Chapter 017: The Zhu Family

Zhu Gongzi flicked his sleeves and turned the corridor very reluctantly to meet Mrs. Zhu. The beautiful man named Nian Nu still had a cold face, and said coldly to Chen Qiuniang, who was looking around: "Look around, you can't get out." Keep up with yourself and don't bother me. ”

Chen Qiuniang glanced at him, wanting to use her eyes to despise this beautiful man who seemed to be a male pet for that Zhu Gongzi. Unexpectedly, the beautiful man had turned around and walked to the inner hall.

There were a lot of people standing around, fierce and vicious, and a few people with a full face and stared at Chen Qiuniang fiercely, one of them snorted coldly and whispered: "Nian Nu is the person on the tip of Gongzi's heart, you don't listen to him." Looking for death? ”

Chen Qiuniang glanced at him and didn't pay attention to it, but went with the place where the slave went, passed through a hall, and went around to an elegant courtyard, which was the residence of the young man Zhu. The plaque in the courtyard is a gold-lettered official book, mentioning the word "Xiangju".

Chen Qiuniang couldn't help laughing when she saw these two vulgar words, this Zhu family is really a nouveau riche family, and this Zhu Gongzi can be regarded as a "toad with glasses", equipped with culture, and the scholar plays deeply.

However, Chen Qiuniang did not look down on the Zhu family because of these two words, thinking that the Zhu family was shallow. On the contrary, she still felt that the Zhu family was deep, with every grass and tree, brick and tile, but the ancestors of the Zhu family went up and down and earned it in the troubled times. Moreover, a man with a bearing and posture like Nian Nu is also a northern accent, and he is actually under the hands of an obscene and evil slut like the son of the Zhu family, you must know that most of the people who come to Shu from the north are all kinds of powerful people, or people related to the powerful, who came to this rich Shu to make a fortune.

This Zhu family is full of eccentricity. You have to be careful every step of the way. Chen Qiuniang secretly admonished herself. The feeling of oppression around me was even worse than before.

Na Nian Nuwu stepped into the courtyard and saw that Chen Qiuniang didn't follow, so he stood in place and waited for her, and didn't speak, just looked at her with an indifferent look. Chen Qiuniang looked at him and couldn't tell what was in his eyes.

This man is like a deep well, and his expression and actions are always incomprehensible. It's definitely not an easy role.

Chen Qiuniang judged herself, and did not talk to him much, and stepped into the "fragrant house". This courtyard is much more elegant than the common name. Pavilions, flower beds and ponds are all readily available and beautifully laid out.

As soon as she entered the courtyard, she turned a clump of green plantains, and a fifteen or sixteen-year-old red-clothed maid came out of the room facing the door, stood under the eaves of the porch and scanned Chen Qiuniang up and down a few times, before she pretended to take a handkerchief to cover her mouth slightly, coughed, and asked, "Nian Nu'er, who is she?" ”

Chen Qiuniang looked at her dress and style, and she looked like an aunt, but that dress was a maid's outfit, and she should just be a favored big girl.

"Take her to the shower and change her clothes, and send her to the study." Nian Nu'er glanced at the red-clothed maid.

When the red-clothed maid heard this, she instantly lost her kind of defensive look, but instead had a condescending and mocking look, and said quite arrogantly: "What is the origin of my Tao, it turns out to be the new love of the son." She said, and asked, "What about Childe?" ”

"I'm going to the old man." Nannu replied, his tone a little impatient.

"The old man is seriously ill, and the son always runs out, I'm afraid that I will be scolded again this time." The red-clothed maid sighed.

Niannu ignored it, and only reached out to stroke the leaves of a clump of green canna in the flower garden, looking focused. This person is born beautifully, and the flowers in this flower garden are simply beautiful.

The red-clothed maid was bored, so she turned around and glared at Chen Qiuniang fiercely, and said, "Since you can enter this courtyard, you have to obey the rules." This Zhu Mansion is disciplined. ”

Chen Qiuniang didn't say anything, she just stood aside with her eyebrows down, but in her heart she quickly summarized what she had just observed, trying to find a possible escape route, but the more she analyzed, the more desperate she became.

It was about Chen Qiuniang's low eyebrows that made the red-clothed maid feel respect and the pleasure of standing in a high position, she only muttered fiercely, "It's quite honest, it's just a little woody", and then said to Nian Nu, "The old man is not very sick this time." The uncle has invited doctors from all over the country, but there is no improvement. I heard that the uncle left for Chengdu Mansion yesterday, saying that he was looking for a miracle doctor who took care of the stubborn disease for the Lord a few years ago. It's just that the past few years have been chaotic, and it is said that the miracle doctor has been missing for a long time. This time, the uncle went over, and he also tried his luck. ”

She talked to herself more and more energetically, but Nian Nu just stared at the flower garden in a daze, as if the person was still there, and the soul had already flown away from the body. This person doesn't even pay attention to Zhu Gongzi's eldest maid, and his status in this mansion is really unusual.

Chen Qiuniang secretly observed, but heard the big girl say that this old man Zhu was seriously ill and getting worse. Therefore, while he was still sober, he asked the housekeeper to find the most decent gold medal matchmaker Li Taohua in Shili and Eight Townships. On the one hand, let Li Taohua go to the defeated Chen family to talk about the divorce, and told Li Taohua to let the Chen family open the conditions, saying that it could be regarded as repaying Chen Liu's kindness for saving each other back then. On the other hand, I went to the Yang family, the richest man in Chengdu Prefecture, and sent a hairpin post to the second lady.

