Chapter 36: Grudges

“… Careful? You still just said that you want to kiss her again, right? ”

"Sister-in-law Mingjian, that's exactly what we mean."

The voice fell, and there was a crisp sound of the tea bowl falling to the ground.

The servants and girls in Mrs. Cheng's courtyard rushed out, and soon only their personal servants were left in the courtyard, guarding the door and standing with their heads held their breath and silenced.

Looking at the tea bowl that had fallen on the mat, there was silence in the room.

"The marriage has been decided, how can you not believe in your words." Master Cheng said in a deep voice.

"In fact, as long as the sedan chair has not entered the door, this family matter is not settled." Second Mrs. Cheng said, looking at Master Cheng and smiling, "Big brother, you also want our Jiao Niang to marry a good family, right?" ”

"A promise, why is it not decided? If you have a good person, you have to regret it, what kind of way is this? Master Cheng said, looking at Second Master Cheng with a little displeasure, "Erlang, is this what you mean?" ”

Second Master Cheng lowered his gaze.

"It's still important to be cautious about marriage," he said.

Before the words fell, Master Cheng slapped the table next to him, obviously extremely angry, and the black lacquered rosewood fell to the ground and made a muffled sound.

Everyone in the room shuddered with fear.

"Words must be believed, deeds must be fruitful, and you are a villain!" Master Cheng raised his eyebrows and shouted, "Cheng Dong, you know what you're doing!" ”

This is about the first time that the second master Cheng has seen his eldest brother so angry, and he can't help but panic, and his first reaction is to admit his mistake with a courtesy, and the second lady Cheng stretched out her hand to stop him.

"Big brother, Erlang, he naturally knows what he's doing." She said, weeping. "It's not out there. It's a family affair. He is for his daughter, for his children, isn't it human nature? ”

Second Master Cheng sat up straight, and then leaned over to salute.

"Yes, big brother, I have to do this for the sake of Jiao Niang." He said.

Mrs. Cheng smiled when she heard this.

"For his daughter?" She said, smiling, as if she had heard a funny joke. With an annoyance that could no longer be hidden, "If you have to wait until today for the sake of his daughter?" For what, you know it in your own heart, and it is clear in the hearts of others. ”

"Sister-in-law, what do you mean by this, you have to make it clear." Second Mrs. Cheng suddenly burst into tears and said, "I can't afford to be a stepmother!" ”

While reaching out and pulling Cheng Er's sleeve.

"Erlang, I can't take care of Jiao Niang's family affairs, I'm an outsider. Where is there a place for me to speak. ”

"How there is no place for you to speak, you are her stepmother. It's the mother. Second Master Cheng sat up straight and said, "Big brother, what's wrong with me marrying a good family for my mother?" ”

"Erlang, what do you mean that you want Jiao Niang to marry a good family? Isn't my Wang family a good family? Mrs. Cheng said with a pale face.

"Compared with the Qin family in Shuzhou, it is naturally not counted." Second Mrs. Cheng snorted, slowly wiping her tears with a handkerchief.

I see! It turned out that I didn't go out yesterday to buy any clothes and materials, but to sell my daughter!

Mrs. Cheng sneered and looked at Mrs. Cheng Er.

"Although our Wang family is not as good as the Qin family, it is not something to be bullied." She said, "The marriage contract has been completed, I want to see if the Qin family dares to bear the reputation of this bad person's marriage!" ”

Master Cheng's face was also gloomy, he glanced at Second Mrs. Cheng and looked at Second Master Cheng.

"Did you lose your mind just by seeing the word Qin family? You also know that the Qin family is a good family, how can such a good family marry us? Don't you just want to think about what's wrong with this? He exclaimed, "After listening to a few words of slander from a woman, do you panic and make such frivolous things?" ”

Second Master Cheng looked slightly hesitant.

yes, there's nothing wrong with that.

"Big brother, do you think too..."He nodded and said hurriedly, before the words came out, the second lady Cheng suddenly cried, covered her face and fell to the ground.

