107. What is this sister-in-law called?
When Lou Que came back and told Zheng Xian'er about the emperor's summons, he only got a two-word response: "Don't go!" β
Lou Que smiled: "Do you know that the emperor has a call, and if he doesn't go, it can be regarded as resisting the decree?" β
"I know you have a solution." Zheng Xian'er has a lot of confidence in her own man.
So Lou Que was satisfied.
rushed to her trust, and the sea of swords and fires also went, what is this little to resist the decree!
But on this day, Zheng Xian'er still did not follow Lou Que home.
She finally fell in love with a small storefront, so she paid money to buy it on the same day, and hung up the door plaque that she had brought all the way from Sangyu County.
Decoration Pavilion.
With the 50,000 silver of the Peony Garden, the name "Adorned Pavilion" spread all over the city overnight. At this time, as soon as this plaque was hung out, there were already good deeds running to tell each other, and there was no need to set off artillery and hang cloth to publicize it.
- Decoration Pavilion, it is the Decoration Pavilion that smashed 50,000 taels of silver to hold Luo Xiaoying!
- Yes, yes, yes, it's the Decoration Pavilion, I heard that the big owner is a woman! She's definitely in love with that show!
- Yo, it's also a shame to shout in public with the new champion for a show!
- Alas, who told that Luo Xiaoying to be good-looking? Which rich woman doesn't love a pretty man? Se Ling Zhi is dizzy!
In this way, the Pavilion has not yet opened, but the name has been turned back and forth several times on the lips of men and women of all ages in the city.
At the same time, another rumor also spread among the homes of the rich and noble:
The affair between the new champion and the widow is true! That woman has already chased into the capital! With a big belly! The two entered the theater garden together, hugged and hugged in front of the public, and witnesses said that the scene at that time was very spicy!
It's not that no one knows that the protagonist of these two things is the same person, but the news comes and goes, some details are infinitely magnified, some details are interpreted beyond recognition, and of course, there may not be some key details that will not be missed.
So, because of Zheng Xian'er's arrival, the idlers in the capital suddenly added a lot of talking points, and it is expected that it will not be too boring for a long time in the future.
When Lou Que put the 50,000 taels of silver tickets on the table, Zheng Xian'er was stunned: "You really give it?" β
Lou Que looked at her seriously: "I said, I'm afraid that you won't spend my money." β
Zheng Xian'er pursed her lips and smiled, and immediately grabbed the silver ticket and put it in the box and locked it: "I'm afraid you will regret it!" β
As soon as he turned around, he crashed into Lou Que's arms.
Zheng Xian'er stretched out her hand and pushed him away: "I'll hug him later!" β
"What's wrong?" Lou Que was very dissatisfied.
Zheng Xian'er turned around and fled to the window, laughing: "I just received the money and hugged you, it feels like being prostituted!" β
Lou Que couldn't cry or laugh: "Why don't you reward me again, count you as prostituting me?" β
The little branch that was about to come in to return to the matter slipped on the sole of his foot and fell to the ground with a "poof".
Now, I can't hide if I want to.
Xiaozhi had to grin in and bow his head: "Grandma, shopkeeper Cheng said that another embroidery workshop sent samples just now, which looks better than the ones we have worked with before, but the price is too high." β
Zheng Xian'er couldn't help but laugh, and said: "Ask the shopkeeper Cheng to just talk, the price is not a problem." β
Twig retreated early, without waiting for her to finish.
She didn't need to say anything, she had already heard it!
The big proprietor sells himself to raise money to open a store, what an inspirational story!
When Xiaozhi walked away, Zheng Xian'er patted Lou Que's chest and laughed with him.
Laughing enough, Zheng Xian'er raised her head and looked at Lou Que with a smile: "Hey, where did you get so much money?" β
Lou Que lowered his head and met her gaze with a smile: "In short, it's not earned by selling yourself, you can use it with confidence." β
"That's what you earned?" Zheng Xian'er chased after her.
Lou Que thought seriously for a while, and hesitated: "Maybe ......"
Zheng Xian'er exhaled exaggeratedly and patted her chest: "It's okay, it's okay!" β
"Where's the matter?" Lou Que was puzzled.
Zheng Xian'er smiled: "It's good to have a way to come." It doesn't matter if you earn it by selling your art or selling your body, as long as it's not given to you by someone who is inexplicable and unknown. β
Lou Que coughed and changed the topic: "There will be a banquet in the mansion tomorrow, will you go back with me?" β
Zheng Xian'er didn't want to go back at all.
However, now the Lou family must have known that she was in the capital, and they also knew that she had met Lou Que.
