Everyone entered the inner courtyard and entered the table, and Mrs. Ning Yuan was late.

For today's birthday feast, Mrs. Ningyuan Hou wore a golden-brown Fuzi tuan huā makeup huā silk * Zi, with a skirt of the same color tied underneath, and a red gold silk hanging bead huā hairpin crown on her head, which was full of yellow and bright hair, and the color on her body was shining.

Seeing today's old birthday star, Mrs. Ning Yuan Hou came in, and the guests in the house all stood up and saluted Mrs. Tai.

Mrs. Tai smiled and said to everyone: "I'm sorry, I'm late." Just now, the three princes came to the door in person to pay their respects, and the old man hadn't seen them for a long time, so he forgot his feelings for a while, said a few more words, and delayed.

Don't be weird with a big guy! No wonder! 、。

Where do people dare to blame? They complimented Mrs. Ning Yuan, saying that the three imperial cars were so filial, and they were also blessed by the people of the world.

Mrs. Tai was also not polite, and said with a smile: "Our Great Qi Dynasty rules the world with filial piety, and it is not natural for several princes to be filial?" He beckoned the guests to sit down.

Pei Shufen stepped forward and helped Mrs. Tai into the table.

He Ningxin led the three girls from the Zhenguo Mansion to sit together.

Shoushe, it had already been sent to the Marquis of Ningyuan Mansion by the steward in advance, and now the guests from all the mansions just came to congratulate them.

The dishes on the table are all famous vegetables from all over the world, and the chefs of Ningyuan Houfu are good, and they are all taken care of according to the different tastes of the guests on each table.

Of course, He Ningxin didn't have an appetite to eat, but kept looking at Chu Qianyi and Chu Qianqian, who were sitting next to Mrs. Tai.

The two children sat obediently beside Mrs. Tai, and smiled when they saw people. Perhaps knowing that He Ningxin was here, the two of them had the backbone of the backbone, and the whole person relaxed.

After eating the main course and serving the soup, the feast will come to an end for the time being, and you can start watching the play.

The most famous troupe in the capital invited by the Marquis of Ningyuan also sang on the stage set up when facing each other in the huā hall.

Mrs. Tai loves to listen to operas. Today's "Phoenix Returns to the Nest", Mrs. Tai was so drunk that she shed a few tears for the girl Xue'e in the play.

After the play was sung, everyone was about to get up and loosen loosely, and a mother-in-law came in from outside the huā hall, and replied to Mrs. Tai with a smile: "Mrs. Tai, the old patriarch has arrived to personally congratulate Mrs. Tai on her birthday!" ”

Mrs. Tai was overjoyed. On her birthday, she also sent a post to the clansmen in her ancestral hometown, but after such a distance, the clansmen in her ancestral hometown have been very estranged from them over the years, so she didn't expect that someone would really go to Beijing to celebrate her birthday.

How do you know that not only people came, but also the patriarch himself, which is a great honor.

"Please! Please! Mrs. Tai quickly got up and walked outside the huā hall.

Not long after the woman went, she brought in several people.

At first, there was an old man with white hair and a white beard, who was the old patriarch of the Chu family.

Because he was an old man and had a high status, the female relatives in the huā hall did not avoid it, but just lived next to it and let it go.

The old patriarch was followed by a woman wearing a blue-printed huā cloth mandarin orange. The woman hung her head so low that she couldn't see her face clearly. The woman was followed by two children, who appeared to be mother and son.

One of the two children, a boy, about ten years old, walked beside the woman without squinting. Although he didn't look left and right, there were still many people who saw his face, and they all showed different colors: he was born with Ningyuan Hou Chu Huajin with six points, and with the old Ningyuan Hou Chu Bozan almost with eight points.

A girl, about thirteen years old, walked beside the woman with her head slightly raised, looking calmly ahead. Her face surprised Mrs. Tai: she was born eight or nine points like Chu Huadan, the queen mother when she was young.

There were three more people walking behind these three people. She was also a woman with two children.

These three people were not as cautious and polite as the three people in front of them, but their heads were spinning around, and they couldn't stop looking around and saw that they were full of little family.

Everyone's eyes couldn't help but be attracted by the mother and son in front of them, and they all only looked at the mother and son who were following the old patriarch and speculated in their hearts.

The old patriarch walked over to Mrs. Tai with a smile on his face, greeted each other, and congratulated Mrs. Tai on her birthday before saying, "After two months of travel, hurry up and catch up, and finally catch up." As he spoke, he said to the mother and son behind him: "Liu, Zhu'er, Yu'er, come over to greet the old lady." ”

The woman walking behind the old patriarch raised her head slightly, looked in the direction of the old lady and smiled timidly. When everyone saw it, they only felt that it was like a prosperous spring day, which made people dizzy.

