Mrs. Xue's small study is on the right side of the main courtyard, and a jujube tree is planted in the courtyard, and in front of the study are two red rhododendrons. It was early summer www.biquge.info and although the branches and leaves of the azaleas were very luxuriant, the red color on the flowers had faded and they were wilting, but there were many local wildflowers planted under the windows, and they were blooming in a messy and lively manner.

The little girl guarding the door saw Zhong Min from a distance, and immediately greeted him with a smile: "Madame said that you can have a day, and count your fingers every day." As he spoke, he led Grandma Liang and Miss Liang to the door of the study, and a little girl wearing a light pink gown made a beaded curtain at the door and said, "The eldest grandmother and eldest lady of the Liang family are here, please come in, Madame is waiting for you." ”

Miss Liang kept chattering and asking questions along the way, and when she entered Mrs. Xue's small study, she was like a child of this age, just blinking and looking around with big eyes. I couldn't help but be secretly discouraged, and secretly thought in my heart: "Sure enough, it is a rural place, although you are a general, and the household items are not like the capital, looking at the most fashionable pear blossom wood, but those tables and chairs, benches, and Bogu shelves are all made of straight wood, not only do you not have the most exquisite carvings in the capital, but even those scholarly people like to use the most paint." ”

Zhong Min has already given birth to two sons and two daughters, and at this age, she can't help but feel a little blessed, naturally she has lost the coldness of her youth, she was about to urge her daughter to ask for peace, but when she saw her disdainful look, she couldn't help but twist her and said angrily: "Don't give you your ninth aunt to say goodbye." ”

Xue Niangzi wore a cyan spring shirt with white trim and a cyan Luo skirt, and stood behind her mother with a solemn expression and glanced at Zhong Min and Xin'er. Zhong Min has a white and chubby face, wears a blood-blue lotus-patterned satin placket, and a pine-colored horse-faced skirt, whether it was last night or now, it is not as her mother said: "It is so beautiful that it is like a blooming eighteen bachelors, and there is no such beautiful little lady in the capital." ”

However, the little lady next to Grandma Liang wore a tender green satin folded magnolia round-necked robe and a beige pleated skirt, with a pointed little face and big eyes, and the little face was very bright and pretty.

Mrs. Xue couldn't help but laugh and got up to stop Zhong Min, pulled her to sit on the edge of Xiao Ji in front of the window and said with a smile: "Children are like this, we are our own relatives, do we have to go through such a formality?" Big lady, you bring... Sister Xin'er went out for a walk. ”

Hearing this, Xin'er quickly glanced at Mrs. Xue, and saw that the Duchess was wearing a light gold folded branch Hanmei placket, a purple horse-faced skirt with black embroidered gold piping, and her appearance was dignified and kind, not at all as sharp as her mother said, so she breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Mrs. Xue behind her. Xue Niangzi is tall, with a slightly black face, and she is wearing a green coat like yesterday, and at first glance she thought it was a gentleman's little servant. Xin'er lowered her head and sighed secretly, disappointed in the long journey ahead.

Seeing her funny expression, Mrs. Xue couldn't help but think: "Sister Zhong and Brother Liang are two people who are so bored, but they have raised such a ghostly cleverness. ”

Xue Niangzi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when she heard her mother's words in the back, and hurriedly said yes, leading Liang Xin'er out. Mrs. Xue suddenly remembered that she hadn't given Xin'er a gift yet, so she hurriedly got up and said, "Wait a while, my box, you ......" and flipped it around.

Xue Niangzi hurriedly walked back and took a small box from the small drawer of the small kang table: "Huh! Just now you were afraid that you forgot to put it here. ”

Mrs. Xue happily handed the small box to Liang Xin'er: "This is jewelry from the Western Regions, and it's not worth a few dollars, it's a novelty, you can take it and play with it." ”

Zhong Min saw that he hurriedly got up and was about to say a few kind words, but when he looked up, he saw that Mrs. Xue was looking at her earnestly, and immediately looked embarrassed: "Yesterday, Mrs. Xue came to arrange a place to live, and I already gave her a meeting gift, what should I do now?" Thinking about it, I couldn't help but look at Xue Niangzi.

Xue Niangzi was standing beside her mother at the moment, Zhong Min couldn't help but be suffocated when she saw her, and she was so anxious that her back was covered with cold sweat: "Xue Niangzi doesn't say it, how can I take the initiative to mention it, but if I don't explain, Jiu'er's temperament will definitely ask me." Fortunately, she has also been walking around quite a bit over the years, and she hurriedly smiled and took off the jade bracelet on her wrist: "There is nothing for the child." As he spoke, he handed it over to Xue Niangzi.

