Chapter 190: Another Woman
Chapter 190: Another Woman
Mu Yunyao didn't wear this green robe to dress as a woman, but when she was about to return, she saw that the expressions of the two little maids were very unnatural, not very scared or embarrassed, but that kind of expression that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, such an attitude made Mu Yunyao inexplicably angry, and couldn't help but ask coldly:
"Where are those two women?"
Mu Yunyao was born noble, and there was a kind of majesty between her gestures, she pulled her face like this, the two maids suddenly lowered their heads, the two of them glanced at each other, and one said cautiously:
"Miss Huiyu, where is our young lady in the inner courtyard study?"
After hearing the answer, Mu Yunyao snorted coldly and muttered softly, "I don't know what my identity is, and I'm embarrassed to call myself Miss." After walking a few steps, he heard the two maids behind him who didn't know what to talk about, but a few chuckles came over, and he couldn't hear what he said clearly, but Mu Yunyao heard a sentence of "true image", and couldn't help but be confused.
The more I walked, the more depressed I became, the maid and mother-in-law I met along the way, although they were still girls and said that they were all living people who met for the first time, but everyone saw her, they all had an expression of wanting to laugh but not laughing, and they lowered their heads and hurried by, which was really awkward.
The courtyard is not big, and everyone can see that this Mu Yunyao's identity is not ordinary, and she is also a girl, so even though she walked all the way towards the woman's inner house and room, no one stopped her.
It turned out that a curtain had been hung on the outside of King Muyan's study, Mu Yunyao walked outside and stopped, and looked through the bead curtain to see that a graceful woman and a scholar in a green shirt were playing chess there, Mu Yunyao was shocked, thinking how could there be men from outside in this kind of place.
However, she is also Bing Xue smart, and immediately reacted to what was going on with the "true likeness" outside and those expressions that seemed to be smiling.
This scholar, sitting in it and wearing a green shirt, is also a woman......
Many people think that Gu Hengbo, a first-class woman on the banks of the Qinhuai River, suddenly came to Jiaozhou, a bitter place, from the most prosperous place in the world, and would definitely not be used to it, and even make a lot of noise and lose her temper, and in the end she might have done things like committing suicide in anger.
There are really a lot of people who have this idea, and the literati of Nanzhili have begun to spread the rumors that Gu Hengbo, two beautiful beauties of heaven and country, after being exiled to a different place, could not bear the abuse, committed suicide, and died of illness, and there are also Kunqu opera troupes that are ready to rehearse this story into a repertoire and stage it, and it is said that there are many literati who decided to participate in it.
And the Donglin Party members who had died down before also began to speak fiercely, these people who used to criticize the eunuch party villains did not know their names, and could only fire cannons into the air.
After March of the tenth year of Chongzhen, news began to spread from the Weiyuan Marquis's family, saying that the person who forcibly kidnapped Gu Hengbo Ermei was Li Meng, a general of Shandong, and Yunyun, the nephew of the eunuch who guarded Nanjing.
As soon as the news was released, the public opinion of the civil scholars and literati almost exploded, and all kinds of speeches and articles were released one after another.
There is no official news at all, and no one wants to offend the great god of Nanjing Town Guard Eunuch for these things on the Fengyue Field. It is not easy for the eunuchs to find trouble with the Marquis of Weiyuan's mansion, after all, it is just a rumor.
Now in the gathering of literati in Nanzhili, the increasingly fierce attack of the court and the central government on Shoufu Wen Tiren is a topic, and the other topic is the suffering of Gu Hengbo and the woman in Shandong.
In the past, Shandong officialdom was a little afraid of Li Meng's unreasonable style and the big backers behind him, so they were unwilling to deal with it too much, but now they have scruples about Li Meng's bad reputation, for fear of being involved.
Li Meng didn't know anything about these things, he didn't care about these two women, not to mention the notoriety caused by them.
But Gu Hengbo and that woman were also different from what Jiangnan scholars thought, they must have been unhappy when they came to a remote place like Jiaozhou from a prosperous and warm place, but they didn't say that they were going to die or live.
At the very least, the military family members in charge of these two women and their own subordinates did not see them lose their temper or do anything drastic. They all stayed in the courtyard very quietly, playing chess, reading books and chatting, and occasionally asked the families of these military families to buy anything outside, all of which were paid for by themselves, and they spoke very politely.
Probably different from what those literati thought, these two women are not fairies in the sky, and they also have to live.
