After a cloudy day for many days, Mrs. Lin was in a good mood to go to the garden to carefully select, and finally folded a small branch of plum and inserted it in a blue and white glaze red bottle, placed on the desk, next to the bowl, the chrysanthemum tea was steaming, the aroma of plum was accompanied by the fragrance of tea, and the sweetness was soaked in the tip of the nose.

Mrs. Lin flipped through a scroll of Buddhist scriptures, slowly counted the prayer beads, and precipitated a mood in this sweet fragrance. Stealing half a day of leisure, since handing over the affairs of the family to her daughter-in-law, she has been idle every day.

Outside the warm pavilion, Hongrui lifted the curtain and entered, rubbed her hands, covered it, and sighed: "It's really cold this day, and it seems like I'm going to freeze my face when I go out." ”

After the name of Qinglian is a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, she looks so clear, and she acts and speaks gently and gently, which makes people feel good at first sight. She was sitting on the kang doing needlework, and when she heard this, she hurriedly walked over and said hurriedly: "Let go and let me see, don't really freeze." ”

Lan Hui was a spicy girl, and she raised her head and said, "Whoever asks her to be strong, whoever wants to go outside to watch those mothers-in-law sweep the snow, is frozen and self-inflicted." Relying on the momentum that she was born more delicate, she became a first-class girl one step earlier than her and Qinglian, and she raised her head when she spoke. Hmph, they are generally served, and who is more expensive than whom.

Hongrui sneered: "I want to be useful, but those mothers-in-law are not watching, so they are lazy and slippery, and they don't clean up when they see the ice. ”

"The eldest grandmother is strict, and now it's difficult for the house to really cheat and cheat." Lan Hui also sneered and didn't give in for half a step.

Hongrui's eyebrows were raised, and she wanted to get angry, but Qinglian hurriedly said: "It looks a little red, and I don't know what's going on, I'll go get some ointment to wipe it." She diverted the conversation, and Hongrui and Lan Hui were so bad that they couldn't quarrel anymore and glared at each other. Each of them turned their faces away.

Mrs. Lin heard it clearly in the back room, Lily's face was not very good-looking, so she wanted to come out and say a few words, and now Mrs. Lin is the only one by her side who is an old senior, and she is in charge of all the girls in the courtyard. The other three, Shan was only afraid of her, and they were not very convinced by each other.

Mrs. Lin waved her hand, signaling that she didn't have to care. Young girl, it's normal to mix two sentences. She just took the opportunity to look at her personal character, so that she could choose two good ones for her son when the time came.

Compared to the red stamen. She prefers the later Lan Hui and Qinglian, these two girls are gentle and obedient, and the other is straightforward and hearty, neither of them are people who hide traitors in private, and they are not blindly without a city. It's just that he is still young and lacks training, and he has to be around for two years.

"This ointment doesn't look like what we usually use?" Hongrui smelled that something was wrong, and asked suspiciously.

Qinglian looked at her face carefully, and said, "This is what my grandmother rewarded me with." It is said that it is better than what we are using. ”

Hongrui dodged her hand, "I'll use the original one." "The things sent by the grandmother, who knows if they will be good or not. Now everyone in Manfu probably knows that the eldest grandmother has not yet entered the body. The wife wants to choose two girls for the uncle. Mrs. Du has to choose a good child in the house, but everyone also knows that they are more likely to be selected if they still serve by his wife's side. The eldest grandmother usually doesn't pay much attention to these girls, and now she sent the ointment. Who knows what her idea is, it's better to be on guard.

Qinglian was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Hongrui to rummage through the previous use. She hurriedly said, "In that mahogany box." ”

Mrs. Lin listened to it really in the room, frowned involuntarily, and crossed out the name of Hongrui in her heart. She wants to put two people in the house for her son, but she won't allow the people she to give, relying on the fact that she is going out, she will not accept the discipline of her daughter-in-law, and the peace of her son's backyard is the most important.

Lily has been serving Mrs. Lin for a long time, and looking at her expression, you can probably know what she is thinking, so she whispered: "Hongrui has always been better than the green books and brocade books of the eldest girl. This can be regarded as an indirect explanation of why Hongrui has a prejudice against the grandmother. Others don't know, but she who is serving by Mrs. Lin's side can see very clearly that the eldest girl in the house doesn't deal with the eldest grandmother very well.

