Qi Yunhao is the eldest son, and now lives in the Chaoqing Hall of the East Cross Courtyard, there are four entrances in this alone, and there are many partial buildings and small courtyards, which have not yet been counted. "Ya * Wen * Yan * Love * Shou * Fa" and Qi Yunjing and his wife live in the Yongqing Hall of the West Cross Courtyard, Qi Yunke has not yet married, and lives alone in Yunxi Garden.

Mei also has a daughter-in-law, named Qi Mulan, who is only ten years old now, and also lives in a courtyard called Huanxiangzhai in the East Cross Courtyard.

The main courtyard where the Dingbei royal couple lived was named Rongxi Hall, which was located in the middle of the entire palace. From Chaoqing Hall to Rongxi Hall, you have to bypass several curved corridors, and there are soft sedan chairs in the house, which can be carried back and forth in each courtyard on weekdays, but Liuli feels that as a new daughter-in-law, she should not be rash, so as not to appear frivolous.

Looking at the courtyards and courtyards along the way, when Liuli recalled the appearance of the Qi Mansion, he suddenly felt that the difference between the scale of the Dingbei Mansion and the Dingbei Mansion was more than one or two times. As the county palace level to build the prayer house, Liuli came to calculate, before and after there are more than four in, and there are a few in the east and west across the courtyard, which is headed by the focus on style, so not only the entire palace area is very large, even the general small side building is larger than the ordinary serious courtyard.

When she walked to Rongxi Hall, a maid came to meet her and led her in.

She actually had no contact with the Mei family in her previous life, and she didn't know who she was, and she had never seen King Dingbei. But it was this ignorance that made her uneasy heart a little more worried, whether this was Qi Yunhao's father and stepmother, and Qi Yunhao was her husband, even if she was unsatisfied, she could no longer be as unscrupulous as she was with Yu and others in He Mansion.

Entered the hall. I didn't have time to pay attention to the layout and decoration of the hall, but I saw two people sitting at the top of the head, both of whom recognized it, and the left head was the king of Dingbei wearing a crown and a jade crown, sitting boldly and majestically. At the right is Mrs. May. It's also a commanding costume. Dress up in formal attire. Qi Yunjing and his wife stood at the foot of the hall, and Qi Yunke and Qi Mulan stood on Mei's left and right, and their eyes were focused on her.

Liuli settled down, and steadily stepped forward and fell to the ground: "The daughter-in-law greets her father and mother." King Dingbei smiled and nodded. Someone next to him came over with a tea tray and asked the new daughter-in-law to serve tea. Ruri knelt down again. After holding the tea, he first gave the king of the north: "Invite my father to drink tea." When he touched the rim of the cup, he handed it over, took it back and put it away, took another cup and handed it to Mei Shi.

Mei put the teacup down, took a few boxes from another grandmother behind her, opened them to Liuli and said, "This is a little bit of our heart as in-laws, you accept it." ”

Ruri thanked him. Someone next to me had already moved. When she sat down, it was time for her uncles and siblings to salute.

For Mei's opening, Liuli is satisfied, after all, as the wife of the king of Dingbei, even if she has not been a concubine for some reason, her style is different. "Ya * Wen * Yan * Love * First * Hair" No matter what you think about Liuli's origin, this treatment can be called polite and courteous now. But she has manners. Her second daughter-in-law may not have one.

First, Qi Yunjing led Yuhua forward. Liuli was sitting with his back to the Dingbei King and his wife, Yuhua's whole face was not smooth, and he didn't show any respect as a brother-in-law when he saw Liuli. Of course, she'll have ghosts in the way.

If it weren't for Qi Yunhao's arrival, Liuli would still be worried about her in-laws' questions, otherwise she would have put on the posture of an eldest sister-in-law to take a good look at this brother-in-law, but now she doesn't know how to deal with the past, so she doesn't have this kind of thought, After silently accepting the gift from the two of them, she let Rui'er give the gift.

In addition to a pair of jade cabbage for each of the Qi Yunjing brothers, a set of four treasures in the study, a pair of fan pendants, a set of head noodles for He Yuhua, four satins, Qi Mulan's head jewelry, two calligraphy and paintings, and two boxes of old ginseng and two boxes of blood swallows for the Beiwang couple. Everything is carefully prepared by Rui'er after inquiring about everyone's preferences, not to mention whether it is heavy or not, but it is easy to see the thoughts.

King Dingbei asked people to collect things, and when Liuli sat down again, he asked, "Boss, why didn't you come together?" ”

Liuli's heart sighed, and the heart finally came. But when I came, I had already thought about the rhetoric on the way, so I wouldn't panic. At that moment, he owed a debt, so he said: "Back to the prince's words, the general has official business in the morning, so he never came." "It's a lie, but those who understand it know that even if they have heard it. The groom did not show up on the wedding morning, and there was something wrong with it, but as an in-law with status, it was always inconvenient to embarrass the daughter-in-law at this time, and the reputation of treating the new daughter-in-law harshly was nothing.

King Dingbei heard that Qi Yunhao was not in the mansion, and his face immediately sank, but he hummed, and his expression eased again when he faced Liuli, "You are new to it, you are inevitably a little uncomfortable, you can walk around more, familiar with it." Liuli hurriedly said yes. King Dingbei took a sip of tea, gave two more words of routine advice, and then went out to the camp.

