Wanzhen turned around Zizhuyuan, and saw the sixth aunt Xiaosun supported by a maid, and walked to the upper room, and when she saw her from afar, she stopped, and when she approached, she smiled intimately and said: "The third girl looks good, her body and bones are better, she is going to the room to ask for peace."

Wanzhen glanced at Xiao Sun, Xiao Sun combed a woman's bun, born white and small, Shui Xing's eyes can see that he is clever, he is smart, and his abdomen is slightly bulging.

Wanzhen smiled and said, "Auntie slept well at night?" The little things in the stomach are honest".

Xiao Sun's hand caressed his abdomen, his eyes were soft, and he said: "This half moon feels moving, it seems to be very dishonest, and he must have been born naughty."

Wanzhen roughly deduced that the fetus was more than four months old.

The two of them talked to the door of the upper room, and through the curtain they heard the soft and glutinous laughter of the fourth aunt Zhang, listening to the presumptuous, no fear, people who don't know from this laughter imagined that it must be the lord who was favored, the little maid opened the curtain and said crisply: "The third girl and the sixth aunt are here." ”

When Shen Wanzhen entered the hall, she saw Master Shen and his wife sitting on the kang, and on the rose chairs on both sides sat four girls, five girls, six girls, eight girls, the second aunt Gu, the fourth aunt Zhang, and the fifth aunt Ding and Tongfang Xi Sister standing aside, the aunt was half a slave, and the girl was the master, and she was more decent than the aunt.

The second wife was holding Bao'er, the only son of Master Shen, a chubby little boy of five or six years old, with dark eyes looking around.

Zhang stood on the edge of the kang, very close to Master Shen, looking coquettish, full of twenty-eight years old, talking about Bao'er's interesting things, which made Master Shen happy.

Shen Wanzhen stepped forward, saluted uprightly, and said in a delicate voice: "My daughter greets her parents." ”

Master Shen looked at it and saw that Shen Wanzhen's clothes were bright and bright, and he was in a trance, this is the sick and crooked third girl? This kind of beauty is rare, even more than the fifth and sixth girls.

Wu raised his eyes, his mind moved, with a kind smile on his face, and greeted: "Three girls come and sit on the kang, your body is weak, and you can't help the wooden chair to be stiff." ”

As he spoke, he beckoned the maid and said, "Move a chair for the sixth aunt."

Shen Wanzhen bowed her body and thanked her, lowered her eyebrows and pleasing her eyes, and walked to the second wife Wu to sit down.

Xiao Sun bowed and sat down.

The fourth girl, Shen Wanzhu, stared at her up and down, jealous, thinking: Mrs. is eccentric, and she rewarded the third sister with all the good things, and Ming'er pestered her father to make such a dress.

Master Shen looked at Xiao Sun's belly and said in a harmonious voice: "You are pregnant with a child, so you don't have to go to the room to ask for peace."

Let's say, I turned my head to look at my wife, as if I was blaming.

Xiao Sun hurriedly smiled and said: "The wife has already exempted the concubine to ask for peace, but the concubine is bored and panicked, and she wants to come to have a good time and relieve her boredom."

As soon as Xiao Sun came in, Zhang's eyes were fixed on her stomach, although Xiao Sun was wearing a fat shirt to cover her abdomen today, but it was still uncomfortable in Zhang's eyes, but her face was smiling very brightly, and she said; "When my sister gave birth to Bao, she was drowsy, practiced bed all day, and when she woke up, she wanted to eat, and she wanted to eat sour, but my sister had this reaction?"

Wanzhen glanced at Aunt Zhang's smiling eyebrows, and said secretly: This is a clever question, if Xiao Sun's family says that he likes to eat sour, then there are ten J □ J give birth to a man, and Zhang's has a way to deal with it, if he says that he doesn't like sour, then eighty percent is a daughter, Master Shen doesn't like it, and the matter of Bao'er being remembered as a son-in-law will be brought up soon.

Wu looked at Xiao Sun's with an expressionless face.

Xiao Sun straightened his body, saw that Master Shen also looked at her, cast a charming smile at Master Shen, and said in a small and shy voice: "The concubine has an excellent appetite, and she wants to eat everything she sees."

Wanzhen was a little disappointed when she saw Aunt Zhang, and Aunt Zhang secretly scolded Xiao Sun for being cunning.

