I don't know if it was a night breeze blowing in the crack of the door or the window, and the candle flame in front of the desk shook twice.

Su Zhaoning knelt on the futon, her feet were already a little numb. But even so, she didn't laze to stand up.

Crawling down, Su Zhaoning just secretly stretched his fingers, and then pinched his thighs.

Although I don't know when the person in front of my grandmother will come over to see her punishment, Su Zhaoning knows that every move can't be wrong.

She lost her mother at the age of ten and lived under her harsh stepmother, Xiao Huang. The biological mother did not leave a brother, only a sister who was just born. Now sixteen-year-old Su Zhaoning wants to continue to protect Su Yingying, who is only six years old, and grow up well, so she can't offend her grandmother, the old lady of the Chang'an Hou Mansion.

A chilling cold wind came from behind, and Su Zhaoning hurriedly crawled lower, and knocked his head on the ground solidly.

"Humph!"

When this voice came, Su Zhaoning's heart was suddenly raised into the air.

What is my father doing here?

She raised her head, and sure enough, she saw her father, Su Jingzheng, the second brother of the Marquis of Chang'an, walking in front of the Xiangtou case.

Su Jingzheng took out a navy blue handkerchief from his arms, and picked up the gilded incense burner on the desk and poured ashes into the handkerchief.

Su Zhaoning's heart suddenly fell, she knew what her father wanted to do.

It was also because she was confused that she felt that her father was worried that she hadn't eaten and knelt in the ancestral hall for another day.

Su Jingzheng poured the ashes from the incense burner into the veil, and then wrapped the veil squarely.

"Father." Su Zhaoning knew that her words had no effect on Su Jingzheng, but the nature of the father and daughter still made her open her mouth to persuade, "These recipes are useless." ”

"Get out!" Su Jingzheng raised his eyebrows and yelled at Su Zhaoning.

After yelling, I realized that I had done this secretly. He lowered his voice, glared at Su Zhaoning and complained, "Hugh has to talk more!" It's not your damn girl's fault! Let your mother suffer this sin! ”

Speaking of this, Su Jingzheng was angry, he walked up to Su Zhaoning and kicked her without hesitation.

Seeing that his daughter was kicked down and lay down, Su Jingzheng's heart fire was slightly extinguished.

And the crooked Su Zhaoning didn't say anything about it. She lowered her eyebrows and quietly put away the unbearable sadness on her face.

She knew where her father's anger came from.

It's nothing more than stepmother Xiao Huang said with tears in her eyes, for the sake of you, master, even if the concubine eats incense burner ashes, it is also sweet.

Touching her hungry stomach, Su Zhaoning even laughed at herself with some bitterness, can she also eat some incense burner ashes, it is better than not having a mouthful of water in the morning until now.

But she is not Xiao Huang, and she is not in a hurry to give birth to a son.

Su Jingzheng didn't know what Su Zhaoning was thinking, and he never bothered to pay attention to what these useless girls were thinking. After snorting again, Su Jingzheng walked out of the ancestral hall.

Su Zhaoning was the only one left in the ancestral hall.

She got up from the ground, kneeling straight again, and staring straight at the tablet on the desk.

She didn't know if her mother and the ancestors of the Su family heard her prayer.

Most of the ancestors couldn't hear it. If the ancestors of the Su family had a spirit, they would not let the Marquis Mansion of Chang'an fall to such a poor state as it is now.

is an inherited title, and the heirs in the family are not prosperous. Now among the four rooms, except for the Hou Ye in the long room, who has a sister-in-law under his knees, the other three rooms are all girls.

Her father was going crazy thinking about having a son.

But Su Zhaoning felt that if the ancestors blessed the Su family and the Su family descended again, it would be better not to fall in their house.

The stepmother Xiao Huang has no kindness, and his father also has a future mother, and he has a future father. If Xiao Huang really gave birth to a son, she and her sister Su Yingying would have no way to live.

