Early autumn is always rainy and rainy, and Mrs. Song is not in good health these days. To be precise, since the Song family came back early, she was not only in poor health, but also depressed for a few days. He went to the battlefield with Sheng Guogong that year

The old problem that fell, and when it came to a rainy day, my legs and feet always began to hurt.

"When will it arrive?" She asked casually.

The little maid who was kneeling next to her and pinching her feet quickly replied, "The letter I sent a few days ago has arrived today." Is the old lady going to pick up the third young master? ”

Old Taijun Song half-lowered her eyes, "I'm old, and my legs and feet are not good." And when they come back to-day, they will not be used to greet me. Thinking of the two girls in Bingzhou again, "If the Liu family brings those two girls here, they will reward two golden tweezers to play with." ”

The golden hammer is a valuable commodity in ordinary people's homes, and it is half a year's worth of rice and flour money when it is taken out and melted. But in a prosperous house such as Shengfu, many times the master rewarded the subordinates.

pinched the old lady's thoughts about the few masters who were about to enter the Sheng Mansion, and the maid hung her head again. Old Mrs. Song was old, and after a while, she fell asleep with her arms on her pillow, and the maid covered her with a thin fox skin blanket and slowly retreated with her steps.

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Sheng Qian and the others waited for the carriage all the way into the capital, with a pass token, and there were no guards to stop them, and soon someone from the Sheng family came to pick them up.

Sheng Mingzhu pillowed the pillow in the carriage, when the road was bumpy before, her still sleepy head was little by little, and now she is about to enter the Sheng Mansion, the official road in the capital is not as good as the side, the road is very smooth, but she has no sleepiness at all.

The carriage curtain is slightly opened, the willows hang low on all sides, and the red bricks and green tiles are seen in the distance, all of which show the prosperity of the capital and the feet of the Son of Heaven. Sheng Mingzhu looked at the imperial city from afar, and his mind couldn't help but flood with that dream—the dream of dancing, and the prince with a mole on his forehead.

and Sheng Qian, who was full of worries from the moment he entered the capital.

The Song family's matter has come true, Sheng Mingzhu exhaled, and for no reason, his heart seemed to be entangled in a trace of impermeable fog wrapped in those dreams.

The carriage also slowly stopped, she lifted the curtain, and sat in front of her the majestic mansion - the mansion of the Shengguo Mansion, she could no longer think of a word to describe it except for the word majestic, this is the ultimate wealth that ordinary people cannot get in their lives.

Skimming over this tile at a glance, it is indeed the broken ruins in my heart. Sheng Mingzhu's heart was as if glass had entered the water, and it was suddenly clear. The Shengguo Mansion is like this, and it will be restored overnight, as if the Great Turnover was replaced by the Great Wei in an instant.

The scene alternated between desolation and prosperity, and Sheng Mingzhu suddenly understood what those Taoists said was like a cloud of wealth.

Thinking like this, the wealth in front of him doesn't seem to be nothing.

Soon the door next to it was opened by the subordinates, and several columns of small servants came out and carried the salutes they had brought along the way. Huang's mother got off the sedan chair first, and soon helped Yun Niang down, and Lingzhu was hugged by her. Chen Cen came out and wanted to help Mingzhu down.

At the door, there was a maid standing at some point, about twenty years old, but looking very old-fashioned.

"Where did you come from, you don't know the rules so much!" She looks beautiful, but she has a little hanging eyes, which can be said to be majestic or unlucky, "My Miss Sun of the Shengguo Mansion, was it touched by someone like you?" The Shengguo Mansion is the founding father, that is, there are different rules for traveling and dismounting. ”

Sheng Mingzhu heard it in the sedan chair, what an imposing maid. She lifted the curtain slightly, and her father and mother had already entered the door with half a foot, and looked back again. There are not so many rules in the state capital, Yun Niang held the spirit bead and glanced at Sheng Qian with some anxiety.

Chen Cen shrunk his hands, not knowing what to do. Huang's mother stepped forward, just wanted to help Mingzhu down, at this time there was the sound of stepping on the bluestone floor, Sheng Mingzhu turned his head slightly, the carriage also slowly stopped, and soon a small servant came up from the rear, half-kneeling on the ground.

The first thing that jumped into front of me was a pair of delicate and small embroidered shoes, followed by a cumbersome and heavy horse-faced skirt.

Sheng Mingzhu raised her eyes, and it happened that the person was also facing her, it was a young girl, wearing a pink twig skirt, a delicate bun rising high on her head, wearing a kitkat step, and the tassels in her ears were swaying, golden. It's unattainable when you look at it.

She pursed her lips slightly, stepped on the back of the little girl, slowly got out of the carriage, and seemed to glance at Sheng Mingzhu inadvertently.

"Sister Jane, is there anyone at home? Nothing I've seen before. ”

She asked, Ni Zhen came down the steps, "Second Miss-" and looked back at Sheng Qian, "This is the third master and aunt." I used to be out of state, and I just came back today. ”

She looked at the carriage again, her head tilted, looking a little innocent, "I heard what Grandmother said." I have a younger sister coming back today, why can't I come down yet? He glanced at Sheng Qian again, and was slightly blessed, "My niece has asked the third uncle for a gift." ”

Sheng Qian smiled and helped her. Sheng Feifei ignored Yun Niang, she was the daughter of the long house, the Sheng family was an old family, and the concubines were all half slaves, and she hadn't been saluted yet, "Sister Mingzhu hasn't come down yet, because she's shy?" ”

Yun Niang poked Sheng Qian's hand, this girl was like getting off the horse. deliberately picked this time to come back, and used such a way to get off the carriage, she had only heard of nobles getting off the horse and touching the ground before. But there's no reason for such a big battle just after coming back.

