The smile on her lips is always gentle as water, poetic and picturesque, which makes people ashamed of themselves.

"Miss Tan, our Chen family, the concubine knelt down to serve tea, and the housewife took it, and you can enter the door."

Tan Sally just showed a surprised expression, but was poured down by a basin of cold water from Auntie: "Miss Tan, your Tan family only started after your father became a bandit, of course, now you are the eldest lady of the Dian army, the hero doesn't ask where he comes from, and I won't comment on the previous affairs of the Tan family." But the Chen family is different, the Chen family has been rich for a hundred years, and it is a family that pays attention to rules and decency, if you go to the Chen family, then you must abide by the duty of being a concubine. Let me start with a few points. ”

Lady slowly pointed to the tray in the maid's hand, and said:

"Well, as a concubine, you can't wear red from now on; Second, although I am younger than you, I am the first person to be the head of the Chen family, and you must be called Mrs. before and after you; When the mistress sits, the concubine must stand and set the rules; Get up early and ask for peace, the concubine room should serve the hostess to wash, eat, beat the shoulders, rub the legs, the maid will know, the concubine room will know; When the master's mother is sick, the concubine will have to serve the sick, and the decoction and medicine are the most important ways, and you have to learn from scratch. Of course, there are many rules, and later I will ask the maid to send the fourth female book to your house, and supervise you until you memorize it, and the most important point is that when the concubine will sleep in the room, it must be arranged by the mistress. If you make a mistake in the rules and lose the etiquette, my daughter's family is the most important face, I don't like to slap my mouth, go to the small Buddha hall to kneel and pick up Buddha beans. ”

Tan Sally couldn't hear it well: "The imperial system has been overthrown, why should I abide by these rules?!" These are all feudal dross, are you deliberately embarrassing me! ”

Auntie chuckled: "Miss Tan, you have a Western-style education, and you still cry and shout to be an aunt and wife for a man!" Since you want to be a concubine, you have to abide by the rules of the old era, you must know that in Europe, where you studied, there is no such thing as an aunt. ”

Chen Che saw the stitches and said: "My sister-in-law is right, the rules of our Chen family's aunt and wife are like this."

Tan Sally looked at Chen Xi for help, but Chen Xi didn't look at her, but turned the Swiss watch on her wrist, and her tone was very indifferent: "I said it, I don't have this kind of mind for you."

A faint smile appeared on the corner of her lips, and she nodded at the personal maid Qingke who came over.

The Qingke who got the signal stepped forward and blessed Tan Shali: "Miss Tan, I'll show you how to serve tea first."

Qingke's posture was straight and feminine, kneeling at the feet of Auntie, holding the tray high above her head with both hands, she bowed down, the tea in the tray did not move at all, Qingke lowered her eyebrows, and her voice was very tame: "Young lady, please drink tea."

Auntie glanced at Tan Sally: "Miss Tan, did you see it?"

Xiao'e raised her hand to signal Qingke to get up, and said with a smile: "If Miss Tan is kneeling, why will I take a quarter of an hour to pick it up, the tea is cold and hot, and it will be poured on your head." The concubines of the old era can be bought and sold, Miss Tan is the eldest lady of the Yunnan Army, I can't sell you, but the master mother teaches the concubine room, it is justified, your father will still come to the door with me for this to seek justice? If this is the case, then the Dian army will really become a joke. ”

Tan Sali's father, Tan Songlin, accepted the ninth aunt's wife, she watched the aunt and wife in the family pinch the tip and compete for favor all day long, although she disdained it, but she thought that the aunts and wives in the world were the same as her house, how to make Chen Xi's concubine, it would be so hard.

Tan Sally couldn't imagine that she was an eldest lady and a slave to look up to Mrs. Chen Xi's snort, and for a while her heart was sour and struggling, she looked at Chen Xi with tearful eyes, and in the eyes of the man she once loved, there was only one figure, but that figure was not her.

Tan Sally's heart was sour and astringent, as if she had knocked over a five-flavor bottle, and all kinds of tastes came to her heart, and the root of her tongue was numb.

Tears rolled silently from Tan Sally's eyes, and her gorgeous face looked a little pitiful. However, all the people in this room were hard-hearted.

Sally Tan looks back on her more than 20 years, and only those days in the UK were the happiest times in her life.

At that time, she had just arrived in England, and she was accompanied by all the subordinates, although she went abroad because of a quarrel with her father, but as soon as she got on the ship, she regretted it. The spontaneous homesickness made her cry silently every night alone with a pillow until ...... Until she met Chen Xi. Handsome and chic, tall and straight, Chen Xi, who spends money like dirt and is romantic, seems to have been born to be the focus, even if he stands in front of those Caucasian people who have no one in his eyes, he is not inferior.

