Chapter 162: Captivity
"My good lady, hurry up, let's go to the back to change our clothes, and we have to go to the hall to greet the matchmaker." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info "Mama Kang mixed people under the kang with her own hands, her face was happy, and her eyes were full of relief.
Listening to Mother Cai behind them, she smiled and instructed Jinluo and the others, "What we will do here is to register all these jewelry, all the same, in the book, and then we have to send the lady and lady to the name." ā
"This, but the people of the West are exquisite, in the future, when our eldest lady and young lady encounter a happy event in their family, they will have to choose the one with similar value to return the gift according to the importance of their gift, which will not be possible if there is no basis."
The Lan family is from the capital, and they don't understand the customs of the West very well, so Liang Wenyu has already asked two mothers who can speak well to come over in advance, pick up those important things, and tell Mrs. Lan to know.
For other things, Mrs. Lan has let Da Liu's mother and Liu's mother cooperate in the division of labor, but this one, it is most suitable to use the people in Lan Jiayin's room.
Fortunately, although there are many people who give gifts just now, but the maids and mothers-in-law who are waiting around are all selected early, and they are all exceptional, they all have a particularly good memory.
This will strike while the iron is hot, but there will be no omissions.
"Wear a jade carved kingfisher pressure skirt, Mrs. Zhang's prefect."
"The red gold inlaid with mutton fat jade peony flowers is hanging, General Guo's wife."
"A pair of gold-inlaid jade eight-treasure bracelets, the eldest lady of Pingjing Huangfu."
A crisp voice, happily talking about jewelry and people's names, every time I read one, there will be a whispering sound underneath, nothing more than whether the object is good or not, the one who sent the thing is the family, the lady of the room.
Chirping, occasionally mixed with a few exclamations, is extraordinarily lively.
There are dozens of pieces of this full kang jewelry, and most of them are exquisite, and a small number of them can already be called extraordinary, no wonder these maids, mother is so excited.
But if you think about it, those ladies and ladies who can follow Liang Wenyu into Lan Jiayin's boudoir are either noble families, or relatives and confidants of the Mu family, which family is not close to the Xuanping Marquis Mansion?
Who doesn't want to leave a deep impression in front of Liang Wenyu?
Don't look at this will cause them to throw out valuable jewelry, in fact, these people are all proficient, who doesn't marry a daughter, marry a daughter-in-law?
At that time, presumably the Mu family and the Lan family will return three points better than today's.
Lan Jiayin put on a new dress again, it was still a festive red, but it was embroidered with a large white peony with silver thread, a long hair combed with peony sideburns, a hairpin with a red peony flower, and a cloud brocade shawl with pearls and flowers on her shoulders, which was really rich and gorgeous, and beautiful.
When I arrived at the hall, I saw that the beads were ringing green, the rings in my ears were jingling, the tip of my nose was lingering with a fragrant fragrance, and the room was full of warblers singing and laughing, all of whom were praising Lan Jiayin for being more beautiful than flowers.
The sisters who were good friends with Lan Jiayin in the past flocked to her side for the first time, and immediately, all kinds of words of praise filled her ears, and Lan Jiayin's whole person was a little fluttering, and she walked like a cloud.
She held Hu Qinghui's hand tightly, and in a trance, she heard a familiar voice softly reassuring, "Don't be afraid, I'm here, just follow me." ā
Lan Jiayin's heart was relieved, and the originally stiff smile on her face naturally rose.
When the footsteps stopped, Lan Jiayin was already standing in front of the main seat of the hall, and with a happy smile on her face, she slowly greeted Liang Wenyu and Mrs. Lan.
Liang Wenyu saw that she was as beautiful as a peony blooming, her face was full of joy, she helped up her favorite daughter-in-law, took the person in her arms, led her to Mrs. Zhang, and said softly: "Good boy, this is Mrs. Zhang, why don't you hurry up and thank the matchmaker?" ā
Lan Jiayin knelt on the brocade mat and made a big salute, and the brocade beads immediately presented the thank you matchmaker respectfully, Mrs. Zhang happily helped Lan Jiayin up, raised her hand and pulled off the Ruyi Pisces Lotus White Jade Hairpin on her sideburns, and gave the hairpin to today's protagonist on the sideburns.
