At that time, it was already the depths of winter, and there was goose feather snow in the sky, and the whole Jiangfu was like a snowy painting wrapped in silver.

And the eldest lady knelt alone outside the door of the ancestral hall, hugging her shoulders and trembling, while baring her teeth and cursing in a low voice.

The second lady wore a thick fox fur cloak to keep out the cold, and there were pearls holding an oil-paper umbrella to block the snow beside her, she just looked at the figure of the eldest lady kneeling in the snow from a distance, pursed her lips, and almost couldn't hold back her laughter several times.

The second old man frowned, stood with his hands in his hands, slowed down for a while, and whispered a few words to the maid Narcissus beside him.

Narcissus nodded and stepped back.

The uncles and the second masters who came together all had heavy faces, Aunt Xiao and Aunt Chen also looked worried, and the sixth lady stood quietly behind the second wife, looked over there, and lowered her eyes and was silent.

The second lady was taken back to the house by the maid to pick up the wind and wash the dust, and it seemed that the affairs of the eldest lady had nothing to do with her.

Half an hour had passed, and the eldest lady was curled up with cold, her teeth chattering, but even so, she continued to curse in a low voice, though the words that came out of it were not even clear to herself.

At this time, the eldest man was wearing a long jacket with a round neck in blue Hangzhou silk, and he didn't even put on a snow hat, so he came over angrily.

Seeing so many people standing aside to watch the joke, the eldest lord was even more ashamed in his heart, snorted heavily, and walked towards the eldest lady.

Not long after the eldest master came, Narcissus also rushed into the crowd and quietly squeezed behind the second master, and the second master turned around and saw a little gasping narcissus and nodded.

The eldest lord strode up to the eldest lady, and began to accuse without saying a word. The eldest lady did not answer. Just shivering.

The eldest lord lectured a few words. He also softened his heart a little, but when he thought of what the old lady had said, he also frowned.

The old lady said with a sideways face before: "If she wants to come back, she can kneel outside the ancestral hall for an hour first, otherwise, even if she comes back to Jiangfu, I will no longer recognize her as the eldest daughter-in-law!" ”

The eldest man sighed again and paused. Whispered: "I guess there are still three quarters of an hour, you hold on a little longer......"

After speaking, he pretended to be angry and yelled at the eldest lady twice, before turning his head and walking away angrily.

Seeing that the eldest master was gone, the second master also shook his head and sighed and turned to leave, and the second wife and Aunt Xiao, who were watching jokes, naturally did not want to stand in the snow in vain and be frozen, and were ready to go back to their respective houses to warm up.

The eldest lady was so cold that her lips turned black, and her face was still fierce, and her fierce expression seemed to be slaughtering pigs and sheep with a knife.

I don't know when. A footstep was slowly approaching, and she could hear as if someone was shouting behind her. The voice was like Aunt Xiao's.

The eldest lady was puzzled when a blue-brown figure appeared beside her.

Although she trembled, she also recognized that it was the second master she had always looked down on, Jiang Yongjun.

I saw Jiang Yongjun standing upright, shaking the hem of his long jacket, and kneeling down in the position of the eldest lady a little later.

The eldest lady was a little confused, the corners of her mouth twitched a few times, but she couldn't speak.

Jiang Yongjun's biological mother, Aunt Xiao, was still shouting something in the back, and the eldest lady didn't have the heart to listen, so she just looked at Jiang Yongjun in a daze.

Jiang Yongjun also noticed the eldest lady's surprised gaze, tilted his head slightly, and said, "If the mother is punished, how can the child not be guilty?" The grandmother said that she wanted her mother to kneel for an hour, and the child was willing to kneel for two hours, and the mother immediately went back to the house to warm up and rest. ”

Jiang Yongjun's expression was serious, his tone was firm and powerful, the eldest lady looked at him, her tightly knit facial features gradually spread, and finally her eyes were wet, and she actually cried.

The crowd that was about to leave stopped when they saw the movement.

Aunt Xiao anxiously shouted at Jiang Yongjun, and it wasn't until Jiang Yongjun knelt down that she realized that he had made up her mind.

With so many people here at the moment, Aunt Xiao couldn't say anything like asking Jiang Yongjun to get up and leave and ignore the eldest lady, so she had to endure the heartache, covered her mouth with a silk silk and choked up: "Brother Jun has always felt sorry for the eldest wife, and he didn't talk about it for a day when the eldest lady left the house, and he just begged the old lady to look at this Jun brother's filial piety, so don't embarrass the eldest lady anymore......"

Aunt Xiao said very emotionally, and tears flowed straight out.

The second lady glanced at Aunt Xiao quickly, she heard that after the eldest lady left the house, it was Aunt Xiao who accompanied the eldest lady in and out, and Aunt Xiao was proud of the spring breeze at that time, how could she really hope that the old lady would not embarrass the eldest lady?

Now that the eldest lady is pulling back to the house again, Aunt Xiao's tears are in her eyes, I'm afraid she is shedding for herself!

Thinking about it, the second wife coughed lightly, stepped forward and patted Aunt Xiao's back, and said, "Don't you have to be sad, aren't the eldest wives coming back now?" The old lady's heavy punishment is also to establish rules for the Jiang Mansion, and when she kneels for an hour, she is still the eldest daughter-in-law of our Jiang Mansion, and they all say that the mother is expensive by the son, Brother Jun feels sorry for the eldest lady like this, and the eldest lady will definitely be comfortable in the future! ”

Is a mother more expensive than a child?

