When the Fifth Lady looked at this, her smile became even sweeter.

She sat down beside the old lady and pulled her sleeve: "Mother, you didn't see it just now, but Jin Ge'er is so lovable. He looks back at the fourth sister-in-law after walking a few steps. He won't let me hug him. He's afraid to let me go."

"All babies who are learning to walk are like this." The lady laughed and waved to Jing'er, "Come, Jing'er, come to your grandma." Then she had the kang table removed and put Jing'er on the kang.

At first, Jin Geer stood there and didn't dare to move. He turned his head to look for Shiyi Niang. Seeing Shiyi Niang standing by the kang with a smile, he immediately threw himself into Shiyi Niang's arms. Shiyi Niang hugged him for a while and pointed at the lady: "Go find your grandmother."

Jing'er sticks to his mother.

The lady looked around and took out the royal blue cloisonné mirror box from under the table and coaxed Jing'er, "Come, come to grandma."

Jing'er stared at the mirror box for a while, then staggered over.

Before he could get into her arms, the lady hugged Jing'er and kissed him twice on the cheek. Jing'er grabbed the mirror box from the lady's hand.

The lady pointed at Shiyi Niang and said, "Go to your mother."

Jin Ge'er didn't hesitate. He stumbled into Shiyi Niang's arms, raising the mirror box in his hand and making a sound, as if saying to his mother "I got a good thing".

Eleventh Lady smiled and touched her son's head, then pointed at the lady and said, "Give the mirror box to Grandmother."

Upon hearing this, Jing'er held the mirror box tightly and looked at Shiyi Niang without taking a step.

"Mother, now you know who is the most powerful, right?" Fifth Madam laughed so hard that her body shook with laughter. "Our Xinjie only wanted to touch your porcelain and tin kettle. But our Jinger refused to let go of what he had." She said coquettishly, "You can never say that our Xinjie is 'untouchable' again!"

The lady laughed loudly: "No more talk, no more talk." She went to hug Jin Ge'er again, "This is just 'plucking feathers from a passing goose'."

Jing'er sat in the lady's arms, fiddling with the mirror box very seriously.

Everyone laughed. No one looked at the Third Lady. She stood alone, wanting to laugh but unable to, looking even more depressed.

Since the Madam had agreed, the Third House would have to move out sooner or later. She had endured it for so many years, so why would she create a feud with the Third Madam at this time? But the Fifth Madam was competing with the Third Madam at this time. If Eleventh Lady took the initiative to talk to the Third Madam, wouldn't she be stepping on the Fifth Madam to be a good person?

She had no choice but to wink at the Fifth Madam, indicating that she should say hello to the Third Madam.

The Fifth Lady pretended not to see it and continued to dress up in front of the Madam, "Mother, if you want to blame someone, blame your things because they are so popular. Not to mention that the grandchildren's eyes light up when they come, even we are secretly thinking about them in our hearts, making us look like poor people who have never seen the world." She hugged the Madam's arm affectionately, "Mother, it will be the beginning of winter in a few days, and you have to wear warm earrings. Can you open the warehouse and give us some skins?"

"Did you see that?" The lady pretended to be helpless and said to Mrs. Du who was standing beside her with a smile, "If you are being nice to someone for no reason, it will definitely be bad news."

Mother Du covered her sleeves and smiled.

A little maid came in and asked where the lunch was.

Everyone surrounded the lady and went to the east room.

The third wife followed behind dejectedly.

After the lady sat down, the fifth lady pretended to be surprised and asked, "Hey, why don't you see the eldest young lady?"

The third wife said nothing, lowered her head, and looked very unhappy.

Without even glancing at the Third Madam, the Madam said, "She sprained her arm yesterday, and we asked a doctor to come and see her this morning. She's now recovering at home!"

"Oh my!" The Fifth Lady was shocked, "How did she sprain her hand? It will take a hundred days to heal a broken bone. She won't be able to spend the New Year in peace. This is the first New Year since the eldest young lady married into our family." Then she said to the Third Lady, "Third sister-in-law, I heard that Panax notoginseng is the best for healing injuries. Why don't we use it to make chicken soup for our eldest young lady to nourish her body?" She also said to the Eleventh Lady, "Fourth sister-in-law, after dinner, shall we go see the eldest young lady?"

Northern ginseng and southern Panax notoginseng are both very valuable medicinal materials. Yanjing is located in the north, and it is not uncommon for wealthy families to have two ginsengs, but few treasure Panax notoginseng. The Fifth Lady said this, clearly to embarrass the Third Lady.

The veins on the Third Madam's temples popped out. "It's just a sprain, not a break. Once the swelling goes down, it will be healed in a few days. Why would it take a hundred days?"

The Fifth Lady raised her eyelids and was about to say something, but the Lady Dowager glanced at her lightly.

She was so frightened that she dared not say a word. She lowered her head and helped the lady to arrange things.

Eleventh Lady smiled and said "OK", and said: "It just so happens that I still have some Sanqi. It's just not much. I'll take it to see the eldest young lady later."

The lady nodded slightly and took the chopsticks.

Don’t talk while eating and don’t talk while sleeping.

Everyone ate in silence. The lady told Madam Du, "Go to the storeroom and get a ginseng and a pack of Panax notoginseng. I'll go see the eldest young lady, too."

The tone was light, but it made the third wife feel uncomfortable. She whispered, "How dare I trouble you, mother..."