Chu Zhongyu, the concubine of the Marquis of Yuanyuan's mansion, was originally a well-deserved beauty in the capital, but compared with this woman who did not apply fat powder and had a plain skirt, she was compared.

"I've seen the old lady." The woman pounced and knelt down for Mrs. Ning Yuan. Her two children also knelt down and kowtowed twice.

"What is this?" Mrs. Tai was a little understanding, but also a little puzzled, looking at the old patriarch and asking puzzled.

The old patriarch sighed and said, "Nephews and daughters-in-law, they are also nephews. As the patriarch of the Chu family, I can't let my nephew's heirs wander away......"

Mrs. Ningyuan suddenly realized, and said with a smile: "Look at what the old patriarch said? How could I make our Chu family's children unsightly?! 、。 As he spoke, he pulled the two children to get up, took a closer look, and was particularly pleased with the boy who was born similarly to the old Ning Yuanhou, took his hand, and asked with a pleasant face: "Child, I have suffered you." He called Pei Shufen again and said, "You are your mother-in-law, so naturally you have to deal with it." "Actually, this woman is Chu Huajin's outer room, and the two children are Chu Huajin's relics.

The woman kneeling on the ground was none other than Liu Menghan. Hearing Mrs. Tai's words, Liu Menghan's heart moved, and he glanced at the old patriarch who was about to open his mouth to explain. The old patriarch shut his mouth and stood aside with a grin, watching Mrs. Tai say nothing.

Mrs. Tai looked at the two children for a long time, then looked at the other mother and son behind them, and asked, "Who are these people?" After looking at it again and again, I felt that it was not at all like the Chu family, and I didn't believe that these three people were also Chu Huajin's outer room and pearl.

Liu Menghan, who was kneeling on the ground, said softly: "Old lady Hui, they are from Zhenguo Gong, and they are here to find Zhenguo Gong. ”

The crowd was in an uproar. Today is really a happy day, not only Ning Yuanhou's outer room and his son have found the upper door, but even the outer room of the prince of Zhen Guo has come to the door with his son.

He Ningxin sat there, looking at everything in front of her, the expression on her face gradually became cold, and just as she was about to attend the question, Zheng E had already stepped out of the table first, came to the mother and son in the back, and said loudly with a smile: "Cousin, when did you go to Beijing?" Why don't you send me a letter, I'll pick you up! The two children beside the woman in the back had already called Zheng E in surprise, "Auntie!" small

Maternal aunt! I've got you! ”

Zheng E smiled and nodded, and asked the woman loudly: "Cousin took the child to Beijing by herself?" Why didn't my brother-in-law come with me? ”

The mother and son in the back are Zheng Jiao with her two children.

From the moment Liu Menghan said that she was "the person of Zhenguo Gong", a trace of shyness appeared on Zheng Jiao's somewhat overwhelmed face, and she twisted and pinched it a little.

When Zheng E came out to recognize her, she was even more happy, feeling that she could finally live in the Zhenguo Mansion justifiably. But when Zheng E asked about her "cousin-in-law" in public, Zheng Jiao's face suddenly turned pale.

When the two children heard Zheng E's words, they were extremely strange, and raised their heads and asked, "Why did Auntie forget?"

Our dad passed away many years ago. Why do you still ask? ”

Everyone present came back to their senses and realized what was going on.

He Ningxin often took Zheng E out for a walk, and many noble ladies also knew that Zheng E was the righteous sister recognized by Jian Feiyang. Now it seems that this woman from the countryside turned out to be Zheng E's cousin, and she realized that it was just a widow's relative who took her child to Beijing to the Zhenguo Mansion to fight the autumn breeze.

Thinking that the widow just now tacitly acquiesced that she was a "person from the Duke of Zhenguo", everyone present had a little contempt for her, but they didn't say a word because of He Ningxin's face.

Mrs. Ningyuan Houtai listened for a long time, and also understood that the mother and son in the back were not the outer room of Jian Feiyang, the prince of Zhenguo, and couldn't help but lose a little interest, and turned her eyes to Liu Menghan who was kneeling on the ground, and the two children who were standing, and said to Pei Shufen: "They are our Chu family's species, and they can't be left outside." You are the main room, you should be generous, take their mother and son back well, and arrange a courtyard to live in. ”

Ever since Pei Shufen saw the mother and son, she had already sighed in her heart, and she felt a little ominous. With Chu Hua's lustful degree, this woman was so beautiful that once she got into his eyes, it was absolutely impossible to let it go.

