The old lady sent Shen's mother out, but Shen's mother never came back, Xiusun looked at the old lady sitting on the Luohan bed reading the travelogue, sneaked out and slipped to the footrest, and then raised her eyes, but saw the old lady looking at her with a smile.

Xiusun suddenly ran to the old lady with a pouting mouth like a deflated ball, "Grandmother, you don't have to worry about my father and mother quarreling, the two of them quarreled last time and scared me to death." ”

The old lady put down her tortoiseshell eyes, put the book on the bookcase, hugged Xiusun, and smiled, "Does Xiusun want a younger brother or a younger sister?" ”

Hey? Xiusun felt that something was wrong, how could the old lady be so sure, you must know that even if the two of them were locked in the same room, the best result would be that the roof was not overturned.

Xiusun twisted around in the old lady's arms, and the old lady kept playing with her, and Xiusun simply stayed in the old lady's room and didn't leave, and the old lady smiled and left Xiusun to sleep in her bed.

Shen's mother never came back, the old lady blew the lamp, but she didn't go to bed, and Xiusun could always hear the soft sound of the agarwood Buddha beads in the old lady's hand.

With this sound, Xiusun fell asleep in a daze, I don't know how long it took, suddenly felt someone pull the thin blanket wrapped around her, Xiusun immediately woke up, secretly blamed herself for how she could sleep, quietly opened a trace of her eyes, and found that the lamp that had been blown out was on again.

The old lady's tent was lotus blue, the silk thread of the same color was embroidered with folded lotus flowers, and the candle flame was on the Luohan bed in the distance, and the old lady seemed to get up and move to sit there.

The curtain was half-hanging, and Xiusun couldn't see the situation outside, but listening to the sound of talking, she could be sure that in addition to her sleeping in the room, there were only Shen's mother and the old lady, and she closed her eyes again.

The old lady asked hesitantly, "Are you sure?" ”

Mother Shen affirmed, "Don't worry, the old lady, the slave and Mother Chen are standing outside the window and listening, huh...... Absolutely true. ”

She seemed a little embarrassed, and paused to affirm again.

When the old lady heard this, she sighed and said leisurely, "If the two of them are in harmony, there is no need for the old lady to think so much." ”

Shen's mother comforted, "That's all because the old man and his wife were young and vigorous in their early years, and they had a misunderstanding, and when they understand it later, they will slowly get better." ”

The old lady snorted lightly and sighed, "How many couples in this world can go to the end of Qin Se and Ming, as long as they give me a few more grandchildren, don't be like the black-eyed chicken when we first met, I will thank the Buddha." ”

Shen's mother clasped her hands together and said jokingly, "May the Buddha bless this time and let the old lady hold a big fat grandson." ”

The old lady also seemed to be happy, and said in a brisk tone, "This dare is good, when my daughter-in-law gives birth to a child, give her a good care, and I will pour them three more cups on her birthday next year." ”

The old lady is really optimistic, this first grandson has not yet appeared, and she wants another one next year, huh? Something is wrong...... Bite!

It's like pouring a bucket of ice water on someone's head, Xiusun woke up with an agitated spirit, three cups? What's the three-cup thing?

She listened with bated breath, but the old lady and Shen's mother stopped talking, and the two masters and servants laughed in a low voice, as if they were afraid of waking Xiusun, but the laughter was extremely cheerful, like children who had completed a prank together.

Xiusun turned over silently, his face was in the bed, and his hands were folded under the thin blanket to ask for the Bodhisattva's blessing, don't let the eighth master and Ruan's be too happy, it is easy to hurt the body, alas.

This night, the old lady snickered quietly.

On this night, Xiusun prayed silently.

This night, the Eighth Master and the Ruan Clan were very busy.

The aunts in the house are still in their own stomachs.

It's a beautiful summer night anyway, isn't it?

-- I'm the dividing line that you asked you to make --

Early the morning of the second day of the old lady's birthday banquet, the eighth old man and Ruan Shi didn't know what to do, they had a big quarrel, from the bed to the bed, and from the bed to the bright room, and finally the eighth old man was kicked out of the door by Ruan Shi in disheveled clothes, sat on the Dan Qi, and scolded "You shrew." Then he walked away.

The maids and women in the courtyard were silent, and kept their original posture and lowered their heads, until the eighth master tidied up his clothes, and walked out of the courtyard with his sleeves dashing with his hands behind his back.

