The four old men of the Qin family's own family returned home, and it didn't take long to get the news, and they were still hesitating, but they immediately decided to send two young men to ride fast horses and bring a joint handwritten letter from the four to the Chang'an Mansion to complain.

The handwritten letter sued Qin Yue and He Huishu, and he also said in a roundabout way that if he didn't take care of his family, he was sorry for the dead grandfather and father.

After one night, they regretted it, and felt that they shouldn't impulsively mock the Ming family, just scold Qin Yue and He Huishu.

This matter was said by a widowed sister-in-law in Lilac Courtyard and reached He Huishu's ears.

This widow is the granddaughter-in-law of the eldest of the four old men.

Her husband died in battle, leaving her with only one daughter.

The old man swallowed 30 taels of silver for the imperial court and 20 taels of condolence money from the Guogong Mansion, not to mention that he was afraid of giving her daughter a dowry, so he actually threw her and her daughter to the Tanzhou Guogong Mansion.

He Huishu treats their mother and daughter well.

She hated the old man to the bone, and she was very grateful to He Huishu for taking him in at the most difficult time, so this time she deliberately went back to her home to find out the news, and immediately reported to He Huishu through the mouth of the slave and maid of the Lilac Courtyard.

He Huishu blossomed in her heart for the stupidity of the four old men of her family, and you can imagine how angry Qin Guogong was when he saw this letter, of course, it was aimed at the insatiable greed of his family. instructed Sister-in-law He: "You go and tell the sixth sister-in-law tonight, and I will tell the nineteenth niece about family affairs in a few days." ”

In the blink of an eye, in the middle of July, the Li family lived in the Tanzhou Guogong Mansion for ten days, Li Jingjing waited for Qin Yue to fully grasp the essentials of rehabilitation exercises, and said to Qu and He: "Stupid brother-in-law has finally learned." We can go home. ”

At dusk that day, Qin Minye and Li Quying came back from the academy, and the two families sat together and had a lively dinner.

The next morning, the Li family returned to Qujia Village in a carriage with many gifts, and Qin Minye personally escorted them back to Qujia Village with six slaves.

As soon as the Li family left for half a day, the four carriages of the Chang'an Guogong Mansion entered the Tanzhou Guogong Mansion.

He Huishu followed the rules and ordered the housekeeper to open the side door and let the four carriages enter the house.

Sitting in the carriage were the concubines of the grandfather of the country, Qin Dong and Qin Li, and the concubines Qin Lan and Qin Yue. The four of them were not descendants, and they were underage, and they had to enter the house through the side door in the carriage.

The four of them were ordered by the Duke of Qin to rush from Chang'an to Tanzhou to visit the old lady.

Originally, the four of them should have arrived in Tanzhou seven days ago, but they were too late because they visited a few scenic spots on the way.

Qin Lan and Qin Yue attended a banquet when they were in Chang'an, and they heard the housewives of various mansions praise He Huishu more than once, but now they see it, they are really young and beautiful, and they are charming in their bones, comparing Chang'an with noblewomen of the same age as her.

"My younger brothers and sisters have worked hard all the way, first go to see the old lady, or go to the yard where we live." He Huishu had already asked his subordinates to clean up the Yueji Courtyard and Baiju Courtyard, Yueji Courtyard was given to Qin Lan and Qin Yue to live in, and Baiju Courtyard was given to Qin Dong and Qin Li.

When she left Chang'an, the four younger siblings had just been born, and now they have grown so big, all of them are not dark-skinned, and their looks are all above average, which is much better looking than her eldest uncle and husband.

Her mother-in-law sees four younger siblings every day, and she should hate her father-in-law's three beautiful concubines to death.

Qin Dong said: "Second sister-in-law, let's change our clothes and go to see grandma." ”

Qin Lan and Qin Yue had this intention, and they both nodded.

Qin Li saw that the three of them thought so, so he only went to Baiju Courtyard first.

The four of them saw the extremely ugly old lady, but fortunately, they were all reminded by their biological mother before leaving Chang'an, otherwise they would really lose their temper.

The old lady looked at the expressions of the four of them, thinking that they were seven days late for playing on the road, and the love in her heart was a little less, and she only said a few words and said it widely.