But after taking them in like this, Pei Shufen was a little unwilling, so she gritted her teeth and said to Mrs. Tai: "Mother, this matter is a little strange, it is better to place them in the guest room of the outer courtyard first, wait for the mother's birthday, and then make a plan." While saying Pei Shufen, she gave her eldest girl Tongyue a look. Tong Yue nodded, quietly retreated from the crowd, and went to the outer courtyard to find the marquis.

Pei Shufen's words are not entirely shirk, they are serious ideas.

No matter which housewife encounters this kind of thing, she will not accept someone into the house with a few words. There must be a certificate, and it must be recognized by the man himself. Otherwise, wouldn't it be messed up?!

Mrs. Tai didn't think so. His own son, of course, needs to have more sons to be blessed. Besides, the boy in front of him, Mrs. Tai took his hand, looked at it and looked at it, her eyes were moist, and she wiped her tears and said: "I have raised so many sons and grandchildren, and this child is the most like his grandfather." 1. What else do you need to check? It must be the species of our old Chu family! ”

Liu Menghan's face was peculiar, he looked up at Mrs. Tai, tears flowed from his eyes, and he kowtowed to Mrs. Tai a few more times, and choked up: "Please make it happen to the old lady." ”

Pei Shufen looked at Liu Menghan's pit appearance with rain and Chu Chu, and then at her two children, that similar face could not be faked, and she already believed it in her heart.

It's just that children can enter the house, but this woman absolutely cannot. Pei Shufen made up her mind and said to Mrs. Tai: "Mother, this matter has not yet been snorted, and we are not good at acting on our behalf." ”

Mrs. Tai got angry, pulled the boy to her side, and said to Pei Shufen: "You know that you are jealous!"

I am the mother of this family, this kind of thing is up to me, how can I call Yue Yu to do it?! Then he comforted the boy with a sad face, and said, "Don't be afraid, child. Today, I must recognize your ancestors and return to your ancestors! ”

Pei Shufen laughed with her, only allowed the two children to enter the house, and resolutely refused to let the kneeling woman on the ground enter the door.

Mrs. Tai only kept saying that Pei Shufen was a small woman and hard-hearted, and she was extremely dissatisfied with her by breaking up the "mother and son" of others.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law argued in front of everyone, and the guests below watched it with relish, which was more powerful than the previous excerpt "The Phoenix Returns to the Nest".

The two were in a stalemate, and Ningyuan Hou Chuhua strode in, followed by Jian Feiyang, the prince of Zhenguo. It was Pei Shufen's eldest maid Tongyue who quietly went to the outer courtyard to invite Master Hou just now. I heard that someone from the Zhenguo Mansion also came, so Chu Huajin called Jian Feiyang to come over and have a look.

Ichigan wanted to see Jane Feiyang's jokes.

Seeing the two young men coming to the huā hall of the inner courtyard, some of the young girls avoided the banquet.

Chu Huajin and Jian Feiyang walked in without squinting, and saluted Mrs. Tai first.

Mrs. Tai returned the salute to Jian Feiyang, and then pulled Chu Hua and said, "Boss, take a look" and pointed to the woman kneeling on the ground and the two children standing next to her.

Chu Huajin just glanced at the two children, and then looked at the woman kneeling on the ground.

Liu Menghan just raised his head and saw Chu Huajin staring at her, tightening and pretending to be surprised.

"It's you?!"

"It's you?!"

Chu Huajin and Liu Menghan said in unison.

Apparently the two men knew each other.

Mrs. Ning Yuan turned her head to look at her daughter-in-law Pei Shufen and showed a smug smile.

Pei Shufen's face turned red, and she was white, and she couldn't wait to find a hole to get into.

The smile in the eyes of everyone in the huā hall deepened.

Jian Feiyang quietly walked to He Ningxin's side, looked sideways at her face, and found that she looked a little annoyed, and couldn't help but think to herself.

Zheng Jiao was originally standing beside Zheng E, but at this time she saw a tall and burly man in brocade walking over, standing not far from him, and looked down at the woman beside him who was wearing a bamboo blue collared shoulder shirt and a white skirt, it was Jian Feiyang, who was the grandfather of the country.

After years of not seeing, he is a few points better than he was back then. At that time, he was just a small pawn at the lowest level in the Southwest Army, and he was originally a close match, but he used to think that he was silent and polite to others, but now I know that he will also stare at a person so closely, as if he wants to look into that person's heart all the time......,.........

