The two arrived at the backyard of Xiangning Bo's Mansion. Mrs. Su had come back from the front and was talking to Mrs. Liu about the list. She was not surprised to see Shen Zangfeng and said, "Just now Zanghui came back. Commander Gu really has good intentions." .”
Shen Zangfeng smiled and said: "There are advantages to both sides. Doesn't my mother have more people at her disposal now?"
Mrs. Su laughed and scolded: "You are just greeting the guests. There is no capable steward for such a matter."
"After all, I can share my mother's worries." Shen Zangfeng joked with his mother, "Besides, the child can also give her a shoulder and a leg."
"Go, go!" Mrs. Su chased him, "I was about to write a list, but you came over and pinched my shoulder, and I wrote incorrectly." Then she sent him, "Go ahead and ask the steward over there if you want anything." Help me, don’t cause trouble later.”
Shen Zangfeng apologized a few more times before she drove her away and sent her son away. Mrs. Su asked Wei Changying, "Your eldest aunt has returned to the imperial capital. She wants you to meet someone when she comes over?"
Wei Changying hurriedly said: "That's what I mean, but my wife thinks that this is a lifelong event for the fourth brother. Although my wife is young and doesn't understand these things and can't do much, she can still help her mother and sister-in-law. Where can I go these days? Yes? Moreover, the person brought by the eldest aunt also told him that since the daughter-in-law has left the cabinet, she should take care of her husband's family first and let her go over to see him when she is free. The person just came to invite me, and also told my daughter-in-law where my aunt and cousins live now, rather than asking my daughter-in-law to rush to see them. "
When Mrs. Su heard that she wanted to put her husband's family's affairs first, she looked satisfied and said, "I heard from your sister-in-law that I haven't seen your eldest aunt in many years. She is a close relative of flesh and blood, and I miss you very much. But you I also saw that your second aunt left early, and Hui'er is your uncle's eldest son. His marriage cannot be ignored. Although you are young and married, you are still his biological sister-in-law! Your second uncle also said that you are very lucky! It really depends on your help."
"My daughter-in-law is not worthy of my mother's praise. Without the careful guidance of my mother and sister-in-law these past two days, my daughter-in-law would be like a wooden person who doesn't know anything." Wei Changying pursed his lips and smiled.
Mrs. Su smiled and said: "Everyone comes here like this. When I was young, I helped my mother-in-law and sister-in-law, and I will know it after going back and forth." Then she added, "You have several younger brothers and sisters, and you will also have nephews in the future. My niece, I can’t handle this anymore. I’ll always leave it to you.”
Wei Changying looked at Mrs. Liu and smiled: "My daughter-in-law is stupid, she still has to beg her sister-in-law."
Although Mrs. Liu was not in high spirits these past two days, she still managed to smile and said: "I followed my mother to see the eldest sister, the second sister, the second brother and your marriage. This is the fifth time for the fourth brother. , but without Mother’s Palm Eyes, there are still many things I’m not sure about.”
Mrs. Su saw that the chat had been delayed for some time, so she said: "Learn and you will get good at it. You must not rest assured when doing it for the first time. But after following what you have done before, you will know that it is not difficult... Hide It's going to be the official day here in Hui in just a few days. When you four brothers and sisters serve tea, you can go to your aunt's place. Don't worry about it then. "
Chief Wei Ying said sincerely: "That's what mother said."
In this way, all the people who had no taboos on their bodies were mobilized, and everyone was very busy. Finally, on the eighth day of June, the newlyweds were welcomed in with the beating of gongs and drums, and the sisters-in-law, who were all relieved, rushed to the bridal chamber to see the bride. - Shen Zanghui lifted his hijab with great joy, and saw that Lady Pei Mei under the flower hairpin dress was just as her name suggests. Her white melon-seed face had distant mountain eyebrows and water-almond eyes. A plum blossom between her eyebrows made her skin as radiant as snow. She was so beautiful. Gorgeous.
Shen Zanghui had never met his wife before getting married. He only heard his eldest sister Shen Zangzhu privately say that she was born well. At this moment, Pei Meiniang's appearance exceeded his expectations. He was so surprised that he couldn't help but be elated and stared at Pei Meiniang's beautiful face in a daze. The cousins all laughed, and Shen Zangning shouted with a smile: "I said before that the third brother couldn't bear to leave the third sister-in-law, and didn't want to leave the bridal chamber to toast at the banquet. How could the third brother be there? The fourth brother is now in a daze when he sees the fourth sister-in-law." The point?”
After saying this, everyone stopped trying to hide it and started laughing.
Shen Zanghui and Pei Meiniang both blushed with embarrassment and glanced at each other subconsciously, showing some affection for each other... Everyone joked and asked them to finish the wedding ceremony, and urged Shen Zanghui to go out for a toast, and teased Pei Meiniang a few words as usual.
