Wen Yi got out of the carriage in front of her house, looked up and saw that the sky was a little heavy, so she asked, "Is it going to rain?" ”

Aunt Qian, who came to greet her, said with a smile: "Since yesterday, it has been raining lightly, and it stopped in the morning, and it has only been two hours, and it has been raining again!" I heard that it could be in the next few days! Uncle Zhong ordered someone to clean up the drainage ditches everywhere in the house early in the morning, so as not to block the debris and flood the yard! ”

In the previous life, in September, it did start to rain, at first it was just rain, but after the middle of the month, it began to get heavier, and it did not stop until October. Wen Yi listened to Aunt Qian's words, remembered this incident, and her face was not sad but happy. When it rains, it means that today's drought is over. She was immediately relieved.

Dong Que was also on the side to please her: "This is good, our family's field, finally don't have to worry about it anymore!" ”

Wen Yi smiled on her face, and looked at Aunt Qian and felt much more pleasing to the eye, so she said softly: "How is grandmother these days?" How is it at home? ”

"Everything is fine at home. The old lady took the medicine prescribed by Dr. Xiao yesterday, her waist is not so painful, her appetite is also better, and she ate a big bowl of rice at night! Aunt Qian rolled her eyes and lowered her voice again, "Over there in the backyard, Mrs. Fifteen asked the sixth young master to bring two young masters to greet the old lady every day, and the old lady was very happy to see it. However, Mrs. Seventeen has been coming to see Mrs. Fifteen every day these days, and she has been sitting for a long time, and Mrs. Fifteen seems to be a little annoyed, and this morning, she also dropped a teacup! ”

Wen Yi frowned. Aunt Fifteen has been looking at Aunt Seventeen almost as soon as they meet in the past few months, Aunt Seventeen was originally unwilling to come, but she was forced to come to the door by her husband, and Aunt Fifteen can still maintain face for Uncle Seventeen's sake, and she has never given Aunt Seventeen an ugly look. What happened today that made her so angry that she smashed her glass?!

She glanced at Aunt Qian, thinking that the other party had inquired so clearly about the private affairs of the clansmen who borrowed the inner courtyard, let alone the master's affairs, but at the moment, she didn't want to close the other party's mouth. The fifteenth aunt is doing well in the sixth room, but she is angry by the bias of the ninth room, and the news will only be beneficial to the reputation of the sixth room.

She smiled slightly and said, "I'm not at home, only my grandmother is at home, and you have worked hard to serve your grandmother." He glanced back at Dong Kui, "Reward the mother with a second-class seal, and then pass the word, everyone in the family will be rewarded, the old lady in front of her is a first-class seal, and the envoys of the outer courtyard and the rough envoys of the inner courtyard are all second-class." ”

Hollyhock answered. Aunt Qian was happy in her heart: This second-class seal is two coins of silver, almost a month's monthly money for her, and she was rewarded after selling it once, plus her husband's share, but she made a small fortune! But she immediately thought that her granddaughter Xiuzhu, who was on an errand in the miss's courtyard, didn't know how much reward she could get, and Miss Fang Cai didn't seem to mention it? Is it going to be a failure?!

She was in a hurry, and was about to ask Wen Yi, only to find that her eyes were empty, and the young lady had already led someone into the door.

Wen Yi walked all the way home, and whispered all the way to Dong Kui: "The door of our backyard is not always open, and Mrs. Zhong has not been on an errand in that yard for a long time, where did the news of Aunt Qian come from?" Don't be what Xiuzhu told her, right? ”

Dong Lai lowered his voice and said, "Xiuzhu is an honest person and will not make taboos. Aunt Qian has a broken mouth, and she likes to chat lazily with other servant wives in her spare time, maybe she heard it from the people in the ninth room. ”

Wen Yi couldn't help but sigh when she heard this: "Aunt Fifteen is not in good health, the sixth brother wants to take his younger brothers to study, where can he take care of housework?" You whisper to Mrs. Zhong, see what is wrong with his family, and help secretly. After a pause, "Ask again, Aunt Fifteen's body is important, and it will not be good if she is sick." If she is not happy to see Aunt Seventeen again, she will ask someone to mention it to the Sixth Young Master and let them be smarter! ”

Aoi bowed his head in response, looked at Wen Yi's face again, handed over the things in his hand to the embellished Qiu Guo, and then turned around and turned on another road.

