Chapter 170: Family Affairs
Where did Zhou Shaojin know what Mrs. Chu was thinking, she and her sister smiled and bowed, both happy for Cheng He. It's just that when Cheng He saw Cheng Cheng come to ask Mrs. Guan for peace, he couldn't help but be a little shy, which made the Zhou sisters giggle, and Cheng He's face was swollen and red with laughter, neither advancing nor retreating.
"You two!" Old Mrs. Guan smiled and explained to her eldest grandson, "Come, come to me, don't pay attention to your two cousins, they are happy for you!" ”
Cheng He nodded, and sat down beside Mrs. Guan under the smiling eyes of Zhou Shaojin and Zhou Chujin.
"If you are engaged, you are an adult. In the future, we must be more steady. In addition to honoring your parents, loving your wife and children, you also have to take care of your younger siblings, you know? Mrs. Guan took Cheng He's hand and said her expectations for her eldest grandson.
"Yes!" Cheng He got up and respectfully gave Mrs. Guan a big salute.
Mrs. Guan smiled with satisfaction, and then told Cheng He about the engagement: "...... On our side, your father decided to invite your Uncle Chi and the eldest master of the Gu family to be matchmakers, the eldest wife of the Gu family to be the Quanfu person, and your Aunt Lu to help you propose marriage. ”
Zhou Shaojin was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but say, "Uncle Chi is back?" ”
"Nope." Mrs. Guan didn't think it was wrong, and said with a smile, "I went to Mrs. Guo last night, and Mrs. Guo has already agreed." ”
No wonder!
Zhou Shaojin sighed in his heart.
She sent Fan Qi to pay attention to when Cheng Chi would go home, and when Fan Qi came to see her yesterday, he said that he hadn't come back yet......
But let Uncle Chi be the matchmaker......
She thought it was weird when she thought about it.
But now among the men in the Cheng family, only Uncle Chi and the ancestor of the second room are from the two lists, and the ancestor of the second room will definitely not do this kind of thing, so Uncle Chi can only go.
The eldest master of the Gu family is now the head of the Gu family academy, but he doesn't know what his temperament is? If it's an eight-sided exquisite, it's easy to say, if it's an old-fashioned and pedantic, then Cheng He's wedding...... Zhou Shaojin was worried about Cheng He when he thought about it.
After that, Mrs. Guan told Cheng Huan something, but she didn't pay much attention to it, but Cheng He couldn't stop nodding.
It wasn't until after Cheng He left that Mrs. Chuda comforted Mrs. Guan not to worry, saying, "He'er has lived in Pukou for a few days, and I like her up and down in my family, so you can rest assured that you won't embarrass him" that she came back to her senses.
According to the etiquette, the new son-in-law will come to the door with the matchmaker when proposing.
Zhou Shaojin has been a human being for two lives, and he has no intention of caring about his own wedding, and other people's weddings are just to watch the ceremony, and he has never participated in it.
Cheng He is like her brother, her brother wants to get married, she is naturally very curious.
She remembered that in her previous life, when Cheng He was engaged, her sister had gone to He's house with Mrs. Lu to send Jin Hai, and she asked Mrs. Guan: "When I make a small decision, can I go to Pukou with my sister and Aunt Lu?" ”
When the small decision is made, the man will go to the woman's house to send the golden hairpin, and the man's female relatives can send someone to follow the matchmaker to see the bride at this time.
It can be the bride's future aunt, concubine, or sister-in-law who goes to see the bride.
Zhou Shaojin and Zhou Chujin are barely sisters-in-law.
Mrs. Guan was a little hesitant.
Zhou Shaojin is too beautiful, and if she goes over there, she will definitely suppress the bride by a chip or even a few chips, for fear that the He family will misunderstand that this is the Cheng family's disadvantage for the bride.
Mrs. Chu didn't care.
