Under Zhou Xiaobin's exclamation, Zhou Xiaohu's face turned red, and he said in a small voice: "Well, yes, third sister, there has been a shortage of manpower in the house recently, and no arrangements have been made yet." ”

Where is the lack of manpower and no arrangement, I am afraid that the He family deliberately mistreats the mother and daughter, Zhou Xiaofu deeply understood the feeling of being deliberately rectified a while ago, the food is either mushy or leftover, sometimes the food is not hot, there is nowhere to say.

Who said that life is better if you are born in a rich family, it is better to be born in a common people's family, at least you can eat what you have, and no one will look at your face.

Zhou Xiaofu glanced at the little girl with a flushed face, and she didn't have much pity in her heart, the head in the mansion gate, everything had to rely on herself to plan, and a weak person couldn't survive in the mansion gate.

Zhou Xiaolan quickly glanced at his surprised sister, and then said softly: "In the past two days, Miss Six has something to do, Qingmei and Qinglian are helping to do something." ”

The two maids answered the promise and turned around and went out to help cook.

This comes to the courtyard of the temple is different from the usual days in the house, there is a large kitchen in charge of food, a dim sum room, a fruit room or something, in this courtyard can only be brought with a few maids and mother-in-law to cook food together, after all, the old lady in front of the service mother will not go.

This cooking thing fell on the maids in each room.

And at this time, Ye Xinlan's mother and daughter also arrived in the resting room, and Peony and Zhang's mother, who helped the master put things away, had already gone out.

Zhou Xiaoxuan frowned, his originally pretty little face looked a little cold, and he reached out and touched the legendary fire kang. Then a look of disgust appeared on his face, and he snorted and sat down in a chair next to him.

Ye Xinlan glanced at her daughter and continued to sort things out. After a long time, he didn't raise his head and said, "Okay, it's not for you to stay for long, just worship the Buddha for three days, and go back soon, and I can't even bear this bit of suffering." ”

Zhou Xiaoxuan listened to his mother say this, but he was still unhappy, and he sat there blankly without speaking.

Ye Xinlan finished packing her things and turned her head to look at her daughter. Reluctantly, he walked up to his daughter, stretched out his hand and put his arm around her daughter's small shoulders and said, "Okay, what's wrong." Don't you understand what kind of person your grandmother is, didn't she let you get into her carriage today, what's so rare? ”

When Zhou Xiaoxuan heard his mother say this, his face suddenly turned a little red. Knowing the son Mo Ruomu. Ye Xinlan knew that her daughter would not be angry for a long time because of the slightly worse environment, after all, she had been here a few times before, and she had lived in such a hot kang, and she didn't see how much resentment her daughter was, but she was angry today and said that it was not good, it must be when she set off in the morning, her mother-in-law only called the eldest sister and the second sister to ride in the carriage with her, but did not call her daughter. It's not that the daughter has been angry.

In fact, she has lived in the mansion for so long, and when she was as young as her daughter, she knew that currying favor with the eldest elder in the family was the most effective way to gain a foothold in the mansion.

She also understands her daughter's thoughts now. After all, the mother-in-law is still good to the flawed sister on weekdays, and recently because Zhou Xiaolan in the second room was married, she was particularly favored by her mother-in-law, so no matter how much she rewarded or anything, she was more than usual, and she made the old lady happy more than her daughter, even if she didn't do anything.

Hey, this mother-in-law is her aunt, I heard that when she was in her mother's house, she was very thoughtful, and she would only consider who would give her the most benefits when she did things, and she would only associate with the girl in the house on weekdays.

Ye Xinlan hugged her daughter and coaxed softly: "Okay, don't be angry, don't you like your mother's bracelet, my mother originally said that I would wait for you to marry you as a dowry, but this time I will give you the bracelet when the Buddha goes back." ”

When Zhou Xiaoxuan heard his mother say this, he suddenly opened his eyebrows and laughed, the best thing for himself in this world has always been his mother, in fact, his mother has very high requirements for herself on weekdays, requiring herself not to put her feelings on her face, and she is talking after thinking about everything, but she doesn't know why she can't help it.

Every time my mother always admonishes herself, but when I am sad, it is always my mother who understands her best.

Zhou Xiaoxuan was not big in the first place, she didn't have much interest in family affairs at the beginning, but her mother has always instilled in her since she was a child that a woman's lifelong career is to marry well, and there is nothing more important than this.

So no matter what, she tried her best to actively fight for it, but Zhou Xiaolan, who was in the second room, was recently married, and he was still the eldest grandson of the Gongsun family.

What kind of concept is this, from now on it will be the patriarch.

Mother gave her an analysis, originally she thought that the Gongsun family could choose them as a third-rate official family as a marriage object Eighty percent of the family is right, but the mother took out the things in the court and told her in detail, this Gongsun family is a pivotal storage zài for the entire Kaiyuan Dynasty, it is a first-class family in the family, and it is one of the four major families, although the protégés in the court can't catch up with other families, and the number is not enough, but the Gongsun family has three queens, and it is a balanced storage zài in the family. A century-old family.

Being able to marry in a house like them is nothing more than to keep a low profile, and then it can't be equal to the status of marrying, so that the emperor will think that the Gongsun family is forming a faction, and it is not a good phenomenon that a family's status is too high.

