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It was rare for the family to have a reunion dinner in the evening, and it was getting late after the meal, so Jiang Yanyi and his brother rested at Chu's house.

On the second day, Jiang Yanyi remembered to say hello to Mrs. Chu, so she woke up half an hour early, tidied up and went there. The three sisters of the Chu family hadn't come yet, but Mrs. Liu's daughter-in-law, Mrs. Xue, was already there with her children. The old lady is in the room.

Xue's appearance is not outstanding, but she has a good bearing. She was originally the concubine's daughter of the former Jing Zhaoyin, and she was able to marry into the Chu family, thanks to the fact that Chu Changping was the general soldier of Yunzhou at that time .

Mrs. Chu is very satisfied with this eldest grandson's daughter-in-law, who takes care of everything clearly and disciplines her subordinates well.

"Look, Nian'an is smiling at grandma." Madam Chu hugged her great-grandson, smiling until the creases in the corners of her eyes stretched out. His forehead was covered with emeralds, and his face was kind.

The generation of the great-grandson happens to be the generation of "Nian". The old master Chu named his great-grandson "Nian'an" in the hope that the Xuan Dynasty will be stable and peaceful as soon as possible.

Xue was wearing an autumn-colored Ruan Luo shirt, which was neither too showy nor too plain, but it suited her better. She smiled and said, "Nian'an always cries when I'm with you. I won’t cry anymore, I just look forward to being hugged by you.”

These words made Mrs. Chu happy, "Your mouth looks like it has been smeared with honey."

Mrs. Chu was getting old, and her hands were sore after holding the child for a long time, so Jiang Yanyi took the child and helped her hold it for a while.

The children of the Chu family are not bad in appearance, even Chu Chengbai who looks like a wimp on weekdays has a pretty handsome face, otherwise Mrs. Xue would not have just married him like this back then.

Although this child is only over a month old, Yuxue looks cute.

Mrs. Xue seemed to want to get closer to Jiang Yanyi, and said with a smile: "I heard that the second younger sister has bought a teahouse to start a business. She is really a hero among fans."

Jiang Yanyi said: "It's just a small fight, you can't get on the stage."

This is naturally self-effacing.

The old lady asked Chu Chengbai: "I heard that Brother Bai drank too much yesterday, did you get up this morning?"

Xue said: "I drank a bowl of hangover soup, and now I still complain about a headache, and I haven't woken up yet."

Mrs. Chu held Xue Shi's hand and sighed: "Good boy, I'm sorry for you. Yueniang is a maid who has been with Brother Bai since childhood. He has a deep affection for her. Yueniang is here to give He only went there after giving birth to Nian'an, I'm afraid he's not feeling well right now..."

Xue smiled generously: "Grandmother, what are you talking about? There is no such thing as suffering or not. It is good for a husband to value friendship."

When she said this, there was no bitterness or jealousy in it, and Jiang Yanyi gave Xue Shi a surprised look.

Xue found out that Jiang Yanyi was looking at her, and smiled back gently and generously, which made Jiang Yanyi a little embarrassed.

When the three sisters Chu Shubao came over, the yard of the old lady became completely lively. Chu Shubao was very good at coaxing the children, holding the rattle to make the little baby grin.

Seeing this, Chu Huibao also wanted to tease her with a rattle, and the nanny and mother were taking care of it, for fear of any accidents.

Xue said: "Trouble some younger sisters to help look after Nian'an, I boiled soup for grandma on the stove, go over and see how the heat is going."

"Sister-in-law, you can go, we are here." Chu Shubao readily agreed.

Xue Shi went out of the yard with her personal maid.

She pretended to have a cup of soup and asked the servant girl to send it to Chu Chengbai. The servant girl couldn't help feeling sorry for her: "Aunt Yue has gone, and the young master's soul has also been lost. You have to take care of young master Nian'an yourself at night." , Get up before dawn to make soup, and feed the young master sober soup and suffer from his drunken madness. After this, you still remember to bring him soup..."

Xue stirred the Codonopsis chicken soup in the casserole with a spoon, with a cold smile on the corner of his mouth: "I didn't do this to please him."

The maid looked puzzled, but Xue didn't elaborate, and only asked her to send the soup to Chu Chengbai.

The servant girl thought it was Mrs. Xue who was stubborn and refused to admit it, and said with red eyes: "Aunt Yue, that vixen, no matter how favored she is, she is not dead now! The young master will forget her one day!"

