Chapter Seventy-Seven: Adding Fire to the Fire
I saw a few mothers who were serving closely, and the maids were serving tea, fanning the wind, and comforting with kind words, and after tossing for a long time, Mrs. Cui gradually returned to her soul.
She was half-crooked in the chair, her whole body was weak, and she asked with a splitting headache: "Shopkeeper Zhou, you are an old man who is used to running outside, and you know the world the most, you say, what should we do now?" ”
Shopkeeper Zhou has long thought about it, since these people are not moved by money at all, it is probably for personal enmity, either in business and with their own family, or their own wife unconsciously caused trouble, otherwise, they have a problem with their second master in the officialdom.
This is why the family is tactfully making trouble in the dark, I am afraid that it is to embarrass the second Mrs. Cui and make the Cui family pay attention.
Now that the reason has been guessed, it is not difficult to come up with this solution.
"Second lady, the teahouse is easy to deal with, it's nothing more than to pay some money and gag it, but the family that carried the corpse and framed it has a vicious mind, I'm afraid that I have to let the second master come forward and go to Yingtianfu to suppress it." The response that Shopkeeper Zhou said was very practical, but he actually wanted to ask Cui Shangshu to come forward.
After all, Cui Shangshu is a good product, this official and third grade crushes people to death, no matter where Master Cui goes to talk, his waist pole is straighter than his second master, isn't it?
But he knew best that his second wife and Dongfu were not dealing with each other, but he didn't dare to say it.
Second Mrs. Cui has long been a master of the six gods, she is a problem that most of the women in the inner courtyard have, and she has cleaned up the concubines and concubines in the family, and her hands are definitely not trembling, and her heart is not soft.
Shrewd and sophisticated, these black-hearted poisonous tricks are thrown out one after another, and they don't stumble at all.
But as soon as I encountered a major event outside, I immediately became dizzy, panicked, and my brain became a mess, and I couldn't think of anything innocently.
The ability to deal with things is greatly reduced, and it really makes people sigh, "The overlord behind the door." ”
As soon as I heard that Steward Zhou asked Second Master Cui to invite Second Master Cui, Second Mrs. Cui's eyes lit up all of a sudden! "That's right, my lord is a dignified servant of the temple Shaoqing, how can he be afraid of a few villains?"
She hurriedly ordered, "Huang Li, go to the study in the outer courtyard to see if the second master has gone home after leaving the office, if he comes back, he will invite him quickly." ”
Speaking of this, Second Mrs. Cui suddenly thought that with such a toss back and forth, it would be better to let Shopkeeper Zhou go directly and save some time.
This hurriedly changed his words, "Alas, forget it, you directly took the shopkeeper Zhou to the study, running around, and actually delayed the time on the road, and I don't know what happened on the West Street, it's really troublesome." ”
She thought that she still had Second Master Cui as her backer, and her heart was relieved, and her intelligence came back a little.
When Second Mrs. Cui came here, she didn't realize that someone was deliberately looking for her trouble, and this time, if she didn't toss her to death, that person would not stop.
Second Master Cui is the most introverted personality, and he is not willing to deal with those bloodsuckers in Ying Tianfu at all, and after listening to the trembling words of the shopkeeper Zhou, he scolded Second Mrs. Cui angrily for seeing money.
What doesn't care about the life and death of the people, what is forgetting righteousness for profit, fortunately, he is a civil official, and there are only a few words of scolding and scolding, and he is still crepe, and there is no lethality.
In the end, the second master Cui took off his robe, or ran to Dongfu cheekily, begging his eldest brother to help deal with the matter, you must know that the longer this drags on, the more people in the capital will see the Cui family's jokes.
These people don't distinguish between the East and the West, and everyone only recognizes one Cui family.
After listening to the words of the shopkeeper Zhou, Master Cui pondered for a long time and sighed: "It's not a big deal, second brother, the eldest brother asks you, did the second brother and sister offend anyone?" This accident is not the public property of the Cui family, nor is it the property in your name, it is a coincidence that it is the dowry shop of your younger brother and sister."
"It's not difficult for my brother to help you settle this matter, but if you don't solve this matter fundamentally, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, if you can't keep this person's thief from dying, someone will come to the door to provoke."
"When the time comes, will you beg for your brother again? You know, this Ying Tianfu is not a yamen for our family, and I can't go back and lick my face to beg for help. ”
Master Cui's words are intriguing, and they are of a very high standard, and they seem to be very caring, but they don't know how many black bricks and how many eye medicines they put on Second Mrs. Cui.
Probably even the third master of Cao didn't expect that the eldest master of the Cui family, without knowing it, would be able to cooperate with him so tacitly, and these two people could be regarded as joining forces to knock the second lady Cui into the pit.
Cui Yongxin looked at his younger brother, white for a while, red for a while, unpredictable looks, and knew that this was almost the same, after all, it had been almost ten years since the second lady Cui married in, and it was deep-rooted, and it was not something that could be overturned by such a thing.
Besides, this pit can't be dug in a day, and now that you have a good start, you might as well dig it slowly, but it's still cheaper to take the opportunity to add fire and heat up.