Mrs. Lin picked up the pastel bowl and slowly took a sip of chrysanthemum tea, and the sweet taste suddenly overflowed in her mouth, "How does Grandma treat Qinglian and them?" "I didn't pay much attention to it before, but I suddenly appreciated something.

Lily said softly: "It's still like that, this ointment was distributed to each room the day before yesterday, and the girls who served in the house have it." "Not only in the wife's courtyard, but also in the rough envoy mother-in-law who is in charge of Saso. It's just that the ones sent to the main courtyard are more refined.

"Oh." Mrs. Lin nodded. Qinglian, this girl, is not simple.

After reading a scroll, the girl from the outside came in and reported: "Madam, grandma is here." ”

"What is she here for?" Mrs. Lin subconsciously glanced at the clock in the room and saw that it was almost lunchtime. Because of the cold weather, she just said a few days ago that she would let her daughter-in-law and daughter not have to come over at noon every day. Therefore, Jia Min and Lin Yun have only come early and late these days, and it is rare to arrive at noon.

As soon as Jia Min entered the main room, a warm fragrance hit her, and several big girls got up to greet her, "Grandma." ”

"Hmm." Jia Min said shallowly, and his attitude was neither close nor very distant. She walked to the East Warm Pavilion, and her own girl grabbed the curtain. As soon as you enter the East Warm Pavilion, the temperature is a few points hotter than the outside, and you will see a pot of narcissus on the long table on the east side of the big kang near the window, which has also bloomed, revealing a faint fragrance. Mrs. Lin was wearing a homely honey-colored cotton jacket, with not many beads on her head, only a few golden hairpins, and smiled slightly when she saw her come in.

"Ma'am." Jia Min stepped forward to bless himself.

Mrs. Lin smiled and pointed to the chair next to her, "Sit down." ”

Jia Minfang sat down on the chair by the kang and sat down, and Lily personally held the tea and put it on the square table next to the chair, "Grandma, please use tea, this is still what you sent someone to send before." ”

Jia Min was as kind as a stream, picked up the blue and white teacup, took a sip, and said with a smile: "It has to be the person next to my wife, who is much more skillful than my girl, and even makes tea so well." ”

Mrs. Lin smiled: "If you like her, take it back, so that you don't have to worry about it." ”

Baiyi was stunned, and then he was ecstatic in his heart, what his wife meant, did she want to give her to the uncle. She blushed involuntarily and held her breath.

Mrs. Lin got Marquis Lin's words, and now she doesn't want to release people in her son's room, but she just half-jokingly said a word. It can be regarded as a reminder to the daughter-in-law in advance.

Jia Min pursed her lips and smiled, "Lily is the person who needs to be used by my wife's side, and I gave it to me, wouldn't my wife not help it." She glanced at Lily, "Besides, who in the house doesn't know, Mrs. can't even talk to Lily, where do we dare to ask Mrs. for someone." ”

Mrs. Lin smiled: "What you say is right, even if you want it, I won't give it." ”

Lily had a smile on her face. I can't help but feel lost.

After speaking, Jia Min raised her hand to cover her lips, coughed lightly twice, and glanced at Lily with a smile: "Madam, you have the best lily needlework here, my girl wants to annoy her and draw two fresh tricks." ”

As soon as Mrs. Lin heard it, she knew that Jia Min had something to say to her, so she smiled and said, "Then Lily will go." ”

Lily answered. was pulled out affectionately by Cuizhu, and I couldn't help but wonder in my heart, the girl next to the grandmother talked about needlework. is about the same level as them, but in terms of tricks, I am afraid that the capital is the freshest, and only others learn from them. When did they learn from someone else? She watched Cuizhu pull her to stand not far from the door of the warm pavilion, and also went to their house, and knew that this was the eldest grandmother who had something to say to his wife. I don't want them to hear it. didn't say much at the moment, and said to Cuizhu with a smile: "Sister, I'll go get the tricks, look at it in the house here, and it's also bright." ”

Cuizhu smiled: "That's annoying Sister Lily." ”

