"Brother Rui's family affairs, can Xu Shi mention it?" Old Lady Qiao asked.

When the second wife heard this, she looked up at Mrs. Qiao, and was a little unhappy: "Why did my mother ask about this?" Not to mention that now the master has not returned, and he has not officially passed over; It's a succession, and it's not bad for a year and a half. ”

Old Mrs. Qiao said: "The two of them are already over fifty, how can they not be in a hurry?" ”

The second lady's face drooped suddenly, and she didn't answer Old Lady Qiao's words.

Mrs. Qiao was beside her, and seeing that the atmosphere was not right, she hurriedly said: "Mother, even if the eldest cousin wants to choose someone, she has to ...... after the Double Ninth Festival."

After the Double Ninth Festival, it is Shen Luo's anniversary.

The Xu family has always been well-behaved and polite, how could Shen Rui's family affairs be mentioned before the Double Ninth Festival?

Old Mrs. Qiao couldn't help but sigh when she thought of this.

When the second wife saw Mrs. Qiao like this, she couldn't help but be disheartened, and shed tears again: "Brother Luo has only been gone for half a year, and even my mother has forgotten Brother Luo......"

Mrs. Qiao beat her chest and said, "You are ripping out my heart...... Where did I forget Brother Luo, I don't dare to think about it

The mother and daughter were relatively tearful, and Mrs. Qiao was beside her, so she didn't bother to persuade her, so she could only accompany her to wipe her tears, and her heart was full of disdain.

The second wife was able to set Shen Luo's family affairs at the beginning, because she was Shen Luo's mother-in-law, and the candidate she liked was the He family, who was the right person for the Shen family; Now Mrs. Qiao still wants to intervene in the marriage of the heirs of the Shen family through her daughter, isn't it a pipe dream?

When Mrs. Qiao was able to succeed in her calculations, it was because the third old lady was alive; Now that the Xu family is in charge, he is not a foolish person like the third old lady......

In the third room, the third wife accompanied the two sisters-in-law to tea with a smile.

However, listening to the two sisters-in-law vaguely inquire about Shen Jue, the third wife also heard the unfinished meaning.

Although the father of the third wife was not a celebrity, he was a famous Confucian of the Gyeonggi generation, and both sons were famous. Uncle Tian was born in Jinshi, and now he is the director of the Zhengliupin Guozijian; Tian's second uncle is a lifter, and now he inherits the ancestral business and assists his father in managing his own academy.

Uncle Tian's eldest daughter is the same age as Shen Rui and Shen Jue, and now is the time to start picking others.

Mrs. Tian didn't want to cling to the Shen family because it was a high-ranking family, but she felt sorry for her daughter.

The Shen family's door is here, the eldest wife is a very generous person, and the third wife has been married for many years, except for the unsatisfactory in the heirs, they are all pampered.

Besides, it is not a marriage with the Shen family's room, but the second room of the Shen family.

The second master of the Shen family is from the fifth grade, and the uncle of the Tian family is the sixth grade, this family business is not unspeakable.

It can only be said that the third wife is too virtuous, and never talks about her mother-in-law's concubines in front of her mother's family, but only mentions good ones. And the impression of the Xu family is too good, that is, the second wife looks innocent, but outsiders also have a kind temper, and the sisters-in-law of the Tian family have a good impression of the Shen family's inner house.

In other people's homes, after the death of the old father and mother, the brothers have to share their property and live separately; The three rooms of the Shen family are not separated, only in one place, and the life can be so clean, it can only be said that several old ladies are rare loyal people

The third wife was sweating on her forehead, not that she didn't think Shen Jue was good, but that she had seen the second wife's paranoia and meanness in the past six months, how could she dare to trap her niece in?

The little lady of the He family is the niece of the eldest wife, and the second wife was able to come to the door to force the little girl to die; The daughter of the Tian family really wants to enter the door, and if there is no place, it is impossible to say that the second wife can also force the Tian family to go.

doesn't even care about the eldest sister-in-law's face, where will she take care of her little sister-in-law?

