Just now, Du Hengshuang said that he would keep them for dinner, but when they arrived at Xiao Shiji's place, he actually started to chase them away!

Long Wenping and Cui both looked ugly.

Long Xiangye shouted with aggrieved face, "Boss, your wife..."

Xiao Shiji interrupted her and said in a deep voice: "Mom, Shuang'er is pregnant. Even if you don't like her, not because of the years of friendship between our two families, but because of the child in her belly."

For the sake of our Xiao family, please be more considerate to her." After that,

He nodded to Long Wenping and Cui, "When are you two going to leave the house? Just tell me and I will send someone to send you two out. Looking at the situation, you two will not leave the house before the curfew. - Over there.

I have something else to do, so I’ll excuse you." After saying that, he turned around and strode out of the house.

When I walked to the entrance of the courtyard, I met Mr. Yang who had returned from the temple.[

Xiao Shiji greeted her respectfully and saluted, "Great-grandmother is back."

Yang looked at the sky and said with a smile: "It's getting late. Have you had dinner? I brought some vegetarian food here. Do you want to bring some for Shuang'er?"

Xiao Shiji knew that Du Hengshuang did not eat food cooked outside now, but it was hard to refuse Yang's kindness, so he still said: "My great-grandmother only remembers Shuang'er and not me. I would like to ask for some vegetarian food."

"No problem. I'm just worried that you men don't like to eat these vegetarian dishes. If you want to eat them, I'll send someone to bring them to you." Yang said, beckoning her maid over, and ordered: "Bring them over.

I will send the vegetarian dishes I brought back from the temple to the Marquis today."

Xiao Shiji hurriedly said: "Just a part is enough. Great-grandmother should leave some for the old lady."

Yang knew that she was talking about Longxiang Ye, so she pursed her lips and lowered her eyebrows and smiled, "That's fine, I'll leave some for her."

The two of them exchanged a few words and then left.

In Long Xiangye's Nuan Pavilion, Long Wenping and Cui looked at each other. They didn't know what to do.

Yang walked in and saw Long Wenping and Cui here. She smiled and said to Long Xiangye: "So you have a guest. No wonder you don't want to go to Daxingshan Temple with me for a dip today. Let me tell you, Daxingshan is here today."

The temple is very lively. An extremely powerful opera troupe has come from the south of the Yangtze River. They will sing Buddhist operas in Daxingshan Temple for three days and three nights. You are really short-sighted!"

Long Xiangye was stunned when he heard this. Didn't you say that you can't go to the theater or listen to music to observe the festival?

Yang saw Long Xiangye's confused eyes. After thinking for a while, he understood what she meant and explained to her with a smile, "...the play in front of the Buddha is sung for the Buddha. It does not break the rules." That is to say.

It is said that those who observe the festival can also listen to the operas performed in the temple, unlike ordinary people who ask the opera troupe to come in to listen to the opera for fun.

Long Xiangye felt great regret. If she had known it earlier, she would have followed the Yang family to avoid being taken advantage of by Du Hengshuang here today.

Seeing this, Long Wenping stepped forward to salute Mrs. Yang, "I have met Mrs. Yang."

Long Xiangye introduced to Yang, "He is my natal brother Huang Shen. My biological brother." He also pointed to Cui, "She is my natal sister-in-law." After a pause, she said proudly: "She is a girl from the Cui family in Qinghe.

"

Yang was shocked. A girl from the Cui family in Qinghe was the most noble among the five surnames. How could she marry a commoner family like Long Wenping, a merchant who was neither a noble nor an official?

"May I ask if you are the daughter of the eldest or third eldest daughter of the Cui family in Qinghe?" Yang couldn't help but ask.

Mrs. Cui blushed a little. She was not a legitimate daughter, but a concubine. Moreover, her natal family had recently taken advantage of Xiao Shiji and was admitted to the legitimate clan by the eldest family. In fact, that was not the case at all.

Cui's father, Long Shuzhi's maternal grandfather, was also born as a concubine, and was the daughter of a maidservant from a branch of the Qinghe Cui family who had a fifth family.

Cui's own biological mother was also a concubine. She was born as a concubine, so she married Long Wenping, who was also a concubine.[

Their family is actually a concubine of a branch of the Cui family in the fifth service. Apart from the fact that they both share the same surname with the word "Cui", they probably don't have much connection with the Cui family in Qinghe.

The honorable women of the five surnames originally refer to the legitimate daughters. The concubines of the five surnames, and those of the side branches, are not much more honorable.

When Yang asked this question, he obviously regarded her as his legitimate daughter.

Ms. Cui was very arrogant just now, but now she couldn't bear to say that she was a concubine, so she could only vaguely say: "My mother's family is a branch of the Cui family in Qinghe..."

Yang understood, so she stopped asking, and said with a smile: "You guys sit down, I'll order someone to heat up the vegetarian food, and let's have dinner together."

Long Wenping said hurriedly: "No need to bother. We will go home right away. We are all in Chang'an City. We will just move around more in the future. There is no rush."

Yang didn't hesitate to stay. She nodded with a smile and said to Long Xiangye: "They are your relatives. Please arrange them well. I will go and clean them up and talk to you in the evening."

Long Xiangye agreed and sent Yang out.

After Long Xiangye came back, Mrs. Cui said to Long Xiangye: "There is nothing we can do, your wife is pregnant now. Pregnant people are the biggest, no matter how reasonable you are, you have to give in before someone else's belly.

