223 Singing and changing face (Fang family affairs)
After all, no one wants anyone who has harmed them to end well.
Mrs. Fang is also a person who is not exempt from vulgarity.
After entering the house, Xi'er, the little maid who served Mrs. Chen, walked in with a tea tray, served tea to several people one by one, and quietly retreated.
Mrs. Chen was still thinking about what Mrs. Fang said just now, and asked her straight to the point: "Is what you just said true, Sister Qing has really become the prince's concubine?" ”
Mrs. Fang gradually calmed down, gently pulled Lin Yuqing's hand, and said softly: "Sister Qing, she will soon be the prince's concubine, this matter can't be faked!" ”
Her confident appearance completely dispelled Mrs. Chen's doubts, but Fang Xianruo felt that this matter was very strange, and she always felt that there were many doubts in it, and there were strange things everywhere.
Fang Xianruo pulled Mrs. Chen to the tearoom before stopping, Mrs. Chen didn't know why, so she heard Fang Xianruo say: "Mother, she is a girl living on the street, where do you know the prince, and the dignified King of Jingnan, how can she look at her as a person with no family, that is the princess's side concubine, I heard Wen An say that when it comes to the royal family, all the relatives involved are going to enter the jade plate, that is equivalent to entering the royal ancestral hall, just rely on her?" Can you do it too! ”
Hearing her say this, it seems to make some sense, but Mrs. Chen touched her nose and insisted a little.
"But what's the good of her lying to us, where can such a thing be said nonsense, your aunt doesn't have the guts!"
"Hey! Mother, you're confused. Fang Xianruo said and glanced sideways outside, and saw that there was no one around, so she said: "Don't forget, my aunt bought a house for a few hundred taels of silver tickets for you to hold, and now that she is pulling around, I am afraid that the silver tickets have already been used, and she is coming back now, maybe just to ask for her silver, deliberately saying it to scare you!" ”
The mother and daughter muttered in the tea room for a while before they walked out, but they saw Fang Guiqiu accompanying the Wang family to sit opposite Mrs. Fang's mother and daughter drinking tea and laughing, laughing and laughing, and the atmosphere was not bad.
Fang Xianruo frowned, and Mrs. Chen walked straight towards Fang Guiqiu.
"What are you doing here, it's almost noon, why don't you go cook yet, my aunt and grandmother are back today, go and do something good!"
Mrs. Chen said viciously, Fang Guiqiu jumped up in horror as if she had been stung by something, and she didn't dare to bow out of the hall in the slightest.
Wang also got up with a sneering face, bowed slightly to Mrs. Chen and said, "Mother, I'm also going to help my sister-in-law cook." ”
The Chen family hummed unexpectedly, and the Wang family bowed slightly like Mrs. Fang, and then walked out.
In the hall, only Fang Xianruo's mother and daughter and Lin Yuqing's mother and daughter were left, sitting on the left and right, as if they were in a posture of resistance.
"Auntie, what are you going to do when you come back?"
Fang Xianruo asked Mrs. Fang politely.
Hearing this, Mrs. Fang's brows frowned slightly, and she looked at the Chen family with some displeasure, "What do you mean by this, will I still come to fight your family's autumn breeze?" Okay, ask me what to do, okay, since that's the case, then let's calculate, how many silver tickets I brought with me when I entered Beijing, and how many silver tickets I used, let's take a good count, how much flesh and blood your Fang family swallowed our mother and daughter! ”
Sure enough, she came to settle the account, Fang Xianruo sneered in her heart, and her eyes swept sharply over the faces of Lin Yuqing and Mrs. Fang.
"What swallowed your flesh and blood, don't forget, you followed into Beijing, how many maids and wives did you bring, obviously they are all mud bodhisattvas who are not protected by themselves, but they also brought so many maids and servants, all day long, it is called a star arch moon, all like noble women, ten fingers do not touch the spring water, how much rice and grain has been provided by our Fang family, and the expenses inside and outside here can be done with a few hundred taels of silver!"
Chen said angrily, Mrs. Fang's face turned slightly red, "I've seen nonsense, I've never seen such nonsense, sister-in-law's words are ridiculous, even in Nanshuizhuang, in a year, the concubines and concubines in the house have to spend only one or two hundred taels of silver, how can it be more, could it be that the sister-in-law's brain was pressed by the door, and her brain is not clear!" ”
Fang Xianruo didn't want her mother to entangle on this, after all, no matter how they counted, they had nothing to say, and they were the ones who made a fuss in the end.