In the warm pavilion, Jia Min had already gotten up and stood beside Mrs. Lin, whispered what had happened, and seeing Mrs. Lin's face that instantly turned blue, she still said softly and slowly: "Those mothers-in-law, I have already locked people up." It's just that these words came out of nowhere. ”

Mrs. Lin gritted her teeth with hatred, "Where else can it be, it must be said by those little hooves in Zhilan Pavilion." ”

Jia Min said: "Qingshu is a few people, after all, the girl next to my sister, I don't ask, and my wife has to call the shots." ”

Mrs. Lin nodded: "I'll take care of this matter." "Speaking of which, the last time I went to Baoguo Temple to meet Mrs. Hou of Pingnan Hou's Mansion, it was just a coincidence. Who in the capital did not know the chaos in their family, and the good man was willing to marry the girl to suffer. Therefore, the prince of the Pingnan Hou Mansion, although he was talented and loved by the saints, never entered the list of Mrs. Lin's sons-in-law. In her opinion, the mess in the Pingnan Hou Mansion is the most deceitful. Her daughter was raised with thousands of pets, who was willing to let her suffer.

"Hongrui, you go and call the big girl over." Mrs. Lin raised her voice.

Hongrui answered, and hurriedly put on a cloak and went out, and after a quarter of an hour, Lin Yun came over with a girl and covered it tightly. As soon as he entered the house, he smiled at Mrs. Lin: "Mrs. prepared something delicious to call her daughter here." ”

Mrs. Lin glanced at her daughter with a smile, "It's not cold." ”

"It's not cold."

"Why is it only Qingshu who comes with you, Jinshu?" Mrs. Lin saw that only Qingshu followed Lin Yun in, and she didn't see the figure of Jinshu, so she asked.

Lin Yun said with a smile: "Jinshu is a housekeeper." "Qingshu and Jinshu have been by Lin Yun's side since they were children, and they have been trained for so many years, and they can be regarded as her right-hand men. When she comes out now, most of them will not bring the two out together, and she will definitely leave a caretaker.

Mrs. Lin inflated Qinglian and said, "Go to Jinshu and call Mama Fu together." ”

"Yes." Qinglian answered, turned around and walked out, and secretly said in her heart, did the girl next to the eldest girl do something to make his wife angry? And made the big grandma angry? Thinking about it, she felt that since Jia Min came, the eldest girl who was passed on by her wife must have provoked the eldest grandmother. Hmph, I thought that I would definitely marry the eldest girl in the future, and I would definitely be taken in by my uncle at that time, and when I faced them with the two girls of Qingshu and Jinshu, I was faintly arrogant. Not only did they not look at them in their eyes, but they were all grandmothers, and they were all a little hostile because of the attitude of the big girl. Although she didn't know where this hostility came from, she really felt that Qingshu and Jinshu talked about the eldest grandmother, implying three points of disdain.

asked Qinglian to say that these two people were really dead, thinking that they must be the eldest girl's companion, so they would be foolproof. But they also have to think about it, and the dowry is also divided into the dowry girl and the dowry daughter-in-law. Are they so sure that they will be able to be their uncle's roommate? Phew, that's a good idea.

Lin Yun also felt that something was wrong, walked to the side of the kang in a few steps, sat beside Mrs. Lin, and pulled Mrs. Lin's sleeve uneasily, "Madam? ”

Mrs. Lin sighed, leaned back, and indifferently ordered, "Daughter-in-law, you come and ask." ”

Jia Min responded, and Lin Yun turned his head and glared angrily.

Jia Min ignored her, sat upright and asked, "Qingshu." But you told people that the eldest girl was going to marry the prince of the Pingnan Hou Mansion? "Nima, this is still the era of parents' orders and matchmakers' words, right? As a result, a little girl made her own opinion, chose a husband for her girl, and went around saying, isn't this looking for death!

Qingshu's face turned white with fright, and he knelt down with a plop, and kowtowed again and again: "Mrs. Mingjian, grandma Mingjian." Slave, slave didn't say. ”

"You really didn't say that?"

"It's useless, the slave doesn't dare to say that." In these years, how important the girl's reputation is, where does she dare to talk nonsense.

"Mama Yu!" Jia Min screamed.

Mama Yu stepped forward, laid out the straightforward narrative one by one, and learned the words of those mothers-in-law.

