Evening.

"There's a lantern festival tonight, mother, I want to take Chaochao out to have a look." Lu Zhengyue hugged Chaochao and was having dinner in the hall.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, there are a lot of guests visiting today, and Xu's busy feet do not touch the ground.

Seeing Lu Chaochao's pitiful and embarrassed appearance, he responded with a smile.

Just let her wear more clothes and bring a few slaves.

There is no one around.

Lu Chaochao was overjoyed, and her arms were bulging, this was the snack she had smuggled in.

This New Year, Xu Shiquan didn't see it.

"Madam, Master Hou has never returned home overnight, will something happen?" Su Zhiqing dressed up extra much today, and waited for a day, and Lu Yuanze never returned home.

Xu Shi said lightly: "Men have their own careers outside, and I think there is something in the court that has stumped up. I raised you as a flat wife, so that you can take good care of Master Hou, but I can't hold him back. ”

Su Zhiqing hurriedly said, "How can it be, madam, Qingqing is just worried." ”

As he spoke, he heard a message from outside the door.

"Madam, Master Hou has returned home."

As soon as she finished speaking, Su Zhiqing lifted her skirt, stepped on the snow, and ran towards the door.

Like a smart flower butterfly.

Seeing Lu Yuanze, his figure paused slightly, and he rushed straight towards Lu Yuanze.

"Master Hou, you don't return home overnight, Qingqing is worried about you." The eyes are red, the voice is delicate, and the words are full of girl's adoration and love.

Lu Yuanze pressed his waist without a trace.

Su Zhiqing smelled the fragrance on his body, and his heart sank.

"Today, Qingqing is recorded in the family tree, and she is the woman of the Hou Ye. Clear...... How fortunate to be able to meet Hou Ye. Su Zhiqing landed on Lu Yuanze and went to Qingping Courtyard.

Lu Yuanze's legs and stomach are still trembling, and his waist is still sore, Pei Jiaojiao is really a goblin!

Immediately said: "Today's visitors to the house, let's go to see the clan elder for the time being." ”

After saying that, he fled in the wilderness.

Su Zhiqing's eyes inadvertently caught a glimpse of the red mark under his throat, and his eyes turned red with anger.

Xu Shi was a little surprised when he saw Lu Yuanze's figure.

thought that Su Zhiqing would do everything she could to keep him.

"Why does Master Hou look extremely tired, but he hasn't rested?" Xu couldn't help asking.

Lu Yuanze looked embarrassed.

He didn't expect Pei Jiaojiao to be so bold and ......

Moving.

More moving than usual for more than ten years.

The small clothes he wore were also impressive.

"I accompanied a few subordinates to discuss last night and forgot the hour. I drank a few more drinks today. Fortunately, there is a lady in the house, and Yun Niang has worked hard. ”

"Yun Niang, who can marry, Lu is fortunate for three lives." Lu Yuanze has a pair of eyes, and he looks at the dog affectionately.

Hui used to indulge in it.

Today, it's disgusting.

"Master Hou should go to see the clan elder first, the clan elder Ming'er wants to go back to Qingxi."

"Qingxi, saying that she was going to repair the ancestral hall, the old lady was quick to talk, and immediately agreed to pay for it. Hou Ye gave a piece by the way. ”

Xu Shi smiled, with a helpless expression: "The concubine thinks about it, in the end, it is to repair the Lu family's ancestral house, and Yun Niang is not good at getting the dowry." lest outsiders gossip. ”

Lu Yuanze had a good face, and when he heard the dowry, he immediately said: "How can you let Yun Niang pay the dowry." ”

He was a little irritable, Yun Niang always said in the past that hers is the Lu family, regardless of you and me.

Yun Niang even begged him to use it, and he used it with peace of mind.

But now that she said dowry, how could Lu Yuanze pull his face?

"I'll give it to the clan elder later." Lu Yuanze turned his head to look for the clan elder.

