Chapter VII: Forced Marriage

Zhuo Zitong's beautiful eyes sparkled, and his smile became brighter and brighter, "Hehe, you came back from Chai Tianyou's house, and they didn't leave you to eat?" ”

Being stared at by Zhuo Zitong like this, Jiang Xiu didn't dare to look her eyes directly, "No, not yet, there is no one in his family, how can he do it...... Cook? ”

"Okay, that's good, just let us eat together." ”

Jiang Xiu helped her into the house, and he didn't sit down until Zhuo Zitong sat down. looked at his wife, and stopped talking, "Lady, do you still have money in your hand?" I...... I've been a little tight lately. ”

"I'll ask the xylophone to give you a hundred taels in a while, which should be enough for your husband's expenses." Zhuo Zitong gave the girl next to him a look, "Xylophone, remember to take it from my private room, by the way, you go and ask the people in the small kitchen to cook another table of meals, just say that the uncle wants it." Don't be as slow as you were to serve your meal this morning! ”

Xylophone bowed her head and replied, "The slave knows." ”

Watching the xylophone walk away, Jiang Xiu retracted his gaze, looked at the several people waiting in the room, frowned and said unhappily, "Why are you all sitting here?" If you have a master here, just take care of your master. What to see! Why don't you listen to what the master said, is it because the master can't call you? ”

As soon as he heard this, Zhuo Zitong knew that the master was going to talk to him privately, but this group of minions didn't listen to the master, didn't they intend to let the master and himself centrifuge!

Loyalty is loyalty, but it is too foolish and loyal, and it will have to be beaten well in the future.

She is a dignified ranger and a young lady of the general's mansion, and the minions she teaches can be on the stage. Otherwise, it won't become a joke in the eyes of others?

"What are you doing in a daze, I didn't hear that you guys were in the way, why don't you hurry up?" Zhuo Zitong reprimanded with a hint of coldness in his voice.

Mu Qi wanted to stay, but when she heard her master's undoubted words, she had no choice but to follow the people who came out.

"Husband, what do you have to say to me?" Zhuo Zitong glanced at him, and her face turned cold involuntarily.

Could it be that Cuiping's little goblin has something wrong with it, otherwise why would there be a hesitant look on her husband's face?

Glaring at him hatefully, Zhuo Zitong turned his head away from looking at him, his tone was tinged with anger, "What are you doing in a daze." Don't say it yet! ”

Jiang Xiu was inexplicably stunned by her, and when she heard her daughter-in-law's anger, she hurriedly confided in Chai Tianyou what she had said to herself. At the end, he looked at his daughter-in-law's unfathomable expression, and his heart beat a drum, for fear that she would not agree.

After listening to Jiang Xiu's words, Zhuo Zitong's eyes never left the corner of the rose red tablecloth laid on the round table, and the red tablecloth was printed with various patterns.

I looked at those patterns for a long time, thinking about the conversation between my grandmother and Jiang Aoxue yesterday. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and a soft and delicate smile appeared on his lips, and he gently brushed a wisp of green silk hanging on his chest behind his ear with his hand.

With a charming attitude, Jiang Xiu's eyes were so fascinated that she couldn't wait to stick to her, and she almost forgot what her good brother entrusted her to do. It took a long time to come back to his senses, and he didn't have much confidence, "What, the lady thinks it's not good?" ”

Zhuo Zitong shook his head, "No, this matter is feasible. Just ......"

"Just what?"

Jiang Xiu's eager words made her cry and laugh, so she had to tell her about the concerns in her heart, "Although Chai Tianyou is famous, compared with the Hou Mansion, the lintel is lower after all; Second, his family is far away, and he doesn't know what the situation is, so I'm afraid that my grandmother won't agree. ”

Hearing this, Jiang Xiu stood up suddenly, and there was a muffled 'bang', which was the sound of his body hitting the table, but he didn't realize it, but his chest rose and fell with excitement.

"How do you still have a portal view? As long as he participates in the palace examination and passes the Jinshi, won't he be able to become an official, at that time, we may not be able to see it with our down-and-out Houfu family! Maybe you'll be taken by a princess or lady! ”

"Do you think Jinshi is so easy to take the test, come on, he was admitted to Gongshi at the age of seventeen, and he is considered a young talent, even if he is admitted to Jinshi in two years, won't our sister have already allowed people?"

Jiang Xiu bent down, like a deflated balloon, and said dejectedly, "That, that can't, don't let the little sister allow people?" ”

"You!" Zhuo Zitong pressed his forehead with his slender finger and said angrily, "Do this, beware of grandmother and you desperately!" Also, is your good brother important, or is your sister-in-law important? It is possible to marry a prince according to his sister's conditions, or a prince's side concubine. If it weren't for the suppression of the traitorous minister Yan Zongcheng in the middle of our Hou family, my sister might be able to become the prince's concubine! ”

"Didn't you say it was feasible?" Jiang Xiu didn't argue, and said with his ears drooped.

Zhuo Zitong just wanted to end his words, and the right hand that dragged his waist was so tired that he put it down. Then he crossed his waist with his left hand, straightened up his body that was a little sore due to sitting for a long time, and made a fist with his right hand to hammer his back. Oh, her body felt better, she said slowly with a long sigh of relief.

