The people of the Dongshan Hou Mansion are relatively thin, and the four heads add up, in fact, there are only those people. But since Lin Yangde was clever enough to bring over those poor relatives of the Lin clan, it has become very different.

The stuffed guest rooms are like the neighborhoods at the entrance of the vegetable market, with all kinds of three aunts and six mothers-in-law, and parents in short.

The original masters in the house were miserable. These people, from time to time, beat the autumn breeze and go to various courtyards to "visit relatives", forcing the people in the house to get used to preparing some inferior tea in the house.

Although some of these clansmen have some backbone, they are unwilling to fight the autumn breeze in the Hou Mansion, eat food, and be looked down upon. But there are also many people who are afraid that they will not take advantage of it and suffer losses.

In this way, Shen Ning, the person in charge of the mansion, had to be filial piety in front of the Shen family, and he had to restrain hundreds of servants and a group of superb relatives in the family, so he was naturally a little powerless, and had to share some burdens to ask her to help Yin Wei, a concubine who was not valued by her mother-in-law in comparison.

Yin Wei is not stupid, when the family is relaxed, she can't share much power to be in charge of the family, and now there are a bunch of people, Shen Ning thinks of her instead. Is she really the one who is wronged?

So she also painted the gourd in the same way, and called the three sisters of Lin Qiantan.

The statement on the surface is naturally good, saying that it is to let the eldest girls who can't marry a few of them learn more housekeeping skills. But in fact, when it comes to teaching skills, I'm afraid it's only true to Lin Bixiang.

Jinhe asked Lin Qiantan puzzledly: "Since the master can see the purpose of the lady, why do you still drill into the sleeve by yourself?" Yin Wei said that she would do it, and she really took Lin Qiantan to work for a day, and at this time, Lin Qiantan finally came back to rest and finish eating, and Jie Yun was leading people to clean up.

Yin Wei called the three of them, and threw all the dirty work to Lin Qiantan and Lin Shuchen, while Lin Bixiang sat in Yin Wei's room to "help" Yin Wei to read the account book together. The three sisters have extremely different divisions of labor, so it's no wonder that Jinhe complains.

Lin Qiantan waited for the other girls in the house to go out before she said: "First, she used me as a coolie, and secondly, she deliberately tossed me, but since she asked me to take care of people, wouldn't it be logical for me to ask a few people to beat in the house?"

Lin Qiantan thought to herself, it was really because she was asleep, so someone handed her a pillow. She was trying to build a tunnel, afraid that the sound of the work would attract attention.

Jinhe also reacted, "poof", think about it is really.

The master and servant looked at each other and smiled.

Moreover, repairing one is repairing, and repairing two is also repairing, Lin Qiantan still thought about digging another road to connect her and Uncle Zhou.

Ma Laoqi was very efficient, and promised Lin Qiantan to find someone, and two days later, he told Lin Qiantan that there were all the people who worked.

Lin Qiantan sent Green Jade to do the acceptance work, and Green Jade went to see it and said that he was a "thief eyebrow", not like a good person.

Lin Qiantan smiled and said, "It's right not to be like a good person."

Ma Laoqi also said that he had a group of brothers who were disliked because of their bad looks.

Although green jade is cool and capable, like Bishu, it is still blindly kind in its heart, and it is too one-sided to look at people. In the future, you can ask her to contact Xiaoxiang and help her run the industry.

Jinhe is not like them.

"How can there be so many absolutely good and bad people in this world?" Jinhe is very inappropriate.

Lin Qiantan looked at her helplessly, and it was precisely because Jinhe could see that when Lin Qiantan wanted to do "bad things", he would think of her.

If it is according to the standards of green jade and bishu, I am afraid that only "good people" can enter their eyes in this world.

Lin Qiantan smiled again, and stopped at the point: "You and Bishu should also learn Jinhe."

In fact, Ma Lao Liu and his gang have done a lot of bad things in this capital territory, and they will not do less good things. It's both good and evil, it's all about who is using them.

The people Ma Laoqi found quickly started working according to the drawings that Lin Qiantan had spent two or three days working on.

