Lian Chengxian ate more rice for a few more years, and after listening to the cause and effect, he was suspicious: "It stands to reason that even if the Su family has the intention of buying shares, they will not speak rashly, after all, our business is still only on the surface, why don't we find someone to inquire about Su Jinhong?"

Ling Jiao frowned and pondered, then raised his head for a moment and asked, "Did Uncle be greedy for a few more cups that day and expose the bottom of our family?"

Even the old face suddenly looked like pork liver, and he said: "I didn't drink too much, didn't you come in and talk to your mother about hospitality outside that day......

Ling Xiang knew what he was looking at, and raised his voice in disgust and shouted, "Uncle!"

"It's not like I drank too much to say that...... When we first arrived in your place, my uncle was afraid that people would look down on our merchants, so he showed his family background with them. Lian Chengxian bowed his head and admitted like a child who had done something wrong.

Ling Xiang sighed slightly, and it was not easy to blame, but said: "The wealth is not exposed, we have no backer, it makes sense to cover it up, my father's matter is not over, although it can't be underestimated, but how many family backgrounds are known to be clear and decisive, if someone asks in the future, my uncle should push his own house to boast." ”

Lian Cheng shows even the jaw head.

The two of them couldn't decide how to reply to Su Jinhong, so they wanted to wait for him to visit the good courtiers and doctors, and Ling Xiang wanted to find a reason to visit Chen Si's grandmother Ye, so as to ask the roots of the left and right people.

On the second day, Ling Xiang was about to send someone to Chen's house to ask if the Ye family had to meet the guest, but he didn't want someone from Ruan Shaoqing's house to come to the door.

It was a woman and a maid who came, saying that it was the old lady who came to her, and the words were very polite, the woman was eloquent, and she was full of smiles: "The old lady said that the house was warmly invited that day, just because the body was not good, so she did not come to bother, and then I heard the second lady say that the eldest girl in the house was like a fairy, and I wanted to see it very much. ”

The words were polite and highlighted the key points, and it can be seen that they came for Ling Makeup.

It just so happened that Lian Chengxian was led by Cheng Run to find a store, and Lian Tao got Su Jinhong's invitation to go out on an outing, and the women were idle, how could the face of the old lady of the official family be refuted, Lian immediately agreed, and let the color fan catch the silver horn reward. He also asked Zhang to prepare some snacks, picked out a few satins from the warehouse, and everyone went back to the room to change into clothes and faces for guests, and then the maids made silk umbrellas to shade the sun, and the group came to Ruan Shaoqing's house.

Ruan's second wife, Luo Shi, came out to greet the guests on the order of the old lady, wearing a silver-gray Doro tweed jacket, wearing a jade hairpin inlaid with gems on her head, low-key and pleasing to the eye, and quickly led people to the old lady's room with a little politeness, and did not look down on the Ling family with a look of expression, obviously restrained by nature.

The courtyard of the Ruan family is flat and stable, the lacquer on the pillars is ninety percent new, the peonies are painted between the beams, the fresh and rich, the colors are bright, the trees in front of the house and behind the house are still small, and it is obvious that the upstart is the head.

Summer is approaching, the weather in Jinling is already quite hot, I think the old man is afraid of the wind, Mrs. Ruan's door is still hung with indigo bottom broken flowers of semi-old cotton cloth curtains.

Seeing the arrival of the guest, the two maids in front of the door hurriedly opened the curtain and said to the inside: "There is a guest coming." ”

Another lightly dressed young woman greeted the door, and accompanied Roche inside, Ling Make-up ordered the people to retreat under the porch.

Through the large screen of the magpie climbing the branches, I saw at a glance that there was an old woman over half a hundred years old sitting on the arhat couch in the middle of the hall, her hair was slightly gray, with a dark bottom embroidered forehead, an emerald green cat's eye in the center, two branches of the red phoenix and red drops tortoiseshell hairpin on the left and right sides of the round bun, and the semicircular longevity jade ornament was pressed in the heart, and the body was wearing a dark gold embroidered robe, and the pleated horse-faced skirt with the pattern of Fushou Wandai embroidered between the bamboo and blue was embroidered, and the eyes were blazing, like a decisive appearance.

Seeing the Lian family, Mrs. Ruan got up and said with a smile: "This is the wife of the Ling family, right? He motioned to let him go to the Luohan couch.

