In Dou Zhao's memory, the Dou Mansion in Huaishu Hutong is a house with four entrances and three ear rooms, pomegranates are planted in the front yard, square bamboo is planted in the back yard, and stone tables and stone piers are placed under the grape trellis.

But in this life, as soon as she got off the carriage, she found that the Dou family's mansion was more than twice as large as she remembered.

Dou Shishu not only bought a three-in-three house next door to his house, but also bought a two-in-three house in the back, and opened up the three houses and renovated them, becoming the current old mansion of Dou Ge in Huaishu Hutong.

This may have a lot to do with the fact that the fifth uncle was suppressed by Wang Xingyi for a long time in the previous life, but in this life, he entered the cabinet before Wang Xingyi.

Dou Shishu, Dou Shiheng, Dou Shiying and other men are in front, the fifth wife Fan, the sixth wife Ji and other female dependents are behind, and almost all the maids, daughters-in-law, and mothers-in-law of the mansion are dispatched, surrounded by everyone in the Dou family, and they stood in front of the door early and waited, except for Wang Yingxue.

Seeing the second wife, Dou Shishu knelt down in front of the second lady a few steps forward, and shouted "mother" with moist eyes.

The second lady suddenly burst into tears and wanted to get up with Dou Shishu.

Dou Shishu insisted on kowtowing to the second wife three times, and his forehead was immediately covered with dust.

Dou Shiheng and the others hurriedly followed Dou Shishu and kowtowed.

The second lady's eyes were full of relief and joy.

Dou Zhao, who was walking behind the second wife, saw Dou Ming in the crowd hesitate for a moment, and then knelt down with a young woman with a thin body, fair skin, and a beautiful appearance.

Dou Zhao recognized the woman as Dou Zhengchang's wife, Han, and she couldn't help but look at it twice.

The relationship between Han and Ji Lingze, who was first his sister-in-law and then his concubine, was very bad, so that Dou Dechang and his wife had to move to the West Street near Eikoji Temple in Xuanbeifang, an outer city in Kyoto.

Feeling Dou Zhao's gaze, Han nodded kindly at Dou Zhao.

Dou Zhaowaner.

As if he wanted to prove something, Dou Ming hurriedly grabbed Han's arm and glanced at him coldly.

Dou Zhaoquan didn't see it, and his eyes fell on the Guo family and the Cai family beside the Han family.

Although Guo Shi is as slender and gentle as in her memory, her skin is white and tender, and her black eyes are as cute as a fawn, unlike the last time she saw Guo Shi, her expression was languid, her skin was yellow, like a patient who had been bedridden for a long time, and she was uncomfortable and depressed.

Count the days, and the Bai family will enter the door next year.

Dou Zhao sighed in his heart and remembered Ji Lingze.

Through the ceremony, Ji Ling had a relationship with Dou Zhao. Dou Zhao excused the second wife to invite the real person of Longhu Mountain to tell the fortune, and he quietly begged the real person to calculate a hexagram for himself and Ji Han, saying that Ji Ling has a hurdle in the past two years, and after being able to go through, it will be Duankang Avenue, if you can't go through, I am afraid that there will be some suffering in the second half of my life, and it is best to avoid the noisy and noisy red, and eat fast for two years alone.

She and Ji Ling said that these friendships were too weak. When she sent the letter out, she herself shook her head with a wry smile, who knew that it didn't take long for the Ji family and the Han family to postpone the marriage, and a few days later, the news that Han Gongzi was seriously ill came out, Dou Zhao couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, just when she thought that Ji Lingze might be widowed, Ji and the Han family suddenly set a wedding date, and Ji Lingze married the Han family in the form of Chongxi, and three months later, Han Liugongzi died of illness.

When Dou Zhao heard the news, she didn't close her eyes all night, and she wrote a letter to comfort Ji Lingze.

After that, the two often exchanged letters, but Ji Ling never mentioned her Chongxi, and out of respect, Dou Zhao did not ask her about the situation at that time. Since she came to Kyoto this time, she must be going to visit Ji Lingze, but I don't know if she is living in Ji's house or Han's house now.

She hurriedly stopped her thoughts, and when the second wife and others finished their agreement, she stepped forward to give her father Dou Shiying a blessing gift.

Dou Shiying hadn't seen Dou Zhao for a long time, she looked very excited, took Dou Zhao's hand and asked her if she was too peaceful along the way, what she usually did at home, and Aunt Cui's grandmother was in good health...... kept talking like a lotus root that was constantly threaded, but Dou Shiheng interrupted Dou Shiying with a smile: "The child has just arrived, if there is anything to say, Aunt Shou will not run." But he asked Aunt Shou: "Are you tired?" Let your sixth aunt make you a pot of grapefruit tea to remove the fire. It made everyone laugh.

Dou Zhao hurriedly gave Dou Shi a salute, laughed loudly and shouted "Sixth Uncle", and then took the arm of the Sixth Uncle, and shouted "Eleventh Brother" and "Twelfth Brother" to Dou Zhengchang and Dou Dechang, like Ji's daughter, a little rude, but even more affectionate, which made Ji's heart happy, grabbed Dou Zhao's shoulder and smiled: "Don't listen to your sixth uncle, come and meet your fifth uncle." So saying, he brought her to the Fifth Lady.

The fifth wife didn't dare Dou Zhao to speak, she had already pulled Dou Zhao's hand and said with a smile: "It's better to be famous than to meet, the fourth lady of our family is really beautiful." It is worthy of growing up under the knees of Mrs. Tai. The last sentence was said to the second wife.

