(157) The heart of the bridge (6)
After sending Li Quan away, I thought of the bunch of men and women in the house, and I couldn't help but feel stunned, and I didn't know how to deal with the current situation for a while.
Forget it, forget it, I'll go to Wei Yinghou's Mansion first, and I'll talk about the rest when I come back.
I made up my mind, I didn't notify the mansion, and directly got into the prepared carriage and went to Wei Yinghou's mansion.
The journey from the Prime Minister's Mansion to the Marquis of Wei Ying's Mansion is not always long, and every time I am not ready to meet them, my people have already arrived in front of the Hou Mansion.
Looking up at the towering mansion in front of me, I lowered my eyes and followed the little guy who led the way into the mansion.
"Xiangye, the old lady is waiting for you in the guest hall, please come in." The little servant stopped in front of the living room and turned sideways to let me in.
I hesitated, but walked in.
The light in the living hall is very bright, but there is no place where the sun can shine directly, leaning against the window on the flower stand is a few Junzi orchids, orchids are bathed in light, a little light dust flies up and down, with just the right amount of light smoke and incense, it can almost immediately calm people's minds.
Of course, if there wasn't an old man sitting in front of the hall, I think I would have been able to calm down to that level.
"The grandson has seen the grandmother." I bowed to her.
The old lady with a gloomy face glanced me up and down, and her disgust passed quickly over her old cloudy eyes without concealment, and at last she sneered, and put the teacup in her hand heavily on the coffee table with great dissatisfaction.
"You kneel for me!"
I immediately fell to my knees.
"I haven't been in charge of you these days, and you've become more and more foolish. Last time, he first angered the emperor and was suspended from his official position, and this time he left the capital without permission, and he didn't return for a few months, your father was injured, and you didn't even have a greeting, if it weren't for my old wife who was still alive, would you feel that you could fly to the sky freely? ”
"Wei Yinghou Mansion is such a big burden, you never know how to share a little, the people in the family, the property in the clan, you don't care about it, and you just ask, this prime minister you are also arbitrary, deal with it at will, you are not a good son, in the country and at home, what do you do! Are you going to lose all the face of our Wei Yinghou Mansion before you are satisfied? ”
I silently lowered my head and let her insult me.
After all, this is not the first time, she used to be harsh on me everywhere, trying to hold me hostage everywhere, to be honest, I don't even feel bored when I hear her words now.
The autumn breeze is just empty.
After the ancestor scolded like this, the anger accumulated in his heart finally subsided a lot, and his face, which had been cold, gradually eased.
"The last time you returned home from suspension, I asked you to go to the ancestral hall to kneel, but you left the Hou Mansion as if no one was around, and then there was no news, do you not take me in your eyes, or don't you take the ancestral family law in your eyes?"
The ancestor's tone changed, and I took the opportunity to open my mouth: "Grandmother forgives the sin, the last time was the emperor's order, I had to leave first, and now that the grandson has returned, I will kneel down in front of the ancestral hall later, in order to make up for the loss last time." ”
When the old ancestor heard my words, she laughed angrily, and she got up and hit me hard with a cane.
"You can say such contempt for your ancestors, are you still not a descendant of my Shen family? Let me tell you, even if I want to kill you, an unfilial son, today, the emperor can't stop me! ”
"It's the grandson's gaffe." I endured the pain, lowered my head and confessed my mistake, "I am willing to ask my grandmother for forgiveness." ”
After all, I have an official position, and she is really not good at fighting hard today, seeing that I am soft, and my attitude is still as respectful as before, I didn't do it again, and turned around and sat down.
"Someone, go and call the mother of the son."
"Yes."
The servant and maid hurriedly went out, and after a while, Ning Su, whose eyes were red, was invited into the guest hall.
Ning Su saw me kneeling in front of the hall at a glance, and just subconsciously took a step towards me, and immediately stopped again.
Forcibly suppressing the reluctance in her heart, she respectfully greeted the ancestor who was sitting in front of the hall.
"Mother, are you looking for me?"
The old ancestor naturally saw Ning Su's small movements clearly, but the more forbearance the picture of mother and son meeting in front of her, the happier her mood became. ok essay network
"Shouldn't you come to see the evil obstacle you were born with?"
His face turned pale, Ning Su bit his lower lip and didn't dare to speak.
The Old Ancestor glanced at Ning Su, who was pale, and then put his gaze on me, but my face was extremely calm, and I couldn't see any embarrassment at all.
I was stunned, the old ancestor only felt that he was talking to an emotionless wooden man, this wooden man's body was made of cotton, no matter how she attacked, there was no place to focus, and her head was piled up with stones from the mass grave, and it was impossible to see how much selfishness she hid.
