Mu Yan had no interest in arguing with a little brat. Seeing Mu Wang here, he only glanced at him. His younger brother had always regarded him as nothing.
Unexpectedly, Mu Wang sweetly called him "cousin" today and greeted him in a polite manner.
This prompted Mu Yan to look at him again, but when he saw the proud look on his face, he didn't think much about it.
Mrs. Geng naturally knew about her son's request to be crowned Crown Prince. Looking at the grandson in front of her, she felt a little regretful in her heart. The old Marquis had a clear eye and chose Mu Yan as the heir to the Marquis Mansion. She admired the Marquis's vision.
If Mu Ying was still here, she would naturally hope that Mu Yan Chengjue would be of her own bloodline.
But Mu Ying is gone, and now that the title of marquis has fallen into the hands of her son, Mu Yan has become a member of Dafang's lineage. Naturally, she will give her full support to Zhan'er's attempt to seize the title.
The madam looked much more pleasant than usual today. She only asked a few questions and then dismissed him.
Mu Yan returned to the Cheng family and understood what Mrs. Tai and Mu Wang meant.
It turns out that his uncle asked Mu Wang to be granted the title again.
"Yan'er, what should we do? You are the crown prince personally designated by Emperor Taizu."
If Mu Zhan gets the title, what will Yan'er do? Will he go out in a separate house? What will she do then? Can she go out with Yan'er?
I heard that Mu Wang is engaged. In the future, the Yue family will be quite famous in the local area. With the support of the Yue family, Mu Wang will be even more powerful, and he will not be able to defeat them.
She knows that the old Marquis left some properties to Yan'er. Will those properties be preserved by then?
"Mu Wang wants to attack the prince, let him attack him. I will earn the fame and fortune myself in the future."
It's just that Mu Wang, like his good father, loves to study and doesn't like to work on horseback. I don't know if he can hold the southwest.
Seeing that her son didn't care, Mrs. Cheng felt anxious. If Mu hoped to find a strong in-law family, couldn't she also find a strong in-law family for Yan'er?
This year, Mr. Cheng went out to socialize more and more frequently.
On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, Guangfengshui closed the shop, and Yang Fu took the Shen family and his son, the Zou family's grandparents, and the Lou family's mother and daughter back to Zhuangzi. The Qin family also invited, but Qin Changzhi declined.
These three families all have hometowns they cannot return to, and they are all determined to live with the Huo family. The Huo family treats them as their own family and has nowhere to go, so naturally they are willing to spend the New Year together in Zhuangzi.
When there are more people, it will naturally become lively.
Everyone gathered together to make various meals and snacks. The sumptuous New Year’s Eve dinner made Vanilla and Xia He cry.
One of them had never had such a lively and sumptuous New Year’s Eve dinner, and the other missed his parents and younger siblings. After being comforted by everyone, he happily ate with everyone.
The Huo family is a fisherman with little background. They have never raised servants and don't know how to raise them. Both husband and wife are kind-hearted people, so they let the Bao family and the two girls sit and eat with everyone.
Bao Kang and Zuo had the consciousness of being servants, but his son didn't understand and insisted on sitting next to Huo Nian, so Bao Kang and Zuo had no choice but to serve together.
Huo Xi knew how to raise a servant, but he couldn't treat the two maids separately after leaving home, so they simply ate and lived together and had a lot of fun.
After the New Year's Eve dinner, Huo Nian took her daughter and Bao Kang to set off firecrackers.
The level of making firecrackers in the Wei Dynasty was quite advanced. All kinds of fireworks and fireworks were made to a very high standard. Huo Xi made money and did not want to treat Huo Nian badly. Whatever he wanted and wanted to buy, Huo Xi almost
All satisfied him.
When he returned to Zhuangzi, he pulled half a boatload of fireworks back, and when Yang Fu came back, he pulled back half a boatload. A few days ago, Pi Xiaozi took Bao Kang and all the children on Zhuangzi to play with firecrackers.
From time to time on Zhuangzi, I heard the sound of "third-level waves" exploding in the air, and the night sky lit up instantly.
"Third-level waves" are the kind of fireworks that can explode into the sky and make loud noises in the air. Huo Nian liked them very much, so Huo Xi bought him a lot. They were enough for him to have fun this year.
Huo Xi watched Huo Nian jumping around and shouting with the children, with a smile on his face. He was safe and healthy, which was better than anything else.
New Year's Eve is over and the new year is ushering in.
Yuan Day is Huo Xi's birthday, and she is twelve years old this year. In five years, she became a little Jia, one step closer to her set goal.
Mrs. Yang personally cooked longevity noodles for her early in the morning. After she finished eating, Huo Erhuai gave her a big New Year's bag.
"Thank you, dad, mom."
"Good boy, my parents hope that you will be safe and healthy, which is better than anything else."
"Sister, I also hope that you are safe and healthy." Huo Nian looked at her.
