Xu Shiqiu guessed Dong Shu's thoughts as soon as he saw her expression, but he also thought so, so he didn't open his mouth to interrupt her thoughts.

It was not early in the morning, and after Xu Shiqiu called Cuihua to send some hot water, he whispered in Dong Shu's ear: "Lady, it's not early, do you want to wash and rest?" Didn't you make an appointment with Yanzhu to meet tomorrow? ”

As soon as Dong Shu heard Xu Shiqiu's words, she instantly came back to her senses, raised her eyes and glanced at him, and then hurriedly said a little shyly: "Yes, Xianggong, you wait first, I'll go wash up." After saying this, Dong Shu quickly got up and walked towards the ear room.

Looking at the back of the little lady who seemed to run away, Xu Shiqiu couldn't help laughing, shook his head, and then walked to the study to write a letter.

Daddy's uncles didn't read any books, but they were still in the military school later, so this letter should be written more bluntly.

Thinking like this, the ink in the inkstone under Xu Shiqiu's hand has also been polished.

Laying the paper, lifting the pen, all the actions are smooth, and when the two pieces of letter paper are finished, the ink in the inkstone is just used up.

When Dong Shu came back from washing, Xu Shiqiu just read the letter in his hand to confirm that it was correct, and when he saw Dong Shu coming, Xu Shiqiu hurriedly put down the letter in his hand, looked up and hooked his lips at her and smiled: "The lady's movements are so fast, my letter has just been written." ”

Hearing Xu Shiqiu's voice, Dong Shu walked towards him for a moment, and just when she didn't know whether she should continue walking, she heard Xu Shiqiu say again: "But I'm just over here, can the lady come and learn a few more words?" ”

When Xu Shiqiu's words fell, Dong Shu walked directly towards him and continued to walk towards him, and when he walked to his side, he looked up at him and said, "Then I will learn a few more words from Xiang Gong." ”

Dong Shu has always been a person who loves to learn, whether it was when he was in the Dong family before or after marrying into the Xu family.

She always imitates the people around her, and she wanted to learn from her aunt Dai's pungent to protect herself, and she will learn rules and etiquette with Xu Yanzhu and learn to read and write with Xu Shiqiu.

Every time she learned to read with Xu Shiqiu, she was extremely serious, and she didn't know that Xu Shiqiu enjoyed this time very much, and only felt that it would make him happy if there was such a moment every day.

But time will slip away.

It has been four days since Dong Shu came to Honghong, and today Dong Shu felt that her body was much lighter in the morning, and before she could be happy, Cuihua hurriedly approached, looked at her and Xu Shiqiu and said, "Third master, madam." The concierge came to inform that the uncle and the second master would arrive at the door in half an hour. ”

Since Shihuan Courtyard has green flowers, the servants of the Xu family have also dared to approach Shihuan Courtyard.

The news will come very quickly, after all, Cuihua stays in the front yard during the day, and she can hear it as long as she calls at the door.

After Dong Shu heard Cuihua's words, she subconsciously looked at Xu Shiqiu, a nervous emotion slipped through her eyes, and just wanted to speak, she saw Xu Shiqiu frowning lightly and said unhappily: "Come back, come back, is it possible to expect me to pick them up at the door?" ”

Although the eldest brother and the second brother are his elder brothers, they are not elders after all, and he will take the little lady directly to his mother to wait later, and there is no need to go to the door to greet him.

It's Yanzhu, I'm afraid I need to go to the door and wait for her uncle and father.

Of course, the main reason why Xu Shiqiu was so unhappy was the instant nervousness in Dong Shu's eyes just now.

In Xu Shiqiu's heart, his little lady is the most important person, and the eldest brother and second brother are going home, so naturally they don't need him to greet them.

Dong Shu didn't know that Xu Shiqiu was unhappy because of herself, she looked at Xianggong, saw him looking at her, and hurriedly smiled at him and bent her crescent eyes and said, "Xianggong, what do you say I should wear today?" After all, it is the first time to see the eldest brother, sister-in-law, second brother and sister-in-law, as well as those juniors, so you can't be too casual. After saying this, Dong Shu thought for a while and continued: "I also want to choose some gifts for the juniors, after all, I am an elder." ”

Dong Shu looked at Xu Shiqiu and just finished speaking, when he attracted his attention.

