Chapter 11 Biological Mother's Love, Adoptive Mother's Kindness
The moon sank in the west chamber, and Du Shi also read it in Man Yun's ear.
"Sister Yun, you remember, Guizhi is such a bad thing, I, the master, caught their shortcomings and scolded them, but Mother Zhu couldn't beat them without permission. They are all subordinates of the elders, and if they want to clean up, they must take care of themselves first, but they can't be loud in front of the elders if they are reasonable, and they must save some face for everyone......"
"But it's not right to have a body like grandma and beat people with her own hands!" , Mother Zhu grinned, and directly picked up the copper basin next to Manyun's white and tender feet and stuffed it into Xiao Man's hand, who was snickering on the side.
Xiao Man flattened his mouth, went out to pour water, came back and closed the door again, began to slowly clean up the bed, and continued to listen to the play with his ears pricked up.
"Mother Zhu, stay there! I'm teaching my sister the truth! Du Shi was disgusted by Zhu's mother's vomit, and his face was more and more charming.
"Mother!" , Although Du's statement was very different from the gentleness and humility of the Gao Sect in the previous life, it somehow went straight to the bottom of Zhou Manyun's heart, and his small body leaned closer to Du's arms.
"My mother knows that Sister Yun'er is bold in front of her grandmother today, and she feels sorry for her mother!" , Du Shi smiled and lowered his head and kissed Man Yun's forehead, "But in fact, my mother knows her own proportions." Even if Mother Zhu doesn't shout that I am pregnant, I will say it myself, and I will rely on this to beg for benefits, and I will never let myself suffer a single grievance. Mr. has taught that there is no shame in showing weakness to the enemy and preserving strength! ”
"Sir?" , Zhou Manyun blinked, looking puzzled.
Finding that he had leaked out the joking title between the husband and wife, Du Shanshan's face turned red and stuck out her tongue, but she also generously recognized it in front of her daughter, "Well, my husband is your father, he taught me to read and write poetry in the past." ”
However, after ten years of hard work, Du's romantic feelings still stop at occasionally sending Zhang Sujian to Zhou Zhe, with the inscription "Work hard to add meals".
Daddy? Zhou Manyun's eyes darkened unconsciously, and he lowered his head silently. The memories of Rebirth I made her feel extremely heavy at the moment.
At this moment, the closed door was gently tapped a few times, and Xiao Man, who was guarding the door, had just opened the crack in the door, and a woman with a slightly panicked expression immediately squeezed in, as if she was hiding from the thief who caught the fast.
"Second sister-in-law?" , Du Shi, who was sitting crookedly on the bed, straightened up in surprise, but his hands did not mean to let go of the daughter in his arms.
Zhou Manyun simply lay in Du Shi's arms, only turned his face sideways, and called softly, "Second uncle!" The long eyelashes were half-covered, staring at this most familiar and close elder in his previous life.
Gao is only in his early thirties now, with a goose egg face, a delicate complexion, and a plain and elegant outfit, coupled with the sadness locked at the corners of his eyebrows and eyes, compared with Du Shi, who was tightly hugged by Man Yun, it looked even more eclipsed.
But now such a second aunt, compared to the Gao family, who was in her forties in her forties in her previous life and looked like ash from the outside to the inside, she didn't know how much stronger.
"Sister Yun is really good! If Brother Shen ......", Gao sat on the edge of the bed with his skirt up, and stroked Man Yun's head lovingly with one left hand, with a deep envy in his eyes.
Waiting to look at Du Shi who was waiting for her to speak, Gao Shi opened his mouth, but the words he wanted to say naturally changed the word, "Shanshan, I think that everything on the road is not complete, and it just so happens that I still have some pine ink and stream paper ...... brought out from Beijing."
As she spoke, a small red rattan basket that had never been released in the palm of her right hand was lifted from the blue brocade that covered it, and the neatly placed black and white in the basket appeared immediately.
Du Shi was stunned for a moment, and also thanked Gao Shi in a kind way, and sighed that he had to copy the "Female Commandment" again.
The second aunt is still the same as in her previous life, she doesn't dare to say what she wants directly, she is always tangled, and she hides her thoughts faintly. Listening to the conversation between the two adults, Xiao Manyun felt bitter in his heart and buried his head deeper in Du Shi's arms.
It was at this moment of complaining that Man Yun was shocked to realize that his own son in his previous life was very much like the Gao clan who was being slandered by himself.
In her previous life, Man Yun was raised by the Gao family, and the Gao family raised her like a mother, and Man Yun also practiced the words and merits of the daughter of the family according to the example of the Gao family.
Since the sixteenth year of Yongde, the Gao family and Man Yun, one big and one small, who depend on each other for their lives, have no desires, do not cause trouble, do not make trouble, and hide in the remote courtyard of the Zhou family in Huocheng to live in peace.
Gao's only commendable feat was that when Man Yun was fourteen years old, he rushed to Xie's place and made a big fuss, because the family was discussing marriage to several sisters at that time, and even the younger ones of the second uncle's family were being led, but Zhou Manyun, who was more appropriate, was left out.
Gao's quote from the scriptures to say that the young and the young are orderly, and the concubines have other reasons, but they snatched an enviable marriage for Man Yun, and promised Man Yun to her maiden home, Qingyuan Gao's family, and married her nephew.
Zhou Manyun and Lu got married, and the second aunt did her best to add makeup to her, completely ignoring that there were many children under the second uncle's knees who also called her mother.
