On the sixth day of the first lunar month, accompanied by the cold wind, two blue-curled flat-topped carriages stopped in front of Zhen's Mansion in Anle Hutong. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Qi Changming, who was wearing a royal blue auspicious moire pattern brocade and blue cloak, and Zhen Ruyi, who was wearing a big red peony pattern brocade jacket and silver white cloak, walked down, followed by a young man with a plain blue coat and a white cloak, fifteen or sixteen years old, with red lips and white teeth, and was extremely handsome.

Zhen Xiujie and Qin Dan stepped forward, "Seventh brother-in-law, seventh sister, how are you doing all the way?"

Qi Changming arched his hand and returned the salute, "There is Uncle Lao, how can you wait outside on a cold day, the family doesn't have to be so polite." ”

Over there, Qin Dan also greeted Zhen Ruyi politely, and the two sisters-in-law have not met yet.

I only heard Qin Dan smile and put Zhen Ruyi's arm on the hand, "But the seventh aunt and grandmother are here, and I have been listening to my mother talking about you, and you have to accompany your mother well when you come back today." ”

Zhen Ruyi smiled with a smile in her eyes, "I'm tired of my eight brothers and sisters, is my mother good, my father is good, and my nephews and nieces are good?"

Compared with Zhen Ruyi before leaving the capital, Zhen Ruyi has changed a lot, her previously slightly thin body is much plump, and the sharp light appears between her eyes, it seems that more than ten years of life as a housewife has changed her a lot, and she has become confident, and she has retreated from sorrow and cowered to become a well-deserved housewife.

Qin Dan nodded, "Okay, okay, it's all right." My aunt and uncle have worked hard all the way, let's go to the house first, my father and mother are waiting. ”

Zhen Ruyi's pace sped up a little, "Then let's go in quickly, I haven't seen each other for more than ten years, and I don't know if my father and mother still remember me as an unfilial daughter?"

Qin Dan's smile remained unchanged, holding Zhen Ruyi's arm and following steadily, "Look at what my aunt and grandmother said, how could my father and mother not remember you." You send New Year's gifts all the way over every year, and it has not been a year down, and this filial piety is the object of our emulation as a daughter-in-law. ”

A group of people entered the courtyard with one foot high and one foot low, and in the main room, before Zhen Ruyi and his family stepped forward to meet the fourth old man and old lady, the figure who rushed out on the side rushed into Zhen Ruyi's arms.

"Mother. ”

The cry with the cry was as if he had been greatly wronged, and he cried miserably.

The affection on Zhen Ruyi's face was blocked by this, she froze there, the corners of her eyes twitched, and she held the hand of her second daughter and squeezed it hard.

Qi Sile gasped in pain, raised his teary eyes, and looked at his mother ignorantly, "Mother?"

Zhen Ruyi took a deep breath, looked at her daughter with a bit of fierceness and warning, Qi Sile straightened up and wiped the corners of her eyes, "Mother, my daughter has lost her manners, and I ask my mother to forgive me." ”

Qi Siyu looked at the expressionless grandmother and the slightly frowning grandfather on the side, and stepped forward and said: "Daughter to see her mother, my sister left your side for the first time, at first glance I saw that you were inevitably out of control, mother don't be surprised, my sister really misses you." ”

Zhen Ruyi took a breath, with a smile on the corner of her mouth, and lovingly brushed her second daughter's messy hair, "You stupid girl, isn't your grandmother's house the same as your own home, go and clean it up, so as not to make grandmothers and aunts and cousins laugh." My father and I haven't been back to Beijing for a long time, so you can wait until I meet your grandmother. ”

After speaking, he gave his eldest daughter a look, and Qi Siyu pulled his sister back.

Zhen Ruyi turned around at this time, and did not kneel down on the futon put by the maid, knelt straight on the bluestone ground, kowtowed and looked up at the parents sitting on the main seat, and with three rings in a row, tears fell to the ground, and the voice was like crying blood, "Father, mother, daughter is not filial, she has not served her parents for so many years, and her daughter is not filial." ”

Qi Changming also knelt down, "The son-in-law has seen the father-in-law and mother-in-law. ”

The fourth old man looked excited, the corners of his mouth were furious, and the old lady raised her hand to press the corners of her eyes, and said: "Quickly help the seventh aunt and seventh aunt and grandmother to get up, it's freezing this day, how can you kneel on the floor, how is it good to be frozen, hurry up, what is the family doing with such a false ceremony?"

Zhen Ruyi got up with the support of the maid, and the old lady stretched out her hand to pull the person to a nearby place and sit down, "After more than ten years, you ruthless, you don't know how to come back to see me and your father after so many years." ”

Zhen Ruyi's tears fell like frost, "It's all daughters who are not filial." ”

The old lady hurriedly patted the back of Zhen Ruyi's hand, "Okay, okay, if you don't say this, it's good that you can come back." Don't leave when you come back, our family is in the capital, and we can see each other often. ”

Zhen Ruyi nodded, "My daughter listens to her mother, and my daughter won't leave when she returns to Beijing this time." Brother Xiao wants to start a career, and his daughter plans to accompany Brother Xiao to study in the capital for a few years. ”

After speaking, he beckoned to Qi Xiao, who was standing aside, "Brother Xiao, I have come to see your maternal grandfather and grandmother, eighth uncle and eighth aunt, as well as cousins and cousins. ”

Qi Xiao knelt on the futon to greet the elders, and after receiving the greeting gift, the old lady pulled the person closer to look at it, and said with satisfaction: "It's a handsome one, I'm afraid that only Brother Ji can compare with Brother Xiao among the boys in our family." ”

Zhen Ruyi smiled on the side, with a little pride, "How is the ninth sister now? I heard that she is pregnant again?"

The expression on the old lady's face was even softer, and she said with a smile: "It's okay, it's okay, but it's older, Wang Ye looks closely, and he is easily not allowed to go out, since she is pregnant, she has not left the mansion, and even the palace banquet on Chinese New Year's Eve has taken leave." I couldn't sit still when I heard the news that you had returned to the capital, thinking about coming over, the prince didn't let go, and only said that on the eighth day of the first month, I invited your family to go to the palace to play, and we were all accompanied. ”

Zhen Ruyi raised her eyebrows, as if joking and jealous: "The ninth sister is really a blessing, she can conceive again at this age, it is really enviable, no wonder the prince is so good to the ninth sister." If it were me, I would also hold the ninth sister in the palm of my hand. ”

This was said as if Zhen Wanyi was valued by Qi Rong because of the child, and Qin Dan's eyes flashed when he heard it, it seems that the concubines and mothers and daughters in the world are the same.

The old lady's expression remained unchanged, and she pursed her lips and smiled: "The prince is good to your ninth sister, you don't know it today, who doesn't envy your ninth sister in this capital, she is the only one in the huge palace since your ninth sister entered the mansion, and other mothers have to wait for the prime minister to discipline their children and take care of the concubines, but your ninth sister doesn't have those troubles, she is at most annoyed about how the new embroidery in Jiangnan has not yet arrived, and she can't catch up with the new spring shirt." ”

Qin Dan listened on the side, and also said with a smile: "Mother really said, when the former daughter-in-law went to see the ninth sister, she was listening to the ninth sister talking about the new twenty-four Hunan skirts in Jiangnan when she was just enough to cover her belly, and she also changed the needlework room to make a corset skirt, and she still loves beauty so much when she has a big belly." Who knew that the prince not only asked the needlework room in the backyard to make new clothes, but also asked the embroidery girl in the front yard to help, and the house was lively. ”