Cui Gege was made a concubine since he gave birth to a little brother, but the girl in the courtyard did not change her name, and still called her Gege. She breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, but she didn't have a place to vent. Wang Gege's yard was opposite her, and Hongchun went there almost every day, even on the day she gave birth, Hongchun stayed in Wang Gege's house. The Fujin Guerjia clan is not jealous at all, and treats Wang Gege consistently and never deliberately makes things difficult. When she was pregnant, Cui Gege often looked at Wang's yard and secretly competed, hoping that she could give birth to the eldest son of the house and trample the Wang family under her feet in the future. Unexpectedly, after the child was born, except for the emperor's will to promote himself to the blessing of Jin, the rest of the food and clothing have not changed at all.

And Hongchun treats himself, except for the first two days after giving birth, he is quite concerned, and then he is back as usual, distant and cold.

She can bear all this, but what she can't bear is that her mother-in-law actually took the child away. At first, I didn't think that the child was the eldest grandson of Baylor Mansion, and it was naturally not bad to be able to raise it in Baylor Mansion. But after a long time, she felt the pain of bone-eating thoughts. Several times she wanted to go to her mother-in-law's place to bring the child back, but when she walked to the door, she always hesitated.

Even if you bring it back, what can you do? She is not favored herself, does she still want to involve the child?

The sky was getting dark, and the courtyard of the Wang family opposite was brightly lit, and the minions knew that the master would go to the courtyard of the Wang family first after returning to his house, so he deliberately lit the palace lights along the way very brightly. The big kitchen was late, and a food box was sent to the small kitchen in Wang's yard, talking and footsteps were noisy, and they passed in front of Cui's door, and Wang stood under the stairs and watched, extremely proud.

The girl turned on the light and said softly to Cui Shi: "Gege, you have sewn shoes and socks for a day today, rest, your eyes are tired." Cui leaned over to the side of the oil lamp, compared the longitude and latitude in the bright light, and said, "Seeing that it is about to enter autumn, I have to make a few more pieces for the little brother." The girl smiled lightly and said, "Little Brother is the eldest son and grandson of Baylor Mansion, and there will be embroidery girls who will make clothes for him, so he is not worried." Speaking of "eldest son and eldest grandson", Cui's eyes flashed with a touch of joy, and he stopped his movements and said: "That's what I said, but I always want to make two more for him." After a pause, his expression slowly lowered and said, "I don't know how he is doing in Baylor Mansion or if he is eating well." The girl knew that she missed her son, so she was relieved: "Gege rest assured, little brother has a large group of grandmothers from the Zizong Mansion waiting for him, so he is naturally very good." Cui Shi snorted, looked at the palace lamp, and was silent for a while.

After a while, the noise outside became louder and louder, and Cui Shi got up and asked, "Look what's wrong?" ”

The girl agreed, and went out, but she didn't have to turn back to the house in an instant, and said with a smile: "It's the master who is back, I came back earlier than before, Wang Gege is not ready yet, and the people below are frizzy and fetching water and wine, making a fuss." Cui Shi showed a confused look, was stunned for a moment, and then came back to his senses, leaned under the lamp, and still embroidered shoes and socks for the little brother.

When it was completely dark, Cui asked people to turn off the lights under the porch and prepare to change their clothes and go to bed. She hadn't slept for a long time, she had long been discouraged, and she no longer looked forward to Hongchun coming to her house. She was surrounded by a girl, two mothers-in-law, and two eunuchs. The eunuchs are generally on errands under the verandah, and the mother-in-law is in charge of serving soup, rice, laundry, etc., while the two girls are serving closely. At this time, the little eunuch went to turn off the lights, the mothers-in-law packed up the dirty clothes, dishes, chopsticks, etc., and worked in the ear room, one girl went to the couch to pick up the bedding and prepare to serve Cui's sleep, and the other girl cleaned up the house outside and tidied up Cui's sewing box and the like. Cui's Fuzhu stood under the porch, there was no one around him, and his whole heart seemed to have fallen from a cliff, and he wanted to cry empty.

On the other side of the Wang family, there were laughter and laughter blowing in the wind, which was extremely lively.

It was dark around, and there was a mother-in-law in Wang's courtyard who didn't know that Cui was standing under the corridor, carrying a dim melon skin lamp and trying to penetrate through the door of the corridor to the other side. A mother-in-law said in a slurping voice: "It's still early, why is it dark?" Luckily, I said I had to turn on a light, or it would be up to you how you walked. The other suddenly sighed and said, "I almost fell, this ghost place..." and said in a low voice: "It was said before that Cui Gege was promoted to Shu Fujin, and it has always been a rule for mothers to be more expensive than their sons... Ay... For this reason, I was also worried for several nights, for fear that we would fall out of favor and cause us to have no good fruit to eat, and I didn't want to wait so long, and my lord would treat us exactly the same as before... Cui Gege is really pitiful..."Before he could speak, he suddenly saw a figure under the corridor, and he was startled, and he lifted the lantern and shouted, "Who is sneaking there?" Scared the grannies to death..."

As soon as the lantern shone on, the two of them saw that it was Cui Gege, and hurriedly said: "The slave is rude... How do you..."

