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Let me write a letter to ask. Shen Rui was a little helpless and thought that he had to offer some generous conditions, such as "children can study at the Beijing Academy of Zhongzhong" and so on, which is not worthy of Songjiang.

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On February 26th, before the sky was dawn, Yang Shen and Shen Rui set out early to Ciyun Temple.

No matter how popular Ciyun'an is, it always receives twenty or thirty rituals a year. It is already familiar with all the procedures and does not have to worry about the Yang family. The master who has his own support comes to lead step by step.

Yang Shen, Yang Tian and several illegitimate brothers and sisters all had a ceremony to leave. Although Shen Rui was half a son, he was not married after all. He was only asked to offer incense, candles and fruits, so he had to withdraw. He just happened to be with Yang Ting and in the outer courtyard.

The Yang family’s rituals today did not invite outsiders, but some relatives and friends still came over.

Since the young emperor ascended the throne, the great masters of the Zhan Shi Mansion have risen. Even if they have nothing to do, they have to give gifts to the mansion, let alone do so solemn rituals. Since the beginning of this, visitors have been in constant force.

At noon, Liuxi Suzhai was opened to invite guests to have a meal.

It was not until the sun was west that the guests left one by one.

Shen Rui followed Yang Tinghe for most of the day, smiling, his face froze. In the past half day, he has received a lot of attention - but not just because he is Yang Tinghe's son-in-law.

However, after the New Year, the cabinet submitted a meeting to discuss the imperial court again. I wonder if the big guys wanted to avoid being led by the inner officials by allowing the young emperor to contact more Japanese lecturers.

This time, Shou Ge did not refuse, and expanded the team of Japanese lecturers as they wished, but also selected many people whom he liked.

Although Yang Tinghe is on the list, Mao Chi's father Mao Cheng was also selected.

Others don’t know that Shou Ge chose Shen Rui’s brother-in-law’s father for Shen Rui’s sake. However, the two children and relatives of the Shen family have become close ministers of the emperor, so they can’t help but be particularly polite to Shen Rui.

First, there were sacrifices and then hospitality. Yang Tinghe was also a little tired. After the guests were gone, he went to the outer courtyard to rest. Yang Shen also had to arrange follow-up matters, and then Shen Rui followed the servant to the back room to pay homage to Yu.

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In the guest room in the back hall, Yu and others had just sent off the visiting female guest. They went back to the house to sit down and have a cup of tea and some snacks. Then a maid came to report to Mr. Shen to pay homage to his wife.

Yu smiled and looked at Yang Tian, ​​whose face was dyed red in an instant, and said with a smile: "I was so busy in the morning. I only met once and never talked well. It was hard for him to be willing to come over and talk. I have not seen my in-laws for many days and I was about to ask her how she was in good health."

While speaking, Yu glanced at his concubine Jiang again.

Aunt Jiang lowered her head, as if she hadn't heard Yu say anything, staring at the ground, as if flowers were blooming in the cracks of the blue bricks, and she had no intention of retreatment.

Yu felt angry and did not show his face. He just said lightly: "Second sister has been tired for a day, Aunt Jiang, please take your second sister to settle it."

The second girl Yang Yue, Yang Yue, is one and a half years younger than Yang Tian. She looks like a cardamom girl. She looks like Aunt Jiang, with her almond eyes and peach cheeks, and has a very good color. When she heard her mother talk, she did not respond and only looked at her aunt.

Aunt Jiang slowed down, then raised her head, half-turned her face, looked at Yu, smiled, and said, "Mrs. Xie is considerate."

She is over thirty years old. Because she is well maintained, she still looks twenty years old and her voice is soft and charming, like a girl, as if she is unconsciously charming.

The master is not here, who can I listen to this fox charming voice? Yu felt more and more impatient. He just lowered his eyelids and said, "Go", and ignored them.

The second sister stood up and bowed to Yu, but refused to say "Xie". Aunt Jiang's courtesy was even more perfunctory, and she acted like a bow, so she took her daughter out.

The maids and servants around Yu were all glaring at Aunt Jiang's direction, but Yu only snorted contemptuously.

Recently, everything has not gone well with Aunt Jiang, and Yu is quite relieved, so she is too lazy to care about her rudeness. Originally, she has never really respected her.

But he said that many of Aunt Jiang’s disagreements were due to the marriage of her children.

Let’s talk about my second sister first. It’s the thirteenth day of the Chinese New Year. I used to be the first two years to see the marriage. Only then did Yu enter the house shortly after he entered the house. It was because the housekeeper Quan fought with Aunt Jiang, so how could he handle the marriage for Aunt Jiang’s daughter?

My daughter was beautiful, and Aunt Jiang was very energetic. She refused to go to a high-ranking family to be a concubine's wife, and she refused to live a difficult life with a scholar and a scholar from a low-ranking official family. The marriage was delayed.