Even grandmothers won't look at them anymore.

When I asked Xiao Huang to say goodbye today, her tea bowl was obviously held firmly. But a push behind her made her tea bowl come out of her hand, and all the tea was splashed on the statue of Guanyin on the wall.

A painting book will not be punished like this, but it is a statue of Guanyin.

Xiao Huang fainted on the spot.

Mama Guan invited Mrs. Hou over.

Mrs. Hou is also known as the Rhubarb clan. She is Xiao Huang's maiden cousin, how could she not help Xiao Huang.

So Su Zhaoning was punished to the ancestral hall to think about it. As for how long she thought about it, Mrs. Hou didn't say it, and others wouldn't ask.

Except to pray that the old lady of the Hou Mansion would think of herself, Su Zhaoning had no second way.

It was cold at night, and Su Zhaoning could only rub his hands repeatedly to keep warm. From kneeling during the day to late at night, and from the darkness of the night to the dawn of dawn, Su Zhaoning did not see the second person other than his father Su Jingzheng.

Today is probably going to continue to kneel again.

Su Zhaoning's heart was a little cold, but his kneeling posture was still very upright, and he didn't show any slackness.

I don't know how long it took, but the door of the ancestral hall was finally pushed open again.

Su Zhaoning's heart lifted again.

"Yo, look at the slave and maid have forgotten. The second lady is still here, what can I do? ”

A voice full of hypocrisy sounded behind him, and Su Zhaoning didn't need to look up to know that it was not the people around Old Madam Hou, but the people around Mrs. Hou's Rhubarb family.

The maid looked at Su Zhaoning's back, and said with undisguised mockery on her face: "The eldest lady ordered the slave maid to clean the ancestral hall, and the second lady knelt here, and the slave maid had no way to clean it." Why don't you ask the second lady to move to the side room and kneel? ”

The so-called side room is actually a small utility room next to the ancestral hall. It is filled with candles and sandalwood incense that are offered to the ancestral hall. When people go in, there is really only a space for kneeling.

Su Zhaoning stood up silently and walked into the side room.

When the maid saw her obediently kneeling in the room again, she sneered and dusted off the ashes with the feather duster in her hand.

"The second lady doesn't need to worry, wait for the eldest lady to use the ancestral hall in the evening...... The second lady can kneel out again. ”

Such ugly words, Su Zhaoning has heard too much since he was ten years old. She didn't pay attention to it, just stared at the only small window in the utility room.

Snowflakes were already falling outside. There were only a few dead leaves on the branches of the trees in the yard. The leaves were swept twice by the cold wind and fell off.

No lady, duckweed.

The corners of Su Zhaoning's eyes were a little sour. She blinked twice and held back her tears. She also has a younger sister, and she can't let her live as miserable as she is.

Today is only the ninth day of the lunar month, and there are still a few days before Chinese New Year's Eve. Mrs. Hou ordered the ancestral hall to be cleaned, but she didn't know what else was going on.

Su Zhaoning counted the days with his fingers. Her sister Su Yingying's soup medicine is inseparable, and she has to think of a way to please her grandmother on Chinese New Year's Eve, so that next year's medicine will not have to worry.

The door connecting the utility room to the ancestral hall is closed. The people outside couldn't see Su Zhaoning, and Su Zhaoning couldn't see the outside.

It's just that the sound can still be heard faintly.

"Daughters and sons have seen their mothers."

Is the lobby brother back?

Su Zhaoning guessed. The woman's voice always felt that it didn't look like the lobby sister Su Roujia's.

"From now on, you will all be good sons and daughters of the Su family."

This voice is Mrs. Hou's rhubarb.

"Good, good, good."

This is the voice of the grandmother.

Su Zhaoning straightened his back. Grandmother is coming, will she think of herself? Or did she know she was being punished?

Su Zhaoning looked at the window filled with cold wind. The pole on the window was already crumbling. With just another gust of wind, the pole will fall to the ground and make a sound.

