Chapter 35: Change
Aunt Luo's face was happy.
The old man still remembered that she was weak and didn't let her kneel, which showed that the old man still felt sorry for her.
She raised her head in surprise, the color of joy emanated from the inside out, her beautiful eyes blinked slightly, and Ying Ying Qiubo secretly sent: "The concubine heard that the master is back, just, ...... I didn't expect the master to remember ......"
She deliberately spoke vaguely, and with a look of emotion, she completely ignored Xiao Ji on the side, and flirted with Tong Changqing as if no one was around.
Xiao Ji is simple-minded, not good at hiding his emotions, and he is sad in his heart, so his face can't help revealing a little.
Her eyes narrowed gloomily, and she twisted the handkerchief in her hand to distract herself.
Mama Zhou watched from the sidelines and was secretly anxious.
Aunt Luo's methods are superb, that is, the first lady has suffered several losses in her hands. Mrs. is too well protected in her life outside, and she hasn't experienced much of the dirty things of open and secret battles between women in this inner house, where will she be Aunt Luo's opponent.
Seeing Aunt Luo blatantly seducing the master, the wife just turned her eyes away in embarrassment and sadness, and she didn't even think that she was still the real mistress of the third room.
Mama Zhou was about to speak, and someone stood up before her.
"Auntie, get up quickly, although the weather is still hot now, it is really not good for your body to kneel on the ground for a long time." Tong Jiayan took Tong Jianian's hand and looked at Aunt Luo and said, "It's just that Aunt Jianian's body is weak all year round......
She turned her head with a puzzled expression and looked at Tong Changqing, "Did my father make a mistake?" My aunt's body is not weak. Even Dr. Chang, who came to the house every year to ask us for a safe pulse, said that my aunt was in good health, her complexion was ruddy, and she had hardly been sick. ”
Aunt Luo's expression was stunned, and she looked at Tong Jiayan in surprise.
"You talk nonsense! Where is my aunt's health! She was obviously infected with a cold last winter! Tong Jiaxin couldn't help but defend Aunt Luo.
It's just that what she said really made people sound awkward.
Do you want Aunt Luo to be in good health, or do you hope that she is not good?
"Your eldest sister didn't say anything bad about your aunt, but it was you, that's how you talked to your eldest sister?" Tong Changqing interrupted, his voice was serious, and he frowned.
There was a sudden silence in the room.
Thanks to Zhao's teaching since childhood, Tong Changqing is a person who attaches great importance to the respect and humility of the elders and the young.
Although he wanted to leave a kind and cordial first impression in front of his two daughters who had not seen each other for a long time, Tong Jiaxin's words to Tong Jiayan touched his bottom line, and he still couldn't help frowning and posing as a strict father.
Tong Jiayan bowed his head softly and stopped talking.
Tong Jiaxin's eyes were red, and she opened her mouth to explain something, but her hand was gently pulled by Aunt Luo.
"Don't blame me, sir, Miss Eight is also concerned about the concubine, and she doesn't mean to bump into Miss Seven." Aunt Luo explained with a smile, and glanced at Tong Jiayan again, "Miss Eight has always been the best friend of Miss Seven." ”
Tong Jiayan raised his head when he heard this, met Aunt Luo's gaze, and smiled slightly.
Aunt Luo gently pushed Tong Jiaxin behind her back.
Tong Jiaxin stepped forward and pulled Tong Jiayan's hand pitifully: "Seventh sister, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to talk to you like that." You love me the most, don't be angry with me, okay? ”
The little hand in his hand moved nervously, Tong Jiayan clenched it a little tighter, and then nodded with Tong Jiaxin with a smile: "I'm not angry, don't misunderstand, eighth sister." ”
Seeing this, Tong Changqing didn't say anything more.
He dusted off his clothes and stood up: "I'll go to the study, Yihang will come with me." ”
The room was full of women, and Tong Changqing didn't bother to sit down again.
After he and Tong Yihang left, Aunt Luo still stayed in the house, and Xiao Ji felt even more awkward when he looked at her.
"I don't need you to serve here, Aunt Luo, if you're okay, you can go back." Xiao Ji thought about it, and only held back such a sentence dryly.
"How's that going to work? The wife is the main mother, and the concubine should serve in the main mother's house. In the past, it was the wife who was not at home, so the concubine was able to be lazy. Now that the wife is back, it is reasonable that the concubines should serve at the wife's place. Aunt Luo replied with low eyebrows, looking very harmless.
Xiao Ji's heart was depressed, and it was difficult to open his mouth.
She has been out with Tong Changqing for many years, although her life is more difficult than at home, but at that time, Tong Changqing was the only one by her side, and there was no one else, she was sweet in her heart, and she didn't feel that life was hard.
No woman wants to share her husband with anyone else.
Especially Aunt Luo's identity is a little different from others, she is the young lady of Mrs. Tong's mother's family, in front of Mrs. Tong, Aunt Luo's status is probably higher than her, which makes her even more unsure of what attitude to use to treat Aunt Luo.
What Aunt Luo wants is her ambiguous attitude.
The people on the errand below are all human spirits, Aunt Luo has a face in front of the old lady, and the third lady doesn't dare to really call her, this is an invisible wind direction to tell everyone, who is more powerful in the third room.
Tong Jiayan remembered that in her previous life, Aunt Luo also took the initiative to lower her price and came to Fangzhi Courtyard to serve Xiao Ji, but was politely rejected by Xiao Ji, and she was worried that she would not be able to get over her face, so she also gave a lot of heavy gifts to Ziwei Courtyard.
The maids and mothers-in-law in the family said in private that the third wife was too soft, and she bowed her head to Aunt Luo before she could fight.
Those who were still waiting and hesitating so they showed favor to Aunt Luo one after another, and even when Xiao Ji's family wanted to hold a Mid-Autumn Festival banquet and invite the three members of the Tong family to have a homely meal together, they made a mistake and were scolded by Mrs. Tong, and after seizing the power of the family, they handed over the power of the family to Aunt Luo in front of everyone.
Since then, the third room has been firmly in the hands of Aunt Luo.
Xiao Ji's family was directly erected into an empty shell, depressed.
"Mother ......" saw the embarrassment and entanglement on Xiao Ji's face, Tong Jiayan stepped forward and gently took her hand, "Aunt is right, since the Great Zhou Dynasty, there have been rules and customs for concubines to serve the housewife. If the mother refuses her request because she is sympathetic to her aunt, others will only say that the aunt does not understand the rules, wouldn't it make people mistakenly blame the aunt and misinterpret and waste the mother's kindness? ”
Aunt Luo raised her head with a stunned expression.
That's not what she meant!
Xiao Ji looked at her hesitantly, and then glanced at Aunt Luo who was standing next to her: "Is that so?" ”
Tong Jiayan bowed: "Yes." And my father has always valued the rules and manners the most, if my aunt doesn't come here to serve, it's hard to guarantee that my father won't feel that my aunt is disrespectful. When the time comes, won't my mother's kindness be misunderstood again? ”
Xiao Ji was already a little moved by her.
Mama Zhou felt that she was heating while it was hot: "Yes, madam, it's better to listen to Miss Seven." "I didn't expect that Miss Seven would arrange things clearly in just a few words, which was really surprising.
Seeing that both of them said this, and Aunt Luo took the initiative to ask for it, Xiao Ji had no choice but to nod and say, "Then let's do it first." ”
Aunt Luo hung her head and almost crushed a good tooth.