Mrs. Cui simply had two big heads: "Xiuwan, what are you doing!" "When I was a child, I thought my daughter was stable and had an idea, but now it seems that the idea is too big.

Cui Xiuwan lowered her head and didn't speak, only stopped in front of Yinzhu to prevent people from dragging her down. Mrs. Cui was so angry that both temples throbbed, and she couldn't care about the maids beside her: "How dare you be confused?" King Anjun came to the door several times and asked for medicine for you, and how much face was given, but you didn't want to live this day in the future! ”

stepping on the face of his fiancé like this, not to mention that this is still the prince and the king, even an ordinary person will be annoyed. Didn't you see that when King Anjun left, the smile was only on his face, but not in his eyes? will become a pro in the future, does Cui Xiuwan still want to be favored by her husband?

Cui Xiuwan bit her lip and finally raised her head: "Mother, didn't you hear what he said just now?" He, he's going back to the northwest. When the time comes, I won't even be able to see my parents! The place in the northwest...... But how can you stay! ”

Mrs. Cui's heart softened when she heard this, and she stroked Cui Xiuwan's hair and said, "Father and mother are naturally reluctant to you, but marrying and obeying your husband is the rule." Besides, King Anjun may not be able to go back to the northwest, didn't the emperor build him a county palace in the capital? ”

Cui Xiuwan saw that her mother's eyes were soft, and there was a glimmer of hope in her heart, seeing that there were only a few henchmen and maids in the hall, she gritted her teeth and said, "Mother, if I don't marry King Anjun, I can stay with my father and mother!" ”

"What?" Mrs. Cui was so shocked by her remarks that she almost jumped up, and hurriedly waved her hand to tell the maids to go out and guard the door, before she reprimanded, "What nonsense are you talking about! This is a family affair given by the first emperor to marry, how can you not marry! ”

Cui Xiuwan said with tears in her eyes: "Since the first emperor decided on this family business, my father has not moved in the position of the prefect of Fuzhou for more than ten years, which shows that this family business has attracted the taboo of the emperor." If our family can push this family business, maybe the queen mother and the emperor will be happy. ”

"Nonsense, nonsense!" Mrs. Cui only felt that her right eyelid kept jumping, "Not to mention that if it wasn't for the first emperor back then, your father wouldn't have been able to become a prefect in his early thirties. You don't have to be confused, even if the queen mother and the emperor don't like the king of Anjun, but if our family pushes the family matter, it is to resist the decree, and it is to sweep the face of the first emperor. Don't you know what the crime of resisting the decree is? ”

She took a breath and softened her voice again: "King Anjun is no longer liked by the Queen Mother, and he is also the son of the first emperor, if you marry in the past, it is indispensable to be rich and honored in your life." What's more, King Anjun is a talent, and he values you again, what's so bad? ”

Cui Xiuwan's heart sank, and she said with red eyes: "But I don't want to marry him!" ”

With a snap, she had already received a slap in the face, and Mrs. Cui was so angry that she gasped: "The marriage is a big event, the words of the matchmaker of your parents, how can you make your own assertions?" Thrush! Send the eldest girl back, and don't let her go out of the house again—"

Before she finished her words, Cui Xiuwan tilted her body, vomited with a wow, vomited so much that she searched her heart and liver, her face was white and weak, and Mrs. Cui was so frightened that she didn't have time to say anything, and called the maids to send people back to the room.

Cui Xiuwan was held all the way, she had vomited all the food she ate at noon, she still kept retching, even vomited bile, choked and coughed again, sweating on her forehead, and seemed to faint at any time. Mrs. Cui was annoyed and distressed, and tossed for a long time before boiling the medicine for Cui Xiuwan to drink, and then walked to the outhouse and sat down, with a long sigh.

Cui Youwan has been busy with her, and at this time she walked behind Mrs. Cui and gently beat her shoulder, and said softly: "Mother, my sister is also reluctant to ...... father and mother."

"Am I willing to give her up?" Mrs. Cui was angry and couldn't help but complain to her youngest daughter, "But this is a family affair set by the first emperor, who dares to resist the decree?" What's more, King Anjun is no longer liked by the Queen Mother, it is also royal blood, what's wrong with marrying in the past? Originally, I was too polite to treat her, but I never expected that I didn't want to marry the prince of the county......"

