Daiyu walked out of the boudoir, originally to drive Xu Muqiu away, but when she heard him say this, she still couldn't suppress the curiosity in her heart, and said lightly with a small face.

"I don't want to know what is very good, but you have to take the initiative to talk to me, and he is really a thick-skinned person."

Xu Muqiu breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Daiyu talking, this daughter's family is still willing to pay attention to you, which has proved that there is room for things. His heart suddenly felt narrow.

"Sister, you are weak, don't be angry with a fool like me."

"In a few days, I will go to Jiangnan to study. I'm afraid that my sister won't be able to see me, the bad guy who makes you sad, for a while. Isn't that a great event? ”

Daiyu heard such a "happy event", but she was not happy in her heart. thought that Xu Muqiu was impatient with her pettiness, so she deliberately ran to Jiangnan to avoid her. Otherwise, I made an awkward fuss in the morning, and said in the afternoon that I was going to study in Jiangnan, how could there be such a coincidence?

But before Daiyu could speak, I saw a purple-shirted woman coming out of the courtyard, hurriedly running between Xu Muqiu and Daiyu, and stopped her with a false hand, as if she wanted to protect Daiyu behind her. Before he could stand still, he shouted to Xu Muqiu.

"You, a black-hearted seed, thought that the person my young lady liked must be a good person, but where did you think that it was also such a heartless and negative person."

"I shouldn't have put the old lady's instructions in my ears, I should have stopped you a long time ago and didn't let you see my young lady."

"In this way, there would be no today. It broke her heart. I just made her cry until now, and she hasn't eased her senses, and she came to this courtyard to provoke her again, what kind of heart is it? ”

"Zijuan, don't say much, let him go."

Daiyu's face was cold, and she didn't want to say more than half a word.

When Xu Muqiu heard Zijuan's words, he was overjoyed, but when he saw that Daiyu took the joke seriously, he was embarrassed and hurriedly explained.

"Sister, don't worry, I haven't finished speaking for my brother just now."

"Some time ago, my sister told me that I have always been concerned about your father Lin Gong. This time I went to Jiangnan, and I also went to Yangzhou to visit my father and treat Lin Gong. ”

When Daiyu heard this, her father's illness had always been remembered by Xu Muqiu, and her heart warmed, and her complexion eased a little.

Seeing this, Xu Muqiu continued: "For my brother, I think that my sister has not gone back to visit your father in the past two years since she came to this divine capital. I gave Mrs. Jia and asked you to go with me. She had agreed to this and called the second brother Lian to accompany her. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Daiyu open his calves, hold his little hands, and run to Xu Muqiu, making a gesture.

Xu Muqiu didn't dodge or dodge, and let Daiyu hammer him. After a long time, when Daiyu vented the grievances in her heart and the excitement of returning home, the relationship between the two seemed to be much closer to each other.

Now that the knot in his heart has been resolved, Xu Muqiu will no longer stay longer, he wants to leave some space for Daiyu to calm down his ups and downs at the moment. After making an appointment with Daiyu for a month, they went to Jiangnan together, and then said goodbye and left.

In the blink of an eye, the month of January is coming to an end.

Everyone in the Pingbei Hou Mansion became busy. It turned out that today was Xu Muqiu's sixteenth birthday, and it was exactly one year since he returned home.

Zhang's and Jin's asked him to go to Jiangnan to study in a month, just for today. Accompany him to spend a good birthday at home to make up for the regrets between mother and son in the past ten years.

"Today is the young master's birthday, the old lady ordered, make this banquet ready, and there will be a lot of rewards!"

I saw a grandmother, standing at the door of the small kitchen in the east courtyard, and said loudly.

"Mama Qian, don't worry, nothing will go wrong today. Besides, today is just a small banquet, we don't know how many scenes we have seen, how can it be wrong? You're always waiting to be rewarded. ”

The housekeeper in the kitchen replied with confidence.

"Although it is only a small banquet today, there are still outsiders after all. The old lady specially instructed not to let our Hou Mansion lose face. ”

The kitchen steward's mother-in-law patted her chest and said nonchalantly: "Mama Qian is joking, this dish at today's banquet is three points better than the day the young master returns home." It's just the Jia family who received Rongguo Mansion, and I think it's enough. ”

The words of the kitchen steward were a little disdainful.

These servants of some high-ranking families love to do things in the dark, seeing the wind and steering the rudder, holding the high and stepping on the low. I don't know where to gossip, when I heard about the recent situation of Rongguo Mansion, I actually said such wild words.

She didn't want to think about it, even if the Rongguo Mansion had been completed, the second-class family in the capital, compared with her status, could be regarded as humiliating the Rongguo Mansion, as if the sky and the earth, the bird's nest and the bird's bird.

She, the mother-in-law, borrowed the power of the main family, the Pingbei Hou Mansion, to her own head. I don't know, what kind of posture will she make when she really meets the people of Jiafu?

