44. Matchmaker

Zhenxiu sneered, "What do they know? Now that Shuangshuang has asked me to get rid of me, the remaining Lan Lan also listens to me the most, Mother Lu, she is also an old man, and she must not respect me. ”

Listening to what she meant, it turned out that she had been in charge of the easy-going house for more than half a year. Zhenshu has been reluctant to say more since the last time he advised her not to gossip. At this time, he got up and said goodbye: "You sit down first, and I will go to my uncle and mother to talk a few more words." ”

Jeong-so and Jeong-su are rivals, and now they have shown off their house and the money they have, of course, the money is still in the hands of the Chung family. They no longer stayed with each other, and let Zhenshu resign.

Zhenshu came out of the door, and then sighed and said to himself: "You are really capable." ”

Du Yuruo is just an ordinary Jiangyang thief, but now he has offended the heavenly family again, and there is no place to hide in this world. Zhenshu recalled Du Yu at this time, remembered the time when he tried his best to deceive himself, and remembered the scene when he was cooking porridge and grilling fish for himself outside with smoke and fire.

Suddenly, I remembered him and said: "The absurdity of my life over the years has caused anger and resentment. Although I know in my heart that it is wrong, how can I be used to being dissolute and difficult to change, and now I am alone and in a hurry, it is all my own fault. It was a mistake to lie to you before, but I love you with all my heart, and this heart is evidenced by the sky, the sun and the moon are the evidence, I swear......"

Suddenly, I suspected that there was some sincerity in his words, and there may be a trace of sincerity in the continuous means of those days. But now he is really angry and resentful, how can he get peace.

She still remembered in her mind the lightning that had struck the house that night, and she couldn't shake it off.

She stayed outside the courtyard for a long time, then returned to the Shen family's casual residence, sat with the Su family and the Shen family for a long time, teased the two younger brothers, and waited for Zhenyuan and Zhenyi to come back, and the family resigned from the Shen family and returned to the framing shop.

Now the small building in the backyard has not been taken care of, and the family is still crammed into a small room on the upper floor of this shop. Zhen Yi got a few more clothes from Zhenxiu that Zhenyu wore when she was not married, and wanted to show off, so she shook Su's knee and said, "Mother, you can give Sister Zhenyu a greeting, so that we can go to her Hou Mansion to have a while, okay?" ”

Su Shi waved his hand and said, "She's no better than you now, so don't go soon." Her rampant domineering also took advantage of Concubine Rong's momentum, and now that Concubine Rong has lost power, where can the Hou Mansion Zhang family allow her to be as comfortable as she was at the beginning? Now she has also tasted the pain of being a daughter-in-law, and she is afraid that she will stand in front of her mother-in-law Zhang all day long. ”

Although Zhenyu's path was impassable, the Su family found a new way. It turned out that she also grew up in Beijing when she was a child, and she was the daughter of a small family, because her parents died early and her brother and sister-in-law were unscrupulous, she was also ruthless when she was a child to marry a good family. Song Mansion proposed marriage is undoubtedly a great joy from heaven, who knows that it has only been two good days after marrying, and as soon as Song Gongzheng died, the Zhong family divided up and sent her to Hui County. Her six relatives have no weakness, she has been very aggrieved over the years, and she has almost broken off contact with her brother, and her mother's family is considered to have no relatives. Since returning to Beijing this time, she has been shopping around several silver buildings and silk villages and garment shops in Dongshi all day long.

With the shopkeepers in the shop, the female guests chatted about the east and west families all day long, and she actually inquired about a distant aunt who was married to her family back then, known as Aunt Su's grandmother. Because of his well-informed information, almost half of the old men in the capital now sleep in that courtyard at night, and the little wife didn't come to Kwai Shui last month, she is even clearer than the housewife. And he is also familiar with the relationship between the various households in Beijing, so he got a nickname called the Imperial History of the Patrol City. Now in this capital, he is pulling the fiber for people.

The first month is a good day to go to relatives, Su personally prepared a basket of rice cakes, ham and other things, Yang Zhao and picked, he took Zhen Yuan and Zhen Yi to drive all the way to inquire and ask for directions, until they found a small courtyard in an alley, which was only a row of two west houses and one east house. This Aunt Su is very affectionate, and when she saw that her niece who had not seen her for many years came to the door with two daughters who were like flowers and jade, she rushed out happily and said: "I heard that you went to other places back then, and you haven't moved for many years, but now are you okay?" ”

The most important thing for the Su family is clothes, and the golden hairpin on the head, the green phoenix hairpin, Zhen Yuan and Zhen Yi are also wearing long cotton jackets with hair collars, although they are not first-class rich and noble, they look like the daughters of a wealthy family. This Aunt Su looked back and forth, and saw that they were two good seedlings who wanted to say goodbye, and they were happy in their hearts, so they hurriedly let Su enter the door.

Aunt Su's grandmother married her husband's surname Ding, who has long since passed away. Now he lives in this small courtyard with his son and daughter-in-law. She has passed the age of antiquity, thin and out of shape, although she is gray-haired, she is full of vitality when she speaks. Nading Dalang and his daughter-in-law took their children to visit relatives because they were young, and only Aunt Su was at home. She hurriedly brought some oilfruits, dried fruits and other things prepared for the New Year, and insisted on making a meal. Su Shi saw that her two thin feet were busy going in and out of her pants under her skirt, as if they were about to be broken, and hurriedly dragged on: "Auntie, my niece is not here to eat and sit for a long time, but to ask you for something difficult." ”

Aunt Su sat down and asked, "I don't know what's so difficult?" ”

Su Shi smiled, pointed at Zhen Yuan and said, "This is my eldest girl, and now she is also in the ninth year of double nine." Because Nahui County is poor and has not found a good portal, it is still waiting for the boudoir......"