Sooner or later, if you have to go back, then it's too early or late.
Zheng Xian'er doesn't care.
So after the next day, Lou Que came to pick up Zheng Xian'er first, and then took a car with her to Lou's house.
The ordinary housewarming banquet would not have been able to stir up the people, but the old man Lou was an important minister in the court twenty years ago, and now there is a champion in the house, and the thick heritage and vigorous vitality have accidentally attracted the attention of the whole city.
When Zheng Xian'er and Lou Que got out of the car together, the newly bought few small people in the house were stunned, but the old people who came from Sangyu County couldn't help but wet their eyes: "I'm back, I'm back!" β
There is no need to wait for the family to return home, so Lou Que led Zheng Xian'er all the way into the inner house, and went to see Mrs. Lou first.
Mrs. Lou's residence is still called Ning Xuan Hall, and the ladies in the house have already gathered there.
Zheng Xian'er followed Lou Que into the door and greeted everyone calmly, as if she had never left.
Others were okay, but when Mrs. Lou saw her, she immediately stood up, grabbed her hand and began to cry: "It's good to come back, it's good to come back......"
Zheng Xian'er was confused.
Lou Que took Zheng Xian'er into the seat and sat down, and said with a smile: "It's good to come back!" This time, she was willful and messed around, and she came to the capital alone without saying a word, causing her mother to worry about her, which was really too much! β
Mrs. Lou hurriedly wiped the corners of her eyes and smiled: "You can't say that." Although your father and I are worried, we also know that the Zheng family is not a willful person. She sold her shop and entered Beijing early, presumably for the sake of business, you can't blame her too much! β
"That's because my mother is partial to her." Lou Que snorted coldly.
Zheng Xian'er looked at Lou Que for a while, and looked at Mrs. Lou for a while, and she suspected that she had listened to too much drama a while ago and had confused the drama texts.
At this time, Mrs. Lou took her hand again and rubbed it with pity: "Being alone outside, I have suffered a lot of grievances, right?" Look at you, your belly is so big, why don't you have a few taels of meat on your body? Look at the strange poor man! β
Although Zheng Xian'er couldn't figure out the situation, she didn't show it at all, and smiled very sincerely: "Mrs. don't worry, I can take care of myself." β
Mrs. Lou was still holding her hand and refused to let go: "I said so when I went back, I didn't see you take care of yourself seriously!" Yesterday I heard that you went to the theater to make trouble again? It's such a big month, what's the toss? β
At this time, a chubby woman next to her suddenly covered her mouth and laughed, and said meaningfully: "Mrs. I'm afraid I heard it wrong?" How did I hear that the 'master of the Pavilion' was not going to make trouble, but to make a show? It is said that he rewarded that Luo or something at once with 5,000 taels or 10,000 taels? Or did I hear it, and some people said it was 50,000 taels? Now the whole city is admiring the wealth of the owner of the pavilion, and everyone says that if the owner of the pavilion is a woman, maybe he can achieve a good story! β
Mrs. Lou's face finally sank.
Zheng Xian'er stared at the chubby woman for a long time, and asked curiously, "Madam, where is this aunt?" Is it the old man's old friend's daughter? β
The woman turned blue with anger before she could finish speaking.
Xiao Zhi was busy laughing and said, "I looked at this ...... Some of them are familiar, but they look like the Jinxiang girl in the second master's room before. β
When Zheng Xian'er heard this, her eyes widened in shock: "Jinxiang?!" Oh, my God...... Lady Jinxiang, how did you become so ...... Haha, blame me for being clumsy, blame me for being clumsy! β
Jinxiang's face was blue and blue, and she looked as if she was about to stand up and fight, but her body didn't move at all.
The girl beside her was bought by Zheng Xian'er in the past, and she hurriedly bowed down and replied at this time: "Miss Jinxiang is greedy during pregnancy, and her body is inevitably rounder. How can everyone have a well-proportioned and strong body like grandma? β
Jin Xiang saw that the girl was familiar with Zheng Xian'er, and she was about to be angry, but she was more relieved when she heard the word "strong", so she suppressed her anger and sneered: "Hey, strong!" β
Zheng Xian'er didn't care, but still smiled softly as a lady: "I am a hard worker, how can I have the good fortune of living and raising a baby like Miss Jinxiang?" β
When Mrs. Lou heard this, she immediately coughed and said, "As soon as Que'er left that day, I advised you to go back to the house to raise the fetus with peace of mind, but you just refused!" β
Zheng Xian'er pursed her lips and smiled: "Mrs. loves me, I know it." It's just that there are many places to use money in the house, how dare you delay business matters? β
Jin Xiang pinched her throat and asked in a weird manner: "So, it's also a business to go into the theater to hold a play?" β
Before Zheng Xian'er could answer, Aunt An was already laughing and said, "This is true." Mrs. and we thought that grandma might have entered the capital in advance, so after entering Beijing, we have been inquiring about the news of the Jin Pavilion, everyone said that there was no such shop, who knew that overnight, the Jin Pavilion was already known to everyone! β
Mrs. Lou nodded approvingly: "Although this method of fame is a bit strange, the effect is very impressive. β
Zheng Xian'er smiled and thanked her, and said goodbye to Mrs. Lou and the two sisters-in-law, and the atmosphere was happy.
