39. Tiger
Zhen Yuan followed the Miao mother and Jichun into the Hou Mansion, went around and around to a courtyard, and saw the words Fuyunju written on the door, and secretly wrote it down in her heart.
Although the Beishun Hou Mansion is large, there are many sons. It's a courtyard with Zhenyu, which is not big, but it's just a three-entry courtyard and a garden next to it.
Zhenyu lives in the main room of the second courtyard, it is the middle of August at this time, there is already a trace of cold outside, and her room is still warm and fragrant. Zhenyu is still dressed in a jade gold hairpin brocade, and her face is no different from two months ago, when Zhenyuan entered the door, she was bending her waist there to direct two jade-wrapped sara beauties to beat her legs.
Seeing Zhenyuan coming in, she owed a debt and said, "Big sister and how many sisters are here?" Sit down, sit down. β
Zhenyuan sat down a few times, and Qiaochun came up with tea. Zhenyu smiled: "Drink." The room was so cramped, and I was in a panic all day. β
Zhen Yi said: "Such a spacious and bright room, if I had been crying happily a long time ago, would it be cramped there?" β
Zhenyu said: "The whole courtyard behind is full of my dowry, and it can't be piled up, isn't it cramped?" β
It turned out that she wanted them to know her dowry.
She separated the two beauties, walked over and sat down and said to Zhenyuan: "I shouldn't have married my sister first, the ancients often said that if my sister marries first, my sister is afraid that she won't be able to marry, I think my sister shouldn't believe this." β
Zhenyuan said: "I don't believe it. β
Zhenyu said: "That's good, otherwise I always have apologies in my heart, and I'm afraid that my sister will care." β
Zhenyuan smiled slightly and stopped answering.
was sitting idlely, and suddenly a maid came in and said: "The cold green in Miss Mingluan's room has passed the word, saying that when the gossip here is over, please ask Miss Song San to go over and talk for a while." β
Zhenyu turned her eyes to Zhenshu and said, "When did you actually vote for her?" β
Zhenshu was also surprised: "I didn't. β
Zhenyu waved away the maid ring before whispering: "You don't know, she has now become an ancestor in this mansion." β
Zhen Yuan and Zhen Shu didn't answer, so Zhen Yi tried to ask, "Good sister, why?" β
Zhenyu said: "When you came last time, didn't we say when we chatted that the prince of Du Guo's family escaped from prison. Mingluan had a verbal engagement with him, and I don't know when he had a deep affection for him, and he was sick for that incident, you know. It's just that she thought that Du Yu was still lurking in Beijing, and after a few days, she was searched out and returned to prison, and her days would be over. Who knows he ......"
When Zhenshu heard her talk about Du Yu, her heart was already jumping, and she couldn't help but ask, "Could it be that she is dead?" β
Zhenyu shook his head and said: "No, he is really capable, he fled to the Ganzhou area quietly, and specially wrote to Mingluan, saying that he had married outside, so that she didn't have to wait." β
Zhenshu said: "They have a marriage contract, everyone should know, why did Miss Tao and Miss Nie not know at that time?" β
Zhenyu said: "That Du Yu has been lawless since he was a child, and he lost his mother's child, my mother-in-law looks down on him here, just because he has a title of son, and he also wants Mingluan to be a duchess of the country, so he secretly talked about the marriage contract with the Duke of Nadu in private, about only the two of them know, and others are not clear." β
Zhenshu didn't want to ask again, and secretly said in his heart: He has such a character and means, why can't he find a woman to be his wife. It's just that he can make Dou Mingluan so infatuated, but she really underestimated him at the beginning.
