The old lady of the Hua family has a total of four rooms, for the convenience of the name, divided into four houses, southeast, northwest and northwest, the big house is the east, and the rest of the columns are called.

In the afternoon of the same day, the old ladies of Nanfu and Xifu came to visit with their daughters-in-law and grandchildren.

Xifang came early, the third old lady is the follow-up string of the third old lady, the original one died of illness, and now this one is only in his early forties.

Jiao Niang heard Mama Mao say that the third old lady was originally a fisherman's girl, but because of the poverty of her family, she sold herself into the Hua family as a maidservant, and served by the side of the old lady who had passed away for a few years. Later, the third old lady lost his wife and married her.

Mama Mao said very briefly, but Jiao Niang thought that she could turn from a maid to become a master, and the means in this were self-evident.

It can be seen that the three old ladies are very different from what she imagined, she is not good-looking, and her appearance alone is not enough to make a man's heart move, even if it is twenty years back.

In front of the old lady, she seemed a little restrained and wooden, basically the old lady asked and answered.

But the woman beside her, who forgot it as if she was thirty, was dignified and quiet, down-to-earth and generous, and talked to the old lady with a refreshing atmosphere.

This is the daughter-in-law of the three old ladies, Murong Shi, from the family of military generals, in the early years of his father died heroically, posthumously named the champion Hou, has a son and a daughter, daughter Yao Niang is married, just gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, because in the middle of the month, today and the future.

"How old is Jiao Niang?" Murong liked Jiao Niang when he saw her, and pulled her to talk, probably because she had always liked beautiful things.

The lady replied obediently, "Fifteen." ”

"That's the same age as our family Junbo, what is the birthday?"

"August 15. ”

"That's bigger than Junbo, our Junbo is the tenth day of October. ”

There was a straight young man standing beside Murong Clan, almost as tall as Jiao Niang, with a baby face, red lips and white teeth, obviously still looking like a child, but he pretended to be a young man.

Jiao Niang looked at him, smiled slightly, leaned over and said, "Cousin Junbo is good." ”

Hua Junbo arched his hand, "Today, I can be regarded as seeing a better looking than Qianniang, seeing that she has not changed from a peacock to a chicken in soup this time." ”

Murong frowned, "Junbo, don't talk nonsense." ”

Hua Junbo was stunned and snorted lightly.

Jiao Niang was surprised what he meant, and the maid outside entered the house to spread the word that the second old lady of Nanfu came to the door with his wife and girl.

The third old lady originally sat on the Luohan Hall with the old lady, but at this time she immediately gave way and sat on the chair at the bottom.

"I'm late, sister-in-law won't blame me, right?"

As soon as the words fell, Jiao Niang turned her head to look, an old woman wearing a red eight-treasure pattern Shu satin turned in from behind the green bamboo screen, followed by a woman of about thirty-five or sixteen years old on the left, holding a delicate young girl in her right hand, and more than a dozen maids and daughters-in-law in the back.

The old lady didn't smile, "How can you, you too, how many times have I been back and forth, do you need to move the people to see me?"

"Why not, you've been gone for a few months, and you can't be lively without you in the past few months, I think about it very much. The second old lady sat down, held the old lady's hand, and looked at the old lady carefully, "I heard that you had a serious illness in the capital, I thought you were hypocritical, but now it seems that it is really true, you are seriously ill, why are you so old all of a sudden?"

The old lady had a mouthful of old blood stuck in her throat, and she was not poisoned by Tao Jin's family, but she was almost angry with the old witch. At what age, I still wear red and green all day long, because I am afraid that I will do too much evil in this life, and I will not have the opportunity to be reborn in the next life, so I will wear enough clothes in the next life.

The old lady hid a knife in her smile, "It's a little haggard, but it's good to recuperate for a while, but it's you, the second brother and sister, I'm not here these months, you haven't eaten less, I see that this face is a few circles rounder, you can't eat like this anymore, be careful that you don't have any clothes to wear." "It's like a joke.

The second old lady took a deep breath, held back, and said with a smile: "You don't understand this, it's a blessing to be able to eat, clothes, and then you can do it, and you don't have much money." ”

She squinted her eyes, noticed Jiao Niang, her face was slightly stagnant, the old lady smiled secretly in her heart, and beckoned Jiao Niang to come over, "Jiao Niang, come here, this is the second old lady." He pointed to the woman with long eyes and thin eyebrows, "This is the third uncle and daughter-in-law of your second old lady's family, you can call it the third aunt or Aunt Wu." Then came the beautiful girl, "She is your third uncle's daughter, Qian Niang, two years older than you." ”

After the old lady introduced it again, the lady saw the salute one by one, the third lady stepped forward to help up, looked left and right, the girl in front of her eyebrows and eyes were picturesque, the skin was snowy, a pair of eyes, the eyes were pure as water, I saw you pity, the tail of the eyes was upturned, and there was a bewitching charm, it was really a rare beauty.

"The daughter of the eldest brother's family is outstanding, which is like a concubine, so people look happy, I want to take it home to be my daughter. She took Jiao Niang's hand, her eyes naturally fell, and she happened to see a pair of jade bracelets exposed on Jiao Niang's wrist, and her face drooped.

Jiao Niang quietly withdrew her hand and smiled contemptuously in her heart.

The old lady pulled Jiao Niang to sit down beside her, "Her third lady, this is your short-sightedness, what kind of concubine is out of the house, some of the son is not successful, it is better to be out of the house." ”

This is poking into the heart of the third lady, she has a son in addition to Qian Niang, but because she is too doting, she has developed a lawless appearance, and now everyone in Licheng calls him a little bully, all day long either walking cats and teasing dogs, or looking for flowers and willows, this year is twenty, no daughter of a good family is willing to marry him.

Looking at the sons of her aunt in her family, all of them are better than him, and there is a concubine, who has learned about Yuan and Huiyuan one after another, just waiting for this autumn, and then one yuan.

Just because her son is not successful, the third master of her family does not even want to see her. So she pinned all her hopes on her daughter and cultivated her with all her might, just waiting for one day, Qian Niang can be selected into the palace as a mother, and at that time, see who dares to underestimate her.

Qian Niang saw her choking, so she said: "But the concubine is the concubine, and when it comes, it is inferior." As he spoke, he pinched his eyes and held the girl.

Jiao Niang felt innocent, she didn't do anything, where did she provoke them to be so hostile, her eyes swept over her face, and she said, "Cousin Qian's words are wrong." ”

Qian Niang raised her eyebrows and raised her chin, "Oh?

The line of her jaw is very beautiful, but the angle of lifting it makes people feel arrogant, and Jiao Niang somewhat understands why Hua Junbo has a peacock.

Jiao Niang's smile was like a lotus flower waiting to be released, and the room was bright, "Cousin Qian, have you forgotten that our grandfather is also a concubine, and it is only because of his unremitting self-improvement that he earned this family business merit and set up his own door." Cousin Qian said that if you are a concubine, you are destined to be inferior, but that's not-"

Jiao Niang smiled lightly and said no more.