"Wei Feibi?" Su Rufeng frowned, "What did you ask him for?" This person is not shallow, although I am with him as the prince's companion, but the friendship is not deep, but Duanmu Jin, and he has always been at odds. ”

"Do you remember when I moved to the Except Hua Palace?" Su Ruhua said, "At that time, I entrusted the King of Chu and wanted to communicate with you to have a message, but who knew that it was Wei Yuqing who came that night, I was worried that there was fraud, so I didn't wait for him to finish speaking, so I told him to leave, and at about the same time as he left, someone really came to search!" ”

Su Rufeng said strangely: "I haven't gotten such news from King Chu. ”

"I asked him last time, and he said that he hadn't met you in the past few days, so he didn't spread the word." Su Ruhui groaned, "Wei Yuqingxun's excuse is that he broke his leg, you know him so well, there should be no problem to visit him, right?" ”

"It's New Year." Su Rufeng reminded, "Besides, I don't know the process of this matter, and I'm afraid I won't be able to ask the idea." ”

Su Ruhua said: "It doesn't matter, I'll pretend to be your maid or a little maid, and the Wei family won't know me!" ”

"It's inconvenient to go to Wei's house every day, or wait a few days." Su Rufeng groaned, "I'm afraid that the Queen Mother will summon you back to the palace." ”

Su Ruhui sighed: "This is a trouble, this time is different from the last time, although Dr. Yan's prescription has been concealed from Yu Taiqi, but how can a serious illness drag on for ten days and half a month without getting better and not getting worse?" ”

Su Rufeng said helplessly: "There is a lot of chaos in the palace now, just in case I get you home, who knows that Taifu is missing from this eye bone, our family is now pushed to the cusp, no matter what you do, it will attract people's attention." ”

Su Ruhui heard him say this, and asked, "Is there a reason why you passed the second brother to the third uncle?" ”

"My father wants to die after the beginning of spring." Su Rufeng said, "The eldest brother and second brother are still young, and they are afraid of being driven out, so they want to marry the Liu family." Because her mother said that she didn't want the daughter-in-law who entered the door to press the eldest sister-in-law, and the eldest brother was already married, the daughter of the Liu family was not enough to take on this responsibility, so she had to pass on. ”

Su Ruhui thought thoughtfully: "Why is it the second brother who succeeds?" ”

"It's my mother's idea." Su Rufeng said indifferently, "Uncle's cousin, you don't know, the Liu family doesn't like to be the most disliked, if it is the uncle's son, the young lady of their family may not be willing to marry, although the second brother is a concubine, but the ability is there, the Liu family is still very satisfied with him, if it is passed to the third uncle, the title of the Marquis of Guanxiang will naturally be inherited by the second brother, and the Liu family is happy to see it, after all, the highest title in their family is only the marquis who came back to the imperial capital to dredge." ”

"Mother, this is for the second brother." Su Ruhui heard the meaning, "Father's title must be given to the eldest brother, the uncle has no son-in-law, the concubine was severely suppressed by the eldest aunt, none of them became a climate, the Liu family looked down on it, and refused to marry the daughter-in-law, so the candidate can only be between you and the second brother, you are the son-in-law, and there will be more opportunities than the second brother in the future, and the eldest brother will take more care of you, and the mother gave this opportunity to the second brother." ”

Su Rufeng obviously thought of this a long time ago, his expression did not move, and said: "Actually, even if my mother chooses me to go, I am afraid that it will not work, my errand with the prince, or the second brother fought for me, except for accompanying the prince all these years, I have not done anything else, and now the prince has made a mistake again, compared to the second brother who has already had several military merits, I am the Liu family, and I will not hesitate to choose the second brother, what about the concubine?" Once passed to the third uncle, he will be the rightful heir of the Guanxiang Hou! ”

Su Ruhua said: "The second brother is not happy, does he feel that he owes you?" ”

"That's his ability, what's there to owe?" Su Rufeng said indifferently, "He is too careful, if this is the case, I will ask him myself tomorrow." ”

In the early morning of the next day, the An family came to pay New Year's greetings, and when Pei heard the announcement, he invited Su Ruhui and prepared tea on the other. It is said that the An family comes over on this day every year, Pei has long remembered it, Su Ruhui entered the hall, and saw Pei accompanied a middle-aged lady talking, and several young women sat down, one of whom combed his married hair.

Seeing her come in, the lady hurriedly turned her head and said with a smile: "This is the fourth lady, right?" ”

"Exactly, since the fourth sister entered the palace, she still went back to spend the New Year at home for the first time, and my aunt wanted to look at it." Pei Shi smiled gently, Su Ruhui looked at the room of people with more eyes, smiled and saluted, was pulled over by the aunt to look at it carefully, and said with a smile: "This is wrong, I don't look at it at all, but I am very familiar...... This child looks like her mother back then, where would she not remember? ”

Before Su Ruhui could react to which aunt this was, Pei Shi had already covered her mouth and smiled: "Is that so?" No wonder my aunt wants to pull the fourth sister to watch it. It's just that the fourth sister is afraid that she still doesn't know her cousin and sister-in-law, so her aunt won't introduce me? ”

