Madam Hou

Chapter 17

After Yinniang, Mrs. Chen, and Pingniang mother and daughter washed and washed in Jingxiangyuan, they squatted on the bed for a while, and a little maid came to invite them to the flower hall for dinner.

After the mother and daughter put on their clothes and dressed properly, they went with the maid.

The three of them hadn't reached the door when they heard Mrs. Lin Hou's voice faintly coming from the flower hall: "Master Hou, you don't even know what day it is today. The mother-in-law brought the daughter-in-law to the mansion. You, the family, don't stay here." Treat guests at home, and go out to watch music with others, so you are not afraid of your in-laws and mother's jokes."

Then came a middle-aged man's voice: "What's the joke? Receiving the female relatives should be the business of your wife in the inner house. What am I, a grown man, doing at home?"

Even if he doesn't need to accompany the guests, he is the male master of the Hou's mansion, so he should order the inner courtyard and the outer courtyard to entertain him well, but he doesn't care about it. Is there anyone like him in my marquis, and I don't know what eight lifetimes of misfortune she has had to marry such a useless man.

Mrs. Lin Hou wanted to say something more, but when she saw Yin Niang and the three of them coming in, she stopped talking with Lord Lin Hou.Smilingly, she brought Yinniang and the others in, took Mrs. Chen's hand and said, "Sister is here." After speaking, he pointed to Lord Lin who was sitting above him, and said, "That's our Lord Marquis."

Mrs. Chen hurriedly stepped forward and knelt and said, "I've seen Lord Hou."

Lord Lin lowered his head and didn't look at Mrs. Chen. He wanted to wave his hand casually and say "my mother-in-law is welcome" to get over it, but when he waved his hand, he saw Mrs. Chen's face inadvertently. Lin Hou could not help but Surprised for a moment, he took his hands away and looked at his face.Although she is more than 30 years old, her delicate and charming face is like a delicate flower, and she looks four or five points similar to Yan Niang.Lin Houye couldn't help sighing in his heart, no wonder he can give birth to a beauty like Yan Niang, what a beauty!

Mrs. Chen felt a little uncomfortable being watched by Lin Houye.Mrs. Lin Hou naturally also saw Lord Lin Hou's gaffe, and knowing that her husband had committed a lustful problem again, Mrs. Lin Hou frowned in disgust, and felt ashamed to throw it at her in-laws.Mrs. Lin Hou hung her throat, coughed heavily, and reminded Lin Houye, Lin Houye finally retracted his eyes reluctantly, and said gently to Mrs. Chen: "My mother-in-law, get up quickly, the whole family, why are you so polite?" .”

Mrs. Chen silently took two steps back, and said in a low voice, "It's better to be courteous."

Mrs. Linhou blocked Mrs. Chen's way behind her calmly, took Yinniang and smiled at Lord Linhou: "Master Hou, take a look, this is Yinniang, do you think she is worthy of our son?"

Lin Houye glanced at it, and thought to himself, this second lady is also a beauty, although she can't compare to Yanniang, but after looking around the capital, she couldn't find a few more beautiful than this, then turned her head and glanced at the woman next to her. Pingniang felt that the third young lady would be a beauty when she grew up, and she sighed inwardly, this Chen family is full of beauties.

Yin Niang bowed her knees and saluted: "I have seen Lord Hou."

Lord Lin Hou was still observing the beauty and did not speak.Lord Lin Hou didn't speak, and Yin Niang just stood there.Taking advantage of Lin Houye's time to look at the beauty, I also carefully looked at Lin Houye.To be honest, apart from his mouth, Lin Fengqi doesn't look like his father at all. Lin Fengqi looks handsome and handsome, with a tall and handsome figure, but the pair of slightly raised eyes like phoenix eyes on his face always make him It seems to have such a charming temperament.As for this Marquis Lin, he was thin and fair, with narrow eyes and a little beard on his chin. He looked like a pampered middle-aged man, the kind who hadn't suffered since he was a child.In terms of appearance, Lin Fengqi is more like Mrs. Lin Hou.

Although Yinniang didn't know much about the relationship between Mrs. Lin Hou and Master Lin Hou, she still observed something very interesting.Although Mrs. Lin Hou is respectful to Lin Hou on the surface, she also behaves respectfully and virtuously in front of outsiders, three obediences and four virtues, but she feels that Mrs. Lin Hou does not think highly of Lin Hou. It is Mrs. Lin Hou who is in charge of the inner and outer courtyards.

After a while, when Mrs. Lin Hou's cough sounded again, Lord Lin Hou closed his eyes again.Lin Houye has always been more tolerant towards beauties. Seeing that Yinniang is so beautiful, even the eldest son who had previously disliked Yinniang's status as too low to be worthy of the Hou's mansion was gone. He smiled at Yinniang and said, "Get up quickly!" , family, don't be so polite."

Afterwards, Pingniang followed suit, and Lin Houye also said a few words that were not painful.

Then the two young masters and three concubines from the Hou's mansion also came over, and everyone greeted each other.

The second young master, Lin Fengye, was born by Aunt Bai. He is the same age as Lin Fengqi, and there is only a month between them.The only concubine son of Lord Hou is the one who was going to be engaged to Yan Niang before.When Yin Niang greeted Lin Fengye, she always felt that the second young master was looking at her, as if trying to find something in her.But when she looked up at him, he averted his eyes again.

The third young master, Lin Fengshan, is the legitimate son of Mrs. Lin Hou. He is 15 years old this year and does not look like Lin Hou Ye, but he looks more like Mrs. Lin Hou than Lin Fengqi.However, the third young master's temper seemed to be a little off. When he greeted Yin Niang, his eyes rolled around, and after looking at Yin Niang for a while, he said: "Why are you so young, even younger than me? Be my sister-in-law?"

