Chapter 362: A Complicated In-law
Su Miao and Huiwei sat down in the courtyard, Huiwei drank tea quietly, didn't ask anything, Su Miao and Liang Jin sat happily face to face, but had nothing to say. Su Miao felt that although Liang Jin was smiling, she didn't like her very much, the reason was more or less clear, whose parents didn't want their son to marry a noble and gentle daughter-in-law, especially a royal relative like Liang Jin, his son was going to marry a young lady from a famous family in the future, but Su Miao couldn't even reach the edge of the family, just an ordinary little people, and often went out to show up, and his temperament was also contrary to the beauty of everyone in the traditional etiquette. Although he didn't like his son, he didn't like Su Miao.
Although Su Miao didn't care, it was really difficult to sit like this now, she wanted to go back after seeing the incense, so she asked Liang Jin with a smile:
"Madame isn't there?"
Liang Jin still didn't smile, and paused for a while before answering:
"She's out the door."
And then there was nothing else.
Su Miao nodded awkwardly, feeling that she was embarrassed by her evil mother-in-law.
The aftertaste does not squint, and he is still calmly sipping herbal tea.
Liang Jin was very concerned about the aftertaste, and said with a smile: "Weiwei, your mother has already asked people to clean up your house, and if you live here tonight, my father has something to tell you." ”
"Miao'er and I live in Xueyizhuang." Aftertaste: Put down the teacup and say lightly.
"Nonsense, you are not married, you will be gossiped if you live together, you don't want to be famous, Miss Su still wants it. If you live honestly and come back, let Miss Su live in Zhuangzi. The two of you have returned to Liangdu now, and there are many people around you. You have to pay attention to the influence, and if you want to be close, you have to wait for the ceremony. ”
Aftertaste glanced at him, didn't say good or bad, just didn't speak.
Liang Jin said similar words twice, but he still didn't answer after the aftertaste, so Liang Jin had to give up and began to talk about today's weather.
Su Miao saw that Liang Jindong was talking to her, but he was not talking to her. I felt bored, so I ran to the side to play with the boat I was playing with.
Xiaozhou played with Su Miao for a while, and didn't wait for Hui Xiang to come back. Hui Gan and Wei Zhen, who went out to visit the door, came back, and Hui Zhou was very happy to see his mother back, and happily rushed over.
So someone finally talked to Su Miao, although Wei Zhen and Su Miao had only met once. The two are as affectionate as best friends. Wei Zhen is worthy of being a woman from a wealthy family, and she is very good at creating the most important harmonious atmosphere in communication, and she is very comfortable with her.
Huiwei and Huigan accompanied Liang Jin to sit in the courtyard and drink herbal tea, and Wei Zhen took Su Miao's hand and sat alone on the chair under the porch, while watching and playing with Huizhou, while smiling and talking.
"You just arrived today?" Wei Zhen asked with a smile.
Su Miao smiled and replied, "Yes." ”
"It's rare that you have this heart, and you came over without a break, and my father must be very happy in his heart. You went back to Toyosu first. So it was later than my father and mother came back, and my father has been counting the days since he came back and waiting for you to come. Tell people to prepare meals every day, for fear that you will not be able to come back in time. If you hadn't taken the initiative to come, Ah Wei wouldn't have paid attention to this. ”
Su Miao smiled slightly, even if Wei Zhen didn't say anything, she could see that Liang Jin was very eager to go home, which could be seen from Liang Jin's stunned and happy eyes when they first entered the door.
"My mother went out in the morning, the concubine of the Runan Mansion was not feeling well, my mother went to visit the patient, and went out in the morning, and she should come back this time." Wei Zhen said with a smile.
Su Miao nodded.
The two gossiped once, Wei Zhen suddenly asked Lin Yan how she was, she and Lin Yan have been close since childhood, although Lin Yan is timid and cowardly, Wei Zhen likes her very much, since she knew that Lin Yan hid in Su Miao's house by chance, although the worry in her heart has increased unabated, she can find someone she knows to inquire about Lin Yan, which makes her feel a little relieved:
"When your second brother went to Suzhou, I didn't have time, I heard that the prince rushed to Suzhou, I really felt a little in my heart, for fear that the two of them would make trouble in Suzhou again, and everyone would have no face at that time, and Yan'er would be even more embarrassed. Yan'er and I have known each other since childhood, she is small and soft, and her heart is also kind, if such a character is born in an ordinary family, she will definitely be respected by her in-laws, but Liangdu is a big family with a large family and a large population, and if she is too good, she will suffer. It wasn't until your second brother came back and said that the two of them hadn't made a fuss yet, and I was a little relieved, and then I heard that the prince began to look around for the house, as if he was going to move out of the Rui Palace, and the Rui princess made a big fuss at home again, and it came here, so I was a little worried about Yan'er. ”
Su Miao heard Su Chan say that Liang Min had gone to the Big Buddha Temple to pick up Lin Yan, but the final result was not embarrassing, and she couldn't figure out what Lin Yan meant, these things were naturally not easy to tell Wei Zhen, but fortunately, Wei Zhen didn't ask much when she saw her talking about it. When the two talked about Liang Min, they naturally mentioned Liang Min's second spring, and although Wei Zhen only frowned, Su Miao could still see the anger in her heart:
Princess Rui has been rumoring in Liangdu that Yan'er has not been out for ten years, and the prince has reconciled with Yan'er, and is looking for another virtuous lady from the Wei family to be the new princess, and the eleventh sister of my mother's family is set, because I don't have the face to see Yan'er. At this, she let out a long sigh.