Jia Min said: "Did you hear it, it was obviously said from your mouth, what else do you have to say?" ”

"Slave. The slave didn't tell them! Qingshu's little face was not bloody, and beads of sweat flowed down his face, crying and kowtowing, and after a while, his snow-white forehead turned blue.

Jia Min smiled. "I didn't tell them, I told others."

Qingshu immediately covered her mouth, she did tell someone that the two of them were very good on weekdays. She regarded her as a confidant sister, and she couldn't hold back the joy in her heart that day, and quietly whispered some confidant words to her. After. also felt that it was inappropriate, but she thought that she was excellent in two days, and she would not be able to sell herself. Who knows today......

Qingshu raised his head violently, and looked directly at Hongrui with resentful eyes, which frightened Hongrui so much that he couldn't help but take two steps back, and his face was difficult to look at.

"Tell me who I told you."

Lin Yun had long been confused by the accident, and only then did she come to her senses, and she hurriedly stopped: "Sister-in-law, what's going on?" ”

"What's going on?" Jia Min looked at her funny: "It's the big girl next to you, who said a few words of gossip, and now everyone knows about it." "I look at how powerful this girl is on weekdays, no one looks at it, why can't she even manage her own girl.

Mrs. Lin hated: "Yun'er, you shut up for me." She thought that day in Baoguo Temple, her daughter was impatient to listen to the presiding lecture, so she took Qingshu out for a walk. As soon as she thought of this, she couldn't wait to slap her a few times, is it good to see a foreign man!

Qingshu heard Lin Yun open her mouth, crying and kowtowing to her, "Girl, the slave is sorry for you, I only told Hongrui about that day." Last year in Baoguo Temple, she accompanied her girl to hang out, and she met Pingnan Hou Shizi, and the girl also said a few words to him. Na Pingnan Hou Shizi was personable, and after listening to the girl's words, his eyes were full of surprise, and he asked the girl whose family it was. The girl didn't tell her, but who knows, at the flower banquet of Mu Xiang's house, the girl actually met the prince again, this time the son knew the girl's name, and played chess with the girl, and talked about poetry for a while, anyway, she didn't understand their words.

Later, I don't know if it's fate, the girl and the son met twice again, and they became more and more familiar. Gradually, she could see that the girl also had a good impression of Pingnan Hou Shizi, and Shizi also took a fancy to the girl. She thought that when the girl got married, she would be a dowry girl, and if her uncle was a character like the Hou Shizi of Pingnan, she would not be a girl. She also heard Pingnan Hou Shizi say that she wanted to invite the official media to propose marriage, thinking about Pingnan Hou Shizi, his character, appearance, and family background are impeccable, and the lord and wife will definitely agree, and she couldn't hold back the joy in her heart, so she said a few words to Hongrui.

Qingshu learned the past and the future, Mrs. Lin was going to be angry, under her nose, her daughter was in contact with a man, and even talked about the family affairs, she didn't know!

"Evil obstacles, you kneel for me!" Mrs. Lin was so angry that she raised her hand to slap her, but she couldn't do it, and finally slapped her daughter twice, and sat on the kang and wept. "Why did I give birth to you foolish girl!"

"Mrs......" Lin Yun didn't expect his affair with Xuancheng to be revealed so much, from the panic at the beginning, to the calmness later, goodbye Mrs. Lin cried, she also cried, "My daughter is wrong." ”

"You...... What's the use of admitting your mistakes at this time? "The word has already spread, how many people in the house know that the best way now is to agree to come down when the Pingnan Hou family comes to propose. She is glad now that she has never had a tacit understanding with that family before. When tonight comes, Marquis Lin comes back, she still has to talk to her husband. Thinking of her husband's possible performance, she couldn't help but beat her daughter a few more times, "You're going to be angry with me!" ”

Jia Min had to stand up, "Mrs. and sister don't cry yet, things are not so bad." I heard Qingshu say that I only told Hongrui yesterday. Who did Hongrui tell me? ”

Hongrui knelt down with a plop and kowtowed hurriedly, "The slave and maid never mentioned a word to anyone, if the slave and maid said it, the slave and maid will immediately thunder and split." ”

Jia Min thought that Mo Ju listened to Hongrui and Qingshu's private words in the garden, and she couldn't keep it all right, so she let others listen to it. She called Mama Yu and asked her to take someone to interrogate those mothers-in-law, and she must ask who she was listening to. Mrs. Lin also called Mama Zhang. asked her to go with Mama Yu, and Zhang and Yu took the order. At this time, Qinglian also came in with Jinshu and Fu Mama.