After ascending the throne today, Aunt Jiang felt that it was a good thing that had not been decided before. Yang Ting and this Eastern Palace official were so popular that their daughter could find a better family.

The concubines in the Beijing area also have their own social circles. However, Aunt Jiang asked about the second son of Lord Lu, the left assistant chief of the Censorate, who is both well-known and knowledgeable. He is one year older than his second sister and has not yet been married. He thought that the two families have equal positions and are both well-off, but they are not a good match.

Thirteen is engaged, fourteen is ready to marry, and fifteen is ready to marry, and the fifteen is just getting married. Aunt Jiang is doing well.

Unfortunately, she just mentioned Yang Tinghe, and was scolded by Yang Tinghe - but she didn't know that Lord Lu was originally a hardcore Master Liu Ge Lao.

Yang Tinghe was quite annoyed that Aunt Jiang was not responsible. If his concubine asked about marriage with Mr. Liu and others, the news was spread outside, I don’t know what the little emperor thought, and what if Mr. Li, as Yang Shen’s teacher, thought!

Moreover, no matter how good the second sister is, she is still a concubine. If she wants to marry a low-class marriage, it is naturally not difficult to be the official family of the legitimate son. However, it is not a joke to say that the legitimate son of the Lu family, who have been officials for generations, is not a joke. If the Lu family thinks that the Yang family looks down on others and is annoyed, and they cannot say anything bad to spread, will the Yang family still want a reputation?

Yang Tinghe could not have discussed these things carefully with a concubine, so he only scolded her severely, and finally said, "The wife looked at Er Niang's marriage with her," and sent Aunt Jiang.

Aunt Jiang was already angry when she was scolded. When this was said, she made Aunt Jiang angry. She had been in power in the inner house for many years and had long stopped treating herself as a concubine. How could she stand this sentence!

Before the New Year, Wang Yan and his daughter came to Beijing and Yang Shen's marriage approached, Yu repeatedly stated that his eldest daughter-in-law would take her to the housekeeper when she entered the house, saying, "I will hand this family over to the Dalang couple sooner or later."

This is Yu's true words. Not to mention that she has no children now, even if she has children in the future, she is so old that she will not be able to seize any property with her elder brother. However, if she gets along with her elder brother, she will be able to receive some protection in the future.

The Erlang Yang Dun, who was produced by Aunt Jiang, was half a year older than Sister Tian, ​​and was not much older than Yang Shen, and he would soon have to take the exam for fame and fortune. Therefore, whether it is family property or help in the future career, he would be afraid that he would compete with Yang Shen.

In addition, if the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law Yu and Yang Shen's wife are together in the future, there is no reason to let the concubines get involved, and the last trace of power that can dig in the hands of Aunt Jiang will be taken back, how could she not be anxious?

Somehow, she came up with a trick to use Erlang's marriage to climb a capable in-laws, and to enhance her status as a mother and son.

And I think Wang Yan's father died and his parents' family would not have much help. If her wife's family was effective, this family would not be worthy of anyone's hands.

Aunt Jiang learned from the lesson last time and didn't dare to mention that she fell in love with an adult daughter. She just tactfully told Yang Tinghe that Erlang is not young, and it's time to see each other.

Yang Tinghe only said, "Erlang is only fifteen, so why are you anxious? Now you are not even a scholar. How can you propose marriage? At least you have to have the reputation of a juren to be able to talk about it."

Aunt Jiang was anxious. Even though she was very confident in her son, she felt that he could become a juren and even a Jinshi all the way, but the provincial examination was about to fall. Then the time for marriage was to start, and it would be three years later. By then, Wang Yan had already settled at home. How could her daughter-in-law take charge of the family?

What's more, the little lady she likes is already twelve. After waiting for another year, I'm afraid that someone else will be ordered to go there.

When she was anxious, she couldn't help but reveal that she was interested in the eldest daughter of the Hanlin Zhang Xueshu family. She heard that she was generous and often helped the sick Mrs. Zhang to manage the family. She was a very capable person.

Yang Tinghe then reexamined Aunt Jiang. In the past, she only thought she was gentle, considerate, charming and attractive. When her wife was ill, she was very well-organized in her family's affairs and never caused trouble for him. But now, why have she become so stupid!!

Last time she wanted her daughter to marry the legitimate son, he clicked her and paid attention to her identity. He didn't expect that this time it was still outrageous and wanted to use the legitimate son to marry the legitimate daughter.

Xueshi Zhang is an imperial party and has a good relationship with him, but this person is the most arrogant and obscene. He wants to use a concubine who is not a scholar to marry someone who is like a bead-handed daughter. Yang Tinghe does not have such a big face!

If this matter is brought up, the friendship between the two families will end here.