Cui Youwan bowed her head and said, "The prince is naturally good. I see that he is very attentive to his sister, and it is a blessing to be able to marry such a husband. ”

"Yes, yes." Mrs. Cui suddenly felt a sense of resonance, "What did you say your sister was thinking?" Why can't your father be promoted because of this family business - how many people can be the head of a house at your father's age? What a cranky idea! ”

"But-" Cui Youwan quietly raised her eyes and spied on her mother's expression, "My sister's health is really not good, she is so unaccustomed to the water and soil from Fuzhou to the capital, if she goes to the northwest, she ......"

These words struck Mrs. Cui's heart, and she couldn't help but feel worried. Cui Xiuwan is always her beloved daughter, not to mention that she has such a foolish idea for the sake of her family, and she really can't bear to blame her.

Cui Youwan lowered her head and whispered: "If my sister's body is really bad, my father and mother must not be able to force her, but she can't resist the decree - in fact, as long as the daughter of the Cui family marries the prince of the county, it will not be considered to resist the decree, right?" If my sister really can't-daughter is willing to share her parents' worries, she can't watch her sister ......"

"Where is it so strict...... Mrs. Cui took her little daughter's hand, "It's a mess these days, it scares you, right?" Don't worry, don't the doctors say that your sister is just a poor liver qi and a discordant spleen and stomach, which is not a serious illness. ”

"But my sister looks like a ...... day by day"

Mrs. Cui thought of her daughter's increasingly thin face, and she was also distressed, but she said: "Mother knows that you feel sorry for your sister, but the first emperor set the Cui family's eldest girl, and if Li Dai Tao is stiff, it will also be a protest." Don't worry, your sister's illness will always be cured slowly. What she said today was a moment of confusion, and you shouldn't take it to heart, if your father knew it, it would be great. ”

Cui Youwan nodded obediently, but a trace of disappointment flashed in her eyes: "My daughter knows and won't say it to anyone." It's just that I'm afraid that the prince of the county will be angry today......"

When Mrs. Cui heard this, she suddenly had a headache again: "Yes, I don't know what the prince of the county thinks at this time......"

Shen Shu was sitting silently on horseback at the moment, slowly pacing the street by the horse.

Fifteen followed him closely, looked at his face worriedly, and only dared to lean up and whisper for a long time: "Lord Wang, Miss Cui is a woman, and she has never seen the war in the northwest, so she will inevitably be frightened-"

Shen Shu interrupted him lightly: "Why comfort me. She's not frightened, she's -- she's not interested in the Northwest. "And he has no interest in himself.

Fifteen said dryly: "This ...... Women are like this, and the second girl Cui seems to be ......"

Shen Shu smiled faintly: "No, in fact, Second Miss Cui is not interested. It's just to liven up the atmosphere that I asked him one by one.

Fifteen has nothing to say. Can't he see it? It's really not interesting to deceive yourself like this. But what else could he say?

Shen Shuxin took a few steps and said as if talking to himself: "I thought that there were Japanese robbers in Fuzhou, and although Miss Cui was a woman, she should know a little about things in the army. Unexpectedly, they didn't take these things to heart at all, and they avoided the northwest. ”

He suddenly smiled bitterly: "Fifteen, the father and daughter of the Jiang family heard that the Northwest Army needs medicinal materials to remove cold and paralysis, and they can also propose a recipe for turpentine wine, but my future wife regards the Northwest as a flood beast." "The Jiang family, who have a grudge, is more concerned about these things than his future wife.

Fifteen opened his mouth and said reluctantly: "Miss Cui is a deep girl, and she can't compare to Miss Jiang." Besides, Miss Jiang's family of doctors is naturally benevolent......" When he said this, he remembered Jiang Fanghui's matter, and quickly closed his mouth.

Shen Shu looked down at his two hands holding the reins of the horse: "If she goes to the northwest after getting married, I'm afraid she won't be able to stay for even a day, right?" His hands were slender, but the knuckles were obvious, the skin was a little rough, there were several dark scars on the back of the hand, and the palms were covered with thin calluses, especially at the tiger's mouth.