"I can't live anymore, I'm a woman's slander, Erlang, you divorced me, divorced me." She cried, beating her chest.

This kind of falling to the ground and crying, it was the first time that the three members of the Cheng family had seen them so big, and they were all stunned and at a loss for a while.

"You, what are you doing here?" Mrs. Cheng shouted.

"What a system! What a system! Master Cheng's face turned green, and he threw his sleeves and shouted, "You are also from a family of poets and scholars, look at what you look like!" ”

Second Mrs. Cheng just rolled on the ground and cried.

"I've slandered a woman like a compliment, how can I talk about poetry and books, Erlang, you divorced me, divorced me, I have no face here." She cried, "I, I don't have the face to go back, I"

She cried and propped herself up, looking left and right.

"I'm dead, the province has defiled your Cheng family."

He shouted, got up and slammed into the doorpost.

Mrs. Cheng hugged her eyes quickly, and her heart was anxious, angry and ashamed.

"What are you crazy about!" She shouted, raised her hand and slapped Mrs. Cheng.

The crisp sound of the slap silenced the room.

Second Mrs. Cheng, who had her clothes disrupted and her sideburns, covered her face and looked at Mrs. Cheng in disbelief.

Mrs. Cheng also looked stunned and looked at her hands.

She has been happily slapping this kind of slap countless times in her dreams, and this time it really came true....

"You, what have you become!" She came back to her senses and said strongly.

If you ruin this fool's marriage, you will ruin their future path, and you will ruin Qi Niang's future marriage, if someone wants to ruin Qi Niang's marriage, I must fight with her!

It's this woman who has always pretended to be a gentle and dignified eldest sister, enjoying the benefits that should belong to their second room, and accepting her own respect with peace of mind, and all she gets is a little fur charity that she gives when she is in a good mood, and she has to make flattered thanks, otherwise she will become ignorant and unorthodox!

She has to live a life like this! Vassal forever for life!

Why! Why!

"Wang Shi Niang, what kind of thing do you dare to beat me!"

Second Mrs. Cheng raised her hand and hit it hard.

Mrs. Cheng was busy dodging with her head sideways and was hit in the sideburns. Zhu Hai is scattered.

Screams erupted in the room. The maid girl outside the door could no longer ignore it. rushed in, shouting and persuading the panicked to separate the two ladies who were fighting together.

This kind of scene made the two men of the Cheng family look stupid, they were squeezed and staggered in the chaos, they were kicked over, the tea bowl was trampled over, and the house was full of crying, shouting and screaming.

How did it suddenly become like this? What the hell is going on?

In Mrs. Cheng's courtyard, Fu Niangzi came out of the house and saw several servant women whispering in front of the courtyard gate, she coughed heavily, and watched several servant women stand away in fright.

"What the hell are you doing?" Fu Niangzi said in a low voice with a heavy face.

Several of the servants glanced at each other. Looks uneasy.

"Pay the lady." One finally stood up and said, wanting to stop talking.

"Say." Fu Niangzi frowned and said.

"The eldest lady and the second lady seem to have fought...," the woman whispered.

Fighting?

Fu Niangzi glared with a look of astonishment.

Are you kidding?

"Really, there's a lot of commotion over there, do you want to tell the old lady?" The woman said.

Before Fu Niangzi could speak, someone behind her spoke.

"Tell me what?"

The women looked over in alarm, and saw an old woman standing out from under the porch, holding a bowl in her hand.

She was in her sixties, with white hair, a crow-green shirt, a thin face, and a gloomy expression. While looking at the people in the courtyard, he raised his hand and drank a mouthful of soup in the bowl.

Fu Niangzi and the others hurriedly took a few steps forward.

"No," Fu Niangzi said with her mouth open. Before he spit out a word, he was interrupted by Mrs. Cheng.

"Say!" Old Madam Cheng raised her eyebrows and shouted angrily.

