On the nineteenth day of the lunar month, the holy driver returned to Changchun Garden. Cao Hao didn't stay long, and went back to the city directly. Because he himself is a servant temple official, he doesn't need to report back to anyone, so he goes back to his house directly.

The house has already received news, and Chu Yu has already set up the wine and food and waited.

Cao Hao was also thinking about Chu Yu in his heart, and after saying a few words to Mr. Zhuang in the front yard, he entered the second door. According to the rules, when you come back from a long home, you need to greet your elders first.

As soon as he entered the peony courtyard, Cao Hao heard the shouting and scolding of Zhao Jia's in the house. Although I don't know why, but "home and everything is prosperous", such a noisy and noisy person is not a child.

Cao Hao was hesitating to go in, when he saw a maid come out with a curtain.

Seeing Cao Hao, the maid hurriedly leaned over and saluted: "Uncle An!" ”

There was movement in the house, and the noise stopped. Listening to the sound of footsteps on the ground, Cao Song picked up the curtain and came out, and said with joy on his face: "Big brother is back!" ”

Cao Hao smiled and nodded, and followed Cao Song into the house.

Zhao Jiashi was sitting cross-legged on the kang, holding a cigarette pouch and pot in his hand, and was smoking with a cold face. Mama Zhang sat on a small pestle by the kang, holding a needlework basket in her hand.

Cao Xiang stood on the ground with his hands down, his head bowed and silent. Cao Xiang's mother, Bao Die, stood beside her son, her eyes red.

Seeing Cao Hao coming in, Zhao Jiashi squeezed out a smile and said, "Brother Hao is back?" In this great wax month, he is also to blame! ”

Cao Hao took two steps forward, bowed down and said, "My nephew asks for peace for the second aunt, and the second aunt is okay?" ”

Zhao Jiashi took a puff of cigarette and said, "It's hard for you to remember every time you write a letter home, I'm fine." The nephew and daughter-in-law have it again, but this is a great joy for our Cao family! ”

Cao Hao said: "It's all the nephew's due, as long as the second aunt is comfortable!" ”

Zhao Jia's face was a little stiff, and he shook Baodie's mother and son, remembered something, and said to Cao Hao: "My nephew and daughter-in-law are getting heavier, and the housework is complicated, so it's not good to be tired." On the second aunt's side, there are a few elderly people who are the most appropriate, and it is cheapest to help out......"

Before she finished speaking, she heard Cao Song mutter: "Mother, it's just that my sister-in-law is not comfortable, and there is still Sister Amethyst in the house, where is the shortage of manpower?" ”

Zhao Jiashi was interrupted halfway, already a little annoyed, and when he heard Cao Song's second half of the words, he immediately raised his eyebrows and said angrily: "Where did the 'sister' come from?" actually put on this spectrum, dare to be a sister with the master, is there any humility in your eyes? Speaking of this, he said to Cao Hao: "Brother Hao, I shouldn't have said these words, but even if you lift your subordinates, you don't have this lifting method!" If this is spread out, isn't it a joke that our Cao family master is not a master and a slave? In the past, there were few people in the house, and the nephews and daughters-in-law were tender-faced, and it was difficult to discipline. Now that there are more than a dozen masters, where will it be her turn to be a slave and maid housekeeper? Even if it's in the face of the old lady and treat her politely, it doesn't have to be like this! ”

Zhao Jia's singing, where does Cao Hao still not understand? In his heart, Amethyst is more like a relative than this second aunt. Although he was annoyed in his heart, he only smiled lightly and did not speak. In the end, it depends on Cao Song's face, and it is necessary to save some face for Zhaojia's family.

Zhao Jia's family treated her respectfully because of Cao Hao, and Chu Yu was pregnant again, so she moved the idea of being a housekeeper. Only then did I see that Amethyst was not pleasing to the eye, so I just used the topic to play.

Seeing that Cao Hao was silent, Zhao Jia's became more and more proud, and said bitterly: "Brother Hao, although Amethyst is an old person used by the old lady and has taken care of you in the past, there is no reason to stay in the inner house all the time. is the daughter of the palace, and when she reaches the age of the palace, she will release people out, let alone people like us? Although Amethyst is old, but we are the masters, and it is ...... to help prepare a good dowry" Speaking of this, I heard Mama Zhang "cough".

Zhao Jiashi remembered what Mama Zhang said at noon, and said to Cao Hao with a smile: "I forgot, even in our house, there is also a good marriage!" The eldest son of Mama Zhang's family, who is Chinese New Year's Eve five today, died two years ago and is now thinking about finding a house. Amethyst got married, and she will still be on an errand in the house in the future......"

