At the beginning, He Angelica let his mother-in-law Mrs. Su fifteen sons, but after ten rounds of chess, Shang and others saw that her mother-in-law was defeated again, which was incredible! If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, they wouldn't have believed that someone would have played against the wind more easily than with the wind. In fact, He Angelica's chess moves are not very sharp, but she can turn the opponent's tricks into bad chess with every move, so the mother-in-law who is getting worse and worse becomes more and more frizzy.

On the one hand, the eldest grandmother Shang was surprised by He Angelica's superb chess skills, and on the other hand, she began to gossip and disturb her train of thought, which can be regarded as indirectly helping her mother-in-law. But Shang's words were sharp, and he caught people off guard: "Hehehe, my brother and sister are really good, not only do they play chess well, but they also have a good set of husbands." The seventh brother was sent out by his father on a business trip, and his mother-in-law didn't even know how to write a letter to him, but the seventh brother and sister came back as soon as you called him. With such a clever master's skill, we can't even envy it. ”

As soon as these words came out, He Angelica's eyebrows and eyes did not change, but Mrs. Su darkened her face first. Just now He Angelica said that he made a bet with her, and the bet was to call back the son she missed, and she agreed as soon as she was happy. At this time, the business reminded her, and she also realized that she couldn't find her son but listened to her daughter-in-law's words, isn't this a prelude to marrying a daughter-in-law and forgetting her mother?

Mrs. Su's eyes wandered over He Angelica's face, but she didn't see her panic, and she couldn't wait for her to ask for guilt, could it be that this girl was too slow to understand the meaning of Shang's words?

After two more chess, He Angelica single-handedly brought Mrs. Su into a desperate situation, taking advantage of Mrs. Su's spare time to think hard about countermeasures, her little face showed a touching expression, and sighed leisurely: "Sister-in-law said that she laughed, her husband is a woman's sky, how dare I control my husband?" I've never heard of such a thing as a child, and today is the first time I've heard of the word 'Mifu'. Could it be that this is a new word from the Meng family's family motto? ”

"No," replied Luk, "I have read the family motto by heart, but I have never seen it on it. I only heard from my aunt before I left the cabinet. ”

Mrs. Su studied the chessboard hard, her expression seemed to be constipated, the four daughters-in-law stopped talking, and the room was quiet for a moment, Mrs. Su made a son, and her expression became relaxed, but He Angelica "snapped" and fell a son crisply, which was another killing move, and beat Mrs. Su back to her original state again.

Shang recalled the question and answer between He Angelica and Lu, and the two said that they had heard of the "art of the imperial husband" for the first time, and said that the Meng family did not have this statement, so the implication was that this word was brought by her from the merchant? And Lu's unintentional sentence of "I heard my aunt at home say it" suddenly lit Shang's tail. The Shang family is most annoyed to hear about the long aunt and the short aunt, because she crawled out of the aunt's belly, and later won the favor of her mother-in-law and was promoted to a daughter-in-law.

Shang sneered: "The second brother and sister are still in the mood to study the family motto? I heard that Aunt Wang is more delicate than the seventh brother and sister, and she can pretend to be Chang'e by holding a rabbit. The second brother hasn't entered your house since he married her, right? If you want me to cry to death, alas. ”

Lu knows her sore feet, how can she not know Lu's? Hmph, sure enough, Lu's smiling face suddenly stiffened into a dough, and the fingers holding the teacup trembled slightly, which verified Shang's guess from the side: After the second master Meng Qi married his wife Wang, he was hooked. He was busy with business, he went out early and returned late, and when he returned to the courtyard, he went to Aunt Wang's house, and Lu had never seen her husband so far. So the maids all said that Aunt Wang was as beautiful as a fairy and fascinated the second master.