Therefore, the grandwives of the Gongsun family for two consecutive generations are not the eldest daughters of first-class families, but from their families of third- and fourth-grade officials, and it will not be too obvious if they are not high-profile.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xiaoxuan reached out to hug his mother's waist, buried his whole head in his mother's arms, and asked coquettishly like when he was a child: "Will grandmother not like me in the future?" ”

Ye Xinlan patted her daughter's head funny and said, "Where will it be, does your grandmother really really like your second sister, this is not necessarily, didn't she give a set of glass jade bracelets to Zhou Xiaofu on the second day of the new year." ”

Zhou Xiaoxuan raised his head suspiciously and asked: "Didn't my mother say that my grandmother thought that the Gongsun family would give her something if she fell in love with Zhou Xiaofu, why did the Gongsun family become the second sister when she proposed her relatives." ”

Ye Xinlan took her daughter's hand, and sat on the warm kang together before her face calmed down: "Something must have happened in the middle of this to change the decision of the Gongsun family." ”

Zhou Xiao asked puzzledly, "What happened." ”

Ye Xinlan looked at her daughter with a smile and said, "This mother doesn't know either." ”

Zhou Xiaoxuan thought for a while before raising his head and asked Ye Xinlan: "Then mother, you want the second sister to marry into the Gongsun family." ”

Ye Xinlan smiled weirdly, looked at her envious daughter and said, "Actually, it is good for you for your second sister to marry into the Gongsun family, so there will be more relatives, there is nothing bad." ”

Zhou Xiaoxuan seemed to be a little sorry and said: "My daughter thinks that it would be better for us if the eldest sister married the Gongsun family." ”

Ye Xinlan patted her daughter's little face and said, "Don't get too close to Zhou Xiaoxi in the future, this big house doesn't know where the blessings come from, and raise a daughter who thinks so much." ”

Zhou Xiaoxuan nodded, and couldn't help but think of something puzzled and asked: "After getting off the carriage just now, Peony told me that just now in the carriage, they were all talking about the Yuelao Temple in Liupan Mountain, saying that it was particularly effective, and I heard that Zhou Xiaofu's housekeeper mother went today." ”

Ye Xinlan nodded with a smile and said, "It's very effective." As he spoke, the corners of his mouth curled, his eyes looked out the window, and a cruel smile appeared on his face.

Soon the maid made the meal.

When I came, I brought a lot of cooked vegetables and grains, and it was noon, and a few maids and mothers-in-law steamed rice, stewed tofu with cabbage and some soybean paste, and a small plate of cucumber strips with sauce from Liubiju brought from the house in each room.

The meal was very simple, filling, and after a morning in the carriage, everyone was hungry, and they all had two bowls of rice before they stopped.

And the old lady passed the word, let everyone rest, and went to the temple in the afternoon to listen to the afternoon handouts.

Zhou Xiaofu ate six bowls of rice with cabbage and tofu, and then drank water and sat with the other three sisters.

Zhou Xiaobin was already happily lying on the kang, sitting here for a while, and sitting there for a while, so uncomfortable.

Zhou Xiaolan didn't bother to pay attention to her, as long as there were no outsiders, she really didn't want to be in front of her sister like an old mother.

After resting, all the staff continued to get into the carriage and went to the temple together, after all, this is winter, if you walk, this is still a distance, it is too cold, especially for women, it is indeed not suitable.

When I arrived at the temple, the monk who took me directly to the side hall where I listened to the handouts, there were not many people, and the master of the lecture had not yet come, according to the experience of the last time, there must be a lot of people listening to the scriptures today, so the old lady beckoned the ladies and sisters in the house to sit down quickly.

Soon, many people came to the side hall one after another, and Zhou Xiaofu and they sat in the innermost position because they came early.

Immediately afterwards, a group of people embraced a woman dressed in an atmosphere into the side hall, and three or four mothers-in-law embraced her, and even came in with an escort.

Zhou Xiaofu took a look, isn't this the concubine? How did you get here?

Soon, some people around recognized the concubine, and gave up the middle and front positions.

After sitting down, I saw the concubine take a sip of the tea in the small teapot handed by the mother-in-law on the side, and then turned her head to look around, and when she saw the Zhou Mansion, she suddenly stood up with surprise in her eyes.

The concubine's expression was clearly seen by the ladies of the Zhou Mansion, especially the old lady who saw the concubine walking towards her with a surprised face, and immediately stood up and hurriedly saluted.

With enthusiasm on her face, the concubine stretched out her hand to the old lady Zhou in the house and said, "It's the old lady Zhou, right?" ”

Old Madam Zhou said with a flattered face: "Yes, the courtiers are Zhou Yaozu's wife, and these are all the daughters-in-law and granddaughters of the old woman." ”

When the concubine heard this, she turned her head and looked at the little girls who got up together behind the old lady, and then said with a smile: "Yes, I just came to say hello to you because I knew that this group of talented granddaughters in your mansion came to say hello to you, and I don't know how you taught them, they are all so outstanding." ”

When the old lady heard this, a smile suddenly appeared on her face, and she couldn't help herself with joy, and the monk who was preaching at this time came, and looked at it from the bamboo curtain, this time it was not Master Wunian, it was a strange fat monk. (To be continued......)

ps: Ten minutes late...... A little sleepy

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