Seeing Chi Jingyi kneeling silently and not saying a word, Old Lady Chi slapped the table in front of her heavily, and asked: "There is no such thing, grandfather and ask you, what is wrong with Miss Su's body?!" ”

My grandfather was a wise man, and he wanted to have the ability to see the fire and see the subtleties. Chi Jingyi had long expected that some things might not be hidden from his grandfather, but he didn't expect that once his grandfather became suspicious, he would be able to find out everything in such a short period of time.

Maybe his grandfather seems to have given him power, but he has never been at ease, and he is still watching his every move after all.

Chi Jingyi closed his eyes, and when the old lady Chi saw that he was still thinking about the fifth girl Su in his heart at this moment, the expression of anger and pain on his face became even heavier for a while, and said, "Do you know that your grandmother fainted on the spot after hearing Dr. Zhao talk about the body of the fifth girl Su?" How much hope our Chi family has for the future eldest grandson, don't you know? ”

Chi Jingyi naturally understood it in his heart, and he also knew that he insisted on marrying Yingluo and coming back, and he would definitely not have a smooth journey in the future, but he was moved, he couldn't help but feel like he was enchanted, but if there was a little hope, he was not willing to give up lightly.

Since he was born, his life has been planned, he has followed his grandfather's teachings, step by step on the path set for him by his grandfather, growing up step by step, and inheriting the family business without any waves.

This is not a road he likes, but he can't struggle, and Yingluo is a variable in his life, he likes Yingluo very much, and the more rare she is, the more difficult it is for him to let go, and he even feels that if he loses her, his life can really only be like this, and there is no more color.

Even if he knew that she had a problem with her body and might not be able to get pregnant in the future, he never took it to heart, and even wanted to marry her back, he told her that if she could not get pregnant in the future, he would have a brother's child, this was not to coax Yingluo, he really thought so, deep down in his heart he wanted to fight once in the matter of marrying a wife and having children, as if in this way his life would be more alive.

Mrs. Chi seemed to know her grandson's thoughts, and said tiredly: "You have been smart since you were a child, you are a natural reading material, and you are calm and changeable at a young age. Grandfather took pity on you and felt uncomfortable, so he thought that if you could follow your wishes, it would be up to you, but grandfather didn't expect you to ......"

Old lady Chi sighed as she spoke, waved her hand and said, "That's it, that's it, now that you're older, if you want to take the imperial examination, your grandfather won't stop you, the family business still has your father and a few uncles, and you have your cousins." Go ahead, grandfather is tired. ”

When Chi Jingyi heard that the old lady Chi said such disheartening words, she mourned in her heart for a while, kowtowed, and said, "Grandfather, my grandson is wrong, and my grandson knows that I am wrong." The grandson should not gamble on the future of the Chi family, but Miss Su Wu and her grandson have already made a marriage, and ask her grandfather to fulfill her grandson. ”

Chi Jingyi said and buckled his head deeply, his tone was full of firmness, the old lady Chi was silent for a moment, but said: "This matter will be talked about later, since it is a marriage, the number of etiquette is not bad, don't let others say that our Chi family is unreasonable, today is the three baptisms of the Changping Houfu, you should get up and clean up and congratulate you." ”

Chi Jingyi raised his head at this time and said, "Thank you grandfather for being tolerant." ”

Old lady Chi waved his hand and said, "Go, come back and kneel in the ancestral hall by yourself, when your heart is calm and understand, when you will come to see your grandfather again." ”

Chi Jingyi kowtowed respectfully again, then stood up and walked out of the house, the carriage he was riding in had just left Chi Mansion for two teas, and a horse rushed to the door of Chi Mansion, the person on the horse was extremely burly, looking at it was about forty, with a beard and a pair of exquisite eyes.

This person is Hai Yuntian, the envoy of Fengzhou who returned to Beijing to report on his work, and Chi Jingyi and his eldest daughter Hailan made a family decision more than half a month ago, and both parents have signed and sealed the marriage book of the two. Just under the New Year's Day, Hai Yuntian returned to Beijing to report on work, a long journey, the convoy just entered the capital, he did not go back to the house and first hit a horse to come to this Chi Mansion, to see what the future son-in-law is like, whether he can be worthy of his eldest daughter Hai Yuntian.

