Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Birthday Banquet Turmoil
On the ninth day of every month, there is a temple meeting in Nan'an, and there are not only monks preaching in the temple, but also a lively market outside to visit.
On this day, after Yaru entrusted Xiao Jiahui to Linlang, she took a few girls to visit the temple fair. She hadn't really been out in the market since she gave birth. Today the weather is good, neither hot nor cold. Yaru wanted to come out and breathe well.
For the convenience of movement, Yaru changed into men's clothes when she came out this time, and became a very handsome young man. She shook a fan, followed by several handsome little girls, which attracted the attention of many people at the temple fair. Especially some girls, the shy gaze and frequent eye style made Yaru a little crying and laughing. She had no choice but to keep her eyes peeled and walked forward as if she hadn't seen anything.
After a while, they walked through the market and arrived at Nan'an Temple. Nan'an Temple is a big temple in the capital. , there are many pilgrims in it, and the incense is very strong. The old Wu family of the county king's mansion is here to offer incense money all year round. When the Yaru and the others entered, the monks' lectures had ended, and the pilgrims were offering incense and asking for signs.
Xinghong said, "Childe, let's go ask for a sign too." ”
Yaru said kindly: "Okay, anyway, it's already here, let's all go and ask for a sign." Let's see when your Red Luan Star will move?"
Peach mouth fast: "I see that the apricot red red luan star is already moving." ”
Yaru turned to Xinghong and quipped, "Could it be that when I didn't know it, our Xinghong had already been taken care of?"
Xinghong's face flushed, and she took a sip of peach and said, "Listen to her nonsense." ”
Yaru knew a little bit about Xinghong, because Xinghong was always secretly doing some needlework after returning from the northwest. She thought that others didn't know, but everyone just saw it and didn't say it.
Yaru thought that maybe it was time to solve the personal problems of these girls. After all, women in ancient times got married early, and Yan Hong was already eighteen, and if she didn't marry, she would become an old girl. Having made up her mind, she smiled and walked in with a few girls.
Yaru respectfully drew a lot, and let the four girls each draw a lot, and then a few people went to find someone to solve the lot.
There is a special monk in the temple who unsigns, and Yaru first signed his own to him.
The monk took it and took a look, and it wrote: "I had a good marriage before I was born, and I met with a smile and kissed myself." Thousands of miles of Pengcheng Jun have a share, and the dead wood is on the edge of spring. So he first recited the Buddha's name, and then said with a smile: "Donor, this is a match made in heaven, but you can't be too perfect in everything, and there may be occasional twists and turns in the middle." ”
Yaru thanked him with a smile, and the four girls also let the monk of Zhike give a sign, and their signatures were all middle-to-top. Thinking about it, the monk will definitely not solve the worst aspect, and always try to say the good side. A few people came out chattering, and Yaru threw aside the matter of signing.
Suddenly, Taohong shouted: "Childe, don't you see that is Mother Yang?"
Yaru looked in the direction she pointed, there were many people today, she looked along the cracks, and saw that Mama Yang next to the old lady was talking to a rich lady in her thirties. The distance was not too far, and Yaru could see the woman's appearance more clearly. The woman was very beautiful, and she always felt that this beautiful woman was more familiar. Where have you seen it? Aru thought for a long time and couldn't remember which lady this was, so she gave up.
She said to Peach, "Let's go, it's not strange that she's come to make incense for the old lady." So saying, he took the lead and walked into the distance.
Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the birthday of the old lady of Yasukuni. Yaru was not at home last year, so this year it was the first time she had come to attend such a big banquet in the Wu Mansion.
The old Duke of Yasukuni has long since passed away, but the old Duchess of Yasukuni is very healthy. The old man is 70 years old this year, and the Yasukuni Gong celebrated his mother's birthday this year and feasted the guests.
Concubine Wu has suffered from asthma for a period of time, and it is said that she is quite powerful, so today it was just that the people from the palace came to greet the old lady for her birthday and gave her birthday gift, but she herself was not present. Princess Yiyang only came over early to sit for a while because she had to serve her illness, and then hurriedly said goodbye.
Ah Zhu finally conceived the child, but he didn't come out for fear of colliding. Yaru followed Lao Wu, Li and Linlang to visit her, and felt that she was raising her well, so she came out to sit and talk with everyone with confidence.
Yaru's table was full of her own relatives, and several of the Wu family's married aunts and grandmothers and people from the county king's mansion were all at this table. As for Ah Zhu's mother-in-law, Xue Shi and other daughters-in-law of the Wu family, they are either accompanying guests or busy with Zhang Luo's affairs.
Yaru's eyes met a person, and that person was Wu Furong, the aunt and grandmother of the Wu family who wanted to marry the king of Lingjun but did not marry.
Yaru suddenly said, isn't this the beautiful woman I saw talking with Mother Yang at the temple fair that day? No wonder she looks a little familiar, her appearance is really a little like the old Wu family, isn't there a saying, niece Sai Jiagu. It's just that Yaru found that Wu Furong's eyes drifted to Linlang from time to time, and there was a trace of disdain in those eyes from time to time. Yaru thought, this is probably because she tried everything possible to marry King Lingjun and didn't get married, but now this peach was picked by a little woman at the border with no identity, she will be a little unconvinced.
