Chapter Twenty-Four: Together
Mrs. Cheng's courtyard was full of servant women, and there were more maids and maids running over, and other servant women in the distance didn't understand and asked each other.
"What's wrong?"
"Let's see that stupid lady is back."
"What's there to see about the silly lady? Be careful to look bad luck. ”
"Not a fool, a beauty!"
"Is that a silly lady or a beauty?"
There was a lot of noise and theft in the inner courtyard of Cheng's house, but no one dared to speak loudly near Mrs. Cheng's side, and the servant women in the courtyard were even more silent with bated breath, and then saw that the hall was full of people, and it was also quiet to drop the needle, and everyone's eyes fell on the woman on the lower left of Mrs. Cheng.
The woman was raising her sleeve with one hand and drinking tea with the other... Oh, it's not tea, and when the girls served tea, the maid behind her reminded with a smile.
"My lady doesn't eat tea, please change to white water." She said.
This goddess is smiling, her posture is free, and she does not have the slightest restraint in a strange place.
Oh, yes, it's not a strange place to her, this servant girl has been here before.
The servant woman beside Mrs. Cheng squinted and looked at it seriously for a long time before she reunited with the maid who was slapped and tearful in her impression.
This girl is back too.
The woman who had untied her cloak was dressed in a large-sleeved blouse with only piping trim, a long plain skirt, her hair was pulled up in her temples, and a small silver comb was inserted, but there were no other ornaments, and her raised sleeves covered half of her face.
The wide sleeves that hung down were as natural and fluid as the woman's demeanor described.
The sleeves were folded and hung down on their laps, and the tea bowl was pushed away, and the people present breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that I can finally speak, and I'm not afraid of disturbing this lady.
"You. Really good? Mrs. Wang was the first to ask. Although since she entered the door, her line of sight has almost looked at Cheng Jianniang inside and out countless times.
"My body is okay." Cheng Jianniang replied, smiling at her.
Madame Wang hesitated for a moment and stretched out her hand.
"It's... Several? She asked.
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the room was stunned.
"Five." Cheng Jianniang looked unharmed and said with a slight smile.
Counting! That's enough.
Mrs. Wang was overjoyed and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Great." She said, getting up, "I'll go back first." ”
Others were still stunned, Cheng Jianniang got up and bent down to give gifts.
The rest of the room came to their senses and got up in confusion.
"Sit down, sit down." Mrs. Wang smiled and walked out with her feet raised.
Mrs. Cheng knew that she remembered Wang Shishilang in her heart. If it weren't for the careful look at this Cheng Jiaoniang, she would have left a long time ago, so she didn't keep it anymore and sent it out in person.
"Not bad, yes, sister, you too, such a good little lady, what are you wronged." Mrs. Wang smiled and walked quickly.
Mrs. Cheng's expression was complicated.
"Before, it wasn't so good," she said, and then stopped. Now I don't think that a good person is good or not, and it's not just based on looks..."
Madame Wang smiled back.
"Our family is seventeen. Isn't it just about looks? She smiled, stretching out her finger and waving it, "I don't have to pick this look." ”
Mrs. Cheng watched Mrs. Wang hurry away in the car, standing outside the second gate a little stunned.
Behind him there was the sound of chaotic footsteps and low laughter.
"Go, go and see the beauty"
"Is that really that fool?"
Mrs. Cheng turned around and saw that it was three or four rough girls running around, and immediately pulled down her face.
The servant woman next to her was busy shouting.
When those rough little girls saw Mrs. Cheng here, they were so frightened that they knelt down and kowtowed.
Mrs. Cheng didn't bother to punish these people, she only felt that her heart was dry, and she couldn't say anything.
The last time this little lady came back, knocking on the door at night caused a fight between the couple in the second room, and it also caused them to have a suspicion until now.
This time, she entered the door in a dignified manner, but it was so lively... I don't know what trouble Lu Dao will have next.
Mrs. Cheng reached out and pressed her forehead, raised her foot and stepped in.
But
She stopped again.
Really good? Not stupid?
Can it really be good? Is it okay to be born with it?
Or is it just like the last time I returned home from Bingzhou, but it was actually the credit of that girl's proper arrangement?
Oh, yes, this girl, why did this girl who ran to Zhou's house come back again?
She continued to raise her feet and walk, only to feel that her brain was confused, and when she walked to the gate of the courtyard, she saw that the people who were surging in the courtyard were gone, and only a few maids and servants on duty were left whispering something there.
"What about people?" She asked in surprise.
The servants and girls hurriedly stood away.
"Madam, the second lady has taken it away." A servant woman replied.
The second lady took it away?
