Haitang stretched out her hand to rub her face, and Ji'er stepped forward and knocked on the door. After a while, a porter stuck his head out and asked, "Who are you looking for?" Ji'er just wanted to speak, but Haitang stopped her and said with a smile: "I'm looking for the old lady in your family." ”

The porter looked her up and down, closed the door, and went inside to ask for instructions. After a while, he came and opened the door again, led the begonias and them inside, passed the weeping flower door, followed the verandah, and entered a side hall, only to see a middle-aged woman sitting in the middle, next to a young lady with a full head of beads, and the little girl was making tea for them.

Haitang raised her eyes and saw that the woman on the seat had a pointed face and raised eyebrows, her hair was white and her skin was white, and her eyes were still a little charming, thinking that this should be her aunt. I only heard the porter salute and said, "Second lady, someone has brought it." ”

"You're looking for our old lady? The old lady is old and frail, and now I am in charge of this house, even if you tell me something, it will be the same. The second lady said.

Xie San taught her: When you are afraid, you smile, and others will not see that you are afraid.

Haitang was blessed, took a deep breath, smiled and said: "My name is Cheng Haitang, my father is Cheng Yucheng General Bing, and my mother used to be Yao Jinyu, the head of the house here. Fifteen years ago, I was taken away from my mother's hands, and now that I have come back to confess my relatives, please go and tell the old lady. ”

only heard the sound of "dang", the teacup of the young lady next to her fell to the ground, she lost her face, stared at Haitang in amazement and said loudly: "This is impossible!" My sister is dead a long time ago, and you dare to pretend to be here! ”

The second lady Pan Xiuying was also shocked, and after a careful look, she found that Begonia's appearance was indeed seven or eight points like Mrs. Yao's. However, she quickly calmed down: "You also said that it was fifteen years ago, and suddenly a big living person popped up, casually saying that it was a young lady in our house, and there was no evidence or physical evidence, so how can we believe it?" ”

Haitang knew that she wanted to see the token, but she was not in a hurry: "The beginning and end of the matter, I have asked someone to go to Xuanfu Town to inform my father, and my father will return home in the near future, and the truth will naturally be revealed." When I meet my grandmother, I will explain it to my grandmother in detail. ”

"The old lady is unwell, she is recuperating, and it is not suitable to see guests, besides, I can't send anything to the old lady without a cause and effect." Pan Xiuying prevaricated. She also wanted to see how much reliable evidence there was.

"Mother! This man is a liar! Why don't you hurry up and get out, what are you talking to her? Cheng Xiangjin next to her was angry, and couldn't wait to do it herself, so she stepped forward and pushed the begonia out of the door.

It turned out that when Cheng Haitang's mother was pregnant with her, the old lady was in charge and carried the old lady's niece Pan Xiuying to Cheng Yu as her aunt, and later Cheng Yu had an accident, Pan Xiuying panicked, afraid that she would not be rich and noble, but lost her life.

Taking advantage of the chaos, Pan Xiuying asked the coachman to throw his wife Yao's mother and son into the wilderness outside the city, but the coachman wanted to save trouble, and escaped with the money when he left the city, so that Yao Jinyu had the opportunity to be treated by Gu Quan, and was later recovered by Cheng Yu, who was released from prison. But she only brought back her three-year-old son Cheng Hanbai, and her newborn daughter Cheng Haitang was nowhere to be found.

After Cheng Yu was demoted three levels in a row, he went to Xuanfu Town to take office. After Mrs. Cheng returned home, she lingered on the sickbed and missed her young daughter, so she ran out of oil and dried up in less than half a year, and she died.

Pan Xiuying was secretly glad that she had the opportunity to straighten out, but Cheng Yu had been at the border for a long time, and he only had a rotation of guards in one month a year, and there were very few opportunities to meet. When she conceived and gave birth to her daughter in October, she thought that she would be valued by Cheng Yu and be corrected as his wife, but Cheng Yu never mentioned it.

After waiting for a few years, her daughter Cheng Xiangjin also grew up slowly, and Pan Xiuying didn't worry about it anymore. After the loss of the concubine of the main house, there was only one son of the main house and her daughter, and there were no other heirs.

The old lady loves her, so Cheng Xiangjin has always been raised as a young lady. The old lady is old, although Pan Xiuying is an aunt, she has been in charge of affairs in the house for many years, so everyone in the house calls her "second lady", and Cheng Xiangjin has also become a serious girl.

The Celestial Empire does not say that it is patriarchal, and the difference between the concubines and concubines is the most vastly different. The son-in-law can inherit the family business, and the son-in-law can only get a one-time settlement fee when he gets married. The concubine has ten miles of red makeup when she marries, but the concubine marries but has no dowry, so she can only bring her own personal money.

Cheng Haitang has disappeared for fifteen years, and Pan Xiuying and Cheng Xiangjin have long calculated that when Xiangjin marries, she will choose a husband and buy a dowry as a young lady. This is out of nowhere, a young lady doesn't want to return to the source?

Cheng Xiangjin is fourteen years old this year, and she is about to talk about others, and Cheng Yuzheng's official position of Sanpin naturally has a lot of opportunities to get married. If she returns to the status of a concubine, the marriage match will naturally be a few grades, and the beautiful marriage will become a pillow of yellow sorghum.

Pan Xiuying said quietly: "Recognizing relatives is a big deal, the master will not come back until a few months later, and I can't be your master." It's getting late today, so it's better to arrange for you to rest in the front yard and make plans tomorrow. ”

"Mother!" Cheng Xiangjin was angry. Pan Xiuying ignored her, called the housekeeper Cheng Li, and was about to make arrangements. Haitang said solemnly: "I am a woman, living in the front yard is inconvenient, easy to cause gossip, please make other arrangements!" ”

Pan Xiuying suppressed the anger in her heart: "Then you will temporarily live in the side room next to the West Wing tonight!" Steward Cheng, take her over. ”

Haitang didn't say anything more, and went over with Ji'er Shuang'er.

This Cheng Mansion is a big courtyard with three entrances, the male owner is not at home, the main house has been vacant for a long time, the east wing is Cheng Hanbai's residence, and the west wing is naturally inhabited by Cheng Xiangjin. Pan Xiuying has always been an aunt, she lives in a house with a yard at the end of the back cover landlord, and the old lady occupies the one with a yard at the west end of the back cover house.

Cheng Yu only has this concubine, and the backyard is naturally relaxed. But she didn't want to let Begonia get a name in vain, but her biological daughter couldn't get any good.

The master hasn't come back yet, and Pan Xiuying feels that everything is still in time.