In the eighth year of Chengping, Dou Zhao was nine years old, and his sixth uncle Dou Shiheng was ranked on the list and ranked 36th. Last September, Dou Huanchang, the ninth cousin of the eldest uncle, passed the Juren, which was considered a double happiness. The whole family was overjoyed, especially the second wife. Two of her three sons were Jinshi, which coincided with the saying that people were happy when they were happy. The second wife decided to celebrate the festival.[]

Dou Zhao has been in the East Mansion in recent years, and in the midsummer days, he used the excuse of going to the farm to live with his grandmother for some time.

Yi Jie'er from the fifth cousin's wife came to Dou Zhao: "Do you think we want to make a few purses?"

On the Dragon Boat Festival, there is a custom of putting mugwort leaves in your purse and giving it to others.

"Just Sir Shu'er just discuss it." Dou Zhao smiled, "I always follow you."

Since she was not from Dong Dou and she did not want to go back to Xi Dou, she regarded herself as a person living in the Dou family, so she was polite to everyone, peacefully and polite to everyone, and rich to socialize with relatives and to help those servants. When the Dou family talked about her, they all gave her a thumbs up.

Shu Jie'er is the eldest daughter of the third sister-in-law's family, that is, Dou Qijun's sister, who is two months older than Yi Jie'er and two months younger than Dou Zhao.

Yi Jie'er sighed: "I wish my fifth aunt was still here!"

The fifth aunt is Dou Ming.

After Wang Yingxue entered the door, the second wife still kept Dou Ming by his side. Dou Ming gradually became alienated from Wang Yingxue. In the seventh year of Chengping, Wang Xingyi was still serving as the governor of Shaanxi, but the Wang family moved to Kyoto. Wang Yingxue had no choice but to write a letter to his mother, Mrs. Xu. Mrs. Xu used the excuse of missing her grandson and sent someone to pick Dou Ming up to live in Kyoto. Her grandfather agreed. The second wife had no reason to stay again. After all, Dou Ming had been in Kyoto for more than half a year.

Yi Jie'er has always been able to play with Dou Ming, but instead she thinks that Dou Zhao will please him and is not close to Dou Zhao.

Experiences from previous lives tell Dou Zhao that you cannot please everyone. Since this is the case, you should not please those who don’t like you.

She smiled faintly and said, "Why don't you write a letter to Dou Ming? Let's see when will she reply to Zhending?"

Only Yi Jie'er at home discovered that Dou Zhao always had his first and last name when calling Dou Ming. Once she mentioned it half-jokingly and half-questioningly in front of the second wife. Dou Zhao's explanation was: "Call Ming Jie'er, others think she is of the same generation as you."

But why can't you call me sister?

She wanted to ask, but her wet nurse pulled her clothes.[] Then as soon as she got home, the wet nurse told her quietly: "Aunt Wang is the concubine who is the right wife, and the fourth lady is the legitimate lady."

Yi Jie'er disagreed.

How was the concubine born?

Could it be that he is not the lady of the Dou family?

But she was still curious: "Why did our family's concubine, whose seventh uncle, give birth to a child?"

The wet nurse stammered: "That's because there is only seven uncle and no son."

She always felt that the wet nurse had nothing to tell her. But Wu Ya came over at that time, and she happily ran to see Wu Ya, but forgot about this.

However, Wu Ya doesn't like to play with Dou Ming very much. She always says Dou Ming is mumu, stupid, as if his head is lacking. But she doesn't like to play with Dou Zhao either. She thinks Dou Zhao is arrogant and difficult to get along with: "...I have any good things, my sixth aunt bought it for her immediately, and she acted like she doesn't care, which also ruined Sister Shu."

Shu Jie'er used to hold Wu Ya's doll, target lens, and comb her eyes widened and begged Wu Ya: "Let me play for a while." Since she took Dou Zhao's things and didn't want her to return them, Shu Jie'er only had Dou Zhao in her eyes. She only told Dou Zhao if she had any physical conspiracy, and she would only tell Dou Zhao that there was any small dispute between them. She must be standing on Dou Zhao's side.

Wu Ya said: "Their family is quite strange. One lives in Dongdu and the other lives in a foreign home. Her mother guards the huge house alone and does not go to Kyoto with her father... Anyway, I don't like the two sisters."

Dou Zhao could vaguely feel these things. But she didn't care about them - when they grew up, their ideas would be different.

She went to her third cousin.

The eldest cousin Zhao Biru is already eighteen years old, and his aunt wrote to her, saying that the eldest cousin was scheduled to go out on August 12th.

She wanted to give her cousin some gifts.

The third cousin asked her with a smile: "What are you going to send?"

Dou Zhao owns half of Xi Dou's property, but every expense of more than ten taels of silver required the consent of her third cousin who helped her manage the industry. She was not used to it and was very distressed, so she threw Zhao Liangbi to her third cousin. Seeing that his surname was "Zhao", the third cousin thought he was a relative of Dou Zhao's foreign family, so he took special care of Zhao Liangbi. Zhao Liangbi has always been a person who knows how to cherish it. He thorned his head and followed the accounting room to learn. In just one year, he could make a thug.[]

I wonder what Zhao Liangbi can be able to take the position of the account manager?

