In the main room of the back wing of Fang's mansion, the old lady Fang wore a deciduous yellow satin forehead on her head, and a piece of moist jasper was inlaid in the center, and she sat quietly in front of Xiao Gaoji, Liu Huanhuan brushed the ginger horse-faced skirt for her, and straightened the satin with red gold auspicious patterns to cover her knees, and then asked softly: "Old lady, today's dinner is here?"

Old Lady Fang was wearing a gown embroidered with gold auspicious patterns on an amber bottom, and the cuffs and collar were inlaid with light-colored pink Ruyi patterns, and she nodded expressionlessly after listening to her words.

After a while, Xiao Gao put a few light and soft vegetarian dishes and a small bowl of thick rice porridge on the table. Mrs. Fang sandwiched two pieces of cabbage from Liu Huan, and listened to her talk about the things in the house: "The eldest lady is much better today than in the past." Rui Ge'er went over to say goodbye and memorized two paragraphs. ”

Mrs. Fang was a little fat, although it was not very good for her body, but it also made her look a little kind and rich. She raised her spoon and slowly took a small bite of the two pieces of cabbage, and the little girl guarding the door outside suddenly screamed: "Shiziye, you, here!" As she spoke, the curtain of the green velvet door was lifted, and Xue Yu rubbed her hands and walked in with a cold wind: "Mother-in-law, what are you eating so early?" ”

Old Lady Fang saw that it was really Xue Yu, and the joy on her face was fleeting, and she couldn't help frowning even in an instant, looking at Xue Yu worriedly, Xue Yu burst out laughing: "Mother-in-law!"

Old Mrs. Fang sighed and said angrily: "Call grandma, your father knows, and he will be beaten again." Saying that, he turned his head and said to Liu Huanhuan: "A piece of wind-pickled civet cats sent by the second master of the previous child took it out and warmed it up for Yu'er." ”

Xue Yu snuggled up to the old lady and said, "Get two more drinks." Warm up. Now the sun has not yet set, and the sky is cold, and my hands are frozen from the cold. ”

When the old lady saw him smiling, it didn't seem that she had encountered something tricky. Then he bluffed and said, "Give a little to the few." ”

Xue Yu nodded, took a piece of bamboo shoots for the old lady, and ate another piece for himself. Seeing Liu Huan go out, she said loudly: "Ying'er, stay at the door, don't let any cats and dogs come in and take the old lady's meat." ”

Ying'er answered briskly outside.

The heart that the old lady had just put down was pinched again, and Xue Yu said with a pair of bright eyes: "Mother-in-law." Do you want to go back to your hometown?" said and leaned forward again: "You have to help me this time, and we will go back to my hometown together when the time comes." ”

Old Lady Fang nodded her silver hair and gently poked Xue Yu's forehead with her fingers: "Don't say beautiful words." I'm not going anywhere. I'm guarding your uncle right here. Anyway, what do you want me to do with this old bone?"

Xue Yu burst out laughing, Old Lady Fang had never seen him so happy, and she couldn't help it several times. I don't know why I laughed again. It took a long time to hold back the smile. Clasped the table and whispered: "I have liked a girl for a long time, and I never dreamed of marrying her." But coincidentally, now the person in our house doesn't know if it's a ghost or someone who gave her the idea, and he suddenly decided to go to her house to propose. Mother-in-law, you must help me this time. ”

Old Lady Fang pondered for a while: "Is that the little girl of the Xia family?"

Xue Yu nodded solemnly: "Mother-in-law, don't you often say that this is all fate." I didn't believe it before. Xue Yu looked up at the jade Maitreya Buddha ornament on Duobaoge: "Mother-in-law, this is really fate." I haven't done anything yet. She's busy there. Alas, it's just that this is the only one in the girl's house. It's really afraid of falling in my hand, and I'm afraid of melting in my mouth, how dare I think about it before!"

The old lady sighed and thought, "If you were in the past, I could still only be a child, and if someone was good to you, you would be good to others." In the past few years, how many things have happened one after another, I looked at you coldly, but you didn't spend much time in the Xia family, and I was embarrassed to say that I didn't do anything. You didn't do anything, and the surname Xu can suddenly remember that there is a Xia family with a fourth-grade petty official in the capital?"

The old lady hesitated for a moment but couldn't help but say, "I'm afraid that such a child... is so delicate, I'm afraid it's not your stepmother's opponent. ”

Xue Yu laughed contentedly, and just as he was about to speak, Ying'er on duty outside shouted crisply: "Liu Huan, I'll come." Liu Huanhuan's voice said with a smile outside: "You still honestly beat your curtain, don't detain this cup for me again, go back and drink the northwest wind?"

Xue Yu squinted, leaned over and whispered a few words in the old lady's ear, and when she saw Liu Huanhuan come in, she smiled and said, "Mother-in-law, you let the eldest lady go to the Xia family for me, and it also shows that I am sincere." ”

The old lady sighed and said, "Alas, the children are all debts that cannot be repaid!"

