Chapter Seventy-Seven: Request
After Yang Jing saw Mrs. Yang leave, she sat down next to Mrs. Yang, picked up the bowl of casserole rice noodles on the high table, scooped some out with the blue and white porcelain lotus leaf spoon in the food box, put it in the small bowl with celadon lotus pattern, and brought it to Mrs. Yang's hand.
"My mother tasted it, and I knew that my mother didn't like to eat mushrooms, so I didn't let people put mushrooms, but put leek sprouts that my mother liked."
"You know I don't have an appetite these days, and you still do this? I can't eat it, so you can just leave it there! As she spoke, a mother had already jumped out behind Mrs. Yang, and she quickly took the bowl of casserole rice noodles in Mrs. Yang's hand and the bowl of casserole rice noodles brought by Yang Jing.
"Say it! What do you want to ask me for this time?" Mrs. Yang picked up a blue luochun on the high table, lifted the tea lid, smelled the aroma of the tea, but did not drink it.
"Mother, the tenth day of the first month of next month is my mother-in-law's sixtieth birthday, and my mother-in-law said that you are ten years older than her, but you are still deaf and clear-sighted, and you have lived as an old immortal. On her birthday, she must ask me to invite you down, and she can talk to you. Yang Jing kept staring at the old lady Yang in front of her and said slowly.
Since her mother knew early on that she had something to ask for, she simply said it all, and whether she would go or not when the time came was her own business.
"When I celebrated my 70th birthday last year, I didn't see your mother-in-law come up to talk to me, and I didn't even send a congratulatory gift. Now that she is about to celebrate her sixtieth birthday, she wants me to go down and ask me to send a congratulatory gift. You mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are really good plans! As he spoke, he only heard a crisp sound of porcelain cracking, and it turned out that the tea in Mrs. Yang's hand had not been held steady for a while, and had been shattered to the ground, and the porcelain fragments were splashed all over the ground.
Yang Jing seemed to be startled by this voice, and she didn't say anything for a long time, just looked at the old lady Yang in front of her.
"Mother, what do you mean by that? If my mother doesn't go, she won't go, so what tantrum will she have with me? If you talk about good plans, the daughter still admires her mother, Xiaoying and Gu Lichi are about to separate, and the mother first asked the eldest brother and sister-in-law to go to Chengjiang to give Xiaoying an idea, and then called the fifth brother to go down. I'm afraid that the status of me and other siblings in my mother's heart is not as good as your baby Xiaoying. Yang Jing looked at Mrs. Yang and said coldly.
From childhood to adulthood, the mother's heart was on the youngest son and youngest daughter, and when Xiaoying got married, the dowry alone was much higher than her, obviously she was the eldest daughter in the family, and she should be the most hurt.
On the contrary, she has become the person in the family who is not loved by her father and her mother.
"Jing'er, you just can't match Xiaoying. In the past, when I was sick and was about to die, it was Xiaoying who came from Chengjiang and stayed by my side day and night, serving the decoction. And you, not to mention serving tea and pouring water, serving decoctions, are human figures, and I have seen them. As soon as Mrs. Yang's words fell, the voice of her sister-in-law chanting in the Buddhist hall next to her stopped.
The sister-in-law at the head lifted the bamboo curtain between the flower hall and the Buddhist hall, and walked to Mrs. Yang's side with a smile on her face, "Old lady, today's Sutra of Death has been recited, I don't know what the old lady else has to say, if there is no command, we will go out first." ”
"It's been hard for a few teachers in the past few days, Cuiguo, send a few teachers down." Mrs. Yang was talking to her sisters-in-law, and handed a heavy purse to the sister-in-law who was the leader.
The sister-in-law took the purse, opened it and took a look, showing a smile that was even bigger than Fang Cai, the purse turned out to be a full five taels of gold, she had done things for large families in her life, and she had never received so much gold, no wonder others said that Lu Liangyang's family was Lu Liangwei's first.