However, after her husband left, the Pei family girl lowered her head and remained silent. No matter how much everyone joked and embarrassed her, she didn't say anything. She didn't know whether she was shy, nervous or annoyed. Everyone was also afraid of spoiling the happy event, so they didn't say anything. Look. Looking at Chen Guang, he congratulated her a few words and then exited the door together.
On the way back to the table, Mrs. Liu quietly discussed with Wei Changying: "These four younger siblings don't look very generous."
Wei Changying smiled and said: "Maybe it's because of the newlyweds. To be honest with my sister-in-law, I was very scared that day. I didn't even know what I said."
Mrs. Liu said that Pei Meiniang was not very generous. First of all, Pei Meiniang's silence made her look petty, and she did not give face to her cousins-in-law. After all, Mrs. Liu had been busy for so many days to get her in, and he didn't even say a few words to tease her at the right time. Secondly, she felt that her natal Pei family was just a noble family, and their three sisters-in-law were all from domestic elites. In comparison, Pei's silence seemed to make her feel inferior in front of her sisters-in-law. Same.
Seeing that Wei Changying didn't agree with her words, Mrs. Liu didn't say anything. She just said: "I'll go back after eating something. I have to prepare tea for the bride tomorrow, but I can have a good rest for a few days afterwards." Are the three younger siblings tired these past two days?"
"My mother and sister-in-law did most of it. I just gave it a try." Wei Changying said humbly, "I'm fine."
"You can go visit your aunt after tomorrow." Ms. Liu chatted with her and sat down at the table...
Early the next morning, Shen Xuan's group gathered together again to prepare for the bride to come and recognize each other.
Before Shen Zanghui and the bride came over, Shen Xuan asked a few questions about the girls' studies. Because Shen Shuming was the only grandson and the legitimate grandson, Shen Xuan paid special attention to him and specifically called him " Come around and ask questions about homework.
However, Shen Shuming didn't know whether it was because Mrs. Liu had been helping out at the Xiangning uncle's house these days and neglected to discipline her son, or whether it was because she didn't pay much attention to her homework and was stumbling to recite a hundred-word poem. Shen Xuan frowned frequently - seeing this situation, he turned to his grandmother, Mrs. Su, for help.
Mrs. Su was very strict with her daughter Shen Zangren, but she was very indulgent towards her eldest grandson. When Shen Shuming saw it, she smoothed things over for him and said, "Zanghui and the others are coming over. Now you ask Shuming to endorse. He is worried about it." Let’s take a look at the new aunt. How can I make up my mind? Let’s take the test tonight.”
Shen Xuan looked very unhappy and said, "You don't have to speak to him. I asked my husband to teach him this poem early in the year, but he still can't recite it well. He must have been playing too hard and delayed." He asked someone to take it. The ruler came, "Shu Yan is only four years old. Most of his predecessors can recite poems and poems. As the eldest brother, you are not as good as the younger sister. If I don't teach you a lesson today, you won't get used to being a dandy!"
Shen Shuming became anxious when he heard that he was about to pick up the ruler. He turned around and shouted to his father, Shen Zang, "Father, save me!"
Wei Changying felt a little dumbfounded, thinking that if your father wanted to beat you, you could just go to your grandfather for help. Now that your grandfather wants to beat you, what's the point of going to your father... However, Shen Zangli actually came out to intercede. He smiled and said, "Father, please don't be angry with this kid. He is not as talented as Yan'er in the first place..."
"It's because you are not as talented as you are, so you have to work hard to make up for your weakness!" Shen Xuan glared at Shen Zangli and said angrily, "It's the fault of the father if he didn't educate him! How can you still spoil such a grown man? This is your biological son, are you afraid that you won’t be able to harm him?”
Shen Zangli looked embarrassed after being scolded. Mrs. Liu was worried that he would continue to anger his father-in-law, so she kept tugging at his sleeves. But Shen Zangli really doted on his son, so he pulled away from Mrs. Liu and said bravely: "My son knows he is wrong, but Now the fourth brother and the fourth brother and sister are coming..."
Mrs. Su also spoke again: "You want to beat and scold your children, when can't you? You chose the time when your nephew was serving tea. If this spreads out, it will be said that you are not satisfied with your nephew. The great uncle deliberately accused Sang and scolded Huai. A junior is watching it! Does it sound good?"
Shen Lianshi, Shen Zangfeng and other disciples also tried to persuade him. Sixth Young Master Shen Liankun and Eighth Young Master Shen Lianheng pulled Shen Shuming down together. This finally calmed down Shen Xuan's anger. Fortunately, everyone finally pulled Shen Shuming down. After the matter was settled, someone came from outside to report that Shen Zanghui had led Pei Meiniang through the corner gate and was coming this way.