Aunt Xiao's eyes widened when she heard this, and her crying couldn't help but stop, looking at the two backs in the snow in the distance, her face was sad and joyful.

Over the years, Aunt Xiao has suffered many sour grievances under the hands of the eldest wife, and finally gave birth to a son, but her heart is not towards her.

At this time, when she heard the second wife's sentence "Mother is more precious than son", the resentment in her heart was like a flood of decision-making, and it rushed straight to her head.

Why didn't she want the eldest lady to get out of the Jiang Mansion forever and never come back? But she's just a lowly aunt, what can she do?

Aunt Chen was killed twice by the eldest wife, and she has not been out since then, she can give birth to Brother Jun under the hands of the eldest wife, it can be seen how difficult it is?

But now even her brother Jun is no longer looking at her......

Aunt Xiao lowered her face, covered her mouth and sobbed silently.

In the eyes of others, they only thought that Aunt Xiao was sad and sad for the eldest lady to be punished. Especially the uncle Jiang Yonghong on the side.

Jiang Yonghong looked at the closeness and friendship between Mrs. Dafang's aunts and concubines, and couldn't help but feel a little ashamed in his heart, he was silent for a while, and then turned his head to the second master and said, "Father." Grandmother has always loved her grandchildren. I don't want to see my second brother frozen like this. It's better for the son to go to his grandmother's yard to plead for mercy, maybe the grandmother will let go. ”

The second master was very happy to see Jiang Yonghong so sensible, but on the surface, he just nodded lightly.

The second wife immediately grabbed Jiang Yonghong, frowned and said, "Brother Hong, you feel sorry for your eldest aunt, your mother knows." In fact, aren't we all distressed all the same? But the old lady has her own reason for doing this, and if you take the liberty to go over and plead, maybe the old lady will be even more angry. When the time comes, it will be self-defeating, and it will only cause your aunt to be punished even worse......"

After the second wife finished speaking, she looked at Jiang Yonghong's expression carefully.

Jiang Yonghong frowned, as if thinking about the reason.

The second wife took the opportunity to grab Jiang Yonghong's cuffs, and quickly frowned at him, as if to say, what are you doing with it in a good way?

Jiang Yonghong saw his mother's warning, his face turned scornful, and he didn't say anything more.

Only then did the second wife feel at ease.

In the end, the eldest lady still knelt for an hour. When Jiang Yongjun helped her get up. Her feet were frozen and unconscious.

Jiang Yongjun helped her all the way back to the house. It was handed over to Yan's mother before retreating.

At that time, the second lady had already finished the hot bath and slept on the soft shelf bed.

Caiyue hesitated for a while, but still told the second lady about the situation outside.

"Second Miss, the maids are all talking about it, saying that the second master is filial to his mother, and even the second master and the eldest master praise him! Miss, do you want to ...... Let's go see the eldest lady too? Caiyue said as she scooped up the towel from the warm water and wrung it out, folded it and handed it to the second lady to wipe her face.

The second lady quickly snatched the handkerchief and said coldly: "It is grandmother's intention to punish kneeling, I used to behave coyly, wouldn't it make grandmother unhappy in vain?" ”

As he spoke, he wiped his face, threw the towel back to Caiyue, and continued: "I can understand it now, I can't count on my mother for this marriage at all!" My mother has already hurt my eldest sister, and I can only count on her to have the same fate as my eldest sister! ”

The second lady looked solemn, and her hand grasped the large peony flower brocade mattress embroidered on the water blue background under her.

Caiyue also became nervous after hearing this, paused, and whispered: "Second Miss, you are the daughter of the eldest lady, how can the eldest lady have bad intentions towards you......"

"Do I care if she has bad intentions? If I can't handle my marriage, she's useless! The second lady couldn't help but shout at a high level.

Caiyue was startled and quickly lowered her head.

If you think about it carefully, it is also true, the eldest lady advocated for the eldest lady at the beginning, and in the end, the eldest lady still married a prodigal son who couldn't control her heart, and the taste was more uncomfortable than being a widow.

"The second miss is going to ......" Caiyue glanced at the second miss's face, and lowered her voice a little.

The second miss chuckled and snorted: "Didn't you see what the third and fifth miss made up this time?" The most reliable person in this house is still grandmother......"

After hearing this, Caiyue suddenly stared at her round eyes and nodded heavily.

No wonder the second lady didn't pay attention to the eldest lady who was punished, because she didn't want to lose a big ......

Caiyue also felt that the second miss was too heartless at first, but now that she thinks about it, even if the second miss has passed, it won't help the eldest lady, since it's a useless thing, why bother to make the old lady unhappy again?

Caiyue gradually laughed, feeling that the second miss was simply too wise!

After this incident, the eldest lady was much more settled, knelt in the snow for a long time and suffered some cold, went back to the house to raise for two days, and when she was able to go to the ground, she hurriedly tossed up, and said that she would go to the old lady to ask for sin.

This time, it was still not the second lady who helped her go, but the second master Jiang Yongjun.

"I heard that that was the eldest lady's own meaning, and she sent Yan's mother to the west wing early in the morning to call the second master over." Qianrou said to Su Xue while sorting out the clean jacket she had just retrieved from the outer courtyard.

Su Xue's brushstrokes suddenly stopped, and her eyes sank.

Jiang Yongjun......

She silently recited these three words in her heart, and the face that was so deferential that it was impossible to see sadness and joy came to her mind.

Continue to fill in the ink, finish writing the line, and say softly: "You go over there and walk around more, keep an eye on it." ”

Qianrou pursed her lower lip and nodded. (To be continued......)