After Zhao Sanbao left, the porter came to report, saying that Xie Fu was visiting, Xie Yan was stunned at first, thinking that Yun and Xie Jin were not in the capital, thinking that it was the elder brother and sister-in-law who came, but I didn't expect that it was the old lady and the eldest lady of Xie Mansion, the third lady, plus a Fu Shuang.

Xie Yan ordered someone to invite them in and meet them in the flower hall.

If it was only Fu Shuang who came, she only needed to meet the guests in the ear room, but it was the elders of the Xie family who came, so she couldn't be casual.

Xie Fu female guests arrived, saw Xie Yan also bowed in a proper manner, Xie Yan did not dare to accept the old lady's courtesy, personally stepped forward to help her who was about to salute to the side of the Taishi chair and sat down, and then went to help the eldest lady and the third lady, and finally took Fu Shuang's hand, the two looked at each other and smiled, Fu Shuang's belly seemed to be bigger, Xie Yan looked at her in surprise, Fu Shuang also lowered his head embarrassedly, and said:

"It's been more than four months. I was pregnant last time, I don't know, so I didn't have time to tell you. ”

Xie Yan was surprised for a while and said, "Really? That's great. Sit down, don't get tired. ”

Fu Shuang nodded, and the eldest lady said with a smile on the side: "Hey, I didn't want to work Jiuniang originally, but I just wanted to tell Sister Tong about the good news, so I pulled her to come with me." ”

After Xie Yan let Fu Shuang sit down, he returned to the main seat, and personally served a cup of tea to the old lady from the maid's hand, Xing was very satisfied with Xie Yan's respect, grabbed her hand and slapped it twice, smiled and squinted, and said:

"Don't do this, now that your status is precious, it is enough to have this filial piety."

Xie Yan smiled slightly and said, "Serving grandmother is a natural thing, where is enough." Although Xing is not Xie Yan's own grandmother, and she has not treated Xie Yan particularly since she was a child, she has not suppressed it too much, so there is no indigestible contradiction between her and Xie Yan, she just needs to do what she should do.

Xing nodded at Xie Yan's words, and the eldest lady also laughed, but the third lady's face was a little embarrassed, and she sat aside and didn't speak.

After Xie Yan sat down, her eyes kept looking at the third lady, this woman was much older than she remembered, she seemed to be haggard, the dark blue under her eyes, and the deep marks on the corners of her lips all showed that she was not doing very well.

The eldest lady noticed Xie Yan's gaze, and when she saw that the third lady didn't speak, she took the initiative to say for her:

"Alas, your third aunt has not had a good time these days, and everyone has lost weight several times."

The third lady looked up at the eldest lady, and then glanced at Xie Yan quickly, and then lowered her head again and stopped talking.

"Oh? What happened to the third aunt? ”

The third lady seemed to remember something, pursed her lips slightly, or the eldest lady spoke:

"Do you remember a servant girl named Hanxiang? The one who was taken in by your third uncle a few years ago. ”

Xie Yan blinked, nodded, and said, "Naturally, I remember that she used to serve me, but then I thought she was unfaithful, so I sent her to my mother's yard, and then she somehow got together with the third uncle." ”

The eldest lady sighed, and then said: "Alas, Sister Tong'er, you are smart, you know that this is a scourge, and now she is capable, I don't know what kind of ** soup your third uncle ate, and even let your third uncle make a noise to help her become a flat wife, and let her enter the ancestral hall and be bowed down by her descendants." How can your third aunt swallow this breath, and it is impossible to agree to anything, and now it is making a lot of trouble. ”

Xie Yan nodded to show that she understood, only to see the third lady sneer: "Hmph, something like a thing, she also deserves it!" ”

This sentence is obviously Hanxiang, but Xing's face was pale, and he said coldly to the third lady:

"Okay, if you have anything to say, don't make Sister Hitomi unhappy here."

The third lady glanced at Xie Xin, after all, she didn't say anything, Xie Xin remembered that Xie Xin, who was almost harmed by this woman before, married Lord Luo to do a continuation, and also connived at the maid to frame her sister, now she really deserves this fate, she will not sympathize with it, however, for Han Xiang's matter, Xie Yan always felt very strange in her heart, if no one is behind her back to help Han Xiang do this step, Han Xiang, a maid who even pinched the master's hand in the deed, how did she get to this point?

However, Xie Yan didn't say this, and secretly thought about it in her heart.

The third lady took a deep breath and seemed to realize that her attitude was a little bad, so she forced herself to change her face and said to Xie Yan:

"Sister Hitomi, don't mind, the third aunt is in a hurry, but it's not for you."

Xie Yan smiled and said, "It's not easy for anyone to encounter this, and the third aunt doesn't need to mind." ”

Seeing that she lowered her head, Xie Yan asked her again: "By the way, after the fourth sister got married, I haven't seen her again, and Sister Sui'er, I haven't heard that she is married in the past two years, but after I got married, they are not often seen, and the sisters are always rusty." ”

Speaking of Xie Yu, the third lady was embarrassed again, Xie Yu was inappropriate before marriage, had a child before marriage, and could only marry into Taichangqing Hu Mansion as a concubine, and Hu Mansion hired another sixteen girls from the Zhongshu Ling family as his wife, this matter was also in an uproar at that time, Xie Yu suffered this loss, and I don't know what happened now.

