Chapter 169: Up and down the Rong Mansion
"Grandmother, I brought Cousin Mu Mu back to you." The smile on Rong Zhou's face deepened.
"Mu Mu ......"
As soon as Lin Mumu entered, she felt several eyes fall on her, she stood still in the room, raised her head slightly, and an old man wearing a ruby and wiping his forehead and gray hair came into view.
This person is Mrs. Rong, although she has a lot of folds on her face, she has a good appearance, a ruddy complexion, and looks very good.
At this time, Mrs. Rong's slightly cloudy eyes looked at Lin Mumu with tears, looking at her, but if you looked closely, she could find that she was looking at another person through her.
"Grandmother."
"Eh, eh, Mu Mu, come, come to Grandmother." Old Madam Rong came back to her senses, and beckoned to Lin Mumu with a choked voice.
What role did the Rong Mansion play in the Rong family's affairs back then, Lin Mumu didn't know, but at this moment, she could feel that the feelings that the old man in front of her showed to her were real.
Lin Mumu suddenly felt a sense of grievance in her heart, she was very sure that it was not her own emotion, maybe it was the emotion that was still left in this body, she was still very eager for family affection after being neglected and mistreated by the Lin Mansion for so many years.
"Grandmother." Lin Mumu stepped forward and let Old Madam Rong hold her hand.
"Good boy, good boy...... Old Madam Rong pulled Lin Mumu and tears flowed. These eyebrows and eyes are really similar to your mother, if she is still ......" In the end, Mrs. Rong couldn't cry anymore.
Seeing this, Mama Huang, who was standing beside the old lady and waiting, hurriedly took a handkerchief and stepped forward to wipe the tears of the old lady. "Old lady, don't cry, you should be happy to see Miss Cousin, you have to make Miss Cousin cry like this."
"Yes, yes, I shouldn't cry, I shouldn't cry, I just saw this kid and was happy."
Mama Huang asked the old lady to screw a wet handkerchief to clean her face, and the old lady kept holding Lin Mumu's hand from beginning to end and asked her to sit down beside her.
"Mu Mu looks really like her sister, she is a beauty."
Sitting under Mrs. Rong, a woman in a bright blue skirt opened her mouth prettyly.
She has high black hair, wears a set of mutton fat jade head on her head, a pair of slender eyes with single eyelids under a pair of curved eyebrows, her lips are slightly thin, she is a person who can speak well, she should be Rongzhou's mother, and now Mrs. Rongda, the wife of the head of the Rong family.
"Mu Mu, this is your eldest aunt, who is poor." Old Madam Rong relieved herself and pulled Lin Mumu to introduce her to the people in the house.
In addition to Mrs. Rong, there is also Mrs. Rong, Mrs. Rong, Mrs. Rong is sitting under Mrs. Rong, she gave birth to a pair of Danfeng eyes, and the tail of her eyes is slightly raised with a pungent energy. "Sister-in-law's mouth is the most clever, today is a good day for our Rong Mansion, I have to drink two glasses with the old lady in the evening."
Old Madam Rong turned to Second Madam Rong when she heard this. "Look at your greedy mouth, don't scare Mu Mu."
"This is your second aunt, don't be scared by her, she is this babbling character, she hasn't changed at all over the years."
Lin Mumu stood up and gave gifts to the two aunts, and the two of them were also very happy to give her a valuable meeting.
In addition to Mrs. Rong's two daughters-in-law, there are two young girls who look about the same age as Lin Mumu, one is Rongzhou's sister-in-law Rong Qin, she is half a year older than Lin Mumu, and she is a cousin.
And also
One is Rong Jin, the concubine of Mrs. Rong, who is younger than Lin Mumu, and there are two little girls around ten years old standing behind Rong Jin, the two of them stand obediently behind Mrs. Rong, and their temperament looks a little shrunken, when Mrs. Rong introduced the two, she only mentioned a sentence, and Lin Mumu also knew that they should be the concubines of Second Master Rong.
Lin Mumu's eyes were wrong, and she fell behind Rongzhou, a woman wearing a lotus-colored wide-sleeved long skirt stood quietly behind Rongzhou, her body was thin, her shoulders were thin and her waist was narrow, as if a gust of wind could blow people away, her face was rubbed with a faint fat powder, and her cheeks were faintly red, but Lin Mumu, who had been practicing medicine for many years, could still see at a glance that her body should not be very good.
The reason why she noticed her was also because she stood behind Rong Zhou, looking even more low-key than the two concubines of the second master Rong, like petals that had fallen into the dust.
She seems to have heard Mrs. Rong say that she is the lady of Rongzhou, the eldest and youngest lady of the Rong family.
As if sensing Lin Mumu's gaze, Young Lady Rong slowly raised her eyes and glanced at Lin Mumu.
Looking at each other, Lin Mumu nodded at her with a smile.
Mrs. Rong Shao seemed to be stunned, and she raised the corners of her lips and smiled back, but soon she lowered her eyes again and didn't look at anyone.
Seeing this, Lin Mumu also retracted his gaze.
Lin Mumu is not a sociable person, but fortunately, she has a good memory, and she will soon write down all the people present.
"I, I finally saw Mu Mu, don't bother us here, let's all step down, and go to dinner together in the evening."
Mrs. Rong gave an eviction order, so naturally there will be no blind people who will continue to rely on it.