"Oh?" Mrs. Su glanced up at He Angelica, "It's actually prettier than Qing Ning, it has to be a neat child!" Call me and show me how I forgot about her. ”

Immediately, a maid went to pass on Aunt Wang, and the people in the house were silent for a moment, and He Angelica smiled at the sad Lu: "How old is the daughter of the second sister-in-law?" I heard that she is cute and can beat the maid in Shuanglu? ”

As soon as he mentioned his daughter, Lu regained some of his spirit, and said with a soft smile: "Jiahui will be five years old in two months, although she is cute, but she is too naughty, and she ignores the serious female red family motto taught her, and only likes to fiddle with backgammon." If she could grow up to be as smart as your sister, I would be Amitabha. ”

Speaking of this Miss Jiahui, the only daughter of the second master, there is a pride in Lu's words that cannot be concealed. Thinking of the mother-in-law and others who gave the second master a six-room concubine, only she gave birth to a daughter for the second master, and remembered the promise of "I won't let them have children until you are pregnant with your eldest son", Lu's heart warmed, and the bad mood brought up by the Shang family dissipated.

However, before He Angelica's words were finished, she glanced at the Shang family with a smile, and then at the Lu family, and sighed: "At first glance, the eldest sister-in-law is a few years older than the second sister-in-law, but in fact this is not the case, right?" My second sister-in-law studied the family motto, and so did I. ”

"Huh?" Neither of the Lu family understood what He Angelica was saying. The Shang family is twenty-seven, and the Lu family is less than twenty-one, is there any doubt about this? Anyone can see the age gap. Lu smiled: "My sister-in-law is six years older than me, but she looks almost the same as me, no wonder my sister thinks so." ”

"Oh?" He Angelica's eyes widened and said in surprise, "It turns out that my sister-in-law is older!" I don't know if the eldest sister-in-law got started first, or the second sister-in-law married first? ”

"Naturally, the sister-in-law's qualifications are older," Lu didn't understand what He Angelica wanted to ask, so he only replied truthfully, "The concubine has served her mother-in-law for six years, but she can't compare to the filial piety and virtue of the sister-in-law, and the sister-in-law has been playing cards with her mother-in-law for more than ten years." ”

After He Angelica listened, there was a stunned expression on his face, an expression of thought and thought, and an expression of wanting to speak, and then he buried his head and did not speak.

Shang Shi played a sullen gourd, and finally couldn't help but stab: "The younger brothers and sisters who dare to love are not here to accompany their mother to play cards, but to make up for the family motto and common sense at home." Such a trivial matter, just ask the maid to understand, you need to ask in front of your mother? Calling her mother-in-law "mother" is one of her privileges, and Lu has no choice but to shout occasionally, but she can come up with this affectionate title at any time, which is the treatment enjoyed by the old qualified daughter-in-law.

He Angelica held back for a while, and finally couldn't help but whisper to Lu: "After the main room is entered, if you don't give birth to a child within five years, you will be cut into a concubine; If there is a child, but it is a daughter, then give another three years of 'observation period', during which a son can be born, you can be exempted - this is the first family motto that the seventh master explained to me, sister-in-law, you say, the seventh master is coaxing me, right? ”

Lu Shi was stunned, and immediately figured out something, and couldn't help but smile: "It's not coaxing, there are indeed such detailed rules in the family motto, sister, you don't read carefully." ”

"Well, I've heard that...... Uncle doesn't have a son-in-law? Or did I hear it wrong? He Angelica asked quietly again.

Lu sat closer and whispered: "The eldest son of the uncle, Qiao Mu Eleven, and the second son Limu are eight years old, both of whom have reached the age of going to the city defense camp to practice arching horses, and there is also a daughter Zhi'er, who is one year older than our Jiahui. These three little guys are all concubines, Qiao Mu and Zhi'er are all from Aunt Pan, sister, you like children, I will introduce Aunt Pan to you another day, she is now pregnant with her third child. ”

Shang's face was so gloomy that it was about to rain. Although the volume of the Lu family's conversation was small, what could not be heard in this quiet chess room?

