Chapter 81: She's Here Too
"Uncle! If you think about it carefully, even if you don't follow the ancient etiquette, just follow the laws of the Chen Dynasty, there is a limit to the number of concubines of officials of all ranks. There are enough wives and two concubines in your room, and no matter if the daughter of a good family is a concubine, she is willing to degenerate, and those cheap concubines and maids who are falsely called aunts by their subordinates are just servants who are pinched in the hands of the master's mother, and what pity is it to send them out together......
The young man's statement was very clear under the murmuring of the canal, and the back of the kneeling on the ground hung with dripping water traces, which was even more serious and persistent.
Man Yun was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head and smiled.
Gao Wei's words can be said sonorously and forcefully at this time, but after waiting for a few years, it will not be like this.
One thing in the world descends one thing. Now Gao Wei, who is talking to Zhou Bai about the harm of the concubine, has not met Xue Sujun, and if he does, he will pity her for being a concubine. One wife and two concubines are sufficient, so after the Xue family entered the door, he said "It is enough to have Empress E's daughter in this life!" Apparently still kind.
Who would be happy to be his Empress? The corners of Zhou Manyun's lightly curled mouth were a little unable to let go.
Zhou Xian, who came slowly, looked sideways at his granddaughter, bowed his head slightly, and smiled.
Man Yun took his grandfather's arm and walked to a place that was only less than five steps away from the three of them, and Zhou Bai, who had been staring at the two big boys in front of him with red eyes, suddenly let out a sharp howl, threw himself to his knees, and wrapped Zhou Shen's body tightly, holding him in his arms.
"Shen'er! Is it for the father to be confused...... It's all because my father contracted the problem of taking loose clothes in Liangzhou, and the medicinal properties changed together...... It hurts my son alive! Damn for your father, damn it......"
Zhou Bai, who was holding Zhou Shen, cried bitterly and beat his chest. was deeply affectionate and turned a blind eye to Zhou Xian, who came to him.
However, Gao Wei, who was wet, reacted faster, and hurriedly stood up and saluted Zhou Xian. When he saw Man Yun following Zhou Xian's side, there was even a trace of shame on his face.
Zhou Shen, who was hugged by Zhou Bai, was also crying. The tears and the blood on the red and swollen face were very poignant. When he heard the voice, he stretched out an arm in the direction of Zhou Xian, and cried with difficulty: "Grandpa! Daddy, he admitted that he was wrong, and he was going to change it...... It's up to you to let him go! ”
"Daddy! Please let the second brother go, and the doctor will treat him! Across a Huanxiang canal, Zhou Song, who came in a hurry, knelt on the ground, followed by a group of children of the Zhou family.
Zhou Xian's crutches were beaten on the ground. He snorted coldly: "Let go of Brother Shen first!" ”
Zhou Bai's hand refused to relax at all, and Man Yun walked to his side, and a silver needle was secretly fastened under one of his outstretched hands. She has planned it, if the second uncle keeps pulling Brother Shen'er, she will go down directly.
Gao Wei, who was just standing on the side, saw the situation and took a step, rushed in front of Man Yun, and put Zhou Bai's arm. The small body was obliquely blocked, and Zhou Bai, who did not let Zhou Bai, who was pushing backwards with his outstretched arms, touch Man Yun at all.
Thinking about it, Zhou Bai was also exhausted, and his arm hung down. Gao Wei barely made any effort to help Zhou Shen into his arms.
Man Yun slanted a glance at Gao Wei angrily. The second uncle pretended to be a ghost, but he met a nosy person again, and it was a good match to cooperate.
"Zhou Jingxuan!". Zhou Xian drank at his second son, who was kneeling on the ground in a daze, with an angry face.
"Daddy!" , Zhou Bai only responded bitterly. He fell backwards with a bang, and fainted unconsciously......
Stars dot the autumn night sky. The evening breeze is light and the house is cool. But only Zhou Xian and Man Yunzu's study were dull.
"Brother Shen is fine?" , Zhou Xian asked softly, looking tired.
Man Yun hurriedly returned the results of Master's consultation to Zhou Shen, and explained everything in great detail.
"Sister Yun! I have promised them that I will no longer lock up the Huanxiang Courtyard, and I will treat your second uncle and remove the poison, and when he is well, I will allow him to be free......"
"Haode, do you need Master to give him the formula?"
"No need! Find a few famous doctors in the local area to treat him slowly! Zhou Xian said, two lines of old tears couldn't help falling, and said: "Raising this son of evil is really not cultivated in the previous life!" ”
In the process of Manyun taking Xu Ne to treat Zhou Shen, Zhou Xian also had a detailed discussion with Zhou Bai, who woke up after "fainting", but the result disappointed Zhou Xian, but in order not to disappoint Zhou Shen and other descendants, he had to approve Zhou Shen's request, expelled the women of Huanxiang Courtyard, and took care of Zhou Bai to let him quit Sanfang.
