The Jiang family's mansion is on Siping Street. Siping Street is located in Xicheng, and the house is spacious and inexpensive. Many scholars from poor families were admitted to fame and bought houses on Siping Street.

With the wealth of the Jiang family, it stands to reason that they can buy a house elsewhere, but Mrs. Jiang is unwilling to be extravagant, and after Jiang Hua won the Jinshi, he bought this house on Siping Street. Jiang Hua took his wife to be an official outside, and now the old lady is in Beijing with Jiang Hua's son and daughter.

As soon as the carriage entered Siping Street, Nie Xiaofan's ears kept hearing the noise of the market, and he smelled the smell of food sold at the stalls. No matter how whimsical Nie Xiaofan opened his mind in his heart, at this time, his thoughts were pulled to the ground by this fragrance and thrown into the market of Dasheng.

When I arrived at the gate of Jiangfu, I saw an old lady in green cloth standing there as soon as I got off the carriage. She stood up straight, looking at Nie Xiaofan and Lian with a pair of kind eyes, and wanted to step forward but hesitated. Behind her stood a young man of about sixteen years old, and next to her was a little girl of seven or eight years old, born in pink and jade.

Nie Xiaofan knew that this was his grandmother's family. A few years ago, this little girl just came to the capital and couldn't get used to it. My grandmother and Jiang took them to Zhuangzi in Changping for more than a month.

"Grandmother!" Nie Xiaofan stepped forward to greet him. The old lady confirmed that it was her granddaughter, no doubt. Fang just hugged her, screaming with his heart. While saying, "My son of a miserable life," he said, "The Bodhisattva bless you with your life." Nie Xiaofan was so infected by her that he almost burst into tears. Lian said: "Sister Fan Erji people have their own natural appearance, but now it's really good, isn't it? The old lady has seen it herself, why do you still cry?"

The grandchildren were also busy coming forward to persuade them, but Mrs. Jiang stopped slightly. While wiping his tears with a handkerchief, he looked at the carriage again: "What about Brother Nian, why don't you come with you?" Nie Xiaofan was afraid that she would be sad when she knew that the Nie Wang family was embarrassed, so she hurriedly replied: "Brother Nian is busy studying, and it will be the same if I bring him to see you another day." ”

Lian Shi also joked on the side: "That's it, Brother Nian often sees it, but Sister Fan is here for the first time." If the old lady is partial to the young brother and doesn't care for Sister Fan, I, who is an aunt, will not follow. ”

Mrs. Jiang was still waiting to ask again, and she was afraid that Nie Xiaofan would really complain about her partiality, so she was busy and stopped. took Nie Xiaofan's hand and beckoned everyone in. I entered the inner courtyard for a while, but I saw that although the mansion in Jiang Mansion was not as luxurious as Zhou's Mansion, it was also small and exquisite, and it was full of thoughts. It can be seen that Mrs. Jiang is a person who is very good at living a small life.

In the past few months, although the old lady and the Lian family have not met, the communication between the two is almost once every other day, and as soon as they meet at this time, there is a lot less estrangement. Lian's words coaxed Mrs. Jiang to turn her sadness into joy.

Old Mrs. Jiang smiled and said, "I haven't seen the second wife for a long time, but she is much plump, and I almost didn't recognize my old dizzy eyes." ”

Hearing this, Lian touched his cheeks with a smile. Not really, it's just that the last time the old lady saw her, the second master Nie had just died, and she was tortured to the point that she was inhuman, and she was always worried that the old witch would rob her of her dowry, and the whole person was withered. It's a lot of skinny. Now of course, her son has grown up, and her brother's family has entered Beijing again, and her whole waist is much harder.

Here, Nie Xiaofan and his cousin were sitting in a pile, and his cousin Jiang Shasha was out of character, pestering Nie Xiaofan to ask questions. Cousin Jiang Shan sat up straight, and occasionally took a sentence or two.

After everyone talked about the old days for a while, a little girl came to report that the meal had been arranged. The meal was naturally to greet the Lian family, and the old lady Jiang got up and sent the Lian family to the front hall for dinner. Because the Lian family is an elder, they don't pay attention to the defense of men and women. Mrs. Jiang asked her grandchildren to accompany her to dinner. Lian knew that the old lady was going to talk to her granddaughter, so she hurriedly sent her out respectfully before returning to the table and sitting down.

