Yaoxi Hall, located slightly behind the central axis of the Hou Mansion, is the center of the entire Hou Mansion backyard, therefore, it is the residence of the Hou and the old lady of Fu'an. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoCompared with the elegance of Qingxin Garden, Yaoxi Hall is gorgeous and exquisite, with five large main rooms, ear rooms on both sides, and three hugging rooms behind the main room, and the left and right wings of the courtyard are east and west wings, and there is also a small cross-courtyard behind the east wing, which is the residence of the old marquis's concubine Zhao.

Ji Nianjin helped her mother Mei carefully out of Qingxin Garden all the way, and the big girl Xiangqi and Bai Zhi lit lanterns left and right, and the group turned from the verandah by the lotus lake to an east-west sandwich road in the backyard of Yaoxi Hall.

The road is not wide, because it is the back door of the main courtyard Yaoxi Hall, and it is connected to the large cross courtyard on the east side of Yaoxi Hall, so it is a necessary way to walk daily in the Hou Mansion.

In the morning of winter, not to mention the late dawn, the stinging cold air is also unbearable, Ji Nianjin has been reborn for five days, and every day is this hour to accompany his mother Mei to the main courtyard to ask for peace, not early or late, just right.

The back door of Yaoxitang was opened on the road, and at this moment, the mother-in-law who guarded the door blew out the lanterns under the eaves that had been lit all night, and when she saw Ji Nianjin and Mei's coming, she hurriedly stopped her work and said goodbye.

"Big lady, second girl."

Although Ji Nianjin is a girl in the big house, there is also an eldest girl from the second room Ji Nianxue and the eldest son Ji Zhiwen from the third room in the Hou Mansion. According to the order of the girls, she is the second girl.

In the entire Hou Mansion, except for her step-grandmother Li, who was called the old lady, only her mother Mei was called the eldest lady, and the second and third rooms had no titles, and the uncles had too low official positions, so her two aunts could only be called the second wife and the third wife.

In the previous life, when my father was alive, my mother was still respected, but when my father died, my mother, who was originally called the eldest lady, suddenly became the eldest wife, and when my mother also went, no one in the Hou Mansion remembered my mother.

Ji Nianjin looked at the mother-in-law in front of her and didn't speak, in the current Hou Mansion, everyone saw their big house, and they were really respectful in person, but whether they were regarded as the same thing behind her back, she was skeptical.

"Well, if you have a heart, the old lady is all up?"

Mei asked with a smile.

Because there was a section of the road to go from Qingxin Garden, and after passing by the water's edge, Xiangqi put on an emerald green gray squirrel hair crane embroidered with a pattern of flowers and wealth, which would probably be sweating, but the mother untied the crane, revealing the belly that had been revealed.

The woman quickly put her eyes on the top of her feet, bowed her head, and replied respectfully:

"Back to the eldest lady, the old lady has risen, at this moment, the second wife and the third wife are talking together, you came at the right time."

"Then, Jin'er, let's go in, don't keep your grandmother waiting."

As soon as Mei heard that the second and third rooms had entered Yaoxi Hall before her, she was a little anxious at the moment, worried that she was late.

"Mother, don't worry, it's not too late for us."

Ji Nianjin comforted Mei's family, and muttered in her heart, the second and third rooms are not like her room, the large cross courtyard named Yifuyuan in the east of Yaoxi Hall was given to the third room, and the second room lived in the Wangchun Garden behind the third room.

Although Yifu Garden is not as big as Qingxin Garden, it is better than the distance, from the back door of Yaoxi Hall through the east-west sandwich road, through a hanging flower gate, which is the west corner gate of Yifu Garden. Wangchun Garden is a little farther away, but it is also at the back of Yifu Garden, between the two courtyards, connected by a north-south sandwich road, compared to Qingxin Garden, it is really much more convenient here.

Therefore, knowing that the second and third rooms arrived in Yaoxi Hall one step ahead of them, Ji Nianjin was not surprised at all, in her previous life, every time she passed such a trivial matter, the second and third rooms always had to add some blockages to her mother, obviously it was still early, and they wanted to go earlier, so that her mother would worry that she was late, lest her grandmother blame her.

Entering through the back door, Ji Nianjin helped Mei all the way, passed through a section of the verandah, and arrived in front of the three hugging buildings behind the main room of Yaoxi Hall.

Before you enter, you can hear the laughter inside, which shows that everyone is almost here.

The little maid opened the door curtain, and Mei Shi took Ji Nianjin's hand and stepped in.

