In Cen Mansion, in addition to the New Year's Festival, receiving the wind and other things, there are two days for the whole family to have dinner, because on the first and fifteenth days of the new year, the old lady and the eldest lady must be vegan, so these two days are set on the tenth and twenty-two days of each month, usually dinner, usually, each courtyard goes to the big kitchen to get the meal, and eats in their own yard.

However, Cen Xiyan now has the permission of the old lady, and he can fire in his yard, but he doesn't have to wait for the big kitchen to eat.

When she got up early in the morning, Yingxue prepared breakfast, and Cen Xiyan took Jingshuang to greet the old lady and the eldest lady Li. As for the Zhao family, even if she gains face in the Cen Mansion again, she is just a concubine, so there is no need to ask her for peace.

The rules of the big families in the eastern part of the country, in the morning, most of the daughters first ask their mothers to say goodbye, and then they are taken by their mothers, and then go to the grandparents and other elders at home to say goodbye.

There are generally only two situations for concubines who dare to do that, first, it is possible that the contradiction with their mother-in-law is irreconcilable, and they rely on their smart minds to find another concubine in the house for themselves; The second is really stupid! Capricious, and lacking heart!

Of course, Cen Xiyan is not a fool, and she doesn't think that if Mrs. Cen gives her a few smiles, she can really treat the old lady who looks like an old lady as her backer, so she went to the courtyard of the eldest lady first.

The courtyard where the eldest lady Li lived was called Qing'an Temple, which is said to have been called Qinglian Garden in the past, and ten years ago, after the Li family began to worship the Buddha, they moved from the main courtyard to this garden, and then changed to their current name.

When you enter the garden, you will be greeted by a curved water promenade that crosses the lake to reach the house where the Li family lives.

The small artificial lake in the garden, the summer is planted with lotus flowers, fragrant and beautiful, so it was originally called the Qing Lotus Garden, but at this time it is winter, there can be no lotus flowers in the lake, and because of the cold weather, the lake has been frozen, walking on the promenade, looking at the empty and cold lake, people have a sense of gloom in their hearts, in fact, such a yard near the water, the humidity is too heavy, and it is not inhabited by middle-aged people......

Cen Xiyan didn't think much about it, and with Jingshuang, he quickly walked through the corridor and arrived in front of the main house.

At this time, the door came, and a woman came out of it, in her early forties, with a middle-to-upper appearance, a thin figure, and a good dress, she should be a more useful subordinate by Li's side.

Sure enough, when the woman saw Cen Xiyan, she greeted her and smiled, "Is it Miss Six?" Madame and Miss Seven are inside, please come in. As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to open the door for Cen Xiyan and opened the curtain.

Cen Xiyan nodded at her and said, "There is Mother Lao." ”

The woman smiled slightly and replied, "Miss Sixth is polite, my surname is Xu, and I am the housekeeper mother next to the eldest lady." ”

At this time, Cen Xiqin in the house had already heard Cen Xiyan's voice, and greeted him briskly, and said with a smile before anyone arrived: "Sixth sister, are you here to say hello to your mother?" That's fine, we'll be able to go together in a moment. ”

"Seventh sister." Cen Xiyan smiled and nodded at Cen Xiqin to say hello.

The two of them went into the back room together, and saw Li sitting in front of the dresser, and a maid was helping her to comb her hair, but it was almost finished, and when the sisters came in, the maid was inserting the last hairpin on Lee's head.

Seeing that Li had combed his hair and turned around, Cen Xiyan hurriedly saluted the eldest lady, "Xiyan greets my mother." ”

Although Cen Xiyan was a little awkward and repulsive to call a strange woman his mother, but when he traveled to this era, he was such a high-ranking family, this was a helpless thing, and the concubines had to call their mothers mothers, and Cen Xiyan could only follow the customs.

"Get up, don't be polite, sit down." Li said.

Cen Xiqin grinned, stretched out his hand and pulled Cen Xiyan, sat down on the chair on the side, and the maid on the side rushed to bring them hot tea.

The three of them sat and talked a few words, and Cen Xiyan knew that because the Li family usually concentrates on worshipping the Buddha and does not love others to disturb the purity, they have long been exempted from the invitation of those aunts, young masters, and young ladies.

Cen Xiyan secretly said no wonder, at this time, here in the Li family, except for her and Cen Xiqin, no one else came.

Li's attitude towards Cen Xiyan is not warm, but it is not too cold, and there is a cheerful Cen Xiqin gag in the middle, and the atmosphere is quite harmonious.

Later, I heard Cen Xiqin say that in fact, Cen Laotaijun's morning invitation to Anli has also been exempted in the past few years, the reason is that the old lady has been sleepy in the morning for the past two years, and the suspect came too early, disturbing her dreams! Yesterday morning, the reason why there were all the people was because Cen Xiyan had just returned to the house and wanted to catch the wind and recognize people, so Cen Lao Taijun ordered that everyone in the house must be here.

Cen Xiyan was a little speechless when she heard this, for the first time, she felt that this old lady was willful and cute, at least, she didn't have to toss around a few yards early in the morning in the future, but she was also a little surprised in her heart, the average big family, the more senior the elderly, the more rules and etiquette, no matter what, you have to abide by it, and at this point, Mrs. Cen is not the same as the elders of other people's families.

But today, Cen Xiyan and Cen Xiqin still have to go to the old lady's yard, Cen Xiyan has just returned to Cen Mansion after all, this rule, for the time being, she still has to abide by it, unless the old lady himself said that she doesn't need to go to ask for peace again, she can not go.

There is also because, today Cen Xiqin asked Cen Xiyan to go out of the house to visit the county lord Jin Fang, although this time and space is still quite open, and women are not forbidden to go out, but it is still necessary to say hello to their parents before going out.

Li kept Cen Xiyan and Cen Xiqin sisters to drink two bowls of white fungus lotus seed soup, padded their stomachs, counted the time, and when it was time for the old lady to get up, he got up and said, "Let's go, let's go to your grandmother's yard." ”

Cen Xiyan couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard this, what did the Li family mean by this, did he also want to go to Old Lady Cen's yard?

Cen Xiqin directly asked the question in his heart, "Mother, are you going to grandmother too?" ”

Li nodded and said: "Today is the first time that the sixth girl has officially asked the old lady to say goodbye, since the sixth girl called me mother, today, of course, I will personally bring the sixth girl over." ”

Cen Xiyan understood that the meaning of the Li family was to fulfill the responsibility of a mother-in-law, albeit only a formal responsibility.

"Thank you, Mother." Cen Xiyan got up and saluted Li again.