Chapter 16: Gambling
After a stick of incense, the emotions of the four people in the main hall calmed down a lot. Mrs. Tai raised her voice to call in the girls, Su Qing collar in front, and the little girls either wore a magpie yang-patterned copper basin filled with warm water, or a black lacquer and gold tray filled with makeup powder handkerchiefs, and walked in small steps, and refreshed their faces with Showa Lianyu.
Mrs. Tai instructed the two little girls to go to the east wing to clean up and put them away, and gave a pair of cards for Zhang's mother to take Su Qing and Lianyu to the warehouse to choose things. Leaning on the couch, flipping through a calendar book in his hand, a pair of tortoiseshell glasses on the bridge of his nose, and muttering: "The day after tomorrow is a good day, it is better to move and break ground." The agreement with the Huang family is to go to Dingguo Temple on the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month to make incense, and just move to go. Tomorrow, I will clean up the small garden, ventilate it again, and try to finish moving it before the year if I want to move. β
Xingzhao listened quietly, leaned on Mrs. Tai, and nodded again and again.
Mrs. Tai counted with her fingers: "Today is the sixteenth day of the lunar month, let the servants pack up until the nineteenth lunar month, and move over." You don't have to move big things, and you will always have to come to live in Rongshoutang in the future. There should be two big maids in the girl's room, four second-class maids, and a housekeeper mother. You used to live in Rongshoutang, and the maids in my room were all mixed, except for Lianyu Lianrong and Mother Wang, there was no second-class maid to use, and you had to choose again. β
Speaking of this, Mrs. Tai sighed, hugged Xingzhao, and said: "It stands to reason, where can you move in such a hurry, you have to invite someone to calculate, and you have to change the pattern of Xiaoyuan to know you, if such a big thing happens, where can you sit still." It's better to move in early, to calm your mother's heart and your heart. Just one point, Hou Ye is still your father after all. β
If the previous sentence is reluctant, the last sentence obviously carries some helplessness. Xingzhao nodded solemnly, Da Zhou ruled the world with filial piety, allowing fathers to kill their sons, but not allowing children to have half of their disobedience, whether the elders were right or wrong.
While the grandparents and grandchildren were talking, they saw Zhang's mother come in with someone lifting the curtain, holding a booklet in her hand, and singing while flipping it: "The furniture in the small garden is complete, so I turned over something in the library to fill the eight treasure grids." A pair of Guangcai blue and white sprinkled gold official kiln Fang Hu, a dense gold immortal bronze incense burner, a cloisonnΓ© enamel Arhat"
Mrs. Tai listened very seriously, nodded from time to time, and when Zhang's mother finished reading, she ordered: "Carry the twelve red coral jasper nanmu screens in the library to the four girls' town house, and then bring Chen Yunzhi's "Stone Early Spring Picture" over, as well as the ornaments of white jade and red agate lotus beads in my room, don't forget, they are all on the book, the four girls have always liked that ornament." If you go to ask the person in charge of personnel again, there are still twelve or thirteen-year-old little ladies in the house, and there are still a few little maids in the fourth girl's room. β
Nanmu is yang, delicate and warm, put Nanmu pendant in the inner house town house, is the rule of the Great Zhou, but a lift of twelve Nanmu screens is a little too precious, not to mention that there is also a cluster of two-foot-high red coral trees, this cluster of coral trees can be presented as a tribute. "I took a look at the small garden, the main house is not too big, I'm afraid that the screen can't be put in it" The others are all okay, and Zhang's mother is also a little embarrassed about this screen.
When Mrs. Tai heard this, her face sank, and she said, "Then change the courtyard, there is a water pavilion in the main courtyard, I remember that it is quite spacious." β
Xingzhao knew what Mrs. Tai meant, and now she suddenly moved back to the main courtyard without knowing it, and those who didn't understand thought that the four girls of the He family had fallen out of favor. The things that ran water were moved over, and Mrs. He was showing the He Mansion that the four girls were still heavy.
Xingzhao couldn't help but feel warm in her heart, Mrs. Tai, who has always been concerned about the overall situation and rational and self-controlled, can still remember to protect her in small things at such a moment.
"Grandmother, don't be embarrassed. Where you have to have a screen, you also have a pendant carved with Nan wood entwined branches in your house, and Auntie also likes it. With your taste, hang it in front of the bed just in the town, so that the little demon and the little devil can't easily fall into the dream of Ayu. Xingzhao said softly.
