In Linyun Hall, Guo Boyan went out, and Lin was entertaining guests in the front hall.

The little maids brought tea and refreshments into the crowd, one among Lin and aunt Tan, and one on the coffee table of the cousin Tan Wenli and cousin Tan Xiangyu. During the tea process, the hall was very quiet, Lin smiled slightly, and the quiet and gentle, while the three mothers and ladies of the Tan family were all looking at her.

Aunt Tan is a few years older than Lin, and is a widow. She is lucky to be Lin. Although her father-in-law and husband have left, she has left her son with a title of Yong'an Bo. Although this title was reduced from the Duke of Emperor Gaozu to the Master of the Bo. If the son cannot achieve success and promotion, then after the son dies, the title of the Tan family will be gone. But no matter what, the Tan family has a title and the in-laws of the Duke of Wei's Mansion, Aunt Tan will not fall to the point of Lin's family, and the orphan and widowed mother will be bullied.

But Aunt Tan also has something that is worse than Lin's family. The Lin family has a rich dowry and does not have to worry about food and clothing. Therefore, before remarrying, he could remember her husband with peace of mind and be a resentful wife in the back house every day. The Tan family is different. The late old lady came from a poor family and made many military achievements on the battlefield with brute force. Emperor Gaozu founded the country and rewarded the Tan family with titles. His reputation was given, but his family was still weak. Neither the old lady nor the son could run it. Therefore, compared with a famous family like the Duke of Wei's Mansion, the Tan family lived a poor life and could not afford any scenes. When the Tan family's uncle was mourning, he still relied on Guo Boyan to help him. He was buried in a grand manner. In recent years, Guo Boyan became indifferent to the Tan family, and Guo Xiao secretly gave his aunt a few times.

Aunt Tan worked hard to manage the shop and the meager items of the shop were used on her children. She couldn't bear to dress up and would only add a new dress during the holidays. Today, she came to the Duke's Mansion and wore a new Shu embroidered pants. This one was all because of this. When Lin came to the hospitality of her, Aunt Tan's first glance at Lin's face, but the clothes on Lin's body. The snow-green pants were embroidered with exquisite Su-embroidered peonies, and a light pink Su-embroidered long skirt was attached. Following Lin's footsteps, the skirt swayed like a lake, as beautiful as heaven.

After seeing Lin's beautiful face clearly, Aunt Tan felt like a few tanks of jealousy was blown into her heart, and tears were about to fall. Her mother's family was an ordinary scholar in Taiyuan. Her father helped him when his father-in-law was in a downturn. After his father-in-law made meritorious service, he repayed his kindness and married her as his daughter-in-law. Aunt Tan was surprised and happy, and only felt that she had flown to the branch to be a phoenix. Unexpectedly, the Tan family was not as glorious as outside.

Aunt Tan didn't care. She was widowed and raised her children with all her heart. Finally, she earned the reputation of a good wife and mother. But what is this Lin family? A beautiful business widow, why can she become a Duke's wife after marrying her second marriage? Why do she have to look at the face of the Duke's Mansion in a low voice and fear of offending this backer? Lin family can easily take the position of Duke's wife, enjoy the glory and wealth of the Guo family inside, and enjoy the flattery and envy of the wives of the officials of various prefectures outside?

God is so unfair! A shameless widow like Lin should be soaked in a pig cage!

With his eyes down, Aunt Tan's face was completely drained, but his hands were tightly clamped under the table, and his nails were about to fall into the palm of his hand.

She was unwilling to accept that the twelve-year-old cousin Tan Xiangyu stared at Lin's face in a daze, while envious, and a glimmer of hope arises. Lin's background can be the wife of the Duke of the Kingdom. No matter how you say she is a serious lady from the Bo Mansion, her appearance also inherits the advantages of her parents. She is a beauty praised by the neighbors. If she plans well, her cousin...

Both the mother and the mother thought of their own situation from Lin. Only Mr. Tan Wenli was attracted by Lin. Unexpectedly, Guo Xiao's stepmother was so beautiful, with clear eyebrows, tender face and red lips, and a slender waist. With a single glance, he hooked his soul away, and his tongue was surging in his body.

Three pairs of eyes were staring at her, and Lin was calm. As early as the days when she was about to marry, she had figured out the various situations she might face after entering the mansion. Now everything is going well in the Duke's mansion, but she is mentally prepared for how other noble ladies treat her and how the prince Guo Xiao's mother tribe thinks of her.

"Madam, please use tea." Lin said with a smile.

Aunt Tan didn't like Lin, and she couldn't hear her words. She forced a smile, picked up the tea bowl, looked at Lin, and asked casually: "Has the Duke of the State gone?"

Lin nodded: "Today, the Korean general returned to the capital to meet the saint, and the Duke of the State entered the palace."

