When Zhuangzi sent this year's new persimmons, Wuhua led Xiao Wu'er to collect them, and layers of frosting condensed on the persimmons.

"I went to the small kitchen and got the dishes and put them in front of me, just for the hospitality." Wuhua commanded.

There were guests in front, Su and Lu Xiang were both frequent visitors, and there was also a younger brother and sister of the Su family, whose maiden name was Zhu.

Lu Xiang has grown up a lot, and seems to be much quieter, but in front of acquaintances, her nature can't be hidden for long, and she is impatient to sit in the house and listen to the elders.

"This girl, I don't know what kind of in-laws to tell her in the future." Su Shi listened to a burst of cheers and cheers from outside the door, and said helplessly.

Zhu joked: "Where does my sister still need to worry about this, my sister-in-law wants Sister Xiang to be my daughter-in-law!" ”

Su's sister-in-law has two sons under her knees, the second son is old-fashioned and upright, Su Rili is the most affectionate and less interesting, and she is bent on finding a more playful match, Lu Xiang knows the roots, she is most satisfied, but she is still young, her love has not yet opened, and the elders just have this meaning, and they have not discussed it in detail.

Su also agrees with this marriage, the sister-in-law's second son is the third in the Su family, although there are two elder brothers, but he has to be valued by his grandfather, and he will inherit the bookstore business in the future.

Zheng Lingyi listened to the two of them joking about Sister Xiang's marriage, but it was only to the point, it seemed to be an introduction.

There is nothing to do today, so Zheng Lingyi will listen to them slowly.

"My family is not in a hurry, the third brother is now following his father to learn to take care of the bookstore, and the business is also busy, and the marriage can be closed for two years, and the second brother is old." Su said to Zhu.

The second brother is the firstborn son of the Zhu family, and the Zhu family said: "Who said it wasn't!" My son is the most stupid, he usually likes to mix in the craftsmen's pile to study the ink stamps, and he can't remember to eat when he is busy. You say he can do it, but you can ask him to go to see the account book, and he will be annoyed when he sees the manager, you say he can't do it, how difficult is it to fix the oil and gold ink last time, and he still has a solution to it? ”

The Zhu family obviously still praised her for having a lot of sons, Zheng Lingyi was really confused for her, could it be that she came to tell her son about the marriage? But Zheng Lingyi really doesn't have any suitable people around him.

Su Shi looked at Zheng Lingyi's confused expression, smiled and pushed Zhu on the shoulder, and said, "It's not an outsider, you just ask directly." ”

Zhu smiled: "The Cai family also has an unmarried daughter, do you know Madam?" ”

Zheng Lingyi nodded, and corrected: "There are two unmarried, one concubine and one concubine. ”

"Yes, yes, it's supposed to be the sister-in-law, have you ever seen it?" Zhu asked with concern.

"Uh, yes." Zheng Ling replied vaguely.

Seeing this, Zhu glanced at Su Shi, then looked at Zheng Lingyi, and said, "What, this sister is inappropriate?" ”

Zheng Ling thought about it for a while, and said as objectively as possible: "It looks good, but the eyelids are a little shallow, and it's always polite to ask for this, and I don't know if it's because I'm still young." Well, he can speak well,"

Hearing this, Su Shi had already stopped thinking about it, she couldn't look down on such a daughter-in-law.

However, the Zhu family looked thoughtful, Zheng Lingyi said all this, it was always difficult to pull her throat to let the Zhu family not marry, although she didn't like Cai Wanran very much, but it was difficult to guarantee that the people were Wang Ba looking at mung beans?

She didn't say much, and after sending the two away, she didn't hear the news that the Su family was going to get married for two months, so she just thought that this matter was over.

After seven or eight days of hard work after the big cold, Su Shi came by himself again, and brought some New Year's Lily by the way.

"Why are you here, waiting for your husband to rest, the two of us are about to go." Zheng Lingyi is still strange.

Su Shi came to visit and give gifts, but he also came to talk to Zheng Lingyi about his troubles.

"My younger brother and sister thought that her son didn't care about anything, and it would be good to marry a powerful daughter-in-law who refused to suffer, but it was a big deal that she, as a mother-in-law, would hide farther away, and I didn't know how the matchmaker spread it at both ends, and I found that the Su family was going to marry not a concubine at all, but a concubine. How, how is it so good. ”

Su is just dissatisfied with his mother's family being tricked, but Zheng Lingyi is from himself and others, pity Cai Yuran's sister-in-law, it is not easy for a concubine to marry, although this marriage has not been decided, but it is also a kick in the door, if it doesn't work out, she will have to add a little flaw to her future marriage.

"This is already a mess?" Zheng Lingyi took care of others and asked.

"Not yet, my brother and sister want an explanation for the Cai family!" The Su family listened to Zhu's crying and complained a lot, knowing that the Cai family and the Liu family were very arrogant, and they looked down on them in and out of words, and they didn't know how they got involved in this case in the first place.

As soon as Su Shi left, Cai Yuran came to the door, Zheng Lingyi was not surprised, seeing that her knees were wet for a long time, she also guessed a few points in her heart.

