Chapter Seventy-Three: The Matchmaker Comes to the Door
Huo Yuan was released, and in order to show his sincerity, Zhao Fuyin also gave up the carriage and asked his coachman to send Huo Yuan back. Super fast and stable dìng update novel, this article is by. 520。 Starting
Huo Yuan did not go back to Huo Mansion, but went back to Bishui Villa directly.
The day before yesterday, he was suddenly passed by Ying Tianfu, he has not had time to hand over the matter of participating in the line with Cai Wei's sister, and he has been deeply disturbed in the past two days, and he came out today, so he planned to go back to take a shower first, change into clean clothes, and then go to Cai Wei to discuss the handover of the line.
Back at Bishui Villa, the housekeeper took it out, and when he saw Huo Yuan, he naturally asked for warmth.
Huo Yuan has always been kind, so he had to say a few words to the housekeeper, and by the way, he asked how the Mu family had been doing in the past two days.
When the housekeeper saw that Huo Yuan mentioned the Mu family, he told Huo Yuan about the fact that the second master came to drive people out that day and the Mu family moved out early the next morning. ‘
He entered the courtyard where he lived with a gloomy face, took a bath, changed his clothes and came out, ordered to prepare a car, and went directly to Mu Zhongqing's Bafu Restaurant.
At this time, the Bafu Restaurant has just opened, and there are only two guys cleaning in the restaurant, and the rest are left in the kitchen, or bait dumplings, chaos, or cutting meat, and skewers, Mu Zhongqing and Chaoyun sell dim sum at the counter, although the family has opened a Bafu dim sum shop, but some people who live nearby are still used to buying dim sum to eat here, so Bafu Restaurant has been selling dim sum on behalf of others, but with the Bafu dim sum shop, the dim sum here is not as hot as before.
Seeing Huo Yuan, Mu Zhongqing hurriedly put down the guy in his hand and greeted him with a smile.
"Huo Gongzi, that gust of wind blew you here? Come inside, please. ”
Mu Zhongqing led Huo Yuan to an accord upstairs and sat down, but Huo Yuan didn't sit down, he clenched his fists and said apologetically: "Uncle Mu, the junior had something to do two days ago, and he was not at home, so your family was wronged, and the junior came here to apologize, and asked my uncle not to see the junior and move back to Bishui Villa to live." ”
Mu Zhongqing was stunned: "What grievances?" Our family stayed very well in Bishui Villa, and we were not wronged? ”
Huo Yuan was also stunned for a moment, and then reacted, it turned out that Sister Cai Wei did not tell the second uncle about their family, and he was relieved at the moment. Fortunately, only Sister Cai Wei knows about this, so he will explain it to her later.
"Uncle Mu, as far as the younger generation knows, your family does not have a house in the city, you and Cai Wei and Cai Fei's two sisters come to the shop every day, and after a while, Wen'er and Wu'er go to school, they all have to come to the city, Zhuangzi is too far away from the city, if it is too inconvenient to just take a carriage back and forth, it is better to move back to the villa to live."
Mu Zhongqing smiled: "Huo Gongzi is too polite, although what Huo Gongzi said is reasonable, we have to go back to our own home, don't we?" After all, you can't stay in your house for the rest of your life! ”
Huo Yuan smiled with his eyes, and said in his heart, I wish your family would live in Bishui Villa for the rest of your life, but he didn't say that.
"Uncle, it's better to discuss with the family, live in Bishui Villa for the time being, and then your family will buy a house in the city in the future, and then move out!"
Why Huo Yuan is so diligent, Mu Zhongqing naturally knows, in fact, he and the Du family are more and more optimistic about Huo Yuan, this later life, the nature is mild, and he is infatuated with his daughter, and he will definitely be good to his daughter in the future, they all wish Cai Wei to marry him, so they didn't reject him completely, but just smiled and said: "This matter, when Wei'er comes back in a few days, I will discuss it with her and make a decision!" ”
"Sister Caiwei is out? Where did it go? How long will it take to come back"
When Huo Yuan heard that Cai Wei was going out, he suddenly 'chuckled' in his heart, lest she go to Lingbei to find him, but fortunately Mu Zhongqing just said: "Her master asked her to go out to do some errands, and she will come back in a few days." ”
Knowing that Cai Wei didn't go to Lingbei, Huo Yuan relieved himself and chatted with Mu Zhongqing for a while before leaving.
