When I arrived at the old lady's resting house, it was probably early in the morning and I didn't stop entertaining my relatives and relatives, and the old lady was really sleepy, and she was lying on the bed, and the third lady An was helping her old man rub her legs on the side, and when she heard the movement, the third lady nodded to the three people who entered the house lightly with the bamboo curtain, and said in a low voice: "Why don't you play in the back garden, come here?" ”

"Look at grandmother," Banniang smiled back, took Lu Siniang's hand again, and said to An's: "Third aunt, this is the fourth lady of the Lu family." ”

Lu Siniang hurriedly saluted An's, An's looked at it, couldn't help nodding, and praised: "It's really a Peugeot miss, sit down." ”

The three of them sat down, and only Xiao Shi Niang ran to the side of the bed, raised her face and asked An's: "Third aunt, is grandmother tired?" The third aunt rested for a while, and the tenth sister came to rub her grandmother's legs. ”

"Ouch, look at you little girl, I feel sorry for the dead."

An Shi laughed in a low voice and hugged Xiao Shi into her arms, this ghost-like Xiao Shi, she really liked it very much. Banniang saw that the third aunt took off her hand, so she pointed to the outside, meaning that Yun Xian led the third aunt and the fourth aunt to go outside to talk, so as to enhance mutual understanding, she kept it here for the old grandmother to rub her legs.

Yun Xian will understand. stepped forward and took his mother's hand, nodded to Lu Siniang, and several people went to the outside room together.

Banniang carefully stretched her arms and legs to her grandmother, and at the same time pricked up her ears and listened to the conversation of a few people in the outer room.

I faintly heard An Shi in the tone of an elder, asked Lu Siniang a few words about what she likes on weekdays, and listened to Lu Siniang's answer, Yun Xian made fun on the side, and praised Lu Siniang for her good life. An's is a lady who has seen the world, an official lady, she has seen a lot, but she has to admit that even compared with those young ladies from the state capital, this Lu Siniang is not inferior at all.

Looking at Yun Xian's enthusiastic appearance again, his own daughter, he couldn't understand it, so he had some numbers in his heart, and glanced at Yun Xian, Yun Xian's heart jumped, and he didn't dare to say more, so he said to Xiao Shi Niang who was nesting in her mother's arms: "Little Ten Sister, didn't you say that you want to drink sweet soup, let's go to the kitchen to find it?" ”

"Okay," Xiao Shi Niang listened to their gossip, and couldn't hold it back, but in front of the third aunt, it was not easy to pretend to be a little lady and endure it obediently until now.

Yun Xian said: "Mother, then I will call the eighth sister to go together, or we will be here and wake up the grandmother again." ”

An Shi nodded and said with a smile: "You two sisters, also take care of Miss Lu Si." ”

"Got it, mother." Yun Xian replied, got up again and lifted the light bamboo curtain in the inner room, and beckoned to Banniang, Banniang raised her eyebrows to show an inquiring look, Yun Xian pursed her lips and nodded with a smile.

Banniang got up at this time, tiptoed out of the door, and said goodbye to An's again.

An followed behind and told Banniang: "Your mother is entertaining female guests in the back garden, with your third sister Yunyi to help her, I estimate that she is also tired for most of the day, you go to the back garden for a while, think of a way, and ask your mother to come over and rest for a while." ”

Banniang said, "I know", and then went.

Banniang let go of the little ten sisters, and pointed at Lu Siniang in front, Xiao Shi Yunzhen is almost the most clever and intelligent one among the daughters of the Zeng family, seeing this, she already knows what Banniang means, this is to let her step forward to pester the beautiful sister of the Lu family, so she looked up at Banniang and asked softly: "Eighth sister, I want to practice fifty words less tomorrow." ”

Banniang glanced at her, shook her head, Xiao Shi bit her mouth, and continued: "During the Dragon Boat Festival, you want to send me the most beautiful Baisuo, and you want to bring a beautiful little sachet." ”

"This is done."

As soon as the words fell, Xiao Shi jumped forward, and brought Lu Siniang, who was looking at an unknown flower tree full of beautiful flowers in front of him: "Sister Lu, is Yunzhen going with you?" My two sisters don't love me. ”

Seeing her pouting and hurting people, Lu Siniang was funny, so she leaned over, pulled her little face and smiled: "Okay, the fourth sister will take you to play, let's ignore those two girls, okay?" ”

Banniang saw that the two people in front of her were chatting happily, so she deliberately took two steps behind and whispered to Yun Xian: "Do you think the third aunt looks at Sister Lu Si, do you like it?" ”

Yun Xian grimaced and said with a smile: "I liked it at first, but then I probably felt that something was wrong, and I was suspicious, so I glared at me, do you think my mother will know what I mean?" ”

"It's best to know, just after you go home in the evening, you have to ask the third aunt if you are satisfied."

