Chapter 12 The Visitor

　　Unexpectedly, mother and Wang Ying Xue were old acquaintances! 　　All along, Dou Zhao couldn't figure out why some women would rather give up their families and not have a reputation in order to double up with a man. 　　Could it be that male love is really so important? 　　Once the love chi en end, the man abandoned the woman to return to the family is the return of the prodigal son, then the woman? 　　What about the woman? How can she continue to stand in this world? 　　She and her mother sat in the small hall behind the center hall, listening to the sound of her grandfather reprimanding her father in the hall. 　　Experience had taught Dou Zhao that in everything you do, you should not overestimate your opponents or belittle them too much. 　　From the heart, Wang Yingxue is not only shrewd and capable, intelligent and quick-witted, but also good at judging the time and situation, is never the interests of the first, decided things never dragged, very decisive. 　　Such a person, grandfather promised to accept her as a daughter, and for her to find a good marriage, funded by the Dou family, marry her in style. Why did she still have to follow her father? 　　The Dou family was not a shallow family of newly minted officials, and given her status, the Dou family would never agree to make her a concubine. Mother is the Zhao family's legitimate first wife, not to mention no fault, even if there is a fault, for the sake of the Dou family's face, the Dou family will not casually repudiate his wife. 　　Wang Yingxue came to Zhending did not think carefully? 　　This is not in line with her character ah! 　　In the midst of the thoughts flying around, Dou Zhao's mind was shaken. 　　Sister! 　　Her sister, Dou Ming, was born on the third day of the seventh month in the year Ding Wei. 　　As the saying goes, live seven not eight. 　　That is to say, if Dou Ming was born prematurely, Wang Yingxue latest first month into the door. 　　According to the system, when a wife dies, the husband has to stay in mourning for one year. There are exceptions. When a husband goes off to war and his wife dies, and there is no one at home to support his parents and raise his children, he can renew his marriage within a hundred days. Although the father is not a general, but the first grandmother died early, if the mother ...... has no one at home to preside over the feed, this article is barely available. 　　In other words, the mother died a year ago. 　　But what if Dou Ming was not born prematurely? 　　Dou Zhao could not help but laugh. 　　Wang Yingxue also want to be in the Dou family foothold, beat her to death she will not admit to have an affair with her father. 　　Father still wants Wang Yingxue to enter the door, in any case will not disclose to people that Wang Yingxue is pregnant. 　　This is like you are betting with someone on the size, to open the plate, but suddenly realized that behind your opponent has a floor mirror, what cards he holds in his hand you can see clearly. 　　Her blood boiled at once. 　　As long as their mother was alive, the longer they delayed, the more favorable the situation would be for them! 　　But the premise is, mother must live! 　　In a happy mood, she took a golden orange from the fruit bowl by the table and handed it to her mother, "Mother, eat the orange!" 　　Her mother smiled reluctantly at her and took the tangerine, but just held it in her hand and froze. 　　Dou Zhao colored clothes to entertain her mother. She broke the orange petal and stuffed it into her mother's mouth, feeding it to her great-aunt and third-aunt who were sitting with them in the small hall. 　　The first and third aunts laughed and teased her in order to lighten the mood. 　　She giggled and giggled. 　　A smile grew on her mother's face. 　　At night, she fell asleep holding her mother's lapel. 　　The next day, the third and sixth uncles who were at home, the eldest aunt who was the clan's wife, and the third aunt who was in charge of the eldest aunt's housekeeping, all embraced the second dowager wife of the East House, grandfather's second cousin's wife, and came over. 　　Grandfather's first cousin, first cousin's sister-in-law, and second brother had all passed away. 　　"I've already heard the matter from your nephews and nephew-in-laws." The Second Dowager Lady was thin and small, but her gaze was surprisingly bright, which added a bit of majesty to her look, "What about the Wang family's young lady? Could you have sent someone to South Puddle to deliver the letter?" 　　