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Hearing his mother talk about his two children, Pei Shufan couldn't help but smile slightly, and his haggard face was radiant.

"Mother, you don't know, Yi'er also said before that he is an elder brother and wants to protect his sister."

Although Pei Shufan's sister-in-law, Chu Qianyi, is only three and a half years old, he is extremely smart, has a good memory, and can speak well, which is better than the two elder brothers who are five or six years older than him. The lady of the Marquis of Ningyuan's mansion was as precious as her eyes.

The concubine Chu Qianqian has just turned one year old, and she is also made of pink makeup, which is even more neat than Aunt Qi's daughter Chu Wenlin.

When Mrs. Xia heard this, she wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief and said, "That's good!" That's it! - Anyway, you still have a hope......"

Before the mother and son had finished their confidant words, they heard a sound of talking outside the house.

Pei Shufan's dowry maid Tongxue replied outside: "Madam, the aunts came to invite An." ”

Mrs. Xia's face was calm, and she turned her head to look at Pei Shufan and asked, "Come to greet you at this time?" ”

When Mrs. Xia and the others entered the mansion, it was in the middle of the day. It's almost noon. Generally, the concubines of other people's families went to the main mother's room to ask for rules, and they all came over in the middle of the day. - They were two hours late.

Pei Shufan naturally knew what his mother meant. It's just that Ningyuan's Hou Mansion is different from his mother's Pei Mansion, Pei Shufan smiled bitterly at Mrs. Xia and said: "Since I was sick, Hou Ye only said that I wanted to recuperate, and asked them not to come over and quarrel with me." - They hadn't come in for a while. Now that I have come at this hour, I don't know what it means. ”

Mrs. Xia has been stubborn all her life, and she has always been unapologetic about these concubines and aunts. And Pei Mansion has two concubines, which were given to Pei Xiangye by Emperor Longqing that year, and they were still cleaned up by Mrs. Xia. After Emperor Longqing died, the two concubines also followed the first emperor not long after. Today's Pei Mansion is very clean. Mrs. Xia couldn't get used to the style of these concubines in the Marquis of Ningyuan's mansion, so she said, "Let's talk here, let them go back." ”

Pei Shufan nodded. She didn't like to see these people either. It's just that she is the mother of the Hou Mansion, and there is still a measure of accommodating people. Pei Shufan raised his voice and said to Tong Xue, the maid guarding outside: "Tong Xue, I'm here to accompany the guests." - Let the aunts take care of themselves. ”

Tong Xue and Tong Ye are both Pei Shufan's wedding maids. In the past two years, because Pei Shufan was pregnant with his daughter Qianqian, she had a bad pregnancy, and she had heavy bleeding after giving birth, and her body had been weak and she couldn't serve Hou Ye. Pei Shufan opened his face to his two wedding maids and accepted the room for the Hou Ye. When the Hou Ye went to the main courtyard to spend the night, they took turns to serve.

After instructing the people outside, Pei Shufan whispered to Mrs. Xia about business again.

Outside, the sky was getting gloomy. Because it is in the wax moon, the north wind is howling at every turn, and the snow is flying. After a while, the courtyard outside was white.

Pei Shufan was lying on the bed, saw a thin layer of snowflakes accumulated on the window lattice opposite, was in a better mood, and smiled at Mrs. Xia: "The capital has been dry for a winter. Finally, it snowed, and the harvest on the Zhuangzi next year will come up. - Otherwise, there will be a famine every year, and it will be really difficult to borrow money from the mother's inner treasury. ”

When Mrs. Xia heard this, her heart sank, and she hurriedly whispered about Master Pei's advice to her daughter's family when she went to Beijing. - Today's Marquis of Ningyuan is a relative, so he must be more careful. Today's saints are stoic and talented, and they cannot be taken lightly.

Ningyuan Hou Chuhua knew that his mother-in-law was going to come to visit the patient today, so he came home from the yamen of the military department early.

