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Chapter 2 Most Loved

Episode 002 The Most Loved

Finally, it was sunny for a long time, and the sky turned dark again. Xue Dongyuan supported the maidservant, Tangerine, with double-beam embroidered shoes and heavy wooden clogs, stepping on the thin snow that had condensed into ice, the bluestone path creaked.

The road was difficult, their master and servant walked slowly, and it took twice as much effort as usual to reach the old lady's house.

The maid at the door called Miss Jiu to come, and lifted the curtain for Xue Dongyuan herself.

The joyful laughter of the women in the room overflowed.

She took off her wooden clogs and entered the house, and Baolu, the maidservant outside the hall, said to Dongci: "Old madam, Miss Nine is here..." She lifted up the silver-red felt curtain in Dongci with her own hands, and invited Xue Dongyuan go in.

A cold-proof curtain was hung between the east and west walls, and there was a green bronze tripod on each corner of the east and west walls, burning with silver charcoal, and a steady stream of warm currents lingered, as warm as bright spring.

Beside the big Kang by the window, there is a graceful pavilion of daffodils.

When the people in the room heard the servant girl's voice, all their eyes fell on the felt curtain, and they saw a young girl in a blue stone dress lightly walking in.

On the kang by the window, an old lady wearing a peacock blue Sihe Ruyi patterned long jacket was talking to a woman wearing a rose and purple two-color Xiangfeng Yunshoulders, and the fifth lady, Mrs. Yang, was sitting beside her.

Three young girls sat on the three carved chairs next to the kang, covered with dark green bullet-ink chairs.

One is Xue Dongyuan's younger sister, Xue Donglin, the biological daughter of the Fifth Madam.

The other wears a Nara thick beanie with a pink butterfly pattern and is about fourteen or fifteen years old; the other wears a bean-blue butterfly love pattern Ge Yunchou beanie and is about eleven or twelve years old.

Xue Dongyuan has never seen it.

Seeing Dong Yuan coming in, the old lady smiled kindly and said: "Sister Yuan, come and meet your second aunt..."

The second aunt is not the aunt of Dongyuan's biological mother Han's natal family, but the second wife of Jian Heng Bo Yang's family, and the second sister-in-law of his stepmother Yang's family.

Dong Yuan bowed his knees to salute Mrs. Yang.

Mrs. Yang received the gift and gave Dong Yuan a red gold phoenix and ruby ​​hairpin as a meeting gift.

Dong Yuan accepted it with a smile, and was blessed again, so Mrs. Yang hurriedly helped her to sit on the kang next to her.

"It's been a few years since I saw you. Sister Yuan has grown up so big, and she has come out so well!" Mrs. Yang was full of praise for Dong Yuan, "The old lady is really good at teaching people. I look at your granddaughters, all of them She is as beautiful as a fairy girl. The old lady has to teach me, and I will learn too. I will go back and take care of our sisters Wei and Tong."

The old lady laughed happily: "Aunt and grandma are too modest. The two cousins ​​are natural beauties..."

Dong Yuan pursed his lips and smiled, and Yang Shi also laughed along with him.

Second Madam Yang humbled herself a few more words, took Dong Yuan's hand, and introduced her two daughters to her: "I met you when I was young, I'm afraid you don't remember..."

She pointed to the girl in the pink dress, "This is sister Xiao Siwei..." Then she pointed to the little girl with pea green trousers, "This is sister Xiao Liutong. They are all younger than you..."

Yang Wei and Yang Tong hurriedly stood up to greet Dong Yuan.

Dong Yuan also blessed his body and called his sister.

While talking, Baojin and Baolu brought in the two plum vases brought by Dong Yuan. The plums were fragrant and the plums were delicate and beautiful, and they were inserted into the crystal plum vases.

The smile in the eyes of the old lady grew stronger: "Sister Yuan brought this here?"

She recognized that it was the plum vase she once gave to Dong Yuan.

Dong Yuan said yes respectfully, and smiled again: "The plum tree in the yard is in bloom, and I want to pick some branches to play with... Thinking that there are no plum trees in my grandmother's and mother's yards, I asked someone to give them to my mother and eldest aunt. I bought some, and brought a few branches to my grandmother. I was afraid that it would be too fragrant, and I don’t know if my grandmother likes it..."

