At the end of October, it was already very cold. Even though Lin Zhu held the warm hand stove in his hand, he couldn't help but lean against his mother.

Mrs. Liu looked down at her daughter and reminded again: "It's okay to do anything in private. When you arrive at your brother-in-law's house later, you must stand and sit. Don't embarrass your elder sister."

"I know, I know, mom, you're just worrying about it. When I go out, I'll take care of you?" Lin Zhu muttered dissatisfied, "Besides, I'm just wandering around my elder sister's yard. At most, I'll meet my aunt and the fourth girl, which is easy to get along with." Ning had met her in Dengzhou, and Miss Zhao Yi was the only one.

Liu solemnly reminded her: "The Guo family is coming today, and that is your brother-in-law's legitimate aunt. Be more disciplined and don't cause trouble."

"Yeah", Lin Zhu responded absent-mindedly. The aunt of the Guo family was cold and warm, Guo Baozhu was cheerful and generous, and the elder sister had told her that as long as the other party did not dislike her low status, Lin Zhu was confident that she could get along well. However, people also pay attention to fate when dealing with others. Guo Baozhu likes the elder sister, but may not like her...

The two houses were not far apart, and the carriage quickly stopped at the door of Zhao's house. Lin Zhu got out of the carriage before his mother, stood firm and closed his cloak, and turned back to wait for his mother. He didn't want to turn around and saw a carriage turning into the alley. Two tall horses next to the carriage were parallel. The man sitting slightly forward was in his forties, with thick and black eyebrows and majestic. The man on the other horse looked in his early twenties. His appearance should be father and son, but his eyebrows were much more delicate, and he was less rough and more handsome.

Could it be a member of the Guo family?

Lin Zhu silently withdrew her gaze and saw that her mother had come down, and stood quietly on her side.

At this time, Zhao Chen got a quick pass and greeted him. Seeing that the Guo family was coming, he had to recommend each other to the two families.

Guo Yi is a rough man and is not good at dealing with scholars. After a few words to Lin Xian, he was speechless. He was very interested in the boy staring at him with curiosity. He touched Lin Chongjiu's head and said, "You are Chengyuan's brother-in-law, right? You have a very smart eyes. Do you want to study like your father, or do you learn from your brother-in-law to practice martial arts as a general?" The guards were just a temporary arrangement for the nephew to win the letter to the emperor. With the Qin family in the northwest, the nephew would lead troops to fight sooner or later.

"I want to be a general!" Lin Chongjiu looked at him, his voice crisp and authentic.

Guo Yi laughed and was about to speak when he saw his wife frowning, and hurriedly shut up, turned his head and pretended to look at Zhao's mansion.

After seeing the ceremony, Guo Zijing and Lin Xian and his wife avoided the side. Mrs. Guo was also speechless, only Guo Baozhu was active. After calling her uncle and aunt, she smiled and hugged Lin Zhu's arm, and walked in and said, "Azhu, I have heard from my sister-in-law about you, and I have been looking forward to playing with you. I am two years older than you, but you can just call me Baozhu, don't call me sister."

"Baozhu." Lin Zhu was good at following the flow.

Guo Baozhu was very happy and started chattering, asking Lin Zhu if she had visited the capital after she came to Beijing. When Lin Zhu said she had never been to any place, she immediately made an appointment to go out together another day. Lin Zhu liked the fun, but after hearing this, she forgot her mother's advice and responded excitedly.

Mrs. Liu listened from behind and said to Mrs. Guo awkwardly: "Azhu is so playful that she makes her laugh."

Mrs. Guo sincerely comforted her: "It's Baozhu's naughty, and I'm also worried that she will take Azhu out of trouble."

The two of them did not cover up their words. When Guo Baozhu heard it in front of him, he turned his head dissatisfiedly and replied: "Mom, you and aunt are really wrong. Azhu has just arrived. Is there anything wrong with me who is familiar with the capital? My sister-in-law has also gone out for a walk with my aunt. Do you think so?"

Zhao Chen responded calmly: "It's nothing if you have someone to accompany you, but you two girls are planning to accompany you?"

Guo Baozhu's eyes turned and looked at the people behind him one by one. Her mother definitely couldn't do it. She took her out to take care of the things. Aunt Lin seemed to like to take care of the affairs, so she couldn't take care of the people, so she was the only one left...

Guo Baozhu smiled brightly: "I'll wait for my brother to accompany me next time I go to bed. What do you think of me?"

Guo Zijing still spoiled this sister very much and nodded slightly.

