166, Fan Wai II: their respective fates
It's the middle of summer again, and the Momei Courtyard is quiet, and the people are always tiptoeing to move, for fear of waking up Su Xi who is taking a nap.
The ice basin in the room was far away, Vanilla sat in front of the bed and fanned Su Xi, and Pandan embroidered flowers at the table. Xianglan looked at the sky and whispered with Vanilla: "It's all time for Shen, shouldn't we wake up Miss?" ”
"Miss's nap has been getting longer and longer recently, and I don't know if it's good or bad, I'll ask Dr. He again tomorrow."
"Well, let's call Miss up, then."
"Okay."
Although the two girls said that they were good, no one saw any movement, there was no way, Su Xi's wake up anger was really a bit big recently, and they were afraid.
At this moment, Lu Yining came over, and Pandan Vanilla seemed to see a savior, and hurriedly asked Lu Yining to help.
The twenty-eight-year-old girl has grown up, and she is so bright and beautiful, but she is more lively than the previous two years.
"You two are using me as a shield? It's time to fight! Lu Yining was about to fight, but in the end she didn't make a heavy hand, she raised the letter in her hand and said, "I also have a gold medal arrow." ”
She shook Su Xi awake, Su Xi really looked angry, Lu Yining hurriedly handed over the letter in his hand and said, "It's Sister Su Yun's letter." I came to talk to you, and I just happened to meet someone to send you a letter and brought it by the way, sister-in-law are you sure you don't want to take a look? ”
"Su Yun's letter?" Su Xi yawned and sat up from the bed, she opened the letter and read, "...... The third brother built a dam in the east of Chongqing to pass the flood season safely, protected the people, and made outstanding contributions, and was specially transferred back to Beijing to be promoted to the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and was allowed to enter the cabinet to discuss the ......"
"The third brother is now in the cabinet? Won't you be the first assistant in two years? Su Xi was suddenly happy, and the sleepy insect disappeared without a trace.
Lu Yining smiled with her mouth pursed, although she hadn't seen the third son for many years, but the demeanor of the third son had already spread to thousands of households, Lu Yining was close to Su Xi, so she was naturally more familiar, and she subconsciously regarded him as her brother, and now that her brother was promoted, Lu Yining was happy for him from the bottom of her heart.
"What else did Sister Yun say?" Lu Yining asked.
"That's all for the third brother," Su Xi continued to read, "She also said that Wang Xuyang was also promoted, although he was only promoted by one level, the third sister was still happy for a long time, but ...... Well? Wang Xuyang was embarrassed to mention the concubine? Or was it better when the third sister was pregnant? How unreasonable! ”
Su Xi was so angry that he couldn't wait to go to the capital immediately to arrest Wang Xuyang and beat him.
It is no secret that Wang Xuyang eats his wife's soft rice, the house he lives in was bought by his wife, the official position is the relationship between his wife and his wife, and he also looks for the money that his wife takes when he goes out to socialize, and he can't even afford the money of his subordinates by relying on his own little money, Su Xi can't figure out how he has the face to carry Su Rong to raise the outer room?
"Sister-in-law, don't be angry, you are a double person, you can't be angry." I forgot to say that Su Xi is finally pregnant, before Lu You really felt that she was too young to have a child, so she secretly asked a doctor to prepare a prescription for contraception, poor Su Xi begged God to worship Buddha, from looking forward to twins to just giving birth, and then doubting whether she was not good, and her mental journey was bumpy.
Lu Yining was still comforting her: "There are Sister Yun and Sister Tong in the capital, and Sister Rong will not be at a loss, besides, the third son is about to go to the capital, Sister Rong has someone to support you, so you can rest assured that you can raise the baby." ”
Su Xi was so angry that he ate a big bowl of white fungus cherry soup before he felt better.
