Chapter Seventy-Four: Planning
Qiu Xiang scattered her hair and sat on the bed, looking at the crescent moon outside the window, remembering that she went to her eldest brother's house when she was resting a few days ago, and Shuangqiao was about to give birth and talked to her with a big belly. Because her daughter-in-law was about to give birth, her mother specially came up from Zhuangzi to wait for the confinement child.
She sat and talked with Shuangqiao, and her mother sat on the patio with a bunch of old clothes to cut some for the children's diapers. Just as he took out a piece of dark green cloth to cut it, Shuangqiao hurriedly stopped it, saying that it was a gown from Brother Qiuxiang, and he could wear it for another summer.
Looking at Qiu Xiang's surprised appearance, Shuangqiao said with a smile at the time, "Don't be surprised, what were these things in the mansion before, if you are not afraid of people's jokes, even if the clothes are taken to the yard, you have to choose as you like." But now it's different, it's easy to come out and it's hard to go back. When she was not married, she was the eldest girl of the young lady, and wherever she went, people didn't call us a girl. But now, even if I want to go back to the house, it will be two or three years later. Whether you want to go back or not, whether there is any place to be cared for, this is not what we say. Now the family is supported by your eldest brother, although it is not impossible to eat, but you have to be careful to spend.
"Sister, sister-in-law can see through it, if you can stay inside, don't come out, the nobles in the house will leak enough for us to eat for a lifetime. Not to mention those masters, you look at Aunt Xiao and Aunt Chen, Aunt Chen doesn't mention it, just look at Aunt Xiao, that's Mrs.'s dowry, who doesn't know what the third young master is like, and he was sent to Guozijian to study, but I heard your eldest brother say...... The last time I came back, I happened to bump into the third young master and a few classmates who went to Huayue Tower. β
"No, the third young master is only 14 years old this year, how can he go to that kind of place?" Qiu Xiang looked surprised.
"Hmph, what's wrong with being 14 years old, that's also a gentleman. Why are the third young master and the fourth young master both concubines, but the fourth young master went to Beiting Shuyuan to study, and he is willing to endure so much hardship? Shuangqiao didn't need Qiu Xiang to answer, and then said,
"It's not because Aunt Xiao is Mrs. Madame's dowry, but Aunt Chen was sent from outside. The fourth young master knew that his aunt couldn't deliver words in front of the old lady, and the lady was a person who didn't care about anything, so what could he do, he could only rely on himself. How old was he when I first went to the Academy? A 10-year-old child went with two children, what if he didn't go?
"Qiu Xiang, my mother and I have the same idea, and we don't want you to find a little girl to marry like us in the future, and nest in this back alley for the rest of your life. You are a smart person, although you don't look as good as Yuanyue and them, but you are not bad at all in terms of thinking and work.
"I heard Jiao Xing come back last time and say that the second lady will be around someone soon, although Yuanyue is a tacit room, but who said that the second young master over there will definitely accept it, and who stipulates it must be Yuanyue. But if you think about it again, when you go to the palace, there will definitely be a small service around the second young master, plus the second young lady brought over, if you don't do the first class, you can't wait by the second miss's side, and you are not the old lady who has settled down to be the person who has a room, which means that the second young master of the palace may not even know who you are. Shuangqiao patted Qiu Xiang's hand as she spoke.
"What your sister-in-law said is right, daughter, my mother also inquired, this Zhongguo Mansion, the grandfather of the country is old, it is unlikely that he will accept the house to carry his aunt, the prince and the wife of the prince have a good relationship with the whole capital, it is those two rooms, I heard that I can't go once or twice a month.
As for the second master, he was tied to death by the second young grandmother, and I heard that the rooms around him were all sent away. The third young master is young, and the second is that you are not a good person to listen to what your sister-in-law just said, so you have to take one step now, that is, to follow the second lady to marry, and you have to do it first, so that the second master of the palace can notice you, and my daughter can have a day of being out of the ground. β
Qiu Xiang looked out the window emptyly, what the mother and sister-in-law said was of course reasonable, one is not a fixed room, and she is not a big girl, of course, it is impossible to wait in the inner room in the future; Second, there must be a girl waiting for the second master by his side, so it's his turn to come forward casually; The third of his appearance can only be regarded as medium, I heard that the second master of the palace is a master of wandering among flowers, and he is used to seeing all kinds of beauties, what is his own kind of? If you really do this and marry second-class in the past, maybe you really can't even get into the room.
