Chapter 17 First Meeting, Little Qiliu's Mother (I)
It can be seen that Cheng Zhang's mood is very good. Speaking of which, this is the first time in these years that all the aunts have appeared in the upper room of the main courtyard so completely, kowtowing to her and saying goodbye. It's a pity that there are two less, otherwise there are four standing on the left and right, and it would be better to bend down and salute in unison. Or the daughter is right, she is afraid to see the little slut twice a day, morning and evening, and reluctantly bows to herself, and she should not give up the minimum welfare of the housewife in order to gamble with her husband.
As soon as this mood is good, Cheng Zhang's family will no longer have the intention of embarrassing the aunts. The so-called long coming, when the housewife wants to embarrass the concubine who has a room, when can't she have a seizure, but she has to choose this first time to ask for peace? Just when Cheng Zhang was thinking about whether to serve tea and hint that the aunts could leave, he suddenly found that there was a little girl on the corridor outside the door, which was very special. That little face looked a little familiar, but this look seemed to be a little dull.
In a flash of inspiration, Cheng Zhang remembered who the little girl was. Cheng Mansion was originally just a mansion of an imperial merchant, because of the limitation of the size of the mansion, if it were not for the Cheng Mansion family members themselves who were famous, it would be impossible to have a mansion as big as Sijin. This house is big, and there are naturally many servants and maids who serve. Cheng Zhang's family had been angry with his own man and had abandoned his housekeeping rights for many years, and he would not be impressed by a third-class rough girl. It's just strange, when Qiliu sold himself to the process of the mansion, in addition to the tooth wife of the tooth shop, he also followed his mother very specially.
Pity the hearts of parents all over the world, if it weren't for the desperation of the mountains and rivers, where would parents be willing to sell their own flesh and blood. To say that in this Qiliu Ancestor's family, there are also two talents, and they are ...... is so indifferent and ruthless, and he is not afraid of affecting his official reputation in the future.
Cheng Zhang sighed lightly in his heart, pointed at Li Junran with his finger, and asked, "Yan'er, is she your girl?" β
Li Junran, who was busy observing the aunts of the Cheng Mansion, was taken aback, but she didn't expect that the lady in charge of the Cheng Mansion was still talking to the aunts one second ago, and the next second she noticed her, an outsider. In this Cheng Mansion, you really can't slack off for a second, and this mother and daughter are both masters who don't play cards according to common sense.
"Mother, are you asking about Qiliu?" Cheng Yuyan looked in the direction of Cheng Zhang's finger, and saw Li Junran standing on the corridor outside the door with a dull expression without surprise.
"This little girl is indeed the sprinkler girl in my yard now." Cheng Yuyan said with a smile, "Not long ago, the third aunt ordered someone to beat this girl, and as a result, she had a high fever and burned out her brain. The daughter felt pitiful and stayed in her yard. β
What happened not long ago, apart from the incident of the aunts competing for favor more than half a month ago, what else happened? The aunts sitting here said that in addition to the eighth aunt who has always been in-depth and simple, the rest of the aunts are also one of the parties, which is naturally very impressive. And Nanaliu Yuanyuan is just a third-class little maid who runs errands in the kitchen, to say that this aunt's competition for favor has nothing to do with her at all, and it will even be affected by this competition for favor, and even the third aunt who is holding chicken feathers as an arrow will find a reason at will, and take the opportunity to kill the killer. If you believe that there is no bit of a greasy here, you are a fool.
Of course, those who managed to survive in that aunt's competition for favor are not fools. What's more, the eldest lady, who represents the faction of the descendants, generously brought people to the third aunt this time, which clearly implied that this girl was now her person. The eldest lady is not terrible, but Zuo is only a nine-year-old female doll now. Don't forget, standing behind the eldest lady is Cheng Zhang, the head of the house that Cheng Fu Ming Media is marrying.
And Cheng Zhang's family also changed the habit of not asking about everything in the house, bowing his head to eat and fasting and chanting Buddha, and finally came out of the Buddha hall. What does this mean? Not to mention it, at least it means that the sky of Cheng Mansion is about to change!