Xu Shiqiu got up and walked to the wardrobe, opened the wardrobe and took a closer look, and then chose the sparrow blue gauze skirt and the silver red horse face skirt.

"Didn't my mother give you a set of gemstone jewelry two days ago? The color is just right and bright, just right for your dress. As for the gifts for the younger generations, I have already picked them a few days ago, and I will bring them directly later. ”

Xu Shiqiu looked at Dong Shu and just finished saying this, Dong Shu nodded directly at him and said, "Well, listen to Xianggong." With that, Dong Shu got up directly and prepared to change her dress and makeup.

The color of this dress is very skinny, and Dong Shu was originally fair-skinned, and she has been raised at home for a few days these days, and she looks even more white and round.

After changing into a dress, Dong Shu began to comb her hair with the help of Cuihua.

Dong Shu didn't like to wear so many hair accessories before, and she always felt that it was too cumbersome, but today she wore all a set of hair accessories.

Pick the heart, top hairpin, cover sideburns, flowers, hairpins, earrings, one piece does not fall.

If Dong Shu, who is just simply dressed up on weekdays, looks like a rural peasant girl, she will change into a dress, and Dong Shu, who has made up well, looks like a very noble girl.

Coupled with the rules and etiquette she has learned with Xu Yanzhu these days, her gestures made Xu Shiqiu feel in a trance for a moment.

Dong Shu, who was still holding it, saw that her father-in-law was looking at him distracted, so she hurriedly covered her mouth and snickered: "Doesn't Xianggong don't know me?" ”

Hearing Dong Shu's playful words, Xu Shiqiu came back to his senses, looked at her with a smile and shook his head: "On weekdays, I am used to seeing the simple dress of the lady, but today I am really stunned when I see the lady dressed up like this." ”

Xu Shiqiu didn't feel embarrassed to say this at all, but Dong Shu, who heard his words, blushed shyly.

In fact, she tried this kind of dress once when she was studying with Yanzhu, and that day it happened to be in Yanzhu's courtyard, not in Shihuan Courtyard, so Xianggong had never seen it.

Thinking of this, Dong Shu hooked her lips at him and smiled: "Then thank you for the compliment." After saying this, Dong Shu walked towards Xu Shiqiu.

The Xu family's big house and second room left Xiahe Village for six years, and in the previous six years, the second room came back twice, but Xu Mingyuan, who was an official in the suburbs of Beijing, never came back.

This time, the two rooms came back together, also because Xu Shiqiu got married, and it was almost ten years since the Xu family left the capital, and the two rooms had something to tell Mrs. Xu.

Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't come back here.

Xu Yanzhu waited at the door to greet the uncle's family and his father, mother and brother, maybe he spent more time with Xu Shiqiu and Dong Shu these days, today's Xu Yanzhu changed her previous clothes and wore a set of dresses with much brighter colors than usual.

The upper body is embroidered with the stand-up collar of the four gentlemen and the large sleeves of the four gentlemen, and the lower body is a water-green one-piece horse-faced skirt.

Although the color of the skirt is still the water green that Xu Yanzhu likes to wear on weekdays, the top is the sunset color that she has not worn for many years.

As soon as the Jiang family came out of the mule cart, he saw the eldest daughter who was different from the past, and before she could speak, the Ye family, who came out of the carriage first, looked at Xu Yanzhu and said, "Yanzhu looks different from the past today, she is a big girl in the end." ”

Ye Shi looked at Xu Yanzhu's words as soon as he fell, Xu Yanzhu didn't have time to answer, Jiang Shi's face had changed when he heard her words, and he glanced at his sister-in-law and said, "I don't dare to compare with my sister-in-law's Yanmo, after all, my Yanzhu doesn't have a mother who is the county lord." ”

As soon as Jiang finished his sour sentence, Ye immediately restrained the previous chuckle on his face, and after smiling a little contemptuously, he said: "They are all girls from the Xu family, and Yanzhu was raised by her mother herself, so she is naturally better than Yanmo, a skin monkey." ”

As soon as Ye's words came out, Jiang was instantly blocked and didn't know how to continue to answer.

