The sun gradually moved towards the sky, and the door of the main hall of the inner courtyard of Huanxiang Courtyard was hidden, and the Min family, who was sitting inside, felt hot and upset for a while.

Min raised his sleeves to cover his lips, took a sip of tea, and took the opportunity to look at the few Zhou family girls who were still around. His two daughters are not picky, and Manqing in the second room is a little family who can't be put on the table, and the handkerchief in his hand is twisted.

Man Yun in the fifth room was like a wood carved clay statue.

Min couldn't help but sneer. No matter how much he brags about the first person among the granddaughters who were brought up by his father-in-law, after all, he was young, and he only heard that a cheap slave was pregnant, so he panicked. It's far worse than his daughter's calmness.

A mother-in-law quietly crept into the hall and reported the news in Min's ear.

Min nodded slightly.

After a while, Yinxia, who had been taken to the ear room for the doctor to see, was brought back into the hall, and still knelt in front of the Min family honestly, but a pair of hands were more deliberately protected on her belly than before.

"You're a chance! I really have a body......", Min's cold gaze was fixed on the back of Yinxia's hand, and he said with disdain: "You were originally from your mother's room, right?" But not long after returning to Huocheng, he hooked up with the second master without authorization, and at that time it should still be Mrs. Tai's filial piety, and according to the family rules, he should have killed you immediately! ”

Yinxia's eyes widened in panic, and her eyes wept and said, "Fourth Grandma Mingjian! At that time, the lady arranged for the slave maid to serve the second master's ......".

Yinxia, who had an open face, simply returned to the specific date and place of her loss according to the truth, and also pulled Yu's mother beside Mrs. Zhou as a witness.

The few ambiguous words brought out by the words made the unmarried girls blush.

"Enough!". Min slammed the table, and Yinxia immediately shut her mouth.

One high and one low. Sitting and kneeling, Min stared at Yinxia as if he was about to glare out something. Yinxia just cried blindly, her eyes did not dodge.

Yinxia's words were true for a while, and she couldn't tell the truth from the false, she was only found out and sent to Huanxiang Courtyard after Zhou Xianqing checked the maids in the house. On the face of it, it really doesn't look like Mrs. Zhou sent her son's room, at least the Gao family, who didn't live separately from Zhou Bai at that time, didn't know anything.

How is it possible to ask Mrs. Zhou, who is now imprisoned in Zhuangzi and heard that she has some confused and demented brains? Yu's mother is Yinxia's godmother, maybe the two Diao slaves have already skewered words a few years ago.

In the fifteenth year of Yongde, the Zhou family had a lot of funerals, and Zhou Bai had to serve Mrs. Tai's Qi decline and Zhou Zhe's great achievements, and he was not allowed to get close to his wife and concubine. Silently, without passing the daughter-in-law, he arranged for the maid next to him to use for his son. It really seems to be Mrs. Zhou's handwriting. At the beginning, Manyin's mother was arranged to be a four-room girl.

Min snorted coldly, and quickly glanced at Zhou Manyin, who was sitting quietly.

Although over the years, Min and Manyin, who have been recorded in their names, mother and daughter have gotten along well, but the longer Manyin grows, the more she looks like that woman, and it often makes Min wish that Manyin could grow up early and marry early.

"Now you are the only one left in the Huanxiang Courtyard, and I will leave two mothers-in-law to stay here with you first. The child in your belly is the second uncle's. As my brother and daughter-in-law, I don't dare to be self-conscious, and I have sent someone to inform the master, and the result is up to his old man to decide......"

Said coldly and flatly. Min took a few girls out of the Huanxiang Courtyard, and only Yinxia was left kneeling in the hall in the empty courtyard, with a few backs.

It's been a long time. Only then did two mothers-in-law step forward, one left and one right, and set up Yinxia.

I went back to the cot I had lived in. Yinxia lay flat on the bed and couldn't help but let out a low howl......

Stay until dusk. Zhou Xian instructed to leave Yinxia for the time being, and the news that she would dispose of it after giving birth to a child spread to the courtyard where the four rooms lived.

