The ten years of Pingxi seem to pass extremely quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it has entered February of the eleventh year of Pingxi. Fourteen-year-old Zhihua has grown into a slim girl. Her delicate facial features gradually grow with age, slender willow eyebrows, big almond eyes, and a straight nose bridge exactly like her father, making her look like her dead mother more resolute than her mother. This year, Zhihua had a very comfortable life, no one in the Lu Mansion dared to despise her, her younger brother was rewarded by Mr. again and again in the college, and the restaurant Jingyuezhai opened with Minyi, whether it is the way of operation or the dishes and pastries are exclusive to the capital, as soon as it opens, it is highly sought after by the daughters of the boudoir. Although the eldest princess Duanhui is not as beautiful as the first emperor during his reign, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and with her big Buddha behind her full support, Jingyuezhai's business is going smoothly. However, there are not no bad things, after the forced collection of the shop, although the Zhang family did not mention the matter of withdrawing relatives, but Mrs. Zhang said that Zhihua was oblivious to profit, and forcibly took back the shop rented to her fiancé's family for a little money. Zhihua, who has never planned to get married, just laughed at this and never took it to heart.

In the courtyard of Lufu Begonia, Zhixiang, who had just returned from school, was talking with her aunt. "Auntie, Sister Yuxue gave me another bracelet today, look!" Aunt Zhou looked at the string of fresh apple green jade bracelets in her daughter's hand and was very surprised. The color of the bracelet in front of me is pure, and it is rare that each bead is carved into a delicate little apple, which is a rare good thing at a glance. "Why did she give you such a valuable thing?" Aunt Zhou has always been shrewd, and when she heard this, she felt that something was wrong.

"Auntie, you are really rare and strange. Sister Yuxue's family has money, and she has always been generous. Today, I saw her wearing this bracelet on her hand, and praised her 'so beautiful', and Sister Yuxue immediately took it off and gave it to me, how could she ask me to do anything. Zhixiang couldn't put it down, playing with the bracelet in her hand, and was quite unimpressed by her aunt's words.

"Is her family really so rich? I remember her father seems to be only half a level above yours, right? "Aunt Zhou has a certain understanding of her daughter's friends, and when she mentions Li Yuxue, she knows that she is the eldest daughter of Dr. Xuanzheng's family.

"Auntie, you don't know this, her family built a caravan two years ago, and she can get a lot of good things from Limeng every year. Now in the capital, there are things sold in her shop, what is this bracelet. Maybe it's because she has often played with Li Yuxue in the past six months, and Zhixiang's vision is also a lot higher, although she likes this bracelet, she doesn't think it's so precious.

Aunt Zhou was a little relieved when she heard this: "It's good that you know it yourself." No matter how good she is to you, you can't be less vigilant. Half a year ago, Li Yuxue suddenly met her daughter in her boudoir school, and soon became good friends. At first, Aunt Zhou was very worried that her daughter would be used by Miss Li, after all, there was a huge difference in the identities of the two, one was the eldest daughter, and the other was just a concubine. Unexpectedly, after more than half a year, Miss Li not only never used her daughter to do anything, but also took care of her everywhere. However, Aunt Zhou was still a little uneasy, and she couldn't believe that Miss Li was just having a similar temperament with her daughter.

"Got it, auntie. Will Daddy come over to dine with you today? Zhixiang was a little impatient, and her aunt kept telling her to beware of Sister Yuxue, so she changed the subject. Definitely. Speaking of Lu Zhenyuan, Aunt Zhou's eyes flashed with a look of pride. Last month, she copied all the Buddhist scriptures, and the little slut in Qiuhuayuan couldn't find a single mistake, so she was released. "Then my daughter will go back to Xinxiangyuan first." Zhixiang is getting older, and she no longer clings to her father like before, disturbing her aunt and father's alone time. Just as she was about to get up, she suddenly remembered something again: "By the way, auntie, when I came out of the old lady this morning, I saw Mother Liu leading a mother-in-law into Songling Courtyard...... Matchmaker. You have to hurry up and get pregnant with your brother before the new lady enters the door. ”

"Is this what you should say from a little girl's family? My aunt knows in her heart, you just need to take care of your own business. The words of her daughter are really unorthodox, Aunt Zhou shouted fiercely. Zhixiang pursed her lips, said no more, and bowed and retired.

After her daughter left, Aunt Zhou looked out the window and began to think about the news she had just heard. In fact, the daughter is right, Lu Zhenyuan's one-year mourning period has passed, and the matter of marrying a new wife should be on the agenda, but I don't know what kind of steproom the old lady will choose for her eldest son. In this year, the old lady helped the little slut in Qiuhuayuan to suppress herself, and Aunt Zhou did not have no resentment towards her in her heart, but she knew more clearly that if she wanted to compete with the new lady for favor in the future, she could not show any resentment towards the old lady. Now that Xingyu is a cheap girl, although she has been transferred back to Songling Courtyard, almost all of the old lady's eyeliner is up and down this Lu Mansion, if she shows half of the inappropriateness, the old lady has a way to pinch her. In any case, you still have to fight to conceive a son. Aunt Zhou gently stroked her lower abdomen, as if there was already a new little life there.