He was detained by Ying Tianfu, and his family must already know about it, he needs to go back to the mansion to say goodbye to his mother, and by the way, knock and knock those who want to make waves while he is not there!
Not long after Huo Yuan left, a fat woman wearing a makeup satin gown twisted in, and the mother-in-law was followed by eight young maids, all of whom were holding boxes and satin ribbons tied with big red ribbons.
Mu Zhongqing and Chaoyang were stunned, this mother-in-law, no matter how you look at it, she looks like a standard matchmaker, and the little guys behind her, the box of silk tied with a big red ribbon in their hands, looks like a dowry, what's going on?
The woman twisted the bucket waist, walked up to Mu Zhongqing with a smile, raised her handkerchief, pinched her throat and said softly: "Oh, this is Mu Xiucai Master Mu, right?" ”
Mu Zhongqing nodded, still with a blank look: "Excuse me, you are"
The fat woman covered her mouth and smiled, and the folds on her face were piled up, squeezing the thick layer of white powder on her face, and she fell straight down the slag.
"Hehe, the old Zhang family, is a famous golden-mouthed matchmaker in the capital, has been a matchmaker in Beijing for 30 years, I don't know how many beautiful talents have been accomplished, and how many blessings have been accumulated!"
As soon as he heard that the other party was a matchmaker, Mu Zhongqing's heart moved, and he thought of Huo Yuan who had just left, and couldn't help but wonder in his heart, could it be that the kid couldn't wait and sent someone to propose marriage, right?
Just thinking about it, Mrs. Zhang had already twisted her thick bucket waist and lowered her body, and said with a smile on her face: "Congratulations to Master Mu, congratulations to Master Mu, Master Mu is overjoyed!" ”
Mu Zhongqing coughed, his face was slightly unnatural, and said, "Mother Zhang, please sit upstairs, we have something to say upstairs." ”
Mrs. Zhang bared her big yellow teeth and said with a smile: "It's easy to say, it's easy to say, I'm tired of Master Mu leading the way." After speaking, with a wave of the handkerchief, the eight little guys who were dressed in the same clothes behind him followed her with the box, followed her, and went upstairs with Mu Zhongqing.
A guest downstairs who bought dim sum smiled: "It seems that the shopkeeper Mu is going to have a happy event!" ”
Chaoyun said lightly while weighing the dim sum: "A woman, a hundred families, if there is no final hiring, it will not be a happy event." ”
A scoop of cold water poured a bunch of spectators out of interest, so they shut up and bought snacks by themselves.
After a while, I heard a noise upstairs, and the woman from before walked down angrily, followed by a small man with an unkind face.
"Cut, don't look at your own family? To be a concubine is to promote you, and I still want my daughter to enter the Guangling Palace as a princess, I'm sorry! ”
Mrs. Zhang's wife screamed and scolded in anger, not caring if Mu Zhongqing upstairs heard it.
She has been a matchmaker for more than 30 years, and is known as Zhang Jinzui in the capital, these years, no matter which house she goes to, the young lady and the old lady in the house have to give her three points of face and call her Zhang's mother, but just now that Mu Zhongqing, when he heard that the prince of Guangling was going to marry his daughter as a concubine, he pointed at her nose and told her to get out, and dared to scold her for being an old pious woman, she was really angry with her!
The guests lined up downstairs listened, and couldn't help but be startled, it turned out that this courtship turned out to be the famous Guangling Mansion in the capital, to say that this Guangling Palace, in the capital can be regarded as the most prestigious, the reason for being famous is very strange, it is because the Guangling King has been lustful in the past dynasties.
At the beginning, the first King of Guangling took the initiative to return the military power to Emperor Jin because of his dragon merit, so he was very fond of Emperor Jin's blue eyes, knowing that he liked beauty, and rewarded him with thirty beautiful women at a time, he actually took them all, and then he died of exhaustion on the couch. His son was not much better than him, and as soon as he inherited the title of King Guangling, he died of a dirty illness because he prostituted the kiln sister who was the best at adultery in the capital; Now it is his grandson's hereditary throne, and the new Guangling King is not a weapon, every day does not want to forge ahead, specially and a group of Jianghu Taoist priests to study the art of the house, bought hundreds of young women to make tripods, the house has long been smoky, rotten, now this Guangling Wang Shizi, is also a greedy and lustful person, stealing incense and stealing jade every day, sleeping flowers and willows, specializing in doing some indiscriminate things, very despised.
