In the early autumn of Xinchou, the sky is clear and clear, there is not even a cloud shadow, the breeze blows gently, blowing away the heat of late summer, it is the good weather of autumn high and refreshing.

The red maple on both sides of Suzaku Street is bright red like fire, the street is full of traffic, today is the 70th birthday of Jiang Ling, the Duke of Rongguo, the people who come to celebrate the birthday are endless, the owners of the Song Mansion and the Rongguo Mansion have been busy since a few months ago, entertaining visitors from all over the world who come to celebrate the birthday.

Jiang Yuanyi leaned on the carriage tiredly with her eyes slightly closed, she didn't sleep well last night, and she woke up a little sad this morning.

"Madame has arrived." A respectful voice came from outside the carriage, Jiang Yuanyi opened her eyes, but her body did not move, but turned her head to look at the glass mirror on the side, in which a face with perfect makeup was revealed, and she subconsciously threw a little more powder on her face. Years of career as a noble lady have made Jiang Yuanyi's eyebrows a little more serious and dignified, and her temperament is very graceful.

"Please get out of the car." Two respectful voices came, the curtain of the car was opened, two young women stood outside the car, she married Pei Er and gave birth to five sons and two daughters, Pei Er was named the founder of the county from the second grade, and all the heirs under his knees were descendants, Jiang Yuanyi's eldest son and second son have become married, Jiang Yuanyi's Yi Nanyun does not know how many noble women are envied.

Jiang Yuanyi was waited by two daughters-in-law to get off the car, and at the same time, a carriage of the same level stopped opposite her, and a young woman helped a noble lady to get out of the car. This noble lady looks about forty years old, compared to Jiang Yuanyi's heavy makeup, she only has a faint fat powder on her face, and although the corners of her eyes and eyebrows are marked by time, her quiet and gentle temperament often makes people ignore her age and immerse herself in her elegance that has been precipitated by the years.

"Second cousin." Jiang Yuanyi bowed slightly at the noble lady, and the person who came was Jiang Mingyue.

Jiang Ling's seventieth birthday, even the Jiang clan people who were far away in Tianshui came from thousands of miles away, don't say that Jiang Yuanyi, Jiang Mingyue and other people in the capital, the two cousins walked to the inner room together with a shallow smile, followed by the juniors of the two. Jiang Mingyue is over fifty years old, but except for some twists and turns in her early married life, her life has been very happy after marrying Duan Zhiyan, and her carefree life has made her look good, standing side by side with the graceful and dignified Jiang Yuanyi, who seems to be smaller than Jiang Yuanyi.

"Erniang, Qiniang, you are here." When Jiang Heng, the wife of Jiang Heng, the Duke of Changguo, heard that Jiang Mingyue and Jiang Yuanyi were coming, she hurriedly came out to greet her.

"Second sister-in-law." The two saluted Wang at the same time.

Wang smiled and let the two of them go into the wing room to watch tea, there have been a lot of female relatives in the house, all of them are close relatives of Jiang Mansion, they are usually familiar, and they don't need Wang's introduction to pull the two to talk, Wang is not polite to them, after a few words of greeting, they went out to be busy again, and the female relatives laughed for a while and spontaneously entertained the guests with Xie's, Wang's and Yan's.

Jiang Yuanyi looked around, but didn't see Xie Ze and Shen Qin, none of the older female elders in the family were there, not even her aunt, and asked a niece and daughter-in-law: "How many aunts and uncles are there?" ”

"They are all accompanying the crown princess in the inner courtyard." The niece and daughter-in-law said.

"The crown princess is here too?" Jiang Yuanyi was not surprised that the crown princess would come, the queen would have a son of the crown prince, the prince's maid was filial, and the princess would not dare to be filial to the queen even if she was acting, but she didn't expect the princess to come so early.

"The crown prince and the crown princess came before dawn." The nephew and daughter-in-law said that it was difficult to hide the envy in their eyes, and the emperor and queen knew the love of the emperor and queen from top to bottom, and the two had been married for so many years, and the queen was only the queen by his side, and he was also very kind to the Jiang family.

Jiang Yuanyi bowed slightly, changed the topic with her nephew and daughter-in-law, always with a perfect smile on her face, and her two daughters-in-law stood behind her without saying a word and waited for her.

