As soon as she finished speaking, the maid had already raised the curtain high: "Grandma Jiu is here." ”

Chen Si and Chen Qi couldn't help but rejoice, fortunately, they had finished fooling the eldest sister, otherwise this ninth aunt and grandmother would come and tell her to stir up the situation, maybe it wouldn't work.

This aunt is really an ancestral aunt.

Chen Jiu has always been a different character, even the appearance of entering the door is bigger than others, she has a snow-white face, peach blossom-like eyes, the noblewomen of the imperial capital are all pampered and proficient in the maintenance of beautiful skin, but no one can compare to Chen Jiu's unique snow-white skin, crystal and tender, and love to wear a dazzling red dress, extremely gorgeous, no matter where she stands, she is the most dazzling character.

Of course, I don't have to say that temperament, as a concubine, but she doesn't look like she is begging for a life under her mother-in-law's hands at all, she is just like a fire, don't look at Chen Si and Chen Qi are all concubines, Mrs. Yang is a shrewd and ruthless character under her hands, and Chen Jiu is just a concubine, but Chen Si and Chen Qi really don't dare to mess with Chen Jiu easily.

Chen Jiu's aunt went early, and she was born just a girl from a poor family, nothing surprising, and she didn't see much favor from Hou Ye, but Chen Jiu was very favored by Hou Ye, since she was a child, she loved like a palm bead, and she was pampered stronger than a serious concubine like Chen Si and Chen Qi.

Although she is a young girl, she is a concubine in the end, and she has no mother's support, so no one has ever seen such an inexplicable thing.

Chen Qi and Chen Jiu are not much different in age, and when they were children, they were also unconvinced, relying on their identity as their concubines to clean up Chen Jiu, but they were scratched by Chen Jiu a few times without saying anything, and when they turned around, they were punished by Hou Ye, and Mrs. Yang couldn't protect her.

After a few times, Chen Si, Chen Qi and this ninth sister are very uneasy.

In the middle of last year, I don't know what the Hou Ye said about moving the palace, but the palace decreed that he would marry Zhuo Yuanshan, a first-class protector general. Although the status of both parties is not very high, it can alarm the palace to issue a decree to give marriage, and it also caused the imperial capital to discuss for a long time.

Chen Jiu was still wearing a bright red dress, and when he came in to salute Mrs. Yang, he smiled happily when he saw Chen: "Big sister is also here, where is Xiaolu?" I guessed she came, and after looking around, there was no one. ”

Chen Jiu and Zhou Baolu are the most like-minded, and the first thing they do when they return to their parents' house is to find Zhou Baolu.

Chen has always disliked this little sister, when she got married, the youngest sister was only one year old, in fact, she was not familiar with it, but she went back to her parents' house on weekdays to listen to more instigation, and she also felt that she was too flamboyant, without the chastity of a lady, sometimes she felt that Zhou Baolu had developed this temper now, most of them were instigated by Chen Jiu, and naturally she was more and more disliked by her, and when she saw Chen Jiu asking her, she said lightly: "I don't know how to go, maybe I went to talk to the ladies who came to the house, right?" ”

"Who's there!" Chen Jiu said: "I went to the courtyard where the ladies were sitting and looked around, and I don't know where she went. She didn't come to play with me, but I got a good thing, and I kept it for her! ”

Chen Qi couldn't hold back a little, and couldn't help but say: "What good things did the ninth sister get, she only thought about Sister Lu, why didn't she show us?" I looked, fortunately, the eldest sister is back, Sister Lu is now under the control of the eldest sister, she is better than before, this time the ninth sister is here, don't call her over, it's better. ”

This really touched Chen's heart, and he only felt that if this was the case, his Lu'er was instigated by this unruly little sister.

Chen Jiu smiled brightly, beautiful and beautiful, but the words he said were not so good at all: "What I left for Sister Lu, Seventh Sister is worried about it?" I'm still afraid that Xiaolu will come over, but Xiaolu won't come, and I won't give this thing to Seventh Sister, and Seventh Sister doesn't have to ask me for it. I still don't understand, the seventh sister married such a rich family, there is nothing, why do you still think of us? ”

Chen Jiu has always spoken like this, she doesn't give face at all, she says what others can't say, and she doesn't seem to know the four words of resting things.

Chen Qidao is not good enough, facing this articulate little sister, her face is blue, the corners of Chen Jiu's mouth are the most neat, and before Chen Qi can organize the language, she crackles and says: "Didn't the seventh sister marry into the Dongwanghou family and become the young grandmother of the head of the family?" Looking at the big business of the Hou family in the east, there are mountains of gold and silver in the library, more than a dozen young ladies and young ladies, twenty or thirty young ladies and young ladies, all sit on three or four big tables for a meal, not to mention buying antiques outside the show, raising seven or eight outer rooms, and buying aunts to enter the house. The leakage in the fingers of the seventh sister is enough for us to eat for a lifetime, and she still thinks of me as a little thing! Not to mention the Dongwang Hou family, even the mother's private room is also a lot, could it be that the seventh sister has not succeeded? When I got married, the dowry was also seventy or eighty, and it was all important things, but there were no porcelain and wood that were useless and dead. Ouch Speaking of this, I can't help but laugh out loud again, I've seen a dowry on the root carving that is a dowry, inexplicably half a person tall and a tree root, has the seventh sister ever seen it? ”

These words not only made Chen Qi tremble, but even Chen Si and Mrs. Yang's faces turned blue, only Chen Shi was unconscious, Chen Jiumiao's eyes swept around, and secretly said that this group of fools didn't bother to stay and quarrel with them, and when several people were stunned, they didn't organize an effective counterattack, and turned around and left: "I'll go find Xiaolu!" ”

It was like a flame, and the door burned through, leaving the ground in a mess, and left.

