Su Jintong is recorded in the name of the Xie family, and nominally she is the eldest daughter of the Xie family.

She was just about to enter the house, and found that the cheerful laughter just now had stopped, she pursed her lips disdainfully, bowed to Xie Shi in a proper manner, and said, "Mother is returning from a long journey, presumably tired, so I will go back first and not disturb my mother's rest." ”

She said, getting up and getting ready to go out.

Jin Nian smiled, Su Jintong didn't even bother to do the mother-daughter relationship on the face!

Xie Shi stopped her and said, "I'll go and talk back to the old lady later, so I won't rest yet, but Aunt Rong asked me to say hello to you, and asked me to bring you a gift, and I'll let Mother Du bring it to you later." ”

Aunt Rong is the concubine of Master Su San and the biological mother of Su Jintong.

Hearing that Aunt Rong had a gift for her, Su Jintong's face flashed impatience, but she didn't say anything, smiled and went back to Ronghua Hall.

Jin Nian on the side couldn't be calm, this Aunt Rong was really looking for her own sense of existence everywhere!

Thinking that Aunt Rong was the person who had been with her father the longest, Jin Nian felt uncomfortable: "For small things like bringing gifts, just find a maid to do them, why should my mother do it herself?" "Su Jintong may not have accepted your affection.

Xie Shi smiled and said: "You also said that it was a trivial matter, it was just a gesture, so why should you be angry?!" ”

Mother is just too talkative! Jin Nian glared at Xie Shi helplessly.

As he was talking, Su Ziming came over from the outer courtyard, he had already changed into clean clothes, and when he saw his mother and sister staring at each other, he sat quietly aside.

Seeing her younger brother like this, Jin Nian was a little sad, her younger brother was in a different situation from her, but her younger brother was more sensible than her, but he also understood the coldness of human feelings earlier.

was originally a young man flying on a horse, but now he has the appearance of a little adult.

Jin Nian secretly sighed in his heart and said with a smile: "Brother, is Huai'an fun?" ”

"It's okay!"

Thinking that he would say some of Huai'an's customs and customs, but it turned out to be only two short words, Su Jinnian didn't give up, and asked again: "Compared with Yangzhou, how is it?" ”

This time, Su Ziming tilted his head and thought seriously for a while before saying, "Yangzhou is better!" ”

"That's right." It doesn't happen overnight to make my brother lively, but fortunately, there is still a lot of time to come.

She thought about it for a while, and then said to Su Ziming: "In a few days, you have rested, can you tell my sister about the scenery in Huai'an?" Since she can remember, she only went back to her grandfather's house with her mother at the age of eight, more than four years ago, and her impression of Huai'an is already very vague.

Su Ziming did not object, and simply replied "yes" and then disappeared.

Taking advantage of the gap between the sister and brother's words, Xie Shi had already changed into a light blue gown, she came out of the back room, and said with a smile: "Let's go, let's go and greet your grandmother together." Although the old lady did not like to see her, she had to go and talk back to the old lady when she came back from a long distance.

Just after the hour, the old lady had just gotten up from a lunch break, and was sitting at the desk having afternoon tea with Su Jintong, when she saw Xie Shi coming in with her two children, she frowned and said lightly: "You don't have to rush back and forth just when you come back." ”

As soon as she heard this, Jin Nian's heart darkened, if her mother didn't talk back that day, I'm afraid the old lady would say that her mother was rude!

Xie Shi smiled and said softly: "My daughter-in-law has been away from home for a long time, and I don't know if my mother's health is okay?" ”

The old lady replied without being soft or hard: "It's still the same, what's so good!" ”

Xie Shi was stuck there, not knowing how to continue the conversation.

Fortunately, the old lady asked the third master again: "Is the third child okay in Huai'an?" ”

Xie Shi secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "The master is very good, but he is relatively busy, and he often thinks about his mother's body." ”

Speaking of her son, the old lady's face finally softened a little, and she asked about the studies of her two grandsons, Su Ziming and Su Zifeng, and then stopped the topic.

Jin Nian listened to the conversation between the two on the side, only felt that the atmosphere was dull and abnormal, and only hoped that the old lady would send a message early to let them go back to Fuhuayuan earlier.

Su Jintong seemed to be waiting impatiently, and seeing that Xie and the old lady didn't speak anymore, she said, "My sister said last time that she asked her mother to ask her grandmother for a jade pendant, can my mother ask for it?" ”

Xie didn't know that the Kaiguang jade pendant was caused by the tourmaline, and when she heard Su Jintong mention it at this time, she was shocked, her daughter had already mentioned the matter of Kaiguang jade pendant to the old lady, so didn't she mess up the matter?

She panicked and hurriedly confessed: "The daughter-in-law is incompetent and failed to ask for a consecrated jade pendant for her mother." ”

Didn't ask for a consecrated jade pendant?! Mother's words were like a basin of cold water splashing Jin Nian's heart, and Shi Cai only cared about talking to his mother, and even forgot to ask about it.

How much the old lady is looking forward to this bright jade pendant, no one knows better than her, and now that it has failed, then her efforts on the old lady's side during this period of time have been in vain.

Jin Nian sighed weakly, in the future, I am afraid that the old lady will not want to see her even more in the future!

She looked up at the old lady, and sure enough, the old lady was full of boredom.

She glanced at Xie Shi and said unhappily: "Didn't you say that your father-in-law and Master Huineng are friends, how could you not ask for it?" The old lady's words meant that Xie didn't do her best to ask for her.

The corners of Su Jintong's mouth hooked slightly, glanced at Jinnian meaninglessly, and slowly stroked the tea with the lid of the cup.

Xie smiled bitterly and explained in a low voice: "The jade pendant opened by Master Huineng was given on the day when the second dragon raised its head in February, and when my father went to ask for it, the master said that only the jade pendant that was opened on the second day of February had Buddha nature, so my father did not ask for it, but ......"

The matter has come to this point, can you still anger your in-laws? The resentment in the old lady's heart was nowhere to be expressed, so she interrupted Xie Shi's words with a calm face: "Don't say it, let's retreat!" ”

Jin Nian is gloomy! It's just that some people can't exchange sincerity for sincerity, and she will have to find another way in the future.

She reached out to help her mother out.

Xie Shi was stunned, thought about it, she still had the courage to finish the unsaid words: "I asked for the Heart Sutra copied by Master Huineng himself, Master Huineng said, this Heart Sutra has been offered to the Bodhisattva case for thirty years, more Buddha nature than those enlightened jade pendants, I thought of my mother's devotion to the Buddha, chanting the scriptures every day, so I asked for my mother." ”

It turned out to be so! Jin Nian breathed a sigh of relief and let go of the hand that was supporting her mother.

"What did you say?" The old lady looked at Xie Shi in disbelief, and her voice couldn't help but raise a degree, "You asked for the Heart Sutra copied by Master Huineng himself?" ”

But what did he do wrong, seeing the old lady's reaction, as if he was happy and angry, Xie's heart lifted, and he replied "yes" with anxiety, and respectfully presented the Heart Sutra.

The old lady's face burst into laughter, and she said again and again: "This is very good, very good!" After a pause, he seemed to think of something again, and said, "Jintong, show your mother tea." ”

Su Jintong's face instantly became a little colorful.

Xie was a little flattered, this was the first time the old lady showed a smile in front of her.