Hai Yuntian, as a member of the three grades, is also a dictatorial and unconventional character in the locality, and has developed a kind of intimidating majesty all year round, although he is not wearing an official robe, but he is also rich and noble, and when he arrived outside the gate of the Chi family's mansion, he never got off the horse, but only shouted at the little guy standing at the gate of the mansion in a deep voice, and said: "What about Chi Jingyi?" Let him come out to meet the future father-in-law! ”

The porter of each province is a clever person with some eyesight, although the porter has never seen Hai Yuntian, it can be seen from his expression and demeanor that this person is not an idle person.

didn't regard Hai Yuntian as some nonsense, they all knew that the eldest prince was engaged to the girl of the third master's family in Ding'an Houfu, and the person in front of him claimed to be the father-in-law of the son, so it could only be the third master Su.

They had never seen Master Su San, but they knew that it was a civil official, and they heard that he was elegant and handsome, but the person in front of them ...... No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like Master Su San, and today the Hou Mansion of Changping is washing three, Master Su San, as the grandfather of the child, does not go to the Hou Mansion of Changping, what do you do here?

Although he was strange in his heart, the porter still replied respectfully: "If you go back to Lord Su, our eldest young master will take a carriage to the Changping Marquis Mansion before two teas. ”

When Hai Yuntian heard this, he said in a deep voice: "What Master Su?" I am Fengzhou's envoy Haiyuntian, but I can remember it clearly! ”

He didn't care about the stunned porter anymore, turned the horse's head and whipped and galloped away in the direction of the Changping Marquis Mansion.

One person and one horse walked away, and the porter Fang Cai looked at each other in astonishment, and discussed it, but he didn't think that Fang Cai was a liar, so he sent a small servant to pass the matter to the old lady in the house.

In the main room of the Zizhu Courtyard of the Marquis of Changping, Yingluo had already followed Su Yingyue to greet Su Yingqiong who was lying on the bed, and sat on a row of splendid pestles prepared on the side.

Su Yingqiong's appearance is somewhat similar to Ma's, but her eyebrows and eyes are the same as Song's, she has just given birth, her face is a little fat, her complexion is not bad, she wears a sapphire blue warm hat on her head, leans on the big pillow, and looks very dignified.

She wasn't embarrassed by Yingluo, Yingluo saw the gift, she even beckoned Yingluo in front of her, took Yingluo's hand and praised Yingluo's appearance twice, and finally gave a pair of shrimp whiskers red gold bracelets, which were of the same value as the meeting gift to Su Yingzi, and there was nothing too thin.

When the Yingluo sisters sat down, the old lady and others talked to Su Yingqiong, and the nurse hugged Brother Kang over, and the little baby was lying in swaddling clothes in festive red clothes.

The old lady and the others teased the child for a while, and when they saw that Su Yingqiong was tired, they smiled and told her to rest, and took Yingluo and the others out of Zizhu Courtyard and went to the Double Happiness Courtyard where the guests of the Hou Mansion were feasted.

Shuangxi Courtyard is the place where the Marquis of Changping Mansion is specially used to feast guests on weekdays, the flower hall is built very large, the flowers that have been arranged in it have already been arranged, magnificent, such a while, there are already several ladies who arrived early in the flower hall, all sitting around the side of the Wei family talking.

The old lady took people in, everyone got up, and after a salute, they sat down again, and the Wei family did not restrain Yingluo's girls, and introduced the three girls of the Changping Hou Mansion to Su Yingzi and Yingluo, and asked them to go to the west to find the girls from each mansion to play.

The two girls of the Changping Hou Mansion, the two girls who greeted the girls on behalf of the Changping Hou Mansion today are naturally the eldest girl Bai Jinhua.

