Chapter Ninety-Three: The Life of Eating Hot Pot All the Time
After Yi Xiangxiang and Yi Ruofu took Luo Baohua and Sheng Changhong into the door, they found that the dishes on the table had been eaten, and Yi Ruofu looked at it and screamed like a pig: "Why don't you leave some for us!" What a miserable thing it was to come back from the war and find that the rations were gone! ”
"You've got it! Just now, you just said a few words and a war! Yi Xiangxiang poked Yi Ruofu's head with her finger and was slapped away by the latter.
Luo Baohua and Sheng Changhong looked at each other and smiled, but they didn't expect this Yi family to be quite interesting.
Luo Baohua and Sheng Changhong often go to Xile Building because they knew Yi Hanxi, so the latter naturally introduced the two parties.
Yi Luochuan saw that the table was already a little messy, so he called someone to clean up, and called Xiao Er to serve some new dishes, so excited that Yi Xiangxiang and Yi Ruofu immediately sat back in place and started eating!
The rest of the people had almost eaten, so they stopped to talk, and by the way, they watched Yi Xiangxiang and Yi Ruofu grab each other's food. However, neither of them cared about the image, but they completely ignored it and ate very ...... There was no one around.
After this day, although Yi Xiangxiang was still circling around the hot pot, she was also quite busy, because she began to meet relatives in Kyoto.
Mrs. Yi Lin Shihan, from the Lin family in Kyoto, is the daughter of Lin Haishu. Although, she has not been in contact with her mother's family for more than ten years, but since she has returned to Beijing, she should naturally come to visit.
So Yi Xihu took the days of rest and took his wife and children to visit his father-in-law and mother-in-law. Of course, this Lin Mansion is not the Prime Minister's Mansion Lin Family, but the Lin Family's partial branch of Lin Hai's mansion.
There are many branches of the Lin family, and the Lin family, where Lin Zhimeng is located, hangs the door plaque of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Lin Hai, who was the father-in-law in the Lin Mansion, naturally entertained Yi Xihu and others very warmly, and the housemother Wei was very kind to hold Lin's hand and offer all kinds of condolences.
Lin Hai has many children, and he really has no feelings for this daughter Lin Shihan, who married the son of a merchant and left the capital far away. But the main mother Wei really loves Lin Shihan, she opened her face to make a room, and the daughter she gave birth to is also very sensible, she has always been very satisfied with Lin Shihan's mother and daughter.
Yi Xiangxiang looked at her grandfather and grandmother, and sighed in her heart, this is another pair of resentful couples tied together by feudal thoughts!
The Lin family is a concubine, and according to the rules, the Lin Mansion's mother, Wei, should be called her mother, and Wei's is also Yi Xiangxiang's grandmother in name.
"Eh, it's a pity that your aunt is not blessed enough!" Wei sat on the top and held Lin's hand and said.
She married Lin Shihan to Yi Xihu, the son of a merchant, and what she liked was that the Yi family got along well. Although Lin Shihan is only a concubine, because her mother is loyal and she herself is clever and sensible, Wei thought that she could live a stable life, so she single-handedly arranged for her to marry Yi Xihu.
Wei remembered that when Lin Shihan became a monk, the other concubines in this mansion also laughed at her for marrying a merchant. Oh, I didn't expect that in 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi, which of the children sitting below now has Lin Shihan's dignity? Not only is her husband a second-grade official, but she holds the real power of the ministry, and she was also given an edict because of his son's merits. Wei thought that if his children were present, they would have to sit under Yi Xihu and Lin Shihan.
She has two sons and a daughter under her knees, the eldest son and the second son both served as petty officials in remote border cities, and her daughter also married to Jizhou. Originally, the eldest son wanted her to go to the field with him, but Lin Hai said that it was not in accordance with the rules, so he did not agree. Wei didn't force it, but she didn't go out of the door since then, and if Lin Shihan hadn't come to the door today, she wouldn't have left the main courtyard.
Wei now looks down on Lin Mansion, nor does he look down on her husband Lin Hai. At the beginning, it was lard that blinded his heart, and he felt that although Lin Hai was only a side branch of the Lin family, the emaciated camel was bigger than a horse, so he didn't expect to make a wrong bet.
Lin Hai has no ambition and no enterprising heart. It was because the Wei family could only forcibly meddle in the ancestral business of the Lin Mansion back then, and controlled the backyard, focusing on cultivating their children to become successful.
Lin Hai, the male owner of the Lin Mansion, was very displeased with his wife's strength, but he was afraid that she would make trouble outside to make people think that he couldn't control his wife, so he deliberately made the concubines in the Lin Mansion full of rooms, and the children were even more crowded.