Therefore, in the hearts of the people in Beijing, the Guangling Mansion is definitely a dirty and dirty place, hearing that Mu Zhongqing rejected the proposal of the prince of Guangling, everyone didn't dare to say anything, but they all silently praised him in their hearts!
Mrs. Zhang left with a sigh of popularity, and after a while, Mu Zhongqing walked down with a cold face, and for the first time, there was anger on her always gentle and elegant face.
Chaoyun sent away the last customer, and asked with concern: "The owner, do we want to go to Buzhuang to pick up the second lady back, in case?"
Mu Zhongqing waved his hand and said firmly: "No need, this is the imperial city, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, they don't dare to mess around, besides, Fei'er wants to learn the craft of Shu embroidery from Mama You, even if she picks her up, she won't come back, not to mention that she has a competent person by her side, don't worry!" ”
When Brother Parrot saw Huo Yuan leaving the gate of Yingtianfu, he told Cai Wei the news that he had regained his freedom, Cai Wei was very happy to learn the news, fortunately he was released, fortunately he was not punished in prison, otherwise she would really feel very guilty.
After learning the news that Huo Yuan was fine, she entered the space, found a pen and paper, and drew on the desk.
She has always wanted to have a decent boudoir in the space, which is the kind of carved orchid window, the boudoir of the ancient lady, a place where she can relax wholeheartedly.
Now, she is not short of silver, nor is she short of manpower, the only thing she lacks is time, so she takes advantage of the time she has now, according to her own preferences, to draw the design of each piece of furniture in the boudoir, and mark the size of each piece of furniture in detail and size.
These furniture, are a combination of the advantages of ancient and modern furniture design, both beautiful and generous, but also practical, if these furniture to build to sell, will be able to sell.
Drawing drawings is a slow job, especially the carvings on the furniture, which need to be painted by her, so it is very time-consuming.
Cai Wei lay on the desk and drew for a whole morning, until her stomach rumbled, and she remembered that it was time for lunch.
At this time, the cold sound of chasing the wind sounded outside, and she hurriedly came out of the space.
"Princess, it's time for lunch, can you use your subordinates to help you bring in lunch?"
Chasing Feng was sent by Nangong Yi to serve this woman again, and his mood was naturally very bad, but although he was depressed, he did not slack off in his work, because the master repeatedly told him to take good care of this woman, and he also went to the nearby mountains to fetch a pheasant for her lunch.
"Well, bring it in!"
Cai Wei shook her sore neck and walked out of the room.
Chasing Feng calmly, he walked in quickly, and placed a large simple plate on the table outside the tent, which contained a bowl of white rice, a plate of mashed potatoes stewed a little, and a roasted pheasant.
"Wow, it's hearty!"
Cai Wei propped her hands on the case, smelled the roasted fragrant pheasant, and looked up at Chasing the wind teasingly.
Chasing Feng subconsciously frowned, turned his face and said, "Princess, please use it slowly, your subordinates have retired." ”
"Wait!"
Cai Wei pointed to the pheasant on the case, raised her eyebrows and asked, "Is there everyone in the camp, or is it just me?" ”
"This is a special call from your subordinates!"
Chasing Feng twisted his face to the side, and secretly scolded himself, this chicken was still caught by him after running on the mountain all morning, if the two or three hundred wounded and sick in the camp ate chicken, wouldn't it be enough to have forty or fifty chickens?
Cai Wei tore off a steaming chicken leg and said as she ate, "Mmmm, it's delicious, but if only the wounded and sick could eat it." ”
The corners of Chaifeng's mouth twitched, and he said: "A few days ago, the military food in our army was moldy, and the soldiers who couldn't eat it all ran to the mountains to forage for food, and the beasts on the mountains were almost beaten, and even the snakes in the hole were taken out and boiled and eaten, I'm afraid there are not so many pheasants to fight!" ”
Cai Wei said with a smile: "These soldiers left their families and businesses to go out to fight, and they were injured in order to recover our land in the Great Jin, if they can't even eat meat, wouldn't it be too pitiful and panicked?" Besides, eating more meat is also excellent for their wound recovery! ”
It's great, but it's not! Chasing the wind collapsed his face and complained silently.
