Chapter 145: C-San's Doubts
Hongyu subconsciously touched her blood-soaked arm, and said respectfully, "Yes, miss." â
Liu Xiaozhen raised her eyebrows, took out a handkerchief from under the pillow and wiped the corners of her eyes, and after a while, her two eyes turned a faint red. She looked in the mirror for a long time before she said satisfied, "Let's go, go to the main courtyard." â
The master and servant went out, walked through the verandahs, and walked through several portals before reaching the main courtyard. Princess Liu was sitting on the soft couch and sorting out her jewelry box, and when she saw her favorite niece come in, she took her to enjoy the game together. At the end, he picked two very delicate beaded flowers and gave them to her, and said with a smile, "At your age, it is best to wear this beaded flower, and the skin is white." At my age, it would be a joke to wear it. â
Liu Xiaozhen's eyes swept carefully over the red gold phoenix hairpins one by one, and when she looked up again, she smiled and hugged Princess Liu's arm coquettishly, "Aunt is not old, Zhen'er went out with you, I'm afraid everyone thinks they are sisters." â
"Oh, you have that mouth." The princess hugged her niece and giggled loudly, showing that she was in a very good mood.
The two aunts and nephews ate together, and Princess Liu used the excuse of asking Hongyu to help with some small work, and then sent the old grandmother next to her to send her niece back in person.
Ruby lowered her head and rubbed the corners of her clothes with her hands restlessly. Princess Liu put down the tea bowl and glanced at the faintly exposed blood marks on her arm, and asked lightly, "Say, where did you young lady get wronged?" â
Hongyu shrank her neck suddenly, and said cowardly, "Hui Niangniang, our young lady... I was not wronged. â
"If she hasn't been wronged, why are her eyes red?" The princess didn't know that Hongyu was actually telling the truth, but scolded sharply, "Say, who dares to let my Liu family be wronged?" â
Hongyu was extremely angry, but she still didn't dare to disobey her master's orders, and reported in a low voice, "Our young lady sent rock sugar white fungus soup to the prince, the prince... Dropped the bowl and punished Steward Zhao. Our young lady cried, and... I also want to pierce myself with a hairpin, and the slave and maid come forward to stop me with all her might..."
Princess Liu originally thought that it was a subordinate who always bullied her niece by virtue of her qualifications, but she didn't expect that this "subordinate" was actually her son. She regretted for a while that she shouldn't have asked about it, after all, their mother and son were already in a weak relationship, and if she protected her niece and questioned her son again, I am afraid that there will be no day when she will become a mother and son again.
Thinking like this, she lightly ordered, "You go back, and when the young lady asked, she said that I asked you to draw a few tricks." In addition, I will serve the young lady more attentively in the future, you know? â
"Yes, sissy." Hongyu was extremely disappointed in her heart, and bowed her head and retreated. Although she was struggling along the way, she quickly returned to the Furong Hall, where the master and servant were temporarily staying. Liu Xiaozhen was waiting in a hurry, but when she heard that her aunt didn't mean to support herself, she was so angry that she raised the tea bowl in her hand and smashed it, "She kept saying that she hurt me, but in fact, it hurt her son the most!" â
She roared in a low voice like a wounded beast, and suddenly picked up the melon jar on the barstool and was about to fall down, but remembering that if these utensils were broken, she would have to find an excuse to perfunctory the mother-in-law, so she casually pulled the red jade and pinched it desperately.
The master and servant beat one by one and cried and begged for mercy, making a great fuss. Bingsan, who was lying under the eaves, was really shuddering, and secretly decided to marry an ugly woman in the future. It's not that he doesn't like beauty, it's really that the more beautiful the woman, the more ruthless she is, just like this Miss Liu, who would have thought that the gentle and gentle ladies on weekdays would be more vicious than the most ruthless old woman behind her back...
Murong Huaide held a fine brush in his hand, bent down carefully to trace something, and after listening to Bingsan's eloquent talk about "the war between Miss Liu and the maid", he lightly pursed the corners of his mouth and threw the matter aside.
Finally, he took the letter on the table and handed it over, and said, "Leave the matter here to Bingsi, and you will personally go to the military city to deliver the letter to Madame." If she asks me how I'm doing, you say..."
"Say what?" Bingsan took the letter, but he didn't hear the master continue for a long time, so he couldn't help but answer.
Murong Huaide coughed dryly twice and said in a low voice, "Let's just say that Miss Cousin boiled rock sugar white fungus soup with her own hands, I like to drink it very much." â
Like to drink? Didn't you even smash the bowl? Bingsan looked at his master suspiciously, obviously not understanding why his master let him lie with his wife.
Murong Huaide blushed slightly in shame and scolded, "Look at what I do, do as I am told." â
"Yes, Childe." Bingsan hurriedly responded, and with a full of questions, he flew out of the window and disappeared into the night. Leaving Murong Huaide to regret it in every way, why didn't he bring Jia over that day, although that kid acted a little more out of his mind, he was more active than the rest of the groups. If he took this errand, he only needed to click a word and a half, how could he be so embarrassed?
Not to mention how Murong Huaide lamented that there was no suitable manpower around him, he only said that Dong Rong finally got the fabric in the past few days, and the shopkeeper Luo of Namo County was also a sleek person, and under the pretext that there were too many fabrics, he actually rushed over with six carts of fabrics in person.
