The few women who had served in front of Lao An and the old lady of the Chen family before were all out of the house at this time, and the nobles and maids served tea to everyone in an orderly manner, and Shen Qihuan had been watching from the sidelines, and he didn't feel interesting. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Chengping Hou sat next to Lao Anren, and next to him was Chang Ru, and Chang Ru was Shen Hongcheng, the master of the big house, Shen Honghui, the master of the third room, and Shen Hongqing, the master of the fourth room. Chen sat on the left hand side of Mrs. Tai, and below him were two women of the same age, the third lady in silver and gray brocade, and the fourth lady in a bright green suit and full of gold ornaments. In addition to the above-mentioned people, the rest of the people are all standing, and the Lin family, who is in her forties, is no exception.

It is said that a daughter-in-law who has been boiling for ten years has become a mother-in-law, and in another ten years, I don't know who here will become the supreme of Lao Anren.

Chengping Hou is now also ancient, although he is full of gorgeous hair, but he is so lined by the rules of everyone, he still looks old and majestic. He glanced around, his eyes fell on Shen Qihuan, and beckoned to her: "You stand next to your father." ”

When Shen Que heard this, he walked around behind everyone and stood up behind Changru in a regular manner, Lao Anren seemed to be very satisfied with her style, and nodded with a smile.

No one in the house made a sound, Chengping Hou took a sip of tea, and then said to everyone: "Erlang left home when he was young, and now it can be regarded as a reunion, today I called everyone to the old lady's room, one is to discuss the matter of letting Huan'er recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors and write into the family register, and the other is to let you be familiar with each other, and live in the deep house without sharing." ”

Cheng Pinghou's tone was calm, a pair of bottomless eyes seemed to look at everyone, and no one seemed to be paying attention to them, and the room was silent for a while.

Lao Anren coughed lightly twice at this time and asked, "Why didn't you see your uncle Shen Su?"

There are many long-lived people in the Shen family, there are four or five old birthday stars like Mrs. Tai, although the uncle of Chengping Hou is the same as Chengping Hou, he has become the oldest generation of clan relatives because of his older generation.

The answer to Lao Anren was Shen Hongcheng, the master of the big house, "Grandmother, the fourth grandfather of the sect had a cold the day before yesterday, and the grandson was afraid that he would be tired of his old man, so he invited the second cousin to the mansion to preside. ”

A middle-aged man with a beard walked out of the crowd and saluted Lao Anren: "Second aunt, nephew is the second eldest of the Maoyang Zhengfang family, named Shen Bing." ”

Lao Anren squinted his eyes for a long time, but he still shook his head and said: "I can't recognize it, I can't recognize it clearly, the heirs of your Maoyang branch all look about the same." ”

Shen Bing smiled: "My father was sick a month ago, and this time he insisted on coming over, but he was persuaded by Hongcheng Xian's nephew, and my father was afraid that I would not be able to do my errands by myself, so he invited two clansmen from Maoyang, one from Hanzhou and one from Jianzhou to come over to help." ”

Shen Bing called Shen Hongcheng "virtuous nephew", but it seemed that Shen Hongcheng was a few years older than Shen Bing.

Lao Anren nodded: "If you don't toss, don't toss his fourth uncle, the mantle will always be passed on to your generation, when your father is well, let's get an idea in each room and elect the next patriarch." ”

When Lao Anren said this, everyone exchanged glances. Who will be the next patriarch is related to the inheritance of the title of Marquis of Chengping, when the Marquis of Chengping inherited the marquis in the family as a concubine, and the biggest help was his uncle who was the patriarch.

Over the years, the Marquis of Chengping has postponed the selection of the prince of Chengping for two consecutive times on the grounds that the prince is cruising outside, and everyone knows who his favorite successor is, but after all, the Marquis of Chengping is old, and now there are many capable people in the court, and he wants to determine the candidate for the prince by himself, and it is not a simple matter to think about it.

Everyone was thinking about it, and Chengping Hou waved his hand and said, "Let's put the old words behind." He glanced at the Lin family, who was standing behind Chen, "Let everyone in the family come over and introduce them to their father and daughter." ”

Hearing this, the Lin family said "yes", took a step out from behind Chen, introduced Changru one by one, and after the introduction in the room, he asked the mother-in-law to bring in the masters who were waiting outside, and Shen Qihuan saluted them one by one.

