4-51 Princess Cloth

Seeing that it was about to be completed, Liu Ziguang couldn't help but be overjoyed, and asked, "Where did the concubine and the princess flee?" But Mrs. Yang shook her head and said: "I don't know, the world is so big, the sea of people is vast, who can know where their mother and daughter fled to, Concubine Nan's maiden home is in Beijing, and the family was ruined when the Tartars entered the customs, and in this kind of unaccompanied situation, it is possible to escape anywhere." ”

"There's always a clue, right?,It's so purposeless to search.,Even if you don't find it in ten years." Liu Ziguang shook his head in disappointment and said.

In her early years, she won the favor of the emperor because she made a pot of fragrant small fish pots, and was promoted from an ordinary palace maid to a concubine, and because she gave birth to a princess and a princess, she was canonized as a concubine because of her surname Nangong. The concubine guessed that Concubine Nan might be able to make a living from her cooking skills, and adults might as well start from this aspect, and it is unknown if they may be able to gain something. ”

(The small fish pot collapsed into the court dish of the Ming Dynasty)

"The small fish pot collapsed! The eldest princess has a single name and an orange word! Liu Ziguang's mind flashed like lightning in the mother and daughter by Hongze Lake, it was too similar! The noble temperament of the Zeng family's lady's Jing Hai cloth skirt is difficult to hide, the perfect cooking skills, and the name of the Zeng family's daughter is also consistent with the eldest princess, carefully recalling the eyebrows and eyes of the Zeng family's mother and daughter, it seems to have some similarities with Zhu Youxiao.

"Your Excellency, your Excellency." Seeing that Liu Ziguang was stunned and didn't say a word for a long time, Mrs. Yang had the courage to shout twice.

"Oh, it's okay, Mrs. Yang, please come back." Liu Ziguang woke up from his contemplation. After beating Mrs. Yang away, he sent someone to call Song Yingxing.

Last time Liu Ziguang left Hongze County, he entrusted Song Yingxing to take care of the Zeng family's mother and daughter, but it didn't take long for Song Yingxing to move his family to Liguo Iron Factory, and he never had the opportunity to ask about the Zeng family's mother and daughter, and I don't know how they are doing.

Song Yingxing had fallen asleep or was called up, I heard that he was asking about the Zeng family's mother and daughter, the old man said that when he left Hongze County, he helped the Zeng family's mother and daughter open a small restaurant, and greeted the Su County Order, please take care of it, there is Liu Ziguang castrated Pan San, and scolded the prestige of the county order There is a town, presumably no one in Hongze County dares to bully the mother and daughter.

Liu Ziguang showed Su Zhixian a forged Dongchang waist card at that time, but now that the old Dongchang has collapsed, who can guarantee that the deterrence at that time has not come in handy until now? Pan San's family, Hua Lao Wu, and the county magistrate Saidongpi who bullied the weak and feared the hard, with these people, the safety of the Zeng family's mother and daughter is in jeopardy.

Regardless of whether they are relatives of the emperor or not, it is urgent to take them back to the capital!

Since Liu Ziguang left, the mother and daughter of the Zeng family took the five hundred taels of silver he left, repaired the house, and opened a small restaurant under the care of Song Yingxing, operating some loose food and wine, and the life was passable......

Zeng Cheng thinks about Liu Ziguang every day, and the green shirt left by Liu Ziguang is washed and washed, pulped and pulped, as if it can relieve his thoughts in the process of washing clothes.

"Mother, do you think he will come to pick me up?"

"Mother, do you think you will be able to come when you will come?"

"Mother, what do you say I should wear when the time comes?"

"Mother,.........

As long as there is no one, Zeng Cheng will hold his cheeks and look at the peach blossoms outside the window, while thinking about the good of that person, while discussing these meaningless topics with his mother, who always smiled kindly and said: "Silly child, he will come, he will come to pick you up." ”

Missing is like opium, the more you think about it, the deeper you think, this hope gradually intensifies over time, and the scene of Liu Ziguang coming to pick her up in the fantasy has also increased several versions, from the initial riding a white horse and a sedan chair, evolving to wearing a champion suit, wearing red and hanging colors, and welcoming the people all over the street, and then to the golden helmet on her head, wearing gold armor, with a large team of people and horses, gongs and drums to pick her up, and even a few times in the dream, there was also a magical scene of Liu Ziguang stepping on colorful auspicious clouds and landing at the door of her small courtyard.

The peach blossoms bloomed and thanked, in a blink of an eye, the spring passed, the long hot summer also passed, the people in their hearts did not look forward to it, but looked forward to an unexpected news: the pattern of the imperial court has changed greatly, the nine-thousand-year-old Dongchang was brought down by the current saint and the queen mother, and the people in the city did not rejoice, after all, the things in the capital are not very related to everyone, and the days are still the same as usual, but with the arrival of this news, the situation of the Zeng family has changed drastically.