So everyone in the hall looked at each other's clothes and tidied their clothes, and Mrs. Su asked people to take away all the half-drunk tea... When Shen Zanghui and Pei Meiniang came in together, the hall was very tidy.
As the night passed, Pei Meiniang, who had transformed from the fifth Miss Pei to the fourth young lady of the Shen family, seemed much more generous. Although her face was still blushing shyly from time to time, she was not silent when she heard her sister-in-law joking again, more or less. The last two sentences. Originally, Mrs. Liu and others had gone through the cold scene last night and knew that these siblings didn't like to talk. Now they were just showing affection on the scene and making fun of them casually. They were actually stopped by Mrs. Pei in a few words. They were all slightly shocked: "These four siblings don't seem to be shy." Someone who is too shy to speak
So the refusal to answer last night was intentional
Thinking of this, Mrs. Duanmu stretched out her hand to help Pei Meiniang up and said with a smile: "Yesterday, my sister-in-law kept ignoring our jokes. We thought that my sister-in-law didn't like to talk. Now I realized that my sister-in-law has such a clever mouth. He fooled us all yesterday."
When Pei Meiniang heard this, she said without thinking: "I was too tired yesterday."
Duanmu waited for a while and saw that she did not add a word of apology such as "I neglected my sisters-in-law", so she had to force a smile: "That's my sister-in-law's fault. I didn't expect that you would be very tired when you leave the cabinet, but you still have to lead You talk about things, it's strange that you don't talk much."
At this time, according to the polite words, Pei Meiniang should say something like "Second sister-in-law said this, but I am useless. When I am tired, I can't think about it. I don't know how to answer my sisters-in-law, and I am afraid of saying the wrong thing." It’s not good, so I’m silent” so that Duanmu can step down. But Pei Meiniang said openly and calmly, "Second sister-in-law, don't worry. I don't blame the sisters-in-law."
"..." Duanmu was silent.
Mrs. Liu tightened her handkerchief and thought to herself that it was a good thing she didn't ask or say this to herself, otherwise she would really have reacted on the spot. Duanmu didn't have a son, so she only asked her sister-in-law and Shen Zhou for help. The nieces and nephews came over to help out and stayed with them for half a day the next day. Mrs. Liu was busy with her mother-in-law from beginning to end!
Unlike Captain Wei, who had been in the family for a long time, she had never experienced anything like this before, so she could only do some unimportant things. Ms. Liu has experienced five marriages in her husband's family since she came out of the cabinet. Although she modestly said that she still dared not take charge of the affairs on her own, in fact she was able to preside over them alone a long time ago.
Mrs. Su also knew this, so in the past few days, besides Mrs. Su herself, Mrs. Liu herself was the busiest - no, she was so busy that she didn't even have time to take care of her only son's schoolwork. Shen Shuming was so embarrassed in front of his grandfather. His face was such that the whole family went to the battle to persuade him and finally the whole thing was settled!
After giving so much, why don't you ask Pei Meiniang to thank you a thousand times when you come over? Why don't you just say some warm words? However, these four siblings said "I don't blame the sisters-in-law". If it weren't for the fact that Liu's eldest daughter was ten years old after all and was a person with long experience in the backyard, she would have wanted to point at Pei Meiniang's nose and ask: "Why do you think so?" Blame us?”
Wei Changying was also a little speechless...
In fact, when she first heard that Miss Pei Wu was shy and shy, the first thing she thought of was her third aunt Pei - the aunt who was not as well-off as Fengzhou Wei and was afraid that others would say she was not worthy of being a wife. At that time, I also thought about how Pei Meiniang, with such a temperament, could become Shen Zhou's tomb woman in the future!
However, it now seems that although Pei Meiniang and the Pei family are of the same race, they are not the same type at all. This mistress said she would feel inferior in front of her husband's family whose lintel is higher than her natal family. She felt so good about herself...
Although Pei Meiniang's words almost offended all three cousins-in-law, but now, there are elders and juniors here, and when the bride came to serve tea on the first day, she looked at her husband Shen Zanghui and didn't know whether he heard it or not. After hearing these two words, he looked at his wife tenderly, as if he was afraid that serving tea would tire her out... Duanmu silently swallowed the blood and said, "Thank you, sister-in-law."
With her as an example, when Wei Changying arrived, he said to himself that this time, he really wanted to thank his second sister-in-law for setting an example and teaching a lesson - Wei Changying didn't even mention what happened yesterday, but just congratulated them a few words, which was very impressive. He took out the congratulatory gifts and sent them away. (To be continued)