Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Eccentric
"Xi'er, Hugh is talking nonsense!" This is not something to be said.
Lin Yuxi didn't feel that she was wrong, but seeing Lin Haode's face sank, she didn't dare to say it again.
"The old lady, the third miss, the fourth miss and the sixth young master have arrived."
"Let them in."
"Yes."
After a while, the third lady Lin Zihan and the fourth lady Lin Yuyin, who were wearing light cyan and emerald green gowns respectively, and had baby fat on their faces, walked in.
After the two entered the house, they saluted Lin Haode and Zhang.
"Greetings to my father and mother."
"Yes, sit down." Lin Haode's expression was faint, and he only glanced at the two of them before retracting his gaze.
"Father, mother." Lin Sicheng, the sixth young master who walked at the end, walked into the house.
Lin Mumu looked at Lin Sicheng slightly, the Zhang family gave birth to two daughters and a son for Lin Haode, namely the second miss Lin Ziyu, the fifth miss Lin Yuxi and the sixth young master Lin Sicheng.
Lin Sicheng is seven years old this year, and he is also Lin Haode's only son-in-law, and he entered the clan to study last year.
Lin Ziyu and Lin Yuxi both inherited the advantages of Lin Haode and Zhang's appearance, and they are both beauties, but Lin Sicheng seems to have taken all his strength to grow meat, and at the age of only seven years, he looks like he weighs more than 100 pounds, and he is so fat that he can't even see his eyes.
"Cheng'er is here, come and sit next to your mother." After going to clan school, Lin Sicheng moved to the front yard to live, and the Zhang family could only see his son every day when he asked for peace.
Lin Sicheng walked to Zhang's side with a snort, and climbed into the chair with some effort to sit down.
"Mother, I'm hungry." When Lin Sicheng spoke, the two fat balls on his face trembled, as if he had passed two steamed buns.
"Okay, mother, let the maid bring the food."
After getting Zhang's order, the maids rushed in with food.
"Let's eat." Lin Haode picked up the chopsticks first.
For this family, Lin Mumu originally had no appetite, but she was really hungry after a busy day today, so she only ate quietly.
In the middle of the meal, when she stretched out her chopsticks to grab a piece of fish in front of her, another pair of chopsticks also fell on the fish.
Lin Mumu raised his eyes and met the eyes of the maid standing behind Lin Sicheng.
"The sixth young master said that he wanted to eat fish, but since the eldest lady wants to eat it, then the sixth young master will not fight with the eldest lady." The maid let go of her chopsticks and looked at Lin Mumu.
As soon as she said this, it seemed like Lin Mumu was grabbing food with a child.
Lin Haode raised his eyes and glared at Lin Mumu. "It's just a piece of fish, and you want to rob your brother about it?"
"I don't eat fish." Lin Sicheng took a bite of the chicken leg and said vaguely, he didn't like to eat fish in the first place, and he usually barely ate two bites when Zhang coaxed him.
But this is not the case in Lin Haode's ears, he feels that Lin Sicheng knows how to be humble. "Look, your brother knows not to fight with you."
A piece of fish and meat can make these people have so many twists and turns, Lin Mumu directly lost his appetite. "I'm full, and my father uses it slowly." After saying that, he got up and walked out of the house.
"Bastard thing, my father is saying that you are terrible now!" Lin Mumu's attitude angered Lin Haode, he slapped his chopsticks on the table, and glared at her with great dissatisfaction.
Lin Mumu's expression remained unchanged, and he looked back at Lin Haode's eyes calmly. "Father said, I'll listen."
"Where have you learned all the "Female Virtues", this is the attitude you have when talking to your father!?" Lin Haode is an extremely macho person, he usually disdains the affairs of the back house, but this does not mean that he can tolerate the disrespect of someone in this mansion to him!
Lin Mumu's eyelids raised. "My father may have forgotten that I didn't go to the clan for a day to learn "Female Virtue", and naturally no one taught me."
Lin Mumu's words made Lin Haode stunned, and the concubine of his dignified Shangshu Mansion had not even learned "Female Virtue".
