When Chen Xi came back in the evening, Auntie talked about this incident, and smiled bitterly at the end: "The Cui family's unworthy things are simply disgraced to say it." I didn't want to stain your ears unless it had to. It's just that if I don't say it, there will always be some irrelevant people who will mention this matter in front of you......"

Chen Xi didn't take it seriously at all: "What do you care about those people with ill intentions!" What's more, it's not the father-in-law who stole the daughter-in-law, so don't worry. ”

"What are you talking about!" Auntie was so angry that she beat him with a pillow on the sofa: "My father can also make you make such jokes!"

"Look at me, there is no door ...... my mouth" Chen Xi pretended to smack his mouth: "My father-in-law has a very high character, and his mind is like a light wind and moon, it's all my nonsense."

Zhou Dunyi was the founding patriarch of Chinese science, and she also knew that Chen Xi's gag was making herself happy, and she was depressed because of the extremely miserable life of the second grandmother, and her face finally showed a smile: "Mr. Lianxi has a noble character, how dare my father compare?" Mr.'s "Ai Lian Said" has been sung through the ages, and if you compare Huang Tingjian's words praising Uncle Zhou Mao in "Lianxi Poems" with my father, I am afraid that everyone will laugh at my father's "frog at the bottom of the well and arrogant".

"Isn't this a private conversation between you and me, who knows if it's possible?" Seeing that her mood was improving, Chen Xi smiled and teased: "Besides, I am my father-in-law's son-in-law, no matter how good Mr. Lian Xi is, he can't give me a beloved wife."

"It's not a good idea!" She laughed and beat him.

The Cui family, which is in the midst of rumors, is far from being so warm.

Mrs. Cui, who had just recovered from a serious illness, clapped her hands again and again after hearing her daughter's words, and praised: "Wonderful, wonderful!" , she not only gladly accepted her daughter's suggestion, but also held a small flower banquet inside the Cui family to express her warm welcome to Cui Zhu.

At the banquet, Mrs. Cui, who had a ruddy face, did not see the sick appearance of the previous days at all, and looked even more glamorous and elegant under the background of gorgeous clothes and decorations.

In front of the ladies of the Cui family, Mrs. Cui changed her noble and cold in the past, and she always smiled amiably and approachable throughout the banquet, even to the second Mrs. Cui and Mrs. Cui San, who had been secretly against her, Mrs. Cui Eighth was also smiling, enthusiastically persuading wine and food, a gentle, virtuous and ladylike demeanor, showing that she was in a very good mood.

The third lady who is not deep in the city pretended to be smiling, and almost tore the veil secretly, I really don't know how her good sister-in-law pretended to be gentle and loving with a similar face to Cui Zhu and Chang'e, it was really disgusting.

Mrs. Cui naturally noticed Mrs. Cui San's ugly face, and when she was laughing with a few elders, she took the time to smile at Mrs. Cui San and said, "Third brother and sister, but the dim sum on the table is not your appetite, I see that you have not touched it at all on this plate......" As she spoke, she turned her head and smiled softly at Cui Zhu, who was dressed up and had a deferential look on her face, sitting beside her: "Zhu'er, why don't you go and pour a hawthorn tea for your third aunt herself."

Cui Zhu responded: "Yes", took the tray from a maid's hand, personally brought it to the third lady, and presented it with both hands: "The third aunt uses tea."

Mrs. Cui San forced out a smile, praised Cui Zhu with a "good look", took the tea, handed it to her lips and took a sip, and Mrs. Cui was so angry that she couldn't get up or down.

"Brother and sister, is this tea better than what you drink on a regular basis?" Mrs. Cui refused to let go of the third lady, but she wanted her to lose her temper in front of people, and said with a smile: "It is also a pearl girl who is filial, and she just came to know that she respects me, this hawthorn tea is a recipe she personally made, don't say it, since I drank Zhu'er's hawthorn tea, my appetite is very good." Mrs. Cui pointed to the empty sweet white porcelain plate in front of her desk, "Look at me, I ate a plate of shredded coconut cake by myself." ”

Except for the third lady, everyone followed the joke very funny, and only the third lady was there alone, her face blue and red, red and white.

In the laughter, Cui Zhu looked shy: "This is all the eldest aunt lifting Zhu'er, and Zhu'er is far worse than Sister Auntie."

The little hooves that are rampant in the will! The bones are so light! You are worthy to mention my daughter's name. Mrs. Cui squinted with a smile: "Good boy, you are too humble."

"It's all taught by my aunt." Cui Zhu shyly wrenched the handkerchief in her hand with both hands.

Mrs. Cui Qi chuckled: "Sister-in-law is loving, Zhu girl is filial, she is really enviable like a mother and daughter." Some people close to Mrs. Cui echoed and praised Mrs. Cui for her generosity and Cui Zhu's filial piety.

Even if Cui Zhu lowered her head, she couldn't hide the flying smugness in her eyebrows, and when Mrs. Cui Qi saw this, her voice changed, and she said in a voice: "It's just that Zhu Yatou is a little wrong, since the eldest niece has married into the Chen family, she is the eldest aunt and grandmother of our Cui family.

Mrs. Cui Qi's words were neither light nor serious.

