Just after noon, Aunt Zheng walked into Yueyue's room with a box of osmanthus crisps with a smile: "Good daughter, I heard Xiang'er say, you just pleaded with the old lady?

Aunt Zheng didn't care if Yuan Yue wanted to eat it or not, so she picked up a piece of pastry and sent it to Yuan Yue's mouth.

Yuan Yue shook her head, stretched out her hand and pushed the snack away, and said, "Mother, although I said it, I don't think my grandmother's face is very good-looking." If you want Yuan Jie to come back, I'm afraid you'll have to do a little more work. ”

Aunt Zheng was only in a hurry to take Yuan Jie back, and responded regardless of it: "You say, I will promise you anything." ”

Yuan Yue glanced at Aunt Zheng indifferently, got up and went to the makeup mirror, looked at Aunt Zheng who was refracted in the mirror coldly and said, "You have to persuade Yuan Jie to come back and apologize to the third lady." ”

Aunt Zheng's face flashed, but she still nodded: "Okay, don't worry, as soon as she comes back, I will ask her to see the third miss." ”

Yuan Yue sneered and turned her head: "Mother, you can't help but think too simply." Don't you look at what Yuan Jie did, she not only hurt the third sister, but also lost the face of the Wei family, just apologize to Yuan Xi, is it over?"

Aunt Zheng was a little short of breath, so she could only take a step back: "Then you mean, what do you say you should do?"

Yuan Yue turned around and said with a faint smile: "Look at me, according to me, the fourth sister has to kowtow to the third sister in front of the whole family to apologize." Just before the New Year's dinner, there are all people at that time, and it is convenient to speak. ”

"This, how can this work? Even if you apologize, you have to pick a time, right?" Aunt Zheng stood up abruptly and shook her head again and again.

"Why not? Did Yuan Jie take the time to drug the third sister? Did she knock the third sister to the ground and pick the time? Moreover, when the third sister broke the siege for you, she didn't pick the time, and when the third sister gave you silver, she didn't pick the time. The corners of Yuan Yue's lips hooked, and she sneered: "Mother, you are used to Yuan Jie, but the old lady is not used to it." It was a blessing to be able to bring her back. Could it be that it depends on Yuan Jie's mood to make Yuan Jie kowtow and apologize?"

Aunt Zheng was forced by Yuan Yue, a little annoyed and angry, and pointed at Yuan Yue for a long time and was speechless. After a while, he sat down indifferently: "Is this your idea, or is it the third lady's idea?"

"It was my idea, of course, for the good of Yuan Jie. Yuan Yue looked at Aunt Zheng confidently.

Aunt Zheng smiled disdainfully: "It's good for Yuan Jie, so many people have been invited to the New Year's dinner, what Yu's father and mother, You's brother, which one is not dragging the family to come." It's good for you to let so many people see Yuan Jie's jokes? Our Yuan Jie is also the fourth lady of the Wei family, and she is the age of a flower, you tell her to throw away this person? Those young descendants see it, how will our Yuan Jie marry in the future?"

Yuan Yue looked indifferent, opened the lipstick box and touched up her lips: "Then I can't help it." ”

Aunt Zheng was angry and annoyed, pointed to Yuan Yue and said, "You have no conscience, you love to help or not, just go and hug your third lady's thigh!" Aunt Zheng walked out angrily.

"Wait, mother, don't be angry, it's not too late to listen to me before leaving?" Yuan Yue smiled and helped Aunt Zheng back.

Yuan Yue leaned down, squatted on Aunt Zheng's lap, and said softly, "Mother, don't you want Yuan Jie to go home?"

Aunt Zheng glanced at her angrily: "You don't come to this set, you don't help, and I don't ask you." Yuan Jie is the granddaughter of the old lady, your father's daughter, I don't believe that they are embarrassed to let the young lady of the Wei family live in the temple all the time. It's really not possible, I don't want my old face anymore, I moved out with Yuan Jie. ”

"Mother, to put it mildly, the Wei family doesn't expect you and Yuan Jie to inherit the family business, one more and one less, what's the difference?"

With a crisp slap on Yuan Yue's face, Aunt Zheng trembled angrily: "You disobedient and unfilial beast!"

Yuan Yue lowered her face, got up and took two steps back, and looked at Aunt Zheng unfamiliarly: "It's good to fight, I'm your daughter, and it's only right for you to beat me." But these words, I still have to say, Yuan Jie has been gone for so many days, has the old lady ever muttered a sentence and a half?"

Aunt Zheng thought about it for a while, and it was true that she didn't say a word, and she didn't even have a look of longing. The old lady's mind lingered on Wei Yuanxi every day, and she may have forgotten her four granddaughters.

Yuan Yue continued: "Mother, do you really think that there is a missing Yuan Jie in the family, do the old lady care? Forgive me for being disrespectful, my father is in full bloom, our family has a big business, what kind of aunt can't you want? How many young ladies you want to give birth to?"

"Isn't Wei Yuanxi also a girl?" Aunt Zheng muttered unconfidently.

Yuan Yue sneered in her heart, her mother had been in the Wei family for so many years, and she hadn't even seen through this bit of human sophistication.

"She is a concubine, and she is the heart and soul baby of her father and grandmother, do you really think Yuan Jie can compare with her?" Yuan Yue turned her face away and no longer discussed: "Mother, you still have to think about it, whether to let Yuan Jie kowtow on Chinese New Year's Eve to make amends or the Green Lantern Ancient Buddha." ”

Yuan Yue put the makeup box into the dressing table, took a green bamboo placket and narrow-shouldered cloak from the shelf and put it on: "You can figure it yourself, I'll go copy the Buddhist scriptures for my grandmother." ”

"Hey, why did you get away with your ......?"

