Chapter Twenty-Six: A Little Reunion
A room full of people. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe daughters of the family are here.
The eldest aunt Xu, who was wearing a golden silk brocade skirt and a slanted silk golden step, sat on the right side of Mrs. Jiang, with a kind smile on her face that was suitable for her identity as the housewife.
The second aunt Zhen is dressed in an azure dress with a white flower bottom, lined with a pair of big watery eyes, not tall or short, fair skin, although there are already some crow's feet at the corners of the eyes, she is still vaguely recognizable when she was young. At this time, the corners of his lips hooked up a smile of indifferent disdain, and he glanced at Jiang Li's face lightly.
The two sisters in the second room have been married, and only the two younger sisters are also today; There are also three sisters in the third room, Jiang Ya, Jiang Jun, and Jiang Min, each of whom is more delicate and feminine than the other, and they all sit next to each other on the next couch.
The aunts in the side rooms of the two rooms each sat behind their daughters, as if they were maids and servants. According to the rules of the Jiang family, the identity of the young lady is higher than that of her biological mother, except that she can stay by her daughter's side and watch her grow up, the status of the Jiang family's aunt is not much higher than that of the next person.
Of course, there are exceptions to everything. For example, Aunt Zhao in the third room. But Mrs. Mei in the third room has no scheming and can't stand the shelf, otherwise, even if she loses her husband's favor, the rules of the Jiang family are here, and she can still let a side room trespass her wife and accompany her husband to a foreign country to take office? Because of this incident, Mei was regarded by everyone as an abandoned woman and became the laughing stock of others.
Jiang Li noticed that Jiang Min wore a light pink silk flower Yunluo long skirt today, which was a rare style in the capital, and it made her pale little face beautiful and dusty, and she sat next to her sisters who were dressed in flowers, looking as light as a chrysanthemum. At this moment, he lowered his head and twisted his handkerchief, and no one looked at it.
Jiang Li got up from his grandmother's arms and saluted the elders one by one.
From the eldest aunt Xu, the second aunt Zhen, to the several aunts in the two rooms, there was no trace of favoritism, and then the three sisters in the second room, when it was Jiang Min's turn, Jiang Min smiled a little stiffly in return. Jiang Lili returned to his grandmother and sat on the left side of the couch.
On the right, sitting are two pink chicks who look like flower bones: ten-year-old Jiang Yao and six-year-old Jiang Lin.
Ten-year-old Jiang Yao was innocent, and greeted Jiang Li with a sweet smile: "Ninth sister, they all said that you were sick and dying, Lin'er thought that she would never see you again, I haven't seen you for so long, my sister is not only sick, but also more beautiful than before!" ”
Jiang Li looked over with a light smile, and six-year-old Jiang Lin came over and took Jiang Li's hand affectionately, and said childishly: "My sister is so pitiful without her mother!" ”
"My sister is not pitiful, my sister has a room of relatives who hurt, isn't there still a grandmother who hurts!" Jiang Lin's biological mother, Sun, hurriedly spoke up, glanced at Jiang Li with a pity and apologetic smile, and glanced at the old lady Jiang who was sitting upright and kind at the top of her eyes.
Sun is an aunt who was raised from the girl, and she has been under the noses of Xu and Mrs. Jiang all her life, living in peace and discipline, and every word and every look is just right.
Looking at a room of women or sisters or mothers and daughters clinging to each other, thinking that a year ago he still had a mother to snuggle up, and now, he was left alone, Jiang Li's five fingers couldn't help but clench into fists. But he had to echo Sun's smile: "It's not good, don't I still have a grandmother who hurts." "I also know in my heart that there are seven big and eight small daughters in the house, although only one of them is a concubine, after all, there is no mother to take care of everything, and there is no one who even comes out in trouble, and my grandmother just wants to hurt, but I am afraid that it will not hurt.
"Nine girls are not pitiful, nine girls are hard! I survived such a serious illness, and I am a person who can enjoy great blessings. As soon as Zhen, the grandmother of the second room, spoke, the words sounded a little unpleasant.
"Entrusted to the second aunt Ji Yan. However, Jiang Li believes that life and death are fate, wealth and wealth are in the sky, and it is not who can be good if they think well, and if they don't think well, they can make people bad. Jiang Li said duciously. She didn't believe in fate, but she heard Zhen's sarcasm that she was her mother, so she was-for-tat.