"Raising a daughter is a debt, where can I give it to others? In today's world, knowing people and knowing faces do not know their hearts, the two families said that they were good before they got married, and there are many people who turn their faces after that, that is, my sister-in-law here, more than ten years later, what kind of life we have lived in our family are clear. Mrs. Tian Da's face was full of sincerity, and she looked at the third lady with a little pleading.

The third wife couldn't say that the second wife was not, so she could only stubbornly say: "The Qiao family also has a sister who is the same age as Brother Jue, and I have been thinking about kissing and kissing before, and I don't know how it will ......."

When Mrs. Tian heard this, she was a little gloomy: "I forgot about their ......"

Speaking of this, she looked at the third wife's stomach and swallowed the words from her mouth.

If the third wife hadn't found out this child, she would definitely have a step-heir this time, otherwise there would not have been four young people from the Shen family left in the capital. It's just that now the third wife has flesh and blood, whether it is a man or a woman, she can't talk about the heir for a while......

Front yard, side hall.

In addition to Shen Rui and Shen Jue, Shen Qin and Shen Bao were also invited out to accompany the guests. The cousins of Qiao, He, Tian, and Yang are only fifteen or sixteen years old, and the youngest ones are eleven or twelve years old.

The older ones either have errands or go to school, and they don't come over to socialize with a few children; No matter how small it is, it is not sensible yet, and it will only add chaos when it comes.

Needless to say, it was He Taizhi who came.

It's not that he skipped class, but that he is going to take the government exam in April this year, and he is preparing for the exam at home these days, and he didn't go to Chunshan Academy, so he came with Mrs. He today.

The Yang family came to Yang Zhongyan, the second son of Yang Zhen's stepfamily, who is fourteen years old this year, and came to visit the New Year with Yang Zhen and his wife in the first month, and it is not the first time to meet several juniors of the Shen family.

However, the two young people surnamed the Tian family and the Qiao family are the first time they have seen each other.

The two young masters of the Tian family are uncles and brothers, one fifteen and one thirteen, who are cultivated by the scholarly family, and they already have a bit of elegance, and they are also Si Swenwen between the answers.

There are also hundreds of brothers from the Qiao family, the youngest son of Master Qiao and the eldest son of Master Qiao, both fifteen years old.

Although Master Qiao San was in a foreign position, he was afraid of delaying his son's study, so he left his eldest son in Jingcheng.

There were six visitors, plus the four teenagers of the Shen family, exactly ten people, but they sat in the side hall and half of the room.

Needless to say, He Taizhi has long been familiar with Shen Rui and Shen Jue.

Yang Zhongyan's temperament is very similar to his biological mother, he smiles when he sees people, and he is a little sleek and sophisticated at a young age.

In terms of the relationship between the Yang family and the Shen family, it is inferior to those three families, but Yang Zhongyan is self-acquainted, one by one, "Cousin Rui" and "Cousin Jue", telling them to just entertain others; He himself talked to Shen Qin and Shen Bao, who had met during the Chinese New Year, and he didn't see anything outside.

This kind of familiarity is not boring, and it also means to help Shen Rui and Shen Jue.

Shen Rui and Shen Jue naturally accepted his affection, and they were a little closer in their tones.

He Tai realized it afterwards and realized Yang Zhongyan's intentions.

Today, several nieces and grandnieces of the Shen family did not bring their children to the door, and they were worried that they would bring their children to cause chaos here. And the young man in the in-laws came over, but he came for Shen Rui and Shen Jue.

Shen Jue and Shen Jue, two first-time guests, entertained four families at once, and it was inevitable that there would be omissions. Yang Zhongyan's move is not just fun? It is also to divide the distant and close relatives, and classify themselves among the regular customers who do not need to be politely entertained

He Taizhi was also a little more active, talking to the two Tian brothers.

Although he is only eleven years old, he has already passed the county examination and has never regarded himself as a child. The Tian brothers treated people politely, but they did not despise He Taizhi because he was young, and several people talked about the upcoming government examination with relish.

In this way, Shen Rui and Shen Jue only need to accompany the Qiao brothers who met for the first time.

