"Last year, the harsh winter hit, and the cold was different from previous years, and I heard that many people froze to death outside the city. Many people in the house couldn't bear the cold and got sick, so they talked about it seriously......" Tong Jiayan said this, glanced at Aunt Luo slightly, and the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked.

Aunt Luo's heart jumped, and somehow, a bad feeling suddenly appeared.

Tong Jiayan lowered his head slightly, turned his body to Tong Changqing, lowered his eyebrows, and his eyes showed an indescribable weakness and sentimentality, which made people's hearts soft.

"My aunt will be infected with the cold, and it is not mine. It was the wind chill that I contracted first, and I accidentally infected her when I went to visit my eighth sister in Ziwei Temple. In the end, in order to take care of the eighth sister, the aunt accidentally contracted the wind cold. ”

Tong Jiaxin said decisively after listening: "Yes, my aunt has suffered a lot to take care of me." He looked at Tong Changqing expectantly, "Father, my aunt has worked hard all these years. ”

She thought that her words should be able to add a motherly label to Aunt Luo in front of her father.

Xiao Ji was concerned and asked urgently, "What about you?" The eighth girl is taken care of by Aunt Luo, so who will take care of you? ”

Hearing Xiao Ji's such straightforward concern, Tong Jiayan's heart warmed slightly.

She smiled and said, "The house has invited a doctor to come into the house to see a doctor and prescribe medicine, and it didn't take long for me to get better." ”

Does that mean there is no one to take care of her when she is sick?

Xiao Ji's eyes were red, and he was about to shed tears.

"They all blame me, I promised my sister to take good care of you, but I failed my sister and failed to take care of you."

Tong Jiayan didn't want to provoke Xiao Ji's self-blame and sadness, so he hurriedly stepped forward and took her hand to comfort: "Mother, look, aren't I standing in front of you well?" That's why you didn't take care of me. ”

Seeing that she was so caring, Xiao Ji felt even more ashamed, but he didn't say anything in front of her anymore, and was determined to double the compensation in the future.

Tong Jiaxin saw that things were going to a place she hadn't expected, and as soon as her brain was hot, she shouted: "Seventh sister is talking nonsense, my aunt obviously treats her better than me!" ”

"Your eldest sister didn't say anything bad about your aunt, but it was you, that's how you talked to your eldest sister?"

Tong Changqing interrupted, his voice was serious, and he frowned.

There was a sudden silence in the room.

Thanks to Zhao's teaching since childhood, Tong Changqing is a person who attaches great importance to the respect and humility of the elders and children, and attaches great importance to the rules.

Although he wanted to leave a kind and cordial impression in front of his two daughters who had not seen each other for a long time, Tong Jiaxin's words to Tong Jiayan touched his bottom line, and he still couldn't help frowning, and couldn't help but put on a strict father image.

Tong Jiayan bowed his head softly and stopped talking.

Tong Jiaxin's eyes were red, and she opened her mouth to explain something, but her hand was gently pulled by Aunt Luo.

"Don't blame me, sir, Miss Eight is also concerned about the concubine, and she doesn't mean to bump into Miss Seven." Aunt Luo explained with a smile, and glanced at Tong Jiayan again, "Miss Eight has always been the best friend of Miss Seven." ”

Tong Jiayan raised his head when he heard this, met Aunt Luo's gaze, and smiled slightly.

Aunt Luo gently pushed Tong Jiaxin behind her back.

Tong Jiaxin stepped forward and pulled Tong Jiayan's hand pitifully: "Seventh sister, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to talk to you like that." You love me the most, don't be angry with me, okay? ”

The little hand in his hand moved nervously, Tong Jianian moved his feet and hid behind Tong Jiayan a little.

Tong Jiayan chuckled and said, "I'm not angry, don't misunderstand, eighth sister." ”

Seeing this, Tong Changqing didn't say anything more.

He dusted off his clothes and stood up: "I'll go to the study, Yihang will come with me." ”

The room was full of women, and Tong Changqing didn't bother to sit down again.

After he and Tong Yihang left, Aunt Luo still stayed in the main room and showed no signs of leaving.

Xiao Ji felt awkward when he looked at her.

"I don't need you to serve here, Aunt Luo, if you're okay, you can go back." Xiao Ji thought about it, and only held back such a sentence dryly.

"How? The wife is the main mother, and the concubine should serve in the main mother's house. In the past, it was the wife who was not at home, so the concubine was able to be lazy. Now that the wife is back, it is reasonable that the concubines should serve at the wife's place. Aunt Luo replied with low eyebrows, looking very harmless.

Xiao Ji's heart was depressed, and it was difficult to open his mouth.

She has been out with Tong Changqing for many years, although her life is more difficult than at home, but at that time, Tong Changqing was the only one by her side, and there was no one else, she was sweet in her heart, and she didn't feel that life was hard.

No woman wants to share her husband with anyone else.

Especially Aunt Luo's identity is a little different from others, she is the young lady of Mrs. Tong's mother's family, in front of Mrs. Tong, Aunt Luo's status is probably higher than her, which makes her even more unsure of what attitude to use to treat Aunt Luo.

What Aunt Luo wants is her ambiguous attitude.

The people on the errand below are all human spirits, Aunt Luo has a face in front of the old lady, and the third lady doesn't dare to really call her, this is an invisible wind direction to tell everyone, who is more powerful in the third room.

Tong Jiayan remembered that in her previous life, Aunt Luo also took the initiative to lower her price and came to Fangzhi Courtyard to serve Xiao Ji, but was politely rejected by Xiao Ji, and she was worried that she would not be able to get over her face, so she also gave a lot of heavy gifts to Ziwei Courtyard.

The maids and mothers-in-law in the family said in private that the third wife was too soft, and she bowed her head to Aunt Luo before she started fighting.

Even the third wife didn't dare to offend Aunt Luo, and those who were still waiting and hesitating so they showed favor to Aunt Luo, and even after Xiao Ji's family wanted to hold a Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, when inviting the three members of the Tong family to have a homely meal together, the people below had their own thoughts and deliberately made mistakes, causing Xiao Ji to be scolded mercilessly by Mrs. Tong, and then he was taken away from the power of the family.

Since then, the third room has been firmly in the hands of Aunt Luo.

Xiao Ji's family was directly erected into an empty shell, depressed.

"Mother ......" saw the embarrassment and entanglement on Xiao Ji's face, Tong Jiayan stepped forward and gently took her hand, "Aunt is right, since the Great Zhou Dynasty, there have been rules and customs for concubines to serve the housewife. If the mother refuses her request because she is sympathetic to her aunt, others will only say that the aunt does not understand the rules, wouldn't it make people mistakenly blame the aunt and misinterpret and waste the mother's kindness? ”

Aunt Luo raised her head with a stunned expression.

That's not what she meant!

Xiao Ji looked at her hesitantly, and then glanced at Aunt Luo who was standing next to her: "Is that so?" ”

Tong Jiayan bowed: "Yes." And my father has always valued the rules and manners the most, if my aunt doesn't come here to serve, it's hard to guarantee that my father won't feel that my aunt is disrespectful. When the time comes, won't my mother's kindness be misunderstood again? ”

Xiao Ji was already a little moved by her.

Mama Zhou hurriedly added fire while it was hot: "Yes, madam, it's better to listen to Miss Seven." "I didn't expect that Miss Seven would arrange things clearly in just a few words, which was really surprising.

Seeing that both of them said this, and Aunt Luo took the initiative to ask for it, Xiao Ji had no choice but to nod and say, "Then let's do it first." ”

Aunt Luo hung her head and almost crushed a good tooth.