Chen Qisheng was angry with Chen Jiu and cried: "Mother, the ninth sister has no rules like this, you should reprimand her." ”

Chen Jiu scolded people without dirty words, only pointed to the most painful place to pinch, Chen Qi married into the Dongwanghou Mansion three years ago, the high-ranking son-in-law, it looks like a cluster of flowers, and Mrs. Yang carefully selected, the aunt looks neat, the person is also promising, and he knows that he is progressive, but as Chen Jiu said, there are many children in the Dongwanghou family, and most of them have no interest, and the income in the house is less than one day, and the dowry of the young ladies of the single sons is already worried. Looking for ways to spend money in the public office, although Chen Qi's aunt is a good one, he can't withstand the drag of these brothers and sisters, and the better he is, the more he is the pillar of the family, Chen Qi has posted a lot of dowries in the past three years, and now he has to go back to his parents' house to find his mother to sponsor him.

Chen Jiu naturally understands very clearly, Chen Qi provoked her when he opened his mouth, she was the one who swallowed her anger, where did she poke the pain suddenly, she was not afraid of anyone, even Chen Si and Mrs. Yang brought it in, although Chen Jiu didn't look at the dowry, but it was clearly unfair, but it was a ready-made handle, and if she didn't shout it, it was not her style of nine girls!

Mrs. Yang is the wife of the family, in addition to her own dowry, she has also saved a lot of private houses over the years, two biological daughters are married, the dowry is naturally rich, and the concubine is married, although the house is a dowry of 10,000 taels of silver, where is Mrs. Yang willing to do it, through her single-handedly, the dowry is seventy or eighty lifted, looking no worse than the daughter-in-law, the red dowry is full of flowers, but it is worthless porcelain and other bulky things, but the silver shop is pitiful, Mrs. Yang's land is very clean, The worthless things in all corners of the treasury were collected, just as Yang Jiu said, there was a dowry, and it turned out to be a half-human-tall root carving!

Chen Jiu took it, it was really hard to burn it if it was chopped to make firewood, and now it was thrown by the door in their yard, and she would explain it to anyone who came

Release, it's in my dowry, it's pretty good here!

This carving is still serious and famous in the imperial capital.

Except for the Chen family, who didn't know what to say, this time Chen Jiu casually took it out and poked their hearts, the flesh on Mrs. Yang's angry face was shaking, and there was really no way to take Chen Jiu, let alone discipline, only if the premise of Hou Ye was wrong, Hou Ye also had to cool down.

Once, Wu Anhou even said to his face: "If you can't discipline you, don't worry about it, don't make trouble for her." ”

Chen Si also knew that Lu Dao's mother also had nothing to do with Chen Jiu, so he scolded: "This ruined household, I don't want to be cheeky, I dare to say anything, she can say what people can't say, and she doesn't take the face of this Hou Mansion seriously!" It's just a concubine, and the regulations in the public are as much as they are, and whoever is bad will not be able to deduct it! 10,000 taels to make seventy or eighty dowry, where is it easy? It's not that I'm afraid that her face won't look good, so my mother added something to her private room, and she didn't say that it was good, but it became a disadvantage to her? I don't know what to do! ”

As he spoke, he turned back to Chen and said, "Big sister has to be more and more careful, look at her like this, what can Sister Lu learn?" If this is the case in the future, where will the big sister's face go? The eldest sister just asked her mother, someone mentioned the ninth sister in front of her mother, what is the feeling in my mother's heart! ”

Chen only nodded yes when he said this, and became more and more determined.

Although Chen Xiqing didn't hear Chen Si and Chen Qi's provocation, he could look at everyone's expressions, and together with the temperament of everyone he was familiar with, he also knew that someone was giving birth to a moth, and specially came to remind Zhou Baolu to wake up.

Chen Xiqing said: "Don't look at your seventh aunt's dowry, and your grandmother always subsidizes her, but what can you do with that?" A few days ago, I heard that their family was going to sell a Zhuangzi, I think, in a few years, they will not be able to afford to eat, and the seventh brother-in-law is a filial son and grandson, and the dowry of the seventh sister must be filled in. At the beginning, it would have been better if your grandmother had picked a less promising one for her, and the two of them would have less conscience, but I was afraid that they would be able to keep some dowry! ”

Zhou Baolu is younger, and when she heard her say that the seventh aunt with a rich dowry and a subsidy from her mother's family is so difficult, she can't help but say worriedly at this time: "Since your dowry is nothing, can the little aunt be nervous?" I have deposited my money for you. ”

Chen Xiqing smiled and twisted Zhou Baolu's face: "Ouch, just your little bit of silver, you have to give it to people at every turn, how many times can you give it?" I heard you promise Brother An'er money a while ago! Don't worry about me, don't say that the dowry is not complete, even if it is complete, I can't look down on it, I will tell you this, and you and your sister-in-law I am not afraid to say it, you just keep it in your heart, your little aunt is not short of that little bit of silver. To put it mildly, the eldest sister is a bad one, I'm afraid I don't know how to save something for you, you should marry in a few years, how do you have to marry into the high gate, when the time comes, I will give you tens of thousands of taels of silver to press the box, no one can underestimate you. ”

If it was another young lady, hearing such words, I was afraid that she would blush suddenly, and she couldn't speak, but Zhou Baolu grew up with Zeng's family and Chen Xiqing, Chen Xiqing's pampering is the most unruly and doesn't care about etiquette, Zhou Baolu has also learned a few percent, and when she heard this, she smiled with her eyebrows: "Yo, so I'll rest assured, then I'll wait and make a fortune!" ”