"Then Miss Yang Er's uncle is now in charge of the guards of Chengdu Mansion. It's an old friend with the uncle. The big girl continued, babbling.

Niannu was still in a daze, fugue. The big girl didn't seem to care about Nian Nu's appearance, as if she hadn't spoken for many days, and finally caught a living person, so she poured it out in one go, and she didn't care if the other party responded.

Therefore, she paused slightly, walked a few more steps, leaned next to Nian Nu, and said in a low voice: "Do you know that the Chen family, which originally had a marriage contract with Gongzi, has fallen?" Before, the old man didn't look down on the girl's piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, female red embroidery, if it weren't for the old lady's face, the Chen family was still decent, and they would have quit the marriage a long time ago. Now, the Chen family is ruined and very bleak. And the girl was bitten by a snake and died, who knew that there was a thunderstorm, and the corpse came back to life. Such an ominous person categorically can't enter the Zhu family, not to mention, the old man fell ill a day after she defrauded the corpse. When the Taoist priests came, they all said that the fierce moon thunderstorm deceived the corpse, and it was very unlucky. The old man called Li Taohua overnight to withdraw from the marriage. He also said that the Chen family's request was agreed as much as possible, which could be regarded as repaying Chen Liu's grace for saving his life back then. ”

I'll go, I'll be born, old, sick and die, this old man Zhu is about to hang up, so blame me for cheating the corpse. Do I have a half-dime relationship with him? Chen Qiuniang secretly slandered herself, but she also determined that the lewd and evil brother just now was the fiancΓ©.

I'm really glad that the Zhu family came to withdraw from the marriage. Otherwise, this will have to be married--, she doesn't have the confidence to transform a scumbag or anything. She has always believed that "the country is easy to change, and the nature is difficult to change".

"Childe dislikes talkative people the most." Nian Nu finally got impatient and glanced at the big girl.

"If you don't say it, how will Childe know? Besides, I'm not thinking that this old man is in a hurry to do a happy event for his son. We're going to have a hostess in this yard, and I'm thinking about our situationβ€”" The maid in red was still complaining.

When Chen Qiuniang heard this, she finally understood why this woman was complaining. I'm afraid that she has been frightened all these days, and I'm afraid that when the heroine comes, her status will change. In this era, this kind of domestic maid, if it is hated by the owner, the light one will be thrown to do rough work, with a cheap little guy or rough man, and the heavy one may be bought, and no matter how bad it is, it will be cooked and eaten by the buyer.

People eat people, in this era, the further north you go, the more common it is. It's a national activity.

"There's no mind you shouldn't have, and you're at ease. What are you worried about. Niannu said unhappily.

The big girl suddenly felt faceless, so she bit her lip, revealing a fierce look, and then beckoned to Chen Qiuniang with a fierce face, saying, "Let's go." ”

Chen Qiuniang knew that resisting would put her into a more passive situation, so she set off with the red-clothed maid without the slightest resistance. Nian Nu'er snorted coldly: "My Tao is a backbone, but I didn't expect it to be like this." ”

This person is so strange, he asked her not to make meaningless struggles, but at this moment, she didn't dare to resist from the bottom of her bones.

The red-clothed maid smiled and said coldly, "Yo, you think everyone is like you." When you first arrive, you can't resist death, hang yourself to wipe your neck, jump into the river and jump off the building, but you also owe it to the patience of the son and spoil you. Oops, you name it. In this era of war and chaos, it is rare for our son to take a fancy to it, so as to avoid starvation and displacement, look at this little hoof, she is also a country girl, how can she compare with Nian Nu'er, you are from a noble background. She is not secretly glad that her ancestors have accumulated virtue. Besides, over the years, I have seen too much of this kind of trick of wanting to catch and indulge. ”

The red-clothed maid turned out to be called Xiuhong, and her tone was so sharp that it seemed to be about to rise to the clouds. As soon as Nian Nu'er shook his hand, he strode out of the courtyard. Xiuhong snorted lightly, glanced at Chen Qiuniang, and said quite contemptuously: "Don't be overjoyed, you don't know your identity." To put it mildly, you're Childe's plaything. Pampering is only two or three days. Serve the son carefully, maybe the son is tired of it, and he will keep you as a rough maid in this Zhu Mansion, and he will not sell you to the fishing pond. ”

When Chen Qiuniang heard Xiuhong's words, she knew that this Zhu Wenkang was more ridiculous and ridiculous than she imagined. Indulge in beauty, both men and women. Strong people's daughters, if you are tired of playing, you will sell it to some ** kiln, which is really vicious to the extreme.

Thinking of this, she secretly regretted it. If she knew that this Zhu family was such a good person, what would she do to fight for that kind of face, Li Taohua would withdraw from the marriage and accept it happily, why would she have these disasters later.

This person, it's better not to engage in this kind of battle of will. Chen Qiuniang thought as she walked.

"Don't look stupid, sister, this is showing you the way." Xiuhong saw that she was walking slowly, and reached out and pinched her face.

Chen Qiuniang wanted to reach out to hit the woman, but she couldn't help it, only covered her painful face, and said, "Thank you, Sister Xiu." ”

Xiuhong was about very satisfied with her Liwei, so she said, "Let's go." Go to the bath in front. ”

Chen Qiuniang followed silently, and just after walking a few steps, she heard someone shouting: "Go water, go water." ”