"Mom, you can't say that." Wei Man shook his head and smiled: "No matter what you say, Prince Fu'an is a person who is kind to me. ”

"It's strange, why is Miss always defending Prince Fu'an?" Cheng's mother looked at Wei Man vigilantly, and asked suspiciously: "Miss, isn't it because she remembered the little grace of Prince Fu'an...... Could it be that Miss wants to marry Prince Fu'an!? ”

"Mom, how could it be!" Wei Man cried and laughed: "How could I want to marry Prince Fu'an!" Where did Mom go? ”

"Why does that young lady always say good things for Prince Fu'an......" Cheng's mother looked at Wei Man in disbelief.

"I'm just talking about things...... Forget it, let's not talk about this," Wei Man didn't want to dwell on this issue, so he hurriedly changed the topic and asked, "When I first came back, my mother seemed to have something happy to tell me, did something good happen?" ”

"Oh, yes." Cheng's mother instantly smiled at the corners of her eyes and eyebrows, and said happily: "The old lady in Xijing has sent a letter, saying that his old man will come to the capital to visit the young lady in the new year." ”

Wei Man's heart tightened, and a happy smile appeared on his face, and he asked happily, "Really?" Will my grandfather enter Beijing after the year? ”

"Isn't it!" Cheng's mother smiled: "It won't be long before Miss will see her grandfather, is Miss happy?" ”

"Hehe......" Wei Man had a forced smile on his face, but he muttered in his heart, I seem to be more scared.

"Did the letter say when my grandfather would leave and when would he enter Beijing?" Weiman asked again.

"Well, there's no exact date." Cheng's mother stared at the day and said, "According to what the letter said, the old lady should have left Xijing by now to go to a place called, hey, I can't remember it for a while, anyway, it's a mountain ......."

"On the mountain?"

"yes." Cheng's mother showed a helpless smile on her face, and sighed lightly: "It is said that the abbot of the temple on the mountain invited the old lady to enjoy the snow, and the old lady decided to spend the New Year on the mountain this year as soon as he was happy. ”

"My grandfather's temperament ......" is really chic! Wei Man's tone was full of envy, as a woman, in this dynasty, it was very difficult for her to go out of Kyoto, let alone travel to the mountains and rivers.

"The old lady has been saying this all her life, and the wind is the nature of the rain." Cheng's mother sighed: "In my opinion, his old man will not leave until the end of the first month." ”

Fortunately, there was still time to prepare, and Wei Man breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

"By the way, the old lady also told the young lady in the letter not to worry about marriage." Cheng's mother whispered to Wei Man: "The old lady said that the old lady had promised him the old man, and the young lady's marriage needs his old man's nod to do it." ”

"Father promised my grandfather such a thing?" Wei Manxi said: "Is that really what my grandfather said? ”

"Of course it's true." Cheng's mother looked at Wei Man with a relieved face, gently stroked the broken hair in Wei Man's ears behind her ears, and sighed a little distressedly: "Now Miss finally doesn't have to worry about it anymore, with the old lady protecting her, Miss will definitely marry a happy husband." ”

Wei Man's face showed a shy look at the right time, but she sighed in her heart, in this world, I am afraid it is difficult to find her wishful husband.

"Is there anything else Mademoiselle is worried about?" Cheng's mother was keenly aware of Wei Man's low mood and asked puzzled.

"I'm just worried about my grandfather." Wei Man's face was sad, and he said worriedly: "After all, my grandfather is an old man, and now it is cold and freezing weather, and the mountain road must be even more difficult to walk......

"Who's to say it isn't." Cheng's mother also sighed with a worried face, but just for a moment, she comforted Wei Man and said: "These young ladies don't have to worry, the people who serve the old lady are all capable old people, and they will definitely not let the old lady have any mistakes...... Besides, the old lady is not a person who will wronged himself, he must be properly and comfortably arranged in all aspects before he is willing to move, by the way, I heard that the old lady also specially brought a nephew from the clan to accompany him to talk to relieve his boredom. ”

……

It's the second day of December.

On this day, it is the 60th birthday of Mrs. Jiang of the Marquis of Ningguo's Mansion, because it is a whole birthday, so although the atmosphere in the capital is still a little low at the moment, the Marquis of Ningguo's Mansion still invited the troupe to juggle and the guests of the lively banquet.

In the Zhenguo Hou Mansion, Wei Man deliberately pretended to be sick, Wei Feng's temperament was too lazy to participate in these things, Wei Yun accidentally contracted the wind cold, and the three sisters in the third room all took sick leave to stay in their own yards, so early in the morning of the second day of junior high school, the Cao family only took Wei Ya and Wei Xian to the Ning Guohou Mansion.

It's just that just after Shen Shi, Cao Shi returned to Zhenguo Houfu alone in a panic.

Two quarters of an hour later, Mrs. Tai and Cao took their right-hand men with their own servants, and hurriedly got into the carriage leaving the house.