She is seventeen this year, and she has already set the eldest son of Yongchang Bofu as her husband, but because the old lady of Yongchang Bofu passed away the year before last, she has not been able to get married. She has a delicate appearance and a cool personality, and when she entered the west room with Yingluo, she smiled and said: "The girls who come today are all good girls, and they are all girls who don't look up and look down in the future, all of them are easy to get along with, and several sisters don't need to be restrained." It's early today.,Presumably a few sisters must not have a good breakfast.,All kinds of pastries have been prepared on the table.,My sisters can take it at will.,If the taste is not right.,If you want to eat what you don't have, just tell me.,I'll let the kitchen make it.。 ”

Her voice was crisp, her smile was full, her speech was a little fast, and her words rolled out like beads, which did not make people feel noisy, but only made people feel warm and refreshing.

Su Yingyue, Su Yingying, and Su Yingyu have been to the Changping Hou Mansion a long time ago, and they are all familiar with the girls in the Changping Hou Mansion, so they smiled and joked when they heard the words.

The movement here immediately made the girls in the room look over, Yingluo and Su Yingying are both good looks, and they immediately caused the girls to talk in a low voice.

"It looks like the girls from the Ding'an Hou Mansion, I have long heard that there are beauties in the Ding'an Hou Mansion, and it is so."

"Heh, I don't know which one is Miss Su Si."

……

Whispering came, this time it was the first time since the lady of the Marquis Mansion was beaten up on the street and made a big joke, Yingluo had expected such a scene, and she didn't feel uncomfortable when she heard the words.

And Su Yingyu's sisters were so young that they immediately blushed and shrank back. Yingluo looked at Su Yingying, but saw that Su Yingying still had a gentle smile on her face, as if she hadn't heard the laughter of the girls.

She looked for a place where no one was around, sat down calmly and generously, and smiled and nodded at the girls who were secretly chewing their tongues, which shocked countless people for a while.

When everyone saw her like this, they made fun of her and fell behind, and gradually no one mentioned these things anymore, but they turned around as if nothing happened, and still laughed in twos and threes.

Su Yingyue sat next to Su Yingying, but said with a smile: "The fourth sister is really amazing. ”

Su Yingyue was severely punished last time because she was pitted by Su Yingying, and she knelt in the ancestral hall and got a cold again, and she has been sick and crooked until now. At this time, although she said words of admiration with a smile on her face, the ridicule in her eyes was unobstructed.

Su Yingying glanced at Su Yingyue and replied with a smile: "Each other, the third sister has also grown a lot. ”

Several sisters of the Su family sat down, Yingluo naturally did not use the pastries and food of the Changping Marquis Mansion, but sat with Su Yingzi and whispered.

After the time of the two pillars of incense, there were more girls in the house, fragrant clothes and sideburns, Zhu Hai Baocui, squeezed into a room. When there are more people, it will naturally be lively, and the sound of chirping laughter will continue to be heard.

Although Su Yingyue has just returned to Beijing and has not been able to go out to attend the party, she is the sister-in-law of Su Yingqiong's mother, Su Yingqiong should have asked the girl from the Changping Hou Mansion earlier, so Su Yingyue was also pulled by Bai Jinhua to laugh.

Only Yingluo and Su Yingzi were left on the side of the girl from Sufu, Yingluo was not in her mind, and the scene of Qin Yan talking to her in front of the Hou Mansion always flashed in her mind, and she always felt that something would happen today, so her interest in handkerchiefs was suppressed.

Su Yingzi has the heart to know more girls, but she is smart and precocious even on weekdays, but in the end, she is used to following Aunt Jiang to avoid living, and the Song family has not taken her out of the door much when she was in Suizhou, and she really doesn't know how to make friends with a room of noble girls at this time.

