Chapter 2 The Origin of the Family

"Mama, is there anything new?" Li Danruo took out a few tabloids rolled in the newspaper, flipped through them one by one, and asked Mama Shen with a smile, Mama Shen clapped her hands lightly and smiled: "I heard a happy event today, the sixth young master of the Hou family in Mingyuan, does the girl still remember?" A while ago, I boarded our door, and the seventh lady of the Dai family was set, saying that it was a hairpin inserted yesterday. ”

"The seventh sister of the Dai family is decided!?" Li Danruo shouted in surprise, Mama Shen glanced at Li Danruo dissatisfiedly and muttered: "When I asked for our door, the girl refused, but now I will call it!"

"Mama! That's not what it means!" Li Danruo stomped his feet and explained, "That sixth young master...... Alas, I can't say! I don't think he's a good person, how can a person as good as Seventh Sister marry him? ”

"No matter how good the girl is with the Seventh Lady, you can't talk about this!" Mama Shen said with a stiff face, and without waiting for Li Danruo to answer, she continued with a smile: "I know that the girl is cautious and sensible, but I tell you in vain!"

"Mama!" Li Danruo's voice was full of coquettishness, and Mama Shen, who was pouting and pushing, shook her upper body, and Mama Shen hurriedly smiled: "Okay, okay, the old bones are going to be scattered, and there are still new things, do you still listen to the girl?" ”

"Of course you have to listen!" Li Danruo let go of Shen Mama and said with a smile, Shen Mama moved and sat down: "Another thing is the matter of the Jiang family on Fucheng Street, today Mrs. Weiyuan Hou is at the funeral, I heard that the fifth master of the Jiang family is going to perform the child ceremony with the eldest young master of Weiyuan Hou, this Jiang Fifth Master is really ...... I really treat my aunt as my mother, he won the third place in the test last month, and the whole capital is staring at him, making such a fuss...... If this funeral is also carried out by the child, is it possible to keep filial piety for three years? Is the spring still exam? Really! I heard that the Nanqiao tile has opened a handicap, and I bet on whether the five masters of the Jiang family will keep this filial piety! Spring is a big deal, how can it be delayed? The fifth master of the Jiang family wants to guard, and Mrs. Cheng can't be willing!"

"What's the odds?"

Mama Shen was stunned for a moment before turning the corner: "If you don't keep it, it's one to pay one, and it's one to pay twenty." ”

"That's really a lot, Mama has spare money and hurried to buy a few notes Jiang Wuye to keep filial piety, although Jiang Wuye said...... is also a bastard, but his things sound, the bastard is not lost in the gentleman's behavior, he is a person who values love and righteousness, besides, first, the Jiang family is stable at this time, and it is not necessary to take a jinshi back to support the door, and secondly, in the Jiang family's generation, there has never been a jinshi in the third room. Li Danruo said vaguely, but Mama Shen understood it very quickly, and sighed softly: "No, in the end, it is a motherless child, and it is a concubine, speaking of which, it is not an exaggeration for him to keep a filial piety to Mrs. Weiyuanhou, if it weren't for this aunt, he might not be able to survive!"

"Hmm." Li Danruo sighed, this Jiang Wuye's father, Jiang Si Lao, is a concubine, a child who should not have been, Jiang Lao Ma and his wife Cheng Lao Madam and his wife are deeply in love, but one year when he went abroad, he somehow accepted a concubine, and gave birth to Jiang Si Ye in less than a year, this concubine died of blood, and the sick cat-like Jiang Si Ye was sent back to his mother, Mrs. Cheng, the first three elder brothers, the youngest was six or seven years older than him, and he was very pitiful to his younger brother, this Jiang Si Ye was a very talented, and he was a Jinshi at the age of seventeen. Then he chose Shu Jishi, who was in the limelight for a while, married at the age of eighteen, and was the palm bead of the master of the Ministry of Rites at that time, but at the age of nineteen, he drove out of the hunt, and the road was drenched in the rain, and he died of a sudden illness, Liu had just given birth to Jiang Wuye a few days ago, and listened to this letter, and did not come up in one breath, and followed him, Jiang Wuye's eyes were not opened, and he became an orphan, and it happened that Mrs. Weiyuan Hou and Mrs. Cheng's only daughter Mrs. Jiang gave birth to a child, so she took Jiang Wuye back as her own son and loved her, and raised her by her side until she was four or five years old. It wasn't until he gave birth to his eldest son Yao Deqing that Jiang Wuye returned to Jiang's mansion to live for a long time.

Mrs. Jiang's nurturing grace, it is not an exaggeration for Fifth Master Jiang to keep filial piety with a son.

"So, I'm going to have to buy a few bets!" Shen Mama smiled: "I have seen the window screen outside, there is a place that should be used begonia red, and it is mistakenly used to cherry red, I really told the girl, it is not good to look deeper, I just told Liu Dayong's daughter-in-law who is in charge of this matter, and she brought someone to change it in the afternoon." Mama Shen stood up as she spoke: "It's okay now, I'll go to Wei Zi's house to take a look, her mother's illness is ...... Alas, yesterday the sewing room made up for someone to go in, and her mother's share of the messenger was removed, which is not to blame Huang Pozi, it is close to winter, and the old lady is 70 years old, and the needlework room is really busy, I went to her house to see. ”

"Well, I also heard about this, I sent Wei Zi back to live for two days yesterday, by the way, you want to buy it, and buy a few bets for Wei Zi, so that she can make a windfall, and she can be happy." Li Danruo then stood up and said with a smile, and Mama Shen laughed: "Look at the girl's determination, then you have to say it first, my silver will be compensated if I lose it, Mama can afford it, Wei Zi's silver girl has to compensate for her!"

