The lights were dim at dusk, and the second grandmother of the Zhou family, Gao, returned from Xiuyutang to the Huanxiang Courtyard where the second room now lives with a tired body.

In Xiuyutang, Mrs. Zhou was first furious when she heard the news of Gao's return, and smashed the porcelain on the ground regardless of it, and then the old man cried so darkly that Gao's family, who had been holding on, couldn't wait to be thick-skinned and simply fell to the ground, and also learned from Min's illness and escaped.

But as soon as the Gao family entered the Huanxiang Courtyard, the faint laughter from inside and outside the courtyard and the fragrant breeze warmed her head, which made her already headache about to explode.

Among the sixteen courtyards of the Zhou family's ancestral house, the Huanxiang Courtyard occupies the largest area, and if it is placed outside, it can also become a family of its own, and it has to be purchased by wealthy businessmen with some family wealth. This large courtyard is given to Mrs. Zhou's second room to live in, not because it is not important, but because the second room is now the most populous room of the Zhou family.

"Grandma! Aunt Sun and her brother Chen are here to greet you! ”

A mouthful of calming tea soup had just been served in Gao's hand, and the newly promoted big girl Yulu whispered to inform a group of warblers in the courtyard that Yanyan had heard the news.

A sneer hung on Gao's lips, and the tea lid in his hand was pressed to the bowl, and he commanded lightly, "I'm tired, let them all go back!" ”

Zhou Bai, who returned to Huocheng from the governor of Chu to guard filial piety for his grandmother, brought back three concubines, two sons and four daughters, as well as several rooms. The sudden increase in the population of the second room made the Gao family, who had been accustomed to the mother and son staying together for a long time, very uncomfortable.

Listening to the chaotic children's cries outside the door gradually drifting away, Gao lowered his head and asked his son softly. "Shen'er, my mother will also take you to Huoshan. Is it okay to live with Sister Manyun? ”。 The little children who also called her mother, she really couldn't handle it. will not be treated lightly, but it is also indebted to the mother's heart, so I want to leave.

"And the little brother that the fifth aunt just gave birth to!" , Zhou Shen's little face suddenly smiled.

"Yes, and the little brother!" , Gao sighed lightly and hugged his son in his arms. The peculiar eye color of Du's newborn baby, the beginning of her own meeting. It's horrible.

What will happen to a weird boy like that? Gao, who softly coaxed his son to sleep, frowned and frowned, worried!

"Lady! Brother Shen fell asleep? Zhou Bai's mellow voice rang softly and abruptly in Gao's ears.

"Ahh Husband, you're here. Gao raised his head slowly, and a hint of surprise quickly turned into calm, without waves.

Zhou Bai, who is now Chinese New Year's Eve seven years old, is in the good age of a man, and he originally chose the benefits of Zhou Xian's husband and wife's faces. The appearance is handsome, and the maintenance is appropriate, and it looks extraordinary.

At this moment, he deliberately lowered his posture. Wen Yan was relatively happy, if he had changed to another concubine, he would have already greeted him with a smile on his face, and he was overjoyed. But Gao's face was as flat as before, which made Zhou Baili feel impatient to hold on any longer.

"Lady!". Zhou Bai sat next to Gao and asked softly, "I just came back from outside." I heard that there is something wrong with the fifth brother's child? ”

Gao Shi was stunned and said softly: "It's okay!" The younger siblings were born well, and the children were quite haode. ”。

Since the husband returned to Huocheng, this is the first time he has entered the inner courtyard to go to the upper room, obviously, his mind is not to talk about the relationship between husband and wife, although he does not know the purpose, but Gao is still careful to deal with it, and refuses to show the slightest tone.

The couple said half-pillar incense kung fu tastelessly, Zhou Bai left the upper room and went out of the door, and after a while, he touched Aunt Sun's room again.

This Aunt Sun is also an old man who follows Zhou Bai, raising Zhou Bai's eldest son and two twin daughters, she is very favored, and she has been presiding over the affairs of the internal curtain with Zhou Bai in Chuzhou.

"Originally, I was not a great-grandson, and I didn't need to resign and return to my hometown because of my grandmother's filial piety. However, my father expressed his gratitude, which made the government and the opposition boiling, if I didn't come back, I would be poked to death by someone behind me. I wanted to let Gao go to the Mid-Levels Courtyard to explore his father's intentions and prepare for the recovery, but I met that the woman was a wood! ”

"Second master, don't say that! Our grandma is just good at guarding! Aunt Sun's eyes flew out, and Rouxiang's hand pinched Zhou Bai's shoulder, smiled and said: "Now, as soon as the Zhou family retreats, when it comes to in-laws, in addition to Baoning Hou Xie Mansion, the fifth grandmother's family is the most prominent, not to mention, the dead fifth master still has a great credit on him......"

"It's a pity for the fifth brother...... What a blue-eyed kid is? ”

"It shouldn't be wrong, the news from the lady's room can't be wrong." , Aunt Sun suppressed her voice and covered the smugness that flashed on her face.

"I hate that dead woman for hiding it from me!" , mentioning Gao's, Zhou Bai turned grim and gritted his teeth.

"I don't know what Grandma is for? Even the fact that they stayed in Fengjin was not revealed at all.

