In the light snow season, the first snow fell in Hezhou.

Xiao Yan put on the newly made crane fur, the cloud white brocade surface with gold thread embroidered with large blooming chrysanthemums, the embroidery is super easy, showing the elegance of the chrysanthemum, lined with Xiao Yan's jade tree posture, more graceful and delicate, so that the master and servant who are accustomed to Xiao Yan's beautiful posture are in a trance again.

Xiao Cong was very happy, looked at it with appreciation for a while, and smiled with a smile: "Your sister-in-law's vision is really good." ”

"That's what the lady said." Xiao Yan remembered that her mother raised her eyebrows and said, "Your fourth sister-in-law has eyes like a torch", so he laughed.

When choosing the silk material, she thought that the fourth sister-in-law deliberately played tricks on herself, but she never thought that this big chrysanthemum pattern brocade would be so elegant and elegant, not half tacky, and she was convinced of Shen Qingyi's eyesight, and she would gladly accept what bright colors she would choose for her in the future.

After Xiao Cong laughed with her for a while, he talked about today's schoolwork.

At the second moment of Shen Zheng, when the homework was about to end, Xiao Yan said hello to his brother, and went to the inner courtyard before leaving.

Ever since she learned that Shen Qingyi had cold hands and feet due to lack of qi and blood during that fitting, she was in love. After trying on clothes, he instructed Xianglan, saying that in the future, whether she went out or was in the house, she would let the young lady bring a hand stove. The next time I came to Chenghe Hospital, I went to the inner courtyard to ask Bai Su if the young lady had prescribed medicine to recuperate. Bai Su replied that the young lady had a medicinal diet to regulate qi and blood every day, and Xiao Yan was a little relieved. When I turned around, I was busy flipping through the medicine book, looking for medicinal materials that have the effect of regulating qi and blood, and I was so busy for more than half a month......

When it was her turn to take medicine class on the 22nd, she didn't forget to ask Shen Qingyi how the medicinal diet was and what the prescription for qi and blood conditioning was.

Shen Qingyi was so embarrassed by her question that she didn't want to give her a good look, "With your half-tone of pharmacy, can you still give me the following?" ”

Xiao Yan had a serious expression on her face, "I want to urge my sister-in-law to use medicine, not to fish for three days and dry nets for two days." ”

Shen Qingyi's cold eyes glanced at her, "My own body, isn't it as good as you?" ”

Bai Su chuckled on the side and said, "Seventeen Langjun is concerned about the young lady. ”

"That's it!" Xiao Yan said solemnly, "Sister-in-law is the person I care about and like the most!" She used two "most" in a row, and nodded in an accentuated tone.

Shen Qingyi's heart jumped, and then he slanted his eyebrows at her, "The most?" ”

Knowing that Xiao Qiqi's words were exaggerated, her fingertips were hot - the hand stove was too hot.

Her fingers slipped, and the stove in her sleeve landed on her knee.

Xiao Yan said without hesitation: "Except for the lady and brother, I like my sister-in-law the most!" ”

Her eyebrows and eyes smiled, pure as a lotus, mellow as wine.

Shen Qingyi didn't drink alcohol, she drank tea.

Except for her mother since she was a child, she has never been said "liked" so clearly - it seems that Zhang's fifteen lang, Lu's nineteen lang, and Zhou's how many langs have said? Of course, Xiao Yan's "like" is not that kind of like, she knows it.

It was because she knew that she was a little flustered.

If it was the love between men and women, she would have looked at her coldly and slapped it in the face.

It was because it wasn't that she couldn't hold back her joy.

She does not deny that she likes Xiao Yan and likes to have such a brother who is as beautiful as jade and pure as water.

But she has never experienced getting along with her sister and brother, and she didn't know how to deal with Xiao Yan's straightforward "like" for a while.

Her face was slightly hot for a while, and she hastily picked up the tea soup on the couch table, covered her sleeves and took a sip.

The tea soup was fried very much, because Xiao Yan liked it, and there was milk in it, which was thick and mellow.

Shen Qingyi will feel like drinking the osmanthus wine she buried under the tree in her mother's yard, because the first wine is green and astringent, with some astringency, but because it has been buried for a long time, it is rich and intoxicating.

is like Xiao Yan's smile at the moment, mellow as wine.

