、、、、、、、、、、 knew that Li Manniang would not say such a thing, so he was silent for a moment and sighed: "Even if it is as noble as this, it can't escape a fateful word." ”

Mrs. Cen said, "Why not? Therefore, this blessing does not come out of nowhere. With that life, you have to be blessed to enjoy it. That's it, if you want merit, just do two parts, and ask the Buddha to bless the mother and two with peace and joy in the next life. ”

Xue Shi thought more far-reachingly: "This matter has no effect on my uncle, right?" ”

Li Manniang said: "There shouldn't be." I just hope that His Royal Highness King Ning will get up soon. They are very affectionate and have been looking forward to this child, who knows that this will happen...... This blow is not small, I have already fainted twice in crying today, and I was persuaded by someone from the palace. ”

Everyone sighed again, like such a noble man, it is really rare to have such a deep affection. Peony remembered the events of his previous life on the side, at that time, his father and mother always liked to joke with each other, asking each other, what would happen if one party died? How often to get married? Dad always said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "Don't marry!" I'll be like a jade for you! In my heart, there is no one who can compare to the mother of a child. ”

Mom knew it was impossible, but she still liked this answer very, very much, and smiled sweetly while blaming Dad for telling lies.

Dad said, "Then what will you do if I die first?" ”

The mother would be very angry and wrinkle her eyebrows and say viciously: "If you want to die, you will die early!" Don't drag it out, I'm old and no one wants to die! It's good if you're dead, let people enjoy your house, let people enjoy your car, let people call your wife a wife, let people call your daughter a daughter! ”

Dad knew his mother's temperament very well, and knew that this was just a performance of reluctance to him, so he always laughed: "In order not to let others take advantage of me, then I still die." ”

Later, it was my mother who went early, and my father remarried someone else just a year later, and that person really lived in my father and mother's house, drove the car that my father and mother bought together, and called my mother's husband to be my husband.

Although she was very uncomfortable with her father remarrying someone else so soon, she calmly accepted the facts. After all, when my mother died, my father was really sad, he didn't think about tea and dinner, and he wilted for a long time, and he didn't get back up until that one. Anyway, after all, it was her father, he was still young, and he still had decades to live, and she was not so selfish that she wanted her father to be lonely and sad before he was satisfied. She comforted herself and said that there was no mother, and it was better for her father to live well than badly, and her mother was her mother alone, and she just remembered it.

After she came here, she faded her resentment towards her father, and was very glad that there was still that person by her father's side, otherwise her middle-aged father, who lost his wife and daughter, and was alone, would be pitiful. Thinking about it this way, isn't it a blessing for people who are alive that Dad can recover so quickly? If Mom is knowledgeable, she must also hope that Dad can live well.

But she often thinks, in this world, who really doesn't open whom? That kind of indispensable emotion, not nothing, is certainly touching, but it is always something that can be met but not sought? A person like King Ning will remarry in a short time. Even if he really can't forget Concubine Qin, the emperor will not allow Princess Ning's position to be empty, as the years go by, how much does he still remember when he thinks of the beautiful girl with a soft expression? The face will always be blurred with the passage of time.

The young girl Huaichun's Ying Niang Rong Niang felt that King Ning was really infatuated, although she didn't dare to say it explicitly, but the implication was that she hoped that her future husband would be such an affectionate person. Peony said seriously: "Actually, no matter what happens, it is the most appropriate and wisest to think more about the living." ”

Yingniang and Rongniang were a little stunned, not understanding the meaning of peony. Li Manniang and Mrs. Cen liked the words of peony very much, Mrs. Cen reached out and held Peony's hand, and smiled with satisfaction: "That's right." You all have to remember that the people who are alive are the most important. People don't live for themselves. ”

He Zhizhong, Da Lang and others strode in, only to hear the latter sentence, and said with a smile: "This is right, but how could you suddenly mention this matter?" ”

Everyone had to tell them what had happened, and He Zhizhong sighed: "Since that's the case, let's do it tomorrow." I asked someone to put dinner on the table, and someone came outside again, but this time it was Mrs. Cui who came back from the palace and made a detour to pick up Li Manniang home.