The fifth and sixth aunts glanced at each other. The twins have a heart-to-heart connection, and this time is no exception. Compared with her sister, the sixth aunt has a more lively temperament. The sixth aunt just wanted to open her mouth to say something, but when she saw her sister secretly waving her hand, she pursed her lips, and reluctantly lowered her head and continued to be her humanoid set board.
"Since Yan'er likes it, then let's stay, the left is just a yellow-haired girl. Speaking of which, it's not as big as a Yao girl. Yan'er, now that you're growing up, it's time to learn how to manage your own yard. There's just one thing, Yan'er, you have to keep in mind! Cheng Zhang raised his head and looked in the direction of the third aunt, "It's good that the master is merciful, but after a long time, it is inevitable that there will be some slaves in this courtyard, and the slave bully will forget his identity." To deal with those slaves, the necessary severe punishment measures cannot be less, but they cannot be too much. If you go too far, your reputation will always be affected. β
"Yes~ my daughter remembers her mother's teachings." Cheng Yuyan bowed to Cheng Zhang's Yingying, and the mother and daughter glanced at each other, and quickly exchanged a look that understood each other. Cheng Zhang's words were not so much to teach Cheng Yuyan as to the third aunt.
After the third aunt listened, although her face was not revealed, the jade hand hidden under the wide sleeves had already clenched into a fist, and even the long nails on her little thumb that she had maintained for a long time were cut off.
After all, Cheng Yuyao is not a real eight-year-old yellow-mouthed child, and her immature body lives with a twenty-year-old soul from a thousand years later. Regarding Cheng Zhang's remarks, although he didn't react at the first time, he fully understood it after a careful afterthought. Is this teaching her sister-in-law and taking the opportunity to beat her mother-in-law? What kind of slave bully, is this implying that her mother is just a lowly slave?
Cheng Yuyao was furious. Although she doesn't like her current body very much, if it weren't for her, she wouldn't have become a concubine in a good manner. Don't look at her now in the Cheng Mansion, her treatment in all aspects is not inferior to the sister in front of her who is only half a year older than her, but once she goes out to visit relatives and friends, it is completely different. In this backward ancient times when the most important thing is to pay attention to what is different from the dignity and inferiority of the concubine, the whole concubine is a despised storage zΓ i! And nine times out of ten, you can't marry a good husband. And this qiΔ is all because of the bitter fruit planted by this body's mother-in-law who died and begged to be a concubine back then.
So after she knew that her mother in this life was just a little aunt in Cheng Mansion, especially after she would never turn positive, she had nothing but resentment in her heart. What is it not good to do, but you want to be a third child for others?! No, if you count the second aunt in the front, it's the fourth. But she doesn't like her mother in this life, she is also her own mother, and it's not your turn to play with Obasan, who only knows how to eat fasting and chant Buddha. Since you like to eat fasting and chanting Buddha so much, why don't you just go to the temple and shave your head to become a nun?
The anger in Cheng Yuyao's heart bubbled out in bursts, and all the changes in her expression fell into the eyes of Cheng Yuyan, who had been paying attention to her on the side.
Cheng Yuyao, is it distressed like this?
Cheng Yuyan's eyes flashed with a hint of happiness. I remember that before I was reborn, my mother had been holding that resentment in her heart, even if she had eaten fasting and recited Buddha for many years, she had never relieved her heart knots, so that she was depressed all day long and died prematurely. Because the Buddha rarely appears in front of people all day long, and she doesn't like those fox spirits dangling in front of her, so the scene like today's aunt asking for peace has never appeared before she is reborn.
But Cheng Yuyan knows that her arrogant second sister has always been above the top, and her concept is very different, and the most unacceptable thing is that two daughters work together as a husband. So in private, I looked at my own mother who was a concubine and it was not pleasing to the eye. It is said that concubines and aunts are third parties who destroy the happiness of others, and they should be resolutely opposed. Outcome...... It wasn't like he climbed into his brother-in-law's bed in a blink of an eye. It is a person like her who has no eyes and no beads to believe her good second sister! Xu thought of some very unhappy things, and Cheng Yuyan's face had a trace of melancholy that was extremely inconsistent with her age.
