After Laba, there are more trivial matters. The New Year's goods of Zhuangzi outside the city, the game outside the gate, all kinds of ushers are sent.

When the year came, the children's homework stopped. Adults and children are all preparing for the New Year.

There are also in-laws who are old and colleagues who give New Year's gifts. Cao Hao was inconvenient with filial piety, and Tianyou was young, so the big housekeeper Cao Yuan came forward to go everywhere.

There are also many families who marry wives and daughters in the moon, and they also scatter the money with the gifts.

Among them, Yiduli also invited a guest, the joy of "taking a concubine". In fact, it was just under the banner of inviting the Yamen of Taifu Temple to have a drink with colleagues and friends of the Yamen of the Internal Affairs Bureau.

The two concubines of Idurina are either outsiders, or the two Oriental beauties in the Thirteenth Elder Brother's Mansion.

The original intention of the thirteenth elder brother was to send someone to send the two sisters back to Guangzhou, and it happened that Yi Duli's wife went to the thirteenth elder brother's mansion to visit the door, and when she heard the thirteenth Fujin talk about it, she felt that it was rare, so she called up curiously and took a look at it.

Unexpectedly, there are indeed two beauties, one sixteen and one fourteen, with fine skin and tender meat, and charming eyebrows and eyes.

Da Zhaojia looked at it and was amazed.

If you are someone else, how can you let go of these two beauties.

Seeing that his sister was joking, Thirteen Fujin said with a smile: "How can I not tolerate people? It's just that the master said that there are enough people waiting in the house, and there is no need to add more people, so as to save more resentment. ”

Da Zhaojia has only envy for his sister.

Although the thirteenth elder brother has been depressed for many years, the husband and wife have shared hardships and hardships, and their relationship has become better and better. When in the palace, there were other side chamber concubines who were pregnant; In the ten years of the branch, the thirteen blessings have been successive.

Thinking that she is only a few years older than her sister, and now she is regarded by her husband as a "housekeeper", how can she be the opponent of those beautiful concubines.

Da Zhaojia thought of the second aunt and grandmother in the family, and only felt tired.

Yang is clever, following the rules in front of the old lady and obeying in front of her husband. At the end of the year, he bought an incense burner to honor the old lady, buying people's hearts inside and out, and being like a fish in water in the house.

Da Zhaojia is the grandmother of the main house, to be "virtuous" and "not jealous", so she can only endure it. Fortunately, he has the two daughters of the Yang family in his hands, and this alone makes the Yang family jealous.

It's just that in his own home, it's really hard to endure like this.

Da Zhaojia looked at this sister flower, but gave birth to other calculations, and said to his sister: "If my sister wants to send her out of the house, give it to me!" It just so happens that there are not enough people waiting in our inner house, and we are looking for someone to buy a few. ”

Thirteen Fujin knew the romantic surname of the sixth brother-in-law, and frowned: "Sixth sister, what are you...... These two were taught to wait for men when they were young...... Why bother......"

When Da Zhaojia heard this, he smiled bitterly: "Instead of letting that fox envelop the master in his hands, it is better to add two new people." I have figured out that a man is that virtue. Greedy for flowers and lustful, liking the new and hating the old is a common surname. ”

"It's just a concubine, I heard that she was born in a businessman, or she remarried, and she dares to be so frivolous?" Thirteen Fujin felt sorry for his sister, and complained a little: "Has the sixth brother-in-law passed?" ”

Seeing that his sister was worried, Da Zhaojia shook his head and said, "Don't worry, I'm fine." There are old ladies on top and three sons below, and no one dares to worry about my place, but it's just an eyesore. When she first entered the door, she showed weakness, and her two daughters were not in front of her, so she used to pretend to be pitiful. But whenever I say the last word, our lord will treat me as a jealous woman. I'd like to see if she can be spoiled forever? but it was Ezer who served men. As long as the man is tired of it, see how she behaves. ”

No one knew about the conversation between the two sisters. After that, the Thirteenth Fujin mentioned to the Thirteenth Elder Brother that if he didn't keep the two sisters, he wanted to give the two sisters to the sixth sister.