The last to come in were a few girls who had just gotten out of the Hansong Courtyard to get out of the women's school, each with a personal slave to serve, and many people came in at once.

Lao Anren saw that these girls were in a better mood, beckoned Shen Quehuan to her side, patted her hand and said, "These are all girls in the house, including your uncle's family, the eldest and the second...... Cough, look at my memory, Quechun should be called the fourth child now, the fifth child is also your uncle's daughter, and the sixth child and the pair over there are your third uncle's family. ”

Shen Qihuan was dizzy when he heard this, and the Lin family walked up with a smile: "Huan'er, while there are all people today, my aunt will introduce you carefully, you are all of the same age, and you will be familiar with the tea bib twice in the future." ”

Saying that, she pulled Shen Qihuan to everyone, and was about to open her mouth when she suddenly paused, "Alas, where is Yanjun?"

A girl wearing a honey-lotus-colored pleated skirt among the crowd said with a smile: "Concubine Wan Niangniang sent Yuefu to teach my sister a new tune, saying that she was going to play a solo at the New Year's Palace banquet, she probably didn't know the excitement behind her, why don't I send someone to find her?"

Before Lin could speak, Chen, who was sitting under Mrs. Tai, spoke: "Let her learn first, the matter of the palace banquet is important, and there will be an opportunity to meet in the future." ”

"Yes. Lin smiled at Shen Que and said: "Yanjun is my eldest daughter, the second lady of the house, this is my second daughter Quechun, who is the original third lady and now the fourth miss." She pointed to the girl in the honey-lotus-colored pleated skirt, with a doting posture.

Shen Quehuan smiled slightly at Na Quechun and called out "Fourth Sister"

Lin finished introducing his daughter, and pulled over a pretty girl with baby fat, "This is the original fifth miss, and now the sixth miss Lige, is your third aunt's precious daughter." Li Ge obediently grabbed Lin's arm and said to Shen Qihuan: "Sixth Miss sounds more pleasing to the ear." ”

Shen Qihuan still had the same smile just now, not a single point more, not a little less, as if he couldn't hear the amusement in the song of the bird, as if he didn't understand the amorous feelings.

Li Ge thought that his well-behaved should be the easiest to get close to Shen Quehuan who had just arrived, but he didn't expect Shen Quehuan to say anything special, his smile was serious, and although he was polite, he always felt that he was far away.

Lin went to introduce the other people who were standing on the side. "This is the eldest lady Juan Li, Aunt Zhang's daughter, this is the fifth Miss Ju Zhen, Aunt Chen's daughter, this is the eighth Miss Yingfei, the ninth Miss Yuanhui, the twin daughters of the three-room Aunt Bai. ”

Shen Qihuan still gave them the salute as it was, and everyone returned the salute one by one, and the Lin family took her forward again, "Here is your cousin, and there is a seventh lady from a four-room family, Lu Ting, who went to her grandmother's house last month to live and has not returned to Beijing, I am afraid I will not see her this time." ”

She introduced seven or eight more girls, and Shen Quehuan did not slack off, and the etiquette was in place.

After a quarter of an hour of introduction, the people chatting with Hou Ye also stopped for a while, and Shen Hongcheng said to Chengping Hou: "Father, it's not too early, you and your second brother are also tired, so let's let the uncles Zhang Luo become naturalized, right?"

Everyone was silent when they heard this, and the Lin family called a woman who looked like a housekeeper's mother and commanded in a low voice, and after a while, all the people in the room stood in two rows, and the maidservants and mothers-in-law all withdrew, and the four chairs were placed in front of the hall, and Shen Bing and the other three clansmen sat on them.

The air was solemn for a moment.

Changru, who had not spoken much, motioned for Shen Quehuan to stand in front of the clan, Shen Quehuan did so, and a servant put a cushion on her face, and she also knelt down.

Changru stood behind her, in a tone that he had never seen before, he saluted upwards and said: "Shen Qihuan, the eldest daughter of Shen Hongru, the son of the Marquis of Chengping, is sixteen years old, born in a different place, and mistakenly delayed naturalization. ”