Chapter 269: Calamity
It's rare that the sky is high and the clouds are light.
Hongchen came out of Qiao's room and happened to meet the eldest master, who asked for a good call very amiably.
How is your studies, how is your daily life, and the girls at home can use it well...... "Sister Qiu, if you feel that something is wrong, just tell your wife that your wife loves the girl the most and will be able to take care of you." ”
"Yes."
Hongchen answered absentmindedly.
Meifang next to her looked at her with a few eyes, noses, noses, and hearts, and Brother Mao glanced at her from time to time, his eyes were vigilant.
In this family, the eldest man is kind and pleasant, which was originally the treatment that only Brother Mao'er, a single seedling, has, but suddenly there is one more, no wonder he has to be vigilant.
A few words of gossip, sent away the eldest master, Brother Mao went to the front to study, a few girls should learn to do needlework today, Hongchen said goodbye, she is now gradually getting used to asking for peace, the main thing is that Qiao's is really a talkative housewife, and it has always made people feel like a spring breeze, and Hongchen likes to talk to her.
Qiao's originally planned to let Hongchen learn needlework and the like with the grandmother raised at home, and the female school outside didn't say that she could go if she wanted to.
"Miss, have you noticed that Qiao's is absent-minded today, as if there is something on his mind."
Luo Niang frowned, and suddenly paused, "She won't be the same as that idiot old man, she wants to pack Miss and give it to the prince of Youwang." ”
It is no secret that the prince of Youwang is courteous to Hongchen, which is not a secret in the Lu family.
In the past few years, Hongchen has been socializing with everyone in the Lu family, and he usually encounters two situations - first, people are envious, jealous and hateful.
For example, the second wife in the second room has strange words, every time she sees her, she has to talk about her good looks.
Second, compassion and mercy.
For example, the wife of the third room, when she saw her, she almost burst into tears for her, in the eyes of the third wife, the Youwang Mansion is the Longtan Tiger's Den, and you can't get out if you go in, which is extremely dangerous.
Fortunately, Qiao's looked at the most normal, and did not show at all that she might be married to the Youwang Mansion, although she was more active in finding someone for her, but that was the normal performance of everyone's housewife.
Today is a little different, Hongchen shook his head, didn't think much about it, and said with a smile: "Don't guess, it must be what the old man said, you all have to keep some attention." ”
She was also at this time, and suddenly she didn't know if she was really reliable when she changed into Lin Qiuniang.
Lin Qiuniang wants to be respected, can she really get it smoothly?
The Lu family is a member of the normal Great Zhou aristocracy, not a big family, but the rules are still exactly the same, if there are no special circumstances, will such a family need a respected concubine?
"Puzzle...... The living are passers-by, and the dead are returnees. Heaven and earth are a reverse journey, and they are sad for eternity. ”
Hongchen was sad for a moment, and slowly walked into the kitchen to cook porridge for himself, he got up too early in the morning, and ate too little breakfast, but the other daughters were okay, her daily activity was not small, and she didn't eat enough.
and Luo Niang and Xiao Yan happily ate a bowl of porridge together, accompanied by exquisite side dishes and naan cakes.
After eating and drinking, Hongchen went to practice calligraphy, and after practicing calligraphy for a while, Sister Yao and Meifang escaped their homework and sat together and chatted together.
Although the family is messy and gossip is frequent, the girls in the family still have a good relationship.
The girls of the Lu family, including the concubines, although they are not taught by their mothers-in-law, but because they all go to school and study, they have a good personality, and they are placed outside, which is not only not bad, but also much better.
The old lady did not eat less than she could read and write, and she did not study at the beginning, but she also married her daughter-in-law in the future.
Serious pampering, there must always be results, the girls of the Lu family, these concubines, are quite knowledgeable, no one thinks that Hongchen and the prince of Youwang have anything to do with it, it is something to be envied, and they are very worried.
However, when it comes to the princes of the palace, they even pay attention to what they say in private, and they never mention it indiscriminately.
"Brother Jun, I'm afraid it really won't work." After a few words of gossip, Meifang suddenly said and sighed softly.