The He family warmly took Mrs. Cui into the house, and Mrs. Cen asked with concern, "Can you eat?" ”

Mrs. Cui was so hot that she was sweating profusely, but she didn't hurry to answer first, took the tea soup handed by the peony and drank it cleanly before sighing: "What to eat, I don't even have a place to sit." Hot, tired, thirsty and hungry, I can go home after others mourn, but I can't. ”

Mrs. Cen hurriedly ordered someone to arrange dishes and chopsticks for her, pulled her to sit down to eat between herself and Li Manniang, and said: "This kind of thing can't be hidden, who asked my cousin to be the chief of the palace." My cousin is so tired, and my cousin is only afraid that he will be even more tired, right? I heard that there are a lot of people who go to mourn? ”

Mrs. Cui frowned deeply: "Isn't it?" He has been standing under the sun, constantly ushering in the send-off, not resting for a moment, but today the ghost weather is hot and stuffy, there is no wind, I am really afraid that he will not be able to support a heat stroke. The worst thing is that His Royal Highness King Ning actually fell ill. He doesn't care about anything. ”

The news of King Ning's illness was far more worrying to the Li family than the news of Princess Ning's death, after all, everything they had was betting on King Ning. He Zhizhong said empathetically: "Don't worry, King Ning is worried, he is usually healthy, he is young, and he has the imperial doctor in the palace to deal with him, there should be no major problems, and he will naturally be fine in a few days." ”

Mrs. Cui sighed, "May the Buddha bless him." ”

After eating, Mrs. Cui and Li Manniang were leaving, Peony, Mrs. Cen, and Xue sent her out, and Mrs. Cui affectionately reached out and grabbed Peony, as if she had completely forgotten the bad things in Ning Wangfu, and couldn't stop praising Peony for being good. Peony didn't know what medicine was sold in her gourd, so she just smiled.

Mrs. Cui said and said, and turned to the issue of peony's marriage: "The most beautiful thing about this woman is the time of the past few years, or should Danniang's marriage be regarded as a first-class major event to be done quickly. ”

Mrs. Cen's heart jumped, but Mrs. Cui knew that Li Xun saw the peony in Fashou Temple yesterday, which was an opportunity to cut off the root cause of the trouble and take precautions, so she was a little annoyed in her heart. At that moment, Pi smiled and said: "My cousin-in-law is right, I have always kept Danniang's marriage in my heart, she suffered a lot before, how can I never find her such a family this time!" If there is a trace of dislike for her, she will definitely not be wronged! ”

Isn't that kind of family, the same family as the Liu family, an official eunuch's family? But if there is a trace of dislike of her, doesn't it mean her own family? Although Mrs. Cui knew that Mrs. Cen's words were specifically aimed at herself, she was also afraid that Mrs. Cen would be really annoyed because of this, and it would be difficult to meet in the future, so she pretended not to hear what Mrs. Cen meant, and pretended to be confused: "Yes, yes, people like Danniang, I have pity when I see it, and I want to pick one well." Thinking about it, he looked back at Peony again: "Danniang, you have grown up since we were children, and we have always treated you like a daughter......

Before Mrs. Cui finished speaking, she was pulled hard by Li Manniang, signaling her to shut up and leave. Mrs. Cui's mouth was full of bitterness, and she didn't want to do this, but after seeing the affairs of Ning Wangfu today, she had to take precautions no matter what.