"I like it. Grandmother likes Mei Xiang the most..." The old lady hugged her, and the smile in her eyes grew stronger, "Good boy, I count you as filial piety."

What the old lady likes is not only her filial piety, but also her sophistication.

I gave it to the old lady, and I didn't forget my stepmother and Mrs. Shizi. They were thoughtful and appropriate, and they didn't give anyone a chance to talk.

Seeing that the old lady was happy, Mrs. Yang agreed with a smile: "I also have a share?"

Dong Yuan said yes.

Yang Shi gave her a loving smile and said, "My good boy, it's hard for you to think about it."

Then he glanced at Xue Donglin who was sitting on the side chair leaning on the chair and drinking tea.

Yang remembered that there were also two red plum trees in her yard. When she went to visit her a few days ago, she told her maid, Jin Qiu, that she had picked plum blossoms to make tea.

She doesn't even know how to be filial off the shelf, not half as shrewd as Xue Dongyuan!Yang's heart is slightly angry.

Seeing her mother looking over, Xue Donglin understood her mother's meaning, snorted lightly in disdain, and turned her head away.She dislikes Xue Dongyuan the most, with low eyebrows and flattering eyes, flattering everyone, a servant who wags his tail and begs for mercy, how can he look like a noble lady of the Hou Mansion?

The old lady clearly saw the expression of Yang's mother and daughter, but she pretended not to see it, and talked to Mrs. Yang with a smile.

After a while, the servant girl asked if the meal was served.

The old lady got up with a smile and led them to the hall for dinner.

After lunch every day, the old lady has to take a nap, which is an old habit of decades.The fifth lady understood, so she sat down for a while, and seeing that the old lady was not in good spirits, she smiled and said: "Mother, the second sister-in-law has just returned to Shengjing, and our sister-in-law has not seen each other for many years, let's talk about it..."

Mrs. Yang also smiled and said: "I just came back. There are a lot of trivial matters at home. I have to go back too. I will come to bother the old lady some other day."

The old lady smiled and said: "You are all busy, go, go. Sister Yuan just sit in front of me."

The fifth lady and the second lady Yang said yes, led the children, resigned from the old lady, and went to the fifth lady's yard.

The old lady was a little tired, so she said to Dong Yuan: "Grandmother sleeps for a while, you practice calligraphy on the kang, and then go back after dinner. The day before yesterday, the imperial concubine gave a black-bone chicken. It is said that it is a tribute from the south, and it is the most nourishing. There are few things, so I don’t share them with them, and our grandchildren enjoy the food in secret.”

Xue Dongyuan laughed and teased the old lady: "Then I will eat alone with my grandmother..."

The old lady laughed.

Xue Dongyuan's eldest sister, Xue Dongjing, was granted the crown prince Liangdi in the early years.Three years ago, the former emperor passed away, and the crown prince ascended the throne, changing his reign name to Yuanchang.The crown prince became the queen, and the two Liangdi who gave birth to the prince became the noble concubine.

Xue Dongjing is one of the two noble concubines of Emperor Yuanchang.

Back then, the crown princess gave birth to the eldest son of the emperor, who died within half a month. Xue Dongjing's son was the second prince, who was seven years old and was the favorite of Emperor Yuanchang.

Later the queen remained infertile.

Dong Yuan once heard his father tell Yang that the queen would not be able to give birth to a prince in two or three years, and Emperor Yuanchang would make the son of Concubine Xue Dongjing Xue Guifei the crown prince of the East Palace.

The Xue family's wealth is probably even higher.

Yang was very happy to hear that, but Xue Dongyuan frowned.

When the moon is full, you will lose money. It is easy to get the wealth of the sky, but it is difficult to keep it.

The maids Baojin, Baolu, Lufu, and Ziyuan in the old lady's room came in to serve.

Lufu and Ziyuan undressed the old lady and waited for her to take a nap; Baojin and Baolu moved the small kang table, took pens, ink, paper and inkstones, ground ink for Dong Yuan, and waited on her in the big pit next to the window in the Dongci room. Practice calligraphy.