Xue glanced at the servant girl: "Why mention her?"

The servant girl slapped herself: "This servant girl deserves to die."

Xue glanced at the door, a faint smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and said: "Okay, if I really want to talk about it, I have to thank her."

She put the rest of the soup into another soup cup, and her movements were not hurried or slow: "She gave birth to a son for me with her life, and the birth of this ghost gate, I don't have to go again in this life gone."

The servant girl was too shocked to speak: "You...don't plan to have a child of your own?"

Xue said, "Nian'an is my son."

At this moment, Mrs. Chu's mother Yang came in from the kitchen. She came late, and only heard the last two sentences Xue's master and servant said. The young master's heart is known to everyone in the Chu family. Just now I saw the young master Chang at the door. If the young master knows how much you love young master Nian'an, he will also miss you of."

Mrs. Xue pretended to be surprised: "Chang Sui, who is beside Xianggong, came over? I think Xianggong is hungry. Shi Ya, please bring the soup to Xianggong."

Her servant girl obviously didn't understand what was going on right now, so she went out with a soup cup in a daze.

Mother Yang would come to the kitchen at this time every day to see the "medicine" fried for Mrs. Chu. The "medicine" on the stove will be fried for a while. I went back to Mrs. Chu's yard ahead of time.

**

Mrs. Xue came over with the soup she had just made, and the girls of the Chu family followed suit with a small bowl, thinking it was breakfast.

When Mrs. Chu's mother Yang's mother came in from the outside, she glanced at Mrs. Xue and whispered something to Mrs. Chu. Jiang Yanyi sat close and heard "eldest young master" "broken" and "divorced wife" few words.

Mrs. Chu's originally kind face was instantly stained with anger, "It's getting more and more unruly! What kind of trouble is he going to do for a concubine? Be content!"

Mrs. Chu's voice was a little loud, and Chu Shubao and the sisters who were still teasing Chu Nian'an looked over.

Mrs. Chu let them go out, leaving only Mrs. Xue talking in the room. After a while, Mrs. Xue's crying and Mrs. Chu's voice of scolding Chu Chengbo came from the room.

The servants also passed on the story in Chu Chengbai's yard, saying that Mrs. Xue had stewed chicken soup and asked the maid to bring it to Chu Chengbai to drink. Unexpectedly, Chu Chengbai suddenly went crazy and smashed the soup pot, and even cursed at it. Xue is about to retire.

As Chu Chengbai's biological sister, Chu Shubao naturally knows what kind of virtue her brother is. Yueniang looks charming and has always been liked by Chu Chengbai. But the sister-in-law is too nice to Chu Chengbai and the whole family.

Chu Shubao said angrily: "Brother, is he deceived by lard? I must scold him!"

Like a bucket, she turned around and ran towards Chu Chengbai's yard.

Chu Huibao looked at Jiang Yanyi and Chu Jiabao, then at Chu Shubao, not knowing which way to follow.

Jiang Yanyi said: "Huibao, go find your mother."

As for the matter of the big house, it is better for Mrs. Liu, the mother, to discipline herself.

Chu Huibao nodded, and ran to Mrs. Liu's yard.

Chu Jiabao took a look at Jiang Yanyi and said, "Our elder sister-in-law is very smart."

Jiang Yanyi had some doubts because of Xue's attitude before, but now that Chu Jiabao said that again, she knew that her guess should be right.

Xue is not as affectionate towards Chu Chengbai as she has shown, and may even have no emotion at all.

Chu Jiabao is the same type of person as Xue Shi. She knows Xue Shi's situation, so she understands her motives for doing all this.

After a while, Chu Chengbai was taken to the old lady's yard. Except for the second master Chu who was drunk last night and hadn't sobered up yet, both uncle Chu and third master Chu came over.

Chu Chengbai pointed at Mrs. Xue and cursed: "You poisonous woman, I want to divorce you!"

Old Madam Chu was so angry that she threw all the pillows over to beat Chu Chengbai: "You don't know what to do, why are you crazy today?"

Chu Chengbai knelt in front of Mrs. Chu and said: "Grandmother, this poisonous woman is duplicity, she has a heart like snake and scorpion!"

Xue cried loudly: "You're telling me, how can I be vicious?"

Chu Chengbai was trembling with anger: "Si'er heard everything you said to your maid in the kitchen! Do you still want to argue?"

Si'er is the boy who always follows him.

Xue said: "What did I say, you tell him to come and confront me!"

