Chapter 159: Turmoil
Luo Chan didn't sleep all night, and fell asleep in a daze at dawn. On the third pole of the sun, Luo Chan slept sweetly, and suddenly heard the sound of banging on the door. Luo Chan was a little unhappy, squinted her eyes and shouted out of the door, what are the beating around! Turn over and go to sleep again.
The sound of banging on the door outside the door paused, and the knock knocked more urgently. Luo Yan opened her misty eyes, pulled her embroidered shoes and opened the door angrily, opening her mouth to scold. I saw Mrs. Wu standing in front of the door.
Luo Chan didn't know why, so she forced her anger and called "mother-in-law".
"Don't call me mother-in-law, Rong Rui is suffering in prison, you are embarrassed to sleep lazy!" Mrs. Wu's face was frosty, "Xiangzhi, take Luo Chan to the front hall." Mrs. Wu turned around and went back to the front hall first.
Luo Chan was speechless in front of the door for a while. Xiangzhi saw Mrs. Wu walking away, so she smiled softly and said, "The slave maid helps the eldest grandmother to freshen up, don't let the lady wait." "After the selection of the eldest girl in the Rongfu Mansion, Xiangzhi took a long leave to go home to visit his sick father, but he didn't expect it to be just over two months, and when he came back, the courtyards of the Rongfu Mansion were very different from before, and he married three grandmothers, and died again...... The incense branch didn't know the root for a while, and it was not good to offend Luo Chan in front of him.
"Ma'am, what's the matter? What's wrong with my father-in-law? What about Qing'er? Luo Chan was confused and looked at the incense sticks. Luo Chan felt that the incense branch noodles were very raw, although she had married into the Baifu Garden for a while, she still couldn't recognize the slaves and maids in the garden.
"Qing'er went to the front hall early in the morning, grandma hurry up and freshen up! The uncle's affairs will be discussed with the grandmother in detail later. ”
"I ask you, madame, what's wrong? I'm just going to sleep and she's so angry? Luo Chan flattened her mouth, Mrs. Wu said that she didn't recognize Luo Chan's daughter-in-law, and Luo Chan didn't want to recognize Mrs. Wu's mother-in-law! As the wife of the Rong Mansion Changfang, she is not in charge of affairs, and she relies on Mrs. Cheng in everything, Luo Chan can't afford Mrs. Wu in her heart.
"Well, Madame has something on her mind, that's why she is so angry. After a while, the grandmother will know when she comes over......" Xiangzhi moved neatly and took Luo Chan into the house to freshen up...... Xiangzhi helped Luo Chan comb the weeping clouds and moon bun, and smiled at Luo Chan in the mirror.
Luo Chan reached out and held her sideburns, carefully looking at her appearance in the mirror. Seeing the plain-looking incense branch looking at her, Luo Chan glanced at the incense branch.
Luo Chan is not a person who dresses up casually! Every time she goes out, she has to dress up grand and rich, this is the infinite scenery after she became the grandmother of Rongfu, how can she perfunctory every day.
Luo Chan reached out and opened the dressing table to find two golden hairpins to plug in. Xiangzhi urged her. "Grandma looks the best, let's go quickly!" Luo Chan didn't seem to hear it, her fingers rummaged in the makeup drawer, and finally pulled out two hairpins, raising her hand and cocking her orchid fingers. Carefully insert it into the bun.
Luo Chan got up, took the concubine silk snow jade ring and put it on her waist, and then walked towards the door. Xiangzhi smiled and followed them to the front hall...... Qing'er saw Luo Chan come in, and her head hung lower.
Qing'er got up early in the morning to clean the courtyard, and saw that Luo Chan's door had been closed, knowing that Luo Chan hadn't gotten up yet. Qing'er didn't dare to urge, Luo Chan often felt sick and nauseous, and her mood was uncertain. Qing'er didn't have Luo Chan's orders, so she didn't dare to enter and leave Luo Chan's house at will.
Xiangzhi asked Qing'er to go to the front hall, and Qing'er thought that Mrs. Wu had something to order. I didn't expect to enter the front hall. Mrs. Wu was pacing back and forth angrily, and when she saw Qing'er's head and face, she was slapped twice.
Qing'er was so frightened that she knelt on the ground and didn't know what mistake she had made, and Mrs. Wu sat on the Taishi chair, "Let me ask you, what has Luo Chan bought in the past few days?" How much silver was used? ”
Qing'er was stunned for a moment, then she reacted, counted carefully, and she accompanied Luo Chan to buy the concubine silk snow jade ring ribbon, the strange fragrance powder from the Western Regions, and the red golden apricot hairpin......
The more Mrs. Wu listened, the more angry she became, and slapped the table with a black face, "Enough!" It's thanks to my shrewdness and ability. But let such a goblin enter the door and lose. ”
Qing'er endured the grievances and didn't dare to speak out, and kept kneeling in the hall waiting for the master to leave......
Luo Chan came in and glanced at Qing'er who was kneeling on the ground, thinking that Qing'er had upset Mrs. Wu and affected her. Luo Chan glared at Qing'er fiercely. raised his eyes again and saw that Mrs. Wu was still covered with black clouds, and reluctantly called "mother-in-law". Luo Chan walked straight to the Taishi chair and sat down.
