CHAPTER XXII
This marriage changed the world, and since ancient times, there has been a saying that a husband is a woman. Since there is such a saying, it is natural to rely on men to live, a marriage, a marriage between two families, it is not a matter of two people, but a matter of two families. In ancient times, there was a parent's order to match the words of the concubine, pay attention to the right person, this climbing high branch is very difficult, how many girls want to marry to become Mrs. Kuo, but there is this kind of luck after all is a minority, this is also one of the reasons why the girls in the house love to gossip about Liu Yunfang behind their backs, they saw Liu Yunfang marry the young master, they couldn't help but feel a little jealous, thinking that their family background is not much different from Liu Yunfang, she is not outstanding, why can she marry in as a young grandmother, but she has to serve people below, so she is unwilling.
This kind of looking forward to a man's way of living, Fang Yanqing dislikes it in his heart, and it can also be said to be disdainful. When I was young, I was also full of pride, thinking that I would be the heroine among women in the future, why should I let a group of men choose my marriage, and why couldn't I pick men. It's just that my own ideas are good, and there are many inappropriate things in practice, and I was dismissed from the marriage that day, and I agreed, I thought it was a trivial matter, but I didn't expect that this gossip would spread like weeds, but it was just a divorce, but it was said that as a woman, in this situation, I wanted to go against the current, but it was even more difficult.
"Don't entrust yourself to a married person, it's not worth it. Fang Yanqing chuckled and said, "Besides, I'm not bad, I can't pounce on him." ”
Wei Chao, the only son of Mrs. Wei's third young master, according to Tang Yiyun, has been a businessman in his family, and now he is the president of the Bank of Shanghai and the chairman of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce. He himself is a top student at Yenching University and is handsome. Such a person has a good family background, good looks, and a good life, and he has seen all kinds of people, and he has never seen anything. If he is the same as Tang Yiyun thinks, and he has no face and no skin to make up, what will it become, Fang Yanqing can't pull down this face, and would rather no one want him than be embarrassed.
When the girl heard Fang Yanqing's words, she pursed her lips and smiled, and said, "The girl can do whatever she wants, and I'll just follow the girl." After speaking, she bit her lower lip again, frowned, and asked, "Does the girl know Sister Min in the wife's room?"
Min girl, Fang Yanqing suddenly thought of the little girl with two small buns one night, holding a lantern in one hand, looking at herself at a glance. Fang Yanqing nodded and asked, "What's the matter?" She has always been running errands for her aunt, why do you ask about her?"
There are five girls around Tang Yiyun and one mother-in-law, and there are not many people, but in Rongcheng, it is also the first few. Granny Zhang has been following Tang Yiyun, I heard that she was Tang Yiyun's mother's girl before, and later she has been disciplining Tang Yiyun, when Tang Yiyun married into her uncle's family, Granny Zhang disliked the simplicity of her uncle's family, and was worried that Tang Yiyun had no good people around her, so she followed her uncle's house and never left. Among the five girls, the most relied on is the winter girl, who is Tang Yiyun's personal girl, born smart, can speak, and when to be smart and when to be dull, she handles it very well, and the second girl is Aoba, who is the son of the family, the niece of Granny Zhang, and is also quite popular with Tang Yiyun's blue eyes, it is said that this name was also taken by Tang Yiyun. The remaining three are all rough girls, and Min Yatou is the least qualified among them, and finally followed Tang Yiyun. Standing at the door every day to spread the word, guarding the door is what she often does, and occasionally asks her to send Fang Yanqing back to the yard, but there are not many times, so Fang Yanqing only has a general impression when she hears what Qing Ya said.
"She's very nice, I was called to the girl's side before, and I was nervous, and she comforted me. "She also said that the girl has a good temperament, so I don't need to worry, just serve well and do my own thing." ”
Fang Yanqing heard the words of the Qing girl, nodded, looked at the girl who was stirring the handkerchief with her fingers, and asked, "Is something wrong with her?"
Qing Yatou nodded lightly and said, "The young master praised her for her good looks today, and Mrs. was a little unhappy, so she asked Granny Zhang to order someone to beat her a few times and rush her to the kitchen." I heard that the blow was bad, and now she's been thrown into the firewood room without any medicine on her, and I think... I think..."
My cousin probably deliberately praised his aunt in order to be angry with his aunt. Uncle and aunt would rather kill a thousand by mistake than use his son to verify whether it is true or not, even if he is not sure whether Fang Wei is sincere or not, he must treat it as if he is sincere. But because of a good-looking sentence, it is normal to beat the girls one by one to have a long memory, rushed to the kitchen, and threw people into the firewood room, which is really too much, and I thought of it, Fang Yanqing raised his eyes and asked Fang Yanqing,
"Second brother, he only praised his good looks, and his aunt drove people away?"
"Also... also said that the Min character in Sister Min and the Min character in her own words match very well, and it is also a rare fate, and she can marry another day, and the last one on the left and right is like this, and Sister Min looks better. Qing Yatou's voice became lower and lower, and her eyes were misty, "Girl, no matter how mixed this is, the young master said it, and Sister Min didn't say a word the whole time." ”
"It's not what she said, but my aunt should be counted on her head. Fang Yanqing pinched his palm, Min Yatou has always been a quiet girl, few words, among the several girls of her aunt, she has always liked her temperament, Aoba is too scheming, Winter Yatou is also too thoughtful, and the others are dull. Fang Yanqing looked at the girl and sighed, "I can't say anything about this, did Granny Zhang beat her again?"