At this time, Xue Niangzi suddenly realized, and hurriedly shirked: "Aunt Zhong has already sent it yesterday." ”

Mrs. Xue frowned slightly, and said with a smile: "You stupid boy, how can you say it, your Aunt Zhong has been rich in the past few years, and it is time to squeeze her to give another copy." ”

I didn't want Xue Niangzi to take it seriously when she heard this, so she hurriedly waved her hands and said, "How can this be done, how can this be done." Thinking that she was afraid that Zhong Min would really give her the bracelet, she hurriedly signaled to Liang Xin'er: "Let's go out and have a look." After saying that, he hurriedly saluted and pulled Miss Liang out of the small study quickly.

Out of the study, Liang Xin'er became lively again in the blink of an eye: "Where are we going to play?" Mother said that you can run horses in your backyard? I heard that there are some weapons that those old rivers and lakes have never seen. ”

Xue Niangzi smiled embarrassedly: "You have to use my father's token to get in." ”

Liang Xin'er rolled her eyes, and laughed sheepishly: "Then let's beg my uncle-in-law later, let me go in and see what I know." ”

Xue Niangzi just nodded with relief, and Liang Xin'er said pitifully: "The left and right uncles will also give us tokens, so let's go in by ourselves, and it will save him the trouble of the old man." ”

Xue Niangzi hurriedly stood still, glanced at Xin'er, and then said softly: "My father is very strict in governing the army, if there is no token for him, the sergeant guarding the door will not let us in." As he spoke, he led Liang Xin'er into his small courtyard.

Xin'er saw that her yard was the same as Mrs. Xue's, and it was really not good to look at bare, so she chatted with Mrs. Xue without a match, but she wanted to go to the backyard to play.

The two were talking, and a little girl came in: "The girl's things are almost packed, and the old lady's is also in order, and now there are only seasonal clothes and supplies." ”

Xue Niangzi nodded: "How are my father and mother's clothes and supplies packed?" ”

The little girl pursed her lips and said, "Wuyi said that the master said that there is no hurry to do this. As she spoke, she glanced at Xue Niangzi: "Madam...... It's too slow to clean up over there, and Madame has to keep it like this, and she won't throw it away like that......"

Xue Niangzi nodded and said, "Then I want to move my and grandfather's things to the car first." Saying that, he beckoned to Liang Xin'er: "Let's go to the front yard together." Liang Xin'er was bored, and thought to herself: "It's better to go to the front yard than to be bored here." He nodded happily.

After a while, a few little girls wearing cyan arrow sleeves surrounded them and went out of the second door.

There is a small girl who unloaded the threshold, and more than 20 camphor wood boxes were transported out like water, Xue Niangzi opened the boxes one by one and looked at them, which made people paste the seal, and there was a little girl waiting for pen and ink, and Xue Niangzi wrote the items in the box on the seal one by one. While writing, he instructed the little girl next to him: "The boxes over there are my old clothes, let the green pine take them and distribute them to a few village heads who have daughters." ”

Miss Liang looked bored for a while and was a little impatient, Xue Niangzi smiled and comforted: "Wait a while, let's go to the small kitchen, today's menu is prepared by my mother, there must be sparrows in the small kitchen, let's roast sparrows for a while." ”

After another quarter of an hour like this, Miss Liang sat idly on the threshold that had been removed, covering her mouth and yawning one after another.

Seeing that she couldn't bear it like this, Xue Niangzi simply sent Coral to the kitchen: "There is a stuffy brocade chicken today, you go to the kitchen and ask for a few feathers for Miss Liang to play with a shuttlecock." ”

After a while, Coral came back with a two-foot-long brocade shuttlecock, only to see Miss Liang's eyes straightened, and asked in horror: "How can you kick such a long shuttlecock?!" For a moment, several girls burst into laughter.

