May 23rd is the 46th birthday of Dingxi Hou, not a whole birthday, it is not easy to do a big job, but thinking of the new filial piety of the old lady, there have been no festive activities for three years, the family still wants to be lively, so not only invited the troupe, relatives and friends are also invited to get together.

Because it was Hou Ye's birthday banquet, the wine menu was personally seen by Mrs. Hou Ye.

Rong'an Courtyard is the living room of Mrs. Dingxi Hou, located in the southeast of Dingxi Hou Mansion main house compound, carved beams and painted pillars through the mountain verandah through the ear matching room, magnificent and magnificent.

The whole Dingxi Hou Mansion was originally the mansion of a vassal king in the previous dynasty, the vassal king committed something when the previous dynasty was not destroyed, the house was returned to the imperial court, because no one dared to buy it because of the high regulations, once no one lived in this good house, lost its popularity, the house fell into decline, and then the court changed and fought for many years, and so on to the hands of the Dingxi Hou, it was already dilapidated, after two generations of repair and expansion to have the scenery of the most prosperous time of the feudal palace.

Mrs. Dingxi Hou Xiao Xie is not lively by nature, so she rarely speaks loudly in this courtyard, but at this time outside the back porch, a woman with shaved shoulders and bee waist is loudly reprimanding something, and there are three little girls kneeling in front of her.

When Zhou's mother came over, she happened to see this scene and recognized that one of the little girls was the daughter of her mother-in-law, so she stopped.

“… Tear this mouth, go get a board, call you old sons and mothers to come over, get out with me immediately, and don't enter Rong'an Courtyard for the rest of your life..."The woman gritted her teeth and shouted.

The little girls were so frightened that they kowtowed and cried for mercy.

"What's going on?" Zhou's mother said, walking over.

Hearing the inquiry, the woman turned around, sixteen or seventeen years old, with a slender face, clear eyebrows, and a crimson mid-coat that was shorter than the armor and teeth, and a green belt.

Zhou's mother recognized a third-class girl in this courtyard as a golden hairpin.

"What is this doing, girl? Hou Ye's first day is coming, how can he be angry? She said.

Mother Zhou's temperament is calm and unspeakable, and she is inconspicuous in a bunch of envoys from Mrs. Hou, but since the first day she married with Da Xie, she has been in charge of the treasury of the eldest lady until now, Xiao Xie has been married for ten years, she is still in charge of the sisters' treasury, the old lady died, and the big treasury in the house began to be slowly taken over by her, which shows the dependence she receives.

Jin Hai didn't dare to hold it up in front of her, and her elongated face was immediately filled with smiles, and Shi Li said hello.

"Mother Zhou is here." She said, while looking at the little girls who were crying on the ground, "These little hooves are slippery and lazy, and they get together to chew the root of their tongues, my mother naturally knows, and the eldest lady doesn't like this kind of twitter the most..."

Mother Zhou nodded, as if inadvertently looking at the kneeling girls.

"Sister, sister, we don't dare anymore, sister spared us this time..."One of them immediately grabbed a straw and wept as he kowtowed.

"You too, since you're here on an errand, you don't know the rules?" Zhou's mother spoke.

The three girls immediately kowtowed to her again, and raised their hands to slap themselves in the face.

"Madame is in the house, don't make a fuss. Let her hear it, it's troublesome. Zhou's mother frowned and said.

"Don't go down yet." Jin Hai was reminded and said hurriedly.

The three girls kowtowed a few more times as if they had been pardoned, and then they got up and ran.

"I will not spare you next time." Jin Hai said again, watching the three of them run away.

"Madame busy?" Zhou's mother asked with a smile.

"Yes, I'm looking at the menu, Mother Liu, Mother Su, and they're all there." Jin Hai smiled, while looking at no one around, he took Zhou's mother's hand and walked a few steps, and said in a low voice, "Zhou's mother, have you heard about that person too?" ”

The first also taught the little girls not to talk nonsense, and they couldn't wait to discuss, Zhou's mother pursed her lips and smiled.

"Who?" She asked.

"It's..."Jin Hai looked left and right, and said in a low voice, "The one from Qiutong Temple." ”

Zhou's mother suddenly felt two times in her heart, and she guessed what she was going to say.

It seems that inadvertently, some people began to talk about a rare thing in the corner of the Dingxi Hou Mansion, whether it was staying up all night and being sleepy or lying in bed to rest after a tiring day, the story of the young lady of Qiutong Yuan coming back from the dead is the hottest and refreshing conversation.

Zhou's mother covered the incense burner, and her movements were soft and silent, and the curling white smoke spread in the room, dispelling the dullness of the summer afternoon.

Lifting the curtain made of small pink pearls, Zhou's mother walked into the east wing, a woman about thirty-five or sixteen years old reclined on the kang and closed her eyes as if asleep, her cheeks were slightly high, her figure was plump, wearing a homely gray-blue poplin black satin-trimmed round-neck cardigan, and a bea-green satin skirt.

