As soon as Feng Xu and Feng Zhirong entered the hall, Feng Zhirong's mother Zhou Youshao came up and shouted, "Dad, you're early!" Sit here for a while. It was done quickly. As he spoke, he scolded Feng Zhirong again: "You kid, you haven't eaten this morning!"

Feng Zhirong knew that her mother didn't really mean to complain, so she just said coquettishly: "I slept late today, so I went directly to talk to my grandfather!"

Feng Xu added on the side: "There is also Master Liu."

"That's right! And Master Liu!"

Zhou Youshao knew that a distinguished guest had come to visit this morning, and said, "Dad, is the matter of Master Liu Bo coming to the same thing that Dad and the second master said before?"

Feng Xu nodded and said, "Master Liu has gone back to recover his life."

"Did you say yes? Or ......"

"Promised." Feng Xu said: "The child is also listening, in my opinion, this grace is in a hurry, and it may not be able to wait until the next year."

Zhou Youshao frowned when he heard this: "Why did you come so early?" As he spoke, he pulled Feng Zhirong to his side, reluctantly put his arm on her shoulder and gently rubbed it.

"Children also grow up and have to leave home sooner or later. You also learned the rules in the palace, so you have to prepare for the child, so that she can learn a little etiquette in the palace first, so that she will not have to suffer so much in the future. ”

"I see." Zhou Youshao glanced at Feng Zhirong lovingly, and said to Feng Xu: "The Feng family is still in the boudoir, there is only such a child, not long after leaving the palace, they are still waiting for Ding Geng to get married, no matter how you think about it, I feel that this time flies too quickly."

"Children will always grow up...... Feng Xu looked around the hall and said, "Zhengdao has been very busy with official business recently, so he can't eat with us today, and when he comes back, you come to me with him." I have to talk to your couple about it. ”

Zhou Youshao nodded, let go of Feng Zhirong, looked back at the layout of the hall, and then she: "Dad, everyone is here, please sit down!"

Feng Xu nodded, and then walked to the main seat and sat down.

Feng Zhirong was the youngest, so she still stayed by Feng Xu's side to chat, waiting for the rest of the family to take their seats first. Zhou Youshao patted Feng Zhirong's little head and said, "Zhirong is good, my mother is going to see if the kitchen is okay." After speaking, he walked out of the hall again.

Although there are nearly 30 people in the Feng family, Feng Xu's adult children are also busy with official duties and have no intention of taking charge of the housework, so they are essentially not separated; The Feng family's mansion was originally not big, but there were more and more people, so they later bought some land from their neighbors and expanded a large part of it for the children who had already started a family to live in, which made the whole Feng Mansion much more comfortable to live in.

Later, because Feng Xu's eldest son Feng Zhenghui died on the battlefield, Zhou Youshao proposed to let everyone eat together to comfort Feng Xu's pain of losing his son and Cao Zhongyu's loss of his husband, so that the two of them would not feel too sad, but as time went by, it has become a habit and a rule of the Feng family.

However, there are always people who have to have lunch together, and when it comes to dinner, there are also people who are unable to attend due to work reasons, so the ladies who are in charge of the family affairs every day are responsible for taking care of these chores inside and out, but also letting the kitchen servants know how many dishes to prepare.

Feng Zhirong stood beside Feng Xu, watching the brothers who walked into the hall one after another to greet Feng Xu, and she also greeted the brothers one by one.

If the men of the Feng family are officials or have other jobs in the imperial court, they usually can't catch lunch, so the people who come to greet them at this time are all "hairy boys" who are preparing for scientific examinations—the soul hidden in Feng Zhirong's young body is regarded in this way.

Young people who study hard all day long naturally find it difficult to see where they are going, and young people's thoughts are always overflowing, so Feng Zhirong usually doesn't need to think too much about it, she can guess the mood of her brothers, and use this to decide whether she should talk to her, whether it is suitable for joking, etc.

Bringing everyone to Qi and standing on the seats, Cao Zhongyu, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Feng family, instructed Feng Zhengdao's side room Chao Mei and the servants to deliver food to Cao Zhongmei, who was sick in bed, and was also a concubine.

The youngest Feng Zhirong was supposed to accompany the last seat, but her position was in front of the sisters-in-law. Just because she was short and couldn't pick up the dishes, Zhou Youshao asked Feng Zhirong to sit next to her with Feng Xu's permission, so that she could help her pick up the dishes.

After the Feng family finished eating, the servants returned to the hall to clean up, and at this time, the Feng family's garden was very busy.

The people of the Feng family will take a walk after dinner, and after the walk, they will take a nap, and then continue to read when they should read, and change their work to do things. When Feng Zhengdao returned from the imperial court, Zhou Youshao would usually accompany him or teach Feng Zhirong some simple female celebrities.

But today it was different because of Feng Xu's previous instructions, Feng Xu said that he would wait for Feng Zhengdao to come back from the study room, Zhou Youshao estimated the time, and took Zhirong to the gate to wait for Feng Zhengdao.

Waiting at the door, in addition to their mother and daughter, there is also Feng Zhengdao's side room, which is also Zhou Youshao's distant cousin Chao Mei, but the two are not related by blood.

