Chapter 65: The Struggle (Part II)
The life and death of the eldest lady wandered, and no one in the mansion knew.
About a person who has never known how to hide her emotions, when she makes up her mind to swallow the bitter fruit alone, she can uncharacteristically calm down, so that no one else can see her struggle and pain.
Early in the morning of the second day, the eldest lady took Xingzhao to Rongshoutang to greet her, and after returning to the main hall, Huang's mother whispered to the eldest lady with disgust on her face, "The one in the east invited Niu Daopo again, and he was bold and generous, and he was rewarded with a gold bar." Uncle's business is hard to guarantee that there is no villain in trouble! ”
The eldest lady was speechless after hearing this, and only after a while did she come up and say: "Let her go, life and death are fate, and wealth is in the sky." ”
Huang's mother was irritable, so she had to take Aunt Wan out of anger, and when she heard the eldest lady's words, she was half angry.
Xingzhao was led by the eldest lady, looked up, the eldest lady's round white face, a pair of gentle and gentle eyes, coupled with a shallow and raised small mouth, there was bitterness and astringency in his heart, but he could only smile and greasy with the eldest lady to copy the Buddhist scriptures.
On a March day, the bamboo curtain hanging at the door has been replaced with a narrow bamboo curtain that can breathe the wind, Xingzhao sat cross-legged on the kang, holding a pen in his hand, and wrote very seriously stroke by stroke. The eldest lady sat at the other end, with a blue and blue embroidered cage beside her, and grasped the Shu brocade handkerchief embroidered with a phoenix wearing a peony in her hand, and raised her head from time to time to look at Xingzhao, and smiled lightly, as if the gentle smile could pass through the bottom of her eyes and reach the tip of her heart.
Not long after, Mr. Bai came to the main hall panting, and with a "snap", the curtain was opened and thrown down.
"Ma'am—" Mr. Bai stopped talking. Hunched over behind the screen.
Xingzhao turned his head sideways and put the pen down first. I looked at the eldest lady with a calm expression, and my heart suddenly felt uneasy. Asked repeatedly, "What's wrong?" But something happened in the Northwest! ”
"General Hou Ye went down to the court and said, saying that the emperor ordered General Qin Boling to withdraw to Pingxi Guanli and assist General Liang Pinggong to resist the Tatars. Another 300 soldiers were sent to the northwest to surround the Fang family's old mansion! ”
Before Mr. Bai's words fell, the eldest lady exclaimed in a low voice, Xingzhao hurriedly came up to look, and the index finger was pierced by a needle, and there were already beads of blood gushing out.
"What about Master Hou!" Xingzhao took out a handkerchief and wrapped it for the stunned eldest lady. Bian asked urgently.
"Hou Ye is outside" Manager Bai hesitated, and remembered that as soon as He Yanxia came back, he told him to come to the main courtyard to report the news, but he straightened his clothes and walked out, and discussed with the staff, shouldn't it be in the Qincun Courtyard? Hou Ye went out, what was he going to do!
Manager Bai thought of the red tile building in the green alley for no reason, and the Hou Ye was too much to take advantage of and avoid harm!
Xingzhao didn't have time to think about it, and his heart rose sharply to sadness, because of his rebirth. It seems that a Shang Yin was changed to a palace horn in a music score, and then the whole song was completely changed! Uncle has not been traced for so many days, and rumors in Dingjing City about the world's soldiers and horses praying for treason against the enemy are rampant, and the emperor ordered Qin Boling to collect the army. It's to give up on my uncle. And letting three hundred soldiers surround the Fang Mansion is to doubt and disgust the Fang family!
"Mother, it's okay, it's okay! It doesn't mean anything! The siege of the Fang family may be to protect his aunt and cousin! "Xingzhao has been coming from the next generation. I had never felt so flustered, and I was clinging to the arms of the eldest lady. hugged her: "Mother! Even if it's your uncle, you still have us! ”
The emperor surrounded the Fang family, and the emperor surrounded the Fang family!
The eldest lady felt paralyzed. Subconsciously hugged his daughter, is this Ying Yi's warning? Now it's just a siege, if the Lin'an Hou Mansion doesn't report the news of his death, then tomorrow will there be a message that the Fang family, the boy is exiled to Mobei, and the daughter is a slave in the court!
The little person in her arms is soft, fragrant, crying and laughing, and will call her mother softly with a glutinous children's voice. Auntie is not married yet, she wants to see her daughter wearing a wedding dress, marrying with a phoenix crown, giving birth to children, and extending the heir. Grandma is so smart, they all say that bad bamboo shoots are good, and Grandma will definitely live better than her
She really doesn't want to die!
The eldest lady looked at Tian'er and patted Xingzhao's back, obviously as long as she died, the danger of the Fang family could be minimized, obviously as long as she died, those letterheads and those handles would be wiped out, there was no evidence The emperor didn't dare to do anything to the Fang family, obviously as long as she died, her children would not live in fear and contempt.
That maid, rightly, this is obviously a good deal
She's been weak all her life, so she should be brave again
The eldest lady secretly touched the bottle that was well hidden in the placket, squinted her eyes tightly, and then put Xingzhao in her arms, and when she opened her eyes again, she told Huang's mother with tears in her eyes: "Go and call Brother Jing." ”
After a while, Brother Jing didn't come, and Huang's mother stumbled in, crying: "Jing Dalangjun is not in Guanzhi Courtyard, leave a note!" I went to Ruiweixuan to find that Jiang Qianhu was also gone! As he spoke, he handed over the sweat-stained note, "'The war in the northwest is busy, and my uncle has no news. Rumors are as fierce as a tiger, and the sky does not argue with loyalty and treachery! Jing goes to the northwest, and the road to find relatives is boundless, "What is the northwest place!" The sword has no eyes"
Speaking of the end, Huang's mother howled and cried.
