The Way of Favors

After lunch, Qiao sent the maids out, and wrote to her husband in the house, telling him that the return period was suspended.

Halfway through the writing, I listened to the maid outside calling "Three Girls".

Qiao quickly dried the handwriting and hid it for the time being, lest his daughter could see her private conversation with her husband.

After covering it up, he saw Fu Rong walking in. Qiao turned and walked on the couch, motioning his daughter to sit next to him, "Why doesn't Nong Nong rest?"

In late May, it was the hottest time after noon, and Joe felt sleepy.

"Can't sleep." Fu Rong shook his head and leaned on the couch. A piece of iced melon sliced ​​from the fruit plate that Qiao Xing had just set up. It was sweet and delicious. After eating three slices in a row, he stopped. Wiping his mouth, Fu Rong asked her mother in a low voice, "Mother, I don't know something. Did we have any holidays with the elder aunt? Or did the old lady signal the eldest mother not to tell us the wind?"

When the princess of the county offered the invitation, Fu Rong also figured out Lin's intentions.

But she didn't understand why Lin did this.

Jingcheng Xungui knows his own situation. His father is a bastard. Even if he is now the prefect of Jizhou, his mother is a little emboldened to go out as a guest. In the eyes of those noble ladies who pay attention to the concubine, the mother is still far inferior to the Lin family. Lin is not necessary. Prevent the mother from going to the banquet. Not a mother, it was her and sister, but Fu Baoxi, a little girl, only started talking about marriage two or three years later, Lin did not have to worry that she would steal Fu Bao's limelight.

Joe's was delivering melon slices into his mouth, and he paused when he heard this.

When Fu Rong saw it, he became more convinced that he had a festival with the Lin family, and couldn't help but begged: "Mother, tell me, otherwise I will feel uncomfortable."

In the previous life, Lin didn't treat her very much. Fu Rong only assumed it was because of her separation. Now it seems that there are other reasons. After all, Lin is not particularly enthusiastic about her sister.

Qiao sighed, put down the bamboo stick, and gently shook the fan while saying: "I have only seen each other in more than ten years. What can I do for the holidays? Who knows what she thinks, the pros and cons are still making rifts? Well, not to mention that I am not close to her, maybe I show a little less face, so she can be happy for a while."

Fu Rong looked at his mother suspiciously, not quite convinced: "I don't think she looks like an unreasonable person, my uncle treats us so well, my uncle has always been in the same mind with my uncle..."

"How do you know that she is on the same mind as your uncle?" Qiao stared at her daughter curiously. She had lived in the Hou Mansion for a few years. See through your mind?

Fu Rong secretly said that it was bad, and said with a grin: "I listened to what Abao said. She said that the elder aunt would obey the uncle's words."

"What does she know as a little girl." Qiao didn't think much, and yawned when he lay down. "Anyone has a bit of intrigue, so don't worry, my mother knows everything in her heart. Don't worry about it, so An Anxin is waiting to go abroad. Just be a guest at the government. If your mother is sleepy, don't go back, just rest here with your mother."

After speaking, he closed his eyes.

"Mother, don't sleep." Fu Rong was not happy, she was fourteen, and her mother fooled her as a child.

Qiao turned inside and hummed softly: "Dare to disturb me again, and be careful I don't take you there."

She and Fu Pinchuan didn’t have anything, but she didn’t want her husband to know, nor did she want the children to know. Tell them that even if they all believed her, she would inevitably have a grudge when she saw Fu Pinchuan. Qiao felt that Fu Pinchuan should have forgotten that little impulse when he was young, and that's the case, it's better to live in peace like this. Didn't the old lady let people around him reveal any news?

As for Lin...

Qiao understood Lin's careful thinking, if Fu Pinyan liked others, she would probably be uncomfortable, so she quickly died down. Qingguo Gongfu was a post for Jingyang Houfu. As Mrs. Hou, Lin had the right to decide who to take. People didn't want to take her. Qiao knew it, and he wouldn't entangle her. But now, as Fu Pinyan's wife, she received an invitation directly from the princess of the county, so she would not be wronged by Lin's unhappiness.