Mu Yunyao watched the chess game inside the house outside the curtain, although she didn't go in, but the inner house was very quiet, there was such a person standing outside but not going in, which quickly attracted the attention of the two people inside.
Gu Hengbo and the woman dressed as a scribe looked at it together, and when they saw Mu Yunyao's expression, they also understood a thing or two, although Mu Yunyao was forced to calm down and didn't say anything, the expression on his face clearly showed that he was jealous.
The other party can walk freely, and he can only be trapped in this courtyard, Gu Hengbo and the others also understand that the woman in the green shirt outside is the more noble person in Li Meng's mansion, and she may still be Li Meng's wife and concubine.
After hesitating, Gu Hengbo and the woman still stood up and made a blessing to the outside of the bead curtain, but they didn't say a word of greeting, mainly because they didn't know how to call themselves and call others.
After coming to Jiaozhou, Gu Hengbo and the woman began to feel quite frightened and hurt themselves, thinking that they would be greeted by a storm, but who thought that they would ignore it, so they put it in the mansion, serving her with delicious food and drink, Gu Hengbo originally thought that the other party might need to give her as a gift.
Where will there be any good people in the eunuch party, Gu Hengbo used this word several times to test the mother-in-law who served them. Those mothers-in-law were all dumbfounded, with incredible expressions on their faces.
Gu Hengbo is also a smart character of Bingxue, knowing that if the other party treats him as a gift, people will hear some rumors, and they will definitely not reveal the truth to themselves, but there will also be some flaws in such silent or silent expressions.
But these mothers-in-law look very different from ordinary subordinates, they work in the house more like a job, not a slave, when talking to themselves, although they are polite, but there is no low-voiced attitude and expression, after hearing Gu Hengbo's question, the reaction of these mothers-in-law is not that they know not to say, or that they are unwilling to say, that kind of surprised expression is more of a rhetorical question of "our family will do this kind of truth".
Before Mu Yunyao came, Gu Hengbo synthesized all kinds of signs and attitudes, and finally figured out Li Meng's handling and attitude towards them, and it was estimated that he ignored them. It's the same attitude as inviting yourself out on the eyebrow floor.
Gu Hengbo, who wanted to understand this, couldn't help but feel a little angry, as a beautiful girl who was held by the stars and had a peerless demeanor, being ignored was the biggest insult, but this anger lasted for a few days, Gu Hengbo was also quite helpless, how angry he was, this is someone's territory, and it has been ignored, what else can he do.
The girl who came suddenly today, although Gu Hengbo was worried in his heart, for fear that the other party would come to find trouble and scold the street, but he also had a different feeling in his heart, which was good enough that Li Meng finally paid attention to this side.
Regardless of whether they are acting or not, Gu Hengbo and the other woman have been trained to attract the attention of men in every move, and although they are now sixteen or seventeen years old, they are already soaked in this style in their gestures.
The lord of the palace has learned so-so even etiquette since he was a child, anyway, he can't go out of the city in this life, and when the time comes, he will find a noble son who doesn't want to be an official and marry, so Mu Yunyao is still unambiguous in terms of making pies, and as for the details, it is stronger than those military aunts.
Looking at the two women on the other side of the bead curtain here, they stood up and saluted themselves, although it was through the curtain, they could still see it vaguely, that kind of style and demeanor, even Mu Yunyao himself was a little moved, and Mu Yunyao thought inexplicably, if Li Meng saw it, wouldn't he drool.
Thinking of this, Mu Yunyao's heart suddenly rose with anger, and he said in a cold voice that he couldn't control his emotions:
"The two of you came to Jiaozhou for the first time, but I, as the hostess, didn't greet the hospitality, it's really rude, I hope you two don't be surprised."
What's so strange about that, listening to Mu Yunyao say the title of hostess, Gu Hengbo and the woman glanced at each other, they were a little nervous, the hostess's attitude towards the two of them was only anger, and she definitely wouldn't have any thoughts of hospitality, and the coldness in the other party's words, they naturally heard it clearly.
Unexpectedly, Mu Yunyao's face was flushed, her heart was pounding, and she felt very shy about Fang Cai's big words.
But he didn't expect Gu Hengbo and the beauty in a green shirt on the side to open the bead curtain and walk out, and said respectfully:
"This must be Master Li's fiancée who has never been to the door, Miss Yan Zhizhou's daughter!"
No matter how Mu Yunyao suppressed her temper, this misunderstanding completely made her angry, and she couldn't help but raise her voice and refuted:
"The girl's surname is Mu, not the daughter, who are you?"
"That's the case in Shimoyanagi."