Chapter 189: Abandonment
In the yellow plum rain in May, the doors and windows of the Tibetan Xiulou were closed and silent.
Du Shi sat on the edge of the carved sandalwood bed, helplessly looking at Man Yun, who seemed to be spread out on it and was in urgent need of mold, and grated his daughter's soft black hair with ten fingers for a while.
Man Yun, who had already woken up, was too lazy to open his eyes, enjoying his mother's caress like a kitten. No matter how old the daughter is, if she has a mother, she is still a treasure, which is the most haode welfare than in the previous life.
For the mother's heart, she sighed secretly. Man Yun, who came back from walking a lap north along the river, usually looks quite open-minded, but he is still somewhat injured.
But what can you do, it's actually easy to kill people and set fires, as long as you hold your breath and be ruthless, you can get it, but if you want to explain the reason to others, it is impossible to cut open your head and stuff it directly.
"Man Yun, the fourth uncle and the fourth aunt are going to Zeting today, you better go and send it off, right?" After careful consideration, Du Shi still lowered his head and called his lazy daughter.
Zhou Manyun rolled over, hugged the quilt on his chest for a while, and then nodded slowly.
When she arrived in Huocheng, Zhou Manyin, who had already become the daughter-in-law of the Gao family, had already returned to Qingyuan by land with the Gao family's welcoming team. The team of filial piety and filial piety left in a low-key and calm manner, leaving only some specious gossip in the market of Huocheng.
After returning, Man Yun had only met the fourth aunt Min once. Min's hair, which had obviously lost weight again, had gray hair and sunken eye circles, stared at Man Yun with double goldfish eyes, and then passed by like a dumb man without saying a word, just like the fourth aunt who lost her sister-in-law Zhou Huai in her previous life.
The Zhou family's four-room trip to Zeting was in the name of the Min family's recuperation, but in essence, it was equivalent to another separation of the small Zhou Mansion in Xinan.
didn't call Qingying and others to serve, Du Shi personally helped his daughter to wash and pick clothes, and while he was busy, he chattered: "Speaking of which, your fourth uncle and four aunts are not bad, but Yimanyin encountered that incident and proposed to marry himself." On the other hand, I have to take care of the aftermath of Aunt Bai, one link after another, so I am ruthless and wrong all the way. ”
"If you want to talk about the root cause of your mistakes, it should be counted on the old lady's head?" , facing the mirror, Zhou Manyun opened his lips lightly and commented in a low voice.
"Manyun!". Du Shi wrinkled his eyebrows and snorted, seeing that his daughter's expression was calm and not pretending to be sarcastic, after relieving his heart, he sighed according to his daughter's words and said: "Speaking of which, it is really a man who enjoys the blessings of his wife and concubine, leaving endless troubles for his children and grandchildren. ”
Compared with other men in the world who are also mixed with second-grade high-ranking officials, Mrs. Zhou only puts the back house according to the standard of one wife and two concubines, which is not lustful, but this wife and two concubines have a lot of things before and after him.
Mrs. Zhou's wife Xie is still alive, and there is no doubt that she will be buried next to Zhou Xian after her death. And Aunt Huang, the biological mother of the third room, is an orphan daughter raised by Mrs. Meng's wife. He died early, and was buried by Mrs. Meng next to her own tomb, saying that she would let the Huang family serve after her old man's death.
The wife and concubine all entered the ancestral tomb of the Zhou family, and the old Aunt Bai committed suicide when Zhou Xian died.
But when Zhou Xian was buried, the righteous servant Zhou Gui'an was buried on the side of his grave first, but the coffin of Aunt Bai was in the temporary house.
"At that moment. It was also your uncle who wanted to leave for a while, and stopped Ke'er from arranging for Aunt Bai to be buried. said that Manyin's loss of virginity caused the death of the old lady and the second uncle. Aunt Bai, who raised her, is to blame for not being worthy of the ancestral land. Sifang not only wants to correct Aunt Bai's name, but also has to let Manyin have a home, so he simply made a fuss, insisting on turning the ugly thing into a happy event......"
