Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Night
The night wind blew, and the maidservant hurried forward and closed the window.
"Ma'am, the bed is made." The servant woman came out from inside and said, "The bedding of the seven ladies has been brought. ”
Second Mrs. Cheng nodded.
"Only once." She said to Cheng Qiniang on the side.
Cheng Qiniang, who had already washed and only wore underwear and loose hair, grinned.
"Then my mother will not be allowed to beat me because of others in the future." She said.
Second Mrs. Cheng glanced at her with disgust.
The door opened, and two servants came in with food boxes.
"Seven Niangzi, let's have supper." They laughed.
The fragrance spreads in the room.
"Mother, you still love me the most, don't you?"
Cheng Qiniang, who was holding a soup spoon and preparing to eat supper, raised her head again and asked.
Mrs. Cheng, who was leaning on a few under the lamp, smiled, reached out and scraped her nose.
"Not yet." She laughed, "It always has been, it always has been." ”
Cheng Qiniang snorted with red eyes and smiled, bowed her head and ate in a big gulp.
"Qi Niang, you don't understand, my mother is doing this for you." Second Mrs. Cheng said again, sighing.
"For my sake, so go and be nice to others?" Cheng Qiniang was unhappy again, and pouted, "Qi Niang doesn't understand." ”
"You're so stupid." Second Mrs. Cheng said, reaching out to poke her forehead, "Is that good?" Eat and drink well, live well, our housekeeper dogs are also treated like this, good for housekeepers, is to let them take good care of the house, I scold you for the dog, do you want the dog not to want your daughter? ”
Cheng Qiniang sighed, nodded, and understood it when she said this.
"That. You're good to that idiot. Is it to let her look after the house? We've got enough dogs...," she pouted.
Second Mrs. Cheng was amused. Reaching out and poking her daughter's head again.
"You little fool." She laughed.
Cheng Qiniang pouted and didn't speak, and picked up the bowl to eat.
"You're only nine years old, and you don't understand a lot of things." Second Mrs. Cheng looked at her daughter, who was becoming more and more pink under the lamp, and said with a loving smile, "Mother, you must tell me a good family, it is difficult to say a good family now." ”
"Then I will guard my mother for the rest of my life." Cheng Qiniang said vaguely with rice in her mouth.
"Mother can't afford to lose that person." Second Mrs. Cheng smiled and continued. "You listen to your mother, be kind to your stupid sister, coax her, make her happy, and make her feel that you are the best sister in the world, and we are the best people in the world to her."
"For what?" Cheng Qiniang asked, a little unhappy.
"Do you want to dress better, eat well, and use better than Liuniang?" Second Lady Cheng asked with a smile.
Of course!
Cheng Qiniang nodded.
"Then listen to your mother and coax you stupid sister." Second Mrs. Cheng said. Seeing Cheng Qiniang pouting again, she smiled. "Our smart and beautiful Qi Niang, can't you coax a fool to like you?"
How so?
Everyone has to like Qi Niang's!
Cheng Qiniang put down the bowl and sat up straight.
"Eat it, our Qi Niang is the best." Second Mrs. Cheng smiled, reached out and scraped her nose.
"Come, get up and eat."
On the other side, the mother, Mrs. Wang, also watched as the servant woman brought the tray.
Wang Qilang was wearing a homely underwear, sitting cross-legged in front of several cases, and couldn't wait to pick up the dishes and chopsticks.
"Slow down." Mrs. Wang said, laughing and distressed, "How many meals haven't you eaten?" ”
Wang Qilang devoured a few words and slurred.
"How many meals?" Mrs. Wang asked without hearing clearly.
Wang Qilang swallowed a few bites, stretched his neck, the beautiful maid on the side stretched out her hand to pat her with a distressed face, and the beautiful maid on the other side personally held the spoon to feed the soup.
"I don't know how to do it, it seems that I haven't eaten enough for a long time..."Wang Qilang said.
Mrs. Wang wiped away her tears again when she heard this.
"You stupid boy." She said, a little puzzled, "I think that Cheng family lady is very good, did you find anything wrong with her on the way?" ”
Hearing this, Wang Qilang, who was eating, stopped.
What's wrong with finding that Cheng family lady on the way?
The hula-la night wind knocked on the doors and windows, Wang Qilang shivered, looked at the door, the lights were swaying, and the night was dark.
"Come here!"
A voice exploded in his ears, and he saw the woman striding outside the door, holding a bow and arrow aimed at herself.
"Disobedient!"
Long arrows flew in a cold light...
Wang Qilang screamed, threw the dishes and chopsticks in his hand, and fell down with his head in his hands.
The room was in chaos.
"What you said is true?" After listening to the old servant's story, Master Wang looked stunned, and asked with a look of disbelief, "That fool of the Cheng family is a miracle doctor?" Back? ”
The old servant nodded.
"Eight, nine, ten, is her." He said, "Although the person didn't say that the divine doctor's surname was Cheng when I inquired about the news, the Zhou family has been silent in the capital for decades, and it is impossible for a divine doctor to suddenly appear, and the time when the divine doctor appeared was after the Zhou family picked up Cheng Niangzi." ”
Master Wang smiled a little, and stretched out his hand to twist his beard.
"This fool of the Cheng family is a miracle doctor?" "How is that possible?" he said. She's a fool, huh? ”
The old servant shook his head.
"Master, whether she is a miracle doctor or not, I haven't seen it with my own eyes, I just speculate, but what I have seen with my own eyes is certain, she is by no means a fool." He said solemnly, "No fool can escort the Zhou family so respectfully, no fool can turn his hands over the clouds and rain, no fool can predict in advance that there will be danger at night, and no fool can decisively raise his hand to shoot arrows and kill people in a fire at night." ”
Master Wang's expression also became solemn.