Fortunately, Mama Qian next to the old lady is well-informed and very sensible. Listening to her words, where can't you hear the sound outside of this?

opened his mouth and reprimanded: "You crazy woman, you can say this too." Do your thing, and if something goes wrong, I'll send you out of the way, old lady. ”

After Mama Qian finished speaking, she turned around and left. Only left, the steward-in-law with a frightened face. Leaning slightly, the woman came back to her senses, hurried back to the kitchen, and commanded everyone to take care of it.

The words are divided into two ends, in Shouqing Hall, the two daughters of Xu and Jia sit separately, and the girl and mother-in-law serve on both sides. The old and the young, the warblers and the swallows, are talking about the high spirits, the atmosphere is extremely strong, and there is a joy inside and outside the hall.

The first two old ladies held hands, leaned very close, and said something private with a smile on their faces. It's just that the content of this conversation seems to have the shadow of swords, guns and swords, and the smell of gunpowder is full.

Zhang: "You little girl, you stabbed my Xu family in the back silently." ”

Shi: "Old sister, where should I start?" ”

Zhang: "After decades of friendship, don't sing in front of me." Forcibly pulled my grandson and recognized a Rausch son? Do you want to pull my Xu family and wade into the troubled waters of your Jiafu? What is it if it is not doing dark things? ”

Shi: "It's not sweet to drink water with your head down, but our grandson is very happy." ”

When Zhang heard Jia's mother's words, she suddenly felt angry, she held Jia's mother's hand tightly, lowered her voice again, and spoke.

"Brother Qiu is my grandson. Your family is in shabby, what is he willing to do? ”

Shi: "What do you want?" I recognized a grandson of the Xu family, and your family took away a granddaughter of mine, but it is not a matter of flattening. ”

Hearing this, Zhang raised his head and looked at Daiyu, looked at it carefully, and thought in his heart.

Jia Mu opened her mouth and said: "This is a matter of mutual affection. My Yu'er, who lost her mother when she was young, I took her to her side to raise. I think her marriage is very good, and I have already agreed to it in my heart. When the two families get married, how can they separate you and me? Do you wade or not? ”

Zhang's family has been friends with Jia's mother for decades and knows her character very well. Jia Mu is especially good at the affairs of the inner courtyard of the house. From the fact that Rong Guogong only has a daughter, and he does not see a concubine, you can know the depth of his scheming; Since the death of Rong Guogong, she has controlled everything inside and outside the mansion, big and small, and you can know her skills. But Zhang never expected that Shi's method would be used on his grandson.

Zhang was angry and said, "What's so good about your daughter?" The lady of the dignified mansion can be sent to the saint's palace to be the female official? What about the rest? ”

Shi: "Old sister's words, it sounds a little hurtful. How do you not know about the situation in my house? I'm at this age, and I'm a woman, what good way can I do? It's just trying to survive. ”

"You and I have known each other since we were daughters-in-law, otherwise how could I talk to you about my heart?"

"Yu'er is an excellent one, she is my Min'er's own daughter, her father is like a sea and is trusted by the saints, otherwise she would not have sent him to take care of salt affairs. is also worthy of your brother Qiu, and the two of them are interested. Old sister, don't do that stick to beat the mandarin duck. ”

"I admit that I have selfish intentions, the saint's methods have become more and more ruthless in recent years, and my family has some old grudges with the saint, and because of my unfilial son."

"Alas, I'm afraid that in the coming year's liquidation, my Jia family will not die well. I only hope that the Xu family can help deliver a sentence at that time, and my Jia family may be able to keep the lintel from falling, even if I go underground, I will also have the face to see the ancestors of Rongguo. ”

"For Yu'er, I also really love her. Brother Wu Guanqiu is an excellent person, and he is a good match for my family. ”

When Zhang heard this, his anger disappeared, and only silence remained.

There is almost no difference between the backgrounds of the two families, how can she not know the difficulties inside? It's just that he was rashly involved in the turmoil, what stability does the Xu family have at all?

The ladies at the banquet talked happily. I didn't notice that the first two smiling old ladies were talking about such a heinous thing.

For a long time, Zhang and Jia's mother kept silent. Come back to the feast and be happy with the women. When the juniors present saw the two old ladies chatting, they immediately complimented them like stars holding the moon. Among them, Wang Xifeng was the leader, and I saw her speak.

"The two old ladies can be regarded as having finished talking, it is worthy of decades of affection, this time, we little ones are all gone."

Seeing that Wang Xifeng said something interesting, everyone at the table burst into laughter. Jia Mu scolded with a smile: "You monkey, I don't know, I thought you were the protagonist today." ”

"I want to be this birthday star, but the real birthday star is still in the outer courtyard, and I don't want to make any noise."

Today's small banquet, in the east courtyard, I invited the ladies of Jiafu. In the outer courtyard, Xu Muqiu also invited Feng Ziying, Wei Ruolan, Liu Xianglian, Xue Pan and others to talk about their parting feelings and make an appointment to get together in the coming year. Therefore, his birthday star did not meet with the daughters, so he was ridiculed by Feng Lazi.

