Start with the humble bridegroom

Chapter 168
It snowed heavily that night.

The main room of Guiheyuan asked for hot water twice at night.

Two weak and boneless hands gently rubbed Zhang Zhe's waist under the quilt, and Zhang Zhe was so comfortable that he almost hummed.

For half a month, the couple had rarely been so harmonious.

"The lady is really talented. The housekeeper has only been here for a few days. Not to mention the servants of the Gu family, even Bailu and the others have become more diligent."

Meng Xiaowan changed her position in his arms, and asked with a suppressed smile, "Why do you think so, my husband?"

"Not to mention anything else, let's just say that we ordered hot water twice tonight, and the egret and the white warbler brought it in in a short time. Don't these girls make a lot of progress?"

Meng Xiaowan suppressed her laughter and said nothing, her long dark cloud-like hair let loose on the pillow, curled up with only the top of her head sticking out, and drew circles on her husband's chest with her fingers.

Zhang Zhe licked his tongue, the smell in the soup was still there.

"It's just that Mrs. Qian has been slacking off a bit recently. The soup tonight is not very tasty, and the cooking skills are so much worse."

"Where is Mrs. Qian's poor craftsmanship? This was sent from my grandmother's small kitchen and designated for you to make up for your body."

"Mr. Chen's craftsmanship? No way, I ate her noodles the day before yesterday, and the craftsmanship is not bad."

Only then did Zhang Zhe realize that Meng Xiaowan in his arms was shrugging her shoulders vigorously, which was a snickering.

Touching the lady's head, he suddenly asked: "Do you know what is in that soup?"

"Well, the concubine has to figure out what to eat for my husband. In this soup, there are black ginseng, red gui, blood jujube, deer antler and spring root, which are mixed according to the doctor's prescription. Deer blood is added with mountain It was boiled from spring water. I heard that in order to keep the deer blood from clumping, the two maids in the old lady’s room took turns to keep stirring it for half a day. Ah~~!”

Meng Xiaowan let out a low cry, and was grabbed by the waist by the "angry" Zhang Zhe.

"You drug me!!!"

"You obeyed your grandmother's orders, but you can't blame me. The doctor also said that it is a nourishing prescription. It's really ugly to prescribe any medicine."

"Wan'er, you are only nineteen, if you are really pregnant."

"The book says eighteen, but my husband can't beat me."

"Wan'er,"

"Ok?"

"Children,..., very annoying. Ah~~~, don't pinch people!"

Meng Xiaowan nodded to Zhang Zhe: "The concubine is not sleepy yet, so my husband will continue to talk about the words in his stomach."

Zhang Zhe was a little tired, and said in a daze: "He came to the Central Plains and saw a beautiful girl. Since then, he followed the pomegranate's skirt, and he was exhausted. When the girl went east, he followed her there; To the west, he followed to the west. Anyone who looked at him would say that he is a disciple of Bo, isn't that a pity?..."

It is a passage of Jiumozhi satirizing Duan Zhengchun in "The Eight Parts of the Dragon".

Unexpectedly, Meng Xiaowan shook her husband.

"Who likes to listen to this Tianlong? That Wang Yuyan is a fool. If Mr. Murong misses her a little bit, where did those things come from? Even if the husband makes her ten times more beautiful, the concubine doesn't like her. And that paragraph Prince, it’s true that the family has a long history, if you see one and love the other, don’t you think so in your husband’s heart too?”

Zhang Zhe forcibly opened his tired eyes: "Which part does the lady want to hear?"

Meng Xiaowan tightened her arms in his arms: "I only love the story about the Hu family, the snow outside the window is heavy, isn't it time to listen to this story?"

"The snow is vast, a couple walking from the snow mountain with a baby in their arms..."

The Flying Fox rumor only updated a thousand words on the tashang, and the two asked for hot water again.

As a result, I fell asleep until dawn.

In the hall of the Gu family, Meng Xiaowan, who had changed into a water-green jacket and skirt, was holding a hand stove in her hand. There were two carbon plates in the hall, and she was looking through the homework of several younger sisters on the table.

The four sisters of the Gu family sat upright on one side, their gazes following those of their cousin.

"Sixth sister's character has improved a lot. The hard work of half a month has not been in vain," Meng Xiaowan praised Mu Yi, made the little girl happy, and joked with her, "Your cousin will come back later. , I shamed him so much, and even said that our Mu Yi is a Taoist priest."

Excited and shy at the same time, Mu Yi simply covered her face and smiled, making her sisters very happy.A few servant girls hid behind the curtain, and laughed while covering their stomachs.

Meng Xiaowan put down Mu Yi's copybook, and looked at Qin Yi's poems again.

"Yeah! Fifth Younger Sister's poetry talent is skyrocketing," Meng Xiaowan commented sincerely, but Qin Yi asked forcefully, "Sister-in-law, how long will it take to surpass my cousin?"

Hanyi happened to take a sip of hot tea, and when she heard her sister's words, she couldn't hold back her breath and sprayed it all on the ground, coughing desperately.Her maid, Zaoque, hurried up to wipe her collar and make her feel smooth.

Gu Shuyi covered her face with one hand, pointed at Qinyi with the other, and said to Cui Xing, Qinyi's eldest maid, with a smile and anger: "Call the matchmaker quickly, and send you, a girl who doesn't know how to behave, to a husband's house. Why don't you say you want to be a saint?"

Meng Xiaowan knew that Qin Yi was arrogant and was absolutely unconvinced by her husband, but after being teased twice by Zhang Zhe, she didn't dare to provoke him anymore.I only work hard in private, thinking that I can beat Zhang Zhe once.

"Sister-in-law, I've been thinking about what Fifth Sister thinks about for half a year, but I don't know how to get past him. If Fifth Sister has an idea, you might as well tell Sister-in-law in private."

After hearing Meng Xiaowan's words, all the maids and women in the room laughed.

After commenting on the homework of the four girls, the Gu family sisters looked at each other a few times, and Gu Shuyi, the oldest, spoke.

"We heard that my sister-in-law has half a house of manuscripts of celebrities from the past. They were all bought by my cousin for my sister-in-law. We want to see the world. I wonder if my sister-in-law will agree?"

"Those are my favorites. Be careful when you read them, otherwise you will double your homework tomorrow. Baiying, take the girls around and pay attention to the snow on the road."

The Gu family sisters happily followed Baiying away.

Only then did Meng Xiaowan's face turn cold, and she took out a few greeting cards from the bottom of the girls' homework.

"I didn't send anyone to pay for the four families of Lu Zhu and Tang Shi. Why did they send posts to the door at the same time? The ladies in charge of the family have to come one by one. What are they selling in this gourd? What kind of medicine?"

Mother Chen changed the stove for Meng Xiaowan and persuaded her.

"Mistress, don't bother. Since they came separately, they must not have made trouble together. Xu really wants to talk to our family about paying back the money."

"My husband said that this is a document printed by the inspectors of the two provinces. The inspector of Jiangzuo Dao Peng clearly sold a favor to He Ban. Now that He Ban is about to seize Qi County, no one dares to jump out and provoke him." Congratulations, unless these thirteen families go to sue. I am not afraid of them causing trouble, but I want to know what happened, so that they came to visit me against each other."

Bai Li quickly lifted the curtain and entered the hall.

"Ma'am, the old farmer at the gate came to report. He said that the Mo family shamelessly threw the dowry at the gate and ran away. He said he would come back tomorrow to pick up the marriage certificate of the previous three girls."

Meng Xiaowan was stunned for a moment: "So I understand, I dare say that these families are all interested in our third sister."

(End of this chapter)