Su Miao had heard aftertaste say before that Wei Zhen was the young lady in the third room of the Wei family. Princess Rui is the concubine of the Wei family, she has two brothers who are from the same mother as her, and a brother is from the concubine family, that is, the third master of the Wei family, Wei Zhen's father, although Wei Zhen's father is a concubine, Wei Zhen was born to her father's wife, and because Wei Zhen is beautiful, she is quite talented when she is a girl, and she is very loved by the Queen Mother, and her reputation in the Liang capital is very loud. Princess Rui had considered Wei Zhen when choosing a princess for her son, but she gave up because she disliked Wei Zhen as the daughter of the son of the third house. However, since the third master of Wei began to serve in the household department last year, the status of the third room of the Wei family has begun to rise. But these Wei Zhen doesn't care, her temperament is as chaste and virtuous as her name, she has no desires and no desires, she doesn't care too much about whether her mother's family is prosperous or not, she just needs to live her own little life, and the family is safe.
Su Miao didn't know anything about Liang Du. Listening to Wei Zhen's words, it was not easy to interject, but in my heart I was surprised that Princess Rui could toss, it seemed that Liang Min would not give up if she did not marry a person surnamed Wei.
"And Ding Hui......" Wei Zhen said softly.
"Ding Hui?" Su Miao woke up. She is not unfamiliar with the name Ding Hui, isn't Ding Hui the fourth girl of Dongpinghou's family when she was in Suzhou, "When I was in Suzhou, I heard that Dongpinghou was escorted to Beijing by raiding his house, didn't he?" She asked, surprised.
"It's true that he went to Beijing, but the Marquis of Dongping was only stripped of his title and assigned to the frontier, and the men of the Marquis of Dongping also followed the Marquis of Dongping to the southern Xinjiang, but his unmarried daughters were enslaved in the palace. A few days ago, on the grounds that there was no one to serve the prince, the emperor rewarded Ding Hui to the prince as a concubine. ”
When Su Miao heard this, she couldn't help but smack. The emperor must be happy to do this, Ding Hui likes Liang Min and can see that he is a fool, otherwise Ding Hui would not have guarded Liang Min for so many years because of an unreliable doll, but what does it mean that the emperor suddenly started to do the work of three aunts and six mothers-in-law. She didn't believe that the emperor was doing something because he was idle. An emperor even does such a thing as sending a woman to his nephew himself, and this emperor is afraid that it is not simple.
Su Miao was suspicious in her heart, but Wei Zhen suddenly stopped talking, she stood up and went down the verandah to greet her.
Su Miao was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly stood up and followed.
It turned out that Huixiang was back, and a low-key and simple sedan chair was parked in the yard, and the maid stepped forward to raise the sedan curtain. Aftertaste comes out of it.
Even on a hot day, she still wore a black, black gown, a black pleated skirt, a black veil, and black gloves. It is tightly wrapped from top to bottom, except for the part of the eyes that are exposed, the rest of the place is airtight. This dress looks hot in the early autumn when the autumn tiger is raging, but this dress that makes people sweat just by looking at it is extremely cool on her, and the pure black on the hot day falls into the eyes, and it makes people feel cold all over the body as if they have fallen into the netherworld, and they can't help but shiver.
Wei Zhen stepped forward in a proper manner, asked for a good night, and called "mother" gently.
Hui Zhou was obviously a little afraid of Hui Xiang, took his mother's hand, and obediently called "grandmother".
Hui Xiang just nodded faintly, and there was no extra expression.
Liang Jin greeted him happily and said with a smile: "Child, they came here as soon as they arrived, and they have been waiting for you for a long time, have you eaten outside, let's start eating if you haven't eaten?" ”
Su Miao stepped forward slowly, bent her knees and blessed her, and said:
"Ma'am."
