Chapter 15: Trying to Find Your Father
Thinking of going to find his father, Luo Qinghe suddenly felt excited.
"It's easy for you! After so many years, do you think my mother doesn't want to look for it! But here is more than 1,800 miles away from Guangling County, where are you going to make up the entanglement on this road? Besides, you and I are both women, what should I do if I encounter any danger on the road? Yueniang didn't mean to protect her dreams at all, and ruthlessly poured a basin of cold water on Luo Qinghe.
Also, Yueniang is so beautiful, what if there is a robber and bandit on the road who will take her to be the lady of the village...... Luo Qinghe shuddered when he thought of this.
"In the first few years of your father's disappearance, I had a lot of people bring letters to him, but there was never a reply." Yueniang was stunned.
"Is it possible that my father saw it, but ......" Luo Qinghe suddenly remembered Chen Shimei who abandoned his wife and children.
"Impossible! Your dad isn't like that! Yueniang was very firm at this time, and slowly analyzed: "The people I asked for in the past are actually not very familiar, what if people want to give me money?" There are a lot of surprises in this! ”
Alas... The communication of this dynasty is not developed, and it is no different from looking for a needle in a haystack to find someone more than 1,800 miles away, looking at Yueniang's escapist appearance, Luo Qinghe sighed.
"Mother, if my father had us in his heart, how could he not even have a letter for so many years! I guess my father just returned to Guangling, and when he saw a strange thought, he coveted wealth and wealth, married the daughter of a rich family, and abandoned our mother! ”
"Nonsense! Your dad isn't like that! At that time, when we got married and worshiped the high church, we worshiped his father's tablet! How could such an oath be easily broken! Although Yueniang's words were so, she looked a little weak.
"Look! This is the concentric knot that your father braided for me with our hair on the day we got married! Your father said that there can only be me alone in the life of a married couple! Yueniang was afraid that Luo Qinghe would not believe it, so she hurriedly turned out a small purse from under the pillow.
I saw a strand of black hair lying quietly in this purse, and a pile of small yellow and red pieces of paper around it.
"This is the peace charm that my mother has asked for for your father for so many years! Over the years, my mother has gone to the temple to pray for your father's blessings, begging him to be healthy and all the best, and begging him to return to us as soon as possible......" Yueniang said, wiping her tears and saying:
"My girls have grown into big girls, how happy your father looks at it......"
Luo Qinghe saw Yueniang like this, and he was also a little sad in his heart.
Although there are indeed many lifetime and lifelong love in the world, if Luo Qingwen is still alive but has not heard from him for so many years, I am afraid that it will be ......
But no matter how many thoughts there are, it's just speculation, in a place as far away as Guangling, they don't know when they will have the opportunity to find it.
The current difficulties are the most important! Now that they have lost their way to work in the Fang family to make a living, how can they face the two old men......
Sure enough, when the second elder of the Wang family heard that Yueniang and Luo Qinghe had been kicked out of the Fang family, their original joy suddenly fell silent, and they said with a sad face: "This is the New Year, we can only find another way out......
"It's really not good, I'll go to Shili and Baxiang to ask, and let them give me the clothes that need to be sewn and make some money for needlework."
"That's not going to work! Your eyes are not good in the first place, what if you overwork yourself and become really blind! When Yueniang heard this, she hurriedly stopped:
"I'm still young and in good health! Don't worry about your livelihood, I'll go out and find a job as soon as the year is over! ”
"That's right! Grandpa, I'm not too young, and I'll go out to see if there is any earning work when the time comes, so that I can share some of it for my mother. Luo Qinghe echoed:
"However, during this time, we can only sit and eat......"
During the Chinese New Year, most businesses are closed for rest, so there is no need to hire people; And although the two elders of the Wang family can make dim sum, everyone in this big New Year has prepared New Year's goods, and most of them will not buy them......
Although Luo Qinghe said it easily, he really had no clue in his heart.
If you can earn wages before the food is eaten, it's fine, but if you can't make money and the family runs out of food, even if your fire is prosperous, it won't help if you don't have food!
Fang Family: Young Master's Courtyard
"This second aunt is too much! I just went to send some snacks to Mr. Zhao, and she just made trouble in the house during the Chinese New Year, and actually drove innocent people away! Luo Qinghe's family is in difficulty, where do they go to make a living during the Chinese New Year? ”
Inside the house, the fourth young master of the Fang family, who was leaning on the side of the bed, that is, the young man in white that day, coughed uncontrollably and said angrily.
"O my grandson! You're sick like this, you can't get angry! The old lady saw that her grandson was coughing like this, and hurriedly comforted her.
"Grandma...... I also have my responsibility for this matter, I must go and see it myself, and then send them some silver taels to support their lives to feel at ease! ”
"No, you can't! Have you forgotten how your second aunt passed on you that day? If you really go to the Wang family, can your second aunt still let you go? ”
"My dignified and manly husband, how can I watch that family lose their livelihood because of me?"
"How long have they been gone, how can they starve to death so quickly? It's you, if you toss like this, if something happens, won't it kill your grandmother? ”
The old lady of the Fang family persuaded her for a long time before she persuaded her grandson.