Lin likes sulking, she feels better in the house.

With a clear heart, Joe fell asleep soon.

Fu Rong was not as forgiving as his mother.

In fact, she didn't want to go to the Palace of Qing Dynasty, but she wanted to go.

I didn't want to go because it was Xu Yan's grandfather's home. In his previous life, Fu Rong had never been to the imperial palace because he was not seen by the princess concubine, but he had visited the Palace of Qingguo once. Of course, all he got was cold. The princess just didn't like her. Princess Yongning just looked down on her. She looked like she was a country girl. She married Xu Yan because of her beauty.

Well, she really attracted Xu Yan by her beauty, but who made Xu Yan like her face?

I want to go, of course, because of Wang An.

Wang An and the emperor are brothers of the same father, and Princess Yongning is also his aunt. He will definitely go to celebrate his birthday.

Even if it was only possible, Fu Rong was willing to try his luck.

After the rest, Qiao was going to Wufutang, and Fu Rong followed.

The old lady thought that their mother and daughter came over before leaving and pretended to be reluctant, so as soon as Joe entered the door, she sighed: "You said you, when you come over, you should bring the official brother with you. Now you are anxious to go back. Look at him, I will keep you, to delay the reunion of your mother and son, and I will not bear to keep you."

The Qiao family sat down beside her affectionately and smiled: "Don’t worry, Su Niang is not in a hurry to leave. In the morning, I met the Princess of the County in Feng Laiyi. She invited us over to celebrate our birthday. Then we will wait until the end. go."

The old lady's smile froze suddenly, and she repeated in disbelief, "Princess Princess?"

Qiao quietly gave Fu Rong a wink and smiled brighter, "Yes, the youngest daughter of Princess Yongning is married to the king of Xindu, Jizhou, did you forget? By the way, did the Houfu receive the post? No, I'll take Abao and the three sisters too, and be a company with Nong Nong Xuanxuan."

The old lady was so angry that her lungs exploded!

Fu Bao Fu Mi is a daughter of the Hou Mansion, and Shen Qing is her granddaughter. She still needs the light of the second room concubine to go to the Palace of the Qing Dynasty?

With a stomach full of fire, the old lady's face turned red, and she forced a smile and said, "Yes, I remember. Last year, there was a post for us at this time. Mother Song, you go to the wife. Let me ask if the post from the Guogong Mansion has arrived. She has been so sick these past few days, maybe she has forgotten."

"Hey, I'm going now." Mother Song responded with a smile, and returned soon, and handed a hot stamped post to the old lady: "The lady said that I just delivered it and I am going to show it to you. I'm afraid She won't come after being sick."

The old lady took the post and smiled at Qiao's: "It's just right, let's go to celebrate birthday together at the end of the month." Then she said to Mother Song: "Go and inform the wife that the second wife will not leave tomorrow, and the family dinner tonight. I don’t have to talk about it anymore and tell her to rest at ease and get up early."

Mother Song went out again.

The old lady didn't want to see Joe's anymore, and sent away: "Go and see your sister-in-law, maybe she will be cured when she is happy."

Joe nodded and left.

"Mother, didn't you say you are going to see your eldest mother?" Fu Rongqi said when he went out and saw his mother turning directly to the east courtyard.

Qiao smiled, "Most of her illness is pretending, let's go to show off again, I'm afraid she is really ill."

Fu Rong was quite surprised, "I thought my mother was going to get mad at her. Just now, the old lady's face almost turned into pig liver."

Qiao touched his daughter's head: "This matter, their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law must be angry. Alas, if you don't have to come and say it, mother doesn't want to be angry. After all, we live here. If it is not necessary, it is better to avoid trouble."

