Chapter 005 Entering the Mansion

　　In front of the main gate, the old lady of the third house of the Xie family was sitting on a carved mahogany chair with her eyes half closed, taking a nap. 　　"Old madam, the eighth young lady made a fuss about not entering through the main gate, the gatekeeper stopped her and accidentally brought her down. The sixth master was furious and red-eyed, kicked over, and this is already leading people in from the front door." The eldest maid, Chunping, gently raised the thick, cold-proof cotton curtain and came in, respectfully saying. 　　The third old lady twirled the Buddha beads in her hand, slightly lifted the curtains, and said, "Go, change all the people on the concierge, it's a scourge to keep such colorless ones." 　　"Mother, that girl is only four years old today and has this kind of temperament, I don't dare to raise it." Chen, who was sitting on the side, looked at Chunping's back as she went out again, frowning slightly. 　　Three old lady heard will be in the hands of the Buddha beads thrown aside, well-maintained white fine fingers slightly curved, the original idle copper carved phoenix through the flower warmer gently knocking, some carelessly said: "What are you afraid of, but it is a little girl with little knowledge, and so detained up to teach a good, but also how big the guts? Just as a cat or dog, raised for ten years, looking for a family to send out is. What you should worry about is her son." 　　"I still beg mother to give my daughter-in-law a few pointers." Chen's slightly upturned eye tails looked more and more enchanting as she spoke, yet her tone was humble. 　　She is the third old lady's niece, people say that nieces are like aunts, she was indeed born with the third old lady has five points of similarity. The same slightly upturned eyebrows, with three points of harshness and five points of bright color. I'm afraid it's precisely because of this that the third old lady would be willing to bring her around to raise her. 　　As a cousin, she grew up in the Xie family since childhood, although the only male member of the Xie family's third house, Xie Yuanmao, has not been fixed, but according to the third old lady's intention, she will certainly be married into the Xie family in the future. Even if the rest of the several houses are on the three old lady's mind quite a comment, but this, after all, is to see how the three houses themselves, separated from a house, they are also inconvenient to intervene. 　　Who ever thought, not waiting for the three old lady to make the decision to let Xie Yuanmao marry, Xie Yuanmao first and a few students together to go to Jiangnan to study. 　　Since then for six years, no one has seen him. 　　In Jiangnan, he accidentally lost his footing and fell into the water, and since then there is no trace of him, living without seeing people dead without a body. 　　The Xie family three rooms on this extinct. 　　Xie family sent out people, one set and another set, but the mountains are high and far away, every day that wants to find the person's hope is also a little bit slim. After half a year, there is still no news, Chen's somewhat unable to hold back. She has long been to the age of marriage, delayed for a few more years, the color is no longer fresh, and boiled the age of the bad again to pick. She could not find Xie Yuanmao, she did not want to spend time. 　　But the third old lady did not agree. 　　She brought her niece around and raised her, not to eat and drink to feed and raise her and then compensate the dowry to send her out of the cabinet. 　　Another half a year, Chen really can't stand it, begged to the three old lady, the three old lady sneered and said, in that case, married into the Xie family to it. 　　Chen was first shocked, married into the door is not a widow? But aunt's words are also right, according to the Chen family's rank, she wants to find a better family than the Xie family is not easy. In addition, this kind of entry, in the future, there is no concubine concubine son in the way, the family matters are also her words, is not bad. 　　She stumbled and struggled for a while, but still agreed. The third old lady, however, has always been calm, she raised a child, what kind of nature, how can she not know. 　　So, more than a year after the determination that Xie Yuanmao had died, Chen held the tablet into the Xie family. 　　The eldest house was not satisfied with Chen's, but now that the person is gone, who to marry or not to marry who does not matter, so also let the three old lady. 　　It is rumored that the feng shui of the third house is not good. 　　The third old master had a bunch of concubines when he was young, but he didn't have half a son. Later on, even his wife died of illness, and he married Xie Chen, now the third old lady, but he was not able to give birth to a child. Only a year later, the third old master fell down while drunk and lost his life. 　　Xie Chen is a stepmother, and less than 20 years old, widowed, naturally, life is not easy. However, she had the right mindset, knowing that she was a widow with empty knees and was afraid that she would not be able to live for a long time, so she gave up her face and begged the clan to agree to succeed Xie Yuanmao, who was only seven years old at the time, as the heir from the flourishing longhouse. But who knows, the heir was raised with great difficulty, but did not live too long. Because of this, the old lady of the eldest house was disgusted with the third old lady and felt that she had killed her own son. 　　"It's good that Lao Liu is back, seeing that you're young and alone in the house, this old woman is not comfortable in my heart." The third old lady suddenly laughed coldly, "with the Song family of that marriage, originally is the old six made a mess, now he came back, the marriage is over, and give up that person to go, but the old six can not give up, not only want to have a child even with that person is also unwilling to let go of." 　　