The sister-in-law at the head carefully picked up the purse, and then went into the Buddha Hall to call out the remaining sisters-in-law in the Buddha Hall, and after saying goodbye to Mrs. Yang, she was led by the little maid who was waiting to the room that had been prepared for them.
Yang Jing saw that Mrs. Yang gave the sister-in-law a purse, and when she saw the heavy weight, she thought that it should be filled with gold, sat on the bamboo chair behind her, and said lightly, "Those sisters-in-law are just sisters-in-law from the nunnery, and it is not clear what the way is, my mother gave so much silver to others at once, and I am not afraid that others will have bad intentions and come to blackmail our family's silver." ”
"It's not spending your money, where are you distressed? If you are idle, you will clean up the aunts in the pearl house that your old lady stuffed in, and the pearl will soon go to the annual performance appraisal, and you have been staying in your aunt's house these days, how can this work?" As soon as Mrs. Yang finished speaking, the little maid waiting behind her had already helped Mrs. Yang up and helped her to the inner room on the left side of the flower hall.
Yang Jing knew that Mrs. Yang was going to rest, and she couldn't continue to bother, so she glanced in the direction of the inner room and walked out of the courtyard.
Chengjiang, inside the inn outside Gu's house in Qingyu Lane. Yang Ding had already arrived in Chengjiang, and was going to rest at this inn tonight, not going to go into the Gu Mansion.
"The fifth master all arrived outside the Gu family, and instead of going inside, he lived in this inn. This inn is mixed, and there are people from three religions and nine streams, so the fifth master should be careful. The little servant who was waiting beside Yang Ding was making the bed for Yang Ding, and put Yang Ding's luggage in a hidden position.
"You have followed me to the north and south for so many years, have you met fewer people from three religions and nine streams? If you are afraid, hurry back to Lu Liang and go to the old lady's courtyard to serve the old lady. Yang Ding took the clairvoyant mirror in his hand, sat in front of the window of the inn, and carefully observed the Gu Mansion.
Youwei cleaned up for Yang Ding, saw that Yang Ding was still standing in front of the window, and also followed the Gu Mansion who stood in front of the window and looked at the Gu Mansion outside, the whole Qingyu Lane, only the Gu Mansion was prosperous in front of the door, and people came and went all day long, there was a shadow wall in front of the house that was one foot and two feet high, and the head of the shadow wall was carved with dragons and phoenixes, which was very magnificent.
There are also two weather-beaten green lions on both sides of the mansion gate, guarding the gate of the Gu Mansion with their teeth and claws.
"This Gu Mansion is much more magnificent than our Yang family, although the place is not big, but the scenery is scattered and chic, and it has the taste of a businessman's family. The second aunt and grandmother have been married for so many years, but I am afraid that they are also happy. Youwei took the clairvoyant mirror handed to him by Yang Ding, and looked at the Gu family's garden again.
"I don't know if Xiao Ying enjoys happiness or not, I only know that Gu's family room is now like a blazing fire, looking at the flowers outside, a peaceful scene, but inside is a pool of stagnant water, and the undercurrent is surging. Today's Gu family has a thin family, and there are only three sons in this generation, but the fourth room of the Gu family is prosperous, and there are four sons in this generation, each of whom was sent to study outside. Yang Ding sat on the bamboo chair at the head of the room and carefully looked at the furnishings in the room.
"The long room of the Gu family is a descendant, and the fourth room is also a descendant, when the second aunt inherited the position of the head of the Gu family, he did not have the support of the eldest master and our Yang family, if there is no support from our Yang family, I am afraid that the position of the second aunt, the head of the Gu family, will not be able to sit steadily." Youwei was tired of seeing the scenery outside the window, so he turned around and continued to pack Yang Ding's luggage.
The street outside the inn was a bazaar, and it was crowded with people all day long, and the annoying people closed their windows.
Only Yang Ding's window in their room was open, and it didn't take long for Xiao Er in the inn to come upstairs, saying that it was noisy outside, and asked them to close the window.