It's a pity that Wei didn't accept Lin Hai's tricks at all, not only did he not stop Lin Hai from having a room, but also took the initiative to open his face to the maids around him. And it wasn't until her children relied on their own abilities to live a down-to-earth life that she no longer cared about her ancestral business.
So far, Lin Hai and Wei's really have no feelings at all!
Lin smiled and gave Wei a lacquer hand stove to warm her hands, and said: "Mother doesn't have to be sad, everything in this world has its own fate, and I believe that my aunt will be happy if she has a spirit in the sky." ”
"If only you could see it! It is also said that time flies, and the days when your aunt waited by my side are still vivid, and she complained to me when she gave birth to you! Unexpectedly, in a blink of an eye, you all have a group of children! Wei sighed.
"Mother should be happy, from now on, they can all honor you with Han'er! Now that the eldest brother, the second brother and the sixth sister are not in Kyoto, if the mother needs anything, just send someone to Yifu and Han'er to say! You're so old, you can't wronged yourself! ”
She is really grateful to Wei, although Wei's methods were also sharp in the back house, but he never treated her and her aunt harshly. And Lin only learned two days ago that since the children under Wei's knees left Kyoto, she began to eat fasting and chant Buddha. And after the concubine married his wife, Wei handed over the power of the family. The concubine's daughter-in-law is not a good one, and it is even more impoverished in Wei's life.
Lin deliberately said this thing, which was to blame the concubine Lin Fang and his wife Dong, and made it clear that he was on the old lady's side.
The Dong family at the bottom heard the meaning of the words, and she secretly slandered herself: Hmph! What to pack! It's not your mother! But she still had a smile on her face.
Wei knew that the Lin family was holding grievances for herself, but she didn't care about the embarrassment of her daughter-in-law now, so she said very heartily: "You live a good life by yourself, which is the greatest filial piety!" ”
Lin Hai, who was talking to Yi Xihu on the side, echoed the words when he heard this, and deliberately said something like being virtuous and virtuous, husband and child.
Lin Hai was not familiar with this daughter, and Lin had no feelings for him, so he saw Lin casually respond a few words, and then continued to say to Wei: "Mother, you still have to take care of your body, and when spring is in time for tomorrow, I will take you to the hot spring village outside the city!" ”
"Oh? The third sister has just returned to Kyoto, and she has a Zhuangzi outside the city? Dong asked with a smile, with a hint of surprise in his tone.
Lin Shihan ranked third in her generation, and called her third sister by the Dong family.
The Lin family didn't want to pay much attention to the Dong family, but he still replied with a smile: "It's because we are fragrant and fun, so we set up a mountain spring Zhuangzi outside the city." ”
Yi Xiangxiang, who was drinking tea, heard that three black lines appeared on his forehead, mother, say hello in advance when you shake the pot! That Zhuangzi is obviously your own!
When the Yi family returned to Beijing, they passed by a Zhuangzi, and the Lin family saw that the place was good and could soak in the hot springs, and she remembered that her daughter had always been worried about the hot spring village in Jinhua County, so it was difficult to go out of the ordinary, and directly asked the owner of the Zhuangzi to buy the land with a lot of money.
"Yes, grandmother, that hot spring village is good! I'll take you there! Yi Xiangxiang is naturally very cooperative with the Lin family.
Wei squinted his eyes and smiled and said, "Okay, okay, but grandmother heard that you opened a hot pot restaurant?" Gai Ming'er took her grandmother to try it? ”
"Where do you need another day! If Mother wants to, she can go today! If you don't eat meat because you eat fasting and chanting Buddha, I will ask Xiao Er to open a vegetarian pot for you alone! It was rare to see that Wei was interested, so Lin naturally quickly answered.
"Going today? It's not like you have to queue up in advance! Wei wondered.
Dong waved his hand and interjected: "Hey, what kind of queue are your family members going to line up, right, third sister." ”
She really wanted to go to paradise, and in the past few days, she has listened to the ladies around her show off, thinking that if she can go there herself, she will have something to say when she turns back.
Lin no longer talked to Dong this time, but explained to Wei: "In the paradise, there is a private room specially empty, just so that we can have a seat when we want to go!" ”
The Dong family is naturally unhappy to be ignored, but now her husband is still looking at the Yi family, and he doesn't dare to throw his face back, so he still laughs with him. And because of Lin's deliberate hint just now, and now she attaches so much importance to the old lady, what she has to say to her is that she also thinks about currying favor with Wei in the future.
The old lady Wei was also interested when she heard this, so the group went to paradise in a mighty way.
