Xu Lingyi heard that all relatives had given birthday gifts, so she had to go to Mrs. Tai to discuss the birthday: "...... Although it is not a big deal, you always have to invite a few tables of wine. ”

Mrs. Tai shook her head: "It's not a whole year old, just have a meal at home." ”

Xu Lingyi still wanted to persuade again, but Mrs. Tai said: "By the way, I heard that the emperor is going to use troops against the northwest?" ”

"You're better informed than I am." Xu Lingyi knew that her mother was worried about herself, and said with a smile, "I have filial piety now, not to mention that the court is like a cloud, and the emperor originally just raised me with the kindness of the queen's mother." Now that he has achieved fame, he naturally has to know how to retire at the right time. ”

Mrs. Tai nodded: "It's best if you think like this." ”

"But what did someone say in front of you?" Xu Lingyi smiled, "Or who wants to do the grain and rice business?" ”

"Ghostly." Mrs. Tai smiled, "It's your third brother, who said that someone in the Lin family asked him to join the gang and asked me if I was okay?" ”

Xu Lingyi listened to Mrs. Tai's tone and already knew the answer, but she didn't smile.

Mrs. Tai sighed: "If the moon is full, it will be lost, and when the water is full, it will overflow." There are many people who know, but few people who can do it. "It's very emotional.

Xu Lingyi wanted to comfort her mother, but she didn't know where to start, and she was embarrassed, when a little maid came in and said, "The fifth master and the fifth lady are here!" ”

Mrs. Tai listened with a smile on her face.

Xu Lingyi couldn't help but feel relieved.

The fifth brother can always make his mother happy......

A man and a woman walked in side by side.

The man is wearing a jasper hairpin, wearing a moon-white brocade robe, his face is like a crown of jade, and his temples are like a knife. The woman was wearing a lake pigment makeup gown, and the black green silk was obliquely combed into a fallen horse bun, with affectionate eyebrows and delicate flowers. The two stood together, and they were a few more precious than the golden boy and girl in front of Guanyin.

"Come, come, come," said Mrs. Tai, who rejoiced in her heart, "Sit down beside me!" ”

Xu Lingyi stood up and gave up his seat to Xu Lingkuan and his wife.

Xu Lingkuan saw his mother, his face was full of joy, he just shouted "mother" affectionately, and when he looked up and saw the fourth brother standing up, his happiness was seven points less.

He subconsciously took two steps back, and shouted "Fourth Brother...... weakly, which stunned Mrs. Tai and Mrs. Five.

"But what did you do out there?" Mrs. Tai squeezed her eyes at her youngest son.

"No, no." Xu Lingkuan, who is usually very clever, was a little stunned at the moment, "There really isn't." During this time, I listened to the play in the garden every day, and I didn't go anywhere. ”

Mrs. Tai couldn't help but be anxious.

Xu Lingyi couldn't see her mother's desire to protect her younger brother.

When his father died, the third brother was busy with family affairs, he was busy with outside affairs, and his mother was only surrounded by the younger brother to serve the sick, and the feelings were different. He couldn't comfort his mother himself, so he acquiesced to his younger brother to be happy at his mother's knees, which developed a somewhat frivolous temperament for his younger brother. Strictly speaking, he is responsible, and he can't always be blamed for acting impetuously......

Thinking about it like this, he couldn't help but smile and excuse his younger brother: "He has been going to the Imperial Forest Army every day these days, and their Deputy Commander Li also praised him!" Mother don't worry. ”

Mrs. Tai let out a long sigh when she heard this, and her smile added a little comfort: "Good, good, good." You can be so obedient, but you are better than anything else. ”

"Mother," Xu Lingkuan immediately "lived" and sat down next to his mother with a smile, "Don't blame me if you see me." Since the fourth brother taught me a lesson, I know that I did something wrong, and now I have changed. ”

Mrs. Tai laughed: "I know, I know, I won't talk about you again." The tone was very doting.

The fifth lady looked at it and smiled, and stepped forward to salute Mrs. Tai and Xu Lingyi.

Mrs. Tai pointed to the brocade on the side: "Little Wu, sit there." Give up the place to your daughter-in-law. ”

Xiao Wu deliberately muttered: "Seeing that you are used to Danyang, you will be bullied on my head in a few days." ”

"Danyang is not the person you say." Mrs. Tai smiled, "Come, Danyang, sit next to my mother." ”

The fifth lady hurriedly lifted her skirt and sat on the kang, and her own little maid brought the Taishi chair over for Xu Lingyi to sit on.

When the maids served tea, a little maid said, "Mrs. Tai, the second lady is here!" ”

"Come in, please!" As soon as Mrs. Tai's words fell, the second lady walked in with a red lacquered box.

Seeing Xu Lingyi, she was slightly stunned: "Master Hou is also here!" ”

Xu Lingyi stood up and respectfully shouted "second sister-in-law".

Xu Lingkuan brought the brocade he was sitting on to the second lady: "Second sister-in-law, sit down!" ”

The second lady smiled and thanked Xu Lingkuan, and then saluted Mrs. Tai and Xu Lingyi, then sat down, and then handed the box in her hand to Yao Huang, who was serving on the side: "Fortunately, I am not dishonored!" ”

It contains the cards and account books of the inner and outer houses of the Xu Mansion.

Xu Lingyi hurriedly said: "Thank you, second sister-in-law, for making you tired these days." ”

"Master Hou is polite!" The second lady hurriedly stood up, "On weekdays, everyone allows me to be lazy. Now I can help, let me do my best, how can I talk about hard work. ”

When Mrs. Tai heard this, she smiled and said, "The family doesn't say the words of the two families. Sit it down! ”

The two laughed and sat back down.

