Chapter 21: Schadenfreude
Pei Sanye and Pei Erye have a somewhat similar appearance, and at a glance, they know that Lu Dao is a brother. looked at Pei Sanye and grinned, but refused to open his mouth to call someone. Third uncle, although you and my father look alike, you are just an uncle, not a father.
Pei Sanye made a sad appearance, "I don't like the third father, the third father is crying!" "Holding it in one hand, pretending to wipe tears with the other. I was greatly moved when I saw this, Third Uncle, you are like this, all because you like me too much and value me too much.
Stretching out his little arm, hugging Pei Sanye's neck, "Rent ......" smiled affectionately and kissed him on the cheek.
It's not okay to call Dad, it's still okay to kiss.
Pei Sanye was kissed by Xiao around his neck, and he fainted with joy, "I like the third father, right?" Good girl! ”
Pei Sanye was happy, feeling that someone was pulling the corners of his clothes, and his strength was quite strong. Looking down, his youngest son Pei Lin was pulling the corners of his clothes, trying to climb on him, seeing him lower his head, he raised his little face and smiled flatteringly at him, "Daddy!" ”
"Good son!" Pei Sanye held it steady with one hand, bent down and picked up Pei Lin with the other hand, and smiled from ear to ear, "Lin'er has a really good memory, you were only one year old when your father left, and you haven't seen her for more than half a year, and Lin'er hasn't forgotten her father!" ”
In fact, Pei Lin could have such a good memory, but Xu had already told him, "Lin'er, your father will be home tomorrow." Pei Heng and Pei Jing were excited to call their father, and of course Pei Lin joined in the fun.
Pei Sanye was holding two small ones in his arms, followed by seven big ones, talking and laughing and walking inside. When they saw Mrs. Fang, Xu and others, everyone saluted and saw each other, and they tossed each other.
Mrs. Fang looked her youngest son up and down, her face full of distress, "Thin, much thinner." Pei Sanye smiled smugly, "Mother, the Yushu I was born in is chic and dignified in the wind, this is a little thinner, but it looks better!" Mrs. Fang couldn't help laughing, "This is not a shameful child, how can anyone praise himself like this." ”
Xu Shi listened to Pei Sanye's self-boasting words, and covered his mouth and chuckled. She was carefully dressed up today, wearing a shallow lake blue shirt dress, bright and elegant, Pei Sanye secretly glanced at her, and just saw her smiling like a flower, and couldn't help but be stunned.
Lady she ...... Will you laugh so happily?
Pei Sanye's heart was beating suddenly, and he suddenly felt that his mouth was dry.
"That, the eldest cousin of the Marquis of Linjiang Mansion is here, and he is in the mansion. The eldest cousin is looking for someone, and he is talking to his father about the details. Pei Sanye told Xu.
"I know the way, there is the third master of Lao." Xu's face turned cold.
Pei Sanye was worried in his heart, did I say something wrong? I thought about it and thought about it, but I didn't know the point.
When Pei Taishou came back, only Pei Erye was with him, and there was no one else. Pei Sanye stepped forward and said strangely: "Dad, where is the eldest cousin?" "The lady's cousin is here, but he doesn't live at home, but he also wants to come in and talk to him.
"Then he had an important letter, and he went out of the city to find someone." Pei Taishou ignored him, and Pei Erye said with a smile.
"That's right." Pei Sanye suddenly realized.
Pei Taishou sat down on the Taishi chair, called Pei Sanye to him, and told him about selling land and buying a house, "San Lang, my father thought that you didn't like to study, and you won't have a reputation in the future, so if you can't do it, I'll let you go home and farm." Now, it seems that it is not possible. Pei Taishou said with some schadenfreude-
In your eyes, I am the material to go home and farm without anything? Pei Sanye was extremely depressed.
"I love to read! I want to read good books! Pei Sanye announced loudly.
"Daddy is amazing!" "The third uncle is so ambitious!" The children clapped and applauded.
Pei Linhe was the hardest-working, and the two probably thought that their voices were too small, so they stomped their feet and shouted, "Awesome!" "Ambition!" The little face of excitement was flushed.