Wen Yi entered the main courtyard, went to the upper room first, and saw that the heather was arranging flowers by the door, so she asked with a smile: "What is grandmother doing?" ”

Shi Nan replied with a smile: "Miss is back?" The old lady is talking to Mama Zhao, and the slave will report to you? ”

Wen Yi waved his hand: "I'll just go by myself, I'll come back, I'll see my grandmother first, and I'll go back to the house to change my clothes." Then he entered the inner room, and saw his grandmother nesting on the kang, wearing a home-style camel-colored silk jacket, leaning on a half-new and old bean green coarse silk pillow, and a thin quilt covered with blue cloth on her lower body, with a ruddy complexion and a calm demeanor. Mama Zhao was wearing a home-style silk jacket, sitting on the foot pedal in front of the kang, and her eyebrows were fluttering, not knowing what to say. When the two old men saw Wen Yi come in, they both showed joy. The latter immediately got up and took Wen Yi's hand and looked up and down a few times, before he smiled: "Mama is worried, Miss went to Nie's house to eat wine, don't let people calculate!" Mrs. Lu scolded with a smile: "It's nonsense again!" You're a fool when we're nine girls?! He ordered Wen Yi again: "Go back and change into your coat and talk again." ”

Wen Yi smiled and agreed, but she still gave her grandmother a big gift according to the rules, and then withdrew, went back to the room to change into homely clothes, and then went back to the room. When passing by the heather, she looked at the vase of flowers in a good mood and asked, "This is the fresh chrysanthemum that just came down?" In the hands of my sister, it looks better than other families. My sister will also insert a bottle for me when she comes back? ”

Shi Nan pursed his lips and smiled: "The slave's shallow craftsmanship can get into the eyes of the young lady, which is the blessing of the slave maid." When the insertion was finished, the slave maid sent two bottles to the lady's house. ”

Wen Yi nodded, thanked him, and entered the inner room. Mama Zhao had already cleaned up the other end of the kang where Mrs. Lu was lying and let Wen Yi sit over.

Wen Yi didn't say much about it, so she directly sent the girls out, personally moved an embroidery pier to the side of the kang, pulled Mama Zhao to sit, and said, "Don't be polite to me, old man." Grandmother is already flashing back, and you are older than grandmother! Mama Zhao was a little hesitant, and Mrs. Lu smiled: "Why don't you just sit down as she said?" There are no outsiders in this house, what do we have? There's no need to stick to these false etiquettes in private. What's more, the nine girls have already spoken, don't go against her. For me to flash her old waist, she was angry that I was disobedient and insisted on running to someone's house to play, and showed me my face for a long time! This is her filial piety, and you have received it. Mama Zhao bowed and sat down. Wen Yi smiled again and sat down across from her grandmother.

Old Madam Lu asked, "Is the Nie family's wedding banquet lively?" Brother Heng has just won the lift, and in a few days, he has worked hard and Dengke again, your uncle must be happy, right? ”

Wen Yi smiled: "Isn't it? Uncle drank almost everyone at the table, or the eldest cousin was afraid that he couldn't stand it, so he persuaded him a few times, but he drank less, and agreed to drink it another day! In the end, he was too old to stand it, and after the banquet was dispersed, he was carried back to the room by the little guys. My aunt got up early yesterday morning and left in front of my eldest cousin and me, and it wasn't until my eldest cousin and eldest cousin-in-law came to say goodbye that she stopped. ”