Dong Yuan was practicing calligraphy, and Baojin was helping her sharpen the ink, while talking to her in a low voice: "...I got a reward the day before yesterday. The old lady kept telling the kitchen to keep it alive, and she even asked someone to ask Miss Jiu when she will be ready, just wait for it." You come to eat..."

Dong Yuan paused slightly.

She thought of her grandma before she traveled to this time and space.Even a bowl of well-cooked porridge should be kept for her.At that time, she had two cousins, but grandma always gave her pocket money behind her back, for fear that she would be wronged.

No matter what it is, if the two younger brothers have it, grandma will prepare double copies for her.

Later, before she graduated from high school, her grandmother passed away.In the following years, no one treated her so well again.

Even her parents don't think about everything so carefully for her...

The black-bone chicken that was rewarded in the palace, she is sick, the old lady would rather not eat it herself, but keep it until she recovers...

Dong Yuan lowered her eyes, her slender eyelashes looked like small feather fans, and she closed her eyes obliquely in the shadow, unable to see any emotion.But Baojin knew that she had tears in her eyes, so she told the little maid on the pretext that she had something to do, and walked out.

Dong Yuan wiped the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief, raised his brows slightly, and practiced calligraphy more and more lightly.

Over there, Mrs. Yang took her sister-in-law and niece to her yard.

Just after leaving the old lady's courtyard, Yang Tong, the sixth young lady of the Yang family with a lively personality, said with a smile: "The ninth young lady just now, she is so beautiful, even if she is a master of painting, it is difficult to draw her character..." Then she saw her aunt, Mother, elder sister and cousin didn't speak, she was embarrassed, and pushed her cousin Xue Donglin, "Cousin, don't you think so?"

Xue Donglin's face was gloomy.

Just now in the old lady's room, she was a little jealous when her grandmother was so close to Xue Dongyuan; later Xue Dongyuan's plum blossoms were brought in, and her mother glanced at her, and she was angry; now hearing her cousin praise Xue Dongyuan like this, why is the rage burning in her heart? Unable to control it, she snorted coldly: "What's the use of being beautiful? Those in Goulan and Xiyuan are all so beautiful!"

"Sister Lin!" Yang yelled at her daughter, her eyes darkened.

Comparing her own sister to a hooker, what dignity does she have?
Yang's daughter was so indifferent that she was very angry.

Regardless of the presence of her aunt and cousins, Xue Donglin glared at her mother, supported her maid, and hurried back to her yard.

The Fifth Madam was trembling with anger, and supported the second Madam Yang's hand: "Look, it's all her father's favor! Every time I want to teach her a lesson, the Fifth Master stops her, and now... now I have developed such a tricky character! She's 13 years old..."

Mrs. Yang was amused, Xue Donglin's personality is actually more like Yang's, right?When she was a sister-in-law, she was also so tricky and aggressive.

She was disdainful in her heart, but on the surface she still wanted to comfort her: "Don't be angry, sister Lin is young and ignorant..."

"Auntie, don't blame Sister Lin, it's Sister Tong who can't speak and offends my cousin." Yang Wei who was on the side helped her mother persuade Mrs. Fifth, and then gave Yang Tong a wink.

Yang Tong is only 12 years old, but he is extremely smart. After understanding what his sister meant, he smiled and said, "Auntie, it's all my fault..."

Fifth Madam's expression softened slightly.

The group continued to walk towards the fifth lady's yard. Second lady Yang remembered something and said, "Zhiling, why does your old lady like sister Yuan so much? Didn't your mother teach you how to treat sister Yuan back then? You are so smart Man, why did Sister Yuan gain power? Zhiling, our sister-in-law does not tell lies, Sister Yuan is favored like this, it is not good for you and Sister Lin."

Zhiling is Yang's boudoir name.

Thinking of this, Yang's teeth itch with hatred.

"It's not those idiots!" She couldn't hold back her anger, and said angrily, "I told them to 'take care' of Sister Yuan! But Sister Yuan just walked in front of the old lady for more than two months. After a few compliments from the old lady, they lost their composure, a bunch of useless trash, Baba, I will pick and choose from the Jianheng Bo mansion to bring them out!"

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