"The eldest lady is home!"

"The eldest lady is home!"

The news of Qin Xinxin's return to the house was transmitted by the mother-in-law in the front yard and spread to the west wing of the backyard. Even if Qin Songhui, the eldest daughter of the Qin Mansion, didn't have to send someone to inquire, she could hear this announcement.

Mancheng was originally the county guard of Jiangnan, and now it is a saint "walking in" and there are faint rumors that the capital will be moved here, naturally Luoyang paper is expensive, and for a time it is full of "dignitaries and nobles" who moved from the north.

Although Qin's father is an official of the five products in Beijing, but now the city is full of every inch of land, and the place where they live is also stretched. Thanks to the relationship between my father-in-law and Lord Cao, I was able to buy a three-entrance yard in the skyrocketing city.

In the past few days, because the Dawan delegation is coming, Qin's father, who is on duty in the Ministry of Rites, is even more busy and has not been able to go home for several days.

Qin Songhui, the eldest lady of the Qin family, enjoys the west wing of this courtyard alone, she is fourteen years old, although she is not open, but it can already be seen that she will be a beauty embryo in the future. She is the eldest daughter of Qin Lian and his wife Cao Guanyin, and her maternal grandfather is Cao Zuwang in the imperial history.

Although Ye women are beautiful in their chastity, quietness and suppleness, but they raise a hundred kinds of people with the same rice, Qin Songhui's father and mother were the only ones who were delicate and delicate when she was a child, and she was a high-ranking woman in the foreign family, so she was naturally held up to the sky by the whole family, saying that she was afraid of melting in her mouth, and it was not an exaggeration to hold it in the palm of her hand for fear of falling off.

But it's a pity that the good times didn't last long, Qin Lian was released to Jingzhou within a few years, Cao Guanyin stayed at home to raise his body because he had just slipped a child, and he didn't prevent Qin Lian from taking another concubine back there.

It turned out that Qin Lian Shangfeng saw that he was alone in Chu and had no one to take care of him, so he acted as a matchmaker to send the daughter of a wealthy local merchant in Jingzhou to him as a concubine. So the four-year term expired, and when I returned to Beijing, in addition to Aunt Zhou, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, I also added a son and a daughter, making up a good word.

Cao Guanyin prides himself on being virtuous and virtuous, and he doesn't want to be talked about on this, so he gritted his teeth and admitted it, and even raised Aunt Zhou's daughter to his side, and backhanded his personal maid Rose to open his face, and sent it to Qin Lian's bed to be a room girl, and played against that Aunt Zhou.

Now Aunt Zhou's son Qin Songwu is ten years old, as Qin Lian's only son, he was sent to the famous Bailu Academy in the suburbs of Beijing, and he only had two days off every month to go home to live.

The concubine Qin Songci is only six years old, and she has been raised in Cao Guanyin's room since she was a child, if she is not too young to be on the stage, it is more likely to cause criticism if she is sent to Dawan and her relatives, and I am afraid that Mrs. Cao will not think of taking Qin Xinxin home.

At this time, although Mrs. Cao had already told her pampered baby daughter thousands of instructions when she thought of taking Qin Xinxin back, Qin Songhui was sitting in the house and heard a series of calls from people in the outer courtyard: "The eldest lady has returned home" She was still angry and pressed the comb in her hand to the dresser, and scolded in a low voice: "That broken house can also be called the eldest lady..."

Even if she knew that Qin Xinxin was here to ward off disasters for herself, she was still a little unhappy when she thought that she had used the title of "Eldest Lady" for fourteen years to give that earthen stick that popped out of the countryside.

According to her plan, why take that person home, just plug any yard in the countryside, and send it to the palace when the day comes? Why bother to come back and get in their way?

However, her father and mother felt that after all, they were sent out in the name of the eldest lady of the Qin Mansion, if they really didn't know the number of courtesies at all, and they couldn't send it out, not to mention that their Qin family was not good-looking, I was afraid that her father and her grandfather's political enemies would seize this point and make a big fuss.

Therefore, although Father Qin acquiesced in this Li Dai Taozhuang's plan, he also told her mother that she must take this daughter who was left behind in the township family home, and only after she has been raised can she be sent out to meet people.

Seeing this, the maid Pearl on the side hurriedly comforted: "Miss is careful that her hands hurt!" You are a noble man like gold and jade, you can't afford to be angry with that rubble-like country girl, and those broken-mouthed women in the front yard know anything, but they are just ordered by their wife to hold her for the time being. When she goes to Dawan, who still remembers that girl, only you are the eldest lady of our Qin Mansion who does not exchange real money. ”

Qin Songhui glanced at the pearl and said negatively: "I naturally know, do you still need to say it?" I'm afraid that she will do something ugly in the name of my eldest lady that makes people laugh off her big teeth, and when she leaves, what will I do with this eldest lady in the future. I really don't want to understand why my father and mother would bring such a person to the house! ”

Pearl hurriedly persuaded her: "That's why Mrs. should quickly pick her up and teach her rules and etiquette." I heard that although it was going to be sent to Dawan in the end, after all, if it was to be sent out of the palace, it was still necessary to be careful and safe. ”

Qin Songhui also frowned when she heard this: "These Dawan people are really hateful, and if they do these things, they will not be able to go home for several days, but they also happen to be a pair with that country girl, they are all uncivilized barbarians, maybe they can talk together." ”

Thinking of this, she burst out laughing, and then said worriedly: "Hey, I don't know if that country girl can speak official language, can she understand us, by the way, do you think she will stink, and insects?" She said to Pearl, "Go and tell my mother, don't be in a hurry to let her in." Remember to send it to the yard in the countryside for a period of time, be sure to wash it carefully, and then observe it for a few days before sending it over. I heard that there are still fleas and bed bugs on those country girls.... Ahh ”

As soon as she spoke, she saw a woman with a gentle temperament and gorgeous clothes slowly walking in surrounded by a group of maids.

"You girl, what are you talking about?" The woman smiled before she spoke, and said reproachful words in her mouth, but there was a hint of blame in the smile between her eyebrows, "She is also your sister anyway, how can she not be polite at all, from now on, she will enter this mansion, she is your sister-in-law, and when I see her at the old lady later, don't say these stupid things again." ”

Mrs. Qin's Cao Shi paused, and when she saw that her baby daughter was still frowning unhappily, she comforted her again: "Don't worry, since Mrs. Song picked her up, she has already taken her to wash inside and out." There are also girls and mothers-in-law along the way, even if there were bugs on the body at first, but now they are clean. Good girl, it's a big deal, I'll call a mother-in-law and ask her to check it carefully. ”

As soon as Cao finished speaking, he saw a maid come in and whispered something in her ear. After listening to this, she asked, "Do the old lady and the old man know?" ”

The maid shook her head: "As soon as the slave maid heard Lao Litou's reply, she came to report to the wife first." How the old lady and the old man will return there, please let the wife decide. ”

Cao Shi took a deep breath and said, "Okay, you did a good job." But such a big thing must be told to the old lady and the old man. You go, let someone look at the girl first, and then make a decision when the master comes back. ”

When Qin Songhui heard this, she asked strangely, "Mother, what's wrong?" ”