The tradition in the house is that on the first day of every month, the ladies of each house go to the temple to burn incense, so the day to greet the old lady is set on the second and fifteenth days of the new year. This day is the second day of the first month of winter, and it is stipulated that the wives and children of each house should go to the main courtyard to greet the old lady.

Liuli met the old lady for the first time, and was very solemn, wearing a newly made blue cloud goose fine brocade jacket, pants of the same color, and a pair of red velvet flowers decorated with double buns, and followed by Cui Ying.

It was not early or late to arrive, Yu's, Qi's and Liang's, as well as Yuhua, Suhua and a few young masters who had not yet had an errand, as well as the eldest grandmother and the second grandmother, had already arrived, the fourth room had not arrived, and Huanhua and Min Hua Yanhua had not arrived. The other aunts have probably finished asking for An, and only Aunt Su is still there. The rule handed down by the ancestors is that aunts are not qualified to eat in the upper room, and the children of concubines are more qualified, but Aunt Su is an exception.

The old lady rested for a few days, her complexion was still good, but she was slightly thinner than she remembered, and she was looking at the rouge paste prepared by Yuhua.

When Liuli saw Yu's, she inevitably remembered that He Lingyuan wanted to ask her about introducing her mother, and her heart was suddenly pressed by those four words as uncomfortable as swallowing a fly. However, knowing that many people were secretly paying attention to her, she had to leave this layer, walk to the old lady and kneel, and say, "Liuli to the old lady to say goodbye", the old lady didn't seem to hear it, and continued to talk to Yuhua about rouge cream. Qingshang stepped forward, bent down and said, "Old lady, the ninth girl greets you!" ”

Mrs. He looked at the ground in confusion, and Qingshang whispered a few words to her, as if she remembered something, frowned slightly, and sighed.

Liuli kowtowed again: "Liuli asks the old lady to say goodbye." ”

The old lady said, "Get up! ”

When she stood up, looked at her a few times, and said to Qingsheng: "Go and pick two kinds of noodles in the box for her." ”

Someone on the side moved a chair for her and put it at the end. All the way to the people present, Liang also made up the gift, but Qingshang came out with a plate, went to the old lady to give her a look, and turned to Liuli.

It is a very gorgeous two phoenix hairpins, ten gold bills, and ten silver bills, not as precious as the Yu family, but the shot is enough to match her second-grade identity.

Liuli took it meticulously and retreated to his seat.

The old lady didn't bother her much, and she was probably just a child, after all, she was fledgling and had no background, so she posed no threat to any of them. Maybe for everyone, she is really invincible at the moment, except for He Yanhua, of course.

The old lady talked with Yuhua for a while, and said, "When your second sister comes, you can go and talk to her." She has been bored all day long, but she is afraid that she will be sick again, and you sisters are closer, more close. ”

Yuhua pinched her shoulders for her, and coquettishly said: "The second girl can't do anything else except embroidery." Or the old lady knows more! ”

The old lady smiled: "The serious business of the daughters is embroidery, and making rouge is not a serious business." ”

Yuhua also smiled: "Is it a serious daughter to embroider a flower?" I don't believe it! If the granddaughter of Shangshu Mansion and the granddaughter of Youcheng Mansion can't be counted as Miss Qianjin, then how many Miss Qianjin can be counted in the world? ”

The old lady laughed and patted her hands.

Liuli went to see Aunt Su, this woman's concentration is really deep, I saw that she was always smiling on her face, and echoed the voices of everyone: "Our three girls are the treasures of the two mansions, don't say a thousand gold, ten thousand gold also deserves it." In the future, if the old lady doesn't carefully choose a good grandson-in-law, I won't follow! The whole body was up and down, and there was no trace of reluctance at all, and even the old lady smiled: "It's a shame that your aunt is generous, and it hurts you like your own daughter!" ”

Aunt Su simply sat down next to Yuhua on the couch and said, "The old lady's words are not right, but I have always felt that I have three daughters, Min Er Yu'er Su'er, which one of me doesn't hurt?" It's just that with Yu'er's cleverness, there has to be someone more clever and noble than her who is worthy of it! ”

Everyone laughed again, and Yu Hua blushed and threw herself into Aunt Su's arms, saying, "Auntie is bad!" ”

Yu looked at the two with a smile, raised his hand and stroked his hair and sideburns. Liang smiled: "Then again, the third girl is almost thirteen, right?" Gradually, it became more pro-business. ”

The old lady nodded: "You concubines walk around a lot, you can also pay attention." ”

The outsider said: "The second girl, the fifth girl, and the eighth girl are here." ”

As soon as the curtain opened, sure enough, Min Huayan and Hua Huanhua came in. Su Hua got up and greeted him: "You guys are here, you are making fun of the third sister here!" ”

The three sisters glanced at Yuhua with a smile, saluted the old lady first, and then sat down with Yuhua.

Min Hua said: "What do you say about the third sister? ”

Yan Hua took the tea served by the maid, and looked straight at Liuli, with a ruthlessness in her eyes, which made people shudder.

Ruri smiled and looked over as well.

Everyone took Yuhua as the center and laughed funny. Huanhua leaned to Liuli's side, took her hand, and whispered, "Are you okay these days?" I've always wanted to go into the garden to look for you, but unfortunately it's raining and cold, and my mother won't let me go out. ”

Liuli smiled politely and politely: "I'm fine, thank you Miss Eight." ”

Huanhua looked at her for a while, and smiled reassuringly.

