At three o'clock, the car of the Chu Wangfu arrived at the main gate of the Zhenguo Mansion, because the old princess returned to the door, even the Zhenguo Gong personally greeted him, and the female dependents headed by Mrs. Xie at the second gate stood in a long column, and the third lady was missing.

The old princess never cared about these little things, and while eagerly chatting with the fourth wife, she was helped by Mrs. Xie and the second wife of the long room to go to the main hall.

The younger generations of the family have already paid homage to Zhenguo Gong, Yu Dong and his wife first kowtowed on the brocade mat, and it was Yu Feng's turn and Yijing, and they got two big red seals from Zhenguo Gong, followed by Yu Zhou and Yu Xiang, but they only got two silver ingots.

Xiao Xie was reluctant, and said coquettishly to the Duke of Zhenguo: "Daddy is really, my daughter is old now, and she has no face to beg for rewards, but Erlang Saburo is your own grandson, why does Daddy hurt Feng'er more." Although this is very straightforward, because she said it with a smile and hatred, everyone only regarded it as a joke and did not feel rude.

The old princess took the lead in laughing and said: "How old is the second daughter-in-law, she will hold her grandson in two years, and this time she will show her little daughter's attitude, and she is not afraid of jokes." ”

The big guy naturally laughed with him, but Zhen Guogong pretended to be serious: "The first time I saw Feng's daughter-in-law, although they gave me a birthday greeting today, it was all a meeting gift." ”

Yijing confessed after marriage, since there was nothing to do with the Zhenguo Mansion, although he had also seen the daughters of the Xie family before, and the Zhenguo Gong was indeed the first to be masked.

Waiting for the birthday, of course everyone will sit down, the old princess is still invited by the Zhenguo Gong into the first seat, the right side of the circle chair is the second master and the fourth grandfather and his wife, the left side is empty, it should be the seat of the third prince and his wife, because the king of Chu is still busy with official business and cannot be separated, Yu Feng was taken by Xie Shizi to sit on the left side of the head, Yu Dong sat on the right side of the head.

Mrs. Xie brought Yijing, sat in the chair on the east wall of the main hall, and chatted with the ladies over tea, some of the Yijing had known each other before, and some felt that they were alive, and they were introduced by Mrs. Xie one by one, and they were quiet for a while, only to listen to a few little ladies behind the screen, Mrs. Xie said with a smile: "A few juniors kowtowed to the front yard, but the girls were behind the door, and they saw Ah Jing again." ”

Suddenly, the old princess asked: "Why don't the third brother and the third sister-in-law see each other?" ”

Here, a daughter-in-law stood up, not tall, wearing a horse-faced skirt embroidered with peonies, slightly raising her pointed chin, and replied with a smile: "Back to my aunt's words, my mother-in-law got up early and felt a little uncomfortable, and she just took the Qingshen Pill and rested for a while." ”

Yijing recognized this as Mrs. Yuda, the eldest daughter-in-law of the third room, and when she saw her words fall, she glanced at Mrs. Xie with a slight provocation, and her heart sighed slightly, it seems that as Shan said, today's third room is picking the day to make trouble.

Xiao Xie, the master of the Shan clan, didn't hear any rumors, and was very surprised when he heard this, so he pulled Mrs. Yu and asked, "The third aunt has always been healthy, what's wrong with her today?" ”

Mrs. Yu cocked her orchid fingers, pinched a pine kernel in a glass plate, and then tilted her eyes to Mrs. Xie's side: "This is going to ask sister-in-law." ”

Xiao Xie was even more surprised, and looked at the other two wives in the third room, all of whom were smiling and not smiling, frowning and staring at Mrs. Xie, just about to ask, and then heard the old princess ask about someone again.

"Why don't you see Sister Gong?"

The daughters-in-law of the three rooms snorted coldly in unison.

Yi Jing had heard Yu Feng say that the Gong family was a special existence in the Zhenguo Mansion, and when she saw this situation, she was inevitably surprised, and said in her heart, Could it be that the Gong family had a dispute with the third room? Her family cabinet highly praised Gong, saying that she was an elder who kept her duty and was neither humble nor arrogant.

Mrs. Xie got up and replied: "Mama Gong asked herself to manage the personnel of the kitchen, today's birthday banquet is more busy than usual, she can't get out of her body for a while, and after the meal, she will come to talk to her aunt." ”

The old princess was exiled with the Liang family back then, and she was sheltered and cared for by the Gong family, and she and the Gong family were also sisters, and their affection was deeper than that of their own brothers and sisters.