The old lady was no longer as annoyed as before, but sent a maid to call Ruan Shi to the Huanshi Mountain House for breakfast.

During the banquet, the old lady kept talking about Ruan's cloth dishes, looking at Ruan's with a smile, and the fine wrinkles on her white face were clustered.

The kind and kind old lady didn't make Ruan Shi very comfortable, and she didn't have time to see what the old lady brought to her, so she scooped it with a spoon and ate it, almost burning her throat.

The old lady was extremely worried, pulled Ruan's and asked how it was, asked the maid to bring cold water, spread out the handkerchief and told Ruan's to spit out the yam black chicken that she couldn't swallow in her mouth, and blamed Ren's mother for bringing such a bowl of hot soup.

Ren's mother's old face was deflated, so aggrieved, old lady, if this soup is not hot, is it still cooked.

Xiusun lowered her head, not letting the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law on the other side of the table see her snickering, the old lady seemed to have done something bad and wanted to make up for it, and suddenly she was so attentive to Ruan's family, should she tell Ruan what she drank last night?

She decided not to tell sù, she was still a child, how could a child know so much.

After a period of recuperation, Xiusun's body is much stronger, and her sallow little face on weekdays finally has a little blood, and the old lady and his wife are extremely pleased.

In summer, the yang energy is vigorous, and the yang energy of the human body has also reached the peak of the year, which is a good time to recuperate the body.

When the Ruan family wanted to marry in Pukou, the Ruan family specially bought several Zhuangzi with hot springs nearby as a dowry, some in Tangshan and some in Pukou.

Ruan Shi discussed with the old lady and wanted to take the whole family to the hot spring, and it happened that there was a hot spring here in Pukou that was suitable for a child with a yang deficiency constitution like Xiusun.

The old lady thought that Ruan's housekeeper was tired and didn't like the daughters of the concubine, so she asked her to take Xiusun to live in Zhuangzi, and she should go to rest and rest, and when she left, she also told Ruan's not to go into the water, just let Xiusun go to soak alone. was worried that Xiusun would not be used to eating the food on the Zhuangzi, so he specially ordered his mother to go to the Zhuangzi to serve the food of the two of them.

Ruan Shi understood that the old lady knew about the events of that night, and was worried that it would be bad for the fetus if she was pregnant and went to the hot spring, so she couldn't help but blush.

You can rest, you don't have to serve your mother-in-law, you don't have to face your aunts, who doesn't like it, Ruan thanked the old lady, packed up the cage with Xiusun, brought enough people to serve, and went to Zhuangzi.

Early in the morning, the wind and the sun were beautiful, but the sun was a little poisonous, Ruan asked the coachman to pick up the shady road to drive away slowly, there were ice cubes in the car, and Ruan ordered someone to lift the brocade curtain inside the car, leaving only a layer of bamboo curtain outside, which finally ensured a little ventilation.

Walking outside Pukou City, he happened to meet the carriage of the Wu family, and Ruan took Xiusun to get off the car to greet Mrs. Wu.

The news of the raid of the Liangguo Mansion reached Yingchuan, and the patriarch of the Yingchuan Ke clan immediately opened the ancestral hall and declared to the hometown elders that the Yingchuan Ke clan and the Liangguo Mansion in the capital had already been out of the five suits and had nothing to do with it. Wu Keshi also changed his old attitude, and never mentioned that his maiden family was the Liangguo Mansion, and repeatedly cleared it up.

When Xiusun heard the news, she just pouted, she knew that this would happen, and besides, she can't blame people for this, what if you don't draw a clear line, waiting to be implicated, but it is inevitable that she will be cold.

Helplessly, the two families are in-laws, and they can't pretend not to see each other.

The two families put down cushions in the pavilion outside Pukou City, made a pot of tea, and talked for a while, accompanied by the eldest lady and the third lady Chu Xiuman, who had officially opened the ancestral hall and written into the family tree, Chu Xiuyi, who had not appeared, maybe she was following the old lady.

The eldest lady's complexion is still very poor, even more haggard than during the funeral, and her body exudes a strong smell of wormwood.

Ruan was also very worried when he saw his eldest wife like this, and persuaded his sister-in-law to take good care of her body and think more about her children.

Both sides were in a hurry, and everyone dispersed after taking a sip of tea.

The eldest lady and Xiuman returned to the city in a sedan chair, and Mrs. Wu and Ruan also got into their own carriages.