Sister Yao'er's eyes were full of hatred: "That's evil and evil retribution, you deserve it!" ”
Since the accident on the mountain, the Qiao family and the Lu family have completely fallen out, and the Qiao family refuses to take care of their sister-in-law at all, let alone Hongchen, even the cats and dogs in the family, and they refuse to give it to Qiao Jun.
In fact, the Qiao family didn't care about these things - Qiao Jun was already crazy.
Because the Qiao family has been in turmoil recently, the wife can't take care of things, the big house, the second room are not small, and the people under them are also impetuous, not as rigorous as before, all kinds of gossip are frequent, the Lu family and the Qiao family are connected to the in-laws, and there are many people on both sides, and the news is naturally well-informed.
Qiao Jun's hands are completely useless, the wound can't heal, and any medicine doesn't work, and now he is wrapped in a cotton cloth, and he can't move, let alone write.
Not only that, but he didn't see anyone all day long, hid in the house, ate a lot of food, but didn't see any flesh at all, his body was getting thinner and thinner day by day, and even the descendants of the Qiao family didn't dare to enter the house to see him.
The family also invited a goddess, a god, to give him food and water, and did a lot of things, but it didn't work at all.
"I heard that my uncle's wife still came to beg our wife, saying that she wanted Sister Qiu to see Brother Jun'er, what kind of reason is this, how can my wife agree!"
Meifang also raised her voice a little, "Our daughter's daughter can't be bullied by the Qiao family. ”
A while ago, Qiao Jun had been begging to marry a girl from the Lu family, and their eldest man was out of tune, which made the girls in the family worry for a long time, and now they are still indignant when they think about it.
"Alright, irrelevant person, whatever he does!"
Sister Yao interrupted impatiently, she became more and more reluctant to listen to the so-called cousin,
After chatting for a while, Sister Yao and the others were also tired, so they all went back to the room to rest, and the three of Hongchen's master and servant were still in good spirits, thought about it, and simply went out shopping.
Sister Yao, they want to study, they can go out every day, and the girls' school also takes the students around from time to time to play.
said that it was three people, but the maids and servants were all ready, and Tie Niu was responsible for driving, or the Lu family's carriage.
The street is lively and lively, with the unique style of a small town in the south of the Yangtze River, Hongchen likes to listen to the teahouse Uncle Laba storytelling, not as rigid as in the Beijing teahouse, each story is different, and will change the ending at any time according to the reaction of the guests below, which is quite interesting, and Uncle Laba will be onomatopoeic, a male voice for a while, a female voice for a while, an old man for a while, a child for a while, even the sound of wind, thunder and rain can be simulated, and the simulation is quite a bit of charm, even if it is not exactly the same, it can also make people immersive.
"Hey, Miss, look!"
Called for a pot of tea, and was listening to it energetically, Xiao Yan pointed downstairs, and Hongchen glanced sideways, which was also a little strange.
It's actually Li Sheng!
Li Sheng was walking down the street by a young woman wearing an apricot yellow dress who looked to be twenty-seven or eighteen years old.
There has been no news of Li Sheng for such a long time, and the Li family has been chasing and blocking the yamen for a long time, and now they are about to give up, but when Li Sheng is dead, I didn't expect him to come out again.
Yes, it seems that I heard that the people of the Li family are not making trouble in the yamen, saying that the young master of their family was rescued by the masters, and now he has returned home safely.
Hongchen raised his eyebrows: "Life is really big!" ”
She could see at a glance that Li Sheng's qi was very weak, if it was a normal man's breath, there were a hundred, he was only thirty, and a five-year-old child was about the same, ordinary people couldn't see anything, but when normal people got close to him, they would always feel a trace of coldness unconsciously, and they felt awkward, so they naturally wanted to alienate him.
And the qi is so weak, it is easy to get sick and possessed by evil spirits, if this guy is lucky enough not to die in the future, it will be hilarious.
The woman who was holding Li Sheng looked gentle, and carefully wiped the sweat on his forehead for him, which seemed to be very intimate, but Li Sheng's body was stiff and tight, and she seemed to be a little scared, and she tried very hard to make an appearance that she had an excellent relationship with her.