Mrs. Xie's voice fell, and someone spoke outside the door suddenly-

"The old princess is thinking about outsiders, why did she forget her brother and sister-in-law, I said a slave and maid, how can she be tricky, it turns out that in addition to Mrs. Shizi, there is an old princess behind her."

Yijing raised his eyes and saw that on the stone steps outside the main hall, a man and a woman walked one after the other, both of them were in their sixties, their temples were white, the man's horse face was high, and there was a circle of brown spots on his head. The old woman was standing on a black carved flower, and her steps were imposing, but a dark blue veil was wrapped around her forehead to show that she was "sickly".

Zhen Guogong, who was seated, frowned, and said coldly: "What are these words of the third brother and sister, as soon as the eldest sister sat down, she asked about the two of you." ”

Yijing looked at Yu Feng and saw that he was holding the teacup neatly, and he didn't look at the two of the third master and his wife.

So when the daughters-in-law of the Xie family got up to greet each other, Yijing also sat still and took a few glances from Xiao Xie's family.

As soon as the third master sat down, he said lukewarmly: "You have fire in your heart, don't vent it on your eldest sister." Only then did he explain to the old princess: "Don't blame your third sister-in-law, she has always been this temperament, and today she was angry again, and she hasn't put down the fire yet, and when she hears the eldest sister mention the Gong family, she will inevitably be angry." ”

The old princess didn't know about the turmoil in the Guogong Mansion earlier, but she was not close to the Nian family, in the early years, because of Concubine Xie, it was peaceful on the surface, and because the little Xie family used to only say good things about the three rooms, the old princess thought that her brothers were relying on the Nian family, and they had a lot of patience with Nian's temperament. The second elder has not suffered from the war, so he only left such a lonely and helpless daughter, the mother promised to take care of Sister Gong in order to report to Uncle Gong and Aunt Gong, and her father also treated Sister Gong as a righteous daughter back then, she is not a slave, even if she collides with the third sister-in-law, and for my face, treat me more leniently. ”

Nian's face was angry: "I know the relationship between the old princess and the Gong family, but we are serious relatives in the end, today the Gong family is at fault first, and beat my maid again, I go to theorize, she dares to do it to me!" But our wife is still biased towards her, not only does she not theorize the Gong family's domineering, but instead punishes my maid, and wants to beat and sell, which is obviously slapping me in the face. ”

When Xiao Xie heard this, he saw Yu Dong's very uncertain face at a glance, so he couldn't sit still, pulled Mrs. Xie and stood up, and said while walking towards the third lady: "Sister-in-law too, no matter how you say it, you shouldn't slack off the third aunt for an outsider, and don't give the third aunt a voice." ”

Mrs. Xie had expected that the two elders of the third room would not give up today, but she didn't expect her sister-in-law to be still stirring up in the middle, and her dissatisfaction with Xiao Xie's family added another point, no matter how she was the daughter of the long house, she only knew how to please Concubine Xie's brother and sister-in-law, there was no distinction between right and wrong, and blood relatives were intimate, she was really a white-eyed wolf!

Xiao Xie pulled her to the front of the hall, only to break free of her hand, and knelt on the ground without saying a word, and she was at the Zhenguo Gong and the old princess, and first made a statement no, and then she carefully talked about the incident and explained: "It's not that the daughter-in-law is biased to help Mama Gong, this matter is indeed the green kite, before the grandmother passed away, she repeatedly told the daughter-in-law to take the grandmother as her parent, and she must not be treated badly in the future, and the daughter-in-law punished the green kite." ”

Xiao Xie saw that the usual gentle eldest sister-in-law had a temper today, and saw that Nian's face was even more angry, and his heart was so anxious that he was scratching like a dozen cat's paws.

I complained in my heart that the eldest sister-in-law was not long-sighted, and offended the owner for an irrelevant person, so I didn't care about it for a while, and said coldly: "Sister-in-law, this is not yours, it's good to respect Mama Gong, and you can't be slow down since your parents......"

Yi Jing looked at Xiao Xie's family, and sneered in her heart, she didn't think it was enough to offend Xie Shizi and his wife, and she was partial to the third room, just because that was Yu Dong's backing, but she didn't want to be in the eyes of the old princess, after all, she was still close to Zhenguo Gong and the second room, and the mother's family she took care of must also be the brother of Zhenguo Gong, Xiao Xie didn't have the support of her mother's family, and she still hoped to give the middle feed of the Chu Palace, it was really a daydream.