"Grandmother said that the little sister's temperament is soft and simple, and she is afraid that she will suffer if she marries a high-ranking Zhu family, so she has the idea of marrying the little sister low. But most of those tents are shallow people, how can our sister's golden branches and jade leaves stand it? I think it's better to marry Gaomen Zhuhu, and then I can make Xianggong rise a liter. ”

"Alright, what's so good about those high gates? Hold the high and step on the low! Jiang Xiu said angrily, "Our Hou Mansion is a kind of Ming Ding Food House, and now it is nested in Xicheng, and there are not a few servants in the mansion to serve it, where does it look like a Hou Mansion!" I'm afraid it's not as good as the life of a rich family......"

Looking at the impatient Xianggong, Zhuo Zitong whispered softly, "That's why I have to marry high, otherwise the famous Hou Mansion will ......."

But she didn't dare to say these words, so she had to change the topic, "Then what the minister says is what it is, I'm tired." ”

As he spoke, Zhuo Zitong got up to rest on the kang, Jiang Xiu hurriedly grabbed his wife and pleaded, "Lady, you can help your husband, I promised Minzhi that he would definitely get things done, and he can't be untrustworthy for his husband, right?" ”

Thinking of Chai Tianyou's outstanding ability and being close to his husband, maybe he will really have to rely on him in the future. Zhuo Zitong also thought about it, and leaned over to whisper in Jiang Xiu's ear.

Jiang Xiumei, who had an idea, smiled and helped Zhuo Zitong to get on the kang, and then commanded the girl waiting outside, "Go, go and call the eldest lady over to talk to Madame." ”

Mu Qi, who had been waiting outside and worrying about his master's body, just wanted to reply, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the xylophone who had returned from the kitchen, and the words stopped in his mouth, and he walked away with small steps.

Xylophone stood under the eaves of the porch and replied to the house, "The meal in Madame's kitchen is ready, when do you think it will be served?" ”

Jiang Xiu in the house was anxious about the lifelong event of his good brother, and said impatiently, "No need to go up, I won't eat it." ”

Zhuo Zitong originally wanted his husband to finish eating, but seeing that he was anxious about tea, he frowned slightly, "Why don't you go up, go up, put the food on the table in the warm pavilion." ”

Looking at his wife with a gloomy face, Jiang Xiu felt a cold swishing cool air hit him, and he still stubbornly said, "Lady, don't be hungry for your husband." ”

"I will close the curtain of the warm pavilion for a while, and my sister can't see it. Besides, with you, my sister didn't dare to say more. Don't worry, I'll convince her that I'm here. ”

After a while, Mu Qi, who went to look for the eldest lady, arrived in the west wing, and stood at the door of the house and saw a girl who had just gone out.

The girl is about fourteen or fifteen years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, combed her buns, and she is quite capable and refreshing in her actions.

Mu Qi knew that this was the favored girl Wan Yun next to the eldest lady, and it was definitely right to find her for some things, so he hurriedly took the other party's hand, "Wan Yun, my wife wants to meet the eldest lady, so I bother you to report it." ”

Wanyun was a little displeased when he was pulled by the wooden chess, but when he heard that it was a serious matter, he hurriedly went into the house to report.

After entering the house, Wanyun changed her old grin, and waited silently on the side, she knew that the young lady was the most afraid to disturb when she was contemplating, and her temper would be bad.

It should be morning, and a rich red light casts on the white paper window lattice, refracting the room with a colorful brilliance.

Jiang Aoxue, who was standing in front of the dresser, looked fluttering, in fact, her mind was blank, and the scene of her death in the sea of fire involuntarily appeared in front of her.

A man ran frantically towards the thatched hut, and a mouthful of blood gushed out.

The scarlet and dazzling color could be seen as long as she closed her eyes, but she was not afraid, she was just afraid that Minghui would be injured.

She didn't understand it before, but after experiencing life and death, she understood, but unfortunately she still lost a piece of his heart after all......

Maybe that's what people often call the impermanence of the world, right?

What I love is a negative man, but what I love is what I push away with my own hands!

People always miss their true fate when they are not aware of it!

The Buddha said: All laws are born, all are fate, accidental encounters, suddenly looking back, destined to each other's lives, just for the moment of convergence. Dependent origin is extinguished, and dependent birth is empty.

Ask what is the love in the world, and teach life and death to promise?

The word love hurts others and hurts oneself.

If it is not necessary, don't be contaminated with love in this life, it will be too hurtful and sad.

Ao Xue took a deep breath, calming her chaotic thoughts, and when she casually glanced at the evening clouds that had gone and returned, her eyebrows frowned slightly, "Why are you back again?" Didn't you say that your stomach hurts? ”

"That, miss, Mu Qi beside the young lady said that the young lady wants to meet you."

"Tell her to come in and talk back."

Wanyun bowed his head respectfully and withdrew, at this time, Mu Qi, who had been waiting outside the West Wing for a long time, was waiting a little anxiously, and fine beads of sweat were rising on his smooth forehead. When she heard the movement of the curtain made of green silk, she rushed into the hall and dragged Wanyun regardless of her humility, for fear that the other party would run away.

"What's the matter, the eldest lady agreed?"

"No, Miss told you to come in and talk back." Why are you in such a hurry, you can't wait for a moment!

Mu Qi rudely lifted the curtain, and said in a somewhat eager voice, "Miss, young master and our grandmother please come over." ”

The corners of Ao Xue's good-looking lips curved a curve, this girl is really scheming, first said that her sister-in-law wanted to see her, looked at herself indifferently, and used her brother to pressure herself.

Did you really think she was going to be scared?

The room was silent, so quiet that you could hear a pin dropping......

As the time passed, the fine beads of sweat on Mu Qi's forehead became more and more knotted, and he realized that he had provoked the eldest lady to be angry, and he was flustered.

"Didn't I say that my sister-in-law called me over, why did it become my brother and sister-in-law again?"