Looking at Su Xi's unfinished appearance, Vanilla couldn't help but quip: "How do I think Madame seems to be making an excuse to eat more white fungus soup?" ”
"Wow, you dead girl, now even Mrs. Ben dares to tease, see if I don't beat you." Su Xi made a gesture to knock her, but Vanilla hurriedly begged for mercy, and shouted repeatedly, "Madame, spare me, the slave and maid don't dare anymore." ”
The two quarreled for a while, Vanilla hid behind Lu Yining and begged her for help, Su Xi stopped at this time, but his mouth refused to forgive: "You can learn from Xianglan, how can you marry like this?" At that time, my face will not be of use, depending on what you do. ”
The new emperor is young, so he naturally prefers to use young people, Lu Youze fell into the eyes of the new emperor, he is Lu Youzhen's elder brother, and the grandson of Prince Lu, the new emperor naturally looks at him a little closer.
Lu Youze was mixed in Beijing, and Mrs. Lu couldn't sit still, so Prince Lu asked the Emperor Taishang for permission to let her return to Beijing on the grounds that she missed her daughter.
Mrs. Lu hurriedly packed up her things and returned to Beijing to be her princess Zhanghua, and she never took care of her husband's family who had lived with her for more than 20 years, and the relationship between husband and wife was once gone.
After Mrs. Lu left, Master Lu was decadent for two days and then resumed his usual life of fighting cocks and lackeys, and everything in the house was handed over to Lu Youzhen and his wife, and he was happy to be his old lady.
Lu Youzhen disliked his father, but he couldn't bear to see a group of younger siblings lonely in the future, so he could only pick up this burden, work hard to make money to support his family, and live a hard life with Su Xi with less gathering and more separation.
Although Su Xi is young, she was originally Mrs. Hou, and now she has been promoted to the housewife of the Lu family, and others have to call her Mrs. when they see her, and Pandan Vanilla also calls her so, but she still prefers to be called "Miss" in private.
Xianglan Vanilla is Su Xi's personal big girl, and there are naturally many people who ask to marry, Xianglan married a young shopkeeper under Lu Youzhen last year, and got rid of her slave status, but now she is still working by Su Xi's side. Vanilla has a strong temperament, a mouth is powerful, and those who come to ask for marriage have been scolded back by her, and she has not said that it is a family affair, but she is ignorant and doesn't care much.
"I'm not afraid to have Madame help me," Vanilla said with a grin.
Xianglan was afraid that they would make trouble again, and it would not be good to hurt the child, so she continued to pull the topic back to the letter: "Madame, look at it again, what else did the fourth lady say?" ”
Su Xi remembered that he hadn't finished reading the letter, and continued to read: "...... The fifth sister is about the most lively among our sisters, the fifth brother-in-law now does not have to enter the palace every day to give lectures for the emperor, very idle, he hung up in the Taixue Palace, three or five days to lecture back to class, the rest of the time to accompany the fifth sister or read and write, or to play in the mountains and rivers, at ease......"
"It's so good," Su Xi was a little envious, she hadn't seen Lu Youzhen for three months and fourteen days, she touched her slightly bulging belly, and tears fell down.
"Why are you crying again?"
The three of them were in a hurry, thinking that Su Tong was doing well and could make Su Xi smile more, but why did they cry?
"Sister-in-law, don't cry, the doctor said that pregnant women can't cry, otherwise the baby won't be beautiful when it's born." Lu Yining hurriedly persuaded.
Vanilla also persuaded: "Yes, madam, don't you want a little boy as beautiful as the Hou Ye?" What if you cry too much and wrinkle your little boy's face? ”
When Su Xi heard this, he quickly wiped away his tears: "I'm fine, but I miss Lu Youzhen a little." Read on. ”
Su Yun's letter also mentioned Concubine Su in the palace, Su Jinxiu's stomach was angry, and she became pregnant and gave birth to the emperor's eldest son to be promoted to the concubine position not long after entering the palace, and she was constantly favored, and now she is pregnant again, and even the queen has to avoid her edge.
She also wrote about Lu Lantian, and even talked about two or three interesting things about Princess Baozhu and Yao Yuma, but she didn't mention her own current situation.
Back then, she and Qin Yong used means to bring Qin's mother and two children to the capital, and Su Yun gritted her teeth and disagreed with Mrs. Qin's desire to come to the capital with her, so Mrs. Qin and the two uncles scolded her behind her back.