Fu Rong nodded, maintaining the harmony on the surface, everyone was better off.

Lin was not at all sad. He couldn't breathe out of his chest when he learned that Joe was delayed in returning.

How should she explain to her husband?

If her husband knew that she had never invited Joe before, what would her husband do to her?

In the evening, Fu Pinchuan came back from Dali Temple and changed his clothes to visit his wife first, "How is it, is it better?"

Lin's eyes were sour, "It's much better, I'm thinking of Master Hou."

Seeing that her eyes were red, Fu Pinchuan expected her to feel uncomfortable in her illness, so he was not in a hurry to go to Wufutang to accompany the old lady, and sit by the bed for a while.

Lin did not dare to say, and was afraid of what her husband would hear in Wufutang, so he bit his head and said: "Today the second younger brother and sister went to Fenglaiyi, and met the princess concubine there. I had to agree to go to the Guogong Mansion to celebrate my birthday, so I won’t leave early next month."

Fu Pinchuan was stunned, and then said: "I see, they are all in Xindu, and I want to have a good relationship on weekdays."

Lin stared at her husband for a while, and he was relieved to see that he really had no doubts.

After accompanying his wife, Fu Pinchuan went to see the old lady again.

The old lady drove the maids out, looked at her son, and hummed: "Your wife has told you everything, she won't leave."

Fu Pinchuan looked down and said: "The princess of the county invites it, it is not good to refuse."

"You're very happy in your heart, aren't you?" The old lady said in a weird manner, spreading all the anger she had received at Joe's in the afternoon on her son, "Don't think I don't know, even if you avoid it, she is in this home, you usually do I can eat two more foods! Pooh, a Humeizi is also worthy of your attention. If you knew she had become the wife of your concubine, you could not stop thinking about it. I should have sent her far away back then and let her... …"

"mother!"

Fu Pinchuan stood up with a calm face, "If my mother wants to see me and Pinyan laughed at by others, please tell me directly, and my son will resign."

"You, are you still reasonable?" The old lady was so angry that she fell a tea bowl.

Fu Pinchuan left without looking back, his face pale.

The little maids outside were silent, although they didn't know what the mother and son said inside, they also knew that Master Hou was really angry this time.

The east courtyard didn't know anything about the movement here.

As night fell, Fu Rong and Yi lay on the bed, holding the birdcage and teasing them, "I bet that **** will come tonight, believe it or not?"

Lying in the corner of the birdcage, drowsy.

"He is a bastard, you are a lazy." Fu Rong couldn't bear to bully his pet, put the bird cage aside, and waited for Xu Jin to come over. Except for the people in the Hou Mansion, probably no one knew that their mother and daughter had changed their return dates. With Xu Jin's cheeky, he knew that this was her last night in the capital. Would he not come?

Recalling Xu Jin's impudence that night, Fu Rong tightened his collar, and said nothing tonight to indulge him.

It's a pity that Fu Rong was wrong this time, and Xu Jin did not show up all night.

Of course, Fu Rong didn't wait all night foolishly, and fell asleep after lying down. It was the next morning that he found that the clothes were well dressed, and he recollected.

Fu Rong was a little confused. He always felt that this was not like Xu Jin's style. Could it be that he was afraid that she was still angry and didn't dare to come over?

In any case, it is a good thing for Fu Rong that he does not come to harass.

In a blink of an eye, it was the night before Princess Yongning's birthday.

In Su Wang Mansion, Xu Jia stood in front of the desk in black, waiting for the man opposite to order.

After a long silence, Xu Jin motioned to him to return to the room to rest.

Xu Jia faintly guessed that the prince was probably awkward with the third girl. He didn't dare to say anything about this kind of thing. He retired to the door and waited until he was sure that the prince would not call him again. Then he left.

In the quiet study room, Xu Jin touched out the familiar longevity wisp, his eyes were complicated.

Haven't seen him for so long, did she miss him?