Yun Xian is actually afraid of her mother, An's. But Banniang finally asked her to do something, if she couldn't do it well, wouldn't she seem to be quite useless? He promised: "Don't worry, I'll ask you clearly." It's a pity that my grandmother just fell asleep, otherwise I would have asked my grandmother to meet my sister of the Lu family, if my grandmother likes it, it can be more useful than my mother's liking. ”

"How is that the same? No matter how much the grandmother likes it, it is not as important as the third aunt likes it, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law will spend a long time together in the future. ”

"That's right." Yun Xian felt that this made sense, although her grandmother liked it, she could help her brother set a daughter-in-law, but in the end, her mother was her mother-in-law, if she didn't like her daughter-in-law, getting along in the future would not be an overnight thing. You have to be satisfied.

Lu Siniang in front saw that the two girls in the back had no sound for a long time, so she stopped, turned around and looked at the two of them and smiled: "What are you muttering behind my back?" ”

Yun Xian was asked this question, and immediately blushed, afraid that Lu Siniang would see something wrong, so he hurriedly lowered his head and pulled a moon flower that had just budded on the side of the bluestone path. Banniang replied: "I'm arguing with Sister Yunxian, what flowers bloom the most beautiful in this garden." By the way, Fourth Sister, there are a few peonies over there, Yun Xian said What is it called Wei Zi, the most precious variety, why don't we go and see it later? ”

Lu Siniang is from everyone's background, and when she heard this, she smiled and said: "Don't listen to Yun Xian coax you, if it is really that Wei Zi, where will it be placed in this garden for people to enjoy?" ”

Yun Xian admired Banniang's calmness without blushing when he told lies, and made a grimace at Banniang while Lu Siniang was not paying attention.

The three of them led Xiao Shi and gossiped all the way to the kitchen, poor Lu Siniang, she didn't know that she was being copied by his brother with these two girls, calculating her.

In the evening, after the feast, the carriages of each province went to the Rongqin Garden to pick up people and return to their homes. When the guests were dispersed, only the relatives of the Zeng family remained, because the place where the family lived was really tight, and could not arrange so many guests, so the Zeng family booked a room in the largest inn in the city, and the seven Zeng Ziye brothers took the guests to the inn according to the row.

Zhu's An's concubine led the daughter-in-law Wu, and arranged several married sisters-in-law and Sanniang Yunyi's family one by one, because Banniang begged the third sister Yunyi, and invited Miss Fan's Danshu to come over, and wanted Fan Danshu to live in their house, but there were still their own brothers living in the backyard, which was not very convenient, so Liuniang pulled Fan Danshu and lived in the old lady's Wei Garden with her and Yunxian.

Seeing that the people had settled down, the Wu family was busy going to the kitchen to prepare the water for everyone to wash, and they saw Aunt Yang, An's personal mother-in-law, and Aunt Huang who came back from Linchuan, and Ah Lan, the three of them had already prepared in the kitchen, and when they saw Wu, the three of them smiled and said, "Sister-in-law came to Zhang Luo hot water, right?" It's all burned, connected to the bathtub, and Miss Eight also bought a few of them before, thinking that they can be used after returning home. ”

Aunt Huang is the old servant of the family, and said: "Sister-in-law is also tired, these things, just call the slaves and maids to do these things, you can also rest quickly, I asked Xu Thirteen to help carry the water, first serve the old lady's side, the old lady and the lady's side, and the three old men and three ladies to bathe, and then prepare for the young lady and a few sons of our family." ”

Wu smiled and said: "It's hard for the two of you to do your best, I'm a daughter-in-law, how can the elders go to rest by themselves before they serve well?" It's also faster to get busy together. ”

I called Ah Lan to ask Xu Shisan to come over and help go to the well to get some cool well water to be mixed with.

In the backyard, Banniang was lying on the bed on all fours, and said to Qi Niang: "Seventh sister, I'm tired to death, and I don't know if I don't do things, this is a thing, our family is really not enough, why don't we hire some people to help at home in two days, right?" In the marriage of the sixth sister, the family is still so busy. ”

Qi Niang thought about it, and after the Dragon Boat Festival, Liu Niang should also get married, if the grandmother wants to go back to Linchuan with her aunt, she probably has to follow her, Banniang is busy again, and her sister-in-law is in charge of the family's food and drink, where can she be busy? Then he nodded and said: "It's time to hire some people, but hiring people is not a simple matter, you must let the tooth shop help pay attention to it first, if you hire those who are useless, how many things will happen." ”

Banniang nodded: "No, our family also buys some little maids?" After a few years, it will be able to help. ”

Qi Niang hesitated: "Buying people? Will it cost too much? ”

Listen to the eldest brother and the second brother who rushed back from Beijing and Brother Zifu said that there was a drought in the north in the spring, and many people fled to the south, and it is estimated that there are many people who have to sell their sons and daughters.