Chapter 116

Shanniang changed her clothes and was just about to go out of the house, when she suddenly heard a burst of laughter from the yard, and then Lu'an came in to report: "The fourth girl and several wives and girls of the family are here. ”

Shanniang was surprised for a while, it had not been long since she left the seat at this time, but she didn't know why these people rushed over.

While talking, Lu'an opened the curtain, and the fourth girl, Yuan Yongmei, accompanied a few wives and girls of her own family to come in. The leader was an old woman about fifty years old; He was followed by two women, one tall and one short, in their thirties and forties. The three women were followed by three girls, ranging in age from thirteen or fourteen to seventeen or eighteen.

Except for the children, who were dressed as bright as visitors, all three women were dressed plainly, and there was no jewelry on their heads.

I just recognized someone, and there is still a little residual memory of her previous life, Shan Niang knows that the old woman who is the leader is Yuan Changqing's aunt in the next room, and the other two women are the same generation as Yuan Changqing. The reason why these three men are dressed like this is because they are all widows. Their deceased husband and Yuan Changqing's father and grandfather sacrificed their lives in the Battle of Moluo River.

After the two sides saw the ceremony, the aunt first had a polite conversation with Shanniang, and it was not easy to say that they were unable to come to watch the ceremony due to identity restrictions, but only said that they could not come because of something at home, and said: "It's a pity that I couldn't come before." I heard that Da Lang's daughter-in-law brought a new set of Soviet-style furniture from the south? Where is it? Now we need to open our eyes. ”

Shanniang smiled: "There are some in this house, and some are in other rooms." This was the first day she got married, and she hadn't had time to collect her dowry, and she didn't know where to put those things. So she turned around and called Li's mother over, and led her aunt and a few sisters-in-law and girls over.

Shan Niangxiang let a few guests go out, she walked at the end, and Yuan Yongmei also walked at the end.

Yuan Yongmei leaned over, grabbed Shanniang's arm, and smiled at her: "Sister-in-law, don't blame me, this is going to be a banquet, I don't know which one is too talkative, and I told Aunt Nine that my sister-in-law's dowry is good, and Aunt Nine said that I had to come and see it, I was so entangled that I couldn't do it, so I came to make trouble for my sister-in-law." ”

Shanniang couldn't help but glance sideways at Yuan Yongmei. If she hadn't known in her previous life, this Ninth Aunt was not the kind of person who didn't know how to be polite, maybe she really thought that Aunt Nine was here to check her dowry as Yuan Yongmei hinted at.

So she smiled and said "oh".

Her salty and non-salty "oh" obviously made Yuan Yongmei very dissatisfied. She complained unintentionally: "Aunt Nine is really, she didn't come to see it on the day of the dowry, but the banquet was about to be held in front of her, and she ran to make trouble for people......"

If she hadn't known that Aunt Jiu was a widow, maybe Shanniang would have added a pimple to her heart at this time.

Shanniang squinted at her, pursed her lips slightly, squinted a pair of charming eyes and smiled: "Look at what the fourth sister said, didn't Aunt Jiu say it just now?" She can't leave because of something. Besides, it's just a glance at the furniture, why do you tell my sister to say the same as my aunt wants to check my dowry? ”

When she said this, she deliberately controlled the volume, just enough to make the three girls walking in front of her hear, but she also told the nine aunts who were talking in front of her not to hear it. So, one of the three girls suddenly turned around and smiled at Shanniang.

Yuan Yongmei never imagined that Shanniang would say it in person like this, so she couldn't help but be stunned, pretending to be stupid, shaking Shanniang's arm and saying, "What, where did I mean that, sister-in-law misunderstood!" ”

She was in a hurry here, and her voice was louder than Shanniang's voice, so she asked Aunt Jiu and a few people to hear it. Aunt Nine turned around and asked, "What did you say?" ”

Yuan Yongmei was afraid that Shanniang would say something bad again, so she hurriedly let go of Shanniang, ran to the front, took Aunt Jiu's arm and said, "Auntie, do you know?" People say that the 'jade embroidery' has no price, but the sister-in-law actually married a total of three 'jade embroidery', the smallest one is three feet wide, and the largest one is a large screen one foot away......"