And in the process, the Lin family was afraid of freezing the old lady, and snatched two hand stoves from Yi Xiangxiang's carriage. made even Yi Xiangxiang begin to wonder if this titular grandmother was the biological mother of her own mother!
But it doesn't matter, the important thing is that Yi Xiangxiang has been eating hot pot for several days in a row, and I really don't want to eat it anymore!
At first, it was because I wanted to eat, and then because I was feasting.
The day before yesterday, Yi Luochuan went to Kyoto's Jiang Mansion to visit his father-in-law and mother-in-law. Yes, there are mothers-in-law! Because a son and a daughter were in Kyoto, Mrs. Jiang's Zhu also came to Beijing, and she was still with the Yi family at that time.
Jiang Chengshen prefers his childhood sweetheart's aunt Yuan, so he doesn't like Zhu's entry into Beijing. But after all, his promotion was thanks to his son's rescue, and now he is the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, if he doesn't do this ceremony enough, then the official of Yushitai will definitely participate in him.
It was only then that he had to pretend to be a husband and wife with the Zhu family.
The result of Zhao Ziyu's forced palace to Jiang Chengshen is sad and happy, sad is naturally the murder of his niece Meng Zhaoyi and his son, and the joy is that the promotion and the eldest son have won the favor of the saint, and the son-in-law has also become a celebrity in front of the emperor, and the in-law Yi Xihu is a member of the ministry!
Of course, because of the relationship between the Zhu family, he doesn't like the children of the Zhu family so much, but he has to sell the face of the Yi family. So the day before yesterday, when Yi Luochuan and his wife came to the door, he was also very cooperative and went to the floating pavilion of the paradise together.
In fact, after the investigation of Huanxi Pavilion, Yi Xiangxiang learned some small details of the Jiang family, Jiang Chengshen and the Zhu family. It is rumored that it was under the design of the Zhu family that he married Jiang Chengshen, who was dissatisfied and accepted the childhood sweetheart Yuan as a concubine, and took the Yuan family with him for a long time.
And the truth is not what is secretly rumored in the streets.
The so-called Zhu design was actually secretly arranged by the Yuan family, who knew that his identity could not be the housewife, so he secretly drugged the honest Zhu family. As for Jiang Chengshen, he misunderstood that Zhu had no face and no skin, so he never gave her a good face. Zhu is also a big heart, Jiang Chengshen's distrust of her shows that he doesn't love himself, because she doesn't force Jiang Chengshen to be good to herself, but closes the door and only cares about her husband and son.
Yi Xiangxiang originally wanted to meddle and tell Jiang Chengshen, but thinking that the Zhu family didn't bother to explain, and Jiang Xuanrui and Jiang Jingshan had no intention of telling this kind of truth, so they didn't take this mouse.
And Yi Xiangxiang also feels it, Lu Yao knows the horsepower, and he will see the hearts of the people for a long time! Zhu and Jiang Chengshen had less time to get along, but now that they are in Kyoto, I believe that over time, Jiang Chengshen himself can see Zhu's goodness, after all, he is not stupid.
However, she was also very curious about that Yuan family, who should be a very powerful woman, otherwise she would not have allowed Jiang Chengshen to secretly spoil his concubine and kill his wife.
The day before yesterday, Yi Luochuan and his wife took their father-in-law and mother-in-law to the paradise, and Yi Xiangxiang was in it to "watch the scene", so he had a hot pot with the Jiang family.
And yesterday, it was the second prince Zhao Zixiu who specially took the princess Pei Yuyan out of the house, accompanied by the prince's concubines Yi Ruonan and Zhu Qianqian. In fact, anyone with a discerning eye knows what to go with! He is completely in disguise to promote the reunion of the Yi family sisters! Yi Xiangxiang was also inconvenient to take people to Yi Fu, so she ate a hot pot in the paradise.
Speaking of which, yesterday's hot pot meal was very sad, because Zhu Qianqian also specially mentioned Hu Xuehui.
Hu Xuehui was killed in the East Palace, and Zhu Qianqian asked the princess Pei Yuyan for a token to leave the palace and went to mourn Hu Xuehui. And she also asked the undertaker to take off the bamboo white jade bracelet on Hu Xuehui's wrist.
"This is the pair of bracelets you gave us, Xue Hui has always worn them, and now I will return this one to you for her."
Yi Xiangxiang remembered what Zhu Qianqian said in front of Zhao Zixiu and others yesterday, and felt a little sentimental in her heart.
