Mrs. Xu didn't say anything for a long time when she heard the Xia family's reply, and after the people left, she looked at Zhao Huanhuan in a daze and frowned and said, "You say...... This Mrs. Xia really doesn't understand...... Or on purpose. ”

Zhao Huanhuan couldn't say it clearly: "Madam, could it be that you are willing in your heart, and you are afraid of ......?"

Mrs. Xu glanced at her: "What are you doing, just say whatever you want." ”

Zhao Huan smiled and said: "As the saying goes, bow your head to marry a daughter-in-law, raise your head to marry a daughter, maybe they are also like those small farmers and small households, deliberately embarrassing us?" ”

Mrs. Xu shook her head: "Mrs. Xia looks at it and responds decently, how can she be like those country women." ”

Zhao Huanhuan pondered for a long time and said: "If you want a slave to say, who doesn't want to marry her daughter to a rich family." The slave and maid looked coldly at Miss Xia's poor health, and she was not very smart, and her temper was not very good. Mrs. Xia is such a clever person, she may be happy in her heart, and she knows her daughter's ability, and she is afraid that her daughter will suffer in the illustrious in-law's family in the future. Isn't there such a saying: Once you enter the Hou Gate, it is as deep as the sea. ”

Mrs. Xu was puzzled, but was forced into a dilemma by Mrs. Xia's seemingly casual reply. If you stop here, it is inevitable that everyone will not think nonsense, but it will appear that they are weak-hearted, and they will confirm the words of the stepmother's unkindness. But if you go further, you have to go in person, if Mrs. Xia agrees to the marriage, it will be fine, if she is rejected again, there will be no place to put her face.

The Fang family has not had a good time these days, and Fang Yue accidentally broke the tea cup on the day of the Shengshang's beating, and he has not summoned Fang Yue again. Xue Yu heard the news and entered the palace with Mrs. Fang, and Xue Yu went to see the saint to ask for a favor. Old Lady Fang went to see the queen. The queen also knew what she meant, and seeing that she was very old, she only said a few words. asked people to take her to see Fang Meiren.

Fang Meiren has been quite uncomfortable these two days, she is living in the queen's bedroom, the slave is not a slave, and the master is not the master. Now that he has lost the favor of the saint, Fang Yue's life is becoming more and more sad. She was young, and her family had never bothered to train her into the palace, so she was at a loss in just two days. The eyes are also swollen and the chin is pointed. When the queen saw her like this, she was also quite disappointed.

On the second day, Mrs. Fang came to visit Xia's house. Mrs. Xia invited Mrs. Xia to accompany her, and Mrs. Xia usually doesn't come out much, and she was very happy to hear that there was an old lady of the same age who could talk together. The daughter-in-law waited for her to get dressed. I can't help but feel proud. I thought secretly: "I heard that this old lady is Mrs. Yipin, when the old lady of their family was alive, she became a scholar in front of the palace, and won the trust of the first emperor, and now our family can also associate with such a family." ”

Mrs. Fang's carriage stopped when she entered the sedan hall, and Mrs. Xia greeted her with a smile, and another mother-in-law helped the old lady to change into a small sedan chair and enter the second door. Mrs. Fang wore a dark green satin gown embroidered with gold flowers today, and below it was a red gold satin satin skirt with a red gold sprinkled flower and a satin horse-faced skirt with a pine dot pattern, looking rich and kind.

Old Mrs. Fang sat in the sedan chair and looked at Mrs. Xia. Seeing that she was about to reach the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, she wore a satin-trimmed collared placket with a camel-colored embroidered gold moon pattern. The cinnabar stand-up collar middle shirt with dark color trim, and the gold-embroidered knee cover with a cinnabar horse-faced skirt below, looks graceful and luxurious, and does not look like a country woman at all.

Old Lady Fang looked at the courtyard and the servant woman coldly again, and thought secretly: "Look at Miss Xia's mother, she is an expert in housekeeping, and she is in an orderly manner. ”

I couldn't help but think of the news I heard yesterday, my grandson was rejected, which was a very angry and embarrassing thing, but the old lady laughed with Liu Huan for a while, and when she thought about it, she couldn't help but smile for a while, and secretly thought: "If Yu'er's family matter can be said, I can live for two more years, it's really too cola." ”

When I entered the main house, I saw an old lady with gray hair supported by a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, and greeted her warmly. Please sit inside, if it is cold today, it will be uncomfortable to stay outside for a long time. ”

Mrs. Xia wore a turmeric gown, a brown and green ruyi pattern embroidered gold satin knee cover and a horse-faced skirt with fallen leaves, and held Mrs. Fang's hand with a smile, and the two sat down to renew their teeth first, but Mrs. Xia was a few years older.

