Chapter 10 She is a widow

The curtain of the big red silk is embroidered with a mandarin duck neck, embroidered with the word double happiness in red, and the happy quilt is a picture of a hundred children. On the crimson wedding couch was a pale blue robe from the time of his life, and even his boots were on the couch.

If you are familiar with him, you may be able to smell his breath, but Yue'er doesn't know him, she doesn't know what he is like, so she just guards a dead man's things, and lies on the wedding couch as if she is dead.

She turned from confusion to fear, and her fear was gradually worn away in this long night, and then it was really empty.

She's just a skin, maybe just a wisp of geist, to the point where it feels like there's a person in that pale blue robe, and she's the ghost.

She fell into a deep sleep, and her dream was an illusory shadow, so she wore that pale blue robe, and stood on the edge of the wedding couch and looked at her. I couldn't see the man's face clearly, but I felt like he was looking at her.

Meng Meng Liangyue'er was called up in the early morning, and she was going to say hello to the old lady and the old lady and the relatives and elders who lived at home on the second day of the wedding.

Yue'er was dressed in stone blue, without any embroidery, only rolling plain edges. The jewelry on his head is only a plain hairpin, and there is no fat powder on his face.

This is the only way to be a widow, otherwise who do you wear it for, and what do you do when you dress up?

When I greeted the old lady, I listened to the old lady crying and chattering a lot. was just crying about her dead eldest grandson, but she didn't hear how her eldest grandson died.

At the end, Mu Ran's Yue'er was given a bracelet by the old lady in her hand, but she was reminded when she went out that she could keep it but couldn't wear it out.

When she arrived in front of the old lady, Yue'er knelt down again, and now that she had no name of her own, she knelt down and said, "Daughter-in-law Shen asks for peace for my father and mother for my mother." ”

Offering his daughter-in-law's tea, his father-in-law took a sip and said a few auspicious words mildly.

The mother-in-law was much stricter, first taught her the moral ethics of being a daughter-in-law, and then warned her not to do anything that would disgrace the Wu family, otherwise no one would save her.

At the end, he said: "If the boy born in Renxin's room this time is a boy, it will be passed to your name, and it can be regarded as renewing the incense to the big house, and you will be educated." ”

Renxin is Wu Rencheng's second brother, and he is also the second young master of the Wu family who married his wife and entered the door on his behalf.

Yue'er had no qualifications to object, so she kowtowed and thanked: "Thank you mother for her success, and my daughter-in-law will fulfill her duties, be good at raising children, and come to shine on the lintel of my Wu family." ”

This sentence can be regarded as pleasing to her mother-in-law, but it is not so easy to let her go back, and she lightly instructed the maid next to her: "From now on, the young grandmother will serve the vegetables." ”

Yahuan went to set the meal in response, and Yue'er cleaned her hands and stood aside to serve her mother-in-law's meal. This stop was nearly half an hour, waiting for her mother-in-law to rinse her mouth and clean her hands, and left her to press her shoulders and beat her legs before letting her go back.

Yue'er has to come to serve two meals a day, and if she wakes up in the morning and dusk, she will be punished for kneeling in front of her husband's tablet for an hour.

The door of the house is not allowed to go out, and she has to go to the Buddhist hall every day to recite the scriptures and copy the Buddhist scriptures to her husband, who doesn't even know how to die.

For Yue'er, the chief daughter-in-law of the Wu family, the Wu family looks down on her. Even the children of the Wu family, when they saw her in the mansion, they all ridiculed her.

And in this ridicule, she learned the reason why her uncle and aunt married her, the old lady of the Wu family has a daughter who is married very well, and she is the side concubine of the third prince King Jin.

Yue'er married into the Wu family, and the daughter of the Wu family, who was the side concubine, begged the King of Jin and connected the Lin family with a big merchant in Shanxi. The Lin family's business has risen more than one level, and the eldest young master of the Lin family, Yue'er's cousin, has also entered the Jin Palace's mansion as an errand.

This is not counting, Lin Ning'er, the eldest daughter of the Lin family, when Yue'er left Guanzhong, had already become the concubine of a fourth-grade official in the Jin Palace.