It was rare to see him vomiting blood, Cai Wei was in a good mood and admired it for a while, and was almost stunned, so she said unhurriedly: "Don't worry, leave this matter to me to arrange, and at dinner, everyone can have meat to eat." ”
Chasing the wind retreated silently, although he didn't speak, his expression was obviously disbelief. Cai Wei didn't care about his expression, just sat down on the chair and ate beautifully.
After eating, she returned to the space, washed her hands, and continued to draw her drawings, in addition to the drawings of the furniture, she also designed the patterns of curtains, quilt covers, pillowcases, sheets, tents and other daily necessities, compared with those antique furniture, the patterns of these bedding are much more modern, such as pillowcases, pillowcases of the ancients, most of them are embroidered with patterns such as rich peonies and rich flowers, and the curtains and bedding of Cai Wei use abstract techniques to design a set of bold and exaggerated sunflower flowers as the theme, Unique home furnishings.
In addition, she also designed some more modern jewelry, saying that it is a design, in fact, it is plagiarizing some of the more famous works designed by some jewelry designers that she often saw in her previous life, from bracelets, necklaces, earrings, rings to hairpins, jade bracelets, all of which are not available in this world, and each piece can be called unique in this world!
When it was almost evening, she took out the crystal elbows, roast chickens, board geese and other things she bought yesterday from the space, and piled them up all over the place, only these, it was still not enough for these two or three hundred people to eat, so she ordered the white-haired tiger to go to the forest, catch a few hares and pheasants, and then catch some fish in Lingxi, so that these wounded soldiers could have a good meal.
In addition, a lot of vegetables in the space can be eaten, and she personally went to pick some spinach, lettuce, rape, chrysanthemum and other vegetables, and kept them for the soldiers to relieve their greasy when they ate meat.
These soldiers are not easy, they have traveled thousands of miles to this barren land to fight, and they are wounded, although they don't need to eat moldy food now, but they must not have eaten well a few days ago, and they should be replenished.
After packing up a lot of things, Cai Wei called Chasing Wind in.
"Oh, call a few soldiers from the Huotou Battalion to come in, take these things out, and let everyone have a good meal!"
The eyeballs of chasing the wind almost fell out, and he looked at the pheasants, hares, live fish, vegetables and other things piled up on the ground with a dumbfounded eye, and for a long time, he suddenly remembered the words that Li Guoshi said that day, the legendary Fuyou Island, is it really in the hands of this girl?
Yes, one night after the destruction of Tianji, he had Qingyan saw her riding a white-haired giant tiger that appeared out of thin air, galloping away from Qingyun Town, so fast that it was almost invisible to the naked eye, thinking about it, this girl must not be an ordinary woman, according to this, she is worthy of the master!
Chasing the wind with a complicated face, and after a while came in with a few ice from the fire head battalion to move things, the group of soldiers ate potatoes and cabbage all day long, and when they saw these meats at first glance today, they were so happy that they grinned at the boss, and they didn't feel heavy when they carried a heavy pile of meat.
Not long after the soldiers went out, there was a burst of cheers floating into the tent, Cai Wei smiled knowingly, let these young soldiers eat happily, and by the way, help him win people's hearts, and take out this idea, it is also worth it.
At this time, in the Guangling Palace, a small servant hurriedly ran into the courtyard of Nangong Jin, the prince of Guangling, and when he saw the prince, he immediately knelt down and said: "The prince, I have already inquired clearly, the lady in charge of the Mu family is the concubine who was given to the old lady back then, the concubine of the Anguo Mansion, and later ran away from marriage, married this Mu Xiucai, and gave birth to three or four children, the eldest daughter is the one who was named Princess Anle a few days ago, and the prince of the world takes a fancy to them, is their second daughter, Named Mu Caifei, now this second Miss Mu goes to the Mu family's cloth village every day, one is to help the family look after the shop, and the other is that the second miss worshiped a master who taught her embroidery in the shop, and taught her the craft of embroidery every day. ”
"Okay, it turned out to be an old man!"