Qin Yong's cousins are not a good thing, seeing that he was promoted in the capital and made a fortune, he ran to ask Qin Yong to arrange errands for them, Qin Yongnian was in his own family and arranged them into the military camp by trusting the relationship, who knew that they thought that the military camp life was hard for a month and then ran out, if the other party hadn't given Qin Yong face, they would have been arrested and corrected on the spot.
Later, he only beat fifty military sticks, and in this way, a few cousins also said that Qin Yong was not authentic, and after he was developed, he forgot his brothers, and while slandering him behind his back, he begged to be an official.
Qin Yong didn't look down on their shameless appearance for a long time, he was a martial artist, he didn't know how to hide a knife in Mianli, and drove people away with a black face.
This is like stabbing a hornet's nest, several cousins took off their coats and cried and rolled at the door, scolding Qin Yong for being ruthless and unjust, and scolding Su Yun for disrespecting his grandmother, and finally caused a storm in the city, and the impeachment of Qin Yong was piled up in front of the palace.
Fortunately, the emperor believed in him and repeatedly suppressed this matter for him, but what is the situation now, Su Xi doesn't know, and Su Yun didn't mention half a sentence.
At the end of the letter, Su Yun wrote:
"I used to lock myself in my own world, and I was confident that I could get through it, even if it was full of thorns. High-spirited, but also young and ignorant.
"The reality is far more cruel than I imagined, when I was in Fuzhou City, I broke my head and bled a few times, thinking that it would be better to die like that.
"Thankfully, I survived.
"Now that he is by my side, even if there is a mountain of swords and fire in front of me, I can still smile and flow over, because I know that I am not alone."
After reading the letter, Su Xi laughed, and her heart for Su Yun's worries gradually relaxed, she believed that Su Yun, who was willing to open her heart, would definitely have a promising future.
"Sister-in-law, what Sister Yun said about this...... Is she doing well or badly? Lu Yining was puzzled.
Su Xi said: "Whether you are doing well or not - you will know when you get married." ”
"Sister-in-law, you're making fun of me." Lu Yining blushed, the sixteen-year-old girl had already begun to fantasize about the appearance of her future husband.
"Where is the teasing, it's time to say kiss at your age, tell your sister-in-law what kind of one you want to find? Do you want to stay in Sifang City or go to the capital? Don't run, talk to me. ”
Lu Yining fled.
Hongrui came in with a cloth bag, saluted Su Xi, and said with a smile: "Madam, this is sent by Mrs. Yu, saying that it was prepared for the little master." ”
Mrs. Yu is Su Meng, the eldest sister of the Su family. The old lady of the Su family has always been worried about Su Meng's affairs, and the matchmaker said that several families feel that it is not ideal, either because the other party is too old or how complicated the family is, Su Meng is sensitive, and the old lady is not worried that she will go to such a family.
This delay has dragged on for two years, and the matchmaker is unwilling to take care of this matter again. In addition to accompanying her grandmother at home, Su Meng is taking care of her mother. Wang's illness gradually improved with Su Meng's careful care, and he spent more time awake.
One day she found the old lady and introduced her to a man who was selling cloth in the town next door for the rest of her life. Wang said that the rest of his life was an orphan she helped to grow up, and the child had a pure temperament, who had worked in her dowry shop before, and then set up his own business, and he was willing to take care of Meng'er.
The old lady didn't dare to believe her, and the Wang family begged for a lot, and the old lady agreed to see someone first. Yu Sheng is really a pure and good boy as Wang said, he is grateful for Wang's kindness and takes the initiative to marry Su Meng, the old lady agrees half of her heart when she hears it, and when Su Wenqin inquires about the deeds of Yu Sheng, the old lady nodded, and said that Wang's mother is finally reliable.
After marriage, although the two lived in the next town, they often asked someone to send new fabrics or food to their parents' family.
Su Xi hurriedly said: "Open it and let me take a look, the eldest sister's craftsmanship is good, you are blessed baby." ”