"Wash your hands." Zhao Niangzi came over with a pot of hot rice, slapped the dirty hand of the iron spoon, smiled on her face, tore off a chicken leg, and stuffed it to Lu Fang on the other side.

Lu Fang hesitated, and then devoured it, and the iron spoon here almost lay on the ground and rolled on the ground.

"Let my sister eat first." Mrs. Zhao glared at him.

Liu Meibao walked over with Rou'er in her arms, smiled and tore off the other one and handed it to the iron spoon.

The iron spoon was shoved into his mouth in a few clicks.

"You idiot, spit out bones!" Zhao Niangzi was busy slapping him.

The iron spoon choked his neck, and finally spit out the bones.

Soon Zhao Laohan fried the dishes, came over with a pot of wine, and the family sat together.

Lu Fang and Tie Spoon didn't care about sitting either, they stood on the table, waiting for an order to eat.

"Come, I wish our Rou'er a hundred days of happiness." Zhao Laohan poured wine for everyone, and he raised it first and said.

"Rou'er said thank you, grandpa." Liu Meibao picked up her daughter and shook her with a smile.

Rou'er's slippery eyes already recognized the people in front of her, although she didn't know what she was doing, but she still waved her little hand with the shaking of her mother, and let out a few monotonous babblings from her mouth.

This was enough to make everyone laugh from ear to ear, and Zhao Laohan drank the wine and smacked his lips for a long time.

"Grandpa, I'm going to drink it too." The iron spoon looked greedy, and said vaguely while stuffing the food into his mouth.

Zhao Laohan poured it for him with a smile, and looked at Lu Fang, who was also eating happily, holding a wine jug and hesitating.

"The eldest sister is not allowed to drink, the girl's family." Zhao Niangzi hurriedly dispelled his thoughts and said angrily.

Lu Fang's movement of picking vegetables into his mouth stopped slightly, and soon returned to normal.

The iron spoon here tasted the wine, but it was spicy.

"Yes!" Zhao Niangzi scolded with a smile.

The aroma of food mixed with laughter wafted over the small courtyard.

At this time in Taiyuan Mansion, Shanxi, Lu Yan, who was promoted to deputy commander-in-chief, still lived in the general's mansion, and the new general had to find another place to live, and he didn't dare to drive his superiors away.

The general's mansion was dressed in red and green, full of joy, and banquets were placed in the courtyard inside and outside. At this time, the banquet became more and more lively, and the two sets of opera troupes invited began to sing big operas inside and outside the house, attracting a tide of audiences.

The second son of Deputy General Lu spent 100 days and held a banquet for three days.

Between the lighted floors, a gorgeous woman with more than a dozen servants was leaving.

"Why did Mrs. Lu toast a glass of wine and leave, not sit down?" A guest poked his head out to look at the woman who was being hugged and left.

The woman reflected in the lantern hanging in the courtyard of the corridor was like a fairy concubine, but she couldn't see her face clearly, and she could vaguely see a shallow smile. Fair and round.

"My wife gave birth to a child and fell ill in confinement, so it's good to come out to see guests today." Someone replied.

"Then why don't you see the eldest young master?" The man asked again.

The person next to him gave him a roll of the eye.

"Where are you? Don't know this? He said with a contemptuous attitude, "The adult's stepmother is sick, and the adult is too busy to come close to serve, so he asked the eldest young master to fulfill his filial piety for him and live with the old lady in Yanchitan." ”

The man smiled and didn't ask, everyone ate meat and drank wine, full of delicacies from the mountains and seas, and the jewels were dazzling.

The woman went into the inner court, surrounded by all the servants, and was heavily guarded. The servants stopped at the door, and the woman walked in slowly.

There's no forecourt hustle and bustle at all. Only the light in the main room was on, reflecting the figure of a man.

The woman had taken a few steps, but had not entered the door, but had turned aside, and had walked around the house through the porch and columns, until she came to a small and inconspicuous door, and pushed it out.

It's already outside the General's Palace. Where a carriage stopped, the woman got into it, and the coachman urged the horse to move forward without saying a word.

Take off the crown of heavy pearls bestowed by the royal family. The face under the tassel of the beaded curtain is fully revealed.

The original smile is long gone, replaced by sadness.

This day is better than death, she thought that at that moment she would vent all the accumulated depression and get relief, but she didn't expect that from that moment on, she would be like falling into hell and suffering all the time.

She thought that Liu Meibao disappeared from her life, and her life would be stable and smooth, but she didn't expect that without this woman in her life, her life would no longer be life.

"Then you're not small, you're as tall as me."

The girl stood in front of the door and smiled heartily at her, as if they had known each other for a long time.

"I'll come and play more often in the future." She said with a smile, without the slightest pretentiousness or hypocrisy.

"When you come to play with me, I don't want to." She said with a smile, sincerity and undisguised.

She stretched out her hand and pulled herself into her life, allowing herself to live a rich and smooth life, but why did she not see all her happiness, a gentle husband, a reasonable mother-in-law, and a well-behaved child, but only what she did not have.

In fact, she should hate herself, hate herself for marrying Zhou Liangyu, hate herself for not resolutely refusing when she heard the proposal, and hate herself for being apprehensive about Zhou Liangyu's proposal, but she can't hide her heartbeat, in fact, everything is because of herself.

She didn't have the courage to hate herself, so she took everything out of her anger on Liu Meibao.

Tears slid down in rows, and Xiao Ling covered his mouth with a handkerchief and swallowed the cry in his stomach.

The carriage drove down the street into the night.

Lu Yan leaned over slightly, poured wine from the wine jug in his hand into the glass opposite, sat down, remembered something, and poured wine into the glass on the side.

