Since Zhou Chengkai, the Marquis of Annan, lost his title, there have been frequent filthy quarrels between brothers and concubines, and there are many quarrels, and the older generation is still like this, not to mention the younger generation. As a last resort, I had to invite the elders of the clan, open the treasury, and take out the land and property to divide the family.

It's okay not to divide the family, but once the family is divided, I found that the dignified Annan Hou Mansion has a bright face, but the inside is eaten by insects and rats, and it is a mess.

Zhou Chengkai, Zhou Chengjun, and Zhou Chengkun brothers are in tears. Fortunately, the century-old family of the Hou Mansion of Annan still has a foundation, and they have divided their houses and granges, and they have moved to live their own lives.

After separating the family, Zhou Chengjun and his wife, Zhou Chengkun and his wife found that although the life of a single family is quiet, it is difficult, and it is so shady to be backed by a big tree. No matter how bad the big house is, there is still a noble person in the palace, and the queen mother's mother's Su family also sent someone to the door afterwards and sent some silver taels, and suddenly felt remorseful, and came to the door crying and making trouble to merge the three mansions into one.

Zhou Chengkai and his wife finally got rid of this big family, and just closed the door to spend a few days to kill the days, where are they willing to raise a large group of idlers to eat and drink. Naturally, it will not agree.

After a few days of trouble, I never wanted to make a fuss about Zhou Dongliang and returned to the west!

In fact, it was not very good for Dongliang to be carried back this week, with more gas coming out and less air entering, all relying on the old ginseng to hang.

It stands to reason that Zhou Dongliang's body is not like this, but this person was hollowed out by wine, and he was beaten by Lao Tzu before the accident, and before the injury was complete, he was tied up. was locked in prison for ten days, and he was so frightened that his soul was not possessed, and in the end, this hundred solid boards became his life-threatening talisman.

Although Zhou Chengkai and his wife hated this son for tiring everyone, in the end, they were flesh and blood, and they cried to death at the moment. Zhou Chengjun, Zhou Chengkun and his wife had no choice but to rest their minds and beat their spirits. Help with the funeral.

On the second day, news came out in the palace that the Han nobles were named Concubine Han, and they jumped two levels in a row, and on the same day, the eunuchs around Concubine Han came to the Zhou Mansion to mourn.

Everyone saw that although the Zhou family had lost their title. But the emperor's favor is still there, and they have come to the door to condole, and the Zhou Mansion has changed the desertion after losing the title, and the traffic in front of the new mansion is busy for a while, so it is not lively!

Only Xin Yao sighed faintly at Mother Li: "A childless concubine who is not visible to her mother's family is useless even if she jumps five levels, she is just a pacifying chess piece!" ”

Mother Li was puzzled: "Miss, who wants to appease?" ”

Xin Yao narrowed her eyes and said with a faint smile: "It's too much......"

……

In King Jing's study, Yan Songyuan sent away the last group of officials who came to congratulate him with a smile. Turning around, his face sank, and he went back to the study.

Yan Huanyuan sat behind the desk, and the three staff members at the head stepped forward and said, "Congratulations to the prince, taking charge of the military department!" ”

Liu Tao, who was the leader, stepped forward and said with a smile: "The prince has a few birds with one stone. What a plan. King Han didn't say a word about Nan'an Hou Mansion this time, but he was afraid that it would chill the hearts of hundreds of officials. ”

Cai Zhongyi, who was the second leader, said with a smile: "Lord Wang, in the matter of Jiangnan officialdom, although we have nothing to do with Su Shangshu, we have stretched one foot to Jiangnan. This fake jade case abolished one of King Han's arms. ...... time"

Yan Huanyuan raised his hand slightly, and Cai Zhongyi closed it in time.

"It's too early to tell."

"Lord Wang. There is something unclear below. ”

"Gong Wei, please speak!"

Wei Rui stepped forward and said, "The prince could have used this incident to put the Marquis of Annan to death, why did he keep it?" Concubine Han's promotion to the throne is tantamount to returning to the mountain, and there will be endless troubles. ”

Yan Songyuan's long eyes were half closed, and he was silent coldly, and only after a while did he slowly say, "Duke Wei." He is strong and weak, and he is pressing, the dog jumps over the wall in a hurry, and the rabbit bites in a hurry. When the depth of the water is not known, you have to touch the depth with a stick. When I turned back and crossed the river, I had the bottom in my heart. As for the Han concubine......"

Yan Huanyuan paused, his expression complicated.

"Gong Wei, if you slapped that person, naturally you have to reward a date to eat. The sword laid by the Empress Dowager is still hidden in the shadows, and everything needs to be drawn slowly. ”

The eyes of the next three people lit up, and they said in unison: "The prince is wise." ”

……

On the 26th of the lunar month, two large ships of the Jiang family anchored ashore.

Because Jiang Xinshan left the cabinet and everyone in the Jiang family's big house did not enter Beijing, the old lady was really angry and ordered her youngest son to write a righteous and stern letter in her name, and scolded the eldest man and his wife for being bloody.

This time for the Chinese New Year, Mr. Jiang collected the rent early, closed the shop, took the account, carried the harvest of Suzhou Mansion for a year, and loaded a boatload of New Year's gifts into Beijing.

Because Shen was diagnosed as three months pregnant, it was not easy to travel long distances, so Jiang Yuanqing's family had to stay in Suzhou Mansion for the New Year. At the same time, Uncle Jiang's concubine and Shen's maid Mingcui were also diagnosed as pregnant.

When the boat arrived at the Jining wharf, he heard passers-by talking that the Marquis of Annan had been imprisoned, which frightened Jiang Hongjian into a cold sweat and his soul was scattered.