General Han Da of Zhenbei is Guo Boyan's best friend. In the morning, Guo Boyan told Lin before leaving the house that he would not return to Han Da tonight, and told Lin that he would not have to wait.

Aunt Tan knew about the relationship between Guo and Han families, and felt moved and sighed: "When I mentioned General Zhenbei, I thought of my miserable girl. My sister likes flowers and plants and has similar ambitions with Mrs. Han. I followed them to admire all kinds of strange flowers and flowers. After my sister passed away, Mrs. Han was very sad and never held a flower banquet again..."

Lin was just here and had restrained the maids around him from inquiring about the former Duke's wife without authorization. He really didn't know this. He immediately remembered Mrs. Han in his heart when he heard this, reminding himself to be cautious when he met in the future. If Mrs. Han really regarded Mrs. Tan as a confidant, then Mrs. Han might be more picky about her.

Wiping tears that did not exist, Aunt Tan quickly glanced at Lin. Seeing that Lin had no special reaction, she pursed her lips and advised kindly: "My sister loves lotus the most, the Duke's Mansion Pond, and the lotus in the lake are all planted by her sister personally at the people. Now the wife and the housekeeper, please pay attention to it from time to time. The lotus is blooming, and Ping Zhang and the other three have a place to remember."

Lin smiled and said, "Thank you, my wife, for reminding me that I will ask the gardener to serve you carefully."

She understood Aunt Tan’s little thoughts, but Lin only found it funny. Guo Boyan really remembered his original wife so much, so she would not force her to be his woman by just one meeting, and would not be able to be his wife every night... What's more, she wanted to be the Duke's wife, just to support her daughter. She hoped that Guo Boyan would give her dignity. As for who Guo Boyan really pretended to be in her heart, she really didn't care. It was enough to be good to her daughter.

Aunt Tan wanted to talk about her sister-in-law's old story, so Guo Xiao led his two sisters to come.

Aunt Tan's jealousy for Lin immediately disappeared completely, and only her care and love for the prince's nephew was left in her eyes. She stood up and greeted her, and asked with concern: "I haven't seen you for only half a month. Why has Ping Zhang and Tingfang lost weight?"

In the main position, Lin lowered his eyes and smiled slightly, revealing a faint helplessness. What Tan said was that she suspected that she was treating Guo Xiao and his sister harshly?

"My aunt is really good at joking. My third brother just said that I was fat." Tingfang glanced at her stepmother, smiled and politely, and quickly changed the topic: "This year's twelfth lunar month is very cold. How is my aunt going to see you tomorrow? I want to see you tomorrow, but you are here first." While saying that, he nodded to Tan Wenli and Tan Xiangyu and his brothers.

"You are just sweet-mouthed." Aunt Tan hugged her niece in her arms and touched her head. Whether she really loves her or must love her, Aunt Tan herself couldn't tell the difference. She only knew that she wanted to care for her and her nieces as her own children. Only in this way can the relationship between the Tan and Guo families be unbreakable.

Tingfang leaned against her aunt's arms and sighed silently. It was true that her aunt's painstaking efforts were true, and it was true that she was kind to them, so she could understand her grandmother's dislike for her aunt and also understood her brother's help to her aunt's family. No matter what, the Tan family is the mother's family, and her cousin is their blood relatives.

"Jianning, this is the aunt of Yong'an Bo Mansion." Lin walked over and smiled and signaled his daughter to salute the elders.

Song Jianing obediently gave blessings to Aunt Tan: "Auntie."

Aunt Tan pursed the corner of her lips. The daughter of a widow who was unfaithful and charming looked like Lin. What face did she call her aunt? Aunt Tan really didn't want to respond, but Lin could be seduced. Guo Boyan was probably fascinated by the newly married fox charming son. If she had a broken face with Lin, she would turn back to Guo Boyan and go to Guo Boyan to complain...

No, she has to endure it. Before her nephew inherited the title of Duke's Mansion, or before Guo Boyan disliked Lin's family, she had to maintain open harmony with Lin's family.

"Jianning is so beautiful." Aunt Tan praised with a smile, bent down to touch Song Jianing's face, and pinched it casually: "Why are you so fat?"

Song Jianing took a light breath and almost couldn't help touching her face. She endured it sensible, but the remaining handprints on her chubby face revealed the strength of Aunt Tan just now. Lin saw it, Tingfang, and Guo Xiao also saw it. Tingfang was worried and embarrassed. Guo Xiao said to her stepmother directly: "Mother is busy here, I'll ask my aunt to sit in Yihexuan."

Lin was not polite and said with a smile: "I am working hard for the prince, and I will ask my wife to use tea again."

Guo Xiao nodded and turned sideways to ask his aunt and his family to go out.

