Ting Bang hurriedly bent down and bowed, and said, "The lesson of my mother is that Bang'er has not asked my mother for many days, .< Ice and Fire #Chinese." While straightening up, he said: "In the past few days, because Master Wu's mother has passed away in the school, Master Wu has a deep relationship with his grandmother, and there is no brother to help him, so I and my brothers in the school went to Master's house to help take care of the funeral, and we have not come back for a few days. ”

Nie said: "The death of the master's family is his private matter, not to mention the delay in teaching, but to ask you to help, how can this be reasonable?" ”

Tingbang said good-naturedly: "That's not what I said. Everyone has a few difficult things in the family, but we just help out, what is it? Besides, if the master needs help with something, how can the students stand idly by? Mr. also set an example and taught us to be responsible in filial piety. ”

Nie Shi glanced at him with disgust: "You can bear it!" In the end, looking at him in front of him, he was tall and handsome, generous, and couldn't help but feel pity, in the end he was much stronger than his father, at least he knew how to repay his kindness. So he didn't delve into it with him, and said, "What good news do you have, tell me about it?" Didn't you fall in love with a girl and want to say goodbye to your mother? ”

Tingbang suddenly blushed to the base of his neck, "Why did my mother speak so unobtrusively?" Is the son such a frivolous person? It's my father's business, and the news that my father was appointed as a member of the ministry came down, so I went to the household department to find my eldest brother, and he told me personally. He also said that he would take office in two days! ”

Nie's body shook and got out of bed: "Really? ”

"Is there any fake?" Tingbang said with a smile: "The child knows that his mother has been looking forward to this day for a long time, so he immediately came back and told him!" Where is Daddy now? I'll tell him! ”

As soon as Nie Shi heard that he was asked where He Xiuyuan was, he immediately lowered his face. "It's in the back!" He sat back on the couch. Thinking that he was going around for his business, he was in a hurry to turn his hair white, he was fine, he couldn't come out of the cui house all day long, and the anger in his heart couldn't help but block his chest again. Tingbang knew the crux of his mother's heart, and he couldn't help but sigh at the moment, and persuaded: "Mother, don't keep thinking about these things, my father is always good, I haven't messed around outside, if it's like my uncle - don't blame me for not listening to what I say, sometimes you should also restrain your temper, men have a good face, you have to give a step for your father to go down." ”

Nie Shi was sad: "How else can I give him steps?" He didn't even look at me for more than ten days...... Think about my life is also hard, look at your eldest brother, he has been a foreigner for several years in his twenties, and your father is in his thirties before he became a foreigner, and he doesn't care about everything, so let me be a woman and find a way, he himself is trapped in that gentle township all day long, no wonder everyone looks at us and can't afford four rooms! ”

Tingbang was very speechless, "Mother is too extreme, the eldest brother himself is highly talented, and he is steady, he has been walking between the Right Cheng Mansion and the Shangshu Mansion since he was a child, and he has seen a lot of things in the officialdom. Someone like my dad who climbed to the five-rank position at his age, how could there be more than one or two? ”

Nie snorted and took out a silk to wipe his face. Seeing him in front of him, he suddenly sat up again and said: "So, this marriage and marriage, we have to find someone who can help us to become a marriage, your future daughter-in-law and daughter can be seen for you, not the kind of powerful girl in the family, we resolutely don't want it!" ”

Tingbang's brows became tighter and tighter: "Why is my mother getting more and more out of tune?" What kind of person am I, now I have no fame and no official position, why should the powerful ladies marry me? I think you're really sick in the house, so if you have nothing to do on weekdays, let's go out for a walk! ”

After saying that, he had no interest in staying any longer, turned around and went out.

Nie Shi was so choked that he couldn't speak, patted the couch and scolded "little rabbit cub", and his negative anger went down again.

Tingbang walked out of the Nie family's door, thinking that he had never worked the power trick and scheming, and Master Wu had always taught himself to be upright, but the Nie family actually tied his future to a woman who had not yet appeared, which was really insulting to his dignity as a manly man! I couldn't help but get more angry the more I thought about it, and then I remembered that the uncles and brothers in the house seemed to be taking this path, and the fathers and sisters were all the same, and I couldn't help but feel a little dazed in my heart, and I actually started to stay under the corridor.

"Fourth Young Master?"

A person from the backyard suddenly pulled him back to his senses, he looked up, hesitated and made a gesture: "Aunt Cui is good." ”

Cui Cui nodded and looked at him for a moment, "What are you doing standing here?" ”

Ting Bang sorted out his thoughts, remembering that he had originally come to He Xiuyuan to report the good news, but he was unexpectedly bored at Nie's place, so he said with a little depression: "I came to find my father, I just heard that he was in the backyard——"

"Your father is gone, just now the eldest man sent someone to send a message to him to go over and talk, and he left for a while."

Tingbang sighed, but unexpectedly he also pounced, so he lost the interest to talk about it further, and waved his hand to say goodbye to her.