Xin Yao didn't have time to pay attention to the trivial matters in the house. She was holding the account books of the four stores of Jinjue Pavilion and Yiyuan for one year, and the two of Danyue, dizzy and complaining.

On the thirtieth day of the lunar month, the people of the two prefectures had a reunion dinner, laughed with the old lady for a long time, and they went away before they had time to keep the New Year.

The Spring Festival has always been a big day for the Chinese people, after the second day of the first month, the various mansions began to move around, the Jiang family not only had to be busy with the banquet between relatives and friends, gifts, but also had to work a month later the wedding of the fourth lady, it was really hard to eat, hard to give, busy to work hard.

Jiang Hongsheng has one more errand, he has to give gifts to his boss and colleagues.

On such a good day for the New Year, the emperor can't help but give gifts, and he doesn't even say much about the imperial history who specializes in finding people's stubble, which official doesn't take advantage of this opportunity to be upright and walk around with confidence? What's more, the current situation is really looking at flowers in the fog and looking at the moon in the water. Master Jiang's shipload of Jiangnan specialties, three gifts and two deliveries will also see the bottom!

The real idlers of the Jiang Mansion are Jiang Xinyao and Brother Hao, who is just four years old.

These brothers, except for the morning and dusk in front of his wife every day, spend most of their time playing games in Tingfeng Xuan's study, and then they instigate Meizi to make some strange food, and they are not even willing to take half a step out of the courtyard gate!

Jiang Yuanchen really couldn't stand it. How many of those ladies and young ladies in Beijing are not keen on socializing? On weekdays, you are still the east, and tomorrow I will be the east, enjoy the flowers, swim a boat, join a poem, eat a feast or something. During the New Year's holidays, it is even more frequent.

His sister was good, and even the banquet in Du Mansion was pushed away because she was sick, which caused his sister to look at him with squinted eyes for a long time, and he didn't even dare to raise his head, only to accompany him.

Jiang Yuanchen said in his heart, my good sister, what you offended this time is Xiao Han's sister-in-law, my most respected master, if she wants to make a bad thing, how can you have a good life in Xiao Mansion in the future!

Jiang Yuanchen was helpless, so he had to hum in front of Xin Yao.

Jiang Xinyao ignored him, and only said coldly: "The days when I can accompany you are only this month!" He shook his face and walked away.

Jiang Yuanchen listened, he was reluctant and sad, thinking that his sister was about to get married, and he couldn't even lift his spirits by drinking with his classmates.

Jiang Xinyao sent away Jiang Yuanchen's broken thoughts in her ears, but she didn't expect that relatives and friends would come to add makeup one after another.

The first one is Yuan, the mother of the second sister-in-law that she would not think of with her toes.

The gift given by the Yuan family was not light, a pair of white jade hairpins and a pair of red gold beaded bracelets, which shocked the Gu family and said again and again, I can't do it! It was still the Wu family who was talking on the side, and the Gu family and daughter dared to accept it.

In front of his mother-in-law Yuan, the Gu family really praised the daughter-in-law a few words, and the Yuan family praised Xin Yao to the sky, and the room was full of laughter for a while.

Wu looked at the fire, waved off his subordinates, and in front of his mother-in-law Yuan and mother-in-law Gu, he took out two thousand taels of silver tickets from his arms, and said with tears: "Fourth sister, sister-in-law knows that you are not short of things, these two thousand taels of silver are vulgar, but they are a little bit of sister-in-law's heart." Last year, Qingliang Mountain was in trouble, it was my sister who replaced me, my sister-in-law can have such children today, it is thanks to my sister's blessing, I thank you for the two children! ”

Speaking of which, Wu's Yingying is a blessing.

Xin Yao hurriedly stepped forward to take Wu's hand, but tilted her head and smiled at Yuan: "Aunt Yuan, you have to talk about your sister-in-law, dare to love that I am not here to add makeup for me, but to thank you." No matter how big the grace is, how can you raise her for more than ten years, she doesn't thank you, but thanks me, and you don't talk about her! ”

For the first time, the Yuan family heard the fourth young lady of the Jiang Mansion speak in a full sentence. These words came out of the mouth of the picturesque woman in front of him, and Yuan was shocked. Hurriedly laughed and snorted, stuffed the silver ticket into the second wife's hand, and said some jokes, so as to skip the matter.

When he returned to his daughter's room, Yuan explained to his daughter at the moment and acted in the future, he must not violate the will of the second wife, let alone offend the fourth lady, if he doesn't fight, he will fight!

Wu nodded obediently and said, "What does Mother think of those four sisters?" ”

Yuan gently patted his daughter's hand and sighed: "I have seen too many girls from rich and noble families in the capital, you four sisters, I'm afraid it's not simple!" ”

Wu's mind turned slightly, skipping it.

In addition to the Yuan family, Shen Li's mother-in-law Xun, the Feng family's wife Ye, the Zheng family's wife Han, the old lady's mother's three aunts, seven or eight aunts, and more than a dozen distant cousins all added makeup, and even the eldest wife of the Sun family, Cao, who has never been much in the Jiang Mansion, also gave heavy gifts.

Xin Yao took the gift list, glanced at it lightly, sighed in her heart, and handed it to Mother Li to put away.

Mother Li put away the gift list and said in a low voice: "Miss, it will be the Lantern Festival in two days, Yiyuan has prepared wine and food for Miss over there, the third master, the whole master They are all looking forward to Miss going, whether Miss is going or not, I have to give a reply!" ”

ps：

Thank you to the relatives who sent the moon cakes to the buns, and thank you for the reward that waits for the wind to come! (..)

( Miss Jiang Si )