Under the corridor of Xihe Courtyard, two delicate thrush birds nestled in one ear and sideburns and whispered, the next person had just fed them, this time it was very well-behaved and quiet, Xiao Chenxi was taken by the next person to sit on the bench and pick the mud to play, and from time to time she looked up at the two birds, she wanted to pinch a bird, and it didn't look like it.

Jiang Ji came in from the courtyard gate, and saw the little daughter sitting under the porch playing, his heart was full of softness, and the next person asked him to say goodbye, Xiao Chenxi raised his head when he heard it, and when he saw his father coming back, there was a lot of excitement in his eyes, and he was a little at a loss, so he didn't dare to come close to say goodbye to his father, but he ran into the house to find his grandmother, and whispered: "Grandmother, Dad is back." ”

Mrs. Wang pinched her little granddaughter's cheek, "Your father is back, why don't you pick it up?" ”

Xiao Chenxi pulled out her fingers and spoke: "My brother is not here, I don't dare to go." ”

Mrs. Wang was about to educate her a few words, Jiang Ji had already come in from outside, Chenxi saw him, pulled the hem of his grandmother's clothes and didn't let go, and peeked at his father from time to time.

Mrs. Wang asked her eldest son to sit down, poured him a cup of tea to drink, and asked Chenxi to call someone, but Chenxi only cowardly called out to her father, and there was no more.

Jiang Ji didn't know how to coax her, and gave her daughter the candy man he bought from Suzaku Street, Chenxi thanked her, and then tore off the wrapper and ate it in small bites.

"Where did Dingnan go?"

Jiang Dingnan is also seven years old this year, and he moved to the front yard last year, but he still went back to the main courtyard for three meals a day.

"Your father took him and Ah Jun to the martial arts arena, I guess I'll be back soon."

Jiang Jun nodded, and couldn't help but look at his daughter a few times, saw a delicate little red sachet hanging around her neck, and asked her who gave it. Such a delicate little sachet is hung on the waist of the girls as a forbidden step, Chenxi is still young, wearing a skirt will trip over, most of the time still wear pants, a delicate sachet is hung around the neck, nondescript.

Xiao Chenxi took the sachet to the tip of her nose and sniffed it, and said coquettishly: "The fourth aunt gave it, and it is fragrant." ”

Mrs. Wang smiled: "Smell it for your father." ”

Xiao Chenxi hesitated for a few moments, shook her head and took the sachet out of her neck and handed it to her father. Jiang Ji hesitated for a moment, but still took it and sniffed it, and responded to his daughter: "It's very fragrant, you have to hang it well, don't lose it." With that, he returned her, and she twisted her head again.

When it was time for dinner, Zhen Guogong came back with his youngest son and eldest grandson, and the family sat together to eat again, and Dingnan touched his waist from time to time at the dinner table, Jiang Ji glanced at it, his waist was bulging, and he didn't know what he was hiding.

After getting off the table, he couldn't help it as soon as he put the rice bowl, took out a small bow and crossbow from his waist, and pulled his sister to run out, "Chenxi, I'll take you to hunt birds, go!" ”

Jiang Ji stopped him: "Where are you going to go with the black light?" ”

As soon as he said it, Jiang Dingnan froze his footsteps, his eyes glanced at the seventh uncle, his father and eldest brother were there, Jiang Jun was even more stunned, how dare he speak.

"Just go and walk around the garden, there are lights along the way, and they won't get in the way."

Chenxi shook off his hand and said in a milky voice: "There are insects, I won't go." ”

Jiang Dingnan pouted, girls are troublesome, take her to play and be afraid of this and that, if you don't take her to her, she will cry and cry, provoking grandmother and father to teach him a lesson, this would be good if he was a younger brother.

Mrs. Wang took Chenxi to her side, and Jiang Ji taught her son with a straight face, "Where did you get this bow and crossbow?" ”

Their children raised wild, and the children played with knives, swords, and slingshots when they were young, but the family didn't have the heart to make them such a well-made bow and crossbow.