Huo Xi rubbed his face, it was smooth and easy to touch: "Okay, we all want to be safe and healthy."
After eating the noodles, she received various birthday gifts from Zou A'nai, Lou Qingyao, Shen Qianzhong and others. They were of various kinds, not very expensive, but full of friendship. Huo Xi remembered all the good things others did to her in her heart.
Early in the morning on the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, in the Xincheng Hou Mansion, the first, second and third bedrooms all brought their children to pay New Year's greetings to the Dowager Madam and ask for New Year's red envelopes.
Mrs. Wang looked at her children and grandchildren with a smile on her face.
Although the Duke of Guo had several concubines, all of his children came from her belly. She gave birth to three sons and one daughter. She was very satisfied that her three sons were now prosperous.
The juniors did not leave even after asking for New Year's packages and gifts. They sat and chatted with the adults in the hall.
Zhang Fu looked at the people in the flower hall, with a smile on his face, and touched the golden bell bracelet in his sleeve.
Unexpectedly, the sharp-eyed Zhang Biyao saw it and winked at his brother. Zhang Jie, relying on the fact that the family liked him, rushed to Zhang Fu and suddenly pulled something out of his sleeve.
When I saw it was a golden bell, I immediately lost interest.
Zhang Biyao snatched it from her younger brother, held it in her hand and looked through it. Seeing the fine workmanship and exquisite decoration, she fell in love with it: "Father, is this for your daughter?"
She was sure that it was a New Year gift that her father was going to give her secretly.
She is the only legitimate daughter of the eldest family. Naturally, such an exquisite gift was given to him by his father. How about giving it to his concubine and several cousins?
Zhang Fu did not expect that the golden bell in his sleeve would be snatched away by his two children. While he was still stunned, the golden bell had already been turned around in the hands of the two children.
If it's someone else, that's fine, but this can't be given. This is Nannan's birthday gift, and today is Nannan's birthday. Now I'm afraid no one in the house remembers her, but her father does.
He reached out and took it from Zhang Biyao's hand, and put it into his sleeve.
"I can't give you this. If Yao'er likes it, after the Chinese New Year, my father will ask people to send flowers to the house, and you will have to pick a few."
Seeing that her father rejected her in front of a room full of people, and several concubines and cousins seemed to be still laughing at her joke, Zhang Biyao gritted her teeth, stepped forward and grabbed Zhang Fu's sleeve, shaking her desperately: "I don't,
I just like this bunch of golden bells. Father, give them to me, give them to me."
Zhang Fu said with a smile: "Good boy, after the Chinese New Year, my father will ask someone to give each of you sisters some more jewelry."
Mrs. Wu saw that her daughter was a bit unable to get off the stage, and several aunts were secretly watching the joke. She secretly resented that the Marquis had brought such a thing early in the morning and did not know who to give it to.
His eyes coldly glanced at the concubines one by one.
"Master Hou, it's the Chinese New Year, why bother making the children unhappy? It's just a bunch of bells, just give them to Baguio. After the New Year, I'll ask someone to make ten or eight strings and return them to Master Hou."
Zhang Fu glanced at her lightly: "If you don't know how to teach your children, send them to the mother's home. You have taught good children bad things. They are not your own. When you see that you like them, you are ready to force them."
?"
This is a bit serious.
Everyone in the second and third bedrooms looked over. Zhang Xi and Zhang Fu saw the awkward atmosphere and said a few words of help, while the aunts in the first bedroom were secretly happy.
Mrs. Wang glanced at her eldest son and scolded: "You're talking nonsense, you're celebrating the New Year. I don't have the energy to take care of your children. If you think your children can't learn the rules well, after the New Year, in addition to taking classes, we'll hire two more nannies."
Just come back and teach the sisters."
Zhang Fu saw Zhang Biyao shrinking aside in fear, and felt that his tone was a bit harsh.
He patted her arm: "Father, what you said is serious. Father has given this golden bell to someone else. After the Chinese New Year, I will give you some more jewelry. You can choose as many designs as you want."
Zhang Biyao got off the donkey along the slope and nodded in agreement: "Then father, don't forget, he must pack a few more items than the other sisters."
Zhang Fu breathed a sigh of relief, smiled and nodded in agreement.
The atmosphere in the flower hall suddenly became better again, everyone was talking and laughing, and several children gathered around the adults to beg for gifts.
After they dispersed, Zhang Fu returned to the study, pulled out a long box from the secret cabinet, opened the portrait and looked at it with a lonely look in his eyes for a long time, then carefully put it away, touched the golden bell, and put it in
Next to the portrait in the box.
The next day was the second day of the Lunar New Year, and the family watched Huo Erhuai return to his hometown.
"I have only met my grandmother, not anyone else. Mom, I am a son, do I really not need to go back to my hometown with my father? Does it really not matter?"
Huo Nian went to school and was carefully taught by Qin Changzhi. Now he is no longer the childish child he was yesterday. He already understands etiquette, justice, integrity, filial piety, loyalty, and hierarchy in the family.