Old Madam Lu smiled and shook her head slightly, and only said, "Double happiness is coming, it's okay to drink a few more glasses." Then he asked, "You see that your cousin and sister-in-law are still in harmony, right?" ”

Wen Yi was stunned: "The eldest cousin and the sister of the Qin family are childhood sweethearts, and they have known each other since childhood, so they are naturally harmonious." ”

Mrs. Lu didn't continue, but asked about another thing: "Grandmother didn't go to congratulate your cousin because she twisted her waist, and your aunt didn't say anything, right?" ”

Wen Yi said with a smile: "My aunt was very sorry, and she specially asked my grandmother how she sprained herself, and before her granddaughter came back, she also sent a few very useful plasters, and repeatedly told her granddaughter to take good care of her grandmother." She said that if the old people have a back injury or a leg injury, it is very difficult, and they must not miss the treatment! And he brought the poultices.

Old Madam Lu just glanced at it a few times, and then nodded: "She has a heart." Go back and prepare a gift and thank her for the plaster. Then he asked about the situation at the banquet, how many tables were held, where they were placed, how many guests were invited, who were the families, how many female guests there were, how many wives and grandmothers there were, how many young ladies there were, what was the family background, how old was the appearance, and which one was compatible with the granddaughter...... Asked a lot of trivial questions.

Wen Yi answered them one by one, but there was no strange color on her face, but she choked Mama Zhao so anxiously that she finally waited for Mrs. Lu to stop eating tea before she got up and pulled Wen Yi and asked, "My good young lady, you tell Mama, did Mrs. Uncle mention anything else to you?!" Didn't she say that she had something to discuss with the old lady?! ”

Wen Yi pursed her lips and smiled, blinking: "What is Mama anxious about?" My aunt had something to tell my grandmother, but my grandmother didn't go, and if she could tell me, she would have said it a long time ago, so why wait until my grandmother went to his house? ”

Mama Zhao didn't give up: "She didn't lead you to meet anyone?!" ”

Wen Yi understated: "I've always been in the same place with my eldest cousin, playing with the ladies among the guests, and I see people together, so every female guest has seen them." ”

Mama Zhao wanted to ask again, so Mrs. Lu said, "Okay, okay, this girl understands in her heart, why are you anxious about her?" What's more, my uncle hasn't asked me what I mean, where do I dare to make decisions for her? It's also a shame for her if something happens! ”

When Mama Zhao heard this, she hurriedly looked at Wen Yi's face, and when she saw her pursing her lips and snickering, she laughed "ouch" and said, "When did Miss learn to be weird?" Seeing that Mama was in a hurry here, she refused to say it directly! ”

Wen Yi hugged her flatteringly: "Good grandma, I won't dare next time, don't be angry!" I also asked my eldest cousin for your favorite fruit wine, which was made with his hot spring water and peaches, as well as a few fresh booklets, and asked the girl to send it to your house. ”

Mama Zhao has always loved her the most, how could she be angry with her, so she straightened her face, and couldn't help laughing, and said: "Miss is also messing around, and the old lady of fruit wine also likes it, why did you give it to me?" It's the same with the old lady when I drink with the old lady. Then he went back to the house and brought the wine.

Wen Yi didn't stop her, just watched her go out, then turned around and sat on the pedal in front of her grandmother, and said in a low voice: "The grain on the village has been collected, half of the rent has been collected, and the account released has also been collected 30% back, and the rest is on credit first, and those farmers all say that as long as the wind and rain are good next year, they will be able to pay it back in less than two years." However, on the side of Yaoxiang Valley, due to the drought in the past few months, it has been somewhat affected, and it will be about a loss of about one hundred and eighty taels of silver. ”

Old Madam Lu nodded: "That's okay, in the whole Gu family, the disaster in our six rooms is already light, the paddy fields in the eighth room have been harvested, and we have only got more than two hundred taels of silver in total, and in the ninth room, I don't even know if the silver for the New Year can be prepared." He asked again: "Have you asked about Mama Zhao's nephew?" ”