Jiang Dingnan hurriedly covered the bow and crossbow, for fear that his father would pay it over, "The fourth aunt gave it, counting my seventh-year-old birthday gift, can you accept it." ”

Jiang Ji was silent for a moment, and only said: "You don't want to lose your mind." ”

Jiang Dingnan breathed a sigh of relief, saying that he wanted to go back to the front yard to write big characters, and asked Uncle Seven if he wanted to go together, Jiang Jun was so busy that he didn't want to stay and talk to his father and brother at all.

After Jiang Jun's uncle and nephew left, Jiang Ji stayed to sit with his parents for a while, and Mrs. Wang asked her subordinates to take Chenxi to take a bath, and the family of three talked in one place.

"Have the four girls of the Hei family come here lately?"

Jiang Ji's deceased wife came from the Ping family of Ningguo Mansion, is the eldest daughter of the eldest daughter of the eldest house, she and Jiang Ji's family affairs were orally set by the two elders when they were young, but they did not exchange tokens Geng Ti, and they are not serious about marriage, after all, Jiang Ji is the son of Guogongfu, his family affairs can not be easily determined, and then the Ping family gradually declined, but the Jiang family is in full swing, and the two old men have also gone, so they are estranged, and the children of the two families have grown up, the Jiang family did not mention this matter, and their family is not easy to post.

The Jiang family was originally going to find a noble girl for Jiang Ji, but the girl of the Ping family found the door herself, and it was not considered to be the door, but she found Jiang Ji, and told him the verbal agreement between the two parents, and expressed her mind, she wanted to marry Jiang Ji, she knew that her family was not more prosperous than the Zhenguo Mansion, and she could not save the court, but she herself has been working hard, and she is especially good at housekeeping, and she is not ugly, she feels that she can be qualified for the position of the prince and wife of Zhenguo.

Although the noble ladies are all generous, but there are still a few people like the eldest girl of the Ping family who dare to recommend themselves, Jiang Ji is a person who is strict with himself to the point of being a little upright and wooden, and was confessed by the girl's family, and he didn't know how to parry, so he promised in a daze: "If we really have a marriage contract, I will naturally not break the contract." ”

Later, when I went home and asked, my parents said that it was just a verbal agreement, not a baby kiss, and I didn't like this Heijia girl in my heart, so I wanted to marry into their family?

Jiang Ji thinks that this girl is good, down-to-earth and generous, if she is really as good as she said, then it is good to marry him.

Later, the eldest girl of the Ping family came to the Guogong Mansion for a banquet, and asked the old lady to please, the old lady was worried about the love of the two old men, and wanted to pull the Ping family, and felt that this girl was really good, so she said to the eldest son, I want to make the family affairs of the two families come true, and the girl of the Ping family can marry in and be the eldest granddaughter-in-law.

Zhenguo Gong is a very filial son, Ningguo Mansion is just mediocre, and there is nothing wrong with it, and their family may not get any help, but it will not lag behind, their family is prosperous enough, there is no need to find a noble daughter for the eldest son to marry, I heard my mother say that the girl of the Ping family is good, so I will set her.

Later, Mrs. Wang thought of this, and she couldn't let go of it for many years, the two daughters-in-law were not her favorite, they were all taken by the old woman, the grandfather of the country was foolish and filial, and she listened to the old lady for everything, her own two sons, she couldn't make the decision when she married a daughter-in-law?

Today's four girls of the Ping family are the sisters of the big girls of the Ping family, and they are eighteen years old this year, and it is imminent to go out of the country to be filial piety, but she does not go out with her family to socialize, but comes to the Guogong Mansion every once in a while to take two nephews to play, and her mind is clear, Jiang Ji will be moved by the thoughts of the big girl of the Ping family back then, but now she doesn't like to take care of these four girls, and she can't say that there is anything wrong with her, it just doesn't fit her eyes.

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