This is an anti-theft seal, with an anti-theft ratio of 60%, supporting the genuine version, thank you little fairies, Wen Yu is ignorant of his words, but he nods no matter what Yuan Jin says, and then continues to concentrate on eating his iced pear paste.

Xue Jinyu was on the side and said indifferently: "What a fool can be so smart!" He jumped off the kang and pulled Wen Yu's sleeve, "Hey, what did you tell others? Let others choose you!"

Wen Yu pulled back his sleeves and avoided him and turned to the other side to eat.

Xue Jinyu became even more angry and resolutely: "Xue Wenyu, I'm talking to you!"

"He is your brother, it's fine if you don't call him brother, how can you call him the name!" Yuan Jin glared at Jin Yu and said coldly, "You are so unruly, I'll tell my father to go."

Xue Jinyu is most afraid of Xue Qingshan on weekdays. Although she was unhappy when she heard her sister move out of her father, she could only snort lightly.

"Okay, your brother is just curious." Cui advised him, remembering what Xue Qingshan solemnly told her after hearing that Wen Yu was selected last night. He told Yuan Jin, "Your father said he would choose two girls to serve him in his room, and he also hired him a class outside to teach him to study. The monthly fee would be one tael of silver, and he would add four seasons of clothes, four treasures of the study, etc., which cost him more than twenty taels of rice. If you spend so much money, you should look at him well. Don't lose your strength and money in the end!"

Cui still felt that Xue Wenyu could not be chosen, but her daughter insisted on trying it out, and her husband was not allowed to interfere, and she couldn't say anything, so she let the father and daughter go and have trouble!

"Okay, mom, I know what I know." Yuan Jin didn't want to hear Cui continue.

Cui was not bad-hearted, but had a shallow understanding and was a little bit bad about his concubine's son. Yuan Jin had no intention of saying much to her or arguing with her.

Just then, a girl came in and reported: "Madam, the third wife is here."

"What did she do?" Cui was puzzled. Jiang and she were not very close to her. Although Jiang was versatile and would not offend anyone, they were still different from legitimate and illegitimate. She actually had a lot of contact with the second wife of the big house.

Although he was confused, Cui still asked the little girl to invite her in.

Today, Jiang had a cute bun and wore a neat green silk short robe. The girl behind her was holding boxes of big and small.

After sitting down at the table, she took a sip of tea, looked at Yuan Jin and Xue Wenyu, and said straight to Cui: "Fourth brother and sister, what do you think about the family's choice of prince this time?"

Yuan Jin raised his head when he heard Jiang's words, and saw Cui slapping the round fan twice, a little puzzled: "What can I think about this matter?"

Does this matter have anything to do with her?

Yuan Jin's mouth moved slightly and walked directly to Cui's side and sat down: "What's wrong with the third aunt?"

Jiang said lightly: "I won't go around with you. I believe you have seen the things at home yesterday. This family relies on the big ones to bully the younger ones, and there is no brotherly and respectful brotherly! The methods between brothers are really heartbreaking."

"The things happened yesterday were indeed too much, so it's not for the third aunt to be angry." Yuan Jin said.

Mrs. Jiang put down the teacup: "So I'm here today to ask you a question." Mrs. Jiang said this, looked at the expressions of Yuan Jin and Cui, and said, "Do you want to get the position of this prince?"

Yuan Jin was secretly shocked and was already feeling something about Jiang’s words: “What does the third aunt mean?”

"Although my son has lost the election and has no hope. But yesterday's fact is vicious. Even if my son cannot be selected, I cannot let them be selected!" When she said this, her eyes turned cold. Yuan Jin rarely saw Jiang's expression. She looked at Yuan Jin again, "So, do you want Xue Wenyu to be the position of the prince in the end?"

Yuan Jin said frankly: "Although the fourth wife is not a concubine, I am not afraid of what you said in my third aunt. Everyone wants such a good thing. However, Wen Yu can only do his best to leave his fate. It is still unknown whether he can choose it in the end. After all, Yun Hai and Yun Tao are much older than Wen Yu and very excellent."

She said this to see what Jiang planned.

