Chapter 2: Despair
Hongxing couldn't eat after her father's death, almost starved to death, and was picked up by Lu Yalan, who was difficult to go out, in order to keep Hongxing, Lu Yalan's only time disobeyed the orders of her elders.
At that time, the old lady didn't say yes or bad, and asked Lu Yalan to kneel and pick up Buddha beans for three days in a row before replying to her, if she couldn't hold on, don't mention this matter again.
The next person has always looked at the master's face and acted, the six or seven-year-old child knelt in the cold Buddha hall in the cold winter wax moon to pick up Buddha beans, no one taught her not to kneel all the time, and no one carefully added fire to heat water, and when the old lady sent someone over, what she saw was the second lady who had been burned and confused.
The old lady ruthlessly sent a group of people for this, telling people not to snub the second lady anymore, and Hongxing also stayed by Lu Yalan's side as she wished. Since then, the two have relied on each other in the Lu family's mansion.
Lu Yalan, as the second lady, is not short of what she eats and wears, but that's it, without the protection of her parents, many times she can only swallow it in her heart when she suffers losses, and the two support each other and stumble to grow up.
Lu Yalan often cries with developed tear glands, and is punished by her grandmother every time she cries, and later Hongxing agreed with Lu Yalan that she cried for Miss after being wronged.
After that agreement, every time Lu Yalan couldn't stop crying, Hongxing would cry first, and when she calmed Hongxing herself, she calmed down.
The punishment for crying is much heavier than that of the master, and Hongxing was punished twice like this, and Lu Yalan never cried again.
Lu Yalan was busy comforting Hong Xing when there was a knock on the door.
Lu Yalan asked Hongxing to hide aside, and when she opened the door, she saw that the person who came was the girl spring jujube next to the old lady.
Chunzao lowered his eyes, didn't ask why Miss opened the door in person, only said: "Second Miss, the old lady is invited." β
On the other side, Fu Ren Tang.
Uncle Lu sent away the father and son of the Zhao family, returned to the hall and sat on a chair, and said with a sigh of relief: "Mother, why did you pull me just now? This Zhao family is too much, and the marriage is set to retreat. β
Seeing that her son was talking more and more excessively, Mrs. Lu's eyes swept away, and Uncle Lu's body immediately sat upright.
After a pause, Uncle Lu became upright again: "I'm not wrong, mother, for the sake of this family, the second girl has become an old girl, and the rest are waiting for the second girl to marry, if the second girl doesn't marry, how can the bottom marry? The Zhao family is too deceitful and misunderstands my Lu family!"
Mrs. Lu listened to her eldest son's chatter, picked up the tea bowl and took a sip, the tea bowl touched the tabletop, making a "knock" sound, and Uncle Lu's words came to an abrupt end.
"You are a man, you care about what you are doing in the inner house, you have time to give Aba a hand, and let your son relax. β
Uncle Lu naturally ignored the old lady's last sentence, "Can I not care, our family doesn't have a serious female daughter except you, you let Ma take care of it? β
Uncle Lu stiffened his neck, obviously not very satisfied with the second aunt who assisted the housekeeper.
The old lady was too lazy to care about the affairs of the boss's room, and said lightly: "Then what can you do?" Since the Zhao family is here, it means that they are determined to withdraw from this family business, and we are world friends, and it is impossible to break off diplomatic relations. Besides, if you don't force people over, you can end up well? Getting married is a good relationship between two families, not a grudge, and this matter will be stopped. β
Uncle Lu smacked his mouth: "Mother, why don't I think you don't look like you, just let them go so lightly?"
The old lady's heart was strained, she couldn't get up in one breath, her chest was heaving so badly, and Qin's mother, who was standing next to her, hurriedly stepped forward to check.
Look at what this son is talking about, do you say that about his own mother?
"Mother!" Uncle Lu jumped up and rushed to the old lady, wanting to help but worried that he would get in the way, so he could only circle around the old lady.