She just glanced at it from a distance through the crowd, which made her blood boil all over her body, and her heart was almost beating out of her chest, even if she knew that Chen Xi had a lot of girlfriends, even if she knew that Chen Xi seemed to be amorous, but in fact she was ruthless, she still couldn't help it, and kept chasing Chen Xi's figure, until Chen Xi agreed to her, she couldn't sleep that night with excitement, and she suffered from gains and losses every day, lest she couldn't keep this wind-like man.

However, one day, she woke up from her dream and she lost the man.

Now, she stood in front of this man again, but there was no nostalgia for herself in this man's eyes, only the girl's smile in his eyes, and his gaze was so gentle and doting. She was a materialist and had never believed in fate before. One person will be another person's calamity, and now, she believes that Chen Xi is the calamity of her life, and Chen Xi's wife is Chen Xi's calamity.

"I'm humiliating myself." How crazy the love was before, how desperate the heart is now.

Auntie smiled, as if she had never cared about Chen Xi's past. "Actually, Miss Tan, have you ever thought that you don't have the opportunity to marry Chen Xi."

Tan Salie, who was heartbroken, looked at her in amazement.

I listened to Auntie's voice and said leisurely: "Miss Tan has a sister-in-law, whose name is Jasmine. It is said that in addition to you, Tan Dashuai's second favorite daughter. This sister of yours not only married into the Zhou family in southern Yunnan, but even married Zhou Wangshu, the eldest son of the Zhou family. The Zhou family in southern Yunnan had an ancestral official to the Tirenge University Scholar during the Jiaqing period, and Zhou Wangshu's great-grandfather also served as the governor of Yunnan. However, Ling Mei's family affair became a success. Miss Tan, don't be in a hurry to refute me......"

Xiao'e's soft eyes looked at Tan Sally, whose face was flushed, and her voice was full of pity: "Miss Tan, you might as well think about it carefully, Sister Ling's marriage is much more difficult than if you want to marry Chen Xi." After all, your father has the army in his hands, and the Tan and Chen families are married, and both sides are like tigers. But why, Chen Xi tied you back to your father, you, as your father's favorite daughter, were grounded for half a year, until my marriage with Chen Xi was completed. But your sister-in-law can get her wish. ”

With a touch of sympathy in her eyes, she looked at Tan Sally as if she was looking at an ignorant child: "Miss Tan, if I were you, I would definitely think about it."

The words that she said slowly and logically set off a storm in Tan Salie's heart. She instinctively shook her head, resisting in her heart to believe everything that Xiao'e said, but her brain seemed to be conscious, constantly flashing scenes of the Tan family's past, and even her father's eyes looking at her were very different from those of Jasmine.

She thought that every time she asked her father for something, her father first pretended not to give it, and when she was about to lose her temper, she connived and nodded helplessly, she liked her father the most when she had no way and was reluctant to say a heavy word to her, but she never cared before, but now she can clearly recall that what precious jewelry and beautiful clothes she wanted, her father would always secretly send a copy to Jasmine. She could always see things similar to her in Jasmine's house, and although the styles and colors may be a little different, they were no less valuable than what she had. Even though, every time my father saw his sister-in-law, he had a straight face.

There is a kind of intimacy, like fire on coal, which looks warm and feels warm, but once touched, it will be burned by the fire, and the other is the water flowing under the ice, which seems to be cold and untouchable, but as long as the ice is broken, the warmth in it can flow to the heart.

Tan Sally couldn't believe that her father's love for her for more than 20 years would be a flash.

Seeing Tan Sally's distraction, she knew that she had guessed correctly. I'm afraid that this Miss Tan is a fancy person in southern Yunnan. Auntie hooked the corners of her lips almost imperceptibly. A girl like Tan Sally who has no city, even if Tan Songlin really loves this daughter, she can make her suspicious and secretly ghostly, not to mention, Tan Songlin is so dispensable to this daughter.

Auntie gave Tan Sally another dose of fierce medicine: "Miss Tan, have you ever heard of killing?" I'll tell you a story, and you'll listen to it as a joke. This was a few years ago. ”

In the middle, the Qingke refilled a cup of tea for Auntie, and Tan Sally, who was in a trance, found that the tray that the maid brought to Auntie was very different from the white porcelain tray in the Western restaurant.

This is a boxwood carved Fu Lu Shou three-star tea tray, the tea tray is placed with azure glazed crab claw pattern lotus tea bowl, but fortunately Tan Sally's father is vassally elegant and likes to collect antiques, otherwise Tan Sally would not even recognize the material of this tea bowl.

I saw a pool of tea soup in the bowl with green color, clear soup color, a curly bud leaf floating on the tea soup, the fragrance in the secluded mist was overflowing, the tea fragrance and floral fragrance have endured for a long time, which makes people feel refreshed. It's just that Tan Sally doesn't understand tea and can't see what kind of tea it is.