To make it worse, the pole can also fall on itself. When the time comes, she'll be able to get out of here.

Maybe God heard Su Zhaoning's heart, and a strong wind suddenly entered the room, and the pole was really loose, and it fell into the utility room like that.

In the main hall of the ancestral hall, the old lady of the Hou Mansion was looking at her grandchildren who had just recognized their ancestors and returned to their ancestors with a loving face.

She asked the two old grandmothers behind her to hold a month's white satin brocade box and present it to the grandchildren in front of her.

After the grandchildren thanked her, Mrs. Hou personally took off a jasper bracelet of excellent color from her wrist and put it on the hand of the eldest daughter-in-law, Mrs. Hou of Chang'an, Da Huang.

She said approvingly to the Rhubarb family: "You have been wronged, mother knows." ”

Rhubarb bowed, her face full of joy, and she replied, "My daughter-in-law has no such thoughts. The heirs of the Hou Mansion are thin, and the daughter-in-law has always felt guilty. Now that Zhenyi and Jinxuan can remember their daughter-in-law's name, it's too late for their daughter-in-law to be happy. ”

is also a woman, how could Mrs. Hou believe that this is the true words of the Rhubarb family. It's just that there are really too few grandchildren, and there are only one of the four people in the Hou Mansion, only Jin Yu, not to mention the prosperity of the Hou Mansion, even if it is a little difficult to support the Hou Mansion.

The children of the outer chamber brought back by the Hou Ye were brought under the name of the Da Huang family, which was for the future of the entire Chang'an Hou Mansion. Mrs. Hou didn't think she had a better choice.

patting the back of Da Huang's hand soothingly, Old Madam Hou turned around and left the ancestral hall.

Su Jinxuan and Su Zhenyi, who had just finished worshipping their ancestors and entered the name of their mother-in-law, respectfully walked in front of the rhubarb clan.

Da Huang also patted the hands of her two children like Mrs. Hou patted herself, and said with a smile: "Good boy." After such a tiring journey, you have also worked hard, so go back and rest first. ”

In the utility room of the ancestral hall, Su Zhaoning held the fallen pole and listened in horror.

Thankfully, she didn't make a sound, and she didn't let the pole fall to the ground and make a sound.

It turns out that today is such a big event.

Hou Ye has no other heirs under his knees except for the lobby brother Su Jinyu, and this sudden emergence and recognition of the children under the name of the Da Huang clan can only be the blood and bones outside.

Regardless of the origin of these two people, since the grandmother asked them to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors, and still remember them as concubines, she must not allow the slightest accident to happen in the process of this matter.

If she hadn't asked her grandmother for help by falling off the pole, she would have been unable to ask for forgiveness, but disaster would have happened.

Su Zhaoning was stunned, but the door of the utility room was suddenly pushed open, and a cool breeze poured in.

She raised her head suddenly, only to see Mrs. Hou standing in front of her with a blue face.

"Auntie, Zhao Ning knows that he is wrong." Su Zhaoning hurriedly leaned over and said.

Although he quickly admitted his mistake, Su Zhaoning didn't think he could get out easily. Da Huang's face, I'm afraid I'm going to be angry with myself.

The Rhubarb clan is indeed a belly fire.

In this capital, there is no concubine and concubine of the Hou Mansion who were born in the outer room.

But in this capital, in addition to the Chang'an Hou Mansion, there is no Hou Mansion with four people, just a single seedling.

The Marquis Mansion of Chang'an has long been a joke in the entire capital.

What rescued him on the battlefield ten years ago, but he didn't know that he left behind his children. What is also the orphan of a soldier, the daughter of a good family. It's all a joke! Big Yellow didn't believe a word of these words, but she had to agree with every word.

Mrs. Hou personally met the Queen Mother and begged Yizhi to come back, what else could she say about Mrs. Hou!

Da Huang's eyes looked sharply at Su Zhaoning in front of him.