"Mrs., grandma, uncle is back." Lin Ruhai had just arrived outside the gate, and the chief housekeeper had already sent Xiao Yu'er to pass the word all the way in, and Mrs. Lin, who was waiting a little anxious, heard that her son was back, and her heart fell. She secretly sighed, suppressed her worries, and sank her complexion, "Take that son of a son to see me." ”

Marquis Lin is not there, as the temporary head of the Hou Mansion, Lin Ruhai's mother-in-law, in this drama of the fight between her son and Mu Xiang's grandson, whether it is Lin Ruhai's fault or not, she has to make a gesture.

Jia Min sat down with his eyes down, a little unimpressed by Mrs. Lin's handling attitude. No matter how powerful Mu Xiang is, can he still install secret agents in Lin Hou's Mansion? It is used for the hairiness of the pretentious.

Lin Ruhai hurried all the way to the gate of the main courtyard, and Mrs. Lin's personal girl Qinglian whispered to him: "Mrs. is not in a good mood, uncle needs to be careful." "Qinglian was originally a second-class girl in the main courtyard, and she was only recently brought up by Mrs. Lin, and her needlework was originally a top among the girls, and now she is also in charge of Mrs. Lin's clothes and other things. The new girl always wants to sell a good job to everyone. This is true for Jia Min, the eldest grandmother, and even more so for Lin Ruhai, the uncle in the house.

Lan Hui, who was standing outside and waiting, saw Lin Ruhai come in, quietly blessed herself in place, and said to Qinglian with a smile: "Go and report it to Mrs." ”

Qinglian responded with a crisp smile, and really went inside, Lin Ruhai and the others were outside, and for a while they had a good impression of this girl who was not surrounded by courtesy, and her face was much more relaxed, not as serious as usual to the girls.

When Lan Hui saw it, she was proud in her heart, and she only felt that she had touched the pulse of the uncle. In the past, when I tasted the character of the uncle, I knew that he was not the kind of person who was lustful and wanted to bring all the beautiful girls in the world to his room, but he didn't like the girls to circle around him. Thinking of this, Lan Hui naturally refused to do anything that annoyed the uncle, her face became more and more light, and she didn't talk to Lin Ruhai, let alone be courteous, just bowed her head and stood aside.

Qinglian has always looked down on Lan Hui's pretentious appearance, she is usually a girl, and she wants to compete for favor and hook up with the master as the master, who doesn't know whom. She went into the inner room, "Madam, the uncle is here." ”

Mrs. Lin said in a deep voice, "Let him in." ”

Qinglian Fu came out again, and said with a light smile: "Uncle, Mrs., please go in." "This girl is very delicate, otherwise Mrs. Lin would not have named her Qinglian, this shallow smile, there is really the beauty of the water lotus.

Lin Ruhai straightened his clothes, touched his face again, and found a beautiful son who was as gentle as jade, slowly walked into the room, and greeted Mrs. Lin with a smile, "Mrs. is good, my son has asked you to say goodbye." ”

As soon as Mrs. Lin saw her son, she didn't feel like laughing, but fortunately, she thought that she should be angry now, so she stopped the upturned corners of her lips in time, hardened her heart, and said coldly: "Son, do you know what is wrong?" ”

Lin Ruhai rolled his eyes in his heart: I have a mistake! He has never been able to act, and he is too lazy to do it, so he replied directly: "Madam, my son doesn't know what's wrong?" ”

"Let me ask you, but there was a conflict with the eldest grandson of the Mu Xiang family?" Mrs. Lin smacked the table with a tiger face, and asked.

Lin Ruhai nodded generously: "Not bad." ”

"Then you don't know what to do?"

Lin Ruhai was very aggrieved: "It was Mu Lin who came to beat me first." ”

Mrs. Lin glared: "If you don't provoke him, why did you beat you?" ”

"It's his ghost who has lost his mind, for the sake of a wind ......" Halfway through the words, Lin Ruhai swallowed Yu back like Jia Min looked at him, his eyes fell on Lin Yun, and said with a smile: "Thank you sister for caring about me, it's okay now, my sister will go back and rest." He reacted that there were many rules in the aristocratic house here, and topics like prostitutes and girls could not be preserved in front of unmarried girls. It stands to reason that in front of his newlywed wife, he shouldn't say it.

