Chapter 44: The Quick Knife
Once something involves one's own interests, then the news will be like wings, and it will fly around without being able to close it.
But after a night's work, everyone up and down the Dou family knew about it.
Some people secretly scolded Wang Yingxue for being the bane, some accused Zhao Si of being whimsical, some people calculated their own interests, and some people were not afraid of the high stage when watching the play, waiting to see the jokes. But no matter what kind of mentality they have, no one wants to be the first to speak. For a while, the originally lively Dongdou suddenly fell silent, except for a few rough maids and mothers-in-law walking around in the yard, the people in each room did not know where the cat had gone.
Dou Zhao was a little gloating, but Ji took her to Xifu.
"Your grandfather is sick," Ji told her when she changed her clothes, "Let's go see your grandfather." ”
In front of the Zhao family, I made a posture that the Wang family is now a big official, and if I have to straighten Wang Yingxue right, I have no way; In front of the Wang family, although I am not satisfied with Wang Yingxue, but the matter has come to this, for the sake of the face of the two families, I will still find a way to make Wang Yingxue straight. I want to curry favor with both sides, but now it has become a dilemma, and I am in a dilemma.
I'm afraid it's a sudden illness, right?
She replied and entered the Tsurujudo with the Ji family.
Dou Duo was lying on the bed wearing a cyan scarf, his face was very bad, and Aunt Ding and Grandma Ding were serving on the side.
Hearing that Dou Zhao came to see him, he didn't lift his eyelids.
Aunt Ding's grandmother looked embarrassed.
Ji poured a cup of tea and motioned for Dou Zhao to bring it to his grandfather.
Dou Duo hmmmmmm
Dou Zhao held the teacup and looked back at Ji with a wink.
Ji's brows furrowed almost imperceptibly. took two steps forward and grabbed Dou Zhao's shoulder, and comforted her with a smile: "Grandfather is sick and in bad spirits, you just put the tea on the small table." ”
Dou Zhao listened. Carefully went to put the tea cup.
Dou Duo still ignored it.
Ji smiled and said to Aunt Ding's grandmother: "Since the third uncle has rested, we won't bother and go back first." Tomorrow I will come to visit in Chapter 44 with a quick knife. Then politely bowed to Aunt Ding's grandmother, and took Dou Zhao's hand and went out.
On the way, Dou Ming saw Ponzi's figure flashing among the flowers and trees.
She pretended not to see and got into the carriage.
Pang Zi hurried all the way back to Qixia Courtyard.
Wang Yingxue was very thin, and she was making autumn clothes for Dou Ming with a dazed expression.
My brother came and went, saying things she had never thought of before.
The reason why she can still live in Qixia Courtyard unharmed to this day is, to put it bluntly, just because of her father's recovery. Her mother's family is powerful.
If the father was implicated in her affairs...... Wang Yingxue was a little afraid to think about it.
But if she took Dou Ming back to the Wang family like this, how would she live her life in the future?
As long as Wang Yingxue thinks of the gentle and considerate Dou Shiying, her heart aches, and she just hopes that this day can drag on for a day...... It would be great if you could wait for Dou Shiying to come back.
See Ponzi come in. She reluctantly smiled at Pang Zi: "The second sister-in-law is in such a hurry, is there something wrong?" ”
Pang Zi poured himself a cup of tea and drank it all, then sat down beside her and whispered, "I saw Dou Zhao just now!" ”
Wang Yingxue couldn't help but let out an "ah" and sat up straight.
They had already heard about Zhao Si's conditions last night, Wang Yingxue felt that Zhao Si was crazy, but Pang Shi's eyes were shining, and he was a little uneasy all night.
"Don't panic," Ponzi laughed. "It seems that Dou Zhao followed the sixth wife to visit the patient." She said, "Tut" and said, "Don't say it, Dou Zhao is really beautiful, and the pair of embroidered shoes decorated with pearls under his feet cost at least a dozen taels of silver." Their Dou family is really rich. ”
Wang Yingxue didn't like her second sister-in-law very much, and everything was judged by the amount of silver.