And Cui Xiuwan's hands, although he just glanced at it just now, he had already seen the slender ten-fingered spring onions, the skin was blown and broken, the nails were neatly trimmed, and there were still two long nails like onion pipes on the tail fingers. Such a pair of hands is simply incompatible with that place in the northwest.

Fifteen said helplessly: "Lord Wang, this is a family affair set by the first emperor, I just fell in love with Miss Cui is everyone's lady, the rules are good, and she can run the family director......" He said in the end, he also felt a little lacking in confidence, Cui Da girl is like this, can she really run the family director?

Shen Shu smiled bitterly: "The director of the house, can you be like your aunt?" ”

Fifteen muttered: "Madame—isn't that from the general's family......"

Dingbei Hou's wife Du Shi, the daughter of the military general's family, but also knows how to be well-read, and more importantly, he gets along with Dingbei Hou Yinyan and his wife, Dingbei Hou leads people to fight with the Beiban outside, Du can go to the mother-in-law to raise the children at home, and never teach Dingbei Hou to have the slightest worries. One year, the Northern Barbarians were menacing, and many of the female dependents of many families fled to the rear, but Du Shi still sat firmly at home. That year, the Beiban fought only fifty miles away from the city, but Du Shi was calm, and he never even missed a meal of dim sum at home.

Shen Shu was fifteen years old that year, and he was told that he had already decided on a family affair set by the first emperor. He couldn't help but think that if he could marry a wife like Du in the future, he would have no regrets. Later, I heard that Cui's family was in Fuzhou, and there were often Japanese robbers disturbing the city, and war was inevitable, so I had more expectations for Cui Xiuwan.

It is precisely because of this thought that after he came to the capital, he paid special attention to this marriage, he didn't see Cui Xiuwan a few times, and he thought she was a girl with ideas, but he didn't expect to see each other this time, but it was such a result.

"That's it." Shen Shu perked up, "If she doesn't want to go to the northwest in the future, she just stays in the capital, and she doesn't need to think about it." ”

Fifteen was taken aback: "Lord Wang, how can this be done?" Miss Cui has never been to the northwest, so she is inevitably a little scared, and she will follow the prince in the future, so it will be fine. "A woman's family marries a chicken and a dog and a dog, how can there be such a person who stays in the capital and pampers her, and throws her husband far away at the border.

Shen Shu smiled slightly: "Why be reluctant." "After all, she's just a strange woman. Even if the woman's family wants to say "If you are ruthless, I will take a break", he is a dignified man, does he still have to be sad for this? In detail, there are a few husbands and wives who get along with each other, and they respect each other like guests, which is already very good.

Fifteen saw that his eyebrows and eyes were stretched, and his heart was happy and distressed, so he could only say something else, but Shen Shu shook the reins and said, "Mrs. Cui said that the Cui family has an acquaintance of the pharmacist, I think about it, isn't the one who offered the medicine the Jiang family?" ”

Fifteen hurriedly said: "Exactly." I heard that it is Jiang Langzhong's cousin. The prince is thinking-"

"Since he can offer medicine at a critical juncture, he is not a profiteer who loves money like his life, maybe he may ask......" Shen Shu was not sure, he returned to the capital this time, and the matter of getting married only accounted for one-third of his energy, and the remaining two-thirds of his work was busy looking for cheaper sources of herbs, but he didn't find anything. The pharmacist who donated the medicine was the Jiang family, which was a little embarrassing......

Fifteen touched his head and said, "Is the prince planning to visit?" But this—"

"For the sake of the Northwest Army, we must always go and see." Shen Shu clamped the horse's belly between his legs, "Let's go, go back and see, what etiquette is appropriate." ”

Fifteen said with a bitter face: "I'm afraid that Dieyi will be noisy again." ”

Shen Shu smiled: "It's just a fuss in the ears." She just hated the two taels of silver. ”

Fifteen couldn't help but laugh too. In the Jiangjia Medicine Hall in Wuxi, Dieyi went to Xingshi to ask for guilt, but in the end she was squeezed by the Jiang girl's words. Two taels of silver is nothing, but Dieyi can't swallow this breath.

"My subordinates think that Miss Jiang is really very interesting......

