As soon as I arrived outside the door of Jifutang, I saw a maid wearing an autumn-scented pigmented Hangzhou silk gown lifted the curtain and greeted her. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info is the big girl Fei Wen in the Zhao family's courtyard.

Fei Wen smiled and saluted Zhao Qingyi, and said, "The eldest lady is here, the lady has been chattering for a while, and the third and fourth ladies have already arrived." ”

Zhao Qingyi raised her eyebrows when she heard this, and snorted: "They came early." "I also went into the courtyard. Yiying briefly exchanged a few words with Fei Wen and followed in.

As soon as I entered, I heard a burst of laughter.

There is a middle-aged woman leaning on the big kang near the window, the woman's face is kind, and her eyes are shrewd under a closer look, and her body is no longer the slender and delicate of a girl, a little bloated, but she has the majesty of a housewife. On her right hand is an eight or nine-year-old girl, half sitting on the kang, holding a fan to fan her, the little girl's figure is in the middle, her round face with two shallow pear vortices, gentle and silent, but it makes people feel good, and the little girl on the left hand side is eleven or twelve years old, with a standard goose egg face, and her eyes are a little smart. It is Mrs. Zhao, the fourth lady Zhao Weiyi, and the third lady Zhao Jiayi.

Zhao Qingyi heard this laughter, and also stepped forward and smiled: "Mother and two sisters are talking about something, so happy, tell me to listen to it, so that I can relieve my boredom." ”

When Mrs. Zhao saw her daughter coming, the smile on her face suddenly became much more real, and she smiled when she heard this: "It's your third sister, a narrow ghost, who said that she has lost weight in preparation and etiquette, and wants me to reward her with something." This little girl wants to hollow out my family all day long. Zhao Jiayi didn't follow what she said, and she was coquettish.

"Oh? I don't know what gift the third sister prepared for me, but she took such a big effort? Zhao Qingyi said jokingly, her tone was warm, but her expression seemed a little careless, or rather, disappointing.

Zhao Jiayi suddenly became a lot more restrained when she heard this, and her tone was no longer as innocent and casual as Mrs. Zhao, and said with a smile: "Naturally, I will wait until the day of my sister and Lu to inform me, otherwise there will be no sincerity, sister, don't blame me." ”

Zhao Qingyi was about to speak, but she heard a string of laughter like silver bells, and a little girl wearing Ge Huang Yunqing holding a Futuan flower gown, shaved shoulders and thin waist, and had a long figure, looking forward to Shenfei, broke in a hurry.

She casually gave Zhao a non-standard blessing, found a stool to sit down, took a sip of tea on the table, and said with a smile: "I'm late, don't blame Mrs." ”

Zhao Qingyi's face was gloomy, but Mrs. Zhao didn't care, as if she was used to it. Zhao Jiayi and Zhao Weiyi also behaved as if nothing happened.

Yi Ying looked at the performance of the people in this room, and the things about the Zhao Mansion that she hadn't thought about for many years also remembered Tai Ban.

Mrs. Zhao has not been pregnant for many years since she gave birth to Zhao Qingyi, so she carried a maid next to her as an aunt, that is, Aunt Li, the biological mother of the third lady, but Aunt Li was also not pregnant for two years, and finally got pregnant, and gave birth to a sister. It's strange to say, the concubines sent by Shangfeng are all ignored and not favored by other families, but in the Zhao family, they have become the top of Lord Zhao's heart. Zhang's got pregnant when she entered the door, and her first child was three months earlier than Li's, and she gave birth to a sister, that is, the second lady Zhao Linyi. It's just that Li's belly has not moved since she gave birth to the third lady, but Zhang's got pregnant again a year later, this baby really made Zhang's eyebrows raised, he is a brother, the only male in the Zhao family.

Lord Zhao was very happy, and named this eldest son Zhao Hongpei, Aunt Zhang's favor was even greater, and Aunt Li and Mrs. Zhao bought them from outside for Lord Zhao when they were pregnant. The Wang family also gave birth to a sister soon after, but she failed to shake the Zhang family's status at all.

Mrs. Zhao died of her heart, so she no longer raised her aunt to compare with her, and simply carried him to the upper room to raise him at the time of Brother Pei'er's first birthday, Aunt Zhang did not rely on it, but the main mother raised the concubine, it is a matter of course, as a Beijing official, although the master Zhao is quite fond of this concubine, but he does not want to bear the charge of spoiling the concubine and killing his wife, which is a taboo in today's saints. So he turned a blind eye, and this matter acquiesced, but he was ashamed in his heart, so he was even better to Zhang, and the silk and satin, jewelry and jade were all sent to Yingxintang, so although the Zhang family lost his beloved son, he has lived quite nourishingly over the years, and there is no one who does not flatter the Zhao Mansion. The second lady who was raised is naturally arrogant and domineering, with no dust under her eyes, and she is not polite to the main mother.

Mrs. Zhao didn't care, but Yiying felt that Mrs. Zhao was much more clever than Zhao Qingyi's methods. She can't change her husband's love for her concubine, so it won't change, pinching her lifeline Zhao Linyi and Brother Pei are the only male in the Zhao family, so they naturally want to be raised under her knees. The familiarity of raising is carefully cultivated, and it can be regarded as the support of himself and his daughter in the future; If they can't be raised, they will be abolished, after all, they are not a merchant family or a prince's house, and they don't just need to inherit the family business or title.

In the capital, you still need fame, if you are lucky to have a fame and become an official, the court can not tolerate the disobedience of the mother-in-law's officials, and you have to be filial if you are not filial; If you don't have fame, in this complicated capital, it is difficult to succeed in business without connections.

As for Zhao Linyi, but looking at her domineering and ignorant appearance, if she didn't have a powerful mother's family, her life in her mother-in-law's family would not be much better. It's just that her temperament is not only because of her aunt's favor, but I am afraid that it has more to do with Mrs. Zhao's intentional connivance.

Facts have proved that Mrs. Zhao is indeed right, in her previous life, Master Zhao was dismissed because he was involved in a turmoil, and he lived a depressed life, and all the affairs of the outer courtyard were handed over to his son. Zhao Hongpei has no fame, and he is not good at business, although he has a family property, he can only sit and eat empty, and the daughter-in-law he married is only the daughter of a seven-grade petty official, and although Zhao Linyi rode the big tree of his father in his early years, married into the family of the third-grade master, and became the second daughter-in-law, but because of repeated confrontations with his mother-in-law, he was at odds with her husband, and her life was bleak.

She was thinking about it, but Zhao Qingyi fired at Zhao Linyi with anger: "Second sister, you are the last to come every day, do you take the rules of the Zhao family into account?" How dare you be so rude to your mother? ”

Zhao Linyi took a sip of tea unhurriedly and said with a smile: "Big sister, don't be angry, yesterday my father invited a female red master for me, I heard that it was everyone in Hangzhou, I was excited for a while, asked the master a lot of questions, and made some female red, I was really tired, and I was too late today." ”

The tone was full of provocation.