It has been nearly five years since she and Xu Changwen parted from Huairong Town, and although there were courtesies and exchanges during this period, they had not seen each other after all...... She only knew that Xu Changwen was promoted to the county commander of Huairong Town after being promoted to the county commander of Wang County, but she didn't know why he came to the capital...... Although there is a talk of returning to Beijing to report on work, if the county orders in remote areas are not summoned by the Ministry of Officials or the Holy Decree, they do not need to enter Beijing at all, and they will be adjusted, promoted, or dismissed locally......

Although they didn't get along much, this Mr. Xu was dedicated to Lin Xu and her back then, and Pan Jiaqing, who introduced them before leaving, was a very good gentleman. Later, Qiu Chen went to northern Xinjiang, and he also met Xu Changwen, who was the county governor of Huairong Town at that time, in Huairong Town...... Since then, every New Year's Day, when Qiu Chen distributes the gifts, he will always send a copy to Xu Changwen. As for the rumored slander of Xu Changwen's wife, she didn't want to investigate the reason, and she was not interested in paying attention to the Xu family's family...... She was only so respectful because Xu Changwen had taught Lin Xu with all her heart...... Ignore anything else!

Speaking of which, Xu Changwen didn't have much contact with Qiu Chen, but this person with an elegant temperament made Qiu Chen feel a little intimate when she first saw him, and she attributed it to the fact that this temperament was quite similar to her senior brothers and disciples in modern times.

After cleaning up, I saw that the person in the mirror had a dignified demeanor and a beautiful appearance, a graceful temperament and a gentle and amiable smile...... Not bejeweled, not shabby and embarrassed, generous, Qiu Chen also got up, ordered Lin and Chengying Yue ghost to follow, asked for a warm sedan chair, went out of the second door all the way, and went to the small flower hall in front.

So, Qiu Chen didn't go back to freshen up and change clothes, and asked for a wide-sleeved long gown embroidered with purple magnolia flowers in the moonlight to wear, took down the two cordyceps hairpins, replaced them with a red gold treasure flying phoenix step, slightly sipped his hair and sideburns, and put some rouge on his lips......

"Come in...... Well, please go to the small flower hall in the front yard, let people wait, I'll go over! Qiu Chen hurriedly commanded, looked down at the clothes on his body, a narrow waist jacket embroidered with butterfly patterns in blue and silver silk, and a skirt with 16 pieces of lilac purple embroidered with 100 butterflies, which looked slender and slender, with a graceful posture and elegant bun, and saved the old beeswax hibiscus hairpin and two red corals hairpins...... It's not rude to meet guests.

Qiu Chen was disappointed, and was about to open his mouth to refuse, but when the words came to his mouth, he suddenly remembered someone and hurriedly called to send the post up, opened it and saw that the signature was indeed Xu Changwen.

The joy on Madame's face made the mother-in-law stunned in surprise, and then respectfully raised a greeting note in her hand and handed it over: "Back to Madame, there is a Master Xu outside who asks to see him, saying that he is Madame's fellow countryman......"

Finally, after the housework was completed, Qiu Chen was about to get up, and the mother-in-law on the second door hurriedly ran in. ”

After turning around, I returned to Matsukaze Temple to deal with affairs, and I was always a little absent-minded all morning, and I couldn't help but look at the table clock on the cabinet.

Qiu Chen was also about to say this, but Qin Zheng could be said to be in the right place, so he naturally agreed without any objection, and watched Qin Zheng leave with a happy face. She coaxed Brother Yun, who was left alone, handed him over to the Wang family to watch, and took a warm sedan chair to the front yard to check the guest room for Lin Xu and others.

After breakfast, Qin Zheng finally spoke to Qiu Chen: "I'll go to Mr. Tang's house, talk to Mr., and let Afu Aman take a half-day off in the afternoon!" ”

When he opened his eyes again, it was already bright the next morning, Qiu Chen shook his senses, and looked around him in a blink of an eye, his husband and son were gone, looking at the table clock on the kang cabinet, the two of them should have gone to exercise in the morning. Thinking of his three-day fishing and two-day net drying, Qiu Chen blushed for a moment, put aside the momentary shame in a blink of an eye, and got dressed and got up.

Although he was humming, the movements under his hands were very gentle, Qiu Chen secretly felt funny, but he stopped talking, only pursed his mouth and closed his eyes, feeling the gentle service of his husband, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise, and gradually relaxed his spirit, and accidentally fell asleep.

"Hmph," Qin Zheng continued to twist his wife's hair, but his face was still stiff, and he snorted angrily, obviously having an opinion on Qiu Chen's strong words.

