In the face of Mrs. Guo's sincere concern, Zhou Shaojin was both moved and guilty, she thanked Mrs. Guo with a slightly red face, and took the nurse Fan Liu and others to the fourth room, leaving Xiaotan to look after the house in Fucui Pavilion.

Mrs. Chu had just finished freshening up, and was about to go to Jiashutang to greet Mrs. Guan, when she heard that Zhou Shaojin was coming, she smiled and went out.

Zhou Shaojin was busy saluting Mrs. Chu.

Mrs. Chu didn't wait for Zhou Shaojin to bend her knees before she stepped forward to carry her, and said excitedly: "No need to be polite!" A family, don't pay attention to this. And said, "Last night, you sent someone to tell me that you wanted to come and see Lao An and me today, we were very happy, Lao An people even ordered the kitchen to make your favorite crystal cake and assorted tofu overnight, I also laughed at Lao Anren, saying why do you have to accompany Mrs. Guo over there to have breakfast before coming over, what do you do assorted tofu fishing?" Lao Anren said, I don't know how you are doing in the long house, be prepared, if you have already eaten breakfast, the same is true for the afternoon snack. I didn't expect you to come over so early. Haven't had breakfast yet? If Lao An sees you at this time, I'm afraid that I will be happy and I won't be able to close my mouth. ”

Zhou Shaojin smiled suddenly.

Mrs. Chu just likes her appearance of being docile and quiet, but she has an idea at a critical time, and the more she looks at it, the more satisfied she becomes, so she took her hand and went to Jiashutang.

As soon as Mrs. Guo sent Zhou Shaojin away, Cheng Xu rushed in from nowhere.

As soon as he entered the door, he shouted "Grandmother" and said with a smile: "I came to accompany you to breakfast." ”

Old Madam Guo laughed, took his hand and looked up and down, and said: "Huanxi chewed his tongue in front of Biyu a few days ago, saying that your fourth uncle arranged twelve articles for you in one breath, and the articles were all circled, and you did not miss each question no less than three times before you barely passed, and you lost a lot of weight." I look at you today, not only are you not thin, but you are also whiter than the day you just came back, and you have the style of a famous person in Jiangnan. Say, let Huanxi bring me a message, what are you going to do behind your fourth uncle's back? ”

Cheng Xu knew that he couldn't hide anything from his grandmother. But when his grandmother knew that he had sent Huanxi to deliver a message and did not intercede with him, he knew that this trick would not work. simply didn't say anything, leaned in front of Mrs. Guo and said, "I just want to be coquettish with my grandmother!" ”

Mrs. Guo smiled and slapped his palm twice, and said, "Such a big person is still coquettish, and your daughter-in-law will look like when she enters the door in two years!" ”

Cheng Xu's heart jumped, but he didn't dare to ask more, and said with a salivating face: "Even if I have a great-grandson, I am still a junior in front of my grandmother, can I be coquettish, right?" ”

"Haven't I become a human spirit?" Old Madam Guo and the eldest grandson were joking, looking happy.

She also thought that Cheng Chi said that he would guide Cheng Xu's craftsmanship just talking, but she didn't expect Cheng Chi to personally correct Cheng Xu's article, watching Cheng Chi teach Cheng Xu so carefully, she would feel relieved and happy when she thought about it.

Cheng Xu helped Mrs. Guo to the hall where breakfast was set up.

Mrs. Guo pointed to the small bamboo steamer in the middle of the table full of dishes and smiled: "Your favorite soup dumpling, I asked someone to make a basket." In the past, you liked to eat the most, but after going to the capital for two years, I don't know if your appetite has changed. ”

Cheng Xu looked at the only two tables of chopsticks on the table, and his heart suddenly felt as if he was drenched in cold water, and his face not only did not dare to show anything, but he also cheered up and said happily: "Look at what you said!" I went to the capital for two years and I was thinking about the soup dumplings at home, and sometimes I dreamed of it, and there were a few times when I read until midnight, I wanted to eat the soup dumplings at home, and my mouth was watering, even if I was full, I felt hungry. The day I came back, I felt better after eating Qilong soup dumplings in one go.

"It's still my grandmother who feels sorry for me and knows that I like this."

He said with a grin.

Mrs. Guo smiled and patted his hand again, and said, "You just shout here with me!" What did you eat seven cages of soup dumplings, obviously you ate four cages......"

"So grandmother knows everything?" Cheng Chi said angrily.

Why didn't you intercede for him in front of the fourth uncle?

He said: "There are a lot of four cages. I thought to myself, if I go to the capital again, I will have to bring a cook from home. Don't you know, the buns in the capital are made of thick skin and filling, and if you eat it, you will solve it in one meal. When I first started eating, I thought it was quite interesting, but after a long time, I couldn't stand it......"

While talking, Cheng Xu and Mrs. Guo sat down separately, and the maids also put on hot handkerchiefs to wipe their hands.

When Mrs. Guo saw that Cheng Xu was still nagging there, she interrupted him with a smile and said, "Like my grandmother has never been to the capital?" It's time for breakfast! Are you going to go out of the city later? ”

Cheng Xu had no choice but to pick up chopsticks and stop the topic.

Biyu served white porridge to Mrs. Guo.