Lin Yun got up when he heard this, pursed his lips and smiled: "It's okay if my brother is fine, and I'm relieved." Mrs. is also worried about you, if my brother has any grievances, just tell my wife in detail. He turned around and blessed Mrs. Lin again, "After sitting for half a day, I'm a little tired, so I'll retire first." ”

"Go and rest, I'll send you dinner, don't come over." Mrs. Lin patted her daughter's hand lovingly, and told the girl and mother-in-law to serve her well before letting her daughter go.

She watched Lin Yun go out, glanced at Jia Min who was sitting still, frowned and thought about it, and didn't say anything to let her go back, only smiled, and said to Lin Ruhai: "Say it." ”

Lin Ruhai told Mrs. Lin about what happened in the peony garden, and finally spread her hands and said, "Mrs. said, what's wrong with my son?" ”

After hearing what happened, Mrs. Lin also smiled, "But I was wronged." ”

"It's just...... Mu Xiang ...... there, "She is a little embarrassed, whether this matter is Lin Ruhai's fault or not, Mu Lin's reputation for falling in love with a woman in the wind and dust has spread, and the Mu family is certainly angry with Mu Lin, I am afraid that even Lin Ruhai will be angry." It's just that I really can't solve it. She asked her son, "What are you going to do?" ”

Lin Ruhai said: "My son has a good relationship with Yuan Hui, and I don't want him to be mistaken by a slut." It's just that he has a knot with me, and I'm afraid that my son will never listen to it again. As he spoke, his eyebrows furrowed deeply, and he seemed to be very worried about Mu Lin, "I thought, he doesn't listen to his son's words, and he should always take it to heart, I plan to give Uncle Mu a book." "The implication is to hit the small report first, so that you are embarrassed to trouble me." I agreed with Runzhi to repair the book to Master Mu. "I said it myself, I'm afraid that the old man won't believe it, and add another witness. Yang Ze's father and Mu Lin's father are colleagues, one is the Zhengqing of Dali Temple, and the other is the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, Yang Ze's words should always be believed.

"That's it, I prepared something for you, and I happened to send it to the Prime Minister along with your letter." Mrs. Lin saw that her son had a charter, thought about it, and nodded in agreement. I really had to tell the elders of the Mu family about this matter as soon as possible, so that they would not have to buckle the black pot on their son. "You can write when you go back now, and I'll send someone to send it early tomorrow morning."

After finishing the business, she found that the green robe her son was wearing today was a little wrinkled, there seemed to be some grass clippings and mud marks on the hem of the clothes, the smell of wine on her body had not dissipated, and her face was also flushed, and she hurriedly said: "How much has you drunk, go back and lie down." He also instructed Jia Min, "Don't give him cold food, be careful that his stomach hurts." ”

Lin Ruhai and Jia Min got up at the same time and saluted and retired. Watching her son and daughter-in-law go out one after the other and go hand in hand, Mrs. Lin let go of her body and leaned on the pillow. Quietly came out of his mind for a while, and instructed the girl: "Go, call Xu Yi's family." "Xu Yi was originally Mrs. Lin's dowry, and he was only in charge of one shop, but later Mrs. Lin saw that he was capable, and Xu gave him the big girl who was married next to him as his wife, and assigned him to take care of all the dowry shops. Xu Yi was reused by Mrs. Lin, and his wife naturally gained face in the mansion, and everyone in the mansion called her a big lady.

Because she married an outsider and became the housekeeper in the house, she was the least important among the four big girls, but after a long time, she won Mrs. Lin's heart more than the two who were the girls who made the room. The four of them married the girl, and there is another who married the housekeeper and is now the daughter-in-law of the three housekeepers in the house.

When the little girl went to invite, Xu Yi's family was sitting on her own kang to train her daughter-in-law, she had no daughters, only gave birth to two sons, and married a girl in the house, and now they are all on an errand in the house. The one in front of me is a little daughter-in-law, who has good cooking skills and works as an errand in Mrs. Lin's kitchen. Probably because of Yuan Gu, who was waiting by Mrs. Lin's side, this little daughter-in-law had a high heart and often suppressed her husband. Yesterday, for the sake of a husband, she went out to drink flower wine with someone to let her know, so she made a big fuss. Today, he was arrested by his mother-in-law and severely reprimanded.

