The Chen family is a well-known scholarly family in Hechun City, and its family studies are the most famous in Hechun City. People in Hechun City are proud to study in the Chen family. The Chen family also runs a boudoir school for girls. The daughters of the Chen family attend school every day. You should learn music, chess, calligraphy and painting in the boudoir school, and you can also learn embroidery skills, cooking skills, etc. according to your own preferences.
Several ladies in the Jing'an Hall were chatting lively with the old lady. Several young masters and ladies from the clan school came back from school and entered the Jing'an Hall to greet Mrs. Chen.
"Mother." Chen Ningke called kindly when she saw her mother returning.
"Okay." Mrs. Xu looked at her daughter and nodded lovingly.
"Brother Ze, come here quickly and let mother take a look." Mrs. Xu said eagerly, watching her youngest son walk in.
Chen Yuanze looked at his mother with mixed emotions. He came forward to greet her and said, "Son, please greet your mother."
"Have you, my child, studied hard? You look so thin. Do you think you haven't eaten well? Are you naughty? Your grandmother is in poor health. Don't worry about her being naughty anymore." Mrs. Xu looked at her youngest son, her eyes wide. As if it had fallen on him, he looked up, down, left, and right. Even though he had doubts in his heart, his words were filled with a thousand words of care.
She feels guilty for this son.
"Mother, my son is very good." Facing his mother's concern, Chen Yuanze felt uncomfortable for a moment. He was even a stranger to his mother.
"Don't be naughty again and make grandma nervous." Mrs. Xu warned. She had heard a lot about her son in the capital, such as painting eyebrows and lips to dress up like a girl, fighting and causing trouble. Don't like to go to school.
She couldn't help but feel sad every time she heard it. Unfortunately, there was a big family in the capital waiting for her to take care of, and she couldn't bring her son with her.
"Yes, my son knows." Chen Yuanze replied cautiously. Compared to Xu, his words were half a bit less cordial.
"Brother Ze, come to grandma." Mrs. Chen called.
"Grandma." Chen Yuanze called happily.
Mrs. Chen pulled her grandson to sit next to her and asked with concern: "Are you still used to being in school today? Do you understand what you said? How is the meal?"
"Very good. My husband taught me well, and my brothers also took good care of me. But my grandson misses his grandmother." Chen Yuanze said coquettishly in Mrs. Chen's arms, talking to her affectionately, without any concern for his mother. The alienation around me.
"You monkey." Mrs. Chen laughed when she heard this, and then asked in detail about the incident in the school.
"Our brother Ze is really good, he will definitely be a top scholar in the future." The fifth lady looked at the intimate grandfather and grandson and said flatteringly with her mouth covered.
Mrs. Chen, ask a question, Chen Yuanze replies, everyone is used to it by acting coquettishly from time to time. The number of children in the eldest house of the old lady is different. The second house is better, and the children in the other three houses are too lazy. Take a look.
But Mrs. Xu couldn't help but feel sad when she saw it. She felt bad that her son was not close to her.
While they were talking, Zi Lian, the eldest girl in Jing'an Hall, came in and replied: "The mother-in-law sent to Dr. Xiao's house is back, and she also brought back a gift from Dr. Xiao."
Zi Lian looked at the old lady with a strange expression, not knowing whether to tell the truth or not.
"Haha! This Doctor Xiao is so polite. He even brought a gift back." Mrs. Liu smiled and glanced at Chen Yuanze who was talking to the old lady.
Madam Chen and Chen Yuanze looked over, and Ms. Liu asked again, "But what did you bring back?"
"It's some fruit wine, canned food, and some scented tea." Zilian replied.
"My sister gave it to me. She promised to give it to me." Chen Yuanze stood up excitedly and wanted to take a look, but was held back by Mrs. Chen.
Old Mrs. Chen grabbed her grandson and said with a smile: "You naughty monkey, there is no need for you to go in person and ask them to move in. Let's all see what kind of good things Doctor Xiao has given you."
"What mother said was that she wanted to ask Dr. Xiao how his family was doing," Ms. Liu said with a smile.
Chen Yuanze had no choice but to say: "Then don't snatch it from me. My sister gave it to me."
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the room laughed.
"Okay, I hope I won't snatch it from you, just look at how stingy you are."
Mrs. Xu frowned when she heard what her son said. It was just as Mrs. Liu said, Brother Ze was really close to Xiao Ming, calling her sister one after the other.
Mrs. Wang next to Mrs. Liu was carrying a basket, which contained several packages of scented tea that Xiao Ming had sent back. Chen Feng picked up several packages of each of chrysanthemum tea, honeysuckle and wolfberry, and took Mrs. Li and Mrs. Wang inside. After entering the inner gate, he alone cannot enter the inner house. The steward of the inner house will guide him at the Chuihua Gate.
Mother Wang was waiting outside the gate of Jing'an Hall with Mrs. Li and Mrs. Wang. She was the steward of the inner house next to the second lady. When she saw Zilian coming out of the courtyard from a distance, she warned in a low voice: "When I saw the old lady and the ladies, You should be careful and think carefully about what you should and shouldn't say, so you don't get slapped with a slap in the face."
Mrs. Wang is still her cousin, but their status is different now. She is favored by the second wife and works in charge, while the cousin is clumsy and thick-toned, and only has a rough job as a nurse.
Mrs. Li and Mrs. Wang each held a jar of fruit wine and cans, nodding repeatedly.
"Mother Wang, Madam is letting you in." Zi Lian said.
"Thank you Miss Zilian, I will take them in right now."
Mrs. Li and Mrs. Wang carefully followed Mrs. Wang into the house, their heads lowered along the way. They were just the guards of the inner courtyard, and it was their first time to enter the old lady's Jing'an Hall.
"Greetings to the old lady, Madam." Mrs. Li and Mrs. Wang knelt down as soon as they entered the room, not daring to raise their heads.
"Old madam, ladies, these are the two women who escorted Dr. Xiao back to Pingcheng." Mrs. Wang reported back, "These two people are so ignorant that they used the palace's horse to bring back the return gift from Dr. Xiao." Okay, there are nearly thirty jars of fruit wine on the big carriage."
Mrs. Liu frowned, with an unhappy look on her face. The carriage was for her to travel exclusively. In order to express her respect for Xiao Ming, she specially gave it away with her own carriage. She didn't expect that it would be used to pull things back. Look at this dusty She could smell the smell of wine on the carriage.
Mrs. Liu looked at the things brought by several people and said, "How is Doctor Xiao's house? These are the gifts brought back."
"Back to the old lady, madam, Dr. Xiao has a three-entry courtyard in Liujiacun. There are several servants at home to serve him. There is also hundreds of acres of orchards outside the door. They grow all the fruit wine, canned food, and scented tea at home. ." Mrs. Li rushed to say. Mrs. Wang who was with her was not good at talking, so she always answered.
Mrs. Liu was angry, what is this? Is it true that her expensive carriage is used to carry these country things? These two old guys had the nerve to bring them back.