So she said: "Okay, okay, don't make trouble for such a trivial matter, my aunt is a person of high character, where will she fight for these meager money, mother, you don't have to say a word." ”
Mrs. Chen's eyes were like copper bells, but Mrs. Chen felt much more comfortable in her heart, and she was very useful to Fang Xianruo's words.
"Auntie, you said that Cousin Qing'er is the prince's concubine, what evidence do you have?"
Speaking of the certificate, Mrs. Chen came to the spirit, and Lin Yuqing couldn't help but show some fear.
Mother swore that she was the concubine of King Jingnan, if this matter was exposed, I was afraid that it would be difficult to raise my head and be a person in the future.
She looked at her mother as if asking for help, and Mrs. Fang had an idea, and reached out to pull out a simple hairpin from her daughter's head, the black wood was inlaid with an emerald turquoise, dignified and a little solemn, and she knew at a glance that it was not ordinary.
Lin Yuqing stared at the hairpin in her mother's hand, looking puzzled, this hairpin was given to her by her mother in the morning, could it be that there was any reason, she only cared about it at the time, and didn't think much about it.
Mrs. Fang pinched the hairpin in her hand, turned over the back of the hairpin and looked at it, her eyes showed the expected surprise, and she shouted to Mrs. Chen: "Look at it, this is the name of Jingnan Palace, if I deceive you, where did this thing come from, not to mention who do you think you are, what am I lying to you for?" ”
Fang Xianruo looked at her mother, Chen's face was blue and red for a while, and it took a while before she spoke.
"That means Sister Qing'er's life is good, okay, I also know, what else do you have to say?"
What is there to say? Fang Xianruo only felt that her mother was really stupid, if she could climb the high branch of Jingnan Palace, what would she worry about in the future, she was just around the corner, she was now married to Xu Wen'an, there was no way out, it was impossible to climb such a man like Lin Yuqing, and she didn't have Lin Yuqing's face, she still understood it in her heart.
She pulled Mrs. Fang and said with a smile: "Auntie, in the past, the family's money was too short, and I offended you again, aunt, you are the most kind-hearted person, don't go to your heart, I don't know where my aunt is staying now?" ”
Looking at Fang Xianruo, who changed her face faster than turning a book, the corners of Lin Yuqing's mouth couldn't help twitching, Mrs. Fang liked others to speak to her so respectfully, and her heart was very comfortable, but she couldn't help but hold the shelf and didn't want to look at her.
Fang Xian saw that she had loosened up, and pursued after the victory.
"My cousin really inherited my aunt's good looks, not to mention being a side concubine, or being a concubine, others will only praise which family this is a beautiful girl, born so well, can marry a fairy-like person and go home, not everyone has this blessing!"
Lin Yuqing was dumbfounded by her praise, such a straightforward compliment, no one can pretend to be deaf and dumb, she pursed her lips and smiled with a crimson face, but she couldn't help but think of how Mrs. Chen treated her at the beginning, how she treated her big sister, and now that the big sister is alive without people and ghosts, it makes people shudder to think about it.
"My second sister is the princess of Jingnan."
The room fell silent, and everyone was silent.
The atmosphere in the room became very strange for a while, and at this time, Lin Yu'an also got a letter from the Rongguo Mansion.
What happened here in Jiao Cake Hutong fell into her ears in detail, and she stood up angrily, it is really a dog that can't change eating, and the nature of the country is easy to change.
Lin Yu'an couldn't tolerate the most intolerable thing was that Mrs. Fang's mother and daughter took Yu Jia's name as a pawn, and they were fake tigers outside, if this matter spread, what would it look like, the Rongguo Mansion would only think that she took her own sister as a concubine for Yu Jia, and secretly mocked Yu Jia for having the blessing of Qi people.
Where did they come from so boldly, dare to make something out of nothing, Yu Jia is very busy on weekdays, and she has only met Lin Yuqing a few times in total!
She stood for a moment, then sat back down, secretly suppressing the anger in her heart.
In the Fang family of Jiao Cake Hutong, there is no noise in the house just now, and in the side hall, the voices of talking are sounding one after another.
"Uncle, don't be polite, it's all your own family, and there are not so many rules."
In the room, a round table was full of people, and Mrs. Chen, who was still tense with Mrs. Fang just now, was diligently sandwiching a piece of fish into Mrs. Fang's bowl, and said with a smile on her face: "Eat more, it's rare for you to come back, now that Sister Qing has also found a good home, you have to come back when you are free, this is also your maiden home in the end, and your brother also remembers you, but he is forced to make a living, and he can't find you for a while." ”
Fang Qixian on the side was still in charge of the work clothes that he didn't have time to change because he was in a hurry to come back, his coarse linen gown was still stained with ash, and he was wearing a half-old gray-blue cotton hat on his head, he was not as thick as his wife's skin, he knew that he was sorry for his sister and two nieces, and now that they were in a good situation, he was happy to see it, and he didn't have the face to say anything.