Xu Yijia sat cross-legged on the kang and scolded loudly: "It's just a fire-burning woman in the small kitchen in the wife's courtyard, so I feel that I am noble, and I dare to ask for the master's strength." said that he just drank the flower wine, that is, he brought back the two little wives, and you have to bear it, who made you unable to give birth to a son! When you retreat from the pillar for such a long time, you won't even lay an egg......" Just as she was about to scold again, the little girl outside came in to pass the word, "Aunt Xu, Mrs. asked you to talk." ”

When Xu Yijia heard this, he didn't care about training his daughter-in-law, so he only glared at her with dead eyes, "If you don't die and go back to the house, let me know that you are messing with the pillar, and I will let him divorce you and marry Haode again." The little daughter-in-law went back to the house with tears on her face, and here she turned her face and smiled from the snack box on the table, picked up a few pieces of pastry, wrapped it in a handkerchief, and gave it to the little girl, "Go and tell your sister in the courtyard, I will go immediately." ”

The little girl went out and left, she asked someone to fetch water to wash her face, and changed her clothes, before hurriedly going to the main courtyard.

"Mrs. forgive the sins, the slave and maid are late." As soon as he saw Mrs. Lin, Xu Yi's family smiled and pleaded guilty.

Mrs. Lin smiled and pointed to the other side casually, "Sit, let's talk." ”

Xu Yi's family often accompanied Mrs. Lin to talk, and he didn't push back at the moment, and sat opposite the kang table with his body leaning over. A girl had already brought tea, she first held one for Mrs. Lin, and then brought a cup to herself, and she didn't speak first, just waiting for Mrs. Lin to say.

Mrs. Lin was out of her mind for a long time, and then slowly said what was on her mind, "It turns out that the uncle is young, and he can still detain him to study at home, but now he has married a daughter-in-law, grown up, and has a reputation, and he can no longer just stay at home and concentrate on studying like before, and don't care about everything." Although I am a woman, I also know that it is not good to be an official if I only study to death. can let him out, and he is afraid that he will be hooked up. The master is not at home, and it is fast to come back in three or five months, I am just afraid that if I am careless for a while, people will attract him to move his heart, and learn those bastard things to act, and my heart in this life will be in vain. ”

Mrs. Lin is really worried, she knows that this bastard atmosphere nowadays, eating wine and gambling money is a trivial matter, raising prostitutes, playing tricks, fighting for a cheap person, fighting and fighting, which is extremely common in Beijing. She is such a son, and she still expects him to study hard, get ahead, and continue the Lin family's incense. How can he be allowed to be seduced by outsiders.

But as she said, even if Marquis Lin is at home, it is impossible to lock his son in the house to study, or he has to go out to socialize by himself. To be honest, now these classmates, fellow students, and the same year or something, maybe that one will become an official, and he will be a real network in the future. But if you let your son out, there is a risk, in case she is like Mu Lin, who is lost by the wind and dust girl and has a bad reputation, Mrs. Lin really has no place to cry. It's just that she can't say this to her daughter, and her husband is not at home, so she can only talk to her confidants.

Xu Yijia persuaded with a smile: "Mrs. is also worried, our uncle is definitely not such a frivolous person." ”

Mrs. Lin said: "I also know what my own children are like, but I am afraid that others will be fooled by the fox and the fox." ”

"That's right." Xu Yijia was stunned, and said hesitantly, "Those little hooves outside, there will be fox men in the family all day long, that method is really a trick, which makes people unthinkable." The eldest grandmother is a noble girl of the public government, a daughter of a family, dignified and accustomed to it, where are those little hooves who will coax men to be low. ”

Mrs. Lin sighed: "That's what I'm worried about, now I see that their young couple is getting better." I'm just afraid, it won't be long enough. My son I know, the character is arrogant, the high is in the bones, the daughter-in-law is the young daughter of Rong Gong, and the only daughter-in-law, since she was a child, she has been pampered, and it is difficult for her to lean over. Now that the newlywed period is a stunning daughter-in-law, naturally there are thousands of haode, and the days are long, who knows what will happen. ”

"At the beginning, Mu Xiang's eldest grandson married the eldest daughter of the Yan family, who in Manjing does not say that it is a pair made in heaven, and you are also kind and loved, and raise a son early, who is not envious. What is happening now, that Mu Lin is obsessed with a fox and doesn't even go home. When it comes to Mu Lin, Mrs. Lin is full of disdain, and she is afraid that her son will also follow Mu Lin, which is really difficult to die. Now I know that there is a woman who is staring at her son, how can she not let her be suspenseful.

Mrs. Lin thought about it again and again, and still told Xu Yijia the truth, "Don't blame me for bearing this shadowless heart, now there is a cheap person who is eyeing Ruhai, looking for someone to deliver a letter, and blocking people halfway." Ruhai is now steady, and he is afraid that the cheap people will rely on the sea. She was ruthless in her heart, thinking that people would die like immortals, so she discussed with her henchmen, beckoned Xu Yijia to come over, and lowered her voice: "Tell you to be in charge of the house and quietly find someone, and break that little, I see what else she uses to seduce people." "Directly cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and don't want her life, as long as she has a scar on her face and no flower and moon appearance, her son will naturally not be able to look at it.