Mrs. Cheng suddenly gritted her teeth with a gloomy face, look, look, she pushed herself when she was stupid, and now that she looks good, she immediately rushed to take it away.
For people? That's weird! There must be some kind of heckle again!
"Jiao Niang, you see, this is your home."
Second Mrs. Cheng said with a smile, while leading Cheng Jianniang into the courtyard gate.
The maid girl in the courtyard hurriedly stood away, while carefully watching the woman who was slowly coming.
Behind them, followed by Cheng Qiniang, Cheng Liuniang and other sisters, then their respective maids and servants, and then other maids and maids, all of them came from Mrs. Cheng's courtyard, like a long tail outside the courtyard gate, not to mention the maids and servants who hid on the side of the road and watched along the way.
"Your father is not here, and I have already sent him a letter, and will come back to see you when he has to rest." Second Mrs. Cheng said, leading Cheng Jianniang into the hall.
"Quick, sit down and rest."
"Madame, where is our lady's room?" Banqin asked, "Our lady wants to rest first." ”
Second Mrs. Cheng looked at this girl and remembered who it was.
At the beginning, I didn't want to be a cook for Qi Niang, but I was slapped and scared and left crying with the chicks. Later, a young man came to the Zhou family. One look was gone.
It seems that this is not in vain. I've learned the skills, look at this momentum, and I'm more comfortable than the master in charge.
Second Mrs. Cheng chuckled in her heart.
This girl is not simple.
"yes, I forgot about it with joy." She said with a smile, looking at the servant woman beside her, "Is Jiao Niang's room still arranged by the eldest lady?" ”
The servant woman understood.
"Yes." She replied, looking embarrassed, "But ma'am." The house over there has not been inhabited for a long time, summer after autumn, humid and hot, such as today it is cold again, although it has been cleaned up, but the residents are afraid that it is not very good..."
There was a crackle.
Mrs. Cheng pushed the tea bowl in her hand, the tea was spilled in the tray, and the girl hurriedly knelt down to clean it up.
"That's what she said?" She asked, raising an eyebrow.
The servant woman bowed her head and said yes.
"So the second lady asked Jiao Niangzi to go to live with Qi Niang for the time being." She said, "She herself took someone to clean up the house of the lotus pond herself. ”
"Didn't I tell her to clean up?" Mrs. Cheng gritted her teeth angrily and said, "What's good for her to let me be a wicked person in such a hurry?" ”
"That's good, of course." The servant woman said. "Madam, now it seems that the lady is really good..."
"Where's the good?" Mrs. Cheng asked angrily. "Good looks? She originally looked like that, who let you not look at it last time when she came back, can she walk? Walked in last time? Can talk? Last time, my father shouted two words clearly, it's the same at all, how can it be a big deal? Isn't it just the pomp and circumstance that the Zhou family has done...."
The Zhou family has done enough pomp...
Mrs. Cheng stopped talking and stroked her palm.
No wonder what's wrong, the Zhou family really made enough pomp for this little lady this time!
What are they for? Pampering your niece? Ahh
"I said why they haven't moved for so long, and I thought they were really dead and no longer worried about my family... What about Jiao Niang's dowry, it turns out that the back hand is here. She chuckled.
"It's not, the Zhou family is so fanfare that they almost beat the gong and drum to send it, and the whole city knows that our family's lady is no longer like when she was a child, the second lady is very ghostly, where is she willing to let go of this opportunity, but there is something to say." The servant woman whispered, "If it doesn't suit her wishes, she will inevitably shout something indiscriminately, and it doesn't matter how she shouted before..."
After all, everyone in the city knows that this Cheng Jianniang is a fool, and it is already great luck for a fool to be able to marry a fool, and this person Mrs. Cheng has no choice at all, and no one believes what Mrs. Cheng says.
But now it's different, this idiot made a stunning appearance in front of people, and it will spread all over the city tomorrow, so if Mrs. Cheng says something more about this Cheng Jianniang, the people will probably have to weigh it...
"The second lady just sees that this child can be used, not stupid, so she is in a hurry to take care of it, and when the time comes, she will coax the child to talk about the east and the west, and the south and the north, madam, that's just..."
As I said a long time ago, this fool is just a nuisance! Mrs. Cheng gritted her teeth.
"Madam, it just so happens that Mrs. Wang is also satisfied, and Wang Gongzi is also back, send her out quickly." The servant woman said, "Be careful of long nights and dreams. ”
Mrs. Cheng nodded.
"Don't be idle, go and get some clothes and belongings for her." She said.
The servant woman replied by withdrawing.
"Hurry, hurry, go to the storeroom." She beckoned to the other servants.
There was a rush in the yard.
Compared with the chaos in the courtyard here, in the back alley outside the Cheng family's mansion, the people in front of a low bungalow were overjoyed.
