Chapter 18: Doing Good
Before meeting Gu Xizhi, the eldest lady of the Gu family, the Lin family was just a herding cow baby in the countryside, living a life of eating the last meal without the next meal. Lin was also born in February and was regarded as an ominous person who would overcome his parents and brothers.
Jiangnan customs, those born in February do not lift. Born in February, it is the original sin, even if it is the golden branches and jade leaves of the family, it has to be broken. What's more, it is Dongchang Mansion, a first-class Qing noble family in Xi'an, and such a high family, so I believe in such customs even more.
Since Lin was born, she was thrown to Yunnan by her biological mother and father, and became a cattle herding baby in the Zhuang family, and her parents and brothers were afraid that she would come back to recognize her relatives in the future, so they also crossed her name from the genealogy of the Lin family. Fortunately, Lin later met Gu Xizhi, who was fleeing, which changed the fate of her life. If she hadn't met Gu Xizhi, she wouldn't know where she would be staying now.
Mama Liang got Lin's order, and specially took out ten taels of silver from Lin's money box and handed it to the girl. The girl got the silver, hurriedly suppressed her crying, turned her head to the Lin family again, and couldn't stop kowtowing and thanking: "Thank you to the old lady of the official family, I miss the old lady of the official family more, Da Han has never seen so much silver in his life." Da Han took this silver, he must bury his father and mother well, I failed to fulfill my filial piety by their side when my father and mother were alive, and now that I am dead, I want to accompany them by their side. ”
After Da Han took the silver and left, Lin was worried again. A girl who is only seven or eight years old, taking so much money to go to the town, will inevitably be remembered by ill-intentioned villains, and if she doesn't get it right, she may even lose her life. If you have the heart to help her, let's help her to the end!
"Mama Liang, you go and get five taels of silver again, and go and follow Miss Dahan. If you meet a bad guy with bad intentions, Da Han is such a young girl, I'm afraid she won't be able to cope with it, not to mention that in this world, there is chaos. Since we are doing good deeds, let's help them to the end! I'm always relieved that you go along. Lin twisted the Buddha beads of one hundred and eight sons in his hand and instructed Mama Liang.
Mama Liang knew that the Lin family was kind-hearted, so she didn't say anything, and did as she was told.
When they arrived in the town of Pengpu Township, Feng Lao'an in the second room sent a few maids to pick them up, and the maid headed by Feng Lao'an was the first-class maid Zijuan in Feng Lao'an's room, she wore a blue-purple Hangzhou silk bijia, seventeen or eighteen years old, melon seed face, black hair tied into a double screw bun, a few gilded grape hairpins inserted in the bun, a gentle smile, very dignified manners, it didn't look like a maid who served people, but like an ordinary housekeeper's wife.
"How did Mrs. Lin arrive? My old lady has been reading you for a long time, and today I specially invited a cook from outside to make a table of good wine and good food waiting for you. also said that Mrs. Lin likes to eat bridge rice noodles the most, and she also asked the cook in the house to make it. With a faint smile, Zijuan took over the work of the little maid next to her and supported the old lady.
She was originally a first-class maid who served Feng Lao'an, and of course she did such a decent and simple job.
"Your Lao An people have a heart, and I know that I like to eat cross-bridge rice noodles made by villagers, so I specially asked people to make them. When I go to the house, I must eat a few more bowls, otherwise I will be sorry for your Lao Anren's careful preparation. Mrs. Lin laughed as she spoke.
Before Zijuan came, Feng Lao'an told her that the old lady Lin in the big house was a hearty person, very skillful in doing things, and upright in person, but she was doting on her youngest son. But after all, the emperor loves his eldest son, and his father and mother spoil his son. Whose father and mother are not dedicated to their youngest son?
The eldest son will support the door and glorify the lintel in the future, so he must be carefully cultivated from childhood to adulthood. The youngest son is a little baby in the hands of his father, who has been spoiled and used to growing up since he was a child.
Her family Feng Lao'an is also like this, the seventh old man Gu Liming is the second old lady Gu Xicheng and Feng Lao'an, Feng Lao'an is almost forty years old, so he got such a little son, and the old couple are naturally spoiled like babies. Therefore, the seventh master of the Gu family, who has never done any naughty things since he was a child, often went to the restaurant to drink flower wine and was caught by the second old lady, at most he reprimanded a few words. If it is the sixth master of the Gu family, I am afraid that it will not end so well.
Zijuan was thinking about it, when she suddenly turned around and saw Gu Yutang behind her. Because he was going to see his elders, Gu Yutang specially changed into a blue-green embroidered butterfly and flew to a pleated skirt, with two crystal clear jade beads hanging from his ears, combed a simple bun, and the jasper hairpins dotted on the bun, with a smile at the corner of his mouth, showing two small dimples.
What a beautiful beauty! It's just that I'm a little younger, and if I'm older, I'm afraid that there will be a feeling of pity in my gestures.
"Old lady, whose girl is this? Is it such a sign that was born? Have you agreed to get married?" Zijuan pointed to Gu Yutang behind her and asked Mrs. Lin.
"Sister Tang, before her mother went out, she entrusted her to me and said that I would take her to the countryside for a few days. I thought about the boredom on the road, and it would be nice to have her as my companion. Sister Tang is still young and has not yet married. Mrs. Lin said with a smile.
"Look at my mouth, what question are you asking? At such a young age, how could the third lady have a marriage match? Zijuan said, lightly slapped herself in the mouth, and then smiled.
Gu Yutang looked at Zijuan in front of him and suddenly remembered. I had also seen this Zijuan girl in my previous life, but I saw it in the mourning hall of Feng Lao'an in the second room, and this Zijuan girl was not as simple as it seemed on the surface.
I heard that she, as the eldest maid of Feng Lao'an, actually did something to seduce the sixth master of the Gu family, and also had a child with the sixth master of the Gu family, after the sixth wife Cai knew about it, she almost turned the entire second room upside down, and also made Feng Lao'an, who was already sick and dying at that time, directly angry to death, and the second old lady was also angry and lay on the couch for half a month before relieving himself.
After Feng Lao'an left, the entire second room completely collapsed. Feng Lao'an's sons and nephews have complained for Feng Lao'an's people, and it is said that Cai's family used a lot of money to suppress this matter. During that time, her father and mother were about to separate, so she didn't have time to take care of the second room.
"Sister Zijuan, I heard that Grandmother Feng is a very skilled person, she can make seventy or eighty kinds of pastries, what little monkeys, peaches, Grandmother Feng can make them, I don't know if it's true?" Gu Yutang took Zijuan's hand and asked innocently.
Zijuan rarely interacts with children of this age, and she doesn't know what to say when asked. Fortunately, she still heard Feng Lao'an mention that Feng Lao'an was indeed a skilled person when he was young, and he ran several dim sum shops at home, and he was also a famous pastry chef.
It's just that these things have passed for a long time, and not many people remember them anymore, how did this little girl know?
"Yes! When the old lady was young, she was a famous pastry chef in ten miles and eight towns, but unfortunately now that she is older, the number of hands is less than one time, if the third lady likes it, why not go to the old lady for advice. Zijuan said lightly.
"She is a child's family, there is nothing to ask for advice, if you want to play with dough, just say it, if you want to play with dough, forget it, I'm afraid I won't play with you, and pull out your Grandmother Feng, you are really a little clever." Old Madam Lin said, stretching out her hand to take Gu Yutang's hand behind her.