Thinking that the sister-in-law mentioned that Yanzhu was raised by her mother-in-law, Jiang suppressed her anger, looked at Xu Yanzhu and said, "You girl, when you see your uncle and aunt and your father, why don't you know how to salute?" ”

As soon as Jiang's words of reproach came out, Xu Yanzhu was immediately stunned.

Holding back the sourness in her eyes, Xu Yanzhu just wanted to bow and plead guilty, but suddenly thought of what her grandmother said to her a few days ago.

But I didn't know that because of her stunned, the Jiang family, who was despised by the Ye family, was even more displeased.

"You girl, why haven't you forgotten the rules for two years? It's also an eighteen-year-old girl, is it possible that she has forgotten all the rules she learned before? ”

Jiang ignored the fact that he was still in front of the Xu family's gate, and looked at the eldest daughter with two questions.

Xu Yanzhu, who heard her mother's two questions, endured the sadness in her heart, and was just about to admit her mistake, but a voice suddenly sounded behind her.

"The old lady has been waiting for a long time, I don't know why the uncle and the second master haven't gone in to say hello yet?"

The servant woman who had been following the old lady for many years had just finished saying this with a stiff face, and the two brothers, Xu Mingyuan and Xu Xiaozhi, who had been standing aside and had not spoken so far, immediately pleaded guilty and said: "Let my mother wait for a long time, it's ours, let's go to see my mother." ”

After the two brothers said this in unison, the servant woman only nodded slightly and did not say anything to them, but looked at Xu Yanzhu with a smile on her side face and said, "Big girl, the old lady looked for you just now, saying that you are not around, and this tea is not fragrant, you see?" ”

Xu Yanzhu straightened up after hearing the servant's voice, dispelling the idea that this would excuse the Jiang family.

As soon as the servant's words fell, she turned to look at the servant and said, "It's Yanzhu who delayed accompanying her grandmother to have tea, and Yanzhu will go back." After saying this, Xu Yanzhu didn't wait for the uncle and his father to speak, and saluted directly to the four elders together, then turned around and walked towards the main courtyard.

In the main courtyard, Mrs. Xu already knew what happened at the door just now.

She sat at the top, taking advantage of the fact that the big room and the second room had not yet arrived, she glanced at Xu Shiqiu, who was sitting at the bottom, and said, "Your second sister-in-law has not grown up for so many years." ”

After saying this, Mrs. Xu sighed lightly and then looked at Dong Shu, who was sitting beside her, and said, "Later, if your second sister-in-law talks to you sourly, don't take it to heart, if there is anything, my mother will call the shots for you." ”

Although Dong Shu is a little silly, she has been with Xu Yanzhu almost every day these days, and her relationship is naturally unusual.

It's just that she doesn't know her second sister-in-law yet, and the second sister-in-law is Yanzhu's mother-in-law, so it's inconvenient for her to say anything.

But she didn't expect that this matter might affect her.

After hearing Mrs. Xu's words, Dong Shu hurriedly glanced at Xu Shiqiu, and after seeing him nodding slightly, she looked at Mrs. Xu and smiled obediently: "I listen to my mother." ”

As Dong Shu's words fell, Mrs. Xu also nodded with satisfaction.

gave birth to three sons, but in the end, it seems that only the third son who married a wife is not afraid of a wife.

Mrs. Xu sighed in her heart, and just as she was about to continue speaking, she saw the servant woman leading Xu Yanzhu back first, and behind the two of them, followed by everyone in the big room and the second room.

Seeing them, Mrs. Xu immediately straightened her back again, and her eyes were no longer gentle before, but became sharper.

Dong Shu and Xu Shiqiu both noticed the changes in Mrs. Xu, Xu Shiqiu was still casual, but Dong Shu quickly sat upright and just waited for them to arrive.