She thought, and smiled and told her third cousin about her purpose.

The third cousin pondered: "What do you think of what we give to gold, silver and jewelry? Most of the other things, my uncle has already prepared them."

Dou Zhao nodded repeatedly and asked his third cousin to do this.

When I came out, I met Sister Shu.

She pulled Dou Zhao: "My second sister said she would make a five-poison purse. I have a new look. Do I want the fourth aunt?"

In her previous life, she had a very cold relationship with her cousins ​​and nieces, but in this life, Sister Shu always liked to follow her like a little tail.

"Okay!" Dou Zhao smiled, "I'll ask Haitang to come to your maid to get it."

Tuo Niang married Cui Si two years ago. Last time, she had a son a few days ago, and it was not yet full moon. The matter in her house was left to Haitang.

Sister Shu nodded and quietly told her: "Qiqi is here again."

Qiqi is Wu Ya's nickname.

Dou Zhao didn't care and smiled and said, "It's the Dragon Boat Festival soon!"

Sister Shu sighed and said, "Will the fifth aunt come back?"

She is a sweet girl and has a good time with everyone around her.

"Do you miss her very much?"

"Yes!" she said, "We want to jump to all the ropes, but no one is there. Qiqi doesn't want to play with the maids."

Dou Zhao never plays these with them.

She smiled and said, "That's because there are many sisters of the same age in their family."

Sister Shu giggled.

Dou Zhao returned to his sixth aunt's place.

Now that she is old, she naturally cannot continue to live in the blue yarn cabinet in Aunt Six's inner room. Four years ago, after she was taken back from her grandmother's farm, she lived in the west wing of the main courtyard, and Dou Zhengchang and Dou Dechang lived in the east wing.

As soon as she stepped into the gate of the main courtyard, she heard a burst of laughter in the west wing.

Dou Zhao couldn't help but smile.

Since Wu Ya is here, how can Wu Shan be missing?

In his previous life, Wu Shan was very close to Dou Dechang, who was the same year, and he lived in Dou Dechang every time he came. Therefore, he had a very good relationship with Dou Zhengchang and Dou Qijun.

It must be a few people bragging together!

She was about to enter the house when the wing opposite suddenly opened, and Wu Shan and Dou Dechang and others walked out together.

"Fourth sister!" He greeted Dou Zhao, his ears slightly red.

Dou Zhao nodded politely at him: "Brother Wu is here."

She greeted Dou Zhengchang and his brothers Wu Shan.

Wu Shan asked Dou Zhao: "We are going out to buy a gift for Uncle Six. Do you want us to bring you what we want?"

He followed the title of Dou Shiheng as the sons and nephews of the Dou family.

"Thank you," Dou Zhao said with a smile. "I have prepared my sixth uncle's gift."

It was a piece of Qingtian stone she used to plunder her father.

He went up to carve a monkey riding a horse, which meant he was immediately granted a title to the marquis, and he happened to carve a free seal for his sixth uncle.

Wu Shan smiled and said, "My sister is here too. She is talking to my cousin. Have you met her?"

Isn't this nonsense?

If she were also at her second cousin's wife, how could she let her go?

Dou Zhao still replied with a smile: "Qiqi is here too, I haven't met her yet!"

Wu Shan said again: "Is it true that your family will invite someone to perform on the Dragon Boat Festival?"

Dou Dechang is ranked twelve, and everyone likes to call him twelve.

Dou Zhao smiled and said, "Since it was said by the Twelfth Brother, it must be true."

Wu Shan said: "It's a pity that I had already returned to New East at that time."

“There is always a chance to see it.”

"I don't know when it was?" Wu Shan said very yearningly, "I heard that Zhou Qingfen was invited to sing the opera this time..."

Words are like that lotus root. Even though it has been cut off, he can connect to it and become a situation where lotus roots are broken.

Dou Zhao patiently listened to him saying something and smiled apologetically at him, saying, "Grand Wu is busy with something! I'm going to go to the Grandma's place soon."

Wu Shan's face turned red and he was stuttering when he spoke: "Fourth sister, go back to the house, we are going out too."

Dou Zhao entered the house.

Dou Zhengchang's confused voice came from behind him: "Why do you always have so many words when you meet the fourth sister?"

Wu Shan shouted: "Didn't you say too little about me?"

"I mean every time you meet Sister Yi, they always 'huh haha'..."

"I am an elder, I have to look like an elder, right?"

"Okay, this time we will let you put the money for elders," said Dou Qijun. "This time we buy things, you pay the bill..."

"You are blackmailing..." Wu Shan smiled, his voice gradually faded away.

Dou Zhao smiled and shook his head, thinking it was very interesting.

On the Dragon Boat Festival, the second wife indeed invited Zhou Qingfen to sing a big show.
To be continued...