The expression on Wu's face did not fluctuate.

The fifth aunt Ding Shi who was sitting next to her enthusiastically told her that she reacted when she was pregnant with the sixth girl, Shen Wanyu, and what she was eating.

Across the kang table, Shen Wanzhen opposite the old man Shen is about forty years old, dignified appearance, when he was young, he raised filial piety, will not try, spend money to find an official, because of the birth of the son, the ears and eyes, the people are sophisticated, the officialdom is smooth, and the current official position is from the five products of Qingzhou Zhizhou.

Shen Wanzhen looked down, the fifth girl Shen Wanzhu wore a pearl red embroidered peony flower sprinkled with gold gauze placket today, and the bright moon in her ears reflected her like a pink ball, scorching eyes, delicate eyebrows and eyes like enough for her mother Aunt Zhang, only Aunt Zhang was more delicate and soft.

The next is the sixth girl Shen Xuanyu, wearing a long gown with rose-red gold embroidered peony flowers, red and white on her face, like a fresh peach in early spring, and her small body is straight.

Shen Wanzhen secretly praised, these two concubines are better than the concubines, the second girl Shen Wanyun looks like a middle-class posture, like her mother-in-law Wu is at most delicate, but her appearance is leisurely and elegant, and she has her own daughter-in-law bearing.

The eighth girl, Shen Wanxin, has not yet opened her appearance, but she is also a beauty.

It's really a house full of beautiful wives and concubines, and excellent children.

Aunt Zhang saw that Master Shen was only looking at Xiao Sun's stomach, and was afraid that he had forgotten what he had promised, so she peeled a lychee with her own hands, held it with snow-white embroidery, and sent it to Master Shen's mouth, took the opportunity to give Master Shen a look, and looked at the place where the fifth girl, Shen Wanzhu, was sitting.

Master Shen has been an official for many years, and immediately understood what she meant, and glanced at his wife on the other side of the kang table.

Wu didn't raise his head, and was lowering his head to tease Bao'er.

Master Shen had already promised Aunt Zhang and Aunt Ding behind his back, so he turned his face to his wife and said in a discussable tone: "When you go to Beijing, Zhu'er and Yu'er also want to go with you, so you take them to open your eyes, and if you marry into your mother-in-law's family in the future, you won't be so free." ”

Hearing this, the Wu family raised his head, seemed to smile but not smiled, swept over a few concubines and concubines, and said gently: "Even if you want to go like this, I will take it." ”

He turned his head and said to Master Shen again: "If you want to go, you can go, Zhen'er and Xin'er will also go, anyway, they will take a boat all the way." ”

Master Shen looked at Shen Wanzhen and said with concern: "Zhen'er, is your body okay recently?" ”

When Shen Wanzhen saw her and asked her, she hurriedly stood up, lowered her eyes and replied meekly: "Father Lao remembers, my mother makes soup and water in the big kitchen all day long, and her body is already very good." ”

Master Shen looked at his wife's eyes with a little approval, and said: "You are busy with family affairs, and you are still in charge of the affairs of the house, you have worked hard, it is rare for you to be virtuous and kind-hearted, and I can rest assured." ”

Wu looked at Shen Wanzhen's eyes with kindness, and said gently: "The master is busy with outside affairs, and the concubine should share the worries of the master."

Shen Wanzhen sat next to Wu, her mother-in-law always had a smile on her face, but her eyes were bottomless, her expression in the light and shadow was quite ambiguous, she fell into deep thought, and she couldn't hear what was said in the room next.

Mama Yan's eyelids, who were not far from her, pressed even lower, but Wu's every move did not escape her eyes.

Master Shen went to the mansion, and the Wu family took the concubines and children to greet the old lady and went to the old lady's main house.

Wu took the second room people out of the back door, along the east-west sandwich road, to a large courtyard behind the south hall, five main rooms at the door, two hand-copying verandahs, and a few maids standing in front of the door.

When she walked to the door, the little maid lifted the curtain and said, "The ladies and girls in the second room have come to greet the old lady." ”

When I entered the door, I saw that the big room and the fourth room had arrived early, and the eldest lady and the fourth lady each took their children and gathered around the old lady, and the old lady was full of family fun.

