"On the day when the sixth sister and the ceremony were finished, after the tall family returned to the guest house, they abandoned everyone, and only the family of three talked. But the old slave still inquired, saying that the second young master of the Gao family immediately knelt down to his parents and begged to marry the six girls of our family, and then the old man went to find the old lady all night, but the old lady had not leaked out of the slightest wind, and I don't know the result......", an old woman with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes respectfully stood under the garden and replied with her crossed hands, her voice was very soft.

"Xiexie's three mothers." , A small money bag was stuffed into the old woman's hand, and Zhou Manyin, who thanked her, had a dark face.

How much does he like her? The cold reception that everyone can see since childhood, and the rumors that have been spreading ruthlessly for a while, Gao Wei can still treat the sixth sister like this, which shows that Zhou Manyun is indeed the luckiest among the sisters. Because his grandfather retreated to the forest, although the grandchildren's marriages were all found in the surrounding households, most of them only had a background and were not obvious, and only Zhou Manyun had the blue eyes of the uncle of the Gao family, and he firmly occupied the first place.

Zhou Manyin sighed lightly and turned back to the path leading to his boudoir, feeling uninterested. She didn't fight or ask for it, but she suddenly felt more that people in the world could not be compared with each other, these days, Aunt Bai and her mother had leaked in front of her.

The mother-in-law who collected the money looked at Manyin's back and smiled, put the money bag into her arms, and walked away with her sleeves. In the Zhou Mansion, the money and silver of this docile five girls were collected steadily.

Since he was young and used money and goods to buy the maids beside his sister Manyan, Zhou Manyin has been a little uncontrollable and loves to give some favors to his subordinates, just to know more things to keep them safe. Aunt Bai has been trained twice. Seeing that there was no effect, he went with her, although Zhou Manyin's style was a bit petty. But Aunt Bai's hope for Manyin's future is just a wife who has a mediocre family background and can live a single life in a small family. It is also a hobby that this girl took money and silver to buy peace of mind, just like some people like to see the sky and throw useless incense money into Buddhist temples and Taoist temples.

The money Zhou Manyin gave was indeed wronged, less than half an hour after her money was sold, and a pair of sisters in the second room also got the same news, and they didn't spend half a copper.

When I heard the meaning of the reply, this was not only said in Xinan's Xiaozhou Mansion, but also outside the mansion. Man Shu's face immediately changed in shock, and she pulled her sister Man Jing, who was still interested in urging the follow-up gossip, to find her second brother Zhou Chen. The eldest brother is the father. Although Zhou Bai, the father of the second room, is still alive, over the years, the sisters have been accustomed to bringing big and small things to their brother.

After handing over his two younger sisters to his wife Yang to appease, Zhou Chen rushed out of the small courtyard in a hurry to investigate another wave of new rumors. Sixth sister Zhou Manyun's ceremony, the grand collective attendance of the Gao family has already made him feel uneasy, such words were thrown out, it was inevitable that he would think that the Gao family, who had been away from Huocheng for two days, was using his hands to force Gao Zhou's marriage contract.

hurriedly made a circle from the cultivation heart hall, and received a report from the personal attendant, Zhou Chen carried the corner of his robe. With a gloomy face, he stepped into the gate of the Huanxiang Temple.

Since Zhou Shen was kidnapped, Zhou Bai, who returned to Xiao Zhou's mansion, still lived in the Huanxiang Courtyard, which had been imprisoned for several years. The Huanxiang Courtyard, which occupies the largest area of Xiaozhou Mansion, is still lively, full of warblers and swallows, of course, not as many rooms as one person before. Zhou Bai's new favorites hung under the corridor of the main courtyard, staying in the cage and singing softly, competing with their singing voices.

Many birds still go to various places to collect and come back to pay respects. Zhou Bai, who was in the prime of life and was forced by Mrs. Zhou to have such a hobby. Although it burns money, in the eyes of his son Zhou Chen, it is much better than playing with a woman to wear Dansan and burn his life.