Lou Que sat for a while, then got up to say goodbye, and went to the front to find Old Man Lou and talk to them.
Mrs. Lou rubbed her eyebrows, looking miserable.
Ruier hurriedly asked, "Shouldn't the guests come so early, but Mrs. wants to take a break?" β
Mrs. Lou nodded and said to Zheng Xian'er: "You are also here after a lot of carriage, so you don't have to sit outside." My room is spacious, so you can come in with me and rest for a while before coming out. β
Zheng Xian'er knew that she had something to say, so she didn't say much at the moment, so she calmly agreed and followed into the inner room.
As soon as she entered the inner room, Mrs. Lou immediately sank her face: "You, you are very capable!" β
Zheng Xian'er sat down slowly with her stomach in her arms, her expression was light: "I don't dare to be a 'good skill', but I should always have a little bit of the ability to save my life." Others don't leave me a way to live, and I am unwilling to climb into the coffin by myself, who else can I ask for but myself? β
Mrs. Lou was so angry that she grabbed the Buddhist beads in her hand and knocked on the table repeatedly: "Nonsense, nonsense!" Who are you talking about? Who won't leave you alive? It's clear that you don't leave us a way to live! β
Zheng Xian'er watched quietly, until the sound of knocking on the table stopped, and she said unhurriedly: "I never thought about who I couldn't get along with, but Mrs. Youβwhat are you planning in your heart, do you really think that others can't see it?" β
Mrs. Lou threw the Buddha beads out with all her might: "Then you say, what am I planning?!" β
Zheng Xian'er smiled: "Madam, has anyone told you that you are really not smart enough?" 'Mental art' is such a thing, if you play it well, you can count it as a people's heart and plan the world, and if you don't play well, you can only mislead others and yourself. β
Mrs. Lou exhaled deeply and sat up straight: "Yes, if you want to talk about conspiracy and trickery, I am indeed inferior to you!" β
"That's wrong," Zheng Xian'er shook her head, "It's not that my wife can't play with me, it's that I don't want to play with you at all." With my family fighting around in the nest, I might as well go around the streets and think about making some money. β
"Your own family?" Mrs. Lou's eyes narrowed.
Zheng Xian'er looked at the corner of the table and smiled lightly: "Yes, my own family." What do you have to say in your own family that you can't say clearly, and you must pretend to beat around the bush? My wife wants the child in my womb to have incense in the third room, and I don't want to make it clear in one sentence, so why bother spending so much time and trying to pretend to be the other party's consideration! Today I'm going to make it clear: I don't like the idea of people beating my child, and neither can my wife. Also, I don't care about the incense in the third room, it's useless for you to be angry, I'm just so unreasonable. β
After listening to her, Mrs. Lou sat in silence for a long time, and finally snorted coldly with a calm face: "It seems that my mind is indeed not well hidden!" β
Zheng Xian'er said unceremoniously: "It's not good enough, it's just terrible!" What you want, say it clearly may not be impossible to get what you want, who wants you to play these unseemly means, plain and annoying! β
Mrs. Lou immediately asked, "If I had made it clear that I wanted your child, would you agree?" β
Zheng Xian'er said without hesitation: "Of course not." β
"Humph!" Mrs. Lou pounded the table angrily.
Zheng Xian'er glanced at her and added unhurriedly, "But at least that won't make me hate you." β
Mrs. Lou asked angrily, "So, you hate me now?" Ready to get revenge on me? β
"Where did you start with that, madam?" Zheng Xian'er laughed.