The Min family, who was staying in the eldest daughter Manyan's room, only replied, "I know", and sent the mother-in-law who reported the news to Huanxiangyuan.

Min had no time to take care of him, she took her two daughters to look at the few dowries that Manyan had prepared.

Mandarin ducks crossed their necks, butterflies danced with wings, and the brocade silk stacked on the table in front of the window was overlapped and pressed, dazzling in the candlelight.

The material is good, and the pattern is vivid, which is secondary, mainly the big red piled together, which is bright and dignified.

"Green Sprouts! Take them back into the box, remember to be light! ”

In the past two years, the Min family, who has seen a circle of wealth, put down the curtain of a hundred sons and hundred blessings that he was holding in his hand, took the hand of the eldest daughter, and said with a hint of joy and joy: "Wait for next year, Manyan should get married!" ”

The crimson color full of shame immediately extended from Zhou Manyan's beautiful face to Ji Jie's neck.

"Mother! Yan'er still has to stay at home to serve her mother...... Grandpa said that the elders and young are orderly, and they must marry Sister Manqing first before it will be their daughter's turn. ”

"Don't you dare to talk nonsense!" , The handkerchief in Min's hand immediately covered her daughter's mouth, and her eyes lightly provoked anger, and said, "The old man just talked about that." Manqing in the second room is a concubine, and he has such a father, and he wants to find a good relative, but it is difficult. It's not as good as my Manyan, it's just fate! ”

Min has never been a generous and introverted, and at this time, he was proud of his daughter's marriage, and he consciously raised his eyebrows.

Manmiao and Manqing in the second room are both concubines, Manmiao marries generally, Manqing's marriage has not yet been settled, and the next few girls are different in age, so after calculating it, in the past two or three years, the most solemn marriage daughter of the Zhou family should be Manyan's relatives.

Although Zhou Tan is the concubine of Aunt Bai, Mrs. Zhou has been recuperating in Zhuangzi in the countryside in the past two years, and as the only surviving concubine of Zhou Xian, Aunt Bai, who has always kept to herself, can be regarded as an elder who can barely count two in Zhou's house.

What's more, the father and brother of the Min family are angry, and her third uncle has been promoted to the left waiter of the household department a few years ago. Now the Min family is in the first place among several concubines. It is true that the Xie family's mother's family has a knighthood, but when the Xie family wrote to ask for the Zhou family's Luojing property, they were refused, and the Zhou Xie family became even more obviously hostile.

Therefore, unlike Zhou Manmiao, who married into an ordinary family in Huocheng, although the Guo family that Manyan has set is far away in Yiqing, it is a serious official eunuch.

Min boasted unabashedly, wading in Manyan. So some shy girls only lowered their heads, and smiled with half of their fire-like pink necks exposed.

Zhou Manyin sitting on the side. The eyebrows and eyes are crooked, and they are attached to reveal a sweet smile.

The table blocked Min's view. An embroidered shoe with a goose-yellow upper and a willow leaf tip kicked Manyin her calf.

After a while, Manyin's glutinous voice sounded timidly, "Mother, my daughter wants to go back to the room." Aunt Bai asked me to copy the Heart Sutra, and I haven't finished copying it yet. ”

Manyin's two black and white eyes are turning with rippling water waves, which is pitiful.

Min Shi frowned, and said gently: "Then Yin'er will go first!" ”。 Manyin, who has experienced life and death in Pingzhou, likes it very much. But I just can't see this familiar Chu Chu pitiful.

Respectfully saluting her mother, Manyin's small pink-green figure quickly flashed away from Manyan's door.

"I can't change the fox look!" , Manyan pursed her lips disdainfully, and the bottom of Liuxian's skirt revealed a tender goose yellow. It's been years since Manyin became a concubine, but Manyan, who was 12 years old at the time, has never been able to accept her sister who suddenly changed her identity.

