Chapter 44: Qingqing, Return to Me
Wei Qingshan wanted to leave only the people who served Wei Qingqing, but Wei Qingqing laughed at him: "Daddy is confused, we are a six-grade family, how can we do it if there is no one in the house to serve tea and water?" Moreover, the two elder brothers are not young. "It's time to discuss marriage, if people think that the Wei Mansion only cares about their daughter, and that good family dares to marry the girl, isn't it a crime?
Wei Qingshan looked at Wei Qingqing, who was thinking longer than himself, and smiled helplessly: "Qingqing has grown up." ”
"It's time for a daughter to learn to be a housekeeper, and from now on, why don't you leave the house to your daughter." Wei Qingqing took advantage of the situation, and also saved that Mama Gao was driven back to the countryside and was not happy.
Wei Qingshan thought about it for a while, and nodded: "Then Daddy will go back and find you a grandmother who understands the rules." "When my daughter marries into the Guogong Mansion, she doesn't know how to be a housekeeper at all, and she will be laughed at.
Thinking of this, Wei Qingshan felt more and more guilty, he was a rough man, he only cared about the people, and he ignored his children so far!
Wei Qingqing wanted to comfort a few words, but there was another word outside that there was something wrong with Dali Temple, Wei Qingshan didn't even drink a sip of tea, and hurriedly ran to Dali Temple.
Wei Qingqing sighed lightly.
"Miss, it's hot outside, the slave maid will serve you to rest inside."
"Yes, the slave maid is going to make tea for you, how about taking the West Lake Longjing?"
Wei Qingqing looked at the two girl rings who were smiling and attentive, this was sent by Fang Zijiao, and asked with a smile: "What are your names?" ”
"Slave Yuxia."
"Slave Autumn Spirit."
The two saluted, Wei Qingqing looked at it, and Yu Xia was tall. Qiu Ling is plump, the two of them are typical beauties, this Fang Zijiao is really moving.
Wei Qingqing looked at the two of them, looked at the little girl standing below, and asked, "What about you?" ”
"When the slaves and maids have recognized their masters, they ask them to give them a name." The two little girls bowed forward, and the rough grandmother thought about it and moved forward.
Wei Qingqing looked at the little girl who lowered her eyebrows and was nervously pinching the corners of her clothes, looking restrained, but a little clever. Wei Qingqing took the names of Lan Sheng and Lan Zhi, and the mother-in-law only used her surname to refer to her.
"In the future, Yu Xia will be in charge of this courtyard, and Qiu Ling will watch more things in the house for me." Wei Qingqing looked at the two of them who were looking forward to wearing them, and smiled fully.
Sure enough, Yu Xia and Qiu Ling were overjoyed, and hurriedly responded, without asking about the monthly money, nor worrying about food and clothing, so they went down happily to prepare to clean up.
"From now on, the slave will only take care of the kitchen."
The cook rubbed her hands happily, Wei Qingqing knew that she was really loyal, and the cook handed it over to her, but in this way, she had to ask Ge Lao to come forward as soon as possible about her small wine shop, otherwise Fang Zijiao would stir up the matter, and whether this shop could be Chengdu or not was still a matter.
After thinking about it, Wei Qingqing went out with Lan Zhi, who looked more calm, without paying any attention to the fire and bandits that happened yesterday.
Lan Zhi looked at the new master with some curiosity along the way. But the new master doesn't seem to have anything else abnormal.
"What's wrong?"
Wei Qingqing asked as she walked.
"I didn't ...... It's okay......" Lan Zhi saw her find out, and lowered her head with a red face.
Wei Qingqing raised her eyebrows and didn't say anything, it was not strange to be curious about herself, a topic in the capital.
When he arrived at the door of Ge Lao's mansion, Wei Qingqing pushed the door and walked in, but before he could say hello to Ge Lao, he saw Ge Lao arguing with someone on his face, and it was Rong Che who was sitting leisurely opposite him.
Rong Che changed into a robe with white embroidered dark patterns on the crescent moon today, lined with a red brocade shirt inside, and lazily lay on Ge Lao's favorite seat to drink tea, as if he didn't see Ge Lao's irritability at all, but when he saw Wei Qingqing coming, he turned his head and smiled at her: "Ge Lao has moved to Wei Mansion since Ming'er, you go back and clean up a small courtyard." ”
"Really?"
Wei Qingqing looked at Ge Lao, if Ge Lao was in Wei Mansion, where would those bull and snake gods who couldn't get on the stage dare to come to Wei Mansion to spread wilderness at every turn?
But looking at Ge Lao's face, he was obviously unwilling.
Wei Qingqing knew that it must have been Rong Che's unauthorized decision, what was the purpose of him being so kind to himself and the Wei family?
