Jin Niang didn't tell Xuanxuan about Aunt Shen's deduction of her dowry, and of course, she didn't tell Father Lin and Aunt Shen.

The matter has long been a foregone conclusion, and it is not worth it to say that it is not worth it to give the second elder a confession and let them be unhappy for her. Again, she didn't tell her uncle, otherwise her uncle would be furious with her aunt, and the house would be uneasy due to the conflict between husband and wife, which was not what she wanted to see. Although she has some opinions about Aunt Shen because of this matter, but her uncle is her own uncle, and she is also good at digging out her heart and lungs, even if it is for the sake of her uncle's body, Jin Niang swallowed this breath.

However, she can't tell these elders about her grievances, can't she tell her man?

Jin Niang returned to the house, sent a few small ones away, and picked up a pen and paper to write a letter to Xu Erlang.

After this day's calmness, she felt that the resentment and depression in her heart had disappeared a lot, but when she really talked to Xu Erlang about it, her inexplicable grievances doubled, and her eyes were red when she wrote.

Qingsui was a little panicked when she saw this, she didn't connect this matter with this morning's incident, and she didn't know that Uncle Shen had deducted Jinniang's dowry money, she saw that Mrs. wrote a letter to the adult, just because she missed the adult.

The relationship between the couple has been seen by Qingsui with his own eyes. has been married for so many years, and several children are so old, but the two of them are sticky, which makes people red-faced. Their relationship is really good, so it is understandable that Mrs. wants to cry when adults think. But I can understand, Mrs. can't be so bad, otherwise if she is sick, the adults will definitely be worried when they know about it, and the sons and girls in the house will definitely be worried about their sleep and food.

Qingsui persuaded her a lot, and Jin Niang held back the tears in her eyes, she also felt that she was hypocritical, is this a big deal? Does she value the four hundred taels of silver? Is she a person who is short of money now? Since there is no shortage of those money, what is the anger.

But it's good, it's as uncomfortable as the chest is blocked with cotton.

It took a few days for Jin Niang to breathe a sigh of relief, and then the next day she went to the Lin Mansion with a straight face, and went to the Ke Mansion with Father Lin, Aunt Shen, Qing'er, and Xuanxuan.

The fifth princess is now a mother-in-law looking at her son-in-law, and the more she looks at it, the more satisfied she becomes.

She looked at Qing'er differently, and she valued the Lin family more and more. Therefore, when entertaining the people in Lin Fuzhong, he was very thoughtful and flattered.

Ke Ke also came out to visit Father Lin and Aunt Shen, the eldest girl is a cheap in-law in this situation, and she is really ashamed that she can't walk. Her round face was even more red, like a red apple.

Ke Ke is no longer as plump as before, but has become slim and slender, but his face is somehow unable to lose weight. It's always fleshy, and it's still with milk fat, and it looks like an apple. But this is not ugly, but there is a different kind of coquettishness, which makes people's hearts soft.

After Ke Ke saw everyone, he took Xuanxuan down to play at the signal of the fifth princess.

Qing'er adhered to the gentleman's etiquette and didn't look at her much, but Jinniang noticed that Qing'er's ears were always erect, and his cheeks were still flushed, with a youthful gesture.

It's really good to be young, young people's love is sweet and soft in people's hearts, and they can't help but want to maintain it, so as not to let people destroy this innocence and beauty.

Father Lin and Aunt Shen are not sociable people, especially Aunt Shen, she can be said to be a little stage frightened. When she was in Pingyang, the people she came and went to were the old neighbors in the hutongs, and there were no more. She will be nervous in front of outsiders, and her words will not be coherent, which makes people look very unscrupulous.

She even has a hard time coping with the neighbors who have been with her for many years, so you can imagine how empty she feels in the face of this in-laws princess. However, the fifth princess was really thoughtful, she restrained her style, patiently talked to Aunt Shen about the marriage of the two children, her attitude was friendly and considerate, and she didn't talk at all about the domineering and unreasonable of those princesses in the book, Aunt Shen was gradually taken by her to talk a lot, and she didn't stutter anymore, and she even talked a lot to her.

Seeing this, Jin Niang's heart relaxed slightly, and her straight back also relaxed slightly. She didn't move much, but the fifth princess obviously noticed it, so she smiled and said to her, "I've always wanted to invite you to come to the door as a guest, but you haven't had time to come back from Liaodong." Now it's okay, you come to the door, let's talk a few more words. ”

Then she praised the jewelry that Jin Niang gave her, although the things are not necessarily valuable, but they are really exquisite, and they are expensive in a kit kit, so she also likes it very much.

