The two of them went to the study, and the mother-in-law who was watching the courtyard stepped forward with a smile and saluted: "The slave and maid thank the fourth young grandmother for the reward, and wish the fourth young master and the fourth young grandmother more sons and blessings." ”

Xia Ruixi was a little ashamed, and said generously: "I want you to say auspiciously." ”

Ou Qing said solemnly: "Has my mother gotten up?" Is anyone coming? ”

The mother-in-law replied, "Madame has been up for some time. It's still early, and the other young masters and grandmothers haven't come yet. ”

There was a crisp and pleasant female voice in the room, which made people feel good when they heard it, and they were unhurriedly reading a travelogue, which happened to be the book "Strange Tales from Tokyo" that Xia Ruixi had read and loved. Xia Ruixi asked, "Who is inside?" ”

Ou Qing smiled and said, "It's not a guest, it's Miss Lin who is here." Her mother loved to listen to her read the most. ”

Miss Lin? Who are they? Not a guest? Who is that? The person is in the house, and Xia Ruixi is not easy to ask. A big girl opened the curtain, probed out and said with a smile: "Madame's ears are so good, sure enough, the fourth young and the fourth young grandmother are here." ”

"Purple satin, it's cold outside, come in quickly." This is the voice of Mrs. Ou II.

Purple Sain smiled and saluted, let the two into the house, and said a few auspicious words.

Mrs. Ou sat on the soft couch in the middle, holding a shiny small copper hand stove, surrounded by Mrs. Wang, and three or two dignified and neat-looking big maids. A young woman with an elegant appearance and a tall figure sat on a soft chair next to the smoked cage, holding a book in her hand, and when she saw Ou Qingjin and Xia Ruixi coming in, she hurriedly got up and saluted: "Fourth brother is good, fourth sister-in-law is good." ”

This woman looks one or two years older than Xia Ruixi, and she still combs the eldest girl's hairstyle, wears a half-new sky blue cotton skirt, only silver silk flowers on her head, and two rice-sized beads on her ears, very simple, and she is not the daughter of a rich family. But the whole body is clean and dusty, and the temperament is very good, and there is only a little girl in coarse cloth clothes who is twelve or thirteen years old, and she still looks neither humble nor arrogant in the splendid and rich bushes of the house, and she is generous.

Xia Ruixi didn't know if there was really no one, but he liked her generosity, so he returned the full gift.

Ou Qingjin also returned the courtesy: "There is Miss Laurin to accompany my mother. Seeing his form, he seemed to respect this Miss Lin very much, and Xia Ruixi was even more curious about the identity of this person.

Miss Lin said: "Mrs. and the fourth brother have done so much for Qingmei, Qingmei has nothing to repay, fortunately I can relieve my wife's boredom in my spare time, otherwise I would really be unhappy." ”

Second Mrs. Ou said: "None of them are outsiders, sit down and talk." He turned back to Xia Ruixi and said, "This is Lin Qingmei, the daughter of Master Qingjin, you are also of the same age, you might as well talk more in your spare time." I'm old, my eyes are bright, and I like to read some idle books, so I just asked her to read to me. ”

Xia Ruixi felt strange, didn't Ou Qingjin's master be her uncle Master Xuan? How could such a teacher suddenly be thrown out?

Mrs. Ou explained: "You don't know yet, do you? Qing Jin, a child who has been skinned since he was a child, secretly ran out to find a teacher to learn art when he was seven years old, but when he couldn't find a teacher, he was almost robbed and sold by traffickers. Fortunately, he met Master Lin, which saved his life and sent him home all the way. ”

Xia Ruixi thought of Ou Qingjin's half-baked kung fu and his theory about talent, and suddenly wanted to laugh, someone knew her thoughts as soon as he looked at the corners of her half-curved mouth, and secretly pinched her, Xia Ruixi was different, and quietly stepped on him and returned it. The intimate small movements of the two did not escape Lin Qingmei's eyes, and a trace of loneliness and melancholy flashed in Lin Qingmei's beautiful apricot eyes.

Second Lady Ou continued: "At that time, I was worried about this obstacle and my eyes were almost blind from crying, thanks to Master Lin who saved him and saved me, Master Lin is really a good person. ”

As he was talking, Bai Shi walked in with Fu'er and said with a smile: "Ah, why is my Dao so lively, it turns out that Qing Jin and the fourth siblings have already rushed forward." Xia Ruixi hurriedly got up and blessed a blessing: "Third sister-in-law." ”

Lin Qingmei also followed the blessing and called the third sister-in-law, but the Bai family didn't seem to hear it, Lin Qingmei didn't seem to care, she got up and sat down calmly, and there was no embarrassed and angry expression because of Bai's contempt and rudeness.

But he said that Bai looked Xia Ruixi up and down, and saw that what she wore in the afternoon was different from the one in the morning, and she changed into a red dark plum blossom pattern cloud brocade dress, and the jewelry on her head was not the one she wore in the morning. Looking up again, there were two cloaks on the hanger, a yellow ordinary lambskin cloak was slightly old, naturally Lin Qingmei's; Another black and purple lambskin cloak with big red feather satin, no need to ask, must be Xia Ruixi's.