Pei Sanye hugged him with a dazzled smile, and coaxed him softly, "Good girl, call the third father." Ordered people to take the small toys they had picked up in the capital one by one and put them in front of them, "Baby, this is a little person carved from the roots of a tree, isn't it interesting?" Good job, call the three fathers, these three fathers are all given to you. ”
smiled obediently, and was also very interested in the little toys shown by Pei Sanye, but refused to call his father.
Second Master Pei smiled, "How can this be reasonable." Third brother, I'm here. "How hateful it is to coax my daughter in front of me.
The eight brothers of the Pei family came over together, "Third uncle, what about ours?" "Daddy, where's my share?" Pei Lin stretched out her little hand confidently, "Daddy, I want it too!" ”
Pei Sanye smiled: "All of them, all of them." "Ordered someone to open the luggage, take out pens, ink, paper, inkstones, and various toys, etc., and distribute them one by one.
Pei Erye took advantage of the children's coaxing efforts to snatch his daughter over, "The third uncle is bad, let's not play with him!" "Eat and laugh, okay, don't play with the third uncle.
Pei Taishou beckoned to him, "Zhonglang, bring me over." Second Master Pei was helpless, and complained in a low voice, "I just snatched it from your third uncle, and your grandfather came to ask for someone again." Slowly walked to Pei Taishou's side and reluctantly handed it over.
There's no way, the only daughter of the Pei family, it's too sought-after! threw himself into his grandfather's arms and laughed happily—
Pei Sanye talked to his father and second brother in the study for a while, and only then did he return to the room. Xu Shi got up to greet him and asked gently, "Are you back?" "Loosen his cloak and put on a light robe.
At this time, the Xu family was very gentle and tactful, but Pei Sanye felt that she was not easy to approach, and she was a little cold. "Why is this happening again?" Pei Sanye was a little frustrated. When I came back, you were smiling so brightly, so beautiful, how delightful.
"My father and second brother both said that it would be difficult for the eldest cousin to find someone." After holding it for a long time, Pei Sanye opened his mouth, "Is the Linjiang Hou Mansion selling people to human traffickers, or is it a human trafficker with no name or surname." How to find it in the vast sea of people? ”
Xu frowned, "Sold to human traffickers? Linjiang Houfu sells people? Xianggong, what the hell is going on, I don't understand. ”
The Linjiang Marquis Mansion is very wealthy, only buying people, and I have never heard of selling people.
Pei Sanye patted his head, "Look at me, what you said is clueless, no wonder the lady doesn't understand." That's right, my eldest cousin and I walked all the way, saying that we were going to Suzhou to find someone. When I arrived at the mansion, I took my eldest cousin to see my father, only to learn that what he was looking for was Brother Ling's biological mother. ”
Linjiang Houfu is why there will be the eldest son of Lu, Pei Sanye doesn't know how to do it. What is the festival between the biological mother of the eldest son and Mrs. Linjiang Hou, and Pei Sanye doesn't know what to do. Anyway, I knew that Chen Lingyun's biological mother was sold by Mrs. Linjiang Hou, and Linjiang Hou learned afterwards that he hurriedly took Chen Lingyun out of Beijing to find someone.
Xu Shi laughed, "Dare to love and have this kind of thing." ”
Cousin, it turns out that your wife will sell your beautiful concubine, it's really an eye-opener.
"Dad and second brother will help find someone, I'...... I will also do my best. Pei Sanye said attentively.
Lady, I will not sit idly by and watch your mother's affairs, I will do my best.
"Just handle it as a normal public case, and you don't have to worry too much about him." Xu said lightly: "Xianggong, my father is very busy with official business, and even the second brother is busy with his feet on the ground, how many big and important things are waiting to be done, so I don't have to worry about this." ”
Pei Sanye was puzzled, "Linjiang Hou Mansion, isn't it her aunt's house?" This Linjiang Hou is her aunt's cousin. ”
Why didn't she seem to care about her aunt's cousin's family affairs.
Perhaps, because Ling Yun is a concubine. Pei Sanye thought about his wife Su Ri's indifference to his brother and sister, and he roughly understood something.
"Dad's temper, don't you still know the way? Regardless of whether the case is big or small, he is very cautious and will not ignore it. Lady, even if he is not your cousin, he is an ordinary person, as long as he reports the case to the Suzhou Mansion, his father will deal with it properly. Pei Sanye said euphemistically.
