Husband and wife for more than ten years, they have long been familiar with each other.

As soon as Xu Lingning's momentum disappeared, the third lady immediately felt it.

The little weakness and fear just now immediately disappeared.

She pounced: "You hit me, you hit me...... I gave birth to children for you, I worked hard for you, and you actually beat me......" Despite this, his hand did not dare to fall on Xu Lingning's face, for fear of being seen as a flaw, and grabbed him on the shoulder.

The hot pain made Xu Lingning come clearly.

He grabbed the third lady's hand and lowered his voice: "Enough." Do you want everyone to know? ”

"Don't you all know?" The third lady's eyes were wet, and tears fell, "Who are you afraid of!" ”

"You know you're doing something ugly!" Xu Lingning looked at his wife with a cloak, and pulled her to go out, "You clean up for me, let's go to my mother to accompany the sin." ”

Qiu Aya, who was standing under the window lattice and watching the wind, listened to the frightened, and hurriedly gestured to the maids and mothers-in-law who were standing in the veranda of copying hands.

When the maids and mothers-in-law saw this, they immediately retreated lightly.

Qiu Aya thought for a while, went to close the hanging flower door, turned to the maid and mother-in-law standing in the courtyard and said, "Go back to the house and close the door for me." If I find out that anyone is peeping, I will immediately dispose of it with my wife! The voice was rarely harsh.

The maids and mothers-in-law looked at each other, responded "yes" in unison, and went back to the house and closed the door.

Qiu Aya shook her head lightly and looked at the wind at the door of the main house.

And when the third lady in the house heard Xu Lingning say this, her heart suddenly cooled.

"Ugly? What scandal have I done? Who in this family doesn't make a small calculation. Did I steal or rob, did I do ugly things? What are the two and five bedrooms? Blatantly opened shops on West Avenue and East Street. That's right, and what I'm doing is ugly? Your Xu family just dislikes my low background, and if something happens, you just step on me! The more she spoke, the more excited she became, "I'm going to confront you in front of my mother?" What kind of ugliness do I make? Those refugees, as long as they have food, what is the difference between June snow and mildew for them? Isn't it our family that makes moldy rice? Do you think the Hou family in Weibei is so clean? I'm just doing this to save some money for the Xu family...... What's so ugly? ”

"You're still quibbling!" Xu Lingning's face turned blue with anger, "Can our family compare with those people?" Are our family relatives? If someone finds out, it can't be cleaned up? ...... who will even lose their official position and win the title"

"Cousin! Relatives! You know the 'relatives'. The resentment that has been hidden in the heart of the third lady can no longer be suppressed, "The good has nothing to do with us, but we have to bear the bad together." Why? Why? I'm going to break up? You are a concubine, according to the rules, we should divide it. Why do you want to do this, and the green leaves put gold on their faces. She wiped the corners of her eyes and cried in a low voice, "Have I been easy all these years?" Dad is a concubine, and his uncle refuses to divide the family if he wants to save face, but he only gives twenty taels of silver every year. When I got married, my mother hollowed out the family in order to give me face. On the day I returned to Ningning, my mother's jewelry was borrowed from my fifth aunt...... Marry into your family, I don't have the ability to fight with her second sister-in-law, I can't fight for Yuanniang, I am not qualified to fight for Danyang, can't I even say a word as I want with her little eleven mother? Am I worse than whom? Am I worse than whom? What the second sister-in-law can do, what Yuan Niang can do, I don't do it well! ”

The third lady's words hit Xu Lingning's sore spot.

He is a concubine, although Mrs. Tai treats him well, when the weather is hot, she brings out a bowl of chilled plum water, and those mothers will always give Xu Lingyi and Xu Lingkuan brothers to drink first...... He has always wanted to be separated, but he has never let his concubine have children, because he doesn't want his children to suffer this embarrassment again. When the Xu family was in trouble, he deliberately didn't take out the money, just to let Mrs. Tai drive him out. But seeing Mrs. Tai, who had always been shrewd and capable, lying on the bed weakly, and listening to Xu Lingyi call him "third brother", he changed his mind again...... Although his wife is spicy and bold, she has always been gentle and considerate to herself, and she has always cared for her children. However, because her father-in-law is a concubine and she is unable to open an independent door, she has seen the eyes of others all her life in the Gan family, and she wants to open a mansion alone and straighten her waist for a few days without looking at people's eyes...... Speaking of which, I'm sorry for her!

Xu Lingning thought about it, and the more decadent people became: "It's me who is sorry for you, but you can't do this kind of thing to embarrass the face of the Xu family!" The voice was both helpless and frustrated.

The third lady looked at her husband's nested appearance, and her already high anger burned even more.

"I have today, is it for myself? That year, my brother got married, and in addition to the Xu family's gifts, I only added twenty taels of silver in private. What is the reason why I don't want to see my mother-in-law like this? It's not for you Xu Sanye. For the sake of diligent brother and thrifty brother! Her voice got higher and higher, "Do you know how much the house in Baodafang costs?" Do you know how much a house in Wong Wah Fong costs? Do you know how much a house in Xianyifang costs? Don't forget, you have two sons? Is it possible to let them live at the foot of the Fallen Leaf Mountain? The more she spoke, the more angry she became, "You shout every day that your children and grandchildren have their own blessings, let them study hard, and take the test in the future, not only don't want the help of the family, but also turn around to help the family." Let everyone know that you have a good son. Is it so easy to test fame? Look at my father, after more than 20 years of exams, he is still just a lifter. Look at you again, why didn't you continue to take the exam. It's not that my father said that people like us don't need it. They don't need it. We can't ask for it! Thinking of this, grievances flowed out of her heart, and she began to sneer in a weird manner, "However, I am also to blame when I say it." Who made my dad a tried-and-true poor man? Who made me not have a dowry like Danyang? Who let me have no decent money to stick to you to make a show? ”

Her voice fell, and Xu Lingning had already jumped up: "If you say yourself, you can talk about yourself, why bother with three families and four families!" The voice was very cold.