"It's been a few years? Sister Yun, Grandpa sent your grandmother to the country manor but left Zhou Bai by his side, and he did have some hope for him to beg for a new life. But he never thought about it, but he chose to take Jinshi Sanfang...... The first time he rushed out into the street to talk nonsense, he was indeed not well guarded, but then I told the housekeeper that if he wanted to run out, he would chase after him, and let him spread out as much as possible......"
"What are you saying?" , Zhou Xian smiled desolate and said: "If he shouts once, he will die, and most people in the world think that what he shouted is true." That's why I asked him to shout a few more times...... Now that Manhuo Cheng knows that he is a madman who is disobedient, those perverse words will be self-defeating. Then, if he wants to kill himself, he will go by himself......"
The father and son calculated each other, but Zhou Xian, who never couldn't bear to kill his son, was still a chess player.
"The second uncle is indeed pretending to be crazy most of the time!" , from several street rushes to this injury to Zhou Shen's fakes, which made Man Yun feel Zhou Bai's ruthlessness.
"Just now, he never made a clear mistake to me! Started to serve in Liangzhou...... In this way, when he is cured, he will not be able to pursue his previous perversity...... People who will kill even their own parents and children after taking medicine, rape and kill some cheap women, and they don't have anything to worry about......"
Among the sons of the Zhou family, Zhou Xian punished Zhou Bai the heaviest, because of his disregard for human life and his stubbornness to admit his death. But after a few years of hard farewell, Zhou Bai, who was even more ruthless, still got his freedom back in his own way.
In fact, as long as a little poison can kill anyone, in this case, it is impossible to say it around Man Yun's mouth.
Zhou Xian in front of him was gray-haired, wrinkled, and the exposed parts of his face and hands had been dotted with old age spots. It will only be a few years if you are dying of old age, and it will only be a few years if you hold on, the judgment that Master Xu Ne said in private when she visited the doctor not long ago. It made Man Yun feel sad.
Zhou Xian said to himself that he couldn't pretend to be deaf and dumb in the court. It's because some bottom lines refuse to be broken. The same is true when it comes to family matters.
To Zhou Bai. No matter how much he hated and resented, he was the most ruthless, and he just watched him kill himself.
"Grandpa! It doesn't matter, the brothers and Man Yun are also older, and the second uncle should have some scruples after being locked up for a few years. It's not all bad to let him out, seeing that the brothers and sisters in the second room are all of proper marriage age, and having a normal father is there, isn't it also conducive to their marriage? ”
Man Yun smiled sweetly, held Zhou Xian's hand and chose all the good ones.
Zhou Xianshu frowned. Shaking his head, he said: "I can't count on him, just think of it as multiple decorations." ”
It doesn't matter if he says it, but the old man has already thought about what Man Yun said in his heart, after all, the second room is the third generation of the Zhou family.
Previously, the eldest daughter of the second room, Zhou Manmiao's relatives, was affected by the crazy father in the family. Fortunately, the Zhou family has been famous for many years, and it is hard to say that she was personally raised by her mother-in-law Gao, so she married her to a family of ordinary scholars in Baisi Town, Huocheng.
Zhou Manqing, the second-room concubine, and Zhou Manyan, the fourth-room concubine, are both seventeen years old, and Manyan has already made a marriage. Manqing's family affairs are a little difficult. In addition to his concubine, Zhou Tan is more intimate than Zhou Bai.
"Grandpa! If you think about it, Brother Shen is about to say goodbye, he is the second sister-in-law! ”
"Shen'er was not lightly injured this time...... It was Gao Wei who came up with the idea to let him go to your second uncle! ”
"Yes!". Zhou Manyun nodded vigorously and said, "That cousin of the Gao family is also a troublemaker!" ”。
Some over-exertion of disgust is clearly counterproductive. Zhou Xian stroked his beard and praised: "It's rough to deal with things." But the mind is very smart. ”
Manyun, who didn't want to talk to Grandpa anymore, lied. I made an excuse and walked away.
Looking at the figure of Man Yun curling away, Zhou Xian sat alone, turned out the letter that Gao Wei handed over when he arrived at Zhou's mansion the day before yesterday, and thought about it repeatedly.
In the letter, Gao Gong only mentioned that Yunzhou was too busy to take care of his two sons' studies, and the eldest son Gao Ji had already gone north to be controlled by his future Yue's family.
