Everyone in the house was very curious about how Mrs. Zhou dealt with the concubines who were making trouble for her, but now that there was a Wednesday lady present at the bereaved family, everyone was not good at talking about any gossip, so they all forcibly suppressed their curiosity.

Mrs. Wednesday has always been very low-key, and among the daughters of the Zhou family, she is a notoriously unsociable figure. But her background is not low, she is the daughter of a local family in Beiping, and her maternal grandfather is also extraordinary, and he is the concubine of the first two generations of King Yan, just because he is not a concubine, he was taken away from the inheritance of the old King Yan from the royal family. In terms of bloodline, it can be regarded as the descendant of the side branch of the Yanwangfu bloodline. When she married into the Zhou family, her husband was still a rare talent among the children of the Zhou family in the previous generation. Many people are secretly discussing, thinking that Zhou Laobu's political envoy concluded such a marriage for one of his most outstanding sons, and he had the idea of befriending the side of the Yan Wangfu, and there may be more far-reaching plans.

It's a pity that later the old man on Wednesday was unlucky and accidentally injured, so that he fell a slight disability on his foot, not to mention that he was an official, and even continuing to take the imperial examination became a delusion. Since then, the old man on Wednesday has lived in a simple place, sending love poems and paintings, and Mrs. Wednesday has been so low-key that she has almost become an invisible person of the Zhou family.

She has a mediocre relationship with her mother's family, and she doesn't have much contact with Mrs. Xu's side, although she is a descendant of the clan, she rarely goes to Yanwang's Mansion as a guest. Occasionally, he appeared in front of the public a few times, and he followed his mother-in-law and concubines to act together. She was an elegant woman, with a dignified manner in her words and deeds, and did not talk much. When others mention her, they generally only praise her as a virtuous and virtuous wife, who has been taking care of her disabled husband for more than ten years, and the children she has raised are also knowledgeable. If it weren't for her husband, there would be no future, and the future of the Zhou family is uncertain now, and there may have been officials who would have decided to marry her. But she didn't seem to be in a hurry, even if the eldest daughter was already in time, she didn't arrange to see each other everywhere. Now that the Zhou family wants to keep filial piety, these things don't need to be mentioned.

At this moment, Mrs. Wednesday, instead of the eldest sister-in-law, entertained the families of the officials and officials of the political envoy and the yamen who came to mourn, and she was also unhurried and unhurried. With an appropriate look of grief on her face, she talked with Wen, Mrs. Wan, Mrs. Liu and others about the relevant arrangements for her father-in-law's funeral, which temple in Beiping City, the disciples of the Taoist temple are good at chanting scriptures and making a dojo, what materials are used for the coffin, which shop's incense and candle paper is good, and which mountain has the best feng shui for the burial of the ancestors, etc., are all suitable and not easy to make mistakes.

The wives of the officials also talked to her on these topics with great interest, and the atmosphere was neither warm nor cold. Some people also tried to find out from Mrs. Wednesday's mouth how the Zhou family assigned work to several wives, and there were some contradictions between them, but Mrs. Wednesday's mouth was very tight, and it sounded like she was answering everyone's questions, but in fact, no news was leaked. In her mouth, the Zhou family is very harmonious, and there is no discord at all.

The official wives were naturally dissatisfied, but they also knew that it was impossible to find out anything from Mrs. Wednesday, so they could only go back and find another way to inquire.

Then Mrs. Wan took the lead in changing the topic and discussed the marriage of several marriageable age boys and children of the Zhou family's grandchildren. If you want to keep filial piety for Lord Zhou, the marriage of these children will naturally be delayed. Although in addition to the eldest grandson, basically all grandchildren's filial piety period is only one year, which may not delay anything, but after one year of filial piety, their parents are still in the filial piety period, how can they see each other and say goodbye for them? Naturally, it will have to drag on for three years. For example, the "noble, dignified, beautiful and talented girl" Thursday girl, who was in the limelight in Beijing not long ago, will become an old girl after three years of filial piety!

In fact, everyone present knew that Mrs. Wan had always come to see the Thursday girl unpleasantly, so she seized the opportunity to laugh at others. Anyway, Mrs. Tuesday was not present, and Mrs. Wednesday was rumored to have a conflict with Mrs. Tuesday, so Mrs. Wan had no scruples.

Mrs. Wednesday refused to participate in this kind of topic, and Wen kindly mentioned the second young master who had been married but had not yet married in the Zhou family's big house, and asked him what to do about his marriage. Mrs. Wednesday softened her face and whispered that her in-laws had not yet come to the door, so she didn't know what to do for the time being, and it was estimated that the marriage would be postponed. But a year later, on Tuesday, the young master got married, and the wedding would definitely not be very grand, because his parents were still wearing filial piety.

Mrs. Wan pursed her lips when she saw this, and turned her head to discuss the marriage match of the young master and girls of the Zhou family with the other official wives, as if she really cared about these young people.

In the western room, Xie Yinghui leaned into the ear of her second sister Xie Mulin disapprovingly and whispered: "If we didn't know what the truth was, I really thought that Mrs. Wan was a warm-hearted person." But other wives and grandmothers are also happy to talk to her about this kind of gossip. When these women get together, can't they have nothing else to talk about except the marriage of their children, or the marriage of the children of other families? ”

Xie Mulin pursed his lips and couldn't help laughing, and replied in a whisper: "What do they talk about?" It has nothing to do with us, our sisters are already married, and we are not afraid of being targeted by them. ”

Xie Yinghui's face was slightly red, and she was about to say something, when she suddenly caught a glimpse of the maid of the Zhou family coming in to serve tea, so she closed her mouth, sat up straight, and pretended to be fine. Xie Mulin also smiled and turned his head to talk to Xie Yingfen, but he caught a glimpse of the two concubines of the Wan family coming back from outside, thinking that they would go to change their clothes, and they would be there for a long time.

The two daughters of the Wan family seem to feel the same way. Seeing that Wan Meiniang and Wan Liniang sisters were back, Wan Da Girl left Xie Yingrong, who was trying to talk to her, and said to the two sisters with a cold face: "Why did you delay this half a day?" Why don't you sit down?! Miss Wan Si was even more polite, and directly mocked and scolded the two sisters: "How long has it been since you came out of the house?" What do you have that you can't solve at home and then come out, and you prefer to make jokes in someone else's house?! Then all kinds of ugly words came out of her mouth, attracting the eyes of the people around her.

The two daughters of the Wan family seem to feel the same way. Seeing that Wan Meiniang and Wan Liniang sisters were back, Wan Da Girl left Xie Yingrong, who was trying to talk to her, and said to the two sisters with a cold face: "Why did you delay this half a day?" Why don't you sit down?! Miss Wan Si was even more polite, and directly mocked and scolded the two sisters: "How long has it been since you came out of the house?" What do you have that you can't solve at home and then come out, and you prefer to make jokes in someone else's house?! Then all kinds of ugly words came out of her mouth, attracting the eyes of the people around her.

The two daughters of the Wan family seem to feel the same way. Seeing that Wan Meiniang and Wan Liniang sisters were back, Wan Da Girl left Xie Yingrong, who was trying to talk to her, and said to the two sisters with a cold face: "Why did you delay this half a day?" Why don't you sit down?! Miss Wan Si was even more polite, and directly mocked and scolded the two sisters: "How long has it been since you came out of the house?" What do you have that you can't solve at home and then come out, and you prefer to make jokes in someone else's house?! Then all kinds of ugly words came out of her mouth, attracting the eyes of the people around her.