Lien humbly resigned before taking a seat in the first chair of the guest seat.

Another maid carried two futons and put them in the center of the hall.

Old Madam Ruan reprimanded: "Something that has no eyes, get it quickly." ”

Lian hurriedly stopped: "The little girl and her niece are originally juniors, and it is etiquette to meet the old lady." ”

An old woman next to her said in a loud voice: "Old lady, you are the county prince given by the Son of Heaven, so you will accept their gifts." ”

So Roche and the young woman sat down with Mrs. Ruan on their hands left and right.

Ling Xiang and Cheng Ai knelt on the futon, bowed uprightly, and called the county king.

The title of the women of this dynasty, in addition to the harem, the women of the clan and the women of the clan are divided into seven products, the princess is a super product, the county lord and the lady of the country are the first product, the county lord and Mrs. Hou of the one-word honorific title are the second product, the third product is called Wang Ji and Mrs. Bo, the fourth county lord and the lady (the county lord is the royal family, the lady is the official's wife), the fifth grade of the county, the sixth grade of the county, the seventh grade of the township. The wife of the court official can be awarded the title according to the rank of the husband, and the decree is sealed to the mother's head, except for the prince and the prince who is a fixed ceremony, the rest of the people need to take the initiative to ask for the title, and the emperor must agree, which shows that Ruan Shaoqing is a very filial person to his mother.

Old Madam Ruan smiled even more kindly, stretched out her hand to signal the two girls to approach, and took Ling Makeup's hand and said to Luo's family: "This is the big girl you said, right? He pointed to the young woman who was dressed as a nun and said, "This is my eldest daughter-in-law, who has never seen anything in the world, so just call out to my sister-in-law or sister." ”

Ling Makeup and Cheng Ai were busy saluting, and couldn't help but think in their hearts, although Shaoqing's wife is not extremely expensive, she should also have a fate, why was she so belittled by her mother-in-law?

Mrs. Ruan didn't say anything, only bowed slightly.

Ling Xiang saw that she was pale, thin, and seemed to have gynecological deficiencies, and roughly guessed the general situation of her falling out of favor.

The old lady glanced at her daughter-in-law dissatisfied, and said, "If you are not good, go back to the room and rest, I don't need you to wait here." ”

Mrs. Ruan's face turned paler, and she said goodbye in a voice like a mosquito, and nodded to Lian Shi and the others, but she hurriedly took the girl's hand and withdrew without raising her eyelids.

Lian's asked people to offer gifts, and said a few polite words, and Mrs. Ruan summoned the maids to give Ling Makeup and Cheng Ai a meeting gift, each of whom had a pendant of incense fan and Ruan Shaoqing wrote a handwritten book.

The banner was unfolded and asked Lian to see it, Ling Makeup got "flowers and a full moon", and Cheng Ai got the word "Fu".

Of course, the words are written very well, the pen is strong, the iron painting silver hook, Ruan Yue is the champion, there must be a lot of people on the market who ask for words, so Ling Makeup is very thankful.

Old Madam Ruan stared at her with straight eyes for a while, took off the jade bracelet she was wearing, beckoned her to come over, kissed her on the jade wrist, and then smiled at Lian's family: "I can't see a girl who is born well, Mrs. Ling is really good, her daughter is so thoughtful, and her heart is soft." ”

Ling Xiang suddenly felt a burst of hair, excused himself a few words, saw the old lady's resolute attitude, and saw that although the bracelet was in good condition, it was not a very valuable thing, so he thanked and accepted it.

Lian said: "Where can you withstand such a false praise from the county king, it is too much to elevate the child, and the girl's family, or virtue and merit are more important." ”

"Madame is true, but the woman is beautiful, and the children she gives birth to are also good-looking, which is good for the next generation. "Old Madam Ruan is good, looking at Ling Makeup.

Women have this idea when they are older, and even the clan is happy to see that the wife of the official family loves her daughter, and nods in deep agreement.

Cheng Ai was ignored, unconsciously pulled down his face, and sat down at the head of Lian's family, leaving only Ling Makeup to be pulled by the hand and couldn't get off, so he had to sit sideways next to Mrs. Ruan on the Luohan couch.

Lian praised Mrs. Ruan for her good life and raised a world-famous champion.