Compared with his own sons, Gao Gong, who has always seemed cold, actually knows how to behave as an official. The so-called bracket is also a careful consideration of various joints. Zhou Xian thought clearly, but he was not disgusted. The use within this limit is still acceptable to him.
It's just that if the relationship between the Zhou family and the Gao family can be taken to the next level, it will also be haode.
The little boy in the Huanxiang Courtyard who was drenched and still blocked Man Yun still made Zhou Xian feel good.
"Gao Wei has been good to Sister Yun since she was a child, and the Gao family style is also good. Changde doesn't even have a concubine room, but there are only two rooms, if the son is like a father...... It's good to stay by your side and take a closer look......", Zhou Xian thought about it carefully, and the more he felt warm.
A half-written letterhead was also torn up by him.
Zhou Xian originally wrote a reply to Gao Gong on it, saying that he was old and frail, so he brought his children and grandchildren, and wanted to send Gao Wei to his nephew Zhou Tongmen......
After two days of chaos, the Huanxiang Courtyard was solemn.
In the large courtyard, more than 20 women in different costumes did not dare to come out and kneel on the ground.
Zhou Bai, the only male owner in the courtyard, was sent by Zhou Xian to Huoshan's mid-level courtyard, and the women in the courtyard were about to face the fate of turning again.
Sitting in the main seat is the Min family in the fourth room of the Zhou family, and now she is holding the middle feed of the Zhou Mansion, just waiting for the New Year, Zhou Ke's daughter-in-law enters the door and hands it over.
There were two on one side of the Min family, and four girls from the Zhou family were sitting. Manqing, Man Yun is on the left, and Min's two daughters, Man Yan and Man Yin, are on the right.
The sisters were worried in their hearts, and only Man Yun slandered in his heart that the Min family was purely taking the opportunity to significantly step down in front of the cousins.
Zhou Manqing, the second daughter of the second room sitting on the left, lowered her head and twisted the handkerchief. Even if her biological mother was still kneeling in the hall, she didn't want to look up.
Manqing only knew that Manyan, who was sitting opposite, was three months younger than her, but Manyan might have to marry next year. And she couldn't talk about her relationship several times, and now she has to watch the fourth aunt deal with her father's concubines, which really makes her ashamed.
Man Qingzhi can't wait for a few years younger to avoid like his two half-father sisters, or to find someone like his sister Manmiao and marry early.
The Min family first invited three women including Aunt Sun, who had given birth to an heir, out, and then sent the women who were willing to take their own dowry and leave. There are a few maids who chose to stay three years ago, and after being locked up for such a period of time, they no longer have the illusion of that day, they just want to leave early.
The maidservants used by Zhou Bai were taken away one by one by the assistant mothers-in-law, and by the middle of the hour, there were only four or five young women left who still showed hesitant expressions.
Min's eyes were even colder as cold as ice when he looked at them. Although these are all in the second uncle's room, those who are righteous wives just can't see these women who block people's eyes and evil hearts.
"Four grandmothers! The slave maid is twenty-six years old, and her body is broken again, and no one will ask for it when she leaves the house......", an elderly maid covered her face and cried bitterly, unable to restrain herself.
"Your name is Green ...... Oops! As soon as Min Shi put out the roster and wanted to deal with people, his feet were firmly hugged by a woman who suddenly rushed in.
A scream also followed, "Fourth grandmother! Please also save Yinxia, Yinxia is pregnant, and she is the second master's flesh and blood! ”
Yinxia! Zhou Manyun, who had been leaning back on the chair and waiting for the time to pass early, straightened up, staring at the plump young woman in front of her with flames in her eyes.
Yinxia's lower abdomen, which she hadn't seen for a long time, only bulged slightly, and when she looked closely, she looked vaguely pregnant.
Zhou Manyun rushed forward, his cold fingers suddenly clasped Yinxia's wrist, and he quietly checked his pulse.
Seeing the appearance of the little girl in front of her clearly, Yinxia's body couldn't help but feel cold for a while, and her empty hand touched her lower abdomen. She knew that she had a child in her belly, but there were still knife marks on her belly that Man Yun had stabbed many years ago.
Fluent in correspondence, it should refer to sleek, such as a bead rolling jade plate.
"It's a slippery vein!" , Man Yun let go of Yinxia, and his little face was dull.
"Sister Yun, can you check it? Sister Yun ......", Min, who couldn't hear Manyun's response, stood up helplessly and beckoned the mother-in-law around him to go and ask for a doctor.
The sounds around her, Man Yun couldn't hear it anymore, she only listened to her beating heart thumping.
Yinxia is indeed pregnant, and counting the time, it should be her coming!
The eleventh sister who killed the child in her previous life, Zhou Manjie, who was ten years younger than herself, actually came...... (To be continued......)