Chapter 44: Eight Sides
"The affairs of a child's house are always sunny and rainy." Mrs. Guan smiled and comforted Mrs. Guo and said, "You don't have to blame yourself. Consider it a lesson! ”
Mrs. Guo couldn't help laughing, and said: "I'm old, I don't know how many lessons I've received, and I don't have to accept such a lesson!" ”
Mrs. Guan also laughed.
The Yuan family behind Old Madam Guo flashed a trace of sharpness in his eyes, and asked Zhou Shaojin in a soft voice: "Then the eldest lady of the Wu family, can the second young lady understand?" ”
Zhou Shaojin almost burst out laughing.
How did she forget Yuan!
Wu Baozhang dared to ruin Cheng Xu's reputation, and the Yuan family would be able to eat her.
Zhou Shaojin didn't want to get involved, and said with a smile: "The eldest lady of the Wu family and I have only met twice today, and I really don't know her personality." ”
Yuan nodded, thoughtful.
Only then did Zhou Shaojin find that Mrs. Wu and Cheng Xian were not in the open hall.
I wonder what they did?
She thought about it, and Mrs. Tang walked in with the help of Jiang's weakness.
Pan Qing followed behind them.
The Duchess of Liangguo was talking to the wife of Lord Langsun, the former servant of the Ministry of Ministers who had returned to her hometown, when they heard the movement, the two turned their heads together, and the Duchess of Liangguo asked, "What is going on?" ”
Everyone in the open hall looked at them.
In front of everyone's eyes, Pan Qing looked at Zhou Shaojin, who was standing quietly beside Mrs. Guan and Mrs. Guo, and felt very uncomfortable.
This incident was obviously provoked by Zhou Shaojin, and now it looks like she is making trouble. No wonder my mother was very preferential to Mrs. Guan in the fourth room, saying that she was shrewd but not aggressive, generous but not timid. She just sent a little maid to call Zhou Shaojin away in advance, and quietly took Zhou Shaojin out.
Old Mrs. Tang glanced at Pan Qing and smiled peacefully: "It's nothing." The little girl's quarrel, it's okay to make it clear! ”
Pan Qing was stunned.
Jiang almost vomited blood.
Mrs. Tang's big hat is pressed down, and Pan Qing is right, and it will leave the impression that the ladies and wives present are narrow-minded, unable to back down, unwilling to forbear, and like to cause trouble. And Pan Qing has been talking about his mother-in-law's family in the past two years......
Jiang is not the kind of person who suffers from boredom.
She immediately sighed and said helplessly: "Now the little girl, I don't know what's going on?" Listening to the wind is rain, and small things as big as a needle's eye can also make a lot of noise......" she told what had happened. What Zhou Shaojin was ordered by Mrs. Guo to help Cheng Xu get things; What Wu Baozhang is not dizzy in the morning, but when Zhou Shaojin and Cheng Xu walked together, she happened to go out to breathe and looked at it; What Wu Baozhang scolded Zhou Shaojin for walking alone with Cheng Xu, and how Zhou Shaojin was so angry that he had to come to Pan Qing to testify...... said as if she was watching from the side, Zhou Shaojin became the one who was bullied, Pan Qing was uneven, if there was a mistake, it was all Wu Baozhang's fault.
Wu Baozhang was not present, even if she was present, few people knew who she was, while Zhou Shaojin and Pan Qing were weak and supple, and the other was dignified and generous...... It is very consistent with what Jiang described, even if some people doubt Jiang's statement, but when they see these two girls, it is difficult to doubt it anymore.
The Duchess of Liangguo frowned even more when she heard this, shook her head and said, "It's really a world trend!" The world is going down! ”
Cheng Ji looked like listening to a book from heaven, his eyes were as wide as Tong Ling, and he looked at Zhou Shaojin in confusion.
Zhou Shaojin admired Jiang's life.
This is truly a statement that the living is dead, and that the dead is alive.