Jiang sneered: "I don't know the details of the Wei family, but I know the two of our family very well! Like Xue Yunhai, Xue Yuntao is just an embroidered pillow. As long as you are sure to cure your brother's illness, I will naturally help you deal with them."

When Yuan Jin heard that Jiang said this, he felt a little moved: "As long as the third aunt is willing, I will naturally be unable to ask for it!"

This third aunt is extremely smart. With her help, it is definitely a great thing for Wen Yu.

"Okay, last time I came, I saw that your things didn't seem to be enough, so please keep them first." After Jiang finished speaking, he waved to the girls behind him. The girl walked up with a brocade box and opened them all. Inside was a snow-white Chengxintang paper, several excellent Duan inkstones, red sandalwood paperweights, white jade paperweights, and good sheep hair brushes. There were even ginseng, donkey-hide gelatin, deer antlers and other tonics. There were also red paper sealed with a snow-white silver patterned pattern, which filled a box, probably as much as fifty or sixty taels!

These things made Cui stunned.

She just said that Wen Yuhua's family's money was comparable to Jiang's family, and that little money was worth it. She was afraid that the inkstone that Jiang took out was more than this!

Yuan Jin is a person who is used to seeing good things. All those who can appear in front of her in the first half of her life were the best things that have been carefully selected. But now she still beats her up when she sees these dazzling things. For ordinary people, this is very generous!

Su Xi, the girl from Jiang's side, also said: "Twenty pieces of silk and satin have been sent directly to the Fourth Lady's residence. Lady doesn't have to reluctantly let it go, just use it."

Yuan Jin did not refuse, and asked the girls to take away the things one by one, and leaned over to say to Jiang, "The third aunt treats her so kindly. In the future, Wen Yuruo is really selected and will definitely repay the third aunt's kindness today!"

Jiang said, "Don't thank me, you teach Xue Wenyu well. As long as you win the two of them, you will repay my kindness. If you have any needs in the future, just come to me. My family background is not as good as your other two aunts, and it is only a little better. I still have some family background. I will never let you lose the other two in terms of money."

It turns out that he is the daughter of a wealthy silk family in Jiangnan, and his courage is different from ordinary people!

After carefully understanding Wen Yu's illness and talent, Jiang left the fourth room and said that he would contact them if he had any questions.

With the support of this rich third aunt, at least for a short time, you will not have to worry about money. You may also get strategic guidance on the second house of the big house at any time. This made Yuan Jin very moved. As the saying goes, the enemy's enemy is my friend, and this is indeed true. If the second house of the big house had offended Jiang, the second house of Jiang would not have come to cooperate with the fourth house!

The big house and the second house also inquired about the situation of this fool in the fourth house.

Although the girls and women in the fourth room were very likely to be pried open their mouths. However, they didn't know what Xue Wenyu was like, only knew that they seemed to be an ordinary fool, and they specially invited the Xishang to give a lecture again, but they never knew anything else.

The two houses were puzzled secretly and were about to wait until the formal assessment was held before checking. However, they still did not get alert. After all, they were just fools in the common house.

In the afternoon, Old Mrs. Xue summoned all the grandchildren of the house and told them how the Duke Dingguo Mansion planned to choose a prince.

"Dingguo Duke Mansion will assess several selected people from the aspects of civil and military strategy, planning and strength. Literature refers to naturally not the eight-legged essay in the imperial examination, but the marching and formation, and the balance of military tactics. The martial arts are just a small trick, and they practice riding horses and archery. Although Dingguo Duke Mansion is now very powerful and the descendants do not need to charge in the battle, they still need necessary martial arts." Old Mrs. Xue told everyone this, and everyone nodded after hearing this. These are normal.

"What is more difficult to assess is the determination. The first two are traceable. In the end, I don't know what the old lady sells in the gourd and how to choose." Old Mrs. Xue paused for a moment, as if thinking for a moment, "But it's okay, and you will naturally know it."

