Chapter 17: Closing In
Zhou Shaojin asked Fan Liu to sit down on the small pestle beside her, and said, "I still want my mother to serve me all the time!" Your mother and son are always like this, you don't care, I still care! I think it's better for them both to follow you. There can be a few harvests in the township, and it doesn't matter if you don't plant them! ”
Fan Liu was very moved.
The second miss can take care of her like this, and it is not in vain that she milks the second miss!
"As long as the second miss can still use me, I will always serve the second miss." Fan Liu wiped the corners of his eyes and said, "It's just that the few acres of land in the family were left by the child's father, and they are ancestral property, and they can't be lost." I can't help it! And the child, his uncle didn't let him out, and he said two things! Where would I want to lose my watermelon and pick up sesame seeds? But if I don't keep these few acres of land, how can I have the face to see the child's father when I go underground! ”
There is also truth to that.
Zhou Shaojin thought for a while and said, "Why don't you let Lu'er stay in your hometown, and Qi'er will follow you to Zhou's house on an errand?" You can have one less ration or take care of you nearby. In case it doesn't work out well in a year, Qi'er's monthly money can more or less subsidize some families, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds! ”
It's the best of both worlds.
Everything has been taken into account. If so, they will soon be able to live a good life!
Fan Liu was very moved, but thinking that the eldest lady was in charge of the family, he couldn't help but hesitate a little, and said: "The servant woman of the Zhou family has a radish and a pit, and Qi'er is young, what can she do when she comes?" You can't just take the monthly money and not work, right? Then what are the rules in the house! ”
As long as Zhou Shaojin agrees, as for other things, it is nothing in her opinion - in case her sister thinks it is inappropriate, she will use her private money to give Fan Qi a regular money, and then she will make it clear to Ma Fushan and them.
In short, she will not embarrass Fan Liu.
"Then the matter is settled." She said, "I'll go and tell my sister later, let Fan Qi run errands by my side temporarily, anyway, I need someone to serve me." ”
If he just wanted to repay Fan Liu's kindness in his previous life, then when these words came out, Zhou Shaojin suddenly felt that his idea was quite good.
Since she has something to avoid her sister, she has to adjust and teach a few of her own talents. Fan Qi was a capable person in his previous life, and Fan's mother was her nurse and was loyal to her...... There is no more suitable person than Fan Qi.
Zhou Shaojin urged Fan Liu: "Mom, you go back and make arrangements at home and bring Fan Qi over." ”
Fan Liu was still a little hesitant.
Shi Xiang came in to serve Zhou Shaojin to change clothes.
"Mom, hurry up." Zhou Shaojin combed his hair on the one hand, and said to Fan Liu, "I still have to copy the scriptures for my grandmother." ”
Fan Liu gritted his teeth, stood up numbly, and said, "I'll go back and bring Qi'er to you." ”
If the eldest lady doesn't agree, it's a big deal to let the bully not want the monthly money, and then save a portion of the knighthood from her own mouth, and give the second miss a few errands for nothing, and you can't live up to the kindness of the second miss.
Zhou Shaojin naturally didn't know what Fan Liu was thinking.
She put on a gown, wore a green and yellow gown with dark lines of grapes, and only wrapped a red agate stone bracelet the size of acacia beans around her hand, and went to Jiashutang with her sister.
Old Mrs. Guan was fiddling with a pot of evergreen when she saw their sisters put down the scissors with a smile, and said with a smile: "You guys are here - the weather is getting hotter and hotter, I asked Mama Wang to go to Zhou Niangzi to ask for some mulberry tea, Chu Jin, you will go to Hanqiu Pavilion later, remember to bring some, and drink a big cup with your eldest aunt." ”
Zhou Chujin responded with a smile, and waited until Mrs. Chuda came over to greet Mrs. Guan, and the maid went to the Hanqiu Pavilion with mulberry tea.
Zhou Shaojin was still copying scriptures in the inner room with the window open.
In the breeze, she looked up to see her grandmother trimming her evergreens under the eaves.
The sound of "click" not only makes people not boredom of being disturbed, but has a kind of calming step.
Zhou Shaojin couldn't help but smile slightly, and the pen fell more smoothly on the paper.
But as soon as she finished copying a paragraph, a little maid ran in.
"Lao An people, Lao An people!" The little maid panted and said, "The old lady is here!" ”
Zhou Shaojin's pen stagnated, and the ink drippeds on the paper and became a ball.
In the Cheng family, there is only one person who can be called "old lady".
Cheng Xu's grandmother, Yuan's mother-in-law, Cheng Jing, Cheng Wei, and Cheng Chi's mother, Cheng Xun's wife, who was posthumously named the wife of Dr. Zhengyi Guanglu, and the old lady of Cheng's clan - Guo.
Mrs. Guan was a little surprised, looked at the sun outside, and said, "Why did she come here at this time?" ”
"I don't know." The little maid was a little nervous and said, "Looking at the old lady's appearance, it doesn't look like there's something wrong." ”
Mrs. Guan muttered a few words and instructed the little maid: "I invited the old lady to drink tea in the flower hall, and I will change my clothes and go over." ”
The little maid ran away again.
It seems that the old lady Hou Guan is changing clothes.
Zhou Shaojin had cold hands and feet, and he didn't breathe for a long time.
The four-room Jiashutang is next to the Hanbi Mountain House of the Long House, and the Hanbi Mountain House is where the widow of Old Man Guo lives.
In her previous life, she had only seen Mrs. Guo a few times from afar, but she knew that Yuan, as the youngest daughter of the Ge family, dared to argue with her husband Cheng Jing, but she didn't dare to say a word out loud in front of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Guo. This is not only because of filial piety, because mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have different dignity and inferiority, according to the private discussion of the servants in the fourth room, but also because Mrs. Dun can suppress the Yuan family and suppress the daughter-in-law.
