Because the old lady likes to be quiet, the subordinates in the pine birch garden are light-footed, and the old lady has always slept lightly, and no one dares to disturb the old lady.

The second wife, Zhou, sat in the hall with a pair of daughters and waited to greet the old lady, saying that she was not coming every day.

The old lady is not from an obvious background, so she doesn't pay attention to those rules, and she has long said that it is good to have enough sleep, and there is no need to save the morning and dusk.

Tong Manjiao, who has already reached the end of the year, maintains a dignified sitting posture at the moment, and the eyes that collide together from time to time reveal each other's uneasy mood.

Compared with the more lively sister Tong Manjiao, Tong Manjiao is a little more stable, what is it for me to come with my mother to ask the old lady for today, I was called by my mother last night to reveal one or two, when I thought that the marriage of the sisters would be talked about for a while, Tong Manjiao's heart was not without longing.

Growing up in the Zhizhou Mansion since childhood, Tong Manjiao knows the difference between the two sisters and her cousin Tong Qingyan.

My father didn't have much talent in the imperial examination, and he really couldn't raise his interest, and his grandmother couldn't bear to force him, so his father had the opportunity to do what he liked.

But Changchun Mansion literati and scholars come out in large numbers, and a lot of sour and rotten people will follow, the mother was born in a merchant, although the uncle is also the daughter of the merchant, but the uncle is a protégé of the Son of Heaven, the champion of the top scenery, Changchun Mansion is also well governed, and the comparison between the two can always show the gap.

Those who asked someone to come to the door early to ask for relatives are just for the uncle's reputation, and the grandmother is still alive and will not separate the family, relying on the uncle's reputation, the sisters' family choice is not without better family options.

But I don't know what conditions I have, my mother definitely doesn't want to marry into a merchant's family, and the family of scholars is more or less contemptuous of my father's business.

I heard from the foot of the wall before that a few families of scholars who were interested in marrying were only the middle-of-the-road, and there were very few children in the clan, and the highest was only a Hanlin Academy editor, although he was a Beijing official, but there were only seven grades.

My mother was not satisfied with the candidate in her hand at all, so she had been holding the two sisters for the past few months, not letting them go out easily, and had been waiting for a good time to discuss with the old lady, and now the opportunity has finally come.

When the tea in Zhou's hand was served for the third time, the old lady finally got up.

Hearing the movement in the house, Zhou took the clothes held by the maid, and personally entered the house to serve the old lady and dressed properly, the dark brown clothes were embroidered with the old lady's favorite camellia on only the sleeves, and the skirt was even simpler, only the dark lines of the crane faintly flashed.

The jade auspicious cloud hairpin of water color is very bright in the black and white hair, although she worked hard in the early years, the old lady is in a relaxed state of mind and healthy, but much younger than the old woman of the same age.

After being dressed by Zhou's waiting, the old lady walked into the small flower hall energetically to prepare for breakfast, and Tong Manjiao Tong Manji was already waiting there.

Early in the morning, I saw the sisters with similar appearances and good looks, and the old lady's mood was still very good, after all, no matter how people and things, looking at the beautiful side would always make people feel happy.

Although the sisters are twins, their personality preferences are diametrically opposed. Sister is calm and sister is lively, one likes to be quiet and one is happy, the only hobby is color, in order to distinguish, there is always a clear difference in clothing of similar colors.

Today, the two sisters are wearing light apricot dresses, Tong Manjiao's skirt is embroidered with a circle of crane wanglan, and Tong Manjiao's is embroidered with Lingtu landscape patterns. Both of them wear jewelry made of pearls, and the pearl earrings are shining, and the young and white skin of the two is even softer.

The embodiment of the rich family background is mostly in daily wear, Tong Manjiao Tong Manjiao The clothes of the two sisters are from the brocade pavilion, and the jewelry is only Qiaoyinlou's, rouge gouache, which can only be bought by the most expensive Tianfangzhai in Changchun Mansion.