With this episode, when I arrived at the hot spring Zhuangzi, it was almost time for lunch.

Filled with a faint sulfur smell of green mountains and green waters, pink walls and black tiles, small and chic, the courtyard where Ruan's took Xiusun to live is a small courtyard with five entrances, smaller than the Huanshi mountain house, and there are two big characters on the gate, Yuyuan.

The fields near here, as well as the woods on two or three hills, belong to this Zhuangzi.

Ren's mother and Zhuang Tou greeted her at the gate of the garden, and Ren's mother arrived here a day in advance, and she had already prepared lunch at this moment.

Nguyen ordered the rice to be placed under the grape trellis in the fourth courtyard, and the mother and daughter enjoyed the fragrant shade, breathed in the emerald green air, and were in a good mood.

After lunch, the mother and daughter took a nap on the ventilated Luohan bed, Xiusun jumped into the hot spring pool in the backyard with a small belly pocket, and Ruan went to the front yard to see the steward.

――I'm the dividing line that I want to go to see people soaking in hot springs myself.――

There is a huge pool in the outer courtyard of the garden, the round boulder circle of the size of the water tank, which is planted with green bamboo, pavilions and pavilions, craggy rockeries, in winter, the steam is dense, in which the ink fairyland is general, that is the place where the gentlemen go to soak in the hot springs, Xiusun has no chance to go.

The pool in the backyard is a courtyard within a courtyard, outside the wall, there is a layer of wall, the five-step square pool is enclosed in an irregular circle with a round bluestone the size of a water tank, the pool is not deep, and Xiusun's short figure is only up to his chest.

The smoke wind is lazy, the pool water is not wrinkled, only the white and lovely pebbles at the bottom of the pool reflect a slight golden silky light, the summer is hot, only the water surface can be seen slightly transpiring water vapor, but the pool water is clear and ethereal.

Most of the hot spring pools are sheltered by high ceilings, casting shade on the water surface of the pool, four stout iron pear wood pillars support the four corners of the roof, the beams and pillars are also thick and simple, only a layer of varnish, the roof is covered not with tiles, but straw.

The shore on one side of the pool is covered with all kinds of pebbles, a few pieces of cake-shaped bluestone are randomly placed out of a pleasant road, connecting the two levels of bluestone stamping, the above is the wing room for changing clothes, the partition door of the Ruyi set of square mullion flowers is closed at the moment, and the twelve Suzhou embroidery screens standing in the room can be seen through the glass contaminated with water vapor, and the flowers embroidered are the flowers of December of the year.

There was no room behind the screen, and Xiusun knew that the little magpie was kneeling with Yingge and making tea on the low side, and she didn't like others to watch her take a bath, so she sent them to wait there.

The pool on the opposite side pokes out of the roof slightly, and there are clusters of tea plums and smiles growing on the shore of the pool, and the gap is filled with unknown orchid grass, which is not the flowering period at this time, and can only see a piece of green. The partition made of roasted golden bamboo slices lined the back of the bright green plants, and the green one looked more vibrant.

Between the bamboo partition and the eaves, a narrow blue sky is vacant, and the long-standing acacia tree in the corner of the yard happens to stretch its branches to protect it, and the emerald green and delicate leaves roughly follow the high blue sky, which also obscures the view that may be on the top of the mountain in the distance.

It is the flowering period, the silk bright red stamens each form the shape of the fan, thick spread on the bright green leaves, "the wonderful hand fairy Shu weaving brocade, fine trance like a dream." The veins are pumped, the slender is paved with green, and the charm is determined by heaven. That's exactly what happened.

From time to time, there are three or two falling flowers falling down, some stick to the shrubs, some fall on the water, Xiusun walks on a short little fat leg, slides the water surface to the eaves, and looks up to see the acacia flowers that cover the sky and the sun are in full bloom.

Move the rattan chair in the pool, the short Xiusun can lie in it without worrying about being flooded, the tray with the teapot floats directly on the water, when you want to drink, you can drag it over and take a sip, if it drifts away, call the little magpie, how pleasant.

Xiusun relaxed and lay down in the warm water, looked up to count the falling red velvet, counted, and suddenly felt that there were water droplets falling on the door of her head, which should be the steaming water vapor gathered on the roof of the shed and dripped down the eaves.

After a while, there was another drop, cool.

Xiusun frowned, raised her hand to wipe it, and put it in front of her eyes, but it was a red color.