Rebirth of Splendid Heaven

Chapter 183 Rules
On the morning of New Year's Eve, Lord Hou called An Mujin over.An Mujin didn't know what Master Hou wanted to do with her, so he was anxious all the way.

In the study, Lord Hou sat alone behind the desk, resting his head on his hands, staring outside intently.When An Mujin came, he still hadn't looked back.

"Father, why are you looking for Jin'er?" An Mujin observed the expression of Lord Hou. His face was very calm, showing no signs of happiness or anger.

"Everyone didn't have a good time during the young year. Today is the new year and we can't be separated anymore. You go and call Xuan'er and his wife back. I don't blame him. It doesn't matter if you move out, he can't always think about relying on her. I rely on the Hou Mansion." Hou Ye sighed.

Seeing Master Hou like this, An Mujin couldn't ask why, so he answered yes.Master Hou didn't speak any more, and she left the study.

An Mujin was also happy that Hou Ye forgave his elder brother so quickly.But when she thought that Master Hou still didn't forgive the little lady, she felt a little sad again.

Telling the matter to the little lady, the little lady became happy, and arranged a carriage for An Mujin, and watched An Mujin get into the carriage before the little lady went back.

On New Year's Eve, everyone sat down according to their positions as usual.After Lord Hou came, he took a look at the distance between the main table and the side table, and said: "There are not many people, everyone should squeeze in on this table."

Since ancient times, aunts, concubines and concubines have all sat under the main table, and there has never been a reason for them to be on the same table.Why is Lord Hou so abnormal this year? No one on the side table dared to move, they just looked at the old lady and the young lady.

The old lady is still sad about Master Hou resigning from the official position and getting rid of the waiting position, and now she hears that Master Hou asked the aunts to sit at the main table.He slapped the chopsticks on the table hard, straightened his face, looked straight ahead and said, "Master Hou, do you still have any rules?"

Hou Ye chuckled softly: "Mother, what are the rules?"

Asked by Master Hou, the old lady felt as if a thorn was stuck in her throat, she wanted to say a thousand words, but couldn't.

"The rules are all left by the ancestors, how can there be aunts and masters who eat at the same table." The old lady said seriously.

Seeing that the old lady was getting angry, the young lady was worried that Master Hou would quarrel with the old lady, so she smoothed things over and said, "Master Hou's table is not big enough, it might be inconvenient to squeeze together."

Lord Hou looked at the little lady indifferently, looked up at the scenery outside the door, and said seriously: "Today I want to break this rule, and the aunts are also from the Hou family. Since everyone is a family, why can't we have dinner together?" .Either they come to our table, or we go to their table. Either way, I want everyone to eat at the same table today."

The old lady was furious at Master Hou's words, she panted twice and said, "Okay! Since you insist on insisting, then I won't eat this meal!"

Hearing what the old lady said, Master Hou was not moved at all, and still insisted on his own opinion: "Third Concubine, Fourth Concubine, Fifth Concubine, you should come here quickly. The servant girls will bring all the food from that table."

The maids were also very embarrassed. The old lady disagreed with this matter, but Lord Hou insisted.Are they doing it or not.If you do it, you will offend the old lady, if you don't, you will offend Lord Hou.

Seeing the maids standing still, the little lady waved her hand: "Bring over all the food, and all the younger sisters sit down too."

After getting the order from the little lady, the maids started to move, and the aunts also started to move to the main table.

Seeing that Master Hou was really against her, the old lady had an extremely ugly face, and she really wanted to leave by patting the table.The little lady hurriedly came to pull her, and the old lady pushed her hand away fiercely: "The evil spirit, I don't need your hypocrisy!"

Hearing the words "scourge essence", the little lady's hand seemed to be scalded by someone, and she suddenly retracted, not daring to pull the old lady anymore.

Seeing this, An Mujin stepped forward to hold the old lady, and before the old lady pushed her, she said loudly: "Grandma, don't you want to see a happy family when you are old? Family and everything are happy, if you leave, The peace is gone."

Hearing this, the old lady stopped in her tracks, but she was angry, she hit An Mujin's calf with a cane, and said angrily, "You don't need to teach me a lesson."

Although she wore a lot of clothes in winter, the old lady was using too much force on her crutches, and An Mujin's calf trembled from the beating.But still smiling, let Yuanyang help the old lady back to her seat and sit down.

Twelve people sat at a table, and it didn't look too crowded, but there was a strong sense of the New Year.

After eating for a while, Lord Hou began to toast, first toasting a glass to the old lady, thanking the old lady for her kindness in nurturing.Seeing Master Hou like this, the old lady's eyes turned red, and she also drank a glass of wine.

Then the toast started from the side of the old lady, first An Qixuan and his wife, then the mother and daughter of the third aunt, the mother and daughter of the fourth aunt, the mother and daughter of the fifth aunt, and finally An Mujin.

"Jin'er, I'm not a good father. You have been wronged so much, but you don't know anything about it." After Hou Ye finished speaking, he drank all the wine in the glass, and An Mujin also drank all the wine in the glass.

When he arrived in front of the little lady, Lord Hou didn't toast, but sat back in his seat directly.

Lord Hou toasted everyone, but he didn't toast himself. The little lady said it was impossible not to feel uncomfortable.She lowered her head, her throat was astringent, and she had no taste in eating.