Wei Qingqing didn't have time to think about it, she only motioned for Lan Zhi to bring the newly brewed wine to Ge Lao, and said with a smile: "It just so happens that I am worried that no one has tasted the many wines brewed, if Master you are willing to go to the Wei family, it will be really good." ”
Ge Lao didn't pay attention to Wei Qingqing with a stinky face, and wanted him to be a free bodyguard for others after a few jars of wine? Rong Che's abacus is inevitably too good.
"I think back then, in Bianzhou, someone made a bet with me......"
Rong Che spit out these words slowly, Ge Lao jumped up again, pointed at Rong Che's nose and scolded: "Villain, despicable, you still call yourself Second Master Rong, look where you have a little bit of a decent man and a gentleman and a good young man!" Old treacherous and cunning boy, I know that you have been bad luck for eight lifetimes! ”
Rong Che raised his eyebrows, not taking his scolding to heart at all, and only looked at Wei Qingqing: "Go back and prepare the small courtyard." ”
"Qingqing wants to take my old man to the Wei Mansion, and does she still need the guidance of your husband-in-law who has not yet passed the door?" Ge Lao turned his head and hugged the wine in Lan Zhi's arms, snorted with the tip of his nose facing the sky, and said to Wei Qingqing: "Let's go, let's go back, ignore this kid who will make people angry!" ”
As he spoke, he grabbed Wei Qingqing's arm and took her away.
Wei Qingqing knew that Ge Lao was not really angry with Rong Che, and when he was about to go out, he looked back and saw that Rong Che's eyes had been looking at her, deep as the sea, as if he was hiding endless words.
Wei Qingqing frowned secretly, and left with Ge Lao without looking back.
"Second master, Miss Wei doesn't seem to appreciate it, do you want to remind Ge Lao and let him say less of this kind of thing, so that Miss Wei can misunderstand?" Kun asked worriedly.
"No need, Ge Lao is willing to agree to help now, which has already given me enough face."
Ah Kun looked at Rong Che, who was drinking tea with his eyes down, and didn't say much, only reminded him: "The matter over there in Jiangnan, the master can't delay it any longer, if he doesn't leave for a few days." I'm afraid of a mutation. ”
Rong Che didn't respond, he just couldn't leave with confidence, so he arranged for Ge Lao to go to Wei Mansion, but one Ge Lao Jia and the two subordinates didn't know if it was enough.
By the way, there is also Helian Zifeng, why is this person willing to deign to be a businessman by Qingqing's side He felt strange, but he never found out his identity, did he return to Beijing this time also have other purposes for Qingqing?
Thinking of this, Rong Che's eyebrows gathered a sense of anger, it would be better to put her own seal on Qingqing, the little girl, earlier.
Rong Che couldn't help but think of the softness of his lips that day, and a fire inexplicably broke out in his heart, making him drink all the bitter tea in the cup before stepping out.
Ah Kun has long been accustomed to his inexplicable change of mood in the past few days, and as soon as he went out, he noticed the breath behind him, and when he turned around, he saw the man in purple standing far away at the entrance of the alley.
"Master?"
"Well, don't worry about him." Rong Che said indifferently, and the man got on the horse and left.
Ah Kun hesitated for a moment, looked back again, and saw Helian Zifeng still standing motionless at the mouth of the alley looking here, only feeling a little weird, remembering that the second master had asked him to find out the information of this person, it was also very weird, so he shook the sword in his hand with a little discomfort and left.
"Second Master Rong seems to have been one step ahead of us and found his master, but I don't know if he rushed ahead of Rong Ruizhang because of this and decided to marry his master."
Helian Zifeng's side of the little guy said.
Helian Zifeng quietly watched Rong Che's back disappear at the mouth of the alley. Then he silently turned his head and left.
After Wei Qingqing returned to the house to settle Ge Lao, he told him by the way that he was going to open a tavern.
After dealing with Ge Lao's affairs, it was almost dark.
Wei Qingqing returned to the courtyard, the hot meal was ready, and Yu Xia and Qiu Ling were also very attentive to serve Wei Qingqing's meal.
"Go and rest, you all, I'm not used to being served." Wei Qingqing looked at the light two dishes and one soup on the table, just two dishes, do you still need someone to serve them?
However, she remembered that when she first married Rong Ruizhang ten years ago, the Rong family's meals were shallots mixed with tofu every day, and it took half a month to eat a meal of meat.
But because of this, Mrs. Zhang was afraid that her daughter-in-law would look down on her as a mother-in-law, so she asked her to set rules for a meal, and waited for her to finish eating before she could eat the leftover cold rice. For this reason, Rong Ruizhang didn't say a word, but coaxed her to say some high-sounding words afterwards.