He Huishu sent the four of them out of the Peony Courtyard and asked, "Your second brother is still sick." Are you going to see him today, or tomorrow? ”

Qin Lan said: "We were all anxious about the second brother's illness all the way. The second sister-in-law will take us to see the second brother. ”

He Huishu knew that the four of them didn't have this idea at all, but still smiled: "Thank you very much." He and I talk about you every day. ”

The four of them smiled lightly. The heart said: If this is the case, why don't you send Ye Lang to greet our four elders, but you are sending Ye Lang to send your maiden sister.

Qin Yue was doing rehabilitation exercises topless on the bed, and when he heard the two sisters coming, he put on a coat and lay down.

The four of them looked at Qin Yue's black face and red face, sweating profusely, obviously he was doing strenuous exercise, and where he looked like he had been seriously injured, they all thought that he was deliberately setting up a fight when he was lying down.

Brother Chang and Brother Shu went through the motions to say hello, and then they went back to their respective hospitals.

In the evening, the housekeeper who came from the Chang'an Guogong Mansion came to greet Qin Yue, and when he left, he presented He Huishu with a handwritten letter sealed with wax by Deng.

Qin Yue's eldest brother Qin Nan only married one wife of the Deng family.

Deng was born in a famous family in the former dynasty, and he was also the sister of Princess Rong and the eldest Deng family.

Qin Nan and Qin Yue have a very good relationship.

Deng has a stubborn personality and is very high in his bones, and only He Huishu is in her eyes in the Guogong Mansion, and she has to write a letter to He Huishu almost every quarter.

He Huishu read the letter, her expression was complicated, and she muttered: "Sister-in-law is so good, inform me of anything that happens over there." ”

Qin Yue asked, "What's going on again?" ”

He Huishu called the slave maid, handed the letter to Qin Yue, shook her head and said disdainfully: "Look at yourself, I'm embarrassed to read it." ”

Qin Yue glanced at the ten lines, read the letter cursoryly, was so angry that he smashed the bed board with his fist, gritted his teeth and said, "It's really a shame." If my father directly locked her up in the guan, what would she do in Tanzhou. ”

It turned out that Qin Lan was deliberately drunk at the birthday banquet of Princess Niu last month, and then lay in the garden to seduce He Jingqing and kiss him, so that everyone could see it.

Qin Lan thought that she could get the title of princess of the county, but the old princess Niu refused to discuss marriage with the Guogong Mansion on the grounds that her son King Xia had passed away less than three years ago.

The most embarrassing emperor He Dong gave marriage, canonized Qin Lan as the side concubine of the county king, and when He Jingqing's filial piety period expired, he asked him to marry her and the county princess into the palace on the same day.

Grandpa Guo lost face, banned Qin Lan's biological mother Liu's feet, demoted Qin Lan to the Tanzhou Guogong Mansion, and called her back to Chang'an until next year's wedding date.

He Huishu called in Sister-in-law He and asked her to inquire about the four younger siblings on the way to which scenic spots they went to and who they met.

Half an hour later, Sister-in-law He came in and replied, "The four masters met King Shengjun who returned to Chang'an from Tanzhou on the way, and they took a boat ride on the Yangtze River and several famous mountains. King Katsugun gave the two lords two Kabuki each. When the two lords arrived in Tanzhou, they sent slaves to place the kabuki in the inn. ”

Although Qin Dong and Qin Li are young, they are of high seniority. The servants of the state palace all called them lords.

He Huishu said: "I said why they were delayed on the road, it turned out that they had been following King Shengjun for a few days. He sighed lightly and said slowly: "They are going to stay in Tanzhou for a few days, will Yelang learn from them?" ”

Qin Yue clenched his fist and smashed the bed board, and said angrily: "When Yelang comes back and sees them, I will immediately let them go, and then write a letter to my father, saying that I picked them up." ”

The hall of the Moon Season Temple is brightly lit.

Qin Lan and Qin Yue were sitting leisurely eating fruits, and two personal servants were standing in front of them, reporting the things that had come back from the house to inquire about going out of the house.

Qin Lanxiu raised her eyebrows, and said angrily: "Our brothers and sisters came from Chang'an, and they walked through the side door as soon as they entered the mansion for the first time, why did the carriage of the second sister-in-law's sister enter and leave the mansion from the main gate?" ”

The next day, heavy rain fell in Tanzhou, which did not stop until noon.

The four of them have asked the Ming family for peace in the morning, they are all the masters who can't stay, these days all the way to play the heart has long been wild, seeing that it is sunny and cool outside, send a slave to He Huishu to inform him, and without waiting for a reply, he took a carriage out of the house.

