Returning to the capital, Chen Lin inevitably had one thing, that is, Mrs. diplomacy, as Su Chen's wife, when Su Chen was obviously promising, she naturally received attention from all sides, and various invitations continued.

At first, she thought that she had just returned to the capital and had not yet refused, but it was impossible to keep it like this, some officials with higher grades than Su Chen had a banquet, if she refused, it would be obvious that she was recruiting Su Chen.

Therefore, she could only inquire about the situation in each province first, and then communicate with Su Chen first, before receiving some invitations, the first invitation was the flower-viewing banquet of Wu Shangshu's house, the location was in the outer courtyard of Wu Shangshu's house, and the reward was naturally osmanthus.

Su Chen was fine that day, so the husband and wife brought their two children over, and the youngest son was too young to bring him, and the husband and wife took a child to the front yard and the backyard respectively.

After getting out of the carriage, the son and daughter-in-law of Wu Shangshu's family greeted the guests at the door, and when they saw them, they greeted them: "Lord Su, Mrs. Su." ”

"Lord Wu. "Wu Shangshu's son Wu Pei is also an official, a few years younger than Su Chen, but he is only a fifth grade, and he works in the Ministry of Industry.

The man over there was greeting and entertaining, Chen Lin was also greeting Wu Pei's wife Miao, although Chen Lin was not very good at socializing, but in the end she had dealt with people, she was the oldest in Selangor Mansion back then, but she also needed to receive the family members of the lower officials, and learned how to deal with this situation.

After a few words of greeting, someone arrived again, Wu Pei and his wife asked them to take them to the front yard and the back yard respectively, Su Ling followed Su Chen to the front yard, and Su Yue followed her obediently.

Entering the garden in the backyard, there were already a lot of people here, because they seemed to have been notified before they came in, so even if Chen Lin appeared for the first time, those people knew which one she was, and the second daughter-in-law of the Wu family, Shui Shi, came to entertain her.

Chen Lin greeted her again, but soon someone came later, so she automatically walked away and found a secluded place to sit down, and those people began to whisper when they saw her.

"Hey, this is the wife of Su Shilang?"

"yes, it looks pretty young. ”

"Didn't you say it was a peasant girl? ”

"I've been an official wife for ten years, of course it's different. ”

"No, there are other officials who were born as peasant girls, but they are different from this one, whether it is appearance or temperament, this person looks like he knows how to maintain, and his temperament is better than that of many ladies born of noble girls, there is a feeling that I can't tell. ”

Chen Lin knew that they should be talking about themselves, but she didn't care, no one talked to her better, she wasn't used to their way of talking.

But it was obvious that she couldn't be beautiful alone, and after a while someone came over to talk to her.

"Mrs. Su, can I sit here?" The person who came was a woman about thirty years old, Chen Lin didn't know her, well, she basically didn't know anyone here.

"You may be seated. Chen Lin hurriedly stood up and made an invitation.

"I'm from the left squire of the ministry. Mrs. saw that Chen Lin didn't know herself, so she introduced herself.

"It turned out to be Madame White ("I have seen Madame White. Su Yue also saluted as standard. ）。 "Lord Zuo Lang Bai, and Su Chen are in the same ministry, it is said that the two should be regarded as the same level, but in ancient times, the left was respected, so the left waiter was more noble than Su Chen, the right waiter, but this is only in secular cognition.

"Mrs. Su knows about me?" Mrs. Bai was a little surprised.

"Well, I don't know, but I just came to the capital, so I learned about my master's social circle. Chen Lin shook his head.

"That's good. Madame Bai nodded, knowing that it was much better to find out information in advance than those official wives who were in the same situation but were blind.

To tell the truth, sometimes it's not that their circle excludes those ladies with low births, but they themselves don't care about their low births, but they won't work hard to make themselves better after making a career again, so how can you blame others for squeezing out you, and your husband doesn't care about you.

chatted with Chen Lin for a while, and found that her writing may not be very good, but she has definitely read a lot of books, has a wide range of knowledge, and understands all aspects, she is not a talented woman but she is definitely not illiterate.

After a while, there were more official wives who came over to talk together, and the communication between the ladies was more polite, and there was no need to compete for personal expertise and strive for a good marriage market like Miss Weihui, their relationship basically followed the relationship of their husbands, and some of the official wives who were in the same department as Su Chen were closer to her.

Chen Lin saw that there were too many people and asked Su Yue to play by herself, and let her eldest girl Sydney watch, but she didn't go far, and the little girl who was still quiet was released all of a sudden.

"Miss Su is really well-behaved and intelligent. Seeing that Su Yue had been listening to them quietly except for saluting and greetings, she left at this time but revealed her lively nature, which made the women present who were basically mothers couldn't help but praise.

"It's just a little naughty.,That is, I pretend to be outside.,I often mess around with my brother at home on weekdays.。 Chen Lin smiled.

"Isn't it like this for children, I think Miss Su treats people very well, much better than my family. ”

"Yes, Miss Su is very good like this, if only my girl could be as lively as Miss Su, I know that I am bored in the house reading books all day long, but I am worried to death. ”

The topic turned to children, and women said even more, some people will praise others and belittle their own children, some people will praise others while implicitly showing off their children, and some people think that their children are so good.

When all the guests arrived, the host beckoned them to go to the osmanthus forest to enjoy the flowers, and the young ladies who had gone to play by themselves also came back and stayed with their respective mothers.

Chen Lin noticed that there were some young ladies who seemed to be looking at her without a trace, curious, disdainful and jealous, she didn't care about this, probably Su Chen provoked it, what could she say about this, she couldn't blame Su Chen for attracting bees and butterflies.

As I said before, the flower viewing banquet is actually a performance venue for unmarried ladies to add chips to their marriage market, and this time is of course no exception, but Chen Lin didn't expect that someone would pull her into the water.

The person was not an unmarried woman, but a woman who looked to be in her forties, "It's the first time for Mrs. Su to participate in such a banquet, so you might as well participate in it." ”

"No, I'm already a child's mother, so I won't join in the fun with their little girls. Chen Lin didn't expect to be named, but quickly reacted and replied.

"Mrs. Su is not polite, you are Tanhua's wife, and you have such a good relationship with Master Su, I think there must be something extraordinary, and you can also teach these little girls. The man continued.