In the small study, Mrs. Xue and Zhong Min also chatted warmly: "Sister-in-law, are you okay?" ”

Zhong Min said with a smile: "Ruhai's eldest son Bao'er also entered the academy in the capital this year, and he was recommended by the fifth brother's friend. Now the sister-in-law has only the youngest son Ruhong is not a weapon, does not like to read, and has no skills, and the sister-in-law loves the old son the most. ”

Mrs. Xue remembered that her sister-in-law always blamed her mother for favoritism in her early years, and couldn't help but smile in her heart, nodded and said, "She can't be wrong there, what about the third brother?" ”

Zhong Min saw that she didn't mention the second master, so he followed the conversation and said, "It's like a horse and separated." ”

Mrs. Xue was stunned: "I remember that he married the daughter of Sun Huang Merchant, well, it has been three or five years." The third sister-in-law forced him to study again and killed him, alas, how many people like the fifth brother can there be in the world? The third brother fell into the eyes of money, and his sons and daughters didn't care about it. ”

"It's not like it's been three or five years, and there have been no heirs, so they separated."

Both of them let out a long sigh and were silent, because there was no one else in the room, and they couldn't help but be a little scary. Mrs. Xue looked out the window and said slowly, "No wonder Ruju has no movement this year. Remembering that the third sister-in-law liked to compare when she was young, she couldn't help complaining: "Third sister-in-law, like this...... What does that mean exactly? ”

Zhong Min rubbed the handkerchief in his hand and was a little embarrassed: "It's not the third sister-in-law's intention to do this, it's the third brother, and he hasn't given birth to a son and a half daughter in the family for so many years......"

Mrs. Xue frowned, squinted her eyes and muttered for a long time before asking, "Why mother, I didn't send anyone over...... Pacify? He is only in his early twenties, and if he really can't have children, find a widower with children...... In the end, from our family......"

Zhong Min's eyes turned red, shook his head and said in a low voice: "It's too late, that woman has a strong temperament, and she will throw herself into the well when she goes back." ”

Mrs. Xue couldn't help but exclaim when she heard this, and only after a while did she say hatefully: "What a sin! ”

After all, Zhong Min was not a compatriot of the Xia family, so he had to say vaguely: "The little couple was originally very good, Ruju wanted to marry a concubine and come back, if he could have a son and a half daughter, the third brother would be angry, and then he would bring people back." ”

Mrs. Xue felt a chill in her heart, and secretly thought: "If the relationship is not good, it is fine, I remember that the third sister-in-law mentioned in the letter that the woman is also a very smart businessman, so she can only coax those stupid women who have no knowledge." Alas, in the future, Ruju really has children, what is the point of her coming back. ”

Zhong Min sighed: "The third brother also regrets it in his heart, but people can't be resurrected after death, and it's useless to do as many dojos as you want." ”

Zhong Min saw that Mrs. Xue's face was not good, and she didn't dare to say anything about the third brother's family, but Mrs. Xue asked: "Two years ago, Ruting's husband was involved in the ink corruption case, how is the case handled now?" ”

Zhong Min hurriedly smiled: "The case is solid." But it can't be bad, Ting'er can think about it, and take her own money to make up for the shortfall, and now her son-in-law is also released. ”

Mrs. Xue couldn't help but be stunned and muttered: "I remember when I was young, the girls in the family counted her as the most squeamish, and I didn't expect to do things so magnificently now." ”

Zhong Min also remembered what happened when he was a child, and said with a smile: "What is rare is her share, and now the couple are separated from the family." Ting'er borrowed money from the third brother, and then counted the dowry as the capital, and the couple started a business. Their two children are similar to the eldest lady, and now they are studying with their stepmother in the capital. ”

Mrs. Xue hadn't been in contact with her family for many years, and although she could receive a few words, she didn't know about the inner house, so she chatted until late at night before sending Zhong Min to the side hospital.

called Coral in again and asked, "How is Miss Liang getting along with the eldest lady?" ”

Coral couldn't help but smile and said: "Miss Liang is lively and funny, grinding the eldest lady and wanting to go to the general's martial arts training ground." ”

Mrs. Xue frowned slightly: "Didn't the eldest lady say that the people next to the martial arts field couldn't enter?" ”

"Why didn't you say it. Where can Miss Liang listen, it has been grinding for an hour, oh my God, I have never seen such an abrasive little lady. ”

Mrs. Xue pushed away the teacup next to her and smiled, "Children." ”

Coral clapped his hand: "The eldest lady is two years younger than her?" When have you ever seen her like this? ”

Mrs. Xue was stunned and pulled the corners of her mouth: "Did you finally go in?" ”

Coral shook her head: "The eldest lady took her to take a look at the door." Saying that, he looked at Mrs. Xue's expression and said, "The eldest lady is also calm. If it were me, how could I count two sentences for such an unruly person. Seeing Mrs. Xue's expression, she hurriedly smiled and said, "It's also my relatives who are so enthusiastic." ”