First of all, there was a problem with the wine and food sold in the small restaurant, and the errand officers of several county yamen had a severe stomach ache after eating, and it was said that they vomited and diarrhea, and the former backer Song Xueyu was gone, and no one could speak in the yamen.

Then Hua Lao Wu's gang of splashes began to appear near the Zeng family's courtyard every three or five days, kicking the door in the middle of the night, scolding the street during the day, so scared that the mother and daughter didn't dare to take off their clothes and sleep at night.

Fortunately, Saidong Pizhi County reached out in time and hired Zeng Cheng as a rough maid in the house, Zeng's family was already poor at this time and had no overnight food, and it was not good to go out to do some sewing and mending work to make a living, I don't know why, the rich families in the county seemed to be summed up, no one was willing to pay for them to do the work, so they had no choice but to accept the county's invitation, Zeng Cheng endured Saidongpi's unscrupulous lewd eyes every day to go to the house to do some rough work such as washing clothes and sweeping the floor, picking water and peeling garlic, and Mrs. Zhixian was a tigress, under her surveillance, the magistrate is still more honest for the time being, but the tigress is really fierce, and she picks her nose and eyes at Zeng Cheng, either because she thinks that she is disgusted, and she doesn't clean it for a while, and when her clothes are washed, she will be scolded at the light level, and she will be whipped with a feather duster. Zeng Cheng's delicate skin was drawn to dark red marks, but in order to make the family have a little progress, he still gritted his teeth and endured it.

Early this morning, Zeng Cheng took advantage of the free time before going to work, and wanted to wash Liu Ziguang's green shirt again, squatted on the side of the wooden plate and rolled up his sleeves just to make a move, but happened to be seen by his mother The blood marks on her arms were one after another.

"Orange, what's going on? Tell me about my mother! The lady of the Zeng family was shocked, she didn't know that her daughter was beaten like this.

"It's out of the way, mother, I accidentally bumped it." Zeng Cheng was afraid that his mother would be worried, so he hurriedly put down his sleeves to cover up.

"Can a bruise be like this? It's clearly beaten, is it the poison of the county master? We're not going to do this job! The lady of the Zeng family had tears in her eyes, she felt very sorry for her daughter, and gently stroked the scars on Zeng Cheng's arm.

"Hiss~~" Zeng Cheng gasped in pain, and then smiled: "It really doesn't hurt, the lord and the lady treat me very well....Besides, my daughter doesn't go to the helper, what will we eat." ”

Seeing that her daughter was so sensible, the lady of the Zeng family couldn't help but burst into tears, hugged Zeng Cheng and cried: "Cheng'er, you have suffered, we really can't do this job anymore, so my mother will go to the neighbor's house to borrow rice." ”

Zeng Cheng helped his mother wipe her tears and said: "Mother doesn't cry, can't we just endure it, he will come to pick up our mother and mother in a few days, and then we will have a good life, eat white rice every day, and eat meat at every meal." ”

"Orange, you go to the county master's mansion to resign, my mother just wants to eat and can't let you be bullied by others like this..."The tears of the Zeng family lady fell like beads with broken threads, making Zeng Cheng's nose sour, the mother hugged her head and cried, and in the end she couldn't help her mother's meaning, and the two soldiers were divided into two ways, one went to the neighbor's house to borrow food, and the other went to the county mansion to resign.

The neighbors around the small courtyard of the Zeng family are ordinary ordinary people, the Ming Dynasty has been smooth in the past two years, and the neighbors have a few buckets of surplus grain, but they don't like to interact with the Zeng family as an outsider, the Zeng family lady just came to the door before she could speak, the door slammed shut, and after eating a few closed doors in succession, finally a family surnamed Zhou was kind and gave the Zeng family half a bucket of rice.

Zeng Cheng came to the Suzhi County Mansion, and it happened that Mrs. went to her mother's brother's house today, and the lord did not go to the court, she didn't dare to go to the master, but found the housekeeper and said that she was going to quit her job.

"Zeng's girl, you haven't worked for a month, so not only can't you get your salary, but you also have to deduct three months' wages, have you thought about it?" The housekeeper said in a strange way.

"How so? That's not what my lord said when he hired me, three months' salary....that's three taels of silver, where can I go to find so much money. Zeng Cheng was immediately anxious.

"Then I don't care, if you have any opinions, you go to the master." The butler rolled his eyes and said.

Zeng Cheng gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, then I'll go to the master to comment." ”

The old man was studying Su Dongpo's poetry collection in the study, and when he saw the housekeeper coming with Zeng Cheng, he hurriedly put down the book and asked kindly, "Is there anything wrong?" Little orange. ”

"Master, this girl who doesn't know how to lift is here to quit her job, and I don't know why our Su family is sorry for her...."The housekeeper said with an unhappy face.

"Resignation?" Su Zhixian was surprised, "Didn't you do a good job?" ”