Zhang Erzhen was a little sad, and her eyebrows were full of worry and distress. The cuckoo put on the tea and fruit snacks and retreated to the door to wait, Zhang Erzhen whispered: "Third sister Liang, since the second son has gone, does the Liang family want to take you back? You are only fifteen years old, you can't stay here all the time, what can you do in the next life?"

Liang Aiyuan's originally pale face suddenly became vivid, he sneered, and said softly: "The Liang family came with a letter and wanted to take me back, but the Kong family was unwilling, saying that the second brother was gone, and I had to follow him for three years." The Confucian Mansion doesn't let people go, and my father and mother can't help it. The fair-skinned jade hand clutched the quilt tightly, unwilling and annoyed.

Zhang Erzhen clenched the teacup and asked, "You and the second son are just an outward husband and wife, what do you keep? The Confucian Mansion has always boasted of being a famous family, and there are students all over the world, can you say such things?"

"My father-in-law and uncle are both good, and the only bad thing is that it is my mother-in-law who does not distinguish between right and wrong. Liang Aiyuan was very straightforward and mocked: "I only found out when I came that it was my mother-in-law who forced me to marry in." Since I entered this Confucian Mansion, I haven't been out for a day, she measured that my Liang family was far away in the capital to take her, and only asked me to guard the second brother all day long, serving tea and water, serving food, but like an old mother. Thanks to the second brother, I thought that if he was good, let's live a good life together, who knows...... , who knew he turned out to be really short-lived. Now, naturally, Mrs. Kong forced me to stay, three years! Zhen Zhen, how can I be willing?!" Three years later, Liang Aiyuan will be eighteen years old, this flower-like age in the previous life, here, for a girl, it is cruel.

Zhang Erzhen remembered that when the Jin family gave birth to her, she would be seventeen years old!

Zhang Erzhen was about to speak, and Du Juan's eager voice came from outside the curtain: "Madam, you are here." ”

Liang Aiyuan hooked the corners of her mouth disdainfully, and Zhang Erzhen clearly saw the big words "I knew she would come". The vermilion painted wooden door was opened, and Zhang Erzhen had already stood obediently, only to see a charity-looking woman walk in, with thin cheeks, wearing a plain blue embroidered dress, and the corners of her eyes had traces of time. Liang Aiyuan nested in the collapse, and when she saw Mrs. Kong coming in and making a gesture to get up, Mrs. Kong said, "You can sit, you don't need to get up", and her tone was cold and detached. Liang Aiyuan sat down steadily. Zhang Erzhen curtsied, Mrs. Kong seemed to have just seen the guest of the second young grandmother, only glanced at Zhang Erzhen, and then took care of the place where Zhang Erzhen was sitting, and the scene was quiet for a while.

"Are you a friend of Aiyuan Jingli, I heard that it is a girl from the Zhang family, and my younger brother is studying at the Confucian Library?" When Liang Aiyuan's face was full of admiration, Mrs. Kong was already dissatisfied: "The elders didn't let you sit down after the question, what kind of rules are these rules of your Zhang family?"

Liang Aiyuan became like this, and Zhang Erzhen was also a little angry in her heart, but she stood up respectfully and said, "I thought that Mrs. Kong forgot to ask me to sit down, so I sat down by myself." I didn't expect Mrs. Kong to like to watch others standing, I was ignorant, it was the first time I encountered such a thing, and let Mrs. see the joke. The tone was gentle and submissive, Mrs. Kong only looked at this girl's delicate posture, delicate eyebrows and eyes, and was even more dissatisfied, and said to Liang Aiyuan: "You are now the young grandmother of the Confucian Mansion, don't always call outsiders into the mansion, our Confucian family has been clear for generations, and we don't compare with those civil and military officials, this point must be remembered." If you didn't know it in the past, I won't bother with you now. Liang Aiyuan's face turned red when he said this, and he said dissatisfiedly: "Mother has you forgotten that my family is also an official in Beijing, and it is the sludge in my mother's mouth. ”

Zhang Erzhen stood, naturally taking in the disdain in Mrs. Kong's eyes. Mrs. Kong gently wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, and said sadly: "My poor son, he was so good to you when he was in vain, and he has contradicted me many times for you girl, but now that people have just gone, you have been talking about going back to Beijing, how can you be worthy of my son?"

Liang Aiyuan seemed to be used to seeing such a scene, and he didn't say much, pulled Zhang Erzhen to sit beside him, and waited until Mrs. Kong finished crying, and then touched her temples and had a headache: "I think my father is going out today, and my mother is crying here." I'm just getting better, and if I'm sick again, when my father asks, I'll say that my mother provoked me. Zhen Zhen, you said that there is such a thing in the mansion next to you, while looking down on our relatives of the official eunuchs, and on the other hand, you won't let go. These words can be regarded as straightforward and ironic, Zhang Erzhen's hand attached to Liang Aiyuan's hand trembled, and the corners of his eyes twitched uncontrollably, feeling that the relationship between these two people had been stiffened like this, why torture each other. Madame Kong seemed to be accustomed to hearing it, and although she was annoyed, she did not answer, and took a sip of a teacup with blue and white silver enamel glaze, seeing that she was going to consume it here, and did not want the two girls to say something behind her back.