"I had Ding accompany it." Grandfather bitterly said, "On the South Puddle side, he has already sent someone overnight to report the news." Then shyly said, "Second sister in law, this matter is all because I teach my son poorly ......" 　　"Let's talk about these things later." The Second Dowager Lady waved her hand and interrupted her grandfather's words, "The most urgent thing is to ask them exactly how far they've come!" 　　The Second Dowager Lady hit the key with a single word. 　　Dou Zhao was very impressed. 　　Grandfather was stunned, opened his mouth, probably thinking of his father's absurdity in this matter, and remained silent. 　　The Second Dowager Lady instructed Third Uncle, "Wan Yuan and you are like father and son, on Wan Yuan's side, you go and ask." She also instructed her great-uncle, "On Miss Wang's side, you go and ask." 　　The two men responded in unison and split up. 　　Only then did the second dowager wife wave towards her mother, signaling her to sit beside her, "Without the Zhao family, there would be no Dou family. The Zhao family's master and wife left early, uncle is young and thin-faced, not good at paying attention to these things, but the Dou family's elders are still around! Don't worry, will never let you be wronged." 　　Dou Zhao has only one uncle, eight years older than her mother. Mother was a surviving child, and her maternal grandmother died when she was ten years old, so she grew up with her brother and sister-in-law. When my grandmother was alive, she brought up her two children and although she didn't worry about food or clothing, she was afraid that Ding Fu and the rascals would come to her door and cause trouble. At that time the Dou family has been rich, grandmother often brought two children to the Dou family, this is in-laws, the Dou family and the generous family, the two more and more close, uncle Zhao Si grew up in the Dou family school, and Dou Shiying, Dou Wenchang, Dou Yuchang, Dou Huachang nephews and uncles are very good relations. The parents' marriage was settled without a ripple. 　　Hearing the second Mrs. mentioned the deceased parents, the mother jumped in the arms of the second Mrs. cried. 　　Sixth uncle is four years older than the father, the two grew up together to study, together with the student, and together to participate in the countryside exams failed, at this time is home to close the door to study. Seeing his mother crying sadly, he could not help but feel a little embarrassed, and whispered: "Why don't we go to the little uncle's study to sit? There are some words, we do uncle's listen is not good!" 　　The second dowager lady glared over and said in a mature voice, "You went to Kyoto with Wan Yuan, did you know about this?" 　　Sixth Uncle shrank in fear and said, "None of my business, none of my business! If you hadn't told me to come back earlier, how would Yuan Yuan have gotten into such trouble?" He muttered in a low voice, his tone carrying a few hints of disbelief. 　　Second Mrs. Tai was so angry that she didn't say anything for a long time. 　　Sixth uncle Dou Shi Heng is the second dowager's oldest son, he was born when several brothers have been successful in lifting, the second dowager therefore he is not as strict as several other sons, it so happens that the father is an only child, grandfather face stern, actually spoiled, from the brotherhood, the two people come and go the closest. Dou Zhao remembers, after his father moved to Kyoto, but also exclusively to the sixth uncle left a small courtyard, the sixth uncle every time he went to the capital are lodged in the father there. The two later served together in the Hanlin Academy. Father is good at talking about "Zhou Yi", six uncle is good at talking about "Zuo Zhuan", the people in the Hanlin Academy jokingly called them "Dou's Double Jie". 　　Mother froze. 　　Understanding that the second dowager was trying to help remove suspicion from the sixth uncle, she politely said: "It will rain in the sky, and the mother will marry. If Wan Yuan himself gets up, what's the use of Sixth Uncle just not moving an inch?" 　　The Second Dowager's face cleared up slightly and scolded Sixth Uncle, "Why don't you thank your younger sibling!" 　　