On the first day of the first month of April, the morning wind and dew, the willow garden flowers, and the morning sun are shrouded by a layer of colorful halo.

The servants of the Xie family cleaned the courtyard early, methodically wiped the tables and chairs in the flower hall, and lively maids jumped up and down to bring fresh flowers, and inserted plum bottles in the corners one by one.

Before the end of the day, the clansmen of the side branches came to the main house one after another, and Qi Qihou was outside the ancestral hall.

Straightening out a concubine, or helping him to the position of the clan wife, some elders in the clan are not very satisfied, and they have a lot of arguments in private, but the most outstanding of the Xie family's generation is Xie Hui, and the clan relies on its strength, but they don't dare to put their beaks.

In order not to make Aunt Lu suspicious, Xie Yunchu also wanted to stare at Aunt Lu and accompany her to dress up.

Aunt Lu didn't dare to ask Xie Yunchu to work, so she called her personal grandmother to serve.

Xie Yunchu sat on the side of the Luohan bed and talked to her, although Aunt Lu was a little older, she was well maintained, she was originally a fine skin and tender meat, and then smeared with a layer of fat powder, which made her more and more young and beautiful.

Aunt Lu looked at herself in the mirror, remembering that after years of planning, she finally saw the light of day, and her eyebrows were faintly throbbing.

Xie Yunchu casually sat aside drinking tea, met the eyes of the Lu family in the mirror, and said with a smile,

"You've been serving your father for nearly twenty years, and today is the honor you deserve."

When it comes to Aunt Lu's heart, Xie Yunchu thinks about her everywhere, Aunt Lu is almost defenseless against her, thinking that from today onwards she will be Xie Yunchu's stepmother, while moving a little bit of sincerity, she also wants to show some skills,

"Chu'er, you don't know, Xiu'er is not by my side, I am closer to you in my heart, I heard your father say that my uncle will be sent to Jiangnan in March, I will be anxious for you, my uncle is naturally an excellent one, but a man is a man after all, once he goes to a place that he can't see, he can do anything."

When Xie Yunchu heard this, he raised his eyes and looked at her while holding the tea cup, thinking that Aunt Lu was not the one she met when her father traveled through the mountains and rivers, she had become the wife of the country's priest and wine from a merchant girl who had nothing to rely on, and the wife of countless scholars in the world must have been very proud.

Aunt Lu was really relieved, turned to Xie Yunchu and continued, "You still have to give birth to a son as soon as possible, it's good that you can give birth yourself, but if you can't, you will raise the maid under your knees, and you will rest easy." ”

Worried that Xie Yunchu was displeased, Aunt Lu smiled bitterly, "I also broke the wound and wiped the salt, and I was sincere, if I didn't treat you as my own daughter, I would never dare to say such things to make you disgusted, in the past three months, you can serve yourself, it's really not possible, arrange people around you to serve, by the way, the four maids around you can have suitable ones, if not, pick two people from the house." ”

The maids and stewards of the Xie family are almost all Aunt Lu's people.

Xie Yunchu narrowed his eyes slightly.

Aunt Lu also said these words in her previous life, so Aunt Lu wanted to intervene in her side from beginning to end, but she hated that she couldn't see through it at that time.

Xie Yunchu tightened a little in an instant, his fingers bent slightly, and said solemnly, "Your words, I will weigh them well." ”

Aunt Lu smiled and continued to make up.

After a while, the servant woman came to report, saying that the auspicious time had arrived, and the lord invited Aunt Lu and Xie Yunchu to go to the ancestral hall.

With a different identity, Aunt Lu also put away her cautious look when she walked, and became gentle and elegant.

Xie Yunchu was beside her, glancing at the corners of her lips that were slightly raised.

Unfortunately, she soon stopped laughing.

First, a grand sacrificial ceremony was held, and then Xie Hui took the genealogy and prepared to fill in the name of the Lu family in public.

The sun's halo deepened, the thin dark clouds covered without a trace, and the sky outside the door gradually dimmed.

A gust of wind and sand rolled up, blowing the genealogy that had just been rolled out, and forced Xie Hui, who was about to pick up the pen, to retreat, he straightened up and rubbed his eyes.

Everyone's eyes were on Xie Hui's pen,

The look is different.

The second aunt Li's eyes flashed with disdain, and some clan elders also showed displeasure or even regret, they didn't dislike Aunt Lu, but the clan woman in their minds should be the daughter of a famous family, knowledgeable and reasonable, not a concubine.

Only the old lady and Xie Yunchu looked as usual.

At this moment, a family suddenly ran from outside, sweating profusely and kneeling at the door.

"Master, no, there's a fire in the southwest corner of Furong Garden."

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar in the solemn ancestral hall.

