Chapter 17 - Autumn Fan

　　The mother is a proud person, since she has promised to let Wang Yingxue into the door, will not be in the door time this kind of small matter difficult Wang Yingxue. 　　When Dou Zhao's "illness" got better, she invited her great-uncle and third-uncle over to discuss the matter of Wang Yingxue's entry, Dou Zhao was sent to the courtyard to play with the little maids jumping Baixue. 　　The four little maids were called Daylily, Jasmine, Okra, and Begonia. Mother liked Touniang's loyalty and gave her the name Su Xin, which was exactly the same pair as the jade hairpin that used to work at mother's side and was now allocated to Dou Zhao's house, and was the eldest maid in Dou Zhao's house. 　　Touniang liked this name, but the name "Touniang" has a special meaning to Dou Zhao, Dou Zhao still likes to call her "Touniang", so the maids in Dou Zhao's house call her Su Xin one time, and Touniang the next, which caused a lot of jokes! The good thing is that Tuo Niang didn't care about it. The good thing is that Tou Niang does not care, no matter who shouts which name, she should be happy. 　　Dou Zhao wasn't really a two-year-old doll, so naturally she wasn't interested in playing games like Bai Suo. 　　She wanted to go to her grandfather's study to look for a few books on the depiction of strange and chaotic gods - the world is full of strange and chaotic gods, she suddenly returned to her childhood, as if reborn, there must be someone else like her, she desperately wanted to find from the history of those miscellany of the scales of the claws. 　　Dou Zhao asked Tuniang to carry her to her grandfather's study. 　　Tu Niang immediately dropped the Baisuo in her hands and carried her towards the Heshou Hall. 　　When she rounded the lotus pond, she saw Sister Yu standing next to the Taihu Lake rockery talking to a middle-aged man wearing an official green silk robe. 　　The two of them were covered up and suspicious. 　　Dou Zhao pondered for a moment and pointed to the lotus pond and said to Touniang, "Let's go over there!" 　　Touniang had no doubts and crossed the nine curved stone bridge to the Taihu Lake stone wigwam. 　　Sister Yu and the man had already disappeared. 　　Dou Zhao hid her doubts and left the lotus pond, only to run face to face with her great-uncle and third-uncle. 　　She got off the ground and respectfully bowed to her great-uncle and third-uncle. 　　Great Auntie picked up Dou Zhao with a hug, "Auntie Shou is getting more and more appealing!" 　　"Who says otherwise." Third Aunt smiled and touched Dou Zhao's head, "Exactly the same as seventh younger sibling when she was a child." 　　As the two spoke, the smiles on their faces faded. 　　"Alas!" Eldest Aunt sighed sadly, "Wang Ying Xue's origins are there, if she gives birth to a male child, I'm afraid that even if the seventh sibling is virtuous, she can only retreat three times!" 　　So they all knew about Wang Ying Xue's pregnancy. 　　Dou Zhao's eyebrows twitched slightly. 　　"This is fate!" Third Auntie's expression also looked a little frustrated. 　　Or perhaps she felt that it was a bit inappropriate for two elders to sigh like this in front of a child, the eldest aunt forced a smile and said, "We're listening to a book and shedding tears, worrying for the ancients. Seventh younger sibling is usually not encountered anything, encountered things, naturally slowly understand up. Look at her now, isn't she disposed quite well?" 　　Third Aunt nodded, kindly asked Tuo Niang a few words, knowing that Dou Zhao was going to see her grandfather, instructed Tuo Niang to be careful of the slippery ground, don't fall or something like that, and went out of the second door with Great Aunt. 　　Dou Zhao suddenly lost interest in going to Heshoutang. She instructed Tuniang, "Let's go back to the main house." 　　Touniang followed her words without a word, and the two quickly returned to the main courtyard. 　　Dou Zhao ran into the inner room. 　　