Zhong Taoxian was furious, took a bite of the peach, and scolded: "Auntie has a problem, is my mother also confused?" Not every scholarly family is like the Gu family, there are many people who sell their fame and seek fame and profit, and the Hu family is one of the best! ”

Ding Yao, the Duchess of Qinguo, was born in the Jingyuan General's Mansion, and Ding Ju, the wife of the Ministry of Rites, is a sister.

It's just that one of the sisters married a civil minister, and the other married a military general. Now that most of her life has passed, Ding Yao has the same bold personality as when she was in the boudoir, and Ding Ju has become a model of etiquette who does not smile.

The Hu family is not deep, and it has only been two or three generations since he made a fortune in reading, so he pays special attention to the rules.

Every time Ding Ju saw the Zhong sisters, he reprimanded them with a straight face for not understanding etiquette and rules. said that they are too wild, they don't know what to laugh without showing their teeth, sitting without showing their knees, walking with a ruler, virtuous and virtuous.

In short, she is a walking "Female Rule".

Zhong Taojiao echoed: "Before the meal, my aunt also told my mother that Sima Yu had a little bit of her demeanor when she was not married, and she was so disgusting that I didn't even eat a few bites of vegetarian food. ”

Ding Ju has always been proud of marrying the Hu family's scholarly family, and feels that after marrying the Hu family, the recklessness of his military family has been sublimated into the fragrance of books. Measure herself by rules everywhere, generously accepted eight concubines for her husband, gave birth to a group of concubines, and became a laughing stock, she also felt that she was a model for your wife.

It's a pity that her daughter Hu Shuzhen, who was carefully taught, failed to enter the eyes of the Gu family. On the contrary, it was her niece Zhong Taoxian, who she had always looked down on, who married her ideal son-in-law Gu Shiqing.

Later, Hu Shuzhen married a poor scholar, and I heard that the above triple mother-in-law is now following her family to take office.

Hu Shuzhen is now just a lady of Qipin County, and she cried like a tearful person when she left Beijing, and Ding Ju still felt that she had not insulted her scholarly integrity.

Now she often comes to the door and introduces some Wenchen children to Zhong Taojiao to Ding Yao, and also introduces some Wenchen daughters to Zhong Zibin.

Although Mrs. Zhong sometimes feels inappropriate, she is a sibling after all, so it is not good to refuse directly. was reluctant to let his daughter go on a blind date, so he betrayed his son to see Sima Yu.

Speaking of Sima Yu, Zhong Taoxian remembered a rumor.

said with a smile: "It is said that this Sima Yu is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and is kind and gentle, and he is very pitiful to the old and poor." I went out on the Shangsi Festival, and I bought a woman who sold her body to bury her father and went home, and I heard that she is now making a close-fitting ring. ”

Gu Fanghua was surprised: "The people who buy it on the street can make the personal ring of Miss Unquite, this Sima family is too casual, right?" ”

Zhong Taoxian explained: "The previous generation of the Sima family was just farming, but Sima Cheng was the top student in high school at a considerable age. Mrs. Sima is the wife of the chaff and has no knowledge, and the later daughter-in-law is only the daughter of a petty official who is not in the stream, so can she pay more attention? ”

Only then did Gu Fanghua understand that it seemed that as long as Prime Minister Sima Cheng returned to his hometown, then Sima's family would be nothing.

Zhong Taojiao pursed her lips and sneered: "Sima Yu is raised like a quail, crying at every turn, and my aunt is like a flower." The women of our Zhong family all want men to fight, and they can support the Guogong Mansion by themselves, if the eldest brother really likes her, our Zhong family will be finished! ”

Zhong Taoxian couldn't help but slap it again, and scolded with a smile: "Big brother won't be so shallow-eyed, okay, don't talk about Sima Yu anymore." ”

The three of them got together again and said something about other parents, and went to the street to buy a knife for Zhong Taoxian to buy preserved fruits and came back.

