Chapter 325 The small intention is gentle, and the husband and wife are honored

Yinshi... After that, although the Xuanwumen Chongwen Gate has ushered in the ** waiting in line to enter the city, the poor Beijing officials who live in Yongfang and Jiangmi Lane have also gotten up early to prepare for the court, but the noble mansions in the Shichahai area are often graced and only look at the sky, so most of them are still quiet. The Mirror Garden is an exception.

The male host, Yang Jin, did not return on Monday night, but the servants and porters in the outer courtyard of Jingyuan were used to getting up early. They don't have to be dressed in long robes like their masters, but they wear short jackets and girdles around their waists, and they go out to work as they look. Therefore, at the second moment of Yinzheng, there was a sound of brushing and brushing the floor in the front yard, and on the west corner door, someone also opened two doors, ready to replace the air dead wind lamp at night. The middle-aged porter rubbed his hands and looked at the little ones under his hands, and suddenly patted his head and laughed.

"Look at my memory, my lord didn't come back last night, so naturally I don't need to go to the court from home at this time. If you are still sleepy, it is better to go back to the room and sleep after the food is clean. ”

"I didn't say this sooner, God knows how hard it took us to get up in the morning"

"It's noisy, it's good to let you sleep again, and if you are verbose, you can all go out and sweep the street outside first."

These words suddenly stopped the two young men who had been complaining for a long time, sighed and came down the ladder, a sharp-eyed suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves outside, leaned sideways and poked out over there to see, he was taken aback, and hurriedly shouted: "The master is back, the master and the tiger master are back together"

Hearing this voice, the few people who were originally yawning and walking in stopped their tracks. Before anyone could question it, the sound of horses' hooves was already close. Suddenly, two horses stopped in front of the door, and several of the little men looked up at the still dim sky together, and then they went out of the West Corner Gate, and after saluting, they hurriedly took the reins and led the horses into the door.

"This has just lifted the night ban, and it will be early in a while, will you be in time to come back this time, master?"

While the middle-aged porter inquired, he couldn't help but look at the clothes on his master's body, and he couldn't help but be more suspicious when he saw that it was not the one he had gone out yesterday morning. Only Yang Jinzhou faintly replied that he would not go to court today, and he suddenly didn't dare to say more, so he silently sent people all the way to the second gate. The second door also opened early, and the two wives were yawning there while sweeping the floor with brooms, and Yang Jinzhou was stunned until people entered from the side and suddenly realized that they had not yet saluted. But it is naturally difficult to catch up with them at this time to make up for this encounter, and they have to stare at the spot with wide eyes.

Knocking on the door of the Yiqing Pavilion, Yang Jinzhou saw that the mother-in-law who answered the door was sleepy at the beginning, and then opened his mouth to shout, and immediately whispered a word, seeing that he instinctively reached out to cover his mouth, this flashed into the door, and strode straight to the main room. He slept in the outer study for days, and the door of the main room was not opened until midnight, so at this time he stretched out his hand and pushed it to feel that he did not move at all, and knocked rhythmically a few times with only one hesitation. After waiting for a while, there was a sound of rustling inside, and then the door opened.

Seeing that it was Yang Jinzhou, she didn't seem to be surprised, turned sideways and let Yang Jinzhou in, and then whispered: "I was on duty in the lady's room last night, and I thought that the master would not come back, so I prepared everything." Do you want to tell you to go down and prepare a hot bath? ”

"Well, let's pass it on." Yang Jinzhou nodded, walked a few steps and then stopped and said, "I won't go to court today, so it's just slower and don't worry about it." ”

Seeing that Hongluo agreed with understanding, he entered the west room. Sure enough, since only the red snail was on duty at night, there was no one else in the house. On the Huanghuali stepping bed against the wall, there is a layer of pale pink tent hanging outside, and the shadow is enough to see the inside. He stood outside for a while, gently took off his boots and went inside, but stepped on the pedal to the head of the bed and opened the first layer of tent and leaned down, before he could take a look at his wife's sleeping position, he saw that Chen Lan, who had originally stretched out one hand outside the quilt on the bed, suddenly muttered something softly, and his hand retracted into the brocade quilt, and then turned over inside extremely unexpectedly, and turned his back to him.