Even if you can hear someone tell you. also looked at the corner of Zhou Chen's robe, Zhou Bai still pinched a thin grass stalk without raising his head and teased the black-feathered wren brother in a lacquered bamboo cage. A few years ago, the body that was hollowed out by the powder couldn't be raised back and shrunk into a gray squirrel jacket, and compared with the tall Zhou Chen next to him, he was even shorter, and his expression was very leisurely.

Zhou Chen snorted lightly and asked in a deep voice: "Father, the matter of that kid from the Gao family kneeling and begging for the sixth sister was what you told those bird friends when you went out?" ”。

Zhou Bai smiled, his eyes still fell on the bird, and he replied casually: "Yes!" What I said is also the truth, the Gao family boy told me personally. Compared to the eldest brother Zhou Song, who has been writing books behind closed doors, Zhou Bai, who now has the acquiescence of Mrs. Zhou to allow him to go to the street, has become a little old man who carries a birdcage around every day, and all the friends he makes are idlers in the market.

And because of his comfort and persuasion of Gao Wei after the kidnapping, Gao Wei also felt close to his uncle. When the Gao family was studying in Huocheng, Zhou Bai occasionally talked about his own studies and old things as an official in front of him, and he forgot about his year. This time, the Gao family came to Huocheng, and Gao Wei also came to visit Zhou Bai.

When Zhou Chen heard his father's explanation, he angrily grabbed the grass stalk that was still stabbing the bird, and threw it on the ground.

The bird, which had not opened its mouth in the cage, suddenly opened its wings and let out a scream, which was extremely piercing.

"The Gao family's mind is not right, you still help him like this!" , Zhou Chen's indignant slap slapped the cage that shook with the hook, and after a few years, the ruthlessness of the shape and the outside immediately choked the black wren brother and shrank to the corner of the cage.

Zhou Bai is a father after all, and in the face of his violent son, he still replied slowly: "A virtuous wife and a husband have few troubles, if he marries a good woman like Man Yun, he will naturally be as respectful as his father and your mother." ”

Respectful to each other? Respect each other is as much as ice. Zhou Chen, who just wanted to refute it, smacked the meaning, looked at the thin figure walking in front of him incredulously, and asked, "Dad, ......what do you mean?"

"I'm not bored!" , cleaned his hands in a copper basin on a small table in front of the door, Zhou Bai wiped the water stains on his hands with a handkerchief, and whispered: "I don't know what the Gao family means." That family pretended to be Joe's! wants to marry the daughter of the Zhou family, and has been picking and choosing, as if our Zhou family wants to climb high. I couldn't wait, so I had to pull out some of the thoughts that Gao Wei had told me. ”

"But what if the fake becomes true and the sixth sister can really get married?"

"Will the old man be willing? Will your sixth sister be willing? As long as the rumor goes to Zhou Manyun's little girl, she will find a way to drive Gao Wei's boy away. The girls of the Zhou family want face! The sixth sister doesn't want it. Will they be willing to pick it up without a face? Zhou Bai raised his eyebrows and squinted at his tall son. His face was full of disdain.

"Daddy!" , Zhou Chen's tone softened. But he still scolded disapprebukely: "If you do this, a bad one will make the reputation of the sixth sister worse." ”

She wasn't born to me, I need to take care of it? If she is forced to marry, she will marry by mistake, and if others are wronged, she will not be wronged? Zhou Bai rolled his eyes disdainfully, but his words turned a corner, and said, "Sister Yun has had an idea since she was a child, and she has a fixed mind, and ordinary things can't hurt her...... Have free time. You'd better worry about your two hard-working sisters. By the beginning of spring next year, there will be no one to decide, so I will send them both to Jianyang Palace. ”

"Daddy! You can't talk like that......"

"It's not nonsense, it's serious!" , Zhou Bai shook his head and snorted coldly: "My self-born children, I want to fight and kill, and I want to change the country to the abbot, can't I?" ”

Zhou Chen stopped talking. looked at his father's very serious eyes, arched his hand, and retreated, his heart was confused. My own father. But he never figured out what Zhou Bai was thinking all day long, and the sentence of sending a woman to the palace estimated that if it wasn't for Grandpa's presence, it would have really become a fact.