Mrs. Tai had heard this bad thing in the morning, and the little granddaughter who had been raised by her side since she was a child was about to move away, but she was pressing the fire but heard Xingzhao's words, and said in a loud voice: "Yes, yes, yes, let that son and ghost can't get close." β
Zhang's mother laughed when she heard this, and while taking a pen to write on the booklet, she said, "Then replace it with a pendant!" Just came over, only Mother Wang and Lianrong were in the east wing, and the two girls went over and said that they were going to pack up the cage, which scared the two of them, and they didn't know if the midwinter was still packed up, so they asked me to ask for advice. β
Mrs. Tai understood as soon as she heard it, and suddenly moved the courtyard, scaring the people in the east wing enough, and said: "Ah Yu will go back first to settle down and give the people an idea." In the evening, when your mother came to say hello, I told her about your early move, and she was only happy. β
Xingzhao smiled and nodded, got up and retreated, and walked out of the main hall with Lianyu, listening to the words of Mrs. Tai in the inner room: "Linglong, the Dexi who is serving by the side of the Hou Ye is your nephew, right?" I remember that his errand was still the way you gave him. Tell him to come to Rongshoutang tonight, and I have something to explain to him. Whether it is Rongshoutang or Hou Ye, he can tell clearly. β
Xingzhao lowered his eyes and glanced at the door that would be closed behind him, and finally bent the corners of his mouth.
Tell Mrs. Tai the truth of the matter, this is a big gamble.
Thankfully, she was right.
Even if Mrs. Tai doesn't like her mother, she doesn't want Ying Yi to marry in this way, and Mrs. Tai's strength is much greater than her.
In terms of affection and reason, public and private, Mrs. Tai will not like Yingyi. Ying Yi is going to marry in, what should the eldest lady do, either be divorced or die.
In love, the eldest lady is the biological mother of He Xingjing and Xingzhao, and Mrs. Tai values her grandson and loves Xingzhao; Yu Li, the grandson of the He family, the future biological mother of Lin'an Hou cannot be an abandoned woman who was divorced by the family; Yu Gong and He Fang are married, and this relationship must continue; In private, as soon as Ying Yi married the son of the prince of Weiguo, he did not serve his in-laws, and he had no children to continue, and after the death of the son, he quickly colluded with his lover, who dared to ask for such a woman.
Lianyu suddenly thought of something, and asked in a low voice: "If Master Hou knows that you told Mrs. Tai, how should this father and daughter get along." β
Xingzhao's tone was a little light, and he said slowly: "So grandmother will only let the people close to her follow her father's whereabouts, and she will not question rashly." Where a person has gone and what he has done, there will always be traces to follow, and when the grandmother asks, the father can't answer, and that's when the truth is exposed. It has nothing to do with you and me. β
Now that the situation has finally changed substantially, Mrs. Tai knows that she is going to move to the main courtyard to guard her mother, does it mean that the outcome will be different after hard work?
Xingzhao squeezed Lianyu's hand, and finally there was some excitement between his eyebrows, and he said with a smile: "Lianyu, Mrs. Tai will not let her get her wish." β
She is naturally Yingyi, Lianyu nodded heavily, and read in her mouth: "When we go to the main courtyard, we will see the eldest lady guarding the sky." β
The east wing was close to the main hall, but it was only a verandah, and the master and servant arrived while talking.
Wang's mother and Lian Rong were busy working in the wing room, Lian Rong's eyes were sharp, and when she saw Xingzhao coming back, she hurriedly came out to greet her: "Why are you going to move the yard after inviting a person today?" Scared me! β
Xingzhao waved his hand and said vaguely: "Anyway, I have to move at the age of eight, and moving now is no different from moving in a few days. β
As she spoke, she saw that a cage had been collected in the morning, and it was neatly placed, she put her mind at ease and said to Wang's mother, "You and Lianrong will lead it and clean it up." Take everything that can be used daily with you, don't move the ornaments, and leave a few pieces of clothing outside. β
Mother Wang then understood, it turned out that Xingzhao had completely moved into her own small courtyard, and she responded, but saw Lian Rong squinting at Lianyu and beckoning: "What are you still doing in a daze!" "Let Xingzhao go to the warm pavilion to rest, "I saw that the girl didn't sleep well yesterday, hurry up and make up for the sleepiness, I can't hear the noise outside in the warm pavilion." β
Xingzhao was really a little exhausted after such a toss, and he remembered to say to Lianyu: "You can also go and rest, the warm pavilion doesn't want you to serve." β
Lianyu responded, but she still laid out the soft satin for Xingzhao first, padd the soup woman, and guarded Xingzhao to fall asleep before leaving the warm pavilion.
As soon as he came out of the warm pavilion, he was pulled to the corner by Lianrong, and he heard Lianrong suppress his voice and asked, "What the hell are you and the fourth girl doing?" β
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