Qiu Chen blew the tea slowly, waited for it to cool just in her mouth, and drank it slowly, seeing that Old Man Mu went from staring at her eyes with an expectant face, to scratching her ears and cheeks, and then to almost jumping to her feet, she finally put down the teacup and slowly spoke: "Excellence is the basic criterion for the reproduction of all things." However, there is one case that is not among them. ”

"Uh, huh? In any case, say it quickly, say it quickly! Old Man Mu nodded in approval again and again, and then realized that what Qiu Chen said was just something that everyone knew, so he urged again with an anxious face.

Qiu Chen glanced at him, and then said: "Nowadays, the world prohibits marriage with the same surname, for the sake of the patriarchal law, and those who are disorderly are despised by the world. But he praised and matched his aunt and cousin, but he didn't know that there was no distinction between men and women, and their blood was always the same. Aunts and aunts are actually no different from cousins and sisters. Cousin marriage is the union of two people who are very close to each other, which makes the defects that may have been covered up or not obvious superimposed, so that the probability of the occurrence of recessive diseases is much higher than that of non-consanguineous marriage, and the children born of consanguineous marriages suffer from dementia or other diseases are greatly increased. ”

"Cousins are the same as cousins......" Old Man Mu muttered in a low voice.

Qiu Chen waited for him for a moment, and then added lightly: "If you are always interested in this, why don't you go and inquire, just choose a thousand couples who are not related to each other and couples who are married to cousins, look at the offspring they have born, and compare them, you can verify whether this matter is credible." ”

Old man Mu listened to Qiu Chen's suggestion, blinked his eyes and muttered for a moment, jumped up from the stone bench suddenly, stroked his palms and said, "Okay, my old man will go to verify and verify, if what you said is not true, I will come to you to theorize again!" ”

As he spoke, he couldn't wait for a moment, his body moved, he jumped out of the pavilion, jumped out of the pavilion, jumped a few times, crossed the flowers and trees, and jumped straight out of the Jingbei Hou Mansion. I didn't even bother to go through the gate.

Qiu Chen watched the figure of Old Man Mu disappear, was silent for a moment, retracted his gaze, pulled Ah Fu Aman, arranged the clothes and hair for the two children, and said to Qin Zheng: "Let's go, the guests at home, we are not too late!" ”

Qin Zheng got up with his head and reached out to pick up Ah Man, Qiu Chen led Ah Fu, and the family walked out together.

"Master Mu is not here, let's take the two children back!" Qin Zheng said as he walked, and explained, "Since Afu Aman is my son, naturally I don't have to avoid anyone!" ”

Qiu Chen glanced at him and nodded lightly.

Before, the reason why she put her two children in Baishiqiao's mansion and didn't take them to Liang Guogong's mansion was not because she was afraid of other people's discussions and contempt. She is a widow and remarried, and she has never hidden anyone from anyone with a pair of children, nor has she hidden it, as long as she knows a little about her life experience, she can know the Tao. There will be contempt and discussion, whether the child is around or not, it is inevitable.

What worries her is that when she can't protect her two children, she will let them endure the ridicule and even insults...... She was afraid that her two children would be harmed by it.

Now, Old Man Mu left suddenly out of tune, the two children had no reliable guards, and they lived on the side of Baishi Bridge, and she was not at ease.

What's more, it was Qin Zheng who offered to let the children go back with them......

Moreover, Afu Aman will have to live with them after all, and it is inevitable that he will come into contact with all kinds of people, and she can't hide them forever in order to protect them......

Although the stumbling and frustration in life may hurt people, it has to be said that it is the setbacks and failures that create the growth and maturity of life.

It's a little eagle, you should let him learn to fly, instead of tying his wings and making him lose the pride of soaring and fighting in the sky!

After figuring it out, Qiu Chen instructed Yufeng and Chengying to let them take Afu Aman's grandmother back to Baishi Bridge, sort out the luggage and clothes of the two, and take them to the Liang Guogong Mansion.