In case Zhou Shaojin marries Cheng Yi, can He Fengping not see Zhou Shaojin for the rest of his life?
What's more, she had already passed the message to her sister-in-law, saying that the two cousins in the family were first-class in appearance, and her sister-in-law also said that she should take people to see, if it was really as good as she said, then the two of them would kiss each other again, and tell Zhou Shaojin, who was not married, to her eldest nephew. If she hadn't breathed through the air, her sister-in-law might really come over to see Zhou Shaojin!
Mrs. Chu smiled and said, "Let them go!" Our Shaojin is so beautiful, we are not afraid of others looking at it. ”
Zhou Shaojin knew that she was beautiful, but she never felt that she was more beautiful than her sister, so she gave a big discount to how beautiful she was. I didn't see what Mrs. Guan was scrupling about, and I thought that Mrs. Guan was afraid that she would be greedy for fun, and she would lose the face of the Cheng family when the time came. After listening to Mrs. Chu's words, she hurriedly said: "Grandmother, I must be obedient and obediently follow behind my sister." ”
"Okay, you go with your sister!" When Mrs. Guan saw that her daughter-in-law said this, she must have been sure that the He family would not have an idea, and she didn't notice that she didn't mention that Zhou Chujin would follow her to send the golden hairpin, so Zhou Shaojin definitely said that Zhou Chujin would send the golden hairpin.
None of the people in the room paid attention.
Everyone happily talked about Cheng He's engagement, and Mrs. Lu came over.
came with Mrs. Luda, as well as Cheng Ji.
When she entered the door, she shouted: "I'm also going to give the sister-in-law a golden hairpin." ”
"Don't listen to her nonsense." Jiang stroked his forehead with a headache, saluted Mrs. Guan, and said, "She just wants the world to be chaotic." If she goes, she doesn't know what kind of joke she will make, and then she will throw our family's face in Pukou. ”
Cheng Ji's tears of grievance were about to come out when he heard this.
Mrs. Chu looked at Cheng Ji with bright eyes and bright teeth, her heart moved, she hurriedly hugged Cheng Ji, and said to Jiang: "Sister-in-law too, our girls are all in time, how can you be so ignorant." As he spoke, he glanced at Jiang.
Jiang swallowed the reprimand that came to his mouth, took out the gift slip he had prepared at home and handed it to Mrs. Guan: "Let's see if it's okay." ”
Zhou Chujin took it and read it to Mrs. Guan word by word.
Cheng Ji had already pulled Zhou Shaojin aside and whispered.
She wanted to persuade Zhou Shaojin to follow her to Pukou as well.
The long list was finally read, and Mrs. Guan praised Jiang with satisfaction for "handling things properly and carefully", and smiled and asked Zhou Chujin to hand the list to He, saying: "Look again, if there is nothing added or subtracted, just prepare according to the things on this list!" ”
Mrs. Chu was also very satisfied, smiled and thanked Jiang, and wanted to take her to Hanqiu Pavilion for tea and discuss some specific matters.
In addition to Mrs. Guan, everyone went to Hanqiu Pavilion again.
On the way, Mrs. Chu left Zhou Shaojin behind and kept whispering to Jiang, and Jiang glanced back at Cheng Ji a few times.
Cheng Ji thought that his mother was warning him not to be naughty, and every time his mother turned around, she smiled at her mother diligently, only hoping that her mother would agree to her and Zhou Shaojin go to Putian to make a decision for Xiao He for the sake of her flattery.
Before she could say anything, her mother told her: "It's okay to take you there, but if you do something out of tune, I won't think I'll take you out again." ”
Cheng Ji was overjoyed and assured his mother repeatedly.
The next day, Jiang called the tailor to come in to make clothes for Cheng Ji, and picked out a few pieces of jewelry suitable for the little girl from his makeup, and warned her again, so he went to work on Cheng He's marriage.
Cheng Ji hurriedly ran to sue Zhou Shaojin.
