6. 006: Confrontation
Today's Zhao is wearing a honey-colored cotton jacket, with roses, purple, gold and silver rats hanging side by side, half-leaning on a soft couch, and his feet are covered with a thick woolen blanket.
An elderly mother-in-law knelt under the couch and pounded on Zhao's leg lightly: "Madam, do you want to prepare meat for this dinner?" ”
Zhao's eyebrows furrowed: "Didn't you say that you were preparing mutton?" You can do whatever you want to do with this taste. By the way, those internal organs are also ready and brought to the table, so they can't choke them. ”
Zhao didn't want to see Xia Ruan, and it was helpless to invite her to eat at home this time, Zhao understood that Xia Wen was a burden to put it bluntly, and she couldn't look at her left and right in her own home, and she felt that her heart was always blocked.
This second brother and daughter-in-law is a good talker, if she uses her pregnancy as an excuse to let Xia Wen go to the second brother's house, it will be fine.
It's just that......
A few days ago, she just received three hundred taels of silver from the Xiao family, and the second master Xiao has been urging her to tell the Li family about it, so that Xia Ruan can marry him quickly. Let Xia Ruan become the third wife after marrying, which can be regarded as a ruined life.
She already had the intention of snatching the family wealth, if the second brother's house was destroyed, then the few acres of land and a shop left in the second brother's house would also come to her hands.
Thinking of this, Zhao's face had a faint touch of joy.
"Madam, the third lady is here."
Outside the house, there was a little maid preaching.
Zhao sat up slowly and tidied up his appearance: "Why did you come so fast?" Let her in. ”
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Today, Xia Ruan came to her uncle's house alone, and she didn't pay much attention to the sneers of these subordinates. Even if she noticed, she wouldn't be too angry. These people have always worshiped high and low, and these expressions have seen a lot of them as early as when she was still in the Hou Mansion in the last life, and she has already become numb.
She sat in the ear room for a while, and Wang Yuehua, the personal mother-in-law next to the Zhao family, greeted her slowly, and said with a smile: "The third miss is here, why don't you send someone to say it first, this also makes us a little prepared, for fear of neglecting the third miss." ”
Xia Ruan heard the sarcasm in Wang Yuehua's mouth, what a shrewd person she was, she had always been by the Zhao family's side, how could she not know that the Zhao family invited her to dinner today. She just smiled faintly and didn't answer: "Mother Wang, I heard my mother say that my aunt is pregnant, is this body okay?" I also suffered a little cold a few days ago, otherwise I should have come to see my aunt, and I haven't seen my two cousins for a few days. ”
Wang Yuehua saw that Xia Ruan didn't mean to answer, but instead mentioned the two young ladies in the family. Now that my wife is pregnant, it would have been a bit unfortunate to say this.
Madame's temper is not very good, and she has never dared to speak by her temperament all these years. Now that Xia Ruan said this, she didn't dare to go beyond her duty to talk about it, so she lost interest in talking to her more, and only said after a while: "The two young ladies are fine, this lady will rest in the house, third miss, you can go with me." ”
Xia Ruan got up, led by Wang Yuehua, turned through a hanging flower door, and walked through the verandah. The cold air hit, and a few budding autumn chrysanthemums in the yard came with a faint fragrance. Her eldest uncle is an elegant person, and the place where he lives is extremely exquisite, but he has repeatedly failed in the township examination, and now he is just a showman.
Xia Ruan walked to the door, the curtain was lifted in time, and a little girl smiled at her, and never gave her a blessing: "The third lady came here today, this lady just got up and was still picking up, slave orchid, come and take the third lady in." ”
In the words, there is no politeness.
She didn't get angry, just nodded and went into the house.
Orchid didn't take the initiative to help Xia Ruan remove the cloak, so she took off the cloak herself and didn't pay much attention to it. The needlework of this cloak was already a little old, and the mother was afraid that she would suffer from the cold, so she let her wear it on her body. It's just that this cloak doesn't know that it is an old thing from that year, and there is some irony in Orchid's eyes, which is normal.
"Ruan girl is here? Come in and sit down and talk to your aunt. Zhao said lazily.
Xia Ruan turned a screen and saw Zhao sitting on the soft couch, looking at her with a smile: "Speaking of which, it's not the eldest aunt, your body is just right, so I asked you to come over and eat together." ”
"The eldest aunt said this, but it's too late to bury her niece? Xia Ruan doesn't follow, it's just a little cold, where is it so squeamish. Xia Ruan stepped forward and saluted steadily.
There was a faint smile on Zhao's face, and the corners of his eyes revealed a hint of shrewdness, which looked a little mean.
"You girl, you know that you have a poor mouth." Zhao said with a smile, his eyes flashed and looked at Xia Ruan, the sign of this girl's birth, with a long figure, a duck egg face, a new cheek, gentle and lovely. It's just a pity that she was born in the second brother's family, because the money in the second brother's family has always been remembered by her.
There was a faint hint of mockery on Xia Ruan's face, and he quickly disappeared again, still with that weak look.
Today, she didn't let her mother come over, in order to refuse the eldest aunt's proposal, this Xia Wen made the eldest aunt feel uncomfortable, she should make the eldest aunt uncomfortable for a while. Her mother-in-law is not assertive, which does not mean that she is also an unassertive person.
Xia Ruan glanced at the room and asked with a smile, "Auntie, why don't you see the two cousins today?" ”
Hearing this, the smile on Zhao's face disappeared a little.
She is here to block the Zhao family.
Over the years, Zhao has given birth to two girls for his eldest uncle. The Zhao family has always been a coquettish girl, and as a result, the two cousins' temperaments were arrogant and capricious, and a few days ago, the second cousin Xia Qinghe also made a move with the fourth lady of the Wen family.
The fourth lady of the Wen family, her father is Dongyang Zhixian, and her mother is the daughter of Yin of Huai'an Mansion. Isn't that more delicate than Xia Qinghe? At that time, if it wasn't for the eldest uncle who invited someone to the Wen family to make amends, I don't know how many sins this Xia Qinghe would have suffered.
It's just that now although Xia Qinghe has nothing to do, he can be regarded as a loser in this small county, and everyone will talk about how uneducated the second lady of the Xia family is, not to mention the face of this eldest aunt, who can barely even raise her head.
"Madame's tea."
Wang Yuehua felt that the tea was handed over, which eased the awkward atmosphere in the room a little.
Zhao smiled, and then took the tea cup in Wang Yuehua's hand: "Give the third lady a taste, this is this year's new tea, I don't know if this girl can taste it." ”
Xia Ruan didn't answer, there was no need to answer those sarcastic words about her. I just picked up the teacup and tasted it, and I felt mellow and sweet in my mouth. She paused for a moment before saying, "This is really a good Pu'er." ”
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