Zheng Jiao was thinking wildly, but she couldn't control her steps anymore and walked over to Jian Feiyang.

Zheng E was in a hurry and wanted to pull Zheng Jiao over, but she couldn't stop them from standing close to He Ningxin. Jian Feiyang stood next to He Ningxin again, Zheng Jiao walked a few steps, and then came to Jian Feiyang's side, and said in a low voice: "...... Flying. ”

He Ningxin's face turned grim, and she took a few steps to the side, separating herself from Jian Feiyang for some distance.

Jian Feiyang knew that something was wrong, so he swallowed the greeting immediately, took a few steps back quietly, glanced Zheng Jiao up and down, and said a little perfunctorily: "This aunt's surname?" Gui Geng this year? ”

Zheng Jiao's face flushed with shame immediately turned white again, her lips were closed, and she looked at Jian Feiyang with an unbelievable look.

Zheng E was already in a hurry, grabbed Zheng Jiao's hand, and said, "Cousin, you must be tired from coming from afar, go back and rest with me first." ”

Zheng Jiao originally wanted to speak, but when she heard that Zheng E was going to take her back to the house, she shut up again. First, I still wait until I enter the house.

Seeing that her cousin stopped talking, Zheng E secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and said to He Ningxin with a smile: "Please ask my sister-in-law to help me sue Mrs. Ningyuan Houtai, just say that there are guests in my house, and I have to go first." ”

He Ningxin nodded and said with a smile: "It's okay." I'll just tell you about it. You go back with your cousin first, and when it's free, I'll invite you to sit in the house. ”

Zheng E smiled and nodded: "Definitely." We will also invite the eldest brother, sister-in-law, and Sister Lu,

Big sister, let's go to my house for a meal. ”

Zheng Jiao was confused and asked Zheng E: "Don't you live in the Zhenguo Mansion?" ”

Zheng E was angry in her heart, and said with a straight face: "I have my own yard and my own home, why do I want to live in someone else's house?" With that, he took two nephews and went out with the mother-in-law of the Marquis of Ningyuan's mansion.

Zheng Jiao couldn't, secretly glanced at Liu Menghan, and saw that she was still kneeling on the ground, turning her head to look at herself, so she nodded at her and followed Zheng E out.

He Ningxin looked at the eyebrows of these two people, and then looked at the boy who looked like the old Ning Yuanhou over there, and felt something strange in her heart.

Chu Huajin originally wanted to see Jian Feiyang's liveliness, but he was taken aback first and asked Pei Shufen: "What's going on?" ”

Pei Shufen was surprised and said angrily: "You still have the face to ask me?!" ”

Mrs. Ningyuan Hou was about to speak, but the old patriarch on the side knew that the play was enough, so he coughed and said to Mrs. Tai with a smile: "Nephew and daughter-in-law, there may be some misunderstanding in this matter. "Saying,

Pulled over the two children, and said to Mrs. Tai and Chu Hua: "Call mother, and eldest brother." The two children screamed obediently.

Mrs. Tai was confused, and stammered and asked the old patriarch, "What the hell is going on?" ”

The old patriarch smiled and said: "My nephew and daughter-in-law understand the righteousness so well, for the sake of the heirs of my old Chu family, my nephew has a spirit in the sky, and he should also smile at Jiuquan." ”

Mrs. Tai's heart sank, but Pei Shufen heard something about it. Looking at Chu Huajin's confused look again, Pei Shufen suddenly felt that he had returned to the sky from the ground, and the whole person was extremely comfortable from head to toe, and he took the words of the old patriarch with a busy smile, and said, "It turned out to be Daddy's pearl." He looked at Mrs. Tai and smiled: "Mother, you really earned it."

… Not only did I have a son and a daughter out of thin air, but I also had a sister! He personally stepped forward to help Liu Menghan up, and comforted her with a smile: "Don't be afraid, our lady has a knife mouth and a tofu heart, and she will definitely let you in."

Pei Shufen was squeezed by Mrs. Tai just now, and she held her breath in her heart, regardless of it at this time, she just wanted Mrs. Tai to look good.

Mrs. Tai didn't think that the situation was reversed, and her grandson actually became a concubine, blocking her chest in one breath, pointing at Liu Menghan, her arms were trembling, and she couldn't say a complete sentence in her mouth.

Pei Shufen wanted to say a few more words to make fun, and out of the evil anger just now, a distant and loud bell suddenly sounded in the distance. But it was the sound of the death knell in the palace.

One, two, three and a total of eight knocks were knocked on the queen's death.