Zhou Xu'an looked at the slim figure running away quickly as if being chased, but the reins in his hands tightened sharply.
The horse was startled by his sudden pull on the rope, snorted and moved restlessly with its hooves.
After staying quietly for a long time, Zhou Xu'an finally sighed, got on his horse and went home.
When he arrived at the door of Zhou's mansion, he saw his young man Ah Cai from a distance.
When Ah Cai saw that his young master was back, he hurried forward to greet him.
"Oh, my eldest young master, you are back.
The old lady almost scolded me to death.
You said you watched the game well, why did you just leave?"
Ah Cai stepped forward and took the hand from him.
Reins, he said.
Zhou Xu'an glared at him coldly and entered the gate, leaving the slightly injured Ah Cai behind to lead the horse into the stable.
After he entered the gate of Zhou Mansion, he bypassed the screen wall and passed through a waterside pavilion.
He was not in the mood to look at the lotus flowers blooming perfectly on both sides.
He just hurriedly walked forward, passed through another hanging flower gate built with brackets, and then entered the inner courtyard of the Zhou Mansion.
When I walked to the verandah of Cun'an Yuan where my grandmother lived, I saw my second sister Zhou Mengchan with her maid.
Zhou Mengchan saluted and called "Big Brother".
The maid next to her also knelt down and saluted and called "Young Master".
He was just cold.
He nodded and walked for a while before arriving in front of a big house.
Seeing him coming, the maid standing at the door quickly opened the curtain.
Grandma is weak and afraid of the wind, so her house here is a bit stuffy.
Moreover, my grandmother also liked incense, so as soon as Zhou Xu'an entered, he felt a wave of incense with the smell of powder coming towards him.
He saw that his grandmother was drinking a cup of boiled medicinal tea, and there were piles of warblers and swallows around her.
It was the female relatives of the Zhou family, his aunt who had returned to his parents' house to stay for a few days, and his two cousins.
Zhou Xu'an glanced lightly, then took a few steps forward and bowed to his grandmother sitting in the middle.
"Grandma, my grandson has been too busy with business these days and has not said hello to you.
Grandma, please don't blame me."
"What are you talking about blaming?
You have been working so hard for the Zhou family these years, and you are already in your twenties but you can't even have a family.
Grandma is just sad for you."
Mrs.
Zhou put down the teacup and sighed.
"Yes, Xu An.
Just now, my mother was talking to me about your lifelong events.
I am both your stepmother and your aunt.
You are so young that you have not even started a family, but just thinking about it makes me feel sorry for Huang Quan.
My sister."
The speaker was Zhou Xu'an's stepmother, Mrs.
Zhou Liu.
She was wearing a purple gold silk buttoned coat and a black skirt embroidered with auspicious clouds.
Wearing an engraved golden hairpin and a fragrant orchid button in the ear.
He was about thirty-four or five years old, with a dignified and delicate face.
Unfortunately, the fine lines at the corners of his eyes could not be covered up even though he applied a lot of powder.
But as soon as Mr.
Liu finished speaking this week, a plump woman sitting on the other side of Mrs.
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Zhou laughed: "What my sister-in-law said is quite pleasant, but if you really care about my eldest nephew's marriage, you can't help me."
Can we wait until this time?"
The person speaking was Mrs.
Zhou's favorite youngest daughter Zhou Xianglan.
Her husband's surname was Cheng, who was also a merchant.
Life at home is comfortable, but it has not been very prosperous in recent years.
"My little sister said this, it really chilled my heart.
I was thinking that Xu An has been in the capital all year round, so I have to look for a girl from a good family.
She must be a well-informed and sensible girl to be worthy of him.
But I can't find him.
A person from a small family cannot stand up to the table and it is a waste of time for Xu An to lose face."
When Zhou Liu said this, she pretended to glance at Zhou Lanxiang's two daughters casually.
"You" Zhou Lanxiang immediately became angry when she heard Zhou Liu say this.
She was talking about her daughter.
However, she saw that her mother's expression didn't look good, so she had no choice but not to say anything.
Humph, you dare to say that her daughter is from a small family, isn't she Liu Moniang still a concubine of the Liu family?
If her sister-in-law Liu Yuanniang hadn't died earlier, and the Liu family had sent her to marry her, it would have been her turn to be the head wife of the Zhou family this year.
"Sister, what I said is a bit harsh.
Although the woman's moral character has something to do with her family status, it is generally educated by her parents.
A small family does not necessarily mean that she cannot be well-educated.
On the other hand, there are some women from wealthy families.
Many, that The legitimate daughter must be a real lady, but it’s hard to tell about the concubines.”
The person speaking at this time was Luo Bixia, Zhou Baida’s concubine.
She was wearing a crimson gown with a ruffled edge and a purple skirt with ruffles on her head.
Jade beads inlaid with gold hairpins in the ears.
She is fair-skinned, with a pair of red phoenix eyes under slender willow eyebrows.
She looks about thirty years old, but she looks much younger and more charming than Zhou Liu.
She is the daughter of a small businessman that Zhou Baida brought back when he was traveling for business in the early years.
She is well-spoken and considerate, and she is favored by Zhou Baida.
Although I feel a little regretful that I only have Zhou Mengchan as my daughter so far, I am living a comfortable life otherwise.
She originally disliked Mrs.
Zhou Liu, but she was the mistress so she tolerated her more.
Who knew that she kept saying that she was a small family?
Because she was born into a small family, she had no chance to climb up the ladder after her first wife Liu Yuanniang left.
Now that Liu Moniang mentioned this matter again, she felt indescribably angry. "" After hearing what Aunt Luo said, Zhou Liu almost broke her silver teeth, knowing that it was herself that Mrs.
Jiang was trying to squeeze.
This Aunt Luo has always been disrespectful to her mistress because of her master's favor, and now she even dares to run against her.
But this time she had to suffer the loss of being dumb, especially when her sister-in-law Zhou Lanxiang kept looking at her with mocking eyes, she had no choice but to keep her face solemn and said nothing.
Mrs.
Zhou has never been very fond of her son's step-sibling Liu Moniang.
She is a concubine who always puts on a high profile and is not willing to flatter her mother-in-law.
No one likes her.
It's just that no matter how much you don't like her, she's the main wife, so you can't let an aunt talk about it, and Aunt Luo is also stupid enough to talk about it, so she also fills the hole and dumps the concubine she gave birth to.
So she glared at Aunt Luo lightly.
Aunt Luo then felt that she had said something she shouldn't have said, so she quickly put away the proud look on her face and stopped talking.
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Only then did Mrs.
Zhou remember what was important today, and said in a slightly reproachful tone: "Xu An, you said you didn't say you were going to take your sisters to the lake after the game today.
Why did you just leave?
My own sister didn't care.
Yes, there is Miss Zhu from the magistrate’s family on the boat, how rude.”
"Sorry grandma, I suddenly thought that there was a batch of goods at the dock that needed to be sent away immediately, so I left in a hurry."
Zhou Xu'an then spoke.
"Fortunately, I don't blame Miss Zhu generously, but you have to take time to come and apologize the next day."
Mrs.
Zhou told her eldest grandson.
"Understood, grandson, I'll take my leave now."
Zhou Xu'an was most annoyed by the scene of the women here fighting openly and secretly, so he hurriedly left.
When Zhou Xu'an was walking to the yard where he lived, he remembered what happened today again for some reason, and then he felt that he was being reckless.
I was afraid that the little girl might be thinking about him.
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