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Speaking of dowry, in fact, Shanniang herself has not checked all of her dowries - you know, from the engagement date to the completion of their marriage, it was only twenty days. In addition to the things she was used to in Chunshen Garden, as well as the valuables that the old lady specially confessed, she didn't have time to look at most of the items on the dowry list.

So on the third day after the marriage, Shanniang, who was supposed to return to the door, finally had time to pack up her dowry - although it was said that "three dynasties returned to the door", but Shanniang's maiden home was far away, so the two families had already discussed that in the early spring and February of the next year, Yuan Changqing would take Shanniang back to the door in the moon.

To say that Shanniang was originally a person who was afraid of the cold, but now that she is married to the north, the house is burned hot by the earth dragon, and she feels more comfortable than her mother's house. Therefore, she wore only a thin red jacket, leaning on the hot kang by the window, holding her forehead with her hand, while looking through her dowry book.

When Yuan Changqing entered the house, what he saw was her lazy appearance. He leaned over and glanced at the booklet in her hand, looked up and smiled, "What about your furniture?" ”

In Shanniang's impression, Yuan Changqing is not a person who likes to joke with others. Therefore, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows in surprise, looked at him and said, "You actually joke with others?" ”

Yuan Changqing looked back at the curtain hanging on the door, and saw that the maids outside were all very cautious and did not follow up, so he smiled and squinted and sat against Shanniang, and leaned his head towards her with his arms propped up, leaned over to her ear and whispered, "I only laugh with you." ”

The feeling of the breath spraying on her ears made Shanniang's heart tremble, and her face immediately turned red. She reached out to cover his face, pushed him away, and at the same time glanced at the low-hanging door curtain, and said in a low voice: "Talk, talk, lean over and do something." ”

"Don't you know?" Yuan Changqing grabbed her hand and took a bite on the edge of her palm, "You have a fragrance on you, but it smells good." ”

"Really?" Shanniang said while pulling her hand: "There shouldn't be, I don't like incense." ”

Yuan Changqing was willing to let go of her, turned over her hand, bit her knuckles and said, "Yes, a milky smell." ”

Shanniang was stunned for a moment, and then realized that he was making fun of her again, so she pulled her hand and said angrily: "You are only stinking and not dry!" She couldn't resist his strength, so she was annoyed: "Are you a dog?" Why do you keep biting me! She still has the tooth marks he left on her shoulder from last night!

Yuan Changqing suddenly raised his eyebrows to look at her, lowered his head and bit her knuckles heavily, then looked at her and said, "You don't know that I belong to a dog?" ”

His injured little eyes inexplicably made her feel weak for a while. Shanniang hurriedly argued: "I know! It's just a casual remark...... Don't people usually say, 'Are you a dog?' It bites! 'That's what they say......"

Her anxious appearance to explain immediately pleased Yuan Changqing. He looked at her again, then let go of her hand and reached for the unbutton of her collar.

Shanniang was startled, hurriedly protected her collar, pushed his hand and said, "You...... Do what?! ”

"I'll see," he said, grabbing her hand and unbuttoning her neckline, whispering, "I'll see if it's still green." ”

Last night he was careless, leaving several bruises on her shoulder. When he woke up in the morning and saw his "masterpiece", he was shocked.

"You!" Shan Niang slapped his hand away with a red face, and said in annoyance: "Then you can't tap ......"

"I ......" Yuan Changqing also blushed, put his forehead against her forehead, and said in a low voice: "I was not me at that time......

The two kept their foreheads warm for a while, until there was a sound of footsteps outside, and then the footsteps suddenly became tiptoeing again as if they had been warned, and the newlywed Yan'er realized that they had been alone for a little longer.