Qi Yunjing and the others finished the ceremony, so they naturally withdrew. Yuhua wanted to stay a little longer, but was waved back by Mrs. Mei. Naturally, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had to say a few words to disperse, and when the king of Dingbei went out, Mrs. Mei smiled and said to Liuli: "Grandma is still used to it?" ”

Liuli said: "Mrs. Xie cares, and there is no discomfort. ”

Mrs. Mei looked at her with a smile, but stopped, stroked the jade ring on her little finger, and then turned back again, gradually retracted her smile and said, "I heard that the boss came out of the mansion last night?" ”

Liuli raised her head and sniffed out the meaning of the person who came to the point. It stands to reason that King Dingbei asked this even if he had an explanation, but Mrs. Mei asked this again at this time, thinking that she came prepared. At this time, he can't lie anymore, and he will go out of the house at night, of course, it will not be because of any official business, even if there is something in the camp, it will not not alarm the prince, but the groom official. Liuli's heart sank, stood up, and said, "Don't dare to hide it from Mrs., it is indeed the house that came out last night." ”

"Why?" Mrs. May said. The voice was still slow, like all the noble ladies in the world.

Liuli said as calmly as possible: "My daughter-in-law doesn't know. This is to ask the general. ”

"Ask him?" Mrs. Mei raised her voice slightly, smiled at the corner of her lips again, looked at her, turned her head back, and said, "Mama Gu." ”

Mama Gu glanced at Liuli and took out a snow-white handkerchief two feet square.

"Do you know where this came from?" Mrs. May stared at her, not so ruthless, but not gentle.

Liuli looked at the handkerchief, paused for a moment, and her face suddenly turned pale.

She remembered that her grandmother, who taught her the rules of the big wedding before marriage, said that whenever the newlyweds got married, the in-laws would put a white towel under the futon, and take it out again the next morning to see if it was red, so as to test the virginity of the new daughter-in-law! No wonder this Mama Gu would open the laurel begonia in the morning to make the bed for her personally, and after she came out, her face changed again, and she found that the handkerchief was not dyed with her...... was disturbed by Qi Yunhao, she forgot that there was such a thing!

Qi Yunhao abandoned her halfway, where did she get something to prove her chastity?

Although Mrs. Mei is Qi Yunhao's stepmother, she is also her honest mother-in-law, and if she really wants to embarrass herself in this matter, she can't say a word.

"I have heard that the eldest had been in his room for more than an hour last night before leaving the house in a hurry, and according to his subordinates, he had not even put on his coat when he went out. Now that you have a round house, why did he rush away in a rage? ”

Mrs. May's voice sank, and she held on to the armrest and stared at Liuli.

Liuli's throat is tight, how can she speak. A woman's loss of virginity is a big deal, not to mention that she is a bride. But how is she going to defend herself? Said that there was no round house with Qi Yunhao? Then why he rushed out of the house is even more inexplicable. She didn't know why he stopped abruptly, and how could she explain it to her?

Qifu just divorced her for losing her virginity, and she couldn't resist.

"Get on your knees!"

Mrs. Mei threw the veil in front of her and stood up, "Although you are the one who married into the palace on the finger of the saint, as the head of the palace, I can't tolerate such a thing happening in my palace. The boss chose you in thousands of choices, but you are a person who has lost your virginity, you must know that this kind of thing is taken to the palace to say, and it can't be regarded as our unreasonableness. ”

Liuli gritted her teeth and knelt down, trying her best to stabilize her voice and said, "Please let me be, Madame, and explain when the general returns home." ”

"What else is there to explain?" Mrs. Mei sneered, "I have long heard that you were not clear with the little prince of Huaining Mansion, and it was rumored that the nose was the eye, and I thought that as long as the boss didn't mind, it would be fine, and now you haven't even kept your chastity, what else do you have to explain?" ”

"Madame!"

Liuli took a deep breath and said, "My daughter-in-law really can't tell me about this matter. ”

Mrs. Mei stared at her for a long time, sat down, took a sip of tea, calmed down, and said slowly: "Since you can't say clearly, then I won't force you, so you don't have to say that I'm a mother-in-law to embarrass you." It's just that if you don't make this matter clear, there is no way to get over it. ”

After speaking, she stood up, raised her lips and smiled at her, and took Mama Gu out.

Only Liuli was left in the hall, and Mrs. May did not speak, and she could not get up.

Liuli didn't know what kind of attitude Mei had towards Qi Yunhao, her stepson, and she didn't know if Mei was really sadly marrying a daughter-in-law who had lost her virginity, or if she was setting up a horse for her, in short, she was a little speechless about the situation of this night and day.

If she had known that there was still this trouble, she would definitely take the initiative to cater to Qi Yunhao to complete everything she had to do, in this mansion, no one is closer to her than Qi Yunhao, if she must cater to someone as her support, no one is more suitable than him, and even when she walks out of this mansion, there is no one more suitable for her to rely on than him, even if he has an unknown purpose for her.

Ruri knelt silently in the hall. Although the ground was covered with wool felt, the place where she knelt was the polished bluestone floor tiles next to the carpet. My body is still sore, and this taste is really unspeakably uncomfortable.