As soon as Jinshu and Mama Fu entered the house, they saw several kneeling on the ground, including their girls, and hurriedly knelt down, "Madam." ”

Mrs. Lin said weakly: "Daughter-in-law, you continue to ask." ”

Jia Min asked again, and finally Lin Yun was not too stupid, because the first time he met Pingnan Hou Shizi, it was Qingshu who followed. After contacting again, he was also surrounded by Qingshu, and he didn't let Jinshu and Fu Mama know.

Mrs. Lin was angry with her daughter and did not let her get up. Just leaned on the kang and closed his eyes to recuperate, kneeling by Lin Yun, waiting for news from Mama Yu.

Lin Yun has been pampered since he came here. Not to mention kneeling, I haven't even stood for so long. After a while, I only felt pain in my leg. I saw sweat on my forehead. She bit her lower lip hard, not begging for mercy.

Jia Min didn't say anything, and sipped slowly with tea. About two quarters of an hour later, Lin Yun's face was snow-white, his body was shaky, and he couldn't kneel anymore. Only then did she speak: "Madam, it's useless to be angry now, my sister is still young, and she is simple, and it is inevitable to be bewitched by others." ”

Mrs. Lin didn't say anything, but Lin Yun glared at her with hatred, Jia Min just didn't see it, and then said: "Mrs. still let my sister get up, now the weather is cold, the ground is cold, in case the kneeling is broken, it is still Mrs. who is distressed." ”

Mrs. Lin opened her eyes and glanced at her daughter, seeing that it was a cold day, her hair was wet with sweat, and she was also distressed, and she said stiffly: "Let her kneel, I spoil her too much in my life, and spoil her so much that she doesn't know how thick the sky is, and she can do all kinds of things." ”

Jia Min motioned to Cuizhu and Mo Ju, stepped forward to help Lin Yun up, and he walked to the side of the kang and sat down, picked up the beauty fist, gently punched Mrs. Lin, and persuaded softly: "Things are already like this, no matter how hard you criticize your sister, it won't help, why don't you think about how to remedy it." ”

"The incident happened in a short time, and it may not be known in the house. Moreover, in the past year as a self-housekeeper, no one is allowed to gossip, let alone talk outside the house, and for a while, outsiders don't know. "She's not afraid of death, no one knows now, who knows if anyone will know in the future.

Mrs. Lin listened to Jia Min's words, and finally settled down, as long as people outside the house didn't know for a while, it would be easy to do. She discussed with Lin Hou tonight to see if she could talk to the Pingnan Hou Mansion, so that they could come and propose marriage quickly, and then the two families would change their Geng stickers, and the marriage would be decided, and no one would be afraid to say anything.

She thought about leaving her daughter behind for a while, and asked when the prince of Pingnan Hou would come to propose, this matter was really early or late. If the rumors are really going to be spread out of the house, what stories will be made up by these when the time comes, but no one knows. At that time, the Lin family's reputation will be over.

Mrs. Lin glanced at Qingshu and Hongrui coldly, these two girls can't be kept, they have to be sold far away.

Qingshu and Hongrui were full of despair in their hearts, knowing that their fate was afraid that they would not be better, their faces were blank, and they couldn't even feel the pain in their bodies.

I don't know how long I waited, Mama Yu and Mama Zhang came back, and they didn't say much wordy, and said the result directly, "It turned out that when she went to the garden to pick plum blossoms alone, she heard Qingshu and Hongrui in the pavilion talking privately, so she kindly eavesdropped." ”

"I didn't tell anyone else, I just gossiped a few words with the people in the small kitchen, and I was locked up."

Mrs. Lin hurriedly asked, "Are their words true?" ”

"The slaves and maidservants asked several times, and they all said so."

Mrs. Lin looked at Mama Zhang, of course she believed in her own people more than her daughter-in-law's nurse, Mama Zhang nodded: "That's true." (To be continued......)