In the blink of an eye, the first day of the new year passed, and the old lady Yi Kangwen looked at the time when he had avoided the mountain bandits, and thought that it was time to get back on the road, so he muttered a few words to his wife.

"Choose a good day these two days, it's time to go to Tongzhou. You tell me later, and let the people down there be a little sharper. Before the Jiang family sent a letter to ask about the arrival time, so as to help us tidy up the accommodation in advance, it was to send the news when we set off, saying the approximate date of arrival, and then there was a delay and sent someone to report in advance, this time there was a long delay, there should be an excuse. The old lady Yi Kangwen said to his wife while drinking tea.

The old lady of the Jiang family and the old lady of the Yi family, the Mo family, have some friendship, and Yi Xihu is very appreciated by Lord Jiang, because they want to help clean up the mansion in Tongzhou in advance, and the Yi family does not refuse. Although Yi Hanxi is in Xile Building, they can let him arrange it, but since the Jiang family has opened his mouth, it is not good to be too polite.

Mo knows what her husband means, to put it simply, he has stopped for so long in Jinhua County inexplicably, and there must be a reasonable explanation, first, the Jiang family has waited for these days to have no one to have a pretext, and second, there are many pairs of eyes in Tongzhou now staring at the family members of the new Zhizhou, so this pretext has to be fulfilled; After all, it can't be said that it is suspected that the eldest lady in the second room pushed the aunt in her father's room downstairs and caused a miscarriage, right?

"I know the severity, and I always feel that the Su clan is not so ruthless as to use the child to deal with a little girl, it is very likely that it is really ...... But you said this, no matter how she said it, she is also a girl's family, and she does things so recklessly, and her means are ......." Mo Shi stopped, knowing that the remaining half of the sentence needless to say, Yi Kangwen also knew what it meant.

Yi Kangwen shook his head and sighed and said: "When the second brother was alive, he neglected to discipline his cousin, so he raised his cousin not to make progress and indulged in Flower Street and Willow Lane. Later, if you choose a daughter-in-law who can hold people to Tang'er, it would be good to be able to urge him to be motivated, I never thought of choosing the daughter of the Huang family, and I only knew that I was jealous and fiddling with right and wrong. In the past year, I have seen that the Huang family is safe on the surface, thinking that it has changed, but I never thought that it is becoming more and more unaware of the height of the sky and the thickness of the earth. The Huang family also forced Xi'er to engage in business, and it can be seen that the amount of tolerance has not grown by half a point, so this time you can take advantage of this matter to have a good beating. "The Xi'er that Yi Kangwen said was Yi Hanxi, who was already in Tongzhou at this time to manage the Xile Building for the Lin family, and was born by the Feng aunt in the second room.

Yi Kangwen really didn't want to say that the second room was not, but this successive things were all related to the second room, so he had to show everyone's momentum. At the beginning, he didn't let Mo settle accounts with Huang because Yi Hanxi chose to engage in business, which may be more suitable than taking the imperial examination. But this does not mean that he acquiesces in Huang's behavior, if the second room is still so unscrupulous by the Huang family, I am afraid that the house will not be safe.

In fact, Yi Kangwen made an essential mistake, that is, a large part of the restlessness of the second-room house was due to the problem of Yi Tangquan. In ancient times, it was said that the son is not the fault of the father, Yi Tangquan did not fulfill his responsibilities as a father, and the Huang family stood in the position of the mother, so he could only try his best to plan for his children. But after all, Yi Tangquan is Yi Kangwen's nephew, so from an emotional point of view, Yi Kangwen unconsciously blamed the main problem on the Huang family. And Yi Kangwen didn't know about his nephew's problems, but because his younger brother was entrusted, he was not as strict with Yi Tangquan as he was at the beginning.

"In a moment I'll send for them all, and I'll keep my mouth shut. Tang'er, you have to be strict with him, and now that his son is about to become the governor of Tongzhou, he can't be so presumptuous. Mo Shi found that his husband was becoming more and more tolerant of this nephew, so he had to say seriously, with a hint of anger in his tone.

Mo's anger is also reasonable, although Yi Kangwen is not a woman, and he doesn't like Qinglou Flower Lane, but he used to have concubines to have a room. When Mo was young, he was not merciless in dealing with concubines, otherwise Yi Kangwen would not only have such an heir as Yi Xihu. She wasted a lot of effort back then to usher in the comfort of this old age, and she never thought that she had been repeatedly broken since the second room came, and she was so disgusted with Yi Tangquan in her heart. But she knew that her husband valued her affection, so she had no other way but to remind her husband to restrain Yi Tangquan.