Wutong Garden occupies the largest area in the Liang State Mansion, and the establishment is also the highest. Now only Qiu Chen and Qin Zheng live in the Sanjin Courtyard, not only the second entrance, but also the east and west wings of the Sanjin Courtyard are also idle.

It's just that after returning to Wutong Garden, Duke Liang's Mansion, Qiu Chen pondered for a while, and still sorted out the second courtyard and placed Ah Fu and Ah Man. Since you have decided to let go of the exercise of the two children, let's give the two children more space and opportunities to cultivate their independent thinking and ability to deal with the world.

It was already the beginning of Shen Shi, Qin Zheng watched Qiu Chen commanding people to clean up the room utensils for the two children, and he couldn't help it, so he simply greeted Qiu Chen and took the two children back to the main house of the Sanjin Courtyard.

After Qiu Chen's instructions were completed, she handed them over to the Chen family to lead people to sort out and settle, and she also turned back to the main room of the Sanjin Courtyard.

Entering the house, the two children were just wrapped in bath towels from the clean room by Lin and Wang, each with wet hair, and their eyes were black and bright with a layer of mist, which was just like a deer with a pair of wet eyes, as innocent and cute!

"Ah Fu and Ah Man are both washed? Hmm, it smells so good...... Kiss! Kiss! Qiu Chen was full of joy and joy, hugged the two children and kissed them, took a cloth towel, let the two children sit on her lap, and dried their hair for them little by little.

The dinner party was set at the beginning of the unitary hour, and seeing that it was about to be the unitary hour, Qiu Chen had no time to take a bath, so he could only simply wash his face and rearrange his makeup.

After washing his face quickly, Qiu Chen hurriedly made a cucumber hydrating mask, which lasted only five minutes, but his whole face looked much more tender and moisturized.

When he came out of the clean room, he saw that Afu Aman had combed his hair and changed his clothes.

Ah Fu is dressed in a lake blue straight embellished, with a jade-colored collar, a jade-colored brocade belt, and a clear and lush mutton fat jade pisces pendant hanging from his waist. There is also a small purse embroidered with a few bamboos in jade color, which is lined with a little man, and also has a bit of the gentle and handsome bearing of a young man.

Aman is a cherry-colored embroidered jacket, under a finely embroidered hundred butterflies cherry red pleated skirt, a pair of red embroidered butterfly shoes wearing flowers, but also with gold and silver threads, butterfly eyes are also decorated with a grain of rice grain size beads, with the action of the little girl, as if to flutter wings and fly up, vivid, very smart. In addition, the little girl's two buns are covered with red gold silk butterfly hairpins, and the wings are supported by fine silk, and the butterfly wings will tremble and flicker up and down with the movement...... This is still a box of jewelry sent by Yang Jingyong, which is definitely not something that can be made by folk craftsmen.

Seeing the two children dressed up attentively, Qiu Chen immediately understood that this was to take the two children to the banquet......

Although she had already brought her two children back, she was still a little unsure about taking her two children to attend the banquet in the Liang Guogong Mansion like this, and if there would be too many malicious ridicule and insults at that time......

hesitated in her heart, but she still showed a bright smile on her face, hugged the two children up and down, praised and praised her, and also made her affectionate, the little faces of the two children were red, happy and proud, Qiu Chen asked them to wait for him outside the door to watch the flowers, and then sat down in front of the dressing table to comb their hair and makeup.

Seeing the two children running out of the city in a hurry, the smile on Qiu Chen's face also fell.

Looking at himself in the mirror, Qiu Chen asked, "Did the master let the two children clean it up?" ”

Wang combed Qiu Chen's hair, and Lin replied with a slight bend of his knees beside him: "Yes, the master said, it happened to be a banquet today, and I took the children over to meet people, and the people in the house didn't know the young master and Miss in the future!" ”

This is a good word, since she brought the two children back, she naturally doesn't want the two children to disappear. All she was worried about was whether the children would be harmed if she was brought out so abruptly!