Aunt Zheng couldn't stop Yuanyue, so she could only sit alone in the room and sulk. When Yuan Yue came out of the room, she was also holding back her belly, always feeling that she didn't look like a daughter, but a tool in Aunt Zheng's hand.

Yuan Yue quietly wiped away the two tears from the corners of her eyes and entered the old lady's warm pavilion with a smile. The old lady was crooked on a mahogany chaise longue, slumped across the brazier, and in the brazier was burning fine silver bone charcoal. Seeing Yuan Yue come in, the old lady was also in a good mood, and stretched out her hand to call Yuan Yue to her side: "The weather is strangely cold, why are you wearing so thin?"

The old lady straightened her face and asked Xiang'er: "Has the cloak made for the second lady in the house arrived?"

According to the rules of the house, each master has two sets of cotton wool cloaks in winter clothes to prevent the cold wind from biting in the cold. The cloak in the house was indeed sent a long time ago, but it was taken away by Aunt Zheng, saying that the fourth lady could use it outside, and the old ones in January could also keep out the cold.

When asked by the old lady, Xiang'er was stunned, looking at Yuanyue timidly, and didn't know what to say. Seeing that Xiang'er didn't speak, the old lady snorted: "I don't understand the rules more and more, did you ask you to be a subordinate to steal out and exchange for silver?"

Xiang'er knelt down with a pop.

Yuan Yue said gently: "Grandmother, you have wronged Sister Xiang, she was originally a person from Grandmother's side, how could she do such a thing? This is all my fault, I thought that the fourth sister was alone outside, so I gave the cloak to the fourth sister." ”

Yuan Yue said and picked Xiang'er up.

Yuan Yue persuaded her with warm words, and the old lady finally turned her anger into joy and called Ju Xiang: "You go and bring my fox fur cloak." ”

Ju Xiang answered, and took out a navy blue dark silk wind wool cloak from the cabinet in the warm pavilion. The old lady smiled and turned her cloak out, and it turned out to be a shiny and slippery fox fur.

"This is sent by the daughter-in-law of the shopkeeper Yang, I see that the color is too tender, and it is just right for you to wear. Put it on and show it to your grandmother. ”

Yuan Yue held the cloak, her nose was sour, and she smiled reluctantly: "Grandmother, such a good thing, let's wear it for the third sister." My clothes from last year were still clean in the cupboard, so just wear that. ”

The old lady pouted and said with a smile: "These days I have copied the scriptures, and my grandmother has also seen it, you are a child, you are careful and down-to-earth, and grandmother can't lose such a good child." Listen to me, you'll wear this one for you. ”

Yuanyue's nose was sour, and she hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, and the old lady beckoned and asked Juxiang to mix Yuanyue up. Yuan Yue smiled and wiped her tears, spread out the blank folds, studied ink, dipped her pen, and copied them stroke by stroke.

Yuan Yue copied until his hands were sore, and then put down his pen. Outside the bead curtain, Ju Xiang looked happy, and the old lady couldn't close her mouth with a smile. Yuan Yue lifted the curtain and said, "Grandmother, is there any happy event at home?"

The old lady pulled Yuan Yue over and said with a smile: "Your Aunt You's brother is here, and he introduced a good buyer to your father, and he wants to accept our six-foot-old jade rough stone." I heard that the price is being negotiated, at least five million taels. ”

"So many?" said Tsukiki's eyes widened.

The old lady smiled: "Speaking of which, there is still a credit to the three girls in this matter, if she hadn't stopped her, she would have to break the rough stone." We can't sell it at such a high price. ”

Yuan Yue herself felt uninteresting, although she was the most discerning of the three concubines in the family. But she couldn't even think of such a business, and she felt that her skills were inferior to others, and she was a little ashamed. The concubine is worthy of being a concubine, not only is the degree of food and clothing superior, but even the vision is better than others.

"Then grandmother is going to reward the third sister well. Yuan Yue smiled and gave the old lady a loose shoulder and a slap on her back.

"Hey, I remembered, your Aunt You's brother has two sisters, I just met your father, it should be in You's room at this time, you are of the same age, called Shang Yuanxi, you go to the garden together. The old lady held Yuan Yue's hand and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, don't pinch it, haven't you copied the scriptures for so long, aren't your hands sore?"

Yuan Yue hesitated for a while, and suddenly remembered that at last year's New Year's banquet, the two girls who were showy and showy, and felt disgusted. These two sisters have a fierce temper and often push people into snowdrifts. When I had a snowball fight with them last year, I still have the red pomegranate dress that they tore apart.

Seeing that Yuanyue was sitting still, the old lady smiled and pushed: "Why don't you go yet?" You kid, don't always be bored with my old lady at this young age? You have a slow temperament, you should go out with them more to have fun." The old lady said, picking up a piece of oily candy from the plate and stuffing it into Yuanyue's mouth: "Go quickly." ”

"Yes, grandmother, then I'll go. ”

Yuan Yue pouted and muttered in her heart. Mother Zheng must still be waiting in the room to discuss borrowing Yuan Jie to go home, so she doesn't want to go back to the room. Yuan Yue was sure in her heart, so she simply went directly to find Yuan Xi.

Xiang'er followed behind Yuan Yue with the fox fur cloak that the old lady had rewarded: "Miss, why don't I put this back first?"