Sheng Qian held her hand and whispered in her ear, "My brother's little daughter, the youngest in the family, is spoiled. ”

Gray walked to the side and leaned down slightly. Sheng Mingzhu stepped on his back and walked to Sheng Feifei, her originally smart eyes became cautious, "There was no such ...... in Bingzhou before. Sister, am I doing the right thing? ”

Although Sheng Feifei called her a sister just now, she didn't really want to recognize this sister in her heart. Especially now that she looks like a dirt bun who has never seen the world, "It's a situation left and right, it's not a big deal." She glanced at Sheng Mingzhu again, but she looked really good, but there was nothing worth looking at her differently.

I felt bored again, and wasted my time in the afternoon, "Today, the third uncle is back at home, and the reception banquet in the house has been prepared, and my niece will not delay the third uncle to go back to the courtyard to clean up." After speaking, he gave Sheng Qian a blessing, and walked unhurriedly on the delicate embroidered shoes, without looking at Yun Niang from beginning to end.

Sheng Mingzhu hung her head and looked gentle and virtuous.

All the way into the Sheng Mansion, many people looked here. When he saw Sheng Qian, he came to say hello, and many of them walked over directly, Sheng Mingzhu knew what his father's status was in the house, and he and Huang's mother and his party quickly arrived at the courtyard of the third room.

There was a miasma of smoke, and layers of cobwebs were about to fall.

If it weren't for the exquisite furniture, anyone would have thought that this was the residence of the princess of the state's mansion.

"I have an eldest brother and an older sister, and my mother doesn't pay much attention to me on weekdays. After a while, I went to ask for peace, and someone would come to clean up. Huang's mother wiped a few chairs, Sheng Qian picked one to sit down, and said to Mingzhu a few times, "Now that our family has just returned to the capital, everything has not yet settled down." Nannan, you must control your temperament, and when everything is taken care of by Daddy, he will naturally take you out. ”

The meaning of her father's words is obvious. The grandmother didn't value him as a son very much, so naturally she didn't value her granddaughter very much.

"Can you move out? Will others gossip? Yun Niang asked hurriedly.

When she saw the arrogant maid and that Sheng Feifei earlier, she was afraid in her heart. The official lady who grew up in the capital was full of momentum, Sheng Qian looked at her nervous expression, touched her face, and smiled gently, "What are you afraid of, there is me." ”

Sheng Lingzhu was secretly eating candy, but when she saw it, she covered her mouth and smiled. Yun Niang secretly hammered Sheng Qian, and the original anxiety went a little bit.

"In the evening there is a feast, and if you are sleepy, stay in the house. It's just that Lingzhu and Mingzhu entered the mansion for the first time, and I haven't come back for more than ten years. In a moment, you take two of you to greet your mother, and tomorrow I will take them to see my father officially. Yun Niang nodded after writing it down, and asked Sheng Qian what taboo rules he had.

He answered them one by one.

After only a cup of tea, they changed their clothes and went to the main room again.

There are a total of three sons and one daughter in the Shengguo Mansion, and now the family has not been separated, that is, the two of Shengguo live in the main house.

Sheng Mao is the eldest son, living in the nearest Bairong Hall in the main house, there are two concubines, and the eldest daughter Sheng Ruoqiu has been married. The second daughter, Sheng Feifei, is one year older than Mingzhu.

There is also a younger son who has just reached the age of entering school. Mrs. Song ruled the family strictly, and she had no concubines.

The second old man Sheng Shan is a concubine, living a little more partial, and when he was young, he didn't know what to drill in his head, and he was dedicated to the Tao, and now he has no wife and daughter, and the worried second aunt and grandmother have given birth to a few more gray hairs over the years.

Sheng Qian went to find Sheng Guogong, the father and son had not seen each other for more than two years, and there were many things to say, and there were still some things in the officialdom. Three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver, when he left, Sheng Qian was young and vigorous, and few people cared, but now he personally knows what kind of things he is holding in his hands.

And Yun Niang took her two daughters to see Mrs. Song.

The old lady lives in the main house, and there is a tree of begonia flowers outside, which is pink and tender. Yun Niang followed Ni Zhen in, feeling that the servants in this big place were really different from the small land in their state, Huang's mother also pursed her lips and leaned into her ear, "Those who know say that she is a maid, and those who don't know think she is the master, which maid is more arrogant than the master?" ”

Sheng Mingzhu kept smiling all the way.

Ni Zhen'er said that she was the eldest maid who served the old lady in front of her, and she was favored by the old lady. Old Taijun Song is the one who went to the battlefield with Grandpa Guo back then, and the maids she served in front of her had a bit of face in front of several masters-

"The Lord is not a master and a servant, and the building will fall to the top."

Lingzhu suddenly burst out of her mouth a few words, Sheng Mingzhu reacted first, immediately covered her mouth, and looked around again, "Sell it home and beat you again." ”