Xu was in Tan's upper room at this time, and Brother Lang was shaking his little head and telling Tan about Sun Wukong's three beats of white bone spirits. Wisteria was finally forced by this little young master to run out of donkey skills, so he also told him the story of Sun Monkey, and it was better to tell it again than to have nothing to make up.

A few days ago, Tan wanted to paint the water lilies under the moonlight on a whim, but he caught a cold and lay in bed for seven or eight days. Today, seeing that the Tan family was almost fine, and thinking about his grandson, he asked his eldest son to come over. Although Tan is a little squeamish, she is not the evil mother-in-law who wants her daughter-in-law to set rules, she is impatient to manage the affairs of the house, and naturally knows that there are many things that Xu is presiding over at this time, so she asked Xu to go and busy her, leaving Brother Lang to accompany her.

Xu's daily affairs are next to the study room set up for the prince in Canglang Garden, and after listening to a few management ladies report some matters and explain a few words to pay attention to in the near future, they waved their hands and sent them out. Bao Ping walked in, holding a booklet in her hand, and said with a smile after saluting,

"Grandma, this is the menu when the old lady of the Huai'en Houfu came to make a banquet." With that, he handed over the booklet.

Xu Shi took it and looked at it carefully, and said, "Replace that dish of red shad anchovy with steamed one." There is also this hibiscus tofu called the cook to make it according to the taste of the old lady, she likes to put fish foam in it, don't make a mistake, everything else can be. ”

Bao Ping promised to go down to pass the word. Xu Shi moved back and leaned on the back of the circle chair, and another big girl, Baojuan, hurriedly walked behind her and slowly kneaded her shoulders.

Xu Shi closed his eyes and thought about this Mrs. Hou, since the old lady came back, in more than a month, the envoy of Huai'en Houfu handed over three times a post saying that he wanted to come to see the old lady, but the old lady refused. Although I don't know what the specific reason is, judging from the old lady's appearance, it is the first time that Huai'en Houfu has been so faced, and it must be that there has done something that the old lady can't tolerate.

The Xu family has been married to the Zhongguo Mansion for so long, and she has also seen the ups and downs of everyone in the Huai'en Houfu, so she can't believe that the Hou Ye and the old Guo Gong over there will be two brothers who are the same mother. Especially the Wang family, the wife of Huai'en Hou Shizi, although she is of the same grade as herself, she is a generation older. It's okay to say at home, it's okay to respect some of yourself, but this one, as long as you walk outside, always put the shelf at the end of the old high, open your mouth and shut up, Xu is like this, Xu is like that. It's really disgusting.

Xu Shi raised his eyes and looked at the hourglass, it was time to serve the old lady's lunch, patted Baojuan's hand, straightened up and stood up.

Xu Shi went back to the landlord for a while. Wisteria was holding Brother Yue with one hand, and pointing to a small animal puppet placed on the low collapse near the window with the other.

"Does Young Master Yue want black or yellow?"

"Black" Brother Yue replied crisply.

"Is that a black puppy pretty, or a black kitten?" After speaking, he pretended to look at the little guy in embarrassment.

Brother Yue looked at her and smiled, and pointed at the black puppy-like puppet with his hand, "black"

Wisteria picked up the black kitten and gave it to Brother Yue, but Brother Yue pushed it away and pointed at the black puppy.

"Young Master Yue, don't you want black? The slave girl brought you a black one! ”

"Sister Wisteria, what Young Master Yue wants is a black puppy, not a kitten." A little girl next to her looked at such a simple question no less than ten times, and couldn't help but speak.

Wisteria ignored her, continued to look at Brother Yue, and coaxed him to say, "Young Master Yue obviously knows that the slave is stupid, sue the slave and the maid, is it a puppy or a kitten, don't you see that they all laugh at the slave and the maid?" After speaking, he pretended to be aggrieved.

Brother Yue giggled and pointed to the puppy puppet, "Black, puppy." ”

Wisteria looked at the little one in his arms with a smug smile on his face, and suddenly reacted, in fact, he already knew how to say it, and he just wanted to show weakness, so he was willing to say it. Fox-like children, which book is written in ancient times Children are generally more stupid, you look at the two young masters of the Guogong Mansion, one monkey spirit of the other. The big one is on the outside, and the small one is typically black.