I felt uneasy about not going back to see my elders.
Huo Xi could not tell Huo Nian, who was still young, about their identities and the fact that their father had adopted a son-in-law and was not welcomed by his own family.
And Yang couldn't tell her child why she didn't take him back to her hometown to see her relatives.
The child's father is not welcome in the Huo family and doesn't even have a place to live. What good can Nian'er get as a grandson? Why let the child go back and suffer in this cold weather?
Just as he was hesitating about how to explain, Yang Fu came over and held his little hand.
"Your mother has a younger brother and can't go back, so she asked Nian'er and her sister to stay with your mother. Moreover, so many people from Zou A'nai came to the village to celebrate the New Year with us this year. As the master, Nian'er shouldn't
Are you staying to entertain the guests?"
When Huo Nian heard it, it seemed to be the truth.
Dad is not here, and his uncle's surname is Yang, so he is the young master of the Huo family, and naturally he has to stay as a chaperone and entertain the guests.
He puffed up his chest and called to Bao Kang who was following him: "Xiao Kang, let's go and see if Zou A Nai and Nan Nan are awake."
He and Bao Kang took the lead and returned to the yard.
Huo Erhuai set out early. When he arrived at Huojiaba, he met Huo Wuniang's family who were returning to her parents' home.
It turned out that Huo Erhuai also came back before New Year's Eve, but the Huo family didn't even prepare a room for him. He was just like the married Huo Wuniang, who only came back on the second day of the new year. He didn't care about other people's eyes. The villagers would laugh at him.
, just let them laugh.
He has a family, a wife and children, and he will have another child next year. Huo Erhuai is very satisfied.
"Second brother." "Uncle!"
Huo Erhuai nodded to his fifth sister and brother-in-law, then smiled and called his two nephews to get on the carriage.
"Uncle, is this your family's carriage?"
Wei He and Wei Ling looked up and down in the carriage, with a smile on their faces. It was so warm inside the carriage, her and her brother's hands were no longer cold.
Huo Erhuai smiled and shook his head: "No, my uncle rented it."
Huo Wuniang looked at the two children with a smile. Seeing that they were about to enter the village, she bit her lip and looked at Huo Erhuai: "Second brother, we want to work with him next year."
After Huo Wuniang finished speaking, Erhuai was stunned: "Have you separated your family?"
Wei Qi looked a little embarrassed and lowered his head slightly.
Huo Wuniang glanced at him, hating that iron was not as good as steel, and shook her head: "No. My parents-in-law are still here, so I'm afraid it won't be easy to separate the family."
Huo Erhuai frowned: "Then can you keep the money you earn when you come out? What will happen to your two children when you come out?"
"My parents-in-law refused to separate the family, but several of my uncles worked part-time during the off-season, and I must have secretly kept some of the money they earned."
Huo Wuniang thought that her second brother was getting rich. She didn't expect to be the same as her second brother, but at least she had to save some money.
The people in the other houses were very lively, but the people in her house were the only one who stayed at home and worked hard as cows and horses. When their children got sick, they had no money for medical treatment, and they had to kneel down with their mother-in-law and pray for money. They even made her mother-in-law want to sell the children.
She doesn't want to live like that anymore.
He said to Huo Erhuai: "I told my mother-in-law before that I wanted to go out and join my second brother. I said that I would take home all the money I earned. I just wanted my two children to have enough to eat. My parents-in-law did not refuse after hearing this. They just said that they would wait.
Let’s talk about it after the year.”
Huo Erhuai frowned and looked at Wei Qi.
Nowadays, Huo Erhuai comes into contact with more people. The servants of the village call him the master of the village. He unconsciously takes on the aura of the master of the village. His speech, behavior, and temperament are naturally very different from those of other villagers.
Wei Qi glanced at him and did not dare to look at him. He shrank his neck and stuttered his words.
Huo Erhuai was very dissatisfied.
Wei He was still thinking about her second uncle's houseboat. She touched the silver lock hidden in her lapel and stepped forward to grab Huo Erhuai's sleeve: "Uncle, I want to live in your houseboat and have enough to eat."
Huo Erhuai looked at his two thin nephews and his heart softened.
He said to Huo Wuniang: "If you can convince the family, come to me with your children after the New Year."
After thinking for a while, he added: "You just tell your parents-in-law that your second sister-in-law is pregnant and you have to go over to take care of her. My family is too busy, so I want your man to go over and help."
When Huo Wuniang heard this, she was overjoyed: "My second sister-in-law is pregnant? That's great. Then if I say this, my mother-in-law will definitely agree!"
When Wei Qi heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief. This way, he didn't have to think hard about how to make up excuses to his parents. His second uncle had already found one for him.
Wei He looked happy after hearing this. She could go to the city and live in her second uncle's house! Wei Ling was still young and didn't understand much yet. Seeing his parents and sisters happy, he also grinned.
