On a bright winter day, there was another heavy snowfall, and the morning was as dark as the fourth watch.

The maids got up one after another, lightly dressed up, in fact, Xu Hao and Mu Ningxue had already woken up, lying in bed in winter, lying together and chatting.

As Wuchun grew older, the little maid of the bead generation was promoted to a second-class maid, and more than a dozen children were added to the couple's side.

The Xu family is like a military camp, an iron-clad battalion of soldiers, and I don't know how many girls have come in and gone over the years, everyone's circumstances are different, but there is no doubt that life in the Xu family is the most comfortable time in life.

Baozhu walked out with a silk lantern and asked her mother standing at the door, "Why did you come so early?" ”

The mother said: "Last night, the third master said that he wanted to see Master Wei today, and the fourth watch of the people came, and he was embarrassed to go into the tea room and sit, standing at the door on a cold day, like a snowman, why don't I come in and ask, when will the third master get up?" ”

"That's not good, I'll go in and show you." Baozhu turned and walked back, wearing a pair of small bow shoes with wooden soles, and walked fast, creaking.

Walking to the bedroom door, he explained the reason to Yingchun, who was only wearing a small coat, Yingchun said: "Lead people directly to the outer study to listen to Yuxuan, I can't say when I will pass, and I haven't gone to greet the old lady yet." ”

"Then my sister help me talk about it, don't let people wait, my mother complains that I didn't do my best." Baozhu said.

"Got it, go ahead." Yingchun turned around and went into the bedroom.

Baozhu looked at her enviously, when it came to decency, no one could compare with Wuchun, who asked someone's father and mother to die for the Xu family.

She came out and sent away the housekeeper's mother, and when she saw the maid coral next to Xiao Yushi coming, she lifted the silk yarn lamp, shone it on the other party's face, and said with a smile: "What a bold one, you drink your face red." Dare to come here, you're going to hit the nail. ”

Coral turned her face sideways and said, "When did I drink?" Your lantern is red, and it shines on people's faces, and it says I'm drunk. Who drinks early in the morning? ”

Coral was often ordered to come over to pay respects, and immediately laughed with the orb and went in and walked to the window.

Baozhu also came over, and saw Xu Hao sitting cross-legged on the bed of the drunkard, Mu Ningxue combing her hair on the side, and Yingchun started to fight.

Xu Hao also saw them. He asked, "Sango, what's the matter?" ”

Coral said: "Yesterday after a watch, the fifth master came, the East Garden Gate was locked in the morning, that is, the side door of the main gate was also locked, our grandmother saw that the two masters had nothing important, so please talk about it tomorrow morning." Besides, it takes two or three doors to let people in, and it is almost two days since they came from the East Garden. Grandma sent the slave family to say. Maybe I annoyed the fifth master last night. ”

Xu Hao said: "If you provoke it, it's okay, there's no urgency, Xu Ye can't enter here now, you sue sù Yushi." She did it right. ”

"Yes." Coral smiled, and reported some trivial matters to Mu Ningxue.

Xu Hao stood up and stretched, came out with his hands behind his back and walked towards the courtyard next door, and Baozhu hurriedly followed when he saw this.

Qingwen next door greeted her with a smile. Xu Hao saw that she swept her eyebrows lightly and applied fat powder thinly, which was more gorgeous than when she was young. The figure was also more rounded, so he walked into the room and sat down.

After saying a few words, Qingwen said: "Xiuchun Qiaochun followed Ye'er, Fangchun Lanchun followed Yu'er, you only left Yingchun, aren't you ready to accept it?" It's not a good thing to hear. ”

Xu Hao said: "I found that you are getting more and more chicken mothers, the five of them will marry out without accidents, how can my father and son have that blessing?" Staying in Yingchun is because she is full of talent, although her appearance is slightly inferior to Xiuchun, but she seems to have fairy bones on her body, unlike her, she can also talk to Ning Xue. ”

"That girl is really different, the eldest lady who is alive and well is the second." Qingwen said with a smile.