Liuli remembered and said, "By the way, I heard that Aunt Liu beat you that day, are you okay?" ”

Huanhua shook his head, but his brows furrowed: "I'm fine, it's just two strokes and my hair is scattered." It's just that I felt that my mother was too strict this time, so I actually went to tell the eldest lady, and even the second lady was said by the old lady. The fourth sister still blames me to this day. ”

Liuli nodded, and sighed with emotion: "The third lady is very calm on weekdays. ”

Huanhua said: "Exactly. ”

After greeting for a while, the people below "set the meal", that is, they were going to set up breakfast. Yu glanced at the four seats, and then said neither high nor low: "It's all here, why hasn't anyone arrived?" ”

It is the four girls, the six girls, the sisters and the four ladies Nie. Yan Hua stepped forward and said to the old lady: "Someone came to my grandmother's house in the morning, and my mother came later because she had to receive it. The old lady nodded.

Here, the Liang family hurriedly summoned the maid and ordered to urge Shuhua and Zhenhua. The old lady smiled: "These six girls are close to her four sisters, so they even have to be late." Liang sneered: "Shu'er, this kid has always been kind. ”

After a while, the curtain was opened at the door, Shuhua Zhenhua came, and then he saluted and sat down, and Nie Shi also walked in and gave the old lady a blessing: "The daughter-in-law is late, please forgive the old lady." ”

The old lady let Qingshang move her seat and said, "How can I blame you." He said, "My mother's family is here, but what's the matter?" ”

Nie said: "It's the brother-in-law who came. It is also because of the great victory in front of him, this time the marshal not only recaptured several cities, but also led the army to advance many miles to the west. When my brother heard about it, he wanted to collect some food in his hands, but he was worried that there was no way, so he came to his daughter-in-law to come up with an idea. ”

After a while, the old lady nodded and said, "Lord Zhengqing is in charge of the rule of law, although it is powerful, it is really difficult to come forward in this matter. ”

Nie laughed: "Who said it wasn't?" ”

Yu Shi smiled and said, "You can worship the Bodhisattva, who doesn't know that the nephew of the old lady's clan, Yin Daguan, is now changing his career to trade medicinal materials?" Now he is a hot figure in the two Beijing commercial banks. I think that this Yin Daguan was still entrusted to our old lady and old lady in this line of work, and now the fourth lady wants to do business, and the old lady only needs to say a word, and you sisters and brothers will be allowed to make their wishes come true! ”

Nie Shi received a little bit, and immediately knelt down happily and begged the old lady, and the old lady smiled and said, "You people, you will calculate me!" ”

"It's the old lady who has great skills!"

Everyone praised it together, only the corner of Qi's mouth had a faint smile, not very enthusiastic. And Liang looked at Nie's pile, and snorted in his nostrils.

Liuli was still holding Huanhua's hand, and suddenly his hand was loosened, and Huanhua stood up with a sigh: "The imperial court requisitioned grain to attack Hulu and let the soldiers protect their families and defend the country. ”

Everyone gradually fell silent after hearing this, and many of them had smiles on their faces, obviously not coming back to their senses.

Qi couldn't help but get up and scolded angrily: "Huan'er, don't talk nonsense!" ”

Huanhua's momentum was a little shorter, but he still said stubbornly: "The court pays money to protect the people, you should support it, not ...... it."

"Shut up!"

Qi couldn't bear it anymore, walked over and slapped her in the face, "Adults speak, how can you interject!" ”

Huanhua covered her face and sobbed.

In the silence of the room, Nie snorted and slowly wiped his lips with a handkerchief: "These eight girls are loyal and courageous, and the third sister-in-law is really well taught." I'm just going to do it, but it's innocent and the old lady who makes people unhappy. ”

The old lady's smile was long gone, and her eyes were looking at the ground, unable to see the depths.

Qi Shi was stabbed by Nie's stab, his face became more and more gloomy, he only grabbed the handkerchief in one hand, and his knuckles were already white.

"A mother's forgiveness is a daughter-in-law's lack of discipline......"

Qi was bending down to make amends, and Yan Hua suddenly said: "The third aunt doesn't have to blame herself, the eighth sister was originally very good, but now some people see her as simple and inciting, and they don't know what ecstasy she gave to the eighth sister, so she instigated her to speak badly." Third sister, do you think this person is hateful? ”

She was directed at Liuli behind Huanhua every word, and the anger of this crowd seemed to have suddenly found a flashpoint, and they all stared at Liuli like arrows.

Yuhua snorted lightly, and echoed Yan Hua.

Huanhua was also stunned, and blurted out: "Where is the instigation of Liuli, obviously it is my own ......"

"Shut up!" Qi Shi once again repelled her words back to the bottom of his throat, and this time his voice trembled a little.

It's really easy to hide from the open gun, and it's hard to prevent it, this He Yanhua really doesn't forget to block people from time to time. Liuli felt as if she had become an arrow target, thinking that she was really innocent and innocent this time, as the saying goes, a good man does not suffer losses in front of him, but it is really not the time to play tricks in front of him, when it comes to innocence, Huanhua may be even worse than her, if she defends herself, if she loses, it will make Yanhua happy, and at the same time cause a lot of trouble to herself, if she wins, it will hurt Huanhua even more, at this time, in addition to shutting up and acquiescing, what else can she do?