Once again, Zhang's arrogance was pressed the soles of his feet, and Li's pride continued until the second day.

When he went to ask the old lady for peace, Li was still full of neutrality, Ruqing secretly smiled, feeling that this grandmother was still a little pitiful, but it was also quite cute. She didn't have the heart to assassinate the concubine, nor did she have the idea of mutilating the concubine and the concubine, look, she followed her, although she didn't receive much love, but she also ate and wore with Rumei, and she was never harsh. For these reasons, Ruqing felt that she had the heart to make Li's life a little more comfortable.

On the way to the old lady to ask for peace, Ruqing said innocently to the Li family: "Mother, I heard from the people in the house that the eldest sister seems to be fast, is it true?" ”

Li was reminded by Ruqing like this, and then he remembered that Ruzhen was indeed about to make time, and the woman had to hold the branch and find her mother-in-law's house. It's a pity that she was so angry with the Zhang family wholeheartedly that she actually forgot about the real marriage. Fortunately, after being reminded by Ruqing, after Li had an idea in his heart, he touched Ruqing's bun head and said with a smile: "You girl, if you can really protect you in normal times, you are good, I wish you could marry early." ”

Ruqing bit her fingers and said coquettishly: "Mother has wronged me, I just want to calculate how old my little sister is." ”

"Then you figured out the ants?" Rumei looked excited. Yesterday afternoon, when Mama Hua came to teach them the rules, Rushan said that she was not feeling well, so she asked Mama Hua for leave, and Mama Hua responded without raising her eyebrows. But he taught the other three girls even more harshly, and tired them terribly. During the period, Mama Hua said that Ruzhen was the oldest, and she had to take the lead, and then Rumei asked how old they were when Ruzhen was older.

Mama Hua said: "The old body only disciplines the rules of the girls, and these other knowledge is not in the scope, the third girl really wants to know, you can ask your own master." ”

Rumei is rare to be a student baby, so she has to pester her mother-in-law to take her to find Hu Fuzi, everyone in the Fang Mansion knows Hu Fuzi's rules, and he doesn't teach in the afternoon, only closed doors, how dare he really take Rumei to beg for scolding, so he perfunctory past, Rumei saw that it didn't work, and said that she wanted to find Ruzhen, but at that time, Ru was really detained in the house and let the old lady teach the housekeeper skills. I had to shout to find Zhili again, but unfortunately Zhili had to face Ke Yan, and I didn't have time to pay attention to her, Rumei didn't dare to go to Zhiyi, and I didn't bother to go to Zhilian, so I pulled Ruqing Manfang Mansion to run, until Ruqing was so tired that her legs fought, and finally Ruqing told Rumei to forgive, saying that she would teach her arithmetic.

After Rumei went back, it happened that the embroidery girl hired by the Li family arrived again, and taught the two girls to learn embroidery, and the arithmetic thing was over.

Ruqing stretched out her fat three little fingers, and compared the drawings as she spoke, "Big sister is fourteen years old, I'm five years old, fourteen years old, five years old--" Ten fingers are not enough to compare, and I can't count them, and her delicate and distressed appearance made Li laugh so much that she couldn't do it, poked her forehead, and scolded her with a smile: "I don't know how to pretend to understand." ”

Ruqing smirked, and lowered her head in embarrassment with great cooperation, and Rumei also scolded her, saying that she was useless. Ruqing scolded in her heart, and said secretly, I want to be a master of quick arithmetic, how can this little arithmetic be difficult for me, I just save face for you, save face for your wife, understand?

Talking and laughing all the way, the mother and daughter came to the old lady's residence, asked the old lady for peace, and had breakfast at the old lady's place as usual, and then Li mentioned the matter of Ruzhen and Lu.

"My daughter-in-law has been busy with the big and small locks in the house for a while, and she almost forgot about the real girl's lifelong events. It's time to fight, old lady, it seems that the real girl will be in time for more than a month, I don't know what the old lady has planned? ”

Ruzhen sat aside silently and looked at her grandmother quietly.

The old lady glanced at the Li family and said, "Although our family is not a famous family, it can also be regarded as a scholarly disciple, and the real girl is the eldest daughter of our mansion, so this and the etiquette can't be too sloppy." What I mean is that when it comes to Daughter's Day, I invite close relatives and friends to have a meal. I invited my sister-in-law to preside over the real girl in person. "The sister-in-law in the old lady's mouth is the sister-in-law of the old lady's uncle's family, Hu, whose husband worships the Sanpin Guanglu Temple, and his wife Hu is the fourth grade of the wife, in the declining Qi family, it can be said that she is the leader.

Li also remembered that the old lady's maiden family still had such a prominent relative, so he readily agreed. As for the real marriage, the Li family didn't ask too much, anyway, the old lady was worried. The old lady saw that she also knew the general situation, and separated the three girls, so she revealed to her some of the sons of the family she fancied, one was the eldest son of the Wang family, a well-known prince guest in Beijing, one was the Liu family, the prefect of Jinan City, and the other was the second great-great-grandson of the Pingyang Marquis family, whose fief was in Tianjin.