Chu Chengbai said angrily: "You said that Yueniang desperately gave birth to a son for you, so you don't have to go through hell again!"

Xue suddenly burst into tears, pulled Mrs. Chu's sleeves and cried, "Grandmother, you are wronged. I said that Yueniang is a miserable person. She left after giving birth. You hand over Nian'an." Bring it to me, my husband is always worried about me, afraid that I will treat Nian'an harshly. I told the servant girl that I would rather not have children in my life, so I had to take care of Nian'an."

Mrs. Yang is the person Mrs. Chu trusts the most. When Mrs. Yang entered the kitchen, she did hear the last two sentences, so Mrs. Chu did not feel that Mrs. Xue's words were false.

Shi Ya, Xue Shi's maid, was interrogated alone, and Shi Ya's mind was upset, but Xue Shi did express to her that he did not want to have a child.

For a while, the whole Chu family only felt that Chu Chengbai didn't know what to do, and that his wife was willing to raise his concubine's son. He was afraid that his husband would feel that he had treated the child poorly, and he didn't plan to have any more. wife.

Mrs. Chu made a gesture to beat Chu Chengbai, Mrs. Liu saw her son's inhuman appearance, and hurriedly begged for mercy on her son's behalf.

Mrs. Chu pointed at her nose and cursed: "Look for yourself, what kind of thing is he!"

Mrs. Liu was so scolded that she couldn't lift her face.

Mrs. Chu said to Chu Changping again: "Changping, you beat this bastard hard for me. I don't know how many lifetimes of luck you have cultivated to marry a daughter-in-law like Awen!"

Xue covered her face and cried uncontrollably: "Grandmother, let him divorce me. I just said that I regard Nian An as my son, and people can slander me like this..."

Mrs. Chu shouted: "Chang Sui'er, who is beside him, will give me [-] slaps and drive him out of the mansion! These tricky slaves are becoming more and more shameless."

Chu Chengbai gritted his teeth and said: "Xue Wen! You can hide for a while, but you can't hide for a lifetime! I can't beat you to death when you go back to the room! Nian'an is the child of me and Yueniang. Bring it to you!"

Seeing that he was talking too much, Chu Changping slapped him with his hands: "There is no man in the Chu family who beats women, you are really talented!"

Chu Chengbai stayed with him in Yongzhou for several years, and he also treated Chu Chengbai as half his son.

Mrs. Xue has always been dignified and decent. On the contrary, it was his little concubine who acted like a demon every day. Chu Changping learned from Chu Chengmao that they were captured by the imperial army because of his little concubine. Ci, Chu Changping didn't have a good look at her little concubine at first, but he didn't want to pursue it because they were all dead.

Today, Chu Chengbai was an asshole to the end, so he took the initiative to teach him a lesson.

Xue cried: "Grandmother, let him divorce me, he will beat me again when I go back to my room..."

Old Mrs. Chu was trembling with anger: "You son of a bitch! Good boy, from now on you will bring Nian An to live with grandma, and if you don't go back to his yard, I want to see if he wants to beat my old woman too!"

Xue cried out bitterly.

Jiang Yanyi was afraid that Mrs. Chu would be angry, so she supported Mrs. Chu with one hand and patted her on the back with the other.

She never thought that the well-dressed and frail Chu Chengbai turned out to be a domestic violence man. No wonder she always felt that Xue Shi had no feelings for Chu Chengbai.

Even if things have developed to this point today, there are indeed suspicions of Xue's deliberate design, but it is also true that Chu Chengbai himself is a scum.

Chu Chengbai's Chang Sui had already been dragged down to face the board, and Chu Chengbai's mouth was bleeding from Chu Changping's slap again. Liu felt sorry for his son, and just called out to his mother, wanting to intercede for his son, and listened. Mrs. Chu said:

"You are all here today, so I will explain what I have said. Awen is the eldest granddaughter-in-law of my Chu family. From now on, Awen will be in charge of the family."

Liu's face turned pale, and he passed her directly to let his daughter-in-law take charge of the center. The slap on her face was not without pain.

Because Mrs. Xue has been in the house for many years but has nothing to do, and her son doesn't like Mrs. Xue, she has felt sorry for her daughter-in-law. Now that her daughter-in-law has climbed directly on top of her head, Mrs. Liu still can't accept it.

But no matter what she thinks, Mrs. Chu has already made a decision, and the other rooms have no objections, so this matter is settled.

