It is said that in the past few days after Zhou Xiuyue entered Beijing, in addition to waiting for the second master, all her thoughts were on the marriage of her son and daughter. Due to the death of the Queen Mother, the family of the Lord was not allowed to marry in March, but they looked at each other in private but were defenseless. And because of the filial piety of the country, the old lady stayed in the mansion and never even returned to the Hou Mansion. In desperation, Zhou Xiuyue had to send two reliable subordinates to quietly inquire about any good people at her mother's house.

Zhou Xiuyue's mother, Xu, was born in a merchant family, and her husband Zhou Wennan was originally a side branch of the Hou Mansion and had an ordinary family background. Because of his youth and intelligence, he was selected by the old Hou Ye to accompany his eldest son, so he was familiar with Zhou Yujing, the eldest lady of the Hou Mansion.

After Xu married Zhou Wennan, he gave birth to two sons and a daughter. Later, Zhou Wennan accepted a second beautiful concubine, and gave birth to two sons and two daughters one after another, which can be described as a prosperous person.

The Xu family's dowry is quite rich, so the waist of the Zhou family is straight, and the husband's beautiful concubines, concubines, and concubines have never had a good face, and they are very harsh on the money.

Zhou Wennan is a weak scholar, reciting poetry, vassals are elegant, economic careers, and housekeepers don't know anything about financial management. In addition to secretly subsidizing a few taels of silver, he didn't dare to conflict with the main house openly. What do you say? It turned out that the Xu family was quite a true inheritance of his mother.

If Xu's biological mother got a bachelor's certificate from the scolding school, then Xu's is definitely a doctoral graduate, and she is hard enough to scold people, and there are many words in her words to greet the genitals of the ancestors of the Zhou family.

There is a way, it is useless, and it is a scholar. Zhou Shusheng looked at the bloody mouth one by one, except when he couldn't bear it anymore, he replied sourly: "Lady, you are too unkind", and the rest was only to hold his head and run away.

A few years ago, Zhou Wennan died of illness, and Xu took the opportunity to scatter some money and let the two concubines take their biological mother Beppu to live, and there was a quiet situation in front of them.

Now that the Xu family is living a stable life, they are worried that they have nothing to do, and they have no reason to be careless about their daughter's request. I have already inquired all over the capital and prepared a few families. Just wait for the Jiang family to enter Beijing and discuss with their daughter. When I saw someone coming, I knew that it was inconvenient for my daughter to go out, so I put on a posture of a long talk. Let's talk about the ladies of these families one by one.

Aunt Zhou got the reply, and after thinking about it carefully, she had a candidate in her heart, and she forced her joy and went to Guiyuntang.

After hearing this, the old lady only said to take a look, and then sent Zhou back, but behind her back, she asked Mama Qian to send someone to inquire about these families one by one. It's not that the old lady is suspicious of Xu's vision, it's about Jiang Yuanhang's life and Xiuyue's future dependence, and the old lady has to choose carefully.

Zhou Xiuyue came on the spot. Returned in disappointment, leaning on the pit with a cold face and complaining, even the freshly stewed blood swallow in his mouth felt that it didn't taste much.

Jiang Xinshan entered the house and saw Aunt Zhou's gloomy face. smiled: "Auntie, who is this angry with?" ”

Seeing his daughter coming, Zhou suffocated and said, "It's not for your brother's marriage." It's seventeen, and I don't see anyone Zhang Luo, but I want my aunt to be busy, and it's not good. ”

Jiang Xinshan smiled: "What's the matter, my aunt has a fancy family?" ”

Zhou frowned and said, "Yes, yes, it's just that your grandmother said that you have to look at each other again." Just send me away. In the end, when you are old, it is not good to do things. ”

"Auntie be cautious, this is not something that my aunt can say."

Zhou said angrily: "Be cautious, be cautious, when she was married to the Zhou family, how could she not say it carelessly." said that she was the wife of the house. In the end, it was an aunt who deceived me. Now that the second master is seventeen years old, I am still an aunt, and I can't even decide my son's marriage. ”

Jiang Xinshan was afraid that the Zhou family would be angry and say the old Huang Li from hundreds of years ago, so she hurriedly coaxed: "Auntie." is still in the national filial piety, and the old lady naturally has a reason to say this. According to the daughter, the aunt might as well hand over her brother's family affairs to the second wife. ”

"What, let me hand over my son's family affairs to that slut, you...... You ......" Zhou was shocked when he heard this.

"Auntie, don't make noise for a while, and listen to your daughter." Jiang Xinshan said.

"Say, what is there to say? This is impossible. ”

Jiang Xinshan said coldly: "Does my aunt want to be an aunt for a lifetime, or do I want to be the wife of the main house?" Now the old lady's meaning couldn't be clearer, she won't be like before, she will be bent on retiring the Gu family and helping you to take the position. Between your father and you, the old lady has abandoned you after all. ”

Zhou's face turned pale and murmured, "Impossible, how could my aunt abandon me?" She has always doted on me, and she promised me ...... No way. ”

Jiang Xinshan sneered: "Auntie, if you are replaced, which is more important, son or niece?" Back then, if the old lady had a heart, she would never let her father send Gu's mother and daughter away, let alone let Gu give birth to that little beast. Auntie still remembers that the Shen family proposed to the old lady, and if the old lady took care of me and refused earlier, how could she hand over Jiang Xinyao's family affairs to the second lady to decide? Auntie, don't be stupid. ”

Zhou was dumbfounded and speechless.

