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The next day, Shen Qingli went to Yiqing Garden early to ask for peace.

By the way, I asked Su Shi for a leave of absence and went to Zhuangzi.

Although Su Shi said that she didn't need to go over often to ask for peace, she knew that Xia's would go every day or two, so she also went to Yiqing Garden at this pace, trying to stagger the time to meet Xia.

Some things are out of sight and out of mind.

As soon as she entered the door, she found that the people were almost there, but she became late.

"What's wrong with you guys today? As if they had discussed it, they all came together. Su Shi sat on the big kang near the window and looked at Shen Qingli with a smile.

"Naturally, we are all here to celebrate my mother's birthday." Mu Lin glanced at Shen Qingli with squinted eyes, held Su's arm affectionately, and said with a smile, "I just don't know if the bedding clothes my daughter made for her mother are not in line with my mother's wishes." ”

"If you do it with your own hands, your mother naturally likes it." Su Shi patted Mu Lin's hand kindly and said with a smile, "You must be staying up late these days!" Thank you so much! ”

"Whatever is hard or not, it is what a daughter should do." Mu Lin smiled lightly.

Shen Qingli was stunned for a moment.

Is it my mother-in-law's birthday today?

Why no one sued her!

Sure enough, there was a lilac undershirt on the table in the middle of the kang, and a few peonies of the same color were embroidered on the cuffs, and the embroidery was very exquisite.

In addition, there are two delicate vermilion hollow boxes on the desk, which must be congratulatory gifts from Mu Yao and Xia!

Look at Su Shi again, she is really dressed more solemnly than usual, wearing a dress with a red background and gold edges embroidered with large peony flowers makes her face extremely white, and her temples are full of dazzling hairpin rings, reflecting the sky light outside the window, shining with colorful light.

Mu Yao sat on the chaise longue, drinking tea quietly, and when she saw Shen Qingli coming in, she hurriedly got up to salute, and pulled her to sit down with a smile on the corner of her mouth.

Xia Shi looked at Shen Qingli and saw that she didn't take care of herself, so she put down the tea bowl, took out a handkerchief and gently wiped the corners of her eyes, and chuckled: "Presumably my younger brother and sister are also here to give congratulatory gifts to their mother, right?" I just don't know what the new daughter-in-law's congratulatory gift to her mother will be for the first year, but I'm looking forward to it! As he spoke, he looked at Mu Lin with a smile.

It seems that she didn't take the unhappiness of the two concubines to heart.

"I remember that last year, my sister-in-law gave my mother a set of gold and jade headdress, which is worth a thousand taels!" Mu Lin understood and said casually, "I'm also looking forward to what kind of congratulatory gift my second sister-in-law will give my mother!" ”

"Look at your sister-in-law singing together, I don't feel tired, Erlang's daughter-in-law is a bride, where will I know my birthday." Su Shi said angrily, and smiled at Shen Qingli again, "Erlang's daughter-in-law, don't be surprised, mother is not rare and expensive gifts, as long as our family has a meal together in harmony, it is the biggest congratulatory gift to mother." ”

"Erlang's daughter-in-law doesn't know, doesn't Erlang know?" The corners of Xia's mouth curled slightly, and he said disappreciably, "Erlang has been trying to give his mother a gift every year. ”

Shen Qingli hurriedly got up and blessed the Su family, and said calmly: "Don't hide it from my mother, my daughter-in-law really doesn't know that today is my mother's birthday, but it's not too late for good things, and my daughter-in-law's congratulatory gift will naturally be presented later. ”

"It's a good mouth." Xia muttered in a low voice.

"What's strange or not, it's all your own family, don't be so polite." Su Shi smiled at Shen Qingli and said, "Erlang's daughter-in-law doesn't have to worry about not going, at this time of year, your grandmother is in Lingxiao Temple to pray for blessings and is not in the house, so your mother doesn't want to do it, when the men come back in the evening, let's just get together for a family banquet, what is the birthday of the woman's family!" ”

"Having said that, but today is a good day in the house after all, my grandmother is not here, and we are juniors, so naturally we will celebrate it." Xia smiled crookedly, "Today, my mother's mother and aunt will definitely come to celebrate my mother's birthday." ”

"Well, it just so happens that we haven't seen each other for a long time, and Mother misses them too." When it came to the head of the Guogong Mansion and the concubine, the smile on Su's face was slightly restrained, and Xia's eyes seemed to have more meaning.

Shen Qingli looked at Su's gaze at Xia's at this moment, with a trace of alienation that she didn't understand, and secretly wondered in her heart, could it be that there was any unknown entanglement between her mother-in-law and the wife and concubine of the Guogong Mansion?

At this time, the curtain is gently raised.

The Mei family and the Tian family walked in with their respective servants, Yingying, and as soon as they entered the door, they curtled at the Su family and said in unison: "The concubine greets the lady, and I wish the husband a life better than Nanshan and a blessing like the East China Sea." ”

The two servants behind him hurriedly brought the congratulatory gifts in their hands to the Su family.

"It's all my own sisters, so you don't have to be so polite, let's sit down and talk about it." Su Shi smiled at the two of them, and saw the two aunts in front of them, one was as quiet and low-key as ever, like a red autumn leaf with proud frost, and the other was always as bright as the sun, just like a spring flower with bright branches.

"Auntie, sit here." Mu Yao affectionately took Mei's hand and asked her to sit beside her.