"Since I'm here for my sister, I'm too lazy to change." Cai Suiran first went back to her parents' house, Cai Suisui was very uncomfortable, lying on her knees and crying into tears.

"What's the matter with the Liu family, they don't look down on the Su family, how can they discuss step by step to the point of exchanging Geng posts?" Zheng Lingyi also felt annoying when he heard it.

"Da Qian's family can see clearly, the Su family has a foundation in Beijing, and has made a lot of progress in recent years, both official business, and not like the Cai family and duckweed, weighing catties, the Su family and my family are not much different, although there is a lack of an official body, but the eldest brother of the Su family has not been moved, has he already taken office?"

Cai Qiran inquired about the matter clearly, and when he saw Zheng Lingyi nodding approvingly, he continued: "But the Liu family is bent on marrying her daughter, and she didn't look at it, and she was afraid of offending the Daqian family, and she played a trick to steal the dragon and turn the phoenix, and now I heard that the Daqian family also thinks that she is ugly and bad for her reputation, so I have ignored her, but I just pity my sister, and I don't know how to end the trouble." ”

Both of them have the intention of taking pity on Cai Suisui, but they don't know if the Su family is willing or not.

Zheng Lingyi set up a hot pot at home and invited Su, Zhu, Cai and Zhou.

The Zhu family came with anger, and they didn't give people a good face, Cai Qiuran and the Zhou family only didn't understand, and they were still affectionate.

As soon as the warm pot was opened, the beef and mutton were opened, everyone drank a few glasses of wine, and with the hot polite words, Zhu's complexion also eased, and his mouth was full of white gas, and he spit out the unhappiness, "There is no such thing as discussing family affairs!" ”

She started to say that Liu's was not good, but she didn't expect Zhou and Cai to say more than her, and in the end, they were all talking, and Zhu listened attentively.

"It's not good to expose your family ugliness like this, but we are all relatives, and today I have the idea of opening the skylight to say bright things, so I don't limit this." Zhou and Su changed places, sat next to Zhu, said this, poured another glass of wine, and saluted Zhu.

Zhu ate her glass of wine, but he cared about his son in the end and didn't let go.

On the way back to Su's house, Zhu sent her back with Su's family, and on the way, he didn't care about her idea.

Su Shi is always her own family, naturally thinking about her nephew more, she thought about it carefully, and said: "Brother and sister, let's see that the eldest sister-in-law of their Cai family and the sister-in-law of the original match are all cheerful people, and they are willing to show favor to us like this for this sister-in-law, I think, this sister's character must be not bad, and the relationship with the two of them should be very good." Her eldest sister-in-law is the future head of the Cai family, and the grandmother of this sister-in-law is a high-ranking family, and she is the real in-law of the Wu family. Let's not lose face, this girl's lining may not be thinner than her Liu's daughter. ”

Zhu listened word by word, nodded and said, "What my sister said is reasonable." ”

When the weather was warmer, Zhou took Cai Suisui to the temple to make incense, and met Zhu on the way, followed by a man with a square face, holding an incense basket for Zhu.

Cai Suisui smelled the scent of ink, didn't care to glance at him, and saw that he was also looking at himself, so he hurriedly hid behind Zhou.

Zhou and Zhu seemed to meet occasionally, and said goodbye after saying a few words.

Zhu Shi looked at his son and turned his head twice, and couldn't help but be surprised, and asked knowingly, "What do you see?" ”

"No, no." Seeing that his son was still stammering, the Zhu family felt that it was novel and funny, and he didn't care about this concubine in his heart, and decided to marry the Cai family.

met with the Cai family, and it was the Zhou family who made up their minds, although the Liu family was also there, but they were set up by the Zhou family, and the Zhu family didn't like her, so the two hung her together.

Liu was annoyed, and felt more and more that the Su family was also worthy of a concubine, and it was uncomfortable to sit dry, so he didn't go.

When it came time to buy a dowry for Cai Suisui, Liu didn't know about it, until Lord Cai scolded her in a letter, and then she knew that her previous things had already been stabbed by Zhou to Lord Cai.

Liu wanted to put out the fire for Lord Cai, endured the pain and divided some of the dowries she had saved for Cai Wanran, a few acres of medium fields, a small curtain on the side street, Cai Wanran made a fuss for a while, Cai Suisui wanted to embroider the dowry, her aunt locked the courtyard door, and Cai Suisui couldn't hear Cai Wanran's screaming after several doors.

No matter how small the mosquito is, it is still meat, Zhou accepted it for Cai Suisui with a smile, and wrote it on the dowry list issued by the Zhonggong.

Lord Cai knew that this concubine's daughter had been wronged, so she made up some things for her aunt, and her aunt kept half of it for her son, and half of it was added to the dowry.

When the Zhu family got the dowry list, they were also a little surprised, thinking that the Zhou family had presided over the Cai family's middle feed, so they figured it out, and said to the Su family in private: "It's still my sister, what you said makes sense, this is really a bit of a substance." ”