Without waiting for the little girl to finish speaking, Nangong Jin gritted her teeth and laughed, "I can't imagine that this family has so much relationship with our Guangling Palace, so since the Du family ruined the marriage with the old lady, now it is just right to compensate her daughter!" ”
The little servant said: "Master, I also inquired about something outside, it is said that the deceased Princess Anle used to be a good friend of His Royal Highness King Qin, and now the Mu family is not helpless, and Huo Gongzi is now covering their family." ”
It's about Huo Yuan, Nangong Jin's originally high feelings fell, like a defeated rooster, now, the prince has become a waste, the next candidate for the prince, ten is King Jing, although he is not afraid of Huo Yuan, but he is afraid that once King Jing ascends the throne in the future, he will be angry for his only uncle! “
"Hey!"
Nangong Jin was annoyed by the hammer case, and the teacups on the case jumped up, and the tea splashed on the ground.
Seeing this, the little girl knew that the master was not happy, so she hurriedly offered advice and said: "Master, the little one also heard that now this Miss Mu Er lives in Zhuangzi near the royal hunting ground on the outskirts of Beijing, and she and her Xiucai father get up early to take a car to the city every day, and go back in the car at night. ”
"Is that really the case?"
Nangong Jin was overjoyed, if this is the case, she only needs to use a few people to ambush her halfway way, stab her talented father and the coachman, and then snatch the little beauty, are you afraid that she will fly to the sky at that time? It's not up to him how he can use it!
"It's true, master, do you want to arrange it now? Keeping it tonight will make your wish come true."
Of course, Nangong Jin wanted to do a good thing tonight, but he was rejected for his proposal just today, if he did it tonight, it would be easy to arouse the suspicion of others, in case Huo Yuan asked for someone with him, or held a grudge against him from now on, it would not be fun.
Therefore, he suppressed his full desire, and said unwillingly and helplessly: "Don't use it first, wait a few days to stop and then talk about it."
Cai Fei didn't know that he had been calculated, and he was still seriously learning the craft from Mama Xiu in the cloth village, in the blink of an eye, the closing time was up, Cai Fei said with a smile: "I feel that I haven't learned much every day, it's getting dark, if this continues, when will I be able to learn Mama's stunts?" ”
Mama said: "Only when you do a serious thing, you will not notice the passage of time, the girl learns very well, and quickly, although it will take some time to learn the skills of the old body, but according to the girl's serious energy, it is only a matter of time, the girl does not have to be anxious." ”
After a few days of contact, Mama She liked Cai Fei more and more like Cai Fei, a female apprentice, Cai Fei is not only good and serious, but also very respectful and adoring her, so that she can't help but love this girl very much.
Zhao Qiu said: "The master is already waiting outside, the girl should hurry up." ”
Mama She also said: "I didn't let the elders wait for you, go quickly, Cai Fei listened, and then blessed Mama Qi, turned around and went out."
Zhaoqiu helped Fei'er into the carriage, and Zhang Bo raised his whip and drove the horse, like a Zhuangzi in the suburbs.
At this moment, the sun had set, and the afterglow of the setting sun shone on the carriage, which was covered with a soft light.
As soon as Cai Wei got into the carriage, she began to chatter about the cloth village to her father, mainly about the stitches she learned today, what she embroidered, and her grandmother praised her
Mu Zhongqing rarely spoke, only looked at her with a loving smile, and occasionally answered a sentence or two, but when she didn't look at him, his eyes faintly showed uneasiness and pain.
Fei'er is only eleven years old, and he has already been remembered, the other party is still a high-powered prince of Guangling Wang, although he has categorically refused to marry, but I don't know if the prince will stop here, if he refuses to stop, how should he, a small people, compete with Guangling Wangfu, what should his Fei'er do?
was thinking heavily, and suddenly there was a sound of suona outside, crying and mourning, and the momentum was huge, and when I heard it, there was a death in the family of the powerful.
Outside the car, Uncle Zhang drove his horse and happened to meet the funeral person, he hurriedly parked the car to the side, waiting for the huge funeral procession to pass.
