After resting for one night, Ning'er's spirits improved a lot, and thinking of meeting Yunqiao's mother today, Ning'er got up early in the morning. Shen Yanxin ordered someone to prepare clothes for Shen Yanling's family to send them, Ning'er did not refuse, after changing into clothes, Yutang and Ah Zheng brought Ah Ping over.

Ning Er was originally extremely beautiful, and she was already very beautiful in her usual cloth clothes, but she changed into a brocade dress, but she had the temperament of a royal princess. And Shen Yanling is a natural clothes rack in Ning'er's opinion, no matter what she wears, she will not lose her elegance at all. As for the three children, Yutang is delicate and cute, and has the charm of a girl, Ah Zheng's face is not as good as his father's, Ah Ping has become a delicate white jade doll, and anyone wants to hold him in his arms.

After breakfast, Shen Yanling and Ning Er took their three children and followed the maid to meet the old lady of the Hou Mansion. Thinking of Shen Yanxin's description of the old lady yesterday, Ning Er was very curious about the old lady at this time.

Soon arrived at Anfuju, where the old lady lived, probably knowing that Shen Yanling's family would come to visit, and the people outside the door directly led Shen Yanling's family into the house. When I entered the house, I saw a woman in her forties sitting on the upper seat, with Yunqiao and Shen Yanxin by her side, and a girl of fourteen or fifteen years old, sitting next to the old lady, talking to make the old lady happy. It's just that the old lady doesn't seem to like this woman very much, and although she is smiling on her face, she doesn't seem to be smiling from the heart.

As she was talking, the maid reported that Shen Yanling's family was coming, and the old lady looked sideways to this side, and suddenly beckoned to Ah Zheng and Ah Ping, and said, "What a beautiful doll, come over and let grandma hug it!"

Shen Yanling and Ning Er showed surprised expressions when they heard this, and looked at Yun Qiao and Shen Yanxin, but saw that the two of them lowered their heads in tacit understanding, as if they were trying to escape the fact that this person was their mother, and now Ning Er understood why Shen Yanxin said that her mother-in-law was cute. Yutang also seemed to be shocked by the old lady, in her impression, the old lady of this kind of big family is either holding the shelf of the official lady, looking at everyone is proud, or she is amiable on her face, but she looks like she is picking on her eyes with a pair of eyes, and now this old lady Hou has such a character, it seems to be really cute.

As the protagonists, Ah Zheng and Ah Ping blinked, Ah Ping was still young, and seemed to be frightened by the old lady's movements, and his small body hid behind his brother, but he poked his head out from under Ah Zheng's ribs and looked at the old lady curiously. Ah Zheng was clever, looked at the old lady with a pair of big eyes, and seemed to be sure that the old lady would not hurt them, so he smiled and said: "Ah Zheng hugs grandma, does grandma give Ah Zheng a gift?" Although he asked for a gift with one mouth, it was not annoying at all.

The more the old lady looked at the two children, the more she liked it, and she was slightly stunned when she heard Ah Zheng's words, but she didn't feel disgusted at all, but she liked it more than those relatives who liked to come to her, and quickly nodded and said: "Of course there is, Ah Zheng, and Ah Ping, right? Come and hug grandma, grandma has a gift!"

At this time, Shen Yanling and Ning Er also reacted, and when they heard Ah Zheng's words, Shen Yanling hurriedly apologized: "Ah Zheng is still young and ignorant, please don't be surprised by the old lady!"

Ah Zheng got the old lady's answer, and led Ah Ping to greet the old lady. The old lady's eyes at this time were completely attracted by the two beautiful children, and she took Ah Ping in her arms, pulled Ah Zheng in front of her, and looked at it carefully. Hearing Shen Yanling's apology, the old lady looked up at Shen Yanling and his wife, looked at him carefully, and then said to Shen Yanling and his wife: "Children are cute only if they have a true temperament, like those who know to salute when they see people, they are not liked at all." He turned back and said to Yunqiao: "Look, what my mother said is right! Only when the father and mother are beautiful, the child can grow more beautiful, don't you think Ah Zheng and Ah Ping are the best examples? It's good that I didn't marry Yuanyuan back at the beginning, otherwise I wouldn't have had a chance to have a beautiful grandson. ”

Yunqiao, who was sitting next to him, pouted helplessly and sighed: "Mother, is your son and I so ugly?"

