A fast horse galloped and stopped in front of the tall gatehouse with a mahogany gate.

Immediately, the woman in red turned over and jumped down, her movements were neat and her posture was extremely vigorous, and she was heroic and cool.

Handing the rope to the door that accompanied Xiao, the woman flicked the horsewhip around her wrist: "Are the old lady and the uncle at home?" ”

The porter hurriedly smiled: "Yes, here." ”

This woman in red is the Qi copper lock who made a big fuss about the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry just now, and she heard the door step forward and whispered: "Mrs. Fan came to talk to the old lady, and she hasn't left yet." ”

Qi Tongsuo pursed his lips: "Why did she come again." ”

After speaking, Qi Tongsuo strode into the door, passed the first into the house, and when he entered the second one, he came out of the side door and passed through a sandwich road to a small courtyard.

Qi Tongsuo pushed open the courtyard door and entered, and a few girls in red and green who were sitting under the porch basking in the sun immediately got up and smiled: "Grandma is back, the old lady is talking about you." ”

Qi Tongsuo smiled, threw the horsewhip to a girl and entered the house.

This room is not big, but the cleaning is very clean and neat, a place to enter the door is placed a marble base red sandalwood openwork screen, the east side of the screen is placed on the long case, there is a glazed sea bowl on the case, a few goldfish are raised in the bowl, and there are two melon bottles next to it, and the bottle is inserted into the Xifu Begonia that has just been taken off.

Qi Tongsuo went to take a look at the goldfish first, and asked the girl standing next to the screen: "Have you changed the water today?" Have you fed the fish? ”

The girl smiled: "I changed the water and fed it earlier, I'm afraid these fish are holding on, and grandma can't move when she sees them." ”

Qi Tongsuo smiled, and just wanted to say a few more words, when he heard an old but very loud voice in the house: "The girl is back, don't hurry into the house." I teased those fish outside, and I told you to tease a few to death a few a few a few years ago, and if you look at it again, I am afraid that the remaining few will not be able to be saved. ”

"This is coming in." Qi Tongsuo agreed, turned around the screen and entered the house.

This courtyard looks small, and the house is not big, but the main hall is not small. Directly under the north wall facing the screen, there is a soft couch. There is a small table on each side of the soft couch, with some eating utensils placed on it, and four chairs at the bottom. Each chair is furnished with soft couches and chair supports.

Mrs. Xie was sitting on the soft couch, and an old lady was talking to Mrs. Xie on the chair at the head of Mrs. Xie.

Seeing Qi Tongsuo come in, Old Madam Xie smiled at Qi Tongsuo and beckoned: "It's back, come and sit." ”

Qi Tongsuo saw the salute and sat on the chair on the lower right. She smiled at Mrs. Fan: "I haven't seen you old for a few days, are you okay?" ”

Mrs. Fan tugged at the corners of her lips. There is a bit of a smile that doesn't smile: "It's just the same, what's good or bad, anyway, I can't die for a while." ”

Qi Tongsuo fell silent when he heard that Old Lady Fan didn't have anything good to say, but Old Lady Xie smiled and said, "That's not right. The older we get, the more we should take care of it, according to me, we should care about everything when we are old. Qingqing quietly enjoys the good of old age at home, and there is no time to worry about for a lifetime until he is old. Old sister, listen to my advice, in the future, just be blind, just think that you are deaf, and you should not see or hear everything, so that you can live for a long time. ”

"That's easy." Mrs. Fan sighed: "I have a lot of children and grandchildren in my family, and it's a mess all day long, I can't do it if I don't bother to do it, no, the second family's concubine has another thing, I want to think about it, and you are the best, I want you to help me get an idea." ”

As soon as Qi Tongsuo heard this, he immediately got up and was about to leave.

Old Madam Xie didn't leave her either, smiled and instructed: "Dingguo is playing in the backyard, you go find him." ”

Qi Tongsuo promised to leave, but Mrs. Fan said in a voice: "If you set the country, sit down, I also have something to say to you." ”

Qi Tongsuo had no choice but to sit down, and before he sat down, he listened to Mrs. Fan and Mrs. Xie say: "No, the concubine of the second family is the fifth among the sisters, and the family calls her the five girls. ”

Mrs. Xie hurriedly said: "Our two families are good families, I know this, I have seen your five girls once, she looks good, her character is also good, she is a good child who is quiet and polite." ”

"Isn't it?" The more Mrs. Fan said, the more bitter her face became: "This girl has the same bad fate as her mother, it turns out that the second daughter-in-law only said that she is a concubine in the end, and she can't marry into a wealthy family, and she doesn't want to ask her to be a stepmother or a concubine, so she found a young and talented person who has no obvious family background but can make a move to settle a family." ”

"That's a good thing." Mrs. Xie took a sip of tea: "Your second daughter-in-law has a good character and is kind, this is a serious plan for the five girls, it stands to reason that you should be happy, why do you still have a bitter face?" ”

