Sixteen years ago, Zhao, a talented girl in the imperial capital, did not marry a certain prince Longsun, but married the second son of the Hou Mansion who was about to decline.

In fact, if An Jin said that Zhao's life is not unhappy. Although her father doesn't have any talent to enter the WTO, he doesn't understand the career economy, and after taking the exam, he will watch the wind and the autumn moon all day long, fortunately, he is still handsome, chic, gentle and considerate, and there is no problem that the following people love to visit the Qinglou (An Jin has suspected many times, her father doesn't know if he has been intimidated by her two cold uncles), and it is not like those princes and grandsons, which are not in addition to the main concubines, there are three or four side concubines, and the concubines are even more unknown. In case the prince becomes the emperor by accident, after three years, the concubine is like cutting leeks, I don't know how many times I have cut. Who can be so comfortable with Zhao's life.

So in addition to not having a son, the Zhao family is still very happy and satisfied. Besides, although he didn't give birth to a son, he couldn't stand his mother's cow fork, and his father-in-law and mother-in-law never said anything about it.

Moreover, Zhao is very busy because she gave birth to five daughters who are like flowers. The young masters and ladies of the Hou Mansion are ranked in the same order as the two rooms. The five daughters of the Zhao family are the second miss Ruan Antan, the third miss Ruan Anzhen, the fourth miss Ruan Anmei, the fifth miss Ruan Antong and our heroine the seventh miss Ruan Anjian. And the largest in the Hou Mansion is Ruan Anhua from the eldest lady of the big house, and the sixth is also from the big house, but she is a concubine, called Ruan Anshu.

Zhao himself was a famous beauty in the imperial capital back then, with talented women, and of course he was also committed to cultivating his daughters into a new generation of leading talents, so he was very busy.

Not only that, but the daughter gradually grew up, and the Zhao family discovered more important things – marrying their daughter and saving a dowry for their daughter. It's a complicated, laborious, and laborious task. This made Zhao, who had been smooth sailing since he was a child, very beautiful, and five points of talent was forced to be pulled out into twelve points of beauty and nine points of talent by the Guogong Mansion, and encountered unprecedented challenges.

For the Zhao family, her daughters, of course, are one race after another. In terms of beauty, it has completely inherited the beauty that the Zhao royal family has filtered over the years layer by layer, and all of them are radiant people, and they all line up other ladies as the masters of passers-by. And the sisters also shine with their own characteristics, not like a set of exquisite porcelain dolls, all the same.

Therefore, the daughters are the best and the pride of the Zhao family.

However, however, they were born in the Zhongyi Marquis Mansion, and the title may soon follow their grandfather, the Old Marquis Ruan, to the Zhongyi Marquis Mansion.

It is not a family that has been inherited for hundreds of years, nor is it a hereditary prince's mansion. When their grandfather died, the highest-ranking official of their family was their uncle, the sixth-grade Tobu Langzhong, and their father was just a person with no grade, who would only have a tea party with his old friends every day, admire a stone, and swim in a lake to make a painting. It is said that her status in the literati circle is not high, and An Jin privately thinks that she doesn't know if her father can become a celebrity after decades.

Over the years, the second lady Zhao has not felt the gap, but over the years, the title of the marquis is still there, and the gap is not so big, not to mention that as soon as she marries into the Ruan family, she keeps giving birth to daughters, raising daughters, and teaching daughters, so she is not deeply aware of this situation. Especially the eldest daughter Ruan Antan was given to her eldest brother Zhao Chengan, the third son of the prince of Shunguo, just three years ago, and she naturally felt that her daughter should be in demand in the Xungui circle.

It wasn't until last year that she repeatedly hit a wall when she was actively looking for a partner for her thirteen-year-old second daughter, Ruan Anzheng, that she was shocked. Those noble families she fancy can't even look down on her beautiful daughters at a young age?! Who are the people who came to propose?!

The second prince's side concubine? The dead fat man's side concubines already have three, two sisters-in-law, five concubines, and countless daughters, and dare to ask to marry my daughter?

