Chapter 60: A Little Mess
The sisters went back to the courtyard separately, and after Xiusun freshened up in the Huanshi Mountain House, she drank a cup of tea with the old lady and ran to the Green Onion Xuan.
The eighth master is not there, saying that he went to the study in the outer courtyard, and recently the wound of the eighth master has basically healed, and he can get out of bed, and he often walks around, but the old lady still insists that the eighth master must rest in the green onion at night.
Ruan Shi was silent, but at night he asked the eighth master to go to the bamboo and stone house, and he didn't wronged the eighth master, in fact, she was too lazy to see him.
The eighth master was treated very thoughtfully, and even had more love for Ruan, and self-righteously felt that Ruan's changed his sex because he was pregnant with a child, and became gentle and virtuous, Ruan's heart shouted and secretly scolded him for being a narcissist.
Xiusun finally found a chance to learn what had happened at home in the past few days when they went to school.
Ruan Shi laughed twice at the mention of this, and the corners of his eyes and eyebrows were full of schadenfreude.
Chen's mother brought the white porcelain stew cup to Ruan's family, looking at her young lady's appearance a little helpless.
It turned out that Aunt Qin had encountered walls everywhere since she entered the house, and after falling ill, she finally had time to calm down and sum up her experience, and she found that Mother Zheng was really not suitable for walking in the courtyard of the deep house.
The fight here is invisible, it is mysterious, and it has little to do with the size of the fist and the size of the voice.
So she wisely offered to send Zheng's mother back to Zhongshan to see the house, which was her last remaining property.
Ruan Shi readily agreed, and promised that although Zheng's mother went back to see the house, the monthly money in the house would still be taken as such.
But it's a pity that Aunt Qin mentioned it to Ruan Shi on the front foot, and before she could get out of the Green Jiexuan, news came from Zhongshan that Aunt Qin's small courtyard in Zhongshan caught fire, burning a piece of scorched earth and leaving no tiles.
Aunt Qin was heartbroken and wanted to build a new house, but unfortunately she had no money.
Because of her illness a few days ago, she and Zheng's mother were both sick in bed, Xiao Bale was young, playful and couldn't take care of people, boiling medicine and adding vegetables needed to be rewarded with a single silver, and the scattered silver taels brought by them were quickly hollowed out by the mothers in the small kitchen.
Aunt Qin, who was penniless, had no choice but to cry to the eighth master. The eighth old man is in Jinling on weekdays, socializing with his classmates, buying his favorite antique calligraphy and painting are directly bookkeed, and the old lady is regularly settled by a dowry shop in Jinling, and every flower used by the eighth master outside will also be regularly presented to the old lady to facilitate supervision and management.
The eighth master only has a pitiful five taels of silver every month, and if you want to say that the aunts have the ability to sell money obediently, it is still Aunt Mo first, and the red gold hairpins, gold buttons, and small coral beads in her hands are all pulled out from between the teeth of the eighth master.
The eighth master was already shy, but he failed the exam this time, and the old lady simply deducted all the pocket money, but Aunt Qin didn't know.
She felt that the eighth master was the head of the family, how could he not come up with the silver, even if he didn't care about the chores, it was not a matter of a word that the lord of the family wanted to withdraw a few thousand taels of silver in the account room, so he pestered the eighth master endlessly.
The eighth master loves face, and he can't tell his concubine that he actually has empty pockets, and the last dime of silver was just looted away by Aunt Mo a few days ago, so he had to press her with a big reason and tell her that she was poor and happy.
Aunt Qin's heart is not dead, and she asked the eighth master to ask the Ruan family for money, and the eighth master really came to find the Ruan family, but the Ruan family said, when Aunt Qin entered the mansion, she kept saying that she liked your talent, not money, and now the time to test her has come.
What's more, although the house is burned, the land is still there, and it is not the same to build it early and late, so don't make the old lady unhappy with this moment, it is better to wait for the old man to get the money in the account room, and then happily build a big house for Aunt Qin.
