In late summer and early autumn, the lotus flowers in the Hanqiu Pavilion have passed the flowering period, but the oily green leaves of the osmanthus tree are interspersed with the first yellow flower seedlings, giving people a sense of prosperity that changes in the four seasons and blooms undefeated.

Li couldn't stop praising it.

Mrs. Chu smiled and said, "You might stay longer?" In a few days, all these osmanthus flowers will bloom, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is ten miles of fragrance. ”

Li Shi said regretfully: "I want to too." But the prefect of Baoding has a case of embezzlement of ink and has been escorted to Beijing. Now the affairs of Baoding Mansion are all taken care of by Tongzhi...... "Speaking of this, she turned her eyes slightly, and saw that the maids and women who served were all following from afar, only the Zhou Shaojin sisters were by their side, she thought about it, lowered her voice, and said, "It is said that this matter involves several princes, and the imperial court will send an envoy over soon, and the emperor's meaning is that Baoding Mansion still has people who are in cahoots with the former prefect wolf Bèi, so let the lord hurry over, so as to cooperate with the envoy to preside over the overall situation and clean up government affairs." Our lord can't help it. ”

The level of the matter involved is too high, and it is difficult for Mrs. Chu to say anything.

A group of people to the guest room.

Mrs. Chu smiled and said, "You just rest here." When the matter is over, I'll call you again. After speaking, her eyes fell on Zhou Chujin and Zhou Shaojin, and she suddenly hesitated.

It stands to reason that the Li family is the nominal mother of Zhou Chujin and Zhou Shaojin, and the two sisters should serve the Li family here. But Li is a successor, or a businessman, and so young, not a few years older than Zhou Chujin, she raised Zhou Chujin and Zhou Shaojin in her hands, and she was really reluctant to be dignified and generous Zhou Chujin and the delicate Zhou Shaojin in front of Li.

Fortunately, Li is a smart one, and said with a smile: "Then the eldest lady and the second lady also went to rest, right?" I just have Mother Li here to serve. She asked the eldest lady, "Will the eldest lady and the second lady also go with me to visit the old people, the wife and the grandmother in the various rooms?" ”

Mrs. Chu didn't plan to let Zhou Chujin and Zhou Shaojin serve the Li family, but Mrs. Guan said before that this is a courtesy, and there can be no lack of courtesy to let others take advantage of their sisters. She had no choice but to say, "If you want to follow, I just want to help you identify people." ”

Li smiled: "I think I'll just go by myself." I've been with me at noon, and I have dinner to prepare in the evening, so the eldest lady needs someone to help me here! ”

Her interest made Mrs. Chuda's smile more kind: "Then I'll leave their sisters behind!" ”

Zhou Shaojin listened to it, but had other plans. She smiled, "But I can't let my mother go alone." I saw that my sister was staying, and I accompanied my mother to the rooms to ask for peace. ”

Will Zhou Zhen feel that the four rooms favor one over the other?

Mrs. Chu was still a little hesitant.

Li smiled: "Okay, please ask the second lady to accompany me to the rooms and please be safe." ”

Zhou Shaojin saw that her eldest aunt was not very willing, so she simply smiled: "I'm the youngest, who can run errands if I don't run errands?" My sister stayed at home, and I followed my aunt and mother to greet the elders in each room. He added, "I want to eat fried lotus root balls, and my sister remembers to ask the kitchen to make one for me." ”

looks like a child who wants to go out with his elders.。

Everyone laughed.

Zhou Chujin promised: "Don't worry, if you forget anything, you won't forget the fried lotus root balls you ordered." ”

Everyone talked again, Zhou Chujin followed Mrs. Chu to the upper room, and Zhou Shaojin rested next door to the Li family.

Mother Li took the food very diligently: "This is Qiyun's sour jujube cake, a specialty of Jiangnan, Mrs. makes snacks on the way, it tastes very good, Mrs. specially asked the slave maid to bring some over for the second lady to taste." If it's delicious, my wife will ask the family to bring you some. The second lady can also send some wives and ladies in each room. ”

Li is a native of Nanchang.

Zhou Shaojin smiled and thanked her, but she felt that Mother Li was too enthusiastic about her, but she didn't take it to heart, sent Mother Li away, took a nap, and accompanied Mrs. Li and Mrs. Chu to meet with Zhou Zhen and Cheng Wei.

Zhou Zhen was a little surprised to see Zhou Shaojin.

Li looked like he was afraid that Zhou Zhen would misunderstand, and hurriedly said: "The eldest lady followed the eldest lady to learn housekeeping, and now she can handle it by herself." The eldest lady will accompany me later, so I asked the eldest lady to stay and preside over the family banquet in the evening. ”

Zhou Zhen was relieved, nodded happily, and asked Zhou Shaojin, "Where do you want to go to play later?" ”

It seems that she followed the Li family to go to the various rooms.

Zhou Shaojin said with a smile: "Daddy's words are so strange, I naturally follow my aunt and mother!" ”

Zhou Zhen realized that he had said the wrong thing, he laughed hesitantly, and went to the long room first.

The eldest and second masters of the long house, and even Cheng Xu were not at home, and it was Cheng Chi who received Zhou Zhen.

What kind of scene was the meeting between the two, Zhou Shaojin didn't know, she went to Yuan's with Mrs. Chu and her stepmother first.

Yuan praised her well, and then took them to the Hanbi Mountain House.

As soon as he approached the yard, Xiao Tan, who was kicking the shuttlecock with a few little maids, left his companion and ran over.

"Madam, Second Miss!" Her face flushed, her face flashed with pleasure, and she bent her knees to salute Yuan and the others.

Zhou Shaojin smiled and nodded to her.

Emerald and Jasper had received the letter and welcomed them.