"At that time, my mother also mentioned the extension of the marriage period as you said." Du Shi paused. Shen Sheng explained in Man Yun's ear: "But I don't know where the Gao family knew that you were not in Huocheng at all, and the ladies of the relatives must drag you out to confront you." Mother only bites you and is seriously ill and raised in Yanling Peak, not suitable for guests. Later, my mother can only take care of you, and no longer say a word about Manyin's family affairs......"
Raise children in the world. Whether it is born or raised, a little bit of pulling is big, and a bad one is the debt piled up on the head of the mother. No matter who chooses to protect first, it is their own children who choose to protect first, whether they are good or bad.
Manyin's marriage is mixed with many factors, and it is just a coincidence, as if it will be carried out by mistake under the impetus of an invisible big hand.
For the funeral of Aunt Bai and Manyin's marriage, the Min family, who was encouraging the four house girls to help jump up and down, had no strength and collapsed to the ground after sending off the sedan chair. In just a few days, the fourth uncle Zhou Tan asked the eldest brother Zhou Song to live in Zeting with his children and daughters. The Zhou family is now run by Zhou Ke's two sons, but the eldest uncle Zhou Song is still the nominally most authoritative boss of the Zhou family.
"Gao Wei!" , although he didn't want to mention this person again, Zhou Manyun suddenly thought of the actual biggest beneficiary in this marriage wrestling.
The farewell was dull, and even a few young children were crying because of the solemn atmosphere, so that the four rooms on the Zeting Village were like deserters who fled in the wilderness.
Seeing the shadow of the four-room car go away, Zhou Manyun's eyes became even more desolate.
Old lady Zhou tried his best to maintain the Zhou family, which was still unable to stop the pace of falling apart after all.
"Sixth sister!" , Man Yan's pale and weak figure stood in front of Man Yun. Farewell to her parents to Zeting, but she had to follow her husband for two days before leaving Huocheng and returning to the Yiqing Guo family.
Zhou Manyun bowed respectfully, then got up and calmly looked at the cousin who contributed the most to Manyin's marriage.
"Sixth sister!" , Manyan called again, two lines of tears slid down her cheeks, took Manyun's hand and said, "This time my sister helped that slut for the first time, and it was also the first time." In the future, if she is better off in the Gao family, I will never help her again......"
Although the earnest explanation was said by holding Man Yun's hand, Man Yan deliberately raised her voice so that the elder brothers and sisters-in-law who were embarrassed to pull down their faces directly to apologize could hear it.
This time, Min pressed her to help Manyin, and Zhou Manyan knew that she had secretly offended her brothers and sisters in the family. has been married for many years, and she knows that if her mother's family has no support, her life in her husband's family will not be easy. As Zhou Manyin, who put the Zhou family in an embarrassing situation, she will only be worse than her, but now she has done her sisterhood, and now she can only take care of herself first.
As for Zhou Manyin, who was married into the Gao family under the guise of making up for Gao Wei's reputation, from the beginning, Manyan was not optimistic, and now she is determined to give up.
Zhou Manyun reluctantly answered in his mouth. Manyan, who was crying louder, lay on her shoulder.
Fortunately, the embarrassment didn't have to last too long, and Manyan, who made her stand, was quickly relieved by her sister-in-law Liu and others.
The women who cried and laughed, wiped each other's tears and comforted each other were like a family, and they were originally a family. But the sound of promises as if he was socializing with a mask, listening to the ears of Man Yun on the independent side, felt strange and stinging.
Ultimately. That's one thing. The Zhou family and Manyan's husband, the Guo family, are still good in-laws, and Manyin, who married into the Gao family, has been determined to be regarded as an abandoned son at this time.
