The second sister of the Zhao family covered her forehead and smiled at Chen.

It's night, there's nothing to say.

The next morning, when the sky was about to brighten, Chen took a pair of daughters to the main house to greet their parents.

Old Lady Chen and Old Lady Chen looked at their eldest daughter, who had taken off her filial piety and was dressed plainly but more and more beautifully, and their hearts became more and more happy.

After greeting and laughing for a while, Chen said: "I heard that the ladies and girls of the official eunuchs in Beijing have been studying since childhood. When he is sixteen or seventeen years old, he becomes more and more sensible, even if he marries into his husband's family, he can also make his husband's family look high. I thought that if I had nothing to do at home, it would be better to hire a female gentleman to teach Wan'er, the eldest sister and the second sister to read. Father and mother feel good? ”

Hearing this, Old Lady Chen and Old Lady Chen had not yet spoken, and Feng Shi had already frowned unhappily, and said, "Sister Hui, this study and hiring a gentleman is not a trivial matter. It can't be said that wind is rain. ”

"Oh, how much trouble can it be?" Hearing this, Chen glanced at Feng lightly, and said with a smile.

Feng Shi said: "Not to mention the side, just the restraint for Mr., as well as the annual book, pen and ink fees, is not a small amount. The girl is different from the master, she can go to the county academy outside to study. If a girl wants to study, she has to hire a female gentleman to teach at home, which is even more expensive. Not only that, but also to clean up the guest house for the female gentleman, and also clean up the house when he entered school, so wouldn't it be expensive and troublesome? Sister Hui doesn't know that firewood and rice are expensive, so she doesn't notice anything. ”

The implication is that it is almost clear that Chen stays at home and has nothing to do, and there will be a moth.

Chen sneered, stretched out his hand to pick the neatly trimmed, wiped off the Dancôme's increasingly transparent and pink nails, and said casually: "Look at my sister-in-law's tirade, I still need to spend a lot of money and trouble." It turned out to be just a matter of buying some books, paper and ink a year and tidying up two rooms. My sister-in-law is so bitter and poor, I thought that our Chen family was so poor that there would be no rice to cook. ”

Before he could finish his sentence, without waiting for Feng to refute it, Chen sneered and said, "I haven't read a book, so I don't know how hard it is to read." But when the dead ghost in our family was studying, I also thought about it coldly. No matter how much money you spend, one or two hundred taels a year is enough. If your sister-in-law agrees, you don't need to pay for this money, you just need to clean up and get out of the house, I hired a gentleman, and your family will also benefit. ”

Everyone was stunned, and Mrs. Chen hurriedly asked, "What does Sister Hui mean by this?" ”

"Didn't I go home with half of my dowry?" Chen waved his hand and said disapprerovingly: "In addition to the clothes and hairpins that my mother gave me, there are also ten acres of thin fields and two shops in the dowry, and I can also pay one or two hundred taels of filial piety every year." I was selfishly thinking about what I would do with the money I was a widow living in my own house. It's better to make up for some household use, which is also my heart. ”

As soon as the words fell, Chen looked at Feng with a smile and said aggressively: "Lest people think that the three of us are going back to our parents' house to eat white food." ”

Feng Shi saw that the sister-in-law was rushing towards her every word, and suddenly felt irritable in his heart. However, because the in-laws are all sitting on it, it is not good to seriously deal with the Chen family. I had to suppress my dissatisfaction, and said with a smile: "You are a multi-hearted person, so you naturally think so." We don't have that heart. ”

When Chen heard this, he sneered back.

Seeing this, Feng Shi was about to say something, thought for a while, and felt that it was so boring, so he had to pretend not to see it and not say anything.

Old Lady Chen and Old Lady Chen saw it in their eyes, and they also felt a headache.

Mrs. Chen thought about it for a long time, but she loved her daughter more. Because of the smile: "The eldest sister and the second sister are only how old they are this year, one is seven years old, the other is four years old, the eldest sister is engaged to the Zhang family, the head of the Huangliang Zhuang, and the second sister wants to talk about marriage, and she has to wait for more than ten years." It's Sister Wan, who will be ten years old after the New Year. If a female gentleman is hired to teach the three sisters to read and write, it will also be the greatest benefit for Sister Wan. The eldest sister and the second sister are just listening to the fun. In this case, it is not good to ask Mr. Hui's restraint to be borne by Sister Hui'er. It's just a public, and it will embarrass your sister-in-law. It's better to get out of the ladder of our old couple. How does her sister-in-law feel? ”

Feng Shi listened to her mother-in-law's words, but she didn't blindly favor her sister-in-law and complain about her, so she was very ironed in her heart. Hurriedly got up and explained with a smile: "The old lady's meaning is naturally excellent. It's not that I'm stingy with small tools, I feel sorry for the money, and I don't let the girls study. It's just that the uncle said earlier that a woman is virtuous if she is not talented, so she is not allowed to study. I also acted on the orders of my uncle. Otherwise, how can we parents not hope for the well-being of our children? If the old lady said so, I did so. ”

When Mrs. Chen heard Feng's words, she smiled faintly, took Feng's hand and patted it, and said with a smile: "I know that you are the most considerate and virtuous person." Unlike my sister Hui, she is the most willful. ”

When Chen heard this, he rolled his eyes disapplausively. She is straightforward and spicy by nature, and what she hates most is Feng's pretending to be virtuous and docile. If you get cheap, you have to sell it obediently, and you have to make a compromised tone. It seems that she took advantage of it, and it was forced by others.