Yang Tinghe may not have the intention of entering the cabinet one day, but because his qualifications and rank are far from qualified, he is slowly gathering the hearts of the old people in the East Palace and gaining popularity for himself. How can a foolish woman do something bad at this time?

Yang Tinghe was too lazy to even scold him this time, so he directly banned Aunt Jiang and said that if she had asked about Erlang Erjie'er's marriage, she would not have to ban her family's reputation. She went directly to the village to "super retirement" and did not have to come back.

If it weren't for the Miao family's ritual this time, Aunt Jiang wouldn't have been able to leave.

"Remember your duty." Yang Tinghe warned Aunt Jiang before going out.

Aunt Jiang responded very respectfully, but her eyes were all poisonous when she looked at Yu.

She was originally a good concubine, and she also had three sons and one daughter. Why couldn't her wife be properly promoted after her death?

How could Yu compare with her in terms of appearance and scheming? Why is he better than her?

Therefore, she became more and more erratic and always wanted to save Yu's face.

In the yard, Aunt Jiang was pulling her daughter and saying to her carefully, "You must burn your feet when you go back to the room. It's too cold today. Don't hurt your body by the cold." Yunyun met Shen Rui coming in.

Aunt Jiang stopped and Liangliang looked at Shen Rui. Although she did not hate Yang Tian as much as Yu, she could not like him. Naturally, she did not like Shen Rui.

Originally, the eldest girl had found the son of Shangshu, but she was envious and jealous. Why didn’t such good things fall on her second sister?

Later, when the Shangshu died, the Shen family immediately became depressed, and she was gloating for a long time.

Unfortunately, the Shen family has always been rich and gifts are extremely generous during the New Year. She even secretly cursed why she wouldn't let the Shen family get poor and let the little hoof marry someone who has no money or power to suffer.

When I met Shen Rui here, Aunt Jiang exhaled her anger from her nostrils, snorted gently, put her eyes off, and looked like an elder, waiting for Shen Rui to come forward to salute - she was a concubine, and also the elder's concubine, and she felt that Shen Rui was given a gift.

Shen Rui also had a very bad impression of Aunt Jiang. Yang Tian lost his mother since childhood. This concubine was in charge of the family. Using his toes, he could imagine what kind of confusing life his little fiancée had lived.

Seeing Aunt Jiang standing there for no reason, Shen Rui was still a little puzzled, but he had no time to guess the idea of ​​a concubine.

However, the servant lady who led the way greeted Aunt Jiang and asked her. Seeing Aunt Jiang's expression, she couldn't help but stop and look at Shen Rui, not daring to move.

The old lady next to Aunt Jiang also stared at Shen Rui after giving him a gift.

Shen Rui was slightly stunned, and after a moment of thought, he sneered in his heart. It seems that the inner veil of his father-in-law is really a problem. A concubine who is so proud of her? A joke.

Who is patient with such a person? It is not his son-in-law's duty to educate his father-in-law and concubine. When he glanced at him, he saw his second sister Yang Yue. He kept walking straight over her mother and daughter, and said in his mouth: "The second sister of the Yang family doesn't have to be too polite."

The second sister didn't like Yang Tian and Shen Rui either, and now Shen Rui is still a "foreign man". She hid behind her foster mother and avoided her and did not come out to greet her. She was not too rude.

After hearing Shen Rui's words, the second sister was stunned, and then her almond eyes immediately stood up and glared at Shen Rui.

However, Shen Rui was already a few steps away, and the servant who led the way quickly chased after him.

The second sister couldn't help but be angry and spat in a low voice, calling her so rude, and there was no reason to force the young lady to salute her husband.

When I turned my head, I saw that my aunt's face turned pale, and her eyes almost spit out of fire.

The foster mother was still afraid of trouble and whispered: "The girl's hands are cold. Look, let's go back to the house."

Aunt Jiang glared at Shen Rui and picked up the curtain and entered the main room. Then she spat fiercely, quickly returned to the wing room, and then cursed in a low voice: "Now it's just a dilapidated house, why are you pretending to be a big boy!"

Thinking about the rumor that Shen Zhou was dismissed from office in Beijing a lot of troubles before the New Year, he added to his daughter, saying, "With such an uncle, he will not be a good cake, and there will be no official at home. In the future, the eldest lady will suffer some of her hardships, hum..."

The second sister curled her lips and didn't respond. She kept calling her mother to scoop water to burn her feet. Today's ceremony was not short, and she was already in great difficulty.

*

The atmosphere in the room was very harmonious.

Yu asked Shen Rui how to gossip about it. Shen Rui didn't get impatient at all and answered with a smile. He talked about some interesting things in recent days, which made the room laugh happily.

Yang Tian couldn't help but cover her mouth, her eyes curled up.
To be continued...