Brother Jin listened, felt that there was a little disdain in the laughter, and glared and retorted: "My mother is really going to bow!" ”

Eleven Niang looked at Brother Jin'er and said to Qi Niang with a smile: "Brother Jin'er's bow is good, Brother Xu'er learned it from him."

Since the stepbrother doesn't know how to bow, it's better to let Brother Jin tell him. Their cousins rarely see each other, and they get acquainted with each other as they play. And there are mothers and maids around to take care of, so there will be nothing wrong. ”

Qi Niang smiled and coaxed her stepbrother: "Is it okay for cousin to tell you to bow?" ”

The stepbrother was a little hesitant.

Qi Niang smiled: "Let the nurse accompany you!" ”

The stepbrother nodded and walked out from behind Qi Niang, to take the hand of a fat woman beside her.

Brother Jin grabbed him a little impatiently: "Why are you grinding like this." Huang Damao and Liu Erwu are still waiting outside! With that, he dragged him away.

The fat woman chased after her.

Qi Niang chatted with Xu Siyu, Xu Sizhen, and Xu Sijie for a few words, and Brother Bao suddenly cried.

Sister Xin and Brother Cheng were all around him, and the fifth lady hurriedly said, "What's wrong?" What's wrong? "I'm afraid that my daughter and son are scaring Brother Bao'er.

"It's okay, it's okay!" Qi Niang smiled, "He's dozing off." ”

Eleven Niang took Qi Niang to Brother Jin'er's warm pavilion.

Qi Niang personally breastfed Bao Ge'er, and Bao Ge'er soon fell asleep.

handed over the child to the mother who served closely, and Qi Niang and Eleven Niang returned to the West Room.

Eleven Niang asked Xu Siyu to take a few children to Houua Garden to play, so that they had time to sit down.

"Brother Bao is still young" originally only prepared Zhu Anping to come to Yanjing to eat the second young master's wedding wine. Qi Niang smiled, "As a result, my mother-in-law found out, so we had to bring Brother Bao with us." said that I was afraid that I would meet a few cousins in the future, and you didn't know me, and I didn't know you. Xiang Gong felt that it made sense, and I wanted to see a few nieces and nephews." ”

"Then why did you bring your stepbrother?" The fifth lady pointed out and said, "Your old lady is willing?" ”

"It's not what it used to be!" Qi Niang sighed, "When my stepbrother was just taken home, my mother-in-law raised him in her own room and didn't let me get close, for fear that I would have crooked thoughts about this child. I didn't want to "just leave it alone." Later, with Brother Bao, my mother-in-law changed all of a sudden. Not only did she hand over her stepbrother to me to take care of, but she also beat all the people who took care of her stepbrother and replaced them with a few old mothers who walked tremblingly......"

The five big people interrupted Qi Niang's words with an "oops": "You can't take over this matter." Your mother-in-law knew that you didn't like your stepbrother, she still put the child in your house, and beat up all the people who had been carefully selected to serve your stepbrother, obviously trying to borrow your hand to clean up the child. You can't fall for that. The good things are done by her, and the bad things are carried by you. At that time, you should have taken an opportunity to excuse yourself in front of the people up and down of the Zhu family that you had just given birth and had low energy, "Put your stepbrother and son to your mother-in-law to take care of." As he spoke, his eyebrows furrowed slightly.

"I know!" Qi Niang smiled, "So I asked Zhu Anping to send the child to my mother-in-law." As she spoke, her smile faded and she sighed, "Who knew that my mother-in-law was ......,..." she paused slightly, "My stepbrother was so hungry that he went to steal food in the kitchen, and almost knocked over the heat on the stove." If it weren't for the maid next to me who went to the kitchen to ask me for hot water, the child was afraid that he would be scalded. ”

Eleven Niang and Fifth Lady were stunned.

"My mother-in-law was afraid that the people in the clan would bully Zhu Anping when he was young and was robbed of his family property, so he specially invited Zhu Anping's uncle and invited the patriarch of the Zhu family and the parents of the county to support him." Qi Niang said, "So after my father-in-law died, she lived in a remote courtyard in the west, and the people around her were all her capable people, what happened to the child there, not to mention the people outside, even if I had the heart to inquire, it was not easy." When the maid brought her stepbrother to me, the child was so thin that he was only a skeleton, and he could eat anything he caught. When I sent the child back, my mother-in-law also said that the child was raised with a mouth, and he didn't eat the dragon liver and phoenix gallbladder, which was really sad! ”

"I didn't expect your mother-in-law to be such a ......" Eleven Niang sighed, and she didn't know how to describe it for a while, so she had to say "such a powerful person".

The fifth lady even said: "You and Zhu Anping haven't been suspended for making such a fuss, you should be content!" You should be kind to Zhu Anping in the future! ”

Qi Niang's face flushed and said, "I know, it was all my fault in the past." I shouldn't let Zhu Anping lose face and make myself inhuman, ghostly. ”

The cheerful attitude surprised both Eleven Niang and Fifth Lady.

Qi Niang made a grimace at the two: "Knowing that mistakes can be changed, good is great." I'm lost, so don't talk about me. ”

Shi Niang remembered that when she was in Yuhang, she was blamed by the second wife, so she would turn her back and make a grimace like this.

The fifth lady laughed three times.