Qiu Chen had already turned a corner, pulled his hair, and after rescuing him from Qin Zheng's hands, he sat up, covered Brother Yun'er with a quilt, and pulled Qin Zheng to the end of the kang by himself, while stuffing the dry handkerchief into Qin Zheng's hand, motioning for him to twist his hair, and said with a gentle smile: "I haven't seen Brother Xu and Junwen Junshu for more than a year, and I am happy to get the letter they are coming...... It's a little funny, you look at me like a fool, don't remind me, and give me a face...... Speaking of which, I'm also very aggrieved! ”

Qin Zheng's face froze, and he couldn't answer. The movements of the hands are also a little stiff and I can't do it anymore.

Obviously, I was happy to live, ignoring the feelings of the two people, why did I take advantage of the situation to make a little trouble? When did you become so arrogant...... Even a little coquettish and unreasonable?

"Don't you ignore people!" Qiu Chen muttered quietly. Grunted out, I couldn't hold back my laughter first.

"How can you do it without hanging? Your body has just recuperated, where can it withstand it? Of course, Qin Zheng would not agree, and refuted it very solemnly.

"No need to twist it......" Qiu Chen pouted and said a little angrily.

While muttering angrily, Qin Zheng had already scooped up the handkerchief that Qiu Chen threw beside him, and pulled Qiu Chen's hair and twisted it up one by one.

The kang table was still in the middle of the kang, Qin Zheng took the kang table down lightly, then pulled his quilt and put it away, deliberately squeezed it to his wife's side, and then his hand 'inadvertently' touched his wife's hair, frowned and said, "Why did you sleep with wet hair?" These girls are really getting more and more dissatisfied! ”

Stunned for a moment and regretted for a while, Qin Zheng looked at his wife, who seemed to be asleep quietly with her back to her, and felt like a cat scratching in her heart...... Suddenly, he noticed that the long hair spread on the pillow was wet and dreadlocked, and his eyes lit up, and he showed a touch of joy.

He was a little dumbfounded for a while, and a little remorseful for a while, knowing that he wouldn't wait anymore, and went to bed early, maybe he was the one who was hugged to sleep at this time.

Qin Zheng also held back his grievances, and wanted to wait for his wife to finish taking care of him, and give him a few words of kindness and gentleness, and he would take advantage of the situation like this...... Fight for a little bit of perks...... Who would have thought that he had been on the shelf for a long time, and people actually ignored him and fell asleep with the child in his arms!

Qiu Chen held his breath, stopped wiping his hair, took off his shoes and put on the kang, and lay down with Brother Yun in his arms.

If you ignore me, I'm too lazy to pay attention to you.

Once he thought about it, the trace of regret in Qiu Chen's heart disappeared, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt that he was justified, there was no need to apologize for anything, and he was even a little aggrieved.

Qiu Chen felt guilty for a moment, but then he was a little annoyed. Her mother's house is so far away, and she can't come back once a year, it is inevitable that she will be excited and happy, how can that person be so stingy and so small, and actually annoy her for this, and throw his face to show her? It's so unreasonable and unreasonable!

Seeing her son's small appearance, Qiu Chen finally realized something, it seemed that this afternoon, she had been busy, not taking care of the child, not eating with the child, not playing with the child, not coaxing the child to sleep...... Well, the child is not happy to be snubbed, so is someone's cold face also because of this?

Qiu Chen is not good at being gentle and gentle, Qin Zheng is cold, and she is not easy to come forward, so she came to her son and leaned over to check. Brother Yun fell asleep on the kang, his little mouth pouted slightly, his brows seemed to be wrinkled, and his little face looked wrinkled, with a little unhappy look.

Qin Zheng was still holding a book and reading it, and he didn't even bother with his eyelids.

Qiu Chen's lips moved, he didn't say anything, he took the two girls into the clean room, bathed and washed, changed into a set of half-worn muslin pajamas, sent the girls to retreat, and walked out with a dry handkerchief to wipe their hair.

In the inner room, a lamp on the kang table was like a bean, Qin Zheng leaned on a large pillow, holding a book in his hand and watching. Qiu Chen walked in, he didn't raise his eyes, still focused on the page in his hand.

I didn't feel anything for most of the day, but when I relaxed, Qiu Chen felt that his back hurt and he was tired. She stood up and moved her hands and feet, and Chengying and Yuegui also stepped forward to help her rub it for a while, before she felt that her stiff and sore body had eased slightly.

This series of affairs was properly arranged, and it was already the beginning of the morning, Qiu Chen carefully went through it in his mind again, making sure that there was nothing missing, and then he breathed a sigh of relief and got up and went back to the house.