Xu Hao shook his head and said, "Don't care about messy things." I heard that you have been practicing recently, some of you are pretending to be Xiaosheng, and some are pretending to be Xiaodan, when will you perform? ”

Baozhu was carrying the silk scarf while watching their conversation, absent-minded, and unconsciously realized that the silk scarf had taken off his hand and fell to the ground. Qingwen's maid Mingzhu sneered, Baozhu blushed, and hurriedly bent down to pick it up.

Xu Hao sat for a while, then got up and went to Zhiqing's room, and by the time they had skewered one by one, it had been almost half an hour.

The Xiao family sent someone to bring a bowl of ginseng soup, Xu Hao was about to go to Qianshoutang after eating, Baozhu came in and said: "Master Wei came early in the morning, and now he is in the study outside." ”

Xu Hao said casually: "Set up breakfast in the study, I'll go over in a while." ”

Who knew that he was delayed in Qianshoutang, and the whole family talked and laughed and laughed before noon, forgetting that Master Wei was waiting for him in the study.

Here Master Wei waited for a morning, his lips trembled from the cold, someone came to spread the word that he wanted to stay in the study for breakfast, and he was happy in his heart, as if he was the same mentality as the Golden Palace, all the way fluttering and extraordinarily humble, and met someone called the elder brother, the elder brother, the eldest sister-in-law and eldest sister screamed, and it took a long time to arrive at the outer study.

Because he came by order, he couldn't enjoy the snow scene in the garden carefully, and the four scholars were sitting in the wing room, and when they saw Master Wei, they stood up.

The housekeeper's mother, who took Master Wei, asked, "Can you come out after listening to the third master?" ”

One said, "There's no movement, I don't know when I'll come out." ”

"Master Wei, please take a seat, I'll ask." The steward went on his own.

Master Wei looked at the furnishings in the room carefully, which was more exquisite than the study room he often went to. The windows, railings, and screens in the room are all finely hollowed out landscapes, and their figures are carved with overseas treasures and then embedded, each figure is lifelike, colorful and indescribable, and incomparably valuable.

This made Master Wei open his eyes, but after waiting for an hour, he didn't see Xu Hao come out, the scholar sent tea a few times, washed his intestines, got up early and was not in the mood to eat, and gradually felt hungry.

The housekeeper's mother went to find the jewel again, and the jewel waited outside the Qianshou Hall, chatting with some maids, but she couldn't go up again.

Baozhu said: "I am all accompanied by the old lady to talk lively, I am afraid that I will not come out at this time." ”

The housekeeper's mother said, "How is this good? I invited Master Wei to the study early in the morning, and by this time, it was almost an hour and a half, and I felt hungry. Have you had breakfast? ”

Mingzhu said: "I have eaten it early, and the rest of the food is there, if you are not dirty, go into the house to eat, and I don't know when he comes out." ”

The housekeeper's mother smiled: "Sisters eat leftovers." I can't ask for it. Are you willing to reward me, but dare to be dirty? Where will it be. ”

Mingzhu smiled, "I see you're really hungry, come in, I'll ask the little girl to give you a hot dish." ”

When the two entered the west wing, Baozhu asked, "Didn't this mother go out of the garden?" Why are you so stammering? The pearl is also inferior. ”

Hezhu on the side said: "Naturally not, it seems to be Fengxian and her mother, with the red sister-in-law hitting Liaodong into Beijing, this year I only became the steward of the weeping flower gate." ”

"No wonder the accent is weird." Baozhu turned to talk again.

Half an hour later, Fengxian and her sister-in-law said, "How good is this." In the end, it will not come out? Tell people to wait. This sister bothers you to go in and say that Master Wei is still waiting in the study. ”

Hezhu replied unremarkably: "I won't go in, if you want to go in, you can go in by yourself." ”

Sister-in-law Hua said: "Good sister, if I go in, will I beg you?" ”

"I'm not available." Hezhu deliberately made things difficult.