Mrs. Lou turned her face and stared at her deadly: "You sold the shop in the house and ran away from the house, isn't it just so that we can't explain to Que Er?" When we entered Beijing, you immediately found him, and I am afraid that you have complained to him behind your back, right? Since you keep saying that you are a family, why do you use such thoughts on us, why do you want to harm our mother and son! β
"Mrs. is wrong again," Zheng Xian'er smiled, "I have never taken the initiative to use any scheming against you, let alone cause you to be separated from Tongjie's mother and son." Before I went to Beijing, I had already decided to move the store to the capital. This decision has nothing to do with whether or not you calculated that I threatened me, whether or not you withheld the letters written to me by Kiritsu, and whether or not you were willing to tell me about the top student in Kiritai's high school. β
Mrs. Lou didn't believe her words: "If it was a decision made early in the morning, why didn't you tell your family in advance?" β
Zheng Xian'er shook her head and smiled silently.
As soon as the people left, you came to the door to calculate and threaten me, and later even the guys who were decorated with the Jin Pavilion were not allowed to enter the door of the building's house, who was still rushing to your face?
Mrs. Lou also seemed to know that her question was unreasonable, so she fell silent after this sentence.
The room was quiet for a while, and Mrs. Lou leaned on the soft couch tiredly: "Even if you want to enter Beijing, you shouldn't make such a fuss!" Where did you not recognize Que Er, why did you choose a place like Xiyuanzi? Do you know that Que'er's reputation has just gotten better, and now it has been completely ruined by you! You are so willful, Que Er indulges you, and I don't care too much, but when can you think about it! β
Zheng Xian'er smiled casually and stood up: "Madam, this is a matter between me and Tongjie, don't bother your old man."
Mrs. Lou was angry: "How can you ......?"
Zheng Xian'er had already pushed the door and walked out.
Leaving Mrs. Lou alone, she was so angry that she clutched her chest and couldn't breathe.
Aunt An was timid, and entered the door with her head down: "Madam, what is that incident...... Have you talked to her about it? β
Mrs. Lou said angrily: "Look at her like that, it looks like she has been negotiated!" Outrageous! She is less and less interested in the Lou family! β
Aunt An sighed with a bitter face: "If the fifth master really spoils her, she does have the confidence not to take the Lou family in her eyes!" β
"Really spoil her?" Mrs. Lou sneered, "No matter how sincere she is, she is also an unseemly person who can't be seen on the stage!" Identity, origin, temperament, plus the scandal of fornication and childbirth, which one is not enough to trample her into the mud? She is still arrogant and domineering, you wait and see, no matter who Que Er marries in the future, the first thing people will do when they enter the door must be to clean her up first! β
"But I look at what the fifth master means......" Aunt An stopped talking.
Mrs. Lou hooked the corners of her lips mockingly: "What, Que Er means to marry her as the main room?" Do you think it's possible? Her identity is there, and it is impossible to be a concubine justifiably! Even if she is a roommate, it has to be for the sake of her having children! I don't go on the right path, and I drill into the man's bed, do you really think that you can reach the sky in one step with your stomach? β
Aunt An listened to these words more and more unpleasantly, and couldn't help blushing. It was easy to wait for Mrs. Lou to scold almost, then she raised her head again and said cautiously: "There is such a big movement in the opera garden, it is impossible for the upper authorities not to know." I don't think the two of them seem to be too worried, could we have guessed wrong? β
Mrs. Lou slowly propped herself up.
Aunt An picked up the Buddhist beads from the corner of the wall and handed them over. Mrs. Lou stretched out her hand to take it and said in a deep voice: "Now that she is pregnant with a child, of course the top will not scare her." β
"I see." Aunt An lowered her head and said no more.
The stuffiness in Mrs. Lou's stomach did not dissipate. At this time, seeing Aunt An's low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, she still felt disgusted: "Whether the Zheng family has a good end is none of our business, but that Diao woman is the most avenging, we have offended her now, she may not give us a stumbling block - it's all your fault, you had such a bad idea before!" β
Aunt An's face turned red, and she muttered for a long time: "Where would I have thought that she could sell the store quietly without telling us......"
Mrs. Lou snorted coldly and stood up: "Anyway, you're stupid!" I said let's just coax her as usual, you say that you want to kill her sharpness, what do you say first slap her and then give sweet dates to her will be grateful...... Now it's okay, people don't want to wait honestly for us to feed sweet dates, but she remembers that slap! β
Aunt An slowly knelt down and grabbed the corner of Mrs. Lou's clothes: "Mrs. don't worry, the fifth master is a grateful person, and he will never have trouble with our house for a woman." You also saw it just now, hasn't he been saying good things with a smile on his face? Even if Zheng was a little aggrieved and had no one to call the shots for her, she had to endure it. β
Mrs. Lou sighed: "You get up." I also know that she can't hinder us in anything, but the thoughts we spent on before are after all. β
Aunt An slowly stood up with the corner of the table and squeezed out a smile: "I don't think Zheng's temperament is a grudge. She had even been buried alive in a coffin before, didn't she still get close to us later? In the future, we will treat her with sincerity, and after a while, we will coax her. β
"As long as you don't come up with those bad ideas in the future," Mrs. Lou turned the Buddha beads, "everything will be fine!" β
Aunt An agreed again and again, followed Mrs. Lou two steps behind, and returned to the main hall with a humble smile.
