Seeing that Xie listened to her words, Mrs. Fang not only did not think about stopping her son from taking up a foreign post, but humbly asked her for advice on matters to be paid attention to as an official in other places, and she also recognized the mother of her son's brother-in-law.

She smiled: "Your Xu Chengyuan is afraid that he will let go of his duties." If there is anything you want to ask, you can come to the door, I don't have much else, I still have experience in this area, I can tell you about it. ”

Xie was about to say words of gratitude, when he saw the maid running in, and said, "Young grandma said that the young master will come over right away, let a few ladies go out." ”

A few people got up and went out to see the scenery of their son who crossed the horse and paraded the street.

After a while, seeing a group of people coming over on horseback from a distance, Du Fangling was very excited, pointed to the one at the front and shouted, "Look, Brother Ning, that's Brother Ning." ”

When Du Jinning's fast ride downstairs, Du Fangling shouted loudly: "Du Jinning." ”

Du Jinning heard the voice, looked up, and saw the faces of all the sisters and mothers.

She smiled and waved it upwards, reached out to catch a flower thrown from the air, placed a hairpin on her hat, and smiled brightly at it.

At this time, it is the most profitable time for the teahouse, and the teahouse is naturally not only the Chen family, but also the female relatives in the other boxes. Probably the lady next to her saw Du Jinning's smile, and couldn't help screaming happily, flowers and handkerchiefs falling like raindrops.

Du Jinning avoided it with a wry smile, arched his hand upward, and rode away quickly, so as not to be overwhelmed by hairpins and all kinds of small things.

Seeing that Du Jinning and his party had gone away, Chen returned to the box and sat down.

It's going to be full of people, and they're going to drink tea and have some snacks here before leaving, so that nothing happens.

But as soon as he sat down, a maid came in and said to Chen: "Madam, next door is the wife of Shen Langzhong, the official of the Ministry of Officials, and she sent her mother-in-law over and said that she wanted to see you." ”

Chan was surprised. She doesn't know this person.

Mrs. Fang smiled and said, "I must know that you are Du Zhuangyuan's mother, so I came to congratulate you." ”

Only then did Chen understand and said to the maid, "Please let her in." ”

After a while, a mother-in-law came in and saluted: "My wife wants to come to meet a few wives, but I don't know that Mrs. Du is inconvenient." ”

"Hurry up, please." Naturally, Chen would not refuse.

In a few moments, a woman in her thirties and forties, dressed in brocade, entered, followed by three young girls.

In recent years, Chen has also deliberately trained himself, and he has become more and more like in dealing with people. She had a few words with Mrs. Shen, and then introduced Mrs. Fang, Xie and her three daughters.

In order to avoid suspicion, Lu Xiaobei is naturally not here.

Mrs. Shen also introduced the young girl behind her: "This is my eldest daughter Yu'e, second daughter Yurong, and youngest daughter Yujiao. ”

Everyone greeted each other and sat down as the guest of honor.

Chen also asked Xiao Er to remove the leftover snacks and tea and make a new one.

Mrs. Shen chatted for a while, and after making sure that Chen was really Du Jinning's mother, she praised her eldest daughter intentionally or unintentionally, saying how sensible and capable she was. was so boastful that Shen Yu'e lowered her head shyly.

Mrs. Fang and Xie glanced at each other, and they both pursed their lips and laughed.

The three daughters of the Shen family, one is fifteen or sixteen years old, one is thirteen or fourteen years old, and the other is about ten years old. Mrs. Shen's praise couldn't be clearer, that is, she took a fancy to Du Jinning, and wanted to marry the Chen family and give her eldest daughter to Du Jinning.

When I knew just now that they were the mothers of Fang Shaohua and Xu Chengyuan, Mrs. Shen couldn't be affectionate with them. Later, when Chen introduced them, he said that they were both mothers-in-law of their daughters, and the two new science and technology scholars were their sons-in-law.

The distinction is too obvious.

Chen is a transparent person, so he naturally understands Mrs. Shen's intention, so he found a stubble and said: "I don't care if my brother Ning is good in the officialdom, I just want to hold my grandson at this age." Today is also the same as Mrs. Shen. When Ming'er and my brother Ning got married, I also invited Mrs. Shen to drink a glass of wine. ”

Mrs. Shen raised her eyebrows and asked, "I see that your brother Ning is not young and not engaged yet, right?" If you want to talk about drinking happy wine, I'm afraid it's still early. ”

Chen waved his hand: "Although I am not young, am I not in a hurry to hold my grandson?" I had already booked my niece for him, and I was waiting for Jinning to get married as soon as he got married. ”

Mrs. Shen subconsciously glanced at Shen Yu'e.

Shen Yu'e's disappointment was beyond words. She lowered her head and twisted the handkerchief in her hand into dried plum cabbage, obviously very unhappy.

"Oh, really?" Mrs. Shen laughed dryly twice, and was not interested in any more. After a perfunctory sentence, he said that there was still something at home, so he led his daughter away.

Worried that the partition wall had ears, and everyone was not good at discussing Mrs. Shen's intentions, so the maid looked out the window and found that there were many fewer people, so everyone went downstairs and left in a carriage.

Xie is a warm-hearted person, and he is especially grateful to Du Jinning for his help to Xu Chengyuan over the years. She had also met Chen Li.

Seeing Du Jinning in high spirits today, and after Mrs. Shen's intention to recruit Du Jinning as her son-in-law, she knew that Chen Li was Chen's niece, and she shouldn't say anything about this family business, and finally couldn't help but say to Du Fangfei: "What does your mother think?" Your brother is such a good person, why did he order him a sister? It's not that I said, although Sister Li'er is good, she is not very worthy of your brother. If your mother had been good for your brother, she shouldn't have given him such a family. ”

As one of the insiders, Du Fangfei naturally knew what the Chen family was doing when they brought Chen Li to Du Jinning as his fiancée.

She smiled: "My mother thinks it's good, and my brother is willing, and it's useless for me to persuade him, so that's it." ”

Xie was dumbfounded.

Indeed, one is willing to fight, the other is willing to suffer, what does she, an outsider, say this? If you don't, you will offend people.

Chen returned home and told Du Jinning about it, but Du Jinning didn't care.

There are more people who remember her family affairs, but she has a fiancée, even a princess, what else can these people do?

The day after tomorrow is the morning exam, and when she comes back from the street, she is busy helping Xu Chengyuan and a few people come up with ideas to change the article. And over there, Zhuang Yue also came to the door because the next volume of the book was about to be published, and she had to think about how to write a book.

But she didn't expect this Mrs. Shen to be so persistent, and just after breakfast the next day, she received a post from the porter, and Shen Langzhong, the official of the Ministry of Officials, invited her to drink tea in the teahouse at noon.