Baozhu relented, and when he saw this, he said, "I'll go in." Soon the person came out and said: "The third master is sleepy, lying next to the old lady, who dares to alarm?" Mom, go back first, and come back in half an hour. ”

"Alas!" Sister-in-law Hua is helpless. I went directly to the inner study to find the girl for help.

Xu Hao suddenly fell asleep when he was a little tired, who would wake him up, naturally he slept until he woke up naturally. When I woke up, I remembered Master Wei, and it was too late. Hurriedly walked out.

Sister-in-law Hua and Hua Fengxian were standing in front of the door of the study with their eyes in sight, they both stepped forward, Hua Fengxian opened the curtain, Xu Hao nodded and walked in.

Master Wei is in the courtyard next door. This is the real study, Sister-in-law Hua went over to invite people out, and Master Wei hurriedly walked out. To stand under the porch is to give a deep bow.

Xu Hao grabbed him with one hand and said, "I came over to talk about it in the morning, but I forgot about it, and I slept again at noon, so I kept you waiting for a long time, I'm sorry." Have you eaten? ”

Master Wei, who was close to his back, was hungry, and he couldn't say that he hadn't eaten, so he had to say that he had eaten.

However, when the sister-in-law saw that he had been hungry for a day, she couldn't bear it, and said, "Master has been here since the beginning, but I'm afraid I haven't even eaten breakfast." ”

Xu Hao asked Fengxian unhappily, "How do you do things?" Don't even say hello for a meal? ”

Fengxian complained that her mother had nothing to do, and replied: "Today in the inner study, my sister here has asked for leave, and I just came over." ”

Xu Hao frowned and said, "It's getting more and more unpleasant in this family, and it's my fault." Hurry up and bring the snacks and set up a table of banquets immediately. ”

At the same time, Fu dismissed two concubines, pulled out the thorn in his eye, and made a group of men lose face.

The women in the neighborhood on the street heard about her deeds, and even Zheng Tang was conquered, and they said that among the women of Jinling, she was the first hero.

There is never a shortage of irony in this world, and sure enough, as expected by the men, there were really jealous women who worshipped her as a teacher and begged the rich to lend a hand.

Fu got carried away for a while, and demanded that no matter who it was, including her husband and relatives, as long as there was someone who oppressed a woman, she must not avoid relatives inside and enemies outside, and then call the door and punish them all.

I don't want to wait for her to show her strength, the bad news came, and the family cried that Xu Jiang died on the way.

Fu was shocked, took the will and looked at it, and it was obvious that it was true. cried a lot, and sent someone back to report the funeral, and held a funeral for her husband with great fanfare.

The bribed steward said: "Grandma, when the young master was dying, he instructed him, saying that the death letter can only be known to his relatives, and his friends and colleagues outside should tell him slowly." Because he just went out and died, those who don't know, those who have good things, and those who have old grudges will definitely say that the young master was angry with his grandmother.

And those who have suffered great humiliation may not come to take the opportunity to take revenge, besides, this time the division is famous, not as good as Meng Lang in the previous two times, and may be able to attract lawsuits. Grandma, after a year and a half, they are calm, and it is not too late to say more. Even if you want to mourn now, you have to wait for the coffin to arrive, so don't worry. ”

Fu Shi said with tears that a person is about to die, and his words are good, he can't help but feel very guilty, and he misses his husband very much, and he obeyed his last order at the moment, and sent someone to inform Xu Hao, who did not dare to mourn, and secretly set up a mourning hall in the inner house, crying and worshipping alone.

It is also the Fu family who has come to his senses, although the Xu family has not cared about what he has done over the years, but how can his father-in-law and mother-in-law not be angry? Now that his son is dead, he is even more angry, just waiting to be swept away, so he has no face to go back in person. (To be continued......)