In order to cover them, Lin Qiantan specially said that the back garden of the Hou Mansion was "in disrepair" and needed to be repaired.

Anyway, the money was made by Lin Qiantan, Lin Yangde and the others were "reminded" by Lin Qiantan as if they also felt that the garden was indeed in disrepair, Lin Qiantan was willing to be the wrongdoer, of course they would not be unwilling.

It's just that the minions who live nearby suffer from the hard night's sleep.

Within a few days, there were those gossips in the house who were chasing after the wind and talking bad about Lin Qiantan. Lin Qiantan then openly called people to deliver food and flowers door-to-door, buying people's hearts in a grand manner.

Jinhe couldn't laugh: "Madame sees us like this, but she can only watch, and she will probably be very unhappy."

Lin Qiantan smiled: "She is naturally not happy to see it." But doesn't she have a ready-made contractor here? This is still what Yin Wei said-"You should also learn how to get along with those people at the bottom." ”

After such a circle, in March, the public opinion in the house turned a corner again, and he was blindly saying good things about Lin Qiantan.

Yin Wei's attention was all drawn to the things on the ground, but she didn't notice the little sound underground. By the time the back garden of the house was rested, Ma Laoqi had already led the engineering team to repair the tunnel.

Lin Qiantan can be regarded as having seen the power of Ma Laoqi.

Often the day before, he told Lin Qiantan where he had repaired, and after a day, he flew out for a while and repaired somewhere, very fast.

The tunnel passed under the capital, Ma Laoqi and they rested at night, and during the day, they just used the noise of people on the street to cover up the movement, so that no one found out.

However, Lin Qiantan has an incurable disease, that is, how to connect the finish line without alarming the Chu family and the Wang family?

I don't know what plan her mother used when she did this?

Of course, Lin Qiantan can't tell her cousin and uncle about this kind of "ungentlemanly" thing, her uncle will not agree.

She could imagine how Chu Jiang would educate her softly but not weakly.

Lin Qiantan was thinking about this, and before she had time to ask Ma Laoqi if he had any suggestions, Wang Yuanzhao came to the door by himself.

"I was about to ask someone to invite you." The two of them hadn't seen each other for a long time, and Lin Qiantan could gradually forget the embarrassment of being outside the city that day.

Wang Yuanzhao is now living in the Wang family, and Lin Qiantan thinks that she may be able to turn to him for help for these things.

Wang Yuanzhao promised to help, but also put forward an additional condition: "Build another one and go outside the city."

Lin Qiantan raised her eyebrows, in fact, she immediately understood what he meant, and she didn't break it.

Wang Yuanzhao also seemed to be deliberately mischievous, jokingly: "Although there are so many dog holes, I always feel that ...... It's too ugly for you to drill the dog hole. ”

Lin Qiantan glared at him: "Ugly? Ugly isn't what you teach. ”

This person, which pot is not opened, has to remind her how embarrassing the two of them were that day.

Wang Yuanzhao joked and said seriously: "If you are prepared, maybe you will use it."

He suddenly stopped laughing, and Lin Qiantan was attracted by his sudden serious appearance. She knew that since there was such a reclusive master who could use it right now, she would make a passage. War is chaotic, there is a case, advance can be attacked, retreat can be defended. It's better than cramming.

Lin Qiantan agreed.

Wang Yuanzhao said again: "In two days, I will give you news, and I will ask my father, who is unreliable in fighting, to come forward and help you with this." After all, Wang Shanya is the head of the Wang family.

*

At the same time, Wang Shanya, who was painting in the windless study, suddenly sneezed for some reason! There is a ground dragon heating in the house, where will it be cold.

Wang Shanya was inexplicable, looking at the painting that was being painted, and said in her heart, it was so dangerous, this painting was almost ruined.

The painting is Zhang Yingru's appearance when she was young.

Zhang Yingru hasn't had much fun for a year or two because of her mother's affairs, so he often tries to draw some beauty portraits for his wife and do a clumsy flattery.

He had barely sneezed, and before he could lift his pen, there was a knock outside the closed door.

"Who is it?" Wang Shanya asked in a deep voice.