Sure enough, I heard the sound of the cup slamming down, and it was Xie Shizi who was angry.

Today's kitchen incident, Mrs. Xie knew that something was wrong, and immediately predicted Xie Shizi, Xie Shizi was not like Zhenguo Gong, and regarded the third prince as a brother of a mother's compatriots, in his eyes, the third prince was an uncle, and secretly complained that Taizong was the prince, and the third prince bewitched his father to please Jin Rongzhong, and stood on the side of King Kang, so that the Zhenguo Mansion was feared by the heavenly family, and almost did not even keep the title, not to mention that over the years, the third prince relied on the power of the Nian family to dictate to him.

On the matter of the grandmother back then, the Qi family was divorced, and even the third grandfather should have been expelled from the Xie family's branch mansion for himself, but his grandfather did not let the family be separated, and the third grandfather was cautious and respectful back then, and later deceived the grandmother to forgive their room, at this time, what happened, seeing that the power of the Zhenguo Mansion was not as strong as before, he showed the fox's tail, and what was even more hateful was his own sister-in-law, who turned her elbow outward, and actually blamed her sister-in-law for the third room.

Xie Shizi sneered, Yu Dong's house, it can be seen that he only regards Concubine Xie's brother as a close relative, and does not look at the Xie family's descendants at all! It's a shame that I've been planning for them everywhere all these years, I knew that this was the case, I shouldn't have wronged Zhiniang, even if I stabbed the Zongren Mansion, I had to let Yu Dong give an explanation.

But in front of everyone, Xie Shizi still didn't get angry directly at Xiao Xie, and only said to his wife: "Don't distinguish between the serious, today is a good day for my father, but it's just a trivial matter, it's worth arguing at this time?" ”

The old princess was afraid of disputes, and she followed closely: "Dalang's daughter-in-law, hurry up, it's not a big deal, as the saying goes, family and everything is prosperous, and the third sister-in-law is also taking care of some ......."

"Is it right for me to suffer this grievance? Instead, it has become my baht. Nian snorted coldly and looked at Zhen Guogong: "Today in front of the whole family, you can get a theory, Mrs. Shizi is in charge of the feed, but she is unfair, even the elders dare to collide, at this time, he still refuses to admit his mistake, the uncle is at home, and he has to say a fair word." ”

was so unrelenting, Zhen Guogong was also on fire in his heart, and looked at Nian's family coldly: "Third brother and sister, just say it directly, what do you want?" ”

Nian Shi was not annoyed at this time, and smiled at the corner of his lips: "In my opinion, Mrs. Shizi does not understand the difference between respect and inferiority, and she took the lead in breaking the rules of the house. Even if this matter is not regarded, over the years, the outside industry has been taken care of by several children and grandchildren in the third room, and they have worked hard to make money outside and handed it over to our Mrs. Shizi, either short of this or of that, just say that the day before yesterday, Brother Lian's daughter-in-law wanted to use Ejiao food supplement because of lung irritability, but there was no storage in a national mansion of Nuoda, which was a few days later, and Mrs. Shizi did not let people send it, or Brother Lian bought some outside, if you want to let everyone bring their own things, what is the use of storing money and silver in the public, I think, Mrs. Shizi was not capable, so she handed over the account book and came out of the cards, and Yu's daughter-in-law took care of it. ”

Xiao Xie was speechless when he heard that the third room was going to take the opportunity to take the middle feed, and stared at his sister-in-law at a glance, who let you hand the handle to others, the family relied on the three-room in-laws to support the family, and the business profited, and I didn't know how much to please the third uncle and three aunts.

The old princess was angry when she heard this, although she used to get along with Concubine Xie in harmony, it was because Concubine Xie was "virtuous and courteous", since she had the fate of serving a husband, for the peace of the house, she couldn't fight with wives and concubines, but this did not mean that the old princess would regard the third princess as her own brother, and she was partial to the long room and the second room of the first mother's compatriots, and immediately turned her face cold: "The third sister-in-law's words are forceful, and there is no statement that the daughter-in-law of the concubine branch is in charge of the feed." ”

Nian's life is obsessed, just because of the word "Shu", after hearing this, he only felt a wave of anger rushing to the heavenly spirit, ignoring the flashing eyes of the third master, and snorted coldly: "The old princess is coming to talk about the concubine at this time, then I have to ask, which family relies on the concubine to maintain daily consumption, food, clothing, housing and transportation?" ”