Pearl asked Cheng Xu happily with a smile: "Today, I also cooked barley and black bean porridge and lily lotus seed porridge in the kitchen, made duck blood vermicelli soup, shredded chicken noodles, fried sauce noodles and dandan noodles, what does the uncle eat?" Do you want to make it another way in the kitchen? ”

Cheng Xu couldn't help but say: "How can you make fried sauce noodles and dandan noodles at home?" My favorite is duck blood vermicelli soup! ”

Pearl said: "It was ordered by the fourth master." said that the uncle was filial, and he would definitely come over early in the morning to accompany the old lady for breakfast. I was afraid that the uncle would like fried noodles in the capital for two years, so I specially asked Sister Jade to talk to the small kitchen. The people in our small kitchen didn't do it very authentically, so we still went to ask the stove master in the kitchen outside the courtyard to help make the fried sauce. Dandan noodles are loved by the four masters. ”

Cheng Xu was shocked when he listened.

When he was young, the fourth uncle lived in the capital with the second uncle, and he had no impression of the fourth uncle at all. Later, the fourth uncle came back to take care of the housework, and every time he went out, he would bring him some interesting things such as windmills and pulleys, and he immediately liked the fourth uncle.

But the fourth uncle had a very strange temperament, and then somehow became cold to him.

At that time, his homework was getting tighter and tighter, and he had less and less time to play, and he knew the difference between reading and not reading, and gradually, the two of them became estranged.

But just when he thought that his fourth uncle, who had not studied, would become a squire who depended on the family to survive, the fourth uncle seemed to have accumulated a lot of money, one step a year, and finally became a jinshi on the gold list.

He was stunned.

I can't help but admire my fourth uncle.

Not everyone can do that!

In particular, he has just passed the county examination and is preparing to take the second year's government examination, so he knows a lot about the examination room and how difficult the imperial examination is.

It may be diligence to pass the first subject, and it may be luck to pass the second subject, but you can take three subjects in a row, especially the last one in the spring, one subject in three years, only more than 300 places, it is not just diligence and luck...... It's like a child who suddenly discovers a hero, and he begins to feel close to his fourth uncle.

The fourth uncle became more and more cold to him.

He couldn't find the reason!

I want to talk to my father, but I don't know how to speak.

Although the fourth uncle has not had much contact with him, the red envelopes for the New Year's holidays and the chewing of daily life are not less than his. But if it is said that he is good to himself, several uncles and uncles talk about the fourth uncle, and they all say that the fourth uncle has a solid foundation and is knowledgeable, but the fourth uncle has never cared about his own career, nor has he ever instructed him like an elder.

Just like now, what the fourth uncle did seemed to be all for his good, but in his opinion, it was to build a fence between him and Zhou Shaojin to separate him and Zhou Shaojin.

Fourth Uncle: Is this intentional or unintentional?

Did you see something or did you stumble into it?

Cheng Xu really wanted to ask Cheng Chi.

He asked Mrs. Guo, "Grandmother, won't the fourth uncle have breakfast with us?" ”

Old Madam Guo said kindly: "Your fourth uncle calculated the accounts last night, and he didn't rest until dawn today, and I ordered the people in his house not to wake him up." Let's eat first. When your fourth uncle wakes up, I'll ask someone to do it for him again. ”

Cheng Xu thought about it and said unrelentingly: "What about the second miss of the Zhou family?" Don't you usually have breakfast with you? ”

"I've always been with me." Mrs. Guo said, "There is something on Jiashutang's side today, and she has passed." ”

"So early?" Cheng Xu was very skeptical.

Mrs. Guo smiled: "It may be something urgent, I already stopped last night before I sent my mother-in-law to deliver the letter." ”

Cheng Xu's hand holding the chopsticks tightened.

knew that he didn't want to see Zhou Shaojin this time.

He said goodbye to Mrs. Guo in frustration and was escorted to the algae garden by Qin Ziping.

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In Jiashutang, Zhou Shaojin, who had breakfast, was sitting around Luohan's bed with Mrs. Chuda and talking to Mrs. Guan.

Mrs. Guan said: "This weather is getting hotter and hotter day by day, I have discussed with your uncle, and I am going to buy a piece of land in the area of Qinglong Mountain, build a house, and avoid the office in the summer, you can go live with us for a few days at that time!" ”

When the weather gradually cooled down, he sent Shaojin to Baoding.

In this way, he not only gave an explanation to the long house, but also pulled Shaojin out of the quagmire.

Zhou Shaojin was taken aback and said, "Grandmother, why did you suddenly think of buying land and building a house in Qinglong Mountain?" ”

Mrs. Guan and Mrs. Chu exchanged a look, and said solemnly: "Shaojin, even if you don't come to see us today, I am ready to bring a letter for you to come back." The long room and the second room are now on the same page, and the fourth room has received both the favor of the long room and the second room, and it is not good for us to stand on either side. But you also saw it a few days ago, Mrs. Li in the third room was sitting here with me, and she had to let me go to Mrs. Guo to tell the second room, I didn't go, she had the intention of sitting and not leaving, and wanted to sue the second room. The gentleman deceived him. Mrs. Guo is a gentleman, but the one in the third room is a villain. In the end, although I went, my heart was not comfortable here.

"I thought about it, discussed it with your uncle and aunt, and decided to move out for a while under the pretext that the weather was too hot. I'll come back when it's time for the Spring Festival.

"I don't want you to get involved, you can go over with us to escape the summer when the time comes!"

Zhou Shaojin faintly felt that it was inappropriate in his heart, but he couldn't say why it was inappropriate, and hesitated: "Or, you can talk to my father about this matter?" He is an official in the officialdom, whether to avoid the four rooms or make a choice, and his father is an outsider, so he may see it more clearly. ”

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