A little girl who had just kept her head was playing a fan seriously on the side.

Zhou's mother walked over and took the fan in the little girl's hand, waved her hand, and the little girl tiptoed out.

"What do you say?" She asked suddenly.

The suddenness of these words can startle people, but Zhou's mother was not surprised at all, as if the two had been chatting and talking.

"Ma'am." Mother Zhou continued to shake the fan while saying, "There are so many things to worry about at home, this little trick and trick can't be ignored on the stage." ”

This is Mrs. Dingxi Hou, Xie.

"First he hanged himself.." She still closed her eyes and said slowly, "The girls cried all over the yard and died, and then attracted people to see that they were alive again, and what did they say about entering Huangquan Road and drinking Meng Po soup to see the old lady, I don't know, in the past, the wooden people were general, it turned out that she still had the ability to make up nonsense." ”

As she spoke, she opened her eyes, and made a gesture to get up, and Zhou's mother moved smoothly and promptly put the big lead pillow under her hand, so that she could recline and sit.

"It was the old thief who pushed her back, this is really beautiful, since the old thief allowed her to come back, then don't you have to respect her in this family?" A smile appeared on Xie Shi's face, this smile loomed on his lips, very gentle and kind, but if the words spit out of his mouth were heard by outsiders, he was really scared to think that he was dreaming.

The old lady of Dingxi Hou, her mother-in-law, said it in her mouth, and it turned out to be such an old thief woman.

Mother Zhou's demeanor is still calm.

"No matter what she says, let her go, it's just a gust of wind, and the past will pass." She took a cup of tea and whispered, "Madame don't have to pay attention. ”

"After three years of silence, now it's suddenly singing." Xie Shi took the tea and took a bite, picked up the handkerchief and wiped his mouth gently, with a smile on his face, "Could it be that you want to fight again when Brother Cheng is coming back?" ”

Zhou's mother was silent for a moment.

"Say whatever you want." Xie Shi noticed that she wanted to say something, so he said.

"I happened to pass by Qiutong Courtyard that day, and I bumped into the little girl running, and asked that Su Mei in Aunt Zhu's yard was being punished by the young lady to kneel." Zhou's mother said.

"Sumei?" Xie Shi pressed his sideburns with his hand, "It's the one who was dressed up all day and was dangled in front of Hou Ye by Aunt Zhu?" ”

"Yes." Zhou's mother said with a smile.

Xie Shi didn't speak again, and a smile that was not salty or faint crossed his face.

"What kind of character does Miss Qi have, we are also very familiar, not to mention letting the girl kneel, even if she says something serious to the girl, she doesn't dare, so after I heard about it, I shouldn't have taken care of it, but I couldn't help but go over and take a look." Zhou's mother went on to say that although she didn't mention it these days, somehow, the woman leaning against the door and smiling on that day shook in front of her eyes from time to time, and she was a little flustered.

"What do you see?" Xie asked.

Zhou's mother looked up at her.

"It's like. It's like a different person. She said.

Xie Shi looked at her with a strange expression, as if he wanted to laugh and lose his temper.

"You mean, she really drank Meng Po soup, lost the old past, and was reborn as a new person?" She asked.

Zhou's mother was a little embarrassed, she didn't know what to say, to be exact, she really didn't know what she was going to say, she just felt so.

"It seems that what our young lady said is really not a lie." Xie Shi smiled again, stood up and moved his shoulders, "Let an old man like Mother Zhou believe these rumors, it can be seen that only ghosts can teach her this kind of ghost trick, and sure enough, she really went to Huangquan Road to see that dead ghost old thief." ”

She laughed as she spoke, and some of them couldn't help but bend down.

"Madam, the old slave is ashamed." Zhou's mother bowed her head awkwardly and said.

"Go look it up." Xie Shi suddenly suppressed his smile, his eyes slightly condensed, "The troublemakers in this world are never ghosts, but only people, let me check to see who is behind the trouble, but it is really a different way, and I actually picked up this waste as a gunman." ”

Zhou's mother responded solemnly, and at the same time she was even more ashamed, she was really confused, she had lived at this age, and she didn't expect this, but a trace of confusion and hesitation flashed in her heart....

The young lady I saw that day, the momentum she revealed, the smell of speech, and everything else, it seems that no one can teach her......

"Why don't you go soon?" Xie Shi frowned and interrupted Zhou's mother's distraction.

Mother Zhou didn't dare to think about it too much and hurriedly went out.

Xie Shi looked at the swinging bead curtain for a while before sitting down.

"The old thief woman has always calculated well.." She said slowly, "But as the saying goes, people are not as good as the sky, no matter how good the calculation is, it can't withstand the day to leave her for a moment, the sky doesn't leave her, she has been dead for three years, and there are still people who want to set off a storm under her banner, it's really overwhelming...."