Chapter 31: Speaking
As soon as these words came out, there was no reaction that Cheng Qiniang expected, and the three sisters looked at her a little dazed.
Is this Cheng Qiniang's name for someone he doesn't like?
Are they sisters in the clan or little ladies who make friends?
"Which fool?" Cheng Wuniang asked.
"Which one else?" Cheng Qiniang shouted unhappily, "Isn't there a fool at home?" ”
Pouted.
"Are you also stupid, you don't understand this......"
The three of them suddenly realized.
"Oh, that, your eldest sister!" Cheng Liuniang nodded and said.
Cheng Qiniang jumped up suddenly.
"That's, that's your sister!" She pouted and shouted, "Aunt said she was raising her!" If anything, it's the closest to you! ”
It's really a child, is this the time to dwell on the conversation?
Cheng Liuniang snorted and ignored it.
"How could she get married?" She said, "How can someone marry a fool?" ”
Cheng Qiniang sat down.
"Really, I just heard from my father and mother." She said, tilting her head and recalling, "Since the Zhou family is making a fuss about Gengti and marrying a fool, then let's find someone to let her marry." ”
Zhou family.
Hearing this, Cheng Liuniang and the others understood.
The people of the Zhou family have been coming to the house for several days, and it is inconvenient for them to be their daughter's family to listen to it in person, but the family is only so big, and they can't hide any news, and soon the words came from their respective maidservants.
The Zhou family came to ask for the fool's Geng post and take away his mother's dowry by the way.
How could the Cheng family agree to this kind of thing, and refused without hesitation, the two sides have been arguing for several days. Master Cheng Er, who was outside, also took leave and was called back to theorize.
"The Zhou family doesn't want that fool to marry. It's just a dowry. Cheng Liuniang said. With a little understanding, "The Zhou family, there are no good people." ”
There is no good person in the Zhou family, otherwise they would not have given birth to a fool, this is the unanimous determination of the Cheng family, just as the Zhou family decided that there was no good person in the Cheng family, so they let their daughter give birth to a fool.
This philosophy has been remembered by children from an early age, and there is no doubt about it.
"That is, who would marry a fool." Cheng Qiniang nodded and said. With a look of fear and disgust.
"Too, idiot?" Cheng Wuniang answered.
Cheng Qiniang chuckled.
"Wu Niang, don't make me laugh." She said with a smile, grabbing the two gold pendants stuck in her sideburns and shaking.
Cheng Wuniang covered her mouth with a fan and squinted and smiled.
"Really, what a fool got married, I think the Zhou family didn't want to raise that fool, so they found an excuse to make trouble." Cheng Liuniang said, looking at Cheng Qiniang, "Second uncle too, where can you say it according to them?" Look, the second uncle said to find someone for that fool. The Zhou family will definitely send people immediately, and so will the second aunt. I just looked at the money in my eyes, and I didn't want to think about it, what should we do when that fool comes back? ”
Cheng Siniang and Cheng Wuniang looked embarrassed, Mrs. Cheng was their mother-in-law, but Mrs. Cheng was a housewife in the house, and they really didn't know what to say as concubines, so they had to lower their heads and pretend not to hear.
Although Cheng Qiniang was small, she also understood the words, and sat up straight when she heard the words.
"My mother is not, it's my aunt who only has money in her eyes, and she only makes money from herself, so that we can be thrifty." She whispered.
"If you don't belong to your family, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are!" Cheng Liuniang also sat up straight and raised her eyebrows and said, "If you don't only have money in your eyes, how can you be so short-sighted?" ”
Cheng Qiniang was a few years younger, but she couldn't say it, and she cried angrily.
"Crybabys, if you don't make sense, you will only cry." Cheng Liuniang said, "At home, I rely on crying father, mother, and grandmother to get used to you, and when I marry someone in the future, my husband and in-laws will not get used to you!" ”
The maids and servants outside were busy coming in, coaxing and pulling.
"We don't play with her, we don't play with her." Cheng Qiniang cried and asked the maids to pull Cheng Siniang and Cheng Wuniang.
The house was a mess.
The servant woman who walked by not far away couldn't help but look over.
"Okay, why are the girls making trouble again?"
"It's not because the people of the Zhou family are here."
"What does this have to do with that?"
"Speaking of that idiot."
