Li is taking Chen Xuejiao, Chen Xueru and Jing Hao are cleaning the peanuts sent by Zhao Yiming, and want to cook spiced peanuts according to Chen Xuejiao's recipe to make snacks for the children at home.

At the beginning, when they heard the movement in the upper room, Li and several children glanced at each other, and continued to wash peanuts with a light and breezy look, and had no intention of going to the upper room to see the excitement.

Mrs. Chen reprimanded her daughter-in-law for not allowing others to intervene and persuade her, and Zhao was a good-looking person and did not want to be seen that she was reprimanded by her mother-in-law.

Chen Xuejiao quietly scanned the courtyard, only to see Cai and Zhang standing at the door of their respective houses, listening carefully to the movement of the upper room.

According to the relationship between Mrs. Chen and Zhao, I thought that Mrs. Chen would be over after a few scoldings, but I didn't expect that the more she scolded, the more powerful it became, and Zhao turned from suppressed crying to crying loudly.

Li put down the peanuts in his hand, turned around and walked towards the upper room.

Chen Xuejiao, Chen Xueru, Jinghao, and Qi Ping also followed Li to the upper room. Seeing that the big room had entered, Cai's and Zhang's were as good as a stream, and they also followed into the upper room. Especially Zhang, from the moment she heard Zhao crying, she couldn't help but want to go in, and she was afraid that if she went in, Mrs. Chen would take her anger on her. Finally, when the sister-in-law went to the room, Zhang's was like a rabbit, following closely behind Li's.

Chen Xuejiao stood by the door, just enough to see Mrs. Chen and the Zhao family clearly.

Mrs. Chen sat on the kang with a blue face, and Zhao stood under the kang with tears on her face. Chen Zichang sat beside Mrs. Chen with his arms hanging down, his face was pale, and Chen Xuemiao looked at the one in front of him with an indifferent face.

"Tell me what's going on? You hide so many good things, I haven't been buried by the loess to my neck, you don't take me seriously, your heart is really ruthless. I can see clearly, you are a white-eyed wolf who can't be fed. Mrs. Chen pointed to the piles of things on the kang, and in front of the concubines, she didn't save face for the Zhao family at all.

Chen Xuejiao looked over at the kang and saw a pile of good things piled up in front of Mrs. Chen's heels. There are all kinds of silk cloth, cotton cloth, and batik cloth, all of which look like high-quality materials. A pair of jasper bracelets next to the cloth, a pair of gilded hairpins, five Hetian jade rings, three strings of beads of various colors, and a few gold and silver ingots. These things are mixed together, sparkling and double, and they are worth a lot of money at first glance.

It turned out that Mrs. Chen had always suspected that Xue Yao had given Zhao a lot of self to herself without concealing herself, and wanted to find an opportunity to search Zhao's house, but she happened to listen to Chen Wenyan's instigation today, and as soon as she got angry, she sent Zhao to feed the pigs, and she ran into Zhao's house, and this search found so many good things.

"Mother, you are so much, let me have the face to face you. These things were rewarded by Xue Yao by Ding's house, she took them home and handed them over to me for safekeeping, I thought I would give them to my mother in a few days, but I didn't expect you to turn them out. Zhao tried his best to hold back tears in front of his concubine.

"Oh, so many good things, mother, what I said last time, you still don't believe it. Xue Miao said at the time that Xue Yao brought back a lot of good things, tsk, I can be regarded as opening my eyes. Zhang took the first step forward, grabbed a jasper bracelet and looked left and right, and smiled at Zhao, "Second sister-in-law, you are so stingy, I was going to your house last time to open my eyes, and you still said that there is nothing good, what is this jasper bracelet not a good thing?" What's the matter, are you afraid that I will steal it or are you afraid that my mother will go? ”

Zhang's words made Zhao's face flushed, and Mrs. Chen was angry.

"You put it down." Old Mrs. Chen snorted at Zhang, turned around and continued to scold Zhao, "I didn't expect to be turned out by me?" If I don't turn it out, how long will you keep it? What you said sounds good, why give it to me in a few days, if you want to give it to me, you gave it to me as early as when Xue Yao gave it to you, and wait until I turned it out today? ”

Zhao was said to be in his heart, and cried and said: "The conscience of heaven and earth, mother, you have also seen how I am usually filial to you." These things that Xue Yao brought back, I originally thought that I would wait for her to marry in the future, and keep them for her as a dowry. The reason why I didn't hand it over to you for safekeeping is that I'm worried about ......" Zhao paused and glanced at Chen Zichang, "I'm worried that Xueyao and her father will find out and take it out and spoil it." ”

After Zhao finished speaking, he hid his face and cried.

Chen Zichang's face was full of anger, good mother-in-law, you have hidden so many good things by yourself, and you are like a thief to prevent me. If I knew that there was such a good thing at home, would Bai Ling'er in Cuihualou be nice to me.