Yuan's family was born in a famous family, and Mrs. Guo's background was not bad - her grandfather was the last champion of the previous dynasty, the official to the Yingwudian University, the military department of Shangshu, when Emperor Taizu attacked the capital, he was ordered to defend the city, and he was martyred after the city was broken. Mrs. Guo's grandmother and husband advanced and retreated together, and threw their four children into the river. Only Mrs. Guo's father, Guo Yuansheng, was rescued by loyal servants and survived. After Guo Yuansheng from the Jiangnan Confucian Gu Qinghong, although he was famous for his calligraphy and painting, he repeatedly refused the court's decree, and made a living by teaching in the stone lane of Jinling City, until he died of illness at the age of forty-five.
Yuan's family is very respected by her husband Cheng Jing, but Mrs. Guo was able to give birth to a young son Cheng Chi when she was over forty years old.
The Yuan family gave birth to two daughters in a row, and finally got their only son Cheng Xu to renew the incense for the long house. Mrs. Guo gave birth to three sons before and after, and the three sons were all two-rank Jinshi, and the eldest son Cheng Jing was ranked as a junior Jiuqing, not only for the Cheng family, but also for the birth of meritorious, Yuan really couldn't straighten his waist in front of his mother-in-law, and couldn't speak.
Zhou Shaojin still remembered that when Yuan humiliated her, no one could stop her, Old Madam Guo suddenly walked in, Yuan's voice stopped abruptly, and a trace of panic flashed in her eyes.
She still clearly remembered the glance that Old Madam Guo glanced at her nonchalantly.
His eyes were filled with disgust, contempt, and indifference.
As if she was some kind of lowly thing, Guo Laofu lifted her up at a glance.
However, she also complained that Mrs. Guo looked down on her. People are good at being bullied, and horses are good at being ridden. She stood there stupidly like that and let the Yuan family splash sewage, not to mention a noble person like Mrs. Guo, even the servants around the Yuan family looked down on her.
It's as if time has come back to that moment.
Embarrassment, shame, insecurity...... intertwined in his heart, so that Zhou Shaojin's eyes couldn't wait to sneak away.
She hunched her shoulders and lowered her head, as if that way others wouldn't notice her.
Who knew that the old lady Guan called her: "Shaojin, you will go with me to say goodbye to the old lady!" ”
"Me?" Zhou Shaojin was dumbfounded.
I'm really afraid of something!
"Not you or who?" Mrs. Guan smiled and joked to her, "How can such a beautiful little girl be locked up at home by me all day long copying scriptures!" When someone comes, they naturally want to take it out to show off! ”
"No, no, no!" Zhou Shaojin shook his head again and again, "If Mrs. Guo has something to say to you, how inconvenient it is for me to be there!" ”
"What's inconvenient? You're not an outsider! Mrs. Guan laughed.
Zhou Shaojin didn't want to go: "I have scriptures that I haven't copied yet!" ”
Mrs. Guan smiled: "You kid, why are you so timid!" If you haven't met it, you haven't met it, and since you have met it, it's better to say hello! ”
It would be rude to excuse again.
Zhou Shaojin comforted himself nervously: Just to see each other...... It should be okay, right? In her previous life, Mrs. Guo didn't know who she was before the accident.
Thinking about it like this, she was slightly settled.
Mrs. Guan looked at her clothes.
Bleached plain face inlaid with silver hem skirts, grass green twelve embroidered honeysuckle pattern Hunan skirt, black hair loosely pulled up, only wearing a pair of pearl earrings, ten slender fingers, eyebrows and eyes curved, obedient and gentle, looking very comfortable and pleasing to the eye.
That's how a girl's house should be!
Mrs. Guan was very satisfied and said, "There is no need to comb your hair again, that's it." ”
It seems that the others smiled and responded "yes", and hugged Mrs. Guan and Zhou Shaojin to welcome them out.
Mrs. Guo is over sixty years old, her hair is full of silver threads, she wears a lilac-colored phoenix eye gown, her ears are hanging with emerald ears the size of lotus seeds, and she wears an emerald ring the size of a pigeon's egg on her hand.
Zhou Shaojin became nervous after just one look.
She lowered her eyelids and cautiously followed behind Old Lady Guan.
Mrs. Guan stepped forward with a smile, took Mrs. Guo's hand, and said, "Why do you have time to come to me today?" I heard that Sister Xiao is pregnant? I was going to ask you for a letter! ”
Cheng Xu has two older sisters. The eldest sister, Cheng Zheng, married Gu Xu, the son of Gu Shun, a scholar of Hanlin Academy; The second sister, Cheng Xiao, is married to Cheng Xu's cousin Yuan Ming. Cheng Zheng has two sons, and Cheng Xiao has been married for three years but has not moved, and every time Mrs. Jing mentions this matter, she will frown. And the "Sister Xiao" that Mrs. Guan said is Cheng Xu's second sister Cheng Xiao.
Old Madam Guo showed a little smile in her eyes when she heard this, which made her look soften: "I also just got the letter." Her mother-in-law was overjoyed, and she had just been diagnosed, so she asked someone to bring us a letter. Her mother was a little worried, and she was going to the temple tomorrow to put incense on her and bless her to give birth safely. ”
"Don't worry, Jiren has his own nature. Sister Xiao will definitely be able to get her wish this time. Mrs. Guan, after comforting Mrs. Guo for a few words, beckoned to Zhou Shaojin, "Come, I've seen the old lady." ”
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