Although he also agreed with his daughter's comments in his heart, Min still shouted: "Zhou Manyan! You're holding me back, that's your sister! ”

"Mother! She was born to a girl! Her mother is just like the Yinxia she saw in the daytime, she is a slut out of ten! ”

Min Shi was slightly stunned when he saw the undisguised fierceness on his daughter's face, and slowly sat down and took his daughter's hand. said solemnly: "Sister Yan'er, you are also the eldest girl who is going to marry." My mother also told you seriously, you put this in your heart and thought about it, and said it in front of your mother. I didn't dare to go to Guo's house. ”

Zhou Manyan lowered her head, put the sachet hanging on her waist, and pouted her lips. Very angry.

"What if you meet someone like Yinxia in the future?"

"Hit the child. Pull her out and sell her! Zhou Manyan replied without thinking.

"What if she was really a gift from the elderly? Just like Manyin's biological mother. No matter how dissatisfied the mother is, she has to accept it. She was pregnant, and she was waiting for her life as usual, but she went after giving birth to Manyin, otherwise she would still be dangling in front of my eyes now. ”

"Mother!" , Manyan grabbed Min's hand hard and asked in horror: "If I enter the Guo family, they will also be stuffed into the room?" ”

Min was a little speechless, she really wanted to comfort her uneasy daughter, she would definitely not, but in her impression, there were really not many relatives who didn't have a concubine or a room. She and Zhou Tan, who have only had an "accidental" couple, are already enviable.

The marriage of the Guo family was guaranteed by the third uncle of the Min family, and Zhou Xian looked good, so he agreed.

There is also a grandson in the family, two years older than Manyan, good academics, and good people, but the children of official eunuchs are not as poor as those of poor families, and there are indispensable maids around them.

"Sister Yan'er, there was originally a person in the house over there Guo Yuan, but the Guo family has promised that they will send that woman away ...... until the beginning of spring next year", Min Shi thought about it for a while before cautiously saying to his daughter: "But after you get married, there will be more other women." ”

"Mother!" Manyan was shocked and looked at Min in disbelief.

"For thousands of years, my daughter's family has been like this. It's also a blessing that my mother can meet your father. Your fifth uncle also has a short lifespan, if it is a long time, who can guarantee it? Although he couldn't bear it, Min was still determined to say it thoroughly.

"Sister Yan'er, if you look at the rooms of the Zhou family, have you ever found that in each room, except for the second aunt who has difficulty giving birth, the other older children are all born...... The woman has to take the place after the husband enters the door, and the women who surround her husband as long as they don't let them sit on the womb and have children...... If you wait for the concubine to stand, you might as well let a few concubines who are still obedient have some children......"

"Can't you just let them give birth?"

"The old man of which family doesn't want the family to flourish. Just like Yinxia's slut, your grandfather let him keep it, didn't he want to be charged with spoiling his descendants? If you want to prevent it, you have to do it beforehand, and when the woman who wants to take precautions gets pregnant or gives birth to a child, she has to live and appear virtuous, just like ...... It's like your grandmother back then, who endured it all her life, and ended up falling short, you also saw it......"

Man Yeon, who was on Min's lap, nodded with astringency.

In a small ear room next to Manyan's embroidery room, a white and tender little hand opened the purse, and a silver melon seed was stuffed into the hand of Manyan's eldest girl, Luya. Green Sprout pushed, and smiled at the insistence of the little girl in front of her.

Then, Green Sprout held on to her chair, and when Manyin jumped out of the back window, she quickly closed the window. Manyan didn't marry with green shoots, and she got Aunt Bai's hint of where to go, and taking care of Manyin was just a gesture.

Manyin often goes and returns, knocking on the window and entering, she reported to Aunt Bai, and after getting the instructions of "follow her", she will do it again and again.

With black hair stained with flowers and leaves under Manyan's window, Manyin tiptoed into her room, her eyes dark.

Even if she is recorded as a concubine, she is just a name, and her mother Min always treats herself as inferior to her own child, and she will only give her good food and clothing.

"Zhou Manyin! Do you think you're like a serious lady? ”

Manyin stopped in surprise, raised her head, and looked at Old Aunt Bai sitting on a chair looking at her with a cold face, while there were four maids who were supposed to follow Manyin kneeling in the room. (To be continued......)