Zhou Xu'an looked at the slender figure who seemed to be being chased by someone and ran away quickly, but the reins in his hand were tightened violently. The horse was startled by his sudden pull of the rope, and with a snort, the horse's hooves moved restlessly.

After staying quietly for a long time, Zhou Xu'an finally sighed, turned over and went home.

When he arrived at the gate of the Zhou Mansion, he saw his little servant Ah Cai from a distance, and Ah Cai hurriedly greeted him when he saw that his young master was back.

"Oh, my eldest young master, you are back, the old lady is about to kill me. You said that you watched the game well, how can you say that you can go. Ah Cai said as he stepped forward to take the reins from his hand.

Zhou Xu'an glared at him coldly and entered the gate, and Ah Cai, who was slightly injured, led the horse into the stable.

After he entered the gate of the Zhou Mansion, he bypassed the shadow wall and passed through a water pavilion corridor, and he was not in the mood to look at the lotus flowers that were blooming just right on both sides. Just hurriedly continued to walk forward, and walked through a hanging flower gate with masonry arches, and then entered the inner courtyard of the Zhou Mansion.

When I walked to the verandah of the Cun'an Courtyard where my grandmother lived, I saw the second sister Zhou Mengchan with the maid, Zhou Mengchan saluted and called "big brother", and the maid next to her also curtsy and called "Big Young Master" He just nodded coldly, and walked directly for a while before arriving in front of a big house.

Seeing him coming, the maid standing at the door hurriedly lifted the curtain.

My grandmother was weak and afraid of the wind, so her room here was a little stuffy. And grandmother also likes incense, so Zhou Xu'an just went in, and felt a stream of incense with fat powder rushing towards him.

He saw that his grandmother was drinking the boiled medicinal tea cup at the moment, but there was a pile of warblers and swallows around him. It was the ladies of the Zhou Mansion and his aunt who went back to her parents' house for a few days, and two cousins.

Zhou Xu'an glanced at it lightly, then walked a few steps forward and bowed to his grandmother who was sitting in the middle.

"Grandmother, my grandson has not greeted your old man because he has been too busy with business these days, and I ask grandmother not to blame."

"What kind of blame, you have been busy for the Zhou family all these years, you are in your twenties, but you can't even make a family, grandmother is just sad for you." Mrs. Zhou put the teacup and sighed.

"Yes, Xu'an, just now my mother was still talking to me about your life's events! I am both your stepmother and your aunt, you are not too young to even have a family, but I feel sorry for Huangquan's sister reads();. It was Zhou Xu'an's stepmother Zhou Liu who spoke, and I saw that she was wearing a purple gold silk buckle cardigan and a black embroidered Xiangyun skirt. Wearing a gold hairpin on his head, he has an orchid buckle in his ears. At about thirty-four or five years old, his face is dignified and delicate, but unfortunately the fine lines at the corners of his eyes are covered with a lot of powder, and they can't be hidden.

It's just that as soon as Liu finished speaking this week, a woman with a plump posture sitting on the other side of Mrs. Zhou laughed on the side: "What my sister-in-law said is very good, but if you really care about my eldest nephew's marriage, you can wait until this time!" It was Mrs. Zhou's favorite youngest daughter Zhou Xianglan who spoke, and her husband's surname was Cheng, who was also a merchant. Life at home is comfortable, but it has not been sluggish in recent years.

"The little sister said this really chilled my heart, I was thinking that Xu An has been in the capital all the year round, and he has to find a good woman, and he must be a beautiful and reasonable girl to match him. You can't find a small family, you can't stand the table and fold Xu An's face in vain. When Zhou Liu said this, he also pretended to glance at Zhou Lanxiang's two daughters inadvertently.

"...... you" Zhou Lanxiang was immediately annoyed when she heard Zhou Liu say this, she was talking about her daughter? However, she caught a glimpse of her mother's face and did not seem to be very good, so she had to say nothing. Hmph, dare to say that her daughter is a small family, isn't she Liu Moniang still the daughter of the Liu family. If it weren't for her sister-in-law Liu Yuanniang's order to go earlier, and the Liu family sent her to pick her up, the location of the main room of the family this week would not have been her turn.

"What my sister said is a little thin, although whether this woman has virtue or not has something to do with the family, but it is generally educated by her father. Small families are not necessarily incapable of being knowledgeable, on the other hand, there are many women in some wealthy families, and the concubines must be real ladies, but those concubines are not easy to say. At this time, it was Zhou Baida's concubine Luo Bixia who spoke, and I saw that she was wearing a crimson hooked gown and purple ruffled skirt, with jade inlaid gold hairpins on her head and jade beads in her ears. Born and fair-skinned, with slender willow eyebrows and a pair of red phoenix eyes, he is about in his early thirties, but he looks much younger and more charming than Zhou Liu's. She is the daughter of a small merchant brought back by Zhou Baida when he was a layman in the early years, and she can speak well, knows how to cater to and is considerate, and is very favored by Zhou Baida. Although there are only some regrets that Zhou Mengchan has only one girl so far, the others are also comfortable. She already looked at Zhou Liu's unpleasant eyes, how could she endure it a lot because she was the main mother, who knew that she kept saying what happened to the small family. Because she was born in a small family, she didn't have a chance to climb up after her original partner Liu Yuanniang went, and now that Liu Moniang mentioned it again, she felt an indescribable anger.

"......" listened to what Aunt Luo said, knowing that the Jiang family was squeezing herself, and Zhou Liu's silver teeth were almost crushed. This Aunt Luo has always been very respectful to her as a housewife because of her lord's favor, and now she dares to squeeze her. It's just that this time she had to suffer a dumb loss, especially when she saw her sister-in-law Zhou Lanxiang's mocking eyes looking at her all the time, she had to keep her face stiff and didn't speak.

The son's step-room, Mrs. Liu Mo Niang, Mrs. Zhou, has always been disliked, and the concubine always puts on a high posture and is not willing to flatter her mother-in-law, and no one likes it. It's just that I don't like it anymore, it's also the main room, and I can't let an aunt say it, and this Aunt Luo is also a stupid person, and she didn't fill in the pit and poured the concubine she gave birth to. So she glared at Aunt Luo lightly, and Aunt Luo felt that she had said something she shouldn't have said, so she quickly put away the smug look on her face and stopped talking.

At this time, Mrs. Zhou remembered today's important matter, and said in a slightly reproachful tone: "Xu'an, you said that you didn't say that you would take your sisters to the lake after the game today, so you just left." Forget about your own sister, there is still Miss Zhu of the county order family on the painting boat, how impolite. ”

“…… I'm sorry grandmother, but it occurred to me that there was a shipment at the dock that I had to send away immediately, so I left in a hurry. Only then did Zhou Xu'an speak.

"Fortunately, Miss Zhu is generous and doesn't blame, but you have to take the time to come to the door the next day to apologize." Mrs. Zhou instructed her eldest grandson.

"Got it, then the grandson will leave." Zhou Xu'an was most annoyed by the scene of the women here fighting openly and secretly, and hurriedly retired.

When Zhou Xu'an was going to the courtyard where he lived, he remembered what happened today for some reason, and then he felt that he was reckless, and he was afraid that the little girl didn't know what to think of him.