Second master, the concubine is helping you inquire, the big girl Mingxia who originally stayed in Fengjin with her grandmother was originally the second girl of the Liu Laoqi family in Zeting Zhuangtou, and as soon as she returned to Huocheng, she was sent home by her grandmother, saying that her family told her about her family affairs and wanted to get married. ”

"Zeting? Catch up with Ming'er, I'll go to Zeting for a trip...... In fact, if the matter of Du Shi giving birth to a little demon is torn apart, and the long house will make trouble, it will not be bad for us to be a favor again. It's just that Daddy is now in the middle of the mountain, and according to his eccentricity in the fifth room, it is estimated that he wants to hide and protect the little monster. ”

"Even if the master has the heart to protect him, there is no ...... in the clan"

A loud kiss was attached to Aunt Sun's powder, and then there was a sound of rustling, which made her blush. When Zhou Bai was sent out of the door and went to the outer courtyard, the thick flush had not yet disappeared from Aunt Sun's face.

"Who knows which stealing cat in the front yard is cheaper?" The corners of Aunt Sun's mouth hooked up with irony, and she fell down the curtain angrily.

The family talks about the rules, and the men are filial, so naturally they can't stay in the backyard, and the wives and concubines have to guard against trouble. But the nameless maids and boys who served in the front yard could not help it, because those were just things to relieve boredom.

At the end of the day, it's the children who are the key. Aunt Sun gradually dispelled her thoughts, and moved Lianbu to look at her eldest son Zhou Chen and her two five-year-old twin daughters.

Zhou Chen is six years older than Zhou Shen, who was born by the Gao family, and Zhou Shen has been in poor health since he was a child...... It's just that the two daughters are only half a year younger than Man Yun in the fifth room, but because of the concubine, the marriage may be more troublesome in the future.

Aunt Sun secretly reviewed the current situation between the second room and the Zhou family, and sighed long......

In the courtyard of the Mid-Levels Annex, a small baptism ceremony has just ended.

As the protagonist's little baby, he is well-behaved and cute, and from beginning to end, he looks like he hasn't slept enough. Only when Qing Shui stroked his body, he opened a pair of blue eyes and looked at it, grinned twice with his small mouth, and quietly finished the whole ceremony.

Zhou Xian hugged the swaddling baby, his eyes were fixed on the white and tender little face of the newborn in the swaddling clothes, and slowly, tears hung on the corners of his eyes.

"Zhe'er! You're going to give Daddy a problem! Zhou Xian whispered in his heart to complain to his fifth son Zhou Zhe, and then, he raised his hand to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes, and put the baby's little face in his hand on his cheek, and he was reluctant to put it down for a long time, turned his head, and said to Zhou Manyun who was sitting beside him: "Sister Yun! Is it okay for my brother to be called 'Yi'? Zhou Yi! ”

Zhou Manyun shook his head, put his hand on his grandfather's hand, pressed his brother's swaddling clothes, and said, "Not good!" ”。

"Bad?"

"What Grandpa means, Man Yun understands." , Man Yun looked at Zhou Xian and said seriously, "But I think if my father knows and doesn't want my brother to get everyone's sympathy and pity because of his memories, he will only want to let my brother live a worry-free life and live happily." ”

The boys of the Zhou family are named from the heart, and even if they are sisters-in-law, they are mostly officially named after they are three or four years old, and they are sacrificed to the ancestral hall. Grandpa's naming of his younger brother in advance is obviously important, but she also sees that the current attention is still based on her grandfather's memory of her father.

"Sister Yun!" , Zhou Xian looked at Man Yun, then looked down at the little baby in his arms, and said with a smile: "Then call it Zhou Kai!" As your sister said, a life of harmony! ”

Zhou Kai...... Zhou Kai! Manyun repeated it a few times between his lips and nodded happily.

The courtyard in the middle of the mountain suddenly fell into the craze of the little brother's name, and all kinds of calls for fame from the south to the north sounded one after another, and even the seven-month-old kitten was drooling and barking, revealing envy.

"Zhou Manzhen!" In the midst of jubilation, Zhou Xian picked up the kitten high and held it above his head.

The kitten seemed to understand her name, giggling and drooling.

"Guining, you go back to the mansion and go to the Great Zhou Mansion of the Northern Zhou Dynasty with Zhou Song to deliver a letter. See when to open an ancestral hall and record Brother Kai'er's name first! After laughing, Zhou Xian called the old servant Zhou Guining beside him and explained cautiously.

Fangxi from west to east obliquely divides Huocheng into north and south, the ancestral house of Zhou Xian's family is on the south bank of Fangxi, Huocheng people call the small Zhou Mansion in the south of the city, and there is a big Zhou Mansion in the north of the city on the opposite bank of Fangxi.

The large and small Zhou families in the north and south of the city were originally a family, and three generations ago, there was only the Northern Zhou family, not the Southern Zhou. The Xinan Zhou family inherited by Zhou Xian was also separated from his great-grandfather, and at that time it was because Zhou Xian's great-grandfather, who was the son of the Northern Zhou family, won the champion.

A Huocheng half-city circumference, Fangxi on the other side of the double champion.

The first champion was in the previous dynasty, because of the high value of the Wende, the rapid development and reproduction of the Zhou family, a Wende bridge from the north bank of Fangxi to the south bank, the ancestral house of the long house on the north bank, the division of each generation, the other extension of the south bank residence gradually became a rule. After the birth of the second champion in this dynasty, a Wenchang bridge was erected back to the north bank from the south bank, with equal emphasis on the north and south.

After the early death of Zhou Xian's father, the Zhou family on the south bank was depressed for more than ten years. The Great Zhou Mansion on the north bank has always been responsible for the clan affairs of the Zhou family, but when it comes to major events, it is still very respectful of the opinions of the Xiao Zhou Mansion on the south bank, and Mrs. Meng is even more famous in the clan when she is alive.

It's just that after the Zhou family was hit hard, Zhou Xian had to be cautious about the affairs of the clan. (To be continued......)