Chapter 22: Rumors
There is a place on the east side that almost no one has come, it is a dead end at the junction of the east and west compartments, and if you don't come out of here, you don't know that there is an open space here.
Weeds grow at the head of the wall, the wall is crawling with geckos, midsummer, a cluster of flowers that grow towards the sun blooms in it, provoking insects and butterflies to rush to pounce, clustered around.
Under the mottled shadow of the creeping gecko, the stone table stood in the middle, and when Bang Yue and Xia Ying came over with food boxes, Tong'er and Taochun were already waiting there, and when they saw them coming, they stopped talking, and their eyes fell on the two big food boxes.
Bang Yue opened the food box with a smile and brought up some side dishes such as candied fruits, anchovy shark fins, and spicy shredded chicken one by one, seeing that Taochun and Tong'er were dumbfounded, and swallowed saliva unconsciously.
Tao Chun looked horrified: "Bang Yue, you have more money this month?" ”
"Nope."
"So you're selling your jewelry?"
Bang Yue couldn't help laughing: "How can it be so exaggerated, it's just some side dishes, why don't you want to talk about yourself, how can you do it without some decent food?" ”
Tong'er's eyes widened: "Don't fool us, these are some delicacies that only the officials in the palace eat, you won't steal things from the palace to eat." ”
"No, this is what the young master rewarded me."
Hearing this, they breathed a sigh of relief.
"Come on, you're welcome, I also brought plum wine."
The four girls were smiling on their faces, and they couldn't get down to the corners of their mouths on a table of food, originally Tong'er said that he would do things later and not drink, but he was persuaded to drink by Bang Yue on the grounds that the masters were not in the house.
After three rounds of drinking, the four of them said most of their own words, and then Bang Yue pretended to ask casually: "By the way, why haven't you seen your master recently?" The young master of our family also said that he followed the master out to talk about business every day, and he was not at home every day. ”
"Aunt Lan." Tong'er burped and waved her hand: "Don't you know, since the recent painting incident, she is worried every day, for fear that something will happen to the child, and now her belly is big, and she is even more afraid. ”
Bang Yue actually heard about Aunt Lan from Taochun since the painting, and she began to be frightened, but she pretended not to know, and asked, "Why are you afraid?" ”
"Why else, the eldest lady is infertile, afraid that she will kill the child in her belly." Tong'er also spoke openly, spit out a mouthful of melon seed skin and said: "If you want me to say, the eldest lady has been very busy recently, how can she have time to take care of her." ”
"That might be." Xia Ying said: "The eldest lady is estimated to be tortured and crazy, but she can't conceive, maybe she suddenly comes back to her senses, feels bored and starts to make trouble again." ”
The four of them were silent for a moment, and Bang Yue sighed: "Don't discuss this, it's still early, how about I tell you some stories?" ”
"Okay."
Bang Yue took a sip of wine and began her great cause of fooling.
"Once upon a time, there was a family, the eldest lady had no children under her knees, and the concubine who just entered the door was pregnant, the eldest lady couldn't look past it, so naturally she wouldn't let the concubine give birth to a child, guess what happened later?"
"What's wrong?"
"Once, the concubine passed by the well, and heard a faint sound coming from inside, and the bold concubine was curious to visit, but she was almost pushed into the well, and someone passed by during the struggle, and the big one survived, but she was also frightened."
Tong Er gasped.
Tao Chun glanced at Xia Ying, Xia Ying informed, and asked, "Then the eldest lady let her go?" ”
"How is it possible, the eldest lady doesn't want to let go of the concubine's children, even the maids in the concubine's courtyard don't want to let go, the woman is very jealous, she is jealous of the concubine's favor, and then she poisoned the concubine's food, and also soaked musk in her handkerchief, although the concubine is on guard day and night, but it is still planted in the hands of the eldest lady."
Tong'er sighed, and hurriedly took a sip of wine to suppress the shock: "Ah, what's wrong?" ”
"It is said that he was overly frightened, and once he saw a black shadow in a trance, and he was so frightened that he fell off the high pavilion and died twice."
Momochun's summer shadow looked at each other and smiled, goosebumps all over her body.
"It's horrible." Tong'er rubbed his body: "Why are you talking about this, it's scary." ”
Bang Yue smiled apologetically: "What I heard yesterday is said to be what happened to the previous owner of the empty mansion next door, and I said it on a whim, didn't scare you, Sister Tong'er?" ”
"How?" Tong Er forced a smile: "How can I be so daring." ”
As soon as the time passed, the four of them left separately.
Walking around the corner, Momoharu walked out, a face looming in the shadows.
