Su Shi hurriedly helped Zhong Shi to get up, and said softly: "The ancestor squinted on the bed for a while, and the daughter-in-law waited by the side." ”

Zhong raised his eyes and saw that Su Shi was afraid of his refusal, and said secretly in his heart: Okay, in the name of a mother, I have to ask them to get some cheap again and again. In that case, then she can stand if she wants.

Zhenshu and Zhenyuan sent Zhong back to the bedroom, and seeing Su Shi looking back at them, as if they were going to kill them, the two of them went out of the easy-going house in defeat. After wandering around for a while, I walked to a courtyard, where the flowers and plants around it were very neatly and lovely, and two fat boys were running around laughing.

Shen hid in the shade under the eaves and watched the two fat boys chasing me and playing, and suddenly saw the two girls in the second room standing on the door, and hurriedly got up and pointed to Rong Rong to welcome in.

She pointed to Shen's mother beside her and brought out some tea fruits, set up a table under the eaves and invited them to sit down, and asked with a smile, "Your mother is still making rules?" ”

Zhenyuan nodded and said, "Grandmother is sleepy and wants to sleep, and my mother goes in to accompany her." ”

Shen lowered his head and nodded silently, and suddenly smiled slightly: "I usually stand in front of the bed and wait for her to sleep. ”

Uncle and aunt looked like they were going to complain, but Zhenyuan and Zhenshu didn't know how to answer, so they could only listen in a daze.

Shen raised his head and smiled again, and said with a little bitterness: "We are a woman from a small family, who has no dowry and no family to rely on, and let her mother-in-law rub her when she gets married, so I can't blame anyone." ”

This is natural, although the Su family and the Lu family came to be angry, but it was only for a while and a half, after receiving it, they returned to their own home, and they could walk sideways if they wanted to, and they could walk vertically if they wanted to, but she couldn't, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, she got up every day and five watches to take care of breakfast, settle housework and set rules. From the time she got married to the present, the days when she didn't make rules were only two months after giving birth to two children.

And now, the Zhong family has not said a word about her Changcan or Changgui and Changfang. In this mansion, she only enjoys the wealth and prosperity in front of her, seeing the two fat boys gradually grow up, Zhenyu is bent on emptying the entire Song Mansion to marry herself, and the Zhong family does not mention the matter of provocation, so how can she not worry.

Zhenyuan and Zhenshu naturally didn't know what Shen was thinking, and the two teased the two little brothers Changgui and Changcan for a while, and when they saw that it was noon, they went to the easy-going house to eat. Zhenyu and Zhenxiu talked very happily, and they refused to even come to the easy-going house to eat, just let someone inform them.

At noon, it was still Su Shi who was making food for Zhong's cloth, because Su was always by her side when Zhong was napping, and her face was kinder than in the morning.

After lunch, because Zhong had just slept sleepy, he sat on the Arhat chair again, and asked Zhenyuan and Zhenshu to talk with him, and asked Su and Shen to stand behind him and make rules.

In the past, when she was in Caijia Temple, Su had to take a nap every day, but when it was time for her to take a nap, she couldn't poke herself with a needle so that she wouldn't close her eyes, but her eyelids were so heavy that she couldn't lift them. Zhenshu and Zhenyuan didn't know what to do in the next hurry, but they had to chat with Zhong about what kind of patterns they usually like to embroider and what kind of meals they like to eat.

The mother and daughter accompanied Zhong like this, and it was not until dinner was finished that Zhong said lightly: "I also thought that since you have settled in our Zhuangzi in Hui County, a few girls should also find relatives there, after all, the second child has no man under his knees, and if he is old, if he does not follow the incense, someone must take care of him." But since the second child begged Concubine Rong to ask us to help a few girls say goodbye in the capital, I had to accept it. ”

In this way, although Song Anrong didn't say it, he still sent a letter to Concubine Rong in the palace.

Su Shi was overjoyed when he heard this, and bowed down and said, "Thank you, Ancestor!" ”

Zhong said: "It's not me who you were moving, thank me for what to do?" Ming'er Beishun Marquis Mansion set up a banquet to invite the girls in our house to come over, you are filial piety and piety, so you will serve by my side, and ask the Shen family to take their sisters over, how about it? ”

As long as a few daughters can go out to socialize, even if Su Shi is here to wipe the floor, Su Shi is also willing. She hurriedly nodded yes, and Zhong said, "You take them back to prepare, I don't need you to serve here." ”

Su Shi knelt down again and thanked him, and then took Zhenyuan and Zhenshu out together and went to the small west courtyard where he lived.