Dong Rong saw that there were hundreds of good fabrics, and she planned to visit the old lady of the Meng family as soon as she had an idea, and thanked the Meng family for borrowing the house to settle them down, she prepared two boxes of jam cakes with her own hands, and two pairs of soft slippers woven with fine cattail grass as a thank you gift.
Mrs. Meng's maiden home is in the land of fish and rice in the south of Kyoto, although she has lived in the military city with Mr. Meng for many years, how can she not miss her hometown in her heart? Originally, she heard that Dong Rong was an ordinary peasant woman, and she was a little too lazy to entertain, but after all, it was not good to save Mr. Yang's face, so she invited Dong Rong to sit down for a while after taking a nap.
After not wanting to meet, Dong Rong acted politely, spoke very funny, and the gifts she gave were even more in line with her heart. In the end, the small sitting turned into a long talk, and the long talk turned into a stay, and finally waited until it was dark to let Dong Rong go back to the other courtyard.
Needless to say, Dong Rong asked her to introduce Shopkeeper Luo to General Wu's mansion to deliver fabrics, and she also responded. After all, she has also heard about the Wu family's search for good fabrics these days, and such door-to-door delivery, solving the Wu family's problems and selling Dong Rong a favor, can be described as the best of both worlds, why not.
Two days later, the steward of the Wu family arrived at the Meng family's courtyard, and the little steward was still very proud at first, and after being stuffed with a bulging purse in his hand, he changed his smiling face, and carefully talked about the preferences of his wife and young lady. Steward Zhang and Shopkeeper Luo thanked each other, and then went to Wu's Mansion with a cart of carefully selected fabrics.
When they returned, half of the cloth was on the wagon. It is said that in order to open, the shopkeeper Luo only charged the "cost price", Miss Wu was happy for a while and "bought" a few more horses, and the shopkeeper Luo also sent a set of jewelry that was "not worth much silver" but looked very delicate to add to it, and the mother and daughter of the Wu family were extremely satisfied.
Of course, this satisfaction also affected General Wu, who went home that night. On the second day, Old Man Meng invited him to enjoy the flowers and drink again, and he did not shirk as before.
At the banquet, when everyone was slightly drunk, Mr. Yang took the initiative to apologize for his disciples, blaming himself for being a teacher, and only focusing on teaching his disciples homework articles on weekdays, but did not teach them to distinguish between right and wrong. General Wu naturally regretted that he was so drunk that day, why did he gamble with the teenagers, it really shouldn't be.
The two sides came and went like this, all with the intention of making peace, and the guests and hosts dispersed after they had their hearts. On the second day, Mr. Yang and Mr. Meng personally went to the barracks to pick up a group of scholars and return home. Regardless of whether he was convinced or not, Dong Ping and the others bent down to apologize to the generals, as for Xue Dashao, who was arrogant that day, let alone speak, he almost hid his head in the crotch of his pants, for fear that Mr. would leave him alone to suffer.
Dong Rong personally waited at the gate of the other courtyard, and when the scholars who escaped got out of the carriage, she didn't urge them to wash and change clothes, and directly led them back to her courtyard.
Large pots of braised pork and snow-white steamed buns fill the long table, shimmering with oily luster in the sunlight, and the air is slowly filled with a rich aroma of meat...
The scholars were stunned for a long time, and finally rushed forward with a strange scream, some of whom were feasting, and some of whom were crying while eating, until Mr. Yang's heart was sour, but he scolded in his mouth, and then went back to the backyard with his back.
Dong Pingxu didn't want to make his sister sad, so he accompanied his classmates to eat a few bites and walked to his sister's side, and said in a low voice, "Sister, I'm back." â
Dong Rong patted her younger brother's shoulder and smiled, "It's good to come back, it is said that it is extremely cold in winter here in the military city, if I leave you for the winter, my sister is really not at ease." â
The sister and brother went back to the house as they spoke, Zizhu quickly brought a pot of hot tea, and said with a smile, "It's good that the second young master is back, and when Madame is at home, I think about you suffering in the military camp." The food, pills and various supplies prepared were enough for five carriages, and now Shun LĂŹ took the second young master out, but he had to transport it back as it was. â
"You girl, I haven't seen you talk so much on weekdays," Dong Rong was afraid that her younger brother would feel more guilty, so she hurriedly picked up Zizhu, "Don't go out to take care of the dinner table yet, if you don't have enough steamed buns, you can serve some snacks." â
"Yes, ma'am." Zizhu poured tea for the two masters again, and then retreated.
Dong Ping hesitated for a while, but finally said, "Sister, I have lived in the barracks for so long, and although I have endured hardship, I have also understood a lot of things. In the past, I thought that I was full of talent and I despised others, but in fact, there are commendable things in every industry and industry. Just like those soldiers, they eat very poorly every day, train hard, and if a war breaks out, they have to fight with their lives to protect the people of the country, which is really worthy of admiration. â
"You don't hate their harshness, and you can still think like this, it is enough to see that you are much more open-minded than before, and my sister is really happy for you." Dong Rong was very pleased, last night she was worried about what psychological shadow her brother would leave because of this incident, and she didn't want him to grow a lot.
(Finally rushed out, almost broke off, in the future, you must raise 3,000 manuscripts, otherwise once something happens, you will be really caught off guard.) Thank you for your support and strive for two more tomorrow. ďź