"Bang Yue, does this really work?"
"Borrowing a knife to kill people is the most thoughtful way, so that I am happy to be idle, just let her fight twice, after both defeats, the young master will sit and reap the benefits of the fisherman."
Momoharu nodded.
The boy on the other side returned to Xiaoxiang Courtyard, and happened to meet Aunt Lan's personal maid Thirteen, and her body stiffened for a moment before asking: "Thirteen sister, Aunt Lan has come back from the temple?" ”
Thirteen saw the unpredictable emotion on her face, and the worry was written on her face, and she couldn't bear to ask: "I saw something unclean outside, and I looked sad." ”
Tong'er sighed: "I didn't see it, I heard something unlucky." ”
Saying that, I added fuel and vinegar to the story again.
In the end, it was all the girl's house, and she couldn't help but be frightened when she was timid, and Thirteen patted her chest with palpitations when she heard this: "Who did you listen to?" ”
Tong Er naturally wouldn't say anything about her private meeting with the people of Long Academy, so she casually said a few perfunctory sentences.
Thirteen said thoughtfully: "Why do I think this story is about our aunt, don't you think it's a little similar?" ”
"Where?"
"A few years ago, Mrs. Jiang was still alive, and she felt that the heirs of the Jiang family were thin, so she asked Master Jiang to take several concubines one after another, and our aunts also came in at that time, but in the past few years, they died of miscarriage and died in the womb, and in the end, only Aunt Lan was left."
Tong'er couldn't speak for a long time, she and Thirteen were most favored by Aunt Lan, if this Aunt Lan had any three long and two short, where would she have a good end in the future, she had to be taught a hard lesson by the eldest lady.
……
This story is the most taboo to pass on to ten, ten, and hundreds, and it will only become more and more exaggerated and outrageous.
In the end, it reached Aunt Lan's ears, and it became the eldest lady Xue Wan was thinking about how to kill Aunt Lan's corpse and two lives, and went to the honey jar.
When she heard this, Aunt Lan was peeling grapes on the table, she liked to eat sour food since she was pregnant, and the older mothers said that she was going to give birth to a son.
As soon as the little girl who came to deliver the word finished speaking, Aunt Lan got up in fright, pressed her hand on the water chestnut, and drew a bloody mark.
The voice changed: "This, is this true?" ”
As he spoke, he was still holding his stomach, for fear that the child in his belly would be snatched away in the next second, his incomparably clear eyes were full of horror, and the blood on his face faded.
"Evil, evil, I don't care about her in the past, I pray for everyone in the temple every day, why still refuse to let me go?"
Thirteen hurriedly hugged Aunt Lan and glanced at the little guy: "Whoever spread it out, talking nonsense, go and find out who has so many mouths." ”
"Yes." The little guy took the order and retreated in fear.
After that, Aunt Lan stopped talking.
Thirteen thought that the matter was over, but who knew that at the family banquet on the second day, when the first dish was served, Aunt Lan suddenly pulled out the hairpin on her head and inserted it into the dish.
Everyone looked at her in astonishment, and even Master Jiang looked puzzled.
Aunt Lan accepted the hairpin and said calmly: "It's okay, it's just that I saw Bang Yue do this before, and it was just a whim." ”
Master Jiang's brows furrowed even deeper, almost twisted into a Sichuan character, and he wanted to speak, but was interrupted by Xue Wan, who was eating medicinal food on the side: "My sister is really childlike, it is said to be rising, who knows what she thinks in her heart." ”
Aunt Lan raised her eyebrows, and was about to refute, but saw Xue Wan suddenly lying on the table, covering her chest with her left hand, covering her lips with a handkerchief with her right hand, and retching twice.
Probably because she ate too much medicinal food and her body reacted, Xue Wan couldn't help it, and hurriedly got up: "Master, Wan'er is unwell, so she retired first." ”
After saying that, he left with small steps.
Master Jiang looked helpless, and finally said, "This is ...... What's wrong? ”
Aunt Lan was just about to laugh, when she saw another dish served, she thrust the hairpin like a strong wind, and quickly withdrew it, as if as long as she was fast, no one would know.
Master Jiang: "......"
If it weren't for the family banquet, Bang Yue would have pounded the ground and burst into laughter three times, but now she can only endure it, and she can't bear it so hard, her face is red.
These two are now a little nervous.
Jiang Zhongrong heard the movement, glanced back at her, and said something slight: "It's so funny?" ”
"It's funny, don't you think Aunt Lan is cute?"
Jiang Zhongrong only felt a few crows flying overhead: "Where is it cute?" ”
"She looks, forget it, you don't understand." Bang Yue was too lazy to say.
