The fact that Miss Guo was almost slapped by Miss Yuan was spread by the market for a while. Guo Xiaoxiao thought that there would be no big storms and waves, but this incident still made her stand on the cusp, it was really "good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles".

Walking on the street, the roadside pointed at her, Xiaolan persuaded her to avoid the limelight in Guo's mansion, but Guo Xiaoxiao is now taking over Zijinfang, and she is a little more familiar, how to hide in her home and be a turtle with a shrunken head.

As soon as Yarong saw Guo Xiaoxiao come in, she saluted respectfully, and offered peach blossom tea from the beginning of spring this year, without saying a word about Guo Xiaoxiao being slapped.

Guo Xiaoxiao carried his skirt and Yarong up to the observation deck on the fifth floor, and Yarong brought a chair from the wall for Guo Xiaoxiao to sit on.

Guo Xiaoxiao walked to the wall, lifted a chair for Yarong, and said, "Auntie also sits." ”

"It's ......," Yarong was embarrassed.

"Auntie is polite to me, you and I are not outsiders."

Yarong smiled, listened to Guo Xiaoxiao's words, and sat down.

Seeing that Guo Xiaoxiao's complexion was not good, Yarong asked, "What's the trouble with the eldest lady?" ”

Guo Xiaoxiao smiled reluctantly and said, "Auntie's eyes are wise, I really can't hide anything from my aunt's eyes." Truth be told, I do have a few questions for my aunt. ”

"If I can share the worries of the eldest lady, I will know everything."

Guo Xiaoxiao thought for a while and said, "Has my aunt been rumored before? ”

Yarong smiled lightly: "I have it." ”

"Auntie, what is your attitude?"

"If I were to ignore it now, I would be deaf and I wouldn't be able to hear anything."

If it is now? Guo Xiaoxiao frowned slightly, and asked again: "Then, what about the past?" How did my aunt do it? ”

"Once upon a time." Yarong raised her eyes and looked out the window, and said after a long time: "I will definitely quarrel with those who talk about me behind my back." ”

Hearing this, Guo Xiaoxiao and Yarong both laughed.

"In the past, I was anxious and had a big temper, and I couldn't tolerate criticism from someone behind me, but," Yarong lowered her head, "Think about it afterwards, what kind of strength to compare with them, I will lift the table with them today, they just don't talk about it today, and tomorrow will be the same after tomorrow, and the mouth of Youyou can't be blocked at all." ”

"Then let them do what they say?"

"The more you don't let her speak, the more she has to say; The angrier you are, the happier she becomes. Therefore, ignoring these people who always like to tell right and wrong is the best way. ”

Guo Xiaoxiao smiled and said, "It's still my aunt who has experience." ”

"What an experience! It's just that I've lived in this world for a long time, and I know how to live to make it easier for me. Yarong chuckled and poured two cups of tea on the table, "Come, one cup to relieve a thousand sorrows." ”

Guo Xiaoxiao raised his glass to drink with Yarong, wiped the corners of his mouth with his cuffs, and Guo Xiaoxiao said again: "I have one more question for my aunt." ”

"Miss, please?" Yarong gently placed the cup on the table.

Guo Xiaoxiao hesitated for a while and said, "I heard that the embroidery girl can leave the embroidery workshop at the age of twenty-four to marry, why does my aunt ......?"

Guo Xiaoxiao said this, her voice became lower, and seeing that Yarong's eyes dimmed, she said again: "I'm sorry, I overstepped." ”

"It's fine." Yarong smiled helplessly, "It's not something unspeakable, I signed a deed of sale with the Guo family a long time ago." ”

Yarong got up and walked to the staircase and looked at the girls who were embroidering on the third floor: "At first, like them, I always looked forward to being twenty-four years old, so that I could leave the embroidery workshop early, and then find someone worthy of entrusting my life to live a good life." After that, he followed the master on a business trip to talk about business, and became the master's helper, and before he knew it, he was twenty-four years old. ”

She put her hand on the fence, her eyebrows sometimes stretched, sometimes affectionate: "I have stayed in this embroidery workshop for a long time, and I have lost my feelings." Every brick and tile, every stitch and thread in Zijin Fang, is what I have touched. Even if Zijinfang moved to Suzhou, the mansion is no longer the one in Shu back then, but the furnishings in it are unchanged. ”

Guo Xiaoxiao walked to Yarong's side: "So my aunt refuses to leave Zijin Fang?" ”

"Yes." Yarong's eyes glistened with tears, "Now that I'm thirty, I don't want to find anyone else." ”

Guo Xiaoxiao touched her shoulder, admiring her love for Shu embroidery and her love for Zijinfang. The two talked a lot after that, from love and loyalty to mate selection criteria, from long-tongued poisonous women to rumors, from family ethics to seven aunts and eight aunts.

The two are like sisters who haven't seen each other for a long time, talking happily and having a friendship like water.

The sun has been very strong these days, and Guo Qianqian ordered someone to move Zhang Meiren to the courtyard of the garden to enjoy the shade. There are many flowers and plants in the garden of Hanfu, but for the hot summer, only the banyan tree is the most practical.

Guo Qianqian closed her eyes and lay on the couch, and a thirteen or fourteen-year-old maid stood next to her and fanned her carefully.

"Harder, haven't you eaten?" Guo Qianqian frowned.

The maid lowered her head and pushed a little harder, but she blew up Guo Qianqian's hair on both sideburns.