Xue Yu immediately knelt behind the old lady flatteringly, and said with a smile while gently slapping the old lady's shoulder: "If it is done this time, my cousin will have something to rely on in the palace." As he spoke, he took out a stack of silver tickets and asked, "Is it good that Sister Yue is in the palace? It's a place to burn money, has my aunt gone to see her these days?" Alas, it's a pity, I'm a foreign man and can't get in. In the future, when I marry a daughter-in-law, someone in our family will be able to go in and take care of her from time to time. Saying that, he gave the money to Liu Huanhuan: "You divide this money into several shares and give it out little by little, this is my intention to be a brother." ”

The old lady looked at Xue Yu and sighed, thinking: "The Zuo family has retired from family affairs, it's not that they haven't thought about Yueniang, they are the same age, but his father and stepmother... Life in Nafu is not much better than that of the Imperial Palace... Alas, I don't know if the girl from the Xia family can hold the one surnamed Xu. ”

On the side, Liu Huanhuan had already unveiled the bowl of the blue and white cup: "It's just steamed, Lord Shizi, eat it while it's hot." As he spoke, he poured two glasses of warm wine, one to the old lady and one to Xue Yu.

Not long after Xue Yu left Fang's house after dinner, Zhao Huanhuan, the most trusted Duchess of Huguo, went to the back corner door to ask to see the eldest lady: "Our lady heard that Mrs. has not been very good, so she specially asked me to send some old ginseng and an old prescription. Maybe it's the right thing for my wife's symptoms. ”

The mother-in-law who was bluffing the door respectfully invited her in, but after a quarter of an hour, she came out with two empty hands and said with a smile: "I hope your wife recovers soon, and if you need anything, don't be polite." ”

Chunlan, the eldest girl beside Mrs. Fang, thanked her with a smile: "Thanks to Mrs. all these years." Alas, the Bodhisattva bless our lady to get well soon. ”

Zhao Huanhuan's eyes shrank, she sneered in her heart, and secretly thought: "Your wife is self-inflicted, and if you can survive until now, that is where our wife can still use her." ”

Chunlan looked at Zhao Huanhuan's back and sighed, when did the Duchess of the Protector send someone over last time? Two years ago or three years ago? It was also about the New Year, the eldest lady waited for this Zhao Huanhuan to leave, and was so angry that she smashed a set of Tang Sancai's ornaments, and the eldest lord knew about it and said: "Losers, it's better to sell it than to smash Ting'er." was so angry that the eldest wife became even sicker, and it didn't take long for the cousin to be dismissed by the stepwife of the in-laws' house.

This time, I don't know what I'm going to do to be sorry for the young master, Chunlan looked up at the dark night sky, and everyone said that a star in the sky was facing a person on the ground, and she didn't know that the star in the sky was herself, and she didn't know how long she would have to stay in this courtyard.

Yingxue tiptoed to tuck and tucked Xiaoyu's quilt, and Xiaoyu couldn't help muttering in a daze: "It's all sweating when it's hot." ”

Yingxue blushed, hurriedly withdrew her hand, and hesitated for a while before asking in a low voice: "When the girl was talking to Wen Niang, the slave heard two sentences outside, girl, is it now, let........." Isn't it better to get married....?"

Xiaoyu closed her eyes and thought: "It's just a matter of Xidu people, this time I'll just play with it casually, and everyone will be fooled." Although it was only an extra month or two, it always gave me room to turn around. If you can find a way to let Ruowu and Sihua marry a woman with a strong family background and tie them firmly to Xidu, it will be nothing. I'm worried about the saint, I'm not a good person at first glance, and I'm not his daughter, but I like to look at me with such a loving gaze in a fake way, hum, I have nothing to do, and I am either a traitor or a thief. ”

Yingxue waited for a long time, but didn't hear Xiaoyu's answer, and thought: "If the girl has an idea, she won't pretend to sleep like this, it seems to be true, as the saying goes: if you can hide from the first day of junior high school, you can't hide from the fifteenth." But now that I suddenly want to marry, who can I marry? I don't know which family this Mrs. Hou wants the girl to mention today. ”

Ying Xue looked at Xiaoyu's fair and childish face, thought about it, and couldn't help but whisper: "Girl, don't you think it's wrong to look at you?" ”

Xiaoyu's breathing had become long, and Yingxue sighed and lay down on the couch in the blue gauze cupboard for a long time before falling asleep.

Early the next morning, Xue Yu packed up and was about to go to Xia Mansion, when he was announced by the saint to enter the palace to discuss the military situation in Xidu. Mrs. Fang was even more sick, and I heard that she couldn't even drink gruel. Xue Yu had to ask Dong'an to go to Xia's house to apologize, and change it to Ming'er to go over.

When he went out of the palace and returned to the house in the evening, Dong'an greeted him at the second gate with a sad face: "Madame is really open-minded, and today I invited Mrs. Shunyi Hou to go to the Xia family again, and now all over the capital say that you are a loving person, in order to repay the life-saving grace of the year, you want to marry the little lady of the Xia family." Master, what should we do?"

Xue Yu said with a smile on his face: "What are you afraid of, isn't the Xia family still haven't replied!"

Dong'an thought bitterly, although he had only met Mrs. Xia a few times, it was by no means an ordinary country woman. Mrs. Xu can't wait to put this matter on the table, but who will wade into this troubled water if anyone has a brain. Even he, a little guy, felt that Mrs. Xu's step was too big, but he was afraid that the Xia family might not be willing to agree. (To be continued......)