Peony pretended not to understand what she meant, and bowed to her generously: "Thank you for your aunt's concern, Danniang has always remembered your love in her heart, and she never dared to forget each other." ”

Mrs. Cen was full of sullenness, and reluctantly sent Mrs. Cui and Li Manniang out of the door with a smiling face, and looked back to see Peony standing aside obediently, and wanted to teach her a few words, thinking about it, it was not her daughter's fault, but her daughter's heart was bitter, and she couldn't help swallowing her anger back, and secretly called Yuhe over to reprimand her severely, and told her to meet and talk again when she encountered that kind of thing in Fashou Temple yesterday, she must stop it, and the two are not allowed to meet and talk in private.

After Yuhe left, Mrs. Cen closed the door and threw a big tantrum towards He Zhizhong: "I used to think that she was a sensible and polite person, and she was also warm-hearted, she didn't want to marry my family, I didn't say anything, and I still treated their family like the same." She was lucky enough to come to my house and hint at me! Who do you think my family has? We are the dog skin plaster that is shameless and skinless, and can't be shaken off if you stick it? You are not allowed to go to their house for help in the future! She doesn't look down on my Danniang, and I don't look down on his family! He was angry again, and he found a way to talk about the shortcomings of the Li family.

He Zhizhong is much calmer, and he can look at things in two, sitting silently looking at the account books, listening to her say that he was tired, and handed over a cup of tea soup in due time: "Moisten your throat, your child is a baby pimple, and other people's children are also the root of life, so it's a little inappropriate to belittle people to uselessness for such a thing, right?" is obviously an elderly person, and he is like a child, and the more he lives, the more he goes back. If you let your family hear these words, what will you think of Danniang? Danniang heard it, and she didn't know how much to think, her mind has always been heavy, you still shout like this? ”

Mrs. Cen finished her breath and felt tired, drank tea, and said softly: "I just can't swallow this breath." She's just going too far. ”

He Zhizhong put down the account book in his hand and patted his wife's hand: "With this idle time, you might as well find a proper family affair for Danniang." In this way, all the troubles are gone. ”

Mrs. Cen said worriedly: "I've been asking around these days, but there are such rumors from the hateful Liu family!" Otherwise, the suitor would have broken the threshold a long time ago! I was reluctant to ask her to marry far away. Wait. ”

"I don't want her to marry far away." He Zhizhong sighed and said, "I'll weigh one thing with you, Gorou told me before, he asked Master Fuyuan behind Danniang's back, if Danniang's garden is to be built well, it will definitely cost a lot." I calculated it for her, although her dowry is a lot, but most of them are in kind, if you want to build a garden, buy a large number of peonies, famous flowers, strange stones, it is enough, but I am afraid that it will be stretched. This garden will not pay for itself in a year or two. Last time, Bao Hui dug back 60 million money from the Liu family, and she didn't want to give it to her, so let's go behind her back and let Gorou help her repair the garden, and secretly reduce the money for these materials, what do you think? ”

Mrs. Cen said: "Naturally, it is good. But it is necessary to be careful not to show the horse's feet, and many incidents will be born in vain. The palms and backs of the hands are full of meat, and the future will be far better than Danniang, but there are still people who are not satisfied. Saying that, he talked to He Zhizhong about one thing again: "This house has started to be haunted again during this time." ”

He Zhizhong frowned and said, "What do you say?" ”

Mrs. Cen rubbed her forehead: "Goro's daughter-in-law hung an axe under the bed, who wanted the axe but didn't know when it disappeared, and I don't know who didn't want her to have a child." ”

He Zhizhong sighed: "Everyone has a big heart......"

