Lian Man'er heard Xiao Qi say this, and her eyes couldn't help but widen a little. How could Shen Qian have such a complaint, this is really qiguài.

"Brother, what's the matter with you?" Lian Man'er asked Gorou. In the past few times she came to Fucheng, she didn't meet Shen Qian much, and she was still very concerned about Shen Xiaopang.

"This, it's really not qingchu." Gorou shook his head, "It should be related to some family affairs of the Shen family." I took a closer look, and the Shen family hǎoxiàng was very evasive about some topics such as the eldest master, the eldest wife, and Xiao Jiu. I don't want to ask too much. ”

"The eldest lady is Xiao Jiu's mother-in-law." Lian Man'er asked.

"Yes." Gorou nodded.

"Before, I always thought that Xiao Jiu, Sixth Master, and Shen Jin were all born to the same mother. Looking at their shihou together, how good the relationship is. Lian Man'er said softly, "It's still this time that I met the eldest lady before I came over." ”

She had always thought that Shen Xiaopang also had no mother. I remember that the first time she saw Shen Xiaopang was at Imperial Doctor Shi's house. After that, Shen Xiaopang always seemed to follow behind Shen Liu, like a small tail.

The eldest wife Shi is a continuation of the string, and based on Shen Liu's age, there should be a big age gap between the Shi family and the eldest master of the Shen family. And Shen Qian, as their biological son, should also be the only son of the Shi family, and he is so young, he should always be by his side.

The guānxi between Shi and Shen Qian seems to be somewhat qiguài.

Lian Man'er thinks so, not only because of the above reasons. Shen Qian, who was with her, had never mentioned his father and mother to her, and Shen Qian gave her gǎnjiào. It's just a méiyou mother's child.

Lian Man'er was puzzled, so she had to put this matter aside for the time being.

In this era, because of the relative backwardness of medical care and hygiene. The men are better, but there are many women who can't get past the stage of childbirth, or because of other diseases, many of them die at a young age. This often leaves a widower and one or more children.

And a family, whether it is a common person or a big family, cannot lack a housewife. Therefore. This kind of thing is very common. Therefore, compared to the era of Lian Man'er's previous life, the members of many families in this year are more complicated.

Shime leaves the child in the first room. Stepmothers and the like, commonly known as the front nest and the back piece, people are very taboo to talk about these on the surface. Because from the standpoint of the family, whether it is biological or not. It's all family. It must be like a biological yiyàng, there can be no distinction, no centrifugation. Only in this way can there be harmony and cohesion. This kind of thing is taboo for people to say, and it is taboo for others to inquire.

This is true for ordinary people, and even more so for wealthy people.

For such a thing as the Shen family, it's okay to be a little tempted and side-to-side, but if people don't want to say it. But it is absolutely impossible to inquire into the bottom of it. After practicing Lian Man'er, it is natural to mingbái.

"Hey, isn't it like this for the mother and son of a big family?" Lian Man'er sighed and said.

The child is born. There are a large group of wet nurses, girls, and mothers-in-law who take care of them, and the mother-in-law has not taken care of them personally, maybe they will give birth to some? But Shi is such a son, it shouldn't be like this. Maybe she was busy with other things, and she lacked skills, so she snubbed Shen Xiaopang? But how many things does the Shi family have, it seems that the Shen family's internal affairs are not in her hands.

"Probably not." As he spoke, Gorou seemed to think for a while before lowering his voice and saying a few words to Lian Man'er.

Lian Man'er's eyes widened in surprise.

"I heard a sentence or two by chance, I guess it's so, it's really not true." Gorou said again, "In the future, there will be more exchanges, and there will always be zhidào." ”

Lian Man'er nodded, and it took a while to come back to her senses.

After the family had eaten a snack, they all got up to rest when they saw that it was not early. Xiao Qi naturally followed Zhang and Lian Man'er, and also went to the backyard to rest.

"That, Xiao Qi," Zhang Turán stopped Xiao Qi, "You can rest in the study with your brother tonight." Then, didn't Mr. Chu say that you should study your homework hard......"

Even Man'er and Xiao Qi were a little surprised, what happened to Zhang's today, she actually picked up Xiao Qi, usually she did everything possible to coax Xiao Qi to sleep with her.

Although Xiao Qi was surprised, he didn't pester Zhang, but agreed very obediently and went to the study with Gorou. Even Man'er naturally didn't say shime. Xiao Qi is gradually getting older, even the two husband and wife of Shouxin and Zhang, naturally there are some things that want to carry Xiao Qi on their backs, which is also human nature.

Lian Man'er went back to the house, washed up, and lay down to sleep. As soon as the lights on her side went out, so did the lights in the east room.

In the east room, Lian Shouxin and Zhang turned off the lights and lay in the quilt, both of them opened their eyes and turned back and forth a few times, and finally the two faced each other, looked at each other for a while, and spoke almost at the same time.

“…… It's always been good for us,...... There's shihou, that's just great. A horse, and two horse breeders, this is a great gift. I'm a little ...... in my heart."