"Oh, yes, it's no good to have anything to do with this idiot."
There was a guest sitting in the hall of Mrs. Cheng, this was a woman about thirty years old, with a white and fat face, facing Mrs. Cheng with a somewhat humble smile, watching Mrs. Cheng comfort Cheng Qiniang, this woman also followed to comfort a few words.
"Come, Qi Niang doesn't cry." She said, "Eighth Aunt gave you this to play. ”
As she spoke, she took off a gold ring from her hand and handed it to Cheng Qiniang.
This ring has been worn for some years, a thin piece, and there is nothing peculiar, Cheng Qiniang can see it, she didn't speak, she deliberately stroked her face with her hand, exposed the red gold twisted gold bracelet on her hand, and then raised her feet and pedaled away.
The woman curled and withdrew the ring and sat down halfway next to the cushion.
"The Seventh Lady is so obedient, she won't cry if she is persuaded to do so." She said to herself.
Second Mrs. Cheng was a little impatient.
"If you have anything, just tell me." She said, stretching out her hand to press her brow, "Look at my house, it's not clean for a day." ”
The woman was urged to look more pale.
"The second brother originally followed his uncle to school, and he didn't want to get sick a few years ago, and his father didn't have a livelihood, and the fields were not well planted, so it was easy to survive the spring, and he wanted to raise the fish pond in the east of the city......" She said more and more stumbling at this point, lowering her head and her voice became smaller and smaller.
"If you want to say that this day is difficult, no one is difficult, I look good, but in fact, it is not easy, if you are not at home, you are just cold and hungry." Second Mrs. Cheng didn't wait for her to say more, and took over the words.
The woman's ashamed laughter replied.
“… Qi Niang and her brother are still young, but they have to prepare for them, and there are two daughters in the family who are also old, oh, and the big one in front, I am about to say kiss, I am a stepmother and I can't be underestimated, so I have to grit my teeth and buy it...."Second Mrs. Cheng continued.
"The big one?" The woman couldn't help but answer, with a little surprise, "Do you want to say kiss too?" ”
At the beginning, the old girl in the long house of the family, the nineteenth lady, married someone to do the continuation. There's a fool ahead. Everyone in the family knows it.
"Don't say kiss. Do you want to stay at home for the rest of your life? Second Mrs. Cheng said angrily, she was angry when she talked about this, and she was not in the mood to deal with this woman who came to fight the autumn breeze, "Eighth sister-in-law, let's go back first, and entertain another day, there are still guests at home." ”
After the eviction, the woman had to go out of the house, because it didn't matter, and the mother-in-law who saw her off was lazy and absent-minded.
Walk to the outer courtyard. faintly heard the noise of a man, and the two mothers-in-law looked at each other and smiled.
“… The eldest and second masters started to quarrel with the people of the Zhou family again... It's been arguing for so many days, and it's not over. ”
“… That fool has so many dowries, how can it be finished after speaking, if they are all taken away by the Zhou family, our Cheng family will be equivalent to being emptied by half, how can the old lady agree, it is stupid not to quarrel. ”
The woman, who had been listening to the two mothers-in-law with her ears pricked up, suddenly became clever.
Trousseau? Half of the Cheng family?
"Which one of the two mothers are talking about the Zhou family?" She couldn't help but ask.
The two mothers-in-law glanced at her with disdain, and knew that this was the poor relatives of the second lady's mother's family who came to fight the autumn breeze.
"It's our second lady's maiden family. It is also our in-laws in the second room. They said in a deliberately accentuated tone.
It is also positive that his wife is dead, even if the Peng family is alive. The Peng family is very important in terms of personal relations, but logically speaking, the orthodox in-laws of the Cheng family's second room will always be the Zhou family.
The woman didn't care about this, who did the Cheng family value, and it wasn't her who was stained, her heart jumped suddenly, repeating the words of dowry and half of the Cheng family.
"That fool is the big lady, right? Why did the Zhou family take away her dowry? She asked with a smile.
"If the eldest lady wants to get married, she naturally has to take away the dowry." The mother-in-law pouted and said, "The dowry of our eldest lady is ......."
The mother-in-law next to her coughed and interrupted the mother-in-law's words.
"It's not too early, you go, we're still busy." The woman said, pulling the other one and walking away.
