Chapter 6 Uncle and sister-in-law
Ye Qing, who returned home, didn't take out the roll of cotton cloth and hand it to Bai Chun as soon as possible, because when the two were eating, Ye Qing suddenly found that he and Bai Chun seemed to be the relationship between his brother-in-law and sister-in-law, and they were not friends, or two people who lived together.
Because Ye Qing had never seen the so-called elder brother Ye Hong, and when Bai Chun passed the door, Ye Hong was already dead, and the two had not been married before, and they had not even met each other.
It was less than three days after he returned to Lin'an from Jiankang Mansion, Bai Chun was sent over by the Bai family, and then lived in that small building without saying anything, and then he had a sister-in-law for no reason.
Therefore, Ye Qing has not regarded Bai Chun as his real sister-in-law for this period of time, after all, he is a traverser, and he has no brotherly affection for the so-called brother Ye Hong at all, and it is difficult to treat Bai Chun as a sister-in-law in his heart.
When Bai Chun first came, Ye Qing once asked Bai Chun, Bai Chun just ambiguously said that this was the order of his parents and the words of the matchmaker, although your brother died, but since he had already been married, then he had to marry now, and people could not be untrustworthy.
Ye Qing didn't believe in such a statement, although people at this time regarded reputation as extremely important, but ...... Two people who are just married, after the death of the other party, is it necessary to make such a mountain alliance, miserable, and unswerving?
This marriage is coming, but she has to be a widow for a lifetime, doesn't Bai Chun know it? Or is there something unspeakable about her?
After dinner, he brought a reclining chair and sat under the mulberry tree in the courtyard, holding a pu fan in his hand, tasting the inferior tea he bought, and talking to Bai Chunzheng, who was sitting on the balcony on the second floor.
"My errand was changed again today." Ye Qing looked up at Bai Chun on the balcony and said lightly.
"Changed?"
"Well, today, the forbidden army is calling Lu Zhong over, and Li Heng and I are transferred to Yan Yuan, a well-known wealthy man in Lin'an City, and will start to take care of people's homes from tomorrow." It was already dark, and Ye Qing couldn't see the look on Bai Chun's face clearly.
The dim light in the room on the second floor penetrated from the window to the balcony, and it was not so bright, so Ye Qing could only vaguely see Bai Chun's general figure, as for what Bai Chun was busy with in his hand, he couldn't see it clearly at all.
Bai Chun sighed slightly in his ears, and his hands, which had been busy, paused, and after a pause, he continued to be busy with the female red in his hand, lowered his head and said, "That's ...... Is it possible for Lord Ye to make a comeback? ”
"Lord Ye?" Ye Qing didn't react for a while, and then immediately said: "Ye Heng, then who knows, now that he has been demoted to Lingnan, we don't know whether he will be demoted or removed." What's more, even if one day he makes a comeback, and the imperial court reinstates him as an official, I have a small caretaker of the home, and he will pay attention to it? I'm afraid he won't be able to remember at all then, and I'm a little head of a distant relative who can't beat me with eight poles. ”
"When your eldest brother was alive, he was quite valued by the Ye Governor's Mansion, otherwise he would not have been promoted to a general, don't you remember any of this?" Bai Chun stopped what he was doing again, looked condescendingly at the black shadow under the mulberry tree in the courtyard through the gap in the railing and asked.
"I can't remember. So to put it that way...... Governor Ye still valued my eldest brother very much at the beginning, how did you know about this? Ye Qing blinked his eyes and stared at Bai Chun's figure tightly, although he couldn't see his sister-in-law's facial expression clearly, maybe today's conversation would allow him to get some things he didn't know before.
"How do I know?" Bai Chun took the female red in his hand, his thoughts seemed to be stuck in a memory, and then said: "Your eldest brother and my ...... Family affairs are the matchmaker that Ye Zhifu personally made at the beginning, and naturally he knew it from Ye Zhifu's mouth. ”
"Oh......." Ye Qing nodded perfunctorily on the recliner, with some dissatisfaction with Bai Chun's answer in his tone.
Listening to Ye Qing's casual tone, obviously dissatisfied with her answer, Bai Chun couldn't help but glance at the black shadow under the mulberry tree on the balcony, and then completely put down the female red in his hand on his knees.
"My father was the transfer envoy of Jiangnan East Road, and Jiankang Mansion, Ningguo Mansion, Huizhou, Chizhou and other places were all under the jurisdiction of my father, but the official rank of the transfer envoy was not high, so if you want to do a good job in the emperor's errand, you naturally have to have a good relationship with these real members of the imperial court such as Jiankang Mansion. So Governor Ye made the decision for your brother and proposed to my father, understand? Bai Chunmei's eyes wandered, looking at the dark shadow in the courtyard and explained.
But there are more and more doubts in her heart, although she doesn't know what it will be like when people lose their memory, but how can someone with amnesia like her uncle always feel a little abnormal.
Looking at the little uncle's every move and his behavior in the past two months, Bai Chun felt that the little uncle didn't feel like he had lost his memory, but as if he had become mentally retarded.