Mrs. Guo said to Liu, "See? Baozhu's character is spoiled by her father and brother. Zijing usually knows to warn her sister the rules, but every time Baozhu asks him something, he immediately forgets the rules, just like now."

Speaking of this, Liu can answer the conversation, "Our family is similar. When Aji was not married, she had the elder sister in charge. Azhu was still more honest. When the elder sister got married, she would be lawless..."

The group of people who talked and laughed and arrived at Wangzhuxuan. Because Aji was weak and the child was young, Xi San was in Wangzhuxuan.

Zhao Yunting was already waiting here, with Zhao Qing standing beside him. Zhao Han asked for leave in front of Zhao Yunting two days ago on the grounds of being unwell, saving everyone's embarrassment. So the men stayed in the front yard, and Mrs. Guo of Liu went to the back.

Aji was coaxing the child with Ning. In the past two days, she was not only going to the ground occasionally, but most of the time she stayed on the kang, with a simple slanted bun on her head, quiet and gentle. When she saw Mrs. Guo and the others coming in, she quickly invited them to sit on the kang.

The room was as warm as spring, with a faint smell of milk. The girls may not be used to it. Mrs. Guo, Liu, are all experienced people and are used to it. Ning sat opposite Aji, holding the cradle in his hand. Because Liu came here often these days, she nodded to her mother-in-law and handed the cradle to Mrs. Guo, "Look, does Cancan's eyebrows look like Chengyuan?"

Zhao Chen has long eyebrows and his temples, full of heroic spirit.

Mrs. Guo took the cradle curiously and saw that the little girl inside had a delicate and tender face. It could be seen that she was 60% or 70% similar to her mother. However, her mother had slender bamboo-leaf eyebrows. Although her eyebrows were shallow, she looked like her father. After looking at the little girl's black big eyes for a while, Mrs. Guo smiled and praised: "The eyebrows are like Chengyuan, and other places are exactly the same as Aju. She must be a beauty when she grows up."

As he said that, he took out the prepared Jinying Jade Long Life Lock. A small bell was hung under the Long Life Lock. Mrs. Guo shook it gently, and the ringing sound was crisp and pleasant. Cancan made a scream of surprise, staring at the Long Life Lock near him without blinking, and his small mouth was opened one by one, as if he was trying hard.

Guo Baozhu liked it and reached out to hug her. Mrs. Guo thought her daughter was frivolous and handed Cancan to Liu.

Everyone took turns to be rare, Cancan always smiled. Finally, when he returned to his mother's arms after washing the three rituals, the little baby opened his mouth as if he was tired, and he fell asleep with his eyes blinking.

Ning took Mrs. Guo of Liu to the outside world to talk, asking the two little girls to accompany Aju to relieve her boredom.

"Sister, Baozhu said he wanted to take me to the shop in the capital. I wanted to pick a full moon gift for Cancan." Lin Zhu sat cross-legged on the kang and whispered.

"What can Cancan do with such a young age? Just embroider a small dress for her with your own hands." Aji helped her daughter cover her small quilt and turned around and looked at the two girls in front of her with a meaningful look. "Baozhu is the same. You two are embroidered together, so let me see who is better in embroidery." Both are naughty. Now, if she doesn't care about it, she will not make a fuss.

Guo Baozhu didn't expect that she was also told, and she was stunned. Lin Zhu was prepared and said with a smile: "The things I embroidered are too ugly. Cancan won't like them, so I'd better buy her a good thing. Unfortunately, you still have to go in confinement, so why don't we go out together and have fun."

Guo Baozhu quickly agreed: "That's right, Cancan's clothes are helped by his aunt and sister-in-law, so how can we do it?"

Aji couldn't tell them that they were both so he had to tell them to be careful when going out and not to have conflicts with others.

When the Lin family was about to leave in the afternoon, Aji called Lin Zhu alone into the house and handed her a purse, "Give it, it's rare to come to the capital. You can buy whatever you like, but you have to save some flowers so that your mother won't tell you." The things in the capital are expensive, and the place where my sister and Guo Baozhu go out is probably not the same. If my sister likes something and can't afford it, it will be a shame.

Lin Zhu knew that the elder sister wanted to give her money, so she took it with a smile. However, when she found that there were five hundred taels of silver notes in her purse, she couldn't help but be stunned. She was shocked more than happy and asked in confusion: "Sister, why are you doing so much for me?" She thought she only had ten or twenty taels, so she didn't take it to heart.