Xu looked at his son's smiling appearance, listened to the milky reply, and admired his husband's wisdom more and more. At Graceland that day, her husband's decision was not discussed with him in advance. After coming back, she was still worried that it was nothing for a girl to tell a little story to make Brother Lang happy, but she had to teach her youngest son to speak in such a serious way, and she didn't have any bottom in her heart. But looking at the only three days of hard work, Brother Yue took the initiative to say more and more, and she was relieved. At this time, looking at Wisteria's gaze was full of relief.

Xu didn't bother his son, and took Baojuan and the nurse Xu Mama to the old lady.

When the group arrived at Songhe Garden, the eldest lady Xie Rong and the second lady Xie Fang were here, looking at the silk and satin materials specially prepared for Xie Rong's marriage from their own weaving in the south. Xu once again gave his mother-in-law a thumbs up in his heart, and his daughter had to be checked by the old lady to prepare a dowry, thinking about the mother-in-law who was like a girl who was lying on the bed and maintained, it was really not an ordinary heart.

When the two sisters saw their sister-in-law coming in, they hurriedly stood up, and after saluting each other, the old lady beckoned her granddaughter-in-law and asked her to see if the materials were good. Xu naturally followed the old lady's words and praised these materials.

Then Xu reported the banquet to the old lady of Huai En Hou the day after tomorrow, and when he just said what dishes he had prepared, the old lady waved her hand to stop Xu.

"I've always been at ease when you do things, you don't need to talk to me anymore, you just look at it. There is only one thing, then the Wang family can't get off the stage like the last time you sacrificed to the ancestors' family banquet, and you don't have to scruple anymore, you just have to go back in person. Don't worry, your parents-in-law, including Zhong'er, will not say a word about you.

"And the two of you, in the future, the people over there don't have to look at their faces in everything, if they are safe, if they say a word around eight hundred miles, they don't have to give face." The last two sentences are addressed to the two granddaughters.

Xu Shi and Xie Rong Xie Fang, although they didn't know why their grandmother had undisguised their disgust when she mentioned Huai'en Houfu recently, now she made it clear that she didn't have to give them face. You must know that in the past, whenever Huai'en Houfu came to talk about the east and west, the old lady always told them not to care, saying that the family and everything was prosperous, and they couldn't write two words of thanks. But they also knew that there must be hidden secrets in this that they didn't know, so they all stood up and said "yes".

Because the old lady was a vegetarian, she didn't leave the two young ladies for lunch. Xu cleaned his hands and took out small plates and bowls of sweet white porcelain from the food box and placed them on the kang table.

"You don't have to go back to eat, accompany your wife to eat a vegetarian meal, okay?"

"That's a good dare, grandmother doesn't say, granddaughter-in-law is still embarrassed to open her mouth, these days the autumn is dry, greasy and eats a lot, I want to ask my grandmother to eat some vegetarian dishes here!"

Next to him, Dongwen smiled and moved an embroidery stool for Xu's family. He cleaned his hands again and set up the dishes and chopsticks for Xu.

The old lady has always liked the joy of this granddaughter-in-law. Hearing this, he smiled, and held his hand and nodded at her, "When I saw my mother-in-law at the autumn banquet in the next year, I must ask what I fed you with when I was young, and I didn't say a word." I'm waiting for you to add me another little great-granddaughter, and the old woman will feed her like this. ”

A sentence of great-granddaughter made Xu's face red, and after yesterday's first child and husband, her husband put his hand on his stomach and said that he would have to give birth to a daughter this time.

The old lady saw Xu's pretty face flushed, so she stopped teasing her, and the two of them had lunch under the service of Mama Wang and Dongwen.

From letting himself eat here, Xu knew that the old lady must have something to say to herself. Sure enough, in the past, she had to go back to the inner room to drink medicine and sleep after eating, but today she was helped to go to the banquet room. The two sat down at the tea table under the window, and the old lady took a sip of tea.

"I don't think you can figure out why I want to say these things to you and Sister Rong, if you want to say that I really didn't like that family before, but for the sake of the old grandfather, the big face is okay. But now, I really hate this family. The reason for this, presumably Zhong'er didn't tell you. Originally, I didn't let them say it, after all, Sister Fang was involved, and there were many people who knew about it, so I would not have a good reputation for Sister Fang in the future. ”

When Xu Shi heard this, he felt the severity of this matter, so he sat up straight and made a deferential appearance.

"You don't have to know too much, this involves the court and is not something that we women should know. Your mother-in-law is such a sad and sad character, saying that knowing with her will only give me one more headache. But you are in charge of the middle feed of the house, and there are some things that you must know. ”

The old lady spoke slowly, and Xu's face went from shock to disbelief to anger.