Cao Mansion, Banyan Courtyard.

On Mr. Zhuang's side, after eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the family of four sat on the kang and played leaf cards. Mr. Zhuang hugged Niuniu in his arms, and taught her to count while teaching her to read the words on the leaf card.

Lianqiu and Xiqiu both had new money at hand, and a handful of cards came down, and the three copper plates and five copper plates played happily.

Niuniu is three years old, although she is still naughty, but she is not as light and heavy as in the past. The little girl loved to laugh very much, and she spoke in a set way, which made Mr. Zhuang and the two aunts "giggle".

Mr. Zhuang looked at Sister Lianqiu and Sister Xiqiu, and made a decision in his heart. He is already almost sixty people, whether he can wait until Niuniu grows up and gets married is a matter of words. It was because of face and shame that the girl was a wife, so even if he didn't have a wife, he still only accepted their sisters as concubines, and didn't think about marrying them as a house.

Now, he also has a knight on him, and his daughter can find a good family to marry in the future, but the word "concubine" is not known how many women have been wronged.

Lianqiu is gentle and kind, Xiqiu's surname is refreshing, and she is old and old, and it is also her blessing to be accompanied by their sisters. Mr. Zhuang secretly said in his heart, but he was wronged. Although she knew that she was also looking forward to adding a man and half a woman, and the joy of the bed was not broken, Mr. Zhuang was old after all, and his heart was more than enough.

There was a faint sound of firecrackers outside, Niuniu listened, turned her head, and asked Mr. Zhuang: "Dad, why don't we set off firecrackers in our house?" ”

Mr. Zhuang touched Niuniu's head and replied, "Your eldest brother's brothers need to keep filial piety, and it will be fine next year." If Niuniu wants to set off a cannon fight, Ming said that Daddy will take you outside the city to release it. ”

Niuniu listened, her face showed joy, and then she shook her head: "Niuniu is still going to find the fourth sister and the fifth sister to play together!" ”

As he was talking, he heard footsteps in the courtyard, and then heard someone under the porch: "Is Mr. in the house?" ”

Mr. Zhuang heard Cao Hao's voice, and said while getting off the kang: "Here, come in!" ”

Sister Lianqiu and Sister Xiqiu also came down to the kang.

In addition to Cao Hao, Chu Yu also came. Both husband and wife wore hooded capes, and did not bring maids and women to wait.

Mr. Zhuang looked at the glass lamp in Cao Hao's hand and said with a smile: "Have you two finished the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner?" It's not good to keep the year, why do you think about it? ”

Cao Hao blew out the lamp, found a place to put it down, and said to Mr. Zhuang: "In previous years, I ate with Mr. in Beijing, but I didn't see Mr. all day this year, but I thought about it a little!" ”

Mr. Zhuang touched his beard and said, "Hehe, it seems that Fu Ruo went with me!" When I was eating, I still felt deserted, but it wasn't as lively as in previous years! ”

Cao Hao nodded and said, "Yes, there are only a few people in the total, and they have to divide into several places to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, so it's strange that they can be lively." This year has passed, let's not talk about it, let's put aside a meal next year! ”

After Chu Yu met Mr. Zhuang, he was pulled by Lianqiu and Xiqiu to the East House Warm Pavilion to talk, and Niuniu also went.

Mr. Zhuang and Cao Hao were left in the room, and Mr. Zhuang sat on the side of the kang, sighed, and said: "This year, it is a blink of an eye, and it has passed too quickly!" It seems that I am really old, and I always hope that this day can pass slowly! ”

Mr. Zhuang married two young aunts and added an old girl, and he has lived more and more nourishing in the past two years, and the folds on his face are missing, and he really doesn't look old.

Cao Hao calculated Mr. Zhuang's age in his heart, he was fifty-one when he entered Beijing in the forty-eighth year of Kangxi, four years have passed, and the next year is fifty-six.

"Where is the old, I see that my husband is younger than a few years ago! Mr. turned the year to be fifty-six, let's not say anything about a long life, only according to eighty, there are still twenty-four years. By then, Niuniu has already been married, and Mr. 's grandson should also be embraced! After thinking about it for a while, Cao Hao said.

Mr. Zhuang was overjoyed when he heard this, twisted his beard, and said, "Haha, Fu Ruo said well, in this way, I still have half a life here, why think about those useless things now." ”

Cao Hao glanced at the leaf cards scattered on the kang and asked, "Who won this?" Presumably, in order to make the two aunts happy, Mr. deliberately lost! ”

Mr. Zhuang just laughed, it seems that Cao Hao really said.