Cheng Yuyao's anger naturally didn't hide from Cheng Zhang's eyes, but before she could say anything, she saw that her baby daughter, who was still smiling, suddenly changed her face. Cheng Zhang, who has always loved his daughter, didn't bother to be false and wronged with people he didn't want to see often, so he quickly picked up the teacup on the side of his hand and sent away all the warblers and Yanyan in front of her who she hated so much.
The aunts in the hall saw that they didn't have to wait for Cheng Zhang's breakfast, and they slipped faster than loaches one by one, especially the mother and daughter of the third aunt and Cheng Yuyao. In the blink of an eye, only Cheng Zhang and Cheng Yuyan were left in the reception hall in the upper room of the main courtyard.
Cheng Zhang's saw that there was no one in the hall who made her hate, so he sent out the maids and grandmothers who were waiting beside him as soon as possible, and then took Cheng Yuyan's hand and entered the back hall. At this time, Li Junran, who was originally waiting on the corridor, had nothing to watch. Not only did he have no drama to watch, but he had to continue to wait on the promenade like a fool and stand on punishment. Fortunately, there is still a tile overhead, otherwise the scorching sun above the head would really become a penalty station.
Bai Zhi saw that Li Junran was half-tilting her head, looking very bored, not only remembering that they had missed breakfast today because they got up a little late. And now that he has been transferred from the original kitchen to his own lady's yard, he has to talk to the housekeeper anyway, and the most important thing is to move the covers from the basement to Jing Yaxuan.
Bai Zhi pondered for a moment, then turned her head and ordered Banxia beside her a few words. Banxia smiled and nodded, and then pulled Li Junran out of the upper room of the main courtyard.
"Let's go, Nanaliu. Sister Bai Zhi asked me to help you move your bunk to the yard of the young lady. β
Li Junran glanced back at Bai Zhi and obediently followed behind Banxia. Banxia was a lively person, he had just turned eleven years old this year, and he could hear Banxia chattering there on the way from the upper room of the main courtyard to the back kitchen maid's room. Seeing that he was about to arrive at the servant's room in the back kitchen, a middle-aged woman forty miles away suddenly appeared in the corridor on the side.
I saw that the man was wearing a light brown coarse linen shirt with a right cardigan, with a long skirt of the same color, and looked like a rough envoy who was in charge of watching the door in the backyard. When the mother-in-law saw Li Junran, she wanted to scold her loudly, but when she saw that Li Junran was still standing next to Banxia, she immediately pulled out a smile that was more ugly than crying.
"Yo, this isn't a Banxia girl. Where are you going? β
"Where am I going to do it to you?! Mrs. Zhou, don't you take a good look at your gate from behind, what are you doing here? Be careful, I show you Miss, you can't finish eating and walking! Banxia didn't be polite to the mother-in-law surnamed Zhou.
"Don't, Miss Banxia. Don't tell Miss SΓΉ. "Although Mrs. Zhou didn't take Banxia and the master behind Banxia Miss Cheng Fu seriously, she still had to give some face. Don't say anything about it, just look at this Cheng Mansion and see that the sky is about to change, and no one can say what the future will be. The more you are in such a moment, the more you have to be careful. In case it is pinched by either of the two masters who cannot reconcile at all, and becomes the chicken in the chicken killing and monkey example, the gain outweighs the loss.
Mrs. Zhou took a breath and hurriedly said, "Didn't I come here to find the Qiliu girl." β
"Looking for Nanaliu?" Banxia looked back at Li Junran, who still had a dull expression, suspiciously, "What are you looking for Qiliu?" We'll have to go to the back kitchen to move the seven willow covers. β
"It's a good thing. Seven willow girl, your mother came to visit you. Come with me. β
Mother? A vague figure flashed quickly in Li Junran's mind.