In addition to not knowing people, she doesn't even understand some common sense of life, as well as the customs and habits of the Great Song Dynasty, and makes some jokes stupidly every day, so that sometimes when she meets the third aunt and others, she will remind her in her ear from time to time: "Take good care of your family Erlang at home, you are also the daughter of a scholarly family and an official eunuch, and teach him more on weekdays." It's just that this amnesia doesn't know people, how does it become like it's not normal here? The third aunt of Sanba pointed to her brain, and then continued to say with a long tongue: "These days, when I go to the tavern, I always say something that people don't understand, do something immoral, or sing some weird tunes. As the saying goes: The eldest sister-in-law is like a mother, now the two of you depend on each other, see if it doesn't work, hurry up and find a family matter, I think the girl of Lao Liu Tou is good. ”
Every time Bai Chun faced the reminder of the third aunt and other well-wishers, Bai Chun felt that it was an absolutely reckless thing for him to continue to go to the Ye family after Ye Hong's death, regardless of his family's opposition.
"Oh......." Someone continued to lie on the recliner, suddenly realized, and then continued to ask: "How big an official is the transfer envoy, he can be in charge of a road, it stands to reason that even if it is not older than the prefect of Jiankang Mansion in Xingdu, it should be bigger than the official of Ningguo Mansion or what state, right?" ”
Bai Chun was very tired, these should be things that should be very common sense, but his brother-in-law couldn't figure it out, so he had to endure a breath and said: "I'll tell you in a few days, I've been in a bad mood for the past two days......." ”
"And how is your father, Uncle Bai, now? Can you find your father and see if you can change the place for me, even if you don't want to be the head of this anymore, don t you know, Li Heng almost blew up today, and when I heard about it, I ...... it to Yan Hongyuan's family. ”
"Blown up? What do you mean? Bai Chunzhen's heart is very tired, this is another thing that she and the neighbors can't understand, how can people blow up, he is not fireworks!
"If it blows up, it's very angry, it's going to blow up." Ye Qing felt that he was angry, and he should be able to understand it.
"I can't do anything about Li Heng, because ......." Bai Chun picked up the female red on his knee and stood up, looked at the black shadow under the mulberry tree, took a deep breath and said, "My father, like Governor Ye, was impeached by the official Tang Bangyan in front of His Majesty, and was also exiled to Lingnan. ”
"It's a pity ......."
"You ......."
"Oh oh oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean that, I ...... Sister-in-law...... Listen to me...... By the way, here's a roll of cloth that I bought when I came back today, could you please make me some pairs of socks? Ye Qing realized that he had said the wrong thing, so he hurriedly jumped up from the recliner.
Looking at the dim dim light, Bai Chun's tall body walked into the room, and hurriedly raised his head and shouted at the door on the second floor with a bang.
"Throw it up." Bai Chun did not doubt him, and said coldly to the outside in the room.
On weekdays, he has a calm and dry temperament, but as soon as he talks to his uncle Ye Qing, he doesn't know why, he becomes angry, and in the past few days, Bai Chun's temperament has become more irritable.
And the thing downstairs is just a brain, so Bai Chun is sitting in the room sulking at the moment, and a pair of jade hands are about to twist the embroidery in his hand into a mess.
Hearing a bang on the balcony where he was sitting on the second floor just now, as if something had been thrown up, Bai Chunyu glanced at the wooden door with a blue face, and then turned his head and continued to be angry with himself.
There was no sound downstairs at the moment, and the whole courtyard suddenly fell silent, and even outside the courtyard wall, the sound of water that should have been swaying because of the passing of a boat at this time disappeared.
Bai Chun, who was sitting in the room, wiped out the embroidery just now, this is the intimate clothing she embroidered for herself, that is, because it was night, so she took it to the balcony to embroider, if it was during the day, she didn't dare to take it to the balcony and embroider this woman's underwear in front of the little uncle.
Smoothing the embroidery vigorously, after a while, I ran to the matter of going out to buy things today, remembering that I had a menstrual affair, I wanted to buy some cloth to use, but I didn't want to be entangled by the golden people, and finally I was sent back by the uncle empty-handed, which made her start to become a little embarrassed, after all, the woman came to the menstrual affair, whether day or night, it is inseparable from the personal thing.
Sitting in the room with the lights dimmed, looking at the soybean-sized flames, Bai Chun sighed silently, got up and planned to turn over the dowry he brought when he passed the door, to see if there was a suitable cloth for this time.
Then I remembered that my uncle had asked her to make socks, so I sighed again, turned around and pushed open the wooden door of the balcony, and in the dim light, I saw a package wrapped in a cloth of unclear color.
So he walked out of the room with his legs up, picked up the package, patted the dust on it gently, and was about to turn around and go inside.
"You don't need to make too much, one or two pairs are enough, and the rest of the cloth will be kept first."
"Ah......h Bai Chun was startled by the sudden sound.
Originally, he had been immersed in his own little emotions, and he thought that the little uncle had already entered the room to rest, but who knew that the dead man was still sitting silently in the courtyard and pretending to be dead.
"Got it." Bai Chun glanced angrily in the direction of the mulberry tree again, and then walked into the room again.