However, this position at the table was also coincidental, and Wu Furong didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, and when she came over, she sat next to Linlang.
At this time, a maid came to pour tea, and when she arrived at Linlang's side and was about to refill Linlang's tea, suddenly the maid's body was crooked, and she saw that the teacup was about to be poured on Linlang's body. Yaru almost exclaimed, she wanted to save but there were still people around her. But I saw Linlang's arm turn slightly, and the direction of the teacup was miraculously crooked to Wu Furong's side, and then I only heard a sharp cry of pain, the teacup shattered on the ground, and a glass of water was spilled on Wu Furong's body without any waste. The tea is piping hot, it's not too cold now, Wu Furong is only wearing a jacket, and the water is sprinkled on her body, and it immediately soaks her shoulders, and she can't help screaming.
Wu Furong came up and slapped the maid who poured water. The maid knelt down one by one: "Grandma spare her life." ”
Yaru had some sympathy for this maid, she obviously saw that Wu Furong deliberately touched the maid, and the maid suddenly stood unstable under defense. It's just that Linlang's silent and gentle turn not only stabilized the maid's figure, but also made Wu Furong reap the consequences. Joke, Wu Furong wanted to plot against Linlang, but she didn't want to think about it, Linlang had kung fu on her body.
Wu Furong scolded angrily: "The maid who can't get on the stage, I don't know which little hooves came out of the remote countryside, dare to sprinkle water on me, see that I don't skin you." Someone, take her down for me first. The maid was taken out crying.
Wu Furong went down to change her clothes and find a doctor. People's eyes looked at Linlang meaninglessly at this time, but Linlang smiled at everyone like nothing: "Cousin Furong is really careless." It's thanks to being in my mother's house, otherwise, hey. ”
She didn't go on when she said this, but said to everyone: "Eat quickly, everyone, if it gets cold for a while, it won't taste good." Saying that, she picked up a prawn and put it in Yaru's bowl: "Ru'er, don't be scared, come, suppress the shock." ”
Yaru was secretly happy in her heart, and she gave a big thumbs up for her mother-in-law in her heart, which was really good. With this hand, we can suppress the short-sighted relatives of the Yasukuni Mansion. Hmph, let you look down on people, and see if you dare to look down on others in the future. But he said, "Thank you, mother, I'm fine." ”
Of course, what happened at this table also alarmed the other people in the hall, but everyone didn't know what happened, but they saw that Wu Furong, the aunt and grandmother of the Wu family, was poured with tea, broke a cup, and took away a maid.
However, several people at Yaru's table could clearly see the small movements of Wu Furong and Linlang. They also heard Wu Furong's words, and scolded Linlang for being a little hoof from a remote countryside. But seeing Linlang continue to eat like no one else, they really had to admire. This woman is really not an ordinary person, when encountering such a thing, the average woman can't escape Wu Furong's calculations, but she easily let her opponent lift a stone and hit her own feet, this woman is really not to be underestimated.
Until the end of the banquet, Wu Furong didn't come out, and she didn't know how hot it was. Yaru thought unkindly, that cup of tea is so hot, I hope that Wu Furong's body can be made more hot, so that she can have a long memory, so that she will not be harmed by anyone who is unpleasant in the future.
really let Yaru guess correctly, Wu Furong was lying at home at this time, and there was indeed a bubble on her shoulder, and her heart hurt. Her mouth has already greeted Linlang's ancestors for eight generations many times.
She called the nurse over and said, "You go to the county king's mansion, go and call Yang Ma over to me, remember, avoid some people, or go to the market and wait for Yang Ma's nephew to come out." ”
The nurse said yes and went out.
Wu Furong sat there with her eyes half-closed, endured the pain, and after a while she opened her eyes again, and her eyes were full of hatred.
Wu Furong began to understand the love between men and women, and she fell in love with her cousin King Lingjun. At that time, my cousin was still a son. She thought with all her heart that if she was beautiful and had her aunt in charge, she would definitely get what she wanted. But in the end, my cousin didn't have any love for him, and even she humbly wanted to be a flat wife, but my cousin didn't want to. In order to avoid her, the cousin preferred to stay at the border for several years, and in the end she had to marry someone else.
Wu Furong remembered the husband she married, Wu Furong was eighteen years old at the time, and she had to marry the Jiang family as a stepmother. However, the Jiang family has begun to decline in the past ten years, and her husband has been dismissed at home because of corruption, and he is mixed with his aunt every day. I came to her room on the fifteenth day of the first month of the month, but although my cousin had never had a concubine, the more Wu Furong was not doing well, the more she missed her cousin. Wu Furong has a pair of children under her knees, her daughter is married, and her son is only thirteen years old, and she has not yet said goodbye.
Wu Furong counted all the misfortunes in her life on the woman her cousin married, she hated the county lord of Changxing before, and now she hates Linlang. Anyway, her life is not going well, she always has to find someone to complain about, she is not willing to complain about her cousin, and the cousin-in-law who stands in her way becomes her own enemy. For example, now, she hates Linlang to death, if Linlang is in front of her, she can't wait to bite off a piece of Linlang's meat.