Yes, one thing can be a coincidence, two things can be luck, and three things can only be strength.
The respectful Zhou family, the crying Master Zhou, the lantern festival on the heavenly street, the city gate of the Qin family in the princess's mansion, everything along the way is only the horse's head, the neatness of turning danger into relief, and the ruthlessness of shooting in the dark....
"This Cheng lady is indeed extraordinary." He nodded and said, "You will send someone to the capital again, and inquire carefully..."
At this he shook his head again.
"Nope. No need to ask. What is there to inquire about. Master Wang smiled. nodded, "Wouldn't it be better for the family to inquire after getting married?" ”
A fool can their Wang family still marry without asking, let alone a person worthy of marrying.
The old servant nodded with a sigh of relief, this was exactly what he wanted, but he suddenly became worried when he thought of something.
"It's just that, sir, little boy he doesn't want to," he said.
"Don't want to? Why don't you want to? Master Wang asked with a glare.
"Why don't you want to? Look at what Seventeen was scared of! ”
Footsteps came from outside the door, accompanied by the sound of Mrs. Wang's words.
The door opened, and Mrs. Wang came in with a tired face.
The old servant leaned over and kowtowed.
"I'll talk to my sister tomorrow. This family business is over, but I will not embarrass my sister, I will definitely find a suitable candidate for her. Mrs. Wang said.
"Nope." Master Wang flatly refused.
Mrs. Wang was stunned.
When he proposed to marry the fool of the Cheng family to Seventeen, her husband also flatly refused, but that refusal was the reaction of a normal parent.
But now that he says he won't marry, why is he flatly refusing, shouldn't he breathe a sigh of relief and say something like saying that he was messing around a long time ago?
Or maybe I'm afraid that Mrs. Cheng will be embarrassed, in the end, it is a housewife.
"I won't embarrass my sister, I will definitely arrange things properly, then the Cheng family and the Zhou family are not dowry. I'll find another family, and I don't need a dowry. Mrs. Wang said with a smile.
"The dowry is a big deal. Talent is important. Master Wang said.
Madame Wang frowned.
"Listen to me, this Cheng Niang is not ordinary." Master Wang said, while roughly explaining what the old servant said.
Mrs. Wang was also dumbfounded.
"You're kidding, aren't you?" She said.
"Then you think a joke can scare Seventeen like this?" Master Wang said.
Mrs. Wang stopped talking.
"That woman kills someone." She said urgently.
"What's wrong with the killing? Are you waiting to be killed? "Master Wang said, their Wang family made a fortune as a maritime merchant, and which boat was not stained with blood.
"Anyway, now that Seventeen is scared like this, what should I do?" Mrs. Wang spread her hands and said.
"It's just young, let him go out to practice for two years, it's not a problem, it's too late to be happy." Master Wang said.
Madame Wang looked hesitant.
"Our family doesn't expect Seventeen to inherit the family business," she said.
"It's not Seventeen's thing now, it's this man." Master Wang said, "Who doesn't want such a person? Didn't you listen to Gu Si? Even the Qin family of the princess's mansion complimented it. ”
"Then I didn't see the Qin family of the princess's mansion." Mrs. Wang snorted.
"Okay, don't talk about it, this matter is settled." Master Wang said, and looked at Mrs. Wang again, "You have also been running for a day, go and rest, and talk about it tomorrow." ”
The old servant hurriedly bowed to leave, and Mrs. Wang reached out and pressed her forehead, and wanted to wash up with a tired body, but before she could go in, she heard a chaos outside.
"Madam, lord, madam, no, the seventeenth prince hanged..."
The maid rushed in crying and shouting.
Mrs. Wang didn't come up in one breath and fell down holding her chest.
"My son..."
The hustle and bustle overturned the Wang family in the night.
The night was dark, the wind was beating on the window, and Second Mrs. Cheng pulled her hand out from under Cheng Qiniang's neck, rubbed her somewhat sore arm and got up.
The servant woman on night heard the sound and came in and asked carefully.
"Madame wants water?"
Cheng Qiniang, who was lying on the couch, muttered twice, reached out and lifted the quilt and turned over.
Second Mrs. Cheng hurriedly shook her head at the servant, waved her hand, and reached out to pat Cheng Qiniang.
Cheng Qiniang gradually fell asleep peacefully.
"This kid, come to me to sleep and choose a seat, sleep so unsteadily." Second Mrs. Cheng laughed in a low voice.
"Madame, you're tired." The servant woman chuckled under her breath.
"What is the burden, how can a mother in this world feel that it is burdened for the child." Mrs. Cheng said with a smile and leaned down.
The servant woman extinguished another lamp and gently retreated, looked back and saw that Second Mrs. Cheng had tucked the corner of the quilt for Cheng Qiniang, and the curtain that had been lowered blocked the view.
She stood in the outer hall and did not lie down immediately, but stood a little dazed.
"What's wrong? Still not sleeping? Another servant woman on night duty asked in a low voice.
Then the woman sat down and sighed.
"I think, it's good to have a mother." She said.
The servant woman was stunned by her.
"It's not nonsense." She chuckled.
The servant woman smiled too, and lay down in the dark night outside the window.
Banqin opened her eyes, dizzy, a little stunned for a while, and it took a while to realize where she was, she got up with her clothes on, and tiptoed into the bedroom.
The woman on the couch covered with a brocade quilt slept peacefully, and the quilt was as smooth as if it had just been covered, as if she hadn't even turned over for so long.
Banqin put down the curtain and retreated.
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Xie Lu Xie Shuyou will give a reward, I owe it first, the two more have been the limit recently, wait for me to take it slowly.
Two shifts today. (To be continued......)