Aunt Tan was too lazy to be with Lin's wife, so she left with Tingfang's hand. Tan Xiangyu hired Tingting to follow her mother, and Yu Guang was all over Guo Xiao's side. She didn't pay much attention to Song Jianing, so Tan Wenli was different. She walked to Song Jianing and stopped and smiled at Song Jianing: "Do you want to go with me, my cousin? We are so lively."

Apart from Princess Duanhui, Song Jianing had no idea about relatives like Guo Xiao, but she was not stupid. When her aunt, nephew, cousin and cousin were reunited, what did she come over to do? What's more, Aunt Tan obviously didn't like her, and her face still hurts a little now.

"No, I still have to do my homework." Just make an excuse, Song Jianing walked to his mother, and Lin took the opportunity to support his daughter's shoulder.

Tan Wenli was a little disappointed. This girl was beautiful and he liked her very much.

Guo Xiao looked at him coldly, and when the group of people went out, he turned around and bowed his head to apologize to his stepmother: "If my aunt is rude, I hope my mother will forgive me. Don't worry, I promise that there will be no next time." He didn't like this sudden stepmother, and didn't like anyone to replace her mother's place in this family, but he would not bully a weak woman until Lin showed any hostility.

"It's normal for human nature. The prince is worried too much, go quickly." Lin said sincerely.

Guo Xiao nodded. Before leaving, his cold eyes flashed over Song Jianing, and saw the little girl pouting slightly and her head pressing against her stepmother, obviously feeling wronged.

Of course, Song Jianing felt wronged. As soon as Guo Xiao left, she rubbed her face and complained to her mother: "It hurts so much."

Lin held her daughter's little face to check. Seeing that her daughter's tender tofu-like face was pinched a little red in the middle, she gritted her teeth secretly and whispered, "Watch the Tan family when they see each other in the future." The Duke's Mansion was finally Guo Xiao's. Guo Xiao's relatives would be the best way to avoid conflict.

Song Jianing nodded in depressed mood.

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"Tingfang, tell your aunt honestly, did the Lin family bully you, and did the Duke be biased?" On the way to Yihexuan, Aunt Tan held her niece's hand and asked suspiciously.

Tingfang was funny and looked at his elders and said, "Auntie, my mother is very nice to me, and my father is not biased. Please be kind to you."

Aunt Tan didn't believe it, looked back and forth, and whispered: "The stepmothers in the world are the same. They can't treat the children left by their original wife well. Now she has a foundation that is unstable and has to pretend to be gentle and virtuous. When she sits firmly on the position of Duke's wife, hum, wait, and the first one will be the first to attack you. Your elder brother is in the front yard, she can't control it, and my aunt is most worried about you."

Tingfang could only repeatedly emphasize that stepmother was not that kind of person.

Aunt Tan felt even more stupid about her niece.

"There will be a mistake if you say too much, and my aunt will say less." Guo Xiao reminded coldly. What exactly Lin cannot be determined overnight. Therefore, he acquiesced to his aunt's warning to his sister, but with the same meaning, my aunt does not have to say it over and over again.

Aunt Tan looked at her nephew and shut up. When her nephew was young, she dared to show off her elders' proposition. In the past two years, her nephew grew rapidly and her prince's majesty became more and more powerful. She was just another Guo Boyan. Aunt Tan unknowingly changed from being a disciplined party to the one who bowed his head.

But there is still something to say.

When he arrived at Guo Xiao's Yihexuan, Aunt Tan called her nephew aside and lowered her voice: "Pingzhang, you are old, and you may understand some things better than your aunt. Tingfang is by the Grandpa, and Lin can't play much scheming. You are different. Your position as a prince was given by the Duke of the National Palace. Since the Duke of the National Palace can give it, it can be taken back. You have to stare at it. If Lin has a son... She, a widow, dares to ask for the Duke of the National Palace, who dares to say that she doesn't care more?"

Guo Xiao sneered: "I'm afraid she doesn't have that ability."

Young and crazy, Aunt Tan sighed: "What do you know? She looks like that. The wind blows a lot by the pillow. Duke..."

"Auntie." Guo Xiao didn't want to hear anyone slander his father.

Aunt Tan stopped tactfully.

Guo Xiao looked at her and in turn warned: "Auntie, I know you care about us, but I know what is happening in the mansion. Auntie doesn't have to bother, let alone act on her own. I don't want to have another next time for today's business."

The nephew noticed the little movement, and Aunt Tan's face turned red and hesitated and didn't know how to answer the conversation.

"It's cold outside, please sit inside." Guo Xiao handed a step.

Aunt Tan breathed a sigh of relief and went in to accompany her niece, leaving Guo Xiao alone under the eaves of the corridor, with cold eyes and cold eyes.
Chapter completed!