Mother was sitting on the hot kang by the window talking to Sister Yu, "...... Aunt Cui is the seventh master's birth mother, and a bride price of two hundred taels of silver isn't an insult to her. As for whether the Wang family wants it or not, that's their business, to send it or not, is our family's business. Rich or poor, it's good to have a daughter-in-law to celebrate the New Year. Although it is a concubine, but in the end it is also a newcomer, the twenty-second day of the lunar month into the door, just in time for the Lunar New Year, to the Spring Festival, but also to the various rooms to move around, recognize relatives." Said the mother picked up the tea cup and sipped the tea, continued, "The new room, it is located in the Qixia courtyard it ......" 　　"Seventh grandmother!" Sister Yu was startled, and without waiting for her mother to finish her words, she lost her voice and said, "How can this work! The Qixia Courtyard is right behind the seventh master's study ......" 　　Mother made a gesture of stopping and said, "They can get mixed up together across the Northern Direction, can they be innocent when placed under my nose?" 　　Sister Yu was speechless. 　　"Not to mention that I'm too lazy to look at them in that grooming manner." Mother murmured, "I'll spare Wang Yingxue and myself." 　　Dou Zhao almost applauded her mother. 　　It was exactly like this. 　　The heavens are no greater than oneself. 　　If you don't care about yourself, why should anyone else care about you? 　　If you don't like Wang Ying Xue, why would you bother pretending to be virtuous! 　　She is also over thirty years old to understand this truth. 　　Dou Zhao whispered to Touniang: "You'll follow Sister Yu later and see what places she went to? What people did she meet?" 　　Touniang nodded. 　　Dou Zhao happily jumped into her mother's arms, "Mother, the plums in the backyard are in bloom, let's go enjoy the plums." 　　Mother laughed and kissed Dou Zhao's little face, "Mother has something to do, let Touniang accompany you to play!" 　　Dou Zhao only wanted to stay by her mother's side. 　　Her mother didn't mind that she was troublesome, and while taking care of the household chores, she teased her. 　　Father suddenly came over, ignoring the servants serving all over the room, and offered a treasure as if pulling out a red gold and jasper hairpin from his pocket. 　　"Does it look good?" He looked at his mother curtly, "I specially went to the Zhending Mansion to have it beaten." 　　The body of the hairpin was golden, and the head of the hairpin was green, in the shape of a water drop, like a tear on a beauty's cheek. 　　"Good looking!" Mother smiled as she fiddled with the jasper hairpin for a long time and instructed Sister Yu to put it away, "Give it to Auntie Shou as a dowry in the future." 　　Father snapped, "This is for you ...... Shou Aunt's, I will buy it for her later is." 　　Mother pursed her lips and laughed: "You will buy for her later is your intention, this is my intention." 　　"Mine is still not yours." Father muttered in a low voice, wanting to speak. 　　Mother laughed: "You are here to ask about Wang Ying Xue's entry, right? I've already ordered it down just now ......," and then re-told father what she had told Sister Yu. 　　Father "oh" a sound, not very interested in the appearance, but also seems to have a lot of words, do not know how to say. 　　There was silence for a while. 　　In the middle of the day, father stood up uneasily and muttered, "Since you have something to do, I'll go first." 　　Mother smiled and stood up, "I won't see you off then." Then called out to Hanyou, "See off the seventh master!" Sitting down, she lowered her head and played the abacus. 　　Father stood for a while, saw that mother never looked up, his eyes slightly dimmed, hung his head and walked out. 　　Sister Yu called out, "Seventh Grandmother". 　　Mother's eyes did not move a bit, said: "It's the New Year, I'm afraid it's not easy to hire someone. For the furnishings over at the new house, you'll have to put in more effort and help prod the several stewards in the outer courtyard." 　　"Yes!" Sister Yu helplessly answered and retreated. 　　Mother dropped the abacus and hugged Dou Zhao with a smile, "Go, let's go enjoy the plums." 　　Dou Zhao smiled with a beaming smile. 　　