Mrs. Wu was obviously annoyed by Luo Chan's makeup, "Do you know that Rong Rui was arrested?" Mrs. Wu opened the door to meet.
Luo Chan was smart, and hurriedly asked what was going on? Mrs. Wu called Vanilla in. "Vanilla, what did you say to Luo Chan about Uncle now?" Mrs. Wu stared at Luo Chan.
"Uncle was accused of taking bribes and imprisoned." Vanilla's voice was dry, without a hint of emotion.
"What? How so? I'm a father-in-law. Luo Chan was anxious, "What happened to my father-in-law?" ”
Vanilla Muran's face rippled, and he said indifferently: "How can the slave know so much!" The slave is only responsible for delivering the word. ”
"The slave and maid carried the silver over yesterday, and the uncle originally returned it to the prisoner's family. Because the investigation was tight, the eldest master and the second master were both led by this person who committed the crime. The uncle was also afraid that the paper would not be able to contain the fire, so he returned the money he had received. The prisoners were imprisoned again, hoping to give the boss an errand to extinguish the matter. Who knew that after the prisoner's family carried the silver and left, the uncle was arrested by the official in the middle of the night. ”
Vanilla paused, "The slave maid only found out this morning that the family members of the criminals went back and found that they were missing a few thousand taels of silver, and accused the uncle of accepting bribes." ”
"It's all your good work! How dare you touch the silver that Rong Rui got back. What a daredevil! ”
"Why can't I use the money that my father-in-law got back!" Luo Chan's mouth was stiff, but she was thinking about countermeasures in her heart.
"How did you spend it, how did you get it back for me, the deficit of a few thousand taels must be made up, and then I went to the family of the prisoner to discuss and withdraw the complaint......" Mrs. Wu had a cold face.
Last time, for Rong Chunniang's business, all the cash in Baifuyuan was taken to be counted, and now Rong Rui has an accident again, and Mrs. Wu can't make up the money for a while. Originally, I was going to go to Rong Chunniang to borrow money from the eldest master, but the person sent there has not come back yet......
It was impossible for Mrs. Cheng to lend the silver, so she did Zhu Xingru's funeral extravagantly, and she had to take care of Rong Yonglu's affairs, and now she went to Mrs. Cheng to borrow money to fill the hole of Rong Rui's matter, which was obviously boring.
Mrs. Rong also didn't have any cash, and Mrs. Wu knew more or less that Mrs. Rong was subsidizing the third room, so she helped the third room carry the cost of 20,000 taels of furniture......
The more worried Mrs. Wu was, the more she looked at Luo Chan unpleasantly. Still stunned for what to do, Xiangzhi accompanied her back, and took all the things she bought, and took everything that could be converted into silver. Poke the hole yourself, make up for it yourself! ”
Luo Chan thought about it carefully and knew that there was no other way at this time, as long as Rong Rui could pass this level, he would still have no silver in the future. Qing'er and Xiangzhi packed up Luo Chan's newly purchased jewelry of various colors, and Luo Chan found out that she had bought so much, but she only remembered a piece of concubine silk snow jade ring ribbon in her heart......
It's a pleasure to have money to spend! Luo Chan sighed in her heart......
Although Luo Chan was reluctant, she still entered the pawnshop with Qing'er and Xiangzhi. The pawnshop owner estimated for a long time and only gave seven hundred taels of silver. Luo Chan thought she had heard it wrong, and the pawnshop owner said the same thing to Luo Chan, it turned out that Luo Chan spent a lot of money to buy something, but it was a defective goods that were not worth much, and Luo Chan was deceived by profiteers.
Luo Chan wanted to go to the boss of Duobaozhai to theorize, Xiangzhi persuaded her not to go, in case things got bigger, people laughed at her, the grandmother of the Rong family, who didn't know the good and the bad......
Where can Luo Chan listen, she accepted the jewelry and didn't pay for it, and insisted on going to Duobao Zhai to theorize. Xiangzhi hurriedly returned to Mrs. Yuwu in Baifu Garden. Mrs. Wu felt that this was a shame-hurting thing, and buying and selling was a willingness to fight and a willingness to suffer.
Mrs. Wu's heart was even more angry, and she hurried to Duobao Zhai. Luo Chan has been arguing with the guys in the store for a long time, and on the ground in front of Duobao Zhai, Luo Chan dropped the piece of concubine silk snow jade ring, shouting that the store is shoddy and must be compensated......
Mrs. Wu hid in the dark and watched from afar, and asked the two mothers-in-law to pull Luo Chan back......
"I've lost all my face with you!" Back at Baifuyuan, Madame Wu had lost the last bit of patience. As he was talking, the mother-in-law who went into the capital to find Rong Chunniang to borrow money came back. The mother-in-law came in and said that the eldest lady had taken two thousand five hundred taels. Mrs. Wu's hanging heart fell to the ground, and she counted that she still had some emergency hundreds of taels of silver in her hand, which should be enough to save Rong Rui......
(To be continued.) )