Bai couldn't help but have a trace of jealousy flashing in his eyes, but still smiled and helped Xia Ruixi: "Your family doesn't have to be polite, the fourth brother and sister are dressed like this, it's really good-looking, and sure enough, people rely on clothes." Compared with you, it seems that I am old, and I have to pick up tomorrow. ”

Xia Ruixiyan couldn't hear the meaning of Bai's words, which means that she is not very talented, and she depends on dressing up. But what does it matter? As the saying goes, only lazy women don't have ugly women, and the worse a person is, the more she has to dress up, not to mention that she is not ugly. The change of clothes and jewelry is not that she intends to show off her wealth, just because she is now a bride, if she doesn't even have one or two sets of clothes and accessories that can be put on the table, wouldn't it be despised? Even the Xia family will be despised.

Xia Ruixi smiled faintly: "The third sister-in-law is different from me, she is naturally beautiful, and even ordinary clothes and accessories are extremely beautiful. ”

Bai Shi listened to her words, and just felt a little more comfortable, Fu'er had already pulled the colorful jade parrot on Xia Ruixi's waist and shouted: "What a beautiful jade parrot, I have never seen such a beautiful thing." Fourth aunt, this must have been given by grandpa, right? When Bai Shi heard this, his face changed, and he immediately picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea.

Xia Ruixi was about to deny it, but Fu'er had let go of the jade parrot on her body, and ran to Ou Qingjin's side to pull up another jade parrot: "Ah, the fourth uncle also has it, is it a couple?" Surely it's worth a lot of money, right? I love it so much! Fourth uncle, can you lend me a look? ”

Ou Qingjin looked at Fu'er's little fat hands, and always felt that those hands would not be able to hold the precious jade parrot, so he hesitated for a moment and said, "This is what your fourth aunt gave me, you can look at it like this, it's the same." ”

When Fu'er heard this, she frowned: "Fourth uncle, why are you stingy when you marry the fourth aunt?" This is still given to the fourth aunt by my grandfather, it is something from our family, why can't I watch it? ”

When Mrs. Ou heard this, she glanced at Bai Shi dissatisfiedly, meaning to let her discipline and discipline her daughter, who was speaking more and more unruly. Bai lowered his head and blew the floating tea in the teacup, pretending not to see it.

Ou Qingjin lowered his voice and said, "Fu'er, why are you talking like this?" First of all, this is not something that your grandfather gave to your fourth aunt, but something that your fourth aunt brought from her mother's family. Secondly, no matter whose stuff it is, you can't force someone else's will, understand? If you don't understand this, go and ask your mother, is this the truth? He looked up and said to Bai's: "Third sister-in-law, you are busy on weekdays, you don't have much time to take care of Fu'er, I see that she has been acting a little unreasonable recently, shouldn't you take the time to knock her upbringing grandmother?" ”

He spoke so bluntly, Bai was named, he couldn't pretend to be over, he consciously lost face, this time he was really angry, he pulled Fu'er over, "snapped" and slapped his buttocks, scolding: "Why are you so unruly?" What I usually teach you is a deaf ear? ”

Fu'er cried loudly "wow", not blaming her mother, but scolding Ou Qingjin and the others: "Bad fourth uncle, bad fourth aunt." ”

Mrs. Ou Er's face sank: "If you want to educate the children, bring them down and educate them before you come over, in front of the guests, who will see what this is doing?" ”

Bai Shi hurriedly smiled: "Mother, it's all daughters-in-law." He reprimanded Fu'er in a low voice: "Shut up, otherwise you won't be allowed to eat dinner." ”

Fu'er sobbed a few times, her face was flushed, and she finally stopped her mouth, hid beside her nurse Aunt Ah Qi and buried her head in Aunt Ah Qi's arms, refusing to make a sound again.

Xia Ruixi is most afraid of encountering this kind of thing, and always feels that parents beat their children in front of others, and they themselves don't feel embarrassed, but other people and children always feel the most embarrassed. I thought that if I became a parent in the future, I would definitely not beat my child in front of others.

"Hee-hee, what kind of greeting gift did your grandfather give you?" Mrs. Ou sighed secretly, and decided that she would personally clarify this matter, saving a few other days of always staring at Xia Ruixi and his wife, and taking out some good things casually, they would all be suspicious.

Xia Ruixi got up half hurriedly and said respectfully: "Mother, grandpa gave me a silver ticket of five hundred taels. There was also a yellowed piece of rice paper, on which something was written, Ou Qingjin saw it, sighed, and asked her to hide the rice paper with a solemn expression, and repeatedly told her not to tell anyone, including the second old man and Mrs. Ou.

It turned out that there were only five hundred taels of silver, which was not a rare treasure, and the mother-in-law personally inquired, and the bride should not have the courage to hide it. When Bai Shi heard this, his expression was relieved, and he turned to no longer deal with Xia Ruixi. Even Xia Ruixi took the initiative to talk to her, but she pretended not to hear, but went to Lin Qingmei, who she disdained to deal with before, trying to isolate and snub Xia Ruixi.

Bai's behavior is said to be vertical and horizontal at best, and it is called ganging up when it is small. When doing this, it is often to make the isolated person uncomfortable, but if that person does not feel it, then the person who retaliates is the most depressed.

Xia Ruixi is well versed in this, so he naturally knows how to block Bai's heart.