Since then, Jin Mei has not spoken, except for Jinhua asking her third brother some rumors and interesting stories from time to time, only Jinyu occasionally laughs with the old lady. At the end of the meal, Jinyu proposed to wipe the cards, the old lady agreed, Jinhua pulled Liuli to join, and Jinmei had to sit with him for a while.

The third young master didn't leave, sat next to the old lady to help wipe the cards, and took a lot of money from Jinhua Liuli, and finally the night outside, the snow outside the house became heavier and heavier, and the maids and nurses in each house came to urge, and the old lady looked lazy again, so she dispersed.

Jin Mei was accompanied by Bi Luo and Jin Hua for a short time, and then turned to the Green Jiaoxuan from the corner gate under the verandah. As soon as I got out, someone shouted, "Wait ahead!" "When I looked back, it was the third young master. Afraid that they would wait for a long time, he braved the snow and walked quickly under the begonia tree, and came to them covered in snow.

"Young Master Ying, is there something?"

The third young master's name is Shaoying, and he is the youngest son born to the eldest wife, the third among the grandchildren, the same age as Jinnuo. Bi Russell knew the people in the eldest lady's room, so he asked first.

"It's not close to Lujiaoxuan, and Mei'er's sister is weak, why don't you go through the main room?" Shaoying took a breath and smiled, and after careful debate, there were two points of goodwill.

Jin Mei lowered his head: "Thank you cousin for mentioning it, it's just that it's getting late, and my aunt must have rested, and then pass by the main house and courtyard, I'm afraid that there will be more disturbances." From this road, although it is far away, there is no rain or snow all the way, and it is cheap. ”

"It's okay, I'll take you away!"

Shao Ying was about to lead the way, and Jin Mei hurriedly said: "Brother Ying, slow down!" When Shao Ying heard this, she turned her head suddenly, and her eyes were also surprised: "What are you calling me?" Jin Mei also felt out of shape, and hurriedly lowered his head and said: "I'm sorry, I used to hear my sister call you like this, so I didn't realize that I also called, it was my eyebrows that were out of line." Shaoying was stunned for a moment, shrugged her shoulders, and exhaled into the fluttering sky: "Yes!" I should have known that this was the case. Fangcai, I thought it was ......"

"Why?" Jin Mei raised her head.

Shaoying withdrew her gaze, and her eyes fixed on her under the corridor lamp, only the snowflakes outside the corridor were still fluttering tirelessly.

After a long time like this, he suddenly brushed his sleeves and sighed first: "That's it! It's me who has a lot of heart. It's getting late, go back quickly! There are people on duty at the gate of the courtyard all the way, and if there is anything to call, I won't send it. ”

After Shaoying finished speaking, she strode around and walked away, and Jin Mei saw his back disappear behind the begonia tree, so he slowly turned around.

Bi Luo walked silently with her for a while, and said in a flickering manner: "Young Master Ying has been playing and studying with the eldest lady since he was a child, and he has eaten and lived together, slept and bed together, and the relationship is the best." Young Master Ying is smart and erudite, and the eldest lady is showing off her wisdom, and they all say that the two of them are the golden boy and jade girl in front of Guanyin Niangniang. I'm afraid that even Young Master Ying himself thinks so, the eldest lady holds the moon in the stars, and he can't stand the grievances, so if there is anything, he will follow the eldest lady. Who would have thought that after this difficulty, it would end up separated by yin and yang. On the night of the eldest lady's accident, after He Fushang heard the news, Young Master Ying was the first to rush over, and he stayed for two days and two nights, until Mrs. Gu sent him back to the house while he was asleep. Losing the eldest lady, he must have been extremely painful in his heart, just saw him smiling in front of everyone, the slave and maid were really admired, I really don't know how much effort it took for him to hide his mind so well. ”

Jin Mei's steps became slower and slower, and when she went to see Biluo, her eyes were already red.

"Young Master Ying is warm and easy-going, in the eyes of the slave, he is by no means as frivolous as the second young master, everything is true and true. Just now, he invited the young lady to come along, it must be because he remembered the eldest lady in his heart, it is definitely not something else, the young lady must not go to his heart. ”

The girl wiped her tears and defended Shaoying in her mouth. Jinmei's heart is like turning over the river and the sea, far less shallow than her thoughts, thinking about the past, unconsciously, the tears flowing on her cheeks are also cold in the night wind.

"Biro," she breathed a sigh of relief, and walked further on, "I ask you. ”

Bi Luo hurriedly said, "Miss, please speak." ”

"What kind of woman do you think is worthy of a person like Young Master Ying, except for the eldest lady?"

Bi Luo was stunned and didn't make a sound for a long time. Jin Mei tilted her head to gesture with her eyes, and she hesitated and replied: "If you want the slave to answer, the slave and the maid don't know how to answer." The slave only knows that with such a person as the house, with the character of Young Master Ying, she is still loved by the subordinates in the mansion, and the woman who matches him is not worthy of the lady who is not as good as the eldest lady. Young Master Ying will often have to walk around for He Fu in the future, and if he marries a woman with no background and no family, he will definitely be looked down upon by others, and it will not be beneficial in his career. ”

Jin Mei silently walked to the front of a snow-covered Fuso tree, looked at the snow for a moment, and didn't know how to speak for a while. After a long time, Fang Cai looked back quietly, "It's a pity that there is no more Ye Jinnuo in this world." But what if he meets a woman who looks like Jinnuo very much in the future and really likes but has no family background? ”

"What else?" Bi Luo said: "If you marry the main family, whether you like it or not is secondary, and it doesn't matter if you can raise your eyebrows, the key is whether you can let the two families have face at the same time, or have actual interests." Even if the man himself doesn't mind the other party's family background, the elders will definitely block it, and these four words have always been the most important in the wealthy nobles. If you really like it, it's easy, take it in as a concubine, take care of it, and get your own place. For example, the concubines in the second young master's room are not a ready-made example! ”

"Concubine?"

Jin Mei held a ball of snow in his hand, rubbed it a few times in his palm, and threw it to the ground. "A good daughter's family, if you don't mean to be self-deprecating, do you have to be the little wife that everyone looks down on because of her life experience? No matter how much the husband loves him, what does it mean if he loses his dignity? ”

Bi Luo glanced at her and sighed, "What Miss said, why not?" But if everyone looks down on it, how can there be a dispute over the identity of the concubine? From ancient times to the present, not counting the common people, even the inner courtyard of the palace, this is also the case. For thousands of years, who can resist this reason? The worst thing is those concubines who have no children and no daughters under their knees, their stomachs are not angry, and their husbands no longer care for them when they are old, and they have no one to rely on until they die. ”

When Jin Mei heard this, there was no more verbal argument.

What Bi Luo said, she didn't study it deeply in the past, but in such a position now, even if she no longer resents this world, she has to admit the existence of the ancient precept of respect and humility. In previous years, in her own family, although she was also quite tolerant in front of her aunts and siblings, in her heart, why didn't she often proudly regard herself as the eldest daughter? If you are like this, how can you ask others to be fair?