Let's say that Zhou Caiwei arrived at the west wing where Yizhi lived, and Yizhi ordered someone to sort out her luggage for her, and on the other hand, she ordered someone to invite the other three young ladies in the uncle's mansion.

Zhou Caiwei has lived in this mansion for a year, and knows that there are four young ladies in this mansion, although Yizhi ranks first among the sisters, she is the daughter of the fourth uncle in the fourth room, and she also has a sister, Zhao Yifei, who is the fourth. The second is Zhao Yifang, the daughter of the big house, and there is also a second daughter, that is, Zhao Yihui, the only daughter of Zhao Mingshuo, who has just passed away, ranking third.

For a while, the sisters all came and greeted each other, among them, who had a good relationship with Cai Wei at the beginning, and when they saw the sisters reunited, they were naturally very affectionate; There are also those who are not in advance, and their faces are faint; There was a different smile on his lips, and he only hated that there was still a lady in the room who was staring at him, otherwise he would have to take advantage of the situation to make fun of him.

The nurse Guo waited on the side, holding her own lady in the morning to prepare a gift for the sisters in the boudoir, each of them a pair of Shu embroidered Xiangfei bamboo fans, two Shu embroidered handkerchiefs, a pair of silver incense balls, and a set of makeup boxes, but a small box the size of a palm, inside a small mirror, a small comb, a small sip, all kinds of makeup □□ complete, and to create an extremely small and exquisite, lovely. What was given to her cousins was a four-color gift of pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, which had been sent to her.

Yi Hui smiled first: "This makeup box is small and exquisite, it is the most convenient to bring this when you go out in the future, I want to thank you for sending me such a good thing!" ”

The sisters only chatted for a while, and it was not until the time of the lamp that someone came to spread the word that Mrs. Tai had instructed the girls to have dinner together in the west wing today. The meal was sent over for a while, because it was a filial piety period, it was all vegetarian, and everyone was nothing, only the fourth girl, Zhao Yifei, saw that it was a table full of green vegetables and tofu, and secretly pouted.

Everyone was speechless for a while, silently eating, but only halfway through the meal, suddenly a little maid rushed in, with a panicked face, and shouted "Three girls, three girls!" ”

Yi Hui frowned slightly, got up and walked over and said, "I'm having dinner with my sisters, why are you so unruly and yelling?" ”

Zhou Caiwei remembered that this maid was a little girl called Xia Ju next to her second uncle Lu's side, and when she came to Yi Hui's ear, she didn't know what to say, Yi Hui's face changed suddenly, her eyes were full of worry, and she hurriedly dropped a sentence, "Sisters and sisters, there is something in our yard, I'll go back first." And he walked away quickly.

Although the women were also curious, they looked at each other, and no one said anything, only Yifei said: "Why is the third sister leaving?" I didn't know what was in a hurry, so I ran away without eating. ”

Yizhi put his face on the board, "'Eat without speaking, sleep without speaking', didn't you teach you the rules of parenting?" ”

Although Yifei was not angry in her heart, she only dared to purse the corners of her mouth and never said a word.

After eating, rinsing and eating tea, the sisters took their leave, and went back to their own yards. Yizhi couldn't rest assured that her grandmother couldn't leave her, so she told Cai Wei a few words, and then went to the main room, leaving Cai Wei alone to sit under the lamp, pointing to the four maids she brought, orange, citrus, loquat, and plantain to pack up the bags she brought and lay out the bed. Now it can't be compared to the past, thinking about the last time she stayed in the Bofu, where did she and the maids have to worry about this, whether it is the house where she lives or the furnishings in it, they have already been carefully prepared, just waiting for her to use.

While she was speaking, she couldn't help but think of the three people she had just seen wearing Qi Qi mourning clothes. Thinking about the absent-mindedness of several uncles when they met the elders just now, could it be that what my grandmother said was related to these three people?