"See if you spend money indiscriminately. If you can save it, it means you have grown up." Aji held her sister's hand and said without telling her sister her worries. Lin Zhu has liked beautiful clothes and jewelry since she was a child. Even if Lin Zhu didn't say anything about her, Aji knew that her sister wanted to marry a rich husband like her aunt. Now in the capital, with the relationship between the Lin family and the Zhao family, Aji felt that her younger sister was still very good at her. Even if some wives of aristocratic families looked down on her, there must be ordinary officials who wanted to get married. Aji was worried that her sister would marry her in a mess when she fell in love with the other party's family, so she would rather raise her for her parents. Anyway, she would not worry about spending money. Zhao Chen, she discussed with him last night that Zhao Chen thought that she was given less than 500 taels.

Lin Zhu didn't believe in the elder sister's reason, but she couldn't think of any other reason. She thought about her purse and took out the silver notes and returned them to Aji and said, "Sister, I have money. I have saved so much New Year's money from my childhood to my grandmother. Do you think I have spent it indiscriminately? You should keep this yourself."

The eldest sister gave the money to the broken silver, and she could give it so much for no reason. Even if her brother-in-law had no grudges in her heart, Lin Zhu didn't want it. She remembered the look of the Zhao family's grandma looking at their family. Last year, she was happy that her elder sister could enjoy a happy life after marrying her brother-in-law, but she didn't expect to benefit from her elder sister's glory.

No matter what Aji said, Lin Zhu refused to ask for it, so he just ran away.

Aji stared at the curtain in a daze. Her sister didn't want her money. Is she not liking to money anymore, or is she embarrassed to accept it?

Zhao Chen came back and saw her sitting there stupidly. He walked to the edge of the kang and hugged her and kissed her, "What are you thinking?"

Aji looked at her daughter who was still asleep and told her about it.

Zhao Chen didn't know much about his sister-in-law, so he could only comfort him: "If you don't want it, you don't have to think too much. Azhu is only thirteen, and her father-in-law will not marry her too early. If someone proposes a marriage, my mother-in-law will definitely mention it to you. Then tell me, I will help my father-in-law see the person, and if it doesn't work, I will refuse. How can Azhu know in the backyard? Besides, Azhu has always had a good vision and will not fall in love with anyone."

"How do you know she has a good vision?" Aju curiously withdrew her gaze from her daughter.

Zhao Chen held her face and smiled, "When you didn't like me, Azhu had already looked down on my brother-in-law. Do you think she has a good vision?"

Aji lowered her head and laughed secretly, thinking that he was not the rich young master at that time, would his sister look down on him?

"Ah, Cancan seems to have peed!" Yu Guangli saw his daughter wrinkled her face, Aji hurriedly reached out and touched her. The diapers were indeed hot and wet. Just as he was about to turn over the clean diapers prepared under the quilt, Zhao Chen had already taken them out and knelt there and helped her daughter to mat them himself, with a very focused look.

My sister has a good attitude, Aji thought with a smile.

At this time, Zhao Yunting wanted to go back to the room after delivering the guest, but was called to Rongshoutang by the lady halfway through.

"Yunting, Cancan Xisan, you don't plan to do it. I didn't invite anyone from your uncle's house to come. Besides, it's not as long as possible. However, Cancan full moon is a big day. I have already sent a letter to Liaodong, asking your aunt to bring people to see it, and we will gather together. We may not be able to see each other in the future."

The grandmother's maiden name was Zeng. She was originally an official in Beijing. Later, she moved to Liaodong and made a reservation there. Now the head of the Zeng family's backyard is Zhao Yunting's aunt, Mrs. Zeng, who has a lot of children and grandchildren.

Because the journey is long, Zhao Yunting basically has no impression of the Zeng family, but he is a serious cousin. The grandmother wants to invite them, can Zhao Yunting disagree?

"What the mother said is, my son will have someone to have a guest room."

The lady nodded with satisfaction and recalled the past with her son: "I asked you to marry your second cousin, you wouldn't. Later, your aunt wrote to me and said that your second cousin gave birth to three fat boys in a row after marrying her husband's house..."

Zhao Yunting listened absent-mindedly. Later, the wife kept saying that the Zeng family's daughters were mostly sons after getting married, and they were born with Yizi's fate. The brain suddenly felt ache and couldn't help but recall the things about the Zeng family. Several cousins ​​were married, so the mother could not give him anyone to him anymore. Could it be that she had a trick on his son? The Zeng family's niece...

He couldn't remember it at all, and he had never seen it before.

~

Lin Zhu is going out again.

Today is the day she and Guo Baozhu have made an appointment, and the two of them are going to pick a full moon gift for Cancan.