The youngest son of the Chengen family? Didn't that kid fight cocks and lackeys all day long, and went to the theater to fight for a little guy and be jealous, and beat people to death? Whose lady saw that Duchess Chengen was not hiding her daughter, for fear that if she didn't make up her mind to be taken care of, she would be given marriage by the Queen Mother, which was not a reasonable master.

Even the old lady's maiden home, the former Liu family of Annanbo's Mansion, hit Ruan Anzheng's idea, and pinched the old lady to hint several times. Want to fill her daughter into that bottomless pit? The old lady is really for her mother's family, and she doesn't remember that this is her own granddaughter. The former Annanbo Mansion sounded good, but in fact, it is now a dilapidated settlement, and it has long since declined.

The second lady's confidence has become thinner and thinner in the repeated temptations, repeated encounters, and repeated bad proposals, and it is almost a piece of paper.

When the old lady finally announced that she was going to give Miss Liu Huanzhu to the eldest young master as a second room, the pop broke, and the full worry couldn't be stopped, which deeply occupied the second lady's not strong heart.

Even if the Zhao family doesn't admit it, tomorrow's Ruan family may be today's Liu family.

The old lady's maiden family, the Liu family, was also the fifth generation of the Xungui Mansion, and the last Annanbo was the eldest brother of the old lady, but he died five years ago. With the resumption of the title and the accompanying land, in just five years, the Liu family has fallen into disarray.

The eldest lady of Liu's house, Qian, has three sons and two daughters, and the eldest daughter Huanzhen is married to a scholar's family, with strict rules, and because she looks down on the dilapidated Annan Bo Mansion, she is directly compared to Huanzhen's miserable prison. Therefore, the Qian family sent their youngest daughter Huanzhu to Ruan's mansion, hoping that the old lady could help raise her, and the most important thing was to see if she could find a good family to marry.

A few years ago, when Ruan Qiming, the second young master of the big house, was not married, the Liu family also beat Ruan Qiming's idea, but unfortunately the eldest lady Cui Shi watched it tightly and didn't succeed in the end.

Unexpectedly, in the end, he still relied on the big house, but it was not the main room that Ming Media was marrying, but the embarrassing second room.

On this day, when everyone was in Shou'an Hall to ask the old lady for peace, they heard this explosive news, fortunately, the eldest lady and the young grandmother were sick and did not come to ask for peace, and it was the second lady Zhao and the juniors, there was no direct relationship, and everyone kept silent with different expressions.

The old lady looked at everyone's faces, and was a little embarrassed and embarrassed, so she waved her hand and ordered everyone to retreat.

On the way back, Zhao's brain didn't know why it was weird that his baby daughter knelt in front of their grandmother, pear blossom with rain to die or live, and the nephews were full of obscene gray and gray probes to probe their brains, this scene deeply frightened Zhao, making her very flustered and frightened.

"Mother, does Cousin Huanzhu really want to marry Brother Lobby?" The third daughter, Ruan Antong, suddenly grabbed her arm and said coldly. The voice was as delicate and savage as before, with a strong sense of coquettishness, but it really scared her.

"Don't call your cousin anymore." Zhao hurriedly said coldly, "I want to call my sister-in-law or Aunt Liu." ”

"Hmph, what kind of sister-in-law is that!" Ruan Anzheng in the back sneered. Because the Liu family once beat her idea, she deeply disgusted Ruan Anzheng for a long time, and Ruan Anzheng looked down on the Liu family and the Liu family brothers and sisters.

"Zheng'er, that's not what you should say!" Zhao turned around and whispered to Ruan Anji, who interjected. This is not out of the old lady's yard, this dead girl dares to speak like this.

Then he glanced at the other daughters: "Today, Mei'er, Tong'er, Jin'er, you don't have to go to discuss with me, go back to class directly after eating." Don't let irrelevant things distract you. Tan'er, come here. After speaking, without waiting for the reaction of his daughters, he withdrew his hand from Ruan Antong, and went straight back to the main courtyard of the second house with a straight face.

