In the cold winter of the twelfth lunar month, it is the best time for hot pot restaurants to do business. Several branches in the north have already been well-made. As long as merchants traveling from south to north pass by, they always have to visit them.

Not to mention the main store, it is crowded almost every day.

The person sent to collect the accounts in the capital came in the middle of the twelfth lunar month. Ji Hai had already prepared the account book. He unexpectedly took another letter from the other party that did not belong to his niece.

"This is for Mrs. Jiang. Please give it to you on your behalf."

Ji Hai naturally knew who Mrs. Jiang was, so he didn't ask much, nodded and turned around and asked his second son Ji Cheng to go to Jiang Mansion with the letter.

Since Ji Wan's family moved to the capital, they died in the middle of the journey due to their intention to get married, so they have not contacted the Jiang family directly. Instead, they have had some letters with Guo Yan's sisters. So this time Ji Wan called the letter to Mrs. Jiang, and Mrs. Jiang was very surprised.

Guo Li came to her mother and said hurriedly: "Mom, what did Sister Wan say in the letter?"

Mrs. Jiang opened the letter and froze after reading two lines. Her fingers trembled. After reading the contents of the letter, her eyes were already red.

Guo Li rarely saw her mother lose her composure like this, so she quickly took the letter from her, and was shocked after reading it.

"Mom, aunt is still alive..."

She heard her mother talk about the past, but she knew it unknown.

It took Mrs. Jiang a long time to calm down her emotions and murmured, "It's almost twenty years..." She laughed, cried, sad, and painful. More of it was happiness and joy.

Although the two sisters are not the same mother, they are of the same family, and their relationship has been good in the past. The Qiu family has declined, the entire village has been submerged, and so many people have died. Mrs. Jiang escaped and she has never even wanted to recall the suffering of those months of suffering for more than ten years.

The world is so big, but she has no relatives anymore.

She still remembered the feeling of loneliness and despair clearly even after many years.

Unexpectedly, after seventeen years, I learned that my sister was still in the world. The joy of losing and regaining is hard to describe in words.

"Mom, don't cry. Since my aunt is still in the world, we will always have a day to meet again."

"Yes, that's right. Thanks to Awan this time..."

Mrs. Jiang was extremely happy and read from beginning to end with the letter.

After more than ten years, it is naturally not enough to be explained in just a few words. Aunt Qiu did not say it clearly in the letter. In fact, Aunt Qiu didn’t study much. When she was a child, her mother did not allow her to go to school. She was influenced by the years she was a maid and gained some gains. Later, she followed Mr. Xiao, who saw that she advocated this, taught her a lot.

Otherwise, she would not even be able to write this letter.

She simply wrote about how she escaped and became a maid and a concubine. The following content was full of longing and concern for her legitimate sister.

"Xiao Family..."

In the letter to Guo Yan and his brother, Ji Wan did not mention her engagement, nor did she say that her mother remarried. However, the Jiang family's business was big and she still had connections in the capital, so she naturally heard about it.

The current queen's family is the uncle's mansion.

What a prominent mansion.

She pondered for a while and said, "Your aunt is just a concubine in Xiao Mansion. It is impossible for her to travel to the north for a long distance, I..."

Mrs. Jiang sighed.

She is just the second wife, her husband is gone, and her mother-in-law will definitely not allow her to take her children to visit relatives in the capital alone.

Guo Li thought of a solution, "Mom, why not let my sister and brother-in-law go to the capital to visit my aunt on your behalf?"

Mrs. Jiang's eyes lit up, "Yes, why didn't I expect it? After the Chinese New Year, I will ask your sister and the others to go to the capital."

"Um."

Guo Li also looked happy.

Mrs. Jiang immediately told her mother-in-law about this and told her own plans. Mrs. Jiang was also a little surprised after hearing this and nodded in understanding, "Your family has passed away, and only such a sister is left. Visiting her is the right thing to do. But it is not convenient for you, a woman. Let Yan'er and his wife go first. When Brother Yuan enters Beijing to take the exam, you will take Li'er and Ye'er with you."

Mrs. Jiang was so reasonable and said gratefully: "Thank you, mother."

The Jiang family is still very good to Guo Yan and the third brother. Although Guo Yan is not as married as Jiang Ying, the Jiang family girl, it is not bad either. The other party is a partner of the Jiang family. Although his family’s wealth is not as good as the Jiang family, he is also fed and fed, thousands of times better than ordinary people.

After receiving his mother's letter, Guo Yan returned to her parents' Jiang Mansion the next day. After learning the details from her mother, she immediately said that she would go to the capital with her husband after the New Year.

She married for a year and had no children. Although her mother-in-law was a little dissatisfied, she didn't say anything. Her husband was very nice to her. After knowing that she had an aunt in the world, she immediately agreed to go to the capital to visit relatives. My parents-in-law didn't know whether it was because she heard that Xiao Qiu had joined a wealthy family as a concubine or something, but she did not object.

Considering that the weather was still cold at the beginning of the year, I was afraid that the way was inconvenient. After discussing, the couple prepared to wait for the snow to stop before leaving. This wait lasted for more than a month. It was not until late February that it was clear that it would not snow again, so the couple set out to go to the capital. They walked for nearly a month and arrived at the capital on March 20th. It was already late that day, and the couple complained about the inn. I heard about Ji's hot pot in the inn and found out where the Xiao family was located easily.

Early the next morning, the couple came to visit.

"Xiaomin's surname is Tao. This is the Neizi Guo family, from Deng County, Yancheng. He was once a neighbor with the Lord Ji County. The aunt of the mansion, Qiu, was Neizi's aunt. I received a letter from my aunt a few years ago. I am here to visit me now. I would like to ask you two to give me some advice."

The Tao family is a businessman and has connections in the officialdom, but a prominent family like the Xiao family is beyond the reach, so Tao Lun's words are full of awe and a slight uneasy.

The Xiao family basically knew that the second wife and family came back from the north. After hearing that they reported their resumes, they did not dare to underestimate them, so they asked them to wait for a while. Because they mentioned knowing Ji Wan, they went to report to Zhou directly.

"My mother, it must be Sister Yan."

The person who collected the accounts had already brought a message back, saying that Guo Yan and his wife would come to Beijing to visit after the New Year. Ji Wan's family set off to return to Beijing at the end of March of the previous year, which has been nearly two years since then. Ji Wan was also very happy to meet her former good sister soon.

"Quickly, invite them in."

Zhou sent someone to pass on the message to Aunt Qiu.

After receiving the letter, Aunt Qiu had been waiting for it for a long time. When she heard that her niece was coming, she was overjoyed and hurriedly brought her daughter to Queqi Pavilion.

Tao Lun is a man of the outside world and should not be allowed to enter the inner courtyard. However, the two masters in the mansion went to court, and the Tao family was not a noble family, or a junior, and it was not worthy of the old lady's personal visit. If it weren't for the friendship of living next to each other, the Zhou family would not have to condescend to meet.

Aunt Qiu was nervous and nervous. After three times, the maid came to report that the person was here.

She looked up and the young couple came with each other.
Chapter completed!