Sixth uncle gave his mother a bow. 　　Mother was busy returning the salute. 　　Dou Zhao's eyes flashed. 　　Since Sixth Uncle didn't have a word of apology or a word of comfort, it was evident that he was on his father's side. 　　The Second Dowager Lady probably realized it as well and got up to greet everyone, "Let's sit in the small hall at the back!" 　　Leaving the hall to the men of the family. 　　Everyone naturally had no objections. 　　As mother and third uncle helped the second dowager to get up, a boy ran in, "Old master, the steward of the Jining Marquis has thrown in an obeisance, saying that their marquis' wife and our family's seventh grandma are in-laws, and that this time, returning to their hometowns to save their relatives, they've come to pay their respects." 　　The crowd was stunned. 　　Dou Zhao was even more surprised. 　　Marquis Jining's wife, isn't that her mother-in-law? 　　How did the mother-in-law also come out to join in the fun? 　　"It's the Tian family sister from Xiliu Township." Mother cheerfully explained to the crowd, "Their family and our family are old acquaintances from Bianjing, and their ancestors were once related. It's just that Uncle Tian's official fortune is enjoying prosperity, and Sister Tian married into the Jining Marquis' residence in Kyoto, so the two of us have had less contact with each other. I didn't think she would come to see me!" After saying that, he looked towards his grandfather. 　　Since there is a distant guest coming, son's matter can only be put aside first. 　　Grandfather thought for a moment and asked the boy to ask the steward of the Jining Marquis to come in. 　　Jining Hou's steward handed over the box of worship, politely, knowing that Mrs. Jining Hou's schedule is very tight, scheduled to visit tomorrow morning at the beginning of the Si. 　　The mother also does not care about the hall side of the matter, instructed the grandmother to clean the dust, furnish the room, draw up the menu. 　　Dou Zhao sat alone on the bed and cracked her knuckles. 　　I wonder if Wei Tingyu will follow? 　　Granny said that they had met when they were children, could this be the time? 　　In the midst of her thoughts, she saw Third Aunt hurriedly walk in. 　　She called out to Touniang: "Carry me, go to mother's place!" 　　Touniang was overjoyed, "Fourth Miss, you can talk!" 　　Dou Zhao froze for a moment before reacting and instructed her, "Quickly, rush in front of Third Auntie, in front of the door." 　　"Good!" Tu Niang happily responded, carrying her to her mother, "Great joy for seventh grandmother, fourth miss can talk!" 　　"Oh!" Mother smiles and teases Dou Zhao, "Say a few words for me?" 　　Dou Zhao says graciously, "I want to go to uncle's house and play!" 　　Mother laughs. 　　Dou Zhao also laughed. 　　In the end, it is not a blood brother, the second dowager lady, although she helps her mother, is more anxious to let her son clear. 　　This uncle in the end how, always have to try before. 　　Third aunt entered the door at this time, Touniang avoided going out, Dou Zhao still sitting on the bed. Third aunt squeezed Dou Zhao's small hand and whispered to her mother, "Ask her clearly, they say, 'It's all about feelings, it's all about reason'." 　　Mother snorted. 　　Third Aunt snapped, "You care if they are true or not! If they say so, we believe so. Since we're innocent of each other, when the Wang family comes, we'll just hand her over to the Wang family." 　　Mother nodded, "I understand." 　　Outside came Hanyou's somewhat flustered voice: "Seventh master, seventh grandma is talking to the third wife. ......" Before the words fell, the warm curtain was lifted with a swish, and father came in with a grimace. came in. 　　"Seventh Uncle is back!" Third aunt smiled, pulling her mother behind her, "Where are your third brother and the others?" 　　"Third sister-in-law." Father rushed to Third Auntie and bowed hastily, his forehead veins popping up, "Auntie Ding has set up a family banquet in the Little Flower Hall, Gu Qiu is serving me to change my clothes and will come." 　　Third Aunt was a little hesitant. 　　Mother's hand rested on Third Aunt's shoulder. 　　"Third sister-in-law, you go first!" Mother softly said, "Third Uncle and the others should be waiting impatiently. Wan and I will be right there." 　　Third Auntie gave a wink towards Sister Yu and smiled as she left the inner room.