Aunt Lu almost couldn't stand, and she had an ominous premonition in her heart.

A respected clan elder quickly stepped out more and more, his face was pale, "Zhaolin, the southwest corner of the main earth mother, the fire in Furong Garden, it means that the earth mother is unkind, today must not continue, another day, another day." ”

It is said that no matter how clever Aunt Lu's mind is and how virtuous her reputation is, she still can't get on the stage in front of those old pedants who stick to the rules.

One after another, some clan elders said that they would choose a day and then go on the score.

Xie Hui's face was not very good, he looked at Aunt Lu with tears rippling, remembering her years of hard work and resentment, he was very ashamed in his heart, and gritted his teeth, "Even if it is another day, I have made up my mind to correct the Lu family, and this intention cannot be changed." ”

People are particular about some taboos, and today's yard fire is a bad omen.

"From today on, the Lu family is my Xie Hui's wife, and as for the genealogy, I will choose an auspicious day to add it."

Xie Hui said nothing, and everyone couldn't change it, but the dissatisfaction became more and more deep.

The Xie family withdrew from the ancestral hall one after another, and Aunt Lu was the last to step out of the threshold, and the sun splashed down through the clouds, stabbing her eyes.

What kind of earth mother is unkind, there must be someone who can't see her scenery and secretly calculates her.

If she couldn't make a plan, she was afraid that there would be a trick, and Aunt Lu suddenly panicked.

At Xie Hui's insistence, the family banquet continued.

Because of the matter in her heart, Aunt Lu begged Xie Yunchu to feast for her, and hurried back to the courtyard by herself, and as soon as she entered the door, she grabbed her henchman, and the hideousness on her face couldn't be suppressed, "Go, go and check on me quickly, I want to see who makes me feel bad." ”

Mama was frightened by her terrifying appearance, made up her mind, and immediately went to find her henchmen in the outer courtyard.

Aunt Lu crouched in front of the dresser, looked at herself in the bronze mirror, took a few deep breaths and barely calmed down.

She called the maid to re-dress her, and hurried back to the flower hall, thinking about suspicious people on the one hand, and absent-mindedly entertaining guests on the other.

Li Shi did not show up under the pretext of illness, and the rest of the people gathered in the flower hall to barely laugh.

After a while, Xie Hui also arrived, and the family banquet began.

Halfway through the banquet, Aunt Lu's confidant whispered a few words in her ear, Aunt Lu's face was ever-changing, extremely ugly, and after thinking about it again, she found an excuse for Xie Hui to leave the table.

Leaving the flower hall, Aunt Lu was not as calm as before, and asked in a low voice, "What is he here for?" Can you find out who is making trouble? ”

Mama followed her side and smiled bitterly, "The slave doesn't know, I only received a message from him that I have something important to see you." ”

Aunt Lu didn't say much, her heart was pounding, and the lotus steps were getting faster and faster, the master and servant chose a secluded path and quietly came to the back cover room, and saw a tall man dressed as a bookkeeper standing by the well, and when she saw Aunt Lu, the person immediately showed a look of pain, "Zhen Niang, is our business discovered, you come with me!" ”

As soon as Aunt Lu heard this, she felt that something was wrong, and at this time, there was a buzzing noise outside the courtyard.

Worst! fell for the tricks of others.

When Aunt Lu reacted, the second wife Li Shi poured in with a crowd, and Aunt Lu's heart suddenly cooled when she looked at Li Shi's cold gaze.

The rest is a logical one.

At noon, the sky was thundering, and the sun was completely covered by dark clouds, Xie Yunchu looked at the empty flower hall, drank tea silently, and listened to Xia An on his side and her description.

"The master didn't see it, the always gentle and demure Aunt Lu was like a tigress, punching and kicking the man, yo, if you didn't see it with your own eyes, how would you know that she hid her cousin in our Xie family to do the accounting room, hey, the old man's face is angry...."

It turned out that Aunt Lu had a childhood sweetheart since she was a child, secretly communicating with her heart, and then met Xie Hui by chance, and was impressed by his demeanor, so she had the idea of climbing high branches, and after Xie Hui entered Beijing, the cousin also followed, Aunt Lu was angry at first, and then became wise in a hurry, and used means to appease her cousin, and by the way, she brought people into the Xie family to do the accounting room, as a secret aid, so Aunt Lu was very prosperous in the Xie family.

In his previous life, he had no intention of learning about it before he died, and in this life, he took advantage of this layout, and when he returned home in the past few days, he found out how to contact the two, first set a fire to prevent Aunt Lu from going to the family tree, and then released false news from the two compartments, hooking the two to meet, thus revealing this secret.

Aunt Lu's reputation is completely ruined, and Xie Yunxiu will also be rejected by the family.

