The Mansion of Maoguogong is located on Yingchun Street, Fuguifang, north of the city. It is a large house. The house was renovated in its early years. It was simplified and low-key and luxurious. The pink and white walls seemed to be endless. The eaves were high and the teeth seemed to be about to cut through the pale winter sky.

The mule cart was in a long time before coming to the front door. Looking up, the six golden lacquer characters "Imperially built the Duke of Maoguo Mansion" were almost the only color in the dull winter.

The men came forward cleverly to ask the person who came, and immediately said with a smile on his face: "It turns out that the lady is back! Come in and invite him. The prince's wife has been waiting for you for a long time. The old lady has ordered someone to ask this morning."

The door enthusiastically led the mule cart to the side door and enthusiastically brought a wooden bench for black painted footbeds.

As the parking was done, the side door opened wide, and more than ten servants in red and green faces came out. As soon as Chu Junlan's feet landed, a servant immediately brought a slide rod and asked her to transfer.

Zi Yan and Nuomin followed Chu Junlan's footsteps, and the servants of Duke Mao's mansion followed behind them. Bai Yin was warmly welcomed into the mansion by his disciples and greeted him with a smile.

Chu Junlan sat upright on the slide pole, looking at the scenery wherever he passed without a trace, silently recording the terrain here. She had been to Gongding's Mansion and the Grand Princess Mansion, and had seen the world, but the feeling that the Duke Mao Mansion gave her was completely different.

Unlike the luxuriousness of those two mansions, the Maoguo Duke's Mansion is neat and solemn, exuding a low-key feeling of neither competing nor scrambling, but every arrangement is given priority from comfort, which shows the atmosphere of this family.

The servants quietly carried the slide rod to the inner house, and could only hear the mixed footsteps when walking and the slight "creak" sound of the slide rod.

Neither Zi Yan nor Nuomin had seen such a situation. They were so nervous that they were tense and had a serious expression. They took a 120,000-year-old look at the words and deeds of the servants of the Maoguo Duke's Mansion around them.

After entering the Chuanhuamen, there was a spacious alley. After walking forward for only a few dozen steps, another door was entered.

"Miss, it's here." The servant lowered the slide rod gently.

On the other side of the hall, a little girl immediately replied loudly: "Old lady, the prince's wife, the third lady, the eldest grandma, and the second grandma! The lady is back!"

Chu Junlan saw a servant who had gray hair and looked very kind-faced, greeted him and bowed: "I have seen Miss Lan."

"Madam Guo." Chu Junlan nodded with a smile.

This is the nanny who went to Chu's house to deliver jewelry last time.

Madam Guo held Chu Junlan's hand with a smile, bowed slightly, and led her inside: "The old lady is taking the eldest lady, the prince's wife, the third lady and the others. She knows that you are happy when you are back, so you should carefully take your feet."

After passing the high threshold and passing through the hall, Chu Junlan lifted his skirt and lowered the steps. What caught his eye was a spacious courtyard. The maids lined up on both sides, and the end of the neatly square brick corridor was facing the main entrance of "Chunhui Garden".

The official green and beautiful blessed and longevity warm curtain was lifted up by two maids. A twelve or thirteen-year-old girl wearing a silver-red jacket and dress and combed her flat bun came out and saw Chu Junlan head-on, and stopped with her big eyes flashing, curiously tilting her head to look at her.

"Oh, Miss Xi, why did you come out without wearing a coat? It's cold carefully?"

"Madam Guo, let's take a look at Sister Lan." Chu Lingxi jumped off the steps like a lively deer and jumped in front of Chu Junlan, with her eyes unconcealed surprise and looking at her, "Oh, but no one has ever told me that Sister Lan is actually a fairy."

Chu Junlan pursed her lips and smiled: "Sister Xi, don't praise me like this, I will be proud."

Chu Lingxi's eyes were shiny, and she held her hand and said, "Grandma and the others have been waiting for a long time, please follow me."

Chu Junlan smiled and nodded, followed Chu Lingxi into the main house of Chunhui Garden.

As soon as he entered the door, a faint fragrance of fruit came to his face with the warm breath. The maid took Chu Junlan's stone blue cloak with a smile. Chu Lingxi took her hand and walked around a large red sandalwood carved screen with rich flowers, and came to a warm main hall as spring as the main hall.

The blooming felt is laid on the black marble floor, and a official hat chair is placed behind the screen. On both sides are two rosewood tables and chairs with dark green chairs and table towels.

When Chu Junlan arrived, he faced dozens of unfamiliar faces.

An old lady wearing a dark blue cross-collar and wide-sleeved pleats, gray hair, kind-eyed and kind-eyed holding jade rosary beads, sat upright at the top. When she saw Chu Junlan, her eyes were a little gentle: "Okay, okay, we're finally here."

"Grandma, look!" Chu Lingxi pulled Chu Junlan to the front, and the little girl said in a soft voice, "I'm being compared! I'll be with Sister Lan more often. People say that Zhu Zhe Chi is close to me. Maybe I will become as beautiful as I am with Sister Lan!"

"You, splashing monkey!" Mrs. Mao Guo was amused and laughed.

The wife and daughter-in-law on the side also laughed.

The servant took a thick cushion and placed it on the ground. Chu Junlan smiled and stepped forward, lifted his skirt slightly and bowed down.

Her demeanor is elegant, her back is straight when she saluted, and she is respectful and calm, without any small family spirit.

