After the New Year, the Wu family took a little cui back to the clan to recognize relatives.

The hometown of the returning clan is still in a county near the capital called Nanyang County, the county lives in the line of the second old lady of the old lady's brothers, the second old lady has also gone away, leaving two sons and a daughter, two sons one is the county guard of Nanyang County, one is doing some salt, oil and rice grain business, the two brothers help each other, and the concubines are also united and friendly, and they are living well.

And the return family in the capital, in addition to Diancui's family, there is still another family, but it is the Dongge scholar family mentioned above and Wupin, which is the eldest among the four brothers of the two families, known as the eldest master, and Diancui's father is ranked third.

Speaking of which, this Gui Da Ye and Diancui's father and the third master are brothers, but Gui Da Ye is a concubine. At that time, his mother was just a concubine of the old lady, but she gave birth to a child earlier than the old lady, and the old lady was always unwilling to see the two of them. returned to the old lady early, so he separated the two of them early.

Who would have thought that in 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi, the concubine who swallowed his anger back then had all the way to the official fortune, and now he is only in his forties, and he has become a scholar of Dongge University. On the other hand, as the third master of the sister-in-law, he has been protected by a tough old lady since he was a child, and married a capable wife, but his official fortune has not improved, and he pinned his wishes on his two sons, but unfortunately although the eldest son works hard but has average qualifications, the second son is talented and not in the officialdom......

This made his face disgraceful in front of the other two brothers in the clan who were also officials, and the fourth master Gui, who had the best relationship with him and made a fortune in business, almost broke up over a family incident four years ago.

Therefore, the relationship between the Diancui family and the other three families is not very good, and they only get together on festivals such as the New Year's Festival, Qingming Festival, and Dragon Boat Festival, but the three families often have close contacts and friendships.

"How's my son dressed?" Early in the morning of the fifth day of the new year, Wu cleaned up and came to the green house.

Dian Cui was stunned by Qingqing's hair, while Qiuyue twisted her veil and came over to clean her face. After a while, a girl dressed up with a beautiful girl in a luxurious manner, and the headdress, hairpin, and clothes were also fashionable for the ladies of Beijing.

Wu Shi took Diancui's hand and looked at it for a long time, happy and sad, happy that my family has a girl who has just grown up, and her appearance is sweet and pretty, and she does not lose the nobility and generosity of the girls in the capital, and she is worried about ......

"This bun headdress is trendy, it's better to change it to a wishful bun, and the gold-inlaid jade lotus pond Xiaojing'er head and crown are also taken off, and replaced with pearls, okay?" Wu discussed.

"Madam," before Cui could speak, Grandma Lu on the side couldn't help but speak first: "The old slave looks at this very good, and if it is so plain, those people may not be happy......"

"Alas! But ......" Wu hesitated.

"Mother, my daughter thinks that we are still what we look like when we go out at home, there is no need to deliberately be simple, and those aunts and aunts naturally know the situation of our family." Diancui said softly.

The number of times Wu has gone back over the years is only a handful, and it is understandable that he wants to be low-key and not attract attention this time. Their shops are all over the world, and their family wealth is worth more than the sum of the three uncles and uncles combined.

"Looks like you know about us over there?" Diancui can say this, and he understands their current situation on the side of the kinship.

Diancui nodded slightly, in her previous life, she only knew that her father and mother and even the old lady were estranged from their relatives, but she didn't know how it was, this time before going back, she naturally asked Grandma Lu.

"My son is right," Wu immediately thought about it, and ordered: "Grandma Lu, you go to the gift and increase it by three percent, and it is not strange to say that many people are not to blame, and they will not dislike our kindness." ”

Grandma Lu was overjoyed when she heard this, her wife was good at everything before, but she was hard-natured, and she would not be enthusiastic if she was cold, even if there was a misunderstanding, she didn't bother to explain, this time she didn't want to be able to soften for the sake of Diancui.

Grandma Lu was relieved, but heard Mrs. say to the young lady again: "Let's go back is just a formality, your aunts and aunts are just cold, but the seniority will not choke with you there, but if those brothers and sisters of the same generation deceive you, my son doesn't have to endure it, for so many years, we can live well without them, it's a big deal to tear your face and never want to communicate again!" ”

Diancui couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh, only now did she realize that her mother's temperament also had a child-like awkwardness. If you really want to get along with other people, you don't have to rush back with yourself all the way, they don't recognize that they have any obstacles, they are women and they don't enter the family tree, as long as their parents admit that they are good to themselves, what do others do.

But it is obvious that the mother doesn't think so, and she still cares a lot about the recognition of the relatives.

"Mother doesn't have to worry about Diancui, even if you can't ask those elders and sisters to be warm when you go there, you won't be wrong on your face." Diancui swears by the way.

Wu Shi looked at her appearance of not being afraid of heaven and earth, and couldn't help laughing, she was always afraid that her childhood experience in Qianjia Village would make her afraid and cautious, but she didn't expect this cool temperament to follow her more or less.

