The eldest grandmother took Mengxi's hand and entered the courtyard together, Mengxi glanced around, and found that the layout of the uncle's courtyard was similar to that of Xiao Xiangyuan, and it was also three main rooms, three wings on the east and west sides, but there was a circle of potted flowers around the courtyard that were peony flowers of various colors.

Seeing the Dawn Garden, Mengxi unconsciously remembered that the third master had mentioned that he lived in the Sunset Garden, but it was in contrast to this Dawn Garden, how could the courtyard of the second master be different, and asked casually:

"I heard the third master say that his garden is called Xizhao Garden, which is opposite to the name of the eldest brother's garden, and it is all the eldest master's name?"

"Where, the garden in this house has no name, the big lord assigned to the masters, are all the names of the lord according to their own preferences, when the third master got the garden, the age was still young, and the uncle's garden was called Chenxi, so he had to put his garden as the sunset, saying that it was just the same as the uncle's reflection, representing the morning and evening of the Xiao Mansion, one head and one tail, for this matter, he was also scolded by the eldest master, saying that he was crow's mouth, talking nonsense, how to get to him that is the tail, maybe when this Xiao Mansion will fill in a fourth master! Hehe, don't say it, after so many years, there is really no male in this Xiao Mansion, not to mention the fourth master, even the little young master has not added one, the old lady has been anxious in the past few years, and he has been thinking about taking concubines for several masters, you see, even the third master has accepted two concubines"

The eldest grandmother laughed as she spoke, but Mengxi felt that she was laughing helplessly.

The two of them held hands and entered the door, turned a huge golden silk nan wood carved pine, bamboo, cypress and phoenix, and came to the main hall together to sit.

"The second grandmother came unfortunately, and today the uncle was called by the eldest master to discuss in the study outside, and he was not in the garden."

After the eldest grandmother finished speaking, she turned her head and instructed the maid:

"Go and invite a few aunts to come over, just say that the second grandmother is here, let them come and say goodbye"

After a while, Xiao Qing's two-room concubines, Aunt Sun and Aunt Zhao, with the support of the maid, came to the main hall hall and gave the second grandmother a salute respectively. made her hate the feudal system of three wives and four concubines for men, and she wanted to smash it with her own hands.

The two aunts talked here, and Zhang ordered them to go back, and after the aunts left, Mengxi remembered the purpose of coming this time, so he ordered someone to present the gift to the eldest grandmother:

"Big brother, sister-in-law is leaving tomorrow, I don't know what sister-in-law likes on weekdays, I wanted to make clothes for my sister-in-law, and I was afraid that my sister-in-law would not look down on my needlework, so I ordered someone to directly carry two Yunmian over, sister-in-law herself to watch it, I just entered the door, and I don't understand these rules, sister-in-law don't laugh at me" said, he laughed first.

Zhang's carefully held the Yunmian and Duanyan sent over by Mengxi, both of which were good goods, obviously it took a lot of thought, and it was better than the things sent from the second master's courtyard in the past I don't know how many times, the heart said This must be the idea of the second grandmother, and saw that her sister-in-law was long from the moment she entered the door, and the sister-in-law called out shortly, not at all in the old lady's place to call her grandma, I think she really wants to be close to herself, and she also has a sense of closeness to the second grandmother, only to see the second grandmother while asking people to open the scroll and say: When the day goes to the south, Specially pottery, called a hundred birds

"Sister-in-law, look, this painting is a picture of the phoenix in the previous dynasty, and it is the true work of Zhang Dezhong, the prime minister of the former dynasty.

Zhang's family and Xiao Qing go in and out of officialdom on weekdays, and they are also somewhat knowledgeable, more than once heard the uncle mention this picture of a hundred birds and a phoenix, and knew the preciousness of this painting, and now I saw the second grandmother send it over, and stepped forward to look at it carefully for a while, I just think it looks good, but how is it a good method, she can't say it, just watch a lively one, but thinking that the uncle will see this painting later, he will definitely dance with his hands, laughed happily, took Mengxi's hand and said:

"Let the second master and the second grandmother break the bank, how can this be made"

"It's all my own brothers, and my sister-in-law will be angry when she says this," Mengxi smiled and patted Zhang's hand gently.

Zhang saw that the second grandmother was smiling like a flower, revealing a look of closeness and kindness, and she didn't have a dull look in the past, remembering that Baozhu came to deliver something in the morning, and talked about the matter of the cousin, and felt that it was better to remind her to be a little precautionary, so as not to know anything and be bullied, so she said casually:

"There are more than two months to be the birthday of the old lady, but the uncle is released to be an official, this time and such a long vacation, I am afraid that we will not be able to come back to celebrate the birthday of the old lady, and I hope that my sister will be filial piety in front of the old lady for her sister-in-law."

"Old Taijun's birthday?"

"My sister may not know when she just entered the door, the old lady's birthday is the eighth day of August, and I heard the jewel next to the eldest lady say that the cousin is entering the house to celebrate the old lady's birthday in the past few days."

"Who is the cousin, I also heard the eldest aunt Wang mention it in the morning, but I don't know whose girl it is?"

"How can my sister know these when she just enters the door, this cousin is the daughter of the eldest lady's own sister, named Zhang Xiu, fifteen years old, her father is Zhang Chong, who is the imperial history of the dynasty, is smart and clever, and is the most favored by the eldest wife, the eldest lady has to take the cousin to live in the house every year, the cousin girl and the second master are the most affectionate on weekdays, a few days ago the second master got married, I heard that the cousin girl was also engaged, and was urged to take the aunt back to the house to be married. But this time, I heard the jewel next to the eldest lady say, I don't know why, the cousin girl wants to die or refuse to marry, Zhang Yushi has no choice, so he has to return the bride price, the eldest lady heard about it, and she is very distressed, no, the old lady's birthday is coming, Zhang Luo took it, one to scatter his heart, and the other to give the old lady a birthday" said, and looked at the second grandmother meaningfully.

As soon as Mengxi heard this, she saw the eyes of her grandmother again, how could she not understand? No wonder the second master hates her so much, the eldest lady regards her as a ding in the eyes, there is a childhood sweetheart show girl, the show girl only said that she likes the palace satin, he poured out his bag and sent it over, she is the person who beats the mandarin duck, thinking of this, I don't want to talk about this topic anymore, who the second master likes, who to marry has nothing to do with her, so he said:

"In the past two days, it is common for the uncle and the eldest master to discuss in the study, is it the matter of the uncle?"

"No, it's the second master's business, I heard the uncle say in a trance a while ago, the second master has clearly ensured that the crown prince of the dynasty Shangguan Honghui, the second master's opportunity to release is the prince's strength, but he just hid it from the old lady and the eldest master, and he couldn't hide it, and he wrote a few days ago to say that he opened the matter, and the old lady almost got sick, saying that he wanted to recognize the second son?"

"The second master is favored by the prince, this is a good thing, why is the old lady like this? My sister is stupid, I really can't figure it out."