Yi Kangwen knew the meaning of Mo's words, although the Yi family is not very beautiful now, but the promotion of his son from a county official to a governor is already a great honor. Now that Yi Xihu is doing the glorious lintel, he must not let Yi Tangquan pull his back behind his back. It's better to say that Yixi Lake is only a seven-pin county, but now it's different, after all, the tree is big.

"I know it, don't worry." Yi Kangwen said with a sigh.

Yi Kangwen and Mo's husband and wife have been very tacit in many things for decades, and Yi Kangwen left the house after drinking the tea in the cup, leaving space for Mo's to call people to admonish.

Mo Shi also drank the tea slowly and leisurely, and then asked Que'er to call the hostesses of each room, including several aunts in the second room. Mo originally thought that a few small ones would be counted except for Yi Ruonan, but thinking that there were also a pair of twins, he still decided to connect the small ones. Her excuse to the outside world was to have dinner together, and dinner was indeed served outside the house.

Lin pulled Yi Xiangxiang to be the first to come in, and the two of them bowed and sat down at the round table. Mo Shi looked at his precious granddaughter and wanted to hold and caress her, but what she wanted to pose today was the image of a stern old lady, so she couldn't help it.

Yi Xiangxiang is an adult in her twenties after all, and after she walked into the house, she observed that the atmosphere was not right, so she didn't throw herself into her grandmother's arms, and secretly thought in her heart that this grandmother had set up a Hongmen banquet for the people in the second room.

If Yi Xiangxiang pretended to be atmospheric and didn't dare to come out, Lin really felt a little pressured. She has been married for more than ten years, and she has never seen her mother-in-law so stern today, and she is a little afraid in her heart, but fortunately, her mother-in-law is kind to her on weekdays, combined with what happened in the inn before, she knows that the Mo family who is pulling her face at this moment is not aimed at her, and her heart is a little relieved.

Feng and Wang met each other when they were going up the stairs, and Wang was accompanied by two twin daughters, Yi Ruojiao and Yi Ruofan, who came together after meeting in the stairwell. When they arrived outside Mo's house, the mother-in-law guarding the door stopped the maids from entering together, and only let Feng and Wang and two young ladies enter. The four of them felt a low air pressure as soon as they stepped into the room, and they didn't dare to sit down after saluting, so they could only stand next to them and bow their heads.

Huang and Yi Ruonan with Yi Ruofu are the third wave of people in this house. Huang felt wrong when she received that the old lady had invited everyone to dinner together, because she was watching Yi Hanchen write in the house at the time, and when she saw her son's sleeves stained with ink, she casually said that Yi Hanchen would go and change his clothes again. I don't want to say that it's okay, the second son's meal will be sent to the room. Huang wondered at the time, since it was dinner, how could he send his son alone? When she came to Mo's house with doubts, she found that Yi Kangwen and Yi Tangquan, including Yi Luochuan from the big house, were not there, so she guessed that this was a dinner for the female dependents? What is it that is going to expel the men? The results are clearly self-evident.

Huang took his two daughters into the door and saluted, waiting for Mo to sit down; But when the Su family was late, the old lady of the Yi family, Mo Shi, still didn't let them sit down.

Now even the Lin family is sitting on pins and needles, everyone is standing and their mother and son are sitting, what is this called, the Lin family wants to cry without tears. Fortunately, the stalemate didn't last long, and Mo Shi shouted lightly: "Sit down." Then they sat down in turn.

In fact, the Mo family deliberately let the Lin family and son sit first, she wanted to indirectly tell the second room that the Yi family is now the main person, so that they can see clearly who they have to rely on now, and don't look for trouble all day long. Speaking of which, this partiality is too obvious, but after all, Dafang is her own son.

Yi Ruofu originally wanted to sit next to Yi Xiangxiang, but she also felt that the atmosphere was wrong, so she obediently sat next to Yi Ruonan.

Everyone sat down, but Mo didn't call the table open, he didn't move his chopsticks because even the delicious Yi Xiangxiang was very cooperative, and followed everyone to stare at each other. Su Shi is the most prominent in this group of people, because her face is so pale as if she is about to die, judging from Yi Xiangxiang's many years of makeup experience in modern times, Su Shi must have used some special rouge to make her face so ugly, which is deliberately pretending to be pitiful. But she is indeed pitiful.

Su Shi's apricot eyes stared at Yi Ruonan tightly, but the latter was not afraid.

"You little slut!" Su Shi couldn't help it, even if it was quiet in the room, she still opened her mouth to scold Yi Ruonan.