The Guo family carriage has already arrived outside, and Liu personally tied a fox-haired cloak for his daughter. "Come back after picking up the things, don't go out for too long. Baozhu's father and brother are both high-ranking officials, so it's nothing to be more playful. You have to learn from your elder sister and be more at tranquil in the future to find a husband's family."

"Mom, it's still early for me to get married. Don't you keep your marriage on your lips every day?" Lin Zhu was really tired of her mother's nagging, avoided her mother's hand, turned around and tied a knot in her cloak.

The mother and daughter often do this. Liu was so angry that she wanted to beat her, but she caught sight of Lin Chongjiu sitting on the chair and laughed. Liu immediately said to him: "You and you, hurry back to the house to recite the book. If you dare to yell at learning kung fu, see if I can go to your brother-in-law's house in the future, will I still take you?"

Lin Chongjiu was immediately beaten by frost, pouting and sulking secretly. Lin Zhu had already packed up and blinked at his younger brother gloatingly: "Xiaojiu is going to study well, and when she comes back, she buys candied haws for you, and the seeds are removed!" After that, he walked out with brisk steps.

Mrs. Liu hurriedly followed behind.

Outside the Lin family, Guo Baozhu stood beside her brother wearing a big red cloak. When she saw Lin Zhu turning out from behind the screen wall, her eyes lit up and smiled and said, "Azhu, you look so beautiful in this outfit!"

Lin Zhu wore a long skirt with purple magnolia embroidered on white background, a light purple fox-wool cloak on the outside, and a white jade hairpin on her head. Her little face was white and red. Compared with Aju's softness, she looked more agile and playful.

Guo Baozhu looked at Liu who was following him again, ran over and said coquettishly, "Auntie, you are so good at giving birth. Sister-in-law and Azhu are better than each other. I want to be your daughter!"

Liu laughed and said, "Don't say that, Baozhu is much better than Azhu. If you envy him, it's better for Azhu to envy you. OK, it's getting late, so you go quickly, remember to come back early!"

"Don't worry, aunt, we will be back soon!" Guo Baozhu smiled and pulled Lin Zhu into the carriage.

Guo Zijing then had time to say to Liu: "It's cold, aunt, hurry up and go in, I will be optimistic about them."

Mrs. Liu looked at the tall man who was a little cold in front of her and said helplessly: "They are both naughty and troubled. It is rare to rest at home."

Guo Zijing smiled faintly, bowed and said goodbye, and turned his horse on his back.

Guo Baozhu first took Lin Zhu to a wood carving shop.

The carriage stopped in front of the shop, and Guo Zijing took the lead in getting off the horse and walked to the front door. As soon as Guo Baozhu came out, he used to helping his sister. After Guo Baozhu stood firm, he turned around to pick up Lin Zhu, and his movements were natural.

The man's hands were slender and wide, and there was a shallow scar on his palm. Lin Zhu was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Thank you Brother Guo, but I can do it myself." After saying that, he stepped on the stool and got out of the car, stood next to Guo Baozhu, and looked at the shop with her.

Guo Zijing withdrew his hand when Lin Zhu opened his mouth, and ordered the coachman to pull the carriage aside, and then led the two girls into it. The shop was very quiet. The shopkeeper saw the Guo brothers and sisters and greeted him familiarly: "Miss Guo should pick up things directly or go first and then take a look?"

"Go and take a look first." Guo Baozhu answered without hesitation, explaining to Lin Zhu as she walked inside: "There are a few masters carving wood inside. You can go and take a look, it's quite interesting."

Lin Zhu had long been attracted by the rows of exquisite and clever wood carvings on the shelves. When he heard that he could see how the master did it, he immediately became interested.

Guo Zijing did not follow them, nodded to the shopkeeper, silently walked to the shelves, looked around casually, raised his hand, and frowned slightly. Lin Zhu was two years younger than his sister, and in his eyes he was just a child, so he just helped her without thinking about anything. Lin Zhu avoided it. Could it be that he felt that he was abrupt?

Except for his sister, he rarely deals with any girl. He usually has no chance to see him when he is with the emperor. It seems that he still has to pay more attention in the future. Sometimes he thinks it is a little girl, and the girl doesn't think so.

"Commander Guo?"

With the familiar Qingyue voice, Guo Zijing turned around in surprise and saw a handsome man wearing a purple brocade robe standing at the door. The man was wearing a jade crown and a full dragon courtyard. His eyes were deep, restrained and noble, and he was the current third prince, King Rui.
To be continued...