"Let me see, let me see, have you lost weight? Have you been beaten? Chunlan cried while pulling Jin Ge'er to look left and right.
Brother Jin's parents were also laughing and wiping tears on the side.
"Oh, what." Jin Ge'er said, shook off Chunlan, and shook his arm, "I'm very strong, I've grown taller." ”
While talking, he turned back.
"Two brothers, just put your things down, you go and rest."
Only then did the Chunlan family see that there were two people standing here, each carrying two bags in their hands, tall and dressed like Jin Ge'er, but they were much more imposing than Jin Ge'er.
Chunlan recognized them and knew who they were.
The fourth son is not at home now, she is not idle in vain, but has been assigned other work to do. When I heard that the stupid lady was back. Chunlan was naturally pleasantly surprised. followed the people to the door to look, but because they went late, they only saw the back of Cheng Jianniang being hugged and going to the inner courtyard.
Of course, what she wanted to see was not this stupid lady, but her younger brother, so naturally she would not chase after her like others, but inquired about Brother Jin, and when she saw these entourages of the Zhou family in the courtyard where her subordinates were placed, she was also stunned by this neat and uniform momentum.
When I asked, I learned that Jin Ge'er had gone home. She hurried back.
At this time, seeing the outfits of these two people, he knew that this was the entourage of the Zhou family.
"Okay, Brother Jin, then let's go first." The two said with a smile, and one reached out and patted Jin Ge'er on the shoulder.
The attitude is kind and intimate, and there is no impatience when he stands for half a day and is ignored.
"You go back first, and I'll take you out of the city tomorrow to play." Jin Ge'er said with a smile.
The two of them gave salutes to Brother Jin'er's parents and Chunlan again, and the two elders were so panicked that they hurriedly returned the salute, and watched the two of them go.
As soon as the two left, the other onlookers came up hula.
"Brother Jin, this is a member of the Zhou family?"
"Brother Kim. Is Beijing fun? ”
Babbling all sorts of inquiries.
Jin Ge'er answered them one by one with a smile, and beckoned everyone into the house.
"I'm back with gifts for everyone." He said.
How generous is it? Look at the two burdens in Jin Ge'er's hands. Everyone's eyes suddenly lit up, and they hugged Jin Ge'er and went in.
Chunlan and her parents stomped their feet anxiously.
"This kid, what a poor and generous thing." Chunlan said in a low voice, she came back after a trip to the capital and pretended to be arrogant, I don't know who borrowed money to buy these things, and secretly regretted that she didn't stop them in time, so she had to follow up in a hurry.
The room was already lively, and with Jin Ge'er's baggage, he opened the gift boxes one by one and sent them out.
"This is the most famous silk in the capital, you take it to make clothes..."
"This is the best official wine in the capital, you can take it and taste it..."
Jin Ge'er's words came one after another, and the surprises in the room also sounded, and the heartbeats of Chunlan and her parents became faster all at once.
My goodness... How much does it cost?
"Brother Jin, this, how much does this cost?" A neighbor asked.
Jin Ge'er shook his head.
"I don't know what to do, Sister Banqin prepared it." He said, clapping his hands and saluting everyone, "I am no longer at home to take care of my parents and sisters." ”
This made everyone in the room laugh.
"Oops, where, where"
"Oh, Brother Jin went to the capital, it's really amazing..."
"Oh, look at Brother Jin, look at you again, it's really far away..."
"Brother Jin is out of luck"
Listening to these admirations, looking at the half-envious and half-jealous expressions of the neighbors, Brother Jin'er's parents couldn't help but straighten their backs and grin.
"This bastard boy has learned to talk like this." Chunlan also smiled, raising her hand to wipe her tears.
Sure enough, if you go out and suffer, you will be sensible.
The neighbors dispersed, the family of four sat opposite each other in the house, the son was not beaten or hungry, the family was relieved, but looking at the two empty burdens, they were distressed.
"How much did it cost?" Chunlan asked.
"I really don't know how to do it, it should be very expensive, Sister Banqin is generous in buying things, and she chooses the best one." Jin Ge'er said while drinking the tea soup made by his mother.
This was the second time she had heard the name, and Chunlan hesitated.
"That half-celery, and stupid... Lady? She asked.
"It's not the half-celery, it's... Most of the half celery, but that half celery is also with the lady, and she is the one who came back this time. Jin Ge'er said.
Chunlan was confused, which one is that?
"There are three Banqin sisters, most of the Banqin sisters are the most powerful to stay in the capital, and the second Banqin sister has followed others, the original Banqin is still half Qin..." Anyway, you don't recognize my sister, so don't care which one is which. ”
Chunlan sighed, that's the same, anyway, they're all maidservants, as long as the lady doesn't do this and that.
