Su Xiujin was wearing earrings, and Su Xiuli shouted outside: "Jin'er, are you up?" ”

Su Xiujin hurriedly opened the door: "Why did the fifth sister come so soon." ”

Su Xiuli was wearing a white gauze skirt with a pinched waist embroidered with light red embroidered flowers, wide cuffs embroidered with silver thread, and a pair of silver-edged embroidered shoes on her feet, which was extraordinarily delicate and lovely.

Su Xiuli blushed and said, "Jin'er, don't make fun of me." ”

Su Xiujin laughed: "Who doesn't know that the beloved of the fifth sister is the young owner of the grain shop in Kansai, and he looks dignified, and he has supported the business of more than a dozen shops in Kansai before he has a weak crown." ”

Su Xiuli's face turned even redder, although she had not seen her future husband yet, but the businessmen naturally didn't need to care about that, and brought back the female relatives to eat and drink through the curtain, and they could also take a few glances inadvertently.

"Say what? Let me have fun too. Su Xiuyuan entered the gate and saw his two little sisters talking together.

Su Xiuyuan is the most loved by her father among the three concubines, she and Su Xiuli are the same mother, but their temperaments are very different.

Su Xiuli pulled Su Xiujin, and Su Xiujin said, "Who doesn't know that today is a good day?" The fourth sister is also very different from usual. ”

"I didn't know that Xiujin was getting better at making fun of people." Su Xiuyuan smeared a few layers of rouge on her face, she pointed to her face and said, "I didn't sleep late last day, I don't know how many layers of powder I covered when I got up today, but I'm worried to death." ”

Su Xiuli's words were a little sour: "Who doesn't know that my sister is in charge of the Agarwood Pavilion, and how much rouge gouache can be made with you." ”

Su Xiuyuan smiled and didn't speak, just looked at the picture of the lady on her fan, her chin trembled a little, and she thought that she had endured her sister many times.

Su Xiujin played a round game: "Don't talk about this, when did the fourth sister get the new rouge and didn't send it to the two of us for the first time, if you two don't go to the front yard, your mother will have to send someone to urge, don't blame my sister for missing your time." ”

Su Xiuyuan couldn't help but smile, put his finger against Su Xiujin's forehead and said, "You are the best at talking." ”

Su Xiuli took the handkerchief to cover her mouth and smiled, but she didn't mean to say it again.

The three of them went to the front room together, they came a little late, most of the ladies had already arrived, drinking flower tea, talking about the little things in Suzhou City with a small snack, the three of them saluted Zhang Shuqin, Zhang Shuqin looked at the face was not good, and she was also covered with several layers of rouge, and casually pointed to the seat for Su Xiujin to sit, pulling the two protagonists today to clap their hands and talk.

Su Xiujin doesn't care, Zhang Shuqin has always been very tolerant of concubines and concubines, and she has also read some books before, and she is quite reasonable, at least on the surface, she is extremely concerned about them.

Su Xiujin casually looked at the room, it was not much different from last year, but if she looked carefully at the gold-painted fruit wood box, it was a little old, and she thought it was an old thing that had been used a few times. Su Xiujin silently ate the dried fruits in the box without saying a word.

Today is the day when the two girls look at each other, the ladies present are tacitly acquiescing, approaching the end of the year, all kinds of relatives of the Su family are in an endless stream, Su Xiujin secretly recognized a lot of people in the first two years, but there are still some relatives who can't beat the eight poles Seeing that she is a young lady, they also followed up, saying that they had hugged a few times earlier, and they had met a few times, but they were very enthusiastic.

Su Xiujin was relieved to come out, to say that the fall of the Su family is not unrelated to these poor relatives, the third aunt and six mothers-in-law put all relatives inside, and then calculate the accounts after the New Year every time, just in the name of fighting the autumn wind, there is a lot of empty accounts. Zhang Shuqin naturally has no ability to take care of these, the old lady has not been in good health over the years, and over the years, the empty consumption of the inner house has been reduced.

Walking to a corridor, thinking about where to sit for a meeting, a group of maids came on the opposite side, Su Xiujin subconsciously carried the pillar, avoided the group of girls, stood for a while, waited for people to leave, just wanted to move, but didn't want a sound to fall into his ears.

"Mother, what's wrong with the young owner of the Kansai grain shop? If the fifth girl marries him, it will be inexhaustible wealth, and if there is this Kansai, our business in Kansai will also be better. ”

Su Xiujin was stunned, although she didn't hear much of this voice, she could recognize that this was her father, Su Fugui.

"Shut up!" This is the voice of Old Lady Su, her dragon head cane paused on the ground a few times, and her voice trembled more and more: "If I hadn't seen that young owner just now, wouldn't you have married your daughter to a lame man!" ”

Su Xiujin couldn't help but cover her mouth, no wonder the Kansai Grain Shop family was honest but directly skipped the eldest sister and the fourth sister who had already passed the line, and wanted to marry the fifth sister! The eldest sister is a concubine, with outstanding appearance and some talent, the Su family has been waiting to put a long line to catch a big fish, if she hadn't missed the triennial draft, she would have to be sent to the palace. The fourth sister has been loved by Su Fugui since she was a child, and she has some brains, the Agarwood Pavilion that Su Fugui handed over to her to take care of was the only shop that did not lose money last year, such a daughter, Su Fugui will never marry her into a foreign family, she is not old when she goes out, and there is only the fifth sister left.

"Mother, my son doesn't want to. It's just that this business is getting more and more difficult to do, even if my son runs around every day, he can't resist the rules above, last year's tariffs rose, and the shops outside our customs had to raise prices, who knows what opponents they met, and the price was thirty percent less than ours, and in the long run, even if our Su family has a big business, they can't resist their bids. Last year, all of our shops were losing money! This year, I almost couldn't get the silver taels in the feed, and I still ate my father's old book. The more Su Fugui said, the more sad he became, if he wasn't desperate, where would he exchange his daughter for wealth.

"Well, I understand what you say." Mrs. Su sighed: "I'm just afraid that I have wronged the five girls, and we are also worried." ”

Su Fugui repeatedly promised: "Mother, don't worry, I can see clearly this future uncle, but my legs and feet are a little inconvenient, but fortunately, I am a good person and a good hand in business." When the time comes, let's give more dowry, and we will definitely not let the girl be wronged! ”

Old Lady Su fell silent. I didn't speak for a long time.

After a while, a small servant came over to call someone, and Su Fugui left. Su Xiujin hid for a long time, and as soon as he made a move, he heard the words behind him: "Come out, the old body has seen you for a long time." ”

Su Xiujin paused and walked out generously.

"The old man guessed it was going to be you." Old Madam Su glanced at Su Xiujin, "How much did you listen to those words just now?" ”

"The wind was strong, and my granddaughter didn't hear it very clearly, only a few words."

The old lady raised her hand, and Su Xiujin stepped forward to help Mrs. Su.

"Oh-" Mrs. Su turned around and said, "Then I was rewarded with two pearls that day, and everyone else wore them in hairpins, either for the sake of looking good, or to please me, why don't you wear them?" ”

Su Xiujin couldn't say that she was saving a dowry, and she couldn't say that she didn't love pearls, this was not a slap in the face of the old lady. It's just a pearl flaw, she couldn't tolerate it in her eyes in her previous life, and this time she was hypocritical.

Seeing that Su Xiujin was silent, the old lady smiled and said, "Because as far as you know, wearing pearls not only can't please me, but I will only be pickled when I look at it." ”