"Hey, it's really a cow, a ghost, a snake and a god gathered together!"
Xiao Yan also shifted his attention from Uncle Laba, who was telling the story over there, to the bottom, and an unexpected figure ran below.
That Qiao Jun, who is said to have died several times, seems to be mixed up with Li Sheng, if you are not very familiar with people, I am afraid it is really difficult to recognize this guy as Qiao Jun, Xiao Yan and they also have good eyesight.
This man was very different from before, with a scruffy beard, a haggard face, and bandages on his hands, standing stiff in the shadows, his eyes madly revealing despair.
Xiao Yan remembers very well that she had seen similar people back then, and she had seen a lot.
Some of those people live in slums, and their greatest hope every day is to be able to eat a full meal and live one more day, while others live in a hell of despair, trying their best to live every day because they don't know if they will die tomorrow.
Hongchen frowned slightly.
Xiao Yan also frowned.
The twenty-seven-eighteen-year-old woman casually swept over the teahouse here, and when she saw her sitting on the second floor, she stopped and took two steps back, with a strong surprise and anger in her eyes.
As soon as Hongchen saw her, the woman lowered her head, pretended to be casual, helped Li Sheng, called Qiao Jun, and hurried away.
"Miss?"
“…… I don't know. ”
Hongchen smiled, "After listening to the book, let's go to the bookstore." ”
The literary style in Jiangnan is prosperous, and the books in this place are a little more agile than those in the capital, a little less serious, and there are all kinds of books, which are very interesting.
Not far away, the woman dragged Li Sheng's arm and gradually tightened, getting tighter and tighter, Li Sheng could feel the pain, but he didn't dare to protest loudly, he only moved his arm lightly, and asked in a low voice: "Rong Niang, what's wrong?" ”
The woman took a deep breath, and there was anxiety in her voice: "It's her, it's that woman, it's the calamity." ”
"Who?"
Li Sheng was confused.
In his opinion, the woman in front of him is the disaster star, but since this person saved himself, even if it is a disaster star, then he also admits it.
As long as she is safe and sound, if she harms others, she will do it.
"Didn't you see? That's her! ”
The woman was cold, her arms were shivering, her eyes were demented, but she refused to speak for a while.
She remembered that incident, that day she was taken out of the mountain by her father-in-law, to send her to the casino to pay off her debts, she could not speak, her mouth was gagged, her hands were tied, her husband knelt beside the car window and shed tears, begging her father-in-law to let her go for the sake of the two children, but her father-in-law kicked her husband unconscious and did not listen at all.
It was raining heavily that day, and they all said that the dragon lord was angry and wanted to let all the sinners in the world die, she thought at the time, she was not a sinner, just a poor woman, if the dragon lord really had eyes, then kill these bad people and save her.
Then I don't know what happened, a black fog flew over in the distance, knocked over the car, she opened her eyes, couldn't move, could only watch the black fog drift towards the mountain, she was also wrapped and flew out, dizzy, completely unable to move, I don't know how long later, she saw the woman.
The woman's gaze was so cold, just one glance, she felt that her whole body was frozen and stiff, the woman seemed to see her, with a wave of her hand, her whole person was embedded in the mountain, and her whole body was flattened, it was a feeling, as if she was no longer alone, fortunately, only for a moment, she broke free, she could move, her mind was blank, she only knew to run desperately, only thinking about a running word, not thinking about anything else, she didn't know how she ran away from the mountain, and when she came back to her senses, she saw Li Sheng, Li Sheng looked at her with great fear for some reason, as if she was frightened, but she was not angry, anyone who stayed in that kind of cave for a long time would be afraid, so she saved Li Sheng and took Li Sheng out, and then she was dreaming for several nights in a row.
In the dream, she worshipped a master, who was dressed in black and covered with black veil, and should be a young woman, with a very gentle and beautiful voice.
The master taught her the art of foresight, which enabled her to see the disasters of the world.
