"What? Daughter-in-law? Joss was frightened. Mother, are you serious? ”

"Of course, do you see your mother's portrait playing?" Zhou said, "Yan'er, you are twenty-five years old this year, and you have not yet married a wife and had children, and now, your father and mother are getting old, when will you be able to hold your grandson?" At that, the circles under his eyes turned red.

Joss was stunned and said in a low voice: "Mother, it's all sons who are unfilial, but ......"

"It's good that you realize that you're not filial," Zhou wiped his eyes, "It's still too late to remedy." ”

"How can I remedy it?" Jos's mouth was a little sullen.

"That's to hurry up and marry a daughter-in-law and go home!" Zhou thought that his son's mind was alive and happy. "What do you think your mother is letting your aunts bring so many cousins to Beijing?"

“…… Mother, isn't it a birthday celebration for my father? ”

"Birthday celebration is only one reason, the most important thing is to choose a wife for you. This time I have negotiated with your father, we will never interfere with your ideas, as long as it is what you like and like, no matter what her identity is, and no matter whether she is a concubine, we will all marry into the house. If you fancy one, marry one, and if you fancy two, then marry a pair! ”

Zhou's words are quite categorical. She also figured it out, at this time, she was still entangled in what kind of concubine she was going to be out, as long as there was a woman following him.

"......" Joss couldn't help but laugh, "Mother, look at what you say, if your son takes a fancy to it, what should I do?" ”

These words were originally angry words, but when Zhou heard it, he immediately slapped the table and said, "Got a fancy for everything?" That's better, then marry them all. Our country's government has a big land, and I'm afraid that I can't afford it? ”

“……”

Joss was speechless and looked at the roof.

After a moment's pause, the girl's face came to his mind again. Old, she turned out to be exactly the same...... If he hadn't seen Mengmeng's body with his own eyes, he would really think that it was her, and she was still alive.

His mind suddenly moved, he looked back at his mother, coughed, and said, "Mother, are those girls my cousins today?" But I don't know any of them. ”

Zhou smiled: "That's natural, when your grandfather died, they entered the mansion and returned it, and now they have all grown into big girls, one is beautiful and the other is beautiful...... Son, if you are really dazzled and difficult to choose, then let your mother choose for you, and your mother promises to pick a few that you are satisfied with. ”

"......" Qiao Siwen fell into speechlessness, his mother was too enthusiastic, how many should she choose? He smiled a little awkwardly, "Mother, in fact, my son means that all the guests are here for dinner tonight?" Will there be any leaks? ”

He heard the girl call the girl her sister, obviously she was not a slave, and the girl was in someone else's house, which showed that they were also foreign guests or relatives. However, when in the flower hall, it was obvious that the girl was not inside.

"Missed?" Zhou looked at his son suspiciously, "Yan'er, what do you mean?" ”

"What my son means, with so many guests, will anyone not come to the flower hall for dinner?"

"It can't be!" Zhou said categorically, "Mama Sun is holding the booklet next to the logarithm, and it is impossible to miss anything ......."

Joss frowned and said, "Mother, who lives behind the garden?"

"Behind the garden?" Zhou looked at his son in a daze, "Yan'er, you haven't been back to the house for a long time, and you don't even know the situation in the house." There is only a utility room at the back of the garden, where are the people? ”

"No way, I saw a girl just now......" Joss paused.

"Girl?" Zhou's eyes lit up, and he sensitively caught the word, "What does she look like?" ”

"No, mother, I was wrong," Josyan shook his head and said softly. "I was just dazzled just now, thinking it was a person, but then I saw clearly that it was just the shadow of a rockery."

"But ......"

"Mother, there's really nothing." Qiao Siyan interrupted his mother, "The child is leaving, and there are still a lot of things waiting to be dealt with in the yamen." ”

Zhou was still thinking about the girl who popped out of his son's mouth for some reason, and he was a little absent-minded about his son's words.

"Okay, let's go back, remember to come back tomorrow, you can't be missing at the birthday banquet."

"The child knows."

As soon as his son went out, Zhou's entire brain nerves were immediately mobilized. Thinking of her daughter-in-law's fate, she is super sensitive to this kind of thing, she noticed that when her son came out of the girl, his demeanor was a little abnormal, and she quickly remembered that her son had just gone to the garden, could it be that he met some beautiful woman in the garden? And he was also moved by this beauty?

This is not a big deal!

Zhou couldn't hide his excitement, and shouted, "Grandma Sun?"

After a while, a shrewd and capable grandmother came in.

"Madam, your name is the old slave?"

"Grandma Sun, you immediately take someone to the garden, and carefully search the garden inside and out, and don't let go of a corner."

"Yes!" After Mama Sun agreed, she was a little dazed, "Madam, what are you searching?" ”

Zhou got up, circled around the middle of the house twice, and finally stopped, and said mysteriously: "Looking for someone, who live inside and outside the garden, including a cat and a dog, must be investigated for me."

"Yes!" Grandma Sun touched her head and went out with a confused expression.

Zhou is sitting in the warm pavilion and waiting, it is like sitting on pins and needles.

It wasn't until an hour had passed that Grandma Sun came back sweating profusely.

"Madam, the old slave has finished searching."

Zhou took the teacup, took the tea in his mouth, and said slowly: "Okay, report them one by one."

"Yes!" Grandma Sun wiped her sweat, glanced at her wife with a wistful look, and then took out the booklet from her arms. "Mrs. Yu, in addition to the seven sisters and nine aunts of our family, there are eleven sisters and fifteen cousins who have entered the house today."

"Did all these fifteen cousins attend the dinner tonight?"

"Yes, all of them participated, and not a single one was missed."

"Well, what about the west and the north? What's there? ”

"There are no people living on the west and north sides, but there are gardens on the west side and vegetable gardens on the north side."

"Okay, what about outside the garden?"

"Outside the garden, there are also vegetable gardens, only the west side ......"

"What's in the west?"

"That's ......," Grandma Sun's voice hesitated.

"What is it?"

Mama Sun glanced at her husband's face, and saw that Mrs. was not angry, so she felt a little relieved, and said, "Mrs., it was originally a utility room, but now it is ......."

"What's going on now?" Zhou glanced at Mama Sun, "What are you doing?" ”