocent as a child: "Mother, you said that on your birthday, will you get us that kind of cake to eat?"

On her previous birthday, although no one paid attention to it, He Jiaxian still tried her best to steam out some fluffy bread and the like that she had researched herself.

Ran Ran is almost eleven years old, and nosy people have begun to come to the door to talk to the matchmaker. Generally, it is decided that when you are fifteen years old, you can get married.

were all pushed back by He Jiaxian with "the child is still young, don't consider it for the time being".

"This is the big birthday, what are you going to do?" The third lady sat next to He Jiaxian with a smile: "I ordered Ah Hao to go to Zhang Luo." ”

Ah Hao is the eldest daughter-in-law of the third lady.

"It's just a family to get together for a meal. He Jiaxian has long been accustomed to the routine of the third lady talking and laughing at people, and he blocked her in one sentence, saving him some inappropriate words later: "I have already told the second master, he will open the banquet when he closes the shop and comes back." The banquet is small, and I don't dare to bother the third and fifth aunts. ”

The third lady was choked by her many times, and she didn't think it was a pestle, so she took out a small cloth bag from her waist and opened it to see a pair of green dripping bracelets: "This is still my dowry back then, the treasure of the town." Congratulations on your birthday. ”

He Jiaxian accepted it with a smile.

I thought about finding an opportunity in a few days and giving it to Ah Hao.

The third lady and the fifth lady have never visited the injured Aunt Mei since they returned to Gongzhong, and they tried harder than the other to please her.

The third lady took the opportunity to say: "Baoshun is also five years old and wants to enter the clan school." ”

She thought it would take a lot of talking, but who knew that He Jiaxian agreed very easily: "Children study, you don't have to tell me about it, just send it." ”

Baoshun is the eldest son of Ah Hao and the eldest grandson of the third lady.

In the past half a year, until today, the third lady has figured out He Jiaxian's path: for the sake of the children's future, she will not favor one over the other.

In this way, he put his mind at ease and completely recognized that He Jiaxian was a fair and upright person, and he was not afraid of being detained by the public, and finally stopped.

Aunt May promised that as long as they returned, she would never interfere in the affairs of the family again.

Fang Qirui believed and worked hard to run his fur shop.

In his words: "You have to leave something for Baokun, and you have to prepare a dowry for Ran Ran." ”

It's not him, he doesn't want to be greedy, but his son still has to take care of it.

It's just that he doesn't involve the existing industry of the Fang family now, so as not to cause competition.

After Meng Li pointed out to make money, she still looked cautious, and stopped talking to He Jiaxian.

He Jiaxian asked several times, and she said hesitantly, "I want to borrow some silver, but my mother is sick." ”

He Jiaxian gave ten taels.

There are many people who are infected with the wind and cold in autumn, in addition to Mengli, there are two new maids who also said that they want to advance their wages and see a doctor for their families.

He Jiaxian's heart moved, if this business is done well, he will not worry about it in the future.