People say that one person has attained the Tao and the chicken dog ascends to heaven, and Yue'er is now the one who suffers and fulfills the entire Lin family.

She was plain all day long, dressed in green clothes like a wandering spirit, and in addition to completing the tasks assigned by her mother-in-law, she spent most of her time lying in her own room.

But she hated the bed so much that she even slept on the soft couch at night, and walked around the bed.

When she slept, Lan Xin and Hui Zhi always took turns to stay at her feet, and this night Hui Zhi shook her fan and said to Yue'er: "Miss, that Danzhu always runs to the second room, will it cause any trouble for our yard to come back?" ”

Yue'er closed her eyes and didn't open them, and said slowly: "Zuo is just that there is no male master's bed to climb in our room, she is staring at the second room with such a lively mind, after all, it is also a concubine, and the family business will fall to the second room in the future." ”

Hui Zhen snorted disdainfully: "Let her climb earlier, so as not to be in charge of the east and west in this courtyard, and look like she is a serious master." ”

"It was Madame who sent her to take care of us, but in this courtyard, she is not the proper master, I am just a prisoner."

Seeing that the master's sadness was aroused, Hui Zhi hurriedly said: "Miss, in a few days it will be the memorial day of our wife, why don't you ask the old lady and the wife for an order to go to the grave of the old lady." ”

Yue'er Huo opened her eyes, looked at Hui Zhen for a while, and said, "You can try." ”

I couldn't sleep anymore because of this incident, so Yue'er got up and discussed with Hui Zhen that she wanted to make a paved kang under this window, so that the girl who kept vigil at night also had a place to sleep, and she didn't have to sleep on the ground all the time.

But this matter is not what they did to the master, and even the fact that Yue'er does not sleep on the bed is only known to the master and servant.

If the wife and the old lady knew, she would definitely say that she disliked her husband, and it was better not to cause that trouble.

As she spoke, she seemed to be unable to continue, so Yue'er asked Hui Qian: "You went to the kitchen yesterday, did you hear how this young master died?" ”

Hui Zhen shook his head: "It's not like they don't say it, it seems that there are not many people in this mansion who know." ”

"That's it, it doesn't matter how he died, it's dead anyway, don't talk about it, go to bed early, and get up early to worship the Bodhisattva." Yue'er waved her hand and lay down, unable to sleep and silent.

As soon as the two of them lay down, they heard the door of the courtyard squeak, and then it was gently closed. Hui Zhi got up and quietly went to the window to take a look, and came back and said in Yue'er's ear: "The stealing one went out again, and he will come back now." ”

Yue'er knew that she was talking about Danzhu, so she smiled and didn't speak.

When I asked my wife to say goodbye the next day, I heard that after winter, the second young master would go to Ganzhou and bring the coffin of the eldest young master back for burial. When the wife cried when she said this, Yue'er had no choice but to press the corner of her eyes with a handkerchief, and she was sad for her deceased husband she had never met.

Taking this opportunity, Yue'er felt that it might be easier for Mrs. to understand her feelings, so she sincerely burst into tears and said: "Mother, five days later is the daughter-in-law's biological mother's sacrifice day, and the marriage has never been to the grave, and the daughter-in-law wants to tell the deceased father and mother the news of the marriage on the day of the sacrifice." ”

The wife was crying sadly, and waved her hand without thinking about it: "Go and go, it's rare that you have this heart and have a lot of thoughts about the deceased." ”

Yue'er hurriedly kowtowed and thanked her: "Thank you mother for her success, and my daughter-in-law will not forget my Wu family's family motto, be a kind and filial person, honor her in-laws, and cultivate a stepson for her husband's good life, so that his spirit in the sky can be comforted." ”

"You're a man with a heart, I'm sincere...... My Cheng'er has a hard life, and I ...... enter the barracks in my teens" Almost every three or five days, Mrs. Wu has to cry, Yue'er knows what she will say next, but she still has to cry with empathy like the first time she hears it.

In this way, I stayed in my wife's house until near noon before I went back, this is a noon grain of rice that has not been eaten, and I haven't even drunk saliva, but fortunately, my wife doesn't need you to say anything when she cries, just listen to her alone.