Chapter 014: The Long House
Early the next morning, Xie Shuning was waited by Gui's mother and Rose to freshen up, and before she had time to use it early, she was rushed by her parents and her brother to greet the third old lady first, and then hurried to the long room.
Originally, yesterday, the third old lady had said that Song and a pair of children would be exempted from morning and dusk, but no one took this seriously, so what should be done today.
However, because the highlight of today is in the long room, the three old ladies just said a few words and let people disperse.
Xie Shuning and her brother were wearing cranes of the same color, and they were led forward by their parents.
Entering the boundary of the long house, the group hurried forward. After a while, through the tall glazed walled door, a large plum tree came into view.
The uncle and grandfather of the long house thought that he was elegant, liked the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and loved to play with flowers and plants, and he became more and more like this after retiring from the court. Therefore, the place where the two elders of the long house lived was also named Plum Blossom Dock by him. Now the plum blossoms in the plum blossom dock are all in bloom, and the fragrant snow is all over the place, but it really has a different taste.
Xie Yuanmao introduced the Song family softly as he walked.
As they spoke, they had already arrived in front of the flower hall of Plum Blossom Dock.
However, it was only about a moment ago, and there were already people waiting in the flower hall of Meihuawu. Seeing them coming, he hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "The slave and maid greet the sixth master and the sixth wife." Turning sideways slightly, the delicate maid wearing an indigo winter coat saluted Xie Shuning and Xie Yi again.
Xie Shuning glanced at her more.
The face is a little unfamiliar, and I can't remember who is next to her for a while, but the indigo winter clothes, if she remembers correctly, it should be worn by the big girl in the house.
"The old lady thought of you, got up early and waited, and specially ordered the slave and maid to wait here."
Xie Yuanmao nodded and led Xie Shuning through the hall.
When I arrived at the vestibule of the main house of Meihuawu, the bluestone floor of a water was still a little wet. There was a heavy snowfall yesterday, and it finally stopped at night, and the snow naturally can't melt today. The snow in the north was dense and very thick, but there was not even a single snow star in the forecourt, as if no snow had ever fallen.
The maid who was waiting there to greet them said: "The old lady thought that the fifth young master and the eighth young lady both grew up in the south, and when they saw the snow, they must have become more and more afraid of the cold. ”
Xie Yuanmao couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this.
Speaking of which, this is the second time that the old lady of the long room has seen him after he returned to Xie's house.
Giving birth to grace and nurturing grace are all kindnesses, but after all, there are relatives. But today, he couldn't help but feel that the old lady of the long house still treated herself as a son in her heart, otherwise she wouldn't have gotten up early today and waited for them to come and ask for peace. Thinking like this, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
The Song family and the Chen family are a confused account in his heart, and it doesn't look good to rely on anyone's account, but he can't count it, so he thought about mentioning it again after this year. However, at the moment, if the old lady of the long house could intervene in the management, maybe she would have been able to sort it out earlier.
Walking gently up the steps in front of the main room, a group of people stood outside the curtain waiting for the transmission, when suddenly a sound of footsteps sounded behind them, accompanied by the girl's reluctant muttering.
Xie Shuning's feet stiffened, and he subconsciously retracted it.
"Third Lady, Sixth Lady." The mother-in-law guarding the door hurriedly bowed down to say hello, and after the big girl who led Xie Shuning and his party over also saluted, she opened the curtain and went in to report, and the curtain was reopened after a while.
A group of mermaids rushed in.
Xie Yuanmao greeted the woman who came after, "Third sister-in-law." ”
When he got closer, Xie Shuning saw the person clearly.
The goose-egg-faced woman, about twenty years old, wore a mink jacket with purple embroidered butterfly pattern makeup and satin, an apricot-colored skirt, and a loose bun on her head.
The old lady of the long house is the aunt of the third lady, Jiang.
And the girl who was being held by Jiang's hand at this moment, looking about five or six years old, was pouting and unhappy.
Jiang Shi just looked gloomy, pulled the corners of his mouth at Xie Yuanmao, said in a low voice, "Sixth brother", and took his daughter past them and went inside.
Xie Shuning's eyebrows furrowed slightly.
Xie Yuanming, the third master of the Xie family's room, is a jinshi who has been in charge of the army for thirteen years, and now he is serving as the imperial history of Yangzhou Salt Patrol. In ancient times, the rich land belonged to the two Huai, and the land of the two Huai pushed Yangzhou, so over the years, the third lady Jiang has also taken her daughter to live with the third master. After all, Yangzhou Skinny Horse is famous all over the world, if she doesn't take care of it herself, how can she rest assured? But Rao is like this, and there are still more and more women in the third master's house. Merry but not indecent, this is the standard of today's people, if anyone is not like this, isn't it unsociable?
Jiang swallowed his anger, but after holding it for a long time, he couldn't stand it, so he simply couldn't see it, and went to Beijing to see his second daughter in the name of going to Beijing to see his second daughter.
Calculating the time, the Jiang family only entered Beijing a few days earlier than them.
The warm breeze in the house is coming, several people gradually enter, and see the corridor room that extends out from the left and right of the moon cave door, the eaves are painted, simple and elegant. In front of the door of the carved moon cave on the right, the two maids who were waiting saw them coming, and hurriedly curtled and lifted the curtain.
Then there was a sound from within.
A female voice said sarcastically, "Whether it is a wife or a concubine is undecided, what will this be? Don't mess with the people over there! ”
Song and Xie Yuanmao listened outside, and their faces changed. Even Xie Yi, who was little ignorant, vaguely felt that those words were not good, but only Xie Shuning almost laughed. She was all too familiar with the voice! In the entire long room, there must be only one who dares to talk to the old lady like this in front of the old man.
The Liang family is well-known for his poisonous tongue, and he was born in Jiangmen, and he is unruly, but his popularity in the Xie family is not bad.
Just because she is the concubine of the Liang family, and she was given the title of county lord by the emperor, no one in the Xie family dares to offend her easily, and it is too late for everyone to stammer!
Speaking of which, if she married Second Master Xie, she was married at a low level.
That's why she just spoke like that, and the old lady of the long room just suppressed her voice and said, "Okay, look at your mouth, you can make three souls go to two souls with a touch up and down." After a while, the sixth child will come, and you can't embarrass him. ”
When the words fell, Xie Shuning and a few others had already entered inside.
The atmosphere suddenly became a little strange.
Or now the eldest lady in charge of the family, Wang, started a round, "The sixth child is here, it's cold outside, come in and warm up." I heard that the eight girls fell ill on the way to Beijing, but now they are all right? ”