In the last book, it was said that Gu's sighed that Dongmei married a good man.

Dongmei got married two months ago, and her life was quite comfortable. The Liu family moved to Suzhou Mansion, bought a second-entry house, and renovated it. As soon as Dongmei entered the house, she was a grandmother. Aunt Yun handed over the burden of the family, and was so happy that she didn't care about anything, just waiting to hold her grandson.

Dongmei has been by his wife's side for so many years, is she stupid? Smooth care inside and out. Although Liu Heng is one year younger than Dongmei, he is a painful person, he has been in love with Dongmei for all these years, and once he hugged the beauty, how can he have any other ideas? Guarding the daughter-in-law with one mind, the old lady lives a life.

On the first night of Dongmei's marriage, she and the young lady talked in the room for half a night, it was Li's mother, and I don't know what the two said, but Dongmei got on the sedan chair with two red eyes on the second day.

Now, not only the maids around the young lady are envious, but also the maids around the second wife are also jealous that Dongmei has married a good family.

Jiang Xinyao has not been idle for a day since she returned to her old house, in addition to taking care of her mother, most of her time has been spent researching dishes and new accessories. In today's life, she feels a sense of accomplishment. In Jiang's mansion, you fight all day long, guarding against this, avoiding that, and you are tired to death. Or a group of women, dressed up in fancy clothes, in front of the old lady, drinking tea, bickering, competing for favor, entertaining themselves and others.

She has been accustomed to living as she likes with her grandfather for many years, and now that she has returned here, her mother has indulged her like a fish in water, swimming freely. In these days in the Jiang Mansion, Jiang Xinyao understood one thing, the Houmen Mansion is as deep as the sea, and it is really impossible to enter.

The business of Jin Jue Pavilion is gradually on the right track, and new accessories are launched every month. The two large Guanyin ornaments placed in the shop last month were bought at a high price as soon as they appeared, allowing Xin Yao to see the market for large jade carvings, but this play was time-consuming. It takes a lot of effort, and I can't produce a single one in a few months, so I can only figure it out slowly.

Jiang Xinyao put the antiquities that the Xu family had collected for many years, one piece. Two pieces of consciously let the money shopkeeper be placed in an inconspicuous place, at first no one cared, and slowly there were also discerning jade people who were willing to buy them at a high price, and after a long time, there were people who specialized in playing antiquities to buy goods.

Jiang Xinyao has been thinking of opening the store again since she took stock of the shop's business last month. There were no new guests in the booklet compiled by Fu Bo this month, and the two studied it for a long time and found that almost all the people with heads and faces in Suzhou Mansion were on this booklet.

Jiang Xinyao stood quietly in front of the courtyard for half a night. On the second day, he asked Fauber to bring a long letter to the money shopkeeper.

Those noble ladies and ladies in Suzhou Mansion gradually discovered that as long as you spend money in Jinjue Pavilion, even if you only buy a hairpin, on your birthday. The money shopkeeper personally came to the door to send congratulatory gifts. Or a jade fan pendant, or a red ring, and so on. There are even more careful people who find that the quality of the congratulatory gift is directly proportional to the amount you spend in Jinjue Pavilion.

The lords and young masters of Suzhou Mansion naturally also received congratulatory gifts on their birthdays, but the difference was that the money shopkeeper sent tea leaves. Notes, wine, tickets, and even a girl's. The men's faces were not obvious, and their hearts were very ironed, looking at what other people were doing. That's called a careful, a thoughtful.

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Autumn goes to winter, and the winter in Jiangnan is cold and humid. Jiang Xinyao was afraid that her mother would not be able to endure the cold, so Xia He set up a brazier early. A few days ago, my father and my younger brother just brought two carts of fine silver frost charcoal. I'm afraid that Gu's will be cold.

The father and son stayed for two days every half month, eating, drinking and Lazar had to worry about Xinyao, even if they waited for pregnant women, waiting for two men, Jiang Xinyao was not happy.

What do you say? It turned out that the father and son not only went to the old mansion to eat, but also had to bring one to the master of the big house.

Uncle Jiang is now reduced to the point that as long as the third brother goes to Zhuangzi, he will block the door and prevent him from leaving, Jiang Yuanchen really can't, begging Yinggui to make one or two more copies, and bring it back all the way, so that the next person is hot and relieve the eldest brother's hunger.

Recently, Jiang Xinyao wanted to eat meat buns on a whim of her mother, so she made a drawer for her mother by herself. On that day, the father and son came, and the dust and servants were hungry on the road, washed their hands, and one picked up one to pad the bottom first, and as a result, there were a total of five buns, and the father and son had two each, and the last one was separated, half of you, and half of me.

When Jiang Xinyao came out after washing and changing her clothes, she was full of interest and wanted to taste the taste, the drawer was empty, and the things she spent a day making, but she only smelled the fragrance, and it all went into the stomachs of the two wolves, so angry that she dreamed of meat buns for three days in a row.

Jiang Xinyao is not happy, and she talks a lot. Hey, it's winter, fresh vegetables are hard to find, special trip to transport water from Wuxi, the cost is high, every day I use my brain to think of ideas to cook for people, tired, Yinggui is busy in the kitchen all day long, hard. The father and son were so angry that they wanted to drop their chopsticks and leave.

However, the situation is stronger than people, Jiang Yuanchen gave his father a look, and the implication was that my purse was empty, Jiang Hongsheng obediently took out a few silver tickets from his arms, put them on the table, and only said that he had raised an unfilial daughter.

