Next is Zhou Xiaofu and his family kowtowing to the New Year.

Zhou Lanqing and Ye Xinlan were in front, Zhou Xiaofu and Zhou Xiaoyang were in the middle, and Zhou Xiaoxuan and Zhou Xiaocheng were at the back.

The two male grandchildren are still each with a box of brushes, and Zhou Xiaofu and Zhou Xiaoxuan are a medium-sized small box for each person.

Zhou Xiaofu returned to her position and handed the box to Cuihua, who was standing behind, but she didn't know why she heard a 'plop' sound as soon as she turned around, and as soon as Zhou Xiaofu turned around, she saw the box in Cuihua's hand falling to the ground.

Zhou Xiaofu glanced at the peony beside Cuihua, and saw that the peony was apologizing in her mouth, but there was no apology or nervousness on her face.

The box fell to the ground, and the lid on it also fell off, and the whole box of things was open to the ground, and the few women sitting in front of them all turned their heads to look at it.

A box of jade-colored jadeite jewelry came into everyone's eyes, and soon everyone was taken aback, it turned out that this year's old lady gave Zhou Xiaofu a set of jadeite jewelry, a pair of bracelets, a pair of earrings, all made of the same piece of jade, the color is emerald green, at a glance it is a good jadeite, all close to the glass species, everyone's eyes reveal a different look.

Cuihua was angry and ashamed, and quickly bent down to pick it up. And Peony saw that the thing had seen the light, and lowered her head and the corners of her mouth curled up a small arc. Then he hurriedly squatted on the ground to help Cuihua pick things up, and apologized softly.

Zhou Xiaofu glanced at Zhou Xiaoxuan who was sitting next to her, with deep meaning in her eyes, but seeing that Zhou Xiaoxuan was fine, she reprimanded her in a low voice and apologized to her, which would be watched by everyone. Zhou Xiaofu was speechless.

This little thing passed quickly, but it brought a different message to the female dependents, and the people spread it all over at once, the wind direction in the house changed, and Zhou Xiaoxi, who was originally very favored, became unfavored, and now the most favored person is the fourth lady in the third room.

Cuihua held the box with a tight face, her fingernails clutching the box tightly. I don't know how to vent the anger in my heart. Zhou Xiaofu looked at it and didn't speak, just sat quietly, forget it. Sooner or later, you will know that she has received a box of jade jewelry.

Then came the speeches of the old lady and the old lady, in the new year, a big family always has his goals, especially Zhou Yaozu, a positive person, in the new year, he always sets some goals for the family.

The old lady's speech was nothing more than to let all the male grandchildren present study hard. I paid close attention to my studies and specially praised Zhou Xiaoyang in the third room. I hope he can follow this example and study diligently.

Next, he warned his three sons to be good officials, after all, the New Year is followed by the assessment, but the assessment cannot be discussed in detail here. I had to call my sons to the study to talk in detail.

Then I hope that several daughters-in-law will put the honor of the family first, and when they do something, they hope to think of the family first, and they will both prosper and lose.

For the granddaughter, he specifically mentioned the two granddaughters who were asked to participate in the draft before. I hope to be strict with myself and take the honor of the family as my own responsibility.

Zhou Xiaofu was about to laugh when she heard it. I really don't understand why the old lady always walks up like this. At the expense of the marriage of granddaughters and grandchildren, relying on marriage to ascend to the throne, some families need to marry to maintain the relationship between several families, which is understandable, after all, these are some first-class families, and the Zhou family is only a third-rate family, and it is only three generations, although the first generation has official eunuchs, but it is indeed donated, they belong to the fourth generation, and the best academic in this generation is just a showman, and the one that has a son is raised.

It's not even a scholarly family, people have to recognize the facts in front of them, is it that the Gongsun family is going to marry the Zhou family, so he suddenly feels that his family is gone?

What kind of family is the Gongsun family, there are three queens, the old lady in the family is the eldest princess, what kind of family do they need, why did they choose the Zhou family alone, it must be because this generation does not need to be so powerful, after all, it is not a good thing for a family to have a big net in their hands, especially the queen's foreign family, so the Gongsun family chose the granddaughter-in-law and looked at the girls in the third-rate family.

I'm afraid that Zhou Xiaofu doesn't need to analyze these here, Zhou Yaozu is so shrewd, don't you understand?

I'm afraid that he understands it very well, I'm afraid that he wants to step on the power of the Gongsun family and climb up, but there is so easy to climb there, the first-class family is intertwined, and it has a relationship with many large forces in the entire Kaiyuan Dynasty, and there is a third-rate family like them that can enter at once.

