In a moment, there was a knock on the door.

"Sixteenth Master, the guest in the private room next door gave the Sixteenth Master three pots of fine bamboo leaves when he left."

"Oh? In! ”

The door opened, and a handsome young man walked in with a tray in his hand.

Yan Sixteen was laughing with the woman, and asked in a hurry, "What is the guest's surname?" ”

The guy put the wine on the table, bowed and said, "Hui Ye, the guest is also surnamed Yan." ”

Yan Sixteen shuddered, pushed away the woman in his arms, and hurriedly said, "Where is he now?" Did I ask you anything? ”

The guy hurriedly said: "The guest asked the little sixteenth master how many times a month he came, what kind of girl he liked, and the side didn't say much." ”

"How did you get there?"

The guy subconsciously touched the ten taels of silver in his arms, and smiled flatteringly: "How dare the little one say more, just say that the sixteenth master is rare to come once in a thousand years." ”

Yan Sixteen frowned, his face became more bitter than the bitter gourd, and he suddenly lacked interest.

Du Ye and Xiao Ye on the side also let go of the woman in their arms for some reason, with a frightened face.

The three of them looked at each other and waved in unison, and the women retreated with a lot of eyes, and the man took a closer look at the room and closed the door gently.

As soon as the people left, Yan Sixteen's bitter gourd face suddenly smiled, and he raised his eyebrows and said, "Du Ye, how many times have we been here this month?" ”

Du Ye picked up the wine bottle he had just sent in, opened the lid and sniffed it, poured himself a glass, and said with a smile: "This month, except for the first and fifteenth days of the new year, the three of us soak here every day, and we are so drunk that we can't wake up." ”

Xiao Ye pushed away the wine jug handed by Du Ye, picked up the wine that Du Ye had just poured with his backhand, and drank it all.

"Sure enough, it's good wine. Yes, since it is rare to come back once in a thousand years, how about the three of us brothers if we don't get drunk and don't return? ”

Xiao Ye raised his glass meaningfully to the two.

Yan Sixteen smiled knowingly, took the wine jug, and filled them one by one. clinked glasses with these two people heavily, and said with a smile: "Do you say that my father will take me to him and scold me in the future?" ”

Du Ye rolled his eyes and sneered: "I bet a hundred taels, no!" ”

Xiao Ye took out a silver ticket from his arms. Pressed heavily on the table: "I'll bet five hundred taels, no!" ”

Yan Sixteen unceremoniously stuffed the silver ticket into his arms, and said angrily: "Give me all the silver, and tomorrow I will go to my father's side to ask for sin!" ”

Du Ye gasped, turned his mind a few times, and suddenly smiled evilly and said, "Sixteen, is it difficult to ......"

Yan Sixteen drank two glasses of wine in a row, and said with a smile: "Fiction and reality, reality and fiction, since it is not a weapon." I just can't get home, you say, but that's the reason? ”

Xiao Ye stroked his palms and smiled: "Yes! But what does it have to do with my money? ”

At the mention of silver, Yan Sixteen remembered the events of the day, and said unwillingly: "Master told you something." ”

……

Let's say that Xin Yao's mother and daughter returned home. Bringing the freshly baked dim sum to Guiyun Hall to say goodbye, the old lady was laughing with Zhou's mother and daughter, motioning to Mama Qian to accept the dim sum, and said a few words.

"Now that my body is getting better, the spring is blooming, and I want to go out for a walk. Second wife, three days later. Accompany me to the Hou Mansion. When I returned to Beijing, I had to move around, so as not to divide my relatives. The four girls also went together. ”

Gu said with a smile: "It is a blessing for our mother to be able to follow the old lady to the Hou Mansion to see the world. At that time, the old lady should not think that her daughter-in-law is a small family, her words and deeds are rude, and she will lose the face of the old lady. ”

Aunt Zhou turned her face away disdainfully. Pretending to drink tea.

The old lady smiled lightly: "Whatever is shameless, they are all relatives, and the two families often come and go, which can also make my old wife live for a few more years." Go ahead, tired of the day. Let's see if the second master is back? Good life waits. ”

Gu's mother and daughter saluted the old lady and walked out together.

Aunt Zhou waited for people to walk away, and said angrily: "Auntie, what do you want them to do?" ”

The old lady's face sank, and she said solemnly: "I only take you, not the second wife, what's the matter?" Stop. The Hou Mansion is not what it was when the old Hou Ye was there, and it is always good to take care of it. ”

Jiang Xinshan smiled and picked up the tea bowl on the table, handed it to the old lady, and said, "The old lady doesn't need to be as knowledgeable as her aunt. Accompanied by the second wife and the fourth sister, there are many people and it is also lively. ”

The old lady took the tea bowl with satisfaction, flicked the floating tea leaves, and took a sip: "Listen, listen, you are not as reasonable as Shan'er." At home, I can let you go outside, and I still have to keep the rules that should be followed. ”

Jiang Xinshan took the tea bowl in the old lady's hand steadily, and quietly gave her aunt a look, and Aunt Zhou smiled with her: "Auntie, can't I listen to you?" ”

"That's right, you don't care about me, you have to take care of the second master, the capital is not as good as Suzhou Mansion, those officials are vegetarians? When the time comes, you will be charged with killing your wife with a favored concubine, and you won't have time to cry. ”

The old lady pressed her hand to her temple and said: "Now the Cai family in the inner house of the Hou Mansion is dominant, and this Cai family is the most rule-abiding person, I can't let the Cai family laugh at our Jiang Mansion for having no rules." ”

Mama Qian saw that the old lady's face was tired, so she made a look, and Zhou's mother and daughter understood it, and talked with her, and then retired.

