The next day was the day of the banquet in the Shen Mansion.

Most of the male guests were officials, so they invited dinner, and the women and children came at noon.

Needless to say, Shen Li, Shen Ji, and Shen Ying are all juniors in the clan, so they naturally want to come to cheer; In-laws here, there are four main families, in addition to the Qiao family, which Shen Rui is quite concerned about, there are also the He family, the Tian family and the Yang family.

The second room of the Shen family has settled in the capital for 60 years, and when it comes to in-laws, there will definitely not be only these few doors, and the "relatives" who are turning around and turning these days are innumerable, but when it comes to far and near, they are the closest relatives of these four families.

Among them, the Qiao family is the aunt's family and the second wife's maiden family of the eldest lord and the second master, the He family is the brother-in-law of the eldest lord, the Tian family is the maiden family of the third wife, and the Yang family is the brother-in-law of several masters.

At that time, the third grandfather had three sons and three daughters, of which the eldest daughter and the second daughter died early, and only the third daughter grew up, which was the eldest sister and the second elder sister.

After waiting for his daughter to marry her, the third master married her to his student Yang Zhen.

However, this Sanniang did not live long, the third wife and the third old lady died within a few years of death, and the mother and son died, leaving only one daughter.

Yang Zhen and the eldest master and the second master were originally brothers, and later became in-laws, and they had a very good relationship. Even if Sanniang died, the two families did not break off, and his follow-up wife was still picked by Mrs. Yangda back then.

Before the eldest lady of the Yang family left the cabinet, she often came to her uncle's house with her stepmother.

In the twelfth year of Hongzhi, the husband of the eldest lady of the Yang family won the top three and was released to the county. The eldest lady of the Yang family went out of Beijing with her husband, and Shen Rui and the others had never seen this cousin.

When Shen Rui was in Songjiang, because there were no cousins in the fourth room, and there were no aunts and grandmothers who had been out of the cabinet for several generations, there was only the Zhang family when it came to "cousins". Later, due to the break between the Zhang family and the Shen family, this relative was also broken, and no one mentioned "cousin", "cousin" or something.

Even the third sister Zhang and the fourth sister Zhang lived in the Shen family, and Shen Juren did not let Shen Rui and Shen Jin call their cousins.

But today, among the guests of the Shen family, cousins, cousins, cousins, and cousins are all complete.

The younger generation of Qiao, He, Tian, and Yang are the cousins of Shen Rui and Shen Jue.

Shen Rui and Shen Jue were arranged by the Xu family, first met one elder, and then came with the accompanying cousins and cousins, and then the cousins were accompanied by their brothers, and the other cousins were taken by Sister Yu to the flower hall for tea.

Here, after greeting the Xu family, Xiao Xu's family, Mrs. Tian and the nephews and daughters-in-law of the Shen family stayed in the upper room to continue to eat tea, and the female relatives of the Qiao family were naturally the second wife to welcome them to the second room; The daughter of the Tian family went to the third room with the third wife to talk.

Although the second room has not officially set up the wine and announced the identity of Shen Rui and Shen Jue's heirs, no one among relatives knows that these two people are quasi-candidates for heirs, and the second master returned to Songjiang for this matter.

Except for the He family, because there is only one daughter, who is still keeping filial piety for Shen Luo for a year and doesn't think about it, the other three families do have their own little abacus.

Among these in-laws, the others are not as good as the Shen family, so they naturally look forward to the younger generation getting closer.

Shen Rui still didn't know that the heirs of him and Shen Jue had not yet been officially decided, and some people were already worried about the brothers' marriage to their daughters-in-law.

Among them, the Tian family and the Yang family did not have the idea of beating Shen Rui so high-mindedly because their old man was not of high grade, but they were worried about Shen Jue.

It was not someone else who was worried about Shen Rui, it was the Qiao family that he had noticed yesterday.

The daughters of the Qiao family who came today are Mrs. Qiao and Mrs. Qiao's mother-in-law.

Seeing that the second wife had lost weight, Mrs. Qiao was so distressed that she burst into tears.

The second wife thought about the suffering of the past half a year, and her eyes were red, and tears were rolling down.

"Mother's girl, but I'm sorry for you......" Mrs. Qiao didn't care about the eldest daughter-in-law, so she held the second wife in her arms.

"Mother...... Mother...... "The second wife is crying with Mrs. Qiao exposed, she is really sad."

The son has been gone for half a year, and the family has changed the world, thinking of the renovated east house, the unpretentious color of the eldest couple and the cold alienation of her husband, the second wife feels that she is going to die of grievance.

Although Mrs. Qiao has three sons, she only has this one daughter, so she is naturally pampered in every way, where can she be seen like this?

Old Mrs. Qiao's face showed a little solemnity: "Look at your sullen appearance, but that Shen Jue is disobedient?" Or something else? Tell your mother quickly, your mother is in charge of you."

If she were to be another in-law, she would naturally not be so confident, but in addition to being the biological mother of the second wife, Mrs. Qiao is also the aunt of several masters, so she is naturally qualified to teach a lesson

The second wife can't really like Shen Jue, but she also knows that having Shen Jue as an heir is better than the second master's rebirth of a concubine.

She wiped away her tears, shook her head and said, "Brother Jue is very good, it's none of Brother Jue's business......"

Old Mrs. Qiao turned her face: "That's the Xu family again?" What else does she want? You bowed your head to accompany the He family, didn't she, she still have to go endlessly? ”

The second wife made a big fuss about the He family last year, and Mrs. Qiao knew about it, although she didn't agree with it in her heart, she didn't take it too seriously. In her opinion, her daughter lost her mind for a while due to the pain of losing her child, and it was the time when she needed human forgiveness.