……

In the second gate of the Marquis of Ningguo's mansion.

Before Mrs. Tai's carriage could stop steadily, she heard a somewhat hoarse cry shouting outside the carriage: "Mrs. Tai, your old man is here......

Mother Tao and Cao Shi hurriedly helped Mrs. Tai get out of the carriage.

"It's a matter of looking forward to you, Mrs. Tai, go to Qingyuan to take a look at our wife, their Jiang family is really too deceitful......

Mrs. Tai looked angrily at the place where she spoke, and saw that her mother-in-law, Mother Liu, was holding a daughter-in-law with a messy bun and wiping her eyes with a handkerchief.

The daughter-in-law wiped her eyes casually a few times, broke away from the hand held by Liu's mother, and took a few steps forward with a little staggering steps to greet Mrs. Tai.

"You, you are from Li Si's family!" After carefully identifying the daughter-in-law's red and swollen cheeks, and remembering who this person was, Mrs. Tai stared at a bloody mark from the corner of her mouth to her cheekbones, and asked in surprise: "Why did you become like this!" ”

The surname of Li Si's family is surnamed Liu, she is the slave maid of Zhenguo Houfu, and she is also one of the big maids carefully selected by Mrs. Tai for Wen Wei's family to marry, after following Wen Wei's family into Ningguohou's mansion, it didn't take long for her to marry a housekeeper named Li Si next to Ningguo Hou Wen Liyan, and since then, everyone has changed their names to call her Li Si's family.

Li Si was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help touching his swollen and aching face, and his red and swollen eyes couldn't help but burst into tears again.

"Mrs. Tai, the slave really doesn't have the face to see you." Li Si's family cried bitterly: "I think that at the beginning, when the slave maid was still a little maid by your side, even if she made a big mistake, the mothers never touched a finger of the slave and maid, but after serving the lady for so many years, the slave and maid are now at such an age, but Mrs. Jiang beat and scolded the slave and maid indiscriminately......"

Because she is a personal maid who grew up with Wen Wei's family, Li Si's family is a very faceable person in front of Wen Wei's family, so beating her is equivalent to beating Wen Wei's family.

Mrs. Tai frowned, and was angry in her heart, who the hell dared to do such a thing!

Mother Wu hurriedly explained to Mrs. Tai: "Mrs. Jiang is Mrs. Jiang's maiden niece and daughter-in-law, Jiang Youshi, and she just entered Beijing yesterday afternoon. ”

"What did you do wrong?" Mother Tao stared at Li Si's family with an unkind face, and asked, "Mrs. Jiang won't bully you for no reason, right?" ”

Mother Tao is a mother who has grown up in Li Si's family, and she is naturally very clear about the little Jiujiu in Li Si's family's heart.

Although Li Si's family has been smarter than the maid next to her since she was a child, her temperament is very powerful, at the beginning, when she was a little maid in Xiyuan, she relied on her own Lao Tzu and her mother to have some face in front of Mrs. Tai, but she bullied those orphan girls who bought into the house.

Mother Tao knew that Wen Wei's family looked down on the Jiang family very much, thinking of the temperament of Li Si's family, and hearing that it was Mrs. Jiang who beat her, she had already guessed in her heart that it must be Li Si's family's high morale, and Mrs. Jiang would be treated like this if she neglected her.

After so many years, Tao's mother's scolding still made Li Si's family tremble twice in fear.

"Mom, no, I really didn't do anything wrong!" Li Si's family shook their heads very quickly, and defended aggrievedly: "Mrs. Jiang suddenly came to the door to see our wife, but our lady was receiving distinguished guests at the time, and I persuaded Mrs. Jiang to wait for a while, but Mrs. Jiang suddenly pounced on the slave and maid and beat and scolded ......."

The expression on Tao's mother's face remained unchanged, and her eyes stared at Li Si's family like a torch.

As soon as Li Si's family came into contact with Tao's mother's gaze, they dodged very quickly, and they didn't dare to defend anything anymore, just hung their heads and sobbed and cried.

Wen Wei privately likes to talk to Li Si's family about some "out-of-line" heartfelt things, among which the most is to complain about Mrs. Jiang, and even insult Mrs. Jiang......

In order to please Wen Wei's family, Li Si's family sometimes echoed and scolded Wen Wei's family, and in the long run, she naturally had less awe of Mrs. Jiang in her heart, and she didn't dare to have any disrespect for Mrs. Jiang on her face, but as a powerful daughter-in-law in the backyard of Ningguohou's Mansion, she openly and secretly bullied the slaves and maids in Qingyuan, especially those who defected from Shengyuan County.

Because he looked down on Jiang Ruoyun very much in his heart, the pretentious cousin, Li Si's family despised Jiang Ruoyun's mother-in-law Jiang Youshi even more, and the words couldn't help but be a lot more ugly, but where did he think that Jiang Youshi looked delicate, but his temper was hot, and he immediately smashed the teacup in his hand on her head, and then pounced on her hair and beat her.