Yuan Changqing sat up straight, cleared his throat, flicked his finger at the dowry book that he threw aside, and said, "These things, you just pick up the ones you need to use now and pack them out, and put the rest first, maybe you will have to move them again in two months." He added, "It's not urgent, but the people in our courtyard should also be seen." ”

Every inch of land in the capital is expensive, although the Yuan Mansion is the Duke's Mansion, the area occupied is not as good as a West Garden of the old lady of Shanniang's mother's family. The largest courtyard in Yuan's mansion, "Xuanyi Hall", is naturally lived by an old lady. The two courtyards behind Xuanyi Hall lived the widowed second aunt Qian and the third aunt Sun. Yuan Li and Yuan Si lived in the upper courtyard of the main house in front; The fourth girl, Yuan Yongmei, lived in the west courtyard of the main house, and she named her yard "Qiushui Pavilion"; The second master, Yuan Changxing, lives in the East Cross Courtyard, and the name of the courtyard given by the fourth master is "Fu Linju" - it is conceivable that the fourth master's son Jackie Chan is the son of Jackie Chan.

As for Yuan Changqing. The Yuan family has never deducted him in terms of food and clothing, and he still lives in the same courtyard where his parents lived before their deaths, which is even bigger than the courtyard of the fourth master. Because there is a big green pine in the yard, the name of this yard is "Han Cuixuan".

Han Cui Xuan has a total of five upper rooms, two ear rooms on both sides, a row of three wings on the left and right, there is a cover courtyard in front of the building, it is a courtyard of the northern style that is neat and tidy. This huge courtyard is naturally impossible to have less manpower, that is, Yuan Changqing is not at home all the year round, and the fourth lady in charge of the house still has enough manpower for Han Cuixuan as usual.

From the first night of the wedding, Shanniang has always been her own maid waiting, and when she went in and out, she only saw the few little maids and mothers-in-law who often followed Yuan Changqing in her previous life, and she didn't see any of the extra people. Now that she took over the roster from Yuan Changqing, she knew that in addition to the people she knew, there were seven or eight maids in this courtyard.

"Why haven't I seen these people?" Shanniang raised her head and asked Yuan Changqing. In her previous life, Yuan Changqing hadn't shown her this roster, so she always thought that he didn't need a maid......

"Oh," Yuan Changqing, who was sitting side by side with her, was looking sideways into her ear, and said absentmindedly: "That's the person dialed by the old lady and the fourth aunt." But I don't like those people wandering around in front of me, so I let Mother Hua restrain people. And he said, "You have a little mole on your ear, you know?" ”

"I don't know, I can't see it." Shanniang rubbed her ears, pretending not to know who the flower mother was, and asked, "That flower mother, is it your housekeeper mother in this yard?" ”

"Our yard." Yuan Changqing corrected her, and then picked the small black mole on her ear curiously with his nails, and said, "At first, I always thought it was the ink spot you accidentally rubbed on when you were writing......

"Tsk!" Shanniang snapped the roster, turned her head and glared at Yuan Changqing, who had been making trouble, "Can you do the right thing first?!" ”

Yuan Changqing looked at her, his eyes sank slightly. When night fell, he could always feel her response when she was at her most enthusiastic, and as soon as the morning dawned, she would turn back into the Hou Thirteen who kept his distance from him.

He didn't like it very much.

It's just that he also knows that this matter can't be rushed. Thirteen was wary of him from the beginning, and if he was impatient, he would only drive her farther and farther......

So he sat up straight, took the roster and said, "Wait a while, I asked Uncle Hua to go out to do something, and when Uncle Hua comes back, I will call all the people over for you to know." Now I want to tell you who is reliable and who is not. He pointed out a few reliable people and showed them to Shanniang, and said, "In addition to these few, these are from my grandfather and my uncle." There are some things that you can try not to tell them. ”

Shan Niang was shocked, "They ......" - she could not have imagined that he did not trust even his uncle and grandfather as much as she thought!

"Not what you think." Yuan Changqing understood her thoughts at a glance, shook his head and smiled: "It's just because my grandfather and my uncle always treat me as a child, and they love to make decisions for me...... That's why they will send people to you during the Dragon Boat Festival. So, generally speaking, if I don't let them know about my affairs, I will try to hide it from them. After a pause, he added, "My aunt is easy-going, but my uncle and my maternal grandparents are not like that. They are all a bit stubborn, and when they return to Beijing, I'm afraid they will probably embarrass you for a while. ”

Shanniang was silent for a while, and secretly said in her heart, it's a big deal like the previous life, old age and death don't get along......