"Said that it was beaten with a big wooden plank, and it was beaten more than 20 times, and the loud people outside the yard could hear it, and then people fainted, so they asked a few small people to drag it to the firewood room, and Granny Zhang also said a long call, saying that this is the fate of Master Gou Yin. As she spoke, tears rolled down, and she wiped her cheeks with a brocade handkerchief and said, "But she clearly didn't do anything, and she didn't even say a word, how could she smear people's innocence out of thin air." ”
Although the girl has been disciplined for a few months, she hasn't been in the mansion for long, and she can't get used to these cannibalistic dark moments. Fang Yanqing looked at the red eyes of the Qing girl, and said, "Don't cry, otherwise we will take a look at Min Yatou later, there is still a jar of plaster I gave to my sister-in-law last time, rub it on her, maybe it will get better soon." ”
When the girl heard Fang Yanqing's words, she stopped her tears and quickly shook her head, "How can I let the girl break the bank, I... I'll use my monthly money to buy some herbs. ”
"Okay, it's useless for me to put it there anyway, besides, it's just past noon, everyone is resting after being busy, and when you go to buy it back, people are starting to get busy again, how can we secretly hand over the ointment?" Fang Yanqing said, stood up, and in the wooden box of the bookshelf, took out the ointment that had accumulated dust at the bottom, and when he took the ointment to Liu Yunfang last time, he originally planned to give it too, but there was still a note on it. Fang Yanqing patted the ashes with his hand, and inscribed, 'Don't smell the language of falling flowers', smell the fragrance of flowers, see the shape of flowers, and don't smell the language of falling flowers. It's still a little funny when I think about it now, and the resentment is on the page.
"Girl, it's a big day outside, do you want to put an umbrella on it?" The girl turned out a fan embroidered with a jade rabbit lying under the osmanthus tree, turned her head and asked Fang Yanqing.
"When I went out of the courtyard and walked along the path, there were shade trees, so I couldn't get the sun, and besides, the sun was good, and it was good to warm my body. Fang Yanqing said, taking the fan handed by the girl.
Qing girl closed the door and followed Fang Yanqing to go out, the firewood room is at the back of the kitchen, if you go to the kitchen, you may have to go around, but the firewood room is less than the small courtyard of Fang Yanqing, go to the mother's yard, and go around a small pond to arrive.
This small pond is really not big, just the size of two small houses, raising some carp, Tang Yiyun's previous house was very large, I heard that when I first came here, I disliked the lifelessness in this yard, bought the small yard of a family behind, recruited bricklayers, craftsmen, broke the wall, this time the backyard was expanded, and the central people dug this pond. Fang Yanqing stepped on the bluestone steps and stepped over the edge of the pond, and the swimming fish at the bottom were hiding under the lotus leaves, and the huge lotus leaves were like a huge cover, blocking the sunlight for the swimming fish.
"This lotus grows well, unlike the one in my yard, which is dead and dead, and what does not bloom does not bloom. Fang Yanqing glanced at the pale pink petals of the jade standing on the veins of the lotus leaf, and was shaken by the wind, swaying but with a bit of beauty.
"Xu is the lotus flower in the girl's jar is lazy, and after a few days, when she wants to bloom, it will naturally bloom. Behind Fang Yanqing, Qing Yatou helped Fang Yanqing lift the hem of her skirt and said.
After the small pond, walk a few hundred steps through the shade of the trees, and you will reach the firewood house. The door of the firewood room is not locked, there is no one here, it is very remote, only the people in the kitchen want to carry firewood, they will open the small door behind the kitchen, and come to this yard to hold firewood. Now the people in the kitchen are resting, and they should be taking a nap. Fang Yanqing slowly pushed the kitchen open, fanned the dust in the air with his hand, a musty smell mixed with damp moisture, it smelled very bad, holding a brocade to cover his nose, and the room was dark and tight. Fang Yanqing looked at the person lying inside, paused for a moment, hurriedly walked over, squatted next to him and measured the person's breathing with his hands.
Feeling the faint breathing of the person in Dao's arms, Fang Yanqing took a breath nervously, "It's still alive." Although I heard that the girl said that she was very beaten, she never expected it to be so ruthless. The moment I entered the house, I thought that this person's life was gone.
Qing Yatou stood beside her, panicked and didn't know what to do, holding the Jinpa with one hand, looking at Fang Yanqing, "Girl, I... I... Sister Min, she..."
"It's okay, you help me clean up the firewood there, and I'll see the injuries on her body. Fang Yanqing pointed to the relatively empty place at the entrance and said to the girl. Reached out and helped Min Yatou's upper body up, touched her forehead, and the boiling temperature startled Fang Yanqing.
Qing Yatou hurriedly swept away the firewood on the ground with her hands on the Jinpa, Fang Yanqing put the person on the ground, beckoned, and asked Qing Yatou to hold Min Yatou's upper body, and gently took Min Yatou's lower skirt off gently. The lower skirt is not easy to fade, probably because the flesh and blood stuck to the cotton cloth when she was beaten, and the originally dizzy Min girl screamed in pain. Qing Yatou looked at the miserable situation on Min Yatou's body, tears were dripping down, Fang Yanqing also felt palpitations, such a ruthless hand, I don't know how Granny Zhang did it.