Thinking in her heart, Wang Shi had already curled her hair in a bun with her hands and feet, Hanguang and Qingxing also applied lotion and cream to her according to her preferences, and then applied Qiu Chen's homemade powder thinly, and the base makeup was done, Qiu Chen took over, simply drew his eyebrows and eyes, swept a light eyeshadow and blush, and then dipped a little bit of rouge paste on his lips, swept and smeared all over, and her lips immediately showed a healthy and full luster color, but it was not exaggerated blood red, and there was no pretentious painting of cherry lips. Generous, elegant and natural, but bright and fresh.

Looking at the makeup in the mirror, Qiu Chen took out a jasper hairpin with a golden toad sitting on a lotus from the makeup box, and took the old beeswax hibiscus hairpin that Qin Zheng gave her at the beginning, and wore a few red gold cordyceps flowers in her spare place, and Qingxing took out nine flowers in one go, which is the number of flowers that Qiu Chen can wear with his current rank, but Qiu Chen doesn't want to wear a golden hair...... It's not to enter the palace or receive orders, she has to put on makeup according to her grade, and she doesn't need to wear a gold jewelry to make her neck hurt in order to show her identity.

Only three flowers were properly embellished, Qing Xing stood behind her with a mirror, and asked her to look at the effect of makeup before and after, Qiu Chen glanced at it, and got up straight.

glanced at a set of real red silk butterfly peony long gowns and a jade-colored pleated long skirt of the same suit as Man'er that Qingxing took out, and didn't care about picking and choosing, so he only jumped a golden flower and wore it forbiddenly, and he didn't even look at it, and went out of the house.

The banquet was held at two o'clock, and now that it had passed, it would take a quarter of an hour to reach the back garden where the banquet was located from Wutong Garden, so she still hurried out...... The whole family will have a banquet, and as a bride who has just married, it is better for her to arrive a little earlier, if she is said to be disrespectful to her elders because she is late, it will be too worthwhile.

"Ah Fu, Ah Man, let's go!" Qiu Chen came to the yard and greeted the two babies who were picking up petals under the begonia tree.

"Whoa! Here it comes! Man'er said crisply, ran over to hold Qiu Chen's hand, and Ah Fu also came over, holding a handkerchief in his hand and holding a handful of begonia petals for Qiu Chen to see.

"Mother, seeing that my sister picked up so many petals, she said she wanted to pack a sachet!" Ah Fu said with a smile on his face.

Qiu Chen raised his hand and touched his head, asking him to wrap the petals and hand them to the girl behind him, while she led one big and one small out of Wutong Garden.

Because of the tight time, Qiu Chen called the two-ride bright sedan chair, and when the lady went out to see the two-seater bright sedan chair, she also saw a handsome man wearing a lake-blue robe and a jade-colored belt, standing at the door, waiting for their arrival with a gentle face.

"Daddy!" Ah Man's mouth was the sweetest, and he almost ran up screaming when he saw Qin Zheng.

Qin Zheng also happily hugged the little girl, looked back at Qiu Chen, who was leading Ah Fu over, and said with a slight smile: "You take a sedan chair with the children, and I will go with you." ”

The distance is not too far, and the reason why I took the sedan chair was just because I was afraid that the two children would walk slowly and delay the dinner time. Since Qin Zheng said so, Qiu Chen did not object, he responded with a smile, and sent Ah Fu and Ah Man to sit in a sedan chair, and she took a ride herself, Qin Zheng followed the bright sedan chair of the two children, and the family left Wutong Garden and went straight to the back garden of Liang Guogong's mansion.

When I approached the back garden, I saw more and more servants, each holding a fruit bowl or holding utensils, busy like little ants.

Seeing Qin Zheng coming slowly with the two sedan chairs, the servants who came and went hurriedly avoided both sides, stopped and greeted respectfully, and waited for Qin Zheng and his party to pass before continuing their work.

Looking at so many busy subordinates, Qiu Chen couldn't help but secretly slander.

This banquet is borrowed from the name of appreciating the silk begonia, the flowers are not in the day but at night, in this era of lighting alms, is to light dozens of lanterns, and how many flowers can be seen? Or, Mrs. Li did this in order to pursue Su Shida's poetic conception: she was only afraid of falling asleep in the middle of the night, so she burned high candles to shine red makeup?

