Chapter 32: The Nest of the Dove (2)
Then Cao Xiulian took the child back to her parents' house, and cried to her own mother and said that she couldn't live anymore, how the people of her husband's family were mean to her, bullied her, and coaxed her mother to accompany her with tears and snot.
In the end, the old man and the old lady who felt sorry for her daughter insisted on leaving her and her children at her mother's house to support her, despite the opposition of everyone in the family.
Cao Xiulian, who returned to her parents' home, used all kinds of well-behaved and pitiful people to coax her father Cao Yonglian to do his best for her to find a remarried lover who could be entrusted for life.
Finally, Cao Yonglian set his goal on his top boss Chu Wenxuan.
Cao Yonglian knows very well that Chu Wenxuan looks talented, but his temperament is indecisive and soft-eared. Now it happens to be the year of the wolf and the tiger, but the family is not in harmony.
According to rumors, he and his wife have been separated for a long time. So as soon as the father and daughter combined, it was Chu Wenxuan.
Also as a man, Cao Yonglian knows such people best.
Such people often seem to be high-minded, but in fact they are also romantic. The difference between Chu Wenxuan and those who sleep all day long and wander is that those people want a woman's appearance and body, while he wants a woman's love and worship.
Even if the former is pinched, it can only get a few silver coins for three melons and two dates, while once the latter is pinched, it can get a big benefit.
Cao Yonglian deliberately created all kinds of coincidences and encounters for his daughter, and did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to hold various poetry banquets and tea painting friends. Every time, he can invite Chu Wenxuan to attend.
Every time it is so coincidental, his empathetic, tactful and gentle, quite beautiful daughter also happened to be present, stroking the piano and making a poem, which is very interesting.
When the unsuspecting merry genius met a scheming beauty who was in charge of the camp, he chanted poems before the moon before the flowers, and soon developed into a golden wind and jade dew as soon as they met, they won countless joys in the world!
From the initial sneakiness of the two to the later entry into the house, Cao Xiulian only took a short year.
In just one year, she often swaggered in and out of Li Yuanyuan's Jiexiang Garden, ignoring Xiao Qingruo's curious eyes, her sister is long, and her sister is short to greet her in the morning and evening. Even if she hadn't been carried through the door at that time, she wasn't even a concubine.
I only hear the newcomer laughing, but the old man crying.
Chu Wenxuan got a newcomer who was many years younger than himself, and he also felt sorry for Li Yuanyuan, and he was extra gentle with their mother and daughter than usual, and he no longer beat and scolded their mother and daughter for no reason. But he changed to come to Xiangyuan and Cai Shuyuan all day long, and wanted to admit Cao Xiulian to enter the door.
Li Yuanyuan is also afraid of his soft bubbles and hard grinding, isn't this how this guy married himself in the first place? That's it, just follow his heart's desire, and ask yourself to be quiet.
Unexpectedly, the jealousy and jealousy, and the perennial depression actually made Li Yuanyuan, who was already sick and depressed, not have time to agree to Chu Wenxuan's admission to Cao Xiulian, leaving only a young daughter to be handed over to the only old lady in the family who is sincere to their mother and daughter, and she died.
Li Yuanyuan's death unexpectedly made way for Cao Xiulian to take a good position.
Although this family affair was delayed for more than half a year due to Li Yuanyuan's funeral, after more than half a year, Cao Xiulian still took the son born to her and her ex-husband in a beautiful manner, and married into the Chu Mansion in the name of the wife of Chu Shanchang, Nanshan Academy.
Her son who dragged the oil bottle became the young master of Chu Mansion and enjoyed the treatment of his sister-in-law.
On the second day of the wedding, Chu Wenxuan called Xiao Qingruo and asked her to pour tea and kowtow to call her new mother, and after seeing Cao Xiulian's delicately dressed face, the scorching and fierce light flashed, she instinctively shrunk her neck and shouted: "Mrs. Xiulian."
Unexpectedly, the new mother, who was still showing a fierce light behind her father's back just now, didn't seem to be able to bear her title, and cried sadly and fainted on the spot.
The father who felt sorry for the newcomer was even more furious and asked for the boxwood ring ruler, and taught her a hard lesson for this disobedient and unfilial little beast. After beating the ring ruler, he insisted on repeatedly asking Xiaoqing if he knew if he was wrong.
Xiao Qingruo, who was about to pass out, couldn't hold on anymore, so she could only bow her head and give in: "My daughter knows that she is wrong." ”
Chu Wenxuan, who was tired, threw the ring ruler in front of her and said hatefully; "Sure enough, there is a filial son under the stick, go! Take the ruler and go to your new mother to accompany her, and if she is still sad, you can ask her to punish you with this ruler! ”
Zhou Cuier (Mother Zhou), who was sent by the old lady to take care of Xiao Qingruo, was taken aback, and hurriedly stepped forward to "pounce" and knelt in front of Chu Wenxuan: "Master, it is understandable that you want to punish Miss, you are Miss's father, and it is natural to discipline your own children."
