On the twenty-fifth day of the first month, the sky is bright, the warm sun in the winter makes people's hearts warm, the light snow that fell all over the ground yesterday began to melt, Hangzhou is full of flowing water, the snow on the eaves turns into water, reflecting the bright sunshine, jingling bells and dripping.

Tao Yao got up very early, put on the new clothes that her mother had specially prepared for her at home, and wore a carved silk mud gold and silver Ruyi cloud pattern satin dress, with a pleated skirt of scattered flowers, water mist and green grass, and a cloak of eight groups of happy encounters with thick brocade and silver rat skin. The head is simply combed with a fallen bun, and a cloud and phoenix ruyi pattern is swayed obliquely, decorated with a little purple jade, and the tassel is sprinkled on the green silk, fresh and graceful, elegant and dusty.

The little girl had already prepared a small gift to send to the Chu family, after all, it was the first time to come back to visit, and it was always bad to be empty-handed, this thing was prepared by Tao Yao's mother when she was at home.

The little maid of Taoyao's family drove the carriage to Chen's house early in the morning to pick up the Shao family, and the two of them went to the Chu house in Ping'an Lane together.

Shaw Brothers smiled all over his face, praised Tao Yao's beautiful clothes and exquisite makeup, and comforted her not to be nervous, just follow her for a while.

Tao Yao just wanted to turn the conversation away, asked how Taoyu was doing, and said that she would go back from the Chu family in a while to visit Taoyu.

Shaw only said that everything is fine, and the delivery period is probably just a few days away.

The two of them were talking, but in two quarters of an hour, they had already arrived at Ping'an Lane.

The sun outside was just right, and the little maid of the Tao family got out of the carriage according to the instructions of the Shaw family, and passed the word to the little maids at the door of the Chu family that it was the matchmaker Shaw who led the young lady of the Tao family to visit the old lady of the Chu family.

When the two little maids who were originally leaning against the door and talking with their hands copied heard this, one of them said, "First of all, please go and sit upside down to rest, and we will go in and pass the word." ”

Saying that, the two little guys lowered the threshold and let the carriage in, one went in to pass the ceremony, and the other led Tao Yao and Shao Shi, who got off the carriage, into the upside-down room.

Shao Shi wrinkled his brows and pulled Tao Yao: "What kind of rule is this?" You are a young lady, how can you get off the bus in the outer courtyard and let you sit in the reverse seat? I'll go down and see, you wait in the carriage, and then get off when you get to the Hanging Flower Gate. ”

Tao Yao looked at the Shaw Brothers who were so exquisite, but she couldn't help but be comforted: "It's okay, you see that this inverted seat is only two feet away from the weeping flower gate, they must feel that the weather is too cold, there is a warm stove in the inverted seat, there is hot tea, we can also warm up when we go in, I'm afraid that I will freeze in the carriage." ”

Shaw said toughly: "That's not good, that upside down seat is where the little mother-in-law and mother stay, you are a young lady, you can't do anything, this is the rule!" When your father was leaving, he said again and again, it doesn't matter if the family affair is successful or not, just let me protect you well, and I can't let you be wronged. ”

Tao Yao saw that she insisted on doing so, but she had nothing to say. I just think it's a bit of a fuss, Taoyao has been in Hangzhou for so many years, looking at the rules of the north and the south, the rules are originally different, especially their Taoyuan County, because it is adjacent to Qufu County, it is also the hometown of Confucius and Mencius, and the rules are naturally bigger than the other places.

Tao Yao waited in the carriage for a short time, only to hear a sound of footsteps outside, as if someone was coming.

"Is it Miss Peach?" The man from outside asked the carriage.

Shaw opened the curtain and got out of the carriage, but held down Tao Yao and asked her to wait in the carriage.

Shaw got out of the carriage and saw an aunt who came to the blue cloth robe, covered with a cotton coat of purple rat skin, not like the master of the family, but the dress of a housekeeper, but just look at the dress of this little housekeeper, and also know the wealth of the Chu house.

The housekeeper saluted the Shao family slightly and said, "I am the steward of the Chu family, and my surname is Bai." ”

Shaw also bowed slightly, and said, "It's good to be in charge, last time, the old lady called me over to ask Miss Tao, and asked me to bring Miss Tao to sit when I was free." Now it's still in the New Year, even if it's the New Year's Day, and the day is good, so I will lead the young lady to visit the old lady. ”

The housekeeper looked at Shaw Brothers for a while, but said: "This is not a coincidence, it has been cold these days, the old lady has a cold and is sick, and the doctor said that she can't see guests." ”

Shaw didn't like the housekeeper's arrogant eyes, but after listening to the words in his mouth, he couldn't help but sigh: "The old lady is sick? Hey, why are you sick after the New Year? What about the wife? It's the same when we go and say hello to my wife. ”

Tao Yao dressed up, he can't run for nothing today.

The housekeeper was embarrassed: "So it's unfortunate that you came, a few days ago, there were some things in the cloth shop in Panyu that had to be taken care of by the master himself." No, the lord took his wife to Panyu a few days ago. ”

"Huh?" Shaw was surprised, and then asked, "When will you be back?" ”

The housekeeper said, "Where can we know this, we can't come back until it's over." ”

Shaw looked at the housekeeper's appearance of not caring about himself, and was unhappy in his heart, this daughter's family went back to the door to see each other and ate the closed door, how humiliating is this?

Shaw wanted to fight for it again, and said kindly: "Steward Bai, you see that our girl has come all the way from Shandong, let us go and see the old lady, she is sick, we can just visit, we won't bother too much." ”

The white housekeeper looked at this nonsense mother-in-law, but wrinkled his brows and said, "Mrs. Shao, I said, our old lady is sick and doesn't see guests." ”

Shaw Brothers listened to the disrespectful title of the white butler, and his brows were also twisted: "Our young lady has arrived, have you gone to pay back to your old lady?" Is this what you old ladies mean or do you mean? If the old lady doesn't see us, then we'll go! You are a housekeeper and have you asked your master? ”

Butler Bai listened to Shaw's unkind words, and his anger rose: "The old lady is sick and has already ordered not to see the guests, where are you guests?" It's just a poor sour woman from the countryside, and the last time the old lady saw you, she already gave you face! I didn't invite you today, so I came uninvited, licked my face and sent it inside, I was blocked back, I didn't leave quickly, and I still had the face to make trouble here! ”

When Mrs. Shao heard this, she was angry and couldn't help but say: "You are just a slave in someone's family, my son-in-law is a talent, and even your young master is just a student in my son-in-law's library, and your old lady will give me three points of face!" What are you? Yell at the old lady here! ”

There is a lot of trouble here, the sound of horses' hooves is clicking, deep in the alley, a young man on horseback walked in the corner door of the front yard, he was dressed in a moon-white robe, the collar and cuffs were inlaid with silver silk edge cloud pattern piping, the waist was tied with a cyan auspicious cloud wide-edged brocade belt, hanging white jade exquisite waist, black hair tied up and wearing a small silver crown with jade inlay, the white jade crystal on the silver crown set off his youthful heroism.