"He just came back, some things I'm not good to force, and let him go, about as long as I live a day, can still call that woman to do the main room is not?" 　　"Listening to Lao Liu's tone, that Song is also a soft and gentle nature. If she was a strong one, I'd still have to worry if she'd tear her face off and ask people to take the Xie family to task. But she is a sheep, I will not blame me for randomly kneaded. Although the Song family in the old six have saved life, the old six with her marriage and before you into the door, is not no matchmaking, private sexual intercourse, but to our front, this thing still have to be my decision. Regardless of whether Lao Liu is willing or not, he must recognize the Chen family's marriage." 　　Chen breathed a sigh of relief, "Master Six has a heart for her, and I don't want to let her go. If she leaves, Master Six's heart will have to run away with her, so what's the use of me having an empty shell. It would be better to leave the person behind, and then think of ways to get rid of them, eliminate the roots and never end the trouble." 　　"That's easy to say, you yourself also take care, Lao Liu came back so many days, has he ever entered your house?" The third old lady smiled and finished, suddenly cold face, "Do you still want me to be a mother to escort him to live with you?" 　　Chen's face stiffened. 　　...... 　　Xie Shuning, who was heading inside, also stiffened her face. 　　She couldn't help but shudder at the thought of seeing Third Old Lady again. 　　She stood in front of the Xie family's large green door, the animal face pendulum tin ring clap thumping, a great fuss, and deliberately in the concierge to reach out to block the time pretending to fall, causing her father to be angry, I think this will be the three old lady should have already got the news. Sure enough, not long after entering the hanging flower gate, someone came out to welcome them. 　　"Slave girl has met the Sixth Master, Fifth Young Master and Eighth Young Miss." The people greeted them in turn, but deliberately omitted Song. 　　Xie Shuning was held in Xie Yuanmao's arms, squinting her eyes to carefully recognize them, vaguely remembering that this person was the third old lady's side's eldest maid, Dongle, so she smiled and stretched out her short white fat finger to point at her and said, "You forgot to bow to my mother!" 　　Dongle was stunned. 　　"Slave servant greets Mistress." After half a second, Dongle only vaguely skipped the rows and bowed to Song. 　　Xie Shuning watched coldly, hugging Xie Yuanmao's neck and saying in a soft child's voice, "Father, the people here have no rules!" 　　"Turn around daddy and punish them." Xie Yuanmao coaxed her in a kind voice. 　　Dongle could not help but be surprised, she never expected that Xie Yuanmao in front of this eighth young lady whom she had met for the first time was actually this appearance ...... and in the mansion are two different looks ....... 　　A few people along the copious corridor meandering forward, outside the corridor fell all the leaves of the trees covered with snow, look very cold and clear. 　　Xie Shuning felt that the cold air kept attacking her body from the air, freezing her to the point of shivering. She was not used to the winter cold in Kyoto, even after many years. In this regard, Prosper was like her, afraid of the cold. Whenever he heard her talk about Jiangnan, he clamored to go there as well. 　　However, even she has never been able to go back to Jiangnan to take a look. 　　She drowsily buried her head in Xie Yuanmao's furry cloak and sighed secretly. 　　Before long, the group walked to Shou An Hall. 　　When they entered the front hall, perhaps the people inside heard the sound and sent Chunping out to welcome them. When Xie Shuning raised her head, she saw that Chunping had raised the curtain, saluted and smiled, "Sixth master is back, the old lady is waiting for you." 　　In one sentence, only Xie Yuanmao was greeted. 　　Xie Shuning pursed her lips, not saying a word. 　　From the moment they entered, grandmother had no intention of giving them a good face. However, in their previous lives, they were all so stupid that they really thought that this young grandmother was a kind and compassionate person. 　　Entering the door, Xie Shuning felt a strong aroma hit her. 　　Three feet wide, five feet high, in front of the studded gold marble screen there is a black lacquer incense table, on top of which there is an antique copper animal stove, which is emitting a very strong aroma. Paradoxically, as today's cold day, the house is lit with a fire pit, and the door is blocked by a thick curtain, this smell is almost able to smoke a person's back out of breath at first. 　　"Mother, the people have been picked up." Xie Yuanmao put down the Xie Shuning he was carrying in his arms and respectfully said to the third old lady. 　　"Mother." Song followed suit and called out. 　　But the third old lady acted as if she hadn't heard, only smiling lovingly, taking the lead in waving towards Xie Yiyi, saying, "This is Yiyi brother's son, isn't it? Come on, quickly come to sit next to grandmother." 　　Xie Yiyi blankly turned back, looked at Song's and look at Xie Yuanmao, hesitant to go forward. 　　"Yiyi brother's come closer, tell mother and grandmother to take a good look." Seeing this, Chen Clan smiled and got up to greet her warmly. 　　But what kind of mother is she! 　　Xie Shuning quietly looked toward Song, but saw her face could not hide the shock, sharply turned his head to look at Xie Yuanmao, the heart secretly said a bad, is it possible that the mother really do not know the identity of Chen's? The father intentionally avoided the mother's line of sight, avoided so natural, as if rehearsed a thousand times. 　　Her heart then gradually sank, took his hand, feigned confusion, tilted her head and asked, "Father, how does this aunt let brother call her mother?"