"Maybe I gave the kid a bowl of porridge" One day, my stepbrother touched me again, and then swept the sleeves of the maid and called my sister. As soon as my heart softened, I left him behind, and found a maid and mother-in-law to serve him again. This time I came to Yanjing, "I was afraid that I would leave him at home, and my mother-in-law would have some ideas, so I brought him over." ”

"You're stupid!" The fifth lady blamed Qi Niang, but her voice was not as firm as she was just now, "It's good that you can't see it and don't worry about it." ”

"That's what I thought at first." Qi Niang smiled, and looked towards the location of Brother Jin'er's warm house, where she rested her dagger, Brother Jin'er ......, but since I became a mother, I saw other people's children skinny and unclothed, and my heart was very uncomfortable. What's more, if I don't step my brother into the door, I can't have Bao Ge'er. Maybe my stepbrother is the lucky star for me and Brother Bao. With him, Brother Bao and I can be safe! ”

Eleven Niang and Fifth Lady were silent for a long time.

"Don't talk about me!" Qi Niang broke the silence with a smile, "Let's talk about the second young master's marriage, right?" I came all this way to drink his wine. Don't put the cart before the horse. "You'll come early and leave then." The fifth lady smiled, "This time I helped the fourth sister-in-law entertain the female dependents, don't let me ask three times and four urges." ”

Qi Niang smiled: "Then do you want me to help you entertain guests." As he spoke, as if he remembered something, he said, "Oh", and said, "I can ask Zhu Anping to help greet the eldest brother and them, and I will greet the fourth sister and them!" ”

A few people talked and laughed, and when Brother Bao woke up, he went to greet Mrs. Tai.

Mrs. Tai looked at Bao Ge'er very rarely: "This name is good." This is your treasure! ”

"I think it's cheesy." Qi Niang smiled sweetly, "But Xianggong has to take this name, so he has to call it like this." ”

Mrs. Tai laughed, left Qi Niang for dinner, and when it was time to hold the lamp, Qi Niang got up to say goodbye.

Eleven mothers send seven mothers.

Before getting into the carriage, Qi Niang took her hand: "My business, let you, who is a sister, so much heart, I am very sorry not to go!" And without waiting for her to speak," he immediately got into the carriage.

Qi Niang is a little embarrassed!

Standing in front of the door of the drooping ua, watching her carriage drift away, Eleven Niang laughed.

Back in the house, Hongwen greeted him: "Fourth lady, this is a meeting gift from Mrs. Seventh to the Sixth Young Master." "Said" handed a big red embroidered plum pattern purse to Eleven Niang.

When Qi Niang gave the meeting gift just now, it was wrapped in various colors of lotus. Based on Qi Niang's style of acting, Eleven Niang guessed that most of the small ingots or small beans there were red gold.

She smiled and pressed the purse, the purse was fluttering, opened it and saw that there was a purse of silver tickets stuffed inside, and counted it, there were as many as five thousand taels.

"Why did you send so much?" Eleven Niang smiled bitterly.

The gifts she gave to her stepbrother and brother Bao were all a pair of red gold longevity locks.

Eleven Niang took the purse and asked Qiu Yu to ask Xu Siyu what kind of meeting gift they had for Qi Niang - this is the usual practice. Those who are not married are considered children Although they get a meeting gift, they tell their parents what it is. When the time comes, the parents will return the gift according to the equivalent value.

Qiu Yu came back and said that Xu Si told them to get a hundred taels of silver tickets each.

It's too much.

Eleven Niang told Xu Lingyi about this.

Xu Lingyi thought for a long time: "I didn't help the two of them anything!" ”

Eleven Niang thought of Qi Niang's words when she was leaving.

Was it to thank her for her help at the time?

Eleven Niang didn't have time to think about it, first, it was Qi Niang, and then her relatives didn't come over in Yanjing for a few days, and second, there were more and more things at home.

She's too busy to take care of it.

On the first day of October, Eleven Niang got up early, dressed up, and went to Mrs. Tai.

Mrs. Tai also cleaned up," Eleven Niang gave Mrs. Tai a cup of tea, and Mrs. Five walked in surrounded by Zhucui. Everyone said a few words, and the two went to the small hall behind the main hall of the Xu family - the male guest came, and the female guest came to the side hall next to the main hall, and settled in this small hall.

The stage in the outer courtyard has been erected. After the guests sat down in the morning, Xu Siqin led Xu Sichen to accompany the matchmaker Yu Yiqing and Huang San's grandmother to Xiang's house to urge makeup and welcome makeup. Eleventh Niang invited Grandma Lin to wait until both parents were complete, and nobles with children and daughters helped clean up the new house and post happy words.

Xu Sijie ran in.

"Mother, mother, tomorrow to welcome my family, can I go with the fourth brother?"

"No way!" Eleven Niang immediately refused, "There will be firecrackers along the way tomorrow, what if it blows up?" What's more, your fourth brother and they went to Xiang's house to greet their relatives. When the time comes, there will be a lot of people and shouting, where can your fourth brother take care of you. You stay at home, and when the new sister-in-law marries back, you can go to ask for red envelopes with Brother Zhen. ”

Xu Sijie was a little disappointed.

He used to be young, and he wouldn't let him go for anything. But now that he has moved to the outer courtyard, why do people still treat him like a child?

Eleven Niang saw it and persuaded him softly: "If you didn't help me and the fifth aunt watch Brother Jin and Brother Xu'er, how could we rest assured that we could help the second brother prepare for the marriage." You are also doing the second brother a favor! ”

But Xu Sijie wanted to see the excitement.

He hesitated there for a while, and when he saw that the mothers in charge came one after another to ask Eleven Niang to show him, he forcibly suppressed the ** in his heart and went to the main house.

Brother Jin and Brother Shu were lighting firecrackers there with incense sticks, and several of Brother Jin'er's little guys were there looking at it with a smile.

Xu Sijie was taken aback, and while letting people collect their things, he scolded the little guys: "Whose idea is this?" ”！ ~！