If Zhao Jia's nagging two sentences, Cao Hao will endure it. After all, when people are old, they love to nag, and Zhaojia's is also in his forties. But now that even Amethyst is calculated, he can't help but be a little annoyed.

Although Chu Yu is now a housekeeper, he is afraid of the face of the Zhaojia clan, and rarely disciplines those people brought by the south. Now, Zhao Jia's is the opposite, and he wants to "heart" the people on the side of the big house.

Cao Hao stopped smiling, looking at Mama Zhang on the little pestle, her face was a little cold.

Mama Zhang originally relied on the momentum of the Zhaojia clan and deliberately took it big, so she deliberately didn't get up. Now, seeing that Cao Hao's face was wrong, his heart trembled, and he got up with a smile.

Cao Hao said in a deep voice: "Isn't Mama old and confused? The grandfather and aunt are standing, you are honorable? ”

Mama Zhang didn't expect Cao Hao to attack her, so she looked at Zhao Jia's family.

Zhao Jiashi saw Cao Hao teaching his nurse, put down the cigarette pouch and pot, his face was a little unsightly, he glanced at Cao Hao and said: "I asked her to sit, Mama is my nursing mother, why can't you have a seat in front of Song'er?" Could it be that the boss wants to teach his aunt new rules? ”

Cao Hao looked at Zhao Jia's and said, "Amethyst, I called her housekeeper." She is an old person next to the old lady, why can't she be a 'sister'? The second aunt knows how to respect Mama Zhang, and she must be able to sympathize with her nephew's heart of amethyst! ”

He returned the original words, and Zhao Jiashi was choked and speechless, biting his lip. She wanted to glare at Cao Hao, but when she saw that he was serious, she was also a little afraid in her heart, so she glanced at Baodie and said: "Since the master handed over the fourth child to you for discipline before his death, you are also concerned, don't think about visiting the door all day." Today, for the sake of two broken books, he chased me to my yard, is there still my mother-in-law in his eyes? "In the end, it's already loud.

Baodie hurriedly pulled Cao Xiang to kneel down and said, "Mrs., please calm your anger, it's all Brother Xiang'er's fault, he is still a child, don't be angry with him?" As he spoke, he said to Cao Xiang: "Don't kowtow to your wife quickly to make amends!" ”

Cao Xiang's face suppressed his indignation, glanced at Mama Zhang who was standing by the kang, and kowtowed to Zhaojia's family.

Zhao Jia's was already annoyed, and Cao Xiang's body was straight, and there was no movement in his mouth, and an evil fire rose in his heart.

She put down the cigarette pouch and pot, picked up the two books on the edge of the kang, tore them with her hands, and threw them in front of Cao Xiang, saying, "Aren't they just two bad books, and they still arouse your heart?" Who are you throwing face at? I look at the master's affection, how can I ever wronged you two for half a point, but now I am used to being a white-eyed wolf? ”

The more he said this, the more unpleasant it became, Cao Hao looked at the book jacket on the ground, one was "Mencius Collection Commentary", and the other one was not real, it was all a book for exams and studies. In addition to the pages, there are also a few scattered patterns.

Baodie sobbed in a low voice, but Cao Xiang did not respond.

Cao Hao stood up, stepped forward to help Cao Xiang up, and said warmly: "It's just two books, let's go over today's matter, and my brother will ask someone to take you to buy it!" ”

Cao Xiang's eyes were red, and he said, "Big brother, I bought it with the third brother last time!" ”

Zhao Jiashi saw the two of them talking, and sneered: "Why, the boss still wants to interfere with my son?" ”

Cao Hao frowned, and before he could answer, he heard Cao Song say angrily: "Mother, that's enough!" The eldest brother is like a father, and the eldest brother doesn't care about teaching the younger brothers, but the mother is the inner housewoman? Speaking of this, he pointed at Mama Zhang and scolded: "You trouble-making old immortal, the fourth brother is your master, and his study is what you entered casually?" You still have the face to complain in front of your mother's eyes, your mouth full of feces spitting things, and you forgot your grandfather's fist! ”

When Mama Zhang saw these gentlemen, she looked at her one by one, and she was worried in her heart, and muttered: "It was the wife who asked the old slave to find two idle book clips!" ”

Cao Song said: "Bullshit, this is the fourth brother's book for learning, and it is your mother's idle book!" ”

It turned out that Mama Zhang went to Cao Xiang's courtyard this afternoon and picked up two books in the study. At that time, Cao Xiang was with Cao Shuo, listening to Mr. Zhuang talk about the regulations for the eight-share examination in the front yard. When he returned to the courtyard, he heard the maid say that Mama Zhang had come to look for a book, so he read it in the study. It was the two books that he took that he was using, so he came to find Mama Zhang.