"Yes, when I saw this child, I forgot about it." The aunt smiled, let go of her hand, and pointed to the person sitting respectfully below to introduce Su Ruhui, "This is your suitable cousin's daughter-in-law, surnamed Liu, and her maiden name is Die'er, you can call your cousin-in-law." These younger sisters, from oldest to youngest, are called Mulan, Mu Fang, and Mu Rong in turn. ”

Hearing the word suitable, Su Ruhui knew that the one in front of her should be An Lian's wife, as if it was Jiang's, she stepped forward to salute her cousin-in-law, Liu Die'er was busy sideways, An Mulan's age was older than Su Ruhui, An Mufang and An Murong were both one year younger, and after the ceremony was completed, Jiang called the maid behind him to hand over a meeting gift to Su Ruhui, which was a pair of jade bracelets embedded with night pearls, and the pair of night pearls were about the size of a fingernail. A generous gift specially prepared for her.

Su Ruhui smiled and thanked Jiang, Liu Die'er and others also sent their own purses, wraps, etc., Su Ruhui couldn't laugh anymore, she gave Jiang's return gift was ready, to these cousins and cousins, but there was no female celebrity of their own, so Pei's noticed it, and hurriedly asked someone to do some clouds, vaguely not explaining, but let Liu Dieer and others praise Su Ruhua's good life.

After the greetings, Jiang asked about An's condition, and his worries were overflowing, Pei said: "Xu is seeing that the fourth sister has some spirits, and my mother has been a little better in the past two days, and she can drink some water." ”

"Not necessarily, doesn't it mean a return to the light?" The Jiang clan was just about to rejoice, but the youngest An Mu Rongxin said straightforwardly.

A room full of people suddenly sank their faces!

Although Pei Shi and Su Ruhui are juniors, it is inconvenient to say too much in front of the Jiang family, but Pei Shi lowered his face and said lightly to the Jiang family: "Sister Rong. Zi seems to be in a hurry? My aunt is busy with affairs, and I want to be unrestrained to my cousins on weekdays. ”

Su Ruhui was already full of anger, but she only stopped it when she received a signal from her sister-in-law, An Mufang pinched An Murong, and opened her mouth to relieve the siege for the Jiang family: "Cousin-in-law, forgive me, Rong'er is young, and she has always been unobtrusive when she speaks, please don't be surprised by my sister-in-law and sister Ruhui!" ”

Su Ruhui looked down at her sleeves, but she didn't hear it, Pei Shi paused for a moment, and then said: "Originally, my aunt came to visit my mother, and I should have asked my aunt to go to the inner room to have a look, but my mother was afraid at this time so she drank medicine and lay down. ”

The Jiang family was at a loss, so naturally he couldn't say what he had to see, so he reluctantly smiled: "That's right, we came to visit, and if it makes my sister uneasy, it will be a sin." In that case, we will not go. ”

After saying a few words, Pei Shi served tea and sent it to the guest, saying that it was a send-off, but she just got up and sent it to the threshold, and handed it to Yunyan.

Su Ruhui angrily slammed the tea bowl on the table: "How can there be such a stupid person!" The bad interest of the New Year! ”

"Fourth sister, don't be angry." Pei's face was not good-looking, but he still took care of his sister-in-law's mood first, "Xu is An Murong is really young and ignorant. ”

"Then don't bring it to our house in the first month of the year, right?" Su Ruhui was angry, if it weren't for An's pretending to be sick, if it was really seriously ill, she would have wanted to beat up this brainless cousin on the spot, which would have even made the Jiang family hate her, "We don't know the temperament of these people, doesn't my aunt know yet?" I just want to bring her over, I don't want our family to be better! His eyes swept to the pair of jade bracelets, and Su Ruhui ordered in annoyance, "Catch up and return the bracelets to them!" ”

"That's a feud." Pei Shi stopped the maid and persuaded, "I think that An Murong may not be like this at home, otherwise according to what you said, my aunt may not take her out, and the An family has gradually weakened in recent years since the death of the old Su Guogong, so he has special respect for his mother, how can he deliberately offend our family?" I'm afraid that An Murong has some calculations. ”

Su Ruhua froze: "What is she calculating?" Offending our family? Or for whom will we test our family? ”

"Fourth sister, you don't know if it's the first time you go back to home for the New Year, in previous years, the aunts and uncles took turns to come, but generally brought a daughter-in-law or daughter, and it was almost the same, like this year, with a daughter-in-law and three daughters, it was the first time." Pei Shi said lightly, "And these three cousins are all the daughters of the third uncle. ”

The third uncle of the An family is none other than An Lian.

Su Ruhui frowned: "Isn't it for the draft?" ”

"I heard my mother say that Zhitian's cousin's branch wants to have a relationship with An Baolin, and it is also for the draft." Pei Shi reminded, "If it weren't for this An Murong's words that provoked us, I'm afraid that the third aunt would lead the topic to this sooner or later, after all, there are not many ways they can go now." ”

"Draft...... Our Su family doesn't have a throne in the palace, so they want to count on An Baolin? Su Ruhui muttered, "But there are so many high-ranking concubines in the palace, what is An Baolin?" Where is her place to speak? No matter how stupid the uncles of the An family are, they will not be so easy to deceive, so to speak, there are still people after An Baolin, so that the uncles think that this deal is reliable? Mrs. Duanyao...... Is it a concubine? ”