Qin Dong and Qin Li went straight to the inn, made love to the kabuki, and took them on a boat tour of the Xiangjiang River.

Qin Yue and Qin Lan went to the most prosperous street in Tanzhou Mansion, visited a few time-honored jewelry and garment shops, and only bought a few pieces because they didn't have much money.

Qin Lan didn't say that she couldn't afford to buy expensive ones because she had no money, she shook her head and said, "Where can Tanzhou Mansion compare to Chang'an." The jewelry store sells old models from Chang'an half a year ago. ”

Qin Yue sighed lightly and said, "You and I have finally traveled far away, if the gifts we bring back to Chang'an are missing or can't be put on the table, we will definitely be made fun of by those people." ”

Qin Lan thought of the contemptuous gaze of the ladies of the various mansions at every banquet, and gritted her teeth with hatred: "Who told us that our lives were not good, we didn't throw it into our mother's belly, but we threw it into my aunt's belly, and the silver money that can be so big is pitiful." ”

Qin Yue said slowly: "Before I came, I heard my aunt say that many people in the Tanzhou family are in business and are very wealthy. Why don't you and I go to our house, they won't let us go home empty-handed. ”

Qin Lan's eyes lit up, and she immediately took a carriage with Qin Yue to the richest family in her family.

The head of this family was one of the four old men who went to the Tanzhou Guogong Mansion to ask for the Ming clan that day.

He was regretting that he had implicitly satirized the Ming family in the letter he impulsively sent to the grandfather of the country, and when he saw the two young ladies of the Chang'an Prince's Mansion, it was like seeing a savior, and he asked the servants to immediately invite the three old men to come.

The four old men said a lot of words of gratitude to Grandpa Guo, and scolded Qin Yue and He Huishu, and asked Qin Yue and Qin Lan to return to Chang'an, relay these words to Grandpa Guo, and immediately summoned Qin Yue and his wife away.

Qin Lan's purpose in coming to his house was to collect cashier's money, but he didn't listen to these things, let alone sue Qin Yue and his wife for them.

Qin Yue's face remained unchanged, and she said, "My sister Lan's concubine who was canonized by His Majesty will marry the king of Qingjun next year. When she came to Tanzhou this time, King Qingjun asked her to see if there were people in her family who could use it. ”

Qin Lan glanced at Qin Yue and said with a smile: "Sister Yue, I see that King Shengjun admires you very much, and the meaning of his words a few days ago is to ask you to help him choose some talented people to go to Chang'an to be officials." ”

The four old men were as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and immediately asked more than a dozen descendants of the official to call Qin Lan to know, and finally "generously" after the most reluctance, each family gave one hundred taels, made up four thousand silver tickets, and gave Qin Lan and Qin Yue two thousand taels each.

The two girls received the silver ticket, and they didn't need dinner, so they immediately left the house in a carriage, and went directly to the jewelry shop and the ready-to-wear shop, and bought everything they had just seen for a long time and were reluctant to buy.

The two women waited for a while, but they didn't see the shadow of Qin Dong and Qin Li's carriage.

Qin Yue saw that it was already dark, and if she went back later, she was afraid of causing gossip, so she left a slave and maid with a message and took a carriage back to the house one step in advance.

Qin Lan's biological mother is Liu. Qin Yue's biological mother is the Feng family. Qin Dong and Qin Li were both born to the Zhu family.

Qin Yue would not wait for a long time at night for the Qin Dong brothers, who were not the same mother.

An hour later, Qin Dong and Qin Li's carriage arrived, took the slave and maid, and hurried back to the house.

Qin Min had already returned from Qujia Village, had dinner with the Ming family and Qin Yue in Yulan Courtyard, and then went to the welcome hall to wait, met the two aunts first, and waited for a long time before seeing the two uncles.

He looked at the two uncles' eyes with blue bags, smelled the rich fragrance of fat powder on their bodies, and only said two words, and politely invited them back to the hospital to rest.

That night, Qin Minye rested in the Guogong Mansion, and returned to the other courtyard early the next morning, and practiced martial arts with Li Quai, and went to the academy to study at breakfast with Li Quai.

The four of them got up early to greet the Ming family, and when they learned that Qin Minye had left, they looked at each other.

It turned out that their biological mothers thought that Qin Minye was admitted to Xiucai at a young age and had a bright future in the future, so they specially prepared a meeting gift for Qin Minye for them.