In the past, she was a little afraid of Jiang, but now it seems that she is not wronged.
Jiang's ability to preside over the middle feed of the three rooms shows that it is not a fluke.
Of course, some people feel that this matter is wrong with Zhou Shaojin and Cheng Xu.
"Men and women are not seated at the same age as seven years old." The wife of Lord Sun, the former servant of the Ministry of Zhishi, said to Mrs. Guo, "Fortunately, it is in my own house, and there is a maid and wife with me, if this is elsewhere, there must be no big trouble." ”
Yuan's face sank, and he raised his eyebrows and was about to stand up, but was stopped by Mrs. Guo's cold gaze.
"What's the big deal?" Mrs. Guo picked up the teacup and blew the floating leaves on the water, took a sip gently, and then said: "The Buddha saw that the beauty was a pile of dry bones, and the children of the anointed rice saw the beauty but thought it was a fairy." I can only take care of my own business, who can I control who becomes a Buddha and who does not enter the eighteen layers of hell? ”
Old Madam Sun's face was a little unsightly.
The lady of the Lin Sect hurriedly smiled and said, "When Mrs. Guo said this, I remembered one thing. She said, "In the early years, our master had a student, there was an incense and candle shop near his home, he often saw a young and beautiful Taoist aunt in the incense and candle shop to choose incense and candles, one day, the shopkeeper's son was there to guard the shop, Dao Gu came again, the two talked about the conversation, and it was replaced by a young man in the family who was watching the store, and after almost an hour, the son of the store sent the Taoist aunt out.
So he kept an eye on it, and every time he passed by the candle shop, he had to look twice.
This look made him realize that the son of the original shopkeeper would stay in the shop every first and fifteenth day of the new year, and in the afternoon, Daogu would come to their house to pick incense and candles, and then the two would go to the store, and after an hour, the shopkeeper's son would send the Daogu out.
So he went to report to the magistrate.
"Said that the shopkeeper's son and that aunt have a head and tail.
"Who knows that the official office checked, it turned out that the Dao aunt was over forty years old, but because she was a disciple of Wudang and practiced kung fu, she looked like she was in her early twenties. The proprietress of the incense candle shop is the sister-in-law of the aunt, who has been paralyzed in bed for several years, and the aunt has traveled to Jinling City, knowing that her sister is paralyzed in bed, she comes to massage her sister on the first and fifteenth days of the new year, and the son of the shop is her nephew......"
The open hall suddenly exploded, and everything was said.
Even Mrs. Liangguo, who was old and had heard a lot of anecdotes, was a little interested and asked Mrs. Lin, "What happened later?" ”
"What else?" Mrs. Lin sighed, "He is a person with meritorious reputation, and the official's 'misunderstanding' will be eliminated." But the scholar still doesn't admit his mistake, not to say that it is the fault of the son of the shopkeeper, men and women are not kissed, even if it is a real aunt, they should also be avoided! ”
Mrs. Sun said: "There is some truth in what you said. ”
"What's the point?" The young woman in the gown who was wearing a big red weaving butterfly and wearing flowers didn't speak much, but at this time she suddenly said, "The one who opened the incense and candle shop is just a small family, and I don't know if he can read and write, you let him abide by these rules, does he understand?" Otherwise, how could the imperial court now take 'education' as one of the contents of the annual examination of officials? ”
Old Madam Sun couldn't help but be a little surprised, and said: "Lord Liu is worthy of being a 'capable official', and even Mrs. Liu is very skilled in this set of officialdom. ”
It turned out that this young woman was the wife of Liu Mingju, the commander of Jiangning County.
Listening to the tone of her words, I am afraid that someone in her mother's family is also an official.