She chuckled and said: "This hairpin was given by my grandmother when I got married, that year, her old man was eighty-eight years old, and later lived to be one hundred and one years old. ā
"Oops, how dare you!" Liang Wenyu knows that Mrs. Zhang's mother-in-law's grandmother gave birth to five sons and three daughters in her life, and she has lived a rare long life, and she is a well-known blessed person in the West.
Her daughter-in-law can get such a mascot to press herself, it is really unbelievable, she really didn't expect Mrs. Zhang to give face like this, and quickly let Lan Jiayin thank her again.
This situation, I don't know how many people below are envious and jealous!
On this day, the happy event of the Mu and Lan families was really indescribably lively and inexhaustible, and even Mu Detai, Xuanping Hou, who was not very satisfied with his future daughter-in-law, had a rare meal and drank too much, and returned to Liang Wenyu's yard drunk.
No matter what, the fifth lady of the Lan family is also the sister-in-law of his Mu family, as long as he waits for his daughter-in-law to enter the door for another two years, he will have to hug his grandson.
That night, Mu Xiao'an, the housekeeper of Nanshan Villa, received a table of wine and food from his own Hou Ye and specially asked someone to send to Uncle Mu Yishan.
"Yo, this dish is really good, the elbows are stewed, the fish is steamed and tender, brothers, let's drink a little wine at night." After sending away the little maid in the Hou Mansion, Mu Xiaoan opened the food box with a smile.
I heard the people around him cheering, but he stretched out his hand and pointed, "Sixth son, the elbow brother is for you, you hold it, don't drink at night, it's serious to take care of the uncle." ā
"Little poplar, you give this steamed grouper, roasted sheep's tail and braised chicken to the two of them in the Huang family, this is the grace of the Hou Ye, let them sincerely thank them."
Now the people in the other garden have long been changed from the inside to the outside without Mu Deyi's knowledge, and the original people who followed Mu Yishan in have long since disappeared, and now Mu Xiao'an is the brother of the White Tiger Camp.
Who should serve Mu Yishan every day, it is written on the list, seeing that the prince is engaged, and the two major events of the New Year, one has passed, just wait for the New Year, and the uncle can breathe a sigh of relief, at the critical moment, Mu Xiaoan does not dare to be sloppy at all, that is, drinking, Mu Yishan also has to keep an eye on it.
As for the two female dependents of the Huang family, they also let Kong Wu's powerful mother look at it, there is no maid with a heart around her, and the yard is also strictly guarded, so no one wants to send the message out.
Mu Xiaoan is the descendant of the Mu family, and the three generations of their family have never produced a capable person, but he was smart when he was a child, and he was selected by his own family to practice martial arts and literacy, and now he is also a character who can be listed in front of Mu Lingxuan.
After he instructed his brothers, he took people with him and turned the garden from front to back, this errand is very important, Mu Lingxuan thought about it for a long time, and then chose Mu Xiao'an, who was thoughtful and safe.
At the moment, it seems that he really chose the right person, Mu Xiaoan is serious and cautious, and he is indeed worthy of a heavy responsibility.
At the same time, in the innermost southwest corner of the Xue family's ancestral house, in an old courtyard that had been abandoned for a long time, Xue Ze, the newly appointed head of the Xue family, came to this remote place with two cronies, carrying food boxes and baggage.
With the knock on the door, the door of the small courtyard with paint peeling was opened from the inside, and a nine-foot-tall man appeared in front of everyone. ā
Xue Ze let out a long sigh when he heard this, "Alas, tomorrow morning, I will let people fill in everything, and I can't let my eldest brother be wronged." ā
He turned to reach out and patted the strong man's shoulder, "Agu, thank you for your hard work, this matter is very important, it is related to the rise and fall of my Xue family, except for you, I can't trust others, so I can only bother you for your hard work." ā
"But you just have to rest assured, I will take good care of the senior mother, junior brother, junior sister at home, and when the New Year is over, you go home to see them."
Agula pulled him inside, and said with a simple smile, "The third master is really polite, my father is just a nurse in the house, and he taught you boxing and kicking for a few years when he was a child, so you can be called master there?"
"Besides, the little one has been serving by your side since he was a child, and he should have shared his worries and solved problems for you, don't go to my heart, saying this, I feel weird in my heart."
Xue Ze smiled and nodded, the relationship between the two seemed to be quite good.
While speaking, Agu introduced Xue Ze to the three main houses in the south, don't look at the outside, the house is clean and tidy, the furniture is all yellow pears with clear water, and there are two half-person-high copper tripods burning in the corners of the house, and the baking room is not warm.
