When Pang Zi went back that day, he heard that he had a hard cough, and the lights in Taoyuan were on all night. But a few days later, Pang Zi came one day, and it seemed that he had recently eaten a little better, and his pale face was frozen by the cold wind and showed a strange bright red. As soon as she came in, she saw that the Shaohua sisters were also in Xuyuan, and she was stunned for a moment, a little cramped, and it was difficult to speak. The Ling clan nodded at Shaohua and the others, and the sisters had to obediently get up and walk out. As soon as they went out, the two squatted at the door in unison, looking at each other making similar movements, and couldn't help but feel funny.

Hearing someone talking in the room, Wanhua hurriedly reached out to her lips and signaled that she couldn't make a sound. The maids passing by looked at the tacit and funny appearance of the two ladies, and they all pursed their lips, held back their laughter, and passed by as if they didn't see it.

"Second sister-in-law, I have something to discuss with you." Pang Zi felt that his face was a little unbearable, and he twisted for a while.

"Let's talk about it, I've already let the two girls go away." Ling Shi looked at her, which made Pang Zi a little embarrassed.

"Xiuniang thinks, no, I want Xiuniang to live in Biwuxuan and be with Sanniang." Pang Zi plucked up the courage to speak, and the two girls outside the door invariably showed "as expected" expressions.

Ling hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Then you have to go and talk to your sister-in-law, what's the use of telling me." ”

Pang Zi seemed to know that Ling would say this, and immediately said, "I asked my sister-in-law, and she said that you can just make up your mind." ”

"It's hard for me to make decisions." Ling Shi frowned, looking embarrassed: "You also know, Biwuxuan originally had four courtyards relatively neat, and the others were empty, if you want to repair it, you have to find Mr. to see the days, and you have to ask the master to start the work, and it will be a lot of trouble." Ling Shi deliberately paused, looked at Pang Zi's expression, and sighed, "It's not impossible if you want to live in, it's okay to clean up the room where Yan Niang lived before." ”

Pang Zi's face was happy, and before he could speak, Ling Shi turned the words back, "But this courtyard was originally prepared for Liu Niang, even if Liu Niang is not there, it is also counted in her name, so it is not inappropriate for the sister-in-law to clean up and let Yan Niang live." Besides, I haven't even touched any of the things inside, if you want to let Xiuniang go in and live, then you have to let the people in Xuyuan clean it up, don't lose it, I can't afford it. ”

Ling's words were very direct, the master of this courtyard was not under her control, and the things in the courtyard were not hers. If Liu agrees, then Liu will open the lock himself, and he will be responsible for what is lost inside.

"So, is there no other way?" Ponzi asked helplessly.

"Why don't you ask your sister-in-law, if it weren't for Chenlang's autumn season, she would have to live at home for a while, and her sister-in-law wouldn't have specially helped Yan Niang clean up the house." Ling walked over and patted her hand, indicating that there was nothing he could do. "By the way, how long is Xiuniang going to live?"

"Well, it's just, it's going to be for a while." Pang Zi herself is not easy to say, it was Aunt Pang who specially stuffed it, and she is not easy to refuse. Seeing that Ling didn't mean to let go at all, Pang had no choice but to leave.

"I knew that my aunt didn't have a good heart." Wanhua looked displeased.

As soon as Shaohua entered the door, he asked curiously, "Do I still have a sister?" She didn't notice it at all, it turned out that there was one less person in the family.

Wanhua nodded, "Bohm gave birth to a lady who was as old as you, and you were abducted not long after you went to Pu'an. This is the pain in Liu's heart, and all kinds of manpower and financial resources were used at that time, but they couldn't find it.

Because after all, there is such a lady, so the order remains the same, but no one mentions this missed Liuniang again.

Shaohua was a little curious, if this cousin was still at home, what would this family be like, maybe there would be more harmony between Xuyuan and Xiyuan.

"The second lady is so stingy! With such a big garden, he refused to let my lady live in it, obviously because he looked down on my lady as a concubine. Xiaohong listened to Ponzi's words and couldn't help complaining. When Zhuang Xiuniang heard this word, she felt a thorn in her heart, and her face was not good. When it comes to concubines, Jinhua is also concubines, but she clearly saw that Jinhua's clothes and jewelry were better than her own sisters, and she didn't mention that they would be inferior to the two sisters, Wanhua and Shaohua. Xiaohong looked at Zhuang Xiuniang bowing her head and was silent, angry, "Xiuniang, you are talking!" ”

"I-I'm nothing, it's fine here." Even if Taoyuan is not as good as Biwuxuan, it is much better than the small courtyard where she lives.

"Xiaohong, don't be presumptuous!" Qiu's mother was very angry beside her, "Even if the show lady is a concubine, it will not be your turn to be an inferior girl to drink here, what kind of system!" ”

"I, I'm in the lady's house, not the lady's." Xiaohong said proudly.

"A maid is a maid, I don't care who you serve. This still wants to marry Xiu Niangzi to our second young master, do you have to talk to our second young master like this in the future? Qiu's mother's words made Xiaohong suddenly speechless, she sneered, "My wife hasn't promised anything, don't treat yourself as the master, even if you can get in, you are not!" ”

"Please don't blame Xiaohong, mother, she doesn't have a heart." Zhuang Xiuniang spoke up, but was reprimanded by Qiu's mother and blushed.

"And the show lady, if you really plan to enter the Li family, then take out the appearance of a lady, and be counted by a maid or something! If you're okay, it's better to learn more from the three ladies and the five ladies how to teach the people in the house. Don't lose your face, you have to clean up for her. Mother Qiu said this very hard, she simply gritted her teeth, and said that Zhuang Xiuniang's master and servant were both red-faced.