For a while, the third lady thought that the person who spoke was Xu Lingyi......

She couldn't help but feel a pause in her heart, and said "um" coldly, and didn't mention it again after all.

"What now?" Xu Lingning collapsed on the Taishi chair in a dejected manner, "Fourth brother has limited me to figure everything out before noon tomorrow and give him an explanation!" ”

The third lady thought that her husband had not returned last night, and said that she was going to settle accounts with the chief manager Bai, and she thought that she had been dragged to drink flower wine by the stewards who rushed to the house. I didn't expect to settle the score...... She sensed that something was serious, and couldn't help but hurriedly say, "Doesn't he care about face the most?" How could it be ......"

That's why the wife is so unscrupulous, right?

Xu Lingning's eyebrows crept up with a tired look.

The third lady stood there, her face blue and white.

After a while, he gritted his teeth: "Let's go see Mrs. Tai!" What I do, I bear it myself, and no one drags anyone down? And he said, "I'm not doing it for myself...... Will not the money that has been saved be in the account? And he said, "Am I not here to save some money?" There was one more thing she didn't say.

After all, she is the mother of Brother Qin and Brother Jian, and Mrs. Tai does not look at the face of the monk and the face of the Buddha, but always gives the two brothers a little dignity......

It's amazing to not be in this home!

Then again, if a month ago, there were people coming in and out everywhere like this, and everyone had to watch what they said, she really couldn't bear this position. But now it's different. I didn't expect that there were so many tricks and profits in the rice business. It's no wonder that aunts and uncles are thinking of ways to do business...... After all, he is now relying on the name of Yongping Hou, how inconvenient it is, if ......

Her mind raced.

Xu Lingning sighed faintly: "Now, it can only be like this!" ”

Someone patted the window lattice: "Third master, third lady, Hou Ye is here!" ”

It was Akiya Kura's panicked voice.

When it happened suddenly, the husband and wife couldn't help but glance at each other in a panic.

Xu Lingning is a man after all, he has been in charge of the affairs of the Xu family for the past few years, and he has seen a lot of things, so he quickly calmed down, said in a deep voice, "Please come in quickly", and then turned around and instructed the third lady, "Go and clean up." ”

The third lady panicked "oh", trotted into the inner room, and saw that the inner room was empty, so she remembered that the maids and mothers-in-law just now looked at the husband and wife with wrong expressions and retreated, and ran out to call Qiu Aya.

Qiu Aya opened the door of the main house early, and ordered the maid to greet Xu Lingyi and make tea, and when she heard the third lady calling herself, she knew that the third lady was going to re-dress her makeup, so she answered and personally brought the maid who usually served to fetch water and brought it into the inner room.

Xu Lingyi saw the door of the third room closed from a distance, and thought that he wanted Xu Lingning to explain the matter clearly before noon tomorrow, guessing that the two must have had a quarrel. knocked on the door, deliberately slowing down. Just give time for the third lady to avoid.

So far, what else is there to say!

Xu Lingning couldn't help but smile bitterly when she saw Xu Lingyi.

"Fourth brother, sit down!"

Xu Lingyi smiled and said, "Forget it, I won't sit anymore." Fan Weigang is back, please listen to the play. It's freezing, and it's okay for me to look at the third brother. Why don't you go together? ”

Xu Lingning was stunned.

"It's been a long time since we've been alone and talking." Xu Lingyi simply made his words clear, "It just so happens that Wei Gang has a treat, go and drink two cups." ”

Xu Lingning understood that Xu Lingyi had something to say to himself alone.

But in such a hurry, I found an excuse without any flaws...... I wonder what his idea was?

The thought flashed, and he felt very stunned again.

Even if you make up your own mind, what can you do? After all, it's your fault!

He got up and instructed the maid beside him: "I went out to eat and drink with Master Hou." Tell Madame! ”

The maid went to the inner room in response, and Xu Lingning grabbed the cloak on the side: "Let's go!" ”

Xu Lingyi looked at his brother with a little messy hair in front of him, thinking that when he was a child, he led him to catch gnats in the back garden, and thinking that after his father's death, it was also such a cold and biting snowy day......

He couldn't help but shout softly, "Third Brother": "Your hair is messy, let the maids help comb it!" ”

Xu Lingning touched his sideburns, he didn't make a sound for a long time, but there was a flash of water in the corners of his eyes.

He thought of the year his father died, the two of them stood together at the mouth of Luojia Hutong and waited for Mrs. Luo to go down, and the younger brother, who had not yet been able to inherit the title of Marquis of Yongping, stood there silently, and said to himself who was so cold that he stomped his feet: "Third brother, don't worry, I will definitely make you raise your eyebrows." Let others see that you only know how to laugh, and only dare to laugh......"

What did you think at that time? And how do you say that?

Not convinced.

But he was unwilling to perfunctory him, suppressed his determination, and nodded with a serious expression: "Okay!" I'm counting on the day when my fourth brother gives me a long face. When the time comes, our brothers will walk sideways in Yanjing. ”

When is that time gone......