He Angelica was still very curious, and asked Lu in a low voice: "Then the situation of the eldest sister-in-law is that she has no children for ten years, but she is still the wife of the big house...... Could it be that those family mottos are only for instruction, and are not so strict in their actual implementation? Call...... Then I'm relieved. ”

Lu finally couldn't hold back his laughter, and persuaded He Angelica softly: "Sister, don't worry too early, let's plan to get up as soon as possible, the 'that incident' you asked is hard to say, I'll talk to you in detail another day." ”

As she spoke, she gradually turned to a normal volume, and at the same time, Mrs. Su didn't want to worry about the black and white chess pieces anymore, so she threw the sweaty white pieces into the basket, and snorted at He Angelica: "No, you won." Just now you said that you want the governing rights of the three gardens and dictate the personnel? Do you think that now I am in the palm of my hand and let you be wronged? ”

Shang snorted and laughed: "It's not right for you to think so, seventh brother and sister, my mother loves the seventh master, and there is nothing in the family that I don't know." You are the wife of the seventh room, and you still feel wronged, what should we do! ”

Mama Leng rubbed her waist and legs, and sighed and said: "Seventh grandmother, it's not the old slave who protects the maids who were sent away, but they are all carefully trained by the old slave's subordinates, and each person has at least two unique jobs that can be taken out, needlework, cooking, etiquette, nothing to say, and the embroidered pillow quilt is brighter than the special embroiderer." A maid like this has nowhere to buy it for ten taels of silver. ”

"That's right," the fourth grandmother Liu finally found the line and sold it to Mama Leng, "When I was in my mother's house, I never used such a good maid as Mengfu, and the third-class maid here is more clever than the first-class maid I married." While speaking, she also brought out her dowry maid, which was a reminder to Mama Leng that it was time to return the person. The dowry maids are all henchmen who have been by the side of the young lady for ten years, so they have such a glorious task as "marrying". Anyone who loses such a confidant will be very unaccustomed to it, and there is a sense of deaf and blind powerlessness in the huge Meng Mansion.

Mama Leng further criticized He Angelica's dowry girl, saying that the things they embroidered were all awkward when they were insoles, and the things they cooked looked like they were teeth, and the stupid girls with a market price of only two taels were also.

He Angelica sighed and said to Mrs. Su: "Mother-in-law has been tired for half a day, don't worry about this little thing in the seventh room, let's use some soup and take a bath and rest." And behold, it was getting dark while he was talking. Anyway, the people of the Seventh Master are gone, so it's no fun to talk about it anymore. ”

"Huh? What does this have to do with Xiao Qi? Speaking of Meng Xuan, the nonchalant look on Mrs. Su's face, sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, was swept away, and her eyes looked at He Angelica with blazing eyes.

He Angelica supported his elbows and cheeks, and said out of his god: "On the second day of the concubine and the seventh master's marriage, the father-in-law asked the seventh master to do things. But the concubine waited and waited, and searched and searched, but there was not even a girl in the garden to deliver hot water, which was really anxious. In the end, the concubine couldn't stop the seventh master, and saw him run into the small kitchen in person, roll up his sleeves to make a fire, boil a pot of hot water, and make it familiar with it. The concubine looked distressed from the side, let him not do this in the future, even if the next person is gone, he should let the concubine chop wood, carry water, and boil water. But the seventh master said - he was used to it. ”

Mrs. Su's face was black when she heard it, and Mama Leng was white when she heard it, and she wanted to block Grandma Seven's mouth, but how could she be in time?

He Angelica sighed and said sadly: "The seventh master is considerate of his concubine's body and loves beauty, and he must have hot water to wash his face every morning before he is willing to see people, so he gave me that pot of precious hot water, and he himself ...... I didn't wash my face or rinse my mouth, so I rode on my horse on an empty stomach. After the seventh master left, the concubine was in a lot of thoughts, and her heart was empty, so she found something to do, and called her subordinates to recognize people by name, but the result was that thirty-five people were actually eleven, and only two of the eleven people could answer the concubine's questioning. I was angry for a while, and I was still thinking about the seventh master who hadn't eaten, and I even looked at those girls and mothers-in-law who were not pleasing to the eye. ”

Mrs. Su didn't expect that there was such an inside story, and was touched by the "tragic situation" of her son's description by her daughter-in-law, and Mrs. Su was also angry, just about to break out the last fire.

He Angelica shrugged, bowed his head and admitted: "Well, since Mama Leng said that my dowry girl is not good, then bother Mama to work hard and train them to be 'minions of ten taels of silver'." The 'golden maids' who were sent away by me were invited back again and continued to work in the three gardens. It's all my fault, I don't know the pearls, and I don't see their good skills. ”