Don't make trouble with her in the future. Didn't you see that Shiji's elbows are all tilted towards her? Where does he still see you as a mother in his eyes? "

Long Xiangye was already suffocating today, but after hearing Cui's words about setting up a bridge and stirring up fire, she became even more angry. She sneered and said, "Is it a big deal to be pregnant? Where did the child come from? With white eyebrows and a red face, where did the child come from? How?

Just a trip to Luoyang? Hum,

She is just coaxing my cotton-eared son! Even if she has a child, she doesn’t know the surname is Zhao or Qian! You care about that bastard kid, I don’t! Who is a woman who can’t raise children? Just like your Shuzhi.

There are no adulterations!”

These words went back and forth in Long Xiangye's mind for countless times, and she never dared to say them to anyone.

I was really annoyed today, and I actually said it in front of Long Wenping and Cui without knowing it.

Long Wenping and Mr. Cui were stunned. They looked at Longxiang Ye and couldn't say a word.

Long Xiangye also suddenly covered her mouth with her hands, as if she had said something treacherous.

The room suddenly became quiet.

Bang!

There was a movement under the lattice outside, as if someone had knocked over the broom. In the quiet room, the sound sounded particularly harsh.

"Who is outside?!" Mrs. Cui rushed over and opened the lattice, but saw no one. She only saw a snow-white cat, jumped down from the courtyard wall, and ran outside.

"I was scared to death. It turned out to be a cat." Ms. Cui patted her chest with her hand and closed the lattice.

As soon as she closed the door, a little maid of eleven or twelve years old, with an earth-colored face, crawled out from under the bed and ran quickly along the corridor to the courtyard door. Tiankun walked sideways through the half-open courtyard door.

, went to the main courtyard.

In the Nuan Pavilion, Long Wenping complained softly to Long Xiangye, "My eldest sister, how can you say such a thing? If the Marquis knew about it, I'm afraid even my own mother would not recognize it." He said that the child did not know that his surname was Zhao and Qian.

, does not mean that it is not Xiao Shiji’s species...

No man can stand this kind of thing.[

Long Xiangye covered her mouth and was stunned for a long time before she came back to her senses and said sarcastically: "I was just talking nonsense." He then warned Long Wenping and Cui, "Don't talk nonsense when you go out. Let me know something.

Feng Sheng, all relatives should stop doing this... I don’t recognize relatives like you."

"No... of course not..." Long Wenping quickly promised. He went out to talk nonsense only after he was full. Besides, he also knew something about going to Luoyang. Xiao Shiji went with him, how could it be possible?

That child is not his? The eldest sister is getting more and more confused...

Mrs. Cui's eyes flickered. She looked at Long Wenping and then at Long Xiangye. She always felt that the siblings were hiding something from her. She endured it again and again, and then she planned to go back and ask Long Wenping what was going on.

Is there really something wrong with the child in Du Hengshuang's belly?

Ha! This is interesting...

Long Wenping and Cui immediately said goodbye and left.

After Yang took a bath, she changed her clothes and came over to have dinner with Long Xiangye.

On the table were vegetarian dishes brought back from Daxingshan Temple, which tasted very good. Unfortunately, Long Xiangye had something on her mind and had no appetite at all.

Ms. Cui finally asked about the matter on her way home.

After listening to it, I felt fluent.

It's not what she thought at all.

She and Long Wenping were thinking the same thing, that is, although the Xiao family encountered bandits when they returned to Luoyang, with Xiao Shiji and the Xiao family soldiers accompanying them, it was impossible for the Xiao family women to have any problems. If Xiao Shiji had not followed.

When they went back, Du Hengshuang met a bandit, which was quite interesting.

"The eldest sister is getting more and more confused. I heard Shuzhi say that she is often distracted these days, and forgets what she just said when she turned around. I looked at her, is she sick?" Ms. Cui asked Long Wenping tentatively.

Long Wenping was also a little confused, but he didn't want to say that his sister was really suffering from hysteria. He said unhappily: "My eldest sister is fine. Where is the disease? Even if she is sick, it is because of the anger of her powerful daughter-in-law!"

Mrs. Cui smiled coquettishly and put the matter aside, waiting for Xiao Taiji to come so that they could send a letter to the Cui family and ask them to send someone to talk to Xiao Taiji.

In the main courtyard of Zhu Guohou's mansion, Du Hengshuang took care of the two children and Xiao Shiji had dinner, but he didn't have much appetite. He just drank a bowl of millet porridge and ate two pieces of rouge duck webs, and then stopped eating.

, took the maid for a walk in the yard.

Zhishu came out of the side room and said to the little maid who was following Du Hengshuang: "You go to have dinner, I will take care of the lady."

The little maid knelt down to thank her and hurried off to have dinner.

Zhishu is now one of the top maids in the Prince Zhu's Mansion. Even the chief steward of the outer courtyard is polite to her. She has long stopped doing these maid jobs.

When Du Hengshuang saw her sending the little maid away, he knew she had something to say, and asked with a smile: "What's the matter with your hooves? What's the big deal happening mysteriously?"

Zhishu's face was very serious. He came forward and said to Du Hengshuang: "Madam, just now Cai'er, the rough servant who cleans the courtyard of Ciningyuan, came over and told the slave something. I think the lady should listen to it in person.

listen."

Du Hengshuang's heart moved, "From Ciningyuan?" It was Long Xiangye's yard.

In that yard, there was never any trivial matter that could be indulged in. The wealthy bride was too alluring. No matter how trivial it was, it would be a major event that would cause uproar elsewhere.

Du Hengshuang knows Long Xiangye’s temperament very well.
To be continued...