Li Shi was slightly startled, "Pingyang Hou Mansion? How tall is a disciple? Isn't our Fang family climbing a lot? ”

The old lady glanced at her and said slowly: "The Pingyang Marquis Mansion is a title given by Emperor Taizu, and he is upright, and he and my father were also good friends, but my father passed away, so he never interacted." I didn't want to climb to such a high disciple of Pingyang Hou, but a few days ago, I took a real girl to the temple to make incense and make a vow, and accidentally ran into Mrs. Pingyang Hou, who was also specially entitled by the emperor from the first grade of Mrs. Order, according to the generation, you have to respectfully call your aunt. She told me about the current situation in the Pingyang Marquis Mansion. Pingyang Hou only has a son and a grandson under his knees, his son and grandson died early on the battlefield, leaving only two great-grandchildren, the eldest great-grandson has married the daughter of the household servant, and has a son and a daughter under his knees, and the second great-grandson is twenty years old, but he is a widower, his deceased wife is a small door of the six-grade prefect's daughter, died of illness, and now it has been three years. ”

"Widower? Then, if our family really marries in the past, won't it become a continuation room? This, isn't this --- wronged by a real girl? ”

The old lady paused, and then said, "What about the steproom?" As long as she gives birth to a son, she will still be an upright lady in the main room, who would dare to look down on us as if we were the true continuation of the room? ”

Li Shi was silent for a while, and then said: "Then the second son of Pingyang Hou, how is he a person?" ”

"My aunt can also say clearly, her temper is speechless, but because the Wang family died of illness before, she was turned upside down by the Wang family, spent a lot of money to go out, and promised a lot of favors, so she was passed, but she was also discouraged, and she didn't follow the string for three years, thinking that she was scared by the Wang family."

Li snorted, "I think the Wang family is also a faceless and skinless person, his daughter is not blessed, and he has to blame others for having Rausch's disease--- but, according to the daughter-in-law, they are not making trouble with their own daughter, but they want to make some officials for themselves." ”

The old lady smiled faintly, "Yes, after the Wang family made trouble a few times, he was promoted from the original six-pin prefect to the Shaoqing of the five-pin Guanglu Temple, and returned the six-hundred-acre grange to the rest." ”

Li scolded: "I'm not ashamed. That Pingyang Hou is too weak, how can he let people rub their noses and face and be so manipulated? Don't fight back? ”

The old lady sighed: "Do you think that the title of hereditary marquis is monstrous? When Emperor Taizu was in power, although he was given a knighthood and a grange, the new emperor ascended the throne, and he became a son of heaven and a courtier, which was not as good as before. It just so happens that the emperor now favors the concubine Guan family, and the Guan family has always been at odds with the Pingyang Hou Mansion. The son has been dead for many years, and there is no superfluous power in the court, and some of them are just colleagues for many years, how can they compete with the Guan clan who are in full swing? This made the Wang family take advantage of the loophole. ”

Li Shi was shocked, "In this way, the Marquis of Pingyang is just an empty shell with a title?" That old lady has to be careful, and she can't let the real girl be wronged. ”

The old lady nodded, and somewhat praised Li's motherly heart for Ruzhen, "You can have these thoughts, and it is not in vain that the real girl respectfully calls you aunt." You're right, Pingyang Houfu is indeed not as good as before, but there is nothing wrong with it, no matter how it falls, the title is still there, although the Guan clan is powerful, it is just fireworks in the sky, and there will be a day when it will disappear. That Pingyang Mansion is now in a predicament, so no one dares to marry their own girl. Pingyang Hou and his wife were also so anxious that they burned their eyebrows, and they met me by chance that day, and saw the real girl again, so they started the idea of a real girl. ”

An uncertain look flashed on Li's face, "According to the old lady's meaning, the Pingyang Hou Mansion is not as good as before, let's really marry a girl, what is the picture?" is another continuation--- daughter-in-law thinks that the prince's guest Wang is not bad. "In fact, what Li wants to say is that the first thing to look at when marrying a daughter is the family background, how much help can be brought to the mother's family, this Pingyang Hou has no power in the court, so if you really marry it, but you can't get any benefits, maybe she will help upside down, so she won't do it. The prince's guests are always the people around the prince, and in the future, the prince ascends the throne and becomes the new emperor, all of them are the emperor's henchmen, so won't the Fang family rise to the top?

The old lady knew her thoughts, and she didn't break it, but said lightly: "I have my own plans for this matter." ”

Li didn't dare to ask more, but just asked, "Does the old man know?" ”

"I'll discuss it carefully with the master. Don't worry, the real girl is my precious granddaughter, and she has been raised by my side since she was a child, how can she hurt her? I must find a proper relative with her. ”

That night, when Fang Jinglan came back from outside, he was directly invited to the old lady's room to discuss the real marriage.

"The real girl has been raised by her mother's side since she was a child, and her mother is in charge." Then the old lady told him about the three family affairs she liked.

Fang Jinglan frowned, and said slowly: "Although the Liu family's official position is not high, it is also upright as an official, but the family background is a little colder. Zhen'er has been pampered since she was a child, and she is afraid that she will not be able to suffer. The Wang family, our family is also considered to be high, but it's just ---"

The old lady looked at him and said, "What does the master think?" ”