"If it's good, it would be great." Mrs. Fan sighed: "That move originally looked good, but recently it has become more and more dislike, not to mention gambling money and drinking, but also in and out of the Qinglou all day long, the former child, the former child and our family have a very good relationship quietly told us, that move was actually in the Qinglou infected with dirty disease, he has become that look, not to say that he is ashamed to be good for life and treatment, but in order to cover up the matchmaker urged to marry our five girls earlier, if it wasn't for the friend to tell us, we can't say that we will marry the five girls in a daze, Isn't this pushing the five girls into the fire pit? ”

Having said this, not to mention how angry Mrs. Fan was, even Mrs. Xie also heard it with an angry face, slapped the table and said: "This is not like that, where is there such a person, whose girl is not a thousand pets for fear of being wronged, your five girls have a character like that, you can't marry such a person, this is ruined for a lifetime." ”

"That's true." Mrs. Fan nodded: "The second child of our family went to the house to withdraw from the family immediately, and the family was not happy to say a lot of unpleasant things, which made the second child of our family angry, and had a big quarrel at his house and turned around and forced him to withdraw his family." ”

Mrs. Fan wiped her tears from her words: "After retiring from the family affairs, we will investigate carefully, only to know that this matter is still deep, the original move is good, how can it be so easy to learn badly, it turned out to be the second grandson of Fuguo Gong in the ghost, the little grandson of Fuguo Mansion is surnamed Jin Mingyan, the most incompetent, and a greedy and lustful person, he didn't know how, he saw my family five girls once, and he never forgot it, and he was determined to accept five girls as concubines, and later knew that the five girls were set to be married, I tried my best to make a lot of things to hook up with the bad boy, and let the money buy the young lady who was infected with a dirty disease in the Qinglou to serve the child, and as soon as he heard that our family had withdrawn, this Jin Yan took advantage of the situation to bully people, and bullied the door to force the second child to send the fifth girl to the Fuguo Mansion to be his little wife. ”

"The Fuguo Mansion looked pretty good that day, why is it becoming more and more taboo now?" After hearing this, Mrs. Xie also felt a little sympathetic to the Fan family, and at the same time felt that the Fuguo Mansion was too much.

Qi Tongsuo also felt that these five girls were really unlucky, and he asked her to touch such a scumbag slut, and he was quite concerned at this time, so he asked Mrs. Fan: "What happened later?" Did your family agree? ”

Mrs. Fan was stunned for a moment, and then said angrily and sadly: "Where can I agree?" Even if it doesn't hurt the five girls, our Fan family still needs to be faced, if we really want to ask our good girl to be a concubine for a gentleman, the girls of our Fan family will also get married. ”

Qi Tongsuo nodded: "That's right, let me say, just the behavior of villains like the Jin family, not to mention your girl, even no one will let them be so harmful and swallow their anger, even if you leave the girl at home for the rest of your life and never marry, you can't be a little wife for such people." ”

"Why not." Mrs. Fan smiled bitterly: "But this Jin family is really shameless and hateful gritted teeth, seeing that our family is not happy, they spread the news everywhere and ruined the name of my family's five girls, and now Chang'an City knows that my family's five girls are shameless, the most water-based Yanghua, and said that our Fan family has no tutor, and the girls in the family are not formed, seeing that we don't send the five girls to the Jin family, he can make all the girls in our Fan family have no one to want." ”

The more Mrs. Fan talked, the more aggrieved she became, crying one by one, and in the end, her crying body softened.

Mrs. Xie also felt very angry when she heard this, and complained a lot, scolded the Jin family, and persuaded Mrs. Fan.

Mrs. Fan cried and was persuaded by Mrs. Xie not to cry, she wiped away her tears and looked at Mrs. Xie with a pleading face: "Old sister, our sister and son are good in this life, and now that they are old, I also have the cheekiness to beg the old sister once, my five girls are really helpless, and beg, beg the old sister to call your family to accept her, so that she can escape for her life." ”

"What?"

Old Madam Xie and Qi Tongsuo were shocked together.

After a long while, Old Lady Xie came back to her senses, and looked at Old Lady Fan very strictly: "Old sister, are you joking?" ”

Qi Tongsuo also looked at Mrs. Fan nervously.

Mrs. Fan shook her head: "Where to joke, what I said is true." ”

"That's not going to work." Mrs. Xie simply refused: "Our Xie family does not have concubines, our ancestors set the rules, a man can only take a concubine if he has no children at forty, how old is my family Dingguo, and besides, he and my granddaughter-in-law, the newlywed Yan'er, are like a good honey and oil, where can I intervene in the moment, I can't be a wicked person to complain." ”

Mrs. Fan was rejected, and her face turned red for a while, but she didn't give up: "Who else in your family is called the Jin family who doesn't dare to move?" Old sister, I beg you, the five girls in our family will have a name, as long as she is called into the house, our family doesn't care anymore, you just use her as a girl, and we don't have a word. ”

As she spoke, Mrs. Fan looked at Qi Tongsuo and pleaded: "Dingguo's daughter-in-law, you have always been a bold and virtuous person, even if I beg you once, you agreed to this matter, as long as you agree, I want to come to the old sister and Dingguo's child is nothing to say." ”

Mrs. Fan begged like this, and Mrs. Xie didn't speak when she saw it, but just watched how the copper lock responded. (To be continued.) )