The snow outside is getting heavier. Fortunately, Chu Huajin was wearing a good mink fur rewarded by the queen's mother, but the rain and snow did not enter, and it was very warm.

He strode into his courtyard, but saw his four concubines standing on the corridor outside the door of the main house with Tongxue in the room, all with their shoulders shrunk and their backs, so pitiful.

"What are you doing here?" Chu Huajin strode up the steps and saw that they were all wearing only plain printed padded jackets, not even a cloak. The cold wind of winter was blowing, and even Chu Huajin, who was wearing a mink fur, felt as if his face had been blown by a wind knife.

The four concubines are two concubines who were born in the same room, Aunt Lan and Aunt Gui, who were raised because they gave birth to the eldest son and the second son, and Aunt Qi, the eldest daughter of the Dingnan Hou Mansion, who was married to Chu Hua back then, and Aunt Fang, the niece of Mrs. Jiyang Hou, who was just brought into the mansion at the beginning of this year.

Seeing Hou Ye coming in, these four aunts were in good spirits and blessed Hou Ye together.

"It's cold outside, so let's come and sit inside." Chu Hua saw that their faces were bruised from the cold, and he was a little unbearable.

The four of them looked at each other, lowered their heads, and said, "Master Hou, go in." We'll just wait outside. ”

"Madame told you to wait here?" Chu Huajin's face did not change, but his voice was a little low.

The four of them glanced at Tong Xue, but Tong Xue lowered her head to the ground.

Aunt Gui is quite mellow, and she has always been honest and honest in front of the Hou Ye, so she muttered: "Let's come over to say hello to Madame, Madame won't let us in......"

Chu Hua listened and didn't speak again, just raised his foot, kicked open the door of the main house and broke in.

Pei Shufan was whispering in the back room with his mother about borrowing money from the queen mother, when he heard the sound of the door outside being kicked open, and he couldn't help frowning, and was about to speak.

I heard the thick cotton curtain in the inner room also be torn down with a bang. Immediately afterwards, Chu Hua rushed in with a cold breath and said in a deep voice: "You are warm here?!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Chu Huajin found that Pei Shufan was not the only one in the room, but also his mother-in-law, Mrs. Xia, who was sitting on the edge of Pei Shufan's bed, looking at her coldly with a pair of cold eyes.

Chu Huajin's face flushed, he hurriedly cleaned up his face, knelt down and kowtowed respectfully to Mrs. Xia, and said, "Son-in-law, please meet your mother-in-law." ”

Mrs. Xia got up and avoided the side, and said coldly: "Who is the person on the card?" - Don't dare to accept the gift of the uncle. ”

Chu Hua was bored, so he had to get up by himself and give Mrs. Xia another look, before turning to Pei Shufan and asking, "It's snowing outside, it's strangely cold." You let them make rules, can you change to a warmer place? - They don't even have a cloak, and if they freeze out, they have to delay the doctor's consultation, which makes people turn over on their backs, so that everyone in this house is not at peace. ”

Pei Shufan listened to Chu Huajin's words with a gun and a stick, and he didn't allow himself to distinguish it, and a fishy breath surged into his chest, and he spit out a mouthful of blood.

Mrs. Xia was so frightened that she didn't care about helping her daughter speak, so she hurriedly said, "It's terrible, please ask for a doctor!" ”

Chu Hua saw that Pei Shufan was so angry that he vomited blood, and he also regretted it a little, so he went out to let the aunts go back, and ordered Tongxue to hurry up and ask the doctor to come over.

Aunt Qi asked worriedly, "Master Hou, but what's wrong with Madame?" ”

Chu Hua hurriedly said, "Don't worry, I am here." Go back first. ”

The aunts are all gone. Aunt Qi slowly walked to the end.

Seeing this, Chu Hua caught up with her in a few steps, and whispered: "I asked someone to send some silver frost charcoal to your yard, as well as two gray squirrel skins, you can make a leather jacket for yourself and Lin'er to wear." "Lin'er is the daughter of Aunt Qi, and she is only six years old now.