Zhen looked slightly stunned, raised his eyelids and looked at Jiang Li carefully, and said with a smile: "It's also everyone's life and death, your mother is good-looking, her family is rich, and she is full of talent, and people who are too outstanding are even jealous of God, so their lives are not long." Fortunately, your Aunt Qing is as evil as me, and she says that the scourge is there for thousands of years, and people like us have a hard life, and we must live a long time. As soon as she comes back, she will be designated to take good care of you for your mother. ”
The side room that his father married was called Zhao Wanqing, and he followed his father to Qingzhou for seven or eight years, Jiang Li was not impressed by her, but he thought that a woman who could compete with his mother for favor would not be a good stubble, Zhen's words were full of schadenfreude.
Even Mrs. Jiang felt that Zhen's words today were a bit excessive, and frowned and said: "I haven't seen you as an elder like this, Jiu'er is just sick, you just mentioned her mother's words!" ”
turned his head and comforted Jiang Li: "But your second aunt is also right, when your Aunt Zhao comes back with your younger brother in the spring, don't take Aunt Zhao as your mother-in-law, she is a considerate person who knows cold and hot by your father's side, and she will treat you as a daughter in the future, and you will treat her as an outsider again." Don't learn from your mother, your heart is like a needle, you are angry with others, but you have something to do! ”
"What Grandmother said is that Jiang Li remembers!" Jiang Li responded calmly, without a trace of displeasure.
Mrs. Jiang disdains Mei's most because she thinks she is small-minded, and she loves to wipe her eyes and tears at every turn, at first it made people look pitiful, and she brought a lot of money to the dowry industry, and Mrs. Jiang also gave her an explanation, but she was always biased towards her son.
In her opinion, her third son is the most decent, he is studious and studious, and he is dedicated to working hard in his career when he is an adult, if it weren't for the fact that the old man of the Jiang family was demoted in the early years, which affected the promotion of several sons, it should not be just a small general sentence.
is just marrying a side room, and it makes such a fuss. As a result, Jiang Zongjin later went to Qingzhou to take up his post, and Mrs. Jiang blamed all this on the Mei family's lack of governance. Therefore, he gradually became disgusted with Mei's, and then looked at Mei's crying and crying, and felt unlucky, if it weren't for the fact that she still had to rely on the large expenses in the three-room envoy's mansion, even she wouldn't want to see the three-room daughter-in-law that the Ming media was marrying.
For this reason, Jiang Li, who has a similar temperament to Mei's, is not so liked by the old lady. Therefore, there was a lot of noise in the two rooms to move Jiang Li, who had typhoid fever, out of the house to recuperate, and the old lady also agreed with a hard heart.
But that was the former Jiang Li, the previous Jiang Li was just like her mother Mei, she didn't tell anyone when she was wronged, and she would only shed tears to people if she couldn't hold it back. On weekdays, he looks pitiful and miserable, and he looks like he is suffering a great grievance at home.
Now Mrs. Jiang seems to see that Jiang Li is a little different, look at her calmly coming in from the door, Tong does not have the same smile as before, and she does not blame the family for sending her out of the house when she is sick, just now Zhen's words were so stabbed, Jiang Li did not show the same aggrieved expression as before. For the first time, Mrs. Jiang criticized Mei's small heart in front of her, and Jiang Li nodded in response.
These all made the old lady very pleased, after all, her dear relatives and her son were not around, this granddaughter should still be hurt. Thinking of this, Mrs. Jiang took Jiang Li's hand, patted the back of Jiang Li's hand and instructed Xu: "Jiu'er came back to reunite with us, and a stone in everyone's hearts also fell to the ground, let's have dinner in my Zhiyuan tonight, and everyone will stay and eat together." ”
"Huh!" Xu Shi responded with a smile on his face, assigned them one by one, turned around and told Jiang Li earnestly: "Ninth girl, don't worry, in the future, there will be an old lady and I in this family who will love you, and I will never let you be wronged." I have already cleaned up the Hanxiang Garden where you used to live, so you can rest assured that you have eaten at the old lady's place, and you will talk to your grandmother more about yourself before you come back. ”
Xu's excessive enthusiasm and Zhen's sarcasm and sarcasm both made Jiang Li worried.