Yi Ruonan's pretty face immediately hung up on her grievances, and the speed of changing her face made Yi Xiangxiang dumbfounded. I saw that Yi Ruonan's eyes were filled with mist, and she said pitifully: "Aunt Su, I really didn't push you, maybe ...... Maybe you were too excited at the time, and your feet slipped but you didn't notice it, because you misunderstood that I accidentally withdrew you......" Yi Ruonan was punished last time and knelt smarter, and no longer argued that it was the Su family who blamed her, but said that the Su family misunderstood herself.

"You little slut, it's obvious that you pushed me! I just wanted to drink some fish soup, and when I saw Xia He go to the kitchen to get a pot of fish soup, I asked her to share some of it, but you couldn't see it like this, and you actually pushed me downstairs! Su's eyes were split, but what she said was also half-truthful, concealing the fact that she provoked Yi Ruonan to rob other people's fish soup.

"I didn't! I really don't! Mother I really didn't push her! Yi Ruonan had already cried out, leaning sideways like Huang asking for help.

Huang was about to speak, when he heard a "bang", Mrs. Yi threw the teacup to the ground, and the silence in the room returned in a blink of an eye.

Mo Shi looked at these few people who didn't know what to say, suppressed the anger in his heart, and said coldly: "I'm going to Tongzhou the day after tomorrow, are you going to go to Tongzhou like this?" ”

Although it is a question sentence, everyone present knows what will happen if they open their mouths to confront the old lady at this time. However, because Su lost his child and was framed by Yi Ruonan's behavior, he had long lost the ability to think.

"Please ask the old lady to make the decision for me! Please ask the old lady to make the decision for me! As he spoke, he knelt down and kowtowed.

Yi Xiangxiang looked at Su's actions, and felt sad for her in her heart, how could Yi Ruonan say that she was also the nominal eldest lady of the Yi family, in charge? How to do the Lord? Can you still kill her?

The Son of Heaven is guilty of the same crime as the common people, this sentence has always been an empty sentence in this ancient dynasty.

Sure enough, Mo Shi sneered at the moment: "Calling the shots? When I asked you to stay in Centennial County to give birth, why didn't you listen to me? Su family, people are valuable in having self-knowledge, you are rude and willful along the way, and really when our Yi family has to be your aunt? ”

"Old lady......" Su Shi raised his head and burst into tears, looking at Mo Shi in surprise.

Su didn't expect the old lady Mo to say this, when the Mo family accepted herself for Yi Tangquan as an elder, Su thought that this old lady would be her backer to deal with the Huang family.

Su Shi's judgment is actually not wrong, if there is no inn, Mo Shi is very willing to cultivate his own people and Huang Shidou, but everything has to be based on Su Shi's well-behaved and obedient. The latter took herself too seriously along the way, which can be said to be pampered and arrogant, which made Mo feel that she had no sense of proportion.

But Mo Shi would not admit that he once wanted to use the Su family to deal with the Huang family, so he only heard her say in a cruel tone: "Su family, you are also a smart person, you picked my son to come to the mansion at the critical moment when he was promoted to the governor of Tongzhou, and I had no choice but to accept you." But why didn't you keep being smart? It has to be like this! ”

"Old lady, it's the eldest lady who is really too deceitful!" Su Shi was still struggling.

Su's incompetence made Mo Shi feel a headache, but she didn't want to entangle with Su Shi about who was right and who was wrong, she said coldly: "Everyone knows who started the matter!" Now I will give you two ways, one is to follow us to Tongzhou, you are still Aunt Su in the second room, but you will be silent about the inn in the future; The second is that I sold you to the old bustard of Tianxianglou, and you have nothing to do with my Yi family from now on! The choice is yours! ”

Su Shi was already paralyzed on the ground when she heard this, she stared at the bricks on the ground for a long time before she came back to her senses, and finally said very goodly: "Don't worry, the old lady will keep her mouth shut." She knew that Mohs was serious, so she could only choose the best path for herself.

"Ruonan, come here." The old lady Mo saw that Su had softened, so she asked her mother-in-law to help her up and place her on the seat, and called Yi Ruonan by herself.

Yi Ruonan walked lightly, pressed the joy in her heart and walked to Mo's side and saluted: "Grandmother ......"

"Get on your knees!" Mo Shi shouted without waiting for Yi Ruonan to finish speaking, and the latter was caught off guard and knelt down.

Mohs asked sternly, "Do you know what is wrong?" ”

"Ruonan doesn't know ......" Yi Ruonan's voice once again cried.