Hugging the building is not big, the entrance position is placed with a standing three Huanghuali large screen carved with the auspicious pattern of Fu Lu Shou, behind the screen is facing a wall, and there is a painting of a shepherd boy riding a bull on the wall, which is said to be an old thing in the previous dynasty. Under the painting, there is a long case, and only a two-eared and four-legged incense burner is placed.

waited until Ji Nianjin helped Mei Shi to turn in from behind the screen, and then he really arrived at the center of Yaoxi Hall from behind.

There was already a second-class maid waiting inside.

"The eldest lady and the second girl are here."

A delicate Arhat bed with black lacquer sprinkled flowers and inlaid gold, with a small table in the middle of the bed, and a thick square leather cushion with a dark green flower pattern placed on each side, and an old man with some silver threads on his sideburns sat on the left.

A purple pine crane longevity rich auspicious group pattern placket, a horse face skirt of the same color embroidered with a hundred sons of joy skirt, with silver-gray beads on the forehead, only a few gold hairpins of different sizes inlaid with jewels Lingshou pattern inserted in the hair.

The whole homely dress is Ji Nianjin's step-grandmother, the old lady Li.

Li was sitting cross-legged on the Luohan bed, and standing next to him was Ji Nianyan, a girl from the third room, who was the fourth, and the fourth girl in the Hou Mansion.

Ji Nianjin quietly glanced at the middle room, in addition to Ji Nianyan, there were also the eldest girl Ji Nianxue from the second room, the third girl Ji Nianxi and the fifth girl Ji Nianrou, and the sixth girl from the third room Ji Nianxin.

The second wife, Wang, was sitting on a chair on the right, holding Ji Zhiyang, who was only four years old, quietly, only looking at Li.

Mei leaned down and saluted to the Li family, Ji Nianjin also did it, I don't know if it was intentional or not, Ji Nianyan was pestering the Li family to say something, which made the Li family laugh, but he didn't care about Mei and Ji Nianjin for a while.

"Alas, there are people here, they are squeamish when they have a body, and they only come late to greet their mothers every day, is it possible that we have never given birth? I remember when I was pregnant with Yan'er, I longed to be by my mother's side every day, and I was late. ”

said some bitter words, inside and out, openly and secretly saying that Mei's invitation to An was late, it was none other than Xiao Li, the wife of the third room.

Xiao Li is Li's niece, Ji Yunde, who has been in the third room since childhood, is also a childhood sweetheart, and when they reach the age of marriage, Li is in charge, kissing and kissing, and let Ji Yunde marry Xiao Li into the door.

Because he is an aunt and nephew, and a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, this little Li can be regarded as the first person in front of Li.

Ji Nianjin was a little hateful, she understood that the mother and daughter sang and acted in order to embarrass Mei.

She wanted to say something, but was quietly stopped by Mei.

Mei shook her head at her, and seeing that Li didn't let her scream, she also leaned over for a while, and then stood up on her own. By the way, he pulled Ji Nianjin up and leaned his weight on Ji Nianjin's body.

Xiao Li was proud, wearing a red silk silk red silk jacket, the red coral on his head shook in golden steps, and his eyebrows were pretty.

She was thinking about continuing to say something, but she didn't want Mei to take care of herself, and she had some secret hatred in her heart. But out of etiquette, Mei is not only the sister-in-law of the long house, but also the wife of the prince, if she has said it, although the Li family will not do anything to her, but if it spreads, it will not be beneficial to her own reputation.

Mei didn't care what Xiao Li was thinking, she was happy to come today.

"Mother, the son of the world has sent a letter, saying that he will be home today, I wonder if my mother has also received the letter here, the daughter-in-law thought, this time is the right time to send someone to the city gate to greet her, and if she gets the letter, she can let someone pass it back."

Mei Shi held her stomach, her face was uncontrollably happy, she didn't even care about Xiao Li's secretly sarcastic words.

Xu is talking about the right thing, Li sent Ji Nianyan down from her side, she glanced at Mei and narrowed her eyes.

"The letter was received, and the old marquis got up early in the morning to go to the study in the front yard, thinking that someone had been sent out, so we just waited at home. Eldest daughter-in-law, since you have also received the letter, why did the son of the world postpone the day of coming back in the letter? Besides, this time I came back too suddenly, why did I only send the letter back the day before, could it be that something happened on the way? When people are old, they can't afford to be frightened and frightened, and the letter of the son of this world is not transparent, but it makes people uneasy. ”

Li sighed, his expression couldn't see anything, neither joy nor blame, which made Ji Nianjin suspicious.

In her previous life, she thought that her father's death should be done by Sanfang, but whether the Li family was involved or not, she could not directly determine it. Now, Li's reaction made her even more unable to guess for a while.

Thinking of the year before the Buddha in the nunnery in her previous life, although the days were hard, it also made Ji Nianjin a lot more transparent, and the first thing that made her doubt was the death of her father.