At this time, the rigid and sharp angular lines on Yang Jinzhou's face unconsciously softened, but the expression on his face was a little subtle. He wasn't sure if the person in the bed was really asleep, or if he was aware of the movement but deliberately ignored him. After thinking for a while, he sat down on the bed sideways, and then leaned over to look inside, and sure enough, he caught a glimpse of his wife's slender eyelashes that seemed to be trembling slightly, and he understood in his heart.

"Last night, I went to do some things with Luo Shi, but because time was tight, I didn't have time to send someone to inform the family in detail."

Chen Lan on the bed was motionless, the brocade was tightly wrapped around her body, but Yang Jinzhou could see it clearly, her eyes seemed to blink slightly, and she could vaguely hear the uneven breathing.

"The cause of the incident was because Luo Shi's friend, the painter nicknamed Holy Hand Liu, was taken for a disappointment. Not only was there a threat to Luo Shiduo, but he also made very excessive demands, so he asked me for help. As you know, I've been in the brocade guard for a while, and although I'm not as good as those veterans of detectives, I'm still slightly better than the good ones in the jungle under him...... By the way, when I came back, a shop in the back street happened to open its door, and the shortbread there was very famous, so I bought a few ......."

Chen Lan, who was heading inside, listened to the words behind him, and when he smelled the aroma of food, he couldn't help but feel a little hungry. However, this hunger couldn't cover her anger and fun, so she finally couldn't bear it anymore and sat up with the brocade quilt, and the first thing that caught her eye was the oiled paper bag in Yang Jinzhou's hand.

"You...... Buy shortbread to coax your daughter-in-law, you can figure out whether you bought it on purpose, or did you buy it by the way? ”

Facing Chen Lan's smiling and disgusting face, Yang Jinzhou's expression suddenly became a little unnatural: "We entered the city in a hanging basket in the middle of the night, and then entered the palace. After eating, the night curfew had been lifted, and I didn't think about it, so I brought four of them back. If he hadn't led the way, I wouldn't have imagined that an ordinary shop on the back street would have such craftsmanship. While it's still hot, you taste it? ”

Chen Lan looked at the shortbread with hot air in the oily paper bag, and knew that most of them were brought back by him directly in the big box, and he must not have shown it to others, so he couldn't help but smile. Although she hadn't washed at this time, she thought about it for a moment, motioned for him to hand it over, and then took a bite with her head down while she was unprepared. When the puff pastry and sesame seeds were scattered everywhere on the bedside pedals, she couldn't help but wink at him slyly, and spread her hands again in a helpless gesture, but chewed carefully in her mouth.

It's not so much that the sweetness overflows the mouth, but that the heart that I carried in the middle of the night suddenly returned to the truth.

Because Chen Lan was serving filial piety, Yang Jinzhou had not touched her for several days, and at this moment, seeing her back against the bed board, the corners of her lips were smiling, and the strangeness of the first half of the night and the entanglement of the second half of the night completely receded from her mind like a tide, and all that was left was the tranquility in front of her. When Plum Blossom Lin first met, he only thought she was bold; When Yong'an Lou said goodbye, he only felt that she was demure; When An Yuan asked for help, she only felt that she was not surprised, and her whole body was radiating a calm and confident light; After that, again and again, her many facets gradually revealed before his eyes...... However, it was only after they became husband and wife that he realized that his current wife was far from being as simple as she had seen before, and that she was such a real person.

"Lan Lan ......"

"Huh?"

Chen Lan didn't plan to continue to ask Yang Jinzhou about his adventure with Luo Xu last night, no matter how responsible a man is, he needs a certain amount of space, since he has confessed most of it to himself, the rest of the dangers, she will put it aside first, and then slowly settle it when she is free in the future - of course, Luo Xu's account doesn't matter, she can ask Zhang Bingyun to help clean it up in the future. At this moment, she was in a good mood and turned her head sideways, but the scorching breath suddenly blocked her.