Followed by the old lady's speech, she first praised the housekeeper of the He family in the big house, there were no major mistakes this year, and the hard work was high, but she didn't mention the matter of the He family looking for someone to frame her granddaughter, after all, the He family has been in charge for so many years, and the family behind the He family cannot be ignored again, and the face that should be left must be kept.

And in the next year, let the He family hurry up and finalize the marriage of the eldest son and eldest daughter, which is the first thing.

Then he said to the second room: "The second family has never had a man, who will inherit the family's property in the future?" No matter what, whether you take a concubine, or you are pregnant with Ma, even if it is a step, within a year, you will all get me a boy, otherwise don't blame me for meddling in the affairs of your second room! ”

After speaking, he didn't care about Ma's bruised face with anger.

Zhou Xiaofu looked up at the second uncle sitting in front of him, the second uncle's face was calm and calm, without a trace of embarrassment, as if these things were not enough for him to mind. Alas, how could such a person be born in the Zhou family.

Next, the old lady said the next three rooms, I hope that the three rooms will get along in harmony in the next year, don't make any trouble, she doesn't want to hear the gossip of the three rooms, after all, it is her niece, and the old lady still has to stay in front of people.

When he finished speaking, the old lady waved his hand, and all the rooms dispersed.

Today, I will eat lunch in my parents' yard.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Xiaofu and Zhou Xiaoyang followed Zhou Lanqing and the two of them to Ye Xinlan's side of the Orchid Garden.

Zhou Xiaofu here is indeed very familiar, she has been idle recently, she comes to listen to the wall root of two teas every day, but there is nothing strange about it, Ye Xinlan has been looking at the accounts and checking the accounts recently. I've been counting the money, I don't know what the reason is, I'm afraid I want to buy something, Zhou Xiaofu is a little puzzled, but I don't have to go to such a great deal to clean up all the accounts of the shop when I buy anything. Need a lot of money?

Everyone went to the hall together and saw that the hall had been arranged, because every year on the second day of junior high school, they had to kowtow to their parents for tea.

The four children kowtowed to Zhou Lanqing's father in turn. I would like to express my gratitude to my parents for their hard work this year. It also represents the woman's gratitude to her parents for their nurturing grace.

This is the etiquette of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, and it cannot be avoided, whether it is the emperor's family. It is still the official's family, or the common people, every year on the first day of the New Year, there is such a ceremony to save zài, and the parents of the commoner family will wrap a few tubes for the children. Regardless of the size, you can give it or give it a small gift.

Ye Xinlan gave Zhou Xiaofu and Zhou Xiaoxuan a box of rouge gouache boxes in front of them today. It's all a brand, it's still very precious, this brand of things, such a set is less than forty taels of silver. A full set of fragrant aunts who wash their hands and fragrant aunts who are bathed. There are skin care products for washing the face, and there are skin care products for wiping the face. There is rouge, and gouache, anyway, this grade is not low, as a New Year's gift for the girls is very valuable, and Zhou Xiaofu found that Zhou Xiaoxuan has been indifferent today except for the old lady in the morning after letting the peony hit her jewelry box, as if she has changed a person, this suit, she and Zhou Xiaoxuan are exactly the same gifts, if they are placed in normal times, according to Zhou Xiaoxuan's temperament, they will never allow themselves to be the same as other people's things, let alone accept it so calmly, and they look very satisfied and happy. Isn't this a fantasy, well, this world is fantastic, even Zhou Xiaoxuan has changed, so there is only one reason for the change, that is, there must be a reason in it.

And for the two boys, it is two knives of white paper, which can be used to practice calligraphy or painting.

This kind of Kaiyang white paper is a pure handmade, the paper surface is fine and symmetrical, strong water absorption, is a good writing paper, and this kind of paper is not ordinary people can afford to use, a knife also costs twenty taels of silver, this kind of paper production is not high, exclusively for the royal family, and then it is dedicated to copying some large scriptures.

And Ye Xinlan gave this kind of blank paper to her two sons also shows that she is careful, the two children are not divided into each other, no matter how thick they are, they are all the same New Year's gifts, which saw Zhou Lanqing nodded with satisfaction in her eyes.

At this moment, he deeply felt that the last time he wrote back to the Yue family was really effective, look at it, it is really good that the family is getting along harmoniously now.

And Zhou Lanqing gave Zhou Xiaofu and Zhou Xiaoxuan a landscape painting painted by herself, and gave her two sons a pair of Zhou Kangan's calligraphy.