Mrs. Tai said, "Yizhen, thanks to you this time." Otherwise, Yuan Niang's funeral could not be held so decently. ”

The second lady smiled and said, "My mother asked me to sit down with Master Hou and talk, how can I be polite." ”

Everyone laughed at what he said.

A maid came in and said, "Mrs. Tai, the internal government said that it was ordered by the queen mother to send two baskets of cherries." ”

"Quick!" Mrs. Tai listened to a joy, "Take it in and take a look." ”

And the little maid came in with cherries.

It's about two baskets, which add up to only twenty catties, and they are paved with green leaves, which is very cute.

Mrs. Tai immediately asked someone to take one of the baskets to be cleaned, and then instructed Wei Zi: "Go, call the third lady and a few children to try it." ”

Just after Yuan Niang's funeral, the third uncle, Xu Lingning, went to give sacrifices to those people who did not come - such as the inner servant Lei Gonggong next to the queen mother, such a person went to thank him, he was not at home, but Qiao Lianfang was at home......

The fifth lady just opened her mouth to remind Mrs. Tai, and remembered that Qiao Lianfang was not as good as in the past, so she swallowed her words again.

Wei Zi left in response.

Mrs. Tai pointed to another basket: "Send it to Ganfu, Sunfu and Luofu." ”

The second lady's parents have passed away, and only one adoptive brother is the prefect of Xinyang, and there are no relatives in Yanjing.

Yao Huang hurriedly arranged for someone to deliver cherries.

Soon, the third lady came with several children.

The house was very lively, and even Brother Zhen, who had just lost his mother, also smiled.

Mrs. Tai handed the red lacquered box to the third lady: "You still take care of it!" ”

The third lady lowered her head a little ashamedly: "Mother, let's let the second sister-in-law take care of it." I really don't have enough power! ”

Mrs. Tai knew that she was referring to the Spring Banquet, and said with a smile: "If you don't eat a trench, you won't grow wise." This time, if you watch how your second sister-in-law behaves, you should be able to learn something. Just pay attention to it later. ”

Madame lowered her head and took it.

The fifth lady pulled her to sit down: "The third sister-in-law should eat the cherries quickly, otherwise she will be robbed." ”

made everyone laugh, and the third lady was also more comfortable.

Xu Lingkuan took the opportunity to discuss Mrs. Tai's birthday: "...... Get up in the morning, a few of our brothers come to pay your birthday greetings, eat the birthday banquet, eat the birthday banquet, let Geng Changsheng sing two folds for you, and go to the spring hall in the evening, and let the juggling team of Xiao Wufu play tricks for you......"

Mrs. Tai looked at the eyebrows that the young son said, knowing that he had arranged it with his heart, and then looked at Xu Lingyi, looking at her younger brother with a smile, but her eyes drifted far away, and the cheerfulness just now faded a little.

“…… Geng Changsheng's business will be good in the future. Just give him this name, and the singing hall will invite him to ......"

Xu Lingkuan was still talking about his thoughts there, and Mrs. Tai had already interrupted him with a smile: "People come and go these days, tomorrow's birthday, just come to me for a birthday banquet." ”

"Oh!" Xu Lingkuan was a little disappointed.

When he returned home in the evening, Xu Lingning, the third master of the Xu family, knew that the third lady had regained the housekeeper's key, and couldn't help laughing: "My mother still has your ...... in her heart."

The third lady smiled coldly and interrupted Xu Lingning's words: "What do you know? She was afraid that it would be difficult for the eleventh mother of the Luo family to enter the door at that time, so she asked my daughter-in-law, who was not rightly named, to be in charge, and she could ask for the key back at any time when the time came......"

"Why are you talking about this again?" Xu Lingning couldn't help but whisper, "Although I am a concubine, my mother has never treated me as an outsider......

"Say less!" The third lady interrupted her husband's words unexpectedly, her eyes rolled, and she put her husband on the shoulder affectionately, "What are you going to do about what the Lin family said last time?" ”

Xu Lingning snorted a few times.

The third lady raised her eyebrows: "What about you?" You can't just say it properly. How can I answer everything clearly in front of Mrs. Tai, but when I come here, I can't explain everything. ”

Xu Lingning said unhappily when she heard this: "Mother said, this thing can't be done!" ”

"Why not?" The third lady sank her face, "Jianning Hou and Shou Changbo are still doing business with the Dushui Division of the Ministry of Industry?" And it's still a business without capital, we are real money shares, why can't we? ”

The Marquis of Jianning and Shou Changbo are the two elder brothers of the current Empress Dowager, and the Ministry of Industry and Water Division controls the world's rivers, vehicles, and ships......

"That's different, the queen mother has the grace of reinvention to the emperor......" Xu Lingning said vaguely, "The emperor just knows, and he will turn a blind eye!" ”

The third lady smiled angrily: "What kind of grace of recreation, she just can't give birth to a son and doesn't want to be deposed, so she raised the emperor in her name." If it weren't for the Xu family, if it weren't for the emperor, she would have been pulled down by Ye Guifei back then......"

Xu Lingning heard her say such boundless words, and was so frightened that she hurriedly covered her wife's mouth: "You be quiet, you be quiet, don't let people hear." Dad had an explanation before he died, and no one was allowed to say anything like 'the Xu family back then' in front of the world. ”

The third lady picked her husband's hand that was covering her mouth: "Hold the bold to death, starve the cowardly." Xu Lingning, I can tell you, you still have two sons to raise! That's your flesh and blood......," he said, tears falling from his eyes.

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