Early the next morning, the second room of the Yi family, who had rested enough, followed the family of the big house to Ci'an Hall to say good morning.

Please have to accompany you to breakfast, Yifu's breakfast specifications are relatively high, mainly exquisite, and there are many types, after all, there is a snack Yi Xiangxiang urging. For most of the past few days, Yi Xiangxiang has focused on the creation and research and development of food, using some modern methods to combine ancient pure natural and pollution-free ingredients, and the things made are simply delicious and bite your tongue!

The large round table in yellow rosewood is carved with large peony flowers and butterflies, symbolizing wealth and auspiciousness; On the table, blue and white porcelain high-footed plates of different sizes contain pumpkin pie, golden silk rolls, jade celery shrimp dumplings, hibiscus cakes, and even steamed buns.

The second room of the Yi family was originally rich in food and clothing under the leadership of Yi Kangwu, and there was never less food and clothing for the family, but it was by no means as rich as the big house; The breakfast in Ci'an Hall really dazzled them, after all, they were all children, and they were all happy to see the delicious food, and they were laughing and laughing in Ci'an Hall for a while.

"Eat slowly, no one will rob you." The old lady Mo hugged Yi Xiangxiang, who was eating happily, and she didn't know that she thought she was also eating Yi Fu's breakfast for the first time.

"Xiangxiang, you can't be so unruly!" Lin Shi, who was sitting next to her, said that she intended to take Yi Xiangxiang from Mo's hand, originally according to the rules, she needed to stand behind her and serve her mother-in-law, but Mo's has always loved her and never let her make rules.

Mo waved his hand: "It's okay, it's okay, I can eat happily when I see Xiangxiang, and I can drink two more bowls of porridge for my wife!" ”

Seeing this, the Lin family didn't force it, and didn't want to sit on the other side Yi Ruofu's child was dissatisfied with envy, jealousy, and hatred, and said: "How old is Sister Xiangxiang, how can she still rely on her uncle and grandmother to hug her." ”

Yi Xiangxiang didn't even raise her head, she didn't look at Yi Ruofu, she still ate by herself, and choked the latter enough.

"Sister Xiangxiang is younger than you, but she can write a few big characters, look at you again, what will you write?" Yi Ruonan, the eldest daughter of the second room, is a smart and teasing person.

Eh, yes, that's just enough for the number of paragraphs. Yi Xiangxiang thought silently in her heart.

Not only Yi Xiangxiang judged in her heart, but even the Huang family was grateful in her heart for her eldest daughter's cleverness: "That's it, look at you, what are you doing." Huang also laughed at his daughter.

"Xiangxiang is not the same, where can I see people with her words? I can't do anything but eat! I have long heard that Nan'er has all kinds of poems and songs, and I will have to take more fragrance to study hard in the future. Lin also said lively.

In an instant, the two sides praised each other, and the room returned to a brisk dining atmosphere.

Eh, more people are more things, and now I can pretend to be stupid and ignorant like a child, and I won't offend people if I go on a rampage, at most I can be regarded as a child; When I grow up in the future, I have to go everywhere to greet him, and it is uncomfortable to think about it, Yi Xiangxiang suddenly felt that the porridge on the table was not so delicious.

After breakfast, Yi Kangwen went out to play chess with his old friends, Yi Xihu said that he would take Yi Tangquan to get familiar with Centennial County, and the two also went out. In Ci'an Hall, the maids and ladies took down the breakfast in an endless stream; The masters had already moved to the side hall and sat down in turn.

"How many of the children read when they were in Kyoto?" After Mo sat down, he opened his mouth to ask Huang.

Huang stood up with a smile and said, "The boys are all in the academy, and among the girls, only Ruonan has been in the girls' school for three years, and the other children are not yet of age." The truth in Huang's heart is that even when they are old, they don't really want to send them there, except for a few around him, Huang can't wait for everyone else to be illiterate.

"You just sit down and reply, there are no outsiders here, you don't need to care about those false courtesies." Mo stretched out his hand and waved his hand, motioning for Huang to sit down.