Aunt Lu was locked up, and the cousin was also taken down for interrogation, and the steward's torture forced the cousin to spit out a lot of truth, and even the matter of deducting Xie Yunchu's dowry and secretly buying a shop for his daughter was also confessed.

But Xie Yunchu underestimated his father Xie Hui's feelings for Aunt Lu.

Xie Hui was sick.

Xie Yunchu personally served the decoction on the hospital bed, and looked at his tall, thin and clear father who was so sick that he couldn't breathe, and sighed in his heart,

Xie Hui was a book-lover when he was young, brilliant in writing, exploring flowers in high school, all the way to the country to supervise the sacrificial wine, peach and plum all over the world, in this life, he regarded reputation as more important than life, and suddenly stumbled in front of the horse, and his heart was sad and self-evident.

Xie Yunchu enlightened him, "She has a human face and a beast's heart, and she has deceived her father for so many years, why do you want to hurt your body for her?" ”

Xie Hui's lips trembled for a long time, he had a failed marriage, he was very worried about marrying a wife, it took so many years to correct the Lu family, but he didn't expect to be kept in the dark and be a fool, he sighed, didn't explain anything to his eldest daughter, and commanded directly,

"Chu'er, send people to the homes of the in-laws to make amends, saying that the birthday banquet was canceled."

This was something Xie Yunchu didn't expect, she paused in her hand, and she could only do it.

Although Aunt Lu was locked up, there was a mess at home, and Xie Yun couldn't go back for a while, so he told Xia An to go back to Wang's house.

The ugliness of the family should not be publicized, and the Xie family claimed that the old illness of Xie Sai wine had recurred, and the birthday banquet was canceled, after all, it was not a whole life, and everyone did not take it to heart. The second wife, Jiang Shi, who was originally planning to celebrate her birthday, heard this, and her face immediately relaxed.

"That's the case, hurry up and let your master come back, I have a backache these days, I don't know what method she got to apply medicine to me in the past, I can get better, sooner rather than later, you tell her now, come back overnight."

Cheyenne was wearing a light green bijia, standing respectfully in front of Jiang like Duo Bihe, and replied crisply,

"The second grandmother asked the slave to confess to his wife, the old man at home is sick, and he really can't get out, and the wife has always been kind and asks for a few more days of accommodation, so I can wait for the old man to come back after his birthday."

Jiang Shi was so angry that he threw the teacup over, "Don't come back if you have the ability." ”

Xia An went back and told Xie Yunchu Jiang's words as they were, and the little girl cried angrily.

Xie Yunchu's expression was indifferent, "Cheng, then I won't go back." "The Xie family has no backbone, and with Jiang's words, she is not afraid of no reason.

Jiang thought that if she bluffed Xie Yunchu a few words, Xie Yunchu would be so frightened that she would come back overnight to serve her, but unfortunately she waited for her eyelids to fight and saw no trace of Xie Yunchu.

Jiang was completely furious at this time.

"I kind of understood, she first excused herself from being in bad health, and then pretended that her mother's family had something, and she clearly deliberately didn't want to serve me, didn't she just say a few heavy words that day, bluffing her to take a concubine for Brother Huai'er, and she held a grudge. I have the ability to give birth to a son by myself, and I don't have to worry about it in vain. ”

When the second master came back, Jiang threw himself into her husband's arms, crying and pouring bitter water for him.

"This daughter-in-law is riding on my head, you have to call the shots for me."

The second master understood what was going on, and he knew that his wife had always made fun of Qiao, so he put his arm around her and persuaded, "Xie Saijiu is the most face-saving thing, it is not important, and the birthday banquet will not be canceled, so you can wait for a few more days, and when she returns home, I will order her to come to you to serve." ”

Speaking of which, the second master has also been greedy for the crystal made by Xie Yunchu for a long time.

After her husband's words, Jiang Shifang stopped crying, don't look at her age as a grandmother, she was born with a beautiful appearance and a pretentious temperament, and from time to time she was coquettish in front of her husband, and the second master was pinched to death by her.

At the end of the next day, news came from the upper court, saying that Grandpa Guo had returned.

The Jiang couple was taken aback,

"On weekdays, there is always news delivered first, so that everyone can prepare in advance, why did it come back so suddenly today."

The second old man Wang Shou is cowardly, and the Jiang family is not stable, and the couple have been trained by the grandfather of the country, so when they heard this "bad news", they suddenly became like frosted eggplants.

Speaking of the Guogong Mansion, there are four rooms in total.

Each house is leafy, and the ground is narrow and densely populated.

Later, the first queen, that is, the mother of the eldest princess, thought of a way to simply merge the princess's mansion next door with the Guogong Mansion, and the two mansions were one, and Fang Qiqi lived in four rooms.