Because he was afraid that Dou Mingluan would wait for a long time, Zhenshu apologized to Zhenyu and went to Mingluan's boudoir with the spring. When she arrived at Mingluan's boudoir, she was still lying on the couch. Leng Lu reported outside, and Ming Luan said softly: "Please come in." β
I haven't seen her for two months, Dou Mingluan is no longer the little daughter of the day, her thin eyes are sunken and deboned, and she is shrunk in a small couch bed in a gray squirrel otter, holding a small jade square in her hand. Seeing Zhenshu coming in, he didn't get up, pointed to his side and said, "Come and sit." β
Zhenshu sat down and asked, "Miss Dou is in poor health?" β
Dou Mingluan shook his head with a wry smile, but sat up with his spirit and said with a smile: "When you followed Zhenyu and them to this mansion, I felt in my heart that you were not a girl. Tao Suyi came here a while ago, and he also praised me, saying that you are different from others. β
Zhenshu smiled bitterly: "What's different there, I don't know." β
Dou Mingluan said: "I heard that you are a Tianzu. β
Zhenshu shrunk his feet and said, "I am stubborn and unbearable, and I have no foot binding. β
Dou Mingluan said: "It's good. If I had your backbone, it would be better if I didn't wrap my feet. β
She looked at Zhenshu with two eyes, which made Zhenshu feel a little pity in her heart, and she couldn't wait to brush away the haze in this little daughter's heart. Dou Mingluan suddenly laughed and said, "Can I take a look at your feet?" β
Zhenshu was surprised when he heard this, and said with a wry smile: "But two big feet, what's there to see?" β
Dou Mingluan shook his head and sighed: "Now the maids in my room are all wrapped in their feet, and there are only the vulgar mothers-in-law in the kitchen outside, who look rude." Among the unmarried daughters, the only one I know is Tianzu, and I want to see what Tianzu looks like. β
Zhenshu took off his shoes and socks as he said, and said with an apologetic smile: "But two big feet, nothing to look at." β
Her toes were stretched out on her feet, and her tendons arched and lowered, swinging very naturally. Seeing that Dou Mingluan had seen it, he hurriedly put on Luo socks and shoes together.
Dou Mingluan stretched his feet and asked, "Have you ever seen a thin foot that has been entangled?" β
How can you not see it? Zhenshu hurriedly waved his hand and said, "I've seen it, don't look at it again." β
Break off the toes and press them under the soles of the feet, and then apply downward pressure on the instep from both sides to create a curved arch, which is called thin feet. Zhenyuan almost died in Hanjiahe's inn that day because she couldn't get her feet entangled, and Zhenshu was furious when she mentioned her fine feet, and she dared to look at it again.
Dou Mingluan suddenly sighed: "Presumably you all know about me." It's just that I also know about you, Mingyu told me. β
Zhenshu didn't know how many things she said in this knowledge, but she still sat and listened. I heard Dou Mingluan say again: "I heard that last time you were on the way home, you fell into a car and were humiliated, and you almost lost your life, but there is such a thing." β
Zhenshu pondered: "There was a car fall, and the death was almost lost, but the humiliation was not. β
Dou Mingluan retracted his slender feet and sighed: "I want to be like you, with such two heavenly feet." I heard that you fell into a car and were left in the mountains for several days, and you must have suffered a lot, but you can get out with a pair of heavenly feet. Like us, if you fall there, you can't walk the road, it's really a legless crab. β
Zhenshu hesitated for a long time before he said earnestly: "If you want, it's not too late to put your feet now?" β
Dou Mingluan smiled sideways and said, "There can be such an easy thing there, women have been like this for generations. If I let go of my feet, my mother will go crazy first. Now Jingzhong is also particular, saying that women can only keep their chastity when they are idle and go out. If a pair of heavenly feet wander around, it will be like a swagger at first, and the man will not be able to respect it when he sees it. β
Dou Mingluan said that he had no intention, and when he was done, he suddenly realized that he was afraid that these words would stab Song Zhenshu, so he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Good sister, I didn't mean you." β
Zhenshu suddenly had a trace of wandering thoughts in his mind, maybe Du Yu felt that she was so entangled because he saw her pair of heavenly feet.
It's just that this thought didn't come up, so she pressed it down, pressed Dou Mingluan's hand and said, "I know." If I even cared about such words, I would have been entangled in a long time ago. β
Zhenshu's insult was originally passed on by Zhenxiu to Zhenyu, and then by Zhenyu to Dou Mingluan and Tao Suyi. Since it is what their sisters say, everyone is serious. Dou Mingluan thought that she didn't dare to admit that she was insulted in front of her, but she didn't care, and sighed: "It's just that you have suffered such a big event, and you can still return to the capital, and you can come out to meet people like this, it can be seen that people have lost their hearts." And I have been in the house like this, and although the people are there, my heart has been lost. β
Zhenshu didn't know how to answer her. It's just that for the first time in nearly three months, she finally removed Du Yu from her subconscious.