But no matter what, the young lady is also the original concubine, how can she be sent to the door to ask the house to fill in the house and beat it? Besides, you see that the young lady is already injured, and if you want the new lady to beat her, I am afraid that such a young child will be broken! ”
"Humph! What do you ignorant people know! Even if it is not the original match, it is also my Chu Wenxuan's main room, and it is also the elder of this little beast. The ancients had a cloud, the king wanted the minister to die, the minister had to die, and the father wanted the son to die!
Now that this disobedient and unfilial thing angered the elders, the elders punished her a few times, did she still have resentment? ”
Speaking of this, he flicked his sleeves: "Where are you kneeling, why don't you go quickly, do you have to wait for me to ask for the monk's law?" ”
The helpless Zhou Cuier could only wipe her tears, hugged Xiao Qingruo, who had already cried silently, picked up the ring ruler and walked to the courtyard of the new lady.
Stepping into the new lady's Bifang Garden, Zhou Cuier saw that the new lady's housekeeper Xiang Juan (Mrs. He) was already waiting in the courtyard with her sleeves rolled. Wiping away her tears, she put down the pregnant Xiao Qingruo and pulled her to her knees together.
Xiang Juan sneered and ordered someone to pull her away, snatched the ring ruler from her hand, pulled Xiao Qingruo's hand board proudly, and hit her hard one by one.
In the evening, Zhou Cuier returned to Jiexiang Garden with Xiao Qingruo, who was covered with scars, and rubbed medicine for her in distress. The little girl who tossed for a day didn't care about the pain of rubbing the medicine, and fell asleep.
The little body curled up in a ball, with tears still hanging in his sleep, and murmured softly: "Mother, Ruo'er hurts so much!" ”
Zhou Cuier covered her mouth and cried bitterly......
"Miss? Miss! Zhou's mother's shout pulled her back from her memories: "Miss, let's go in, the master is waiting in the flower hall." ”
"Hmm." Raising his feet and stepping onto the bluestone paved road, looking at the familiar and unfamiliar place in front of him, Chu Qingruo's long-lost sense of depression surfaced again.
Walking into the flower hall, Chu Qingruo saw that his father, who had not seen him for many years, was wearing a dark blue Confucian shirt and standing in the center of the flower hall with his hands behind his back.
The figure that once needed to look up to himself is no longer as tall as he remembered. The bun with a few strands of silver hair silently tells of his passing years.
Chu Qingruo was sad for a while, he had finally grown up, his father was also old, and he didn't know how he had been doing over the years. He, did he ever think about himself? Ever missed your mother?
Even if it's just a little bit, not much, it's really just a little bit enough.
"Master, Miss is back."
"Well, got it. Stand down, all of you. Chu Wenxuan turned around, dismissed a group of subordinates, and sat down on the chair at the top. The years have mercilessly left wrinkles on his once good-looking face, which cannot be concealed.
Mother Zhou glanced at Chu Qingruo worriedly, and when she saw that she bowed slightly to herself, she blessed Chu Wenxuan and retreated.
The father and daughter, who had been reunited after a long absence, were silent for a while.
Chu Wenxuan cleared his throat: "Ahem, you can come back this time, thank you to your mother, she is the one who made you come back." ”
"How is my grandmother's health, I heard that she has been bedridden not long ago? Is it getting better now? Hearing the word mother, Chu Qingruo's brows furrowed slightly, and he didn't answer his words.
She didn't want to make everyone unhappy when they met, so she deliberately diverted the topic.
Chu Wenxuan was stunned, she didn't call him father, but asked her grandmother directly. The always majestic face couldn't take care of it, and it looked a little passive and embarrassed.
I thought that she had suffered enough outside over the years, and when she came back, she would be more docile and sensible, and she would no longer be as disobedient as she was when she was a child.
Who knew that there was no change at all, and the relationship between the father and daughter seemed to have come full circle and returned to the original point. But if she is disobedient and unfilial, but she cares about her grandmother very much, and she can't say anything wrong, Chu Wenxuan felt a little angry in his heart.
"Ahem, it's better today, and when you settle down, you'll go and serve for a few days, but grandmother always remembers you."
"It's nature." Chu Qingruo said meekly.
The two were silent again.
Chu Wenxuan saw that her body had been standing upright, and he was slightly unhappy in his heart, and asked her to sit down and talk.
"You have to restrain your temperament when you come back this time, and you can't disobey your mother like you did when you were a child!"
"Is my father talking about Li Yuanyuan or Cao Xiulian?" Chu Qingruo also had some anger in her heart, obviously she had already diverted the topic, but her father insisted on challenging her bottom line.
"You! Daring! How dare you call your mother's name? Chu Wenxuan finally couldn't bear it anymore and threw the teacup in his hand onto the table. The mother-in-law he said naturally refers to Cao Xiulian and Liu Niang, not Chu Qingruo's biological mother, Li Yuanyuan. Is this little brute knowingly asking?
"Don't be in a hurry to get angry, my daughter is just asking you clearly, which one are you referring to? The new is still the old. ”
Chu Qingruo suppressed the anger in her heart, and smiled coldly, sure enough, she was still the same, as long as she talked about Cao Xiulian, her father would be like someone else's father.
Sure enough, the cow is the cow, and it is still a cow when it is pulled to the capital!