Mrs. Cen said: "I think it should still be a charter to come out, which family does what, how much can be divided, you have to make it clear, otherwise there will always be nothing to do, Hugh has to say that Danniang is more and more cautious, and it is uncomfortable to live at home, even you and I are annoying, and it will affect the major events in the family." ”

He Zhizhong was silent for a moment, and then said tentatively: "Then according to what you see, how should this charter be determined?" ”

Mrs. Cen said: "You originally planned to let Da Lang lead Lang and Goro to do jewelry business, and Erlang lead Shiro and Rokuro to do spice business, right?" ”

In the end, it is the wife of the husband Mo Ruo, He Zhizhong said: "Yes." ”

Mrs. Cen said: "But you didn't make it clear to them in advance, on the day you saw the treasure meeting, you let the two children of Dalang's family go, and Erlang's daughter-in-law and Lang's daughter-in-law were unhappy and felt that you were biased." Once or twice, you may not feel it, but if you come a few times in a row, I'm afraid that you will also have ideas. As soon as I feel eccentric, I have resentment in my heart, where can I still live in peace as before? Hard work? If you don't have the same heart, there will be a big problem. In addition, several other families have children, there is only one Rui Niang in Shiro's family, and there are no children in Liulang's family, so they will definitely worry that the other families will bully them and lose their children, and they will also suffer when they divide the family property. The problem of this axe just shows that this matter is imminent, and you should make it clear first. If they have the bottom in their hearts, they will not be in chaos. ”

He Zhizhong raised his eyebrows: "Then you say, how should I divide it?" "Even if I know that my wife is usually fair, but at this critical moment, who is not selfish, and who will not favor his son more? But to him, a concubine may be nothing, but his son is all his son.

Mrs. Cen said lightly: "The boss is long, and he will be expected to take care of his younger siblings and nephews more in the future, the sacrifice or something is his business, his temper is also there, he is not the kind of ignorant and greedy, his daughter-in-law is not bad, so naturally he will get more." Several others, divided equally. ”

He Zhizhong didn't expect Mrs. Cen to say such a thing, so he stood up immediately, forgot to hide his emotions, and handed his face to Mrs. Cen and stared at her: "Why do you think like this?" ”

Mrs. Cen glared at him angrily: "Danniang can endure the calculations of her sisters-in-law, and say in front of everyone that she doesn't want this money, for what?" Isn't it just a family and everything? Isn't my mother as a mother as she understands reason? They have the ability, and if they give him a piece of rubble, they can turn it into gold, and if they don't have the ability, they can turn it into rubble if they give him a piece of gold. A family, only in a group can they gain a foothold, those who break the family and destroy the door, which family is not because of the discord of heart, the loss of harmony will suffer a disaster? ”

He Zhizhong was as happy as if he was happy: "Good, good, good." With your words, I know what to do. But the shop cannot be divided, and each family depends on shares. In the future, I will also listen to the arrangements of Dalang and Erlang. ”

Mrs. Cen smiled faintly, it was not that she was boasting, no one of the two sons of the concubine could compare to her four sons who were capable and sensible. and her little Danniang, there is no such kind child anymore. The Li family can't look down on it, hmph, she still can't look down on the Li family!

Not to mention that He Zhizhong and his wife are here to plan big things, just seeking family and prosperity, twisting into a force to become more and more prosperous, at this time Peony is wearing a pink soft satin robe and scattered on the bed, let Kuan'er and Shu'er rub her legs with medicinal water on the side, whenever she rubs the soreness, she can't help but scream: "Light, light." ”

Mother Lin said: "Don't let go, you have to work hard to relieve fatigue quickly, otherwise your legs and feet will hurt even more tomorrow." He complained again: "My own body is already weak, and I don't take care of myself, and I ride a horse and bask in the sun, can I walk so much without pain?" ”

Kuan'er and Shu'er pursed their lips and couldn't help laughing, their hands were not loose at all, and Peony had to wail. Shaking aside and watching, soon her strange scream was heard, and it was even more miserable and tactful than her: "Light...... Oops...... Ah......h

Peony heard it screaming, and it actually heard something different, so angry that she threw a ball of paper: "Shut up!" ”

Shaking the strange laughter, Yu He finished the peony from another room, heard the laughter here, walked over quickly, silently lifted the shake out, so angry that people came to frantically scold: "Dead lotus!" ”

The rain lotus did not teach it a lesson as usual, but only put it in a dark place where the lights were out, and left it alone.