"You dog still dare to come, wait for Lao Tzu to go out from here, Xue Ze, I'll kill you first! Reverse his mother's Mu family again! A hysterical sound came from the back room, accompanied by the sound of broken chains.
Agu frowned and was about to go in, but Xue Ze stretched out his hand to stop him, "Forget it, he fell from the sky into the mud overnight, not only lost everything, but also didn't even have the least freedom, can you not feel aggrieved?" Let him vent and vent. ā
When I entered the house, I saw a middle-aged man half leaning on the wide carved yellow pear bed against the wall, with a gray beard and hair, messily tied up, with iron chains on his hands, his eyes widened, and hatred poured out endlessly.
Asked people to open the food box and put the dishes on the table, Xue Ze untied the big problem outside, and said softly: "Big brother, don't get angry, today the prince is engaged, this is the happy dish that the eldest sister brought back to me, you can eat some and be happy." ā
"Xue Ze, I'm a kid to you!" Xue Hua scolded angrily, and he was about to pounce on him.
Listening to the sound of chains, Xue Hua was dragged back by the chain in his waist, from beginning to end, his legs did not move for a moment, and when he looked closely, there was still a white cloth wrapped around his ankles, which was actually scrapped.
Seeing this, Xue Ze had a look of pain in his eyes, and persuaded: "Big brother, my father was angry with you and vomited blood, my mother was angry with you and had a stroke, Ah Wen was persecuted to death by you, Sister Xian was scared crazy by you, Sister Yuan divorced, and the eldest sister was widowed, isn't all this because of your greed?" ā
"But even if you have harmed our family like this, the eldest sister still cares about blood and family affection, and begged for your life in front of the prince, and it is all up to this, why don't you know how to repent and toss to death?"
"Hmph, don't cry there and fake mercy, you and Xue Rulan are looking forward to my death! A pair of lowly billets who recognize thieves as their fathers! Come on, come and kill me! Broke my hamstrings and turned me into a wretch, you're happy, aren't you?! "Where is Xue Hua willing to admit his mistake?
More and more scolding, Xue Ze This is the third time Xue Hua has come after being imprisoned, the first time is to send Xue Hua over to house arrest, the second time, it is Xue Hua who contacted his subordinates to save him, and was intercepted by Agu and others, he came to deal with the aftermath, and in desperation, he had to pick Xue Hua's hamstring as a last resort, so that this person could stop tossing.
Today, I originally thought that my eldest brother's attitude would have to change a little, but who knew that it had become even worse and became a mad dog that bites people when he sees it!
Standing in the small courtyard, Xue Hua looked up at the sky, his eyes were full of confusion, he really didn't know, why did the home, which looked good, suddenly become so unbearable?
The family is a relative, the two old people are seriously ill, the eldest brother who was in charge of the family has become a waste, the eldest sister seems to be fine, but in fact, she is not lightly angered by the eldest brother and sister-in-law, and even the Xue family has a grudge, which can be regarded as a divorce from her mother's family.
As for Xue Baoshan, how dare Xue Ze let him continue to stay in Pingjing, for fear that if he made a mistake, the eldest brother's eldest son would be inexplicably strewn on the street, so he simply gave his nephew a large sum of silver and sent him to Jiangnan to study.
In this way, what is in his hands now is a dilapidated Xue family.
Agu asked the two mothers-in-law to enter the house to serve Xue Hua for dinner, walked to Xue Ze's side, and said softly: "Third master, it's not a way to go on like this." ā
"Alas, I thought that as long as he was willing to settle down, I would secretly keep him at home, and after a few years, when the matter of the eldest brother-in-law was over, I would let the sister-in-law and the children come over to accompany him." Xue Hua shook his head and said, "But now it seems that it won't work at all." ā
"If he makes such a fuss, sooner or later he will be known by the prince, and by that time, he will not just be deprived of his legs."
"Agu, you say, why is the eldest brother so obsessed?"
"The generation of him and his eldest brother-in-law crisscrossing the West has passed, and the current Pingjing is the prince of the world, why doesn't he understand?"
Agu scratched his head, and said thoughtfully, "Third master, the Xuanping Marquis Mansion has sent the eldest aunt to Nanshan Villa to recuperate, otherwise, let's also send the uncle to the western grange, right?" ā
(To be continued.) )