Hui Xiang glanced at her, she couldn't say that she liked or hated this daughter-in-law, she was a woman who was not good at words, and in the face of Su Miao's coming to visit, she just said lightly:
"You sit down first, I'll come back from outside, go change my clothes first."
Su Miao knew that coldness was just her temperament, and after being with Huiwei for a long time, Su Miao knew a lot about taciturn people, not to mention that there was a taciturn Su Chan in her own home, so she smiled, made way for Huixiang, and let her go inside.
Liang Jin had obviously long been accustomed to Hui Xiang's cold temperament, and seeing that she had no objection, he had already opened up on the side and ordered the maid standing in the courtyard to start preparing the meal.
The maids and women in Huixianglou still don't see any chaos even when they are busy, and like their masters, the courtyard is quiet.
The main courtyard is also the outer courtyard and the inner courtyard, Hui Xiang walked steadily towards the inner courtyard, when passing in front of Su Miao, Su Miao just subconsciously took a deep breath, and it was also the work of taking this breath, she suddenly smelled a strong smell of blood, a smell of blood emanating from Hui Xiang's body. She was slightly stunned, and the incense had already passed in front of her, stepping into the hall.
A touch of surprise swept through Su Miao's eyes, and she covered it up again.
Wei Zhen had already gone to Zhang Luo for dinner virtuously, and Liang Jin didn't have to bother anymore, after instructing the maid and mother-in-law, he greeted his son with a smile:
"Let's all go to the hall and wait, and the meal will start in a while!" As he spoke, he had already stepped into the hall.
When Su Miao came back to her senses, she found that Huigan and Huiwei's faces had not changed, and she couldn't help but wonder in her heart, could it be that the smell of blood she smelled just now was her hallucination?
Aftertaste had already stepped forward, took Su Miao's hand and walked to the dining room.
He swaggered and pulled Su Miao past in front of Hui Gan, Hui Gan was angry and funny, shook his head, and scolded:
"This kid!"
"Daddy!" The little Huizhou came forward to hug his thigh, raised a small head, and asked curiously, "Why doesn't the third uncle speak?" ”
"Your third uncle didn't like to talk since he was a child." Hui Gan smiled and picked him up and replied. Aftertaste didn't speak when Huizhou was so old, and his father and mother were in a hurry at that time, thinking that he was born a stupid mute, but later I learned that he just didn't like to talk and loved to be in a daze.
"Why?" Hui Zhou asked puzzled.
Hui Gan just smiled and didn't answer, a pair of narrow eyes looked at the east and west, and a thick worry flashed in his shining eyes.
The bathroom attached to the main room was filled with the strong smell of medicine at the moment, and the dark brown medicine pool was steaming.
Hui Xiang never had to be served when he took a bath, so Liang Jin could walk in unhindered without alarming anyone.
Hui Xiang's whole body was soaked in the medicine pool, through a gauze curtain, from behind he could only faintly see her snow-white neck stained with potion, open the gauze curtain and step in, her snow-white skin became more realistic, the exposed snow-white skin was densely covered with scars, the most obvious of which were those scars and uneven burn marks, the color of the skin was very uneven, almost covering the original snow-white complexion, one deep and one shallow, Even a casual glance at the past can give people goosebumps for a long time,
It is a scar that will make people's hearts extremely uncomfortable, and even disgusting, and they will never want to see a second look in this life.
The scars ran down his neck and down the dark brown potion.
Liang Jin's footsteps paused, and walked over casually, Hui Xiang was leaning on the edge of the pool to stitch up the wound on his chest, a finger-deep knife wound on his chest was washed by the potion, although the skin and flesh turned out, the blood stain was removed, leaving only a miserable white.
She was stitching up the wound with needles and threads, and she was able to maintain a calm expression without the use of anesthetic, as if the tip of the slender needle had not pierced her body.
Liang Jin squatted down beside her and looked at her silently for a while, he didn't say a word, and she didn't say a word.
It wasn't until a long time later, probably that he couldn't help it first, and he let out a long sigh, full of vicissitudes, and asked softly:
"When will you learn not to take matters into your own hands and discuss with me before you do something?"
"You do yours, I do mine, we don't interfere with each other, you forgot that?" She walked the flying needle in her hand, and her tone was calm and indifferent, and she said lightly.
Liang Jin didn't look at her face again, he was silent for a while, and suddenly asked in a condensed voice:
"Got it?"
"Nature." She replied briefly with two words.
Liang Jin just nodded, he stood up, and said lightly: "Come out after washing, it's rare that the whole family is here today." ”
The hand of the flying needle paused slightly, and the fragrance stopped, and replied shallowly: "Okay." (To be continued.) )