"Mrs. Kong, third sister, I heard a story before, saying that it is a family with a title, although the lady of the family is sick, but the old lady and his wife are deeply affectionate, and it is useless for others to say anything. Suddenly, one day, a very wealthy merchant passed by, and the old lady took a fancy to the merchant's fortune and was willing to let her son marry the girl as a concubine. The businessman was naturally unwilling, so the old lady forced the sick lady to death, forced her son to marry the daughter of the merchant as his wife, and took up the family's property...... "This is not the story of Zhang Erzhen's nonsense, it is the gossip that Mingyue heard in her spare time, and the follow-up development is naturally more hateful, but it is obvious that Zhang Erzhen has not finished telling the story, and Mrs. Kong has already raised her eyebrows coldly, and said dissatisfiedly: "Shinong Industry and Commerce, the daughter of a merchant has become a serious lady, what if the family is bankrupt, since the father of the merchant is willing, who can say anything." ”

Zhang Erzhen hooked the corners of her mouth and smiled: "Madam, don't worry, the story is not over yet." The girl of the merchant family became the wife of a genuine official family, and she should have given thousands of family wealth for the family to eat, drink, and play with wealth and wealth, but the lord of the family was not satisfied, while eating and using his wife's gold and silver mountains, and at the same time he was in love with his deceased wife, until he died of the merchant's daughter, and married the third wife, who was the sister of the first wife. ”

The status of merchants in ancient times was very low, even gold and silver, and it was difficult to enter the eyes of the officials, but what people despised in this story was the insatiable and ugly face of the family of the lord, who not only wanted to take other people's silver, but also took care of his own face. Zhang Erzhen looked at Mrs. Kong's vague expression with a smile, and Liang Aiyuan had already heard the deep meaning, and said: "It is said that businessmen are the most cunning, and they are dedicated to calculating money, and they are mainly profit-oriented, and they are unwilling to suffer a little loss. I look at this person's heart, it is really hard to guess, the businessmen of this family did not catch the sesame watermelon in the end, but the house of the lord, everything was touched, and they were all happy in the end. Mother, I also think you're right, the merchants' families are not necessarily all so calculated, and the officials are not necessarily sensible. But the bitterness is in the daughter of the merchant, with thousands of family wealth, looking like a potato that burns her hands, and any greedy one has to take off a layer of skin. Liang Aiyuan's pale cheeks showed a shallow pear vortex, and he looked at Mrs. Kong proudly.

This refers to Sang scolding Huai's ability Liang Aiyuan learned very well, she has always been a rectum, and the anger that has been suppressed for a long time has been released a little, pinching the green and transparent bean paste and eating it happily, and greeting Zhang Erzhen also uses a little. Zhang Erzhen took a sip of tea and said apologetically: "Mrs. Kong is not strange, she just listened to the gossip of the girl at home, and it was all fun." ”

Mrs. Kong's cold gaze shot at Zhang Erzhen, who was eating with her head down, afraid that she would not be able to control her scolding, and her sleeves collapsed angrily, and with the door "slammed" shut, Zhang Erzhen couldn't help but widen her eyes and sighed: "Why is the woman of Qingliu House, uh-it like this?"

Liang Aiyuan said comfortably: "Hmph! I don't look like a lady at all, such a lady is in Beijing, but I want to be ridiculed, she is unconscious, she doesn't make me feel good, and I naturally can't go along with her wishes! Fortunately, my father-in-law and brother and sister-in-law are sensible." But why is my life so bitter......" said bitterly, but there was not much sadness on his face, it was useless to feel sad, her biggest wish now is to go back to Beijing, as for remarrying or something, I don't dare to think about it.

"Don't be sad, Kyori is unstable now, and it won't be possible to get away from it. You're ...... sooner or later I definitely want to leave here, the most important thing now is to take care of my body, be a second young grandmother in a beautiful manner, and for the rest, I have Master Liang and Mrs. Liang to call the shots for you. Zhang Erzhen sat back on the other side of the low table, looking at Liang Aiyuan, who was suddenly angry and calm, and felt a little distressed.

Liang Aiyuan sighed: "I want to take care of my body, write letters to my father every day, I must go back." Although the second brother is good, but the people are gone, I can't keep his tablet for the rest of my life. My grandfather has already harmed me once, and if my father still plans to go down, I will strangle me to death on the plaque of the Confucian family, and then see how arrogant Mrs. Kong is and how she puts on a show in front of me! See if my father will regret it and give me away like this!" Now that you really want to leave here, there is actually a possibility, that is, you and the second son left together, and the second son didn't tell you this when he was there?"

Liang Aiyuan screamed loudly as if he had just woken up from a dream, his body shook irrepressibly, and his face was ruddy: "Ah! I remembered! I once served him, he told me this, saying what it was and where to put the book, at that time I was patronizing and sad and sad, but I didn't listen much, Zhen Zhen, you are right, if I have a book and leave the book, what reason does the Confucian family have to detain me to keep the festival, ridiculous, ridiculous!"

Liang Aiyuan became active, holding Zhang Erzhen's hand and chattering: "Brother Yan is indeed a good one, he thinks about me, he has already written and left the book, just need my consent, Zhen Zhen, you say such a good person, how can you ......" After that, he wiped his tears again, lamenting for himself, and Kong Yan is not worth it.

Zhang Erzhen gently helped wipe her tears, and said: "He knows that his body is not good, and he doesn't want to drag you down, what you can do now is to recuperate, ask Mrs. Kong to ask for it and leave the book to go back to Beijing, live well, and it will not be in vain for the second son to have a fate with you." ”

"Yes!" Liang Aiyuan's eyes were blazing: "It's all her, she must have taken it! I want to tell my father-in-law, I want to tell my father! Cuckoo-cuckoo, pass the rice, I want to eat! I want to eat crystal glutinous rice elbow-"

The cuckoo outside the door came in quickly, happy, the girl had no energy all day, and now it is a great thing to have an appetite, she glanced at Zhang Erzhen gratefully, and hurriedly ordered the kitchen to prepare food.