"Madam, Second Miss, Mrs. Chu." The two greeted them with a smile and served them into the main room.

Mrs. Guo was dressed in navy blue burnt cloth armor, her gray hair was neatly rolled into a bun, and she only wore two jasper hairpins.

After they had saluted, Mrs. Guo invited them to sit down and drink tea.

Mrs. Chuda and the Li family are both on the Longjing before the Ming Dynasty, the Lu'an melon slices on the Yuan family, and the Lao Junmei on Zhou Shaojin. When the fruit plate was served, the little maid smiled at Zhou Shaojin, and deliberately placed the side with the melon beside Zhou Shaojin.

Zhou Shaojin smiled at the little girl.

Mrs. Guo and the Li family exchanged pleasantries, and the Li family mentioned that the current Jiangxi Jiaoyu is a native of Jinling and has a good relationship with Zhou Zhen. Mrs. Guo asked who it was, and Li talked about the other party's resume, and Mrs. Guo thought about it, but it turned out to be an acquaintance: "...... My brother's student. He was born in a man, so I remember. ”

Mrs. Guo has only one younger brother, born in a person, after the death of Guo's father, he took over Guo's father's private school, and received most of them as children of the poor family, although there are few people who raise people and enter the examination, but because they do not talk about the birth of the family, there are many people who enroll, and they are the most private acquaintances of students in Jinling City, not as good as the Gu family's college, not as good as Xiucai, nor than Cheng's family studies, only accept Cheng's relatives and friends, protégés and old recommended students, so there is a high reputation among the people of Jinling City.

Li took the opportunity to talk to Mrs. Guo.

Mrs. Guo deliberately lifted her up, and listened to her talk about Jiangxi officialdom with a smile.

Halfway through this, she pushed the fruit bowl in front of her.

Biyu understood, went out lightly, and brought a small plate of melons in front of Zhou Shaojin.

Zhou Shaojin was ashamed and embarrassed.

She was really bored when she heard it, so she watched her aunt eat a piece of orange without politeness, and she also followed a few pieces of melon to eat. Unexpectedly, Mrs. Guo actually looked at her, and asked Biyu to bring her another small plate in. She looked up and saw that Mrs. Guo was talking to Li, and she couldn't say anything, so she had to lower her head and twist the toothpick in her hand.

Before Li's arrival, Zhou Zhen had told her that the Cheng family in Jiuru Lane, she was in awe of the old lady who gave birth to three two-list jinshi in the long house, and after entering the door, she naturally listened to all sides, looked at the six roads, and saw with her own eyes how Mrs. Guo spoiled Zhou Shaojin, she was secretly surprised, and when she returned to Zhou's house, she couldn't wait to tell Mrs. Guo how Mrs. Guo told Zhou Shaojin about Zhou Shaojin when she was changing clothes, and said, "What have you inquired about?" ”

Mother Li was also a little surprised, and said: "I only heard that the second lady won the favor of Mrs. Guo in the long room and helped Mrs. Guo copy the scriptures, but I didn't know that Mrs. Guo liked the second lady so much." ”

Li's expression was a little dazed.

She remembered to go to the second room.

Different from the relaxation in the long room, Zhou Shaojin seemed a little nervous.

She not only looked at the second room carefully, but also was polite to the grandmother in the second room with a little alienation, different from the silence in the third room and the indifference in the fifth room, as if she had a little intention to be close to the second room.

Jiuru Xiangcheng family, the two Zhou sisters, are far more complicated than they imagined!

She pinched the comb with some force, and her fingertips turned white.

Li's mother reminded Li in a whisper: "Look, do you want to tell the servant to send some desserts to the eldest and second ladies to spend the night?" ”

After the Cheng family had dinner, the Zhou Shaojin sisters followed them back to the Zhou family on Pingqiao Street, but Zhou Zhen gave up the upper room for the Zhou Shaojin sisters to rest, and she and Zhou Zhen rested in the study.

It can be seen that Zhou Shaojin's sisters are very surprised by such an arrangement, but the Li family vaguely understands that this is where the Zhuang family has lived, and her husband wants to keep it...... So not only did she not express any dissatisfaction, but also obediently persuaded the Zhou sisters: "Since your father is back, I have to get together with my classmates and friends, and it is more convenient for me to live in the study with your father." ”

Although I don't know why, Zhou Chujin likes this arrangement from the bottom of his heart.

This is where she and Zhuang's sister lived, and the furnishings in the house also maintained the appearance of Zhuang's presence. She still remembers that when Zhuang first fell ill, her father was resting in the study, and she and her sister were here with her mother. The father's arrangement is as if the mother is still alive, but something is stumbling, and she wants to take her sister to rest first.

She smiled and said goodnight to her father and the Li family, pulled Zhou Shaojin to the upper courtyard, and commanded the maid to open the cage and arrange the furnishings.

Zhou Zhen shook his head with a smile, looked at Li again, his eyes were a little more gentle than usual, and said softly: "You have also worked hard in the past few days, rest early, I will come over after a few words with Ma Fushan and Li Changgui." ”

Li smiled quietly and said "yes", and was helped by Li's mother to the study.

Li's mother was wronged for her young lady, but she didn't dare to show it at all.

When he married the Zhou family, Zhou Zhen said that he was a married person, and he married a wife for the sake of his heirs, and secondly, he hoped to treat his two daughters well. At that time, the lord and wife of their own family nodded, and even prepared to take the two young ladies of the Zhou family to take up their posts, but they never thought that the Cheng family would not let them go, and their own young lady would be a mother without entering the door. However, if Zhou Zhen's wife left behind two sons, or one of them was a son, I am afraid that my lord and wife would not marry the young lady so happily.

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Sisters, today's update.

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