Jiang Mingda was impatient with the chaos in the front yard, and took Ah Mei to the garden pavilion to hide, she was a few years older than Jiang Mingyue, nearly sixty years old, compared to Jiang Mingyue, who was skilled, she was already a lady with a wide heart and a fat body, and her temples and hair were white, when she saw Jiang Yuanyi's two daughters-in-law, she chuckled, "This everyone should be really imposing." It's a shame that the relationship with the Du family didn't work out back then, otherwise my sister-in-law would only be distressed by watching her daughter now. ”

She and Jiang Mingyue did not have a daughter-in-law to serve, Jiang Mingda's sister-in-law married to the Jingzhao Du family, Pei Er had intended to let his eldest son marry her sister-in-law's daughter, but the Du family thought that the Pei family was too shallow, and the family did not agree except for Pei Er, and Pei Er later married with Annan Duhu Liu Ting, and the Liu family, like the Pei family, belonged to the new Han nobles. Since Jiang Yuanyi married Pei Er, Jiang Mingda has never taken a fancy to her, and Jiang Mingda will never take the initiative to greet Jiang Yuanyi unless necessary.

Jiang Mingyue shook her head slightly, "My daughter-in-law is also someone else's daughter." She has suffered enough of being mean to everyone, and she loves her daughter-in-law a lot, and her daughter-in-law gets along well with her, and the two are like mother and daughter.

Jiang Mingda shook the fan lightly, "As for the ink pit of the Pei family, even if the jade is dyed black when it enters, don't say that she can only be regarded as a piece of pottery at most, and put the shelves of Mrs. Erpin all day long, self-righteous, but I don't know that she has become someone else's joke." Whose daughter-in-law is like her? The right to be the master of the house will be let go by itself. Jiang Mingda sneered, "How good she was with her sister-in-law back then, she even ignored her cousins for her sister-in-law, but now?" ”

At that time, Jiang Yuanyi did not hesitate to sprinkle salt on Jiang Mingyue's wound, did not hesitate to quarrel with Jiuniang outside, and funded the Pei family for so many years regardless of his reputation.

After Jiang Yuanyi married into the Pei family, because she was impatient to deal with the relatives of the Pei family, she had a rich dowry, and she couldn't look down on the Pei family's assets, so she didn't have the big account of the Pei family, Pei Yuantong and Pei Er didn't worry about letting her be in charge, the power of the Pei family has always been in Pei Yuantong and Pei second-hand, and later Pei Yuan was old and weak in the same year, and his energy was low, and it happened that Pei Lady lost her husband again, Pei Er felt sorry for her sister's widowhood, and Pei Auntie's son had grown up and married, so she took her sister and her underage niece to the house.

Mrs. Pei was thirty-six years old when she was widowed, and she didn't want to remarry, so she served Pei Yuantong wholeheartedly at home, and Pei Yuantong and Pei Er handed over the power of housekeeping to Aunt Pei. As a result, Aunt Pei was in charge of the family for less than a year, and she had a big quarrel with Jiang Yuanyi, asking Jiang Yuanyi to go back to her parents' house with the child to divorce. Of course, it was impossible for the Jiang family to let Jiang Yuanyi divorce for this matter, and after Jiang Jue and Jiang Da came forward to discuss with the Pei family, they still sent Jiang Yuanyi back to the Pei family, but the Pei family is still Pei Damiang's housekeeper, and Jiang Yuanyi only takes care of his own private property.

Even if Jiang Yuanyi's eldest son got married later, Jiang Yuanyi did not take the power from Aunt Pei by letting the eldest daughter-in-law take the power from Aunt Pei. Pei Er thinks that the eldest sister has worked hard to serve her father and housekeeper over the years, she is not very old, and her daughter-in-law is young, so she doesn't need to hand over the power now, and she is not in a hurry to wait for more than ten years. Whose daughter-in-law is in charge of the family as soon as they get married, it is not that there are no elders in the family.

This incident made the entire upper echelons of Chang'an know about it at that time, and everyone had seen enough of a joke between the Jiang family and the Pei family, and Jiang Yuanyi was also one of the few wives in charge of the family of Chang'an officials and eunuchs. The kinder people said that she did not like mundane affairs, and the blunt people said that she was a fool. As the wife of the house, isn't the family just waiting to be offered as a bodhisattva? You can't make your own decisions about anything. It is true that Jiang Yuanyi has had conflicts with Pei Er more than once for the sake of her children's marriage, and the marriage partner that Pei Er considers is not what she likes, but the only way she can suppress Pei Er is to go back to her parents' house.