Although they have long been husband and wife, it is not uncommon to kiss and drink, but this time the feeling seems to be completely different. Under that suffocating domineering, she didn't even notice that a hand gently probed into her already extremely loose middle coat, and after a tingling sensation came from her chest, she was shocked, but at this time, she no longer had the strength to push him away. At that moment, she even felt that his eyes were a little less restrained and quiet than herself, and a little more fanatical fire.

"Yang ......"

"Don't you call me uncle?"

Yang Jinzhou, who moved away a little, saw that Chen Lan's face was flushed, and he didn't know whether it was hot or suffocated, he couldn't help but gently peck her bright red lips again, and picked up the oiled paper bag that had just been placed on the pedal next to the bed, sat directly beside her, and handed over the shortbread without saying anything. This time, Chen Lan finally couldn't help it, rolled his eyes and said angrily: "This hasn't been washed yet."

"Didn't you eat it just now?"

"It's not like you came over without saying anything......"

The couple sat like this and whispered for a while, and the low voice of the red snail came from outside: "Master, the hot water outside has been prepared, but you still put the bath bucket in the middle of the room?" ”

Rushing ahead of Yang Jinzhou, Chen Lan commanded: "It's early in the morning, what if someone comes in to report the matter?" Swing to the East Wing. When you turn around, you must set up a bathroom in the ear room next to it, so as not to make the good house **"

After all, the Jiang family is forty years old, so the night stay is naturally short. If she was in Xuanfu in the past, she would get up early just after five to arrange a whole day's affairs, but now she has moved to the capital, the day is comfortable, there are more servants under her, and her son has married a capable daughter-in-law, she can almost put her hands away from everything, so even if she wakes up, she only looks at the lightly painted ink silk tent on the bed, or squints for a while, often delaying until Mao Zheng gets up.

It was the same this morning, until Zhuang's mother came to personally serve her to comb her hair, and she knew that Yang Jin had come back early on Monday morning, and it seemed that she had gone to the shower clothes at this time. Glimpsing the smile on the face of Mother Zhuang behind her through the mirror, she sighed: "The young couple is an old companion, and now I am happy to see their love." It's just that Ah Lan has filial piety after all, you should be careful with the girls below, and don't make those unorthodox things in our house. ”

"The old lady can rest assured, there are only a few girls around the young grandmother around the adults, I think they are all honest and responsible, and the only one who is full of news is not on the adult at all, but comes to me all day long, as if he is very keen on the matter of managing the accounts. It was the two girls who had been locked up in the firewood room for a month before, and the young grandmother mentioned yesterday that there were many villagers in Tongzhou on the Hou Mansion, and they sent them over, and they chose two honest families to marry, but it was an old thing. ”

"I almost lost my life before, but now that I think they should understand what to do, so let's do it. She is kind-hearted and soft-hearted, if she is replaced by a young housewife from another family who encounters this incident, she will either be killed or sold, or she will be matched, and she will also pick up and put down lightly like her? Saying this, Jiang's smile deepened, because Zhuang's mother echoed a few words, she took out a jar of nectar fragrance on the dresser, and a trace of deep relief flashed in her eyes.

Her cold face, which others avoid, is only matched by such a kind-hearted daughter-in-law

At the third moment, Yang Jinzhou and Chen Lanfang both came over to say goodbye. Yang Jinzhou only wore a half-worn purple cotton robe, and he didn't need a crown or a high turban, just a hosta. Chen Lan, on the other hand, is simple, with a plain slanted jacket and a silver-white pleated skirt, and a show that has not yet dried up with only a wooden hairpin, looking especially graceful and delicate with clear water out of hibiscus. Seeing that his mother-in-law Jiang stared at him for a long time, Chen Lan didn't know what was going on, so he hurriedly explained.