What his beloved wife said, how can the thirteenth elder brother not.

So, when Da Zhaojia left the Thirteenth Elder Brother's Mansion, he brought back the "maidservants" sent by his two younger sisters.

A few days later, Iduli accepted the joy of concubine.

As for Hesheri, when he heard that his daughter-in-law was going to give her son a concubine, she only took a bottle of secret medicine to her daughter-in-law, and she didn't say a word.

Adding a few concubines is nothing, but the family lineage cannot be confused. Tolerating her son to impregnate Concubine Han is already the limit of the old lady, this mongrel of Oriental life, she is not sensitive.

Cao Hao's side, in the end, it was inconvenient to go, so someone prepared a "congratulatory gift" and sent it over.

For Xiao Yueben, Cao Hao can be regarded as hateful, but he will not be angry with the two little girls. Although I haven't seen the two sisters, they have been sold back and forth, and their backgrounds are unbearable. was abandoned by the thirteenth elder brother and sent back to Guangzhou, waiting for what to do.

Even if it is someone who the thirteenth elder brother does not want, the steward of the thirteenth elder brother's mansion does not dare to touch his hands.

That is, Yi Duli, who is brother-in-law with the thirteenth elder brother, and the relationship between the two is good, so they don't shy away from it so much, so they will accept the two sisters calmly.

In the blink of an eye, it was the thirtieth day of the lunar month.

After the sacrifice, everyone in the east and west provinces had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the upper room of the Lanyuan, and they kept a watch here.

On the ground, there is a table, and the Li family is the same as Zhaojia's, Tian's, and Suxin wiping leaf cards. Chu Yu sat on the edge of the kang with Jinghui and Chunhua, talking and taking care of a few young children.

Cao Xiang's concubine Tianyang and Cao Song's two daughters are all at the age of babbling, and they are full of kang crawling.

Two sisters, Lianqiu and Xiqiu, took Niuniu and a few girls to tie silk flowers in the warm pavilion.

The boys, on the other hand, are all Easthouse.

Earlier, when he was in Zhuangzi, the days were boring, so Cao Hao made people sit on two sets of wooden checkers. The chess pieces were carved out of wood and dyed with six-colored pieces. There are many children in the left and right families, so it is just right to play this.

No, among the boys, the younger Changsheng and Tianhu did not play, and the remaining four were fighting with Cao Hao and Cao Xiang.

Changsheng and Tianhu were not idle, listening to Cao Fu tell the story of Sun Wukong's trouble in the sky.

The room was filled with children's laughter.

The Li family and the Zhaojia family both have smiles on their faces, and the prosperity of their children and grandchildren is also a sign of the prosperity of the family. Although these two, one is thinking about the deceased husband and the other is thinking about the eldest son, they are just under the big festival, and they are not good on their faces.

"Confused ......" Zhao Jia's continued to be a banker, and even looked at the money box in Li's hand proudly, and said: "Sister-in-law, pay for it......

Li smiled and picked up a string of copper coins, sent them to Zhao Jia's family, and said, "My brother and sister are really lucky, it's only a little bit of effort, and I'm going to win my usual money......"

Zhao Jia's leaned forward and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law is not allowed to feel distressed, I have made money, Ming'er will buy fruits and invite my sister-in-law to eat wine." As she spoke, the corners of her eyes swept over the edge of the kang.

Tianyang is still young in the end, tired of playing, snuggled in the arms of his mother Chunhua, and fell asleep.

Zhao Jiashi looked at Chunhua, and then looked at the other two daughters-in-law, and became a little careless. In good conscience, she originally had a good impression of this concubine's daughter-in-law.

After all, she also has two daughters, and she will not treat her daughters as treasures and other people's daughters as grass. But this daughter-in-law is unworldly, soft, and has no clan shelf at all, so I really don't know what to say.