Qiao Yongshan, the eldest son of Master Qiao, was quite kind in response, but Qiao Yongde, the youngest son of Master Qiao, could not hide his arrogance.

Qiao Yongde looked at Shen Rui and Shen Jue's plain fine silk robes, as well as the pants underneath, and pursed his lips, revealing a little lightness: "Didn't you say that Jiangnan is rich?" The ponytail skirt has been popular in the capital for decades, but it has not been popular in Songjiang

Among the six in-laws who came today, Yang Zhongyan and the Qiao brothers all wore skirts.

When Shen Rui and Shen Jue first arrived in the capital, they looked at it twice, but now they are no longer surprised.

The wearing of skirts in the Ming Dynasty was not a woman's patent, and some men also wore robes and skirts, which were also one-piece robes, but the bottoms were made into skirts.

Shen Rui knows a little about this "ponytail skirt", which was passed from North Korea. Weave an umbrella with a ponytail and tie it inside your shirt so that the outer garment is open.

Although it has been popular in Gyeonggi for decades, in the Chenghua year, because there was a cabinet elder who loved to wear it, it was popular in officialdom; In the early years of Hongzhi, there were still people who made a special trip to make an excerpt for this.

However, although it is popular, it has always been despised by scholars and doctors, and it is considered to be a "demon suit". It's not that there is no place in the south of the Yangtze River, but it's not as popular as in the capital, and there are also sons who dress up like this.

Seeing Qiao Yongde say this, Shen Jue was already annoyed.

Shen Rui shook his head and said, "Jiangnan Shilin's clothing, food, housing and transportation are more rule-based, but they are not as comfortable as here in the capital."

When Qiao Yongde heard this, he was still proud at first, and then he heard that something was wrong, and said angrily: "What is this called?" Who doesn't follow the rules? In the end, I don't know anything, it's a fuss that now the court officials wear this more, only those dirt buns from other places will not know the goods"

Shen Rui was surprised: "What is Cousin Qiao annoyed? Did the little brother say anything? ”

Qiao Yongde spoke so politely, Shen Jue immediately rejected: "It's just, what is it showing?" To be a guest, you must observe the etiquette of being a guest, which is a truth that children know. It's better to spend all day thinking about fancy clothes, and learn what etiquette is."

Of the four in-laws, only the Qiao family is so bad, Shen Jue feels very embarrassed.

No matter how awkward he was in his heart, it was difficult to change the succession, and the Qiao family became his new foreign family.

The look in the eyes of Mrs. Qiao and Mrs. Qiao, who were weighing the amount of pork before, had already aroused Shen Jue's disgust in his heart; This Qiao Yongde spoke contemptuously, which made people unbearable.

Qiao Yongde has always boasted that he is a person from the capital, and he looks down on outsiders.

In his opinion, except for the natives of the capital, everyone else is a native bun from other places.

Regarding today's cousin's entertainment scene, Qiao Yongde also disdained it.

Now the Shen family, who are proud of the scenery, was able to gain a foothold in the capital back then, because it was stained with the light of the Qiao family; As for the He family, although they are also from the capital, their ancestors are just digging in the ground; The Tian family is outside the city, but they are rural landlords; Although Yang Zhen, the master of the Yang family, is now in the post of Zuo Shaoqing of Zhengsipin Dali Temple, although he is the son of a eunuch, his family is in the middle of the road, and he can only tie up with the Shen family.

Qiao Yongde even looked down on the Shen family, and naturally despised characters such as the heirs and nephews of the Shen family.

Before Bisheng came out of the house, whether it was his grandmother or his mother, they all told him to get along with Shen Rui and Shen Jue.

Shen Jue's unceremonious sentence naturally ignited Qiao Yongde's heart.

He got up suddenly, glared at Shen Jue and said, "Which one is not rude?" We're guests, aren't you? hasn't changed the ancestor, just treat yourself as the main family, it's really a joke Who doesn't know that the Shen family has no cousins in this room, and the clansmen who are eight poles away come to the door to fight the autumn breeze, so they really think they are the sons of Shangshu? ”