Zhou Shaojin was also quite happy, but she didn't have time to pay attention to Cheng Ji at this time, and said, "I'm going to Hanbi Mountain House to copy scriptures, and we'll talk about it in detail when I come back!" ”
Cheng Ji looked at the funnel in the room and said, "It's just past noon...... What are you doing in the past so early? ”
Zhou Shaojin had an idea and said, "Go early, come back early!" ”
Cheng Ji didn't doubt it, and said busily: "Then you go and come back quickly." ”
Zhou Shaojin asked Shi Xiang to accompany her, and she hurried to the Hanbi Mountain House - she had just received the letter, and Cheng Chi came back.
She was anxious to know whether Ji Ying had returned to Cangzhou or had followed Cheng Chi back.
In the Hanbi Mountain House, Huai Shan was instructing the little servants to unload the cages, while Cheng Chi and Mrs. Guo were talking in the house.
Zhou Shaojin turned into the tea room next to him.
Jasper and Pearl sat and talked in the tea room.
Zhou Shaojin hurriedly said: "Have you seen Jiying?" ”
"See!" Biyu smiled, "She went back to the house with a calm face, and she didn't respond to my call to her." ”
Zhou Shaojin's heart sank, and said, "Then I'll go to the Buddhist hall to copy the scriptures first." ”
Jasper escorted her out of the teahouse.
Zhou Shaojin turned into the Liyin Pavilion from behind.
The door of the wing room was closed, and several little maids were standing under the corridor at a loss, looking at each other.
Zhou Shaojin walked over in three steps and two steps, nodded calmly to a few little maids, and gently patted Jiying's window lattice: "Jiying, it's me, what's wrong with you?" Open the door! ”
She thought she was going to shoot the window a few more times, but as soon as her words fell, the window lattice opened with a "squeak".
Zhou Shaojin almost didn't dodge and hit his face.
But where can she take care of these, Jiyi is like a green vegetable that has passed through the water, the whole person is wilted, and her eyes are red and swollen, but fortunately, she is still very calm when she speaks: "You are here!" Come in and sit! With that, he went to open the door for Zhou Shaojin.
Zhou Shaojin hurriedly said: "What's wrong?" ”
Ji Ying closed the door again, sat down with her on the Luohan bed near the window in the house, and said in a low voice: "I went back to see Jiao Ziyang, he said that our two families have withdrawn, but that is his father's meaning, he will not marry anyone except me." He also told me to elope with him......"
"Never!" Zhou Shaojin's face turned white, and he hurriedly said, "The one who hires is the wife and the one who runs is the concubine!" You can't do anything like that. If you really want to marry her, you would rather kneel and beg your father and mother than follow him and go away without knowing anything. ”
Seeing Zhou Shaojin's anxious expression, Ji Ying's tense face showed a long-lost smile.
"I know." Her voice was still low, but it was softer, "I'm not stupid. He is what he says. When I heard him say at the time, I thought, it turned out that it was because I wanted to be a servant girl for your Uncle Chi for ten years, so I also agreed to quit my marriage, and now that I am back, Jiao Ziyang is not married, I am unmarried, instead of eloping with him as Jiao Ziyang said, I should persuade Jiao Ziyang and his father to let him agree to my marriage contract with Jiao Ziyang......."
Zhou Shaojin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and praised: "You can really do it!" I immediately thought of a solution. ”
Ji Ying smiled slightly and said, "Guess, I went to Jiao's house and found something?" ”
Zhou Shaojin thought that she would rather go back to Cheng's house than stay at home, and her heart was cold, and she muttered, "Could it be that he is already married?" ”
Ji Ying smiled: "It's normal to become parents, so what's so strange?" ”
The smile was only on the corner of his mouth, but his eyes were cold, like a sword out of its sheath, and the cold light was shining.
Zhou Shaojin shuddered and said, "Then, what's the matter?" ”R1152