Looking at the entire Changchun Mansion, if you talk about the family background alone, no Zhou family can see it, and now the two daughters choose their in-laws, and the importance is naturally the family's heritage and reputation.

Mother Wang put the breakfast sent from the small kitchen on the table, and looked at the old lady who was obviously hit and wanted to laugh but couldn't laugh.

Since Miss Tong San lived in the Wen family, the old lady had this expression when she came to eat, how to say it, if you want to tie a man's heart, you must first tie a man's stomach, this is too one-sided, it should be said that no matter whose heart you want to tie, just make something delicious for him.

"It's porridge and pickles, so don't you order anything else? Didn't Sister An teach Lao Li's family to make novelty snacks, why are these still these, is she trying to force my wife to live in the Wen family too? ”

The old lady stared at a table of all kinds of pickles with a slumped face, very unhappy.

Tong Manji used a handkerchief to pretend to wipe the lipstick at the corner of her mouth to hide her smile, but the smile in her black and white eyes couldn't hide it.

The old lady's stomach was raised by her cousin, and when her cousin gets married in the future, the old lady is estimated to be able to cry to death.

Mother Wang rolled her eyes skillfully, and patiently comforted the wayward old lady.

"Old lady, you forgot, you said that the dim sum made by the old Li family according to the recipe written by Miss San is not right, it is better to have clear porridge with pickles."

Where would Mrs. Tong forget, in fact, the taste is not really very different, as long as she thinks that the two old things of the Wen family can eat the food made by Tong Qingyan every day, she is unhappy.

People are like this, as long as they have good things, they will slowly become taken for granted, and suddenly one day they will lose them and they will be jealous of other people who have them for no reason, and feel that no one else is worthy, and only they are the most suitable.

If the mentality is not correct, it will change from jealousy to hatred, and even worse, it will slowly breed more dark and extreme thoughts, and then it will make mistakes until it destroys itself.

Therefore, the Buddhist scriptures also say, "Awareness of many desires is suffering, and fatigue of life and death begins with greed; Less desire and inaction, body and mind are at ease. "There are many people in the world who practice meditation and Buddhism, but there are a few people who can really do nothing, so all sentient beings are suffering, and everything stems from dissatisfaction with desires.

Zhou looked at the old lady's helpless appearance, smiled lightly, took the initiative to serve porridge to the old lady, accompanied the old lady to rinse her mouth after finishing breakfast, and held the freshly brewed Biluochun, looking at the bright tea soup floating and sinking and the silver-green tea leaves, and sighed silently in his heart.

I drank a lot of tea this morning, and I couldn't sleep well in the afternoon... But when he thought of the future of his two jewel-like daughters, he cheered up again and drank half a cup of tea with the old lady before speaking.

"The day before yesterday, the eldest brother came back and instructed the house to clean up the Moon Tower in the south, saying that there were distinguished guests coming later, I don't know if you heard about it?"

The old lady didn't lift her eyelids, and still looked at the camellia on the cuffs, as if the camellia embroidered on the cuffs of today's dress was very different from the past.

"The boss mentioned to me that I am a woman in a deep house, and I can't read a single word, and I don't have the energy to care about those things outside. Now the eldest daughter-in-law wants to take Brother Ping by herself, and you are in charge of things in the house, so you can make up your mind how to clean it up, and ask the boss if you are not sure. ”

Zhou grinded her teeth, she didn't mention this matter to the old lady to discuss how to clean up the Moon Tower, seeing that the old lady was resisting the appearance of the nobleman, Zhou felt that it was better not to take a roundabout way, and let go out for the sake of his daughters.

"Yes, my daughter-in-law is provincial, and Mochizuki Tower must be cleaned up. It's just that the noble man heard that he went south to worship his ancestors, and he must pass through our Changchun Mansion so we have the opportunity to entertain others, and the daughter-in-law thought that if the reception was done properly, the nobles would praise it, which was also a matter of light on the face, and the sister Jiao and the sister could also talk about marriage in the future. ”

The two sisters, who had been hanging their heads and carefully studying the patterns on the embroidered shoes, heard what their mother finally said, and they both raised their heads slightly, turned to the side of the old lady slightly, and pinched the handkerchief in their hands nervously and expectantly.

