Rong Qi had already stepped forward and saluted Aunt Zheng San at the door: "Aunt Kangjian, I ......" Aunt Zheng pulled Rong Qi up: "What are you doing with such a salute, it doesn't make people laugh." Let's get inside. I've been thinking about you! ”

Rong Qi should be, seeing that Yanran has already carried Zheng Xiaodi in, she has also grown up, and she is even more prominent, such a beauty, the future must be ambitious, and now she is ......, Rong Qi feels that her thoughts are wrong, Aunt Zheng treats herself so well, how can she covet her daughter?

Aunt Zheng Sanjie let Rong Qi into the house, and when she saw that Rong Qi refused to sit down, she said angrily: "You, you are always so polite." That's it, I'll call your uncle back, and you can give us a good New Year's greeting! Rong Qi just made an arch, and Aunt Zheng asked the little girl to hurry up to find Uncle Zheng to come back, and asked Yanran to pour tea.

Yan Ran had already hid in the house with her younger brother, and when she heard her mother calling to pour tea, she sighed, and poured two cups of tea from the curtain, Rong Qi could only see that the curtain was lifted slightly, and the hand that came out of the tray was white and delicate, wearing a gold ring inlaid with sapphires, and the gold on her wrist was hidden in her sleeve.

"This kid, the older he gets, the more restrained he becomes, Brother Rong is also something you've seen, why don't you even pour a cup of tea at this time!" Aunt Zheng scolded her daughter, took the tray and brought a cup of tea to Rong Qi: "Look at your dress, you have found your uncle." What kind of physiology is your uncle doing, we are in this capital, and we are also considered indigenous, if there is anything you want to help, you can say something! ”

Rong Qi, who had already sat down, got up again and saluted Aunt Zheng: "Thank you, auntie!" My uncle opened a salt grower in Yangzhou, and this time he went to Beijing to see what kind of local products store he might open in Beijing! ”

Open a salt plant, this is a big business. Aunt Zheng couldn't help but glance at Rong Qi, Rong Qi has experienced a lot of things over the years, so she naturally understood why Aunt Zheng looked at it, and said busily: "Uncle's family, the business is big, I'm young, I'm just going to help!" ”

Aunt Zheng heard this, but she was just a buddy, and couldn't help sighing: "It's hard for you!" Rong Qi smiled again: "Uncle can take me in, it's a surprise, it's always bad if you complain again!" ”

"I look at your appearance, little brother Rong, the heavenly court is full and the bridge of your nose is high, you are blessed! In the future, help your uncle well, and in a few years, it will be enough to find a good daughter-in-law! Rong Qi hurriedly got up again and thanked Aunt Zheng. Aunt Zheng gossiped with Rong Qi here, Yanran teased her younger brother in the house, and Zheng Xiaodi played with her sister for a while, then twisted her body and wanted to go out, but Yanran couldn't resist him, so she let him out, and took an unfinished needle and thread to make it.

While doing needlework, Yanran listened to what her mother and Rong Qi said, and couldn't help but smile slightly after listening to a few words, this little brother Rong is better than Xiao Brother Cheng.

"Brother Rong is here, and I don't know, if you know, the jar of good wine at home won't be opened yesterday!" Uncle Zheng's voice had already sounded, Rong Qi hurriedly got up to salute Uncle Zheng, and invited Uncle Zheng and his wife to take a seat, and he gave New Year's greetings to Uncle Zheng and his wife seriously.

Third Uncle Zheng couldn't help but be overjoyed, and after accepting the courtesy, Rong Qi sat aside and said with a smile: "In these years, it is difficult to find a young man like you who has been courteous for several years. It's just that why I only see you, but not that little brother Cheng? ”

"On that day, I separated from Brother Cheng, he went to Jiangxi and I went to Yangzhou, my uncle was fine, although I didn't know the address, when I asked in Yangzhou, I knew that he lived by the river under the bridge, but Brother Cheng's side, not only didn't know where the address was, but I didn't even know where it was, Jiangxi is so big, it is to go over step by step, although I am thinking about Brother Cheng, I don't know where he is at the moment!"

Rong Qi said 1510, and Uncle Zheng touched his beard: "Hey, this matter of looking for relatives, or coincidentally, there are seven or eight years of looking for one, now that you are here, and you are here to pay New Year's greetings, you must eat here." Big girl! ”

"You, why do you call her a big girl again?" Aunt Zheng said to her husband in disgust, Zheng Sanshu only smiled, and said to Yanran, who walked to the door and lifted the corner of the curtain: "You take out the venison that day that old lady rewarded and hand it over to the kitchen, I, I want to have a drink today!" ”

It turns out that she is not only called Yanran, but also a girl! Rong Qi couldn't help but smile when she heard this nickname, Yan Ran just took out the plate of venison and handed it to the little maid to let her take it to the kitchen to cook, and saw a smile on Rong Qi's lips, and couldn't help but raise the curtain a little higher, glared at him, and then put down the curtain and continued to do needlework!