Zhou Shaojin looked at her, and saw Mrs. Wu and Cheng Xian walking in with a low voice and laughter, and they could still hear the conversation between the two: "...... I also think that Yu Ji's fat marriage is better than Xie Fuxiang's, but Xie Fuxiang's incense powder is better than Yu Ji's. ”
Cheng Xian said: "Exactly." So every year, I ask people to bring me more than ten boxes of Xie Fuxiang's incense powder from Jinling City, which can be used by myself or given away. As she spoke, she raised her head, as if she had just noticed that there were more Zhou Shaojin and Pan Qing in the open hall, so she said to Pan Qing dotingly, "You kid, where did you go?" Let me find it for a while! Then asked Zhou Shaojin: "Didn't you say that you were with Miss Wu?" Why didn't you see Miss Wu? ”
Zhou Shaojin's eyes flashed slightly, and he instinctively sensed Cheng Xian's malice.
It's just that before she could speak, Mrs. Wu had already smiled and said, "I asked her to go back first-our lord's hometown has a guest, saying that she has grown up watching the eldest lady since she was a child, and she has come to meet the eldest lady." ”
Regardless of whether this is true or not, no one will go to the bottom of it, and everyone laughs and turns the matter over.
When the banquet opened, Zhou Shaojin sat in Wu Baozhang's position.
Pan Qing had nothing to say, so he talked to Zhou Shaojin.
Zhou Shaojin adheres to her usual taciturnity, and Pan Qing said ten sentences, and she should answer one sentence. Pan Qing was so tired, but Cheng Ji was so angry. Without waiting for the banquet to disperse, he pulled Zhou Shaojin and said in a low voice: "Why is Pan Qing so affectionate with you?" Did you help Pan Qing speak just now? ”
"Why can't it be Pan Qing who speaks for me?" Zhou Shaojin said, "What do you care she wants to do?" She's going to leave in a few days anyway? ”
Cheng Ji was skeptical.
Zhou Shaojin had never been entangled with people like this, at this time, the boat passed through Boping, and seeing Wu Baozhang being disliked by the elders, she had no joy of victory, only deep exhaustion.
She drank two bowls of anchovy soup in a row, sweated a little, and then she had her spirits.
After watching the fireworks and helping the second room send off the guests, Zhou Shaojin and the others returned to the fourth room and played the second watch drum.
Mrs. Guan looked tired and ordered Zhou Shaojin and the others: "Let's go and rest!" If there is anything, we will talk about it tomorrow. ”
The crowd bowed and withdrew.
Mrs. Chu told their sisters a few words like "be careful of candles", and also broke up with Sister Zhou Shaojin.
Zhou Shaojin looked at no one around, asked Shi Xiang, Zhixiang and others to follow from a distance, and quietly told Zhou Chujin what happened after returning to Siyi Building.
Zhou Chujin was shocked, and then he laughed a little, and said, "You are quite proud of daring to love!" It is ignorance and fearlessness. There are so many people sitting in the open hall, which one is not an idea with a roll of the eyes, and you dare to design Wu Baozhang. If this is exposed, how are you going to end it? ”
With that, the two entered Wanxiangju.
Zhou Shaojin said: "I was very angry at the time, and I didn't think about it so much. ”
Looking at it now, it's really dangerous.
If this matter is left in the previous life, with her cowardice, nine times out of ten, she will endure it.
Wu Baozhang either threatens himself with this matter or uses this matter to please himself, whether it is the former or the latter, things will be like in his previous life, he has no choice but to go back and forth with Wu Baozhang under his weak heart, Wu Baozhang will know Cheng Ji, and will know the Zheng family who has a close relationship with Cheng Ji......
But today, everything is different.
Wu Baozhang was so "commented" by Mrs. Tai of the Liangguo Mansion, not to mention integrating into the circle of ladies in Jinling City, even a little family would not allow their own girls to get too close to her.
I and her, there shouldn't be much intersection in the future, right?
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I got the official confirmation of the editor.,Next month,That is, December 1st, I will enter V.,Please sisters help keep a few pink tickets.,Thank you!
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