No one else has an opinion on this move, but the second room is not happy.

In this way, is this a princess's mansion or a princess's mansion?

Except for the second room here, the others are the heirs of the eldest princess, and the big room knows that he will not fight with the two younger brothers, but the second room is the eldest son of the grandfather of the country, and he should inherit the main house.

Every time the second old man Wang Shou came to the main courtyard, his heart was not very happy.

Because of the eldest princess's transcendent status, the main courtyard where she lived with her grandfather was given the name Qinghui Palace.

In the afternoon, the birds chirped, the sun was blazing, and there were people standing in a courtyard outside the Qinghui Palace, and the people from all rooms came, waiting to say hello to the grandfather.

In a moment, the door of the hall creaked open by the subordinates, and a person sat in the magnificent hall.

Grandpa Guo is sixty years old, with a wide forehead and a broad face, a solemn expression, wearing a half-new indigo cardigan, without a smile, and is not angry and self-assured, although it is the age of the sixtieth year, his figure is still tall, he sits on the top with his hands on his knees, and the children and grandchildren dare not come out.

Next, each room was passed in one after another for questioning.

Changfang and Grandpa Guo have no blood relationship, and Grandpa Guo symbolized a few words and released it.

It's the turn of the second room.

Wang Shuhuai is still in the official office area, Xie Yunchu is not there, there is no eldest son to support the façade, Wang Shou timidly led his wife and others into the threshold.

Except for Wang Shuhuai and his wife, the others in the second room saw Grandpa Guo like a mouse seeing a cat.

Grandpa Guo glanced at it, and saw that the eldest son couldn't keep up his spirits in the room, and his face collapsed instantly.

"What's going on? Don't you feel happy to see the old man like this? ”

"Father, my son misses you and can't see you, and he feels uncomfortable." The second old man choked and knelt down first, and the others fell to the ground silently.

Every time the second master says such a thing, the grandfather of the country will definitely be angry.

The son was wronged, and Lao Tzu was not uncounted.

Grandpa Guo really didn't scold him again,

"Get up."

If I don't see Wang Shuhuai, Grandpa Guo is not surprised, Shuhuai has a quiet temperament, and when he is in high spirits, he should be busy in the official office area.

Yun Chu, where is the girl?

Why did Grandpa Guo suddenly leave the palace, for his own reason, he didn't see Xie Yunchu, and his face was even more ugly than Fang Cai.

"Where is Brother Huai's daughter-in-law?"

Jiang Shi glanced at his father-in-law boldly when he heard the voice, and saw that his face was as heavy as water, and he was obviously angry, thinking that he was angry with Xie Yunchu,

"Back to my father's words, Brother Huai's daughter-in-law has been temperamental recently, and she stopped coming to the room to serve her in-laws under the pretext of illness half a month ago..."

When the second master heard this, he suddenly felt bad, and gently pulled his wife's sleeve to tell her to stop.

His father is the least likely for the family to attack each other, expose each other's strengths and weaknesses, and other people's daughters-in-law have to cover up when they make mistakes, Jiang's doing this will only dislike his father.

Jiang couldn't control it, and finally caught Xie Yunchu's mistake, and complained angrily, "That Xie family went to Xie's house for a few days under the guise of congratulating his father on his birthday, and he threw it to the third daughter-in-law, the child didn't care at all, and the daughter-in-law sent someone to pick her up, but she still refused, it was simply lawless." ”

As soon as her voice fell, the room was silent.

Dou Keling and Xu Shiwei were somewhat gloating.

Grandpa Guo squinted his eyes and looked at Jiang quietly, Xie Yunchu has been married for a year and a half, how she behaves, Grandpa Guo's door is clear.

Although the old man is not often at home, it does not mean that he is deaf in both ears, he first waved his hand and motioned for the others in the second room to go out, leaving only the second old man and his wife, and then invited the young man in Tsing Yi at the door to ask about Xie Yunchu's recent situation.

The little guy told Xie Yunchu about his illness and asking for a doctor, and going back to Xie's house to manage the birthday banquet, and finally even Jiang sent someone to scold Xie Yunchu and told her not to come back, Jiang was frightened, and then he knew that this father-in-law was very methodical, and quickly shut up.

Grandpa Guo looked at his eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law in disappointment, "Although I am old, my eyes are not blind, she is the eldest daughter-in-law of the Guogong Mansion, the daughter-in-law of your son, not your slave, you asked her to serve you before and after the saddle, why don't you serve your in-laws?" As an elder, you kept telling her not to come back, where did you let her face go? ”

He had something important to find Xie Yunchu, and he couldn't delay.

"I order you to go to Xie's house immediately and personally pick up the people back!"