"The boat is bigger, so I can drink some wine." He muttered to himself and smiled slightly, "On the big day, your mother doesn't blame you." ”

As he spoke, he smiled at the other side, as if he saw Liu Meibao glaring at him in disgust.

On the table, there are three pairs of chopsticks, three bowls, and a cradle.

There was only one person seated, and there was only a quilt embroidered with auspicious patterns in the cradle covered with a luxurious quilt.

"I'll have a drink first, and I wish our second baby a hundred days of happiness!" Lu Yan looked at the empty cradle beside him, his eyes were full of tenderness, and then he raised his head and drank the wine glass in front of him.

Then he poured another glass.

"I wish our boat to be a brother." He looked at the empty seat next to him, grinned, and drank again.

Then he poured his wine again and looked across the corner.

He just looked at the other side stupidly, and under the two palace lights, the smiling figure seemed to appear on the empty stool.

"Fool, drink less." She pursed her lips and smiled.

Lu Yan tilted his head and poured the wine into his mouth. He stopped pouring wine, and raised the flask to his mouth and poured it down.

The night was getting darker, and the sound of singing and dancing at the wine banquet outside was still strong, and Lu Yan's shadow was stretched out of the window for a long time.

As the winter night wind swirled, a low cry came from inside the house to the courtyard door.

The petrified faces of the guards at the gate of the courtyard appeared a little gloomy, and everyone glanced at each other, and then stood up straight with their heads held high.

Entering the wax moon, the business of the medicine store mountain goods store is lively.

The store has now been expanded by half compared to the original. They undertook all the military drugs of Lu Yan's subordinate army, and they were too busy to take care of other businesses, and of course they made a lot of money.

The mountain goods used for nourishing and health have been replaced with new packaging and placed in the most conspicuous place, and people who come in to buy goods come and go, and the hall is busy but not chaotic.

Suddenly, there was a commotion.

"You sell me and I buy, what do you want to hide?" A female voice shouted with deep displeasure.

Although Niu Huang Cai is a big boss, he is no longer the vendor who received goods in the countryside with a blanket on his back and licked his face to sell goods around, but when it came to an important node, he still did it himself, and he came over immediately when he heard the movement.

"What's wrong?" He asked, glaring at the man.

The female guest in front of me was in her thirties. Dressed extremely luxuriously, the eyebrows on his face are like lying silkworms. It's a little weird no matter how you look at it, but I heard that this is the most practical makeup in the capital this year.

"Mrs. Ejiao, do you sell it or not?" She said as she tapped her hand on the tabletop, her long, red-dyed nails shining brightly.

Niu Huang Cai smiled bitterly, and was a little sad.

Wife.....

"This lady, how can you not sell it if you have it, it's not nothing." He said with a smile.

"Who are you fooling?" The female guest was furious, "What? Dislike me, I am not as rich and powerful as the martial arts family in Ruicheng County, right? You're selling a medicine and picking people, aren't you? ”

Niu Huang Cai was confused.

"Ruicheng County Martial Family...," he asked, frowning.

"It's still pretending. What do you see here? As soon as the female guest stretched out her hand, a little girl behind her hurriedly picked up a porcelain jar and paused it in front of Niu Huang Cai's eyes. … Stinky show came to me, this woman surnamed Wu has been compared with me since she was a child, compared to men and children, and she can't compare to me everywhere, and now she has pressed me on a jar of medicine, am I short of money or lower than her? Yes? I've asked you hundreds of times, and I'm sending you money, saying that if you have Mrs. Ejiao, I'll give it to me first, why do people get their hands to chill me, I don't have a letter yet! ”

She was chattering and indignant, but Niu Huang Cai was stupid.

He stared at the porcelain jar on the table in front of him.

"Xu is someone else's...", he said in a trembling voice.

"What to save, new ones, look at it," the female guest snapped open the lid and pointed to the contents inside, "You don't recognize it?" Coax me with this lie, people said, I only got it this month, and it was still steaming when I got it...."

Niu Huang Cai wrapped his hands and picked up the porcelain bottle, looking at it deadly, as if he was going to swallow it, and suddenly he trembled.

"New, new, it says, it's... It's....madam.—" he muttered, his hand stroking over some strange patterns on the celadon jar.

"It's also a number, it's used for counting, it's called Arabic numerals, and I'll use this to write the date of birth," the woman said with a smile.

November 18 of the third year of Yongzhen.....

Niu Huang Cai muttered vaguely, suddenly shouted wildly, and rushed out with the jar, and when everyone didn't come back to their senses, the people had already run away and the shadows were gone.

"He's robbing me of something." The female guest was startled, and looked at the owner of the medicine store who had left in a daze, confused.

Approaching the New Year, there are more activities, and Lu Yan was about to step out of the house to go to the General Military Mansion, when he heard a cry outside the door, and the crying voice changed tone.

"Who?" He frowned a little irritable.

Now his temper is becoming more and more irritable, which makes his subordinates tremble.

"It's Niu Huang Cai." The soldier inquired and immediately replied, "I want to see my lord." ”

Lu Yan was silent, and he heard a terrible cry outside the door.

"Let him get in." He shouted angrily.

The soldiers shuddered and hurriedly went to summon.

Not long after, Niu Huang Cai crawled in, and Lu Yan was just about to reprimand, but he staggered and knelt in front of him.

"Madame... Ma'am.—" he cried out with tears streaming down his eyes.

This guy is crazy? What is the wife shouting at the adults, don't you know that the word wife is a taboo in the house? The soldiers were taken aback.

"Mrs.'s Ejiao..."Niu Huang Cai finally shouted out the complete sentence, lifted the porcelain jar, and cried heartbreakingly, "My lord, Mrs. made Ejiao..... Mrs. is still alive......"