"Okay, I can still pay for this little silver." Li Danruo smiled and sent two steps, Mama Shen hurriedly pushed her back, raised her voice and called Fat Hong over, and gave a few words of advice before turning around and going out.

Mrs. Ning really ate fast in Daxiangguo Temple before coming back to take a nap, when she entered the morning, Li Danruo took the fat red, buckled the hour and went out of the courtyard door, and went to the main courtyard Mrs. Ning to ask for peace and dinner, Mrs. Ning loves to be lively, and she has to eat with her grandchildren for three meals in the morning, noon and evening.

Now that the Li family is still prosperous, Mrs. Ning gave birth to the eldest master Li Yujing, the eldest aunt and grandmother Li Juan, the third master Li Yushao and the fourth master Li Yu'an, and the second master Li Yuming.

Although the eldest lord Li Yujing said that he was born in Enyin, he is quite talented, and now he has done the vice president of the Privy Council, marrying his wife Liu, Mrs. Liu's father and brother are not in official positions, but the family is very rich, Liu's marriage is abundant, it is said that it can be worth the entire Li family, Mrs. Liu gave birth to the eldest girl Li Shuihua, the uncle Li Yunzhi and the second master Li Yunshen, and now they have all married and have grandchildren, and the concubine An gave birth to a daughter Li Yuju, who was appointed to the Beijing Mansion Di Tuiguan as the successor a while ago, and will be married in November this year.

The second master Li Yuming is a gourd without a mouth, the second wife Miao is sick for eleven months in a year, the third girl Li Jinrui is sick by her mother's side, and rarely goes out of the yard, and her son Li Yunwei is studying in the clan study, leaving early and returning late, and he almost does not enter the main courtyard, that is, Li Yuming's concubine Liu, because she was the girl of Mrs. Ning, she can still go to the main courtyard from time to time to flatter a few words.

The third master, Li Yushao, is now leading the post of governor of Luzhou, and his family is in office.

The people in this house who can accompany Mrs. Ning to eat on time are Li Danruo and the second girl Li Yuju.

"The four girls are here!" The little girl Yu Chuan'er gave Li Danruo a salute, raised the curtain and reported loudly, Li Danruo entered the east chamber with a smile, Mrs. Ning was sitting on the kang drinking tea, saw Li Danruo come in, put down the tea bowl, motioned Li Danruo to sit next to him and said with a smile: "I just have something to discuss with you and your mother, and your mother is going to delay outside the city for a night?" ”

"Well, Mrs. Weiyuan Hou and her mother have been friends since childhood, and my mother wants to do her best." Li Danruo smiled and said, "Is it a matter of succession? Is the wife optimistic about people? ”

"Why don't you guess it's your family?" Mrs. Ning pinched Li Danruo's ears and said with a doting smile, Li Danruo smiled generously: "If it is a family matter, the wife must discuss it with her mother before she can tell me." ”

"You're smart!" Mrs. Ning laughed, Li Danruo was about to ask, the voice of the little girl at the door sounded, the eldest / grandmother Dai and the second girl Li Yuju entered the east chamber one after the other, Li Danruo hurriedly stood up, everyone asked for the ceremony, Li Danruo and Li Yuju sat down, Mrs. Ning looked at Dai who was handing tea to Li Danruo's sisters and smiled: "Is Erlang's daughter-in-law better?" ”

"It's better, the doctor came this morning, and said that it was okay, six or seven months later, the fetus was big, and the heart and lungs were topped, and sometimes it was heartburn and uncomfortable, just before I came, I went to see her first, saying that I wanted to eat something sour and cold at night, and I asked people to go to the kitchen." Dai's answer was very thoughtful, and Mrs. Ning breathed a sigh of relief and smiled: "It's okay to be sour, but it's not okay to be cold, let's use warm water for a while." ”

"I'll have someone go to the kitchen and say something." Dai hurriedly agreed, let people pass the word, Mrs. Ning said with satisfaction, turned her head to see the silent and supple Li Yuju, and suddenly remembered the daughter-in-law of the Di family who met in Daxiangguo Temple in the morning, and subconsciously frowned, this granddaughter is an honest and incompetent, married in the past, her stepson-daughter-in-law is older than her, and that daughter-in-law is so mean and childlike...... This family business, she felt uncomfortable when she thought about it...... Forget it, everyone has their own life, and her mother-in-law and biological mother are all eager to climb this family......

"Mother-in-law," Dai's words interrupted Old Madam Ning's thoughts: "I heard a happy event today, the sixth young master of the Hou family of Mingyuan and the seventh sister of my third uncle's family said that the family matter is decided, and the post will be made tomorrow." Old Madam Ning was stunned for a moment and smiled: "Dai Qi Niangzi is a rare good girl, this is the blessing of the Mingyuan Hou family!" Dai subconsciously glanced at Li Danruo, Li Danruo didn't seem to know that the Marquis of Mingyuan had come to mention the matter of marriage, and pushed the old lady Ning with a smile on her face and said, "Wife, I'll go to congratulate the seventh sister tomorrow!"