The second lady first kowtowed to the old lady to say goodbye, and then met a few concubines.

The old lady beckoned Bao'er to come to her, Zhang hurriedly pushed forward, the old lady hugged her arms, and said with a smile: "This kid's eyebrows and eyes have grown, and he is becoming more and more like the second child." ”

asked the second wife again: "The second child has gone to the yamen."

Wu got up and said respectfully: "Get up early and leave."

The old lady looked at Wanzhen again and said, "The three girls are so neat?" ”

Wanzhen leaned over and said respectfully: "Thanks to the blessing of the ancestors, it's so neat."

As she was talking, the little girl outside the door said, "The third lady came to say hello to the old lady."

The third lady came in from outside, and everyone looked behind her, and Twilight followed behind delicately in new clothes, her face crimson and delicate.

The third lady stepped forward and saluted, "The daughter-in-law greets the old lady."

The old lady said, "Excuse me."

He beckoned the maid and said, "Move the chair to your third wife."

The third lady sat down.

The old lady said to Twilight Spring, who was standing behind the chair, "Whose child is this, so smart and freshly dressed."

The third lady got up hurriedly and said with a smile: "The old lady forgot, this is the twilight spring in the daughter-in-law's house, the lord likes her and wants to lift her, and the daughter-in-law also likes her to be sensible, and has always had this heart, so she opened her face and put it in the house."

Shen Sanye has no fame on him, and he manages the Shen family's business.

Wanzhen looked at the corner of Wu's mouth with a mocking smile.

thought to himself: "Only the second and third rooms of the four sons of the Shen family are born to the old lady, and the second wife goes to Beijing, so it will naturally be the turn of the third room for the housekeeping right."

The old lady smiled and said kindly, "Come and let me see."

The third lady was busy pushing Duchun and said, "The old lady lifts you up, go quickly", Duchun was colorful, Jiaodi stepped forward, knelt down and bowed.

The old lady took Twilight's hand and praised with a smile: "Good, good Peugeot girl." I thought to myself, these three daughters-in-law have always tied men too tightly, and the heirs of the three houses are thin, and now there is only one official brother who is out of the house, although he doesn't look down on the third daughter-in-law, it is not good to meddle in the affairs of the son's room, and now the third daughter-in-law is sensible, and she offers to give her husband a room, which is no better.

The eldest lady said with a smile: "Which girl should I be, it turned out that the third brother touched it last time, and the younger brother and sister didn't follow, and the hair was made a rough girl."

Because of this, the old lady brought her son to scold: "Soft goods, even the daughter-in-law can't be held hostage", and beat the daughter-in-law again.

The third lady blushed and said: "It's all the daughter-in-law who was ignorant in the past, so let the old lady worry", the third lady hid the jealousy in her eyes,

The old lady said, "There is no need to mention the past."

Wanzhen looked at the people in the black room, all dressed brightly, the children of the four rooms alone, Brother Rong and the nine girls were dressed shabby, and hid behind the people, describing obscene.

The fourth old man was a concubine, and the old lady didn't care about it back then, and she didn't care about it in terms of fame, so she spent some silver and got a job in the county government.

Wanzhen looked at a person standing in the shadows under the window, silent, as if nothing in the room had anything to do with her, the eldest girl Shen Suxian, her half-worn clothes were washed white, this is also a poor person, her biological mother is the old lady's concubine, and the old lady is not on good terms, the old lady has been suppressing her marriage, and now it is over double ten, no one cares.

The eldest lady Zhou watched this play coldly, and disdained it from the bottom of her heart, the eldest master's biological mother died early and has been raised in the old lady's house, although the surface is the same as her own life, but the eldest wife is too late, and the old lady's body is not good, so she insists on holding on until the second wife is too far into the door, and the housekeeping power is handed over to the second wife Wu, and she is only able to take care of her life.

Zhou was a little dissatisfied with the old lady, but smiled and said to the second wife: "Brother and sister will go back to Beijing this time, give me a few words for your niece", and the daughter of the long house married to the capital.

Everyone was congratulating Du Chun, but the eldest lady came to say this, and Wu understood and agreed with a smile.

After making a fuss for a while, Mrs. Shen couldn't look down on the children and grandchildren of the two houses, and said, "Let's go back!" I'm tired too."