Mrs. Maoguo nodded with a smile: "Okay, okay, get up quickly, get up quickly."

Then a white and delicate hand with an emerald ring helped Chu Junlan up.

Chu Junlan raised his eyes and saw a young daughter-in-law wearing a pink pair of armor and a high bun smiling at her: "Sister is here. My mother-in-law has been looking forward to you for a few days. By the way, I am from your second brother Yuan. My surname is Ji, and my name is Yushu."

"Hello, second sister-in-law." Chu Junlan greeted with a smile.

"Yes, Sister Lan, my second aunt talked about you yesterday."

Chu Lingxi held Chu Junlan's other arm and came to a beautiful woman in her forties next to her.

The beautiful woman was tall and had a plump body, but she did not show any vulgarity. Instead, she exuded a bit of bookishness. Time left unscrambled on the corners of her eyes, but did not diminish her charm at all, but instead added a bit of intellectual and mature beauty.

"Sister Lan." Xu, the wife of the Prince of Maoguo, smiled and took two steps forward, holding Chu Junlan's hands.

Chu Junlan met Xu's gentle eyes and curled his eyes with a smile: "Mother."

"Oh, be good." Xu unexpectedly hugged Chu Junlan and patted her thin back as if comforting the child.

Xu's body did not have a pungent powdery atmosphere, but instead had a faint sandalwood smell and a soft smell that belonged to his mother.

Chu Junlan was stunned for a moment and his heart was a little soft.

When Xu let go of her, he did not let go of her hand and pulled her to a fifty-year-old lady wearing a dark blue biarre and without applying makeup.

"This is your aunt."

This is the daughter-in-law Mao Duke who died in battle and did not even get a successful title.

"Good aunt, okay." Chu Junlan bowed respectfully.

The eldest lady, Lu, smiled and nodded, gave Chu Junlan a pair of jade bracelets as a meeting gift.

"I am your third aunt."

A middle-aged woman with a medium-sized body, round face and smiling face came up and stuffed Chu Junlan a brocade box: "I'm bored at home later, even if I come to Aunt San's house to chat. Your third uncle can always come back for some fun things."

"Yes, yes!" Chu Lingxi also said, "My father also got a little parrot in front of him. He looks so fun and can speak. I'll take it to you to play with you."

With such enthusiasm, Chu Junlan knew that this was the wife of the Third Master Chu Shan. The little girl who chattered all the way was the eldest daughter of the Third Master.

After introducing the elders, Chu Junlan met Liu, the wife of Chu Yang, the eldest son.

Liu's appearance is ordinary, and he speaks softly and looks gentle. He looks at her dress and dresses. He is just as simple as her mother-in-law, and has a completely different personality from the second wife and the eldest daughter-in-law.

The family of women knows them all.

The old lady smiled and said, "Our family name comes from gold, wood, water, fire and earth. Your grandfather's generation is the 'gold generation', and your father's generation is the 'muth generation', and you have all the 'shui generation'. Now that you are here, it happens to be the name of the 'shui generation', which shows our fate."

Chu Junlan smiled and said, "What grandmother said."

"Okay, your mother has been waiting for you for several days, so I won't let you talk here. You two go and talk about your own things."

"Grandma, then I'll accompany you." Chu Lingxi smiled and recommended herself.

"Forget it, I still have to rest for a while. When you come, you won't make a noise. Are you not studying today? Don't be lazy."

After the old lady said something, Chu Lingxi blushed and stomped her feet, and everyone burst into laughter.

Everyone bowed and said goodbye to the old lady, and went to the outside room to wear the cloak again.

The third lady pulled Chu Lingxi and did not forget to invite him enthusiastically, "Second sister-in-law, sister-in-law, go back to my visit."

The prince's wife Xu nodded with a smile: "At that time, I will not only take Sister Lan to play, but also have to have wine at your place."

"Then the relationship is good."

Xu and his eldest wife, Lu, were polite, and the eldest and third bedrooms returned to their own courtyards.

Only Chu Junlan and her daughter-in-law Ji were left beside Xu.

"Let's go, mom takes you for a walk."

"Okay." Chu Junlan smiled.

Upon hearing this, Ji took two exquisite brass hand warmers and handed them to Xu and Chu Junlan.

"Thank you sister-in-law."

"Hey, my family, don't be so polite." Ji knew that his mother-in-law had something to say to Chu Junlan, and she was a few steps behind and followed the two of them with her maids from afar.

Xu took Chu Junlan's hand and walked slowly in the exquisite and ancient garden of Duke Mao's Mansion. Along the way, he introduced her which courtyard was where people lived and what they were used for.

"Sister Lan."

"Mother?"

"I'm not used to it when I first came here?" Xu's voice was very gentle.

Chu Junlan smiled: "It's okay."

Xu also laughed: "You should hear about the situation in our family. As for me, I have always wanted a daughter in my life, but I have only two uneasy evil deeds, Chu Yuan and Chu Zhan. Compared with other Dukes and Marquis families, our family is not very crowded. Before you came, I only had the girl Ling Xi. Now that I have you, I can be considered as having both children. I don't have to envy your third uncle's family anymore."

"Mother, my daughter understands that she will definitely get along well with her brother, sister-in-law, younger brother and sister." Chu Junlan understood what Xu meant.

Whether she accepts it or not, if the emperor wants to do so, she can only be the lady of the Chu family of Maoguo Duke, the fourth clan, the third clan, and the third clan, and no longer the Chu family member of the former.
Chapter completed!