The 40th birthday of Zhuang, the wife of General Yuan, will soon come.

Early in the morning, there was a lot of traffic in front of the general's mansion, and pedestrians were weaving.

Lin Yunxin followed Jiang and Lin Suhui out of the carriage, and followed them obediently and gently along the way, greeting and saluting the people around them one by one.

Speaking of General Yuan, it is also a legend, he was originally a general under the command of Emperor Li Ai of the old dynasty, was sent out to fight during the war, and took away two older sons, leaving his wife Zhuang and a pair of young children in the imperial capital.

It's a pity that the Li Dynasty was already in turmoil at that time, and there was a catastrophe and drought, and General Yuan had no food and grass supplies, and no reinforcements to help, so he was consumed alive in the border city, and finally the whole army was wiped out.

When the news reached the imperial capital, I don't know how many people sighed about how General Yuan's widow and a pair of children should live.

But no one expected that when the new emperor entered the imperial city and sat on the throne, General Yuan and his two sons miraculously survived and became the upstart under the new emperor.

In this way, the General's Mansion has regained its glory and is becoming more and more popular.

Entering the General's Mansion, Lin Yunxin stopped all the way.

I have to say that although the Jiang family is very picky in terms of money and has a little calculation in everything, there is nothing to say about popularity and the ability to make friends. There are a lot of noble ladies who come and go, but most of them can talk to her, and it is obvious that she has worked hard in this regard after returning to the imperial capital.

Just when Jiang Shi pulled his daughter and was about to go to another noble lady to see her, Lin Suhui excitedly pulled her sleeve and said in a low voice: "Mother, look! The best-looking one in white over there is the Zhang Junhong and Zhang Gongzi I told you! ”

"What?"

"Let's go over and have a look!" Before Jiang could react, Lin Suhui had excitedly dragged her towards the pile.

Lin Yunxin couldn't get lost alone, so she had to keep up.

When they got closer, Lin Suhui immediately let go of Jiang's arm, and stepped forward extremely gently to salute the beautiful and handsome young man in white who was surrounded by a group of young people, his eyes were full of sweet love.

"Zhang Gongzi, Su Hui is polite." Lin Suhui has a delicate voice.

Zhang Junhong was gossiping with his friends and was stunned when he heard it. The other three young people beside him glanced at each other, and immediately stopped speaking, their eyes were filled with interest, and they looked at Zhang Junhong with a teasing smile.

Without waiting for Zhang Junhong to reply for the first time, Lin Suhui was slightly apprehensive, and immediately said, "Does Zhang Gongzi still remember?" Last time I was outside the Taifu Mansion, I had a relationship with my son, and my father was also there at that time. As he spoke, he was reserved and shy.

Zhang Junhong suddenly remembered, his eyes showed a look of clarity, and he smiled lightly and returned the salute slightly: "Miss Lin." ”

Seeing Zhang Junhong smiling at her, Lin Suhui's face suddenly turned red.

The three young people next to them, who were not too big to deal with, squeezed their eyebrows more and more, and offered to say goodbye one after another.

Zhang Junhong calmly sent his colleagues away, looked at Lin Suhui with a calm gaze, and asked with a light smile: "I don't know what happened to Miss Lin?" ”

"Huh? I ......"

Lin Suhui was suddenly a little flustered, she just couldn't restrain herself from running to say hello, she didn't really have anything to do, but she didn't want to be considered by Zhang Junhong as a woman who was too abrupt, but in a hurry, she couldn't tell the reason for it, so she had to look at Jiang for help.

Jiang was looking at Zhang Junhong on the side, and the more she looked at it, the more satisfied she became, after all, she was the grandson of Taifu, the dragon and phoenix among people, she couldn't find anything wrong with herself, thinking so, she happened to bump into her daughter's gaze.

Slightly hesitant, Jiang stepped forward. But before she could speak, another young and beautiful girl also came to Zhang Junhong's side in a few steps.

"What's wrong?" The girl's eyebrows were picturesque, her expression was indifferent, but she said to Zhang Junhong with a very familiar attitude.

