When he was in this mansion, even if the Zeng family was not in front of him, he naturally grasped all the movements, as soon as Chen Qi left, Zeng's eldest girl Xianglan ran in and replied with a smile, I heard that she was waiting for her mother-in-law who was pretending to be sick, Zhou Baolu smiled first: "Waited for an hour at the second gate? Hahaha, I should have checked it out! ”

Zeng smiled and said: "Big girl, how can you laugh like this, you can be more restrained, otherwise your mother will see it, and say that you have no rules, and ask you to copy Buddhist scriptures." ”

Zhou Baolu sat over with a smile, hugged Chen Yixian and hugged her, playing with her little fat hand, and said with a smile: "My mother can't, now my mother thinks that what I say makes sense." ”

Seeing that she had regained such a cheerful and happy appearance, Zeng couldn't bear to talk about her anymore, but just said to her: "This time you still live in my house, the south sent some fresh pattern jewelry, I left a few pieces for you, and sent someone to send it to you, your family cut a lot of clothes, I won't make another one for you, now that Halloween is coming, will you go into the palace with me or will the princess send someone to pick you up?" ”

Zhou Baolu held her chin, thought for a while and said, "I'm not going, it's boring in the palace." ”

Zeng said: "You are a big girl, you don't go to such important occasions, people outside may not have any gossip, why bother, I know that you are impatient with this, but people like us, you are the big one, some things can not be based on your preferences, you always have your share of responsibility." ”

This sentence hit Zhou Baolu's heart, and he couldn't help but bow his head silently, and only said for a long time: "Well, I know the truth." ”

Zeng touched her head and said: "There are some things that you can't see on weekdays, but if it really matters, it's really unusual, maybe it will be ruined on top, you are a child who understands, I know what you want to understand." ”

Zhou Baolu's eyes were red again, and she looked very pitiful.

Zeng thought for a while and said, "You are so old, some things can be told to you slowly." Speaking of which, when I was a girl, I had a cousin, two years older than me, who was my cousin's daughter, and my cousin married in the Feng family. It's just that one year for the Chinese New Year, I remember that I was only thirteen years old at that time, about the same age as you, and the girls of the family went to see the lanterns on the Shangyuan Festival, and everyone was very happy, but later, when they were about to disperse, I saw her talking secretly with her cousin under the shadow of a stone lion. ”

Zeng paused for a while, as if recalling that time: "Later, in the second half of the year, I heard that she eloped with her cousin, and was arrested before she left the city, because her family was separated early, and the rules were not big, and my cousin also loved her, so she was really reluctant, so she thought about simply asking her to marry her cousin, because her cousin's family was hard, so she would accompany her more dowry, but her cousin's mother refused, because her cousin's family was originally a scholarly family, and the family talked about the rules, and her cousin had a talent in his body. His mother said that his cousin was unclean and refused to ask her son to marry her, and later ...... Later, she cried for two days and quietly hanged herself. ”

"Ahh Zhou Baolu didn't expect such a result, and gently covered her mouth, Zeng said: "Girls, the most important thing is reputation, and besides, a man's words are actually unbelievable." ”

Zhou Baolu didn't know what Lu Dao thought, and two suspicious blushes flew on his face.

The room was quiet for a while, only Chen Yixian in Zhou Baolu's arms was impatient, screaming 'ahhh', dancing and struggling to come out.

Zeng took Chen Yixian over and hugged him, and after a while, Zhou Baolu approached Zeng and asked quietly, "That...... Did your aunt ...... before marrying her uncle? Well, is there any...... Something else ......"

Even though she has always been upright and hearty, she is still a boudoir daughter, even to her closest aunt, she is embarrassed to ask these words.

Zeng smiled: "Silly boy, this kind of thing is not a big deal, although it violates the etiquette law, but there is still humanity, isn't it?" It's a child again, how important it can be, as long as it doesn't go out of line, no one will just turn a blind eye. ”

Is that so? Zhou Baolu was still confused.

Chen is the most disciplined person, although she doesn't talk about it every day, but this kind of thing is a big rebellion for her, this kind of girl, that is, there is no shame, these Zhou Baolu have heard of it.

It's just that my aunt said it so clearly and thoroughly, which is quite different from my mother's statement.

And compared with those dogmatic rules, Zhou Baolu naturally felt that what her aunt said was more reasonable.

Zeng said: "If the family background is almost the same, and the two children have hearts, the family is often perfect, and they are more willing before they get married, and the relationship between husband and wife will be stronger in the future, who doesn't care for their children?" Don't say far away, just look at the several families you often come and go, this looks, there are often relatives and relatives, cousins and sisters, on the other, this is actually a common face, since childhood laughed together, the affection is different from other people, and the harmony after marriage is not the same, these are examples, and there is not much matter, only one thing, girls are not better than gentlemen, it is good to be more vigilant. Not to mention anything else, sometimes, some uneasy and well-meaning people take such a handle to fight, and what was originally tolerated in private becomes a trouble when it comes to the surface. ”

Zhou Baolu nodded, she could understand this.