The car stopped on the side of the road, mixed with a group of passers-by, watching the excitement, and the words of some people watching the excitement came to the car from time to time.
"Tsk, how could the eldest grandson of the Anguo Mansion be bitten to death by a snake? It's weird! ”
"You don't know this, I heard that it was an old aunt who died a few days ago in their house who was doing trouble, I heard that the old aunt was not less tormented by them in the past, her eyes were blinded by them, and her body was beaten to no good place, and then she was tortured to death by them, so the old aunt was unwilling to die after her death, so she turned into countless poisonous snakes and returned to the Anguo Mansion to take revenge."
"It's nonsense, if the old aunt comes back to take revenge, she should also find the person who killed her to take revenge, how can she go to the eldest grandson's family?"
"I heard that it was the Duchess of Anguo who killed this old aunt, so after this old aunt became a poisonous snake, she alone bit Duchess Anguo into a paralyzed woman, let her suffer alive, and also bit her most beloved eldest grandson's family to death, just let her suffer alive, and life is more uncomfortable than death"
"Oh, really so godly?"
"It's true, my brother-in-law's family sent pork to Nafu, and often dealt with the people in Nafu, I heard that the old aunt used to be An Guogong's favorite, and now she died unjustly, and she didn't look away, and some people heard her crying in the yard at night."
In the carriage, Fei'er was already stunned, she burst into tears, grabbed Mu Zhongqing's sleeve, and asked eagerly: "Dad, are they talking about grandmother, is it grandmother?" ”
Mu Zhongqing coughed and said, "No, I just asked someone to inquire yesterday, your grandmother is fine, and when you are free, your father will definitely think of taking your grandmother out." ”
Mu Zhongqing couldn't help but tell a lie against his will, he couldn't tell the truth to Fei'er, Fei'er has always been close to Mei's, when she lived in Anguo's mansion in the past, Fei'er lived in a room with Mei's, if she knew that Mei's was dead, she would definitely not be able to hide, even with Meiniang, she knew that Meiniang's pregnancy was less than three months, and the fetus was not very stable, so she couldn't suffer any blows, and Mei's death could not be let her know.
Mu Zhongqing's words, Cai Fei couldn't do it at all, she pointed out the car, and said with a trembling voice: "Then, why do they say it's an old aunt, why do they say it's a blind old aunt, no, Dad, let's go to Anguo Mansion and see it with our own eyes, otherwise I'm not at ease."
Mu Zhongqing's heart trembled, of course he couldn't let Fei'er go to the Anguo Mansion, if she knew that Mei's was dead, wouldn't the beautiful girl also know, therefore, he straightened his face and said sternly: "Don't mess around, the Anguo Mansion and our family have become like this, they have died of old age and have no contact, our family has not gone to mourn when someone died in his family, this time the family is going to the funeral, let's go to see your grandmother, wouldn't it make them even more angry, maybe they will send this anger on your grandmother, you go, Isn't that a cause for your grandmother? ”
"But why did they pass it on like that?"
"Most of the things in the world are spread by falsehood, Fei Ermo wants to listen to the wind and rain, and believe everything."
Cai Fei nodded suspiciously, choked up: "Dad, you must quickly think of a way to take your grandmother out, otherwise, something will happen sooner or later!" ”
Mu Zhongqing nodded: "Well, Dad is thinking about it, don't worry!" ”
However, Cai Fei was not at ease at all, although her father reprimanded her, she still decided that she must secretly go to the Anguo Mansion tomorrow, and she must see her grandmother with her own eyes to rest assured!
Mu Zhongqing thought that he had fooled his daughter, and his heart was a lot easier, he secretly wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and he was constantly afraid in his heart, fortunately Fei'er was simple and easy to deceive, otherwise if she knew the truth, the beauty girl might be so sad!
The Anguo Mansion has always had a good face, talking about pomp, and because it was the grandson of the long house who died, so this funeral was extremely grand, and the officials of the court and the central government looked at the face of the general who protected the country, and many of them set up a colorful shed on the road, set up a banquet, and set up a road sacrifice with music and music, and supported the scene for them.
The funeral procession was mighty, and the silver mountain generally came from the north and went to the ancestral grave of the Du family in the suburbs