Xiao Rui went back to Yanwang's Mansion this time, and there was no letter the next day.

Xie Mulin didn't care, and only spent the sixteenth day of the first lunar month with his family as the end of the Lantern Festival, and the family happily ate the Lantern Festival, and hung various colored lanterns bought from outside in the garden to entertain themselves. Not only did the family play along, but even the old lady Xie, who had not been out of the yard for a long time, held Pearl's hand and walked around the verandah in the garden, commenting on all kinds of lanterns - although she didn't comment on the idea very much.

After the seventeenth hit of the first lunar month, the Xie family calmed down. The festive atmosphere in the streets has also waned. The yamen has not yet officially started its work, and only the officials on duty show up from time to time to deal with some urgent official business. The wives and grandmothers of each family took the opportunity to visit the door to pay New Year's greetings, and took advantage of the fact that the year was still free, and they had a little bit of a tooth.

There are also people who are very optimistic about the upbringing of the children born to her because Wanqin is now respectful and courteous in front of the Wen family in the main room, and tentatively inquire about the marriage match between Miss Xie and Young Master Xie in front of the Wen family. Naturally, Wen would not say much. Xie Yingfen asked the second heir of the Song family and her sister-in-law Xie Meijun to take a fancy to Yang Chun, Xie Hanzhi is still young and weak, so it is better to wait a few years longer, his body is better, and he has a fame, and it is not too late to talk about his relatives. Wen vaguely said that the two children were still young, and the family did not plan to say goodbye to them so early, Yunyun. Although the guests didn't understand why, they also knew what the Xie family meant, so they didn't ask any more.

is also an official wife like Mrs. Wan, who is closer to the Xie family, privately guessing that the marriage of the Xie family has not yet been decided, and the first few sons must not have said their marriage so early; As for Miss Xie Si, the first three sisters have families, and they should marry out one after another this year and next year, the Xie family probably doesn't want to marry all their daughters in one go, so the marriage of the younger daughter will be delayed a little longer.

All the wives and grandmothers felt that Mrs. Wan's speculation was reasonable, so they all nodded yes, and some people patted Mrs. Wan's ass by the way, praising her for her good eyesight. Mrs. Wan was proud in her heart, and her mouth was naturally humble and modest.

She also has gossip themes to share with various official wives and grandmothers recently. Mrs. Xu seems to have been in trouble with her in-laws recently.

It is rumored that on Chinese New Year's Eve, her own family worshiped her ancestors, and found an excuse, saying that Mrs. Xu's daughter was not good, and did not let her come forward to preside over the ceremony. Although it is common for the female dependents in the clan to be absent from the ancestor worship ceremony when they are not in good health, Mrs. Xu's daughter thinks that she is just a little cold, and she is hollowed out by her mother-in-law and concubine, and it is her mother-in-law who deliberately falls on her face, and she is so aggrieved that she complains when she returns to her mother's house to see her mother in the New Year, and Mrs. Xu sends someone to question her in-laws.

Mrs. Xu still puts herself in the position of a nobleman, feeling that her daughter marrying into her in-law's family is a lower marriage, and she has always been not very respectful to her in-laws, and she never feels that the other party is equal to herself. But her in-laws didn't think so, even if in the past, when she married her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Xu had the support of the old lady of King Yan, and she was an out-and-out nobleman of the clan, but now it is no longer what it used to be. In order to help Mrs. Xu do something illegal, their son even lost his official position, and his daughter-in-law failed to give birth to an heir, so why should he be respectful to Mrs. Xu?

Not to mention that Mrs. Xu now has no support from the old concubine, and she is not treated by the Yan Palace, and the two old men of the Zhou family have also passed away one after another, just the rumor that Mrs. Xu plans to choose a beauty from a relative's girl in order to plot the military power in the north and make an outer room for General Yuan Xiao is disgusting enough.

The Zhou family is keeping filial piety and wants to be face-saving, so they rejected Mrs. Xu's suggestion, who else can Mrs. Xu go to? Naturally, the daughter and son-in-law are the closest in the family! But her in-laws are also from the Beiping Wang family, and the daughters in the family are all well-educated, and if they want to be serious in the future, why should they be small for others? It's just a small thing, it's still an outer room, it's like losing the face of the eighteenth generation of the ancestors! Their family is just marrying the descendants of the princess of King Yan, who was kind to them in the past, but they don't plan to hand over the net worth and life of the whole family to a side room!

Their family asked their daughter-in-law to take a break, just to give Mrs. Xu a warning, suggesting that she must not mess around, and brazenly open her mouth to her in-laws, but I didn't expect that she would have the face to send someone to question?! Even the daughter-in-law is not very reliable. She obviously knew what her mother-in-law meant, so she went back to tell her mother-in-law and asked the latter to dispel the idea of using her in-laws, why did she file a complaint? !

Mrs. Xu's in-laws quarreled with her like this. Mrs. Xu's daughter wanted her mother to support her, but she stayed at her parents' house and refused to leave, asking her husband to bend down and take her back with good words in person. However, her husband did not come, and her in-laws did not come forward, but there were rumors that a relative was looking for a second room for her husband, so she panicked and ran to Princess Yan's mansion to cry to Princess Yan, saying that her clan had been wronged and asked Princess Yan to stand up for herself.

Although Mrs. Xu was not happy to let her daughter go to Princess Yan for help, she also took the opportunity to make many requests to Princess Yan. Princess Yan sent them away on the grounds that things were too busy in the first month and she had no time to meddle in other people's housework, and she also reprimanded Mrs. Xu's daughter as an aunt, teaching her to be a daughter-in-law and not to be rude to her in-laws.

Mrs. Wan was very happy to eat melons, even if Yan Wangfu, Mrs. Xu and Mrs. Xu's in-laws did not publicize the matter, she was very happy to help them. In the first month, no matter where she went to visit the door, she had to discuss this matter, and almost all the officials and eunuchs in Beiping City knew about it.

Yan Wangfu was silent, and Mrs. Xu did not meet others, so she didn't know what she thought, but her in-laws felt very embarrassed and ordered her son not to pick up her daughter-in-law. If you want to come back, come back yourself. Where is the reason for a daughter-in-law to run back to her parents' house to live for a long time at every turn?! The mother-in-law didn't scold her and beat her, but she was just understanding her physical discomfort and telling her not to go out to blow the wind, where did she be wronged? !

Throughout the New Year, Mrs. Xu was anxious about this matter, and she didn't have time to pay attention to what happened in other people's homes. Mrs. Wan was eating melons here and the rumors were so lively, and she couldn't spare her hand to warn her twice and express her position, which shows how powerless and weak Mrs. Xu is at the moment.

Although the Xie family does not participate in spreading rumors, the Wen family will not stop others from talking. She just listened to the story, and didn't comment much on Mrs. Xu's approach, but in private, she used this matter to teach the children in the family, telling them that in the future, they should be upright, and don't always think about going crooked ways to fight for power and profit, otherwise there will be no good reward.

Just when the excitement of Mrs. Xu and her in-laws attracted the attention of many people in Beiping City, Xiao Rui secretly sent a letter to Xie Mulin, saying that he would come over for dinner in the evening, and told her an important big news by the way. There are still few people in Beiping City who know about it, but in a few days, they should receive letters from the capital one after another.

Empress Cao is gone.