320。 If you keep to yourself, you will lose your life

After Beihou sent two apricot saplings to be planted, Qi Houru instructed someone to sort out another piece of vacant land to build a small pavilion, named Xingyu Pavilion.

"County Lord."

Qi Minglan stood outside the pavilion to face the three of Qi Mingluan's master and servant, wearing a water skirt to make her fall and generous, her manners were not bad at all, her appearance was slightly the shadow of Aunt Xiao, not so bright and moving, her facial features were upright and her complexion was white, that's all.

"I haven't seen the third sister come out for a long time, and I'm still used to hearing the third sister call the seventh sister." Qi Mingluan smiled faintly, took the initiative to step forward and helped Qi Minglan's hand, and stood face to face only to find that the fourteen-year-old Qi Minglan was much taller than herself, and she was depressed again.

"It was the third sister who made a mistake, and her mother just punished her for thinking about it behind closed doors, which made Minglan very uneasy." Qi Minglan is not hypocritical, she took the initiative to invite Qi Mingluan to come over, and her attitude is a little humble because she is respectful to her concubine as a concubine, and it is counterproductive if it is too much.

"How's Aunt Xiao? Have you ever been to see the third sister? Holding hands with Qi Minglan to the Xingyu Pavilion, the tools for making tea were already prepared on the small stone table, Qi Minglan stood on one side of the stone table, Qi Mingluan sat on the other side, and asked Xiao Qiao to take the tea and hand it to Qi Minglan.

"I wanted to go and see it, but my aunt was invited to the front hall by my mother in the morning and couldn't see it." Qi Minglan cleaned her hands, and then carefully opened the tea bag and fiddled with the tea set little by little.

Female red embroidery is something that Aunt Xiao taught her to learn since she was a child, in the past two years, after the development and growth of Dream Garden, Qi Minglan herself became interested in how to make tea, Qi Mingluan felt that this was a good thing, better than nesting in the room with an embroidery needle to burn her eyes, so in addition to letting Da Qiao personally burn a set of tea sets, she would also bring some tea to Qi Minglan when there was new tea in the Feng Mansion.

"There seem to be guests in the front room." Watching the teacups, tea leaves, and tea in Qi Minglan's hands go back and forth, Qi Mingluan enjoyed it, not that she knew much about tea, but from the understanding of traditional Chinese medicine to figure out the tea, each person has different tastes, and the evaluation of the quality of tea will be different. In fact, half of the large number of flowers and flowers in the Dream Garden are gimmicks, giving various types of tea sets to the guests who come to drink tea with tea leaves, which seems to make them choose the so-called most suitable combination, but in fact, it is just to satisfy their vanity mentality.

"It's the Shen family, my father, mother, and aunt are all talking together there." When it came to the Shen family, Qi Minglan's expression was still faint.

"The Shen family, I haven't heard much of it in the capital." The first cup of tea was tasted by Qi Minglan herself, and the second cup was handed to Qi Mingluan, pinching the rim of the cup with her thumb and forefinger, smelling the fragrance of tea, and not in a hurry to taste it. "Third sister, have you heard about the Shen family? But did Aunt Xiao know her mother's family, why did she ask Aunt Xiao to go over and talk? ”

Pretending not to know anything and asking, being troubled by all kinds of things, Qi Mingluan has never had the time to check what the so-called Shen family is in the bank, and Beihou Mutong is not a reliable one, so he didn't see any movement.

"My aunt said that the Shen family came to propose marriage." There was a touch of blush on her white face, Qi Minglan temporarily stopped what she was doing, and drank the tea in the cup together, "In a few days, there will no longer be such a leisurely time, and I don't know how difficult it will be to meet the seventh sister." ”

"Third sister, is the Shen family the mother-in-law that your mother found for the third sister?" Qi Mingluan continued to pretend to be confused, it was rare to be able to say something more to Qi Minglan, and she also wanted to hear what Qi Minglan's real personality would be.

"As a concubine, it is not as good as the identity of the second sister, the eldest daughter, and even less than the identity of the seventh sister, you are the concubine, these Aunt Xiao have taught me since I was a child." Qi Minglan is both clear and at a loss about her future, this is an inevitable path for her, but she doesn't know how to go on this road.

"Ever since my mother told my aunt, my aunt has asked someone to visit the Shen family, and the news she got has made her very uneasy - these are things I accidentally heard, and my aunt doesn't want me to let me know." Today, Qi Minglan has a lot of words, "The Shen family is a money bank, the scale is not large, and the family property is small." ”

Qi Minglan was thinking about how to say it so that the seventh sister in front of her could understand, and she didn't know why she wanted to say a lot of things to her youngest sister that seemed to be understood, maybe Aunt Xiao was not there, maybe she was in awe of Xu's housemother, or maybe the sixth sister Qi Mingyue was not as sensible and intelligent as Qi Mingluan.

"What's this, the third sister is the third lady of the Qi family, whether it is a concubine or not, the mother will not be lazy, the dowry must be thick, if not, there is also a seventh sister, I will add makeup to the third sister." Qi Mingluan also knows some of these things, if it is just a thin family property, it is really not a big problem, there is a saying, the problems that can be solved with money are not a problem, how to go to the in-law's house with a lot of dowry can be confident, and the things to do only need to take good care of the part that belongs to you.

"The seventh sister is good to the third sister, and the third sister has always remembered it." Qi Minglan smiled elegantly, raised her head and lowered it again, "Listening to the words of my aunt and aunt, it is nothing to have less family property, but it seems that things in the Shen family are a little complicated, Master Shen has many concubines and children, I am afraid that it is not suitable for me to have such a temperament." ”

After going around in a circle, Qi Mingluan still didn't quite understand the meaning of Qi Minglan's words, whether to marry Master Shen or marry one of Master Shen's sons, she actually ignored how old that Master Shen should be, being a house-filling steproom or the youngest concubine is not the same as being a daughter-in-law.

"So Aunt Xiao once told her mother for the sake of the third sister, didn't she?" That night, Aunt Xiao arrived outside her embroidery building, maybe this is also the case, and it is understandable that she does not want her daughter, who has always been well-behaved and sensible, to be married into such a family.

However, there seems to be something wrong in the order, Qi Mingluan clearly remembers that it was Qi Minglan who made some mistake first, Aunt Xiao pleaded later, and in the end, it was the mother who decided to marry Qi Minglan to the Shen family.

"My mother is pregnant, and my aunt really shouldn't disturb my mother's recuperation, but fortunately, my father didn't blame her." When talking about Aunt Xiao, Qi Minglan did not have any contempt in her tone, which is also something that Qi Mingluan admires very much, and will not deliberately please the housewife for the sake of her apparent status, and turn a blind eye to her own aunt.

"Last night, my mother passed me on after dinner." While Qi Mingluan was sorting out his thoughts, Qi Minglan continued, "Mother only told me one sentence - in the future, if you keep to yourself, you will lose your face." ”