"From the day to come, you will go to the Duke of Dingguo Mansion every afternoon to teach with Master Wu." Old Mrs. Xue took a sip of tea and said, "Girls, too. There is a nanny next to the old lady of Dingguo Mansion. Back then, she was from the needle and thread bureau in the palace and the most exquisite Su Xi Niang. In the future, this nanny will teach your female red needles and correct your behavior. After all, if anyone's brother is chosen, she will be the lady in the future and you cannot lose etiquette on it."

Several granddaughters and grandsons agreed, all of whom were full of expectations for the teaching that was about to begin and kept talking excitedly.

They probably knew that the old lady said that the girl was going to go, not because she learned to be a girl or something, but because the old lady wanted to show Marquis Wei Yong to see which girl is the most suitable one.

What an exciting thing this is!

So Yuan Jin was not surprised that the next day, he saw a group of radiant girls on the screen wall. Except for Yuan Zhu who also had a bag of hair and didn't dress up, the others were competing for beauty. Although Yuan Zhu's younger brother was not likely to be selected, she was forcibly stuffed in by Jiang, preparing to polish her personality. Because she got up too early, the old woman dug out of the quilt just after dawn, so she pouted and looked unhappy.

Old Mrs. Xue also got up too early, touched her face and woke her up, and asked her grandchildren to get on the carriage: "Let's go, it will be dawn if you procrastinate."

The carriage carried the excited and nervous Xue family members to the Dingguo Duke's Mansion.

Cui looked at the three children having breakfast and said, "Xue Wenyu is now invited to a meal. If you buy this or that, the family will spend a lot of money. You are afraid that you can't afford him a year's salary. If it weren't for the help of your third sister-in-law, we should have gone to drink the northwest wind. How much money can you get from your mother? Besides, Yuan Jin will be in the hairpin tomorrow, and the hairpin gift will be even more expensive. Now you are not at ease. What should you do in the future?"

When it comes to salary, Xue Qingshan has nothing to say. He was the Minister of Yuanmasi Temple, and only had a salary of six taels a month. In addition, the yamen subsidized some oil and rice, it was already more than seven taels. His family still had 500 acres of land, and he could get a harvest of forty or fifty taels a year. Such income was very difficult in front of several legitimate housemen.

Yuan Jin ate the noodles and said, "It's okay, I can't pass my birthday."

The last time she was in the palace, the palace was doing a lot of work, and there were countless rare treasures from the families of the powerful and powerful. Her hair-combed lady was the married Princess Ningde. The banquet did not last for three days, and the queen mother gave her four sets of gems and jade. But so what? She was betrayed and killed. Now she is sitting here to eat noodles, and she has to worry about a few taels of silver.

None of these is interesting, just passing by.

After breakfast, Xue Jinyu went to the study room to study, and Yuan Jin and Wen Yu went to the Dingguo Duke's Mansion.

Today, I am not learning embroidery, but learning the various rules of walking and speaking in aristocratic families. Several wives all came from official families, and the rules of official families are still worse than those of aristocratic families.

The one who taught them was the old lady's close-fitting girl Fuyun. She stood among the ladies, demonstrated the rules first, and then asked the ladies to come out and follow them one by one.

This can be said to be Yuan Jinzhi's strengths. When she was in the palace, three nannies surrounded her and stared at her behavior at all times. After this year, she walked and sat upright, and this temperament was not something that could be learned by learning, but was engraved in her bones for a long time. Therefore, even if she didn't learn, she could do it at will.

So the ladies found that the fourth lady, who was clumsy in embroidery, had learned these rules naturally and had almost no need to teach them. They even made Fu Yun smile and praised her, "The fourth lady has a good understanding."

Wei Xianlan snorted: "I can't even learn needlework, what's the use of knowing these!"

When Fu Yun heard Wei Xianlan say this, his smile continued to diminish, but he slowly said, "Miss Wei's words are different from your official family. If we are in the capital now and with the identity of the Duke of Ding, we will definitely go to the palace to pay tribute to the banquet every year. The palace is the most important place to pay mercy. If you don't learn these well and lose the face of the Duke of Ding in front of the nobles, wouldn't it be a bad thing? Real skills are important, but in the aristocratic families, your rules are more important."

Xue Yuanzhu also helped: "What's more, your own female red girl is good! I laugh at you for fifty steps, my fourth sister didn't mess with you!"