Then she said: "That's how it should be, although our ancestors are in business, but all of them have studied, and if they can enter the career in the future, it will also be the lintel for the Yi family." In the future, Chen'er and Xi'er went to the academy to study like Chuan'er, although the dean was only from a show, his knowledge was excellent, and even your uncle praised it; Several masters in the academy are also talented, but they have no intention of officialdom and teach in the academy. When you go, respect your teachers and study hard. ”

The official system of the Li Dynasty is somewhat similar to that of the Ming Dynasty, but it is a little different; According to Yi Xiangxiang, Xiucai in the Ming Dynasty was also awarded officials, but the Li Dynasty was not qualified, and the title of Xiucai was a diploma at most.

Yi Luochuan, Yi Luochen, and Yi Luoxi stood up at the same time.

"Ruonan also went to the county girls' school to take classes; Before, the house invited Mr. Enlightenment to Xiangxiang, and the remaining girls went to the side courtyard to study with Xiangxiang every morning after breakfast. Now that your uncle has taken up an official position, we also have to give him some faces, not to ask for poetry and songs, but also to understand knowledge and reason. ”

There are also female schools in Centennial County, but they are all students over the age of eight, but if it takes some effort, the rest of the girls in the second room can be sent in, but she is inevitably criticized for only loving her granddaughter, so she gave up this idea.

Mo's words, in layman's terms, mean that although we are all businessmen, we are not nouveau riche who don't know anything, and we still have to be a little knowledgeable, don't embarrass the Yi family.

Several children have bowed to the ground, the happiest are the two twin sisters, Yi Ruofu has her own sister to teach, but these two sisters don't understand anything with black eyes, before their aunt planned to let their father invite them to invite a husband earlier, but they were always blocked back by the Huang family, who was the main mother, and now even the old lady spoke, and the Huang family had no reason to stop them.

There was one less girl who saluted together, and the sharp-eyed people all found out, but except for Yi Ruofu, who pouted, everyone else pretended not to see it. It turned out that Yi Xiangxiang didn't know when she had run to the soft collapse behind her and was paralyzed, motionless, as if she was asleep.

"Alright, let's go back first, children!" Mo instructed the maids and daughters-in-law to take the children down, clearly to talk to Lin and Huang about some adult topics.

The few children who had just finished the salute and sat down to salute again when they heard this, and the little girl Yi Ruofu had completely put her dissatisfaction on her face, and her little mouth was about to pout to the sky, and she was glared at by the Huang family, and then she also retreated according to the rules.

Huang looked up at Yi Xiangxiang in the soft collapse on the right side of Mo's back, and saw that this aunt did not call the mother-in-law to hug her down, and he was a little surprised by how favored this niece was. But she was relieved immediately, after all, there were two grandchildren's children around the old lady before, and it was understandable to spoil her.

After the maids made a new pot of tea, Mo said slowly: "Eh, those things that Tang'er did also made you suffer." Ms. Mo came up with a mouthful of comfort, and the words in the scene were all ashamed of the Huang family, but in terms of identity, she was still on Yi Tangquan's side, after all, it was also her husband's own nephew, and it was a truth that parents always scolded their children first when they did wrong things with their children.

"My niece and daughter-in-law are not bitter, but I pity a few children who are tired of running around." Huang didn't think so deeply, she saw that the old lady didn't come up like her mother, and reprimanded her for not controlling her husband well, but she was quite moved.

Huang's family is also a merchant and runs a cloth business in Kyoto, but her mother has many children on her knees, so she is not outstanding. At the beginning, there was this family business in a commercial marriage, but the Huang family originally wanted to marry her sister, but her sister didn't look down on the family of Yi Erye's family, but she fell in love with Yi Erye's appearance, so she changed it.

Later, although Huang had remorse, it was also difficult to recover.

"I also looked at the account books you brought yesterday, and you can keep all the money and money in your second room, and these things don't need to be confiscated into the public school." Yesterday evening, the Huang family presented the treasury account book of the second room to Ci'an Hall, divided the family's property, and the government also had to hand over the property account book. However, since Yi Kangwu's death, the account books of the second room have become more and more unsightly, the Huang family is not a business material, let alone Yi Erye, the reason for going to the account room has always been only silver; The shop is managed by the old housekeeper, but it is still in deficit.