The eldest lady staggered to her feet, took the note, and after reading it once, she put the note in her hand in her hand, couldn't stop it anymore, and cried: "Brother Jing doesn't believe that my brother will rebel, why do others believe it!" I'm going to wait for Brother Jing to come back! I'm going to wait for Brother Jing to come back with all his beards and tails! I was relieved after seeing my son! ”
"My brother can't go far, it's only a moment or three from the time I got the news to now, even if my brother runs forward at full speed on his horse, crossing the city gate and crossing the post road, it will take some time!" Xingzhao was no less anxious than them, and held back his tears and commanded: "Lianyu, you go to the stable, pick a few young men who can ride horses well, and ride on horses to chase them!" Take the name of the Hou Ye, the guards of Anshun Gate don't dare"
"What to chase! With a sloppy temperament, he thought that after reading the military book for a few days and reading a few pictures, he would really become Li Guangweiqing! There was a loud voice outside with a visibly suppressed anger.
It's He Yan!
"Lianyu! Just go! Xingzhao urged without a deaf ear. My brother can't go, at least not now! The future is uncertain. If it is really as she guessed earlier, the Northwest is not only a foreign enemy. There is even more civil strife, my brother found his uncle, it's good to say, if he can't find it, she won't just lose an uncle!
"Who dares to go!" He Yan lifted the curtain and shouted loudly.
Xingzhao moved his steps, stood in front of the eldest lady, and looked up at He Yan: "My brother is my father's own flesh and blood!" Does my father want to be disrespectful? ”
This is a heart-wrenching statement!
The holy will of the morning, the conversation of the generals, the stupidity of the eldest son. Now coupled with the disobedience of the second daughter, He Yan's heart that was already on fire has become more and more burning, the eldest son is disobedient, and even the younger daughter who has always valued him has to disobey him!
In a hurry, his palms rose high and fell straight down with the wind.
The eldest lady threw herself forward and screamed bitterly: "He Yan! You dare to fight Xingzhao! ”
He Yan was immediately pushed back a few steps, and looked up angrily at the hairpin in front of him. I felt that the Fang family was embarrassed, like a lost dog.
When people were embarrassed and angry, it didn't make sense to do anything and forgot to think about it, He Yan took out a stack of letters from his arms. They all threw themselves on the ground and shouted to the eldest lady: "Stupid women dare to be rampant!" ”
The eldest lady guarded Xingzhao firmly behind her, and then looked at the cyan letterhead that fell on the crimson felt carpet. Hitomi dilated rapidly, and looked at He Yan in disbelief: "You" reacted very quickly and turned his head to hold Xingzhao in his arms. Pushing out the door, he said, "Grandma go out first." Send someone to chase your brother back! ”
Xingzhao felt that something was wrong, and he was in the door, crying and shaking his head: "I won't go, I won't go!" Seeing this, Lianyu turned around and immediately ran to the stable at the east end.
He Yan secretly regretted in his heart, and glanced at Mr. Bai, who saw this and paced small steps to stop Lianyu.
For a while, the courtyard was crying and crying, making a lot of noise, and it was so noisy that it didn't look like the great family of the Great Zhou Dynasty that had lasted for a hundred years.
"Lock the yard door! Whoever dares to go out will be beaten to death immediately! He Yan's voice was not loud, but it was endlessly cold, he glanced at the young girl who was crying with a red face, and was ruthless, and ordered the mothers-in-law he brought in the yard: "Take the fourth girl outside, if she breaks free, she will be beaten to death!" ”
The mothers-in-law of the outer courtyard had never entered the courtyard in their lives, and now a white chief came to greet people, and called a dozen strong mothers-in-law and dozens of guards armed with knives to come in, saying that it was useful, and let them wait in the courtyard. But I didn't expect this task to be like this
Everyone didn't dare to move, they looked at each other and offended their masters, which in their cognition, they would be beaten!
"Who did a good job! Fifty taels of silver! ”
Before He Yan's words fell, there must be a fierce man under the heavy reward, a mother-in-law with a sharp mouth and a mother-in-law with a mole on the corner of his mouth looked at each other, looked around again, and then took care of Xingzhao, who was dead on the door frame, and fished it out.
Xingzhao's fingers were pulled apart one by one, the nails of his little finger had already flown up, and the pain of his ten fingers and heart was not as strong as the despair and strength that rose sharply in his heart, and he screamed in a heart-rending voice, "Mother! Uncle won't die! Uncle won't die! Daddy, Daddy, Daddy! When your uncle returns home, you will do everything perfectly, how should you deal with yourself! Brother Jing will blame you, Grandma will hate you, grandmother will be disappointed, father, think about it! ”
He Yan frowned, waving his hand as if out of sight and out of mind.
The sharp-beaked monkey-cheeked mother-in-law smiled at He Yan, and at the same time covered Xingzhao's mouth with a palm the size of a pu fan, and said again and again: "Master Hou, you and Mrs. talk well, say well, the slave will not let the four girls make trouble with you." ”
As he spoke, he dragged Xingzhao into the small courtyard next to the main courtyard, Xingzhao had little strength, where could he twist these two strong mothers-in-law, he could only see his calves kicking and his hands dancing.
The eldest lady screamed and wanted to rush over to bring Xingzhao back, but was hugged by several other mothers-in-law.
Huang's mother was a mess, trembling with anger, turned around and went into the inner room, took a bright knife in her hand and came out, and burst into tears: "You people are doing this to the master!" Aren't you afraid of God's damnation? (To be continued......)
ps: There should be more ...... The front has been changed and changed