In the main hall, the gray-haired old lady was sitting on the couch in the middle with her sleeves upright, wearing a forehead wipe of the same color as her clothes on her head, her hair was neatly combed, and she obviously had a kind smile on her face, but she couldn't see any emotion for no reason. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Xiao Qi is here? It's cold outside, sit down next to your sixth sister and take it easy. The old lady glanced at her, then looked away, and her gaze fell on the girl in the aqua blue dress beside her.

Yan Xiaoqi obediently walked to the side and sat down, looking at his nose and nose, and listening diligently to the conversation between the two on the couch with only one ear.

"Grandmother~" The girl spoke with a long scroll at the end of her voice: "My mother received a post from Mrs. Yong'an Hou Shizi the day before yesterday, inviting us to go over to attend Brother Qian'er's first birthday banquet." ”

The old lady smiled like a chrysanthemum and patted her hand: "Okay, okay, when the time comes, pay attention to it, and tell me about this old woman when there is any excitement." ”

"Grandmother is really, knowing that if you don't confess, Xiao Wu will definitely tell you everything she sees." The fifth lady hugged the old lady's arm and rubbed it coquettishly, but the corners of her eyes inadvertently swept over Yan Xiaoqi.

As he spoke, the curtain was pulled back again, and a woman in her twenties with her hair in a bun walked in, followed by a woman with bulging breasts and a seven or eight-month-old baby in her arms.

The old lady's expression was finally a little moved, the smile on her face was much more real, she withdrew her arm that was held by the fifth girl, and greeted the visitor: "Didn't you stop coming here on this snowy day?" ”

The woman took the child from the nurse's hand and came to the side of the long couch, and the fifth girl had a good eye to get out of the way and sat back next to the sixth girl, but she still didn't forget to glance at Yan Xiaoqi proudly.

"Grandmother's yard is not far from us, a few days ago, Brother Ming had a little cough, and I didn't dare to let him come out, I'm not afraid that if I don't bring him over, my grandmother will forget our Brother Ming'er's little appearance."

The old lady smiled and raised her hand to poke the woman's forehead: "You girl, you are still so unforgiving when you become a mother, my family Youlin must be bullied by you every day." ”

The woman's face turned red instantly, and she didn't give up: "Grandmother, what do you say, I, how can I have... ”

In the end, she couldn't say anything, so the woman stuffed Brother Ming in her hand into the old lady's arms, and stomped her feet and hid behind the blue gauze cupboard.

The old lady picked up Brother Ming and waved her hand to the girl in the house: "The sky is not good, my wife will not keep you much, go to your mother." ”

Everyone in the room got up and walked to the door in turn, the people in the house were not prosperous compared to other families, Yan Xiaoqi and their generation, there were a total of nine girls in the family, four concubines and five concubines.

The older ladies are all married, and the biggest in the house is the fifth miss who has always been hostile to Yan Xiaoqi, the sixth miss among them is the second daughter of the third master, the eighth miss and the ninth miss are still young, one is the uncle's concubine, and the other is the third master's concubine.

Yan Xiaoqi quietly looked at the homes of several girls in the house today, the fifth girl and the sixth girl didn't seem to be close, and the two of them just said a few polite jokes when they went out, and they separated outside the hospital.

Yan Xiaoqi followed behind the maid and deliberately kept a few steps away from Miss Five. It's just that she was locked up for a month, but Miss Fifth was very proud during this time, and she couldn't help but want to stab her a few words.

"Seventh sister, how can I raise it in a month, and this body can still be blown away by the wind when I look at it?" Zhao Wen squinted at her, with a hint of envy in the depths of her eyes that she didn't even notice.

Her figure is not as slender and tall as Yan Xiaoqi, her round body looks a little plump, if she is the age of the second lady, such a figure with momentum can just hold down the next person, but if it is replaced by a girl who has not yet reached the end of the year, it is really a little unspeakable.

"That's what the fifth sister said." Yan Xiaoqi buried his head and was very cautious not to answer the phone, if he is stupid, he must talk less.

It was a provocative word, but it turned into a punch on the cotton, Zhao Wen snorted coldly, turned her head, ignored her, and strode forward.

The second lady's courtyard is not far from Mosong Garden, but it is also the time to walk a stick of incense. When she arrived at Lanyuan, Zhao Wen untied her cloak in the front hall, threw her hand to the maid, and entered the verandah with a familiar way.

Yan Xiaoqi was in the hall, and was hesitating, so he heard Lu Ping behind him whisper: "Fifth Miss is different from you, you better wait for the mother-in-law's report." ”

Better wait for the briefing? It seems that the original owner is not an honest guy. Yan Xiaoqi sighed in his heart, and honestly waited for the transmission of his mother-in-law, but after a stick of incense, the charcoal fire in the brazier in the front hall had been extinguished, and there was no figure in the courtyard.

An hour passed, Yan Xiaoqi's soaked shoes had begun to freeze, and she still couldn't wait for the mother-in-law to pass on, she stood in the hall, only to feel that her feet had lost consciousness.

"Why are you here?"

A gentle voice came from behind him, and Yan Xiaoqi twisted his body with great effort, only seeing a vague figure.

The gentle and upright figure like pine and bamboo is getting closer and closer, and the moist face that seems to be able to dissolve the snow and mist, you don't have to guess who it is.

Yan Xiaoqi wanted to bend down and salute, but found that his legs were already unconscious: "I've seen my father." ”

"You're here to see your mother? Why don't you go in yet? Zhao Shu looked at Yan Xiaoqi's face, which was very similar to Aunt Song, and suddenly realized that the little girl who used to like to laugh on his lap had grown up.

Yan Xiaoqi was already shivering a little from the cold, she quickly calculated the pros and cons in her heart, blinked her eyes and said a little crampedly: "I'm waiting for my mother to pass it on." ”

Zhao Shu nodded with satisfaction when he heard this, knowing the etiquette and etiquette, not bad.

"Don't wait, let's go in with my father." Zhao Shu took two steps forward, didn't hear the footsteps coming up, paused, turned his head and raised his eyebrows to look at Yan Xiaoqi.

Yan Xiaoqi's face was even more cramped, and she blushed and lifted her cloak, revealing a pair of feet that were already frozen with the floor.

Zhao Shu's face instantly turned cold: "Why don't you bake the fire?" ”

After saying this, his eyes swept to the brazier with only a little carbon ash, and the coldness on his face was even worse, and his eyes swept to the few maids behind Yan Xiaoqi: "Why don't you know to add charcoal to your young lady?" ”

Lu Ping and Xiangling knelt on the ground with a bang, Xiangling opened her mouth to explain a few words, but Lu Ping pulled the corners of her clothes behind her, and several people leaned over on the ground, and no one said much.

In the backyard, Zhao Shu never interfered, and the Xu family in his eyes has always been very measured, but today's events have obviously exceeded what he has always knew.

Some things are like this, no one knows what's inside when covered with a red cloth, but once you open a corner, perhaps, what you see is never what you imagined.