Wen Yi was a little gloomy: "I have already sent someone to ask, but eight out of ten people who can ask said they don't know." The proprietor of only one tea stall said that he had seen such a man who was a slave for a large family, and went out with the housekeeper to run errands, and ate a cup of tea at his place, and after resting his feet, he went north along the official road. But he said that the man looked thirty or forty years old, and his age was a little incorrect. ”

Mama Zhao was originally Mrs. Lu's companion, and she married to the Gu family with her master, and her parents and brothers remained in the Lu family. Unexpectedly, thirty years ago, because Mrs. Lu's father was gone, her mother's brother was worried when she went home, and her family had too much luggage and it was inconvenient on the road, so her brother and daughter-in-law sold a few houses, including Mama Zhao's husband's uncle and a family of four. Mama Zhao and her husband have been sad for a long time, and they have been asking someone to inquire about their brother's whereabouts, but there has been no news. Later, her husband and children died one after another, and Mama Zhao stayed alone with Mrs. Lu. Not long ago, she overheard the family members in the other room talking about the people she met when she went out to run errands, and the names and ages matched those of the eldest nephew of the uncle's family, so she couldn't help but mention it to Mrs. Lu and Wen Yi. Mrs. Lu had the heart to find relatives for her, but she was afraid that she would be sad if she couldn't find her, so she asked her granddaughter to act secretly.

Old Madam Lu listened to Wen Yi's words, and was also a little disappointed: "In this case, don't mention it in front of your grandmother first, and wait until you find the exact news, and then it's not too late." ”

Wen Yi responded, and heard Mama Zhao talking to Shi Nan outside, asking her to put away the two small jars of fruit wine, and hurriedly opened the topic, saying: "Granddaughter heard that Aunt Seventeen has come a few times in the past few days, and it has made Aunt Fifteen angry. The granddaughter was worried that the fifteenth aunt would not be able to bear it, so she asked Zhong Niangzi to help take care of it, and if she needed anything, she would take it from our house, and she didn't have to mention it to the sixth brother. What does grandmother think is good? ”

Old Madam Lu smiled slightly: "Aunt Qian's mouth is broken again-just do what you want." Your fifteenth aunt is a trouble-free, always have to be polite to us, if she waits for her to open her mouth and then help, things will already be messed up. Zhong Niangzi is so old, just leave it to her. Another sneer was revealed, "Your seventeenth aunt's abacus is upside down, but she is too bad at being a person." Brother and sister! When I came to visit my sister-in-law who was widowed and pregnant, I didn't say how much I cared about other people's orphans and widows, but I only knew how much money and how much furniture I had left, and how sad my family was and how tight my hands were...... It's almost overt that it's asking for money! I'm ashamed of her! She warned her granddaughter: "You must not learn from her, even if you have been filial piety for three years and have children, your husband can't divorce her, and this kind of behavior is rude after all, that is, the children look at her in their eyes, and if they don't say it, they will look down on her in their hearts!" ”

Wen Yi hurriedly stood up and said with a straight face: "My granddaughter will never be like this!" Then he coquettishly said: "How could a granddaughter do such a thing?!" Grandmother also underestimated me! ”

Old Madam Lu glared at her: "The bigger you get, the more unruly you are, where did you dare to be so presumptuous in front of me?!" But there was a smile on his face.

Wen Yi knew that her grandmother actually liked it, so she pursed her lips and smiled and didn't speak.

Old Madam Lu sighed, and said, "It's okay in front of me, don't mess around like this when you go outside!" Do you know your aunt...... I'm coming back, and I'll be there in less than two days! ”

Wen Yi was stunned. Big Aunt...... Isn't it the wife of the eldest uncle of Changfang, the mother of Wen Hui and Wen An, Jiang Shi? She's back?!

(It's raining, it's raining~~~ Ask for a pink ticket~~~~~)