After he left, she entered the Nie family's house.

The Nie clan was still annoyed by Tingbang's confrontation, and when the maid came in and said that Cuicui was coming, she felt very impatient. didn't get up much, only stuffed a pillow and leaned back on his waist, and said, "Yo, it's not too early or too late, why does Aunt Cui have time to come here?" Don't you have to wait for the master? ”

She had heard Aunt Feng say that she had been a little unhappy in the past few days, so she came to take a look. Although she is a little unruly on weekdays, she knows that she is a concubine after all, and no matter how much He Xiuyuan spoils her, she can't get past the reason that a concubine is more than a wife. Seeing her like this now, I also know in my heart that she has a few mean words to say today, but she still said with a smile on her face: "I heard that Mrs. is not feeling well, is she better today?" ”

How could Nie Shi think that she was kind, only that she came to see the joke, and immediately said with a cold face: "Why can't you wait so quickly, thinking that I can wait for death to be corrected?" Your idea is wrong, not only can I not die now, but I am dead, and I can't let Bang'er Yan'er call you a mother! Just wait! ”

She was robbed of white by her for no reason, and her face was flushed. She was originally the daughter of a good family, but her family was poor and was sold to be a maid, but she was unexpectedly looked down upon by He Xiuyuan to make a room, knowing that Nie's eyes were intolerant, and she was reluctant in her heart, until that day He Xiuyuan asked her to change her clothes, and couldn't help but laugh with her for a while, and was actually promoted by the old lady to become an aunt, so she had to see that He Xiuyuan had always treated her considerably, and also intended to prick a few stabs into Nie's heart to get the beaten gas, so she became this aunt safely.

On weekdays, the Nie family is angry, but he always knows that he is inferior, and now he is okay with He Xiuyuan's freshness to her, if she is like Aunt Feng who has lost her appearance for a few years, and has not given birth to a son and a half daughter, will she not have to let the Nie family handle it in the future? Therefore, the feeling of visiting her today and easing the relationship by the way is real. Now that Nie Shi was so ashamed of her, she couldn't be angry, stood up immediately, and said, "Since Madame is not uncomfortable, the concubine will retire!" ”

Without waiting for Nie's instructions, he rushed all the way back to the room.

Chunxiang saw that she came back with red eyes, and when she entered the house, she covered her face and sobbed, so she couldn't help but come over and ask, "Auntie, what's wrong?" ”

Cui Cui cried for a while, stopped her tears and raised her head: "Is this day a human life?" It's not as good as the lake at the beginning! After being occupied by He Xiuyuan, she was worried about Nie's beating, and she was going to rush to the back garden to throw herself into the lake, but she didn't want He Xiuyuan to pull her back, persuaded her with kind words, and explained to Nie in person, but she dispelled her idea of seeking death. Now it seems that it is better to be dead?

"It's only been a few days since this happy event, why did my aunt say such depressing words?" Chunxiang hurriedly came over to comfort, remembering that she had just gone to visit the Nie family, thinking that she must have been wronged there, so she said: "Auntie should also want to open some, do you think that the master treats you so sincerely, how many aunts can compare?" It's not that I say it, it's the relationship between Aunt Su and the eldest master's childhood sweetheart in the big room, and the eldest master has never been so considerate to her, and you shouldn't have such thoughts about our four masters' efforts in you. ”

Thinking of He Xiuyuan, Cui couldn't help but hesitate again, He Xiuyuan is the son of an old lady, and he has always been spoiled a lot, so he knows what is intimate and what actions are warm. It's about the same, so in front of the Nie family, he is always a little less tough, and he has less courage that a man should have. Therefore, I can't help but complain: "What's the use of being considerate? The more he spends more time on me, the more angry I am in front of me, and I'd rather be like Aunt Feng, where no one pays attention to anyone and no one asks, that's it! ”

"Auntie is angry again!" Chunxiang smiled and said, "Aunt Feng can't see the two sides of the master all year round, but she is like a concubine who has fallen out of favor in the palace, what's so good?" According to me, it's just a fourth lady, and my aunt is not stupid, as long as she spends a little effort to please twice, won't she get this game back? ”

"It's nice to say, I'm like a needle in her eyes, how can I get it back?" She sat down angrily and fanned the wind with a silk.

Chunxiang bit her lower lip and said, "I have an idea for my aunt here, do you want to listen to it?" ”

She paused and turned around. Chunxiang said: "Aunt may not know that on Chinese New Year's Eve, when the second old man of Xihe Mansion brought his wife to observe the ceremony for the nine girls to enter the clan, the second lady Yang once mentioned something to the old lady, the slave maid was on an errand in the main courtyard at that time, and she was next to it. Mrs. Yang said that the family of Lord Song Bisong, the governor of the political affairs, is looking for relatives for the little young master, this Lord Song is a hot figure in the court now, if he can get married to such a family, is it just a matter of face? ”rs