Zhao's words even provoked Mrs. Chen's anger: "You sleep on the kang, you are still afraid that the second child will steal it, you treat the second child as a thief, the second child is the head of your house, you don't look down on him so much." Scolding and scolding, thinking of Chen Zichang being beaten and carried home in a coma, he was anxiously waiting for the silver to invite Langzhong, but Zhao pretended to be deaf and dumb and fainted, and Mrs. Chen was even more angry, gritting her teeth and pointing at Zhao, "Why was my second child beaten, it was because you were not usually virtuous, and forced the second child to go to Cuihualou." If you are virtuous, you see if the second child will go. ”

Mrs. Chen's words were so heartbreaking that Zhao's face turned pale with fright, and she immediately knelt down and said with tears in her eyes: "Mother, I didn't, Mother, you know, I didn't." He turned his head and shouted to Chen Zichang, "Master, if you say something, you say something." ”

Chen Zichang glanced at Zhao coldly, silent, still thinking about how to get the silver on the kang into his hands.

"Mother, I was confused and fated, forgot my identity, and hid these things privately, don't be angry, I was wrong, I was wrong." Zhao slammed his head to the ground a few times.

Chen Xuejiao thought that the Zhao family still had some ability to stand tall beside Mrs. Chen, and it was not a simple character to kowtow in front of adults and children by virtue of his ability to kowtow in front of adults and children.

"Mother, I have been waiting by your side for so many years since I married into the Chen family. I was confused and said something I shouldn't have said, no matter what, I and the head of the family are husband and wife, and I hurt me too. I'm not angry with him messing around outside these days, I'm angry that he doesn't care about his body, this hurts my muscles and bones for a hundred days, and I feel distressed when I think about it. Zhao realized that he had just said that Chen Zichang had made Mrs. Chen dissatisfied, and immediately made up for it.

Sure enough, Mrs. Chen's face softened.

"Xue Yao brought so many good things when she went home, so wouldn't there be more things to bring when she went home before, and I found these, so where did I go if I didn't find them?" Old Mrs. Chen asked with a calm face.

"Mother, the conscience of heaven and earth, you also know that Xue Yao used to be just a third-class maid, in charge of the old lady of Dingfu's sprinkling and sweeping, the sprinkling and sweeping girl couldn't enter the inner room, and there was no reward, what she brought home before was nothing more than a few sets of clothes, and you also know that every time she was close to you, she was filial piety. This time I went home because I gave birth to a big girl, and there were more rewards, and I kept these things, she was old, and she was going to be released this year to say goodbye, and these bodies were the dowry she had saved. Zhao continued to kowtow, crying incessantly, and his hair was scattered.

Mrs. Chen was silent.

"Mother, Xue Yao said that these things are her dowry, she told me before she went back to Ding's mansion, Qi Lin studied in the White Horse Academy, and the food and clothing were at home, but it was hard for you and my father, Xue Yao quietly instructed me, saying that if the family is difficult, let me use this jewelry as a patch to make up for Lin, you also know that the people who study in the White Horse Academy are either rich or expensive, Qi Lin he" Zhao knew that Qi Lin was the weakness of Mrs. Chen, so he simply changed the topic and cried Qi Lin, "My miserable son, I don't have any good clothes." ”

Sure enough, Mrs. Chen's eyebrows loosened and interrupted Zhao: "Don't cry and grab the earth, you have to know who is in charge of this family, and I haven't died yet." ”

Zhao took advantage of the situation and confessed with tears in his eyes: "Mother, I was wrong, I shouldn't have hidden Xueyao's things, even if these things are kept, you will keep them, I was wrong, mother, you will forgive me once, I will serve you every day in the future, and be a cow and a horse for you." ”

Mrs. Chen was waiting for this sentence, and glanced at several daughters-in-law, which means that she is still in charge of the inner courtyard of the Chen family, and the Zhao family is the first proud person in her heart, and she still kowtows and has no face when she makes a mistake, not to mention them. Especially the Li family, Mrs. Chen even took a few desperate glances.

Chen Xuejiao saw it clearly, she was a good old lady Chen, killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys.

Li and Zhao glanced at each other, and felt that Old Lady Chen was almost making a fuss, and she had to go down the stairs.

"Mother, don't be angry, even if the second brother and sister are wrong, they will spare this for so many years of filial piety." Li pulled Zhao forward, who was kneeling on the ground, and Zhang also rubbed up and pulled it.

Mrs. Chen was silent, and the Zhao family got up.

"I'll keep these things for Xue Yao." Mrs. Chen began to pack up the things on the kang, "I see that Xue Yao is now a big girl, and there is no shortage of clothes, these pieces of cloth, the eldest daughter-in-law, you make me a few jackets and middle clothes, and the rest will be given to Wen Yan, and this pair of bracelets will also be given to her." Thinking that Xue Yao would not object, she would hurt her sister-in-law if she beat her. ”

Zhao lowered his eyebrows and said "yes".