"To be old and not die is to be a thief! The old man is alive. I don't have any hope in my life, a rare pair of twins who are blind...... When the old man is gone. What can you do with that, Zhou Manjie has exchanged benefits? ", in the sound of birdsong in the promenade. Zhou Bai pinched his fingers and counted the ages of his father and his children, and his eyes were full of sadness.

Old lady Zhou's arrangement, the Zhou family has also seen it clearly over the years. Zhou Ke, who was steady and conservative, directly inherited the Zhou family as the eldest grandson of the big house, and handed over a new business fully supported by the family to Zhou Chen in the second room as compensation.

It's just that the sons who were competing at the beginning were all abandoned and arranged to raise the old in advance.

What are you doing in your life?

A thin hand with bruised muscles took off a birdcage under the porch and held the bird in the cage tightly in the palm of his hand. 、

A grim smile flashed on Zhou Bai's face, and he whispered into his palm: "The Gao family has never looked up to me in her life, but if she has a nephew who is as scheming as me and is obsessed with women, what will she think?" ”。 is also the second son, and there is also a relatively mediocre brother on it, and he also has to obey the orders of his parents to marry a woman he didn't want to marry at all, Gao Wei's mind is in the hands of Zhou Bai, who has had a similar struggle.

What do you think? The little bird, which was firmly clasped in its hands, didn't know it, and just kept trying to flutter its trapped wings. The bird's appearance is already weird, with a curved yellow beak, dark green feathers, and a little blood red on the tail, which is pinched by Zhou Bai, which makes it even more unsightly.

Zhou Bai smiled again, and as soon as his big hand was released, the little bird, which had been hungry all day, immediately spread its wings and fled, and went to forage for food along the tame route.

The row of birds under the corridor saw that a companion had flown off, and they all began to make noise endlessly, and Zhou Bai, who turned back to the house in the chaos, looked even thinner, and the smile on his face became stronger.

Birds want to eat insects, or they want to cry out of their own needs, and he has strictly followed the old man's requirements, and has not done anything bad, at most he has scratched the itch of the bird by the stalk of grass.

"From the old to the young, they will pinch me Zhou Jingting! Even my own mother didn't put me in my eyes, others gave birth to treasures, and I gave birth to roots and grass ......", Zhou Bai, who was lying on his back, muttered, staring at the empty beam, imagining the flight trajectory of the bird that was released by himself at the moment.

The warm winter sun shone on a small courtyard of the Zhou family, which was closed all the year round, and a group of servant women were talking and funny around an old woman sitting on a chair in the courtyard basking in the sun.

The white-haired Mrs. Zhou was repeating the situation of entering the palace as a girl, and just said that she was peeking at Emperor Wuzong in the Empress Dowager's palace, and the upturned Lan obliquely pointed to a wood hibiscus not far away where the flowers had withered, and said softly: "At that time, Bixia heard that I was the daughter of the Xie family, and immediately praised Zhong Lingyuxiu, who was a hundred-year-old family, and wanted to gather here for you...... Insect! Bugger! There are insects...... I've got worms on my body, and I've got maggots......"

Mei Haode recalled only for a moment, and inexplicably turned into a sharp scream.

The servants who had already accepted their fate, as usual, were busy and unhurriedly carrying people, moving chairs, and the courtyard that was still lively just now suddenly disappeared.

They walked too quickly, and missed that there was a little bird with a yellow beak and green feathers standing on the flowers covered with warm sun, with a half-remnant green leaf under its paws, and a fat white worm body that had just been dug out of the soil in its mouth with a curved beak, and it was already halfway in.

Seeing that there was no human voice, the strange-looking bird jumped even more boldly on the ground, digging the dirt pit with its claws, and looked for its own food again. (To be continued......)

PS: From now on, one chapter a day, no more, to prepare for the Spring Festival. In other words, let's save up and watch if you have something to see. Besides, I often save up and save, and zuihou can't pick it back, haha! In those years, we used to follow the lost text...... There should be more people than those who are lost, right?