She didn't know the identities of these three people at this time, so naturally she had no way of knowing that the arrival of these three people was like a stone throwing from a flat lake in Anyuanbo's Mansion, splashing countless waves.

At this time, the eldest lady Wang Shi, who had just returned to her room, couldn't help but gloat and said to the eldest master: "It is said that the uncle who has just passed away is the most serious person, after Aunt Wang, who followed him to Fujian, died of illness, our Uncle wanted to send him another aunt to the past, but he resigned, I don't know how many people envy our Uncle over the years!" I didn't think about it, it turned out that people had already hidden Jiaojiao in the golden house, not only accepted an outer room, but also gave birth to a pair of children, and now they are dragging their children to the door! ”

"In my opinion, that outer room is not a fuel-efficient lamp, what did the person who reported the news say before, didn't he say that the coffin of the second uncle will not arrive until tomorrow? Why did it arrive today, and it caught us off guard. Otherwise, if we find this mother and son in the suburbs when we welcome the spirit, we can still quietly send it away, and now her mother and son are wearing linen and filial piety and following the hearse in front of our uncle's mansion crying in such a voice, this is to force our family to recognize her. ”

As he spoke, he looked at Nunu to the east, "Now there is something to see, I originally thought that there was no son in the second room, and these days the fourth and fifth rooms over there are fighting for the position of this earl, and the fifth master even ignored his niece, and ran back quickly, isn't it just to fight with his own brother for this title?"

At this time, the eldest master said, "Although the fourth brother is the elder, he is really too unsuccessful, and he is not happy with his mother, but he is not as good as the fifth brother." ”

"Then does the master think that the fifth room has a better chance of winning?"

The eldest lord shook his head, "It is not yet known who killed the deer." ”

Wang couldn't help but say: "Then this title, let's ......"

The eldest lord has been a husband and wife with her for many years, how can he not know what she thinks in her heart, and immediately said: "Hurry up and rest this heart!" No matter how eldest I am, I am only the eldest son, even if the second brother dies, there are also two younger brothers of his mother's compatriots, as well as those grandchildren, where will it be my turn. ”

Although he said this, he was unwilling to think that when his father died more than twenty years ago, he was only one step away from the position of the earl, but he failed to succeed. Hum! Even if this title doesn't have anything to do with you, you have to add some chaos over there!

The eldest lord reluctantly suppressed the sullen breath in his chest, remembered something and asked: "Today in the upper room, how do you say that you want to take the girl from the Zhou family to come over to raise, they are not very close to us on the other side, why do you bother to be bored with yourself, and you were given a shameless face in public by your mother." ”

Wang Shi said with a look of grievance: "I'm not thinking about this room for us, I think that this girl's father has been a high-ranking official in the second and third grades for so many years, and there is only such a daughter left, even if half of the property has to be returned to the treasury according to the law, the remaining half is also very rich, if it is ......"

"I'm afraid that this girl's dowry is not much, I heard that her father handed over most of the family property to the treasury on his deathbed, so he was posthumously presented to one of the three princes, called Wenzhong. Even if there is still a tens of thousands of taels of silver, I'm afraid it's not so easy to get. The fourth and fifth rooms had already been eyed, and at that time, they quarreled for a day over who would go to Shudi to take care of the funeral of the third brother-in-law, and in the end the fifth brother won. As a result, what did he say when he came back a few days ago, he said that his brother-in-law had already arranged before his death, asking a friend of his to deal with a property, in addition to most of it turned over to the treasury, the remaining small part was personally sent by the man to Yanjing to make a dowry for his niece. ”

Wang Shi pouted when he heard this: "Who knows if he is telling the truth or false, if it is just a pretext?" If he had already rolled up the money in his hand, and made up such a person to pretend to give a dowry, he would have disappeared and detained all the stolen names on a dummy. ”

Not only did the eldest lady have this question in her heart, but the fifth wife Luo also thought a little bit in her heart, and she was asking the fifth master for the third time, "My good lord, is it true that there is such a person who specializes in giving dowry to the Zhou family's girl, and you haven't touched the Zhou family's property with a finger?" ”