Because of these words, Mrs. Lin Hou knocked her hard: "There are no rules."

Then there are three ladies.

The eldest lady, Fengxuan, was born to Mrs. Lin Hou's companion maid. Later, the companion maid died of dystocia when she gave birth to the eldest miss. Mrs. Lin Hou kept Feng Xuan in the house because of the maid's past affection. around.Since Mrs. Lin Hou didn't have a daughter, she treated Feng Xuan pretty well. Later, she betrothed her natal elder brother Fu Shanhou's concubine, but because Fu Shanhou's mansion still kept his father's filial piety, they pushed the wedding date to this winter.After seeing the ceremony with Yinniang, the young miss Fengxuan held Yinniang's hand and said gently: "If my sister is usually bored, she will come to play with me."

Yin Niang replied with a sweet smile: "Definitely go, when the time comes, sister just don't think I'm bothering you."

The second young lady, Feng Zhi, was born by Aunt Qing.Aunt Qing was Madam Linhou's maid before entering the door. When Madam Lin entered, Mrs. Lin dismissed all the maids around Master Lin in order to respect her in-laws. Also the teacher's honest and honest Aunt Qing.Later, after Mrs. Lin gave birth to two sons and stabilized her status, Aunt Qing allowed her to have a daughter for the sake of safety.Fengzhi's temperament is similar to her biological mother, honest and cowardly.After meeting with Yin Niang, Nuonuo just stood aside and didn't speak.

The third lady, Fengying, was born by Aunt Li.Aunt Li was originally a dancer raised by the Marquis of Fuyang. At the time when Lord Lin was drinking with the Marquis of Fuyang, Aunt Li led a group of dancers to dance. She was spotted by Lord Lin and brought back to the mansion.Aunt Li is beautiful, and she is the most favored by Lord Lin, and even her daughter is also the most favored by Lord Lin.Fengying saluted Yinniang casually, then walked over with her head raised, and ran to Master Lin to act like a spoiled child.

Lord Lin Hou saw a room full of people in the flower hall, and suddenly said to Mrs. Lin Hou, "Why didn't you see sister-in-law? Why, you didn't go to invite her?"

Mrs. Lin Hou curled her lips, and finally put on a virtuous expression and said: "Why not, the concubine was invited by Yuan Momo herself."

It means that she didn't come by herself, as a younger brother and sister, she has no disrespect for this widowed sister-in-law.

Lord Lin Hou said: "Then ask someone to invite you again. Although the eldest brother is gone, we can't treat my sister-in-law poorly as young ones."

Mrs. Lin Hou said: "Yes, I will ask someone to invite you again."

As soon as he finished speaking, a little maid announced that the eldest lady was coming.Then Mrs. Lin Dong, who was wearing a plain dress, entered the door, followed by Bingyue who served her personally.

The Dong family came from the general family. The Dong family was once prominent in the old general Dong's time. Because they stood in the wrong position when they were fighting for the reserve, although they are somewhat declining now, the Dong family still has some influence among the soldiers.At the beginning, Uncle Lin was very talented in martial arts, so Mrs. Lin and Mrs. Lin hired General Dong's eldest daughter. They hoped that Uncle Lin could borrow some power from the Yue family, hoping to make a name for himself as a military officer. Way to come.It's a pity that the Yue family borrowed their strength, but Uncle Lin's luck was a little bit worse, and Chengjue died on the battlefield in his first year.

After Mrs. Dong came in, she greeted Mrs. Linhou and Mrs. Chen, then Mrs. Dong looked at Mrs. Chen and said, "Mrs. Chen looks really young and pretty, she doesn't look like someone in her 30s. "

Anyone who is praised as young and beautiful will have a good impression of the other party. This truth is also applicable to middle-aged women. After hearing Mrs. Dong's words, Madam Chen's affection for Dong soared immediately.Smiling and said to Dong Shi: "Eldest Madam also looks very young."

Dong sighed, and said with a vicissitudes of life: "I'm old, even if I don't look old, my heart is old."

It's not easy to answer this question, Mrs. Chen is just perfunctory if she just laughs.

Mrs. Lin Hou is very disgusted with Dong's words. What do these words mean? It seems that we have treated you, the eldest sister-in-law, poorly.It’s just that it’s hard to refute the elder sister-in-law’s words, especially for an embarrassing elder sister-in-law like this, who seems to be bullying the widowed sister-in-law by a powerful evil brother and sister. Mrs. Lin Hou held her breath in her chest, and couldn’t spit it out, feeling uncomfortable. very.Mrs. Lin Hou didn't want to make Dong's grief continue, so she squeezed out a smile and asked Dong, "Sister-in-law, why don't you call me over together?"

"Brother Hu went to his renter's house, and my elder brother said that he would take him to learn riding and archery."

Look, it’s like this again, it’s not that the Hou’s mansion doesn’t want Brother Hu to ask for a master, but he just wants to let him go back to the tenant’s house to learn, isn’t it just to tell outsiders that we, brothers and sisters, treat your mother and son poorly? , I don’t want to teach my nephew well.

Mrs. Lin Hou didn't want to talk to this sister-in-law anymore, talking to her would only make herself angry to death, so she asked the maid to prepare a meal with a calm expression.

Because Yinniang and Mrs. Chen are guests after all, it is not good for them to sit at the same table with the men in the family. Although there are few people, Mrs. Chen still asks someone to set up two tables, and the men and women sit separately, separated by a screen.

(End of this chapter)