She knew what Zhu Qianqian meant, the latter saw that she was good friends with Zhao Zixiu, so she wanted to use the bracelet to emphasize that Zhu Qianqian had a great relationship with her, and hoped that Zhao Zixiu would take more care of her because of this. But with Zhu Qianqian's intelligence, he should know that Yi Xiangxiang must have already said something about Zhao Zixiu's care, otherwise how could he take them out to see Yi Xiangxiang and Yi Ruofu.
Human nature is greedy and wants more than one thing at a time. This is Yi Xiangxiang's evaluation of Zhu Qianqian's now.
Yi Xiangxiang sat in the carriage and stroked the bamboo white jade bracelet in her hand, the bamboo decoration on it was still elegant and generous, but the reality was no longer human.
"Put it away, and bury it in front of Xuehui's grave next year." Yi Xiangxiang took off the bracelet and handed it to Shumei.
Shumei happily took the bracelet and put it in the black lacquer core of the carved flower and bird pattern on the side. She felt that although the relationship between Miss Hu and her own young lady was not bad, after all, Miss Hu died tragically, and Shumei still had taboos in her heart about what the deceased left behind. Yesterday, she was not very satisfied when she saw Zhu Qianqian give the bracelet to Miss, and when Miss put it on, she felt that it was even more inappropriate, but now that Miss is not wearing it, she is naturally happy.
In her opinion, what should be paid attention to is still to be particular.
When she was in Tongzhou, Yi Xiangxiang usually only took Qingxuan when she went out. Now that she has changed to a new environment, she tries to bring all the maids when she goes out, so that they can know more about Kyoto City, and she has also followed Yi Xiangxiang in the past few days with her calligraphy and painting.
Yi Xiangxiang didn't mind that the bracelet was something left by the deceased, but the reason why she chose to bury it was because she felt that her fate with Zhu Qianqian was over, so that she didn't have to keep the bracelet that was a pair with her.
As for Hu Xuehui, there is nothing to say about people dying like lights going out. Even if she occasionally thinks of her again in her heart, all the sentimentality will pass.
So, does Zhu Qianqian really want to use Yi Xiangxiang to try to make Zhao Zixiu look at her more?
Yes, indeed.
At the beginning, she went to ask Zhao Zixiu to enter the Four Princes' Mansion, and after entering, she found that everything was very different from her imagination. Zhao Zixiu was very busy when he went out early and returned late, even in the mansion, he almost stayed in the study to discuss matters, and most of the rest at night rested in the courtyard of the princess Pei Yuyan.
She used to think that as long as she could be by his side, but now she only sees him a handful of times.
Pei Yuyan is a gentle princess, or because of her identity, she has never embarrassed the women in the backyard of the Four Princes' Mansion. Zhu Qianqian didn't encounter the intrigues she imagined before, but Zhao Zixiu's indifference to her was unacceptable to her.
Zhao Zixiu has not spoiled her, but the number of times is very rare, and the so-called wind and snow moon is impossible to talk about.
Later, when Zhao Zixiu came back from Tongzhou, he often went to Yi Ruonan's courtyard to talk to Yi Ruonan, and this time he specially took her and Yi Ruonan to meet the Yi sisters with Pei Yuyan, and she saw that Zhao Zixiu had a good relationship with Yi Xiangxiang at the banquet, so she naturally saw Zhao Zixiu's trust in Yi Xiangxiang.
So, there was the fact that she gave Yi Xiangxiang to Hu Xuehui the bracelet and returned it to Yi Xiangxiang.
For Zhu Qianqian, as long as she can get Zhao Zixiu's favor, even if it is just one point, she is willing to do anything.
And she found that Zhao Zixiu was too unusual to Yi Xiangxiang, he respected Pei Yuyan, and he was gentle and elegant to others in the backyard, but in front of Yi Xiangxiang, he had an indescribable nature.
It seems that in front of Yi Xiangxiang, he is the real him.
Zhu Qianqian has admired Zhao Zixiu for many years, and she knows what it means for a person to look at another person with different eyes! Just like Luo Baohua and Sheng Changhong, who entered the table yesterday, she could clearly find that Sheng Changhong's eyes were shining when he heard Yi Ruofu speak.
When Zhao Zixiu looked at Yi Xiangxiang, there was that kind of light in his eyes.
Although it was faint, she still saw it.
Others didn't know what that light represented, but Zhu Qianqian understood, because she was looking at Zhao Zixiu with that kind of light.
Zhu Qianqian couldn't stand Zhao Zixiu's indifference, let alone let him put his heart on Yi Xiangxiang, because she had to drag his light back to herself before Zhao Zixiu found out what was wrong.
At this time, Yi Xiangxiang didn't know Zhu Qianqian's inner activities, she only knew that she really didn't want to eat hot pot.
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