Lin Suhui's face changed suddenly, and she looked at the girl with a little vigilance and anger, but asked Zhang Junhong: "Who is she?" ”

Zhang Junhong was stunned. Very few people asked him in this tone.

The girl was silent, but there was already a bit of ridicule in her eyes.

Jiang frowned slightly, this Taifu grandson is good, but there are many people staring at it.

Only Lin Yunxin quietly took another step back.

It's just that Lin Yunxin thought that he had retreated without showing a trace, but he still fell into Zhang Junhong's eyes, his eyes flashed, and he remembered this girl who had been praised by Her Royal Highness the eldest princess.

Zhang Junhong smiled indifferently and introduced: "This is the sister, Shutong." He said to Zhang Shutong again, "This is the second lady and young lady of the Lin family." ”

"Childe's sister?" Lin Suhui's eyes lit up, the hostility subsided instantly, and when she looked at Zhang Shutong again, she showed a little surprise, since she was Zhang Gongzi's sister, could it be her future sister-in-law? If you can build a good relationship in advance......

Zhang Shutong saw Lin Suhui's plan at a glance, and without waiting for her to speak, she immediately turned around and said lightly: "Let's go, it's not early, it's too late, Yuan Shibo should be blamed." ”

"Indeed." Zhang Junhong nodded, and after politely saying goodbye to Jiang and Lin Suhui, he also turned around and left.

"We're gone, too." Jiang patted Lin Suhui, who was still looking at Zhang Junhong's back, and Lin Suhui had to regret to keep up.

The group did not delay any longer, and soon came to the main hall of the banquet.

Due to the large number of guests, the banquet hall was not arranged indoors, but was arranged in a wide place by the lake, but it was also elegant and beautiful.

At this time, the banquet hall was already crowded, and the wife of General Yuan, Zhuang, took her little daughter and two concubines to greet all kinds of guests in front of the hall, and then the maids in the house led the way one by one to arrange the seats, and they were very busy.

When Jiang took his daughter, Lin Yunxin and a group of maids and servants to step forward, they were also warmly greeted by the general's wife.

"Mingzhu, you're here." The general's wife is slightly chubby, with a white and round face, and she looks very well maintained.

Mingzhu is Jiang's boudoir name. At that time, the Jiang family was also a famous family, and the general's wife Zhuang was a close friend in the boudoir, but time has passed, and now everyone has a different situation.

Jiang smiled enthusiastically: "Can I not come?" Even if there are thousands of things, can it be more important than your life? If I don't come, you still have to blame me to death? ”

The general's wife glanced at her with disgust: "That's natural, even if the others don't come, you have to come." Jiang said this sentence very ironing in his heart, and it seemed that their feelings were particularly different.

"This is your daughter Su Hui, right?" The general's wife moved her gaze to Lin Suhui.

"Isn't it?" Jiang Shi smiled, and then rushed to Lin Suhui, "Why don't you give the general's wife a salute?" ”

"Hello ma'am." Lin Suhui bowed reservedly.

"Okay, okay." The general's wife smiled, "What a dignified and beautiful girl." ”

Whenever a female guest brings her daughter over, the general's wife is full of praise for her dignified and beautiful signs.

This time, she held a birthday banquet, in addition to celebrating her birthday, another purpose was to take this opportunity to see the daughters of each family, and to find a daughter-in-law for her three sons.

Although the youngest is only sixteen years old now, the eldest is already twenty-two, and the marriage was delayed because of the war, and now that the war is over, she immediately can't sit still.

was praised by others, Lin Suhui naturally made a shyly appearance: "Madame praised it falsely." It made Jiang and the general's wife laugh again.

"...... this?" The general's wife slanted her gaze and fell on Lin Yunxin, and her smile suddenly converged a lot.

"She." Jiang's smile also faded, and he beckoned, "Come here, Wan Xin." ”

Lin Yunxin stepped forward and saluted as usual, with a flat expression: "Greetings to Mrs." ”

"Hmm." The general's wife didn't say anything, her eyes shrouded Lin Yunxin, she looked at it carefully, but her expression became more and more cold, and after a while, she turned her head and commented on Jiang's family, with a little disdain, "It's a bit outstanding." ”

"Poof." Jiang almost laughed out loud, but fortunately, she covered her mouth with her sleeve in the middle of laughing to hide her gaffe, but there was a bit of schadenfreude in her eyes.

