At night, Qingshui Lane, Songjiang Fucheng, Han Mansion.

Zhu Men sounded softly, and Zheng Haizhu calmly returned to Han Ximeng's courtyard.

Han Ximeng, who was arranging the embroidery threads in the hall, immediately beckoned her mother-in-law to bring Zheng Haizhu a bowl of mung bean and lotus seed soup, and asked with concern: "Second uncle and second aunt, I didn't punish you much, did you?" ”

Zheng Haizhu sat down on the wooden stool that belonged to her at the bottom of the round table, and said, "Don't worry, it's okay." The second grandmother opened her mouth first and reprimanded me. Then the second master said that when he and the second master of the Dong family, Huang Daguanren and Gu Young Master accompanied General Ma to have a banquet at Wenzhe Academy in the evening, General Ma and Huang Daguan praised the two of us for not being like weak women, and General Ma also said that his life was saved by me with porcelain thunder......"

When Han Ximeng heard this, he interrupted Zheng Haizhu with a smile: "Let me guess, the second uncle's next sentence, is it true, Azhu also counts as giving us a lot of face in the Han Mansion, and the great merit is worth the small one?" ”

Zheng Haizhu nodded: "That's what the second master said, and then the second grandmother hurriedly picked up and said, the national law reward is the national law reward, and the family rules can't be regarded as child's play, let Lao Peng inform the account office and deduct my salary for three months." ”

Han Ximeng pursed his lips and said dissatisfiedly: "That's still a punishment." ”

Zheng Haizhu hurriedly explained her: "Miss, the second grandmother is in charge of the back house, of course it should be handled like this." After all, I secretly accompanied you with Shoukuan, if this matter is settled, what will the other people in the house think? ”

Han Ximeng let out a "oh", pushed the soft cake and mung bean soup brought by her mother-in-law in front of Zheng Haizhu, and muttered: "That's the same, the second aunt is the housewife, and she has always treated me like her own daughter, if you don't make a show this time, you will be punished, the third aunt and Aunt Lu will mumble." Alas, if mothers-in-law and mothers are too idle, it is trouble. ”

Zheng Haizhu said in his heart, isn't this the situation that was commonplace in deep house compounds before small families in civil society became the mainstream?

When she went north to look for Hanfu, she had already done a good job of psychological construction, and she might have to face her most annoying house fight plot.

However, it is fair to say that the Han family, who is in the circle of the gentry of Songjiang Mansion, has a much simpler relationship with the house than other big families.

This branch of the Han family, to Han Ximeng's father's generation, is three brothers.

The Dafang couple died early, leaving only one daughter, Han Ximeng.

Han Zhongwen, the second room, was admitted to the Juren at a very young age, but he didn't think that he would fail to enter the Shishi twice later.

Because it coincided with the growing popularity of Jiangnan scribes doing business, Han Zhongwen had no intention of pursuing a career, but married the daughter of the Qian family in Jiading County, and used the assets and connections accumulated by the Han family's ancestors, combined with the cotton planting and textile skills of the Qian family, and started a cotton cloth business. Qian's mother's family is a well-known landowner, but unfortunately she did not have children after she got married, so Han Zhongwen accepted the daughter of a talented woman in the city, Lu, as a concubine, and gave birth to a son, Han Xisheng, who is twelve years old this year.

Han Zhongyu, the third room, married his wife Yang, and had a daughter, Han Xiying, who just died this year. The third brother, Han Zhongyu, also passed the examination, and the second brother Han Zhongwen thought about running his own business and accumulating family wealth, so that his younger brother could continue to take the road of winning the imperial examination. Who knew that a few years ago, Han Zhongyu befriended a foreign missionary who came to Songjiang and insisted on following that person to Yingtianfu to preach. Han Zhongwen's persuasion was fruitless, and he had to face his brother and daughter-in-law Yang who came to cry and cry, so angry that he couldn't eat for a few days, and there was nothing he could do after all, so he could only stand up by Han Zhongyu, who was like a monk and a monk, went out to wander and disappeared.