The very interesting girl Jiang Taohua is quietly praising Jiang Xi at the moment: "Dad, you are too good today." In this way, King Anjun should be embarrassed to embarrass us anymore. ”

Jiang Xi was a little embarrassed: "Dad didn't think about it so much......" When he went up to expose the scam, he didn't recognize it as King Anjun at all. However, it is also a good thing to let King Anjun accept a favor from him.

"Taohua, what do you think, you seem to be very worried about this?" He saw King Anjun a few times, but he never thought that he would be retaliated against by the other party, why did Taohua bring it up every time, as if he was very worried.

"It's Dad, you always think about people for the good, and you don't have the heart to defend people at all......" Taohua thought to herself, you didn't see the powerful appearance of those two maids, the so-called master must have its servant, then most of the servants must have its master, the maid is full of hostility towards the Jiang family, how good will the master be?

Jiang Xi didn't agree with his daughter's evaluation: "King Anjun is so concerned about the Northwest Sergeant, Dad is not a bad person." In the northwest, although my father has never been there, he has heard that it is very bitter. King Anjun has lived there for more than ten years, which is not easy. ”

"Daddy-" Taohua really had nothing to say to her father, "that was sent by the first emperor." Besides, he has an uncle of Dingbei Hou over there, what kind of hardship can he suffer? ”

Jiang Xi shook his head: "I saw it just now, this King of Anjun has calluses on his hands, and there are scars on the back of his hands, not the one who blindly pampers him." ”

This Taohua really didn't pay attention. Since the conflict in the medicine hall, she saw that Shen Shu was instinctively in a state of alert, and ignored it elsewhere.

Jiang Xi couldn't help but smile when he saw that his daughter had nothing to say: "Sister Tao, you are too heavy-minded." Although King Anjun said that he was, but people didn't do anything, why are you so thief-proof? ”

Taohua had nothing to say: "Anyway, Dad, let's go back to Wuxi as soon as possible." ”

Jiang Xi sighed: "Okay, dad will go and discuss with your uncle and grandfather." ”

"Dad is the grass on the wall-" Taohua wrinkled her nose at him, "Whoever blows the wind will fall to whoever side, and his position is not firm at all." ”

Jiang Xi laughed haha, not at all dissatisfied: "Okay, good, dad will definitely fall to you this time, okay?" ”

The father and daughter are happy here, but the Cao family and Jiang Yanhua's mother and daughter are suffering from gains and losses. The Cao family has a natural fear of the people in the royal family, Jiang Xiwan rejected Shen Shu, she breathed a sigh of relief, and only thought about the affairs of the Jinghai Marquis Mansion: "It's better to prepare for this kind of life - but the screen has already been sent out, what should I bring when I come to the door?" Mrs. Tai is not feeling well, should she bring some medicinal herbs to replenish her body? ”

"Mother-" Jiang Yanhua was also very worried about her mother's confusion, what Mrs. Tai is not well, it is just an excuse, if it weren't for the fact that they helped King Anjun here today, I'm afraid Mrs. Tai's body will continue to be unwell, "How can anyone give medicinal materials casually, it's too unlucky." "Let's just say that their family runs a pharmacy, and I don't see Taohua often giving people medicinal herbs as gifts. During the Chinese New Year, Taohua also said that if you are not very familiar with each other, it is not appropriate to give things in the mouth, let alone medicinal materials.

"What then?" Cao ran out of ideas.

Jiang Yanhua thought for a while: "Let's see how the Jinghai Marquis Mansion makes a post." If you invite our family, naturally there will be a sister to find a way. ”

"Will you invite our family?" The Cao family was a little reluctant at the moment, "Speaking of which, you are the serious niece of the Cao family......"

Jiang Yanhua waved his hand impatiently: "Look at the meaning of the Jinghai Marquis Mansion." "If there is no Jiang family, I am afraid that they will not have a chance to set foot in the Jinghai Hou Mansion at all, and I don't know if the Jinghai Hou will mention them to Mrs. Tai when he goes back today.

Of course, Jinghai Marquis Cao Xilin did not mention Cao's mother and daughter to his mother, he had to explain this kind of thing to his wife first, after all, Mrs. Tai just moved her mouth, but the troubles were all Jinghai Marquis Mrs. Meng's.