In the past, when Jiang Yi, Jiang Zhun and Lu were there, there were still people in the second room for her to call the shots, but now the three of them are gone, the housekeeper is Xiao Cui's, Xiao Cui's doesn't care about this sister-in-law at all, every time she goes home, she copes with face, and Jiang Yuanyi hardly goes back to her parents' house alone, and only holds her children tightly in her hands, which causes her to be so strict with her daughter-in-law, and it is precisely for this reason that Jiang Mingda looks down on Jiang Yuanyi's style. She always does inappropriate things at inappropriate times, most of them don't need to rely on their mother's family at their age, but their mother's family needs their support and help, Jiang Yuanyi insists on jumping into the fire pit of the Pei family when someone supports her, and after she gets married, she doesn't know how to hold the power in her hands, who can blame her for being held hostage everywhere in her life?

Jiang Mingyue pursed her lips, she had already let go of the past, but the only thing she couldn't let go of was her child who didn't know whether it was a man or a woman, she said softly, "Life is all lived by herself." ”

Jiang Mingda agreed, the daughters of the Jiang family don't say that they marry well, but there is really no one like Jiang Yuanyi who lives a good life into a hard life, she suddenly said "Huh" softly, turned her head to Jiang Mingyue and smiled: "There is a good show to watch now." ”

Jiang Mingyue looked for prestige and saw a noble lady in her early thirties coming with her daughter-in-law, young grandson, and granddaughter, and the noble lady whispered and laughed with her daughter-in-law from time to time, with an intimate expression, "Isn't this Mrs. Fang?" Jiang Mingyue recognized the two, this lady is Jiang Yuanyi's ex-husband Guo Liu's house, and Guo Liu's aunt and cousin.

The two sisters looked at Jiang Yuanyi, and sure enough, her face had changed, and even Jiang Mingyue couldn't help but sigh this time.

Jiang Mingda sneered, "When she abandoned her husband and son, she raised her son with hard work, do you still expect people to give her son to you?" ”

Jiang Mingyue didn't understand Jiang Yuanyi's actions, how could a mother be willing to give up her child?

Half a year after Guo Liu's divorce from Jiang Yuanyi, he remarried his cousin Xiao Fang under his mother's decision, and Xiao Fang stayed in the capital to serve everyone and take care of Ah Fang after he married Guo Liu. Guo Liu in Yinshan ten years later, the initial establishment of a small county, the small Fang family to the side, the couple gave birth to two sons and two daughters in Yinshan, after the marriage of Ah Fang also took his wife to Yinshan, the family struggled in Yinshan, until five years ago Guo Liu returned to Beijing, at that time he was already the Ministry of Works, Ah Fang and his younger siblings are also very deep, and Xiaofang's good is like a biological mother and son.

Jiang Yuanyi wrote to his son more than once after his son got married, and also went to find Ah Fang, but Ah Fang only let his wife reply to the letter, and did not pay attention to Jiang Yuanyi's maternal love at all.

At this time, Xiao Xie walked over with a smile, "Eldest sister, second sister, the crown princess wants to see you." ”

The two stood up in surprise and joy and followed Xiao Xie inside. The princess in the inner hall was chatting happily with the elders, without putting on the princess's shelf, the princess has always respected the queen and the Jiang family, not only because Jiang Lu's wife is her aunt, but also because the queen loves her.

The prince married the princess Yan at the age of fifteen, the husband and wife are in love, the only fly in the ointment is that they have not been pregnant for five years, and the court has asked the prince to accept the side room of the twists and turns, all of which have been pressed down by the queen, and the queen even in order to relieve the pressure of the princess, and then the princess took the princess to live in the Jiangnan Palace for three years after two years of infertility, and the princess also lived up to everyone's high expectations and gave birth to a son last year, and was named the emperor's grandson by the saint at the beginning of this year.

Although Jiang Wei will not be like Queen Dugu, as long as a man takes a concubine, he will not look down on this person, but she has always thought that she should not do to others what she does not want, she does not like Zhao Heng to touch other women, and naturally she will not force her son to take a concubine, her son and daughter-in-law are affectionate, she is too late to be happy, how can she destroy it. When she gave birth to Ah Lu, she didn't give birth to a son for a long time, and her aunt didn't force her, what is she forcing her daughter-in-law to do now? Besides, she was born in the royal family, and there are constant disputes between her sons, not to mention the eldest son and the eldest son, she wants her grandson, but she doesn't want her grandson.

Jiang Wei's move made the crown princess grateful to this day, and she is also really close to the queen and the Jiang family. Jiang Ling's birthday she came early to celebrate her birthday, one is to add glory to the Jiang family, and the other is to reduce the fatigue of the elders, Jiang Ke and Mrs. Wang have passed away, Jiang Rin and Jiang Ling are old, they can't work too hard, as soon as the princess and the prince come, the elders have a reason to be lazy.