I don't know when Master Hou will forgive her, maybe he will never forgive her!
Thinking of this possibility, the little madam felt very uncomfortable, she took a sip of warm wine, choking her tears.

Seeing the little lady like this, An Mujin felt uncomfortable, and took a handkerchief to wipe her tears.The little lady forced a smile and said: "This wine is too spicy, I can't get used to it!"

After the meal, everyone sat together to watch the new year.

Seeing that there was nothing wrong with the room, the little lady quietly walked out of the room alone.

The old lady said that she was a scourge, and Lord Hou would not forgive her. She really didn't know how things turned out like this.Could it be that she did something wrong?
"Mother." An Mujin chased her out, the little madam quickly wiped her tears, and said with a smile: "The room is too stuffy, I'll come out to get some air, why did you come out too?"

"One day father will understand you, mother, don't worry." An Mujin comforted.

The little lady held An Mujin's hand, smiled and wept again.An Mujin wiped her tears distressedly, and her voice choked up: "Grandmother will forgive you too, mother is not a scourge."

"Jin'er..." The little madam was about to cry when Zhang Xiaohui also came out of the room. The two mothers quickly wiped away their tears and smiled.

"Jin'er, I want to go to the latrine, you can go with me." Zhang Xiaohui said embarrassedly, An Mujin nodded and Zhang Xiaohui left.

As soon as the two of them left, Master Hou came out of the house, and seeing the red eyes of the little lady, he knew that she was crying.Seeing Master Hou coming out, the little lady didn't know what to say, so she just looked down at the ground like that.

"Yushu, we don't need to say thank you or sorry between husband and wife. I've thought about it for a while, this matter is not your fault, I shouldn't blame you." As soon as Lord Hou finished speaking, the little lady said Looking up at him, you can still see his last white breath.

"Master Hou, do you really not blame me?" The little madam asked in disbelief.

"It's not your fault, I'm also at fault. I haven't noticed the clue for so many years, I'm too stupid." Hou Ye laughed at himself, and said: "Don't call me Hou Ye in the future, call me master. I have resigned If you lose your position as an official, you will no longer be a Marquis."

"What's going on here?" The little madam asked in surprise, Master Hou hadn't told her about it yet.

After listening to Lord Hou's words, the little lady understood what was going on, and said very approvingly: "It's better not to be an official, so as to save you from having to deal with some official affairs. When you are old, you should rest."

"Yushu, you understand me best. My mother is still angry at me for this matter. I just said that I won't have the New Year's Eve dinner. Now I'm still very happy chatting with them." Hou Ye sighed.

Speaking of the old lady, the little lady was also silent.The old lady had a big prejudice against her, thinking that she was a scourge, and it was fine to let Liu Yiniang go to jail, and she also got An Qiling.

Seeing the expression on the little lady's face, Hou Ye knew what she was thinking, and comforted him: "Don't think about these things, one day mother will figure it out."

Just now Zhang Xiaohui deliberately pushed An Mujin away, the two walked around outside and came back, Hou Ye and the little lady had already gone in.

On the first day of the first lunar month, neither An Qixuan nor Zhang Xiaohui went back, but stayed in the Hou Mansion.

Early in the morning, the emperor's imperial decree came down, agreeing to the resignation of Lord Hou, but the waiting position was still left to Lord Hou, so Anpinghou's mansion is still Anpinghou's mansion.

After Master Hou received the imperial edict, the old lady's expression softened a lot, and she said: "Master Hou finally did not spoil the things of the An family's ancestors, otherwise I would not have the face to see them when I go underground."

This incident has little impact on the Marquis Mansion. If the title of Marquis is really removed, then it will really have an impact.

On the second day of the first lunar month, Zhang Xiaohui and An Qixuan left Hou's Mansion, but did not go to Zhang's Mansion, but returned directly to their new home.It seems that Zhang Xiaohui doesn't want to go back to her mother's house for New Year's greetings.

An Muxue also didn't go back to her natal home to pay New Year's greetings. In the Hou Mansion, except for the old lady who asked if she had come, no one cared whether she would come back or not.

It was not until the end of February that An Muxue returned to the Hou Mansion accompanied by Jin Yuntang.The reason was that An Muxue and Li Ping were pregnant at the same time, and Mrs. Jin asked everyone to take care of Li Ping and left her alone.

She always loves to compare and has a strong temper, but now that she is pregnant, she loves to compare even more, and her temper becomes even stronger, so the Jin Mansion can't keep her anymore, so she returned to the Hou Mansion.

No one cared about her even when she returned to the Hou Mansion.She couldn't help feeling a little disappointed, and wanted to keep Jin Yuntang in the Hou's residence.

The little madam found out about this, and the little madam was the first to be unwilling, so she almost drove her out with a broom.

"Uncle Jin, why can't you take care of a pregnant woman in such a big Jin mansion? Our Hou mansion is small and rough, and I'm afraid we can't take care of her well. Please take her back." polite.

Jin Yuntang didn't want An Muxue to come back at first, but now he heard what the little lady said, so he said to An Muxue: "Xue'er, let's go back. In the Jin Mansion, I still have to take care of you."

"What's the use of taking care of me? If I want to eat something good, will you make it for me? I just want to eat lotus cake. Your mother asked someone to make it for her. She gave all the leftovers to the servants, not even a piece of it." Give it to me, I, I..." An Muxue felt wronged, and didn't care that the little lady would see her jokes here, so she burst into tears as she spoke.

(End of this chapter)