"You are also a court official now, why did you commit a human life in your hands!" Old Lady Du lowered her voice in the inner room and scolded.

The second master said hatefully: "Let her die like this, it's still cheap for her!" This poisonous woman has caused me to have no heirs until middle age, so I deserve to be pulled out of Ling Chi! ”

"In case her mother's family comes looking for trouble, I'll see what you do! And Sister Yan'er, I can see that she is not a pure aunt! If she gets face in King Ning's Mansion and has to ask you for an explanation, what are you going to do? ”

"What's that?" The second old man said nonchalantly, "No matter how much trouble she makes, I am also her own father!" If she doesn't succeed again, let her find her heart sister! In the final analysis, this matter was also reminded by Sister Xin'er, if it weren't for her, I would still be in the dark! ”

"You, you!" Mrs. Du stretched out her finger and poked the second master's head, "People say that tiger poison doesn't eat children, but you, the father-in-law, are trying to make their sisters and sons make enemies!" How did I raise such a selfish thing as you! Fortunately, I still have your eldest brother, otherwise one day you will get in the way of your eyes, and you will not have to get a straw basket for me to throw into the mountains! ”

"Then where can we?" The second old man sneered, "You can't wait for your new daughter-in-law to come in and give you tea?" ”

"I'm not rare!" Mrs. Du pouted and said, "I'm old, don't bother me about this, it's right to beg your sister-in-law." ”

"Well, I'll save it."

*

Here, the eldest lady is explaining the dowry to her in Du Mingxin's room. She smiled and pushed the two thick booklets in front of Du Mingxin, and then said: "I used to only say that your mother's dowry was rich, but when I really got it to handle it myself, I knew that my uncle's family was a real wealthy family in Guanzhong!" ”

Du Mingxin flipped through it casually, and the things were made up, but it was quite acceptable. "There is Aunt Lao, but these two granges ......"

She stretched out her hand and pointed to the details on the booklet to show the eldest lady: "The two Zhuangzi where my mother married are in the suburbs of Beijing, why did these two places arrive in Cangzhou?" ”

The eldest lady smiled bitterly: "The girls in the family have married one after another, and I am also a good woman, and it is difficult for me to cook without rice!" I almost hit your sister-in-law's dowry! Besides, now the granges near the capital, even those in Tianjin, are priceless, and there is nowhere to buy them with silver! ”

This is also true, Chen Yuantai retained most of the titles of the Zhou Dynasty in order to show leniency, and their land naturally did not move. The people who follow him to fight the world are not enough, and there is naturally nowhere to buy them on the market.

Du Ming thought for a while, and then said with a smile: "Since the eldest aunt has said everything to this point, it would be unkind if I force it again......

The eldest lady was a little embarrassed on her face, and said with a smile: "Where can you be unkind, you are really the head of the family......"

Du Mingxin waved his hand and said with a smile: "There is still a grandmother to support at home, and I can't empty the family for me alone." Besides, when I was my sister-in-law's marriage, I didn't have the reason to take the things of my sister-in-law as a dowry. ”

The eldest lady heard that she was reasonable, and was about to echo two sentences, but was intercepted by Du Mingxin: "However, I have something I want to ask my aunt." To put it simply, it's an exchange with the eldest aunt. ”

The eldest lady was a little dazed, thinking that this girl was less than twenty, how could she speak with the momentum of suppressing her elder, could it really be the life of a natural princess?

"Tell me about it." I don't know what it is, and the eldest lady doesn't dare to promise rashly. Otherwise, if you can't do it, this girl won't be able to fix herself!

"My father has been in a hurry to renew the string because of Aunt Geng's pregnancy in the past two days." Du Mingxin picked up the teacup and leisurely fiddled with the tea leaves inside, "What my father means, is that I am afraid that my younger brother will be born and no one will teach him." But I thought that Sister Shu'er was brought up by Aunt Geng herself, and her rules and upbringing were all good. We were born and raised in Zhuangzi, and it didn't take much effort from my father. ”

"It's the eldest sister, who was raised by my father himself. When she was young, her father took her to his study and taught her to write and read. As for what it has become, the eldest aunt must have known it in her heart. ”

The eldest lady couldn't figure out what she meant, and she was saying that the second master didn't have any ability to raise children, so ......?

"You came to the capital, and you have seen more people than me when you go out." The eldest lady smiled, "If you think there is a suitable girl in someone's family, just tell me the name, and I will take care of the rest." ”

Du Mingxin shook his head, put down the teacup, and said with a smile: "That's not it." I think Aunt Geng taught Sister Shu'er very well, no matter whether the child is born male or female in the future, she must not be wrong to teach it personally. If it is a boy, he will be enlightened at the age of six, and with the teaching of his husband, it will be fine. ”

"As for my father's side, I didn't have a wife in Kaifeng for ten years, so I didn't care if I didn't think about it, so why bother doing more? Do you say? ”

The eldest lady was taken aback, I'm afraid this girl isn't crazy, right? I'm going to get married, and I still have to worry about my father's renewal!

"This ......," the eldest lady felt that she really could not agree to this, "do you think that if your father marries a new man, he will take your mother's place?" Don't be afraid of this, no matter how good you fill the house, it can't be compared to getting a wife. At that time, no matter who marries in, you will have to kowtow to your mother and give incense to your mother, and no one will be able to cross your mother. If your father breaks the rules, I won't be the first to spare him! ”

Du Mingxin shook his head slowly, who his father raised eyebrows with, he didn't care, and his mother wouldn't care. I just don't want him to have too much comfort! When I hurt my mother like that, I asked him to be nailed to the five-grade official position rewarded by the emperor, his wife could not become a wife, his family could not become a family, and he lived the rest of his life in a daze!

"I have my reasoning, but it's inconvenient to tell my aunt clearly." Du Ming said in his heart, "I only ask you to stop my father from continuing the string, and I won't care about these flaws in the dowry." ”

"But......" the eldest lady felt that her head was as big as a fight, "I am a sister-in-law, where can I stop the younger brother-in-law from continuing the strings?" ”

"You will have a way," Du Mingxin said with a smile, "In the future, the eldest brother will be admitted to the imperial examination, and the younger sister Zhu will get married, won't you have to worry about everything?" Young people's affairs are called urgent, like my father has been a widower for more than ten years, where is the difference in these years? ”

The eldest lady's eyes lit up when she heard it, and what Du Mingxin said was what she was most concerned about. If she is willing to help, then what is there to worry about?

She hurriedly agreed: "What Sister Xin said is that I have drilled the tip of the horns and I haven't figured it out!" ”

After the eldest lady left, Xia Ye asked worriedly: "The affairs of the eldest young master and the third young lady are all big things, you promised the eldest lady so easily, how can it be good for her to rely on you in the future?" ”

Du Mingxin chuckled: "If I don't ask her for help, isn't she bad?" It's a family relationship, which is ridiculous. It's my unkindness not to help, it's my duty to help. In this case, I might as well ask my aunt to do something for me willingly, and save me from being blind to family affairs when I get married. ”