The prime minister of Xu Yi's family, Mrs. Lin's shop in Beijing, not only knows many people in the official face, but also knows a lot of the ruffian named Huazi. Let's put it this way, Baidao ** can be regarded as open. Mrs. Lin asked him to find someone, and he must have gone through the secret door**, and when Ruxian went out, he robbed him into the dark alley, and cut a few knives on his face, and it was over.

Xu Yi's family also knew that she was helping Mrs. Lin with this secret method, so she nodded directly and changed the topic, "Yi Nuwen said, it's not a way to always guard against outsiders, it's better to pick a few water spirits at home and put them in the room for the uncle, one is to spread the branches, and the other is to help the eldest grandmother tie the uncle's heart." ”

Mrs. Lin also had this heart, but when she thought of her husband, she felt that this matter would not make sense in Marquis Lin, and she didn't tell Xu Yi's family, but said: "I also have this heart, but they are just newly married, so they let the girl lift her aunt, and the daughter-in-law's face is not good-looking." They all came when they were young, and children love to twist a sour and eat a vinegar, which is also normal. Second, those girls have opened their faces, and they must fight with each other, and they are like a sea of slackening their homework or trivial things, or breaking their bodies, but how can it be good? ”

Xu Yijia said with a smile: "The girls elsewhere are not allowed to be children, the girls in the wife's room are all taught by the wife, who know books and etiquette, and are better than the daughters of many people." According to me, it is better for the wife to choose two of the big girls around her to put in the room, and help the grandmother take care of the uncle, which is not good. She also calculated accurately, every mother-in-law and daughter-in-law fight the law, and when the mother-in-law loves to put her own girl in her son's room, she acts as a whisper.

Mrs. Lin seemed to be really moved, and she was silent there, and asked her after a while, "You also come and go often, look at my girl here, which one is better?" ”

"Ouch, Mrs. The sisters here, all of them are like shallots, and people can't love enough, according to the slave maid, that's all good. Just ......" she paused.

"Just what?" Mrs. Lin raised her eyes and asked, "You just have to say." ”

"It's just for the uncle, the appearance must be sharp, the mind is more clever, and the mind can be considerate to the right place." The implication is that it has to be beautiful and caring.

Mrs. Lin nodded slightly, as if she agreed with Xu Yijia's words.

Xu Yijia accepted it when he saw it, and slowly led the topic elsewhere, saying something new to Mrs. Lin that he heard outside, and after a while, he made Mrs. Lin hold her mouth with a handkerchief and laugh.

The master and servant talked and laughed for a while, and seeing that it was time to pass dinner, Xu Yi's family was about to get up and leave, Mrs. Lin waved her hand and said, "They don't come over at night, you accompany me to use some." ”

Sure enough, Lin Ruhai and Lin Yun didn't come, dinner was put on the kang table in the middle, Mrs. Lin, the waiter of Xu Yi's family, washed her hands, and stood beside her to make a dish, and then under Mrs. Lin's instructions, she sat sideways opposite and ate with her, and then went to the house.

After Xu Yi's family left, Mrs. Lin called Ma, the daughter-in-law of the housekeeper in the main courtyard, dispersed the people in the house, leaving her alone, and asked her lightly: "The girls in the courtyard, who often go to the backyard." ”

This Ma Shi was also vigilant, lowered his hand and said softly: "Lily and Lan Hui beside Mrs. have been there several times this month. ”

"You keep an eye on me to see which of them is close to Xu Yi's family."

"Yes."

"Alright, let's go down." Mrs. Lin waved her hand and added, "Keep your mouth shut, otherwise, you will know my methods." ”

Ma Shi was a little more respectful, and replied carefully: "The slave doesn't dare to talk too much." ”

"Go ahead."

Ma Shi came out of the room, only to feel a layer of fine sweat on his body. When Lily saw her come out, she came up with a smile and tea, "If my sister is not busy, sit down and have a cup of tea before leaving." ”

Ma said with a smile: "Miss Xie is kind, my wife has an errand to hand over to me, so I don't dare to stay longer." ”

"Then I won't delay Sister Ma's time, you can hurry up." Lily laughed.

Before leaving the hospital, he looked back and saw Lily sitting under the porch, shook his head slightly and sighed, and walked away.