Chapter I

In the snowy afternoon, it was rare to have a good sun, and the snow had not yet had time to melt, and it was much warmer than the strong wind and snow of the previous days.

At this time, there were a few decent maids standing under the corridor of the bachelor's mansion, lined up in two columns in an orderly manner, as if they were waiting for someone.

A soft-topped carriage with the usual fragrant color of the eunuch's family slowly approached from the street entrance, the horse bells jingled, the carriage staggered, and only an old couple sat on the wheel. There are eunuchs all over the capital, and there are a little bit of style, which one is not hugging before and after going out. Only the formation of the owner of this horse, and the person sitting in it does not look like a particularly decent person.

The big girl who was standing at the front of everyone looked at it intently, and made sure that it was the one they were waiting for, so she quietly gestured to the little girl behind her.

The little maid is also clever, her neck shrunk, her toes turned, and she quickened her pace and went around the house to report.

The carriage walked slowly for half a street, and finally came to a halt at the door.

Banxia led people to stand next to the car, the curtain was opened, and a woman in her twenties came down, with a azure gown, an aqua green moonflower skirt, a hair tie with Chang Yun's bun, and no other decoration on her hair except for a jasper hairpin of good color. The face is very white, but it is only delicate, and there is no amazing beauty.

The subordinates of this bachelor's mansion are not domestic servants, most of them are bought by someone after the mansion is built, and many people still have some casual habits, and they are used to worshipping high and stepping on low.

The woman in front of her didn't look rich and noble, not like some powerful master, but they didn't dare to make trouble in front of her.

"Auntie, you're tired on the road." Banxia stretched out the back of her hand and let her get out of the car with her own hand.

Aunt Lu Qinglan said noncommittally, "um", and then looked around, and saw that the people who came to pick her up were all people around the old lady, and she was also a little funny for a while.

The owner of this bachelor's mansion, the university scholar Ye Ling, is her cousin-in-law. Her cousin Lu, is Ye Ling's original match, a few years ago when she gave birth to twins, she lost her foundation, and she has not been well recuperated, and her body deteriorated when she gave birth to her little daughter, and she didn't raise it after giving birth, and her youngest daughter was just over one year old, so she went.

Lu Qinglan was born from the side branch of the Lu family, and her life was not good, she went out with her family when she was a child, and the carriage overturned, and she lost her parents. The lord of the Lu family saw that she was pitiful, so he raised her to his knees, anyway, their family had a son and a daughter, but also let the two little girls have a companion since childhood.

After the Lu family left, Lu Qinglan took the initiative to ask Ying to enter the bachelor's mansion. The two elders of the Lu family have raised her for so many years, and they have long been no different from their own daughters, and they don't want any glory and wealth, so they want her to go out and be a straight-headed lady, how can they be willing to let her enter the house.

Lu Qinglan is soft on the outside and rigid on the inside, and she is stubborn, not to mention her sisterhood with the Lu family for so many years, just because of their family's kindness to her, she has to help her deceased sister take care of the three children. It doesn't matter if she is a concubine, it doesn't hurt to be a nameless and pointless housekeeper, she just doesn't worry about those children.

But it is true that they think things too badly, Ye Ling has read the sage book for more than ten years, and he is not a well-dressed beast, so he understands the Yue family's unease, so he only treats Lu Qinglan as a guest, and let her sister-in-law live next to her little daughter, and never takes a step beyond Lei Chi.

Lu Qinglan is not very old, but her temperament is much stronger than the gentle Lu family, and she stood up not long after entering the mansion.

The old lady of this family likes her very much, of course, she also likes the original Lu family, but the Lu family is a little weak, which makes the old lady hate her a little.

The group went around the shadow wall and saw a little girl who was probing her brain.

Lu Qinglan recognized that this was her niece's personal maid forsythia, and her face was better. Finally, she returned to her parents' house for a month, and her little niece had not forgotten her aunt.

Forsythia is more than ten years old, but people are very intelligent and can come to things. She thought that she was small and small, and if she waited with those people outside, her aunt might not necessarily see her at a glance, and the house said that her aunt went back to her parents' house this time because she was angry with their girls, and she was afraid that her aunt would deliberately fail to see herself, and she would not be able to squeeze in front of her when she was small.

Standing behind this shadow wall is just right, people can see her at a glance, and they can't see it if they can't see it.

"Aunt is back, our girl can talk to you all day long, and let the slave wait at the door every day."

The little girl has a goose egg face, big eyes, and is very pleasing, and her flattering smile is not annoying.

Lu Qinglan smiled slightly and said, "It's a shame that Runrun hasn't forgotten me." "The girl born to the Lu family is named Runrun.

Forsythia hurriedly said: "What are you talking about, our girl was raised in your hands since she was a child, can you not know what kind of character she has?" ”

mentioned that the little girl who hurt her heart to the tip of her heart, Lu Qinglan's face really smiled, "Where is Runrun now?" ”

Forsythia paused, embarrassed, and didn't dare to hide it, so he had to say honestly: "Learn the rules in the lady's house." ”

Lu Qinglan's face hung up again.

