Every time Yuan Zheng was alone with Doudou, he could get a big "surprise" from her, he stretched out his hand and pinched his eyebrows and said, "Yuan'er, it is terrible to owe people money, but it is not the most terrible. As long as people are willing to endure hardships and will operate, maybe with a little luck, the money will always be paid back one day. ”

Doudou turned her little face and looked at her father suspiciously, isn't it the most terrible thing to owe money? She has seen several people in the guard who have been beaten to the point of bleeding because of the lack of money, and even have broken arms and legs, they look miserable......

"Yuan'er, the last thing you can owe in the world is favors, and the debts of favors can never be repaid. Yuan Zheng didn't know if she could understand, but at the moment he didn't want to use excuses such as young age to perfunctory the little guy in front of him.

"That'...... Father means you owe your mother a favor?" Doudou was able to grasp the point of his words in an instant.

Yuan Zheng nodded slightly: "Father doesn't owe her, but the father who owes her, is your grandfather." At this point, there was a smile in his eyes that others couldn't understand.

"I heard the old uncle say that when the father owes money, the son must also help pay it back, and the grandfather helped the father, and you have to repay him, so you are never angry with your mother, and you will treat it as a debt. Doudou was quick to tell her what she understood.

This was a bit naïve, but she understood the words of the obvious sign.

Sure enough, talking to smart people is effortless, although it is a little younger, but ...... Yuan Zheng paused and continued: "Yuan'er, you are a very smart child, but my father thinks you can be more reserved. ”

Doudou couldn't understand it, and his big eyes looked a little confused.

"It means that sometimes you don't have to say what you think about in your heart, you can, huh...... It's just ......" Yuan Zheng instantly felt that he had become clumsy, and there was no way to make the other party understand what he meant.

Beanie: "......"

She has always been sharp-toothed, and for the first time in her life, she didn't know how to answer other people's words.

Yuan Zheng reorganized his thoughts: "It's like Fang Cai, that stupid little guy Kang'er, the one who fell to the ground, if you don't remind him just now, although he can't stand up for a while......"

"I see!" Doudou interrupted Yuan Zheng with a grin, "Father means that I shouldn't remind him that his leg is pinned in the leg of the chair, and then I can watch him crawl around on the ground, it must be more interesting!"

Yuan Zheng: "......"

He felt stupid, and what he wanted to say was that you should not speak so fast in the future, which is easy to offend people......

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After the old lady left Xiangyi Courtyard, she went directly to Bairui Hall, which was the residence that Yuan Zheng specially built for her in the mansion. Although it does not occupy a vast area like Chaoyun Courtyard and Xiangyi Courtyard, the most rare thing is the two thousand-year-old cypresses, which are auspicious and most suitable for the elderly to live and care for.

"Old lady, why don't you just lie down?" Mother Wu had already arranged for someone to clean up the couch and rest at any time.

The old lady waved her hand and said, "I'm not busy, the Gu family hasn't met Sister Yuan yet, so I can't rest assured." ”

"Yes. Mother Wu took the tea from the maids' hands and gently put it in the place where the old lady was handy, while she sat on the brocade and chatted with the master.

Now it is Xie Fu's wife who takes care of the chores in the inner courtyard, and both of them are the old lady's henchmen, and as long as the old lady wants to know, the big and small affairs in the house can reach her ears as soon as possible.

Of course, what happened in Xiangyi Courtyard was no exception, Gu Chao only gave Yuan Zheng and Doudou a face on his front foot, and the old lady knew it clearly on his back foot.

"Aunt Cui, I've been a good mother-in-law for ten years and I'm really a little tired, do you think if I regret it now, is it too late to learn from others to grind my daughter-in-law?"

"Old lady, ...... you" Mother Wu couldn't see that her master was angry, but she herself had gone from daughter-in-law to mother-in-law, and a daughter-in-law like Madam really didn't have to clean up when she said something bad.

"Aunt Cui, let people pass the word, and I will rest in the house today. The old lady scraped the tea foam with the lid of the cup, "Let the second master and the second lady come over for dinner." ”

Mother Wu answered and walked out of the house, but the old lady showed a trace of bitterness on her face. It's also ridiculous to say, other people's families are fifteen or sixteen-year-old new daughters-in-law who enter the door to set rules, and when they come to her, they let their daughter-in-law serve for the first time for ten years after entering the door, is it considered self-inflicted?

She couldn't help but think of the bitterness of her youth. Delayed the marriage for his father's filial piety, and had to fill the house with someone in the middle of the family, and after entering the door, the mother-in-law and the concubine made it difficult in every way, the husband's lustful and promiscuous, and the step-son and mother-in-law were bullied......

It is precisely because she knows the difficulty of being a daughter-in-law, since the day she had a son, she has made up her mind to wait for her daughter-in-law to have a daughter-in-law, and she dare not say that she loves her as her own daughter, but she will never deliberately make things difficult. She never thought of using those methods of grinding people, let alone stuffing people in her son's room to make her daughter-in-law respond, but she didn't expect that her kindness would indulge Gu Chao's eldest lady's temper even more.

Yes, people are raised according to the standards of the crown princess and the mother of a country, where can they serve an "ordinary" husband like their son, and an "ordinary" mother-in-law like themselves!

However, even if the Empress Dowager gave Mrs. Jin to train her in person when Gu Chao was a few years old, didn't she fail to enter the eyes of His Majesty? As a result, a phoenix that had lost its hair fell into her own home.

Since she spared no blessings, she started again from serving her mother-in-law and learned how to be someone's daughter-in-law!

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In the study, after the first attempt to correct Doudou's minor defects failed, Yuan Zheng found a few picture albums and threw them to Doudou, asking her to flip through them by herself, while he took the letters and official documents on the bookcase and skimmed them roughly.

After dealing with a few urgent items, Yuan Zheng felt that his stomach was empty, and when he looked up, he saw that the sky was getting dark, but Doudou was still lying on the small desk and looking at the picture album.

"Geng'er, Kang'er!" Yuan Zheng called out to the outside of the study.

Soon the two little servants walked in, and Geng'er quickly replied first: "Master, just now the old lady sent someone to pass the word, please come to Bairui Hall for dinner." ”

Not to be outdone, Kang Er quickly added: "Let the second lady go." ”

"Yuan'er, let's go. Yuan Zheng stood up and walked over to Doudou and gently patted her little shoulder.

Doudou raised his head and saw that it was his father, blinked his eyes and said, "Father, where are you going?"

"You're not hungry, let's go to Grandma's Yard and eat something delicious." Yuan Zheng took Doudou's little hand and left the study.

"Don Wong, you're back. As soon as they went out, a middle-aged man about forty years old with a long beard under his chin greeted them.

Yuan Zheng let go of Doudou's little hand, arched his hand towards the man, and said, "Brother Yanping." ”

"This is ......" He looked at Doudou carefully, stroked his beard and affirmed: "It must be Ling Yan." ”