The old lady stretched out her hand and pinched Ah Ping's fleshy little face, and did not look at her son's resentful expression, and then said: "He is not as good as the Chen family's boy, and he is also called a person? ”

Shen Yanling and Ning Er heard the old lady's words, and couldn't help but deeply sympathize with Yunqiao, although Yunqiao is not as good as Shen Yanling's appearance, but it can be regarded as a suave and talented, with a good family background and talent, I don't know how many daughters and ladies outside admire him, and he is so disgusted by his biological mother at home. Yunqiao looked at Shen Yanling and sighed, personally led Shen Yanling and his wife to the old lady, and introduced: "Mother, this is Shen Yanling, the third brother of Xin'er's mother's family, and this is the third sister-in-law." ”

The old lady looked at Shen Yanling and Ning Er, Shen Yanling was handsome, Ning Er was beautiful and extraordinary, this old lady Murong had seen countless people, but it was difficult to find one that could compare with them, and looking at Shen Yanling, there was always a trace of familiar charm on him, but he couldn't think of what it was.

Shen Yanling and Ning Er saluted the old lady, and the old lady hurriedly told them to get up and personally ordered someone to serve tea. Sitting next to the old lady was the niece of the old lady's mother's family, that is, Chu Yanran, the daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion, who came to live with the old lady for a few days. The purpose is naturally the cloud bridge. They are cousins and sisters, although the Prime Minister's Mansion is a noble family in Beijing, but it is not as powerful as the Dingbei Hou Mansion, hereditary replacement, and there are several princesses who married into the Murong family in the past dynasties, and they are also considered to be the royal family, and the Prime Minister's Mansion naturally hopes to grasp this in-law. And Yunqiao is handsome and talented, and is deeply used by the emperor, and he is the son-in-law candidate in their hearts, so he sent his daughter to the house in the name of taking care of the old lady. Although Yunqiao is married, Shen Yanxin has no family background, how to fight with the Prime Minister.

To say that this Chu Yanran is not bad looking, she is also knowledgeable, and she is also a very famous talented woman in the capital. The Chu family's desire to marry Chu Yanran to the Hou Mansion was not a matter of one or two days, and they wanted to settle down when they were young, but the old lady kept delaying on the grounds of letting Yunqiao choose his own wife. I thought that the two had known each other since childhood, and their family background was also a good match, and it would be a matter of time before they went out to run errands, but Yunqiao went out to run errands and married a country woman back. But I didn't care too much, after all, Shen Yanxin's family background was too poor, and the old lady would definitely be embarrassed and marry another daughter-in-law who was the right person, but she didn't expect that the old lady liked Shen Yanxin's daughter-in-law very much, and she would take her by her side to teach her at any time.

Chu Yanran had already inquired about Shen Yanxin's origin, and thought that Shen Yanxin would not pose any threat to her, in her opinion, she and Yunqiao had known each other since childhood, and they were already childhood sweethearts, and the old lady was her aunt, so she would naturally marry her sooner or later. But I didn't know that the old lady had always disliked the pretentious ladies in Beijing, so Yunqiao had always been reluctant to marry her. And although Shen Yanxin has a poor background, she has excellent appearance, and her talent is not bad, and the most important thing is that Shen Yanxin has the simplicity of a civilian woman, which makes her like it very much, so she never thought of choosing another daughter-in-law.

Chu Yanran was also amazed when she saw Shen Yanling and his wife, but then she thought that the two of them were just a civilian couple, even if they passed the Jinshi examination, they were only a little better than civilians, so naturally they would not take them in their eyes, and looked at the family with disdain in their eyes.

Shen Yanling and Ning Er naturally noticed it, but they would not be as familiar as this half-grown child, Shen Yanling frowned slightly, he knew that Shen Yanxin was the final family in the aristocratic circle in Beijing, and Shen Yanxin's background was too low, so he was afraid that he would be bullied in Beijing.