The woman watched with some regret as the two men walked away, and stood stunned at the door for a moment.
That stupid boy in the first place, really has so much dowry?
On the other side, in the outer house, Cheng Shilang put down the scroll in the study.
Chunlan, a girl standing quietly on the side, hurriedly went over to ask.
"Quarreling again?" Cheng Shilang listened attentively.
"Did you make the boy read?" Chunlan asked with concern.
Cheng Shilang shook his head with a smile.
"If you have the heart to study, you won't be disturbed by foreign objects." He said, "I'm tired of reading, so take a break." ”
Chunlan smiled with a sigh of relief.
"Then I'll serve tea." She said happily, "I finally bought the vegetarian tea of Xuanmiaoguan, and my son will try it." ”
Cheng Shilang got up and walked to the other side of the case, looking at the paper covered by plain yarn on the table.
"The dim sum of Xuan Miaoguan is really popular." He sighed casually.
"No matter how popular it is, you can still buy it, but it's just a coincidence, every time we go to buy it, we catch up with it." Chunlan said, coming over with a tray and looking at Cheng Shilang looking at a few cases, "Childe, do you want to paint?" ”
"I'm still a few strokes away." Cheng Shilang said, taking away a smile of relief.
"Childe's painting has been painted for a long time, and it's finally good, can the maid take a look?" Chunlan asked with a smile as she walked over a few steps.
"No, you can't see anything halfway through the painting, but it's wonderful to look at it when it's done." Cheng Shilang said with a smile.
While the master and servant were talking, a girl came in and gave a salute.
"Fourth son, the eldest lady invites you over." She said.
Cheng Shilang just came out of the hall here, and Chunlan was packing up the refreshments when someone lifted the curtain and came in.
"Huh? Shiro isn't there? ”
Chunlan turned around and saw a young man in a blue wide-sleeved straight-robed brocade robe, about the same age as Cheng Shilang, who looked like he had clear eyebrows, but his eyebrows were raised, his cheeks were pointed and his ears were open, and he looked a little light.
Seeing him come in, Chunlan couldn't help but subconsciously hide back, but she was still knocked on her face by the young man with a fan.
"Why is the little beauty left in the room?" He grinned.
Chunlan blushed with a little shame.
"Seventeen sons." She avoided it again by giving a salute, "Childe just went to the eldest lady." ”
This is Mrs. Cheng's maiden nephew, who recently borrowed from Cheng's house to study, saying that he was borrowing, but in fact, he just caused trouble at home to avoid it.
"Oh, then I'll wait for him to come back." The seventeenth prince said, walked in, raised his eyebrows and looked at Chunlan, "Chunlan, pour a bowl of good tea." ”
Chunlai's eyebrows and eyes were worried, but he couldn't, so he had to pour tea, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw the seventeenth prince turning around in the east of the house.
"Seventeen sons, please." She said.
The seventeenth prince took it with one hand, and although Chunlan hid quickly, she was still pinched heavily, and the angry Chunlan had tears in her eyes.
The seventeenth prince was still walking around the room with tea, and suddenly stopped in front of the covered cases.
"What is this?" He asked, holding out his hand.
"Seventeen sons, don't move, my son-in-law's painting hasn't been finished yet, don't let it move." Chunlan hurriedly shouted, not afraid of being stopped by Lightweight.
But it was still a step too late, and the seventeenth prince reached out and lifted the cover.
"What's the good stuff that won't be moved?" He sneered.
The hood was lifted, and a painting appeared in front of several cases.
The seventeenth prince and Chunlan, who was so anxious to stand over, were stunned when they saw a beautiful woman suddenly appear in front of them, lifting the curtain from a car and looking over.
The smoke eyebrows are in the sideburns, the black hair hangs down, the face is bright, there is no wave, there is no movement, and it is like a wood, but it is impressive.
"Well... Beauty...."The Seventeenth Prince muttered dumbly, "This is, who?" ”
Chunlan stretched out her hand to hold her neckline, not paying attention to standing so close to this annoying seventeenth prince, looking at the painting in front of her, a person she had seen before fused with it.
In the small Taoist temple in the mountains, the door of the hall is ajar, and a woman is holding a scroll to look at it.
It turns out that under the soap veil, there is such beauty.
"That stupid lady of the second master's house......" she muttered as well.
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