Xue Yuanshan frowned and said to Yuanzhu: "Sixth sister, Aunt Fuyun is talking. You are not allowed to interrupt like this!"

Xue Yuanzhu stopped doing it and said, "Sister Yuanshan, Miss Wei just interrupted, why didn't you talk about her? Why did you just talk about me?"

Yuanzhu couldn't stand the two of the second wife because of his younger brother Yunxi. What's more, among the sisters, no one can compare to Yuanzhu's.

"You!" Xue Yuanshan stumbled on her neck and said, "I'm helping her or not!"

Yuanzhu even smiled: "So, Sister Yuanshan thinks Miss Wei is right. But Aunt Fuyun's is not?"

Xue Yuanshan was completely defeated, and none of them dared to be disrespectful to Fu Yun.

Although Fu Yun is just a girl, her identity is different. She is the most powerful girl around the old lady. She will tell the old lady one by one if you show any of your performance. This is the old lady's mouthpiece. Can you offend it?

Fu Yun looked at them arguing and finally said, "These wives are all officials and the fragrance of books has been passed down from generation to generation. There is really no need to argue like this, just sit down."

But I didn't really blame the ladies.

After class, she told the old lady about her life today.

The old lady of Dingguo Duke drank tea and said slowly: "Who do you think is better for these ladies?"

Fu Yun thought for a while and said, "There are too many people in the Xue family, fighting each other, and the sisters are incompatible. Miss Wei is the only daughter in the family, with an older brother and a younger brother. She is too favored and insists on complicating with the wife of the common house and cannot see her own advantages."

The old lady smiled and said, "You don't like Xianlan?"

Fu Yun peeled the grapes for the old lady and handed them over: "She accused the Fourth Lady Xue of Miss. She could tell you secretly in private, but she didn't do this, because she wanted the Fourth Lady to make a fool of herself. Besides, if she really wanted the Fourth Lady to make a fool of herself, she could clearly instruct the girl to say it, but she insisted on making a move herself and asked the Fourth Lady to grab the handle of the conversation and fight back. I can't say anything else, old lady, you know it in your heart."

The old lady ate the grapes and continued to ask, "What do you think of the ladies of the Xue family?"

Fu Yun thought for a while and said, "It's hard to say about this. Yuanshan and Miss Yuanyu, you are no longer happy. Miss Yuanzhu helped the fourth wife stand out today, and she is not too casual and cute. She is still young. Miss Yuanzhen is gentle and kind, and she acts without any mistakes. As for the fourth wife... I don't know, do you mind the incident that day."

The old lady sighed: "She is like a jewel, smart and generous, I really like it."

Baozhu was the lady of the original Duke's Mansion. The old lady was born in old age and raised her with a spoiled woman. She was very close to her. Unfortunately, she died of illness at the age of thirteen and had always been a heart disease of the old lady.

I really liked it, that means I still care about the matter of that day.

Fu Yun knelt down and beat the old lady's legs: "You always look at people accurately, and I am not worried. Just as you look at the Wei family and the Xue family, Wei Heng seems to be better, but in fact he has a very good background and will not be able to integrate into our mansion in the end. It is better to have a small family, relying wholeheartedly on the Duke Dingguo Mansion and treat the Duke's Mansion as his own home."

The old lady smiled and said, "It's precisely this reason. The Duke thought I was too confused because he didn't understand the secret of the Xue Mansion chosen by his cousin." The old lady stared at the sunlight outside the window and thought for a moment, and then said, "Let's see, it won't be too long after just a few months."

Fu Yun was thinking, and a girl came outside and reported: "Old lady, Mrs. Gu came to Taiyuan to pay homage to your ancestors, and I came to pay special attention to you. I am now in the flower hall!"

The old lady was surprised when she heard this.

She and Mrs. Gu are fellow villagers. Although Mrs. Gu is a few years apart, she is very close to each other. Later, Mrs. Gu married to the Wei Yonghou Mansion in the capital, and she always saw Shaoliu. How could she be unhappy when she heard her return to her hometown to worship her ancestors? She immediately stood up and said, "Come in!"
To be continued...