"You may not have seen it, but I did. …… Look at our man'er's eyes are not yiyàng, my heart is ......, is this a good thing or a bad thing......"

"I didn't pick a talent, we can find one like this in the future, not to mention that's it, there are fifty or sixty percent, and that's about the same. Man'er is clever and has an idea, and finding someone who is honest and general can let her live a stable life in the future. …… This one, the status is too high......"

……

The next day, Lian Man'er got up early, and when she saw Lian Shouxin and Zhang at the dinner table, she couldn't help but be taken aback. Lian Shouxin and Zhang's two sons, Qi Qi's two pairs of panda eyes.

"Father, mother......" Lian Man'er wanted to ask why they didn't sleep well last night, but the words came to their lips and swallowed back. Perhaps, the couple did more shime exercises that are good for physical and mental health last night? If this is asked by the girl, it will be embarrassing.

Thinking so, Lian Man'er's words turned a corner.

"Dad, mother, what arrangements do we have today?"

When it comes to arrangement, there is, of course, and there are a lot of them.

In the next few days, the family was busy again, and there were a lot of banquets and entertainments, and the most important thing was that Lian Shouxin and Gorou prepared gifts and went to visit Mr. Qu with Mr. Chu. Things went exceptionally well, Mr. Qu was very appreciative of the Enlightened School, and with the request of two friends, he readily agreed to be the gentleman of the school, and said that he would get up and go to the Thirty Mile Camp after a fixed date.

In addition, the family also bought a small village in Difāng, fifteen miles outside the city. This Zhuangzi has a total of 500 acres of high-quality and medium-sized fields, a village, and a wasteland and miscellaneous forests. The family carefully looked at Zhuangzi and made a general plan, in addition to planting crops, the original terrain is still the same, and also plans to open up vegetable gardens, fish ponds, lotus ponds, pig farms, duck farms, chicken farms, etc.

It is estimated that in the future, the production on this small village will not only be enough to supply the household of Shunde Fang and Songshu Hutong in the city, but also have a lot of surplus.

……

After the Shangyuan Festival, Shen Liu stayed in Fucheng for two days, and on the third day, he set off to return to the military camp in the border city. Even Shouxin, Wulang and Xiaoqi went to see them off, and Zhang and Lian Man'er stayed at home. In two days, they were going back to the camp of thirty miles, and the mother and daughter were going to buy some things, but they were afraid that Shihou would leave Shime things, so after distributing the housework in the small hall, they asked people to bring paper and pencil over, and they had to make a list first.

Because they were not in a hurry, the mother and daughter chatted while making a list slowly.

Even Shouxin, Gorou and Xiaoqi came back, and Lian Man'er just finished the list.

“…… Is the person yijing gone? Are you going to be sent out of the city? Seeing that the three of them were back, Zhang asked for hot tea.

Lian Shouxin nodded, opened his mouth, but didn't speak, just glanced at Lian Man'er quickly, and then lowered his head to drink tea.

"I'll have something to do in a while, you can help me find a dress." Even Shouxin didn't care whether the tea was hot or not, and after a few sips, he stood up and motioned for Zhang to go to the backyard with him.

"What's wrong with our father, why did you change your face?" Waiting for Lian Shouxin and Zhang's family to go out to the backyard, Lian Man'er asked Wulang and Xiaoqi, "What's wrong?" ”

"Méiyou." Xiao Qi said, "But our father hǎoxiàng really has something on his mind." ”

"Nothing's wrong." Gorou is definitely authentic.

"Have you two been with our dad all the time?" Lian Man'er asked. Although he is an official, he is honest and honest, and he is not very good at words, and he is not used to the style of officialdom.

"My brother and I have been with our dad all the time. I met the sixth master first, and then I followed the big guy to send the sixth master out of the city, and then came back. Xiao Qi thought about it while telling him all the itinerary just now.

"Ahh Halfway through speaking, Xiao Qi seemed to remember the shime incident, "The sixth master asked our father to go and talk for a while, and he didn't let my brother and me follow." ”

That's not kěnéng Shen Liu gave Lian Shouxin a bad feeling, Lian Man'er thought.

"Just this one, think again." Lian Man'er said.

"That's it." Xiao Qi touched his head and said.

Lian Man'er looked at Gorou, who was looking pensive at this time.

"Brother, why don't you speak?"

"Ahh Gorou came back to his senses, "On this one, Xiao Qi is right. ”

"But our dad doesn't look right." Lian Man'er is still méiyou relieved.

"It should be fine." Gorou thought about it for a while, and said, "Man'er, you're too careful. It's just what's the matter, that's also our father and our mother's business. ”

Zhang had secretly seen Lang Zhong and secretly boiled medicine to drink. As for shime, it's self-explanatory. I don't know what even Shouxin and Zhang's family think, they must hide this matter from a few children.

Even Man'er and the others are mingbái in their hearts, so they all pretend not to be zhidào.

When Gorou said this, Lian Man'er naturally thought about it, and felt that what Gorou said was very kěnéng, so he didn't ask again.

When Lian Shouxin and Zhang came back from the backyard, Lian Shouxin's expression returned to normal. [