"Don't drop the golden beans with me, this set is useless!" Mo interrupted Yi Ruonan.

Mo's next words poked Yi Ruonan's heart: "You don't know what is wrong, I'll tell you one by one!" As a big sister, you don't set an example for your younger brothers and sisters, and you quarrel with your father's aunt all day long, and you don't have the demeanor of a young lady at all! Besides, this Su clan is also your elder, you actually quarrel with her for a bowl of fish soup, whether you miss or she slips and falls, it is a fact that you don't respect your elders! And no matter what kind of name this matter spreads, you don't care if your reputation is damaged, won't your younger brothers and sisters also be affected by you in the future? How can such a person who does not value filial piety not be looked down upon? Then who else will have a relationship with our Yi family? I don't want to listen to your explanations, I'll go to my grandmother to get twenty prototypes later, and after I arrive in Tongzhou, I will think about it behind closed doors for three months, and I will copy all the etiquette, righteousness, and shame you learned in the girls' school a few times! ”

Mo's words were very harsh, not only punished Yi Ruonan in public, but also set an example for everyone present, indicating that no matter who it was, as long as she did something that damaged the reputation of the Yi family, she would never spare it.

"Aunt, Ruonan is still young and ignorant, if you want to punish me, punish me!" Huang heard Mo's words of punishment, and hurriedly pleaded for mercy.

Mo remembered that her husband Yi Kangwen said that he would beat the Huang family, and he didn't plan to save face for the Huang family, so he snorted coldly: "You really want to be punished, what happened that day, you, as the mother of the second house, didn't think about quickly finding a doctor to save people, and didn't think about how to press the wind to protect the reputation of Miss Yi's family, but Baba came to my room to plead, I really don't know the priority!" also led the board together, and when I arrived in Tongzhou, I thought about it behind closed doors. ”

Huang still wanted to speak, but was stopped by Mo Shi again: "You must know that loving mothers have many defeated children, if you can't make good friends with children, send everyone to my room, and I will discipline you personally!" ”

This is to take a few small threats to the Huang family, and the Huang family naturally didn't dare to say anything when he heard the implication, so he could only promise.

"I'll tell you today, this matter is related to the reputation of the Yi family, if anyone doesn't secure the door and restrain the people in their own room, whoever comes out of their mouth, I will pull out their tongue." Mo said in a fierce voice.

The group had long been shocked by Mo's drastic methods, and hurriedly got up to make a promise.

When everyone sat down again, Mo Shi said: "Let's eat....... Unfortunately, except for Yi Xiangxiang, everyone else ate the same as chewing wax.

Yi Xiangxiang thought that this was probably the fastest dinner for the Yi family, and if everyone was sent back by the old lady Mo after eating, they all left the house quickly, as if something was chasing after them. Yi Xiangxiang originally wanted to stay and talk to her grandmother, but she didn't want the Lin family to worry that her daughter would pluck the tiger's head, so she quickly took the person away.

Mo Shi still pouted when he saw Yi Xiangxiang being taken away by the Lin family, feeling funny, and his mood was more relaxed.

The mother and daughter in Wang's house had just sat down, and Yi Ruojiao said: "I also plan to use this matter to threaten Yi Ruonan in the future, I never thought that my uncle and grandmother would actually suppress this matter, hum!" I didn't expect Yi Ruonan to be so embarrassed in front of her! ”

Wang sent the maid next to him back and said, "You are always so breathless, do you think she hurts Yi Ruonan?" She was afraid that the reputation of the young lady in the big house would be affected; And your uncle is the governor of Tongzhou, if the family is restless, it will also make people laugh. I didn't think about it so deeply before, she was right, if this matter gets out, the two of you will be dragged down, after all, they are both girls in the second room. Well, don't talk about it anymore. The last sentence is the final word.

Yi Ruojiao and Yi Ruofan are in unison.

......

On the morning of the third day, the Yi family and his party returned to the road, Luo Minghao and others came to see them off, Xiang Yun said several times that the next time he went to Tongzhou, he would go to the Yi family to formally visit Mrs. Yi to ask for business experience, Yi Xiangxiang said goodbye to a few people and got into the carriage.

The carriage babbled and walked for a day to reach a small town, and the peaks of Qishan Mountain could already be seen in the distance, and in the continuous mountain group, only Qishan Mountain towered into the clouds.

Yi Kangwen decided to stay overnight at the inn in the town and leave early the next morning, so that he could reach Tongzhou in the evening. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the destination was approaching, but Yi Xiangxiang looked at the peak of Qishan Mountain that had emerged in the distance, and was a little uneasy.