Yingluo saw that she was hesitating when she wrung the handkerchief in her hand, and unconsciously leaned over and whispered: "Seventh sister, look at the banquet here, the banquet is really the same, this concubine is the natural enemy, even the girls on weekdays are playing together, it is also a bunch of concubines, a piece of concubines, it's ridiculous that those big men are playing tricks in the previous dynasty, one by one treacherous and cunning, when they go back to the inner house, they really believe that their wives and concubines are harmonious, and their concubines are on a blind date." ”

As she spoke, she tapped her chin in the direction of the two concubines in the Marquis of Changping, and then glanced in the direction of Bai Jinhua, Su Yingzi's eyes suddenly lit up. Indeed, she just felt that there were all the nobles from all over the capital, and they were timid for a while and didn't dare to take a step, but now they were not afraid to be mentioned by Yingluo.

She didn't go to the front of the nobles, those concubines were from a high family, and everyone on the left and right was from the aunt, and she couldn't put on any nobles.

Seeing that Su Yingzi bit her lip slightly, and was still a little hesitant, Yingluo said again: "Isn't the embroidery shop of the seventh sister already open on Sitong Street?" The handkerchief in the hand of the seventh sister today is embroidered by the embroiderer with exclusive embroidery, right? It looks a little different, bright and good-looking. ”

Su Yingzi's eyes bloomed when she heard this, the concubines may not pay attention to the female red embroidery work, but the ordinary concubines have to put a lot of effort into this, or they have practiced a good embroidery job, and they do work on weekdays to please their mothers, or they can improve their status, embroidery is indeed an excellent entry point, and it will definitely resonate immediately.

Su Yingzi looked at Yingluo and said unconsciously: "I know what to do, thank you Fifth Sister for mentioning it." ”

She said and stood up, took a step and looked back at Yingluo, and said, "Won't the fifth sister go over and play together for a while?" ”

Yingluo shook her head with a smile and didn't say anything. Su Yingzi had already noticed that Yingluo had been a little absent-minded since she was stuffed with a jade pendant by the prince of King Najing. Seeing that she was sitting lazily and still, he did not persuade her any more, and walked towards the place where the bunch of maids gathered.

She just listened quietly in the periphery, stroked her neck with a handkerchief at will, and then another girl in a purple brocade gown looked at the ground, and said: "Ah, what a beautiful handkerchief, this cluster of orchids is embroidered, what kind of embroidery is this, how can it look so fresh, I have never seen it before." ”

The girl's voice immediately attracted the attention of several girls around her, Su Yingzi smiled back, and was pulled by the two girls to sit over.

Yingluo saw that she quickly chatted with everyone, so she poured herself a cup of tea and drank it slowly. Originally, she didn't dare to touch the food in the Changping Marquis Mansion, but this tea was also drunk by Su Yingzi, so she didn't expect anything to go wrong.

She was eating tea here, and she heard a girl in goose yellow clothes in Bai Jinhua's pile over there pull Bai Jinhua and asked, "Sister Hua, I heard that today you are washing three in your house, and the prince of King Jing actually came to congratulate you, is this true?" ”

None of the girls had heard anyone say anything about it, and the voice of the girl in goose yellow was not low, and the room suddenly fell silent for a while, and everyone's eyes were focused on Bai Jinhua.

Bai Jinhua smiled and said, "It's true, the prince of King Jing came early, and this son should still be in the outer courtyard to talk with my grandfather." ”

As soon as she said this, the atmosphere in the room changed a little, and the silence that came out was then noisy, and the girls gathered around Bai Jinhua to inquire about Qin Yan.

"I heard that the prince of King Jing has never participated in the banquets of various mansions, and he has never been to such a happy event as King Cheng and King Rui marrying concubines before, why did he come to the Changping Marquis Mansion today? Does the Marquis of Changping have any friendship with the prince of King Jing? Someone asked what everyone thought.

