Tian Jiang was doing needlework with Cai Rong and other maids in the house, and someone replied: "Aunt Su is here." ”

The curtain was raised, and Aunt Su was helped into the room by the girl Juan'er, and the snow was falling outside, although she was holding a green silk oil umbrella, the shoulders of the cloak were still stained with snow stains, and they were wet.

Tian Jiang beckoned her to sit on the kang, took off her soaked shoes and socks and put them on the edge of the large copper brazier to dry them slowly, and ordered Cuimei to pour boiling tea.

Aunt Su took a bite of it, only felt that the taste was sweet and sour, and asked with a smile what kind of tea it was, Tian Jiang explained: "After my own child is pregnant, I can't touch the bitter tea, so I will get some yellow oranges, water goose pears, golden apricots or red dates and sliced them before I can eat them." “

"The second grandmother Guo is a young lady married from a wealthy family, and she lives more delicately than us...... Aunt Su sighed.

"I have a lot of this, if you like it, let the girl wrap some and take it to eat." Tian Jiang is quite enthusiastic, perhaps because they are pregnant with each other, but there is some sympathy for each other.

Aunt Su shook her head and refused, stroked her belly with her hand, frowned and said, "I know that the second grandmother is kind, but I can't...... Now I don't touch anything except the meal sent by the old lady. ”

"Why is that?" Tian Jiang asked in surprise.

Aunt Su continued: "In the fifth room, the lady and aunt don't add those who have no name in the room, and there are nine people who are full. Now that I am pregnant with the fifth grandfather's heir, my grandmother doesn't know that when they look at me, their eyes will drip blood, and they don't know what vicious methods they want to use to calculate my children. I don't touch the ones they send me for food, drink, and clothing. If I accept what the second grandmother gave, who will make a trick when I go back, but let the second grandmother get into trouble, it is better to let me die........"

"What is not dead, say these taboos when you fast forward to the end of the year." Tian Jiang hurriedly interrupted her, thinking about it and comforting her softly: "The hundred-year-old clan of the Shen Mansion, the family house is deep, and the precepts are complete, so I envy you for being happy at most, who will really do something that harms the heirs, even if you are bold, according to the laws of our dynasty, once you offend the stripping cane and parade through the streets, and humiliate people as if they are dead, they don't dare to take risks and calculate you." “

Aunt Su wiped her eyes with a handkerchief, and said in a choked voice: "Grandma has the pain of the old lady, and she is the exclusive favor of the second master, how do you know what is sinister in people's hearts......."

Tian Jiang was persuaded first, and seeing that she always had a reason to dismiss her words, she gradually only listened to it, picked up the red silk belly pocket casually, embroidered half of the tiger's head, and then embroidered the other half with a needle and thread.

Aunt Su stopped when she said that her mouth was scorched, and she looked at her embroidering her belly pocket, with a look of envy: "Grandma is skillful, and she embroiders this tiger with great energy." “

Tian Jiang actually had a strip of embroidery in the carrot, and it didn't hurt to give her the original way, but when she remembered what Fang said, she only smiled and didn't make a sound.

Aunt Su suddenly found something, stared at her belly for a long time, her eyes became strange, and her words were also indistinguishable: "Grandma's belly is arcing, I'm still flat." ”

Tian Jiang was slightly stunned when she heard this, she didn't pay attention to this for a long time, she looked at each other at this time, measured it with her hand, and couldn't help but smile: "I can eat and be sleepy all day, he may grow faster." ”

Aunt Su pursed her lips and didn't answer, but Juan'er came over and said, "Mama Lu sent someone to deliver dinner, so that you can go back quickly." "Go and get the soaked shoes and socks and wait for her to put them on, and then say a few more words.

Cai Rong waited a few times into the room to continue to do needlework.

Cuimei saw that they disappeared outside the courtyard gate, so she put down the window drawer, approached Tian Jiang and whispered, "Aunt Su looks thinner than usual again." ”

"She is narrow-minded, careful and vigilant everywhere, and always feels that someone is going to harm her at any time, how can she get fat like this." Tian Jiang's face was full of disapproval: "The capital is a place where the nobles and powerful ministers gather, and the tranquility of the family house is also related to the career of the court. “

"Where is there such as what is written in ancient and modern or legendary horn books, the mother-in-law does not expect her daughter-in-law to be virtuous, the daughter-in-law only recognizes her mother-in-law as mean, the housemother hates the aunt for favor, and the aunt covets the position of the housemother, if anyone is pregnant again, there will be a maid or grandmother who has been bought, and those musk, safflower, peach kernels, croton and other abortion herbs are secretly poked and poked into meals, pastries or even tea and sprinkled, and there are more ambitions to do nothing, mercury arsenic frost crane top red dove poison directly one corpse and two lives, and those who are not exposed will live freely from now on, and those who are exposed have to hang themselves by hanging themselves, which is really not credible."

"First of all, it is difficult to buy poison, you must register the surname, mansion and purpose of the pharmacy, and the government sends officials to take turns every day in the morning and evening, and if you feel suspicious, you have to come to the door to investigate. That's daunting. There are also those housemothers and wives, who were born in the world eunuchs and scholars, and when they were young ladies, they were familiar with the Women's Sutra, courteous and deservant, gentle and virtuous, who wanted to marry a wife, the Female Scripture was forgotten, the etiquette was forgotten, and the royal law was also forgotten. “

Cai Rong pursed her lips and asked with a smile: "Those aunts rarely have a high-class background, and it is difficult to explain the three religions and nine streams, how can Mrs. argue?" “

Tian Jiang saw that they liked to listen, and then said: "Those aunts, except for a few innocent young ladies, are like Xichun, they are girls with good character in the house, they are promoted by the master, or they are married, they know the roots, they are loyal, how can they do anything to murder the master." There are also those gentlemen who brought back the good singer fans, but it is just a conjecture of compiling a book, even if it is true, it is by no means something that we can have in the world, and the masters have a ruler in their hearts, this is the rule of the ancestors, passed down from generation to generation, and cannot be exceeded. ”

Cuimei said with her jaw bowed: "Madame is reasonable!" I was originally a close maid of Mrs. Xu of the Liang State Mansion, and I have seen crying and crying because of the quarrel to complain, you persuade me to persuade me to dissipate the anger, but it is not good, so I will stay away and go our own way, where is it so terrible as Aunt Su said. ”

was talking lively, and the girl guarding the door outside the curtain said: "The second master is back." ”

Shen Zetang lifted the curtain and stepped into the room, the maids all stood up and bowed down to him, Tian Jiang sat on the kang, with a needlework in his hand, his little face was pink, and his eyes were shining.

couldn't help but hook his lips and smile, walked to the side of the kang to sit, and took her hand into his arms.

The maids lowered their eyebrows and lowered their eyes.

After a long period of intimacy, Shen Zetang said first: "Why are you talking about being so energetic? I stood in front of the porch, and I could only hear a few words, what singers are powdered, and the rules of the ancestors must not be crossed. “

Tian Jiang sat up, raised his hand to cut his hair and sideburns, and said with a smile instead of answering: "Aunt Su came over and sat down for a while, saying thank you for the second master's mention, the fifth master went to her room to rest for a night last night." ”

Shen Zetang said "um", put his big hand on her belly, and stroked it gently.