The result of the discussion between the mother and daughter was that Dian Cui was still dressed in brocade clothes made of silk and Hangzhou silk, and on her head was a precious gold and jade head jewelry, and even a delicate and rare tortoiseshell bracelet with a large pearl pearl on her hand. In addition, Wu Shi had already made her a bag of gold buttons, each of which was about the size of a thumb, five and ten together, and wore them together with beautiful silk threads.

Diancui knew that this was for her to use as a ritual with the sisters in the clan.

Gui San's old man couldn't go far because he couldn't go far, and this time Gui Zhongqing went with his mother and sister. Diancui ordered Qiuyue and Xin'er to go with her, and the Wu family was naturally still Grandma Lu and Yinshuang.

Gui Chuyu was originally asked by the old lady to go with her, but the old lady refused, and only let her wait to marry with peace of mind. Last time she made a big fool of herself at the banquet, she just wanted to hide in her yard until she got married, but who expected An Peiqing to think like this, and someone sent her a message to let her have a good relationship with everyone who returned home.

Since the beating, An Peiqing has never taken the initiative to secretly come home to have a private meeting with her, avoiding her like this, which makes Gui Chuyu feel very uncomfortable.

Seeing that Wu Shi and Diancui got into the carriage, Gui Chu Yu didn't care about it, and actually stopped the carriage on the street.

"Miss, the old lady told you to go out in her own courtyard for nothing, what are you doing here?" Tong Li was injured, it was Du Xiaozhu who drove the carriage this time, and when he saw that Gui Chuyu stopped in front of the carriage regardless of his identity, he couldn't help but speak.

"Mother, since you want to go back to your hometown to visit relatives, you have to take me and my sister with you, this has been the case in previous years, why only bring one sister this year? Don't you love Yu'er? Gui Chuyu was still making a loud voice in front.

This is on the street, and the neighbors are pointing fingers, saying that the eldest daughter who returned home is a fake, but when she returned home, she still claimed that this was their family's flesh and blood, and even did not hesitate to let her own daughter be wronged to be a godlady......

I don't know where these things came from the mouth, in short, in the eyes of some good neighbors, this is too shameless to return home.

Originally, Wu Shi was so angry about this matter, and he couldn't raise his head in shame when he listened to the neighbors' discussions.

This is Chu Yu making such a fuss on the street again, which further confirms the rumors.

"Mother's ......" Diancui was a little flustered by her play.

"Let her get into the carriage!" Wu Shi gritted a mouthful of silver teeth, and commanded with hatred: "This carriage can't sit down, go and prepare a small one, tell her to sit, since you want to follow, let her follow!" ”

From the capital to Nanyang County, the two carriages walked for three hours, the road was bumpy, and the small carriage that Chu Yu was sitting in was not as spacious and comfortable as the big carriage that the Wu family and his mother sat on, and their faces were even more sallow and ugly when they came down.

"Don't ask her to follow, but I want to follow, but I don't know that every year she came here would have an unpleasant quarrel with a few young ladies here, especially the fourth master's house, she couldn't enter the door at all. In the past, in order to accommodate her, Mrs. naturally would not go to the Fourth Master's Mansion, and the relationship became more and more estranged. It was Qiuyue who spoke, but Xin'er didn't know that there was such a thing, and immediately said with a sad face that she came with her, but how is it good, don't you go to the fourth master's house this year.

Qiu Yue shook her head and said I don't know, if she doesn't come with her, according to her own young lady's temperament, she will definitely go to the fourth master's house with her wife to visit, this year is not certain......

Diancui looked at the ancestral house of the homecoming, but the courtyard with two entrances and two exits was beautiful and elegant for rest, and although the utensils in it were a little old, they were all complete and exquisite.

Several maids stood outside the door and politely welcomed the four of Wu into the door. Entered the door, passed through the flower hall and went to the upper room, Gui Zhongqing will come a year ago, it is considered to be familiar, since he went to the study to ask his uncle and uncle to go to the room, Wu naturally took Dian Cui and Gui Chuyu to meet a few female dependents.

Introduced by Wu's family, Dian Cui met the eldest aunt, the second aunt, and the fourth aunt one by one.

"This is what the third master said, he is a smart and exciting good boy, and he looks handsome and follows you in an instant." The eldest aunt smiled so that people couldn't find out what was not coming, obviously the relationship was average, but it gave people a sense of appropriateness like a spring breeze, it was not a loss to be the wife of the five-grade official family, Dian Cui couldn't help but think secretly in his heart.

Saying that he stuffed a pair of gold-inlaid jade bracelets into Diancui's hands, Wu knew at a glance that it was a good glutinous jade, she had always been a person who respected a foot, and when she saw people praising her daughter, she immediately smiled and said: "No matter how smart you are, you can't compare to Ying'er, I heard that even Mr. appreciates Ying'er's intelligence and studiousness, and in time, the reputation of the first talented woman in the capital will have to fall on our Ying'er's head." ”

As he spoke, he took out a red gold inlaid gemstone colorful Qingluan hairpin as a meeting gift for Gui Chuying.

This year's greeting gift...... After seeing it, the three concubines looked at each other one after another, but it was more valuable than in previous years.