On the tenth day of the first lunar month, the gate of the Lu family was wide open, the door was full of guests, and the car car was jammed on the street. The relatives and friends of the Lu family, whether they are familiar with each other or not, but all those who receive the posts come with gifts, and they only need to touch the glory of the Lu family. The so-called return of real gold has no color, and when the stubborn iron is brilliant, it is nothing more than that.

The Lu family was full of smugness and joy.

Everyone in the second room of the Lu family came by car early in the morning, and Lu Weili even regarded himself as the second master of the Lu family, and greeted Zhang Luo with Lu Huancheng in the front hall, and drilled around in the crowd. His two sons also followed Lu Chengyong to entertain guests in the hall.

Zhou is dressed up brightly today, wearing a newly made red silk satin armor, a stone blue satin skirt, and a gilded phoenix hairpin on his head. Seeing that the father and son were all in the hall, she went to the Lu Jia family's room in the back. When I entered the door, I saw a female dependent sitting in the house, and the stars and moons surrounded Lu Jia's family.

Lu Jiashi wore a fateful costume, sat on the chair of the first master in the main hall, and spoke to the ladies with a smile.

This week, the Zhou family hurriedly stepped forward and said a thousand blessings to the Zhou family, and said respectfully: "Greetings to the old lady, the old lady is really a blessed person, sheltering the whole family, and Brother Yong can have this time." Now that Brother Yong is prominent, I am afraid that I will not redouble my filial piety to the old lady in the future, and the old lady will wait to enjoy the blessings! After a pause, he smiled and said, "It's a pity that I'm the one who has no luck, and my two sons are unsuccessful, so I don't have any hope." Lu Jiashi was happy to hear this, laughed a few times, and said to her: "Second daughter-in-law, your mouth is used to pleasing people!" Oiled and honeyed, coax my old woman to be happy! Brother Yong is also your nephew, since he is out, can he not pull his relatives? As he spoke, he said to the girl beside him, "Take a stool and sit down with your second wife, and sit down and talk." ”

It was Baolian who listened to the order, she went to set up a stool next to the Liu family, and the Zhou family blessed Lu Jia's body and sat on the ground.

Liu Shi glanced at her, and snorted lightly in his nose, the two of them had a quarrel last time, and they still haven't solved it, but they are not good at speaking in front of people, so they only twisted their heads away. Zhou looked at her and hated her, and ignored her at the moment, only talking to the female relatives next to him.

The women sat and chatted for a while, and one of them asked, "Why don't you see the eldest grandmother in your mansion?" Sister Lu Hong was sitting with Lu Jia's family, and when she heard the question, she hurriedly replied: "There are many things today, and my sister-in-law is outside." The woman laughed in her nose and said to Lu Jiashi: "I heard at home that this young grandmother is in charge of everything in the house. In the past, I thought it was a joke, but now I see that it is true. I really can't see that the old lady and the wife are so open-minded, and the affairs of the family are all handled by the daughter-in-law. After finishing speaking, another woman sitting next to her rushed to say: "It's not like that, if you want to say that the young master of the Lu family is now a member of the imperial court, she has also been enshrined by the imperial court, so she should check it, but she is still showing up outside." It is also the old lady in the house who is magnanimous, if it is placed in our house, we will never allow her to be like this. ”

While the two were talking, another woman interjected and laughed: "The two sisters-in-law don't know, when I heard that this grandmother got married, she brought a lot of money. It is also a shame that she is maneuvering inside and out, opening a shop to do business, and there can be such a rich scene in the family, and she can't complain that people are talking at home. ”

It turned out that the Lu family had suddenly made a fortune, although there were many people who tended to be inflammatory, and there were also those who were enthusiastic and jealous. However, the Lu family is now considered an official eunuch, and these short-eyed women dare not provoke openly, and they know that Lu Jia's family loves face very much, so they use the topic to play and secretly accuse the Lu family and daughter-in-law of not abiding by women's morals. Sure enough, the discussion was over, and Lu Jia's face sank.

Sister Lu Hong sat beside her, watching the woman's noise coldly, and when they had said enough, she smiled and said, "A few wives don't go out of the door on weekdays, and their ears are stretched out and long. The things in other people's homes are also so clear. Several sisters-in-law talk about female virtue, I saw a word in the book earlier, but it talks about female virtue, but it is the four words 'quiet and chaste', but I don't know what it means. Is it okay for wives to talk about the rights and wrongs of others like this? A few words made the long-tongued woman's face red and speechless.

Sister Lu Hong said with a straight face: "I don't know what I do, but my sister-in-law presides over all the affairs in my family." is really as my sisters-in-law said, my family can have today, all of which is the credit of my sister-in-law. This is already a great virtue, but what else? Don't you really want to learn from your wives, who live at home all day long, don't know wheat, don't know grains, don't work your limbs, and have a wasted family business, but you talk about the rights and wrongs of others, so that you can be virtuous? ! ”

Her words were so harsh that the women present all scolded them for their bloody heads. Everyone was speechless for a while, and the Liu family was afraid of hurting his daughter's reputation, so he hurriedly reprimanded: "You kid, in front of many elders, how can you be so rude!" At the same time, he smiled at everyone: "Children are not sensible, ladies don't take it to heart." For my sake and for her grandmother's sake, bear with me. ”

When everyone saw the steps, they all laughed. There is one person, it is best to provoke right and wrong on weekdays, quarrel with others, refuse to give up, and snort lightly: "I originally showed a good family for the girl in the house, and that side is also a wealthy family, and the family has endless food to eat and endless silk to wear." That kid has just been lifted, and it's not worse than the house. I originally intended to make peace for the house, but now I see the girl's temperament, I really don't dare to say it. ”

Liu was upset about his daughter's family affairs, and when he heard this, he was immediately anxious, and when he came up, he pulled Sister Lu Hong and the person to make compensation, and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, don't go to your heart, this child has a fast mouth, but he doesn't have that heart." I asked her to compensate my sister-in-law, and I asked my sister-in-law to pay more attention to the child's family affairs. Saying that, he couldn't stop persecuting Sister Lu Hong.

