Chapter 26: Morning and Dusk
Jin He glanced at Qingchuan quickly, and saw that Lin Qiantan had already walked out four or five steps, so he immediately followed in small steps. She is different from Mei and has never been waiting to see Qingchuan, but she really let her say that she can't say why she hates people. Seeing that Qingchuan has been repeatedly treated coldly since he arrived in Beijing, he is naturally happy.
It's the same way around, Qingchuan also doesn't look down on Jinhe's "deputy miss", everyone is a maid, why look down on people.
It's just that in the past, Qingchuan always put on small shoes and eye medicine for Jinhe in front of Lin Qiantan, but now feng shui takes turns, and Jinhe also has a day of raising his eyebrows.
Lin Qiantan had already taken Jinhe and Bishu out some distance in front, and Cut Yun came in to pack up the mung bean cake that Lin Qiantan used to pad his stomach, and Song urged Qingchuan to lead the way to get the cage key, Qingchuan bit his lip, as if his neck was horizontal, and he walked up.
When Qingchuan "found" a bunch of keys to open the cage from a pile of jewelry, Lin Qiantan had already passed through the verandah and walked to the outside of the main courtyard where Lin Yangde and his wife lived.
Four generations of the Lin family are in the same house.
Dongshan Hou Lin Yangde made a career at a young age and married the daughter of the famous Shen family, and he was once in the same glory. After marriage, the husband and wife respected each other like guests and gave birth to two sons.
Coupled with the two sons and one daughter born to the concubine, the Lin family has spread out, and as of this year, there are a total of thirty or forty masters who can be ranked in the family.
Interestingly, more than half of the nearly 40 masters came out of the second room.
Lin Qiantan's cousin Lin Zirong, who first met outside Shourong Hall, was the eldest son of the second room.
Compared with the prosperity of the Shu branch, the Yan branch is deserted and deserted, and some are not very good-looking.
The eldest son of the Dongshan Hou couple died young in his early years, and the only daughter left behind was not saved, leaving only the eldest lady Wang Yaxin who was widowed at a young age. So Lin Qiantan didn't see her in Shourong Hall. She was allowed to be widowed, and she didn't have to come out.
Lin Quan is better here, but including Lin Qiantan, he gave birth to three daughters, but only one son. It's still not a big deal.
If people who don't know see it, they may think that Lin Dong is the son-in-law and Lin Quan is the son-in-law.
As for the fourth uncle from Lin Qiantan at the bottom, he has no sense of existence, and basically no one pays attention to him in the Lin family, so he can be ignored.
Among the people standing in the room, most of them were Lin Dong's wives and concubines, Lin Dong looked proud, and Lin Quan looked unhappy as usual.
Lin Qiantan knew that her second uncle liked the time to save every morning and dusk.
However, no matter how arrogant and provocative Lin Dong was in front of Lin Quan, he treated his mother-in-law Shen, but he was sincerely filial. He was raised by the Shen family himself, not his own child, but he was no different from his own child.
After Lin Qiantan entered, she talked to Lin Dong's wife.
Lin Dong was not only deeply nurtured by the Shen family, but the wives he married after he became an adult were all surnamed Shen. The Shen family hired his niece Shen Ning as his wife. Although she is the daughter-in-law of the concubine, her status is hidden above Yin Wei.
At this time, Shen Ning was pulling Lin Qiantan, talking and laughing there, as if he didn't know that Lin Qiantan had knelt for several hours after returning the night before-
"The Seven Girls went to the White Horse Temple yesterday?"
"The marriage sign there has worked."
"I don't know if the crooked-necked tree outside the mountain gate is still there!"
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It is precisely because of the origin of young parenting, although Lin Dong and Lin Quan do not deal with each other, but in front of their mothers, they still know how to converge. As for Dongshan Hou, the head of the family, he is more than majestic and not benevolent, and many children and grandchildren have respect and fear for him, but they are not convinced.
Shen Ning said a lot, and Lin Qiantan answered as much as she could: "It rained a while ago, and the road on the mountain was slippery, so I didn't swim much."
As he was talking, Lin Yangde and Shen had already walked out side by side in the inner room.
Dongshan Hou is in his prime, his wife Shen is not much younger, and his body is not as good as before, and now three meals a day are accompanied by decoction from time to time. Everyone saw that she was personally supported by her husband to come out, and the juniors in the room outside hurriedly stopped talking, and stood up according to the order of respect and humility, ready to salute the elders.
The Shen family is the only two elders of the Lin family who take care of Lin Qiantan - the other is Wang Yaxin. Lin Qiantan asked her to say goodbye, and she was very willing to do so, without the slightest reluctance. Standing in the crowd, Lin Qiantan looked at her grandmother and smiled.
Shen asked her, and she replied obediently. Shen didn't ask, she stayed aside honestly.
She didn't do anything, and someone had to get along with her, Lin Qiantan was standing in the queue with a faint smile, and one foot behind her quietly stepped on the hem of her skirt.
Lin Qiantan was defenseless, the two elders over there announced their dissolution after speaking, and each went back to their respective courtyards to have a separate meal, Lin Qiantan stepped forward, but was suddenly pulled by the skirt......
She immediately reacted to who stepped on her, and secretly scolded Lin Bixiang in her heart for being shameless, but it was too late to adjust her posture. Seeing that she was about to make a fool of herself, Lin Shumei, the sixth lady of the Hou Mansion in front, quickly helped her and dragged Lin Qiantan hard.
Although he was exempted from going to the ground, he still had to attract the attention of everyone present. Lin Yangde frowned, Lin Dong had nothing to do with himself, and Lin Quan hated Lin Qiantan and embarrassed him. He was about to say something, but Lin Ziye, the young master of the third room who was standing in the men's team on the other side, took the first step to speak: "Eighth sister 'accidentally' stepped on the skirt of the seventh sister, I saw it." also deliberately added a three-point tone to the word "accidental".
It's not easy for others to say this, but the younger brothers of the same father and mother say so, and there is nothing that can not be trusted. With Lin Ziye's words falling, he didn't plan to talk too much, let alone meddle in things, and as for wanting to say something, he also snorted coldly, as if he hadn't heard Lin Ziye's words.
Lin Qiantan had already stood firm, and just happened to see the looks of several elders in front of her, especially Lin Quan - she thought to herself, the same daughter, there is also a difference. She also noticed that Yin Wei "quietly" pulled the sleeve of Lalin Quan's coat, making herself look like a loving stepmother.
Among the young ladies in the Lin family who are now waiting for words at home, only Lin Bixiang is a baby bump. From grandparents and grandmothers to any subordinate, they all love Lin Bixiang.
Lin Bixiang is different from Lin Qiantan, and even more different from several other sisters in the family, in Yunzhou, everyone only knows that the Lin family has an eighth lady, and who remembers that the seventh lady Lin Qiantan is also a concubine.