When it was time for dinner in the evening, there were two full tables in the cabin. Seeing that the two mothers and daughters did not come out, Mrs. Lin asked Ah Zi to ask them to come out and eat together. After a while, Ah Zi brought people over.

Seeing that everyone was there, Na Huiniang couldn't help but be a little timid, standing there shrinking and not knowing what to do. Mrs. Lin said to them, "Come and sit here." Hui Niang hurriedly responded and pulled Xiao'e over.

They were all women at this table, and except for the young Guanfeng, he had to rely on his mother and sister to sit here. After Hui Niang sat down, she hurriedly said to Mrs. Lin: "Thank you, Mrs. What a kind lady she is! I don't know my wife's name, so let's go back and set up a longevity card for my wife......"

Mrs. Lin smiled and waved her hand and said, "It's free, it's not necessary." Are you hungry? Let's eat! She didn't like to be flattered.

Hui Niang didn't dare to say anything more, for fear that she didn't understand the rules and collided with the master's house. Xiao'e kept silently bowing her head and picking up the food beside her, looking restrained and uncomfortable.

After eating, Lin Mubai and his wife took the children to walk outside the cabin, and the guards followed, leaving only a few maids and mothers-in-law to clean up the leftovers on the table in the cabin. Hui Niang also stayed to help, and she was very attentive in her chatter. In between work, everyone couldn't help but chat and laugh. Hui Niang dared to ask, "What does your master do?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, but neither spoke. A mother-in-law saw Hui Niang's face embarrassed, so she said: "We are just ordinary and honest people." "These people are carefully selected by the masters, which one doesn't have a bit of eye-catching? Seeing that Mrs. Lin refused to disclose her name at the table, she immediately grabbed the master's thoughts, where did they dare to disclose half the news first?

Hui Niang responded with "oh" in her mouth, but she thought in her heart that ordinary solid people could afford such a big ship? Still with so many people waiting? The old ladies and gentlemen who look at this house are quite kind and kind, not like the officials. He must have been a very rich man. Thinking of this, Hui Niang was happy in her heart, and her face also brought out a few points. As soon as Xiao'e saw her mother's appearance, her heart was filled with disgust.

Outside the cabin, Lin Mubai's family was pacing slowly on the deck, enjoying the night view of the river and enjoying the gust of night breeze on their faces. Mrs. Lin was tutoring Zhilan and Guanfeng in astronomy, when she pointed to the stars in the sky and taught them to identify the stars one by one. After a while, the wind will be memorized, and one will be recognized. When she asked Zhilan, she answered it upside down, and a few stars made her make a mess. Lin Mubai and Guanyun, who were listening to it, couldn't help laughing.

Guanyun said with a smile: "It seems that Lan'er only has a soft spot for studying medicine." ”

Lin Mubai also nodded approvingly, and said, "Fortunately, her medical skills are excellent." If it weren't for your sister this time, maybe the world would be in chaos at this moment, and we wouldn't have had this trip to Jiangnan. ”

Hearing this, the expression on Guanyun's face became solemn, and he only heard him say: "Daddy is reasonable, and this time it has also made our Lin family gain absolute trust." Before leaving, when the child said goodbye to His Royal Highness, he immediately wrote an edict for me to take with him, saying that if there was any trouble along the way, he could show the edict to the local government. ”

When Lin Mubai heard this, there was no smile on his face, and he looked up at the starry sky in the desert, and there was a wave of trouble in his heart. Guanyun's words reminded him that at present, the Xi Dynasty has not yet established a crown prince, and the open and secret struggle between the four princes has quietly begun. The Lin family didn't want to get involved in this troubled water, but Guanyun has been the companion of the three princes since he was a child, and the two of them have long been an inseparable community. In the eyes of others, Lin Guanyun is the right-hand man of the Three Princes, and the Lin family is the out-and-out Three Princes**. Since this label can't be removed, then you can only fight to help the three princes. If any of the other three sat on the throne of the prince, waiting for their Lin family would never end well. Thinking of this, Lin Mubai couldn't help but sigh again.

After the bumps of the previous days, everyone was very tired, so they went into the house early to rest. The mother and daughter helped with the work and returned to their room. I saw that Hui Niang was lying on her side on the bed, and she couldn't help but say to Xiao'e: "Girl, we can be regarded as having found a big backer!" ”

When there are no outsiders, Xiao'e is much more comfortable in her movements. I saw her wipe her wet hands from the corners of her clothes after washing the dishes, sat on the bed, and said sarcastically: "What, what crooked idea did you think of again?" ”

Hui Niang didn't care about the meanness in her daughter's words, and got up from the bed and said, "Look at it, this family is rich and treats people well. If we can rely on it, we won't have to worry about it for the rest of our lives! ”

Xiao'e became angry when she heard this, and said, "Do you think that our face has not been lost?" was kicked out of the inn, mixed with other people's boats, eating and drinking for nothing, why don't you feel ashamed! ”

Hui Niang poked Xiao'e's head with her hand and said, "Cheeky? Can you eat it as a meal? When you have money, you will naturally have a face! After that, he pulled his daughter over again, and said kindly: "Look at it, the young man of their family looks more handsome than the other." You're fourteen years old this year, and it's time to get married, so it's better to ......"

Without waiting for her to finish speaking, Xiao'e pushed her away, stood up suddenly, and said, "I want to marry you myself!" I'm not embarrassed to follow you! ”

Hui Niang was also angry when she heard this: "Why did I marry me from a half-old?" My mother has raised you all your life, and she has never done anything that pleases me! You two are white-eyed wolves! As he spoke, he cried again on the bed.

Xiao'e was upset when she heard this, so she shook off the door and went out by herself. After a quiet breeze outside the cabin, the mood calmed down a little.

Her family originally opened a small grocery store in Yangzhou, and her life was still passable. It's just that my mother is always not satisfied, and she sneers at her father all day long for not being capable. Later, I heard that a distant relative of my father was a petty official in Texas, so I urged my father to take refuge five times and three times. The helpless father couldn't help her nagging, so he had to go to Texas, and became a small official under the hands of that relative, and he went for three years, and every year he asked someone to bring a message and bring back the silver. Only in the spring of this year, not only was there no letter, but there was also a lot less silver. On the one hand, the mother suspected that the silver was swallowed on the road, and on the other hand, she suspected that her father had raised a child in Texas and couldn't sit still at home, so she dragged her to Texas with her. Not only was no one found, but the money was also spent. The mother took her to live in someone's shop, and in those days, she was blinded, and after she was kicked out, her mother forced her to sneak into someone else's boat. This time, she only felt that she had lost her face for the rest of her life.

After standing on the deck for a while, Xiao'e was afraid of running into the master's family, so she went back to her room. Seeing that his mother had already slept, he breathed a sigh of relief, and he also fell asleep, and he didn't say anything all night.