"It's really hairy, and it's not even good to fan it." Guo Qianqian was angry and sat up from the couch, "Do you want me to send you to the kitchen to chop wood?" ”

The maid hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy: "The young lady forgives the sins, the young lady forgives the sins, the slave knows that she is wrong, please don't send the slave to the kitchen." ”

Guo Qianqian snatched the fan from the maid's hand and fanned herself: "Useless things, go get me some watermelons." ”

"Yes." The maid withdrew.

At this time, Xiaocui walked quickly towards Guo Qianqian, and saw that Guo Qianqian was fanning hard, so she knew that she must have been angry with the maid, so she took Guo Qianqian's fan and fanned Guo Qianqian.

Guo Qianqian sat back on the couch, and when Guo Qianqian's face was better, Xiao Cui said: "Young lady, the slave maid just went to the street to get you jewelry, guess what I heard?" ”

"It's not a big deal, don't bother me."

The maid brought a watermelon and put it on the small table next to the bed, Guo Qianqian took a piece of watermelon, put it to her mouth and ate it deliciously.

Xiaocui said: "It's about the eldest lady?" ”

Guo Xiaoxiao's chewing action stopped: "Go on." ”

"Yesterday, the eldest lady met with Yuan Shaoyin, the young lady of the Yuan family."

"Yuan Shaoyin? Is that the one that caused me to fall into the water last time? ”

"But isn't it, they met on the street of Zijinfang, and the result was not that the complaining family did not get together, Yuan Shaoyin raised his hand and wanted to beat the eldest lady."

"Did you hit it?" Guo Qianqian was very excited when she heard this.

"It didn't work out, so her brother Yuan Shaocheng stopped him." Xiao Cui pretended to be angry, "His brother said that let the eldest lady apologize, and this matter will be over." ”

"Apologize? What apologies? Guo Qianqian threw the half-eaten watermelon back on the plate.

"Yes...... Apologize for you. ”

"Apologize for me!" Guo Qianqian stood up on the couch, angry, "She, what did she apologize for me!" Yuan Shaoyin caused me to fall into the water, and I haven't settled accounts with Yuan Shaoyin yet. She's good, and she licks her shoes for others. ”

"Young lady, this eldest lady shows that she is not of the same heart as you, otherwise she will not grow the ambition of others and destroy her own prestige."

"Hmph, but now my father has handed over Zijinfang to her to take care of, and now I am married to the Han family again, how can I still have the status to speak in the family."

"You can tell me about it, master."

"Tell me? What do you say? ”

"Said that you want to share the worries of the eldest lady, and I hope to manage Zijin Fang together."

"Hengzhu, you are all a member of the Guo family, if you don't fight with the eldest lady now, you will have no chance of winning in the future."

"This ...... But I don't know how to manage, I can't even read the account books, how can my father hand over Zijinfang to me to take care of? ”

"The young lady is wrong in saying this, who is born to know what to do? Even the champion has to go through a ten-year cold window, let alone you. You can't learn, not to mention that you are too talented to learn! ”

Guo Qianqian thought about it again and again, and finally decided to talk to Master Guo at the instigation of Xiaocui.

In the evening, Guo Qianqian and Han Tianlei had dinner and went for a walk in the yard. Guo Qianqian took Han Tianlei's arm and said in a soft voice: "Xianggong." ”

"Huh?" Han Tianlei touched her hand, "What's wrong?" ”

"I, I'm a little homesick." Guo Qianqian rested her head on his shoulder.

"What a fool's errand, isn't this your home?"

When Guo Qianqian and him walked to the banyan tree, the two stopped.

"No, it's your home, not mine." She said softly.

"Did someone you off again?"

"Nope."

"No?" He reached out and pinched her cheek, "There must be, I'll hear it." ”

Guo Qianqian just wanted to take this opportunity to go home and tell Master Guo about managing Zijin Fang, but since Han Tianlei asked, she had to tell all the grievances she had suffered these days.

"Then I said, don't be angry."

"Don't be angry."

"You say, I've been married to you for almost two months, right? But the people in this house still don't treat me as a young lady. ”

"How so? Who doesn't know that you are the young lady of the Han family! ”

"They, that is, they are obedient on the surface, but they don't know what to say about me behind the scenes."

Han Tianlei's eyes rolled, and his tone became very serious: "Whoever dares to talk nonsense, I will immediately go and deal with him!" ”

"I won't talk about this, I'll talk about your mother." Guo Qianqian let go of the hand holding his arm, "Didn't I go to give her tea on the first and fifteenth day of every month as usual?" But your mother, every time she turned me away, either because she was unwell, or she was chanting sutras and chanting Buddha. She doesn't say I know, she just doesn't like me. ”

Han Tianlei saw that she didn't mention the matter of the maid in the Dark Fragrance Pavilion last time, and his eyebrows stretched out: "Oh, what about this everything, you have to go step by step, my mother's person is a chronic person, and she can't get along with people for a while, so it'll be fine in a few days." ”

"I don't believe it." Guo Qianqian stepped aside, "She just doesn't like me to be her daughter-in-law." ”

"Good daughter-in-law, you Bingxue is smart and understanding, I believe you must have a way to make her satisfied with you."

Guo Qianqian listened to this very comfortably.

"What about you, you still go to give your mother tea as usual, okay?" He hugged her from behind and asked softly.

Guo Qianqian looked at him with his hands crossed and held himself in his arms, and nodded reluctantly. After a while, he said, "Then can I go home and see my father?" ”

"Absolutely." His chin rested on her shoulder, "If you want to go back, I'll let you go back tomorrow." ”