"Auntie's side can't wait, let's go quickly." Without waiting for Xiuguan to speak again, Xiusun, who had changed her clothes, grabbed Xiuguan's hand and trotted all the way out of the corner gate in the backyard of the Huanshi Mountain House.

Entered the garden, along the cobblestone road in the south of the garden to the north, on the water corridor, until the fan pavilion at the end of the water corridor, through the vase door on the other side of the fan pavilion, along the stone steps down the Taihu Lake rockery, to the west through the oncoming begonia cave door to the back of the main courtyard to the hand verandah.

Running down this way, Xiusun was already out of breath, so she simply put down her pace and walked slowly.

Actually, there is a closer road, as long as you pass through the hall of the upper room, through the north and south halls, and go out through the corner gate in the front yard, you can go directly to the corner gate in the front yard of the main courtyard.

It's just that the second route needs to pass through the door of the old lady's banquet room, and since she said that she wouldn't let the old lady find out, of course she can't break her promise.

When Xiusun took a breath, raised her head, and saw that Xiuguan, who was a head taller than her, was also pale, and the pleasure of mischief immediately made her feel refreshed.

The mother-in-law guarding the corner gate was sitting on the threshold, watching from a distance that Miss Seven was pulling Miss Four over, and hurriedly got up and saluted.

Xiusun did not squint into the corner gate, from the backyard of the hand-copying verandah into the hall of the main house, Mrs. lived in a three-entry courtyard in the east of the main courtyard, called Onion Jiexuan, the courtyard was planted with dozens of kinds of green bamboo.

Walking under the eaves of the corridor in front of the main courtyard, turning the corridor, and passing through an east-west hall, I saw three aunts kneeling on the ice-cracked bluestone floor in the center of the courtyard.

Kneeling in the easternmost place, the biological mother of the fourth lady Xiuguan, who was also the marrying companion Zhao brought by the wife's mother's family, she knelt with her head down, lowered her eyebrows, and looked very resigned. The body is also the most plain, the moon white Hangzhou silk embroidered silver twinkle lotus pattern of the gown, the ivory white horse-faced skirt, the bottom and knee skirt are embroidered with a light moon white pattern, there seems to be nothing, looming, a long black and shiny hair loosely rolled into a fallen horse bun, only a silver hairpin. Although it looks simple and refreshing, it is very conspicuous and can be seen at a glance.

Women should be pretty, filial piety. Xiusun inexplicably remembered such a saying, seeing this Aunt Zhao's posture like a weak willow supporting the wind, and her face like a hibiscus out of the water, she felt a little unhappy in her heart.

After all, she is a seventeen-year-old woman in her heart, and she planned to get married after the New Year, if her husband's concubine was dangling like this all day long, she didn't know if she would be impatient to find a way to kill this concubine first.

Xiusun had overheard Mama Shen and the old lady sigh that this Aunt Zhao was quite scheming.

When Ruan's got married, she was pregnant, which was a happy thing, but the old lady picked a maid to send to her father's house according to the custom, but before this person could be delivered, Aunt Zhao climbed into her father's bed, and afterwards kept saying that it was instructed by her wife.

Zhao was his wife's dowry maid, and Ruan was still young and strong at that time, so he had to knock out his teeth or swallow blood.

The old lady was suspicious, thinking that Ruan's behavior was too petty, but she just sent a girl over, and the avoidance decoction was prepared, so she had such a big reaction, and she hurriedly pulled out her maid to open her face, how much she didn't believe her mother-in-law.

As a result, within two months, Zhao actually diagnosed the happy pulse, and his wife was depressed, and finally had a miscarriage, and the relationship with Chu Baye became lukewarm from then on.

The old lady was also disappointed in her wife, thinking that she was jealous and could not distinguish between priorities and priorities.

Of course, with the accumulation of time, the wife's temper has become more and more strong, and this Zhao family has naturally become the first punching bag in front of her, and she has to find an opportunity to learn from time to time.

Kneeling in the middle was the biological mother of the sixth lady Chu Xiuzhi, Wang, who had worked as a second-class maid in the old lady's house.

This one is really low-key, embroidered with bluegrass on the lotus lotus-colored banana cloth gown, combed in a upright bun, and wearing a pearl headband on his head, this is the real ordinary and unobtrusive dress.

That year, Ruan's gave birth to a boy, and then the concubine stopped the decoction, and Miss Six was conceived at that time, unfortunately, the boy died before he was three years old, and he didn't have time to sort his teeth, Xiusun didn't see the boy, and I don't know what the scene was at that time, I only heard that since then, the relationship between Mrs. and Chu Baye has officially entered a new stage of mutual respect.

Now it seems that the old lady did not mean to pinch her daughter-in-law, but really picked an honest girl to share it for her wife, but unfortunately there were so many unpleasant things, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were both arrogant people, and no one was willing to bow their heads.

The closest to them was the biological mother of Miss Nine Chu Xiuqian, and the only concubine who wrote a document to bring in, the daughter of a bookkeeper in the county.

The honey-colored quilt lined her skin with a golden color, and the whole set of red gold on her head did not look abrupt, Aunt Mo was favored by Chu Baye because she was extraordinarily gorgeous.

At that time, the old lady felt that this woman's charm and shallowness were the root of the chaos, but the wife immediately agreed, and went to the Mo family to hire on the same day, and carried Aunt Mo home for four hundred taels of silver.

The wife's attitude made the old lady more and more disappointed, and the relationship between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law further deteriorated.

After this Aunt Mo entered the door, she really didn't stop, every day she either coaxed Chu Baye to buy this and that, or scolded the chicken and the dog, and provoked the housemother, but fortunately, the mother had already practiced a fierce skill, no matter how unreasonable Aunt Mo was, she couldn't turn the sky in the end.