Thinking of the past, Wei Qingqing sandwiched a piece of tofu into his mouth, well, it is still the best hot dish.
Yu Xia and Qiu Ling saw that she even ate a few slices of green vegetables and tofu with such relish, and couldn't help but glance at each other, the ridicule and contempt in their eyes were self-evident, and they hurriedly responded.
Wei Qingqing only didn't notice it, and ate her own by herself. Seeing that Lan Sheng and Lan Zhi were still waiting obediently, he sent them down with a smile, and when it was halfway through dinner, Wei Hu finally sweated profusely and led the Yang account room and his family of four that Wei Qingqing had asked him to call before.
"Little sister, I worked as a coolie for a day in Yang's account room, and I was tired to death." Wei Hu sat on the side and drank a bowl of tea before he breathed a sigh of relief.
Before Wei Qingqing could speak, he saw the shadow posted outside the door, and glanced at the two boys of the Yang account house.
The boys immediately understood and said, "Miss, we haven't eaten dinner yet, we just bought two steamed buns, can we go to the door to eat?" ”
Wei Qingqing smiled and nodded, and when the boys went to the yard, Wei Qingqing relieved himself to explain the opening to the Yang account room and his wife, and also said that he would keep his two boys for Wei Xun and Wei Hu to be personal servants.
"I won't ask them to sign a deed of sale, just follow along."
As soon as Wei Qingqing spoke, Mr. and Mrs. Yang agreed without thinking about it, especially Mr. Yang: "Our family was going to be divided and sold by that Wang Yapo to an unknown place, and we lost it to Miss." Our family can still get together, and we are old, and we are worried about where these two boys will go in the future, that is, the young lady will not open their mouths now, and our old couple is also thinking about letting them come into the house to serve. ”
With that, the two of them knelt down and solemnly kowtowed to Wei Qingqing.
Wei Qingqing saw that they didn't feel wronged, so she was relieved, and only sent Yang and his wife out, and then called the two boys to talk.
The eldest of the two boys is also thirteen years old this year, but the perennial nutrition is not good and looks small, called Daming, and the younger one is eleven years old, called Xiaobai, as soon as the Yang account room and his wife left, the two boys stared at Wei Qingqing with black eyes, and smiled: "Miss, I did the old woman's business in the Xiangfu last time, right?" ”
"Hmm." Wei Qingqing looked at Xiaobai who spoke, this kid, after he guessed that Mrs. Zhang would make a move last time, he originally planned to let him pass a message to Huang Ying, first, to test whether this kid had the guts, and to try whether he was strict with his mouth, but he didn't expect him to turn around and pull Daming to come with him and take over the matter.
Although Da Ming is young, he has a different city government of this age: "Does Miss think that we are so ruthless at a young age?" ”
Xiaobai suddenly explained: "Actually, before we were bought by the young lady, we were seen by the old lady in this chapter, that is, not long ago. At that time, my mother was sick, and Mrs. Zhang promised that as long as our family signed a deed of sale without silver, she would give up the silver to save my mother, but later she asked someone to buy inferior fake medicine, and the doctor said that my mother could have lived for a year and a half, but because of this medicine, it was ......"
Xiaobai was already teary-eyed, but it was Da Ming who pushed him before he came back to his senses.
Wei Qingqing didn't think that there was such a relationship in it, but this was indeed Mrs. Zhang's usual trick. In the past, when he was in the Prime Minister's Mansion, he would privately reissue the silver that people were deducted, but now the Prime Minister's Mansion is afraid that it is a copper plate and is not willing to give more to his subordinates.
"Treat the enemy. Naturally, you have to be ruthless, if it is a woman's kindness, I dare not ask you. It's just ......" Wei Qingqing's tone was a little gloomy, and he looked at the two of them warningly: "I told you to do one, you can only do one, if anyone takes half a step more, I can save your life, but in this life, you don't want to step into the capital for half a step!" ”
The faces of the two brothers turned a little whiter, but they glanced at each other, and they became more and more determined to follow Wei Qingqing.
"Boys get it!"
Wei Qingqing saw that the two of them knew it in their hearts. That's when I talked to them about the people and things to pay attention to, especially Fang Zijiao beside Wei Xun.
The calmer Ming Wei Qingqing arranged for Wei Xun, while the clever little white Wei Qingqing planned to let him follow Wei Hu.
Before dawn the next day, the two brothers went to duty, but before Wei Qingqing could breathe a sigh of relief, an unexpected invitation was sent to the house, which was sent by Wei Susu.