Mrs. Rong stood up first when she heard this, as the current head of the Rong family, her overall bearing is indeed much more dignified than that of Mrs. Rong.
"Then the daughter-in-law will arrange it, Mu Muke has anything that she likes to eat or taboo?"
"I don't have too much to be afraid of, just look at the arrangement from my aunt."
"That's it, my aunt will let the big kitchen cook some food from the south of the Yangtze River for you to taste." Mrs. Rong smiled and withdrew, and only Lin Mumu, Mrs. Rong and Mama Huang were left in the room.
"Mama Huang, didn't you let the big kitchen boil lotus seed soup before, you can go and bring some over." Old Madam Rong said.
"Yes, the old slave will go." Mama Huang said and bowed and retreated outside the house.
When everyone left, Old Madam Rong looked at Lin Mumu and stretched out her hand to caress her face. "If Ling'er knew that Mu Mu was so capable, she would be at ease under the Nine Springs."
Old Madam Rong has made people pay attention to Lin Mumu's situation all these years, Lin Mumu has been able to stay in the Lin Mansion safely for so many years, which also has the credit of Old Madam Rong.
"Back then, I suspected that your mother's death was killed by someone, so after the people in the Lin Mansion buried your mother's coffin, they found someone to dig it up that night and took your mother's body elsewhere."
Hearing this, Lin Mumu was slightly surprised, when she gave the medicine to Xu Lin before, Xu Lin gave her a note, which said that the person who took Rong Ling's body away was from Rong Mansion.
I didn't expect that Mrs. Rong would take the initiative to tell her about this today.
"Then where is my mother buried now?"
"We brought her back to Jiangnan, and my grandmother wanted to take you out of the Lin Mansion, but after all, you are the blood of the Lin family, and this matter can only be stopped, and you have suffered over the years."
Lin Mumu shook her head. "Grandmother, I'm not bitter."
After all, Mrs. Rong was old, and after talking to Lin Mumu for a while, her face showed fatigue, and it happened that Mama Huang came with lotus seed soup at this time.
Lin Mumu and Mrs. Rong ate lotus seed soup, and Mrs. Rong went to the inner room to rest, Lin Mumu was not tired, so she was led by the maid to wander in the garden of Rongfu.
The garden of Rong Fu is very large, full of flowers that are in full bloom or budding.
Lin Mumu walked for a while and entered an octagonal pavilion to rest, grabbing fish food and feeding the swimming fish under the pavilion.
"Young lady, why don't you go back, the eldest young master happens to be in the mansion today, and you haven't seen the eldest young master for several days."
"What about going back? Do you think he's going to go to my yard? ”
Lin Mumu was bored leaning on the stone pillar, and when he turned around, he saw two maids supporting Mrs. Rong to sit on a stone bench not far from the pavilion, but because the pavilion had a wider field of vision, he could see the situation on their side, but where he sat he couldn't see the people in the pavilion, because it was not far away, Lin Mumu could also hear their voices clearly.
"It's all that fox spirit, maybe how she arranges the young lady in front of the eldest young master! The last time she had a miscarriage, it was simply ......"
"That's it! Don't say any more, I'm tired and go back. The maid's indignant words were interrupted by the young lady.
"It's the young lady."
The maid helped the young lady to get up, and the three of them just bypassed the small rockery in front of them and saw Lin Mumu sitting in the pavilion, and the young lady Rong was stunned, and left after bowing slightly to Lin Mumu.
"Well, the young lady is also a poor person."
Seeing that Young Mrs. Rong and the others walked away, the maid who was sent to serve Lin Mumu sighed lowly.
Normally, Lin Mumu was not interested in these inner house gossip, but she felt that she needed to know more about this Rongfu matter.
"I don't seem to be in good shape with my cousin?"
Hearing Lin Mumu ask, the maid lowered her voice and said: "Miss Cousin has good eyesight, the young lady was injured after accidentally losing her child, and she has not improved over the years, last year, the eldest young master didn't know where to bring a pregnant girl back, and directly made the young lady angry and raised in bed for a month, and then the old lady ordered to beat the child in the belly of the young lady, and the young lady's illness gradually improved, but since then, the eldest young master has been more indifferent to the young lady, At the end of the year, I will meet the young lady at the time of the New Year's Festival. ”
Lin Mumu raised her eyebrows, the maid's words made her think of the woman with an asthma attack in the broken temple, looking at how much Rongzhou loved her, it was not difficult to guess that she should be the girl with eyebrows in the maid's mouth.
"Where did the young lady come from?"
The maid peeked at Lin Mumu and found that she had no intention of reproaching and exhaled in her heart, after all, if what she said just now reached Mama Huang's ears, Mama Huang would be able to pull out her tongue. "Miss Huibiao, the young lady is from the Xu family in Jiangnan and is the daughter of the Xu family."
Lin Mumu raised her eyebrows. "Which Xu family in Jiangnan?"
"It's the Xu family, the previous medicine department, but last year, there was a problem with the medicine of the Xu family, and now the saint is angry, and the Xu Yaosi at that time was directly beheaded to show the public, all the property of the Xu family was confiscated, and the rest of the people had to be punished with thirty lashes, and few of them survived, and the young lady was already married, so she escaped."
The maid's words made Lin Mumu think of Xu Lin, and when she thought about it seriously, she found that Xu Lin Meiyu was really a little similar to the young lady......