I was still a little irritable at the bottom of my heart.

The Lu family has a thin background, and they used to use Xu's dowry to raise Jinghuai and the Hou Mansion.

Now, it's stretched.

When he heard that he was going to give the clan elder three thousand taels, Lu Yuanze's face turned green: "Three thousand taels? Lu Yuanze's face turned pale.

"In previous years, your daughter-in-law gave 1,000 taels. This year, the old mansion and ancestral hall will be repaired, and three thousand taels are not high. The patriarch frowned slightly, why did Marquis Lu pick the door like this?

The old lady sighed: "Your father is also buried in Qingxi, and the ancestors are all in Qingxi." Yuanze, this money can't be saved. ”

"Let your daughter-in-law take the dowry." The old lady is still counting on, as she once did, to pay Xu's dowry.

Lu Yuanze pulled his shirt irritably: "Use your daughter-in-law's dowry to repair the ancestral hall, what is this called?!" ”

In the past, it was the Xu family who paid the money to coax the clan elders to return to Qingxi happily, and he never felt anything.

But he was a little bored with his own money.

He only earns a few hundred taels a year.

All the industries of the Hou Mansion are taken care of by the Xu family, but they definitely can't support the Hou Mansion of Nuoda. Most of them are made by her dowry shop.

"Patriarch, why does it cost a thousand taels a year for genealogy?"

"In the past eighteen years, not a single person has been hit." Lu Yuanze frowned.

The patriarch lifted his eyelids: "Didn't you say 1,000 taels a year back then?" ”

Lu Yuanze's heart choked.

When the Xu family just entered the door, the clan elders came to fight the autumn wind, and the Xu family paid for it, and he deliberately said that it was high!

"Okay, okay, I'll send the money tomorrow." Lu Yuanze waved his hand.

Several clan elders were so angry that their faces were red, and when they came back, the Xu clan was not respectful to them.

When you go, you have to wrap a big red envelope.

immediately said: "It's not as good as your daughter-in-law who can be a person." ”

If it weren't for the first day of the Lunar New Year, Lu Yuanze would only hate to drive them out.

When the clan elder left, Lu Yuanze's face collapsed.

"What are you doing with such a big reaction? Anyway, Xu was convinced by you, and you coaxed him to take out the money. The old lady looked pale and didn't care.

Since the Xu family married into the door, the food and clothing of the Hou Mansion has been raised by several grades.

The Lu family has no background, and before the Xu family married into the door, the Lu family was searched for the buckles.

"By the way, when will Jing Huai go home?"

"I really feel sorry for my eldest grandson."

"Sanyuan and the first are going to be out of my Hou Mansion, but I can't let him be left behind."

When the old lady saw him, she couldn't help but ask.

Lu Yuanze was irritable: "Mother, I have a plan." ”

"By the way, your sister hasn't returned to her parents' house today, why don't you go over and see what's going on?" The old lady looked forward to it for a day, but she never saw Lu Wanyi return to her parents' house.

"Mother, you are too arrogant to be raised by you at night, don't get used to her." Lu Yuanze waved his hand and walked out of the door directly.

The old lady sighed angrily.

Until it was dark, the Lu family set up a New Year's dinner.

The Gu family's carriage just appeared.

Lu Wanyi has been married for half a year, and the whole person has lost a lot of weight.

Standing beside him was Gu Ling, Gu Ling's face was gentle, and her eyes fell on Lu Wanyi, who shivered fiercely.

The two entered the gate of the Hou Mansion hand in hand.

Lu Wanyi shrank her head and stepped forward to kowtow to the old lady to greet the New Year.

Lu Wanyi knelt down.

Suddenly, tears burst out of his eyes.

"Mother! Mother, please save me, please save me! She knelt down and pulled the old lady's trouser leg, her voice trembling and desperate.

Gu Ling's face sank suddenly.

Inside, the atmosphere was a little cold.