"He doesn't deserve it." Xu's voice was cold.
Pei Sanye was stunned.
After Xu's words came out, he faintly regretted in his heart, and smiled a little embarrassedly, "Cousin, this is asking for hardship." Back then, because he gave birth to his eldest son before he married a wife, he was very angry with his aunt. Now a few years have passed, and I am still tossing for the biological mother of this eldest son. Xianggong, I want to think about my aunt, I am really angry that my cousin is ignorant and foolish. ”
Pei Sanye woke up like a dream, "It turns out that it's because of this." ”
Also, the daughter-in-law hasn't married yet, and the child is gone, what's the matter. The wives and concubines of the Marquis of Linjiang were not in harmony, so that Mrs. Marquis of Linjiang wanted to quietly sell Lingyun's biological mother, alas, it was really messy.
"Even though I'm angry, I still have to help find someone." Pei Sanye gently pulled his wife and told her carefully, "Ling Yun has a stubborn temper, and he can't find his biological mother, so he refuses to go back to the capital." Although he is a concubine, he is always his cousin's biological son, right? You can't just leave your child behind. ”
"Besides, this Lingyun's biological mother, Ye Shi, has a very poor background. She was the daughter of a good family, and her father was a general, but unfortunately the Japanese invaded and died in battle. After her father died, her grandmother thought she was a girl and lost money, so she sold her to the Qinglou. ”
Ye Shen will be born in bitterness, and the mother-in-law in the family does not know a single big word, which is very vulgar. She has two sons, Ye Shenjiang is the eldest son, and there is a younger brother below. This younger brother doesn't learn and doesn't know how to do it, so he relies on his eldest brother to live. As soon as the eldest brother died, the Ye family's sky collapsed suddenly, and I don't know how Lu Dao will live in the future.
Ye's beauty, her father died, her mother was a coward, and she didn't have a brother, her uncle was used to relying on General Ye, and he couldn't make a living, so he jumped to her grandmother and sold her and her mother.
Linjiang Hou met Ye in Qinglou. The first thing he saw of her was that she was standing on a tall building, about to jump down. Her desperation and poignancy shook his heart.
Pei Sanye was very embarrassed, alas, Ling Yun's biological mother was really pitiful.
Xu Shi looked at him and asked coldly, "If it were you, what would you do?" ”
My cousin will redeem her, keep her by her side, and let her give birth to her firstborn, what about you? What would you do if it were you?
Pei Sanye was taken aback, "Don't talk nonsense, I won't go to that kind of place at all!" ”
Qinglou, if I dare to go to that kind of dirty place, my father will not beat me to death.
Xu was very stubborn and looked at him fixedly, "What if?" ”
I know you won't go to the Qinglou, but what if you do?
Seeing that his wife looked serious, Pei Sanye also sat up straight, and said: "If it were me, first, I would uphold justice for this woman, and bring all the wicked people who sell good and buy good for cheap to bring to justice." ”
Ye is a good citizen, even her grandmother and uncle have no right to sell her to the Qinglou. It is illegal to sell good as cheap. In the same way, buying good is cheap, and it should also be punished.
"Second, I will find a white family, a good young man, for this woman, make a dowry, and marry her."
She always has to get married, no matter whether her father is a general or what, she has lost her father and is down, and the people of the high family will not want her. However, it is not difficult to marry a kind banker.
After Pei Sanye finished speaking, the Xu family was silent for a long time.
Pei Sanye didn't know what his wife was thinking, so he looked at her helplessly.
"Didn't you think about marrying her?" Xu asked lightly.
"I ...... How do I marry her? Pei Sanye stammered, "Marriage requires the order of my parents, I ...... I don't belong to my own family. ”
What am I going to marry her, Pei Sanye sweated on his forehead.
Drops of crystal tears rolled down Xu's cheeks, like pearls with broken threads. "Why are you crying?" Pei Sanye was surprised and distressed, took his wife and wiped her tears, "I've never seen you cry, lady, what's wrong with you." ”
She always smiled softly and was very polite, and this was her first gaffe.
"I'm just, so happy." There were tears in Xu's eyes, and the corners of his lips were hooked, as if he wanted to laugh, "Xianggong, I'm very happy that you said that." ”