This calligraphy is not cheap, Zhou Kangan is the calligraphy of the previous dynasty, especially the italics are written very well, the pen has momentum, later many calligraphers have to his calligraphy for learning, and open thinking invented a lot of fonts, and Zhou Kangan's words are the root of the word, there is a sentence in the academic circles of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, learn the word first to learn Zhou Kangan's, then other words are all the way.

These two notebooks cost hundreds of taels of silver, which can be regarded as Zhou Lanqing's fatherly love for his two sons.

Soon came to the meal, Ye Xinlan also added silver to the kitchen early, added a few dishes, and ate a loving mother and son filial piety for one meal, of course this filial piety is not Zhou Xiaofu and Zhou Xiaoyang, indeed Zhou Xiaofang and Zhou Xiaocheng are indeed Zhou Xiaofang and Zhou Xiaocheng, the two of them look like good sisters and good brothers at the dinner table, one will serve the parents with vegetables, and the other will give the brothers and sisters with vegetables, which is really scary.

The two of them were a little inexplicable today, how could this stepmother suddenly become so gentle, even when she looked at her in surprise, she looked like she was like this, it was really scary.

The only time since her rebirth, Zhou Xiaofu ate a bowl of rice and never added rice, while Zhou Lanqing watched the family and He Meimei eat in a good mood and drank two glasses of water and wine, and even asked his two sons to accompany him to drink some.

Today, Zhou Xiaoxuan has also changed his sex, a sister in one bite, the name is very sweet, and he will personally give her vegetables for a while, and he will feel guilty about the previous things, saying that he will definitely be good to his sister in the future.

Zhou Xiaofu ate the food that Zhou Xiaobian gave her, but she was very surprised in her heart, what is wrong, are these two people possessed?

Could it be that Ye Xinlan's maiden family wrote the letter last time?

But you shouldn't be angry like this, right? Is it going to be modified? Is it really good for them in the future? As the old lady said, a harmonious family? No, Ye Xinlan's observation of Ye Xinlan in the past six months is not simple, she knows how to forbear, especially when her aunt has checked, this Ye Xinlan dared to install spies in front of her grandmother before she left the cabinet, in order to effectively grasp all the movements of her grandmother, so that she can grasp her grandmother's preferences and use them herself.

Even this marriage was planned by herself on her own initiative, after all, Ye Xinlan's family is in the middle of the road, and at most she can marry an ordinary poor student or a wealthy businessman, where she can go to a family like the Zhou family, although she is just filling in the house for Zhou Lanqing, but Zhou Lanqing was only in her twenties back then, not to mention that she is not old at all, she is still the third place in the second class of Jinshi, such a person, if she manages it well for an official, she can't say that she can be a third-grade official in her forties.

Ye Xinlan also valued this point and found a way to marry in, even if it was Rexiao who married in.

After eating inexplicably, Zhou Xiaoyang and Zhou Xiaofu went back to their yard first, Zhou Xiaoyang wanted to say something on the way, but saw his sister's solemn face, so he didn't speak, and the brother and sister didn't relax until they arrived in the yard.

Zhou Xiaofu asked Zhou Xiaoyang's little servant to take the paper and open it, smelled it for a long time, and was still a little uneasy, and told her brother to leave all the papers here with her, and then give it to him after she finished checking it.

Zhou Xiaoyang looked surprised, even if his stepmother hates them, she won't poison them in paper supplies, he feels that his sister is a little suspicious, but recently he also knows that her sister has a high-level master, and she understands more, since she can be suspicious, then there must be a reason for her suspicion, after all, he also thinks that his stepmother's expression this time is too strange, even if she shows goodwill, she will not have such a low attitude, according to her stepmother's personality on weekdays, even if she shows goodwill, she will have an arrogant attitude, and it will be like today, as if she has completely let go of the mustardBut how is this possible?

Zhou Xiaofu asked Cuihua to take the paper and rouge gouache to the bedroom, and she would read it later.

Zhou Xiaofu was a little worried and explained to her brother who was about to leave for a long time, she must be more careful in everything, and don't act alone if there is nothing.

Zhou Xiaofu, who thought about it, suddenly felt uneasy, no, the little guy next to her brother had to change to someone who knew martial arts.

Ye Xinlan's appearance made her feel like a poisonous snake that could think. (To be continued)

ps: It's raining in Xi'an, and the forecast says that it will rain heavily when it cools down, but it's a small raindrop, but it's polluted 167, and I can't go out for a walk. The first is four thousand. Have a great weekend everyone. R466