Chapter 328: Frontal Conflict
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At this time, it was the end of noon, and the villagers had already eaten. But because they were busy watching the drama of the Wang family and the Wu family today, the vast majority of the villagers started to cook. Seeing that the father and son of the Wang family came to invite, the men all went to the Wang family happily.
Five tables were set up in the courtyard, and Wang Cheng led Wang Xiaodi to accompany the guests outside. After Chen Afu and Wu and other women ate in the house, they began to clean up. The Wang family was extremely poor, and except for a few changes of old clothes, there was nothing worth taking away. Wu looked at the embroidery frame for a long time, but she still didn't bring it, and she didn't want to touch it again in her life.
After the meal, Wang Cheng gave all the uneaten dishes to the guests, and said that after his family left, if they saw anything, they would take it.
Chen Afu and the others walked out of the courtyard with the Wang family, Wang Cheng and Wu looked back at the thatched house where they had lived for nine years, said goodbye to the people who saw them off, and got into the car with tears in their eyes.
Chen Afu took Wang Xiaomei and Xia Yue in a carriage, and the other three members of the Wang family sat in a carriage. A caravan of horses and carts was about to leave the village when they heard a cry outside.
Chen Afu opened the curtain and saw Mrs. Wu, an old man, and three men crying with the carriage, "Girl, you have no conscience, you learned the craft of the old Wu family, but you don't care about the life and death ......of the mother and son."
This family is superb, not only the people are wonderful, but the ideas are even more wonderful.
Wang Xiaomei shrank her little body into Chen Afu's arms, and said timidly, "I'm afraid!"
Chen Afu hugged her tightly and said, "Little sister is not afraid, let's go to the new home, and you will never see them again." ”
Wang Xiaomei listened, her eyes were shining, and she pursed her lips and laughed.
Chen Afu smiled again and pinched the little girl's thin face. She is a modern person, and she is not willing to treat life as a mustard. Luo Yuan and the guards quietly asked her if she needed to "do" those two old immortals. Chen Afu didn't agree, just let his uncle's family get out of their oppression forever.
The carriage entered the city gate at dusk, and it was already dark when it arrived at the Hou Mansion. They first went to the bamboo courtyard to eat, and then ordered the people to clean up the courtyard. He also took ten taels of silver out and asked the sewing room in the house to make a few sets of clothes for the Wang family.
It was already late at night when the Wang family was sent away. Chu Lingxuan hasn't come back yet, and since Wang Cheng's incident, several men in the Chu family have been busier.
The next day, Chu Lingxuan still did not come back, but only asked his own soldiers to come and tell Chen Afu to continue to prepare things for the return trip, and set off on time on the 26th.
Although Chen Afu was like an arrow, he still had to wait patiently.
On this day, Chen Afu steamed dozens of cakes again, in addition to the master of the Chu family and a few people from the Wang family, there were also twenty for the Queen Mother and ten for the Rui Wangfu, and even a few decent subordinates were given one by one, but not to the Li family.
When Li heard this, he was so angry that he ran to the old man to reason, saying that Chen Afu didn't take her as an elder in his eyes, and she was not even as good as a subordinate. also said that Chen Afu brought poor relatives into the house to eat and drink, and asked the needlework room to make clothes for those poor ghosts, but there were no rules......
The old man had already lost patience with the Li family, and said, "If you want people to respect you as an elder, you have to be like an elder." You don't think of yourself as a person, why should people treat you as an elder. As for other people's relatives who come to live in the Hou Mansion, they should live, because this mansion will be Xuan'er and their ...... in the future."
The old man's words were heartbreaking, especially the last sentence, which made the Li family so uncomfortable that he cried at that time. She couldn't get angry, and asked her mother-in-law to go to the big kitchen and sewing room to hint that there was no need to treat the Wang family as guests.
The steward of the kitchen and the sewing room said that the third lady specially explained that the Wang family must be entertained well, and the meals should be the same as the master, and even the ten taels of silver that the eldest grandmother made clothes for the sewing room The third lady gave it back......
These things were successively spread by Xiaohong to Chen Afu's ears. Xiaohong's mother is the second manager of the big kitchen, and the big kitchen is the gossip dissemination and manufacturing center in the house. As long as it is related to Chen Afu, Xiaohong will report to Chen Afu word for word.
Chen Afu praised Xiaohong, explained it again, and wrote two recipes for making dim sum for her mother.
She was afraid that the Li family would secretly stumble on Wang Cheng's family, so she sent Mrs. Hong from her own courtyard to serve in Wang Cheng's courtyard.
Sure enough, as Chen Afu expected, there were two subordinates who often said some ugly things in front of the Wang family, and once deliberately missed Wang Xiaomei and pushed Wang Xiaomei to her head, Wang Cheng once went out to run errands and returned home, but he was also troubled by the porter.
Chen Afu was furious. If she provokes her, she will endure it, thinking that more is better than less, and she doesn't want to clash with the Li family head-on now. But if she provokes her uncle's family, then it won't work!
Chu Lingxuan is the prince, and he is the wife of the prince, and they are the main masters of the Hou Mansion. Anyone with a clear head knows this principle. Chu Lingxuan has not been in the mansion for a long time, and these people are really anti-heaven.
She didn't go to the third lady, and directly asked the housekeeper of Chu, the housekeeper of the inner courtyard, Mama Cai, and the eldest girl of the third lady, Yuzhu, to call Zhuxuan.
didn't invite the three of them to sit, and sneered, "My family has been absent from the mansion for a long time, and I am a newly married countryman, so others will naturally not look at me in their eyes." I have rough skin and thick meat, and I can only endure being bullied. But my uncle's family only came to live for a few days, and they were bullied by their subordinates like this, how can I explain to my mother?" wiped his tears, and said to Hongfei and a few other girls, "Go and plead with Butler Chu, Mama Cai, and Miss Yuzhu on my behalf, and ask them to raise their noble hands, don't let their subordinates bully my uncle's family." ”
The three butlers of Chu were so frightened when they heard this, they all knelt down, and even said, "The old slave (slave) didn't dare, it was the mistake of the old slave (slave and maid) that made the uncle's family wronged." Let's go check and give my uncle an explanation......"
Two hours later, six subordinates were arrested in the house, including the two right-hand men beside the second lady. They were beaten 20 boards and sold directly to the house. The six of them all shouted that they had been wronged, saying that the second lady had told them to do so.
Li was crying and fussing, and was slapped in the mouth by the second master who rushed over.
After this incident, the third lady came to Zhuxuan to visit Chen Afu in person, and the old marquis, the third master, and the second master all sent people to Zhuxuan to spread the word, asking her not to think about it, the Hou Mansion was her home.
Chen Afu still fell ill.
In the past two days, some rumors have spread among the people of the Hou Mansion, saying that the second lady is under the idea of not letting the prince and the eldest grandmother return to Hou, so she will do so many things......
The Li family did hit this idea, and many people knew that she had made this idea, but it was clearly spread, and the second master's family was so ashamed that they didn't dare to go out of the yard. Li Shi did not admit it, and found the third lady to cry, saying that someone had framed her, and asked the third lady to find out the person who spread the rumors and punish him severely.