Feng Shi looked at Chen's horizontal eyebrows and cold appearance, and his heart was also tired.

The two sisters-in-law were disgusted with each other, so they listened to Mrs. Chen's instructions to take out ten taels of silver from the monthly allowance to buy pen, ink, paper, and inkstone and ask the female husband to provide the three sisters with a study. I just said, please ask the gentleman's bundle by myself, and we also buy the pen, ink, paper and inkstone by ourselves. ”

Seeing this, Old Lady Chen put down the teacup in her hand and said slowly: "You are also in your twenties this year, you have been married for several years, and you also have a pair of daughters under your knees, why are you still so willful and ignorant?" Your mother does not do it all for your own good. Listen to it, where did you come from? If you really think that the dowry is too rich, you will save it for the eldest sister and the second sister. They will also go out in the future. Now that you don't have a father, you should be more thoughtful as a mother. ”

“…… Although our Chen family is not a wealthy family, the family is also well-off. Adding a few pairs of chopsticks can't help the family's wealth, and it can't fall into the field where the daughter's dowry lives. If I hear you say these inconsequential things again, be careful. ”

Old lady Chen's words were silent. Feng Shi looked at it coldly, although Old Lady Chen spoke harshly, in the end, it was saved from Chen's fortune ruin, it can be seen that they are a family, and in a few words, they will write off Chen's previous words.

When Chen heard his father reprimand him like this, his face was a little uncomfortable. It's just that she has always been afraid of the authority of her father, and when she saw that Old Lady Chen was seriously angry, she didn't dare to refute it, so she could only describe sitting on the side with a pair of daughters in her arms silently.

Old Lady Chen's words have come to this, and it is even more difficult for Feng, who is a daughter-in-law, to say more.

Everyone sat in the hall, gossiped for a while, and after breakfast, they dispersed without mentioning it.

In the evening, Chen Qi came down to the Ya's house, and the Feng family served Chen Qi to wash his clothes on one wall, and told the meaning of Chen's intention to let his daughter read when he woke up in the morning. Between the words, there is a faint meaning of complaining that Chen's has nothing to do.

Chen Qi straightened his arms, closed his eyes and listened to his wife Feng's complaints, frowned once, and said: "Sister Hui'er must have suffered from not studying, so when she came home, she asked Wan'er to study with her eldest sister and second sister." Didn't you also want to ask Wan'er to study? Even so, you can be regarded as inheriting Sister Hui's affection now, even if you are not very grateful, you should not complain like this. If you let others listen, don't you think that you are cheap and behaved? Besides, you are the eldest sister-in-law, and now that Sister Hui is dead, her brother-in-law has returned home, and the mother and daughter are so difficult. You don't say that you will help some people, but you also calculate her dowry, so that outsiders can see it, and you think that my Chen family can't afford to live. Isn't that nice? ”

Feng Shi listened to Chen Jue's words, and immediately fell into anger, couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and forced Chen Jue to ask, "Who calculated her dowry?" It was she herself who was frivolous, relying on the dowry she had a few taels of silver, so she said that she should pay for her studies, and she would pay for it. He also laughed at me for being stingy, and squeezed me for nothing. I looked at her such a big tone, but I wanted to accept her love, but unfortunately in the end, it was just empty words, and my father-in-law only said a word, and took the matter over. I didn't bother with her, and now you're coming to talk about me? Why is it that you Chen family girls are good at everything, I just said it casually, but it happened, didn't it? ”

Chen Qi looked at Feng's flushed face, sitting crooked in front of the dressing table and wiping tears from his eyes. Under the light of the candle, it became more and more pitiful, and there was a bit of the state of the daughter back then. Chen Jue's heart didn't feel soft. Hurriedly stepped forward and whispered: "Look at you, if I just say a word, you will be angry like this, as if I bullied you-"

Feng turned away and ignored Chen Qi.

Chen Jue choked for a while, then turned to Feng Shi and said, "I just thought that Sister Hui was young and had no husband, and it was not easy to live with her two daughters. You are a sister-in-law, the eldest sister-in-law is like a mother, since she is from home, you should treat her well. It's only two or three years, and when she gets married, she also misses your good son. In the future, I will help you with some of them, why don't you understand my heart. ”

I also thought that the Feng family had married into the Chen family for many years, taught her husband and children, and was filial to her parents, and her actions were quite virtuous. It's only in getting along with Chen that he is often stubborn about his leftism. Unconsciously smiled: "Everyone in the world says that mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are natural enemies." Why is our mother-in-law and daughter-in-law respectful, but my sister-in-law is like a black-eyed chicken. This time it's good, I don't have to worry about the lack of excitement at home. ”

Before he finished speaking, Feng couldn't stop laughing.