So, in the evening, Yuan Changqing summoned all the people over. Shanniang originally wanted to go to the courtyard to see everyone once, but Yuan Changqing refused to let her out to suffer from the cold, and only called in the few important stewards he had named, and the others were like watching the flowers, and asked people to stand outside the glass window one by one, so that Shanniang roughly recognized her familiar face, and drove everyone out.

In fact, these people pointed out by Yuan Changqing were known to Shanniang in her previous life.

For example, that Uncle Hua, who looks frail and weak before he gets old, is actually very shrewd in his bones. Shanniang even felt that Yuan Changqing had a bad stomach at a young age, maybe it was taught by that Uncle Hua - later Shanniang learned from Yuan Changqing that this Uncle Hua was really a character, he used to be a scout under his father, and he had been following him since he was discharged from the army due to injury...... Of course, the person had never told her in his previous life.

Another example is the flower mother. Hua's mother was not surnamed Hua, but Hua, who was surnamed after marrying Uncle Hua, her maiden name was Fan. Mother Hua was originally Yuan Changqing's grandmother's personal maid, and when she was young, she followed his grandmother to encounter a siege, and was blinded by an arrow when she broke through, and she has never been married since. It wasn't until Yuan Changqing's parents died and the nurse also died that she was sent to Yuan Changqing's side by Yuan Changqing's maternal grandmother Xu, and then she looked at Uncle Hua right. Then the two of them followed Yuan Changqing to do things together, and they can be regarded as Yuan Changqing's henchmen.

Uncle Hua and his wife have no children, so they have always taken care of Yuan Changqing as their children. Uncle Hua is in charge of Yuan Changqing's mother's dowry and external affairs, while Mother Hua is in charge of the inner house for Yuan Changqing. In her previous life, Mother Hua looked down on Shanniang a little bit, and felt that she was not worthy of Yuan Changqing, so although Shanniang was the housemother, in fact, she could only be the master of her yard at most, and Yuan Changqing still preferred to hand over the major affairs in the inner house to Mother Hua. And Mother Hua does have two brushes, the reason why for so many years, Mrs. Yuan and Mrs. Yuan's hands have not been able to reach Yuan Changqing's body, most of the credit has to be attributed to Mother Hua. Not to mention anything else, only those warblers and Yanyan who came under the instruction were stared at by Mother Hua's scarred one-eye, and they were frightened and weakened their legs first.

Like in her previous life, when Mother Hua came to see Shanniang, she deliberately did not wear the usual blindfold. Unlike in her previous life, this time Shanniang was not frightened by the scars on her face, and she even deliberately asked Mother Hua how the injury on her eye came from - she naturally knew that although Mother Hua lost an eye because of the breakthrough battle, she had also killed several pigtail soldiers with her own hands. This is the proudest thing in Mother Hua's life.

Mother Hua couldn't hide her excitement and described how she was injured, and implied a little caution, and told Shanniang in detail how she killed the enemy, until Yuan Changqing couldn't stand it and coughed lightly, she stopped talking, and then glanced at Shanniang, who was still proud, in surprise, and retreated silently.

Mother Hua used her injured eyes to "test" Shanniang's careful thinking, how could she hide it from Yuan Changqing, seeing Mother Hua withdraw, he also lifted the curtain and followed out, and scolded Mother Hua in a low voice.

Mother Hua rolled her one eye and said, "Uncle told me to listen to grandma's orders in the future, then I have to try it first to see if grandma can be worthy of grandma!" ”

Uncle Hua poked his head out to the side and smiled, "Who in your eyes is worthy of our uncle?" ”

Mother Hua was silent for a moment, and said reluctantly: "Although not, but the eldest grandmother is a bold one." ”

Through the window, listening to Mother Hua's "big grandma", Shanniang pursed her lips and smiled. In her previous life, she was very annoyed by Mother Hua's dictatorship, but now she wishes that Mother Hua could take care of all the housework, so that she can be a big shopkeeper.