"At that time, Uncle Quan came back, I saw that it was still early, so I followed him in the house to practice a few sword moves, but I was clumsy, and after a while, I was sweating profusely, thinking that I couldn't see people, so I simply took a shower."

There was no outsider in the east room except for Zhuang's mother, so Jiang Shi smiled when he heard it: "I see, I thought he bullied you again......" She said while squinting at Yang Jinyi meaningfully, and then looked at Chen Lan and said, "He goes out early and returns late every day, and he can't teach all the tricks in a year, I have nothing to do, although I am not as good as him when I really play it, but I am familiar with those few tricks, if you are willing, you can come to me."

Chen Lan already felt that as soon as he began to practice martial arts, Yang Jinzhou would become extremely serious, and no one was allowed to be sloppy in every move, and that face had also become an unchanged iceberg face, looking strange and bluffing. Therefore, when the Jiang family opened this mouth, she was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly nodded heavily, and then glanced at Yang Jinzhou proudly. Seeing that he wanted to speak but swallowed it back, she ignored him anymore, and when the kitchen brought the porridge and snacks for breakfast, she naturally accompanied the Jiang family to use it, while Yang Jinzhou stood up after three or two mouthfuls.

"Didn't you say you don't need to go to court early today?"

Seeing that Chen Lan's face was full of surprise, and the Jiang family also looked over, Yang Jinzhou nodded and said, "When I was in the palace last night, the emperor specially ordered that the court be exempted today, so I rushed back, but the official business during the day could not be delayed, so I had to leave now." After a moment's hesitation, he said solemnly, "There may be more things going on in the capital these days, so try not to go out if you don't go out, lest something happen, and besides, I may not be able to come back tonight." ”

Although Chen Lan didn't know much about last night's incident, she vaguely guessed, so when she saw that Jiang wanted to speak and stopped, she watched Yang Jinzhou go out after two orders, and she didn't say anything, only told to take care of herself and other common sayings, and didn't explain much in front of her mother-in-law. She was only thinking about things, and when she was in the inverted seat hall south of the Yiqing Pavilion on this day, she was also a little absent-minded. After arriving, she recruited a daughter-in-law who was in charge of the construction of the inner courtyard to talk about the renovation of the bathroom in the ear room.

"In the main room of the Yiqing Pavilion, the east and west two ear rooms are for a few girls to live in, but there are also two ear rooms on the south side of the west wing, which were only used to pile up sundries in the past. Now that it's free, there's just enough space. One of the rooms is used for boiling water, and the other is used for bathrooms, and the layout of this place is as follows my picture. Chen Lan saw that the daughter-in-law was full of surprise, and after taking the drawings and reading them, he was a little confused, so he simply sent Qin Fang, who has always been capable, to help him, and finally said, "If it is changed and used well in the future, I will paint a gourd for the old lady to make a room, and if it is not good, then make a plan." ”

In the past, when the weather was still warm, there was only one kitchen in Jingyuan and there was no inconvenience, but now the colder the weather, the hot meals and hot dishes are often sent to the rooms everywhere, and most of them are already cold, not to mention the hot water, not to mention the inconvenience along the way, and it is inconvenient to even make tea in the house, so Chen Lan has long wanted to transform it like this.

However, the daughter-in-law was a little hesitant: "Madam, it's not that you have the audacity to refuse, it's really because the Yang family had family rules in the past, and it is not allowed to set up such a big cooking stove in the small courtyard, for fear that if you run out of water, you ......."

"So it's because of this." Chen Lan groaned slightly, then nodded and said, "If you want to talk about water, in winter, the house uses a charcoal basin to smoke the cage, and one is more troublesome than those stoves if you are not careful." I remember that there are often accidents of sparks igniting during the Lantern Festival in Dengshi Hutong every year, but there has never been a major incident because of the setting up of the bucket. Even if this is expensive, it is still necessary for a mirror garden as large as ours. I'll go back to my mother and say, "Write it down first." ”

"Yes, yes, yes."