When the people left, Mama Qian complained: "The old lady's body is just right, so she still takes care of it." ”

The old lady said lazily: "People are old, they can't accept old age, and if they sit for a long time, their bones all over their bodies hurt." ”

Mama Qian said: "Old lady, at this time, the Hou Mansion invites you over, there will be nothing wrong, right?" Nafuli ......"

The old lady sighed: "It's nothing more than to see, what can it do?" When a woman I marry out, no matter how long her hands are, no matter how long she is, she will not be able to take care of other people's affairs. ”

Mama Qian said: "That's exactly what I said, I'm afraid that the old lady will come, regardless of ......."

"You old thing, is it possible that I am still seventeen or eighteen? I still have this idea, people are getting older, and they are getting more and more lazy to go out, just want to go back and see while they are still moving, and help Shan'er pay attention to the door. ”

Mama Qian smiled and took the medicine sent by the girl, coaxed the old lady to take the medicine, and the master and servant talked with each other.

……

Jiang Xinyao went back to the room, thinking about whether to pretend to be sick or something, she really couldn't be interested in the Hou Mansion and his party.

Zhou Zixing, the old marquis of the Hou Mansion, has one wife and four concubines, and has a total of seven sons and three daughters. Today's Hou Ye Zhou Chengkai is the younger brother of the old lady's mother. Zhou Chengkai married Cai and had four sons and three daughters.

In addition, the old lady also has two younger brothers, both of whom live in the Hou Mansion and do not live in the Mansion. In other words, now there are three lords in the Hou Mansion, a three-room family, and all of them have children and grandchildren, wives and concubines, and the degree of excitement can be imagined.

When Mother Li saw her look, she didn't know anything, so she said: "Miss, you can't call yourself sick this time, you are willing to leave the second wife alone, don't forget, Aunt Zhou is a relative of the Hou Mansion." Besides, it's the second master's uncle's house, and it's really not polite to go. You just go with the old lady, and you can't move around in the future, just follow the young lady's heart, and your mother won't stop you. ”

Mother Li's words are exactly the same as Gu's words.

Xin Yao hated: "If it weren't for my mother, who would be patient to deal with those seven aunts and eight aunts." ”

Mother Li smiled: "Aren't all high-ranking families like this? More people thrive. The Jiang family is thin, and the old lady is capable, so the family lives a clean and clean life. Miss inquired, can the capital find a second Jiang family? Otherwise, how could the Wu family marry the eldest lady to our second master, it is not for the sake of the simple population in our house. The young lady will have to get married sooner or later, and the sister-in-law will not be able to deal with it. ”

Jiang Xinyao was the most impatient to listen to this, and with a wail, she threw herself on the bed and covered her head with a quilt.

……

April 26, eye.

It is suitable for travel, trading, and worship.

Don't get married, open the market, and enter the house.

The five carriages of the Jiang Mansion drove away from the mansion, except for Jiang Yuanhao, who was just two years old, the masters of the Jiang family poured out of the mansion.

Half an hour later, Jiang Hongsheng, father and son gathered in the study of the Hou of Annan, while Xin Yao knelt in the spacious and magnificent main hall of the Hou Mansion, and together with Jiang Xinshan, kowtowed to the three uncles and grandmothers.

Jiang Xinshan is wearing a pink short-waisted embroidered shirt today, a pink and white light purple sprinkled gold skirt all over the place, a pair of pearl butterfly drops purple tassel hairpin on her head, and two old pit jade bracelets on her wrist.

Jiang Xinyao was wearing a homely crescent-white lotus silk pipa top, a purple silk and emerald skirt on her lower body, a flowing cloud bun, a colorless jade tassel hairpin on her head, and an ice blue flower bracelet with an excellent water head on her wrist, and there was no decoration around her body.

Cai, who was sitting at the top, looked carefully, turned his head, and said to the old lady on the left with a smile: "Sister is so blessed, look, how painful it is, compared to several girls in our house." In the end, it is the water in the south of the Yangtze River. ”

After that, he picked out two white hostas inlaid with gems from the vermilion lacquer plate held by the girl next to him, and handed them to the two Miss Sun of the Jiang Mansion: "Good boy, see you for the first time, take it and play." ”

Cai's forty years old this year, extremely well-maintained, fair-skinned, radiant, a pair of slender hands stretched out white and tender, at first glance is a pampered person.

Jiang Xinshan, Jiang Xinyao thanked Cai, turned around and kowtowed to the two uncles and grandmothers in the first place. The second uncle and grandmother Lu and the third uncle and grandmother Lin really praised and gave their own gifts.

Mrs. Zhou smiled and said, "I've seen a few of your aunts again." ”

Cai Shile said: "Oh, there are not a few aunts in the house, there are three in my room alone, two in the second room, and three in the third room. Eldest sister, you don't feel distressed, I'm still distressed. Come, just let them send the table gifts, this one, keep it and knock it later! ”

The two sisters of the Jiang family invariably glanced at the old lady, and when they saw the old lady nodding, they each retreated. (..)

( Miss Jiang Si )