Jiang Zhongrong looked at the caution and slight madness in Aunt Lan's eyes, and felt that Bang Yue was really fickle, and she thought she was very cute, and she didn't know where she was cute.
In fact, he didn't know that this cuteness was not the other's cuteness.
I don't know, the main owner in Xiaoxiang Courtyard is starting to go crazy.
The next day, Jiang Fu bought some silk made of ice silk and distributed it to various courtyards, but there were not enough people, so the steward asked Bang Yue to help follow and divide it, and Bang Yue thought that she had nothing to do, so she agreed.
The steward held the account book in front of the account, and Bang Yue held the tray, standing behind the steward in a proper manner, but he couldn't help but look at the lively heart, and quietly poked out his eyes to see.
Although this Aunt Lan has been frightened crazy recently, it has not affected her beautiful face at all, and she is not sick with heavy makeup at the moment, but she is faintly tired from between her eyebrows, and she must have been not peaceful in the past few days.
No, the thirteen all had a sad face, they must have not slept well for a few days.
"Aunt Lan, that's all."
After the steward finished remembering, Ling Bang Yue sent forward, this heat is unbearable, the cold ice silk is the most pleasing, Aunt Lan has already stretched out her hand, thought of something and shrunk back, and ordered Thirteen to step forward: "You go and check to see if there are other things in it." ”
The steward was puzzled and said, "This has just been unloaded from the ship, and nothing will be put in it." ”
"Who knows if there are other impregnated ones, thirteen, your nose is the most sharp, you go and smell it."
Thirteen stepped forward and sniffed it carefully for a long time, then shook his head: "Aunt Lan, there is no other stuff mixed in here, and rest assured." ”
"I don't believe it." Aunt Lan raised her eyebrows and looked coldly, and the jade pointed at the silk and said, "How could it not be, there has been no movement for so many days, I don't believe that woman will not start." ”
The housekeeper was confused, and was about to say something, when Aunt Lan stepped forward and slapped her, crisp and loud: "Say, did you help that little slut harm me?" ”
"Aunt Lan is wronged, I just do things according to the rules, I really don't know what Aunt Lan is talking about."
Aunt Lan didn't hear it, and raised her hand to hit again.
Thirteen didn't expect Aunt Lan to suddenly start beating people, and in a hurry, Bang Yue, who was watching the excitement, suddenly took out the silk scissors and cut the silk given to Aunt Lan with two clicks.
At this moment, everyone stopped, looking at Bang Yue incredulously.
Bang Yue began to talk nonsense seriously, pointed to the broken silk thread and said: "Since Aunt Lan wants to know if there are other things impregnated in this ice silk satin, this is a fast and effective method, if it is impregnated, you can see that the blue ice silk thread is dirty when you cut the silk satin, but this is not, it is very crystal clear blue." ”
Aunt Lan was stunned, and in the next second, she screamed like a pig: "You! You! ”
You have been blushing for a long time, and you have not come out with a single follow-up.
Instead, Bang Yue was so frightened that she hid behind the steward, and stumbled: "She, she seems to be going to eat me." ”
Steward: "......"
In the next second, Aunt Lan copied the jade dot vase on the table and rushed over.
Bang Yue said: "Steward, she just wants to eat me, help!" ”
Clear-eyed people can hear the pride in Bang Yue's voice, and Aunt Lan can naturally hear it, the vase is in her hand, and before she can smash it out, she was hugged by the thirteen waists, shook her head and said: "Aunt Lan must not, this Bang Yue is not a subordinate in the house, the lord respects her very much, and she must not be injured at will, not to mention that you are so easy to move the fetus." ”
Aunt Kelan cares, her excited face is distorted, and she shouts at the top of her voice: "Don't hurt at will, then I'll deliberately hurt it, where are the cats and dogs, dare to ride on my head, if the old lady doesn't clean her up today, she won't be surnamed Lan." ”
Bang Yue shouted that she was wronged, and hid behind the steward wholeheartedly, but said with a smile: "It's Aunt Lan who wants to check by herself, and if she can't find out, she will beat people, I'm afraid that you will be tired of the details, so I took the initiative to ask Ying to come over to help you, why don't you know the hearts of good people." ”
Originally, there was nothing to do, but Aunt Lan had to bully people in front of her, so Bang Yue couldn't stand it.
Aunt Lan can spew fire in her eyes at this moment, and when the mountain rain is about to attack, the little maid outside the house suddenly comes to report: "Aunt Lan, don't make a fuss, Master Jiang has come to see you, and he has already entered the hospital." ”
"What?!"