After having lunch in the eldest grandson's mansion, Dou was worried about the third son in the family who did not come out with him, so he took the first step to resign to the eldest grandson and his wife, and before parting, he repeatedly invited the Gao family, so that she had time to take her children to her own house......

After Dou left, the eldest grandson Chi pulled his younger brother Changsun Sheng to the study, the brothers talked in the study for more than an hour, until Shen Shizhong came out of it, when he said goodbye to his brother and returned home, Changsun Sheng's eyes fell thoughtfully on the little girl from time to time, and the eldest grandson girl was a little worried by her father's strange gaze.

After she climbed into the carriage, she couldn't help but quietly comb through her performance today, for fear that something inappropriate would fall into her father's eyes, but after thinking about it for a long time, she didn't find that she had done anything unusual or inappropriate......

Changsun Sheng's return to Beijing this time was due to the expiration of his foreign appointment, and he was ordered by the emperor to return to Beijing to be transferred, and the original order would not come down until the early spring, and there were more than three months of vacation in between, but the emperor's heart was unpredictable, and Changsun Sheng rested at home for less than two months, and was summoned into the palace by Emperor Yang of Sui.

Came to the palace, Emperor Yang of Sui told him that he was preparing for a northern tour in the spring of next year, and wanted to lead the troops out of the fortress, and brighten the appearance of our army outward, so as to strengthen the prestige of our dynasty, and was afraid of alarming the Qimin Khan for no reason, causing unnecessary disputes.

The eighth day of December is the traditional Laba Festival, every household has to eat Laba porridge on the Laba Festival, and the Right Xiaowei General's Mansion is naturally no exception, although the male host of Changsun Sheng is not at home, there are still many people in the General's Mansion, in addition to Gao's mother and son, Changsun Sheng also has two concubines and several children and grandchildren, this festival is naturally indispensable.

Gao is the stepwife of Changsun Sheng, she is more than 20 years younger than Changsun Sheng, when she married to the general's mansion, Changsun Sheng has three sons and one daughter, the eldest son and the second son of the four children are concubines, the third son An Ye and the eldest daughter are concubines, the so-called stepmother is difficult, after Gao married over, he was very kind to the children in front of Changsun Sheng, and he never dared to ignore them......

Over the years, the eldest daughter and eldest grandson have long been married, An Ye is now twenty-five years old, and she has married a few years ago, and she already has a three-year-old daughter and a one-and-a-half-year-old son.

Because Changsun Sheng's parents have passed away a few years ago, since the death of Changsun Sheng's parents and the expiration of Gao's filial piety, most of the time he has been in office with his husband, and the head of the inner house in the general's mansion has been in charge of Chen, the wife of Changsun Anye, and now that Gao is back, Chen's two children are still young, and this family power will naturally be handed over to Gao.

People who are used to power, once they are asked to hand over the power in their hands, their hearts are naturally uncomfortable, but their hearts are no longer comfortable, forced by the deterrence accumulated by Changsun Sheng, the father for many years, in front of him, Changsun Anye and his wife did not dare to show it, and now that Changsun Sheng is not in the house, Changsun Anye and his wife have less scruples in their hearts, and the contradiction is naturally revealed.

On the sixth day of the first month of December, Gao approached a few daughters-in-law to come over to ask for peace and discussed with her how to do Laba porridge, because in the past few years, Chen was responsible for these things, and Gao had only been back home for more than two months, and she didn't want her daughters-in-law to feel that she was too strong and impersonal as a mother-in-law, and she firmly controlled everything in the house as soon as she returned home, and did not give her daughter-in-law any power.

For this reason, after a little consideration, her eyes fell on the third daughter-in-law Chen, and said: "Third daughter-in-law, I have been in office with your grandfather for most of these years, and you are responsible for all the big and small matters in the house, and I don't know much about the affairs in the house. “

Zheng is twenty-three years old, she married into the eldest grandson mansion at the age of sixteen, and it has been seven years, and her sister-in-law Zhang is seven years older than her, and the second sister-in-law Zheng is also four years older than her.

Gao has not been in the house for many years, the power of the house has always been controlled by the Chen family, and now the Gao family has arranged it like this, there is nothing wrong with it, and the Zhang family and the Zheng family have no opinions, but their lack of opinions does not mean that the Chen family has no opinions, as soon as Gao's voice fell, Chen's voice sounded: "The daughter-in-law thanks her mother for her love, but the daughter-in-law's young son Lin'er is still young, Sister Lan has been a little unwell recently, I can't get out of it, about Laba porridge, the daughter-in-law is afraid that she can't share her mother's worries." “

She hung her head slightly when she spoke, not letting Gao see the sneer and no-swan that flashed in her eyes, Gao frowned slightly when she heard it, Sister Lan was fine yesterday, but she is unwell today? When she didn't come back, the eldest grandson Lin was younger than the Chen family, and she managed everything in the mansion well, and now the first thing she was told to do after returning to the mansion, she shirked it in every possible way......

Gao looked at Chen quietly for a while, and only after a while did he say lightly: "Since the third daughter-in-law can't get out, forget it, the eldest and the second daughter-in-law, how about you handle this matter with me?" “

"But at my mother's command." Zhang and Zheng stood up together, respectfully and respectfully, Chen has never liked her stepmother Gao because her husband, and she also has no reverence for Gao, a young mother-in-law, but Zhang and Zheng are different, their husbands are concubines, no matter who their mother-in-law is, as long as they are not too harsh on them, they will not openly be enemies with their mother-in-law.

Chen refused to take this errand, originally wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to lose Gao's face, she knew that her husband hated Gao's stepmother, as long as he found an opportunity, he would find something unhappy for Gao, and Gao's stepmother, in order to please his grandfather, has always been humble and virtuous in the house, and in the face of his wife's difficulties, she has never said much.

She had already calculated that even if she shirked herself, Gao didn't dare to do anything, and finally had to say more good things to herself, and then put this errand in her own hands, but the result was beyond her expectations, this Gao not only did not say good things to herself, but did not say a word, she took it over, and her heart couldn't help but be very angry, but she was also the daughter of the eunuch's family, and the basic forbearance and etiquette were still understood, and she didn't have a seizure on the spot, only the handkerchief she was holding in her hand was almost rubbed by her......

"A-Niang, I see that the third sister-in-law's face is not very good-looking, what's going on?" The eldest grandson girl came to say hello late today, and when she came, she happened to see several sisters-in-law coming out of Gao's courtyard, Chen's face was pale, her eyes were angry, and she looked very angry, and after she entered her mother's house, she couldn't help but ask.