Jiang Xinyao put away the silver very unceremoniously, smiled so much that it was called flattery, and immediately said with a smile: "Father and younger brother work hard on the way back and forth, tomorrow I will make a fat intestine sour soup fish, make a braised lion's head, and then a lotus glutinous rice pork ribs, Qingshui river shrimp, corn pigeon soup, if there is a big meat bun, I don't know father, my brother is still satisfied?" ”

The father and son of the Jiang family swallowed their saliva, glanced at each other, and nodded in unison.

After Jiang Yuanchen was shocked by his sister's words that day, overnight, he grew a lot old and acted more low-key in the house.

He took the initiative to ask to go to the academy to study, and after school, he asked the old lady to say goodbye every day, and then went to Tingfeng Xuan. When my sister left, she handed over the room of books to him to take care of, he loved it like a treasure, and he would personally sort it out in his spare time, and when he left, he would take one or two books back, and then change them after reading, and so on. My sister once said that it is a happy thing to fall asleep smelling books.

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In the spring of the following year, the Jiang Mansion had two great happy events.

On the eighth day of the second lunar month, the eldest master of the Jiang family, the second master, with all kinds of dowries, loaded two large boats, walked the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and sent the second lady to Beijing to complete the marriage.

Jiang Xinyu sat in red, and in the joy of the sky, bid farewell to the old lady, parents and brothers and left. Aunt Du cried in the crowd.

At noon on the ninth day of April, the second wife of the Jiang family successfully gave birth to a son in the old house, weighing six catties and seven taels, named Jiang Yuanhao, ranked fourth in the house, known as the fourth master.

In October of the same year, Jinjue Pavilion was opened in Jinling and Yangzhou. After Jiang Quan returned from the Western Regions in May, he went to the southwest with his men and horses at the end of the year.

In this year's spring boudoir examination, there was a nineteen-year-old candidate named Xu Sizhen, after the palace examination, he was personally appointed by the emperor as a tanhua and awarded the Hanlin Academy for editing. It is said that this Xu Sizhen has red lips and white teeth, his face is like a crown of jade, gentle and elegant, he is really a jade tree in the wind, and his aura is extraordinary.

The imperial court has always had a saying that non-Jinshi will not enter the Hanlin, and non-Hanlin will not enter the cabinet, and Xu Sizhen has not yet married a wife, has no concubines, and only the old mother is dependent on each other at home, which is a necessary good son-in-law for marriage and children at home. However, in just a few days, it became the first choice for the wives of powerful families in the capital to choose sons-in-law.

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At the end of the year, Xin Yao discussed the New Year with her mother, and Gu said: "There are few people in the house, be thrifty, and have a New Year's flavor." ”

Xin Yao smiled: "I'm afraid that my father and younger brother will come, so I still have to prepare something." ”

Gu said: "In this winter, it's hard for them to run all the way. ”

Xin Yao said: "Mother is distressed? In the past two days, the daughter thought of two new dishes, both of which were for nourishing her body and qi, and waited for her father and younger brother to come and make them for them to taste. ”

"You, just don't be angry with the two of them, before dinner, what kind of book did you let your brother memorize, how could you do this, sister?"

"Mother, if not, how can my younger brother be admitted to this gift?"

Jiang Yuanchen took the children's test this autumn, and his results were really good, and Xin Yao was quite proud.

Gu said with a smile: "Yes, yes, yes, it's all Yao'er's credit, that is, her mother has today, and it is also the blessing of Yao'er." ”

Jiang Xinyao sighed in her heart, am I easy. Her mother was pregnant for ten months, and Jiang Xinyao was nervous for ten months. Finally let the little brother croak, and waited for his mother to do confinement, changed the method to do some beauty, slimming soup for his mother, three months later, Gu's recovered a new look, looking only slightly plumper than before pregnancy, it was Brother Hao, who was also raised white and fat.

"As long as the mother is happy, the daughter will be satisfied." Jiang Xinyao said sincerely.

"Mother has been in Jiang's Mansion for more than ten years, and now she is the most comfortable, guarding you and Brother Hao, and my mother sleeps peacefully until dawn every night. How nice it would be if you could live like this for the rest of your life! ”

Jiang Xinyao chuckled in her heart: "What does mother mean?" ”

Gu Shi smiled faintly: "I'm afraid that it won't be long before we have to go home." ”

Why is that? Let's live a good life in this old house. ”

Gu caressed her daughter's white and tender face, picked up the broken hair in her ears for her, and sighed: "This day goes by so fast. Yao'er will be thirteen next year, and she should look like it, but I don't know who the flowers will be? It's not that my mother boasts, whoever marries us Yao'er is a blessed person. Although my mother likes this quiet day, she can't miss my daughter's life's events. ”

Jiang Xinyao said shyly: "Mother thinks too far, her daughter is still young, and she wants to stay at home for a few more years." ”

Gu sighed: "Thirteen, not small, in two or three years, it will be time to get married, and when there is filial piety next year, the old lady is afraid that she will show you and the third lady, and the two of you are a few months apart, that is, one after the other." ”

Jiang Xinyao was one head and two big, and said busily: "Mother, go and see Brother Hao'er, I'm afraid I'm going to wake up." ”

Gu said: "You maid, drive me away as soon as you say this, Yao'er, mother will give you a thorough explanation." The old lady will let your father return to Beijing to be an official. ”

Jiang Xinyao nodded and said: "Mother, I know, don't worry, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, you go quickly, I heard Brother Hao crying." ”

Gu Shi let out an "oops" and hurried away. (..)

( Miss Jiang Si )