After a while of laughter, Tang Mo walked out of the courtyard with a smile. As soon as he saw Xin An off, he officially started to get busy. He and Cuiping confirmed the New Year gifts again and again, went to various families for banquets and socialized, and was very busy.

"Why do you look plumper to me?"

Lin Yao was also very busy at the end of the year. She hadn't seen Xin An for a while, so she pulled her aside and joked, "Look at your rosy complexion. You are having a really good life."

Xin An held his face in his hands and asked, "You've gained so much weight?"

After the snow, Qiushiyuan started cooking for herself. The meals were quite rich, but she always took a walk after eating.

Lin Yao smiled and said, "It's a little rounder, but it looks better. No wonder Second Brother Tang doesn't want to go out for a drink now. Tell me what you ate."

Xin An covered his face with his hands and laughed. Yan Wenhui came over and asked with a smile, "What did you say? Why are you laughing like that?"

"She is said to be very proud of her ability to control her husband."

"She should be proud of this."

Xin An rubbed his face and said embarrassedly: "I'm not laughing at this, it's Sister Lin who said I'm fat, I'm embarrassed."

"How can you be fat? Second Brother Tang should be very fond of you in this state."

Lin Yao even pinched her face and said, "Look at her skin, it's so moist and smooth, so tender that it looks like it could be blown away. If I were the second brother Tang, I would never be willing to go out on a errand. I would want to tie her to my belt and take her with me wherever I go."

Xin An remembered what Tang Mo had said and laughed even more happily.

Qiu Wenyuan, who came with Yan Wenhui, had a dark look in her eyes. "What's there to be proud of? It will all be the same sooner or later."

Lin Yao tilted her head, "What happened?"

Perhaps because she felt that her words were unpleasant to the ear, Qiu Wenyuan looked at Xin An and said, "I'm not talking about you."

Xin An thought about it for a moment and came up with a guess. It must be that the young master of the Han family took a concubine. He smiled and shook his head, "I see that Sister Qiu is not in a good mood."

In Xin An's memory, the young master Han from the Han family was elegant and talented, but he just couldn't control himself.

Qiu Wenyuan's words also confirmed this. More than a year after the two got married, the young master of the Han family brought back two concubines, and recently he met someone close to Qiu Wenyuan.

In this matter, everyone could only listen to Qiu Wenyuan's complaints and nothing else could be said, especially between husband and wife, who could be threatening to death today and affectionate tomorrow, making the person trying to persuade them look like a clown.

Fortunately, she also wanted to listen to everyone's advice, so she complained a few words and then let it go. She said that everyone hadn't gotten together for a long time, and when they were free, they must go to the theater together to relax.

"That'll have to wait until after the New Year."

Yan Wenhui said that there is no peace at the end of the year. "I feel like I haven't done anything, but I also feel like I've done a lot. I'm busy every day but I don't see any achievements."

Lin Yao nodded in agreement, saying that the weather has been cold and tiring recently.

Several people were talking about their family matters, and Lin Yao suddenly asked about the Wei family. "Sister Zhao hasn't left the house yet. Wei Ye politely declined everyone's requests to visit her. There is no news at all."

Yan Wenhui looked at Xin An, "You were the one who recommended the miraculous doctor who came to see the Wei family. Do you know the inside story?"

Xin An shook his head. "The miracle doctor is very tight-lipped, so I didn't get anything out of him. I sent some tonic medicine in a few days ago, and I only heard that he got better, but I didn't see anything."

“What a strange disease.”

There was something going on here, but people didn't want them to get involved, and there was nothing they could do.

As I was talking, I heard people whispering, talking about Prince Jin or something.

Lin Yao stopped one of them and asked, only to find out that Prince Jin and his family had just entered the city and returned before the New Year.

Xin Anxin's eyes lit up. After preparing for so long, she finally got the person back. It was not easy.

"Half a month ago, people from the palace came to Prince Jin's mansion to clean up and move a lot of things over. At that time, I thought I would come back to celebrate the New Year, but I didn't expect it to be true."

"Should we send a visiting card then?"

After this was said, everyone fell silent, with some embarrassment on their faces. When Prince Jin was exiled, those who usually interacted with him disappeared, and they all stayed away from him for fear of being implicated. Now that he is back, it would be really awkward to get close to him.

Lin Yao forced a smile and said, "Of course I have to send a visiting card when I come back, but we are both daughters-in-law, so this matter must be decided by the family."

Several people suddenly understood and smiled again. The embarrassment should be the embarrassment of being a mother-in-law.

Xin An tried to hold back his laughter and found it quite interesting.

When he returned to the mansion, he told Wang that Prince Jin had returned. Wang said, "We have no dealings with Prince Jin's mansion, so we naturally cannot take advantage of him. Since he is back, just send someone to deliver a generous gift."

"It's just that pile..."

Xin An said: "I asked Sister Lin, she said that since it is a reward from the Emperor, there is no reason to take it back. If we take the initiative to return it, it will show that Prince Jin is stingy."

Wang thought about it and didn't say anything else. At this time, Pingqiu led Tao Yiran in.

Tao Yiran looked much more haggard after not seeing her for many days. She was suffering from morning sickness and had a miscarriage. Not only did she not take good care of herself, she also took in Aunt Yu's child and raised him by her side, which made her look even more haggard.

After greeting, she slowly sat aside. She came to ask Wang to find a new wet nurse. "The wet nurse looks strong but can't feed Qi Jin enough. Qi Jin always cries. My daughter-in-law wants to hire another person to take care of him more comprehensively."

Wang was not satisfied with her taking the child to take care of him. "I think you should send the child back to Aunt Yu to take care of him. It is more important to take care of your own health."

Tao Yiran actually regretted it a long time ago. She felt that Aunt Yu's child was not only noisy but also ugly. Especially when she saw that the child had pooped in a diaper, she felt very bad. When Wang said that, she took advantage of the situation and said, "It was my daughter-in-law who was not considerate. I wanted Aunt Yu to rest more, but I didn't expect that my daughter-in-law's body was not doing well."

"In this case, let Aunt Yu raise the child as well, and there is no need to bother hiring another person."

Xin An lowered his eyes, thinking that Tao Yiran, who had no desires or demands, did not hold back at all when it came to scheming against his concubine.

For a concubine like Yu Yi Niang, a good figure is a necessary condition for competing for favor. Once she starts breastfeeding a child, it means she cannot compete for favor for a long time. And Tao Yiran obviously wants to treat Yu Yi Niang as a wet nurse. How afraid is she that she cannot give birth to a son?

Wang was too lazy to take care of Chunhuayuan's affairs and let her make the decision on her own.

Before Tao Yiran could even thank him, the doorman came over to report, "Madam, the people from the clan have arrived."

The doorman said that five young men and three young ladies from the Tang family had arrived at the gate of the marquis's mansion, along with a dozen or so attendants. They were all led by the eldest master and mistress of the family, and had already gotten off the carriage.

It arrived ten days earlier than expected, which surprised Wang.

How could she know that the people of the Tang family had been longing for this day for a long time. When the old marquis was still alive, the people of the family said that they wanted to come to the capital to help the old marquis. The old marquis was worried that the emperor would destroy his bridges after crossing the river, so he was busy avoiding the attack and retreating. He was worried that those people from the Tang family would lose their stability and cause trouble after they came, so he never agreed.

When it came to Tang Gang's generation, he despised those who had no future in the clan, and thought that if they came, they would take advantage of him, so he did not agree. This time, when the news from the old lady got out, those people wanted to leave that very night, for fear that the people in the Marquis' Mansion would go back on their word again.

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