Mrs. Xia blamed her daughter-in-law: "If it was in our countryside, the old sister would have gone out a long time ago." It's not okay here, the daughter-in-law is stopping, the rules are too big. As he spoke, he shook Xiaoyu's hand away and said, "Don't help me, I'm fine." You're pulling me like this, and I've got to take care of you. ”

Old Mrs. Fang looked at Mrs. Xia, who lowered her eyebrows and was pleasing to her eyes, and envied in her heart: "Old sister, this is a blessed person, and there is a daughter-in-law in charge." My daughter-in-law, alas, had just asked her to come to the house to pay a visit, but she was so sick that she couldn't get out of bed. Forget it, let's not talk about her. ”

Xiaoyu bowed her head and saluted, and the old lady Fang was busy taking a closer look, and saw that she was wearing a light gold multicolored satin with ochre-colored piping and a placket, a beige long skirt, and a slender figure, except that her face was a little pale. I thought secretly: "No wonder my grandson is so troublesome, she is really a dignified and beautiful girl, and at first glance she is such a virtuous and wise person." ”

Mrs. Fang looked back and saw Mrs. Xia orderly supporting her subordinates to serve tea and water, and put fruit and snacks on the table, and she was very happy in her heart: "Even if you come back after learning half of your mother's learning, Yu'er will not have to worry about dressing and eating in the future." Yu'er is a capable person, one outside the main and one inside, and this day can not be prosperous. Although he still wanted to hold it again, he couldn't help but smile on his face, took off the bracelet on his wrist and said to Xiaoyu: "This is the old woman's gift to you." ”

Xiaoyu glanced at her with a smile before taking it and said, "Then it's better to be respectful than to obey your fate." ”

Mrs. Fang liked her in her heart, so she felt that she was very generous and decent.

It turns out that this old lady Fang also grew up in the countryside, and she doesn't like the complicated etiquette of the capital, and the two are both widowed mothers, each with their own hardships, and they chatted very well. Although Liu Huanhuan frequently made eyes, the two old ladies couldn't help but take out the troubles of Xiaoyu and Xue Shizi in their childhood.

Xiaoyu pulled her grandmother a few times, but when she saw that it was useless, she had to stomp her feet and hide next door to eavesdrop.

After chatting like this for more than half an hour, she slowly got to the point, and the old lady Fang sighed and said: "The old sister is dissatisfied with you and said, I have lived for most of my life to know that things in this world are not so perfect." Our family Yu'er is almost without a mother, if his mother is still there, my great-grandson will run away all over the ground at this time. ”

"Old sister, I was really upset earlier, I felt uncomfortable, and the girl who was like a flower and bone said that the beauty was gone, and she set up a steproom before half a year. Pity my grandson, I have to call someone my mother before I finish my filial piety. It's good to think about it now. God looks at it, yo, it's already so pitiful, forget it, I won't trouble you this time. In the early years, when he was in Yanbei, how many noble children were gone, old sister, look, my family Yu'er came back alive, this is not God's mercy. ”

Mrs. Xia echoed: "No, this person really can't be too greedy." In the early years, there were three generations of our family who passed on a single line, looking forward to having many children and grandchildren every day. Oops, those years were so hard. ”

As he spoke, he also woke up: "Alas, later, I was happy to give birth to a granddaughter from the sky, and I was so happy that this day was really perfect." It's not like you said, God can't see you comfortable, our family is said to be a girl's family, but it is more naughty than a boy, and you won't suffer if you beat a child, such a girl, how can anyone be willing to let their son be bullied. ”

Xiaoyu silently lowered her head and thought, "Is this really my grandmother?" ”

The old lady on the side patted her thigh and said, "Old sister, whose family such a handsome and sensible girl marries to, that is the blessing of whose family." Alas, my Yu'er, his mother gave birth to him, when he was a child, he watched other people's children being bullied by his older brothers and sisters, and he was envious that ....... someone could bully him in the future, which was a blessing that he couldn't look forward to. ”

Xiaoyu couldn't help but smile and thought, "Brother Xue, dare to sympathize with the two of us." In the future, no matter who you marry, I will tell her this quietly, and then your blessing will come. It's not in vain that the two of us have a relationship. ”

Old Madam Fang continued: "I'm also old, and I don't want to stay in this cold capital anymore. After the New Year, the weather is warm, and I plan to go back to my hometown in Yuezhou, which is not far from here. Yu'er is filial and wants to go with me. When the time comes, he will open a house next door to my house, and he will be able to take care of anything. ”

The two kept talking about the fast palm lamp, and Mrs. Fang got up to say goodbye, and Mrs. Xia kept it again and again. Mrs. Xia had to remind: "I'm afraid that the road is not easy to walk." "Mrs. Xia just gave up.

Mrs. Xia sent Mrs. Fang to the second gate, and before getting into the car, the old lady took out a piece of paper from her arms and handed it to Mrs. Xia, and said with a red face: "Yu'er has repeatedly told you that when you come to propose marriage, you must first give the documents for separation." This is prepared by Yu'er," although she felt that this family matter was a little accommodating to the Xia family, but thinking that Yu'er liked it, she still pointed to Mrs. Xia on the red seal on the corner of the document as he instructed: "Today, Yu'er specially entered the palace to ask for the grace of the saint, this is the saint's private seal." ”

At this moment, even Mrs. Xia's face turned red and hurriedly said: "Oh, this is the early years, when Jiu'er was still young, and their father and daughter were fooling around, so they couldn't do it really." ”

I don't want the old lady to shake her head: "It's really done, it's really done, alas, we were just confused at that time." Boiled a good boy to death. As he spoke, he shoved the paper into Mrs. Xia's arms, and went out in the carriage without looking back. (To be continued......)