"Ah, it's actually the General's Mansion, miss, this is a good opportunity to make friends with the upper class." Yu Xia's eyes lit up when she looked at the gilded post sent by the General's Mansion, and Qiu Ling was even more excited: "I heard that the third lady of the General's Mansion is famous, and the ladies of the powerful families in the capital like to associate with her, and the young lady is really lucky to be invited by her." ”
The two chattered and talked, and no one noticed Wei Qingqing's complicated eyes at all.
What is Su Su asking her to do now? For Rong Che?
"Miss, the slave maid will bring you that pink butterfly embroidered dress to change into." Lan Sheng gave Wei Qingqing a good hair and asked softly.
Wei Qingqing looked at the post at hand, thought about it, and said softly: "Just take that snow-blue one." ”
Lan Sheng was surprised, although the snow-blue skirt was also new, but it was too plain, Miss had such a posture, if she dressed up well, she would definitely not lose to Miss Wei San.
But Lan Zhi went to get the snow-blue skirt without saying a word.
Yu Xia and Qiu Ling glanced at each other and pouted, this young lady is really weird, eating coarse tea and light rice, and she doesn't know how to dress up well, thinking that just with a face, she can always be liked by men?
But looking at it, the two of them didn't talk much, just thinking that when Wei Qingqing had been to the gorgeous General's Mansion and seen the real daughter of the family, they would start to feel inferior, and then slowly fall in love with those dazzling jewelry, become vain, and finally step into Fang Ye's trap step by step.
After changing her clothes, Wei Qingqing only brought Lan Sheng and Lan Zhi, so angry that Yu Xia and Qiu Ling almost wringed the handkerchief in their hands.
"Miss, are you alright?"
After entering the General's Palace. Lan Sheng was keenly aware that Wei Qingqing's eyes had been cold since he got the post from the General's Mansion, and now it was even worse.
Wei Qingqing's eyes lit up, and it was easy to suppress the real burning pain on the skin and flesh of his body, and let go of his clenched palm: "It's okay." ”
How can it be okay? Wei Qingqing felt as if she had been pressed into the dark water, and the breath in her chest was so stuffy that she seemed to be pierced by ten thousand needles, and it hurt so much that she didn't even have the strength to say a word.
After a while, Wei Susu's people came to support Lan Sheng Lan Zhi and invited her to wait in a lake pavilion in the backyard.
She looked at the familiar scenery in the general's mansion, and the past came like a tide, pressing her as if she was out of breath, but what made her heart ache even more was Rong Ruizhang, who came alone outside the Huxin Pavilion and had already prepared.
"Didn't you think it was me?"
Rong Ruizhang dragged his weak body, looked at the hatred in Wei Qingqing's eyes that he didn't have time to contain, and sneered: "You are really stupid, don't you know that the person who put the fire behind him is actually Wei Susu?" You still treat her as a sister? ”
Wei Qingqing only felt as if her heart was being grabbed fiercely. It wasn't until Rong Ruizhang came to her that she swallowed the blood in her mouth, barely holding back the hatred of wanting to break the corpse of the person in front of her, squeezed a few pills of the drug that had been prepared earlier, and smiled: "Xiangye is sick." ”
"You only now know I'm sick?" Rong Ruizhang saw that she still didn't admit it, and his anger immediately surged up, since he was reborn, he would dream every night that the blood of the Prime Minister's Mansion in his previous life was flowing like a river, and the sharp pain when he was cut off by the knife tortured him all the time, exhausting him, he urgently needed everything to get back to the track he set, and he would never repeat the mistakes of the past!
But looking at Wei Qingqing's body couldn't help trembling slightly, for some reason, Rong Ruizhang felt a little pity in his heart.
His tone softened unconsciously, and he only looked at her deeply: "Wei Qingqing, do you hate me so much because of that fire?" I can tell you that the fire had nothing to do with me, I didn't know it at the time......"
"What are you talking about with your courtiers?" Wei Qingqing asked him with a smile: "It is said outside that Xiangye is sick, but now it seems that Xiangye is indeed very sick, so it is better to ask a few more doctors......
"Wei Qingqing, what do you want me to do?" Rong Ruizhang saw that she still looked disdainful of her overtures to herself, and yelled at her directly.
I want you to die!
Wei Qingqing's eyes were cold, and the medicinal powder in her hands was sprinkled, but she thought that Rong Ruizhang would come to pinch her like thunder, but she didn't expect that after he glanced at a certain place, he directly pinched her chin and leaned over to kiss her!
It's just that Rong Ruizhang didn't even notice that when he stared at her red lips and the tip of his nose was touched by the faint fragrance on her body, his heart was beating like a drum.
"Qingqing, come back to me."
Rong Ruizhang thought to himself that if she was willing to come back, he would definitely not snub her like that again.