Before they could finish, Trigg had already turned away. The mother-in-law said: "Oh, it's a disaster, I hope Cui Gege didn't hear us." The other mother-in-law said disdainfully: "What if you hear it, what can she do with us?" You hurry up, you're still waiting to eat the iced watermelon..."The two chattered, and the tip of Cui Gege's nose was astringent, and he almost burst into tears.

Early the next morning, Cui Gege packed up a few shoes and socks made for the little brother, and helped the girl to go to the Fujin house to say goodbye. She didn't want Hongchun to eat in Fujin's house, she was afraid of provoking Fujin's suspicions, and said that she was deliberately going to her master to show her eyes, so she didn't let the people below pass it on, and waited in the side room first, planning to wait for Hongchun to leave, and then order someone to pass it on. Unexpectedly, Fu Jin still knew about it and sent her to see her in the flower hall. She knew that Hongchun was still there, so she was busy cutting her hair and clothes, and slowly entered the house to greet the two masters.

Fujin and Hongchun sat face to face on the kang and had breakfast, and the four mothers-in-law and four girls stood at the bottom and waited. When Fu Jin saw Cui Gege entering the house, he smiled and said, "Are you ready to eat?" Would you like to eat a little more? Cui Gege hurriedly said: "The slave and maid have already eaten." She glanced at Hongchun carefully, she hadn't seen him for half a month, and at this time she saw him wearing a dark blue arrow sleeve robe, sitting cross-legged on the kang, only to feel that he had grown much taller and his cheeks were thinner.

Hongchun's meals are very reasonable, and he doesn't make any noise when he drinks soup and porridge. He quickly finished eating, Cui Gege hurriedly took the hot towel in the girl's hand and handed it to Hongchun to clean his hands, Hongchun looked up at her and said, "Is your body good?" In his impression, she should still be in confinement. Cui Gege was stunned for a while, and only realized after a while that he was asking about his confinement, so he replied: "It was already a month some time ago, and you can walk outside, Xie Ye cares." ”

Where he cares, he just asks casually.

Hongchun nodded, he was more serious than before, and there was no smile on his face, which was daunting. Cui secretly thought, is he the same in front of Wang? Surely not, she often heard him and Wang's laughter at night. Hongchun said: "But something? Cui Shi smiled and said, "I made a few shoes and socks for the little brother and wanted to send them to Baylor Mansion, so I came to talk to Fujin." As soon as Hongchun put the chopsticks, Fujin also put the chopsticks. While staring at the mother-in-law cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, she smiled at Cui's and said, "I told you last time, if you want to go to see the little brother, just go, let the girls come and tell me, you don't have to go in person." Cui Shi said gently: "Slaves and maids don't dare to be rude, they must always abide by the rules." ”

Fu Jin was very happy when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Actually, I have always wanted to take a look at the little brother, but there are too many trivial things in the house, and I can't get out of the way." He asked Hongchun again, and said, "Can you go and say hello to Eniang in the near future?" ”

Hongchun prefers the Wang family, and rarely goes in and out with Fujin, although Fujin has complaints, he never dares to show it on his face. Hongchun got up, and a girl brought mouthwash, waiting for Hongchun to rinse his mouth. Hongchun said: "My homework is tight these days, so I didn't go to Eniang." He also advised: "Ah Xing and He Zhuo are engaged, and there will be a big gift at the beginning of spring next year, you must prepare a congratulatory gift, she is my sister, you can spend more silver taels, don't be stingy." ”

Fu Jin took a jacket in his hand, put it on to serve Hongchun, and said: "Don't worry, when I finish sorting out the list of congratulatory gifts, I will hand it over to my lord, and if there is anything that my lord thinks is inappropriate, we will discuss it again." ”

Hongchun bowed, took the tea in his mother-in-law's hand, took a few sips to remove the greasy, and said, "I still have something to do, go first." After walking a few steps, he turned around and glanced at Cui Gege again, and said, "Little Brother's shoes and socks for me." Cui Gege didn't want Hongchun to look at shoes and socks, so he was stunned and reacted. She was happy in her heart, and asked the girl to open the red cloth bag and look at it with Hongchun, Hongchun picked it up in her hand and weighed it for a while, and then returned it to the girl, without saying anything, she went.

Coming out of the courtyard of Fujin, it was already three poles in the sun. Cui Gege's heart was warm, thinking of Hongchun's look when he saw the little shoes and socks, which made her feel that even if Hongchun didn't have her in his heart, there was a little brother.

Fu Jin took a jacket in his hand, put it on to serve Hongchun, and said: "Don't worry, when I finish sorting out the list of congratulatory gifts, I will hand it over to my lord, and if there is anything that my lord thinks is inappropriate, we will discuss it again." ”

Hongchun bowed, took the tea in his mother-in-law's hand, took a few sips to remove the greasy, and said, "I still have something to do, go first." After walking a few steps, he turned around and glanced at Cui Gege again, and said, "Little Brother's shoes and socks for me." Cui Gege didn't want Hongchun to look at shoes and socks, so he was stunned and reacted. She was happy in her heart, and asked the girl to open the red cloth bag and look at it with Hongchun, Hongchun picked it up in her hand and weighed it for a while, and then returned it to the girl, without saying anything, she went.

Coming out of the courtyard of Fujin, it was already three poles in the sun. Cui Gege's heart was warm, thinking of Hongchun's look when he saw the little shoes and socks, which made her feel that even if Hongchun didn't have her in his heart, there was a little brother.