Time is the best medicine, no matter how painful a wound is, after a long time, it will slowly scab over and heal. 　　Mother, I will always be with you. 　　To solve your loneliness, soothe your wounds. 　　Dou Zhao looked at his mother's alabaster-like face in his heart secretly swear, smiling and holding his mother's hand, jumping and jumping to the backyard. 　　※※※※※ 　　In the evening, Tu Niang told Dou Zhao, "Sister Yu didn't go anywhere, and all she saw was the steward and stewardess of the house." 　　Who was that man? 　　Dou Zhao chewed her fingers in search of it. 　　As it turned out, early the next morning, her aunt brought her first cousin, Zhao Biru, to deliver New Year's Day gifts to the Dou family. 　　"It's freezing cold," her mother hurriedly welcomed her aunt and first cousin into the inner room, personally helping her aunt to sit on the kang, and taking the hot tea in the maid's hand and respectfully handing it to her aunt, "It's just a matter of letting the steward make a run for it, so why have you come in person!" 　　Auntie is in her early thirties, wearing a gold blue jacket with sleeves and a pair of red gold and jade gourd hairpins, she is a medium-sized woman with a slightly plump figure, white skin, and a smile with curved eyebrows, very kind. 　　She clapped her hands toward Dou Zhao in Tuo Niang's arms, "Come, sit here with auntie." 　　Mother carried Dou Zhao to the bed. 　　Zhao Biru, on the other hand, bent her knees and gave her mother a blessed salute. 　　Mother hugged Zhao Bi Ru, "Eldest sister has grown a few points taller, almost catching up to me." 　　Auntie snapped, "What's the use of only growing in size but not in heart!" 　　Zhao Biru smiled shyly. 　　At this time, Zhao Biru was only eleven years old, with long arms and legs, and snowy skin, she could already see how graceful and elegant she would be when she became an adult. 　　Mother brought her to the bed, and everyone gathered around the bed table to eat snacks and talk. 　　"...... Your elder brother has already failed in two consecutive spring exams, this time he is fully determined to be nominated in the golden list, even I talk to him he ignores." Auntie laughed, "I was bored at home, so I brought Biru to your place to visit." Then said, "How are you these days?" 　　Mother whitewashed, "Same as before. I'm busy every day, and I don't know what I've been busy with." 　　Auntie smiled without saying anything, took a sip of tea, and said to Zhao Biru, "Since you're here, go play with your cousin next to you!" 　　Zhao Biru answered "yes" in a fine voice and obediently got off the bed. 　　Mother was slightly stunned. 　　Auntie said, "I have something to say to you." Her face showed a bit of gravity. 　　Mother answered "yes", and the light in her eyes could already be seen. 　　Dou Zhao thought of Sister Yu by the lotus pond and the man in the official green silk robe. 　　After leaving the inner room, she shook off Zhao Biru's hand and ran towards the front door. 　　Outside the gate, the man in the official green silk robe was talking to one of the Dou family's stewards, and behind him was a flatbed carriage loaded with a wagon full of things, and the boys were moving the things on the carriage to the house in an endless stream. 　　It turned out that the man was the Zhao family's steward. 　　Dou Zhao thumped back to the second gate and encountered Zhao Biru, who was sweating profusely from chasing her. 　　"You, what are you doing?" She covered her stomach and gasped, "Why are you running faster than a rabbit?" 　　Dou Zhao thought of her first meeting with her. 　　She elegantly held a tea cup, and looked at her with a gentle but not too reserved smile, "After auntie passed away, father and mother originally wanted to take you to the house, and our sisters as a companion, but you were unwilling, and in front of the Dou family bit my mother not to mention, but also yelled, 'I'm not going to your house', so my mother had to resentfully came back ......" 　　She felt at the time that Zhao Biru's words were like a fan in the fall, letting people say inexplicable diaphragm and anachronisms. 　　But now ...... she was a little uncertain.