Aunt Su's grandmother slapped her thighs with both hands and jumped up and said: "Your aunt and grandmother are doing this business of protecting the media and pulling fibers. ”

She looked at Zhenyuan blushing and turned her head to look to the side, no matter how big or what she was, she was the best of the best. With a happy face, he said: "In this capital, up to the lord of the Shangshu Mansion, down to the official of the Ying Tianfu, there are unmarried young men there, and I am the door of the plate Qingqing, but please wrap this matter on me." ”

Su Shi was also overjoyed and said: "In this way, I will work for you, but you don't know, my life is not good, and I gave birth to a string of girls, this is the first one, and there are two below that have not been brought." Although her appearance is not as good as her sister's, she is still one in a hundred good looks. ”

When Aunt Su heard this, she immediately folded her fingers: "The third son of Xu Shangshu's family, who is eighteen years old this year, has a good appearance, and is still unmarried. I have a case here to find a house, a virtuous woman with a clean family background and a sharp appearance. The eldest son of Wang Shilang's family, who lost his original partner in a young age, also registered with me to find a good wife. Yin Tianfu's Zhou Mansion Yin is even more, the two sons are both old, and they are both looking for a good match. ”

When Su Shi heard this, he knew that he had come to the right place, so he took out a silver ticket of ten taels from his waist and pressed it on the table and said, "I haven't seen it for many years, these silver coins are a careful intention, and I should be filial to my aunt and grandmother." ”

Aunt Su pushed the silver money and said, "If you want to be a matchmaker and receive some reward for others, it should be." Now they are my grandchildren, so I can take your money. ”

The Su family insisted on pushing it, and Aunt Su's grandmother took it, because she knew that the Su family was married to the second concubine of the Song Mansion, and pulled the Su family to talk about a lot of grievances between the Zhang family of the Beishun Hou Mansion and the second girl Zhenyu mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the Song Mansion, and the private affairs of the husband and wife between the five sons of the Hou Mansion and Zhenyu. If it weren't for the fact that Su Shi looked at the two unmarried daughters and was afraid that it would be indecent, I was afraid that Aunt Su would be able to talk from dawn to dawn and then to dawn.

When Su took his two daughters to leave, it was already dark, although he couldn't even touch his lips in Ding's house. Aunt Su, who had resigned and stayed with each other repeatedly, got into the carriage, and Su said to Zhenyuan with great confidence: "Now that you have your aunt, what kind of marriage do you have to worry about?" The son of the Shangshu family and the young master of the Shilang family all have to be picked and chosen to marry before they can be married. ”

Zhenyuan made Aunt Su's noisy ears calloused, and at this time she was willing to say a word, but Zhenyi said: "She is such a good means, why can't the poor main house of the family be built?" ”

Su Shi took Zhen Yi over and said: "My son, as the saying goes, Mr. Yin and Yang's house is on the wall, and the carpenter's house is in the side room, even if she does this for a living, she can only mix it with moisturizing tea." Do you see matchmakers there who have made a fortune? ”

Because a few days ago, Ding's family invited Aunt Su and Grandma to be a guest in the framing shop, so Su planned to clean up the newly rented backyard building while the Chinese New Year, and also put up wallpaper and put up a room for home decoration, so that Aunt and Grandma Su would have a place to entertain when they came. On the sixth day of the first month, she came downstairs to find Zhenshu and Song Shirong to discuss the matter, and saw Zhenshu and Song Shirong, Zhao and a few others sitting in front of the big case in the inner room on the first floor, Bibi was drawing something.

Su Shi leaned over and listened for a long time, and when he saw that Zhen Shuyan said that he wanted to talk about this big case and send it to the first floor of the small building behind, he interjected first: "That's not possible, you move this wolf and big thing over, where else can you get better on the first floor?" ”

Zhenshu said: "Mother, how can you work if you don't move the place where you want to frame the paintings on the first floor?" ”

Su Shi screamed when he heard this: "That's not possible, the small building in the backyard must be separated from this shop, and be the boudoir of your sisters when they are not married." I've endured enough of these days, and don't ask me to mix with this shop again. ”

It turned out that Zhenshu went back to Yu Yichen's mansion from the previous one, and saw that his calligraphy and painting exhibition was very novel. Thinking that he had earned thousands of taels of silver at the end of the year, he wanted to learn from Yu Yichen's house, so he demolished the front counter and smashed the wall of this compartment wider, making these two shops spacious and bright, so as to display calligraphy and paintings. And the ordinary framing work is pushed to the first floor of the small building in the backyard. In this way, although the faΓ§ade of this shop is not big, the inside is deep enough.

Su Shi listened to Zhenshu's words, because now Zhenshu showed up as a small shopkeeper outside, and gave her money, and it was not easy to refute her face-to-face, so he pointed to Song Anrong and said: "It's easy to make money and rent a small building, so you should make up a new makeup and ask the matchmaker to come to see each other, and find a good family affair for a few girls." Now that you're fiddling like this, where do I dare to invite someone to the door? ”

Song Anrong also ignored the Su family, pointed at Zhenshu and said, "You go on." ”