Cao Hao thought that he and Chu Yu really didn't have any pastime, and said to Mr. Zhuang: "Is this interesting, or I will play this with Chu Yu too!" ”

When Mr. Zhuang heard this, he waved his hand and said, "It's just to pass the time." If Fu is a young man, he must have some competitive spirit. Although it is a pastime at home, if you can, don't learn it, so as not to be abducted and gambled outside in the future! In the end, there was already a bit of solemnity.

Cao Hao saw that Mr. Zhuang said solemnly, and listened solemnly. After he finished speaking, he said: "I'm not old anymore, and I'm not a child, Mr. still doesn't worry about me?" ”

Mr. Zhuang said: "No, no! Fu Ruo is different from the past now, there are brothers and sons below, if there is anything inappropriate, there will be no way to control others. ”

The two of them were talking in the West House, and Pity Qiu, Xi Qiu and Chu Yu sat in the East House chatting.

"What about today's sacrifice, grandma is tired, right? A few days ago, I heard that the kitchen was ready. Originally, the two of us sisters wanted to help, but ...... But it's hard to get over because the second wife is here......," said Lianqiu.

Zhaojia's surname is a little arrogant, and he already looks down on the identity of the two aunts of Lianqiu and Xiqiu; Later, I heard that the two of them were originally slaves of the Cao family, and they couldn't even deal with it in person.

Lianqiu and Xiqiu are not cheeky people, and when they saw Zhaojia's like this, they never set foot in the Shaoyuan again. It can be avoided as much as possible, and it is not pleasant to save two hits.

Although Chu Yu was annoyed that Zhaojia's rudeness, she was an elder, and she didn't know what to say, but she just mentioned Cao Hao's words a few times about how Cao Hao valued Mr. Zhuang.

I don't know if Zhao Jia's family is going to take it to heart, but it just looks like he has a better attitude towards Lianqiu and Sister Xiqiu.

Lianqiu and Xiqiuyuan just looked at the love between Cao Hao and Chu Yu, and only then did they respect the Zhaojia clan, even if the Zhaojia clan looked down on them, they didn't care much in their hearts, after all, there was an old master-slave relationship, even if they looked down on it, it was ordinary.

The death of the jade spider, although the cause of death is full of shadows, and there are all kinds of things, but there is one thing that is certain, that is, it is caused by the Zhaojia family's expert method. In addition, the jade dragon's injury, the two sisters of Lianqiu and Xiqiu were in tears.

The two sisters entered Caofu together with the jade spider and the jade dragon. Even if she is a little dissatisfied with the jade spider who behaves pretentiously, knowing that she is dead, it is inevitable that she will hurt herself. Not to mention that Jade Dragonfly has always been kind and honest, which makes people feel distressed.

Speaking of which, it's also funny, their sisters, plus jade spiders, jade dragonflies, and Chunya, Xia Fu, Qiu Xuan, and Dong Zhi who followed Cao Yi to Jueluo Mansion, were originally bought by the Li family to serve Cao Hao.

Cao Hao didn't like the large number of people around him, so he didn't leave the newcomers to enter the Kwai Courtyard, but was arranged by Amethyst and assigned to Mr. Zhuang, Cao Yi, and Cao Song as maids.

These eight people are all aunts. Qiu Xuan and Dong Zhi were gone last year, and this year there is no jade spider, both of which are "sudden deaths", which makes Lianqiu and Xiqiu sigh, and they are more and more glad that their lives are good.

For the Zhaojia family, although their sisters are not qualified to say anything, they no longer want to take care of it.

But he said that Xiqiu was on the side, and after listening to his sister's words, he also said: "It's our side, but we have prepared a table, and we have been busy for a while, not to mention the uncle and grandmother, who are designated to be busy!" ”

Chu Yu smiled and said, "It's not in the way, I've been busy for a while in the morning, and I'm a little dizzy in the next morning, so I'll go back to the yard to rest!" ”

When Lianqiu and Xiqiu heard this, they both looked at Chu Yu's stomach.

Niuniu sat on the kang, leaning on Chu Yu's side, holding a red mandarin orange in her hand, peeled the skin, broke it and lifted it to Chu Yu's eyelids, and said in a milky voice: "Sister-in-law, eat!" ”

Chu Yu lowered her head and touched Niuniu's hair, and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law has eaten, Niuniu has eaten!" ”

Niuniu asked her mother and aunt to eat it one by one, seeing that everyone didn't eat it.