He stroked his beard slowly, and said with a sigh: "It's not the eldest brother I said you, this wife is indeed to respect and love, and save a little face in everything, so as to help her establish authority in the backyard." ”
"But you are too much to spoil the second brother and sister, I said early on, let you record Yun'er in the name of the second brother and sister, let her go to Jinghui Academy to study with her two nieces, and then enter the palace draft with Hua'er."
"If they are left together, the sisters in the palace are also arms to each other, if one of them is brushed off, but at least they can enter the princely house, no matter what, isn't it the blessing of our Cui family?"
"As a result, the second brother and sister are just nephews who have been lying in bed for a few days and crying for a few while, and you will come by her temperament."
"Also, if Yun'er is a concubine, it's okay if she can't go to Jinghui Academy, but what about Qing'er? She is a serious heir, and this child's uncle's family is the Ming'an Hou Mansion. ”
"But the second brother and sister were jealous of Cao's popularity, so they deliberately suppressed her and treated her harshly, and in the end, the admission book of Qing'er Jinghui Academy was actually sent by Ming Anhou, which is simply a straight poke in the face."
Cui Yongxin said so many words in one breath, finally stopped, took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and before he could continue, he saw Cui Yongzhong, who had been silent for a long time, and stood up suddenly.
Drink: "Jealous woman, jealous woman! I am ashamed of my younger brother, ashamed to see the two uncles again, but please rest assured that my brother will deal with this matter when he goes back, and the business will not be done again, rent out the shop, and collect the rent. ”
"As for Yun'er, this child is really sincere and filial, in order to protect her twelfth sister, there will be burns on her arms, this time I not only want her to record Yun'er in her name, but I also want Yun'er and Qing'er to go to the academy together."
"Brother, if she dares not to agree this time, I will go and tell my mother that the two mansions will be combined into one house, and let my mother and sister-in-law discipline her well in the future!"
After saying this, Cui Yongzhong took a deep look, and after standing up, he resolutely turned around and left.
Cui Yongxin sat alone on the Luohan couch with his mouth wide open, and only after a long time did he hear his voice call happily: "Cui Ping, go and invite the big housekeeper to come over, and let him hand over the name card to Ying Tianfu Yin, and say that the master I want to visit in person." ”
Three days later, in the early morning, Songcui Courtyard in the East Courtyard of Cui Mansion.
Cui Wanqing was grooming in the mirror, she was wearing a cardigan skirt embroidered with warbler feathers and yellow embroidered sun-red, and she was wearing a jade-colored small collar middle shirt inside, with one on the neckline, and a red gold wisp of hollow peach blossom silk inlaid with pearl collar buckles.
Yulan combed her with her own hand, gave her a white jade plum hairpin, and brought a beaded hibiscus bead flower made of cut xia silk in the back sideburns.
Cui Wanqing looked left and right in the mirror, and in the jewelry box, she picked out a pair of earrings with white jade droplets and brought them on.
She stood up, straightened out the glazed purple tassels worn by the light purple ice species jade pisces, and smiled at the corners of her mouth: "In the end, it is still light-colored and good-looking, but the dark purple of the third brother is too eye-catching." ”
Yulan covered her mouth and smiled, "I'm afraid that the third prince will get it, so he will give it to you, where would he think of letting people change the spike?" Those stores outside are all dazzling and how to come, lest they are not dazzling enough, and no one buys them. ”
Cui Wanqing glanced at her amusedly, "Hey, our sister Yulan, now this business has come out one after another, listen, how reasonable is it?" ”
Ah Tao on the side handed over the Haiyun red embroidered shawl, and said with a smile: "This is all you, master, I don't want to let Sister Yulan share the worries of Mother Fang, you feel sorry for Mother Fang, and you don't want her to bother too much, so let Sister Yulan take care of the accounts, she is a very serious person, she studies these all day long, but she doesn't come when she opens her mouth?" ”
Cui Wanqing smiled and took the shawl and put it on her arm, tapped it on Ah Tao's forehead, and said angrily: "You are a clever ghost when you are born, you know everything, for the sake of you being so good at talking, this gold ring will be stubborn for you." ”
In fact, she just used an excuse to reward Ah Tao's objects openly, you know, the Cui family's Dongfu is very strict, and the things rewarded by the master are recorded, it doesn't matter what you are missing.
But if there are too many valuable objects that don't belong to you, and you can't say one, two, three, then you will be unlucky.
The night before, Ah Tao took advantage of the night duty to inquire about the news in Xifu, and told Cui Wanqing, which had both good news and bad news, but in general, there were more surprises.
Knowing that the shop outside Mrs. Cui was framed to make trouble, and she also went to Yingtianfu, Mrs. Cui couldn't solve it by herself, so she had to ask for help from her husband.
As a result, the second master Cui went around the Dongfu and went back, and he rarely became angry, and first ordered the second lady Cui to do her best to sublet out the two shops that caused the trouble, and no longer do business privately.
Then it was mandatory to let the second lady Cui choose a date and record Cui Wanyun in her name, and she would be the rightful daughter of Cui Mansion in the future. R1152