"My daughter was confined for half a year, trapped in that small courtyard every day, watching the sun rise and the moon set, often keeping her eyes open until dawn. I finally figured out one thing, the old lady will never put me first between the interests of the Jiang Mansion and me. Just like between my father and my aunt, the old lady has always been on my father's side. In the past, we were too stupid, relying on the old lady's favor, thinking that she would always be our master of everything. Now it seems that it is better to rely on no one than on yourself. ”

Aunt Zhou opened her mouth and didn't say anything for a long time.

The daughter thought about it, and the reason why the old lady couldn't help the Gu family was nothing more than thinking of her father. The reason why the Gu family can sit firmly in the position of the housewife is also based on his father. There is a way that it is good to spend no hundred days, once her father dislikes her and hates her, aunt, you say, can she still sit still in the position of the second wife? ”

Hearing this, Aunt Zhou heard some words and said, "My son, what do you mean ......?"

"Auntie, think about it, over the years, in the battle with the Gu family, have you ever won a point and a half? Do you think about it again, in the house, in front of the old lady, in front of her father, has she ever made mistakes in her words and deeds, has she ever been angry? The more we don't take her seriously, the more the old lady persecutes her, the more pitiful, wronged, and lonely she becomes, and the more my father dotes on her. This is also the root cause why our mother and daughter can't fight their mother and daughter. ”

"You mean, we made her get your father's favor, and we made her sit firmly in the position of the second wife."

Jiang Xinshan laughed miserably: "That's right, it's a pity that I realized this truth later, otherwise, our mother and daughter would be in a different situation." ”

Aunt Zhou sighed: "In the end, I don't read much, I can't compare to the Gu family's calculations, otherwise, how could the family affairs of the Shen Mansion fall through?" ”

Jiang Xinshan smiled gloomily and said: "The only way to do this now is to make my father disgusted with her, and my aunt's wish can be achieved." My brother's marriage is not to worry about Gu's family, she is my mother-in-law, and the marriage is naturally decided by my mother-in-law, and my aunt is just watching from the side. After the elder brother got married, he and his sister-in-law Qin Se sang together, if they didn't agree, this would be a lifelong tongue. I have done so much thankless work, and I am not afraid that I will not find anything wrong, one, two, sooner or later, my father hates her.

"If she really finds an unbearable family, then your brother will not be ...... in this life"

"Auntie, it's the old lady who makes the final decision, and she can't figure out any tricks. We can't let her be so idle. I don't believe that she is a saint. ”

Aunt Zhou listened to her daughter's words, seemed to be very reasonable, nodded and agreed: "It's still my daughter who is smart and lovely, the Shen family is really blind, and they take a fancy to that sick man, a short-lived ghost, I heard that I was so sick that I couldn't even get out of bed a few days ago, and I really got revenge." ”

Jiang Xinshan listened, and her heart was like a knife. It was a lifetime of shame and nightmares that devoured her day and night, tearing her heart apart.

Jiang Xinshan forcibly concealed her mind and explained the matter to Aunt Zhou properly, and hurriedly retired. Walking to the gate of the back garden, standing on his side, he saw Jiang Xinyao walking in the garden and laughing with the girls from a distance.

Jiang Xinshan's eyes became more and more like a torch, her silver teeth were clenched, and she sneered again and again. After a moment, he brushed his sleeves and left.

Weiyun turned around inadvertently, and happened to see the resentful gaze of the third young lady, shooting towards the young lady like an arrow, her body trembled with fright, and she hurriedly leaned around Xin Yao and whispered a few words.

Jiang Xinyao looked back at the west, squinted her eyes, and her smile gradually faded. She beckoned to Weiyun and whispered something in her ear.

Weiyun's face was solemn and he left in a hurry.

Seeing this, Danyue stepped forward and touched Miss's hand, a little cool, gathered the cloak on Miss's body, and said lightly: "Miss go back, it's overcast." It's windy in the garden, and my body is just better, so it's not good to catch a cold. ”

Jiang Xinyao smiled and nodded. The master and servant came out one after the other.

At night, Li's mother hurriedly came to the young lady's room, and Xin Yao was fascinated by the idle book. Mother Li finished the matter in a few words.

After hearing this, Xin Yao put down the book, thought for a moment, and said, "Since my mother said so, then I am relieved." Mom, you work harder, secretly arrange more people to keep an eye on the west, and leave the things in the yard to a few Yinggui. ”

Mother Li said: "The third lady doesn't know what to think, but she has to make some moves if she has a good life." Before the young lady could settle accounts with them, she tossed again, and her stomach was full of bad water. ”

"She's nothing more than jealous of the Shen family."

Mother Li said hatefully: "Miss still remembers that the second lady was grounded, and the young lady and the second wife avoided returning to the old house. ”

"Mom, how many more years can she stay at home? Married, the road returns, the bridge returns to the bridge, everyone lives their own life, who can she calculate? I'm most impatient with these nests fighting, it's a family, why fight to the death? ”

Mother Li said: "Miss's heart can't be too soft, you have to guard against it." This mother and daughter, one is more ruthless than the other. By the way, the whole master said that he wanted to meet with Miss, it's been more than ten days, Miss has thought it through? ”(..)

( Miss Jiang Si )