Xiqiu asked with a little curiosity: "Does grandma's baby like sour, or spicy?" ”

Because at this time, he paid attention to the saying of "sour and spicy girls", so Xiqiu asked. Chu Yu rested his hand on his stomach and replied with a smile: "It's strange to say, I don't want to eat anything this time." I don't want to be sour or spicy, and there are a few things that I can't smell or smell, and I can't stand the smell of chicken and chicken! ”

Several women surrounded Chu Yu's stomach and talked about dietary taboos or something.

Cao Hao talked to Mr. Zhuang for a while, and because he was still worried about going to see Wei Hei, he casually lit the lamp, called Chu Yu, and the little couple went hand in hand.

Mr. Zhuang, Lianqiu, and Xiqiu sent them to the gate of the courtyard and went to the house. Xiqiu said with a smile: "It's been three years since the uncle got married, and the relationship between the uncle and the grandmother is getting better and better!" ”

Lian Qiu also said: "Yes, seeing that the two of them are really a good match, this is like a passing family." ”

Mr. Zhuang nodded and said, "If Fu Ruo is a blessed person, the county lord will be considered a blessed person to put him on the stall!" ”

Those who are blessed say that it is not good, but there are many people who think they are blessed.

Zhao Jiashi sat on the kang and celebrated the New Year with his son and girl. Seeing that Cao Song and Cao Shuo brothers were all young men, she was very relieved. If her husband doesn't die, she will also be blessed.

Since I knocked on the door, I am not by my mother-in-law's side, and I don't have to set rules, I have always had the final say. Even if he came to Jiangning later, he lived in Beppu, but he just asked for peace every once in a while.

Cao Song just gossiped with Cao Shuo and Cao Xiang without a match, and the fourth sister and the fifth son were young, and when they were thirsty and asleep, they lay on the kang table and dozed off vigorously.

Cao Xiang was listening to his brother's words, and he saw the green chrysanthemum who brought the tea to him and gave him a look.

Although I don't know why, but after waiting for Lu Ju to go out for a while, Cao Xiang still excused himself and left the house.

Lu Ju was already waiting under the corridor, and when he saw Cao Xiang coming out, he softly summoned him to a secret place and handed him a food box.

Cao Xiang took the food box and asked puzzledly, "Sister, what is this ......?"

Lu Ju whispered back: "Didn't Aunt Bao not come here to eat Chinese New Year's Eve, this box is a lot of food prepared for the sacrifice, and the daughter-in-law here divided it from the kitchen, and also honored the slave." The slave maid thinks about Aunt Bao, take you out, hurry up and send it over! ”

Because of the rules, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner did not call Baodie and Jade to come to the room to eat, but sent the kitchen to eat alone.

These two are aunts, not serious masters. If Zhao Jia's is sluggish, can you expect the people in the kitchen to do their best? It's just that I found some ready-made ones at random and sent them over, just enough for Green Ju to see.

Although Lu Ju said that she couldn't see it, as a slave, she had no room to speak. Looking at the meaning of Zhao Jia's family, it is also to deliberately let people know who is the serious master in the second room.

All green chrysanthemum can do is to rely on her identity to make people prepare a fine meal and prepare it in a box.

Cao Xiang was in the house just now, thinking of his biological mother, thinking that his biological mother was lonely and lonely, and it was really pitiful. Now, after hearing Lu Ju's words, he was very grateful and said, "Every time my sister bothered to think about it!" ”

Seeing him so polite, Lu Ju hurriedly said: "It's not good to delay for too long, the fourth master should send it to Aunt Bao quickly!" The fourth master is older, and he knows the rules more and more, why didn't he know how to call his sister when he pulled the braids of the slave when he was a child? ”

Cao Xiang was said in a sneering voice, and whispered: "Didn't my sister push me too?" ”

Lu Ju chuckled: "At that time, I didn't know that you were the master and the master. Now let the slave and maid push, and the slave and maid will not dare to push! Fourth master, go quickly, you can say a few words to Aunt Bao if you go over early! ”

Cao Xiang nodded in response, took two steps and stopped, retreated to Lu Ju's side, and said in a low voice: "I haven't seen my sister as a slave, my sister is good to me, I remember it in my heart, there is always a ......" Speaking of this, he was so ashamed that he couldn't continue, picked up the box, turned around and ran.

Lu Ju stood in the distance, thinking about Cao Xiang Fangcai's words, and muttered, "There is always a ......"

I heard the sound of firecrackers in the distance, and colorful fireworks bloomed in the night sky......*

(To be continued)