"The eldest lady and the second lady have a fight." Fu Niangzi opened her mouth and said without hesitation.

Old Madam Cheng's eyes widened.

"Whath...", she shouted, and before she could spit out a word, she stopped, the soup bowl in her hand snapped to the ground, her hands held her neck, her eyes exploded, and she opened her mouth to make an ah-ah sound, and the person seemed to fall backwards.

"Old lady!"

"Come on! Call the doctor! ”

"Old lady, old lady!"

There was a bang in the yard.

When the Cheng family, which has always been dignified and quiet, was in chaos, Nancheng, who had always been chaotic and noisy, was unprecedentedly quiet.

Looking at the little lady sitting down in front of a simple straw hut, the old man respectfully stepped forward to salute.

"Lady, I'm really sorry, we still haven't found it." He said, with a little unease.

"He didn't come back?" Cheng Jianniang asked.

The old man nodded.

"We've all looked for it on the street." "I don't know where I'm hiding, and I can't find anyone." ”

"There have been before, he disappeared for days and then came back." Someone next to him said.

Cheng Jianniang looked over.

"yes, yes, little liar... Cheng Ping did this before, he hid when he got into trouble, and came back after a while. Someone else nodded as well.

"Won't he not come back?" Cheng Jianniang asked, "Didn't you say that he wasn't originally from the Cheng family?" ”

"It's really impossible to say if he is the Cheng family, this kid came a year ago, saying that his father is still a grandfather, it is our Jiangzhou Cheng family, who went outside to ask for a life and settle down, but he was concerned about his former residence, so this Cheng Ping came here, he told Master Cheng like this, and I don't know what evidence the Lord believed, and left him here." The old man said.

"Where did he come from?" Cheng Jianniang asked.

For this person with the surname from other places, the people of Nancheng obviously don't care much, and everyone doesn't care about the origin of this Cheng Ping, but after the shock of yesterday's reward, the old man obviously inquired clearly yesterday.

"Shuzhou." He said without hesitation.

Cheng Jianniang sat still and did not speak again.

She didn't speak, and no one dared to speak anymore, and there was silence all around.

"I see."

It seems that after a long time, it seems to be inhaled, Cheng Jianniang said.

Everyone present breathed a sigh of relief and breathed smoothly.

"That," the old man asked tentatively.

"Then keep looking and wait slowly." Cheng Jianniang took his words and said.

When Steward Cao heard this, he immediately stepped forward and handed over another bag of money.

"It's hard work." He said.

Again, he gave money again, but the old man trembled and didn't dare to take it.

"Don't dare, don't dare." He said again and again, "I'll give money when I find my wife." ”

Steward Cao glanced at Cheng Jianniang, and saw that she had no other instructions, so he stopped forcing it and put it away as she said.

"Okay, I'll reward you when you have the news." He said.

The old man thanked him again and again, but the person in front of him did not get up and leave, and Cheng Jianniang still sat upright.

"Lady, look at you," the old man said with some hesitation.

"I want to sit here." Cheng Jianniang raised her head to look at him and said, "Don't bother you, right?" ”

The old man waved his hand hurriedly, let alone sitting, as long as you wanted, you would live without disturbing.

The people around dispersed, and Steward Cao hesitated and waved his hand to lead people back, leaving a gap for Cheng Jianniang sitting on the wooden pier in this messy, low and cramped place.

"Lady, are you alright?" Someone finally couldn't help but ask in a low voice.

Steward Cao looked at the little lady sitting still like a stone carving, her hood was put on by Banqin, the wide dark cloak hung and dragged on the ground, the sun was bright, but there seemed to be no warmth on the little lady's body.

Sitting like this, it seems that he wants to sit until the Haigu Stone is rotten and old.

It's okay? It's no wonder that it's okay!

Steward Cao shook his head, but who could figure out the deep thoughts of this eccentric little lady at the bottom of the sea.

Whatever she wants, she can do whatever she wants, Steward Cao stood up straight and looked calm. (To be continued......)