At the end of February, the first thing Aunt Zhou did after copying Buddhist scriptures to lift the ban was to enter the study of Yanshan Courtyard with a bowl of desserts. Lu Zhenyuan's anger and disappointment with Aunt Zhou at the beginning was not a lie, otherwise he would not have lowered the punishment for her, but a year has passed, and time has passed, Lu Zhenyuan's original anger has long subsided, and when he saw Aunt Zhou's pitiful appearance, he felt that her punishment was a little too heavy, after all, Lu Yan has nothing to do now. A forbidden. A man in the prime of life who wants to spend a whole year, in the face of his old lover, crying and complaining, deliberately seducing, where can he still hold on, and the ** that has been saved for a year is like a flood that has opened the floodgates, gushing out all at once. Since leaving Aunt Zhou at the end of February, Lu Zhenyuan has been resting in the Begonia Courtyard for half a month. For a while, Aunt Zhou began to be proud again.

Zhihua only smiled sarcastically when she heard the news, everything was expected, and she didn't have a trace of disappointment in her heart. Even Aunt Zhou was able to release it so smoothly, which was also the result of Zhihua not deliberately making things difficult. The dog is in a hurry and jumps over the wall, the one-year mourning period has passed, Lu Zhenyuan should also discuss marriage again, if Aunt Zhou is still locked up at this time, then her jealousy of the new lady will all be converted into resentment towards herself, and she has to try her best to get rid of herself and lift the grounding before she can give up.

The old lady called a matchmaker to discuss the marriage of her eldest son, and Zhihua received the news earlier than Zhixiang. After Wu's mother received the corporal punishment, her old face was also lost, and she returned to Songling Courtyard to face her former subordinates, and invited herself to Zhuangzi to be raised. Mother Liu has firmly sat in the position of the housekeeper mother of Songling Hospital, and she has rarely had contact with Qiuhua Hospital in the past year. This time, the old lady told her to find a matchmaker the next day, and she quietly came to Qiuhua Courtyard in the middle of the night to report the news after the old lady fell asleep. Zhihua personally met Liu's mother, and the two closed the door and talked alone for a while, Han's mother and Bai Lan were guarding the courtyard gate, and no one knew what they talked about.

Regarding the future stepmother, Zhihua already has a candidate in mind, and has made up her mind to promote this matter.

In her previous life, after Aunt Zhou straightened up, she liked to go out to socialize, and soon established her own contacts in the circle of noblewomen. Among them, the lady who has the best relationship with Aunt Zhou is called Wang Liming. Wang Liming is the cousin of the second lady of the Lu Mansion, Wang's side branch, her father is just a nine-grade Confucian Linlang petty official, and she belongs to the kind of noble social circle in the capital, it stands to reason that she and Aunt Zhou should have no intersection, even the second lady Wang, her cousin who is related to her, never pays attention to her on weekdays, but this Wang Liming has a good eye for picking a husband, and she fell in love with Lin Zhongzheng, the champion of the thirteenth year of Pingxi in the future. At that time, Lin Zhongzheng was just a poor student, and Wang Liming's marriage to him was considered a low marriage, so after Lin Zhongzheng won the champion, Wang Liming's waist in the Lin family was also very straight. This Wang Liming and Aunt Zhou are all the way, and the two often get together to discuss the experience of repairing the concubines at home. In her previous life, in order to gain a virtuous reputation, Aunt Zhou took the initiative to accept a few concubines for Lu Zhenyuan. It's just that until Zhihua died of illness, none of these concubines had news of pregnancy. Wang Liming's concubine is the same, she can't give birth herself, and she is drugged to prevent the concubine from giving birth, Aunt Zhou's trick is from her. Lin Zhongzheng's parents have been complaining about their daughter-in-law's inaction for many years, and in a quarrel between her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, Wang Liming said that none of the wives and concubines in the family are pregnant, and the problem lies with the husband. At that moment, Mother Lin was furious, and immediately called the doctor, and checked the pulse of her son and daughter-in-law in person, and she must find out who can't give birth. The doctor was appointed by Lin's mother, and Wang Liming couldn't do anything at all, so he could only watch him diagnose his cold and natural infertility. Mother Lin called all of Lin Zhongzheng's concubines again, and after letting the doctor see them one by one, she found that these concubines had all been given the medicine of extinction. Such a wicked woman, how can the Lin family tolerate it? Lin Zhongzheng wrote a letter of resignation on the spot, and Wang Liming was dismissed. This matter was also in an uproar back then, and Wang Liming became a model of a wicked woman, and everyone in Beijing knew about it.

Zhihua is in this Wang Liming, the main reason is that this person is born infertile, a stepfamily who can't have children, unless he has a vendetta with his son-in-law, otherwise the attitude towards his son-in-law is generally to woo, her father marries her into the door, she will not hurt her brother. And because this person is not a good person, the current situation of the Lu Mansion is really according to Mrs. Lu's original intention to find a soft and easy to enter the big house, which will harm people's lives, and Zhihua does not want to see this situation.