She came to Kwai Shui on the night she crossed Wuling Mountain, proving that she was not pregnant at all, and as long as she resolutely denied the things in the mountains, even she could deceive herself. And Du Yu is Dou Mingluan's lover, fiancΓ©, a person who has talked about love, and now he is married to a wife outside, he no longer has the original complex and emotional appearance in her mind, but has completely become a bandit, a disciple, and a thief.
Zhenshu comforted: "You should also cheer up, after all, one person will not be the whole of another person's life." Maybe you'll come across something better. β
Dou Mingluan shook his head and said, "No." I beg him that he is a good man, and that he was only blamed by that evil stepmother. He is simple-hearted, innocent and kind, and he can plot against the Yang slut. Now that it's okay, I heard news from the palace that it was he who led the Tartars into Hui County, not only did he return to Beijing to wash away his grievances, but he could only be displaced in this life. β
Sincerely, it must be Du Yu's expression.
Zhenshu was shocked, and there was no way to refute it. It's just that when she was in Liu's mansion, she secretly saw the conversation between the two in the house, and at this time, she suddenly remembered that although those words were mindless, combined with the affairs of Shanghui County, they could be explained.
The Tartars had finished plundering, took the token of a powerful person, and swaggered out all the way. The government is still chasing after them, and they have long since gone away.
Thinking of this, she waved her hand and said, "I think the matter of luring the Tartars into Hui County is not the work of the prince of Du Guogong." β
Dou Mingluan was puzzled: "Why? β
Zhenshu didn't know how to explain it, so he learned all the words he heard in Liu's mansion that day to Dou Mingluan, and then replied: "This is all overheard by me when I got lost when I was looking for my father, and there is no evidence." If your father believed you, teach him to send someone to find out, and if he did not believe, you would believe me. Things take turns, and maybe he will come back one day after washing away his grievances. β
Dou Mingluan breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "I don't believe it's him, as expected." β
Zhenshu said goodbye to Dou Mingluan, and still returned to the Fuyun Residence where Zhenyu lived. After having lunch at Zhenyu's place, and eating some tea and sitting idle for a long time, Zhenyuan and the others got up to say goodbye. Just said goodbye, I suddenly heard Jichun shouting outside: "Xianggong is back!" β
Before the words fell, the curtain outside was raised, and the heroic Dou Keming strode into the room. He looked around and smiled, "There are distinguished guests?" β
Zhenyu took a few steps forward and said, "Isn't it?" The eldest sister and the third sister came to take a look at the concubine. β
The two of them looked at each other and smiled, and they didn't look like they had quarreled.
Dou Keming said: "Your eldest sister must not be married yet?" β
Zhenyu said: "Exactly, Xianggong wants to choose one for her?" β
Dou Keming looked at Zhenyu and said with a smile: "Zhang Rui can't do a family affair with the Nie family, he has the intention, why don't you go to your Song Mansion another day to ask the elders?" β
He was as if he had never been lighthearted at the beginning. Seeing this, Zhenyu smiled and said: "That's very good, but now they don't live in the mansion, but live in a rented shop in the East Market, I'm afraid that Zhang Rui will find it easy." β
Seeing her words, Zhenyuan hurriedly interjected: "A few of us will leave." β
Dou Keming shook his head from afar and said, "Don't send it, a few people go slowly." β
After saying that, he flicked his sleeves and went back to the room.
Zhenyu sent all the way out of the door of Fuyunju, and then sent it to the outside of the mansion with the spring, and said very affectionately: "I am very bored at home now, you must come to see me more often, and accompany me to relieve my boredom." β
When they left the house, they saw that Zhao He was already waiting outside the door, and the sisters got into the car, Zhen Yi suddenly smiled and said: "That time in the Guangji Temple on the mountain, the fifth prince was also lighter than his sister, and today he pretended to be nothing." β
Zhen Yuan said sullenly: "In his eyes, women are just playthings, only Zhenyu is the god of wealth, which is different from others." β
Zhenshu praised: "The eldest sister is talking more and more interestingly now, and this is true." β
After that, the sisters looked at each other and smiled.
At this time, in the Jade Mansion on the side of the Jinshui Bridge outside the West Imperial City, Yu Yichen was enjoying a good thing. It was a tiger, with a smooth and bright fur and a tail raised high, and the tiger was now held high in the yard, and a craftsman was still drawing on it from head to tail. Yu Yichen glanced at Mei Xun and said with a rare smile: "Good thing!" β