Seeing Shen Yanling's troubles, Ning Er gently pulled Shen Yanling's hand and asked softly, "But are you worried about Yanling?"

Shen Yanling sighed and said, "The most important family in Beijing, I'm afraid that I will be bullied!"

Ning Er smiled and said, "What's so difficult about this? Have you forgotten who your rented family is? It's not bad for the granddaughter of Lord Taifu's family to marry into the Hou Mansion!"

"What do you mean......"

"When my father took you away back then, it was just a reputation for elopement, although the reputation is not very good, but the Taifu Mansion has never removed him from the family tree, hasn't it?

"You're right, why don't you go and visit Taifu's house today!" Shen Yanling said, "After these two days, I should have something to do!"

"It's fine. Ning'er knew that Shen Yanling had a lot of things to deal with when she came to Beijing this time.

Letting go of the worries in her heart, Shen Yanling said to Shen Yanxin: "Xin'er, do you have time today?"

Shen Yanxin shook his head and said, "It's nothing, the third brother and sister-in-law have just come to the capital, why don't I take you around the capital!"

Shen Yanling shook her head with a smile and said, "No need, you have nothing to do today, let's go to Taifu's Mansion in the afternoon!"

"Hmph! another villain who tends to be inflammatory!" Chu Yanran was dissatisfied with Shen Yanling and his wife when they entered the door, and at this time she made sarcastic remarks.

"Yanran, how did you speak, quickly apologize to Shen Gongzi!" the old lady shouted. The old lady knew countless people, and she could see that Shen Yanling's eyes were pure, and she definitely didn't have that kind of thought, so she couldn't help but shout to Chu Yanran. He also explained to Shen Yanling: "Yanran is young and ignorant, don't worry about her." ”

Shen Yanling has a gentle temperament, but it definitely doesn't mean that he has no temper, not to mention that he was inexplicably scolded as a villain who tends to be inflammatory, but Shen Yanling's joy and anger have always been invisible, she only looked at Chu Yanran lightly and asked: "I don't know what Shen Yanling has done, will Miss Chu reprimand him as a villain who tends to be inflammatory?"

"Master Taifu is a talented person, how can you see that scholar when you see him? You let your cousin-in-law go with you, isn't it just to use the power of Dingbei Hou Mansion to climb up to Lord Taifu? Hmph! You also said that you are not a villain!" Chu Yanran said disdainfully.

Hearing Chu Yanran say this, the old lady frowned, and a trace of annoyance flashed in her eyes, what she didn't like the most about this niece was such self-righteous storytelling, especially since she was not yet fifteen years old. Shen Yanxin showed anger on her face, Shen Yanling was the brother she admired the most, how could she believe that her brother would have such a mind, if her brother wanted to be famous, how could she wait until now. And Yunqiao secretly slandered this cousin's ignorance, Shen Yanling, as the master of the secret door, what did he want, but also to curry favor with a master and ask for a fame? If he angered Shen Yanling, he was afraid that the Prime Minister's Mansion would suffer.

Shen Yanling smiled when she heard this, and her voice was extremely cold: "Yes, Miss Chu knows so much! It's just that sometimes it's better not to be too self-righteous, a boudoir lady arguing with strangers in the house of a stranger, Miss Chu is really a good tutor." ”

The old lady's face turned cold, and she shouted to Leng Yanran: "Go back to the room immediately." Where have you read your female virtues and female training, if you make any more nonsense, I will order someone to send you home!"

"Auntie!" Chu Yanran shouted unwillingly, but she couldn't, so she had to follow the maid back.

"Third brother, I'm sorry......" Shen Yanxin felt that he had insulted his brother and apologized in a low voice.

Shen Yanling shook her head and explained: "My father has been away from home for many years and has been missing my parents, and now that I have come to Beijing, let me go back to see my grandfather, you are also my father's daughter, my grandfather's granddaughter, naturally I should go back to see my grandfather and grandmother, I don't want people to misunderstand." ”