The time for several people to talk passed quickly, and it was time for lunch, Ke Ke's father, Ke Shangshu, finally came back from the yamen.

Ke Shangshu is now the secretary of the Criminal Department, and he is busy with official work every day. Originally, when he learned that the people of Lin Fuzhong would come to visit today, he had already taken a day off with the imperial court and was going to entertain guests at home. However, the prince of the vassal kingdom took the epidemic in the city as an excuse to encircle the people of the fief and kill them, and the matter was reported to the capital by beating the drum, and there was an uproar when he was there.

This matter was within his jurisdiction, and he left some more time to discuss the matter with His Majesty, who intended to let him go to the vassal king's territory to investigate the matter thoroughly, and remembered that he was going to marry a daughter, and he was afraid that he would not be able to catch up with the auspicious day, so he asked him to recommend a candidate for the Qin Mission. It is for this reason that he has not come back until now.

However, I just had lunch time in a hurry, and I had to go to the yamen to deal with this matter later. The stakes are serious, and if one is not handled properly, I am afraid that the country will be uneasy.

Ke Shangshu apologized first when he saw Father Lin, and Father Lin would accept this gift from him.

When the drums sounded, they all arrived at the gate of Kefu, otherwise they would have wanted to go back. After all, as soon as the drums sounded, there must be a great grievance, and the three divisions must be busy. And Ke Shangshu is the secretary of the Criminal Department, the head of the Criminal Department, with a big official position and great responsibility, he will definitely not be idle in a short time.

Everyone was curious about the matter of Dengwengu, so this matter was reported by everyone now that the courtiers left the palace, so there was no need to hide it, so Ke Shangshu said the matter in a few words.

This is really ...... Appalling.

For a while, not to mention that the three female relatives of Jinniang, Aunt Shen and the Fifth Princess changed color, even Qing'er and Father Lin were furious.

Feigned and the epidemic directly locked down the city? And shoot the people directly as prey such as rabbits, cows, horses, etc.?

Is this a human officer? It's a brute!

The fifth princess almost slapped the table angrily, "One point must find out the truth, and you must not tolerate the wicked!" Hateful! Damn it! Those are all my people, but now they have all become innocent souls, Xianggong, you must find out about this matter, let people give them justice, and punish the wicked to justice. ”

Ke Shangshu appeased the fifth princess, and then said that His Majesty had sent the three priests to immediately set off to investigate the matter. The fifth princess was angry at this time, and her face was no longer full of anger.

Jin Niang and the others went back after lunch in the Lin Mansion, and Jin Niang arrived at the Lin Mansion first, and said some details about Qing'er's marriage with Lin's father before preparing to go back to the Xu Mansion.

Qing'er sent her out, and Jinniang teased him, "Let you prepare some small gifts for Ke Ke as a surprise, are you ready?" Can you give it to her? ”

Qing'er almost begged her sister for mercy.

Do you need to ask about this? Since he married Ke Ke, his sister taught him this way to increase his affection, and he had to prepare some small gifts for Ke Ke every time they met. Even if he didn't make it himself, he must have bought it with his own hands. Even if he was too busy to return to Beijing, he would regularly inform Ke Ke of his daily letters, or let people take away the "carefulness" he gave her.

The mother-in-law turned a blind eye to the matter, so he persisted. This is the ...... Sure enough, it's easy to use, at least for Ke Ke.

But Qing'er didn't plan to tell her sister about it, and she always felt embarrassed.

Jin Niang saw enough of his embarrassed appearance, so she stopped teasing him and asked him to hurry back to the house, and she got into the carriage and left.

Qing'er watched Xu's carriage go away before returning to the courtyard. And Jin Niang walked to Suzaku Street, and caught a glimpse of a dim sum shop out of the corner of her eye, taking advantage of the fact that there are not many people now, she deliberately went down to buy a few pastries and came back. Some were given to Xu's father and Xu's mother, so that they could change their tastes, and some were given to a few children, as to appease them for being abandoned by her.

Jin Niang thought that after the triplets saw the dim sum, they would definitely be angry and drool at the dim sum greedily, so she couldn't help laughing, and at this time, the Xu Mansion arrived.

Jin Niang got out of the carriage and entered the mansion, and when the guard guarding the door saw her, he said, "Madam, go back to the house quickly, the third prince has returned to the house, and he has brought a girl with him." ”

Jin Niang was a little dumbfounded for a while, the third son? Girl?

The guard saw that Jin Niang looked suspicious, and he couldn't slow down his appearance, and he also realized that he had said the wrong thing, "It's not the third son, yes, it's the third master, the third master of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang water divisions came back to the house, and brought a girl with him." ”

Jin Niang understood, it was Xu Chong who came back.