"Sister Jiao's sister and sister Jiao'er were born after you were pregnant in October, and you are in charge of their marriage, I am an old woman who has been separated from me and only hopes that they are good, and all I can do is to add more makeup, as for the candidates... The door is right, the huge Changchun Mansion, good people are not nothing, and the patient selection is done. ”

The words were like frost, and the shoulders of the Tong Manjiao sisters suddenly collapsed. Although Mrs. Tong didn't care about vulgar things, and didn't even interfere in the selection of her grandson-in-law, her words were framed in the scope of the candidate.

A well-known person to a Changchun Mansion, to put it bluntly, isn't it the person in hand?

If you want to talk about the door, as far as Changchun Mansion is concerned, who else can compare to Zhizhou Mansion, although the two are not the eldest lady of Zhizhou Mansion, but the Lord Zhizhou is the uncle of the two relatives.

Although Tong's mansion is not enough, it can't stand the imperial court status of Tong Huaiyuan's protégé as the head of a state, and it is not impossible for several famous families in Changchun Mansion to get married.

It is no problem to marry a young son according to his own business background, but the Zhou family obviously does not want his daughter to marry like this.

As long as the old lady nods, she can go about the operation. Now I just want to take the clear path and make my daughters' faces really bright. But who would have thought that the old lady would be so uncooperative, and she would only want her two granddaughters to live a dull life.

Which mother doesn't want her children to have a future, didn't the old lady herself riveted enough energy for her eldest brother to study and won the top prize, why was she so eccentric when she came to her own house, right! It's eccentricity!

Zhou still maintained a shallow smile on his face, but his heart was actually already on fire. The more I thought about it, the more unfair I felt, the same son, let Tong Huaishan run a shop business early for his eldest son to study and get ahead.

What do you like, to put it nicely, isn't it that the family was poor at the time, and only one person could study, so he chose the eldest brother who was better at homework, and now it is even better, and he has to suppress his two granddaughters, and cut off their way out.

The old lady didn't know what to think of again, put down the already cold teacup, looked at the little daughter-in-law who had no smile in her eyes and only a barely maintained smirk, and sighed softly.

"Marriage is destined, I know you want to find a taller family for Sister Jiao's sister, but you have to know how comfortable it is for such a family's family to not see it. The children raised by people like ours are not bad themselves, and they can live a good life anywhere, so why go to the so-called high-ranking families and beg for a living under the hands of powerful mothers-in-law, or are they good to those who are close to them, and they can see and touch better than anything else, don't you say? ”

Zhou listened to the old lady's teachings, nodded and agreed, put down the teacup and stood up to salute.

Out of the pine birch garden, Tong Manjiao was nothing, and the lively Tong Manjiao stepped forward quickly and grabbed one of her mother's arms and said coquettishly.

"Grandmother is right, my mother has to choose someone closer to me, if I suffer any grievances in my mother-in-law's house in the future, I will come back to my father and mother for support as soon as possible."

"You faceless and skinless, open your mouth and close your mouth, do you know how to write shameful words."

was ridiculed by Tong Manji's gag, Zhou's mood was a little better, anyway, it would take some time for the nobles to come, and they could think carefully for a few more days.

As for the old lady's side, it's nothing if you don't get help, it's the best help if you don't add blockage, the old lady can really not interfere, everything has its own way, as for the old lady's so-called marriage, it's destined to be heavenly, hehe, if you don't fight for it, who can say that your daughter is destined to have a better future.

As if he saw his daughters' beautiful future beckoning to him, the smile on Zhou's face was like a spring breeze blowing across the lake in March.

Looking at her mother's smile, Tong Manjiao was also infected, her mother's confident smile must have a good plan, right?

As she said, a pair of daughters who have been trained according to extremely high standards since childhood, even if they catch up with the Beijing draft, they will not lose to those young ladies in the capital, and they will definitely be better than now in the future, they must ......