Looking at the corridor again, only the second-class maid beside Ruan stood on the pedestal, and a little girl who was in charge of the curtain stood by the door.

Xiusun glanced at Xiuguan without a trace, the sixth miss Xiuzhi followed Aunt Wang to live in the Bifen Pavilion east of the main courtyard, and the same was true for the ninth miss Xiuqian, neither of them appeared, but the fourth lady, who had already moved to live in the garden, ran to her grandmother to find her.

Her sister, who has long eyes, long hands, and long feet, can't she install eyeliner in her mother's yard?

For the first time, she began to seriously think about whether she was going to start deploying to guard against this sister.

Originally, the sisters were still young, the aunts couldn't make waves, and the only old lady who could deal with the wife also ignored her, and there was no one in the family who could threaten the wife.

But as the sisters grew up, Nguyen never got pregnant again year after year.

She clearly felt the change in the old lady's mood, and perhaps the aunts and sisters also began to have new ideas.

The wife can't give birth to a son, which aunt can give birth to a son, isn't it the first in this yard.

With Aunt Mo's escape, she will never miss such a lively scene.

With the scheming of Miss Fourth and Aunt Zhao, they are not allowed to refuse such an opportunity to change their situation.

What about Wang? Mo said that the Chu family has a lot of property in the fourth room, plus the dowry of the old lady and his wife, can such a wealth move the heart of an honest person.

With their minds racing, Xiusun had already come down the cloister to the door of the Ruan family's residence, and Fu Xiang and the little maid had already saluted them.

Suddenly, I heard a "bang" in the house, as if a tea cup was broken, and the woman's loud scolding voice came out of the house, "This son of a cheap maid, three days without punishment for kneeling will turn the sky over for me!" ”

The little girl trembled, but still opened the curtain, Xiusun was about to step into the threshold, but her sleeve was pulled by Xiuguan, she turned around, and heard Xiuguan whisper, "Sixth sister, I won't go in." ”

When Ruan heard the sound, he had already changed his gentle voice and raised his voice in the west to call Xiusun's name, "Is it Ah Sun?" Come on in. ”

Xiusun forcibly grabbed Xiuguan's arm and dragged her into the hall, she had been practicing with the imperial grandmother since she was a child, and her short and thick fingers were like iron locks for Xiuguan, the daughter of the boudoir, and she couldn't break free at all.

"Mother, it's the old lady's birthday in July, the fourth sister just told me that she wanted to embroider a kang screen for the old lady as a birthday gift, I remembered that you had a piece of fine small leaf red sandalwood in your marriage, carved into the base is just right, so I pulled the fourth sister over."

Sister Chunting, the eldest girl beside Mrs., personally lifted the bead curtain to lead them in, and Xiusun and Xiuguan saluted Ruan's family.

"Come here," Ruan Shi hurriedly greeted her without waiting for Xiusun to stand up, she was reclining on the Luohan bed, her light-lake-colored gown was a little wrinkled, and the cloud-like green silk was rolled up at will, and two silver hairpins inlaid with jasper were inserted obliquely, taking advantage of the beauty of her fair face, but it was a pity that the boredom between her eyebrows could not be concealed.

Ruan Shi sat on the Luohan bed beside him with Xiusun, listening to Xiusun's words, frowning slightly, but he didn't plan to teach his own daughter a lesson in front of Xiuguan, but said with a smile, "It's all this time, let's have dinner on my side." ”

This asked the eldest girl Chunting to go to the old lady's courtyard to say something.

The old lady didn't like Ruan's, so she only asked her to go to the Huanshi Mountain House every fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year to ask for peace, and she didn't have to worry about it every morning and dusk. Ruan really didn't go, and didn't shirk.

It was rare to see his daughter, and Ruan Shi happily gave Xiusun the embroidered cloud shoulders of the blue Ruyi pattern brocade of Sihe Lake, as if he didn't see Xiuguan standing aside.

Xiusun also followed Ruan's words and said, "Okay, I want to eat Sixi Balls." ”

Ruan Shi frowned, hesitated, and instructed Mama Chen, "Give my sister a stew," and put his arm around Xiusun's shoulders and instructed, "Only one is allowed, and you will be allowed to go back after walking ten laps along the corridor." ”

Xiusun's stomach is not good, and it is not easy to restrain after eating greasy, but she likes to eat meat.

Xiusun grew up with the imperial grandmother in the last life, the imperial grandmother Xu was born in the founding father of the Wei State Mansion, the family has been brave and good at fighting for several generations, and the family heirloom two-handed sword has also been passed on to the imperial grandmother.

The imperial grandmother saw that she followed the rules on weekdays, afraid that she would be suffocated, and often closed the palace door to teach her to dance the sword in the main hall of Cining Palace.

Because she has to practice martial arts and consumes her body, she has loved to eat meat since she was a child, and her body in this life is too thin, but it is not easy to restrain her, so Ruan and the old lady don't give her much to eat.

Today's luck is really good, Xiusun nodded happily, and saw Xiuguan standing aside and twisting the handkerchief into twists, so she had to say, "Mother, that piece of small leaf red sandalwood, give it to me." ”

Ruan Shi glanced at Xiuguan again, and Xiuguan found a gap to ask Ruan Shi for peace.

Ruan nodded casually, and instructed Mama Chen to let Chuntai open the treasury to find out, and take it to the outer courtyard to hand over to the clerk.

He also instructed Xiuguan, "What size, tell Mama Chen." Then he waved her back, and by the way, "Let them go back to the courtyard and think about it behind closed doors." "I didn't have any scruples about Xiuguan in front of me.