17. Saturday Update
Luo Yuanpeng entered the inner room, and saw Zhang Lan lazily half-leaning on the head of the bed, with a pillow full of green silk, the red gauze only covered her belly, her round shoulders and slender jade legs were completely exposed, thinking of the silkiness at his fingertips and his wife's "dedication" last night, he couldn't help but feel soft, and his tone unconsciously brought a little doting, "It's not as good as Jinzhou, how many pairs of eyes are looking up and down, and the children are waiting outside to say hello to you~"
Zhang Lan covered her mouth and yawned, and stretched out her arm to Luo Yuanpeng, "Aren't people tired?" Don't they all blame you? Why do people here get up so early? Can't you tell them not to come in the future? Everyone sleep more, your children are still young, sleeping more is good for the body~"
She has crossed over, does she still have to suffer the sin of getting up early every day to read to students in her previous life? That's really more painful than killing her, anyway, it's convenient for everyone, Zhang Lan is coquettish in her husband's arms.
"Didn't Su's mother tell you the rules?" Thinking of Xian Yun's attitude in the morning, Luo Yuanpeng frowned, "You don't want to see Yiliu and Lingyun, just avoid their invitations, but you still have to go to Qingtai Courtyard every day, you can't all the children go, you don't show up as a daughter-in-law?" ”
"Huh? Do you want to say hello to the old lady every day? "Zhang Lan pretended not to know the rules at all, she just played a coquettish job, so that Luo Yuanpeng relented and said that she didn't have to go, anyway, that Qi family is not her own mother-in-law, even if she is a mother-in-law, there is no need to report before seven o'clock in the morning, right?" So early? Wouldn't the old lady rest a little longer? ”
"The old man is old, and he feels that he is already less, not to mention that this is also the rule of our house for many years, and it is not easy for the master mother of the Hou Mansion to do," Luo Yuanpeng looked at his wife with a bitter face, full of pity, she has always been at ease, and when she first arrived in the capital, the rules are greater than the sky, it is inevitable that she will not be adaptable, "Why do you have to make a show for the children, besides, there is not a county lord living in our mansion, and it will only hinder your reputation." ”
"I have a bad reputation, are you going to divorce me?" Zhang Lan made a rude appearance and viciously pulled Luo Yuanpeng's shoulders and said, as if she had forgotten that she was only wearing a belly pocket on her body, and her fine white skin was completely exposed in front of her husband's eyes.
"Of course not, I can't love my wife," Luo Yuanpeng ate his wife the most, and held her in his arms before throwing away his hand before he straightened up, "Come on, Qingrong and Xuchu and Su Juan are waiting, don't be laughed at by the children, you hold on for a few days, maybe the mother of the child will be exempted from your determination~"
"I hope," Zhang Lan sighed, sat up helplessly, and instructed Luo Yuanpeng to bring her middle coat over, "When I have a daughter-in-law, I must let them live by themselves, and I resolutely don't want my daughter-in-law to set any rules for me~"
"Haha," Luo Yuanpeng was amused by his wife's words, and said while helping her tie the belt, "Then we have to have a son first,"
"The son said hello to his mother, did his mother sleep well last night?" As soon as Luo Yuanpeng entered the Qingtai Courtyard, he went straight to greet Mrs. Luo, "My son wanted to come over with the family this morning, so the Zhang family waited for a while." ”
"It's rare that you have this heart, your daughter-in-law is also filial, you are busy with things in the court, and you have to practice, so if you don't come later, you can't come by yourself," In this house, there are not many things to hide from her, Mrs. Luo smiled with relief, as if she didn't know that it was because Zhang Lan refused to get up, "Since you are here together, then accompany me for breakfast, I asked Mama Li to specially prepare your favorite acorn noodles, you liked this most when you were a child~"
"Okay, I'm also thinking about it, I've been walking on the road for more than a month, and I haven't gotten a bite of satisfying food," Luo Yuanpeng was naturally happy when he saw that Old Madam Luo didn't pursue them for being late. pulled Zhang Lan to sit down and gossip with Mrs. Luo, Zhang Lan's background is too low, and she has no relatives in the capital, if she can win the favor of her mother-in-law, she will go out to socialize more smoothly in the future.
Luo Ayajin lightly saluted Luo Yuanpeng and Zhang Lan, and pulled Luo Qingrong to sit on the couch and speak, "I heard that you have been waiting for almost an hour in Qinseju today?" ”
"I think my mother didn't know the rules when she first came," Luo Qingrong said with a smile, but her eyes looked at Zhang's who went to help her grandmother get up with her stiff movements, and now she really has some doubts about the origin of this Zhang Lan, a poor woman, who doesn't know anything about serving people, is proficient in poetry but neglects needlework, and has a deep knowledge in diet and makeup, which is also too strange, it is ridiculous that she didn't have a trace of suspicion before, and even admired this versatile and well-informed stepmother.
"Hey, let me tell you, you don't have to be afraid of her at all, with your grandmother here, she can't control your head," Luo Ayajin was very impatient with her sister's half-dead appearance, and cheered her up, "According to my meaning, let her know that we are powerful as soon as you come, don't think that if you fly on the branches, you will really become a phoenix, phew, even if I am here, I can't let her be happy!" ”
For a while, Zitang came to invite, and everyone followed Mrs. Luo to the side hall, Zhang Lan was already a little impatient in her heart, this Qi family is not Luo Yuanpeng's biological mother, and she doesn't seem to be close to her husband, and her eyes are not kind, and even the scrutiny is mixed with a flash of contempt, she is also a person who has lived two lifetimes, and she feels that she is not much younger than the Qi family in two lifetimes, and she really has no patience to entertain her perfunctorily, and she said that just now, don't she have to come over every morning to greet this old woman? No, Zhang Lan absolutely can't accept this, and she must find Luo Yuanpeng to find a way at night.