"That's the money given by the Zhou family, right?" She asked.
"Our lady has her own money, so it's not rare for the Zhou family." Jin Ge'er said proudly.
Is the lady rich?
Parents and Chunlan glanced at each other.
"Where did that fool get the money?" They asked in unison.
"My lady is not a fool." Jin Ge'er said unhappily, with a bit of solemnity, "Don't say that again." What we encountered in the capital. You can't think of it. If the lady had been a fool, I wouldn't have come back like this today. ”
The three people in the room were even more surprised.
"What's going on?" They asked.
In the low room, the young man sitting cross-legged on the shabby mat looked solemn, and his eyes looked out of the door, as if he was reminiscing.
There was silence in the room, and strangely enough, in this silence, Chunlan and her parents suddenly felt coerced, which made them dare not ask again, although the objects they wanted to ask were their son and brother, who were all too familiar.
The young man in front of him has only been gone for more than a year. It really doesn't seem to be the same.
"You don't need to ask about anything, Sister Banqin has told me not to talk about these things." Jin Ge'er smiled and said, "We follow the lady, just do more things and talk less." ”
As he spoke, he took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and pushed it in front of the second elder.
"I didn't buy any gifts for my father and sister, this is the monthly money that Sister Banqin helped me save, you can take it." He said.
Jin Ge'er's parents saw this kind of thing for the first time, and they were a little puzzled, Chunlan followed the fourth son to have some knowledge, and knew that this was a flying money coupon.
"There can be a few dollars. I also made this and gave some to people for nothing. She said. He reached out and took it, and gasped when he saw the amount on it.
"A thousand kans!"
Brother Jin's parents were also frightened by this amount.
Their monthly money is only 50 Wen, and now it has risen to 720 Wen in Jiangzhou, how many Wen is 1,000 yuan?
The old couple's heads were swollen, and their ears were buzzing, and they couldn't figure it out.
"How can there be so many?" Chunlan's hands trembled and she couldn't hold the flying money coupon, and asked in a trembling voice.
Jin Ge'er grinned.
"Sister Banqin said that my monthly money is the same as that of Master Longtu." He laughed.
Longtu Bachelor?
I don't know exactly what it is, but it sounds like a powerful official.
A small servant's monthly money is the same as that of a court official? This, this is no joke!
"Sister Banqin said, we have fewer people, so we have more, and I said that I am far away from home, and now I have learned to drive a car, and I have to take care of the hospital, as well as chopping wood and sprinkling sweeping, all of which I do, so one person can use it for several people, so I should give more." Jin Ge'er grinned, touching his head with a little smugness.
So much he could do.
It's Sister Banqin again.
"Is it Sister Banqin who is in charge or is the lady in charge?" Chunlan couldn't help but ask.
"The lady is in charge, but the lady never pays attention to these little things, and Sister Banqin can make her own decisions." Jin Ge'er waved his hand and said casually.
These little things?
Is this money a trivial matter? So what is a big deal?
"yes, that's a trifle." Jin Ge'er said, while picking up the tea soup and continuing to drink.
Killing those who want to bully them is a big thing for the lady to do.
Whether it was the hectic situation on Mrs. Cheng's side, or the surprise on Brother Jin'er's side, it didn't affect Cheng Jianniang.
She won't know the way, and she won't pay attention to it if she knows the way.
Cheng Jianniang rested after washing in Cheng Qiniang's room arranged by Mrs. Cheng, and when she woke up, she saw Banqin sitting on the mat with her head down and folding the changed clothes, and the afterglow of the sunset shone indoors, quiet and peaceful.
There was the sound of footsteps and whispering outside the door, followed by someone peeking through the door.
Banqin heard the rush and gently got up and walked out, waving at the man.
"My lady hasn't woken up yet." She whispered.
Cheng Qiniang listened to her words, looked inside, and looked at Cheng Jianniang, who was lying sideways on the couch.
The big black and dark eyes did not blink.
Not awake yet? Is this sleeping with your eyes open?
I even slept with my eyes open! It's scared to death!
Cheng Qiniang screamed and hid back, her scream made Cheng Liuniang and the others who were following her also scream in fright, and the corners of her skirts collided and fell.
The maid who followed didn't know either, so she was so frightened that she shouted and hurriedly went to help.
The courtyard here was also in chaos.
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One more, but I still want to ask for a guarantee, (*^__^*) hee-hee......
It's still a bit of a verbose daily life.,Anyway, this article has always been like this.,It's better to save the article.,The old rule.,It's better to read it once every ten days.。
I can't stand you anymore. (To be continued......)