The second wife smiled and happily accepted the compliment from her daughter-in-law.

Dou Zhao smiled and bent his knees and saluted.

The fifth wife recruited her two daughters-in-law and her grandson and granddaughter: "Come and meet your fourth sister." ”

Guo and Cai took the child and Dou Zhao to greet him.

Dou Zhao motioned to Su Xin to take out the meeting that had been prepared for a long time and rewarded his nephews and nieces.

Guo Shi saw that Dou Zhao gave his daughter a small Ruyi bracelet of red gold, and felt that it was too valuable, so he thanked him a little embarrassedly. The Cai family carefully gave Dou Zhao a few glances at the jade pendant of his two sons, and then thanked him with a smile.

Cha is still the same snobbery as in the previous life.

Dou Zhao pursed his lips in his heart and stepped forward to salute Dou Shishu.

Dou Shishu smiled slightly and said, "The last time I saw you, you were still a child, and you have grown into a big girl in the blink of an eye, what a time is really unforgiving!" The tone was quite emotional.

Dou Zhao saw that Dou Shishu had become a little blessed, and a few silver threads were added to his temples, adding a little sadness to his heart.

Ji introduced Han to Dou Zhao again.

The Han family had already met her before, and knew that Dou Zhao was like Ji's adopted daughter, treating Dou Zhao like a sister-in-law, respecting and affectionate, which made people feel good.

Dou Shiying scolded Dou Ming: "Your sister is here, why don't you go up to say hello?" ”

Dou Zhao thought that she would be awkward or cold-faced, but she didn't think that she stepped forward with a smile and saluted Dou Zhao, and said, "Who made me the youngest and the lowest, I will be the last in line." ”

Everyone burst into laughter, which made Dou Shiying look a little rough.

Fortunately, Dou Shiying's two daughters have always been pampered, smiled helplessly, and taught her a few clichés such as "obedient", so everyone hugged the second wife to the main room.

Dou Zhao was arranged in the West Wing.

Su Lan took the little maid to serve Dou Zhao's grooming, and Su Xin commanded the daughters-in-law to put on Dou Zhao's usual things from Zhending.

The little maids and rough mothers-in-law who were arranged by the fifth wife to serve here couldn't help but sigh, and said one after another: "The fourth lady who is really scheduled to come, the pomp is really big." ”

A little maid said, "What is this?" I heard that the pomp and circumstance of the fifth lady is even bigger, in addition to the usual servants, there are seven or eight guards in the house, two mothers-in-law who wash the pulp, two daughters-in-law on the stove, and four maids on needlework...... The Seventh Master is the richest of all the masters. ”

A little maid listened to it and settled the account, and said: "The fourth lady only brought four guards, four maids, and two rough mothers-in-law, which is indeed not as big as the pomp of the fifth lady." ”

Guo, who came in to invite Dou Zhao to dinner, couldn't help but shout when he heard this: "What are you talking nonsense here?" Don't help yet! ”

The little maidens scattered in a hurry.

Hearing the movement, Su Xin hurriedly greeted him, saluted respectfully, and called "Sixth Young Grandma".

Guo treated people kindly, and asked her softly: "Has the fourth sister been freshened up?" ”

Su Xin let Guo Shi into the hall, smiled and invited her to sit down, and before she could wait for tea, Dou Zhao, who had freshly washed up, walked out.

Guo Shi hurriedly stood up and said, "Fourth sister, the second lady has arrived, just wait for you to go, and you can start the banquet." ”

Dou Zhao smiled and thanked him, and went to the flower hall where the meal was set with Guo.

At this time, Song Mo sat on the meditation chair in the study of Yizhitang with his eyes closed, listening to Gu Yu and his steward Qiao An settling accounts: "...... By then, the 50,000 taels of silver from the household department have already arrived, and the silver is not worried, so it doesn't matter if you eat alone? ”

Jo Ann looked a little worried.

Gu Yu sneered: "What kind of food is this?" Compared to Shen Qinglai, we are far behind. He didn't even want to pay for the money he hired to help him, so he asked the guards along the way to help him carry the stones, and we even had to personally entertain the directors of the Ministry of Works to drink flowers and wine. Speaking of this, he couldn't help complaining, "Wang Qinghuai is also too careful." According to me, what we are doing is this business, you are just polite, without this relationship, people will not take you seriously, you are just no longer polite, with this relationship, they can only endure ......"

He didn't finish a sentence, Song Mo suddenly opened his eyes and said, "How much money does the Wei family have with us?" ”

Gu Yu was startled, fixed his mind, and said, "There are 20,000." ”

Song Mo said again: "How much silver did you give them?" ”

Gu Yu pursed his lips and said: "Zhang Yuanming's daughter-in-law has a big heart, when the first time she settled, I returned their principal to her according to your instructions, but who knew that she returned the principal, saying that it was counted in the share capital...... I didn't think much of it, but I just dialed some of my share to her, so I didn't mention it to you. The 20,000 taels of silver included the Wei family's principal of 3,000 taels of silver. ”

Song Mo nodded and said lightly: "Deduct all this silver for me." I said when to give it to him, when you will settle it for them. ”

Gu Yu opened his mouth wide, and only after a while did he say "Haole" in a loud voice, and there was joy in his voice that could not be concealed.

Song Mo lowered his head and took a sip of tea, remembering what happened when he came back that day and Mr. Yan told him about Daxiangguo.