The second uncle's silver sprinkled in Wanhuayuan for a month alone is enough for ordinary people's expenses for a year, and the places he goes to are all gold caves, and of course the accounts of less in and more out are red! Yi Xiangxiang was amusing her grandmother in Ci'an Hall yesterday evening, and also glanced at the account book.

But speaking of which, the old housekeeper in the second room has average business ability, but the bookkeeping is very detailed, and the old housekeeper secretly asked the little guy who followed Yi Tangquan where the money was spent, and this accountant was really cautious. Catch up with Ming'er to see if the second room is willing to cut love, and it is also good to dig up the account room of the restaurant, Yi Xiangxiang thought to herself.

"Auntie...... This...... How can this be done, although it is not much, but it is also ......" Huang Shi heard the words and wondered if the old lady was afraid that there was less things, although she secretly kept some by herself, but there was really not much to take out, and she thought about how to explain it, but there was no suitable explanation for a while, so she was stuck there.

"Don't worry, you listen to me." Mo Shi opened his mouth and gave Huang a step: "In the past two years, the second brother felt that his health was getting worse, and he had already come to the letter to ventilate, leaving you a separate inheritance; If you want to merge the government, the property will be put into the public deposit, and if you can run it yourself, it will be returned to you. As she spoke, she motioned to the grandmother beside her to take out her things: "This is the account book, it's all here, you can take it back and take a look." ”

Mo sighed after speaking, before her husband Yi Kangwen said that she hoped that she would not need these things in the future, and she could return the property to the second room along with the profits, and she also agreed with her husband's idea. However, the husband said that he hoped that his nephew would be motivated, and she didn't want to merge with the second room, but the result was still not as she wished.

Huang took the account book and didn't know what to say for a while. Looking at the thin book in her hand, she knew in her heart that her father-in-law did not have many things left, but since her grandmother said that she could not pay the original share, she still hoped that the money would be better in her own hands, so she started a struggle between morality and selfishness.

Mo Shi saw that his nephew and daughter-in-law lowered her head slightly and frowned, and secretly shook her head, but she couldn't, so she spoke: "Now that your sister-in-law is in charge of the feed, you can tell her if you need anything; In the future, in addition to breakfast in Tzu An Hall, each room should eat at its own place; It is necessary to urge children to study hard and be progressive. ”

Mo Shi thought that if she could, she would even want to avoid it in the morning and dusk, and every time she saw Yi Tangquan's handsome peach blossom face, she was upset, for fear that he would cause trouble for her son. But the Li Dynasty is very filial piety, Yi Xihu is a parent official, it is impossible to say that he does not take the lead in making a good appearance, and if he is a ginseng with a heart in the future, he can bear it. But since you have to respond to the invitation of the big house, the second room can't be exclusive, right? So there is no choice but to admit it.

Mo's psychological thoughts, a woman of the Huang level can't see through it, and she also thinks that her aunt can't even confiscate the property handed over by the second room, so it can be seen that what Mama Fang said is right, the aunt can make a windfall if she leaks so much in her hand, and she is thinking about how to please the second elder of the Yi family in the future.

"Yes, daughter-in-law obeys the teachings." Lin and Huang stood up and saluted. Elder Mo gave instructions on the central idea, and the two juniors naturally had to obey.

"The birthday banquet doesn't need to be too big, and it's not a whole birthday, just invite a good friend to have a meal. The stage can be built, but it is used to invite a troupe to be lively on the day of the ceremony, and the ceremony will be done on a good day as soon as possible; You work hard to arrange it, don't neglect the guests. Mo explained to Lin.

The merger of the government is not just a verbal merger, but also to be widely advertised, and even in the yamen registration and register, it is almost the same as the household registration, proving that the two houses will be a family in the future.

"Yes, mother-in-law, don't worry, daughter-in-law will arrange it." Lin said.

"Alright, you all go and get busy." After Mo Shi finished speaking, he looked back at Yi Xiangxiang who was still lying on the soft floor: "Xiangxiang let her fall asleep here first, I think I didn't rest well last night, and it just so happened that Mr. also took leave today." This sentence is said to the Lin family.

Yi Xiangxiang is actually awake, but she can't open her eyes as soon as the topic is over, right? It's not clear that you're pretending to be asleep.