If it is a daughter-in-law, it will hurt to the bones; is a concubine daughter-in-law, compared with two decent parent-daughter daughters-in-law, such a delicate person makes people feel eyesore.

Li noticed Zhaojia's abnormality and asked, "My brother and sister are tired, do you want to rest?" ”

Zhao Jiashi nodded and said, "My eyes are a little spent, and I still have more than one hour to be talented, so I have to be crooked." ”

Chu Yu and Jing Hui had already heard the two of them talking, got up and came over, asked someone to collect the leaf card, and helped the two to go to the kang.

Seeing this, Chunhua hugged Tianyang and wanted to get up. Zhao Jiashi waved his hand and said, "Sit on the kang, don't be alarmed." ”

Because Tianyang is the grandson of the concubine, the Zhaojia clan did not want to see him, but when the little guy grew older, he began to learn to speak, and he looked well-behaved. doesn't look like his father Cao Xiang, but has a bit of Cao Fu's appearance when he was a child.

Zhao Jia's family saw it, how could it not be rare, and this time Sun's love far exceeded that of the eldest grandson Tianhu...... When they stayed up until midnight, even the boys in the East House couldn't help but fall asleep.

The sound of firecrackers could be heard in the distance, from far and near, and the sky outside was reflected red.

At the beginning of the new year, everything is renewed.

The children were awakened by the sound of firecrackers, and several small ones were hidden in the arms of their elders, sleepy-eyed. The older children have already begun to visit their elders.

Chu Yu sent a prepared green satin mat, and took three cousins from Cao Hao to kowtow to the two elders of the Li family and the Zhaojia family together.

The Li family and the Zhaojia family had already packed the purse, but there was no Cao Hao and the three of them. The three of them have already started a family, and they don't need to give New Year's money.

After the three of them finished worshipping, it was Chu Yu who kowtowed with a few concubines.

Then the crowd sat on the right and left.

The fourth sister and the fifth son took a few girls, and Changsheng took all the nephews and kowtowed to the elders in turn.

In addition to the Li family and Zhao Jia's family, Cao Hao and they also prepared New Year's money for their children. However, it is also gold and silver bills, and the children's purses are full and so on, and the income is quite rich.

It was lively for half an hour, and the sound of firecrackers outside gradually stopped.

The Li family and the Zhaojia family couldn't stand it anymore, and everyone dispersed.

The next day began, until the fifth day of the new year, people came to visit the New Year one after another. Cao Hao didn't have to go out, but he escaped, and in addition to entertaining guests at home, he began to prepare for going south.

For fear that the Li family would be worried, Cao Hao didn't say much, but only said that he was entrusted by the sixteenth elder brother to go to the south.

When Li heard this, he didn't say anything, but just asked him to bring more elders and subordinates, for fear that his son would suffer outside.

Although his wife is in charge of the house, there is nothing to worry about, but thinking about going out this time, I am afraid that it will take a year and a half, and there are many trivial things outside, so Cao Hao told his two cousins again.

He and Cao Song are not there, and it is difficult for the subordinates to keep being lazy, so they must tighten the door and save from giving birth to right and wrong. If you really encounter a difficulty, you can go to Cao Jiashi or Cao Yi to discuss.

Cao Xiang responded one by one, but Cao Fu was moved and begged to go with his cousin.

Although he thinks that he should take his younger brother to see the world, but there is only one Cao Xiang left in the capital, if there is something at home, it is strange that people are not at ease, how can Cao Hao respond.

Cao Fu stretched out his fingers and counted them one by one: "Big brother, look, even if there is really something in the family, what can the younger brother do?" There are two sisters and three sisters to help with ideas. The identity of the sister-in-law, what is unfair? You don't have to ask for help. Let's take my younger brother around, even if you don't go to Guangzhou, you can go to Hangzhou......" Speaking of this, his eyes lit up and said: "I should go and pick up the eldest sister, and the eldest sister will also be picked up in February......"

(To be continued)