She could have such a brother, right? Shen Qingyi thought so.

Her lips were no longer overflowing with a smile, she reached out to put down the teacup, glanced at Xiao Yan, and said as if scolding: "Don't say such things in the future, you know?" The cold and snowy eyes looked at Xiao Yan, but there was no chill, only the clarity and clarity of the snow remained, "The people we care about the most are father and mother." Kids, they talk nonsense. ”

"Yes, yes." Xiao Yan smiled and nodded, moved forward, reached out to hold Shen Qingyi's palm, and his crystal eyes were full of joy.

Although she is close to her fourth brother Xiao Cong, they are brothers and sisters after all, they can't be intimate like sisters, and they can lie down in the bed at night and whisper...... "Hey, it's good that my sister-in-law is my sister!" She muttered under her breath.

Shen Qingyi held her with his backhand and smiled in a clear voice, "Ah Yan, sister-in-law is like a sister!" ”

This is the first time she has called Xiao Yan "Ah Yan".

Sister-in-law rarely calls me uncle.

Only close siblings are called that.

Xiao Yan was stunned, and then jumped up excitedly, stepping on the brocade stockings and walking around on the carpet, his voice was excited, "Sister-in-law, let's bow down, brother and sister, oh no, sister, like Liu, Guan, Zhang, Taoyuan Sanjieyi...... I, you, and my brother, are exactly three people, haha, three knots. ”

The corners of Shen Qingyi's mouth twitched, "You and your fourth brother are our own brothers, what kind of righteousness do you have?" He smiled again, "Also, my brother and I are already husband and wife, what kind of marriage Liu Guanzhang is?" ”

Bai Su and Qing Hui couldn't help but chuckle.

"Oh, I forgot ...... for a moment of excitement" Xiao Yan patted his head, walked back with a smile, and knelt in front of Shen Qingyi, "Then let's get married, Liu, Guan, and Zhang have one less, only Liu and Guan, oh no, Liu Xuande is the lord, and we should be Guan and Zhang Jieyi." She was in high spirits.

"Then are you Guan, or Zhang?" Shen Qingyi couldn't help but tease her.

"Huh?" Xiao Yan was stunned, "It's a metaphor, it's just a metaphor." "Guan and Zhang Changcheng are like that, it's too crazy.

"Thinking about it is coming out of it." Shen Qingyi glanced at her, "The love of a sister and brother is with heart, not with a head." ”

"Good...... bar. Xiao Yan was a little disappointed, but when he saw the tea soup on the couch, he had an idea again, stepped forward with both hands, stepped back and straightened up, and respectfully said to the front, "Brother Xiao Yan respects sister tea." ”

Shen Qingyi couldn't help but smile softly, at this moment, it seemed that the ice and snow were quietly melting, his face was like a flower of spring dawn blooming, and his eyes were so clear and crystal clear that it made people a little dizzy.

She reached out and took the bowl of tea, smiling and sipping it down.

Xiao Yan blinked, recovered from Fang Cai's amazement, and once again felt that Shen Qingyi was very good-looking.

Of course, smile more.

In the evening, Xiao Cong learned about Taoyuan's righteousness, laughed, and said, "In the future, Qingyi will have more brothers, and Ah Yan will have more sisters, which is very good." ”

Shen Qingyi hooked the corners of his lips and said: "It's a pity that there are only Taoyuan two knots, and they can't make up a couple." ”

Xiao Cong laughed, feeling that his younger brother was sometimes really cute and tight.

***

After a few days, there was another flake of snow in the sky.

The couple got up at the beginning of the year, went out at the end of the morning, went to Rui Si Tang and Shenghua Courtyard, and said goodbye to their parents.

After Xiao Cong asked his father to say goodbye, he had a morning meal in Ruisi Hall, and then went to the Ya, and did not return to Chenghe Courtyard until noon. After Shen Qingyi accompanied Princess Anping to have a morning meal, if she didn't do housework in the morning, she would go back, and if she was in housework, she would usually return to Chenghe Courtyard at noon. The couple had a daytime eclipse together.

After the eclipse of the day, Xiao Cong went to the outer courtyard for a lunch break as usual, and Shen Qingyi got up after taking a break on the couch outside the bedroom for two moments, washed up and used tea. Bai Su went upstairs to report that the head of the village and the head of the shop had arrived.