Chen saw that her husband was stupid and only knew how to bury his head in cooking, and he was unhappy, so he quietly stepped on Fang Qixian's instep and crushed it hard.
Fang Qixian was in pain, and when the cry of pain reached his throat, he thought that there were still guests at home, so he had to swallow it raw, and quickly removed the pain on his face, and pulled the corners of his mouth with a forced smile, "Your sister-in-law is right, you can come home when you are free, don't think about what to bring back, just treat it as your own home." ”
Mrs. Fang and Fang Qixian are brothers and sisters who came out of their mother's womb, and they can't see their brother's embarrassment, and their hearts are bitter.
Fang Qixian is now being pinched by the Chen family everywhere, and he doesn't dare to have his own ideas.
Just because last winter, Fang Qixian, who was originally doing things in the country, fell because of the heavy snow, and broke his hand, and after that, he couldn't hold the pen, and the errand of the Guozijian was also lost, and he couldn't make a living copying books on weekdays, and he was idle at home for a while, Chen's nose was not a nose, and his eyes were not eyes, and at the beginning of spring, Fang Qixian went out to the dock to find an errand to unload the cargo ship, tired and tired, and five hundred dollars of silver a day, Mrs. Fang was a little restrained at the beginning, and later married a daughter-in-law, wanted to take something from her dowry, because of this, Fang Qixian was slapped twice by Chen, crying and making trouble, and finally Fang Zhouyu said that he didn't want her dowry, so the matter was settled.
There is a fierce wife in the family, and Fang Qixian has no choice, so Mrs. Fang doesn't blame him, she only blames the old mother for saying that the daughter of the Chen family entered the door and caused the house to be restless!
"I really didn't expect that there would be two such powerful girls in our family, a princess and a side princess, speaking of which, they are not inferior to the Xue family of the descendants."
The Xue family produced Xue Yuanniang, the daughter of the queen mother, but the Xue family is also a well-established family, how can it be compared to a small person like the Fang family.
And Lin Yuqing only thinks that her cousin is so shameless, she and her second sister are both surnamed Lin, what does it have to do with their Fang family, they disliked them in every way at the beginning, but now they are so skinless and faceless.
She was tired in her heart, but she didn't show it.
When Mrs. Fang pulled Lin Yuqing to get up and prepare to leave the Fang family, Fang Xianruo shouted her husband Xu Wen'an to kowtow to Mrs. Fang, "This is aunt, we are close, if you kowtow, in the future, aunt will be equivalent to having half a son." ”
Although Xu Wenan was a little reluctant, he thought that he might have something to do with King Jingnan, so he suppressed the displeasure in his heart, kowtowed to Mrs. Fang three times, and called out to his aunt very solemnly.
Mrs. Fang's heart was full of joy, and while responding to yes, she helped Xu Wenan up with nothing, "Okay, good, it's a good boy." ”
Xu Wen'an's face flashed with a look of surprise, and he smiled a little unnaturally.
"Okay, let's go back, otherwise the princess will have to wait for a long time."
A few people sent the two of them away with a smile on their faces, and watched the carriage go away, Xu Wenan asked his wife: "Is what she said credible, don't be fooled." ”
Fang Xianruo glared at him with disgust, "Hey, you still can't believe me?" ”
As she spoke, she stroked her belly with a finger, and Xu Wenan immediately stepped forward to help her waist with a smile, and said with a warm smile: "Where do you dare, the lady is my military advisor, Zhibi Kong Ming." ”
Fang Xianruo snorted proudly, and Xu Wen'an entered the house with his waist in his arms, and the Chen family was counting Fang Qixian angrily in the house: "Who do you look like to show it, you think you are like this, they will think that you are a good person, like someone who has done a great evil thing, if you are a promising, like the Wang family, a big industry, a big business, the money is not used up, and the gold and silver bowls are used for meals, I don't have to worry about the livelihood of the family, and I am happy to be a kind wife, holding the cards of the master, watching plays and listening to music all day long, Flowers and grass, that's naturally a good ......"
"Mother, don't say it."
Fang Xianruo felt that these words made Xu Wen'an listen to her reputation badly, so she interrupted Chen's words, glanced at Chen with some reproach, and said to her father Fang Qixian: "Father, don't you still have work in the afternoon, go get busy, there are many things at home, my mother is upset and irritable, and she can't sleep and can't listen, don't take it to heart." ”