Chapter Twenty-Six: Young and Widowed
Seeing Wang Dong pondering, the lady of the Zhang family couldn't bear to disturb him, cleaned up the yard, and then flashed into the house.
In the courtyard, Wang Dong was thinking about what kind of rhetoric should be used to persuade Sanniang to let her sell flour and other materials to herself at a low price?
"Sanniang is not a real businessman......"
Muttering the words left by Jiugong when he left, Wang Dong's mind recalled the situation when he and Sanniang met at the grain store. At that time, the grain store had already sold out of flour that day, but fortunately, he and the Zhang family lady pleaded, and she sold a bag of flour to him.
"Compared with a real businessman, she is really not mercenary enough, too soft-hearted." Thinking about it, a smile inadvertently appeared at the corner of Wang Dong's mouth, as the saying goes, a beautiful woman must not be so kind, so there is the word femme fatale, but Sanniang is not like this.
Because beautiful women are all arrogant, and they are so arrogant, how can they think about others?
"Perhaps, in the eyes of the Tang people, she is not a beauty." Wang Dong smiled dumbly, "However, in my eyes, she is a great beauty like no other." ”
Huan Fei Yan is thin, and he has the aesthetics of the Tang Dynasty. Ring, Yang Yuhuan, with plump beauty. Yan, Zhao Feiyan, Zhao Jiafeiyan serves Zhaoyang, dancing in the palm of his hand, and taking lightness and thinness as the beauty. The two beauties are completely different, and Sanniang is obviously more inclined to Zhao Feiyan.
It's just that, compared with Zhao Feiyan's weak can't help but wind, Sanniang is a little more sassy and heroic. Thinking about it, in front of Wang Dong's eyes, the scene of the first meeting of Jinyang City Gate appeared, and the scene of riding a flying horse and stepping on a swallow appeared.
"Wang Lang, what are you thinking? Smiling? The crisp sound came slowly, Wang Dong came back to his senses, but found that the lady of the Zhang family was looking at him with a smile.
Wang Dong's heart moved, when it came to beauty, in fact, the little lady in front of him was also a beauty. It's just that it's one of the small jasper.
The lady of the Zhang family didn't know when she had boiled a pot of water, and at the moment she was adding water to a bowl, and the heat was permeating, blowing on the face of the little lady, which had a unique charm.
"I don't know who is so blessed to find a little lady to be his wife." Wang Dong said from the bottom of his heart.
The lady of the Zhang family turned red on her face, and said angrily: "Wang Lang, make fun of me again." ”
"How dare you."
During the chatting and joking, an old woman walked out of the house, looking at her age, about fifty years old, Wang Dong suddenly remembered that since he came to the Zhang family's lady's house, he had not yet visited the Zhang family's lady's high hall.
The old woman, dressed plainly, walked outside the door, and the lady of the Zhang family hurriedly greeted her.
"Mother, why did you come out?"
Wang Dong immediately got up, came to the old woman, saluted respectfully, and said, "Old lady, under Wang Dong, you are polite here." ”
The old woman, with the support of the lady of the Zhang family, stared at Wang Dong up and down, and said, "It turns out that there is a guest at home." ”
"Yes, mother." The lady of the Zhang family said, "This Lang Jun is the Wang Lang I introduced to you." ”
The old woman nodded, then looked at Wang Dong and said, "The poor family is not well entertained, and Wang Lang will take care of it." ”
Wang Dong hurriedly saluted: "Originally, I was supposed to go into the house to visit the old lady, but now I let the old lady go out in person, it is rude." ”
"It's okay, cough cough cough ......" The old lady couldn't say a few words, and then she coughed dryly.
The lady of the Zhang family was nervous for a while: "Mother, are you uncomfortable again?" Dr. Li said that you can't see the wind, so you should hurry back to the house. ”
As she spoke, the lady of the Zhang family nervously helped the old lady to walk towards the house, Wang Dong saw that the old lady was coughing so badly, he didn't know what disease she was suffering from, he could only help and help the old lady into the house together.
As soon as you enter the low adobe house, the light immediately dims, and it takes a long time for the eyes to get used to it.
Helping the old lady to the bed, Wang Dong's eyes looked inside the room for a while, the room was empty, except for a few pieces of dilapidated furniture, there was nothing else.
"Qianniang, you don't have to worry about me, I'll just take a break. You better entertain Wang Lang. ”
"Well, I got it."
The lady of the Zhang family turned around and said very embarrassedly: "On weekdays, there are only me and my mother in the house, and there is no chair for guests to sit on. ”
Wang Dong said: "It's okay, it's okay, the courtyard is brighter." ”
After speaking, Wang Dong had already turned around and strode towards the outside of the courtyard. Looking at Wang Dong's back, the lady of the Zhang family looked grateful, she knew that Wang Dong wanted her not to be so embarrassed.
Back in the courtyard, the lady of the Zhang family followed behind, and Wang Dong asked, "Old lady, what is your illness?" ”
The lady of the Zhang family shook her head: "I don't know, since ...... Since her husband left, my mother was very sad and her health became very poor. ”
The lady of the Zhang family recalled the past and was sad, but in Wang Dong's ears, she was surprised.
"Zhang's lady, you ...... You mean, your husband has ...... Already ......"
"That's right," the lady of the Zhang family sighed, full of helplessness, "In the first year of the husband's Zhenguan, he couldn't hold it and left us behind." ”
It was only now that Wang Dong knew that the lady of the Zhang family turned out to be a widow. Looking at her age, she is only sixteen or seventeen years old, widowed at a young age, and shoulders a family, how cruel is this?
For a while, the atmosphere was a little depressing, Wang Dong was naturally very sympathetic to the Zhang family's lady, but he didn't want to say something too "contrived", which made her even more sad, so she could only be silent.
However, the lady of the Zhang family came to relieve her first, sighed, and then asked: "By the way, I saw you sitting in the courtyard laughing just now, is it that the problem of distress has been solved?" ”
The little lady looked at Wang Dong expectantly. Although there was still a sad look on his face, it seemed that he was fine, which made Wang Dong feel relieved.
Wang Dong nodded: "Thanks to Jiugong's reminder before leaving, I think I have a way to convince Sanniang." ”
"Sanniang?" The lady of the Zhang family was stunned, looked at Wang Dong and asked, "Could it be that you are a servant of the palace?" When she saw Wang Dong calling Wang Mengyao Sanniang, she guessed Wang Dong's identity, after all, how could outsiders call the head of the Wang family grain store like this?
Wang Dong nodded: "I didn't expect that the lady of the Zhang family is so smart." ”
"No wonder she was willing to sell us flour that day at the grain store." The Zhang family's lady realized it later.
Wang Dong shook his head: "I don't think she remembers that there is a person like me in the palace." "The Wang family has a big business and hundreds of slaves, how can she remember them one by one?
The lady of the Zhang family shook her head: "But I always feel that the way she looked at you that day seemed to know you." ”
"Eyes?" Wang Dong smiled, "You can see it just by looking at it? Isn't that an exaggeration? ”
The lady of the Zhang family said seriously: "Wang Lang, a woman's intuition is generally very accurate. ”
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