These village heads and shop heads are her dowry slaves.

Wu Xingshen

As the family of Liang Shi, there are rules for the dowry of the daughter of the concubine, and it cannot be described by ten miles of red makeup, not to mention that Shen Qingyi is the son of the Lanling Xiao family who married as a concubine, and the dowry cannot be less. Shen Qingyi's father, Shen Lun, personally inquired about the dowry list, even if the Lu family had a grudge against Shen Qingyi's mother and daughter, he did not dare to deduct the dowry, or shoddy, otherwise it would be the entire Shen family who was despised.

Therefore, Shen Qingyi's dowry was very rich.

In addition to boxes of gold and silver collars and green coins, there are all kinds of furniture made of precious wood, as well as gold, silver and jade jewelry, fur and silk silk, etc., as well as granges and shops. Because Shen Qingyi was married to Hezhou, the fields in the south of the Yangtze River could not be used, and the Shen family had to buy it in Hexi Road and the adjacent Hanoi Road - it was Lu's biological daughter who was married at the beginning, and Mrs. Lu was of course dedicated to buying these, but who knew that after years of preparation, it was cheaper in the end, and Lu was so angry that he spat blood.

However, Shen Qingyi didn't care about her dowry at first, and devoted herself to treating Xiao Cong, if Xiao Cong couldn't be cured, her every one would be in vain. It wasn't until Xiao Cong's cold illness was pulled out that she had the heart to rectify the industry under her name. She is not at ease with those slaves and maids who have heads and tails with the Shen family, although the deed paper is in her hand, but the families of these slaves and maids are all in the Shen family. Shen Qingyi has the intention to replace, but she can't replace them all at once, otherwise it will lead people to gossip that she is at odds with her mother's family.

So, she asked her father-in-law Xiao Yu for a few people.

Shen Qingyi's asking for someone from Xiao Yu is tantamount to exposing the conflict between her and her mother's family to Xiao Yu.

Generally speaking, a woman from a family who does not have her mother's family to rely on is easy to be despised by her husband's family, but Shen Qingyi knows that Xiao Yu is different - it is precisely because she and the Shen family do not have much connection that they dare to use her.

Xiao Yu's return was soon delivered.

Within two days, the chief supervisor Xiao Cungui sent fifteen slaves and maids over, along with the deed paper of the old and young of the family, and from then on, the whole family of these slaves and maids was just Shen Qingyi's slaves and maids.

She placed the fifteen slaves and maidservants in the grange and the important shop in the middle of the marriage, and at first occupied only a secondary or less obvious position. Looking for the wrong thing again, finding the wrong place, not in a hurry, replacing them one by one, it took half a year before and after, and only half of them were replaced, and she didn't move those who were very related to the Shen family. Don't rush, take your time. If the Shen family feels that they can't control her, their mother's life in the Shen Mansion will not be easy.

She had to plan carefully.

She sometimes hates that she is not a man - the Tang Dynasty law stipulates that after the son of a scholar becomes a family, if he has fame, he can take his biological mother out for support.

But her mother never regretted that she was a daughter, and often smiled and said, "My Wen Yin is smarter than Lang Jun." ”

Wen Yin is the nickname given to her by her mother, from "The Book of Songs: Qin Feng" "Wen Yin Chang Hub, Drive Me Qi Bun", a very gentle word, in fact, refers to the tiger skin - her mother hopes that she will be soft on the outside and strong on the inside.

It's a pity that she is rigid on the inside, but there is no softness on the outside, and her mother often sighs and strokes her head, "My little Wenyin is as cold as snow, cold as ice, alas, the little lady has to smile more to ......" and said, "A sword that is too sharp, without a scabbard to cover, will also hurt itself." ”

Thinking of his mother's words, Shen Qingyi pulled a faint smile on his lips, but his cold eyes were as cold as the snow in the courtyard.

Chi Peony served her in a wind coat, and Xiang Lan handed over the hand stove filled with charcoal, and together with Bai Su, he followed Shen Qingyi downstairs to the West Pavilion to meet the stewards of these granges and shops.

After more than half an hour, the shopkeepers left respectfully. Whether it is sincerely respectful or pretending to be submissive, this Lanling Xiao Clan's Mansion is not a place where they can be wild.

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