The effect of slowly moving the old lady out is immediate, and when the eighth master heard it, he felt that what Ruan said was very reasonable, and he was afraid that the old lady would ask, the next time Aunt Qin mentioned the matter of silver, he promised it, of course, he didn't say that he could only support the silver if he won the lift, but said very high-soundingly, the house will not live for a while, it is better to be a lottery head at that time, and it is also a good memory to think about it in the future.
Aunt Qin almost vomited blood when she heard this, even if the eighth master can move smoothly next time, it will be three years later, although the land is still hers, but it will not delay the neighbors who see that the land is abandoned and have the heart of encroachment, one centimeter today, one foot tomorrow, where can she reason?
Immediately felt that the eighth master was perfunctory to her, and she was so aggrieved in her heart, she had heard that the eighth master bought a pen wash of two thousand taels of silver with a wave of his hand, it can be seen that he did not take the silver money to heart, why is he not willing to spend it when he comes to her now.
I couldn't help but feel sad and sick again.
The eighth master was afraid that he would lose face in front of Aunt Qin, so he simply didn't go to the Fen Pavilion, and only taught Zhushi Zhuyun to write in the Green Onion Xuan.
Xiusun listened to this long story, her big black eyes blinked, and asked, "How did Aunt Qin's small yard catch fire?" ”
Although the weather is dry, this is too coincidental.
Ruan Shi handed the bottom-out stew pot to Chen's mother, wiped the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief, and said with a smile, "Who knows, it's dry and dry this day, it's hard to say." ”
When Xiusun heard this, he took an orange and put it in the palm of his hand and peeled it, Ruan's answer was like this, indicating that it was not instructed by Ruan, and the second half of the sentence "It's hard to say", and there are some guesses.
It's not the Ruan family, and it doesn't have to be related to the Buddha Hand Lake Annex. Aunt Wang, as the son of the Chu family, may have some help in the old mansion, Aunt Zhao is still suspected of having private contact with the old mansion, and the Chu family's houses have some properties in Jinling, and Aunt Mo's maiden family is also in Jinling City, and Zhongshan is not far from Jinling City.
These people, Aunt Qin has really offended, and after thinking about it carefully, all of them are suspicious.
However, maybe it's because the weather is dry, and it's not that her house was burned, so she doesn't bother to investigate.
Xiusun put the wrapped orange petals in a small glass plate and handed them to Ruan, glanced at her, and told Chu Xiuyi about it, of course she would not say that she went to that garden to find traces of uninvited guests, only that she went there after eating.
Xiusun thought that Ruan would blame her, but she didn't want Ruan to just ask her what the old lady said.
Xiusun said, "I didn't tell my grandmother about this, but I left it to Ren's mother, and my grandmother must have known about it, but she didn't say anything about me." "Grandmother didn't stop her, she acquiesced.
Few people don't know about the grievances between the old fourth room and the long room, and the things that help Chu Xiuyi can only be done secretly, just let Ren's mother go to the kitchen of the inner courtyard to get some food, and they are all given another silver, just as the old fourth room adds vegetables, and the people below are tacit.
The fourth room is not afraid of this matter, she just doesn't want her grandmother to be embarrassed, but she can't hide this matter sooner or later.
"It's easy to settle." Ruan Shi took a small glass plate and ate a petal of orange, and groaned.
Xiusun understood what she meant when she heard her, but she sighed, "I'm afraid that the eldest lady's family will stir up trouble again." ”
But...... Xiusun had an idea, the last time the eldest lord was at the funeral, it was the eldest lady's sister-in-law, Mrs. Wu, who took advantage of the momentum of the Liangguo Mansion, coupled with the official authority of her own man's Fujian political envoy, to some extent.
And now, the Liangguo Mansion is destroyed, Mrs. Wu is dead, and she still encounters bandits for the sake of the eldest wife, if something happens to the eldest lady, whether the eldest lady's brother will help or not.
As long as this thing is done well, there may be a turnaround. Xiusun secretly planned in her heart. (To be continued.) )