It was the first time that Lin Haode knew that Lin Mumu had never even studied in the family.
Zhang's face, who was watching coldly, sank when he heard this, and he hurriedly stood up and said: "The old man is angry, how can you blame the eldest lady for this, it is the maid who is not sensible, seeing that the eldest lady wants to eat, she even stretched out her chopsticks, and Mama Qian dragged this maid who didn't understand the rules out." ”
"Yes." Mama Qian glanced at the people outside the door.
"Madame spares his life, master spares his life......"
The maid's face turned pale, and she was so frightened that she knelt down and kowtowed repeatedly, where would she think that she would steal chickens and rice, she just wanted to take the opportunity to embarrass the eldest lady, so as to please Madame, who knows......
Mama Qian stepped forward and directly gagged her mouth and dragged the person out.
Zhang diverted the conversation and gave Lin Haode the next step.
Lin Haode glanced at Lin Mumu, and still felt a sigh of relief in his heart.
"Even if you haven't learned, you should always be able to copy the words according to the words, go back and copy "Female Virtue" ten times for your father!"
Lin Mumu answered, turned around and walked out of the courtyard, as for whether she wanted to copy "Female Virtue", that was her business.
After Lin Mumu left, Lin Haode also lost his appetite for food, so he asked Lin Yuxi to go back separately.
After everyone left, Lin Haode looked at Zhang's and said, "Xi'er and they all went to the clan study before, why did they leave Mu Mu alone?" ”
Hearing the dissatisfaction in his words, Zhang's eyes suddenly turned red. "Does the master think that the concubine has neglected the eldest lady? The lord doesn't care about the affairs of the back house, but he doesn't know that the eldest lady has not been close to the concubine since she was a child, and let her go to the clan school in the past, she always said that she was unwell, and the concubine couldn't sleep for several nights because of this, she didn't want to go, and the concubine could still force her down? ”
Lin Haode cried so much when he saw her, and his heart softened for a while. "What are you crying about, I'm just asking." He originally thought that the Zhang family was deliberately mistreating Lin Mumu and excluding him from everyone, but looking at the Zhang family like this, he shouldn't have done such a thing.
Zhang's aggrieved approached Lin Haode's arms, and hid the sneer in his eyes when he lowered his eyes to wipe his tears. "The concubine just feels uncomfortable when she can't take care of the eldest lady."
When Lin Haode heard her say this, his heart was extremely ironed. "I know you're a kind-hearted person, which rebel girl is ignorant, it's no wonder you."
Zhang's attitude, Lin Haode will only pity her stepmother for being difficult to do, and thinks that Lin Mumu doesn't know what to do.
Hearing the softening of his tone, Zhang knew that this matter was over.
She is only about thirty years old this year, and when she is like a wolf, her hands are restless when she leans on Lin Haode's arms, but in a moment, the two rolled into the inner room......
"Big sister."
Lin Mumu was stopped on the way back.
She stopped, and as soon as she turned around, she saw Lin Zihan running towards her with small steps.
"It's kind of catching up with me." Walking too fast, she was still panting when she arrived in front of Lin Mumu.
Lin Zihan gave birth to a baby face, with white skin, as cute as a porcelain doll, and at this time, those big eyes looked at her with joy.
"Third sister, don't worry."
"I see that my big sister is happy, so I naturally want to run faster." Lin Zihan smiled and held Lin Mumu's hand, Lin Mumu lowered his eyes and looked at it, but did not avoid it.
"Big sister didn't eat enough tonight, I made some jujube mud cake at noon, and I asked Forsythia to send it to big sister in a while."
"Okay, I heard that Aunt Wang is sick, is she feeling better now?" Lin Mumu responded with a smile.
"I've gotten better after taking the medicine today, can I get to my big sister tomorrow morning? I haven't seen my big sister for a long time, and I have a lot of things I want to say to my big sister. Lin Zihan looked at Lin Mumu with big eyes, and that look was really unbearable to refuse.
"Okay."
"Well, I'll go find my eldest sister tomorrow morning, it's too late, and if I don't go back, my aunt should be in a hurry." Lin Zihan said, reluctantly letting go of Lin Mumu's hand. "Big sister
I'll go back first. ”
"Well, be careful on the road."