Lin and Huang smiled and took the maid out of Ci'an Hall, Lin stopped sideways and asked, "Does my brother and daughter-in-law have time?" Why don't you go up to my yard and chat? Lin invited, she and Huang had a good relationship when they were in Kyoto, and Huang was not a big problem except that he couldn't stand up in dealing with Yi Tangquan's affairs and was a little selfish.

"That's a nuisance!" Huang laughed.

The two ladies went hand in hand, both with smiles on their faces; But how true this smile is depends on their hearts.

Listening to their voices gradually drifting away, Mrs. Yi Mo came over and sat next to Yi Xiangxiang: "Little girl, get up!" She pinched her little granddaughter's little face and smiled happily.

Yi Xiangxiang opened her eyes, her big eyes were as bright as an ocean, and she crawled from the soft collapse and hugged her grandmother's neck and shook it: "Grandmother, can't I have lunch and dinner with you in the future?" What about the afternoon snacks? What about supper in the evening? ”

"You little girl, still have a supper? Look at your little chubby hands, you will become a little fat man if you eat it again! Mo Shi held his granddaughter in his arms and raised her arm to signal Yi Xiangxiang to see for herself.

"I don't care, I'm going to eat with my grandmother!" Yi Xiangxiang pulled out her hand and selectively ignored this fatness; But she really doesn't care, she was so beautiful in her previous life that she could be a movie star, isn't it also braided? In this life, she just needs to live happily, and she is comfortable every day, otherwise she doesn't want to make money and buy more enjoyment!

"Okay, good, eat together! Grandmother is not for them to use, Xiangxiang is the treasure of grandmother's heart, so naturally she has to accompany her grandmother to eat every day! Mo hugged Yi Xiangxiang and shook it for a while, just like coaxing a newborn baby. In the Ci'an Hall, there was the laughter of the grandparents and grandchildren.

And at this moment, not only was there joy in Ci'an Hall, but there were also crisp bell-like laughter in the southernmost small courtyard of Yifu South Courtyard.

Cuiming Courtyard is the residence of Wang's aunt in the second room of Yifu, and she is sitting at a small wooden table at this time, listening to a pair of daughters talk about what happened in Ci'an Hall in the morning.

"Auntie, you don't know, the eldest lady's face at that time was the same as the blue clay pot on the table, but it was green! Hmph, let her stop Daddy from asking us to ask for sir, now it's okay, Grandma Uncle's mouth spoke, she can't push it if she wants to. The twin Yi Ruojiao said, reaching out to take the red pomegranate that had been peeled on the table and put it into her mouth, the sweet and fragrant juice exploded on the tip of her tongue, and she nodded with satisfaction.

"The eldest lady is also a smart person, I know that it is not good to refute the meaning of my uncle and grandmother, you and I must be cautious in the future, so as not to be harshly criticized by her again." Sister Yi Ruofan looked at the red pomegranate in the white jade plate on the table, bowed her head slightly, and covered the look in her eyes.

Pomegranate means more sons and more blessings, and my aunt still wants a son by her side! Yi Ruofan thought so in his heart.

Wang looked at a pair of daughters so smart, and his heart inevitably rose proudly: "Don't be afraid, now it's not like when I was in Kyoto before, it was her Huang Yuerong who was in the world, and now even she herself has to clamp her tail and be a person, and she won't stumble openly, and as for those who came secretly, it's hard to say who suffers; Now the head of the family is the Dafang Lin family, and when she was in Kyoto before, she was a rule-abiding person, and she would not deduct Cuimingyuan in terms of food and clothing. In the future, in the side courtyard, you will socialize with the lady of the big house and try to please her. ”

"Then wouldn't Yi Ruofu be displeased?" Yi Ruojiao asked.

"I'm afraid she doesn't like to do anything, wasn't she left out by Yi Xiangxiang this morning? Anyway, it's useless for us to please the big lady, so it's better to switch to the big house; The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Yi Ruofan smiled loudly, she also learned something in the open and secret battles between the Huang family and the Wang family over the years.

"Fan'er is right." Wang smiled, very pleased.

Yi Xiangxiang, who was rolling in the soft couch of Ci'an Hall, didn't realize that she had been entangled by three poisonous snakes.