After listening to Wang Xifeng's words, the ladies were silent for a while, and then burst into laughter, staring at Wang Xifeng while laughing, as if they wanted to see a flower on her face.

Wang Xifeng saw that everyone was laughing at her, and asked curiously, "What I said was so funny?" ”

Daiyu couldn't help but reply to her: "Second sister-in-law, that's not what you say, it should be called noisy." ”

Mother Jia also knew that this phoenix was spicy, and since she was a child, she taught a set of truths that a woman is virtuous if she is not talented, and there is no ink in her chest, so she broke the siege.

"You are a shabby, since you know that you can't be a real birthday star, you don't want to find someone to invite."

When the Kim family heard this, how could he let the guest go to invite the lord, knowing that it was just a joke. waved her hand to beckon the girl beside her, whispered a few words, and instructed her to call Xu Muqiu to the inner courtyard to greet everyone.

About two moments, Xu Muqiu returned to the inner courtyard Shouqing Hall to talk to the ladies of Jiafu.

"Mu Qiu has seen all the elders, and he is polite here."

After a period of greetings, it was the turn of Daiyu, Baochai, Sanchun and others present to greet him.

"Baochai, I wish my brother a successful career and a safe and smooth journey." After speaking, he gave up with Sanchun.

"Daiyu, I've seen my brother, I'm going all the way to Jiangnan, so I'll trouble my brother to take care of each other."

The two looked at each other for a moment, then staggered away from each other and returned to their respective positions.

But the love in his eyes was clearly seen by the two caring people on this table.

One is Xue Baochai, maybe she doesn't care about what she says, and she also understands the truth that she can't be a wife. But Aunt Xue's words that day, she still listened to it in her heart, and today she will unconsciously observe Xu Muqiu and Daiyu's every move.

It's just that she secretly thought in her heart, maybe the two of them will be able to break their thoughts when they go to Jiangnan, and go to the palace to be elected with peace of mind.

The other person is the old lady Zhang who is sitting in the hall, where will she listen to the words of Jia's mother's family.

When her grandson greeted the daughter of the Lin family, she always paid attention to it and looked at it carefully. Seeing is believing, and after watching, Zhang secretly said in his heart: "That's really the case!" ”

Xu Muqiu didn't know that at this moment, his grandmother Zhang's heart was overturned, and what he was thinking about was his marriage.

The old lady Zhang had mixed feelings in his heart, who would have thought that he had escaped a daughter of the Qin family and a daughter of the Lin family. The daughter of the Qin family is a hot potato, and the daughter of the Lin family is innocent in family affairs, but her grandfather, the Jia family, is not a fuel-efficient lamp. Bone and blood family affection, how can it be broken off. How good is that?

For a long time, Zhang seemed to think about something, and sighed in his heart.

She thought, look at the daughter of the Lin family, but at the age of eleven or twelve, this matter will probably drag on for a few years. Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, if the grandchildren have that ability, what does it matter if they are married? If she doesn't have that ability, don't blame her for doing the thing of the Queen Mother Magpie Bridge. At that time, it was the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker, and the grandchildren would not complain.

Thinking of this section, the old lady Zhang suddenly felt a sense of relief, no longer worried, came back to his senses, and rejoiced with everyone at this table.

After all, today is the birthday of the good grandson, and it is a good thing that the house has been looking forward to for ten years, and tomorrow the grandson will go to the south of the Yangtze River.

Why bother about the future, now this banquet is a joyful image, Pingbei Hou Mansion has not had it for many years, and it should be cherished.

At the moment, Xu Muqiu sent away, and today's last wave of guests, Feng Ziying and others.

He breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and his brothers knew that he was leaving tomorrow, but they poured him wine and drank it desperately. If it weren't for the Taoist true qi in his body in time, volatilizing his wine, and setting off tomorrow, I am afraid that he would have to lie down on the carriage and march.

Just as he was about to turn around and go back to the house, he swept to a corner next to the Hou mansion, and there was an acquaintance standing. Doubting his doubts, he stepped forward to talk.

"Ruizhu, why are you here?"

That person was Qin Keqing's personal maid Ruizhu, and she took out something and handed it to Xu Muqiu as she spoke.

"Young Master Xu, my young lady heard that today is your birthday, so it is inconvenient to come to the door to disturb you. Let me hand you over something to congratulate you on a good day. After saying that, Ruizhu turned around and ran.

Xu Muqiu held the birthday gift from Qin Keqing in her hand, and her heart throbbed, it turned out that she hadn't forgotten me!

When he opened the brocade bag, he saw that it was a sachet inside, and at this moment he already knew Keqing's intentions in his heart.

After looking at the sachet for a long time, Xu Muqiu's misty gaze gradually became firm, and he stepped into the Pingbei Hou Mansion with strong steps.

Fish and bear's paws, he wants to have both, and when he goes to the south of the Yangtze River, he must be high in the sky and wide in the sea, and he will have a long journey.