It was patted and pressed, and it took a while for the old lady to take a breath, and she took a sip of tea from Qin's mother's hand to ease up.
Mrs. Lu raised her eyes and saw her eldest son in his thirties squatting in front of her like a bear, looking at his red eyes, and thinking of another son, she sighed in her heart, the boss is filial piety and faithfulness, and this is enough.
In the end, he didn't care about his son's nonsense.
Mrs. Lu was born in the scholarly family of Dilin, her grandfather and father were officials in the late Qing Dynasty, and the old people in the family had a visionary vision, and chose Mrs. Lu, who was born in business, among the many people who came to talk about matchmaking. Sure enough, within a few years of getting married, the emperor stepped down, and the official eunuchs also became depressed, and the Lin family relied on the Lu family to help them recover.
When Uncle Lu was born, the back house of the Lu family was beautiful, and the old lady Lu carried people home one after another, and the old lady Lu was so strong that she didn't want to lose, and she fought with a group of cheap maids, and the eldest son was only handed over to the nurse.
When Mrs. Lu died, Mrs. Lu drove the enemies out of the Lu family one by one, and when she came back to her senses, Uncle Lu had become a little gentleman, and his temperament could not be reversed.
The old lady pulled up her eldest son, bent down and patted him off the sticky soil on the hem of the coat, and got the boss's frightened eyes, but she couldn't help it, and slapped the boss on the back.
Uncle Lu was finally relieved, this is his mother.
Mrs. Lu: .........
I really want to stuff this lump back into my stomach.
In the end, she gave birth to herself, and the old lady broke it open and told him: "It is the girl who suffers from the retreat, and our family has to make a storm in the city. β
Uncle Lu nodded again and again, and said bluntly, old lady, you are right, but in fact, I still don't understand how the old lady gently let go of the Zhao family this time.
When Mrs. Lu died, the two children were not old, and the old lady presided over the house and outside the house, and there were many rights and wrongs in front of the widow, and many people wanted to move the fat of the Lu family, but they were beaten all over the ground by the old lady looking for teeth.
In the past, when encountering this kind of thing, the old lady would definitely let the other party peel off her skin.
What Uncle Lu wants, the old lady doesn't need to look at it, she glanced at Mother Qin.
Qin's mother knew the opportunity and retreated with her subordinates.
Uncle Lu knew that he had something to say, so he subconsciously sat up straight.
"Do you think I don't want to make more demands? Do you know why the Zhao family wants to quit?"
The reason of the Zhao family is that the boy of the Zhao family is dedicated to his career, and he has no intention of getting married for the time being, so he is afraid of delaying the second girl, so he will come to the door to withdraw from his family. But everyone knows that this is a lie, and they are afraid of delay, so why did they go early?
Uncle Lu touched his chin and groaned for a moment, risking being expelled from the family to withdraw from his family, he couldn't think of a second one except for taking a fancy to someone else.
"Could it be that the Zhao family kid still has something to do with our family?"
The old lady picked up the tea bowl and put it down, not interested in drinking, "It's three girls." β
Uncle Lu's face changed suddenly.
My sister robbed my sister's fiancΓ©, this kind of thing is not good to say, as long as it gets out, the face of the Lu family will really be stepped on by others, and who will dare to marry the wife of the Lu family in the future.
"This ......" Uncle Lu wandered around the market, holding back his words, remembering that this was his niece, no matter how he said it, it was not appropriate, and the tone of the words changed: "How does this Shibang teach children, the third girl is his daughter, and the second girl is not." It's really a shame for the Lu family. β
Lu Yalan and the third Lu Yazhu have the same father, Lu Yazhu was taken to Shanghai by her parents to take up a new girl's school, Lu Yalan's mother died early and was left in Yancheng's hometown to receive an old-style education.
Only at the end of each year, when worshipping ancestors, Lu Shibang brought his family back to see the old lady, and he did not attach as much importance to Lu Yalan, the eldest daughter, as to his nephews and nieces.