And the "good story" of the Gao family and Xue Suqi, the first talented woman in Jiangnan, was well known, and the surname Xue went directly to the door of the Gao family and posed as a concubine, and the Gao family persuaded Manyun, who was a wife, to be virtuous and generous. And the Zhou family, who was supposed to rely on her, ignored it from top to bottom, pretending to be deaf and dumb, and only the second aunt walked day and night, and hurried from Huocheng to Qingyuan.
"It's all my fault, it's all my ......", when it was confirmed that Xue Suqi's entry into the door was irretrievable, Zhou Manyun sent the Gao family, who was going back to Huocheng, to the outskirts of the city, and she would only hold Manyun's hand and say these three words over and over again.
Is she to blame? As the bride of the Gao family, who had only been married for less than a year, Man Yun has been immersed in self-pity, and the Gao family, who was married from the bottom of his heart, has no complaints. So he just shook his head silently at the second uncle, but he didn't expect that the farewell between the two that day would be forever.
Within three months, Man Yun returned to Huocheng, and that time he went to send Gao's coffin to be buried.
The so-called mother's family means that there is a mother to have a home. The biological mother Du died early, and the Gao family, who was actually the same as the adoptive mother, was mourned again, and it was from then on that Zhou Manyun gradually broke off the connection with the Zhou family in Huocheng, and Xia Kou's "death" was even more over.
It's not weird, it's not weird at all, I was grateful for Yang En in my previous life, but in this life, what I want is my biological mother. Zhou Manyun's little arms hugged Du Shi tighter, and his head arched uneasily.
"Sister Yun!" , Interrupted by his daughter's sudden coquettishness, Du touched Manyun's soft hair with joy and disgust, looked at Gao Shi who had been wandering in the clouds and mountains and mist apologetically, and said apologetically: "Sister Yun should be thirsty ......and sleeping."
"Second uncle, you just let Brother Shen take the same medicine as me!" , Du Shi's arms suddenly froze with a small head with great spirit.
Zhou Manyun's big eyes flashed with hope, and said, "I'm still waiting for him, let's play together!" ”
"That medicine, Brother Shen should, you should be able to try it, right?" After finishing speaking, Gao's face was already flushed, and she was still thinking about how to turn this topic with Du Shi, but she didn't want to be called out by a five-year-old child. Presumably the intention of his coming, the adults in this room all understood, and when they realized this, Gao's face was even darker.
Du Shi smiled and shook Gao's hand, "Sister-in-law, it's really okay to try." This home remedy has been out for some time, and now there are more and more people who go deep in the mountains to dig the dark grass, according to Zhu's mother, in the mountains I met a number of servants who looked like they were from big families. ”
"Shanshan! You haven't thought about it, even if you can't eat this herb...... It's not bad to eat, but it's possible, will you be afraid that your child will eat stupidly? The situation of the little son of the Li Jiaoyu family in the county town still made the Gao family a little scared.
"Thought!" After a while, Du Shi gently brushed Man Yun's soft hair, and said, "When Sister Yun looked at the danger and fed her medicine, I thought about it. I thought, even if she is stupid, but as long as she lives, she is my blood and bones, and the big deal is to support her for a lifetime. ”
Gao's eyes drooped, and Man Yun's eyes were a little wet when he buried himself in Du's arms again.
"I understand...... Tomorrow morning, I will let Mingxia in my house get medicine, and I will have to bother Mother Zhu to guide her. Gao's expression stood up and thanked Du.
The medicine on Du's side was burned and thrown away by the cinnamon branch of the kitchen steward, and if Brother Shen also wanted to use it, he would inevitably have to go out again tomorrow.
Du Shi swept towards Mother Zhu with a bit of sharp eyes, and Mother Zhu's fat big hand immediately shook up, "No!" Second grandma, the Mingxia in your house is beautiful, this herb should be picked fresh, go out of the city and into the mountains and walk the mountain road, it is not very peaceful. Protecting her is not as neat as I am alone. ”
The words are half true and half false, and it is true that Mother Zhu thinks that the maids around Gao's side are squeamish, but the most important reason is that she already has another helper to collect medicine outside, and if it is exposed, there will be a lot of trouble.
Obviously, Gao also immediately realized that her proposal was wrong, for example, tonight, she didn't dare to bring someone to Du's room, and how dare she hand someone over to Zhu's mother. Mingxia is still haode, but these "Xia" who were trained from Mrs. Zhou and placed beside each daughter-in-law are too deeply involved.
The five rooms are loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and the water does not enter, and it is reasonable to refuse.
Gao had to be empathetic and round himself back and said, "That's good." Shanshan, now we are all crammed into a small courtyard, the people in my house, if you can use them, call them directly! ”
"Good! Certain! Du Shi smiled and pushed Gao out of the door.
Gao stole a peek at the light of Mrs. Zhou's residence in the upper room, just like when he came, and then quietly flashed back to the next room close by with the corner of his skirt.
Mother Zhu, who was standing at the door to help Gao's watch the wind, sent her figure into the room, closed the door, shook her head helplessly, and said, "The second grandmother is a good person, but she is too faced!" ”
"What! The second sister-in-law is gentle and kind, but don't talk nonsense in front of her sister. Du Shi, who was being served by Xiaoman to clean his face, listened to the sound and directly threw a wet handkerchief to Zhu's mother.
Therefore, in this life, I still have to be such a fresh mother! Zhou Manyun looked at Du Shi's beautiful face, which was even lightly angry and angry, and sweetly hooked the corners of his mouth......