Hanguang listened attentively, memorized his wife's instructions one by one, and when Qiu Chen finished his instructions, he repeated them again, and then took the four little girls to kowtow and retreat, and packed up their things together and went to the front yard.

Qiu Chen's gaze swept over a few girls again, and saw everyone's expressions in their eyes, and then said lightly: "You guys clean up, go over now, clean up the inside and outside of the house, bake the kang first, and then look at the smoke cage brazier everywhere to bake the moisture in the house, bake it overnight, remove the brazier after breakfast tomorrow, and then open the window to breathe, and disperse the charcoal gas......"

The four little girls also hurriedly gathered their joy and excitement, and kowtowed respectfully: "The slave has written it down, please rest assured, Madame!" ”

Hanguang took the lead in kowtowing and admitted: "The slave has written it down, please rest assured, Madame!" ”

A few little girls looked respectful, knelt quietly in front of her and listened, and when they heard Qiu Chen's words, the little girls inevitably showed some joy that they couldn't hide. The treatment of the subordinates of the Marquis of Jingbei is good in the capital, and the best treatment is naturally first-class, and if you can rise to the first class, you will not only have a rich dowry, but you will also be able to get a generous pension when you are old in the future...... It can be said that as long as you can be promoted to the first class, you don't have to worry about it when you are old. With such a good treatment, you can also choose your husband's in-law's family and live a harmonious life as a husband and wife, as long as you are not stupid or stupid, who will go to be a room and a concubine with no guarantee of personal safety? The concubine and the maid in the room, which are bought and sold and given away at will, are no different from an object, and are not even as good as a plaything loved by the owner!

“…… In our house, you all know what I can't tolerate in my eyes, I won't say much here. I picked a few of you out today, just to see that you are diligent and diligent, and you are neat enough to do things. I don't like restlessness, but I can see that you can do things with all your heart, and your efforts will not be in vain. I tell you, now you are a third-class girl, if you do a good job, I will promote you to the second class...... Miss Eldest Young Master and Brother are still short of manpower, and if you do a good job, some of them are in good positions to place you. Qiu Chen looked at the four little girls and said in a flat and slow voice.

After some selection, Qiu Chen picked Hanguang to go over to lead the president, and picked four little girls to go over, clean up and serve, as for daily life, Lin Xu and Junwen Junshu have small servants, Qiu Chen clearly instructed that those girls don't need to do it. Hanguang used to be in charge of the maiden in the yard, arranging to deal with Lin Xu's orders, and he didn't need to go to the house to serve anything.

Although Qiu Chen doesn't think that girls are inferior, living in this society, everything and everything must conform to the norms of society. She admired the courage of the pioneers who had just fought against the whole society, but she would not have done it herself. She just wants to conform to social norms and live in peace and prosperity.

Finally picked out the accessories, and Qiu Chen considered picking a girl for the guest house. This is more laborious than accessories, too smart, too active eyelids, too slow to react, you have to have enough eyes, but also have a good character, and you won't do something to teach three children badly.

Qin Zheng was playing with Brother Yun on the kang, looking at the living room outside, the couch and chair were full of all kinds of clothes and accessories, especially his wife who was serious and attentive...... Qin Zheng glanced at it, looked at it again, and then silently lowered his eyes and played with his son, who was also a little depressed.

Qin Zheng and the children turned back after practicing, Qiu Chen just said hello, and sent Qin Zheng and Brother Yun into the back room.

Every spring and autumn, Qiu Chen will ask the sewing room to prepare clothes for the two elders of the Yang family and his nephews, and then send them to his family, at this time the weather is warm and cold, Qiu Chen's spring clothes are too thin, I am afraid that they can't be worn immediately, so after receiving the news that Lin Xu is coming, he immediately picked out the clothes and handed them to the tailor in the sewing room, sewing the thin silk cotton jacket and pants that happened to be worn this season, as well as various accessories, Qiu Chen carefully considered and matched them one by one......

After a busy afternoon, tidying up the guest room in front of him, Qiu Chen prepared all kinds of utensils and clothes for Lin Xu and Junwen Junshu.

Although Mr. Liang said that his fate was perverse and the road to the imperial examination was not smooth, he was a person with real talent and learning, and he must have a common language with Lin Xu and Junwen Junshu.

For the convenience of the guests, the guest house is connected with four small courtyards, one of which is two entrances inside and outside, and the other three are single-door and single-family courtyards. Mr. Liang used an independent courtyard to live and make a school for Zhixian and Zhen. Qiu Chen asked Lin Xu and Junwen Junshu to live in a small courtyard adjacent to Mr. Liang.

Here, Qiu Chen hurriedly ordered someone to go to the front guest courtyard to clean up the house.