CHAPTER XXIII
"Mother, this is a letter from your uncle. www.biquge.info"As soon as Ning Shao returned home, he took Dongdong to Rulin's place. As soon as Dong Dong hugged Rulin, he was hugged by Ning Shao and Bizhu to the side to feed.
Rulin saw that her son was not as usual, so she opened Xue Yun's letter with doubts, and the cause and effect in the letter were clearly written. Rulin asked Ning Shao what he thought, seeing that he rarely talked about his views in front of him, trying to convince himself. Although Rulin's ears listened carefully, she was still a little distracted in her heart, this is the real side of her child, but she was fortunate to see one of them today.
After Ning Shao saw that after he finished speaking, his mother did not answer, but looked at him with sparkling eyes, and paused, feeling a little embarrassed by his performance just now.
"Shao'er, do you also want to do business like your uncle?" Rulin looked at the high-spirited child in front of her, this was the first child she gave birth to in October, and when she gave birth to him, she almost took her life. Now it's so big and so good.
Ning Shao heard his mother ask something completely unrelated to the topic, and when he heard such a question, he also took his mind back and asked, "If my son says yes, will my mother oppose me?" "He naturally doesn't want to do business in his heart, reading sage books and walking the road to Qingyun is the highest dream of every scholar when he is young, not to mention that he has that talent.
It's just that he has been exposed to the ambition and pride of the vast world in the book, and this is the first time he has encountered a grand cause that he can participate in, and he is a little different from the past.
"Shao'er, if you decide what you want to do one day and are willing to pay for it, even if you are a businessman, you will not object to you, but you still have to study hard until you are sure." Rulin said solemnly.
Ning Shao couldn't believe his ears, he couldn't believe that his mother, who had always been estranged, had given such an answer, he had just envied his cousin's parents in the Xue family, and when he came home, he suddenly found that he also had a mother who had never known him.
This is not easy for him to accept for a while. After that, for a long time, he thought about his mother's words repeatedly in his mind, chewing over and over again, but he still felt a little illusory.
After thinking about it repeatedly, Rulin still agreed to invest in the business of Xue Yun and his wife, and formally signed the contract at the request of Xue Yun and his wife. However, she didn't touch the money in Ning Mansion Gongzhong, but invested all the liquid savings in the dowry she had accumulated over the years, about 30,000 taels of silver, and Xue Yun could use it casually, so naturally she didn't need to tell Ning Mu about it.
Autumn is approaching, but the summer has not completely passed, the most comfortable time of the year, Rulin asked a few maids to help rearrange her previous study, repaint the walls, and put the books that you don't read much into the box, and put them on the shelves in different categories, so that a bookshelf will be vacant, let the two little guys carry out, and move into a two-meter-long pear blossom wooden table, a matching chair, a big pen holder, and a good inkstone. The table was facing the wide open window, and it was still full of greenery outside.
The spider plants hanging down on the bookshelf sway gently with the wind, every afternoon when Dong Dong takes a nap, Rulin enjoys this most comfortable time alone, she wants to improve the painting she is better at, she doesn't want to be said that she has not grown in addition to her age.
She didn't let the maid wait, she spread out a table-sized rice paper, took out a piece of ink from the drawer and slowly grinded it, and when the ink was polished, she unhurriedly took out a large brush from the pen holder, dipped it in ink, groaned slightly, splashed ink, and walked away from the pen.
Rulin, who completely immersed herself in the painting, was shrouded in a quiet and soft light, after all, the years still left something in this woman, although it was not so obvious, but it was always left.
Before the completion of a picture of the rain in the West Mountain, I heard the footsteps of Bizhu coming in.
The pen in his hand was still continuing, and the painting was almost polished to the last point, "What's wrong?" ”
"Madam, I'm disturbing your painting. It's really Aunt Du and Aunt Li who are not talking, you have to let Mrs. you be the master, the slaves and maids let them wait, and they also accuse the slaves and maids of being big...... It's too ......" Bizhu looked a little aggrieved.
"Okay, you are the big girl next to me, I can't hold up this momentum, how dare I rely on you in the future? How did this kind of thing deal before? Rulin felt a stump in her heart, changing herself brought not only good aspects, but also countless troubles that could not be avoided.
"What Mrs. taught me is that in the past, Aunt Du was the first to enter the mansion, and she put up the eldest aunt's shelf, and the servants in the mansion did not dare to provoke her. Among the two aunts, Aunt Jiang has always been very honest, that is, Aunt Du and Aunt Li have quarreled from time to time, Aunt Du is anxious, Aunt Li is young, and the previous small things have been solved in private, and when the trouble is big, the old lady will come forward to solve it. ”
Solve the stumbling block in private, Ru Lin read these words, and it is really a matter of knowledge to speak secretly, what stumbling block can the two women in the inner house rely on to resolve the dispute, so they naturally sue the above. I really can't think of how Ning Mu's temperament dealt with these bad things.
These two people, maybe they saw that she started to take care of things, and they couldn't wait to make trouble for her, what could they do? If you don't want to take care of it, you have to take care of it.
"Let them wait quietly for me for a quarter of an hour, and tell them what I said, whoever makes any more noise will go to the old lady's vegetable garden and pick up ten loads of water for him to water the vegetable field, and if it is noisy, go and pick up twenty loads, and I will do it." She's going to put the finishing touches on the painting.
Rulin read the painting throughout, and finally felt that there were no regrets, so she put down her pen. He gently thumped his waist and walked out of the study, a little later than a quarter of an hour.
When she returned to the hall, she saw that although the Du and Li families had bad faces, they were still quietly waiting for her to come back.
When the two of them saw her come in, they both got up and saluted, which was not very standard.
Du Shi's person Rulin knew her, and she was about the same age. Li didn't have much of an impression, Li only entered the mansion in the past two years, wearing a light green skirt, a goose-yellow sachet around his waist, a pink face, as tender as a handful of shallots, and he looked at most eighteen or nineteen years old.
Seeing that both of them are not very respectful, Rulin is actually not very angry in her heart, her father has no concubines, and her father and mother have been harmonious and beautiful all their lives. In her heart, these concubines are the same women as her for whatever reason, although she is the wife of the main house, she has never been powerful, nor has she been gracious, and she is really not a good object that should be respected.
But fate is like this, she is right, they are concubines, this respect is still well established, if she pities them for God, God will take her back. If you stand up, you will save a lot of trouble.
In fact, to put it bluntly, I still don't love Ning Mu. How can someone who loves be so sensible?