They didn't bring the greeting gift with them in the evening, and they came back so late, and when they saw Qin Minye, they went back to rest, thinking that Qin Minye was still in the house today, so he gave it to him.

Qin Yue asked, "Grandma, when will Ye Lang return home next time?" ”

Ming touched his pitiful head and said, "He said it yesterday, but I forgot." ”

When the four of them left the Peony Courtyard, they were invited to the Yulan Courtyard by the servants in front of Qin Yue.

Qin Yue had already learned what the four of them had done yesterday, and he was glared at him, and said angrily: "I have already arranged it, you will return to Chang'an tomorrow, don't be greedy on the way, and arrive before the Mid-Autumn Festival." ”

Yesterday, Qin Lan and Qin Yue went to their house to get a sum of money, and they returned home at three o'clock.

Qin Dong and Qin Li took four kabuki boats to cruise the Xiangjiang River, and went to visit the Qinglou and ordered two top brands to sleep, with red lip prints on their necks before they came back when they were about to arrive.

The four of them have only been here for two days, and if they stay for another month, the good reputation of the Tanzhou Guogong Mansion over the years will be ruined in the hands of the four of them.

Qin Dong said: "Second brother, before we left, my father told us to accompany our grandmother for the Mid-Autumn Festival before going back. ”

Qin Yue shouted very strongly: "You guys will get up tomorrow, don't ask the rest!" ”

The four of them retreated with an embarrassed face, went to Yuexiu Courtyard, called the slave maid, sat down to discuss countermeasures, and kept worrying until the afternoon, eating less food, and not having a good idea.

Qin Lan proposed: "Let's leave tomorrow, why don't we all go to Tanzhou Academy for a while to see our good nephew Yelang and personally give him the meeting gift." ”

She will get married next year, and she will have to rely on her mother's family in the future.

She saw it, it would be good if the two brothers didn't ask her in the future, and the two brothers couldn't climb it, so it was up to them to see if they could rely on the three nephews.

Qin Yue had the same idea, and rolled her eyes, "Ye Lang is now living in another courtyard with his second sister-in-law's brother-in-law, Li Quai. Do we have to bring a gift for Li Quai's illness when we go? ”

Qin Lan has been angry that He Huishu has neglected her in the past two days, and said, "I don't have any extra gifts to give irrelevant people." If you want to send it, you can send it. ”

"I won't send it anymore." Qin Dong shouted: "He is the same generation as us, not a junior. ”

When Qin Yue heard this, she only had the thought of giving a gift to Li Quai.

The four of them didn't even say hello this time, and went directly to Tanzhou Academy in a carriage.

The carriage markings of the Chang'an Guogong Mansion are different from those of the Tanzhou Guogong Mansion.

"The third master, the fourth master, the fourth miss, the fifth miss, the young master has not yet left the school, and the second uncle, the second uncle, the second lady of the Li family, got out of the school first and is playing the piano in the study." The servants of the other courtyard had been instructed by Qin Minye this morning, recognized the carriage mark, and hurriedly and respectfully invited the four of them into the hall.

From the study, there was a monotonous sound of the piano, and the player played a few notes repeatedly.

The four of them walked into the hall with disdain on their faces, sat down to eat the fruit at will, and their personal slaves and servants followed and stood behind them.

Qin Lan shook her head and said, "This is the piano played by the uncle of the second sister-in-law, and I played better than him when I was six years old." Our Guogong Mansion even recommends such a fool to study in Tanzhou Academy, and he doesn't want to be famous. ”

Qin Li asked curiously, "Who is the second sister-in-law marrying?" ”

Qin Yue said softly: "The people of this family said that the second sister-in-law and sister married an account in the Taoist temple, and the monthly silver is one or two yuan. ”

Qin Dong was dumbfounded, then shook his head and said: "Isn't the second sister-in-law's father the champion of the dynasty, her sister should be as talented and beautiful as her, how did she marry such a poor pariah?" ”

He is different from Qin Yue, Qin Lan, and Qin Li.

In addition to 20 taels of silver a month, he also received two shops donated by his biological mother Zhu's mother's family, and he received more than 100 taels of silver every month.

Yesterday, he and his younger brother Qin Li were in the first green building in Tanzhou, but they used fifty taels of silver in just two hours. This is equivalent to the income of the Taoist temple steward for four years.

He never thought about why he and Qin Li were both Zhu's biological sons, and the Niu family's family only gave him two shops, but never gave Qin Li a copper coin.