As Chen Lan expected, the Jiang family agreed with her proposal, and the matter was decided lightly and skillfully. However, it didn't take long for a frontyard steward who went out to buy to say that there was something important to report, Chen Lan summoned someone to the housekeeping hall to meet, and when she heard that a large number of soldiers went out from Xuanwumen early in the morning, she couldn't help but think of Yang Jinzhou's words, although she was not too surprised, but she couldn't help but worry. As if it was a confirmation of the wave of unevenness, after lunch, the people outside reported that the second lady of the Yangning Marquis Mansion was here.

Chen Lan didn't like to see this second aunt, however, after all, this was her mother's family, and she really couldn't turn people away, so after passing the Jiang family, she simply met the guests in front of her mother-in-law in the main house of Xifuju. Sure enough, as soon as Mrs. Ma entered the room, she reluctantly greeted the Jiang family, and after sitting down, she showed an indignant expression.

"Third aunt and grandmother, I'm looking for you to administer justice this time" Mrs. Ma didn't even accept the tea handed by the girl, so she said bluntly, "I heard that the third aunt is about to take over as the head of the Yang family, even if this is the case, I also have to deal with those shameless guys in the Yang family, my man lost his title and owed a bad debt, and he actually used the idea of a daughter-in-law to marry to fill the hole. I won't say anything, this disgraceful thing happened, just leave it, your second sister can find another family that is a hundred times better than this"

Although he was afraid that Mrs. Ma would ask too much to meet her mother-in-law in person, but at this time, hearing her so unconcerned, Chen Lan stole a glance at the Jiang family, and only felt that he felt blushing for Mrs. Ma. When marrying a daughter, he covets the false name of other people's uncles, and when he wants to leave, he despises others and covets his daughter's dowry.

"Where did the second aunt hear that my lord is going to take over as the head of the Yang family?" Chen Lan sank his face, and before she could answer, he struck while the iron was hot and said, "There are still many uncles and elders in the Yang family, where is my master's turn?" Besides, if you want to make peace and leave, you have to negotiate between the two families, otherwise even if outsiders intervene, they will inevitably make a lot of trouble, and the second aunt will let the second sister behave in the future? In addition, did the second aunt mention this to the old lady? ”

Being looked at by Chen Lan's sharp eyes, Mrs. Ma flinched a little, but then her heart was full of resentment, and she immediately sneered: "As long as you say a word, won't the old lady listen to you?" One is a broken household that has lost its title, and the other is a noble marquis's mansion with a good future, this is not the right household, does not get along with the second sister to suffer there for a lifetime? ”

"Since the second lady said so, could it be that all the women in the world should ask for the peace and separation document when their men's future fails, and then go home to live their own good days?" The Jiang family, who had been silent, finally spoke, although the tone was light, but it was unusually sharp, "Poor couples mourn everything, this is true, and the husband and wife are honored, this is not true." But if it is not even possible to be poor and lowly, then when the common wealth is common, how can a man abandon his wife by casually giving a letter of divorce and abandoning his wife? Not to mention that my brother has never taken over as the patriarch now, even if he takes over the patriarch, I will never allow him to contribute to this kind of thing."

A sentence that added fuel to the fire made Mrs. Ma's expression change greatly, and she got up angrily for a while. Seeing that Chen Lan didn't mean to help herself speak at all, she couldn't help but laugh angrily: "Okay, okay, third aunt, you forgot your sister when you got married, I should have recognized you clearly that you are unwilling to help, then I will try to find another place to try, and when your second sister finds another high door in the future, don't regret it."

This time, the Jiang family grabbed ahead of Chen Lan again, and said indifferently: "Thank you Second Lady for reminding me, but my daughter-in-law has never been such a shallow-eyed person, but I can't talk about any regrets or regrets, I still have a few words to tell my daughter-in-law, Second Lady go slowly."

ps: I'm lazy, so I just pass two chapters together...... When I woke up in the morning, there was still one vote left of two hundred and six, can you help erase the gap in this vote-. -