The 'lady' in Forsythia's mouth is the current lord of Jing'an, the cousin of the current saint. In the early years, Ye Purlin's title on the gold list won the favor of this one, and this one went to the Queen Mother to ask for marriage.

At that time, Ye Ling already had a wife Lu Shi, and the couple were deeply in love, and Lu Shi was even pregnant, so it was impossible to stop his wife and remarry. In the end, it was the saint who reconciled from the middle, not only not disobeying the face of the queen mother's old man, but also taking into account Ye Ling and his wife, and giving the lord of Jing'an County as a flat wife.

Speaking of which, although Lu's temperament is gentle, his body is not paper-bound, if he hadn't been angry because of this during pregnancy, he wouldn't have given birth to a pair of twins prematurely, worrying and worrying all day long, hurting his foundation.

Although Lu Qinglan didn't say anything bad about the county lord in front of the children, she also hoped that the children could distinguish between right and wrong, good and evil, just because the county lord knew that someone else had a pregnant wife, and she went to ask for a decree to marry her, they should understand that she was by no means a good stubble.

If it weren't for this person standing in the backyard of the Academy's Mansion, the Lu family would not be worried that the three children of the Lu family would not be able to grow up safely.

Last month, news came from the palace that the queen was going to give a banquet to the families of hundreds of officials this month.

The old lady was also afraid that the children would not understand the rules, so she rushed into the palace, so she asked several children to follow the rules of the Jing'an County Lord for a few days. Unexpectedly, they began to go reluctantly for a few days, and then they were reluctant at all, and they went every morning after the morning meal, and came back after the evening meal. Lu Qinglan didn't say anything about her, she only asked her what she was doing there every day, knowing that she lived a very fulfilling life every day, and she could only sulk with herself every day.

Originally, the old lady just let them study for three or five days, but they followed the devil and ran there when they saw the heavens and the earth. Later, Lu Qinglan asked her not to go, but the little girl herself had a lot of ideas and talked back to her.

This really made Lu Qinglan angry. The child who was holding the big one in his hand actually got close to that poisonous woman!

Because of this incident, there were rumors of discord between the aunt and nephew in the house.

Banxia saw that the momentum was not right, and said with a needle: "Aunt go to the old lady's house to sit for a while, our old lady can talk about you for many days." The slave maid had already asked people to go back, and she must have been waiting for her old man at this time. ”

She said so, and Lu Qinglan went to the old lady.

In the early spring, when it was warm and cold, the old people couldn't stand the cold, and the house was still smoked with charcoal. However, although the old lady was there, she was in good spirits, her gray hair was combed neatly, and her eyes were very bright. Seeing Lu Qinglan, the old lady turned her head to her eldest daughter-in-law Su Shi and said, "Look at this girl who has gone back, her face and plates are a lot rounder, I am afraid that it is not good to arrange the food in our house at home." ”

Ye purlin is the second, and there is a big brother above. It's just that this eldest brother is not very good at writing and ink, and later became a businessman to support his younger brother in school. After Ye Purlin developed, he was also in awe of his eldest brother and sister-in-law, and the family relationship was still good.

Su is also the daughter of a businessman, although there are inevitably some small problems that love to be calculating and calculating, but in general, she is still a very decent person.

At this time, hearing her mother-in-law laugh at Lu Qinglan like this, Su Shi said to her: "I see that our Qinglan's face is indeed a lot better, and the water and soil in the south of the Yangtze River are really nurturing." ”

Lu Qinglan gave them a salute and said with a smile: "I am ashamed of what the old lady said, and I am lazy at home, so I have gained weight." ”

The old lady beckoned her to sit beside her, "It's good to be fat, it's good to be fat, and you look blessed when you're fat...... I just like our Runrun like that. ”

There are two girls in the Ye family's big house, the girl born to the Lu family is Xingsan, whose maiden name is Zhuyu, and her nickname is Runrun. Just over six years old, as his name suggests, he is round and jade, white and fat, with a pair of big eyes flickering, like a white jade ball. There is nothing that the adults in the family don't like.

When it came to Runrun, the old lady asked Banxia and said, "What about Runrun?" Calling her to come and see her aunt, I usually talk about it here, why did her aunt come back, but she was nowhere to be seen. ”

Banxia gave the old lady what he heard Forsythia say on the road.

After hearing this, the old lady was also angry, she liked the original Lu family, and naturally looked down on the later Jing'an county lord. And the county lord of Jing'an, although he seems to be peaceful to people, is actually an arrogant temper, looking at everyone as if he is looking down. The old lady's husband died early, he was widowed at the age of forty, and he was going to be strong for a lifetime, but he didn't expect a 'living bodhisattva' to come to his old home.

"Call Runrun here." The old lady instructed Banxia, "Just say what I said." ”

Banxia lowered her head, and was just about to go out, when she heard someone outside hurriedly opening the leather curtain and running in, she was about to reprimand, the little maid had already hurriedly knelt down and said: "Old lady, the person at the other end of the county just passed the word, saying that our three girls had fainted, and they couldn't wake up no matter how they screamed!" ”