The lady-in-waiting got up and went to the west side room for the banquet before she finished speaking.

The maids and old women hurried over to serve. The Fifth Lady was not willing to be outdone, so she also followed with the people around her. Eleventh Lady felt that the Third Lady was a bit too much, so she ignored her and went to the Dowager Lady with Jin Ge'er in her arms.

The third lady's face turned pale and red. She stood there alone for a while, with her head down, and went to the west room.

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The imperial physician had already come to see her. Fang's sprained hand was hung on her chest with a towel, and a maid was feeding her lunch.

Knowing that the Madam was coming to see her, she was startled and hurriedly asked the maid to help her put on her shoes and prepare to go out to greet her. Unexpectedly, the Madam had already walked in quickly. She quickly bowed.

The lady took her good hand and asked, "Why are you so careless?"

The sad tone made Fang's tears well up in her eyes.

"It's all my granddaughter-in-law's fault." She led the lady to sit on the big kang by the window, and the maid quickly cleared the kang table.

"No, no." The lady said hurriedly, "Just eat your food. I'll just come to see you." Then she looked at her for a while, "You look good. I'm relieved." Then she asked Mother Du to bring some herbs to Fang, "I've brought some ginseng and Panax notoginseng. Is there a mother around who knows about pharmacology? If not, go ask Mother Du how to use them!"

Fang thanked him repeatedly.

The lady smiled and nodded, patting Fang's hand affectionately: "Your mother-in-law will be back to Shanyang in a few days. If you have any questions, just ask your fourth aunt. Don't hide things just because you are a new daughter-in-law, like you did this time. You will suffer if you do that!"

Just yesterday, the Madam pretended not to understand the Third Madam's request to return to Shanyang, but today she suddenly asked the Third Madam to return to Shanyang...

The third wife couldn't help but secretly groan.

I just gave Fang a taste of my own medicine yesterday, and today I was sent back to Shanyang by the Madam. Wouldn't that make the maids and the old women think that the Madam was supporting Fang? But if I don't go, I don't know if I will have this opportunity.

Eleventh Lady was a little surprised.

I didn't expect that the lady would attach so much importance to Fang.

Madam Wu felt a little relieved.

Just now, she had provoked trouble, and the Madam was very unhappy. She was thinking about how to make the Madam happy later. Now it seemed that the Madam was still very dissatisfied with the Third Madam, but she just didn't want the conflict between them to surface. In the future, as long as she could grasp the right degree, the Madam would be happy to see the Third Madam suffer a setback.

Thinking of this, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Fang's expression was somewhat complicated.

She sprained her hand yesterday, and her mother-in-law's words revealed that she did it on purpose. She felt very wronged. She reluctantly drank half a bowl of porridge in the morning and prepared to go to the old lady to pay her respects as usual. Her mother-in-law said sarcastically: "Your hand is so swollen, and you still go to the old lady. Isn't it going to make her sad!"

She explained for a long time, but her mother-in-law just sneered, shook her sleeves and walked out. She choked on her breath.

When I got married, my mother said that although this mother-in-law had no rules in her behavior, her joy, anger, sorrow and happiness were all on her face, and she was much easier to get along with than those who smiled but hid a knife behind their backs. In addition, the mother-in-law had elders above her and sisters-in-law below her, and she was stingy with others, so the sisters-in-law must be on good terms with each other. Let her serve the lady-in-law well, be filial to the wife of the Marquis of Yongping and the Princess of Danyang, and when there were weddings and funerals from the two aunts' side, just show her generosity and behave like a person, and during festivals, she must flatter the two aunts and try to please them. If something happens, others will think of your good and only say bad things about the mother-in-law. At that time, if you keep pretending to be weak, the Marquis of Yongping is a royal family, a family of generations of meritorious service, not those small families. Even if your mother-in-law is dissatisfied, she can only find fault with you in the rules. As long as you follow the rules, your mother-in-law can't do anything to you.

But after getting married, her husband treated her tenderly and considerately. Although her mother-in-law was outspoken, she never asked her for a dowry. She also kept all the gifts on the day of the recognition... She thought her mother was making a fuss out of nothing, but she didn't expect that she was just thinking too simply.

The mother-in-law would not listen to what the fifth aunt said, without even asking her a question. When she came back, she turned her face away from her in front of the maid. If she used her dowry to do favors again in the future, I'm afraid her mother-in-law would do more than just turn her face away from her.

The mother-in-law went to the old lady in anger and didn't come back for most of the day. She didn't know what she said to the old lady. If the old lady misunderstood her because of this, what should she do in the future?

When she thought of this, she couldn't help feeling a little panicked and couldn't eat.

The maid had no choice but to persuade her earnestly, but she was afraid that her mother-in-law would know that she had not eaten lunch and say something unpleasant, so she reluctantly took the bowl.

She never expected that what she was waiting for was these words from the lady.

"Madam..." Fang looked at the Madam uneasily, not knowing what to say.

The mother-in-law was worried about her father-in-law being alone in office, so she was thinking about how to get the lady to agree to her mother-in-law going to Shanyang. Now that the lady had agreed, if she stopped her, her mother-in-law would definitely resent her for meddling. If she didn't stop him, wouldn't she be the one to take the blame? What would her husband think if he knew about it?

In the midst of the dilemma, the old lady smiled and stood up, stretched out her hand for the fifth lady to support her, and said, "You eat! I'm old, I need to go back and take a nap."

Walked straight out the door.

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