Sister Lu Hong has a pungent and straightforward temper, she looks down on this woman as a person, how can she make amends according to her words, so she has a stalemate with her mother.

The woman was originally just waiting for Miss Lu to make amends with herself, so that she could grow her own majesty. Seeing that Sister Lu Hong refused to bow her head for a long time, her face sank, she snorted coldly twice, and said, "Mrs. Lu, don't you stop, I can't stand the eldest lady in the house." Miss Guifu is such a high-tempered person, but I am afraid that ordinary people will not be able to climb high. I'll tell my relatives about it when I go back tomorrow, so that everyone can be prepared. ”

Liu became more and more anxious, and grabbed Sister Lu Hong and reprimanded: "You girl, how can you learn to be so stubborn?!" Mother's words were heard! The woman was still standing aside, and said coolly: "The girl of the Lu family is naturally everyone's best girl, but I don't know who she listened to, so she became this temper." What she said was an allusion to Xia Chunchao's instigation of her sister-in-law to disagree with her mother-in-law.

At this moment, a clear female voice suddenly sounded outside: "I heard that the daughter of Mrs. Li's family is unmarried, how can she have such idleness to protect other people's girls?" As soon as the words fell, I saw a pretty young woman wearing a red shirt with big sleeves and a gold embroidered moire peacock pattern on her shoulders, and walked up to the hall gently and skillfully.

When everyone saw her dressing, they knew that it was Xia Chunchao, the young grandmother of the Lu family.

Xia Chunchao walked up to the hall, looked around first, smiled, and stepped forward to greet Lu Jia and Liu.

Liu looked uncomfortable and didn't dare to respond. Lu Jiashi asked, "Is everything outside in order?" Xia Chunchao replied with a smile: "It's all in order, there are people watching everywhere, and I definitely won't go on a business trip." As he spoke, he smiled at the woman who was making trouble: "But I was just outside, and I heard Mrs. Li say something indistinctly. I was outside, I didn't hear clearly, and I asked Mrs. Li to tell him. ”

This Li didn't know why, but he was a little afraid of her, and laughed again and again: "I didn't say anything, I think the young grandmother heard it." Xia Chunchao didn't give up, and said with a smile: "I remember that last year, Master Li's cargo ship capsized in the river, and the debt has not been paid off yet." Poor for you fatherless and widowed. It's just that I can't imagine that Mrs. Li is now living by the media? It's just that the Li family is not as good as in the past, if the poor family is broken, what kind of family can they befriend, how can they say that they are good relatives? Seeing her expose the bottom in person, Li was ashamed and ashamed, unable to stand and not say a word. Xia Chunchao said again: "Since my young master has become a member of these three grades, our girl is a fair and fair official eunuch lady, how many people want to rush to marry us?" Mrs. Li said that 'ordinary people can't climb high', so it really can't climb high. Although Mrs. Li is kind, she is a little self-conscious. ”

After she finished speaking, all the women in the hall whispered, pointed and poked, and sneered at the Li family in a low voice. Li stood in the hall, his face was red, his forehead was sweating, and he was at a loss for a while. It turned out that what Xia Chunchao said was the truth, and her man asked the Xia family to borrow a sum of silver taels before going out to sell goods. But because of bad luck, the cargo ship capsized in the river, and the debt has not been paid to this day. And because Xia Yuanwai had also asked someone to ask for money twice, this Li family held a grudge, and today he was going to be ugly with Xia Chunchao while he was free. Who knew that he was hit by the main master, and he was humiliated in front of everyone, and he really had nowhere to stay.

It happened that Xia Chunchao refused to spare her, and asked with a smile: "I heard that Li Gongzi cheated by buying rolls in the spring of this year, and was found out by his own Xuezheng and changed his reputation. Later, there were rumors that Li Gongzi was going to go to court and go to jail, but I don't know if the matter can be settled? As he spoke, he paused slightly, nodded and smiled: "Your widow is unemployed, and life is difficult. In the future, if there is any problem, send someone to the house to talk about it. Anyway, our two families can be regarded as a crossover, and we will give away a lot of silver rice when we give alms outside the country a year, not as bad as my sister-in-law. ”

When Li Shi heard this, he was just like a stick splitting his face, and he immediately stumbled and almost fell.

Lu Jiashi couldn't look at it, so he said: "Spring Dynasty girl, has the banquet been prepared?" If it's good, please all of you take a seat, and it's not fun to sit there. ”

Xia Chunchao knew that she was about to break the siege, and was about to speak, when Baohe, who was standing on the door, suddenly said: "Mrs. Auntie, cousin girl has arrived!" ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw Aunt Zhang leading Zhang Xueyan into the door with a smile.