Along the middle road, Qin Zheng and his entourage walked out of the last moon gate and walked into the back garden of the Liang Guogong Mansion. Because it was a mansion given at the time of the founding of the country, after more than 100 years of reproduction, even if the children of the concubines were divided into different houses, only one house was reproduced, and the population of the Liang State Mansion was far more than several times higher than at the beginning of the founding of the country. As a result, the back garden of the Liang Guogong Mansion, which was not large, has been repeatedly encroached upon by the expanded courtyard, and has gradually shrunk, and now there are more than 20 acres left, not to mention the backyard of Liu Jiaao Qiu Chen's encompassing hillside, which is the backyard of the Jingbei Houfu that I only saw today, and it is far wider than the back garden of the Liang Guogong Mansion.

Just such a small back garden, and there is no living water, naturally there is no lake, only a few not too tall stacked stone rockeries are piled up, a small river only a few feet wide meanders around a few rockeries, through the garden, and flows out of the water, which can be regarded as creating several landscapes of mountains and rivers for the whole back garden. The most commendable thing is probably the centuries-old trees in the back garden, the green shade is like a cover, and the tree body is thick, which undoubtedly shows the heaviness of the century-old noble family such as the Liang Guogong Mansion.

In this back garden, there are also several small courtyards on both sides and in the corners of the backyard, in which there are several unfavored concubines, as for the concubines of the former Liang Guogong, those who have children are raised with their children, and those who have no children are either dismissed, or sent to the ancient temple to accompany the Green Lantern Ancient Buddha, but they are gone.

Qin Zheng stopped in the moon gate of the garden with the two sedan chairs, first hugged Afu Aman off the sedan chair, and then turned around to help Qiu Chen, who was getting off the sedan chair, and whispered casually: "I have already told my father about Fu'er Man'er, and my father said that tonight's banquet will be seated in each room, and when the time comes, Fu'er Man'er will sit with us, and you don't have to worry." ”

That's really good news. The reason why Qiu Chen was worried about Afu Aman's participation in the banquet was mainly because the gatherings of this era were generally divided into men and women, and people of different generations would also be separated...... In addition, she is a daughter-in-law, and according to the rules, she only serves people, and there will be no seat for her.

Now Qin Zheng's words have completely eliminated her worries. Now that Qin Zheng has this heart, even if she wants to be a daughter-in-law and serve her mother-in-law for dinner, Ah Fu and Ah Man follow Qin Zheng together, and they don't worry about being bullied.

Qin Zheng is a candidate for Jingbei, with great achievements, as long as he is not a person who has taken the wrong medicine, he will not go to Qin Zheng to provoke without having anything to do.

With a bright smile on his face, Qiu Chen said in a low voice, "Thank you for bothering!" ”

Qin Zheng said indifferently: "My sons and daughters, naturally I have to protect them!" ”

Qiu Chen smiled, didn't say much, followed Qin Zheng's side, and led Afu Aman by Qin Zheng, and the family of four walked along the bluestone-paved road all the way inside.

The place of the banquet is not far away, in a wide pavilion not far from the entrance of the garden, there is a small river under this open pavilion, and plum trees, weeping willows, begonias are planted around, there are plum blossoms and snow in winter, green willows are weeping in spring, and there are begonias in late spring with red makeup and enchanting...... It is the best place to enjoy the scenery in the Liangguo Mansion except for the Wutong Garden.

The flowers and leaves of the begonia are similar to those of the Xifu begonia, the biggest difference is that the flower stalk of the silk begonia is longer than that of the Xifu begonia, and the flower buds and flowers will be drape-shaped. Compared with Xifu Begonia, the flower color is gorgeous, and the size of the flowers is slightly inferior, but it has a delicate and delicate state.

Bypassing a pile of stones, Qiu Chen followed Qin Zheng onto a stone arch bridge, standing on the high part of the arch bridge, almost taking in most of the garden.

Looking down from this side, Changxuan and the surrounding begonias are not far away, and the begonia flowers are also presented in front of you like clouds.