Mrs. Jinghaihou's grandfather was a university scholar, and the old Jinghaihou first won the Meng family before asking for marriage to the Meng family on behalf of his son. At that time, although the Meng family was not as prosperous as before, it was quite famous in the clear stream, and the old Jinghaihou took a lot of effort, and finally brought his son to the door to apprentice, so that he could be regarded as marrying the Meng family.

Meng was born dignified and beautiful, is a typical lady, I read poetry and books, and can run a family, only a few months after marrying into the door, the Jinghai Marquis Mansion up and down are clearly organized. If you insist on finding fault, only a thin dowry.

However, Lao Jinghaihou married this daughter-in-law, not to covet the dowry. The people in this army, although they don't have much oil and water when there is no war to fight, but when they start fighting, they will have a lot of money. Lao Jinghaihou was spelled out in the battle of swords and guns, and the spoils of war plus the emperor's reward were enough to spend a few lifetimes, but the mud legs on his body couldn't get rid of it for a while, even if he lived in the gorgeous Hou Mansion, the family was still in a mess. That's why he must marry his son to a scholarly girl, so that he can raise the lintel of his house by one liter.

I have to say that Lao Jinghaihou is very discerning. After the Meng family entered the door, the Cao family had a new atmosphere, and the old Jinghai Hou was happy to hand over the power of the middle feed to his daughter-in-law immediately. With the respect of her father-in-law and her husband's respect, Meng Shiwei gave orders and became a real housewife. However, there are always shortcomings in the United States, and her relationship with her mother-in-law has always been just a face-to-face relationship, which probably has something to do with the old Jinghai Marquis suppressing his wife and daughter-in-law at that time.

"The master is back." Mrs. Jinghai Marquis never called Cao Xilin as the marquis at home, and occasionally when the husband and wife talk about a private word, they will also call a senior brother, which is quite emotional. Therefore, although Cao Xilin also had a few concubines, none of them could keep up with Mrs. Jinghaihou's footsteps.

Mrs. Jinghaihou personally came to change Cao Xilin's clothes, and the eldest girl walked back and forth through the clouds and the moon, took the clothes and brought tea and water, and also sent a bowl of lotus seed soup, because Cao Xilin often patrolled outside, and was afraid that he would be hungry before the meal was served, so he taught him to pad first.

There is only a small bowl of soup, if it is cool lotus leaf soup in summer, it is red date glutinous rice soup in winter, it is dry bird's nest soup in autumn, and it is this soft and glutinous sweet lotus seed soup in spring.

This is Cao Xilin's practice after he took a position in the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, and the Meng family has never forgotten it for many years. After two mouthfuls of lotus seed soup, Cao Xilin's body and heart became comfortable together, and Meng Shi slowly asked, "What's wrong with the master, is there something wrong?" ”

Cao Xilin poured a small bowl of lotus seed soup into his stomach and sighed, "It's not a problem. These days, can there be a post from Cao Wu's sister-in-law on the door, saying that she wants to come to say goodbye to her mother? ”

There are not a few posts received by the Marquis of Jinghai Mansion every day, and no matter how good Mrs. Jinghaihou is, she can't remember for a while: "Cao Wu? ”

The big girl Chuanyun was busy reminding in a low voice beside her: "It's Miss Luo's father." ”

"Oh-" Meng Shi realized, "It turned out to be his own sister-in-law...... "There are too many clansmen over there in the south of the Yangtze River, and some of them still want to stick them up, anyway, as long as they have a Cao character."

Cao Xilin sighed: "My husband's surname is Jiang." ”

"There are people with the surname Jiang." As soon as Cao Xilin said this, Meng immediately remembered, "It's the post of Jiang Langzhong of the household department, I flipped through it, but it was his cousin who sent the post, and it was the room that cured the crime of the virtuous concubine Niangniang back then." ”

Cao Xilin nodded and said, "That's it." Master Jiang San's wife is Cao Wu's sister-in-law. ”

Meng Shi frowned slightly: "It's strange that I said that I came to ask my aunt for peace, I think Jiang Langzhong has nothing to do with the old man - and his daughter only had something to do with the palace last year - so he suppressed the post." It seems that with the post, there are also four table screens? ”

Chuanyun hurriedly said: "Yes." The four Baishou screens are now resting in the library. ”

Cao Xilin sighed: "It's both a gift and a gift, and you can post it next in a few days, let them come to Mrs. Tai's court." ”