Cui Zhu's face turned pale, the hands in her sleeves were clenched into fists, and her nails were pinched into her palms before she could hold back the tears in her eyes.

Since that incident in the mourning hall, her home has been scattered. Her mother committed suicide in order to prove her innocence, her father couldn't bear the humiliation and left the country, and her uncle raised her two younger brothers behind closed doors and ignored her.

Cui Zhu didn't know whether to hate her aunt's cowardice, her uncle's impulsiveness, her mother's indiscretion, or her grandfather's dirty and shamelessness, she didn't even have time to hate, and the family quickly collapsed. For her, her whole sky collapsed......

Fortunately, Mrs. Cui took her to the house and raised her under her knees, Mrs. Cui was kind and generous, and her subordinates were respectful, and Cui Zhu gradually forgot the pain, as for her previous thoughts, she couldn't even think about it.

Cui Zhu never thought that his unsightly thoughts, those scars from his grandfather's hands, would be mentioned lightly by Mrs. Cui Qi on such a day, although the tone is cordial and people can't find faults, but Cui Zhu is particularly heartbreaking when he hears it!

Mrs. Cui lowered her head and took a sip of the Taiping Monkey Kui in the teacup.

Sometimes silence is an attitude.

The thirteenth lady of the Cui family's small fifth room, who saw the opportunity quickly, followed the voice of Mrs. Cui Qi's voice and said: "What the seventh sister-in-law said is very true, the eldest niece married into the Chen family, not to mention us women, the gentlemen outside mentioned it, in order to show respect for the young marshal, but also to honor the young marshal Mrs., we Cui family poetry heirlooms, can not lose proportion in these subsections."

"It's the thirteenth sister-in-law who said this." An aunt and grandmother who married out of the Cui family's small second room responded: "The pearl girl is called sister, and those who know will say that our sisters are friendly, and those who don't know will say that the pearl girl is arrogant and doesn't know how to be humble."

"But it's not, the embankment of thousands of miles collapsed in the anthill, and the Cui family has survived for a hundred years, relying on the word prudence." ……

Another woman answered, "Yes, as the saying goes, it is better to defend the people than to defend the river, and if the river collapses, it will hurt many people, and the people will do the same." Since the Cui family can't control the speech of the entire Wancheng, it is even more prudent in words and deeds, otherwise, the clear name left by the ancestors will be destroyed by our unscrupulous descendants. ”

……

"Alright." Seeing that everyone's words were getting heavier and heavier, Mrs. Cui put the tea bowl in her hand on the table: "The bead girl is still young, but she is speechless for a while, those of us who are elders, just teach well, don't frighten the child."

Cui Zhu's eyes were red, and she looked like she was going to cry or not, and she looked so pitiful.

Mrs. Cui Qi hurriedly put on a friendly smile at Cui Zhu: "It's all my fault for being an aunt, I'm talking a little heavier, I'll make a compensatory to Zhu Yatou, Zhu Yatou, are you willing to forgive your aunt?"

Mrs. Cui Qi said words of apology, but Cui Zhu felt that her whole body was full of ridicule, Cui Zhu sobbed, and could no longer stand the eyes of everyone looking at jokes, so she pushed away the maid next to her who was going to wipe her tears, and rushed out of the crowd and ran out.

Mrs. Cui Qi and Mrs. Cui secretly exchanged a look, and said in a manly voice: "This kid has too much temper."

For a while, everyone was talking about Cui Zhu's ignorance......

Listening to everyone's words, Mrs. Cui pressed the corner of her lips with the handkerchief in her hand, her precious daughter is really well versed in the method of killing people with soft knives......

Sister-in-law sat in the living room drinking tea, cousin Chen Che came in from outside the house with a loud laugh, he handed the coat on his body to his subordinates, sat on the sofa opposite Auntie, and praised him: "Sister-in-law, you are really like a god, the Cui family really has a big move."

Xi'e personally poured Chen Che a cup of tea, and her voice was soft and kind: "Thank you Yuanjun for running this trip for me, my mother's family let you see the jokes."

"What did my sister-in-law say, my sister-in-law thinks about our Chen family in everything, which makes me admire it very much." Chen Che picked up the sesame walnut cake in the enamel chrysanthemum petal sunflower bowl on the coffee table, and said with some flattery: "Sister-in-law, do you remember that I like to eat this?"

Auntie pursed her lips and smiled: "Your eldest brother specially ordered it, how dare I forget."

Chen Che swallowed the pastry in his mouth and said good things for his cousin in front of his sister-in-law: "Sister-in-law, don't listen to those messy rumors outside, the eldest brother is the best, every time we get into trouble, the eldest brother gives us a bag."

Sister'e drank tea with her hand, and said with a smile: "I'll just say, Yuanjun, you are a busy person, you have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, let's say, there are some messy rumors outside."

Chen Che choked on a sip of tea, and hurriedly flattered: "Sister-in-law, look at what you said, I don't usually come to the door, it's because the eldest brother is afraid that we will disturb your purity if we are too noisy."

"Okay," Xiao'e's red lips hooked lightly, "Don't think I don't know, you are the same as your eldest brother, you have a face here with me, and you look another when you go outside, the third young master should not pretend to be pitiful with me, if you have something to say, my patience is not good." ”