The ancestors and grandchildren sat opposite each other, without Lian Shi joking on the side, looking at Nie Xiaofan's thin face, Mrs. Jiang couldn't help but feel sad: "My heart, are you really good? That poisonous woman won't let me come to see you." Last time I heard that you were seriously ill, but it made all my heart rush out. Mrs. Jiang burst into tears again as she spoke. "Grandmother, don't do this, I'm all right. But you should take care of yourself. Otherwise, who can Xiao Nian and I rely on? . ”

The more Nie Xiaofan persuaded, the more sad the old lady became: "My poor son, I didn't have a father at the age of five, and I finally grew up." He cruelly left me. married such an unsuccessful man again, I only pity your sister and brother's illness, and the little "Nie Baijun is not unsuccessful, but he has no opinion." In the past, when the Jiang family was there, they listened to the Jiang family for everything, but now that the Jiang family is gone, he is being pinched by the old lady again.

Nie Xiaofan was busy and persuaded Mrs. Jiang: "Grandmother takes care of her body. Mother prefers to see us live well. "Comforting the two old people one day, Nie Xiaofan is also tired. Old Mrs. Jiang had been crying for several months, but at this time, she was just sad to see Nie Xiaofan.

After being sad for a while, Mrs. Jiang got down to business: "I called you here today, in addition to wanting to see you, I also want to ask you what you think of the Zhou family's relatives? Did the old lady let you see Zhou Jiulang today? What do you think?"

Did she go to see Zhou Jiulang today?

Nie Xiaofan shook his head: "I saw Zhou Jiulang, but I just met by chance in the garden, it seems that it was not arranged by the old lady."

Nie Xiaofan simply told Mrs. Jiang what he saw and heard at the Zhou family today.

Old Lady Jiang sighed and shook her head, but did not interrupt her.

At the end, Nie Xiaofan asked the question in his heart: "Xiaofan always suspects that they have something to hide. Thinking about it can only be a mother's business. Do you know why Mrs. Zhou fell into the water? Why did her mother go into the water to save her?" More importantly, is there another hidden meaning to the Jiang family's death? The people of the Zhou family are so strange today, if Nie Xiaofan is not suspicious, then won't his brain grow in vain?

Old Madam Jiang's face changed several times, and finally said, "Why are you asking about this?" I just want to tell you, the old lady will not harm Cui'er. If you fall in love with Zhou Jiulang, the old lady will ensure that you have a smooth life in the Zhou family. If you can't look at it, your grandmother will find a good one for you, in short, so that you will leave the wolf's den of the Nie family as soon as you get out of filial piety. ”

Nie Xiaofan knew that there were some things that Mrs. Jiang would not tell easily, but she didn't want to sneak around her back to investigate. So it's better to ask brightly, about her own mother died, and she inquired in the right name: "Grandmother." Before today, Xiao Fan was not suspicious. But with the Zhou family's attitude towards things, Xiaofan can't be cautious. ”

Speaking of this, Nie Xiaofan slowly got up, knelt down in front of Old Lady Jiang, and kowtowed his head heavily. Nie Xiaofan understood that he had to use this body to do what the original owner should do, and when he knew that the Jiang family might die unjustly, Nie Xiaofan couldn't turn a blind eye. "Grandmother, if you think about it, my grandfather died when my mother was five years old, and you sent her to the old lady to give her something to rely on, but thirty years have passed, and she has married someone whom you do not think well, and she has gone ahead of you. Don't you?"

"Enough!" Mrs. Jiang slapped the table, she never allowed anyone to say that the young lady was not. Even if she knew that Nie Xiaofan was deliberately blowing her up, she was not allowed to slander Miss.

Mrs. Jiang is a temperamentless person, and she has only been so angry twice in her memory, once when Cui'er died. The first time was forty years ago. At that time, the master she had served since she was a child knelt before her and begged her. She was angry at the time, and finally compromised. Unfortunately, in the end, they didn't get anything done. Forty years later, her daughter took her life for the persistence of her master. As Cui'er said: A woman is destined to lose to a man, and a servant is destined to lose to her master! Even though he was freed from slavery. Still can't get rid of the fate of being a slave.

In her life, she used to listen to Miss, and when she was old, she listened to Cui'er. She had never thought about right or wrong, and now, the child knelt in front of her like this, reminding her. Think about the rights and wrongs of these decades.

After a long time, the old lady said, "What the old lady gave you, you can show it to me." ”

(To be continued)

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