Between Han Ximeng and his younger siblings, the relationship looks very harmonious, and his younger sister Han Xiying especially likes to follow her sister to ponder embroidery.

But the two adult daughters in the family, although they do not make waves, they are not always quiet.

The second aunt Lu Shi, when she first entered the door, was gentle and obedient, and after giving birth to her son, she positioned herself as a great hero of the Han family, and gradually loved to put on the shelf of half a hostess in the house.

Sanfang Yang's was originally the daughter of a Hui merchant, and her uncle got acquainted with Han Zhongwen because of business, so he married her to Han Zhongyu. When the two got married, they bumped and often had quarrels. Han Zhongyu became a "foreign monk" in the mouth of his neighbors, and after leaving home to preach, Yang became more resentful of women, and he spoke to his sister-in-law Qian with a gun and a stick. If it weren't for the fact that her daughter Han Xiying was well-behaved and coaxed at a young age, and was good at reconciling the contradictions between her second aunt and her mother-in-law, Qian's scalp would be numb when she saw this concubine.

After Zheng Haizhu was left in the Han Mansion by Han Ximeng by virtue of her knowledge of dyeing and velvet skills, she soon saw that the second room Qian Grandma, this family, was not so easy.

At this moment, Han Ximeng looked at Zheng Haizhu and said sincerely: "Ah Zhu, what I like about you is that you don't like to fan the flames, and you won't just follow my words, but often take me to look deeper, which is really good for me." ”

Zheng Haizhu swallowed a mouthful of lotus seed soup and said with a smile: "If it is good to you, how dare I compare with the son of the Gu family." Today, after the villain surnamed Weng made a big fuss, the son of the Gu family insisted on driving you and me back to Hanfu in person, and he had to stop halfway to accompany you to buy in a few lively clothes and hats and fat powder shops, hoping that the whole city would see his appearance of spoiling you, that is the real way to protect you. ”

Han Ximeng's face instantly showed sweetness, and he also grabbed a piece of snow-white soft cake, and said while eating: "Well, we have just made a marriage contract, and we are not husband and wife who have already visited the church. I secretly liked him when I was a child, and today I am even more relieved, he will not want me because I have been taken captive by bandits. ”

"Hey, how could Gu Gongzi not want you, didn't you see the look in his eyes when he helped you out of the car, I was thinking, I shouldn't have been in the car at that time, I should have been under the car."

"Azhu!" Han Ximeng sneered at her, and saw her mother-in-law and maid leave the hall and go to the room to light incense and make the bed, so she also put on a humorous tone and said to Zheng Haizhu, "I'm just in the same car with Gu Gongzi, but you are on the same horse as that Lord Jinyiwei." Ah Zhu, I think, General Ma, the look in your eyes is not quite right. ”

This time, Zheng Haizhu did not speak immediately.

Her soul is older than the shell borrowed in this life, how can she not feel that Ma Xianglin is indeed a little more than a Xuanhe military general to an ordinary folk girl. Today, he looked at himself several times, and his eyes were more concerned than reassuring, and more praise than kindness.

But perhaps, this Qin Liangyu's son is just mellow in nature and upright, so he insists on protecting the safety of his life-saving benefactor who stumbled into it by mistake, which can be regarded as returning the favor in place, rather than having any follow-up expectations for the fate of the Pingshui meeting.

If I remember correctly, Ma Xianglin in history, a famous general known as "Zhao Zilong of the Sichuan Army", married the daughter of a high-grade civil official, and had a very close relationship with Mrs. Ma.

Since Ma Xianglin already has a very good life script, and his current main plan is how to start a business in Jiangnan in the Ming Dynasty, why bother to go to a nymphomaniac Zhao Zilong in the Ming Dynasty with a sudden style of painting?