It's this expression, it's this look, it's all her lingering nightmare!
Secretly taking a deep breath, she barely controlled her urge to kill herself.
"I asked you to help your brother more before, didn't you put this matter at ease? When he came back the other day, he was covered in wounds, and he couldn't even see it! The more the ancestor spoke, the more distressed he became, and the crutches he was holding couldn't help but knock on the ground with his mood swings.
"It's the grandchild's negligence." I bowed my head, "Sun Er must immediately send someone to protect the second brother and make him safe." ”
It turned out that she was so impatient with me today, not only because my father was injured and I didn't come to visit in time, but also because Shen Lin was bullied.
It's funny to say, Shen Lin behaves nonsense in the academy all day long, contradicts his master, bullies the good and fears evil, and bullies the weak, I can send someone to protect him for a while, and can I protect him for a lifetime?
"Forget it." The old ancestor didn't believe my nonsense at all, waved his hand and said, "You are a noble person who forgets things, I don't dare to trouble you anymore, your second brother I have sent someone to pick him up from the academy, and since then, he has been studying at home, and I have hired the best teacher for him." ”
I looked up at the old ancestor in amazement, "Does grandmother really want him to study in the house?" ”
"What? No way? The old ancestor's face sank again, as if if I only had to raise the slightest objection, the crutch in her hand would fall on me.
Entanglement in the past life, there is no mistake in the next life, whether I am towards Shen Lin or Shen Meixin, I actually don't have much resentment, in the final analysis, they are also my younger brothers and sisters, so they really have no feelings, some basic, as a big brother, I will not be stingy with them.
For Shen Lin, what he needs most is the tempering of reality, how can he still read in the mansion now? It's just a change of place for fun.
"The second brother's temperament is playful, maybe he can change his temper in the academy......"
Before I finished my words, Jin Ling burst in angrily from outside the guest hall, grabbed Ning Su's arm, pointed at me and scolded me.
"Ning Su, this is your good son? Is it interesting that she squeezes our mother and son like this every day? Our mother and son have been wronged in every way, just to have a place in Wei Yinghou's mansion, but your son still wants to target our mother and son like this! You have also deceived people too much, do you have to die for Lin'er to be at ease? Ten years ago, you poisoned Lin'er......"
"Presumptuous!" The old ancestor interrupted Jin Ling's words with a sharp voice, "How can you be allowed to spill here?" Get out! ”
"Mother, this is Lin'er, how can I bear it if she treats Lin'er like this?" Jin Ling looked at the ancestor unwillingly, but the strength of his hands did not decrease at all, and Ning Su's face turned a little paler.
"Second lady!" I stood up suddenly, walked in front of Jin Ling in a few steps, and then quietly separated her hand, and the whole person directly blocked in front of my mother, "Please respect yourself." ”
Jin Ling subconsciously took two steps back, gritting her teeth and glaring at me and my mother.
Since I was a child, this Jin Ling has never dared to do anything to me, first, I am the son of Wei Yinghou's Mansion, and she is at best just a well-spoken "second lady", no matter how she gains power in the Hou Mansion, she can't be higher than me, and second, it will go back many years.
But the past, it's a long story, and I don't bother to look back on what happened at the beginning, all in all, I used to secretly teach her a hard lesson for always looking for trouble with her mother, and when I was behind everyone's back, I threatened her with vicious words, and I was taught a lesson several times, and she was naturally afraid of me.
"Father, there should be no shortage of people to take care of him." I looked at her coldly, "Second lady, I have something to do with my mother for the time being, and I can't leave, and my father will rely on you to bother more." ”
"Qingzhi, your father fell and injured his leg, so we should take care of it together." Ning Su tugged at my sleeve and whispered to me, "Also, she... She's your elder after all......"
"Mother, we don't have time to separate now, and it's natural for the second lady to take care of it, isn't it? Her father married her back then, it couldn't be just to give birth to children for her father, right? ”
Although my words were said to my mother, my eyes kept looking at Jin Ling in front of me, and I also had a smiling expression on my face, as if I was just telling a joke.
Jin Ling clenched the handkerchief in her hand, wanting to open her mouth to say something, but she didn't dare to say anything.
Seeing that the atmosphere was stiff, the old ancestor also knew that Jin Ling's attitude was really overstepping, so he glanced at her and asked her to leave quickly.
Jin Ling saw that the ancestor was not biased towards herself, and knew that she would definitely suffer if she stayed any longer, so she had to reluctantly retreat.
"Mother, are you okay?" As soon as Jin Ling left, I immediately turned around to look at my mother, if it weren't for the ancestor here, I really wanted to pull up her sleeve and check it out for myself.