However, her big eyes still looked at Zeng expectantly, as if she had to get an answer to the previous question, Zeng smiled, hugged Chen Yixian and shook it, seeing that she was a little sleepy, she called the nurse to hug her and coax her to sleep.

Looking back, there was no other person in the house, Zeng said: "It's probably when I was fourteen years old, there was a world friend in the family, who lived for three months, he has a son, two years older than me, I call him Brother An, Brother An is very good at studying, that year is going to enter Beijing for the exam, now I think about it, he looks a little like your brother, tall, eyebrows and eyes are not like the top, but it feels very similar, he talks and does things very coolly, he loves to eat walnut crisp, every time he goes to the street, he will buy a box back to me, The walnut cake of Hongfu Ji on Jinling Street tastes different from the one at home......"

An indescribable smile appeared on Tsang's pretty face, and time seemed to shrink into a small bunch, reconnecting her twenty-eight years to the cardamom years of fourteen, when the grass grew and the warbler flew, and a young man in a pale blue shirt once passed by her window and laid down a peach blossom in full bloom.

Zhou Baolu's hand held her round chin, and she looked at Zeng without blinking, her aunt's smile was so good-looking!

Zeng came back to his senses, and when he saw her like this, he reached out and touched her head, and Zhou Baolu said, "What happened later? ”

"Later, Brother An left with Shibo." Tsang said.

"That's it?" Zhou Baolu felt very disappointed, the story was very imperfect.

Zeng said: "In the autumn of the eighteenth year of Yuanjia, Brother An went to Beijing to report on his work, and he also came to our house, his wife is gentle and virtuous, she is a good match, and Miss Gongzi is also smart and polite. ”

Zhou Baolu was very disappointed, this was not the story she was expecting, the story was too plain and not earth-shattering.

Zeng smiled again: "Things in the world are like this, and you will be disappointed if you expect too much, but I gave birth to my eldest son that year, and your uncle wrote a few words and asked me to choose a name for my son, but somehow, I picked the word An at a glance." ”

She touched Zhou Baolu's head again: "You can't tell your uncle about this." ”

Zhou Baolu immediately promised: "No, no, my mouth is strict." ”

Then he added: "Brother An, I won't tell him either!" ”

Zeng smiled, Zhou Baolu thought about it, and asked again: "Then you are willing to marry your uncle?" ”

"What's unwilling?" Zeng said with a smile: "Your uncle is the same age as me, and has a future, he is willing to come out, and he knows the rules and respects, even in front of the Hou Ye and his wife, he has a lot of maintenance, and he has never made me sad, and no one in our yard can pass me, and I have been married for four or five years, and when I gave birth to a young brother and had two sisters-in-law, I stopped my aunt's medicine, there is really nothing to find fault with." ”

Zhou Baolu felt that there was always an inexplicable unwillingness here, and after thinking for a long time, he said, "What if...... What if my aunt marries that ...... Well, what about Uncle? Will it be different? ”

Then she immediately stated: "Of course I don't want my aunt to marry him, so I'll just ask." ”

Zeng smiled: "What difference can it be? I actually didn't think much about it, it seemed that ...... "It seems that the boy in the spring breeze is incompatible with the man who lives a life, and she would rather always remember the spring of that year, and she doesn't want to pull the smiling boy into reality."

It's just that Zhou Baolu at this age can't understand this, she just keeps her eyes open and waits curiously for an answer.

Zeng didn't continue, she just said: "I am the eldest sister in the family, at that time, our family needed me to marry to the imperial capital, before getting married, your uncle also came to Jinling to meet my father and mother in person, I have seen him, and there is nothing unwilling." What bothered me the most at that time was that I had to marry so far away, and I couldn't take away the peonies I planted in my yard. ”

Zhou Baolu followed Zeng's gaze and saw that there were no peonies planted in this Ganlan Courtyard, but two Xifu Begonia pavilions, which were also delicate and moving.

She seemed to understand a little.

Zeng said softly: "We are worshiped by the family, we grow up with gold and jade, when we should contribute to the family, there is nothing unwilling, if it is fate, I can ask you to marry the person you want in your heart, that is your creation, if you can't, even if you leave a thought, there is nothing wrong, Lu'er, you have to think clearly." ”

Zhou Baolu was stunned for a long time and nodded lightly.

She remembered the performance of her grandmother in the palace that day, the emperor's gaze, the various speculations and the situation in the imperial capital, the decay of the Zhou family, the aging grandmother, the identity of the clan was about to disappear, and her grandmother was trying her best to drag the Zhou family back on track......

She knows all of this very well, and she also knows what it means, so what can she do if she is unwilling?

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