The fifth old man looked bored, "How many times have I told you, when I arrived in Meizhou, my brother-in-law had already passed the fifth and seventh, he had already arranged the aftermath before, and the family business and property had already been cleaned up, and he only said that he would ask someone to send Yanjing noodles to his mother, and he only left me with a thousand taels of silver, thank me for traveling thousands of miles to pick up his daughter." ”

Roche sighed: "Alas, I don't know how much dowry this girl has, but even if she has more dowry, she will have no father and no mother in the end." If Brother-in-law Zhou had not resigned and lived a long life, she would be a good match for Ming'er, and I see that she has been getting better and better in recent years. ”

The fifth master was focused on that big thing at this time, and he didn't want his wife to see Zhou Caiwei today, which aroused two things in his heart, so he just cared about nagging, and couldn't help but be irritable: "Don't talk about these things, but think about the important things, I knew that this trip to Shu was fruitless, I shouldn't have fought with the fourth brother for this drudgery, but it almost ruined my big thing." Now a wild child suddenly appeared on the second brother's side, and I am only afraid of this title......"

The fifth wife disagreed, "I'm afraid of him, but he is just an adulterous son raised outside, not even a concubine, even if he looks like the second uncle, but there is no name on this household register, he is not right." The mother is the one who dislikes the concubines and concubines the most, that is, she recognizes her mother and son, and this title will not give him a concubine, and when the second sister-in-law has a serious heir, how can it be his turn. What's more, the wild child suddenly appeared at this time, I'm afraid that if I don't have to tell my mother again, the second sister-in-law will think about setting up an heir first. ”

"This is orderly, let's think about it and fight with the four uncles, I'm afraid it's a little difficult. If you want to get this title, there is only one way to set up an heir, and when the heir is against the concubine, there is a great chance of winning. But there is the fourth uncle, one of his brothers is fighting with other people's sons, and this son is only afraid of being big! ”

At this time, the fourth master was as the fifth wife said, and his head was as big as a fight. He was anxious to walk back and forth in the room of one of his favorite concubines.

The favorite concubine Aunt Liu said: "What is this urgency, master, it's just an outer room, at most, it's just to let the second room share some of his property, where can he compete for the lord in this title?" ”

The fourth old man said: "Really ignorant woman, you still think this is a few years ago, I look at the meaning of the above, since the law clearly stipulates that the outer room can also be divided into half of the family property in the room*, there is a meaning of raising the outer room, last year there was an outer room because his father no longer has close relatives, only a few distant relatives, because of the shadow of the post to the distant relatives, he a piece of paper to sue up, actually the shadow of the post to the hand. ”

Aunt Liu was surprised: "There is really such a thing, how can this head lift the outer room, now it sounds good to call the outer room, I remember that the first ones are called adulterers?" ”

The fourth master pulled her to the bed, put down the tent, and waited for the two of them to hide in the quilt and face to face, then lowered his voice and said: "What's so strange about this, the one sitting at the top today is from the outer room, can you not lift the outer room?" ”

"Master, I tell you, this is a royal secret, I just knew about it not long ago, it is said that today's biological mother was not the first to sing in a teahouse, and she didn't want the first emperor's grandfather to travel in micro-clothes, but somehow she fell in love with her, because her status was really low, and it was not easy to get into the palace, so she was raised in a special house outside. I don't want to think that after a few years, she is the only one of the women raised by the grandfather of the first emperor who is pregnant, and she is also in her arms. ”

"So the grandfather of the first emperor didn't care about the palace rules that the eldest son left by Emperor Yongjia could only give birth to a concubine after he was five years old, and took her to meet the queen at that time, and then let her be the palace maid next to the queen first, and when the child was born, she was really a son at first sight, so she was named the chosen servant, and then she was promoted all the way to the concubine, and now the mother is more expensive than the son, and she has been promoted to the queen mother!"