Sure enough, he is not the material for his wife to manage the relationship between relatives in the back house. But after learning from the pain, I also have no confidence in taking care of Manyin's affairs again. Once upon a time, Manyin roared at herself, wanting to protect Gao Wei, who didn't want to be a widow, as if in front of her.
Human nature is selfish, what is there to be reluctant to? I'm no exception! Man Yun lowered his head, clenched the handkerchief in his hand, and laughed at himself with the corners of his mouth curled.
The rain in the south is continuous, and the early summer in Yunzhou, thousands of miles away, is beautiful and bright. It's as if everything is in a dazzling light.
The grass is green, the gallop is smooth like a ribbon, and the few riders who step on the dust faintly string silver bell-like laughter in the wind.
The sound of horses' hooves stopped on the shore of the lake, and the girl in red on the white horse whipped off her horse and galloped to the blue sky, standing up next to the lake, and smiled at the few people who walked slowly towards her.
"It is said that Chengxia Lake is a small Jiangnan, and the scenery here is more beautiful than Jiangnan! In Jiangnan, half of the three months have been raining. It's annoying! ”
The voice is hearty, and the eyebrows and eyes are brighter. Under the clear water and blue sky, He Minglan, who was dressed in a fiery red riding suit, unsurprisingly attracted a bunch of amazing eyes on her.
Three or five young men laughed and agreed, but Mingqi, who was dressed in emerald clothes, stepped forward reluctantly, pouting and complaining about the unfairness of the race just now.
"Miss He San is good at riding, and Miss He Fourth is not bad. But the chestnut horse is really young. I can't run away yet. Little Liu, you said yes, right? Xiao Zhan, the fourth son of the Xiao family, who was handsome and handsome, commented sideways, and then looked at Xiao Hong beside him.
If you talk about the Xiao family, among the several males who are already adults or nearly adults. Except for Xiao Ze, Xiao Zhan is the most easy-going person. This time, he took his brothers on a trip with the He family sisters, and he was also the oldest, so he naturally had to bear the heavy responsibility of making mud.
However, Xiao Hong, who was named by him, wandered out of the world, didn't know what he was thinking, and didn't take the conversation at all.
"He Mingqi is much shorter and younger, he can't ride a big horse, so it's strange if he doesn't lose!" , a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy grabbed the words without being stunned, and was poking He Si's hard wound, which immediately attracted a white eye full of anger.
"Hachi will talk nonsense!" , Xiao Zhan glared and laughed, all in one go. When he turned around again, he was shouting and shouting and chasing after the guards, camping by the lake.
Xiao Long, who offended Miss He Si just now, was heartless and wanted to pull the net to go to the lake to fish, several brothers made fun, and even He Mingqi, who didn't plan to ignore him anymore, pulled his sister and chased after him with laughter and screaming.
Looking at the big children who were in a mess, Xiao Zhan looked at Xiao Hong, who was standing beside him like a personal guard, and showed a helpless face.
Xiao Liu, who returned north with his eldest brother, came back not long ago, and there were also the He family sisters.
The two sisters, who had already made a detour to Luzhou first, saw Mrs. He, so they were sent to Yunzhou again with the Xiao brothers. said that in June, Jingguo Gong Xiao Rui was going to die, and the He family in Luzhou was going to come to the banquet, and now let the fun-loving sisters bother the Xiao family for a while in advance.
Disturb, what the result of the disturbance, Xiao He and the two families know it.
Xiao Zhan, who already had a wife and children, was a person who came over, his eyes were very poisonous, and when he saw a touch of red coming over the grass like a flame, he immediately jumped up, rushed into the pile of guards who were busy in an orderly manner, and shouted loudly.
Xiao Hong, who was distracted again, reflected and raised his heels, and the beautiful girl in red was already standing in front of him with a smile, raising her face and calling: "Sixth brother! ”
The smile is bright and sincere, and the eyes are as clear as crystal, revealing a pure beauty that people can't refuse. (To be continued......)