Chapter 45: Fighting
That night, Ruan heard a big play in the Fen Pavilion, but he just laughed absently.
The old lady also listened to Shen's mother's report, sighed long, and said helplessly, "I said to her when I was resting in the yard back then, it was best to seal those corridors and cave doors, she didn't, now it's okay, and the competition for favor is in other people's houses, it's really embarrassing." β
Xiusun, who was lying on the old lady's bed and pretending to be asleep, said that this was her magical and great mother's far-sighted layout.
If the aunts are separated, on the surface, it will be calm, and the aunts will each close the door and think about their own thoughts, will she, the wife, still be able to sleep?
Only when the aunts can't hide their secrets at all, and they always want to find out the secrets of others, and at the same time have to prevent revealing their own secrets, can they involve most of their energy and close the waves and strife in the Bifen Pavilion.
In fact, this time it is not a new thing to rob people and grab other people's houses, Aunt Mo is used to doing this.
In the past, Ruan's approach was relatively simple and rude, but whenever there was a trace of dispute in the Bifen Pavilion, if the outside knew about it, he would punish everyone, regardless of right and wrong, she was not the Qingtian County Decree who decided the case, she was just a wife who wanted to live a clean life, and gradually, the aunts also understood the scale of the Ruan family, and paid attention to trying not to cross the Lei Chi.
Aunt Mo knew that the other aunts didn't dare to make trouble, so she became more and more arrogant, as long as the eighth master entered the Bifen Pavilion, she would go and grab it. The two aunts of King Zhao also formed an alliance to help each other control the wind and block Aunt Mo, but Aunt Zhao thought a lot carefully, and often crossed the river to tear down the bridge, Aunt Wang was thin-skinned and not strong in combat, and the alliance between King Zhao soon collapsed.
Later, the two aunts of King Zhao were committed to secretly bullying Aunt Mo to get angry, Aunt Mo was shallow and flamboyant, Aunt Zhao was yin, and Aunt Wang was deep, so she finally made up for it and barely managed to maintain her psychological balance.
After a few years, it was all right.
This time, the old lady was paying attention to Aunt Qin's movements, and finally discovered the fierce battle between the aunts, and she didn't know how to deal with it.
The old lady and the Nguyen have different perspectives, and their attitudes towards the aunt's problem are completely different.
The old lady is the mother of the eighth master, this blood relationship is eternal, she does not have any sense of crisis, and she can arrange concubines for the eighth master as she likes, because no matter how many women, which woman, give birth to the eighth master, they are her grandchildren, and this relationship is also eternal, she is the one who sits in the audience and watches the play, has the right to order the play, has the right to invite her favorite corner, and the stage is divided and combined, life and death, and after watching it, forget it, and there will be no substantial change in her life.
Ruan's is completely different, her husband's heart can change, her body can go away, and the documents can be stamped by the government, she is the corner on the stage, maybe an important role, if she can't play well, but she may be replaced at any time, she has to act according to the script, but she still has to show her skills in the process of acting.
For the Ruan family, she always retains a sense of crisis, although the rules do not take concubines as wives, and the court law also stipulates that those who take concubines as their wives, including their fathers, must be dragged to the yamen to fight the board, and they will have to put things right when they come back, but the existence of etiquette and law does not mean that this crisis does not exist.
Just like killing for life has been widely recognized by people in the past few thousand years, but people are still being killed, otherwise even if it is a peaceful and prosperous world, why are the dart bureaus, escorts and other industries still so prosperous.
In order for the Nguyen family to secure the position of the wife, they had to mix the water between the concubines, just like the Tai Chi kung fu, stirring the water in the vat so that it would flow vigorously, orderly, and eternally, without splashing the water out of the vat, because still water theoretically does not exist. We have to abandon the ideal static equilibrium and pursue the dynamic equilibrium that is possible.
The water that had flowed in an orderly manner for many years was shattered by a strong ice cube, and what Nguyen had to do was to continue stirring the water until the ice melted and entered the sequence of water, completing a new dynamic equilibrium, in the process, the harder she stirred, the larger the whirlpool formed, the more the ice melted, although it seemed more dangerous.
Of course, there is a simple and crude way, which is to fish out the ice cubes and throw them out, which must be the method that Ruan Shi wants to use the most, but this jar is not Ruan's alone, and she can't decide it all.
So, at least a few years ago, the Bi Fen Pavilion will not stop, Xiu Sun doesn't know how Ruan's will speed up the stirring, she is still pregnant.
The old lady and Shen's mother talked about something else, and the old lady finally went to bed and covered the quilt, but all night, the old lady turned over and over like pancakes, and before Xiusun really fell asleep, she heard the old lady sigh in her ear, "Alas, if you don't raise it, it's your mother's fault." β
For many years, the old lady was busy with housework, the inner courtyard and the outer courtyard had to be grasped, and the eighth master was together, and only tested his homework, and every time he was very satisfied, he no longer asked anything else, and only told the eighth master to learn from his father to be a talented man with eight buckets and five cars.
The little Eighth Master really worked hard in this direction, and in a sense, he did it, but somehow, inexplicably crooked.