"Madam, the slave maid bought some sour plums from Baicaoji, as well as preserved apricots and preserved peaches, is it appropriate for Madame to taste the taste?"

Zhong Taoxian opened the wooden lacquer box, took a sour plum and put it in her mouth, and immediately smiled comfortably and squinted. Gu Fanghua saw that she was eating sweetly, and she also picked one up and put it in her mouth, and her mouth was full of liquid in an instant, so sour that tears were about to fall.

Gu Fanghua was busy spitting out the sour plum, while looking at the knife that wanted to speak, and said angrily: "The knife, my teeth are about to sour, and you don't remind me, what kind of sour fruit is this." ”

Xiaodao hurriedly laughed and said: "County Lord, you are moving too fast, isn't it too late for the slave to remind?" ”

Zhong Taojiao didn't believe in evil, tasted a piece and was full of sour water, and hurriedly picked up the tea and rinsed her mouth. Seeing that Zhong Taoxian continued to eat piece by piece without changing her face, she exclaimed: "Sister, how can you eat so sour?" ”

The knife smiled flatteringly: "Second Miss doesn't know, sour girl, in Madame's belly, it must be the little master!" ”

Zhong Taoxian scolded with a smile: "You just have a poor mouth!" Seeing that you want to stop talking, what is the big news on the street today? ”

The knife was like a fish in the throat just now, and my heart was itching, but now when I heard Mrs. ask, I immediately opened my eyebrows and smiled: "Madam, there is really big news today, the capital is about to spread all over the city, and it will cause a sensation in all directions!" ”

Gu Fanghua picked up a peach, threw it casually, and said with a smile: "Don't sell it, say it quickly!" ”

The knife caught the peach with agility, and said with a smile: "Thank you for the reward!" The county lord knows Sima Yu, the young lady of Prime Minister Sima's family, right? Something big has happened to her! ”

Gu Fanghua and the Zhong sisters glanced at each other in surprise, and they both looked at the knife.

Xiaodao didn't dare to delay any longer, and immediately said: "I heard that Miss Sima was unwell the day before yesterday, so I invited Dr. Xue of Tongrentang on Dongfu Street to come to see her, and it turned out that she was pregnant!" Mrs. Sima was furious, saying that her family Yu'er had only been out of the door once recently, and she had been following her, so it was impossible to get pregnant. scolded Dr. Xue for being a quack doctor and deliberately damaging her daughter's reputation, and then beat Dr. Xue out. ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Dao paused for a moment, and then continued: "Doctor Xue was beaten out, and when he was angry, he said that he assured him with Tongrentang that Sima Yu was really a secret knot. Mrs. Sima sent someone to smash Tong Ren Tang again, and now Dr. Xue went to Beijing Yamen to complain, demanding that the Sima family return his reputation and compensate him for the loss of Tong Ren Tang. ”

Gu Fanghua gasped when she heard this, and her eyes were wide open to what Mrs. Sima had done.

If such a thing happens, shouldn't you buy the doctor with a lot of money, and then quietly ask another family to deal with it after diagnosis? How dare you beat the doctor like this and make a fuss?

Zhong Taojiao's jaw was about to drop: "How is it possible?" She still looked at her eldest brother last month, how dare the Sima family? ”

Zhong Taoxian was much calmer, and said with a smile: "Okay, no matter what Sima Yu is about, it has nothing to do with us after all." Now my aunt will never come to the door to recommend candidates casually, and you and your eldest brother can also breathe a sigh of relief. ”

After eating the goosepaw of sake lees carefully prepared by the eldest aunt, Gu Fanghua returned home satisfied.

Passing by Dongfu Street, Gu Fanghua also deliberately lifted the curtain, admired the messy Tongrentang, and then sighed all the way back to the palace.

In the afternoon of the second day, Gu Fanghua was lying on the chair and washing her hair with water soaked in camphor leaves, Zimei walked over quickly, and said in her ear: "County Lord, something happened to Young Master Zhong." ”