Who doesn't know that the family pays attention to marrying a wife and marrying a virtuous wife, taking a concubine, and generally praising the girl's family is usually said to be dignified and elegant, with everyone's demeanor, if it is particularly about posture, it is not a small family that has no knowledge, or is ready to marry a concubine to the son of the family.

The general's wife, Quarin Yunxin, has a good appearance, doesn't it mean that she looks like a fox and has no life?

Jiang's heart blossomed, but his face was still serious: "That's right." ”

The two middle-aged women glanced at each other and laughed together.

Lin Suhui looked at her mother suspiciously, and then at the general's wife, at first she didn't understand what they were laughing at, but suddenly she suddenly realized, and she laughed too, looking at Lin Yunxin's eyes with both pride and disdain.

I'm not afraid that everyone will say that Lin Yunxin is good-looking, in the eyes of real ladies, it is always difficult to get into the hall of elegance, only she is popular with ladies and is suitable to be a genuine daughter-in-law!

Although she was ridiculed by several women, Lin Yunxin's face was always calm, because this scene was too familiar.

In her previous life, she had also followed the Jiang family and Lin Suhui to the General's Mansion, and she was also subjected to the same difficulties at that time.

At that time, she was just a boudoir girl who rarely went out, and her mind was sensitive and fragile, and she was suddenly ridiculed like this, and she didn't even know what the problem was, which was naturally extremely embarrassing.

But now, with a letter sent by her aunt Lin Rushuang a few days ago, she has already understood the entanglement.

It turned out to be related to an incident that my mother had done.

Eight years ago, at the end of the Li Dynasty, the world was in turmoil and war, and General Yuan was ordered by Emperor Li Ai to fight in other places several times, and the conditions were more difficult each time.

One year, the snow was falling and the sky was frozen, but the border pass was still in an emergency, and General Yuanda, as a general, had the responsibility to lead the people to the expedition, but at the critical moment of the war, the grain, grass and cotton clothes in the army were broken, and the imperial capital did not respond.

This is a fatal situation, General Yuan was so anxious that he was about to go crazy, but just when he couldn't suppress the resentment in the army, it was Lin Yunxin's mother-in-law Xu Shi and the grandfather of the great merchant Jia Xu Simian who spent 200,000 taels of silver in one go to buy enough food and cotton clothes to send to the army, so as to solve the urgent need.

For this reason, General Yuan had agreed with Xu that he had no long things, and he was willing to protect Xu's children with a children's marriage, as long as he did not die, this marriage contract would be counted, and he also ripped off the Yuan family heirloom Pisces that had been worn on his body and handed it to Xu as a token.

Lin Yunxin didn't know about this matter before, and her mother died before she could tell her about it, but it can be seen from her aunt's letter that her father Lin Jingyi should have known, but for some reason, her father never mentioned it.

But for Lin Yunxin, it doesn't mean much to mention it, after all, for them, it is the Yuan family who owes them favors, not that they owe the Lin family.

Since the general's wife now looks down on the Lin family's weakness, let alone her, it is impossible for her to beg others.

So in the face of the general's wife, Lin Yunxin just smiled faintly and said steadily: "It's not as good as Madame, it's well-maintained, and her appearance is very beautiful." ”

"You?!" The general's wife was furious.

But before she could get angry and reprimand, there was a shout outside the door.

"Her Royal Highness the eldest princess to ——!"

The eldest princess has arrived?

After a brief silence, the ballroom was filled with great consternation.

No one would have thought that it was just the wife of General Yuan who was on her birthday, and even the eldest princess was dispatched, and the Yuan family was now so powerful? !

For a while, everyone's eyes on the general's wife changed.

The general's wife was even more overjoyed, and she no longer had time to entangle with Lin Yunxin, so she strode towards the door with a group of people to greet her.