After the two of them left, Qiu's mother asked Pang Zi with a worried face: "Madam, do you really plan to let Xiu Niangzi enter the door?" ”

Pang Zi mourned: "My sister said so, what else can I do, I just looked at Mei Niang well, and I didn't think Mei Niang would be in such a hurry to get married." Eh, actually, Xiuniang is okay, but she is a little cowardly. Pang Zi thought in his heart, if he married a strong daughter-in-law, her mother-in-law would not be stable, so it was better to find someone who knew the roots.

Qiu's mother didn't think so, "Madam, if this is my aunt's own mother, it doesn't matter, Erlang is a top person, and many people want to kiss." Let people know that she is worthy of such a concubine, and she has no family background and no background, isn't it a joke for Erlang to walk around in the court! "Qiu's mother and husband are both people who came with Li Zhuoyue, so they definitely consider the interests of the entire third room.

"But sister, she ......" Pang Zi thought that Aunt Pang cried every time she was poor and bitter, and she felt uncomfortable, how could she say that she was such a sister-in-law.

"It's not that Mrs. Lang Jun doesn't have her, but she still has four ladies and a Lang Jun, although my aunt is not good, I can't let us go to help. The old man is gone, and Erlang has just gained a foothold in the court, so if he doesn't marry a daughter-in-law who helps the luck, he has to drag his feet. As soon as Mother Qiu mentioned Li Zhuoyue, Pang Zi's mood was low, "I see, you can't be hasty in this matter, Madame. If the show lady wants to live, let her live, and hurry up and let the old lady find a serious daughter-in-law for Erlang. When the time comes, if the show lady doesn't mind, she will be a small one, anyway, with her identity, being an aunt will be regarded as lifting her. ”

Pang Zi looked at Qiu's mother hesitantly, she really couldn't refuse Aunt Pang's request, but she didn't agree, she just said to see Erlang's opinion. But Li Sinian often goes out early and returns late, deliberately avoiding Zhuang Xiuniang, even if Xiaohong comes to complain, Pang Zi can't say anything.

finally nodded, acquiescing to Qiu's mother's proposal.

Shaohua came back from listening to an ear of gossip in Xiyuan, including how Pang Zi entered the door back then, and how Li Zhuoyue was so suave back then, almost fascinated half of the ladies in the capital, and naturally mentioned his father's romantic affairs when he was young. Thinking of Ponzi's current appearance, it is hard to imagine what a pair of beautiful people he was when he and Li Zhuoyue got married.

"Fifth lady, you can come back." Chu He nervously ran out to greet him, which made Shaohua a little surprised, "What's wrong, what's the good thing?" Chu He squeezed his eyebrows strangely, looked behind him, and Shaohua poked his head out curiously, just in time to see Zhuang Xiuniang coming out of the house. Youhan glared at Chu He with some displeasure, as if she was blaming her for how she could let them into the hospital when Shaohua was away, and Chu He also looked depressed.

Shaohua shook his head at them, he didn't expect her to come to visit so soon.

"Sister Xiuniang is really early, haven't you had breakfast?" Shaohua ignored the sun in the sky above his head and smiled amiably.

Xiaohong scrambled to speak, and when she heard Zhuang Xiuniang coughing, she immediately closed her mouth, which made Shaohua's master and servant a little impressed, and they all looked up at the sky. They remember that the sun rose in the east today.

Zhuang Xiuniang understood what they were thinking, pretending not to care, and said with a smile: "Look at the good weather, come here and walk around with the fifth sister, and ask the fifth sister for some skills." ”

"I don't know how to embroider." Shaohua decisively refused.

Zhuang Xiuniang's smile froze, "Fifth sister really loves to laugh." ”

"I really won't, I don't believe you ask the two of them, you have to ask for a handicraft, go and go with the third sister or Qi Niang." Chu He and Youhan nodded like pounding garlic, expressing their affirmation of Shaohua's words.

Zhuang Xiuniang was a little embarrassed, but Xiaohong pouted on the side, "How can everyone not do embroidery work, it's really funny." As soon as she finished speaking, she was kicked by Zhuang Xiuniang, Xiaohong was very angry, but after glancing at Shaohua and them, she didn't dare to make a mistake, so she had to endure her grievances angrily.

"What do the five sisters usually do?" Zhuang Xiuniang seemed to be full of energy and wanted to talk to Shaohua.

"Climb the wall and climb the tree to ride a horse and shoot arrows" Every time Shaohua said one, Zhuang Xiuniang's eyes widened a little, and Shaohua suddenly said, "These are unlikely." Obviously hearing Zhuang Xiuniang's sigh of relief, Shaohua said again: "Look at the book, write, play the piano, and teach the maids in the house to do things." ”

When Shaohua said this, he glanced at Xiaohong from the corner of his eye, saw her with disdain, rolled his eyes just to see it, and hurriedly lowered his eyes.

"I see." Zhuang Xiuniang naturally wouldn't say that she couldn't recognize a single character in Douda, and even her own concubine was not very literate, how could Aunt Pang let the lady from her concubine go to read and write. Thinking of what Pang Zi said that the ladies of the Li family all went to school, and invited the most sought-after Mama Rong in Beijing, Zhuang Xiuniang suddenly felt ashamed of herself.

"What does Sister Xiuniang do on weekdays? Can it be embroidered and played on the piano? Shaohua asked with a smile.

"I don't know how to play the piano." Zhuang Xiuniang said honestly.

"Neither will I." As soon as Shaohua said, Zhuang Xiuniang was stunned for a moment, and saw her laugh, "Because I play the pipa, or I'll play it for you?" ”

Without waiting for Zhuang Xiuniang to speak, Shaohua had already led the two of them into the house.