**

When this happened, Chu Shubao was the saddest. She cried and apologized to Mrs. Xue because of the bastard things her brother did.

Mrs. Xue said it was nothing, and several people went to Mrs. Xue's residence to help pack things.

Because Chu Shubao was so sad, she ran out to cry, and both Chu Huibao and Chu Jiabao went out to comfort her.

Jiang Yanyi glanced out of the window, and Xue's lips froze with self-mockery and asked, "Does Second Sister think I'm mean?"

She knew that Mother Yang would go to the kitchen to see the "medicine" boiled for the old lady at that time, and when she left the old lady's courtyard, she also received the news that Chang Sui, who was beside Chu Chengbai, was going to the kitchen, and deliberately rushed before that In the past, Chu Chengbai was angered by saying such words, but when Yang's mother arrived, he said that Nian'an was his son.

Jiang Yanyi said: "It's not my sister-in-law's fault to meet people who are not nice."

Xue Shi bent her lips and said, "Thank you."

She is a smart person, she can see the current state of the Chu family better than anyone else.

The reason why she tried her best to please the old lady, not Mrs. Liu, was because she knew that Mrs. Chu was the one who had the most say in the family, and Mrs. Liu and Mr. Chu were nothing.

In addition, it is necessary to establish a good relationship with the people in the third room.

She doesn't care about who Chu Chengbai that trash likes, misses, or loses her soul for. The only usefulness of that person is to save a seed.Someone has already given birth to a son for her, and now she only needs to raise the child well, so that she can rely on him in the future.

Mrs. Xue just came to Xizhou, and there are not many things in the house, and the servants only used a few cages to move them.

The three sisters Jiang Yanyi and Chu Shubao had just accompanied Mrs. Xue to the old lady's yard when a servant ran in in panic: "Old lady! Old lady!"

Old Mrs. Chu was so angry that Chu Chengbai was so angry that she was lying on the bed, and when someone yelled like this, Mama Yang said angrily, "Why are you panicking? Can the sky still fall?"

The servant was reprimanded and breathed a sigh of relief, but because he was too horrified, he still stumbled when speaking: "Liao...the king of Liaonan came to the mansion to propose a marriage!"

Jiang Yanyi was teasing Xiao Nian'an with a rattle, but when he heard this, his hands shook, and the rattle fell to the ground.

There were too many frights this day, Mrs. Chu also suspected that she had heard wrong, she said: "Say it again, who is going to propose marriage?"

"Liao... King of Southern Liao!"

This title is so terrifying that the servant almost bit his own tongue.

Several young girls looked at each other, except for Jiang Yanyi, everyone else looked as if they had seen hell.

After all, Mrs. Chu is a person who has experienced big storms, so she asked after a while: "Which girl will you propose marriage to?"

"Second girl."

In an instant, the eyes of the whole room fell on Jiang Yanyi.

***

At this time, the father and son of the Chu family who were sitting in the front hall of the Chu family receiving the matchmaker also looked bewildered.

The ceremony for Fengfu Nacai 1 was well prepared, not only a live sheep tied with red silk, a white deer, a pair of mandarin ducks, two fish, two geese, but also ten cylinders of wine, rice Ten buckets.

The mediator is the old lady of the Han family. Han Tuo is a powerful general under Feng Shuo's command, and he is highly valued. The Han family is also a respectable family in Xizhou.The higher the status of the media protector, the more attention is paid to the woman.It goes without saying that Mrs. Han is a matchmaker because of her sincerity.

The smile on Old Mrs. Han's face couldn't be piled up, she said: "General Chu, the prince intends to marry Ling Qianjin, and at this juncture, the prince even specially instructed the old man that he must be hired according to the three matchmakers. Come on, don't wrong Miss Chu. Look, the prince personally caught Na Cai's live animals. It's not easy to catch a white deer in this icy and snowy world."

Normally, it would be enough for Na Cai to bring only a pair of live geese, but Feng Shuo directly brought all the livestock and poultry used in marriage proposals in the past dynasties.

At the banquet yesterday, Chu Changping only heard Feng Shuo say, "Why do you want to start a family if your career is not accomplished?" Today, the matchmaker came to the door. Even with psychological preparation, he still felt that he was dreaming.

He said: "This... is really too sudden."

Before Xu Shi came, Feng Shuo explained the situation of the Chu family, Mrs. Han said: "General Chu, you don't have to worry, this is the only way to accept it. What the prince means is that the marriage will be settled first, and it will not be too late to get married next year. "