"Thank you, Erniang." A smile swelled up in Mei's eyes, and after sitting down, he glanced at Mu Lin who was sitting next to Su's again, and saw that she was snuggling up to Su's side without raising her head, as if she was not aware of her own existence, she sighed in her heart, lowered her eyes, and stopped talking.

Instead, Tian glanced at Shen Qingli and said with a smile: "Presumably this is the daughter-in-law of the prince!" Sure enough, she is a dignified beauty, worthy of being a woman from a family, no wonder Mrs. Tai wants to marry you into the door! ”

Su Shi snorted coldly, sure enough, he was the person on the tip of the master's heart, and he even knew Mrs. Tai's thoughts clearly.

When Mrs. Tai went to Shen Mansion to be hired, she was very low-key, and even she, the housewife, only found out about it two days before Mu Fu was going to be hired, and for this reason, she also had an awkward relationship with Mu Changyuan for a long time, saying that he didn't treat her as his wife.

"Auntie praises it, aunt is the real good color." Shen Qingli smiled faintly, this Tian family looks like twenty-five or sixteen, with a fair and delicate complexion, a sharp face, eyebrows, phoenix eyes and cherry blossoms, and a trace of charm between the eyebrows, I have to say that this concubine of my father-in-law is indeed the most beautiful woman she has ever seen here.

She knew that this Tian family had a dispute with her eldest sister-in-law Mu Yu some time ago, and was sent to Zhuangzi by Mrs. Tai to think about it behind closed doors, and now she has just returned to the house.

"How can Israel serve people without a few good colors?" Xia sneered, "In terms of good color, the house naturally belongs to aunts and younger siblings." ”

Mu Lin looked at Shen Qingli and Tian's family, and sneered: "What the sister-in-law said is very true, the second sister-in-law and Aunt Tian are really first-class good colors. ”

Mei frowned when he heard this, and turned his head to look at Mu Yao.

Mu Yao understood, coughed lightly, got up and said, "There is still chicken soup stewed in my house, the third sister will go with me to have a look!"

When people talk to each other, what do you do as a sister-in-law?

If you don't open your mouth, you'll die!

Mu Lin had no choice but to pout and follow Mu Yao out.

Shen Qingli looked at the Xia family carelessly, she compared herself with the Tian family, it was nothing more than saying that she was the same as the Tian family, and she was also a servant of Israel, so she picked up the tea bowl, took a sip, cleared her throat and said: "As the saying goes, each flower enters its own eyes, I don't dare to agree with the eyes of my sister-in-law and third sister, I think our birthday star today is the real brilliance, my mother is not only outstanding, but also virtuous and capable, and keeps the house in order, it can be seen that most of the people with good colors are also virtuous and gentle, If you know that you don't have a good color, and you are still aggressive and annoying to people, then it is better to serve people with Israel! ”

Xia Shi suddenly held a vicious breath in his heart.

Hum! can't talk about himself, but he even pulled his mother-in-law in as a shield, and he is really thick-skinned.

"Erlang's daughter-in-law said and laughed, I am now an old pearl yellow, how can I be called brilliant." Su Shi subconsciously helped the flowing gold hairpin ring between the temples, and said with a light smile, "It's you, it's the age of Ruhua, that's the real dazzling!" ”

"Madam, where is the old pearl yellow." Tian's beautiful eyes were horizontal, glanced at Xia's, and said, "Erlang's daughter-in-law is right, each flower is in its own eyes, the lord has already said that if you talk about virtuous appearance, it is the lady who stands out." ”

Hum! See if you dare to say that your mother-in-law is a servant!

Seeing that Xia Shi stopped talking, her eyes flashed for a moment, and then asked: "I have been away from the mansion for several months, and after I came back, I was busy serving the master, and I am not very clear about the affairs in the mansion, I don't know if the young lady has had any happy events in the past few months?" ”

"I don't have any happy events, is my aunt happy about them?" Xia Shi glanced at her indignantly.

As the saying goes, don't hit someone in the face, don't talk shortly, is this woman going to kick her nose in the face with her father-in-law's favor?

Slut!

"I don't have to worry about this, now that the master is with me every day, happy events will naturally happen soon." Tian looked at Su and Mei proudly, what about the main room? What about having a baby?

The most important thing for a woman is to be young and beautiful.

She is so young and worried that these two old women will grab men with her?

The corners of Su's mouth moved, a trace of coldness flashed in his eyes, and he looked up at Tian, wanting to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, just lowered his head and drank tea.

It's really easy to change, and the nature is hard to change.

Looking at the women with different expressions in front of him, Shen Qingli couldn't sit down anymore, and hurriedly got up and said to Su Shi: "Mother, I want to go to Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing today, and go out for a walk by the way." ”

"Well, I'll ask the porter to arrange for a carriage to escort you." Su Shi replied happily, looking at her with a smile in his eyes, "Come back early, don't forget to have a family banquet in the evening." ”

"Thank you mother for your concern, I'll be back soon." Shen Qingli also smiled at her.

When Shen Qingli returned to Qingxin Garden to clean up a little, and when he arrived at the gate with Bi Tao, the carriage assigned by the Su clan was already waiting at the door.

The weather was still sunny, and the sun was shining through the treetops.

There wasn't a hint of wind, so it was a good day to go out.

The groom was a middle-aged man, with a dark complexion and short limbs, who looked very honest and even a little weak.

For some reason, when Shen Qingli saw him, his eyelids jumped a few times. R1152