South Street, the most prosperous area in town, the door of a three-storey luxury high-rise building is closed, and on the small round bench at the door, Xiao Si in Tsing Yi is dozing off with his head tilted, saliva overflowing from the corners of his grinning mouth, and a silver thread hanging from his chin.

The streets are bustling with pedestrians, pedestrians looking up from time to time, and some people even simply stop their hurried steps and stop to watch.

Under the eaves of the third floor, the octagonal palace lamp is hung, the beautiful peony picture is painted, and the eight corners are hung with the colorful tassel pendant tied with the silver bell, the breeze blows, and the bell is crisp. However, no matter how gorgeous the palace lantern is, it is far less beautiful than leaning on the edge of the railing and leaning on the tower to look into the distance.

The woman in the plain white gauze dress was covered with white veil, and the three thousand green silk was softly lying on her slender back, with a slender waist, a weak wind supporting the willows, and a thousand gestures, as if there was a magnetic force, which made people reluctant to look away.

There were more and more pedestrians downstairs who stopped to watch, but the woman turned a blind eye, staring at the end of the long street with radiant eyes, until the figure of a slightly fat middle-aged woman came on the street, the woman suddenly cheered, got up and walked quickly to the building, and staggered downstairs.

"Mom~!" When she arrived on the first floor, the woman shouted from afar to the middle-aged woman who had just come in from outside, walked quickly to meet her, and asked nervously, "How is it?" He...... Are you alright? ”

The middle-aged woman glanced at her and said angrily: "Mom, I'm out of the horse, what else is there to worry about." "This person is the old man of Bang Xiang Lou. Bustard, the Liu family who just returned from the Zhao family.

The woman in white breathed a sigh of relief, a hanging heart finally let go, and just wanted to say thanks, but Liu Shi had already grabbed Bai and said: "Zijing, for you, I have offended Mrs. Zhixian today, and in the future, you will not lose your temper every once in a while." ”

The smile froze at the corner of her lips, and the woman in white darkened her expression, and said with a wry smile: "Mom, don't worry, ...... No, it won't. ”

"That's good, go back and rest, Zheng Gongzi asked a friend to compose a poem in the evening, you have to take care of your spirits." Liu smiled and patted the woman's shoulder affectionately.

This business not only cost the Zhao family's big house 10,000 taels of silver, but also made the arrogant Liu Zijing obey his words, Liu was so happy that he smiled, and he had a good face when he saw everyone, and even Xiao Si, who was dozing off at the door, didn't bother to teach a lesson-

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The Zhao family's mansion is built around the lake, divided into two halves, the big house is in the east courtyard, the second room is in the west courtyard, before the big house came back, the scale of the Zhao family mansion is less than a quarter of what it is now, and the whole house is a two-room residence.

After the old lady returned to his ancestral hometown, the big house moved in, and the second old man and his wife were suspicious of many crowds, so they moved to the backyard of the county government to live, leaving only a group of aunts to live in the ancestral house, until the big house expanded the mansion several times, and the second lady moved back.

Not for anything else, the ancestors have always been dripping, vigorous and resolute, the second room received a letter from the big house to return to the hometown before noon, and the carriage team of the big house has arrived at the door of the house in the afternoon, and the second room was killed by surprise, and nothing was sorted out.

The Zhao family has always been rooted in the capital, and the second room never thought that the big house would return to its ancestral hometown, and the movable and immovable properties of the Zhao family have long been regarded as their own homes, and they didn't think that they would be included in their own pockets at all.

As soon as the big house came back, he took over the land and house deed of the Zhao family, and the second house cut off the income, pointing to the meager income of the second master, hundreds of people up and down had to go out to beg for food sooner or later, and it was different when they came back.

The second lady moved back to live in the west courtyard, and the second master lived at both ends, and lived in the backyard of the county government when there were many things in the yamen, and went back to the west courtyard to live in his spare time, and the ancestor didn't say anything.

Over the years, the second lady has fought with the big house several times, the first time she planted such a big heel, she was so angry that she had no appetite for two meals, and was ordered to go to the vigil for a whole night, and fell ill as soon as she returned to the west courtyard in the morning, and assigned the eldest girl Luchun to go to the ancestor to return to the heart, saying that she would not go out to kneel today.

The old ancestor had just finished drinking the medicine, and his whole face was wrinkled in bitterness, and Fang Fei, who came to ask for peace in the morning, hurriedly took the mouthwash brought by Jin Ling, and then handed it to the old ancestor.

The eldest girl next to the second lady, Lu Chun, held her hands and waited respectfully aside, waiting for a reply.

"Let her rest for a long time." Rinsing his mouth, the ancestor took a handkerchief and wiped the medicinal juice from the corners of his mouth, and his complexion eased a lot, "She should be tired these days, let her rest for a few more days, and if she wants to be filial, she will not be in these two days, don't hold on, and the family will have to hold a funeral when she can save it." ”

When Lu Chun heard this, his scalp was numb, and he responded with a full mouth, but when he returned to the West Courtyard to resume his life, he didn't dare to copy the original words, and only picked up the good ones, saying that the ancestor let the second lady rest for a few more days, and then go out to kneel after recuperating her body.

The second lady glared at Lu Chun, "Didn't the old ancestor say anything else?" The voice was hoarse, like a sharp weapon scraping the bottom of the pot, and it was harsh and tight. This time she was depressed at first, and then she caught a cold at night, and this illness was really not pretended, her throat hurt when she spoke, and her cough was even more uncomfortable.

Yesterday's incident, the second lady can't figure it out.

Grandma Song's mother's family is far away in the capital, and it is good to say that the big house is in Beijing before, with the help of her mother's family, not to mention anything else, the aunts in the big house alone dare not make a mistake. This time in her ancestral hometown, Grandma Song has no relatives and no support, where does she get the face to settle the Liu family in Bangxianglou?

And the old ancestor who has always loved his great-grandson didn't come forward this time, and even Mother Wu, who was next to the old ancestor, never stood up to say half a word for Dafang, and waited until the end of the show to get up to train people, or each played fifty boards, which is really strange.

"I really didn't say anything, the old ancestor said that I know that Madame, you are tired these days, and I specially let you rest......" Lu Chun shook his head vigorously, and hurriedly ordered the little maid to bring breakfast over.

The second lady picked up the chopsticks and only ate one bite, and then vomited them all, yesterday I had no appetite to eat, and today I can't eat if I want to, my throat hurts like a needle prick, she waved her hand impatiently, frowned, and said: "Withdraw it, make me some porridge." ”

The wake was all night, the second lady was so sleepy that she couldn't stay up just after the child, but there were still others in the mourning hall, she couldn't go, and she didn't dare to doze off, so she insisted until the early hours of the morning, and went back to the west courtyard and fell asleep. When I woke up, I was so uncomfortable that I was dying, my stomach was hungry, but I couldn't eat, and I had no strength in my body.

This illness is exactly what the second lady wants, yesterday not only lost face, but also lost the lining, she didn't have the face to go to the front yard to embarrass people today, so she deliberately let people say that the illness was very strict, and she couldn't get out of bed.

When several aunts in the second room heard that the second lady was sick, they hurriedly came to visit, but they were stopped outside and were not allowed to enter, saying that they were afraid of passing their illness to them. Several aunts cried and cried, and were reprimanded by the second lady at the top of their throats, so they obediently went to the front yard to kowtow.

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