When Zhou Yaoniang and her party came back from Wangliufang, it was almost dusk. Today, Zhou Yaoniang not only bought clothes for herself, she also specially asked the tailor shop to order wedding clothes for herself and Xu Tianyi. bi
She was very clear at the moment that their wedding would definitely be rushed, and it might be held next month at the latest.
It usually takes about half a month to get the goods after making wedding clothes, so she just thought that she should make plans for the wedding in advance.
It's just that although Zhou Yaoniang knew that the wedding would be rushed, she didn't know that the wedding would be brought forward so much.
And when it was getting dark, when Zhou Yaoniang and Xu Tianyi came back with large and small bags, they didn't expect that Zi Juan, who was beside her mother, only looked around in the concierge on the right from time to time.
When she saw Zhou Yaoniang and Xu Tianyi, Zijuan immediately went up to greet them. Then Zijuan whispered, "Uncle, Miss, you are finally back!"
Zhou Yaoniang was somewhat surprised: "Sister Zijuan, why are you at the door? Are you waiting for us?"
When Zijuan saw Zhou Yaoniang asking questions, she naturally nodded immediately and said, "If I weren't waiting for you, who else could I be waiting for?"
Zhou Yaoniang glanced at Xu Tianyi, obviously Xu Tianyi also knew that this matter must not be simple.
So Xu Tianyi couldn't help but take the initiative to ask, "Sister Zijuan, what happened in the house?"
Facing Xu Tianyi's question, Zijuan just said, "Give your things to the servants and come with me to the main hall."
Seeing Zijuan say this, Zhou Yaoniang naturally just ordered Xinghua and other servants around her to carry her large and small bags back.
After that, when they followed Zijuan to the main hall, Zijuan also began to whisper to Zhou Yaoniang what happened today, "Miss, the eldest and third masters of the Zhou family came from Ningyuan's hometown. Now they are all together." Everyone is waiting in the main hall to see the young lady and uncle."
Hearing this, Zhou Yaoniang also remembered something. In her memory, these two people were not close to her family.
Because his father was an official in the capital, while his uncle and brother-in-law stayed at their hometown in Ningyuan. The two families are far apart, so they don't actually interact with each other very often.
Only one year did I hear that my grandmother had passed away, so my father and mother went back to their hometown.
And because it was the uncle who inherited the family's house and supported his mother, the whole family only stayed in mourning in the uncle's house for three years.
Those three years were not good memories for her.
She did not dare to talk to her uncle because he was serious in speech and speech. Her auntie was extremely partial to her daughter and son.
Of course, these two people wouldn't actually make Zhou Yaoniang feel uncomfortable.
What really offended her was her aunt's daughter. The girl was slightly older than her, and she was at the age where she loves beauty.
So on that day, when the mourners heard that they had to wear plain clothes and were not allowed to wear hairpins, she only had a long quarrel with her family.
It was the first time that day that she saw a girl being so playful and reckless without caring about her image.
In the end, her mother compromised and allowed her to secretly wear these things occasionally when no one was around, and she ended this farce.
Later, after she became familiar with him, she liked to look through the things she brought, ranging from clothing and jewelry to rouge and gouache.
Although she had to wear plain clothes during the mourning, she didn't bring too many things.
But she still secretly wore one or two nice-looking clothes and one or two pieces of jewelry, even if it wasn't for the purpose of wearing them now.
When the three-year mourning period is over, she can wear it again.
But who would have thought that she only wore such a small amount of things together, and in the end, this little thing was still taken away by the uncle's sister.
She just wanted to take back what belonged to her, but the aunt who upheld justice slapped her on the head and scolded her.
Her eldest aunt scolded her not to wear these things during the mourning period, and then she confiscated only her own things in the name of keeping them for herself.
She originally thought that the aunt was really thinking about this.
She didn't expect that the next day, she would see that the eldest uncle was actually wearing her own hairpin ring on her head, and she was also wearing her own skirt.
Zhou Yaoniang was naturally very dissatisfied, but she had nothing to do with this eldest uncle.
In the end, it was his mother who found out about this and went to reason with her aunt.
However, the eldest aunt was very tough, and her argument with her mother turned into a fight.
Moreover, his mother couldn't beat them, so in the end, his mother lost.
Later, my mother had to swallow her anger for a long time because of her father's official reputation.
Although there were fewer quarrels, that memory was not a good one for their family.
Although my brother-in-law and his family were separated at that time, they did not live in that house.
But because the two families are close to each other, they often communicate with each other.
The children in my uncle's family don't have any sneaky habits, but the child likes to bully others.
She was being chased and hit by this child with rocks. If her father hadn't seen her in time and took her away, she would probably have been bullied.