Finally calmed him to sleep, and the old lady looked tired, beckoned her subordinates and said, "You give me a good look at the young master!" If he is allowed to step out of the door for half a step, or if there is any mistake, he will be punished with a hundred rods and thrown out of the house! ”
Hearing that the old lady was so stern, the subordinates hurriedly nodded honestly and respectfully watched the old lady out of the courtyard.
In a remote house in the courtyard of the young master of the Fang family, Wuwen's father said to Wuwenniang: "Today, the young master's illness is a little serious, and his mood is not very good, let Wuwen guard him at night!" ”
Wuwen's mother was not happy when she heard it, and frowned and said, "It's so cold today, what if Wuwen is also frostbitten?" ”
"How can you be so selfish as a woman?" When Wuwen's father heard this, he suddenly became angry.
"You ......" Wuwen and his mother were about to roll up their sleeves and quarrel, but suddenly heard Granny Wen say in a deep voice: "That's it!" I asked Aunt Ying to take Yanyu and catkins to take care of the young master, and let Langmo guard it at night! ”
"It's still Granny Wen's arrangement!" When Wuwen's mother heard this, she agreed very happily, and hurriedly patted Granny Wen on the back, and said:
"What are you doing! There's no need for you here, Fang Cai Lang Zhong said that he prescribed medicine to the young master, you should hurry up and get it back! ”
Wuwen's mother said that she sent Wuwen's father out, and quickly found Wuwen in the front yard, mysteriously led it to the back room, took a bowl of hot soup and said, "Son, drink this!" It's already cold, you must be careful not to let your young master be infected! ”
"Humph!" As soon as he heard this, Wuwen snorted coldly and said, "Mother, do you know the little guy next to the second lady's son An Ge'er? They are much more blessed than we are, and I don't know how much more we have received this month's reward! But my young master is an unwelcome ......."
"How to speak! What if someone hears it! Wuwen's mother was startled, and quickly said, "Did you lose gambling again?" No rich lady for you! ”
"How much do you earn all year round! I said a long time ago, to be a man, you have to learn to see the wind and steer, and now everyone is going to talk to the second lady, but you have to guard this useless young master! ”
"Son, although I am usually used to you, I can't be so unconscientious! Back then, the fourth wife took care of our family, although this young master was useless, but his personality was not much better than that of Brother An! If you really work as an errand in the second lady's courtyard, can you still be so free! ”
"Why do you still remember that useless kindness eight hundred years ago! When has this been, can't you see that the other subordinates in this Fang Mansion look down on us! If you don't want to be motivated, then I will have to fight for it myself! After Wuwen finished speaking, he snatched the money bag from his mother's hand and went out.
After a while, someone passed on the matter in the young master's room to the second lady, and instructed a few words by the way: "Now the old lady is only interested in the young master's illness, and if she is angry at this time, I am afraid that no one can afford the consequences." ”
"Who's afraid of her!" The second lady was very disdainful after hearing this, spit out the grape skin to the ground, and said: "Isn't it just to let him lead Brother An to pay a New Year's greeting to Mr. Zhao, our Brother An'er is so young that it's fine, no matter how he says he is sick, he will be sick!" Can we be blamed for this? ”
"Oops, forget it, don't want that useless thing anymore! You go and count all the gifts I gave to my mother's family now, if there is one missing, I want you to look good! ”
The second lady has always been a tricky and mean person, and her usual kindness is just hindering her identity as the head of the Fang family, in fact, the Fang family has long been dissatisfied with her in their hearts, but they don't dare to say it.
Although it was said that the young master took Brother An to Zhao's house to pay New Year's greetings yesterday, the small carriage prepared by the second lady was only enough for Brother An to sit alone, and the young master naturally had to ride a horse, which was already freezing outside, and the young master rode a horse for two days in a row to blow in the cold wind for so long, and anyone would get sick if they changed, and the second lady was just bullying the young master and losing his mother!
Anyone with a discerning eye can see the truth in this, but a selfish person like the second lady doesn't feel that there is anything wrong.
After all this, he was still not satisfied, and he grabbed An Ge'er and asked: "Why did my mother hear that when your brother went to visit the New Year, he got this "Disciple Rules", and you went to visit the New Year but came back empty-handed?" Could it be that the gift that my mother prepared for Mr. Zhao was moved by them? ”
"You've had people watch those things all the way, who can do anything?"
Brother An, who was white and chubby, was a little unhappy, and said wiltedly: "But when I went, the Zhao family had more guests, and Mr. Zhao was very busy, so I was afraid that I would come back after two sentences in a hurry." ”
"That's it! If Mr. Zhao doesn't accept you as an apprentice, he has no eyes! Go play! Tomorrow, my mother will take you back to my mother's house, and your uncle will definitely miss you! ”
"Is it my uncle who gives me big red envelopes every year!" Brother An was refreshed when she heard this.
"Yes, yes, yes!" Only then did the second lady show her motherly side, and touched Brother An'er's head dotingly and said, "Be careful when you go out to play, don't get frosty!" ”
"Brother An is so cute, he has been so close to his uncle since he was a child!" Seeing Brother An'er's elated appearance, Mama smiled.
But no one noticed that Pearl on the side saw the second lady looking at her child with a loving face, so she could only bow her head silently, her face full of loss.