"Madam," Zitang saw that Zhang Lan didn't accept the mahogany box with silver and jade chopsticks that she handed over, and couldn't help but remind softly, this Anzhen cloth dish is the duty of being a daughter-in-law.
"Uh," Zhang Lan understood, and secretly called unlucky, the daughter-in-law of this wealthy family is really not good, so she had to take the chopstick boxes handed over by Zitang and place them one by one.
Because they are close relatives, the five masters of the Luo family sit at the same table regardless of gender, the girl's family is a coquettish guest, so naturally there is no need to do this, and since Zhang Lan, the genuine daughter-in-law, came back, Aunt Liu no longer served in Qingtai Courtyard, and the full house watched Zhang Lan serve Mrs. Luo with the cooperation of Zitang and Zili, but Luo Yuanpeng and Luo Ayajin only frowned at the jerky and non-standard movements, and Luo Xuchu looked at his mother-in-law in amazement, his eyes were full of incredulity.
Luo Qingrong didn't seem to pay attention to the scene at the banquet, even though the Zhang family is as good as possible, and Luo Yuanpeng has ten thousand deep feelings, not to mention being the main mother of the Marquis's Mansion, even if she is a daughter-in-law, she is really unqualified, when Zhang Lan entered the mansion in the previous life, she was not close to Mrs. Luo, her grandmother just locked herself in the Qingtai Courtyard to survive, Zhang Lan escaped the responsibility of filial piety, and now her grandmother's health is much better than before, and her father should slowly see his marriage clearly, and see clearly what kind of daughter-in-law he married home.
"Okay, I'm full, you can sit down too," Mrs. Luo put down her chopsticks and motioned for Zhang Lan to sit down, a meal, Zhang's all kinds of grass and perfunctory Mrs. Luo has learned enough, what she is really worried about now is that such a woman is married into the Hou Mansion by her confused concubine Ming Media, will the Hou Mansion be destroyed in her hands in the future? ! "It's going to be the August Festival in a few days, I think it's better to find a good weather in advance and invite relatives and friends to sit at the house, so that the Zhang family can also recognize people~"
"Yes," Luo Yuanpeng always thought that his mother-in-law would have a lot of dissatisfaction with the wife she married against her will, and she was bound to make things difficult in every way, but from yesterday to now, she has always been kind to her wife, and now she has taken the initiative to ask the Zhang family to see relatives and friends, how can Luo Yuanpeng be unhappy, "What my mother said is that during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Zhang family will enter the palace to ask the queen mother for peace, and it will not be good if no one knows each other at that time~"
Speaking of this, he was seeing Zhang Lanchong pretending to be bitter very quickly, and his heart couldn't help but tremble, after all, Luo Yuanpeng also grew up in the Hou Mansion, even if he was disdainful, but the words and deeds of the children of the family were also engraved into his bones, and the harmony and ease between him and Zhang Lan was something that no other woman could give him, but this kind of ease must not be brought outside, especially in front of the children, "Since I want to see relatives and friends, my son wants to let Aunt Lan come over and give some Zhang rules, she didn't grow up in Beijing after all!" ”
"Well, that's what you said," this was discussed between the two before, Mrs. Luo glanced at Zhang Lan with a smile, "Your daughter-in-law is not an ordinary family's little family, and she is also generous and decent, but the women in Beijing have nothing to do all day long, and they can pick out bones from eggs, you know, you say that the customs are different, I don't know, I thought that Governor Zhang's family would not teach her daughter~"
I have worked hard all my life, and the men in the family have been handed over to the battlefield for generations, and there is a son who has never even stood up, but he made a table of dishes for others, thinking of this, Mrs. Luo was a little disheartened, knowing that Zhang Lan was inappropriate, and she didn't bother to spend energy on her, who wouldn't say good things? She also saves people from being annoying, and now for her, these three little ones under her knees are where the hope lies.
Zhang Lan has seen a lot of Mrs. Luo's smiling style, but although she has just entered the Hou Mansion, she also feels the gap between herself and these noble ladies after a day, and she still knows the truth of following the customs, not to mention that knowing some basic social etiquette is not a bad thing for her, after all, she doesn't want to be trapped in this square inch for the rest of her life to be an inner house woman, so she took advantage of the situation to give Mrs. Luo a blessing, "What my mother said is that I am also thinking about asking my mother, but I am thinking about my mother's body again~"
"As soon as I heard this, I knew that the second aunt had to learn the rules hard, even if it was good to get some fur, not to mention that my grandmother was not in good health, even if she was healthy, there was no reason for her old man to teach you the rules, what did it become when it was passed on?" Luo Ayajin covered her mouth and smiled, ordinary people saw her and stammered, even the nobles of various provinces, intentionally or unintentionally in front of her, were going to fall behind, but this Zhang Lan actually ignored herself completely, as if there was no such person as her Huayang County Lord in her eyes, which made Luo Ayajin more and more angry the more she sat down,
"Really?" Zhang Lan smiled faintly and glanced at Luo Ayajin, "Thank you for reminding the county lord, everyone knows that I am not from a high background, and I really don't know much about the rules of the upper class, don't you have to study hard, so as to save yourself the face of the Luo family," Zhang Lan is not angry with Luo Ayajin at all, now that the Wu'an Hou Mansion is the world of the second room, there is no such thing as this niece for a long time, Zhang Lan feels that she can ignore her if she wants to, and if she doesn't want to care, Luo Ayajin can't catch herself and beat her, a little girl like Luo Ayajin, the more she cares about it, the more she is faced.