She could see very clearly, it was the woman, and the place where the woman haunted was accompanied by disaster.
Fengcheng is also about to be unlucky, on the Jiangnan side, Xiang Wang Chen Feng is about to raise an army to rebel, and the entire Jiangnan will be ruined by then.
No way.
The woman looked back at Li Sheng beside her, she wanted to save this man, this man was the best man she had ever met in her life, so gentle, so kind, personable, erudite, how could she not save him, let him wither in the chaos.
"I'm not afraid!" The young woman's eyes were red, she looked at Li Sheng, touched his hair, and didn't notice that Li Sheng's whole body trembled with fright, "For you, I'm not afraid of anything, and I'm not afraid of that disaster star." ”
She stood up straight, turned her head, squinted her eyes and tried to stare ahead, just as Hongchen took the maid down to the bookstore, Li Sheng also saw it at a glance, her eyes lit up, and she just wanted to open her mouth to call someone, and her arms tightened.
Li Sheng was stunned, and then suddenly it turned out that the disaster star that this woman said was her!
Well, in fact, judging from what he saw in the cave in a daze that day, it is more reliable to say that the eldest lady of the Lu family is a disaster star, it is better to say that this woman is a disaster star.
After all, what he saw with his own eyes was that the charming little woman in front of him, of course, was probably the woman of the monster, and let this woman eat it alive and eat it in her stomach, she really ate it raw, and she lost a lot of blood.
He was so frightened that his stomach turned over and he vomited all over the ground, don't blame that if it's a monster, this person ate something in the shape of a human, what kind of normal person can it be?
Just hesitating, there was a sound of horses' hooves in front, and when I looked up, I saw a team of people and horses not far away, the one headed by the one dressed in white, heroic, jumped off the horse, and walked to Hongchen's master and servant gently and skillfully, and carefully handed over the treasure knife in his hand to the person behind him, only hanging a thin sword for decoration around his waist, his eyebrows and eyes softened, and he spoke softly to Hongchen.
Li Sheng stopped and thought about it, but there was still this woman pestering him at this time, so he didn't step forward, and he was a little disappreciative in his heart.
He has always felt that all women in the world are the same, all of them are just playthings, marry a similar door, can take care of housework for you, and it is good to relieve boredom when you are idle, but you can't be spoiled, and if you spoil it, you will kick your nose and face, and it will be troublesome to deal with it in the future.
Of course, he now feels that the eldest lady of the Lu family in front of him is a little different, she is not a simple woman, she still has the ability and ability, so it is also appropriate to please and fool around.
Thinking about it like this, Li Sheng's face became more natural, maybe people also have the intention of currying favor so that they can take advantage of it.
The man over there, it is said to be the prince of Youwang, when he first heard about it, he was still scared, and he moved some thoughts, the prince of Youwang came to Fengcheng is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, if you can seize it, not to mention one step to the sky, at least it is not difficult to change the court, but he is really troubled at this time, uncomfortable, and it is a little unclear whether he can save his life, so he has no energy to find time to find this set.
But now...... Li Sheng took a breath lightly, it seems that the prince of Youwang is also very interested in the eldest lady of the Lu family, maybe this is a very good entry point?
It's time to prepare a generous gift and visit the Lu family.
Li Shengzheng was thoughtful, and listened to Qiao Junyin say predictively: "Okay, as long as you can save me, I will introduce you to the famous family in Fengcheng, it doesn't matter, my Qiao family is in Fengcheng, and I still have this ability." ”
Li Sheng shook his head, suddenly came back to his senses, looked at Qiao Jun's appearance, and was dumbfounded--what does this kid want to do!
The inexplicable accident over there, Hongchen glanced at it, and didn't go to his heart, this uninvited guest, Youwang Shizi is a very good playmate, not to say anything else, just say that people don't forget, they know all the books in the bookstore, astronomy and geography, Confucian classics, and countless scripts, drama books, all kinds of interesting travelogues, he has been involved, all know one or two, the introduction is witty and humorous, fascinating, so that Hongchen bought a large car of books in one go, and he can't fit it a little. (To be continued.) )