"Father, it's me." It's Wang Yuanxuan.

Zhang Ying settled accounts with Wang Shanya after the autumn as usual, and she was angry about Wang Shanya's red apricot coming out of the wall when she was young, and Wang Shanya also felt guilty about the children born to Zhang Yingru.

So he called Wang Yuanxuan in.

Wang Yuanxuan then entered the house.

As soon as he entered, he was happy to see his father and then his mother. However, when I looked away, I saw another half-crushed portrait in a pile of papers on the side.

The painting is obviously not Zhang Yingru.

Wang Yuanxuan looked at the painting that showed a corner, and his face sank.

In fact, including him and his mother Zhang Yingru, no one in the Yan Guogong Mansion seems to know who the rumored outer room that was raised outside by Wang Shanya is.

Some people say that it is a prostitute in the Qin Lou Chu Pavilion, trying in vain to fly on the branches and become a phoenix; Some people also say that it was a married woman who ran away from her husband, because she couldn't see the light, so she was not brought back by Wang Shanya; More people said that the woman who gave birth to Wang Yuanzhao in the spring breeze with Wang Shanya for a few nights may be the daughter of which family.

The most powerful evidence is probably that Zhang Yingru proposed to take Xia Sanniang back to see, but Wang Shanya did not refuse.

Wang Yuanxuan retracted his gaze, tried not to ask himself to look at the painting over there, and after talking to Wang Shanya about serious things, he went out.

Wang Shanya didn't care about him, but still continued to raise the pen and sketch out the appearance of Zhang Yingru in her memory. Zhang Yingru is the same as Zhang Yan, the daughter of the Zhang family can't be regarded as a big beauty, but in the eyes of lovers, Wang Shanya just thinks that his wife is the best-looking.

When Wang Yuanxuan went out, he probably didn't close the door over there, but as soon as the night wind blew, the door was bounced open a little. Although the little man at the door immediately closed the door again, a gust of wind blew up the paper on the table, revealing the covered painting.

Wang Shanya barely glanced at it.

Although Xiao Chen is a country and a city, and even a golden branch and jade leaf, but the dewy husband and wife days of the two were absurd, and he only had brother and sister affection for her, the righteousness of monarchs and ministers, and no love between men and women.

He had just forgotten to clean up the pile of old things waiting to be disposed of on the table, and he actually threw them over there.

Thinking of her portrait and what she is doing now, Wang Shanya hesitated, not knowing whether to remind her son again.

It was not too early for Wang Yuanzhao to return to the Yanguo Mansion from the Dongshan Marquis Mansion, and the entire Guogong Mansion was pitch black. The lights on the road flickered and flickered, blurring the shadows of the trees.

Wang Yuanxuan came out of Wang Shanya's study, Wang Yuanzhao came back from outside and went to Wang Shanya, and the two happened to meet one on the way.

Wang Yuanxuan had an instinctive fear of this brother who was killed halfway, and left with hatred and anger when he saw it. Every time I met him, his face was clearly similar, and he, the second young master, who was originally genuine, was forced to be set off as an inferior product.

Wang Yuanzhao looked at his back, and casually called a steward who was guarding the door of Wang Shanya's courtyard from the side and asked, "What is he doing here?"

The steward was respectful, and he didn't dare to rely on the old and sell the old at all, and he didn't even dare to look at Wang Yuanzhao's eyes. Those eyes were clear, but he always had a bottomless feeling. Obviously, he is not even twenty years old, and he is subdued by his coercion. Whatever he asks, he answers.

"Back to the second young master's words, the third young master came over, it seems that he is talking to the master about silver." Wang Yuanxuan is different from Wang Yuanzhao, his nominal position cannot afford his expenses.

Wang Shanya usually doesn't care about this, he only asks Zhang Yingru for money, and today he actually asked for money to Wang Shanya.

It can be seen that most of the reasons are because the finances of Zheng Guogong's mansion are stretched, and Zhang Yingru, the married daughter who privately helped her mother's family, also has to hold her wallet tightly.

Wang Yuanzhao nodded and continued to go inside, and the steward breathed a sigh of relief after he left......