People who are not at the right end with the Lu family laughed and said that Miss Lu Er had a stepmother and a model of a stepfather, and for a long time, the Lu family became the talk of the people of Yancheng after tea and dinner.
Uncle Lu is also dissatisfied with the second brother's treatment of his own daughter like this, but it is not good to meddle in his younger brother's family affairs, especially since this younger brother is better than him, and he has no confidence in speaking.
"Old lady, the marriage of the second girl is known to the whole Yancheng, and these three girls and the Zhao family can't do it. β
"Hmph! Zhao Haichang is not old and dizzy, and their family will definitely hide this kind of thing tightly. β
"Old lady. The girl stood outside the door, "The second lady has arrived." β
"Call her in. β
"Kowtow to the old lady, the old lady is well. β
The old lady shouted, Lu Yalan got up and turned to Uncle Lu again, and blessed herself: "Say hello to the uncle." β
After saluting, Lu Yalan stood in the center of the hall with low eyebrows, and the elders had to stand without sitting.
The old lady saw that the second girl asked for an and there was no sound, she was stunned on the spot, and felt a little throbbing pain in her chest, and the strange people said that it was Ermu, gloomy and not fresh at all, and she was not welcomed wherever she went.
Uncle Lu saw that the old lady's face sank and hurriedly interrupted: "Second girl, sit, sit down and talk." β
"Yes. β
Lu Yalan was blessed again, sitting opposite Uncle Lu, her upper body was straight, and it only occupied less than thirty percent of the chair.
Uncle Lu has a toothache.
"You are a serious second girl of the Lu family, what do you look like. β
Seeing that Lu Yalan lowered her head and remained silent, she didn't even have a word of grievance or rebuttal, so she lost the interest in continuing to talk, and turned to business: "You know about the divorce." β
Seeing Lu Yalan nodding, she continued: "I shouldn't have told you about the marriage event, but your father is not here, so you can only make your own decisions." β
Lu Yalan listened silently without making a sound, she knew that the old lady already had a charter, so she just told her.
"It's not easy for you to get married at your age, now there are two ways, one is to marry to other places, and the other is to marry Ba Wang's family, if you have no opinion, I will look at each other, it is best to get married at the end of the year. β
said that there were opinions that could be raised, but the old lady opened her mouth, who dared to disobey the elders!
Lu Yalan endured and endured, the wound that had just formed a scar in the palm of her hand was pinched again, but she still didn't hold back, and her whole body trembled.
Although I had been prepared on the way here, I couldn't help but despair when I heard it with my own ears.
said that it was difficult to get married when he was old, and he wanted to get married as soon as possible, but everyone present knew that this was just an excuse.
As the party who was divorced, especially the woman, no matter whether she Lu Yalan was wrong or not, it was always her who was harshly criticized by the world, and only if she married before the rumors, the rest of the sisters would not be affected.
Lu Yalan is not yet twenty years old, and she just learned that her fiancΓ©, who had been looking forward to it for more than ten years, didn't want her, and she hadn't recovered yet, and she was told that she was abandoned by her family, who could stand it.
Lu Yalan's eyes were dark, and she just wanted to die head-on, and if she died early, she could reunite with her mother who had never met earlier, maybe she would live better underground than now.
Her ears were buzzing, and the old lady didn't know what she said, and I don't know how long it took to hear the old lady say you go back first, and then she walked out, and she didn't remember to salute.
Uncle Lu is a man in the end, he didn't find that his niece was wrong, and when he saw someone going out, he said to the old lady, "The second child is no longer a thing, and he is also an important member of the Zheng Mansion, and the second girl is his eldest daughter, and the person who lets out the wind to be a matchmaker will not be too bad, and it doesn't necessarily have to be this choice." β
"The three of them become tigers, and all of them are golden, those rumors can kill people, and if you marry far away, your husband's family doesn't know this, and if you marry low, your husband's family doesn't dare to mind. This is the best way for the second girl. β
Uncle Lu thought about the second brother who didn't want to see the second girl, and the dog-legged agreed that the mother was right, and the mother was reasonable.