Less leaning, everyone served Peony to lie down, all dispersed, Yuhe washed clean, silently hugged and was brought in to watch the night, Peony had already noticed that her face was not good-looking, so he called her over: "Yuhe, but Mrs. scolded you?" In fact, Madame also knows not to do your business, she just can't be angry. ”

Yuhe lowered his head and said, "The slave knows." The slave is not sad for this, the slave is sad for you. ”

"What do I have to be sad about?" Peony couldn't help laughing, squeezed in, patted the bed and told Yuhe to lie down: "Come, you come and sleep with me." I have pain left and right, and I can't sleep, so let's talk. ”

Yuhe hesitated for a moment, and saw that Peony's eyes were shining in the candlelight, so he carefully lay sideways on the outer edge, trying not to occupy Peony's quilt. Peony smiled slightly, and put the thin quilt on her: "Since you are told to lie down, you can rest assured, if you are sick, I will not be able to go." ”

Yuhe let out a long sigh and said for a long time: "Danniang, what are you going to do in the future?" ”

Peony opened his eyes and looked at the flowers and insects on the top of the tent, and smiled lightly: "I don't plan to do anything, there must be before the car reaches the mountain, and the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge." This kind of thing is about fate, and it can't be forced. From now on, I will still respect him as a brother, and forget the rest. He can't figure it out at this time, but there will always be a time to figure it out in the future. You must remember to remind me that Hugh is going to make me accidentally do something misleading again. It's you, you're not too young, do you have any plans? ”

Yuhe's face couldn't help but burn: "What about you, why did you suddenly go around the slave maid." ”

Peony looked at her seriously: "I won't force you to arrange what you don't like, but if you have any plans, be the first to tell me, and I will definitely arrange it properly for you." ”

Yuhe nodded vigorously.

At breakfast on the second day, Ho Zhizhong solemnly announced the disposition of the family property that he had obtained after discussing it with Mrs. Cen. The reaction was mixed, but more often than not.

Mrs. Cen glanced at everyone's expressions lightly, Aunt Yang, Zhen, Sun, Lang, and Liulang quickly turned from shock to joy, the most children's Bai family's face was unwilling, and Aunt Wu was panicked: "I can't help it, I can't help it, the old and the young are orderly, the respect and inferiority are orderly, and I can't help it." Her words naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of Zhen, Aunt Yang, Liulang, Sun and others, but Aunt Yang still followed her words and said, "That's it, what are you doing with this?" It looked like it was going to disperse. ”

Mrs. Cen sneered secretly, and said slowly: "Of course not now, as long as my master and I are still alive, this family will not be dispersed!" Family and talent are prosperous, we just let everyone have a bottom first, as long as they still do things and behave as well as before, no one will be indispensable in the future. Now the more you earn, the more you will get when the time comes, and the less you earn, the less you will get! Hugh wants to do all the boring things all day long, hurting others and not benefiting yourself! If we get caught, it doesn't matter who it is, the punishment will definitely not be light! ”

Everyone agreed, although there are still people who will be dissatisfied, but the interests of most people are protected, and the atmosphere is much more joyful and relaxed than before. Peony watched from the sidelines and breathed a sigh of relief. In her opinion, He Zhizhong and his wife are not wise parents. This method is like the chairman of the board of directors to the employees, there will naturally be conflicts between employees, but the general direction is beneficial to everyone, so even if it is noisy, there will be proportion.

The He family couldn't manage the affairs of Ning Wangfu, and after making merits for Concubine Qin's mother according to the previous discussion, the family put their minds on their own affairs. After six or seven days of hectic preparations, Fangyuan finally started construction as scheduled.

Peony followed Gorou to go out early and return late, patrolling the construction site every day, and occasionally the monk Fuyuan would ride a donkey to guide. Everything went well until this day, because of the need to change the watercourse, the river that led out of the Yellow Canal caused a lot of trouble to Peony.