The old lady regretted it very much, but it didn't help, Xiusun couldn't think of any good way to turn the situation around, except for changing the brain of the eighth master, if the divine doctor Hua Tuo could live until now, he should be able to do it.
ββI'm thinking about whether the pig brain will become smart if I give the eighth master the pig brain and replace it with the eighth masterββ
Early the next morning, the eighth old man came to ask the old lady to say goodbye, Ruan's was pregnant, and the old lady was exempted from Ruan's invitation, worried that something would happen to her coming and going, this grandson was expensive.
The old lady drove Xiusun to the blue yarn cupboard and pulled the eighth master to talk alone.
Xiusun walked out of the old lady's western room, walked around the hall, returned to the western partition fan, found a pleasing circle chair to sit on, and peeled oranges for herself to eat. Seeing Shen's mother guarding the hall, she made a silent gesture at her, Shen's mother didn't see Xiusun like this for the first time, and she didn't make a sound, just looked at her and smiled helplessly, Xiusun stuffed the remaining half of the orange in her hand into Shen's mother's mouth.
The voice in the room was sometimes light and sometimes heavy, and only a few words could be heard, Xiusun silently pricked up her ears, "Why don't you see such a woman's little tricks, and you are still messing around with them, are you shameless?" β
I couldn't hear how the eighth master answered, but the tone didn't seem to be flustered at all, nor ashamed, and even triumphant.
Xiusun was a little relieved in her heart, but also a little cold. It is gratifying that the eighth master can see that the aunts are tired, and he is gratifying, he is not stupid enough to need to break the braincase and reshape it, and the cold thing is that he actually enjoys the aunts' competition for favor.
It's so narcissistic, he thinks his aunts are fighting for him? The aunts are obviously fighting for status, resources, and even a breath, or a little sour, anyway, not for him.
The old lady was silent, Xiusun knew that this was the old lady's angry expression, secretly held the orange peel in her hand, and waited for the old lady to attack, but she didn't want the old lady to just sigh and whisper to the eighth old man.
The old lady can be so patient with her own son, she regrets that she didn't educate her when she was young, and now she wants to make up for it.
I don't know if it's useful, Xiusun is deeply skeptical.
At the end of the conversation, the eighth old man seemed to recognize the strict nature of the problem, and promised the old lady not to mess around in the future, but Xiusun listened to his tone as if he was just talking about it, and he didn't think so.
The old lady also heard it, so Xiusun jumped off the circle chair and went to the kitchen to tell Ren's mother to get a rock sugar pear and serve it to the old lady.
It was rare for the eighth master to go back to Pukou, and when he went out to meet friends, the Bifen Pavilion made trouble again.
I don't know what happened before, Xiusun was accompanying the old lady to eat stewed pears with rock sugar, and the little maid outside came to give her a gift, saying that the Bifen Pavilion was fighting, and the wife was angry and sick, so she sent someone to ask for a doctor.
The old lady had to rush to see the Ruan family, her grandson was the most important, and the aunts had killed the most and buried the most.
Xiusun also followed, and met the daughter-in-law of the old lady Zhong next door, Gu, the old lady Zhong and the family took their grandchildren out to collect medicine after the Mid-Autumn Festival, only the Gu family took the house, heard that the Chu family came to invite, and immediately rushed over.
Xiusun hurriedly led Gu into the house and ordered someone to serve tea and snacks.
Gu is a female doctor, and there is no need to avoid it, the old lady sat on the Xiang Concubine couch in Ruan's house, looking at Gu's vein.
Changing his left hand to his right hand, Gu Shi pondered for a long time before he said, "Mrs. This is a depression in the mind, guiding the spleen and stomach discomfort, pay attention to conditioning, relax your heart is natural, I prescribe two pairs of medicine for fetal protection, if Mrs. feels uncomfortable, you can eat it, as long as you keep your mood comfortable, it is okay not to take medicine." β
Xiusun was busy arranging pen, ink, paper, inkstone and incense tea fruit next door, and then took the prescription written by Gu Shi and thanked him, and personally handed it over to the old lady.
The old lady also got up and thanked her, and called the clerk to send a car to send Mrs. Zhong back.
Xiusun listened to Gu's meaning, and knew that Ruan's had no big problems, and the old lady comforted Ruan's a few words and asked her if she wanted to go to Zhuangzi to recuperate for a while.
Ruan Shi remembered the last time someone broke into the hot spring Zhuangzi, and didn't dare to go to the Zhuangzi to settle the baby, only said that it was not in the way, and she would pay more attention in the future.
As soon as the old lady left, Ruan ordered someone to lock the door leading to the Fen Pavilion from the Xuan Xuan Xuan to the Fen Pavilion, and instead opened the small door in the southeast corner of the Fen Pavilion for the aunts to enter and exit, and exempted the aunts from asking for peace.
silently said, I want to concentrate on the baby, and you don't bother me.
The old lady knew, and only said that if something happened to the Fen Pavilion again, she would report to her, and don't bother the wife again.
Although it is a little unreasonable for the mother-in-law to help her daughter-in-law manage her aunt, this is also a helpless thing, who makes the daughter-in-law unable to do it at present, and the aunts are too open-mouthed.