"Got it."
After separating from Lin Zihan, Lin Mumu returned to the courtyard.
"The eldest lady is hungry or not, the slave maid will cook you a bowl of noodles."
Lin Mumu sat on the chair and took a sip of tea, she only ate a few mouthfuls of food tonight, and it was not enough to stuff her teeth. "Cook more." She should be late tonight.
"Yes, slave and maid will go."
After eating noodles in the evening, Lin Mumu closed the door and stayed in the house until the second watch sounded on the street, and the lights in her house went out.
"Hasn't the big sister gotten up yet? It's okay, I'm just waiting in the side room, this is the jujube paste cake I made, you can take it to the stove and warm it for a while, and the big sister wakes up just enough to eat. ”
"It's still the third lady who is good to the eldest lady, and she brought food to the eldest lady early in the morning."
Hearing the movement outside the house, Lin Mumu rubbed her face in the quilt before opening her eyes.
The golden light shone into the room through the window paper, and it seemed that the hour was not early.
Lin Mumu stretched and sat up from the bed.
"Qiaoqiao."
Hearing Lin Mumu's call, he skillfully pushed the door in.
"Big sister is awake." Lin Zihan followed behind Qiaoqiao and poked his head in.
Lin Mumu looked at her innocent smiling face and felt a little funny.
"When did the third sister come over?"
"Just now, I got up in the morning and came over after serving my aunt medicine." Lin Zihan walked into the room and sat down on a chair.
After Qiaoqiao waited for Lin Mumu to wash up, they both brought breakfast in.
"Did you have breakfast? If it's useless, just eat some with me. ”
"I originally used it, but I want to eat more with my big sister." Lin Zihan sat beside Lin Mumu obediently.
Lin Mumu asked Qiaoqiao to come in with an extra pair of chopsticks.
"Big sister, try it, I put osmanthus nectar in today's jujube cake, which is more fragrant than yesterday's." Lin Zihan sandwiched a piece of jujube mud cake and put it in Lin Mumu's bowl.
"Okay, I'll try it." Lin Mumu picked up the jujube paste cake and ate it in one bite.
Forsythia only sent the jujube paste cake after eating noodles last night, it may be cold, and the taste of last night was really not as good as today.
"How's the big sister, is it delicious?"
Facing Lin Zihan's expectant eyes, Lin Mumu nodded affirmatively. "Well, there is tenacity in the soft glutinous, sweet but not greasy, and there is a faint fragrance of osmanthus flowers, even the imperial chefs in the palace are not as good as you."
"Big sister is really complimenting me." Lin Zihan blushed with praise from the praise.
"Eldest Miss, the Lord of Chuyun County sent someone to the outside of the mansion, saying that he was here to pick up the eldest lady and go to the princess's mansion to enjoy the flowers." A little maid walked out the door.
Lin Mumu took a look at her chopsticks, knowing that it was the eldest princess's person who came to pick her up.
"Well, I see, let's get out." As he spoke, he took two more dumplings and ate them in his mouth.
"Big sister, the flowers in the princess's mansion must be very beautiful, right?"
Lin Mumu took a sip of porridge and said casually: "Flowers are not all like that." "Besides, she didn't go to enjoy the flowers, she went to see smallpox, where do you know what the flowers in the princess's mansion are like.
Lin Zihan bit his lip. "Sister enjoy the flowers, and I have to talk to my sister when I come back."
"Well, okay, I'll bring you a flower when I get back."
After eating eighty percent full, Lin Mumu took the tea and rinsed her mouth and prepared to leave.
"Big sister is going out, I'll go back first." Lin Zihan followed and stood up.
"You go back first, and I'll go see Aunt Wang when I'm free tomorrow."
"Well, big sister, be careful on the road."
Lin Mumu nodded, and in order not to make people suspicious, he put all the things in the medicine box into a cloth bag for Shuangshuang to carry.
As soon as they walked outside the door, they saw Zhang walking over with Lin Yuxi.