Chao Mei is the concubine of the Chao family and the only daughter. Due to family changes, he was alone. Later, she was taken in by Zhou Youshao's parents, although she was the only descendant of the Chao family, but because she was a concubine, it was difficult for someone with the right family to be willing to take her as a wife, and seeing that Feng Zhengdao did not take a concubine, he simply sent Chao Mei into the gate of the Feng family.

Feng Zhengdao originally refused, as for Zhou Youshao, who was still young at the time and had two sons, she felt that this distant cousin, who was not related to her by blood, was sent by her mother's family to block her, and even lost her temper because of it.

Zhou Youshao has a very good reputation in the Feng family, and is deeply liked by his in-laws, with the acquiescence of Feng Xu and his wife, Chao Mei was carried into the Feng family as a partial room, and later under the soft and hard treatment of Zhou Youshao's mother's family, he was reluctantly promoted to the first class and entered the door as a partial room.

Chao Mei couldn't do a side room, nor could she do a side room, and in the end, it was because of the face of the Zhou family that she reluctantly made the next level of side room. She felt very wronged, but because of her helplessness and helplessness, she had a very low self-esteem in the Feng family. For several years, she felt that she couldn't hold her head up in the Feng family.

At that time, Feng Zhengdao didn't want to be jealous of the woman's family, and he was busy with official business, plus he didn't want to embarrass his wife, so he was very cold to Chao Mei for a while, and it wasn't until a few years later that he felt that Chao Mei's life experience was really pitiful, and he began to change his attitude towards her.

Although Chao Mei later added two more men to the Feng family and stabilized her position, she did not get rid of the inferiority complex that she had formed over the years. She only serves her son and husband every day, and if it is not necessary, she takes the initiative to avoid Zhou Youshao.

When Zhou Youshao saw Chao Mei waiting at the side door of the park, she didn't take the initiative to say hello because of her identity. However, Chao Mei didn't notice the arrival of Zhou Youshao and Feng Zhirong today, but she was just looking forward to it at the door. In addition, there were several attendants of the Feng family guarding the door.

Over the years, Zhou Youshao's attitude towards Chao Mei has been tepid, and the awkwardness of the year has long passed, and Feng Zhengdao is also very good to her, plus Feng Zhirong was born, and those things in the past have long since passed.

But even so, it can still be seen that the mustard between the two - or the gap can never be bridged, Feng Zhirong did not dare to speak easily on the side.

Looking at her mother and aunt standing at the side doors on both sides with such a clear line, although Feng Zhirong didn't know the past of the two women, she also guessed a rough idea, once she didn't talk and laugh with Zhou Youshao as usual, but quietly leaned on her mother's side to observe.

The three of them waited for a long time, and then they heard the sound of driving. The servants guarding the door were the first to go out, but Zhou Youshao just stood quietly and did not move, but Chao Mei kept looking outside, as if she couldn't stand.

Zhou Youshao snorted softly, and happened to be heard by Feng Zhirong, Feng Zhirong looked at her mother, and only felt that the table style of being born in a big family made her tremble secretly, and at the same time, she was glad that Zhou Youshao was conniving at herself and did not take out this posture to suppress herself.

After a while, Feng Zhengdao entered the door surrounded by servants.

"Second master."

Zhou Youshao and Chao Mei shouted at the same time, which also made Feng Zhengdao frown. At this time, Chao Mei realized that she had not yet said hello to her mother, and her heart was secretly shocked. Feng Zhirong saw that the situation was not right, and thought about breaking the siege, and also shouted: "Dad, you come back!"

Feng Zhengdao looked at Feng Zhirong, who was like a dwarf winter melon, with a smile on his face, and his originally condensed mood was slightly relaxed, and then said, "Well, I'm back."

Zhou Youshao saw that Feng Zhirong seized the opportunity first, so he also took the opportunity to say: "Second master, my father said that you will go to him with him in the future."

Feng Zhengdao nodded and said, "Is Dad in the study now?"

"Yes, after dinner, I went back to the study and waited for the second master."

Feng Zhengdao nodded, walked a few steps, and then looked back at Chao Meidao, who was worried, and said, "Is there anything else?"

Chao Mei heard that they were going to find Feng Xu, so she could only swallow the words in her stomach for the time being, and said, "The concubine has something to discuss with the second master, and it is not too late to eat when the second master is busy."

Feng Zhengdao nodded again, and walked to Feng Xu's study with Zhou Youshao. As for Feng Zhirong, who was next to Zhou Youshao, she was still young, so she naturally couldn't keep up with the pace, and when the adults didn't take care of her, she could only trot along.

The Feng family is the same as the general eunuch family. Only weddings, funerals, celebrations and other major events are opened, and the side doors are usually used for entry and exit. If you want to walk from the side door of Feng's house to Feng Xu's study, you must first pass through the door house, and then pass through the inner hall where you receive guests and everyone eats.

Feng Xu is the head of the Feng family, so he naturally lives in the main house in the inner courtyard. As for his study, it was originally in a spacious main room, but later because of the expansion of the Feng family, the space was more spacious, so the study was moved to the ear room next to the main room, and it was convenient to live and live.

Feng Zhengdao, Zhou Youshao, and Feng Zhirong came to Feng Xu's study, and Feng Zhirong said cautiously: "Dad, if you want to discuss with your grandfather, can I go first?"

Feng Zhengdao originally agreed, but when he just wanted to enter the room, he heard Feng Xu say from inside: "Zhengdao, it's okay to let the child in."