Chapter 6 Gossip
The east cross courtyard of the second room of Chengfu, next to the lotus pond, is the garden shared by the two rooms of the big house, and it is also a good place to rest in summer, and the young girls of the family live nearby.
Early in the morning, the servants came and went, but unlike in the old days, everyone stopped to look at a house and talk twice.
In the middle of last night, this room was hastily cleaned up, and a woman lived in it, who was said to be the eldest daughter of their family.
"We all have to go back to the back, Qi Niang will be called Ban Niang in the future." Twelve-year-old Cheng Liuniang said with a smile.
Hearing her words, the other two young girls who were eating in the room put down their chopsticks and lowered their heads and laughed.
The nurse panicked and hurried over.
"Sixth lady, don't tease your sister." She said.
Liu Niang is the concubine of the big house, not the concubine of her own family, she dare not reprimand.
Cheng Qiniang's annoyance accumulated overnight was stirred up by this sentence, threw chopsticks, and ran out crying.
The nurse hurriedly chased after him.
Seeing that Cheng Qiniang was crying, Cheng Liuniang stuck out her tongue and walked away.
The two remaining girls in the room looked at each other.
"Do you remember that idiot?" Cheng Siniang asked.
"We were only two years old when she left home, how can we remember?" Cheng Wuniang said, slowly picking up the chopsticks again to eat, "Besides, what is there to remember for fools, it's all like this." ”
As she spoke, she made a mischievous grimace with her tongue stuck out and rolled her eyes.
Cheng Siniang was amused by her.
"From then on, I will be Cheng Wuniang." She said, stretching out her hand and pointing at Cheng Wuniang.
It was funny, and the two sisters looked at each other and giggled together.
Mrs. Cheng, who barely closed her eyes all night, didn't even eat and wanted to sleep a little longer, but her daughter had to get up crying.
"No one doesn't let you be a Qi Niang, you are a Qi Niang, and you will always be a Qi Niang." She said as she reached out and pinched her head.
Cheng Qiniang grabbed her mother's sleeve, her big eyes were full of tears, and she was a little relieved when she got her mother's assurance.
"Then, I don't want to have a stupid sister, others will laugh at me." She began to writ and shout again.
If you can, presumably the Cheng family has such thoughts, but what can you do.
This fool threw the Taoist temple for seven or eight years, but he didn't die and came back.
Second Mrs. Cheng only felt a splitting headache.
"Okay, Qi Niang, what are you arguing about, look at you, do you have a beautiful look? If you do this again, you will be laughed at by the whole city like your stupid sister! She pulled down her face and shouted.
This is Cheng Qiniang's biggest nightmare, she looked at her mother and cried loudly.
The second room of the Cheng family was in a mess early in the morning.
When the news reached the Cheng family's big house, Master Cheng and his wife, who had almost never slept all night, glanced at each other and sighed heavily.
"The second brother is a man's house, and the younger brother and sister haven't seen the child at night and don't know anything, I don't think they should ask, bring it over and I'll ask." Mrs. Cheng said.
Master Cheng nodded, a little tired.
"Has the kid eaten?" Mrs. Cheng asked the servant woman to ask.
The servant woman returned in a short time.
"I'm still asleep." She said.
Mrs. Cheng was a little stunned, and looked at the sky outside, it was bright early in summer, and the sun had risen very high at this time, and it was dazzling inside and out.
"A fool, do you expect her to be able to work and rest normally? Isn't it just eating, sleeping, and sleeping! Master Cheng said angrily, "Don't ask, just throw it like that." ”
On the first day when Cheng Jiaoniang's master and servant returned to Cheng's house, they had a good night's sleep.
Banqin returned home and settled down, and the fear of a few months was completely gone, and he slept very steadily.
Cheng Jianniang couldn't sleep at the beginning of the night when she woke up a few months ago, and now she sleeps better and better, especially last night, she didn't even have a dream, but this is the reason why she got home and was at peace.
In short, the master and servant were in a good mood, so when they got up and freshened up, they didn't feel disgusted when they saw the cold food.
"The meal at home is early, you newcomers don't know the way, but it's not good to turn on again when the stove is stopped, and there is no rule for a small kitchen to be opened separately by a large family." A servant woman outside the corridor explained to Banqin with a smile, while looking at the sky, "Or just wait, this lunch is almost ready." ”
This is a sarcasm for them getting up late, and Banqin ignored it.
"It's okay, I'll just heat it myself." She said, smiling at the servant.
Hot on your own? The servant woman was stunned, and sure enough, when she saw that the girl had not gone in, she had set up two small stoves in the hall, and opened a food box, in which the utensils such as spatulas, bowls, chopsticks and other utensils were complete, not only complete, but also very exquisite, and she had never seen several things.
A fool with such a delicate use?
The servant woman looked a little dumbfounded, and a servant woman behind her stretched out her hand and stabbed her.
"What are people?" The servant woman asked in a low voice with some curiosity, and quietly glanced into the hall.
The former servant shook her head.
"I haven't come out, I haven't gone in, the window is open, you look quietly." She chuckled.
The two servants chuckled together.
Seeing that Banqin had heated the food here, he put it in the food box one by one and went to the bedroom, and the two servants didn't follow up to see it.
"When I was a child, I still remember that I couldn't eat, and I didn't know how to pee, and in winter, my clothes couldn't be washed, and my body was smelly all day long.
On the other side, the servants who sprinkled the sweep also gathered together to laugh and laugh, and they all burst into laughter when they said this.
"It's really hard to be Mrs. Xian, such a child really shouldn't have been kept in the first place."
"It's not that the old lady let her drown, but the lady didn't let her, she cried and moved to her in-laws' house, and only let the old lady lie down angrily for three days, discouraged, and didn't care about the second room."
"Don't listen to the old man's words and suffer in front of me, the first lady dragged down for this fool, the second master didn't like it, and didn't want to have a child anymore, but he dragged his body down, and went early, not to throw this child to suffer a crime, but it was better to be happy at the beginning, and now he has been reincarnated and lived a good life."
"Look at what you said, if it weren't for the fact that the first lady was gone, how could there be a new lady now."
This caused another burst of laughter, and the conversation shifted to the new lady.
"Do you think the first lady or the current lady is better?"
Comparing with the dead is the most taboo thing for Mrs. Cheng, for a stepfamily, this is inevitable, from the time she discussed with the Cheng family in the boudoir, she knew this.
Which girl doesn't want to marry a husband and wife, you only have me and I only have you, but there is always a little helplessness in life, because her father was implicated in family affairs back then, she became an old girl and had to marry someone to do the continuation.
Fortunately, her husband is young and handsome, her career is smooth, her concubine is friendly, and her mother-in-law is dedicated to reciting Buddhism.
I didn't expect these things to come out when the days were getting better and better, and those things that were pressed in my heart and didn't want to think about them suddenly rushed to churn up.
When she dies in the future, she and her husband will not be able to sleep together and be buried, and there will be a coffin in between, and she can only be placed in the lower position, even if she has been with her husband for decades, and has children and passed on the family lineage, she is not as good as the woman who has lived for only a few years and has no importance at home, just because she is the first to enter the door before her, just because she is her husband's wife.
Second Mrs. Cheng trembled, she was crying by her daughter all morning, and her ears were still buzzing back to her daughter's words, I don't want a stupid sister.
Fool, it's all the trouble caused by this fool, why didn't she die in Bingzhou and come back!