But she can't talk about her.
These days. Thanks to the help of her second sister-in-law, she can't be more serious with her second sister-in-law in these trivial matters, right?
"Yingxue, have you made up your mind?" Seeing that Wang Yingxue didn't speak, Pang Zi sighed slightly in his heart, and he wanted to be a and set up an archway, how could there be such a good thing, "Don't say that I, the sister-in-law, didn't remind you, without the consent of the Zhao family, my father-in-law will not let you stay in the Dou family like this in no way, and you don't want your brother, sister-in-law and nephew to be unable to raise their heads because of this, right?" If you straighten things right, you can still get half of the family wealth; If you go back, the Dou family's property has nothing to do with you. ”
"It's not like I can't support myself." Wang Yingxue said unhappily, "I just think that Old Lady Dou will definitely not agree to this matter......"
"That's for later." Pang Zi squeezed Wang Yingxue, "You just said if you want to straighten it out, right?" ”
Wang Yingxue lowered her head and did not speak.
"I'm reading a book review to worry about the ancients!" Pang Zi said, "Yes, it's me who is nosy. I'll go back to Nanwa, and I don't care about your business anymore! ”
Wang Yingxue grabbed Ponzi's sleeve violently.
Pang Zi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and laughed...... As soon as Dou Zhao and Ji got out of the carriage, they saw Cai Lan hurriedly coming over.
"Sixth Lady," she bowed and whispered, "The Fifth Master is back with the Sixth Master and the Seventh Master!" ”
Dou Zhao and Ji were both taken aback, and Ji's expression was even more solemn: "Do you know why the three masters came back?" ”
"I don't know." Cai Lan shook her head, "I only heard that the fifth master took a few days off, and he came back with the sixth and seventh masters." He added, "The seventh master has already returned to the house, and the sixth master has just been overtaken by Mrs. Tai, and Mrs. Tai also instructed that if you go back to the house, go over immediately." ”
Ji pondered for a moment and asked, "Who else besides me and the sixth master?" ”
"There are also the third master and the third wife."
Ji thought for a while and said, "I know." "Handed over Dou Zhao to Tu Niang and Cai Shu, "You take care of Shou Gu, and then send Shou Gu back to the house when I come back." ”
The two of them should be together, and they took Dou Zhao back to Ji's house, and Ji took Cailan to Mrs. Tai.
Mrs. Tai's courtyard was silent, and the maids and mothers-in-law who served stood in the middle of the courtyard with bated breath.
Seeing Ji's family, Mama Liu, who was standing in front of the steps of the main house, hurriedly stepped forward. While smiling and accompanying Ji into the house, he said in a gnats: "As soon as the fifth master came back, he talked with Mrs. Tai in the inner room for a long time, and when he came out, he asked a few people to come over." ”
Ji Shi saw that there was an inner room two steps away, so he glanced at Mama Liu and walked in with a smile from Mama Liu.
Everyone has already sat down. Just waiting for her to come.
Ji hurriedly stepped forward to salute everyone.
The second lady smiled and said, "There is no need to be polite, and there are no outsiders." Then he pointed to the empty embroidery pier beside Dou Shiheng, "Sit next to each other!" ”
Ji smiled and sat down. But he took the opportunity to glance at the third lady quickly.
The third lady sat there with her eyes and nose, and her nose was attentive, and she couldn't see her expression.
"Everyone's here!" Dou Shishu, who was sitting side by side with the second wife, smiled and said, "When I came back this time, I asked the third brother and the sixth brother for help." ”
He is a typical Dou family, tall and straight, with fair and delicate skin. His eyes are bright and bright, and his speech is like a spring breeze.
Dou Shibang was busy owing himself.