Of course, these are not the main ones, the most important thing is the passage that I heard from Shuiqin yesterday, which can be said to have given her a slap in the face.
She thought that she had the first opportunity in terms of timing, first saved the second lady's life, and then relieved her. I don't dare to be sloppy on errands, and I get along very well with Liu's mother and the housekeeper mothers of each hospital. Let's just talk about Graceland, except for those rough mothers-in-law who don't like to take care of themselves, everyone else is good, and now only with wisteria is to open the skylight.
However, how could the old lady order the wisteria to do the first class, and directly brought it up from the third class, and the original words of the cress at the time were,
"My aunt was about to go to bring the undergarment to the old lady, when she heard the old lady tell the lady of the world, 'Give Sister Fang the Lixia beside me, so that she can be a managing grandmother in the future.'" Your mother-in-law still has to be checked by you, you must keep a loyal, honest and clever person, then you will also be a candidate for companionship in the future. In this way, Sister Fang's side will mention Yuanyue and Wisteria this time. Lixia can't go over first, Qiuwen doesn't marry in winter, let her take Yuanyue and Wisteria for a while, and then transfer Lixia to the time when Dongwen marries, and then connect the people chosen by your mother-in-law together, and this will be alive. As for the second and third class, you and Liu's mother are combined, but they are the same, they must be born in a family. ββ
Qiu Xiang stroked her hair for a while, today is the night of the first month, and she is the only one in the house. She couldn't figure out why Wisteria climbed up, and today it was clear that the second miss had such a cold attitude towards her, but she asked the second miss to send everyone away to talk alone for so long, and finally came out happily, what happened in the middle?
Since the Wisteria was picked up by Yu's mother, it can be said that from Zhuangzi to the mansion is under her nose, what does she not know?
Qiu Xiang simply stood up and walked back and forth, if you want to be first-class, only one wisteria can do it by herself among the few people who listen to what Shui Cress said, but now she doesn't even know why Wisteria suddenly raised it, how to start? Who did she find to convince the old lady or the prince?
Qiu Xiang filtered through the people she could think of one by one in her mind, and even thought of Lu Pozi at the back corner door.
At this time, it was raining outside, it was already the end of summer, and it was a little cold after this rain. Qiu Xiang hurriedly tore off the wooden strip of the window to close it, and suddenly she thought of a person, the two people who Wisteria had brought to pull the carriage in the spring.
Qiu Xiang still remembers the two people clearly, the older one only talked about it, and it seemed that they were familiar with wisteria. Although the second lady later asked Wisteria who was helping, Wisteria only replied that he was looking for it in an iron shop on the street, and he was borrowing an iron drill, but people were eager to come and help. If it was just a temporary helper, how could someone say it for so long.
But if it was someone who knew it first, for example, it was Yu's mother or someone Gu Hai and Gu He knew to help, then Wisteria could say it bluntly, why did he lie?
Qiu Xiang suddenly became excited, as if she saw an exit from a dead end, and she walked twice on the ground. Yes, there must be a problem with this, if you can find out that Wisteria knows people in the market, but you can't say anything about it, you still go alone on a rainy day, add more firewood, and let the idiot of watercress spread the word in the house. When the time comes, don't say it's a wait, even if it's her turn to marry, how can the old lady let a girl with a bad reputation or contact with a foreign man be the lady's dowry?
That's right, that's it. Tomorrow, I will tell Brother SΓΉ and ask him to go to the south of the city to inquire if there is an iron shop, but in half a year, it should not be done.
Qiu Xiang smiled on her face, no matter what, her mother and sister-in-law were right, since she had set a goal, she must go there, she didn't imagine Shuangqiao like that, she was not even willing to tear a gown to make diapers for her son. She wants to be like Aunt Xiao, give birth to a son and raise her to be an aunt, and she will be prosperous and rich for the rest of her life.