In fact, Bai Jinhua didn't know how the prince of King Jing came to the mansion, she was also very surprised when she heard this in the flower hall, and at this moment she shook her head in confusion when she heard the words, and said: "The prince of King Jing will naturally come because he has some friendship with his grandfather or eldest brother, but I don't know about these things in the house." ”

When the women heard this, they were disappointed, the prince of King Jing has always been a figure of right and wrong, and his status is noble, so he can't be offended. Bai Jinhua didn't want the girls to continue to entangle this topic, lest they say anything inappropriate to cause trouble for the Hou Mansion, so he immediately said with a smile: "I heard that in the past two days, Chu Yige has launched a new color of smoke cloud yarn, and the cut clothes are draped over the cotton clothes, not only do not appear bloated and light, but can wear the winter clothes with a light and elegant feeling, and now they have not been officially sold to the public, but two ready-to-wear clothes are hung in the store for people to enjoy, I don't know if the sisters have gone to see it." ”

As soon as she said that, everyone talked about how magical and wonderful the new fabric of the Chu Yige was, and admired, but suddenly a round-faced girl in light red clothes pouted: "That smoke cloud yarn is good, but it is too expensive, and it costs five or six hundred taels of silver to cut a gown, to say the least, it is really terrifying." Originally, my mother also said that my sister and I would buy one each, but now that there is a snow disaster in various places, and all mansions are cutting and donating silver taels, my mother has put this matter on hold, but I can only feast my eyes on the smoke and clouds. ”

As soon as the girl said, everyone turned the topic to the matter of donating silver taels from various provinces, comparing which one donated more, and a woman clapped her hands while speaking: "If you say that this donation of silver is more, who can compare with the Chi family of the imperial merchants, and the family will donate 800,000 taels of silver, and the total amount of silver donated by the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty." ”

"That's right, otherwise, how could the smoke and cloud yarn be sold for a few hundred taels of silver, and the Chi family would not be rich."

"By the way, Sister Hua, I heard that the eldest young master of the Chi family and the fifth girl Su from the Ding'an Hou Mansion are married, but how many girls from the Ding'an Hou Mansion are here today? Let's also take a look at which one is the future grandmother of the Chi family. ”

As soon as the woman spoke, everyone's eyes immediately followed Bai Jinhua to Yingluo, who was sitting in the corner drinking tea alone, Yingluo didn't expect that she would minimize her sense of savings, and she could be pushed to the cusp.

Su Yingyue was happy when she saw this, thinking that the Chi family was just a merchant family, so she won the first place in this donation of silver, and suppressed all the princes' mansions, and because the Chi family took the lead, the nobles had to follow the cut meat and donate silver, although the Chi family was commended by the emperor, everyone did not dare to openly attack the Chi family, but secretly they were resentful.

Where will these noble ladies let a merchant be in the limelight today, and it would be strange if they didn't clean up Su Yingluo, she thought about it and smiled and stepped forward to take Yingluo's hand, and said: "This is my fifth sister, my fifth sister is a blessed one, and the Chi family was hired that day, and the dowry was very rich." ”

How could Yingluo not know Su Yingyue's thoughts, lowered her head and sneered, and then heard someone sneer, and said in a rather unscrupulous tone: "In the end, it is a merchant, I am afraid that the family will not be able to take out anything except silver, and the number of people next to the 800,000 taels is naturally amazing, and it is nothing for the wealthy imperial merchant Chi family to come." ”

This sounds like a boast of the Chi family's wealth, but it really depreciates the Chi family's copper smell, and they can't take anything but silver.

As soon as the girl said, someone then echoed and said: "The businessman is very profitable, and he is the best at calculating the gains and losses, so he said that this time the Chi family donated silver, and 800,000 taels were exchanged for the medicine shop under the name of the Chi family as a tribute medicine in the palace, which is just a donation of some silver, and it will be fame and fortune, and it is no wonder that people can do so much business, and the fifth girl Su will marry in the future, but she will not fall into the pile of gold and silver?" ”

She smiled as soon as she said that the women covered her lips, and a girl wearing a garnet red passionflower dark striped placket even smiled and stepped forward to take Yingluo's hand, and said: "Fifth girl, I am the third girl of Chong'en Hou Mansion, we can be regarded as acquaintances today, I will go to Chuyi Pavilion to buy clothes, and the five girls who sell clothes should give me cheaper, we are all poor." ”

With a word, Yingluo was immediately reduced to a ninth-rate tailor who sold clothes, which caused a chorus of laughter.