Dou Shishu said: "Wang Xingyi's investigation of the ban on the horse market in Gansu happened to the Wang family, if he is impeached, it will make Zeng Ge Lao very passive." Wang's business. You have to cut through the mess quickly. I have an idea, let's discuss it and see if it's feasible? His tone paused slightly, and his eyes slowly passed over the faces of his brother and sister-in-law, and his younger brother and sister-in-law, "Zhao Ruifu proposed to let the third uncle allocate half of the property to Shougu as a dowry, I think the third uncle will never agree." Therefore, I roughly estimated that half of the Dou family's property is now from the East Mansion and half from the West Mansion. The eastern mansion is divided into six parts, of which the large, second and fourth rooms account for half. The third brother, me and the sixth brother account for half of the ......"
When Ji Shi heard this, she already vaguely knew Dou Shishu's intentions, her heart was pounding, and she couldn't help but look at the second wife.
The second lady sat up straight with a calm gaze.
She thought of Cai Lan's words again.
It seems that Wubo has received the support of his mother-in-law!
Ji glanced at Dou Shibang.
Dou Shibang opened his mouth slightly, obviously vaguely knowing what Dou Shishu would say next.
But he soon regained his composure. listened carefully to Dou Shishu's words as he did just now.
Look at the husband again.
With a disapprehensive face, he obviously already knew what Dou Shishu would say.
Ji sighed.
Dou Shishu's voice came from his ears: "...... The sum of our three rooms is exactly half of the property of Xifu, which just meets Ruifu's requirements. If the third brother and the sixth brother and sister agree, I want to transfer the share of property that our third room deserves to Aunt Shou. As for the losses of the third brother and the sixth uncle, please give me some time, and I will make an IOU and pay it back slowly. ”
As soon as his words fell, before the third and sixth rooms could react, the second lady had already said: "If you have an emergency, also give me a number, I still have some money to subsidize myself, and I can still get it to supplement the expenses of this family for three or five years." ”
Dou Shibang respects his mother the most, not to mention that this is for his brother's future.
He had no words.
It's just that he can't express his position, lest the sixth brother and sixth brother and sister think he is troublesome.
Dou Shiheng already has the ambition of "good women don't wear wedding clothes, and good men don't eat their father's and mother's meals", and he already knew about it before he came back, he was only afraid that Ji would feel wronged and couldn't help but look at Ji.
Dou Shishu has calculated everything, can she say that she is against it?
She nodded at her husband.
Dou Shiheng said in a deep voice: "I agree." ”
Dou Shibang was originally a person who could afford to let go, but seeing that the big thing had been decided, he had no scruples, and said: "I also agree." Then he felt that the atmosphere was a little depressing, and said in a brisk tone, "We don't need the fifth brother to make any IOUs, what about the mother's own silver, or leave it to myself to reward those grandchildren and granddaughters, and we can take out this daily chewing, whether it is me or the sixth brother." If the day comes when the mountains and rivers are exhausted, I will take my son, daughter-in-law, grandchildren and grandchildren to Kyoto to find my fifth brother. ”
Dou Shishu smiled slightly, his smile was kind and sincere: "Third brother, don't worry, I will definitely greet you!" ”
Dou Shiheng laughed.
The second lady was sincerely happy, and the folds on her face seemed to be missing: "Good, good, good." Brothers work together, and their profits are broken. If you can do this, my dead son will be able to sleep. Don't worry, there is only one bite of your fifth brother, and there is one bite of yours. I'm saying this here, fifth brother, you swear in front of your brother and sister-in-law, brother and sister-in-law......"
"No, no." The third wife also reacted at this time, and said with a smile on her face, "This is not anyone's business, it is our family's business, how can we let the fifth brother bear it alone?" Then he joked, "Mother, you say so, but you provoke discord between our brothers and concubines!" ”
"It's me who is wrong, it is me who is wrong!" The second lady smiled as if she had eaten the fruit of longevity, "I won't say it, I won't say it." ”
Dou Shishu stood up with a smile: "Since that's the case, I won't say more." I have invited Brother Lan, sister-in-law, and second sister-in-law to talk in the flower hall. At this time, they must have already arrived, let's go over together! ”
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