Mama Zhang relied on the momentum of the Zhaojia clan, and she didn't put Cao Xiang, the concubine, in her eyes, and her words were a little disrespectful.

Cao Xiang didn't bother with her, he just wanted to find the two books. Mama Zhang told him not to forgive, and she was annoyed, so she complained in front of Zhaojia's family.

Zhaojia's envoy called Baodie and Cao Xiang's mother and son, and beat them with words. It just so happened that Cao Song was here, watching his mother and brother being beaten, so he persuaded a few words on the side, but it made Zhaojia's family more and more annoyed.

said that Mama Zhang was scolded by Cao Song so faceless, sat on the ground, patted her thigh, and howled: "Oh, madam, look, where is the old slave still half decent?" Everyone else is good, only the old slave is stinky, so you might as well get the old slave out......"

Zhao Jia's family was already a little indelible, and when he saw that his biological son was also against him, he almost turned his back on him.

Cao Haoshi was impatient to entangle with her, and he didn't look at Mama Zhang on the ground, and said to Zhaojia's family: "My nephew has been on the road for a day, and he is tired, and the second aunt is fine, so the nephew will retreat first!" Saying that, he said to Baodie and Cao Xiang: "My aunt and my fourth brother have already compensated the second aunt, so let's go back early!" ”

Zhao Jia's body trembled with anger, stretched out his hand and stroked, and said loudly: "Get out, get out of here!" ”

Cao Hao and Cao Song both came out of the house, and Cao Hao calculated the age of Zhao Jia's family in his heart. In the early years, although Zhaojia's was also spicy, his face was bright, and he rarely had a crooked moment in public.

Zhao Jia's is half a year older than Li's, and he is forty-three or four years old this year, is it menopause?

Cao Song's face was sneering, with a little embarrassment, and said to Baodie: "Auntie, my wife has a big heart in the past half a year, and her temper is a little stronger, I will accompany you for her, don't go to your heart!" As he spoke, he patted Cao Xiang on the shoulder and said, "Brother Ming'er will take you to buy books, and you can buy whatever you want!" ”

Baodie was busy and didn't dare to do it, but Cao Xiang looked at the two elder brothers with gratitude, and then said to Cao Song with red eyes and a little guilt: "Second brother, it's all the younger brother who is not good, which makes the wife angry, and even the second brother is scolded!" ”

Cao Song smiled and said, "What are you and my brother talking about?" That Mama Zhang is not a good thing, the fourth brother doesn't have to get used to her in the future, if the wife has something to say, just come to the brother! ”

Cao Hao was beside him, and when he saw that their brothers and sisters were in harmony, he was very relieved. Everyone said a few words at the gate of the Shaoyuan, and then dispersed, and Cao Hao returned to Wutong Garden by himself.

Chu Yu had already gotten the letter and waited under the corridor for a long time. When Cao Hao saw it, he hurriedly stepped forward and pulled her into the house.

Because Chu Yu's hands were cold, Cao Hao couldn't help but say angrily: "Why are you waiting outside the house, this is three or nine days!" ”

Chu Yu said with a smile: "I knew that I came back to the Peony Courtyard, and I thought it was just to go to the second wife's side to take a turn and come back immediately, but I didn't expect it to be delayed for a long time!" ”

Cao Hao thought about a farce just now, and said to Chu Yu: "The second wife is really too idle, I have to find a good pastime for her." Otherwise, after she tosses this and that, it will be a mess and everyone will be uncomfortable! ”

Chu Yu was helping Cao Hao change his clothes, and when he heard this, he seemed to have an allusion, and asked, "What's wrong?" Which one does the second wife remember again? ”

Cao Hao told him about tearing up the book, and then told Zhao Jia's words about asking for errands for his subordinates and thinking about sending Amethyst.

When Chu Yu heard this, she couldn't help but be stunned, and asked puzzledly: "Isn't the second wife a Buddha who keeps filial piety, how can she think of this?" ”

Cao Hao changed his clothes, washed his face, and replied: "Xu said that the cat was stuffy in the house all day in winter, so he pondered these useless things. Although for the sake of Xiao Er's side, there is no need to refute her face too much, but it is not good to keep on. Otherwise, a precedent is set, and there will be more places to point fingers in the future. ”

Chu Yu hesitated for a moment and said, "Among the daughters-in-law recommended by the second wife, there are indeed two capable ones. ”

Cao Hao said with a smile: "They are all people in the house, and those who have the ability can use them, but the rules must be explained clearly, don't pick any messy things!" Speaking of this, he paused and said: "On the second wife's side, the two of us divide the labor, one with a red face and the other with a white face, for the sake of the little two, just treat it as an old child, coax it......"

(To be continued)