I went back to the house, and once again rummaged through the cabinets to find the clothes I should wear when I went out tomorrow. Su was in a hurry, and Zhenxiu and Zhenyi also entered the house. Zhenxiu kicked her shoes and rubbed her feet on the bed and said: "Mother, there are four big girls around Sister Zhenyu, and the four of us sisters don't even have a girl's ring. ”

Su Shi thought her feet were too smelly, so he came over and covered it with a quilt before saying: "Then what should I do, you can go out with Zhenyu to socialize, it is already the kindness of the ancestors, how can I be embarrassed to ask for Yahuan again." ”

Zhenxiu pointed at Zhenshu and said: "She doesn't have any good clothes, and her appearance is rude, so Ming'er pretends to be a maid and carries the burden for us, isn't it?" ”

Su Shi saw that Zhenshu was there to collect the boxes he had rummaged through, and his body was still the plain waist-cinching gown he wore in the past, and his hair was always tied up in the back, he was indeed not a young lady. She pondered for a long time and asked Zhenshu: "You don't have good clothes and hairpins, and you don't like to be in the limelight, would you like Ming'er to carry the sedan chair for the sisters?" ”

Zhenshu glanced at Zhenxiu on the bed from a distance and said, "Willing, how can you be unwilling?" For the sake of my mother, what do I have to do with the hardships you endure today, it's just that my sedan chair can't be lifted steadily, fourth sister, don't sit over with such a heavy body. ”

Zhenxiu knelt up and said with a smile: "You carry the sedan chair for me, I have something good to tell you at night." ”

Zhenshu didn't bother to pay attention to her, so he collected the clothes he wore today for Su Shi and went outside to find water to wash.

Sleeping in bed at night, Zhenshu was about to fall asleep, so she heard Zhenxiu next to her shake her shoulder and said: "Do you see the second sister like that, the man is not like a man, the woman is not like a woman, she is still dressed like a flower pot, she seems to want to put the entire Song Mansion wealth on her body, too, her father is a concubine and should inherit the family business, and now she has no brothers, even the fourth uncle is a concubine, I am afraid that when she gets married, this Song Mansion will have to be scraped and taken away except for the wall skin." ”

Zhenshu turned his back to avoid her and said: "You don't praise her for being beautiful during the day, be careful that the wall has ears for her to listen, and Ming'er will not be stubborn with you." ”

Zhenxiu said: "There will be, she is busy going to the Beishun Marquis Mansion to meet her lover tomorrow, and she can't care about listening to our corner." ”

Zhenshu heard this and smiled: "You really have the ability, it's only been half a day, and you even know that Zhenyu is in the Beishun Marquis Mansion." But don't chew the root of your tongue, we are here to be relatives, and it's really embarrassing for you to talk nonsense and block people. ”

Zhenxiu said: "I have a number in my heart. Zhenyu likes Dou Keming, the fifth son of the Hou family, and has recommended himself several times to marry, but Dou Keming has been refusing to agree. Ming'er went, I will make a good match for them, maybe Zhenyu loves me in her heart and leaves me in the capital to be her companion, and she will never have to go back to Huixian County to squeeze a room with you. ”

Although Zhenxiu is younger than Zhenshu, she has been careful since she was a child, and she has more thoughts than adults, and she loves to chew the root of people's tongues everywhere. Her character is the most able to relate to people, but because she chews the root of her tongue everywhere, she can best make people block the root of her tongue in front of her, so Zhenshu is reluctant to talk to her more.

After breakfast early the next morning, Shen set up a car to accompany a few girls to Beishun Hou's Mansion. She saw that several girls in the second room were also dressed up in flowers, but Zhenshu was still wearing the plain gown with a pomegranate skirt yesterday, and there was no hairpin ornament on her head, and she was still holding a few big burdens in her arms, so she asked in surprise: "Why doesn't the third lady decorate?" ”

Zhenxiu said: "She lowered her price to make a ring for us, and we can't stop her." ”

Shen Shi felt funny, and called his Yahuan Banlan over and said, "This is the Yahuan I prepared for you, I thought I brought it here today, but I thought I was not well prepared." ”

Zhenxiu glanced at it and said, "That is the case, just let Banlan follow me closely, and the eldest sister and the younger sister will ask her to wait." ”

In front of everyone, Zhenyuan and Zhenshu were not good at training Zhenxiu's escape, so they had to respond like this.

At that moment, several girls got into the carriage, Zhenyu and Shen's one, Zhenyuan and Zhenxiu Zhenyi took advantage of the car, Zhenshu and Yahuan's mother-in-law naturally walked under the baggage.

Seeing that a young lady from Zhenshu also came to make a living as a maid, Banlan smiled and said, "Third Miss, hurry up and get in the car, it's good to have slaves and maids to serve." ”

Zhenyu's maid An An listened and replied: "I'm afraid that the third lady also wants to see the prosperity of the capital and is willing to go with us." ”

Zhenshu smiled and didn't answer, but said in his heart: God bless Zhenxiu to find a good family to marry in the capital, don't go back to Huixian.