A sister who had been named was stunned and couldn't help but stop. In the past, after the five sisters finished greeting their grandmother, they would accompany their mother to finish breakfast, and then listen to their mother manage the affairs of the second-room courtyard, and every week they would listen to the foreign affairs who took care of their mother's dowry and the grandmother report to her mother about the situation of the shop outside.

The Shunguo Mansion is a descendant of the Zhao royal family, although most of the things were lost by Emperor Qizu back then, but there were a lot left, and the wealth was amazing, so the dowry of the Zhao family was also extraordinarily rich. The Zhao family is a beautiful and talented woman, and after marrying into the Ruan family, there have been several major accidents in the dowry. Therefore, the old lady of Shunguo specially sent a group of foreign affairs grandmothers to come, these grandmothers are not directly the stewards of the dowry industry, but only participate in part of the management, the most important task is to report to the Zhao family every week about the industry, and let the five sisters listen to it since childhood, and learn to know some outside affairs, so that they can know how to manage their dowry in the future. Their grandmothers deeply understand that these granddaughters are not as lucky as their mothers, and when they marry in the future, they may not have the support of their mothers, but they still have to do a little better on their own.

After listening to her mother's words, the fastest reaction among the sisters was Ruan Antan, the eldest Ruan Antan, who touched Ruan Anjian's little head tied with her hair on her side, and said comfortingly: "After eating, go to class well, don't be late." Huanzhu's matter shouldn't be discussed by us, you just have to follow the rules. Don't be lazy, and I'll check your homework later. ”

After speaking, Ruan Anzhen, who had a hateful and disdainful look on his face, followed his mother and left, and Ruan Antan's faint voice came from him as he walked: "...... It's a matter of turning around and telling your grandmother to hear it......"

An Geun tugged at her thin hair, frustrated by her second sister's habit of touching her head. She wasn't really a child, and her hair was too thin, and a little yellow, which made her very dissatisfied. Although she is crossing, she can't be treated so differently, why are the sisters with thick and dense hair, just her!

Just as An continued to wander in anger, someone tugged at her arm. When I turned my head, I saw my fifth sister Ruan Antong yelling at me dissatisfied: "Seventh sister, talking to you, you are distracted again!" ”

"Why?" An Geun asked vigilantly. This fifth sister loves to cause trouble, and she doesn't have a lot of brains, and she makes people unlucky or clean up the mess every time.

"Hey, what kind of eyes are you looking at? Don't stare at your eyes, they're so dark. Ruan Antong patted An Jin's head unhappily and pouted, "Let's go see Cousin Huanzhu, how about it?" The fourth sister is timid and refuses to go, so you beg her and we will go together. ”

"You hit me in the head again, I'll scratch you!" An Jin said angrily, "I'm not going, you have to go yourself, don't want to use me as a shield!" After speaking, he pulled Ruan Anmei, who had been silent next to him, and said, "Fourth sister, let's go, don't pay attention to her!" ”

"You little conscienceless, in vain I usually leave all the delicious food to you......" Ruan Antong said angrily, "Hmph, if you don't go, you won't go, I'll figure it out myself!" After saying that, he turned around and walked away in a huff.

Ruan Anmei opened her mouth, as if she wanted to stop Ruan Antong, but she also knew that it was useless, so she bit her lip and let her go.

An Jin snorted, but suddenly felt a coolness coming from his hand, and looked down to see that it was Ruan Anmei's hand that was pulling. It is early summer now, and the weather is getting hotter, but Ruan Anmei's hand in her hand is cold and abnormal, and she is still slightly sweaty.

An Jin couldn't help but raise her head, the girl's oval little face, willow eyebrows, big eyes are very soft, but her face is a little pale at this time, her usually gentle and watery eyes are looking at the direction of Ruan Antong's departure at this time, and her lips are slightly open, as if she wanted to call Ruan Antong just now, but she didn't make a sound.

Something didn't feel right, An thought to herself.