Rong Qi was eating at Zheng's house, and Yanran didn't come out to eat, and when Rong Qi was sent away, Aunt Zheng San came into the house to look for her daughter, and saw that she had only made half of the shoes on the table and her daughter had finished it, so she took it and took a look, and saw that the needlework was much finer than herself, and she wanted to complain that her daughter opened her mouth: "They all say that you don't use needlework in the New Year, so that you have been busy for a year, and you can rest, why did you finish these shoes for me?" ”

"Mother, you also said it, but it's just for a good rest for the New Year, I'm in it, and I don't have any heavy work to do, so I'm tired. If I don't help you make these shoes, will my dad wait until the end of the Chinese New Year to wear new shoes? ”

Yanran's sensible and intimate is the most pleasing to Aunt Zheng, and it is also what worries Aunt Zheng, after hearing her daughter's words, she patted her daughter's hand: "You, you are too sensible and caring." Otherwise, when Mrs. wanted you to enter the house, you cried and made a fuss and refused to go, and Mrs. would be disgusted when she heard it! ”

"Mother, what did you do about those things? Besides, at that time, how many people were staring at the position of my grandfather! If I really cry and refuse to go, my wife will be disgusted with me, and I will not be equally disgusted with my grandfather and father. We, after all, are the subordinates of the Hou Mansion, even if we really want to go out, we must go out in a dignified manner, not be driven out by the master like that! ”

Yanran's words made Aunt Zheng feel a little sour in her heart, and she held her daughter's hand tightly: "You were still young at that time, but now you are fifteen, the eldest girl, your life, do you really accompany the eldest lady out of the pavilion and go over there with a little girl?" ”

Or, Aunt Zheng didn't dare to say it, she was not worthy of being a little girl, she was simply accepted by her uncle, if she had no children or daughters, she would just accompany the eldest lady for a lifetime! Even if you have children and daughters, like Aunt Wu who is an aunt, it looks very good, but if you think about it, how can you prepare a rich dowry for your daughter and marry her daughter to a wealthy family? At that time, can't you still borrow the momentum of the Hou Mansion?

"Mother, look, you're crying again, this is still the New Year, don't worry, I have an opinion!" Yanran saw that there were tears in her mother's eyes, and hurriedly hugged her mother's arm to comfort her.

"I can tell you well, other people's families want their daughters to be aunts, and the family is overbearing outside, so I don't envy it. Even if any of the gentlemen or uncles take a fancy to you, you have to push it! Aunt Zheng was comforted and sour in her heart, and patted her daughter's arm and said.

Yanran hugged her mother's arm and shook it: "Mother, I know!" I'm a granddaughter from my grandmother, how can I be confused by those superficial scenery? As if Yan Ran remembered something, she took out a purse from her shirt: "I almost forgot, this is the old lady's reward during the Chinese New Year, I see that this peanut gourd is cuter than in previous years, and I want to leave it for my brother!" ”

Yan Ran opened the purse and took out two small gold bills, these two small gold bills were made into the shape of a peanut gourd, although they were not heavy but the workmanship was meticulous, although Aunt Zheng complained that her daughter should not think about her younger brother, she still brought her son from outside, and Yan Ran had already found a little red rope to string these two small gold bills into a string for Zheng Xiaodi to bring.

The white and tender arms are lined with red ropes, and the peanut gourd is shining with golden light, which is very cute. Aunt Zheng looked at her daughter and secretly decided in her heart that no matter what her daughter thought, she must first look at the son-in-law candidate, otherwise, even if she is released, where will she find a good son-in-law at that time?

Yanran stayed at home for two days, then packed up her things and went into the Hou Mansion on an errand, and walked to the back door of the garden as usual, the door opened as usual, but the door was not guarded by a mother-in-law as usual, but a pretty maid, seeing that Yanran was going to come in, this maid took a closer look and said with a smile: "Sister Yanran is going to enter the house, you can go around the other side today." ”

It seems that the master of the Hou Mansion wants to entertain guests in the garden, which is also a common thing, Yanran smiled and said to the maid: "Thank you sister, I look at you, like serving the young lady?" The maid had already laughed: "Sister has good eyesight, originally I thought that my sister wouldn't recognize someone like me who has been being rough!" ”

Although Mrs. Zeng brought people, but in a courtyard, there are always close servants and errands, and the people brought by Mrs. Zeng can only be in critical places. The rest will have to be made up by the Zeng government. Before Mrs. Zeng got married, her maiden housekeeper came over specially and together with the housekeeper of the Hou Mansion, carefully selected the people to serve Mrs. Zeng. In the half month of selection, the place where the people of the Hou Mansion lived, it was called a lively, just to be able to pick up and serve the young lady, you know, this is the future mother of the Hou Mansion, serving her is more faceless than serving others.

The maid who was talking at the moment, Yanran remembered that her mother was in charge of pulping and washing in the Zhao family's yard, and she had also gone to find someone to intercede in those days. Yan Ran naturally remembered her, and when she heard the maid say this, she smiled faintly: "They are all serving people, which one is more noble than others?" ”

"Sister Yanran is really different from others." Seeing that this maid was going to continue to tout, Yanran was about to go around to the other side, when she heard a voice from behind the maid: "Xiao Tao, let you guard the courtyard gate here, how can you talk to people, this voice, the big one can alarm the young lady in the pavilion!" ”

The author has something to say: I started to get excited about the intrigue and small fight of the maid as soon as Mao first wrote