"Mother, there are begonia flowers over there!" Aman immediately shouted with joy.

Qiu Chen nodded and said with a smile: "Pay attention when you go over and see what is the difference between the begonias here and the begonias in our yard!" ”

Ah Fu nodded obediently without hesitation, but Ah Man tilted his little head to look at Qiu Chen and said, "Mother, are the begonias here different from those in our yard?" ”

This little girl, just thinking about saving trouble!

Qiu Chen and Qin Zheng looked at each other and smiled, and shook their heads firmly: "Mother don't talk about it now, you can see for yourself if there is any difference!" I also want to think of a poem describing begonias and recite it to my father and mother, okay? ”

The reason why Aman asked when he opened his mouth was just that she was used to asking questions, she was not afraid of things like observation and reciting poems, Ah Fu had studied harder than her, and naturally she was not afraid, but the brother and sister nodded calmly.

After getting off the arch bridge, I can't walk a few steps, and after a clump of fine bamboo, there are dozens of begonias spreading along the stream all the way to the lush and enchanting.

Afu Aman broke free from the adult's hand, ran and jumped to the begonia tree, and looked up carefully at the begonia flowers on the tree with his little head up.

If you don't notice the way the flowers grow, you are just confused by their beauty and enchantment, and it is very likely that you will not notice the difference between them for decades.

Ah Man has a lively temperament, but he is a little rough-leaved, he looked at a tree with his little head up for a while, and he didn't see any difference, so he rushed to the next tree to continue to observe, and looked at five or six trees in a row, but he didn't see any difference, so he simply ran back and asked Qin Zheng and Qiu Chen for help.

But Ah Fu, originally quiet and careful, just now helped Ah Man pick up the petals of flowers, also paid attention to the shape of the flowers on the branches, at this time to see the weeping silk begonia, a little attention to the observation, soon found the difference between the two, full of joy, but did not forget to let the girl who followed for him to pick a small branch of begonia flowers to take back, he just picked up the begonia also has a whole flower, he wants to compare the two, to determine whether his observation is correct.

Qiu Chen and Qin Zheng came to the outside of Changxuan at this time, and saw that the people in Changxuan were all arranging the people, and the other was that the second grandmother Tian was assigned to command in Changxuan - Tian was responsible for managing the back garden, and it was rare for her to set up a banquet in the back garden today, so she had a rare opportunity to show her face, and her cheeks were flushed with excitement at this time, and she only stared at those girls and women in her eyes, and she didn't care about looking out at all, and she didn't see that Qin Zheng and Qiu Chen and their party had arrived.

Qiu Chen and the others were not in a hurry to go to the open pavilion, so they stood still under the begonia tree and watched the two children running around under the flower tree.

Ah Man pouted and rushed back, hugged Qiu Chen's legs and tilted his head and said, "Mother, it's all begonia flowers, Ah Man didn't see anything different...... Is it okay for my mother to tell Aman? ”

Looking at the little girl's bright eyes, Qiu Chen was really a little ruthless.

It just so happened that Ah Fu ran back with a weeping silk begonia at this time, but he didn't talk to his mother first, but asked the girl for the begonia flowers he had picked up before, and brought them to Qiu Chen together, opened the veil carefully, picked out the two begonia flowers in it, and actually let him find a cluster of fallen Xifu begonias, and compared with the weeping silk begonias in his hand, the difference was immediately apparent.

Holding two begonias, Ah Fu smiled and squinted his eyes in front of Qiu Chen: "Mother, look, this is the begonia that my sister and I just picked up in the yard, this is the begonia here...... One peduncle is short, and the peduncle of the other branch is slender......"

Without waiting for Ah Fu to finish speaking, Ah Man also jumped to his feet and clapped his hands and said: "I know the way, I know the way, when Mr. Pan talked about Su Shi's 'begonia poem', he once told us that there are several kinds of begonias: sticky stem begonias, Xifu begonias and weeping silk begonias." The difference is that the peduncle is more slender than the other...... Although these flower stalks in the yard are short, they are not absent, they should be Xifu begonias; These begonia flower stalks in the garden are slender, and they should be weeping begonias! ”

After Balabala finished speaking, the little girl still looked at Qiu Chen with a smug face, obviously waiting for her mother's praise.

