Chapter 30: Someone Comes
Song Anzheng, Song Xiaohu, and Song Xiaomu admired their parents' methods, and were even more excited that Song Anzheng was about to enter the guard as an official.
Compared with the excitement and comfort of the Song family's two bedrooms and three bedrooms, the atmosphere in the center of Mingxuan can be said to be gloomy and miserable.
Song Shaoyan came back from Rongsong Courtyard, and when he came back, his spirit was almost low to the soil, and his head was covered with a layer of snow on his cloak, and as soon as he entered the door, the Fang family and others in the house immediately looked at him.
When Fang saw his appearance, he was surprised: "It's snowing so hard outside, why don't you hold an umbrella?"
As he spoke, he stepped forward to pat the snow on his body, and the two maids, Pearl and Jade, also came forward to serve, one picked up the cloak that Song Shaoyan took off and hung it, and the other held hot tea and served it.
Song Xiaochi took the hot tea in Jade's hand, handed it to Song Shaoyan, raised his eyes, and saw that Song Shaoyan's face was sinking like water, his brows were tightly locked, and he immediately understood in his heart that he would definitely return in vain.
Song Shaoyan warmed up, and under the gaze of his wife and daughter, Fang said: "Mother said that the Tan family is a good family business, and the eldest son of Mrs. Tan, the uncle of the Tan family, is the left attendant of the Zhengerpin Rites Department of the current imperial court, Lord Tan, and the person who is married to Sister Chi is Lord Tan's brother Tan Erye, and the Tan family not only gave a rich dowry, but also prepared a dowry for Sister Chi......"
Speaking of this, Song Shaoyan looked at Fang's, and Fang's hurriedly pushed the wooden box on the kang table to Song Shaoyan, "This is given by Mrs. Tan, master, I didn't want to accept it at that time, this is related to Sister Chi'er's life, how dare I accept it, but ...... But ......"
Fang wanted to say that Mrs. Song forced her to accept it, but in Song Shaoyan's face, she couldn't say that Mrs. Song was not.
"Dad, my mother didn't want to accept it, if it wasn't for my grandmother asking Mama Zhang to accept it, and she just stuffed it for Sister Pearl to hold, this wooden box is not here now, but my daughter wants to smash this box down on the spot and smash it in front of the old lady Tan who looks kind and kind.
It's just that there is a grandmother in front of the shock, the mother doesn't dare to do anything, and the daughter doesn't dare, the daughter is afraid that the grandmother will be angry, and the mother and daughter will be locked in the ancestral hall together, and we will be punished to kneel for seven days and seven nights, until the big red sedan chair comes to the door of the Bofu, and kneel until the daughter is tied up in the sedan chair, carried to the fire pit of the Tan family, and then burned to ashes. ”
Song Xiaochi said such angry words in his mouth, but his tone was gentle, as if he was just calmly describing the scene and thoughts in his heart.
Song Shaoyan was stunned by Song Xiaochi's words, and didn't say anything for a long time, Fang also looked at Song Xiaochi in surprise, seeing that she was expressionless, for fear that she would be stimulated by today's events, so he hurriedly comforted: "Sister Chi, why did your grandmother do this?" Definitely not, don't worry, we have already asked your eldest brother to inquire, maybe the Tan family is not ...... It's not a fire pit, maybe it's a good person. ”
Song Xiaochi smiled, "A good person like Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites, can it be our turn to be in the house?" Okay, take 10,000 steps back and say, even if it is our turn to be in the house, dad and mother, do you think you can take our turn to get our big house and my turn? Will the second uncle and aunt be so quiet? ”
Song Shaoyan looked at Song Xiaochi and only said, "Sister Chi, my father will not let you marry someone who is unbearable, don't worry, if the Tan family is really a fire pit, my father will definitely not let you marry." ”
"Yes, yes, what your father said is, Sister Chi, don't worry." Fang nodded hurriedly.
Song Xiaochi knew that her father and mother were sincerely thinking about her, but under the deterrence of Mrs. Song and the calculation of the second room, her father and mother, who had been retreating and enduring for so many years, could she hold up a sky without clouds for her?
Perhaps, this is something you can only do on your own.
The family ate a dinner with the same taste of chewing wax, but Song Anming, who was expected by his family, did not return for a long time.
It wasn't until the time of the year that Shunzi handed the news in, saying that he had passed the word to the uncle who was outside, and the uncle took him and the little guy to visit for half an afternoon, and finally decided to rush to Tan Shi Town overnight, and he should not come back tonight, the uncle told the eldest master, the eldest wife, the eldest grandmother, and the eldest girl to rest assured, he will definitely find out the details of the Tan family, and discuss this matter when he comes back.
Song Xiaochi asked Coral to take ten cents to reward the mother-in-law who came to speak for Shunzi, and the mother-in-law went back with a thousand thanks, ten cents, in the current Kang Yongbo Mansion, it can be regarded as generous.
"Sango, tomorrow I will take another thirty Wen and send it to the outer courtyard to reward Junko." Song Xiaochi instructed the coral again.
Although Coral was distressed, he still responded.
However, Song Shaoyan and Fang's faces were a little embarrassed, this reward should have been made by them, but it was just ......
"Since Da Lang won't come back tonight, let's go back first." Song Shaoyan waved his hand.
The next day, the heavy snow fell for a day, and a thick layer was accumulated on the ground, and Mrs. Song sent people to each room to say that the snow was too big, and her old man was sympathetic to the younger generations, and today's greeting was waived.
If it had snowed so heavily in the past, the little girl Yulan would have gone to the yard to build a big snowman or snow lion despite the icy cold wind, and froze her hands like carrots, but her whole body was steaming.
But today's snowfall, which can afford to build a snowman, did not make Magnolia as excited as in previous years.
She didn't even have fun sweeping the snow, if the girl really married the Tan family in seven days, wouldn't this Jinxia Courtyard be empty, and what did it matter if the snow was swept or not.
Although Coral has always been much more stable than Magnolia, now her main focus is on Song Xiaochi, who makes her feel very different from before.
She was afraid that the girl would do something stupid.
Although the girl used to have a bright heart and didn't say a lot of things, she knew it, but she didn't behave like yesterday, with a desperate wantonness, as if she had cut off her own back road.
Although she didn't throw the wooden box in front of the old lady Tan as she said, whether it was her performance in Rongsong Courtyard or what she said in Mingxuanju, there was a desperate wantonness, although it was not obvious, but the coral who had served Song Xiaochi for many years still noticed the difference.
She felt that the girl would not endure it as much as before this time, too, she endured it before, and there was always hope, but now, although she didn't know what kind of person Second Master Tan was, she didn't think it was much different from the fire pit.
Therefore, Coral is almost always by Song Xiaochi's side, and where does he have time to care about whether the snow in the yard should be swept or not.
"Yo, why is the snow in this yard still so thick, when has it been, the snow has not been swept away, the two maids Coral and Magnolia are lazy again, Mama Zhang, slow down, this snow is too thick, don't slip."
Coral was worried when she heard a slightly snarky voice outside, and there was a sense of deliberate meanness.