Jin Niang An Nai was called chaotic in the house, and when she turned around, she should correct the problem, so she turned her thoughts to Xu Chong.

Why did Xu Chong come back at this time? Did you come back with a leave of absence?

And why did he take a girl with him? He is not married, so he has to keep his distance from these little girls, otherwise it will be difficult to talk about his daughter-in-law in the future.

Although Xu Chong is now a difficult family to marry - Jin Niang thinks so, Xu Erlang also thinks so, although the real reason is that Xu Chong is not willing to marry, and the girl who wants to marry him can't finish several carriages. But he is still in his twenties and has not yet married, and even more so has not yet decided to marry, which is an indisputable fact. Regardless of the reason, outsiders sometimes don't pursue the truth of this matter, they will only blame the problem on Xu Chong himself. Is the heart belonging? Or did you hurt your roots, afraid that you would be exposed to your parents?

Don't care about the reason, anyway, Xu Chong is still unmarried, and many women from powerful families are watching his relatives because of Xu Erlang. Don't mention the far, just say that she will return to Beijing these days, Jin Niang has received a lot of mouths, all of them want to ask about Xu Chong's relatives, of course, the most is to ask Chang'an Changping's relatives.

Jin Niang hurriedly walked to Heyan Hall, Changping saw her with sharp eyes, and hurriedly whispered hello to her, "Auntie, auntie." ”

Jin Niang looked over in surprise, "Changping, why are you going home, the academy is closed today and tomorrow, isn't it?" ”

Changping nodded, and Chong Jinniang gave a thumbs up, "Auntie, you are this, you can guess it." He whispered to Jin Niang and whispered to her to chew her ears, Jin Niang hurriedly turned sideways, and Changping said, "The third uncle is back, bringing back a girl, and saying that he wants to marry her." It's just that the girl is not young, whether she should be eighteen or twenty, I can't say. After all, he was from an ordinary family, and my grandfather was not happy, so he asked my third uncle to send people back quickly. The third uncle quarreled with his grandfather, and he fell ill if he didn't agree......"

Speaking of the word illness, Changping innocently winked at Jinniang, Jinniang instantly understood that Xu's father was pretending to be sick, so she asked Changping, "And then?" ”

"Grandfather said that the third uncle is not a filial son, and if he doesn't do his filial piety in front of him, he wants to be angry with him when he returns home, and my grandfather asked the third uncle to kneel in front of the door."

"Kneeling?" Jin Niang frowned, "Your third uncle really knelt down?" ”

"Not really. Auntie, don't you know, my grandfather is really not simple now, and he is quite similar to pretending to be sick. At that moment, he was blushing and thick-necked, looking breathless, and his eyes were closed and he pouted back, which was terrible and we were frightened. Later, my grandfather 'eased' over, but he was still trembling, exactly like the old man in his last years, and he couldn't bear to see it. The third uncle felt uncomfortable in his heart, so he responded to my grandfather's order and knelt in front of the door. ”

Jin Niang: "...... What about the girl? ”

"Where is my grandmother? Don't worry, Auntie, I'm not done yet. You see you've come back from my uncle in a hurry, do you want to go back to Cuibai Garden to rest first? Where is my grandmother's Changle and Xiaoyu'er? Those two clever ghosts are here, and my grandmother can't get angry, even if she wants to, she can't get angry. ”

Jin Niang nodded Changping with a finger, "Auntie is not tired, let's go to your grandmother's place to sit." You little family, you said you didn't let me go right away, what do you have in mind? ”

Changping's innocent face, "I don't have any thoughts, I'm not filial to you, I'm afraid you'll be tired." ”

Jin Niang "hehe", "I believe that you have ghosts." ”

"Then if you don't believe it, forget it." Changping touched his nose and felt a little pity. He received the third uncle's eyes, and he didn't let people enter here, otherwise the third uncle's face would be on the ground. But can he stop others, can he stop his aunt? Impossible, never.

Changping silently said to his third uncle, "I did my best", although the consequences were unsatisfactory, but the aunt is an elder, and it is not a big deal if the aunt sees the third uncle making a fool of himself, right?

When Jin Niang approached the Xiaohua Hall, she heard Xiao Yu'er talking to Xu Mu. When she got closer, Jin Niang saw Xu Mu sitting on the carved chair at the top, and she sat Changle and Xiao Yu'er at the bottom right, and near Xu Mu's side at the bottom left, there was a girl with a beautiful face and eyes covered with mist, like a Jiangnan ink painting.

This girl was dressed in a plain blue shirt, and her figure could not be seen to be tall, but some flickering was certain. In addition, it was hard to travel, and her face was tired.