The little guy in the distance waited for Wang Yuanzhao to leave before running over. He is the nephew in charge of the matter, and he has just entered the Wang family for a few days after saving his uncle's face.

Because of this, he didn't know the depths: "Uncle, this is the second young master of the wild seed, right?" What's up? ”

In exchange for a cold glance from his uncle.

"Take care of your mouth, don't follow that idiot who doesn't have long eyes and scold people behind his back, be careful to offend the Buddha and don't know how to die."

Wang Yuanzhao's ears were very sensitive, and he deliberately pricked up his ears to listen, so he naturally listened to what the uncle and nephew over there said.

This is a calm ......

When Wang Yuanzhao heard the word "wild seed", he had already had murderous intent in his eyes on that little guy, and because of this steward, he calmed down when he said this. It just so happened that he had already walked to Wang Shanya's study, and Wang Shanya also seemed to hear his voice, "Is Ah Zhao outside?" ”

Wang Yuanzhao didn't have to wait honestly like Wang Yuanxuan to enter, and before Wang Shanya's voice fell, he had already broken in.

Wang Shanya was not angry, but laughed.

He couldn't help but think that Lin Qiantan had said as jokingly as he did: "Don't complain that the Wang family doesn't want to see you, as soon as you go, the fatherly love of their brothers and sisters will be robbed by you, don't you hate who you hate?"

Wang Yuanzhao deeply agreed with Lin Qiantan's words. However, what Lin Qiantan said was only half of what she said, and the other half was that Wang Yuanzhao himself did not regard himself as a member of the Wang family.

In Wang Yuanzhao's view, he has always only recognized his father, not anyone other than his father, and naturally it is not the Yanguo Mansion.

As soon as Wang Yuanzhao entered the door, he saw the portrait of his mother, but he didn't care who Wang Shanya liked, let alone be unhappy because of who Wang Shanya painted.

He doesn't like to come in and talk nonsense more.

As soon as he came in, he asked Wang Shanya to do him a favor. Wang Shanya agreed without much hesitation.

Wang Yuanzhao left, and Wang Shanya picked up the portraits of Xiao Chen that had been specially found, and personally squatted on the edge of the brazier and burned them. Recalling the absurdity of his youth, he regrets not being at the beginning.

*

This night, Lin Qiantan once again dreamed back to her previous life.

It's just that this time she dreamed not of herself, but of someone else's story.

In the white mist, she couldn't see the face of the person in the dream clearly, but she knew that the person was the third princess of the Xia Dynasty who she had searched for fruitlessly, Xiao Chen.

At the end of the Great Xia, the world was in turmoil, and the Xiao royal family was almost withered in the turmoil. The dead died, the imprisoned went to prison, and the side branches fled in all directions, incognito. The lineage can be said to be almost non-existent.

Lin Qiantan seemed to see the third princess escape from the palace under the protection of her close ministers, and she had been holding a half-old child in her arms. The child, constantly looking at her with ignorant eyes, called out "Auntie" in a milky voice......

*

Wang Shanya slept in a daze, thinking of an old incident when she was young and cooperated with her father to save the royal blood of the Xia Dynasty.

He used a trick to drop the bag and safely transported the third princess Xiao Chen from the palace out of the place of right and wrong at that time - the capital.

I was in a hurry at night, but I had to stop when I arrived in Tongzhou, just because the third princess was too worried about the blood of her nephew and the Xiao royal family who had escaped in two ways with her, and suddenly became ill.

Wang Shanya even remembered what she said back then: "With his father escorting, His Highness doesn't have to worry, now His Highness only has his own safety, and only when he is safe, can he think of anything else!"

At that time, Xiao Chen was probably also because he knew that there were only two people left in the royal family, she and Xiao Yin, and she couldn't put her eggs in one basket. Or because Wang Shanya was gentle and reliable, she subconsciously trusted, but she still had a fever and was sick, so Wang Shanya tried to put her in place.

It was a very tumultuous time in retrospect. In the tense situation, the ignorant girl regarded the older man who protected her as her only support, and even ignored the other party's existing family and her own golden branches and jade leaves, and was willing to dedicate herself, kneeling down and begging Wang Shanya to leave a trace of Xiao blood in her.