At this time, the Hu family was no longer in the hall, and Han Yuzhu explained that a family member had come early, and the Hu family was outside to greet him.
"Relatives?" Mrs. Lou was a little puzzled.
There are old friends in the capital, but where are there any "relatives"? The Lou family has been away from Beijing for 20 years, and the daughters-in-law of several houses are not from the capital, and Mrs. Lou's own maternal family has already returned to her hometown in Dingzhou...... There is something strange about this.
Even Mrs. Lou didn't know, and of course others were even more confused.
The guests did not come slowly, and after a few words, Hu accompanied him into the door.
Mrs. Lou hurriedly stood up to greet her, and when she saw the person enter the door, she was even more confused.
I don't know!
The person who came was a mother and daughter, and the lady looked to be about forty or fifty years old, and her makeup was very graceful, and at first glance she knew that she was the daughter of a wealthy family. The girl behind her is even more beautiful, with a red plum embroidered on her lotus skirt, swaying slightly with her pace, it becomes more and more slender and delicate, which is extremely moving.
Zheng Xian'er silently praised in her heart: "I can wear it!" β
Mrs. Lou beckoned the two of them to sit down with a smile on her face, and in an instant she showed a look of self-reproach: "I haven't been back to Beijing for 20 years, and I don't even recognize my former relatives and friends. β
The lady bowed her head slightly and was about to reply, but the girl was already laughing and said: "Twenty years ago, Jinxiu was not born yet, if the wife can recognize it, then it is called strange!" β
Mrs. Lou smiled: "This kid is funny. If the old body doesn't know you, shouldn't he know your mother? β
The girl smiled, pinched the handkerchief and wiped the corners of her eyes: "Mrs. naturally knows her mother." It's a pity that my mother died a few years ago, and I didn't have the opportunity to see my wife again. β
Mrs. Lou sighed again and again, and comforted everyone for a long time, and finally couldn't help asking: "After talking about it for half a day, whose child are you?" β
Mrs. Ning was left out in the cold like a pins and needles, and finally got free at this time, and explained with a red face: "We are the Ning family of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and the mother of the eldest girl is Mrs. Chu's handkerchief friend in the past. The concubine was just a concubine who served the old lady in the past, so the wife didn't recognize it. β
"Yo!" Mrs. Lou exclaimed, "It turned out to be Mrs. Ning and Miss Ning!" Our two families used to be good families, how can the girl see each other so much! β
Mrs. Ning thanked her again and again, and kept peeking at her daughter's face.
Ning Jinxiu sat up straight and smiled very elegantly: "Although Xu Xian is also considered a 'lady', after all, she is one level lower than Yuan Pei, not to mention that she is a concubine to help her - Mrs. doesn't have to exalt her too much, lest she be coaxed into forgetting her identity and learning frivolously." β
When the ladies of the Lou family heard these remarks, they were stunned.
The others were fine, but Han Yuzhu's face became more and more red, and she almost poked her head into the tea bowl.
Zheng Xian'er looked at Ning Jinxiu's noble smile, and the more she looked at it, the more awkward she felt, and she couldn't help but open her mouth coldly: "No wonder people say 'courtesy everyone'." The people from our small place only know how to respect the old and the virtuous, and I really didn't expect that the big families in the capital don't treat their stepmothers as their mothers. As a daughter, you can only talk highly, but as a stepmother, you don't even have the qualifications to speak, this is really a new rule, I have really grown up today! β
Ning Jinxiu looked over, and still maintained an elegant smile on her face: "This sister-in-law misunderstood. Jinxiu does not mean that the 'stepmother' is not worthy of respect, but that the 'concubine' is not worthy of respect. At any time, the dignity and humility of the concubine cannot be messed up. It doesn't matter if my sister-in-law doesn't know the rules now, she will learn slowly with the wives and girls in the capital in the future, and she will always understand. β
She "taught" very seriously, Zheng Xian'er couldn't cry or laugh, and it took a long time to control her expression, and she said matter-of-factly: "Thank you Miss Ning for your advice." β
"Well said," Ning Jinxiu still smiled nobly, "I don't know what this sister-in-law is called?" β
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