Chapter Seventy-Six: It is difficult to enter the Hu Mansion
With the chaotic footsteps outside the car, Li Mo, who was leaning on the door of the carriage, took the lead and walked out. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
In front of me is a lonely high-gate compound, red bricks and green tiles, white walls and pink edges, quite magnificent, not inferior to Xu Mansion.
There were a few small servants standing at the door, standing by the gold-lacquered gate with their hands down with a smile on their faces, waiting to welcome their masters home.
Behind the little maid, there were four half-aged dressed in flowers, looking into the carriage on tiptoe one by one, for fear that the old man would disappear if he saw it late.
These must be the ranked concubines in the mouth of the little guy, right? Li Mo looked at it twice, and secretly complained in his heart, are you sure that these are aunts, not little aunts? Why does it seem that you can be a little lady for Hu Ye?
What's even stranger is that they are all disabled.
The one on the far left, with his left eye covered with gauze; The man beside her had all eyes, but the left shoulder was empty under the sleeve; The one who went a little further had a left shoulder, but the right shoulder was equally empty; The one on the far right is covered with gauze over his left eye.
The gauze on their eyes is new and white, which should be because it is often replaced, and the white flowers are very eye-catching.
Li Mo couldn't help but muttering in his heart, why are these concubines all injured?
If it is a natural cripple, can you also be an aunt and wife for a large family? If they are disabled the day after tomorrow, the location of their injuries is probably a bit too coincidental.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but squint and look at the concubines one by one, and his heart tightened: although they all had smiles on their faces, why did he feel that they were crying?
The glint in their eyes was not the light of longing for hope at all, but the cowardice and fear of resignation.
"Brother Li, the humble house is shabby, so I have to grieve you to accommodate it temporarily." Hu Ye's gentle voice sounded, and Li Mo realized that he had been distracted for too long, and all the people in the car had come down.
Fang Cai was in the carriage, and when Hu Ye got out of the car, Li Mo realized that he was actually bad at walking, and he was sitting in a wooden wheelchair pushed by the little guy at the moment.
His legs were sound, and if he wasn't sitting in a wooden wheelchair, he wouldn't have seen a hidden illness at all.
Could it be that these concubines are all newly discussed? Because he himself is not good at walking, so he deliberately invited these women who are also disabled?
Li Mo was relieved in his heart, and said politely, "Brother Hu is too modest, how can it be said that it is a bad house with such a good house." ”
Although Hu Ye sat upright in a wheelchair, he did not reduce the momentum of the head of the family at all, giving people a sense of majestic oppression.
He raised his head slightly and glanced at a concubine standing on his left, "Rujun, you clean up a few spacious rooms for the guests, don't neglect them." ”
The concubine nodded timidly, and the empty sleeve on her left shoulder was blown away by the wind, "Yes, Rujun wrote it down." ”
The message had already been delivered, and Li Mo didn't want to stay here, so he prevaricated, "Thank you Brother Hu for your kindness, it's just that I still have official business, so I won't bother in the house." ”
Hu Ye looked up at Li Mo, his eyes were a little cold, "Brother Li, doesn't you dislike me for being a disabled person who is not good at walking?" Don't you even want to stay for a light meal! ”
Hearing that there was food to eat, Bai Guo, who had just gotten out of the car, immediately came to his senses, and pulled the corner of Li Mo's clothes violently, "I'm so hungry, I want to eat, I'm so hungry." ”
Seeing that it was already late, and Li Mo didn't want to anger Hu Ye's sensitive self-esteem, he agreed to it, "Then Li is better to be respectful than to obey." ”
Hu Ye's face was a little happy, "Please!" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the little guy behind him pushed him towards the courtyard. Several concubines followed him step by step, their steps were slow, and they didn't make a sound.
Li Mo glanced at Xu Xian and grinned, "Yes, today's money is saved, let's go and have a free meal." ”
Xu Xian hesitated a little, "This, is it appropriate?" ”
"What's inappropriate?" There were many people, Xu Jiaorong didn't speak, just stood quietly aside. Now that there are fewer people, he reprimanded Xu Xianlai out loud, "It's a long way to Suzhou, and there are too many places to use silver, so the money has to be used on the blade, and it can be saved." ”
Xu Xian was robbed of everything, and seemed to have long been accustomed to her sister's pungency, shrugging her shoulders a little naughtily, with a helpless face.
"Cousin, let's go, I'm so hungry." Bai Guo dragged Li Mo's clothes by the corner and rushed to Hu's mansion, "I think I can swallow an elephant." ”
From the time Shen Lao took Feng Sanniang and Bai Guo out, Li Mo instructed them not to call him Daddy, he was just their distant relative, just call him cousin.
At the moment, Bai Guo was estimated to be hungry, so he called his cousin sweetly. On the other hand, Feng Sanniang, who is not far from Baiguo, should not be hungry, her mouth is tight, and her face is even a little disdainful.
Li Mo didn't delve into it, and beckoned Feng Sanniang and said, "Fengfeng, let's go." ”
Feng Sanniang rolled her eyes speechlessly, and followed Li Mo and them towards Hu Mansion.
Pushing open the vermilion gate, stepping over the half-foot-high threshold into the Hu Mansion, the mansion is quiet and elegant, revealing a vicissitudes of life and a simple atmosphere.
The courtyard is full of beautiful trees and green onions, strange flowers, and the white stone is the fence, surrounding the pond and marsh.
The water droplets splashed from the clear spring on the stone wall fell into the pool, ticking, ticking......
The ancients were generous, and they had to build a lotus pond and fish pond in the yard at every turn! Li Mo secretly called this mansion exquisite, more luxurious and magnificent than the Xu Mansion, and he didn't know how much silver it cost to build.
The Xu family sisters and brothers who followed him didn't have too much surprise on their faces, as if they had already seen too much of the scene in front of them, and there was nothing unusual.
Hu Ye had already been pushed under the gazebo by the lake, sitting in a wooden wheelchair, waiting for Li Mo and them to come over.
His four concubines stood silently behind him, their faces expressionless at all.
He held the freshly brewed tea in his hand, lowered his head to blow away the floating green shoots in the celadon tea cup, took a sip, and then said to Li Mo and them, "Brother Li, please take a seat, I must have been a little tired after such a long journey." ”
As he spoke, he instructed the little servant beside him, "Hurry up and serve tea to the distinguished guests." ”
The little servant made tea in response and served them respectfully one by one.
There is a touch of new green floating in the celadon tea cup, and a few wisps of light smoke are warm and warm, and the fragrance is full of the pavilion.
Li Mozheng was a little thirsty, picked up the teacup and drank the cow drink, and drank it in two sips.
Putting the empty teacup back on the table, Li Mo saw that Xu Xian and Xu Jiaorong had only taken half a sip, and their movements were extremely elegant and dignified.
Only then did he realize that he was a little wrong, it seems that not everyone in Gaomen can pretend to be able to do it, every word and deed is the elegance engraved in the bones.
"Brother Li, please tell me more about how Xiao'er was killed, Hu has thanked me in advance." Hu Ye took another sip of tea, and then slowly said to Li Mo.