Although the Beishun Hou Mansion is not far from the Song Mansion, but the streets of the capital are full of cars and people, and there are many street vendors, and there are many dust along the way, when they arrive at the Hou Mansion, Zhenshu's clothes and shoes are full of dust, and then look at the other few rings, all of them are also disgraced. The red walls and blue tiles of the Hou Mansion towered into the sky, and the carriage bypassed the main gate of the Hou Mansion and stopped at the other side of the door. Shen got out of the car first to help Zhenyu, and then came over to help Zhenyuan a few, and her sister naturally got out of the carriage by herself.

Several housekeepers and mothers of the Hou Mansion greeted the door early, one of them was the mother of Fang Hu, the wife of the Hou Mansion, Tao, who stepped forward to help Shen and said: "The fourth lady has not come for a long time, and the wife of my family really misses it." ”

Shen Shiqian gave in, and only after several girls had entered the door did he enter the door with Nahu's mother.

Miss Hou Mansion Dou Mingluan held a banquet in the back garden, and this Mother Hu first took several girls from the Song Mansion to meet Mrs. Hou Zhang, and then took them to the back garden to meet Dou Mingluan.

Although the Song Mansion also has a back garden, the Zhong family has always been not good at housework, and the Shen family is unwilling to spend effort on these things, so it has been withered and closed for a long time. The Hou Mansion is rich and wealthy, and the whole garden is the season when the purple and red are blooming everywhere at this time, and the rockeries and strange stones are lined up, and the pavilions and pavilions are everywhere, and the startled Zhenyi shouts and screams non-stop.

After going deep into the garden for a long time, I saw a row of round pavilions on the edge of a bamboo forest, and many maids and women stood outside the pavilion. Out of the middle of the pink square wishful knot hollow out of the big cloud shoulders, on the head of the pearl jade ornament Mei Jiao'e came, she lightly fingers skirt curtain step, came over to greet Zhen Yu Jiaojiao and said: "Sister, if you don't come again, I will send someone to the Song Mansion to kidnap you." ”

This is Miss Houfu Dou Mingluan, who is born with a flower and moon appearance, and she is only fifteen years old.

She and Zhenyu helped into the house, and Zhenyuan also followed, and sat down one by one, and the maids brought tea and fruit up. Zhenshu was holding the furoshi, and naturally stood outside with Banlan and An An.

After all, it was just a gathering at the youngest daughter's house, Miss Mingluan chanted poetry, Zhenyu and Zhenxiu applauded vigorously, Mingluan girl painted, Zhenyu and Zhenxiu also applauded vigorously. After all, they are very lacking in this, and it doesn't mean that Luan is doing well or not, even if it is not good, they can't see it.

However, Zhenshu faintly heard Miss Mingluan's sentence for a while: lying in the rain window across the curtain, watching poems such as Tong Sweep in the idle sunshine, and secretly said that this young lady must have read a few more idle books as much as herself, but she likes to read more books and miscellaneous dramas, and is limited in poetry, Miss Mingluan loves to read more poetry, so she will make such elegant verses.

After lunch, he beckoned the girls to go in and dress the girls. Zhenxiu coquettishly coaxed Dou Mingluan and Song Zhenyu into laughter, and drank some fruit wine at this time, her face was red and sweaty. She had some food scraps on her chest, Zhenshu pulled her face and took it off for her and put on another one for her, before she wanted to help her up, but she took the opportunity to stomp on the instep of Zhenshu's feet, raised her eyebrows and whispered: "See, what's the use of good looks, when you get to the capital, you still have to be able to eat like me." ”

Zhenshu glared at her coldly and ignored it, and went to take care of Zhenyi's clothes and makeup.

After finishing the clothes and makeup and drinking the shabu tea, Dou Mingluan mentioned that he wanted to invite a few girls from the Song Mansion to take a walk by the water. Zhenxiu hurriedly got up and picked up Zhenyu, and the two exchanged warm glances and smiled at each other. Zhen Yuan is older, and she has always been not good at words in front of outsiders, so she has always followed these little ones.

The back garden of Beishun Wangfu is paved with pure white pebble path along the water, a line of Jiao'e is walking, at this time the spring light is just in April, the flowers are more delicate than people, people are more shy than flowers, and the scenery reflects each other, so it is beautiful to see.

Further on there is a wide place, where there is no vegetation on the green grass like an endless blanket, but it is separated from it by a half-man-high female wall. There were several young men gathered on the grass, all dressed in gorgeous clothes, and one of them was wearing a crown, obviously not an ordinary teenager.