Chapter 161, Returned
Xu and Ma saw that the morning snow couldn't walk, so they threw her on the post road and walked away. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoFortunately, it's not like the snow can't really walk.,It's just pretending.ć Soon, Tong Jiang drove Baoru over.
"Fifth Miss, the minion is late!" Tong Jiang saw that Miss Five's shoes were wet with snow, and he blamed himself.
"Okay, it's just deliberately getting wet for acting, where is your fault. But this foot is wet, and the body is really cold, let's hurry up and get in the car! "After getting in the car, Fanghua first changed into dry shoes and socks for Miss Five, and then changed them for herself. Baoru burned the red clay stove in the car more vigorously, and warmed tea for Miss Mu, so she ordered Tong Jiang to hurry.
"Do you think we're going to meet them?" Mu Chenxue lifted the curtain of the car a little and looked out of the car.
"No, there is a fork in the road not far ahead, when the slave maid came over just now, I happened to see those few people walking over, and the third lady still wanted to stop our car, the shopkeeper Tong shook his horsewhip, and scared a few people to retreat again and again, that is really ridiculous!" Baoru looked proud, these people had calculated Miss Mataku at the beginning, even if they died, they deserved it.
Tong Jiang wore a hat, his head and face were covered with cloth, Mu Chenxue was not worried that he would be recognized by these people, and ordered Tong Jiang to drive the car slower and wait a little longer, waiting for those people to go farther away, and then continue to go to his grange.
"Fifth Miss, if you don't go back to the shogunate, I'm afraid that Aunt Xu and Aunt Ma won't bring your words when they arrive, and they will wronged you again!" Fanghua was a little worried, afraid that these people would be uneasy and kind.
"If only they could enter the city! And what they hate most now is not us, but the eldest lady, so even if they don't speak for us, they won't hurt us! Baoru had already told her that now that the county seat has been sealed, only allowed to go out and not allowed to enter, just because these people don't even have an identity, and there is no silver to bribe, I'm afraid that even the city gate can't be opened.
Mu Chenxue expected it to be good, and the Ma family finally rushed to the city gate, but the officers and soldiers guarding the city did not let a few people enter the city.
"Official, you are doing well, we are really the family members of the shogunate's mansion, in order to avoid trouble, we live in the village outside the city, if you don't believe it, you can send a message to the shogunate and ask!" Although the gatekeeper of the city did not let a few people enter the city, he did not dare not to pass the word, for fear that a few people would really be the ladies of the shogunate's mansion.
After waiting for more than an hour, I saw Steward Liu walking out of the city gate, and several people hurriedly got up to greet him.
"The slave greets the third lady, and Aunt Xu and Aunt Ma!" Steward Liu bowed slightly, and the three of them hurriedly stopped him, don't say that this person is a slave next to the eldest master, that is, a small guy in the outer courtyard, and they don't dare to offend people with the score at this time.
"The master is not in the mansion at this time, and he was called by King Qing. So the servant went and consulted the eldest lady. The eldest lady said that the three were sent out of the house by the master, and they were not allowed to return to the house without the master's order, so please go back as soon as possible, don't embarrass the master! "Steward Liu didn't know about the affairs of Zhuangzi, so he replied whatever the eldest lady asked him to say.
"Steward Liu, you must save us, the steward of the eldest lady Zhuangzi didn't have any good intentions at all, and teamed up with outsiders to use medicine to stun us all. He also snatched all the things we brought, and left an empty Zhuangzi for us, in this big winter, there is not even a bed cover or even a stutter, but how can we live! Ma couldn't cry. Aunt Xu also pleaded from the side, and even the third sister sat on the ground crying, not caring if there was snow on the ground.
"What?" Steward Liu thought that he had heard it wrong, if this was the case, he was afraid that he would have to inform the master of this matter. Just as he was about to turn around and go home, he saw the shogunate's coachman driving a carriage out of the city.
The coachman got out of the car and saluted a few people first, "The eldest lady asked the slave to send two bags of grain to the three masters." Prince Qing issued another grain requisition order, and the eldest master was worried about this matter, so he asked the servants to persuade a few masters to go back early and stop making trouble! "A few people were not killed by the steward, and the eldest lady was also full of resentment. But she also knew that she must not let these people enter the city at this time, otherwise the eldest lord would relent, and Xu would keep them. Then he asked the coachman to drive the car to deliver some food to a few people, and then send them back to Zhuangzi.
"No, I won't go back, Aunt Cheng followed Jiang's mother, there are only three of us in the Zhuangzi, and there is not even a bed to sleep in, I don't want to go back!" The third sister screamed and was about to rush to the city, but where could she defeat the officers and soldiers defending the city, she was stopped by Lian frightened and pushed. If it weren't for the fact that the three of them were indeed from the shogunate's mansion, these officers and soldiers would not have been so polite. According to the order of King Qing, it is a capital crime to break into the city gate.
Seeing that there was such a stalemate, it was not a matter for Steward Liu to always block at the city gate, so he came up with an idea for a few people, "A few masters, do you think this is good?" You follow the coachman back to Zhuangzi first, you can always survive a few days with food, and when the master returns home, the slave must tell the master about the matter, and then it depends on what the master says? ā
When a few people saw that they couldn't enter the city gate, they were dizzy with hunger, and when they saw that Steward Liu was willing to pass on the news to them, they were also happy to go to Zhuangzi to wait for the news. As for what the fifth sister asked them to pass on, naturally they didn't say a word. even told Steward Liu that Aunt Cheng was unwilling to return to the shogunate.
That night, the eldest lord got the news from Steward Liu, first went to the inner courtyard to question his wife, and the two had a big quarrel, but the life of the shogunate became more and more difficult, and the eldest lord did not dare to take everyone back, and heard that Steward Liu said that Aunt Cheng lived in Jiang's mother's house, thinking that the ninth brother had someone to take care of, so he did not plan to take the rest of the people back. Instead, he ordered Steward Liu to send some brocade quilts to a few people the next day, which can be regarded as doing his part.
The three of them looked forward to it day and night, but they only looked forward to a few beddings, how could they be willing. But as soon as he heard the order given by the eldest master, he knew that he really couldn't go back, so he had to reluctantly stay in Zhuangzi. Two bags of grain, in addition to three people, also have to support the slaves and maids around them, let alone eat for a few months, even if they are afraid that they will not be able to survive even a month.
Aunt Xu only knows how to cry all day long, and the third sister is even more crying to the fire, a mouthful of fire bubbles. Or the Ma family had suffered before, and the grain was distributed, and the slaves and maids only ate one meal of porridge a day, and the three of them could only eat two meals of thin porridge a day. As for how long they can last, it depends on when the eldest master is willing to take them back.
Naturally, Mu Chenxue didn't care about the things here, and when she returned to her grange, she went to ask her grandmother and mother to say goodbye first, and then she wrote a letter to her father. So write down the things in the Zhuangzi and their arrangements in the tone of Aunt Cheng, and ask Baoru to send them to the shogunate when she returns to the city.
As soon as Baoru was sent out of the village, he heard a soft knock outside the window, "Please come in!" "I thought it was Nangong Shumo, and the morning snow opened the fanghua outside, so I pushed the window and invited someone in. (To be continued.) )