I saw that the third lady didn't smile and said, "She." She can't live for her own sin, she found such a good family for her at the beginning, she didn't cherish it, and no one wondered why! Now she is making a side room, all of which she is to blame, but fortunately, the Hu family treats her quite well, and she doesn't make any other trouble, and she doesn't come back often in the past two years. Sister Xuan'er's words, I haven't found a suitable one, and now I can't say that I have to rely on you, the fifth sister, to grow her eyes for her. ”

Xie Yan didn't answer, for Xie Xuan, her impression of her was that she stayed in the wealth obsessed when she was a child and the knowledge she grew up in, since the third lady taught her from a crappy little girl to the appearance of today's ladies, she naturally has her own plans, how can she insert a foot and mess up the mandarin duck spectrum, that is, she really found it for her, it is estimated that whether it is Xie Xuan or the third lady, they will not be satisfied.

Seeing that Xie Yan didn't answer, the third lady didn't urge, so she sat there and drank two sips of tea, and Xie Yan asked the eldest lady again:

"There is also a third sister, who went to Shaanxi and Gansu with the prince of Jing'an, but is there any news to come back?"

The last time she met Xie Heng, it was still at Xie's house, she came to the door to quit the autumn breeze, and the eldest lady gave her some ladder silver, and then went out with Li Zhen, and she didn't come back until today.

However, Xie Zhen has been prepared for a long time, because everything in this life seems to have been advanced, since Shen Xi recognized his ancestors and returned to his ancestors in advance, things will definitely improve in the future, that is to say, it will not take long for Xie Heng and Li Zhen to come back from Shaanxi and Gansu, thinking of his infatuation with Li Zhen in his previous life, Xie Zhen feels funny when he thinks about it now, a man like Li Zhen can only be a confidant of a scholar, but he is definitely not a qualified husband and father.

"The third sister's child is two years older than my Kangning, I don't know if it's a boy or a girl?"

In the previous life, Xie Heng's child was not born, so Xie Heng didn't know whether she gave birth to a boy or a girl.

The eldest lady also sighed when she mentioned Xie Heng, and said:

"Don't talk about her, I told your third aunt before, Sister Heng and Sister Yu, if you were half transparent, the two of them would not be so bad now, and they played a good hand of cards into tatters. Sister Heng, where did she give birth to a child? She was more than five months at that time, her father-in-law rushed out of Beijing to Shaanxi and Gansu, bumpy all the way, and didn't know to take care of her rest, blindly rushed, before she arrived in Shaanxi and Gansu, the child was gone, her father-in-law found a hospital halfway to let her rest in it, only left a few guards for her, and then took office alone, saying that he would let Xie Heng get better, and then go to him by himself. Where do you say that there is such a ruthless father-in-law, even if Sister Heng is a concubine, it is always his first wife and concubine, so it is not a matter of fact, and Sister Heng is so angry that she washes her face with tears day and night. ”

Xie Yan glanced up at the eldest lady, and expressed surprise at her words, although she knew that Xie Heng's child could not be saved in her previous life, but she thought that without her harmony in this life, Xie Heng would give birth to the child safely, but she didn't expect it to ......

"Oh, I haven't heard of such a big thing. It's hard for the third sister. Xie Yan's voice was full of pity, maybe she was also a mother, and her child's affairs seemed to touch her heart even more.

Although Xie Heng had dealt with her like that in the past, after all, it had all passed, and when he heard about her miscarriage at first glance, he still felt a little embarrassed.

"Last month, she also sent a letter back from her family, saying that Li Zhen, the son of the Marquis of Jing'an, was in Shaanxi and Gansu, and that there were still two years to come, and she might be able to return to Beijing to reunite with her family at that time."

Xie Yan listened to the words of the eldest lady and nodded, indicating that she knew. Don't think about anything anymore, after all, the previous life is the previous life, this life is this life, it can't be compared, this life naturally has things happening that she doesn't know, all she can do is to do her best to protect this hard-won relationship and protect her beloved, that's enough.

Xie Yan asked some more about Xie Shao and Fu Shuang, Fu Shuang's face turned red, and he said:

"Your brother is very good to me."

As soon as this sentence was said, Xie Yan knew, probably the relationship between the two of them has been very good recently, Fu Shuang is pregnant again, this must be a surprise for her, if she can give birth to a boy this time, she will definitely be more at ease, Xie Yan still believes in Xie Shao's character.

The eldest lady also knew about the matter between Fu Shuangxiao and his wife, and when she saw Fu Shuang's shyness, she couldn't help but ridicule and said:

"This time I won't have another girl. Haven't you seen how uncomfortable your sister-in-law was after giving birth to Sister Rong. ”

Fu Shuang also seemed to be aware of her abnormality during that time, and Xie Yan was afraid of arousing her sadness again, so she spoke for her:

"Girls and boys are actually the same, they are all lumps of flesh that fall from our women's bodies, they are all precious, sister-in-law, don't be pressured."

I thought that Fu Shuang would be angry, but this time Fu Shuang not only didn't get angry, but instead looked up and smiled at Xie Yan, and said in a voice as low as a mosquito and a fly:

"Don't be afraid if you give birth to a girl, your brother said that if it is a girl, he will continue to give birth to me until he gives birth to a child."

“……”

Xie Yan looked at Fu Shuang, who looked shy, and was speechless, but she also understood that only when Xie Shao said this to Fu Shuang, Fu Shuang would feel better completely, she wanted to have a son, but she was afraid that her brother would dislike the daughter she gave birth to, if her brother did not dislike it, and promised to give her a son, she would indeed rest assured, and she would not arrange a concubine for Xie Shao at home or something.

Although it sounds to others that Xie Shao is as unreliable as ever, this is the best and most effective way to make Fu Shuang feel at ease.