If Xiao Yin dies, this child will be a substitute. The Xiao family also has a person who inherits it.

Wang Shanya's heart was soft for a while, and she couldn't stand the princess who was once high and kowtowed and cried at his feet, so she agreed.

But how can Wang Shanya explain these things to his wife.

Wang Shanya was not asleep, and could clearly feel that the person in her arms was habitually turning over and lying on his chest, as if he was not sleeping well.

He gently imprinted a kiss on his wife's forehead, and said "I'm sorry" for the first time in his heart.

Not only for those old accounts, but also for the sake of his inability to help his wife's maiden family get out of trouble - Zhang Yingru is running around for the sake of her mother's affairs, and even because of this, she is willing to accept Yuan Zhao as an illegitimate child.

And Wang Yuanzhao reciprocated the favor, even if it was only for Lin Qiantan's sake, he would also contribute to the affairs of Zhang Yan's family.

At least, it was for the Zhang family to get a certain piece of land confiscated by the imperial court and hand it over to the Zhang family.

For this matter, Zhang Yan came to the door and said thank you to her aunt.

Zhang Yingru knew that Wang Yuanzhao helped her in this matter, after all, the piece of land that the Zhang family was taken away was rewarded to Wang Yuanzhao by the imperial court. In this way, she was even more embarrassed to reject Wang Yuanzhao.

Wang Yuanzhao doesn't ask how to get close to the people of the Yan Guo Mansion, and if there is mutual respect, it will be almost the same.

The Zhang family was a little more comfortable, but the Wei family had a little unhappiness because of this.

Speaking of which, it's because of the Zhang family's property.

Lin Qiantan knew about this, but Wei Jiayin ran over to tell her by herself.

The two made an appointment to meet outside, and when they were chatting, Wei Jiayin mentioned the matter of the Zhang family.

Lin Qiantan listened, only felt that it was too coincidental.

The land of the Zhang family is a well-known good land in the capital. There is a hot spring village on the mountain. Several clans of the Wei family had some relationship with the Yan branch, and as soon as they heard that an entire place had been given to Wang Yuanzhao, they felt that this was their "brother-in-law's" place, and it was okay for them to go.

As a result, when he asked to enter, he touched his nose and lost face.

There was also a commotion in the Wei family because of this.

Wei Jiayin looked down on those cousins: "It's still a 'brother-in-law', but they are brothers in the same cousin, my eldest brother will not do such a thing, they don't treat themselves as outsiders."

Lin Qiantan's eyelashes trembled: "That piece of land is fertile land up and down, and it's no wonder that people are worried." Even if it is a famous Wei family, it has been inherited for a long time, and it is inevitable that there will be a few unworthy descendants.

Wei Jiayin smiled: "That's what I said, but even if I think about it, it's my eldest brother."

Lin Qiantan knew that the reason why the land was of high value was, to put it bluntly, actually linked to the White Horse Temple. The living water from the mountain behind the White Horse Temple flows to this side, and the land here is fertile.

It is related to the White Horse Temple again......

So she said: "What kind of tower did your family build for the White Horse Temple?!"

Wei Jiayin laughed when he heard it: "Don't mention it, the money was smashed, but the project was stopped, and my mother babbled, saying that it was offended by breaking ground and offending the Buddha."

Wei Jiayin's eldest brother Wei Jiabin suffered some injuries, and it is said that someone recommended himself and calculated a hexagram for the Wei family.

Wei Jiayin said: "The monk didn't say what the reason for my eldest brother's bloody disaster, and I don't know how the elders in the family discussed, so it was delayed."

Recently, the great monk of the White Horse Temple stayed in her Wei house as a guest.

The two drank tea together for a while outside, and Wei Jiayin was reminded by the maid to say goodbye in a hurry: "I won't tell you first, my mother invited the master to see the good day, and said that she would give me a hexagram."

Lin Qiantan smiled and didn't stay.

Wei Jiayin quickly went downstairs, and Lin Qiantan watched her get into the car and leave quickly.