Qiu Chen looked at the little girl's smug appearance, and couldn't help but be angry and funny. This little girl is impetuous, she doesn't observe well, but she robbed her brother of the result, and she is still proud!

"Man'er remembers it very clearly, and what he said is also very right!" Qiu Chen praised with a smile, and then changed his words, "It's just that when I observed the begonia flowers today, Ah Fu saw it most carefully, and he also knew the comparison between the two sides, and only after it was confirmed, did he answer the question." Such a meticulous and serious attitude is very good, no matter whether you do learning or doing things in the future, don't forget to uphold this good habit! ”

Aman was praised, his little face was red and his eyes were bright, and he tilted his little head slightly, looking proud. Aman blushed slightly, a touch of shyness was revealed in his joy, and he hung his head slightly, without the slightest publicity, but a little embarrassed.

Her two children, her daughter is too jumpy and active, and a little too proud and conceited; On the contrary, the son is careful and serious, and he loves to be shy...... Alas, this is simply a reversal!

Qiu Chen sighed secretly, suppressed the sigh in his heart, kissed Ah Fu with a smile, hugged Ah Man, and after looking at the little girl proudly, he pouted, put aside the slightest unhappiness, turned around and ran to pull Qin Zheng, and let Qin Zheng carry her to pick begonia flowers. She wants to pick a few begonia flowers and bring them back to compare them with the begonias in the yard...... In the future, she will never recognize Xifu Begonia and Weeping Begonia again!

Although her mother praised her just now, she still felt that it was not enough. She clearly remembered the begonia flowers that Mr. Pan talked about, but she didn't distinguish them because she didn't look at them carefully...... Well, she won't be like that again in the future!

Although she likes her brother very much and is happy that he has been praised, she is still a little unwilling. She won't lose to anyone!

Qin Zheng is gentle to Ah Fu, so he is almost spoiled by Ah Man. What the little girl says is basically what it is!

Immediately took Aman to the bottom of the most blooming begonia tree by the river, carried the little girl on her shoulder, and asked her to break the flower branches. Ah Fu also followed, but he was still doing his previous work, and Ah Man handed him the flower branch that he had broken, and Ah Fu happily worked hard for his sister.

Qiu Chen looked at the three figures of one big and two small ones laughing happily under the flower tree, and subconsciously reminded him: "You can pick one or two flowers and take a look, don't pick too much, the flowers will wither quickly, and they will look good if they are left on the branches!" ”

Ah Man responded to her with a giggle, and Ah Fu replied crisply in the bushes: "I know the way, don't worry, mother!" ”

Qiu Chen smiled, withdrew his gaze that was focused on the three masters, and looked at it with a begonia flower, his eyes flashed, and then turned back, and there was a cluster of vigorous green flowering shrubs growing under the foundation of the arch bridge that had just passed.

This bush grows vigorously with slender branches but upward roots, and the leaves are lanceolate like willow leaves, but they are not as soft as willow leaves, but leathery, hard and brittle. In addition, there are inflorescences at the top of each branch, and although it is not yet in full bloom, there are many flowers, and the yellow flowers are delicate in color, and the corolla is split into a funnel-like arrangement......

Qiu Chen's eyes blinked, there was actually a cluster of yellow-flowered oleanders here!

Oleander is native to India, Iran and other places, Qiu Chen remembers that it was introduced in China in the early and middle Ming Dynasty, and it is generally pink flowers, and yellow and white are generally considered to be planted varieties. Today's era is estimated according to history, it should be the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, but she didn't expect to see oleander, and it was also a yellow-flowered oleander!

Since the introduction of this kind of thing, it has been planted as a garden ornamental flower because of its gorgeous flower color, long flowering period, and flourishing flowers during the full flowering period, and clusters of flowers blooming on the top of the branches. It is still in modern times, with the development of biochemical medicinal chemistry, that its components are gradually cracked.

Oleander, some varieties of color, but the whole plant is poisonous!