So thinking of the chaotic past, Zhou Yaoniang was naturally not in a good mood. She just asked cautiously, "Cousin and cousin, they didn't come over, did they?"
After hearing Zhou Yaoniang's question, Zijuan just said, "Master Zhou Xintian is here, but he has grown so big that he shouldn't bully the young lady anymore."
Hearing this, Zhou Yaoniang breathed a sigh of relief.
After the words fell, Zijuan just whispered, "As for Miss Ruyu, you probably don't know that in less than a year after the funeral, she married the Zhu family, a wealthy family nearby. Where is the eldest young master? She is now the young mistress of the Zhu family, so naturally she will not come over."
When Zhou Ruyu didn't come, Zhou Yaoniang couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.
It's better they didn't come.
However, she still asked more, "Who are the people coming here this time?"
Facing Zhou Yaoniang's inquiry, the maid beside her only whispered, "Of course it's the eldest master, eldest lady and their eldest son Zhou Xun, and the third master, third lady and their son Zhou Xintian."
I didn't expect that their big family would come so neatly. After all, it wasn't a holiday and the two parties didn't have much contact. Why were all these people here today? Zhou Yaoniang couldn't help but feel a little curious.
But before she could be curious for long, she had already arrived in the main hall. When the big family in the main hall saw Zhou Yaoniang coming, they all looked at Zhou Yaoniang and Xu Tianyi.
They were only looking at Zhou Yaoniang and Xu Tianyi.
"Yao Niang, you are finally back. Our whole family is waiting for you now. We have been traveling and traveling all the way. We have been very hard, but we haven't even had a hot meal." He said this. The one is a New Year painting woman with a bloated figure and a hairy face with a mouth and nose painted on it.
And this woman was the wife of the uncle of the Zhou family. After hearing what she said, Zhou Yaoniang knew that the other party was yin and yang herself.
However, in the face of the other party's strange aura, Zhou Yaoniang actually didn't care.
She just gave the other party a salute from Tingting, "Yoniang to eldest aunt, eldest uncle to say hello."
After she finished speaking, she only looked at the young man next to them. The young man now clearly looked like he had been drained by alcohol and sex.
Zhou Yaoniang didn't mind this at all, she just whispered, "Yao Niang has met my cousin."
After hearing this, the young man named Zhou Xun raised his head and glanced at Zhou Yaoniang.
He nodded lightly.
In fact, Zhou Yaoniang really had no impression of this cousin.
The only thing she knew about her cousin was other people's words that he was really ridiculous.
After all, during the mourning period, this cousin never stayed at home. Even when he was mourning his grandmother, he only appeared during the funeral.
There was a ridiculous incident of hooking up with the maid to have fun in the mourning hall during the funeral. Later, he became homeless all day long. I heard people said that during those three years, he spent almost every day in Qin Lou Chu Pavilion.
Because of this, although he is only in his twenties now, he looks as frail as a dying old man.
After saying hello to her eldest uncle's family, Zhou Yaoniang's eyes couldn't help but fall on her younger uncle's family.
The house of the younger uncle's family is much more refined than that of the elder uncle's family. Not to mention that their family's figures are all very standard. Even the younger uncle looks elegant, and the younger uncle's wife, Mrs. Zheng, looks even more elegant. She looks like she is knowledgeable and courteous, but this Zheng is also the daughter of a scholar, so she looks much more elegant than her eldest aunt, and their son, dressed in green clothes with gold thread embroidered with cranes, actually looks very attractive. people.
I heard that this young master is now just following his father in their family's shop to learn how to run a shop. Looking at his gentle appearance, I think he will no longer be as wild as he was when he was a child.
Seeing Zhou Yaoniang sizing her up, Mrs. Zheng immediately took the initiative to say hello to Zhou Yaoniang, "It's been a long time since I saw you, Yaoniang, and now she's just as graceful as ever."
Hearing Zheng's words, the eldest aunt just snorted coldly, "Slim? You can't be slim with this skinny look. You really know how to make fun of me with that mouth."
Facing the eldest aunt's teasing words, Mrs. Zheng's face showed a bit of embarrassment.
Zhou Yaoniang ignored her aunt's cynicism and didn't care about the intrigue between the two.
After all, although Mrs. Zheng didn't leave much of an impression on her, she always remembered that when her son hit her with a rock when she was a child, she was actually present at the time.
But she clearly saw all that but said nothing.
So she just gave in to these two people. She bowed slightly and said, "Auntie, thank you for your praise. Yaoniang is not as good as aunt said."
After her words fell, Zhou Yaoniang only bowed to her uncle again, "Yao Niang has met my uncle."
After the last salute, Zhou Yaoniang bowed slightly to her cousin Zhou Xintian, who had been looking at her.
"Yao Niang has met cousin Xintian."