As a concubine, Xu's should have been a good student to explain the second wife, instead of helping the sister-in-law's family to count the second wife.

For Xu's eldest nephew and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Qiao has always looked down on her.

What do you say about the ladies from the Prime Minister's House? In fact, her mother's family had already fallen, but she held the frame of a virtuous and noble girl and coaxed the Shen family into obedience.

For her aunt, it is not face-saving, and there is no sincere respect.

My daughter is pampered, and with such a powerful concubine pressing, it has not been easy to live these years. Fortunately, the second master is good, and he knows that it hurts, so the old lady finally did not regret robbing this nephew as a son-in-law.

Thirty years ago, it was Mrs. Qiao who single-handedly promoted the marriage between Shen Qiao and the two families.

Qiao was only twelve or thirteen years old at the time, innocent, if no one coaxed him, where would he think of a lady

The second master is a protégé of Confucius and Mencius, and the young master is not a frivolous and debauched person. If it weren't for Mrs. Qiao's frequent calls to her nephew and her intention to make arrangements, where would the second master and the second wife have the opportunity to get along?

In the final analysis, it was Mrs. Qiao who pampered her daughter, and she was reluctant to marry her to other people's families to endure hardship, so she targeted her sister's nephew.

The eldest nephew is eight years older than Qiao's and has already married a wife, so naturally it is not considered; The second nephew is three years older than Qiao's, and he is a young talent, with a promising future, isn't he the best candidate?

She knew that her second nephew already had a marriage contract, but she also knew the identity of the Sun family, so she was very unimpressed.

The third old lady complained to Mrs. Qiao, her own sister, because of the marriage contract between Shen and Sun.

It's just that the third lady has accumulated power, and the third old lady has always "regarded her husband as the sky", even if she dislikes Sun's low background, she has never regretted her marriage.

It was still Mrs. Qiao who bought the mother-in-law next to her sister, and often muttered something in front of the third old lady, "whose son-in-law got the help of the Yue family", "whose family got the daughter-in-law of a small family and embarrassed in the communication", "Who married a daughter-in-law from a merchant and was laughed at for greedy for money", etc., which caused the third old lady to become more and more optimistic about the marriage between the second son and the Sun family.

When the second old man and Qiao's affair broke out, the third old lady still responded to the matter "smoothly" knowing that her husband was unhappy.

Then, the Shen family and the Sun family retreated, the second master and Shunli married the second wife, and Mrs. Qiao was happy.

But then it was a thunderbolt from the sky, and the second old man and his wife were directly separated, and the Shen family was far away from the Qiao family

Not only did the fortunes of the Shen family take a sharp turn for the worse, but within a few years, the third master and the third old lady died of illness one after another; The life of the Qiao family is not easy.

Old lady Qiao was found wrong in a "Beijing inspection", took away the noble errand of the country's priest wine, demoted two levels and released out of Beijing, and then died and never climbed up again. When it comes to the next generation, although the eldest master and the third master are in the office, it is difficult to be promoted, and the second master can only live in the name of a prisoner.

Now the future of Mrs. Qiao's children and grandchildren depends on the Shen family.

But the eldest lord and eldest wife of the Shen family are not close to the Qiao family, and they are polite to her aunt and not close.

When Shen Luo was not married, Mrs. Qiao originally planned to kiss the two families and give Shen Luo's granddaughter to Shen Luo. The second wife looked down on her brother's family and was unwilling to marry her niece, so she took the initiative to pick the He family.

For this matter, Mrs. Qiao also complained about her daughter, and the mother and daughter had a disagreement.

But when Shen Luo had an accident, it was Mrs. Qiao who felt the most sorry for her daughter, where was she willing to complain? The mother and daughter got back together, but they were closer than before.

When she heard that the Shen family was going to have a step-heir, Mrs. Qiao didn't think of "kissing and kissing". The old man is so strong, he was disgusted by his daughter once, where does he still have the face to mention this?

However, when I saw Shen Rui and Shen Jue today, Mrs. Qiao couldn't help but think a little more.

When others saw the three brothers of the Shen family living together, they thought that the Shen family had not separated, but Mrs. Qiao knew about it.

This family is the head of the house, and it is now, and it will be in the future.

His son-in-law is only from Wupin, and there is no news of promotion this year, but the eldest man is now a scholar.

The heirs are in order to pass on the lineage, and at Shen Rui's age, he will definitely get married early, so will he want his daughter to make a living in the hands of his nephew and daughter-in-law?

As for the separation of the second old man and his wife, Mrs. Qiao thought about it in her mind and gave it a no.

The back is against the big tree to enjoy the shade, and there is a second wife in Shangshu Mansion, so it is more justifiable for the Qiao family to move around here.

While feeling sorry for her daughter, Mrs. Qiao had to make plans for her children and grandchildren.

Originally, I had never heard that before the Shen family chose an heir, Mrs. Qiao thought about it well, and after Shen Luo's anniversary, she would choose a grandson to marry Sister Yu.

Although a family like the Shen family will not be recalled, for the last bit of blood left in Sister Yu's few rooms, the uncle only loves him more and more. Other people's families are "the daughter who married out of the river and splashed the water", but the Shen family is not like this, which can be seen from the friendship between the Shen and Yang families.

In the future, if the young heirs are raised, they may not be able to go beyond their daughters and nieces.

Who would have thought that less than half a year after Shen Luo's death, the Shen family had agreed on the heir, and the choice was not a young heir, but a teenager and a half-year.

Compared with the rightful heirs of the two rooms, Sister Yu, the second-room concubine, has no weight. In addition, the third wife is pregnant, whether it is a man or a woman, the concubine is more valuable than Sister Yu......