Chapter 59: Humiliation (I)
The dusky cold wind, rolling yellow sand and messy fallen leaves, whistled in the direction of the sedan chair heading away, and the sedan chair man who carried the sedan chair had to free up one hand to cover his mouth and eyes. The edge of the long hexagram flying up is also the yellow sand all over the sky, the north is windy and sandy in winter, a gust of wind, the master feels that the sand behind him pats his back, he stands respectfully in the wind, and more than a dozen small people also look at it with a confused face. It wasn't until the sedan chair went farther and farther away, getting smaller and smaller, and turned into another street corner that the teacher went back lonely.
In the flower room of the Treasure Pavilion, a few pots of charcoal fire, day and night, the delicate peony in the spring, these days have produced a few buds, like a few small hearts hanging on the branches. Wanying happily told Aunt Lin about her new discovery, but Aunt Lin pinched the embroidery needle in her hand and stabbed the lotus heart, and just thought of an extremely difficult thing to figure out, and she didn't hear what Wanying said at all.
Wanying was bored, and the mother and daughter were bored pruning, and the other was concentrating on poking the lotus heart.
Wanying didn't speak, she always felt that the mother in front of her was a little different from the mother who didn't listen to the world before, was it really because Wanying was about to enter the palace? That's why my mother is so nervous and careful about the situation in the palace and the court?
Wanying thought about the question in her heart, but Aunt Lin didn't speak, sitting next to the seat of the master just now, holding an embroidered silver needle, carefully removing the dried lotus seeds. After a while, Master Shi came back, still sitting in the seat just now, and when she saw Master Shi come in, Aunt Lin dropped the embroidery needle in her hand. Aunt Lin took a cup of lotus heart tea and handed it to her father. "Have a drink, go to the fire, the bubbles at the corners of your mouth are about to come out."
"They all say that good medicine is bitter, don't you know that this good tea is also bitter?" Master Shi took the teacup and said with a smile.
"Since the master knows that it is beneficial to the body, he still doesn't drink this tea." Aunt Lin also smiled.
"Yes, good medicine is good for disease, and good tea is good for the heart. It's rare to be idle for half a day-" Master Shi seemed to be in a good mood.
"What is the so-called thing about the long history?"
"Guess? If I guess right, can I drink three cups in a row? Master Shi said coquettishly like a child, Wan Ying 'fluttered' and laughed, Master Shi and Aunt Lin glanced at Wan Ying, and the two also looked at each other and smiled.
"It can't be that the eldest princess has some rare book to invite the master to appreciate it, right?"
"No, no, no." Master Shi shook his head and squinted his eyes.
"Could it be that we can't grow up and come to our family just to drink a cup of tea?"
"Half right. Changshi brought a handwritten letter from the eldest princess, and asked me to choose the opportunity to participate in Wu'anhou, no matter what the reason is. ”
"What about faith?"
After reading it, Changshi immediately threw it into the brazier.
"How is the master going to deal with it?"
"Wait and see what happens, so that you don't change to all changes."
"How do you explain to the eldest princess?"
"Don't explain." ”
"What's wrong with that?"
"Everything in the world may not be in order. If it is appropriate here, it will inevitably be inappropriate there; If it's over there, it's hard to take care of it here. It's better that both sides are not appropriate, and both sides are appropriate. Master Shi drank tea and said leisurely.
"What Daddy said, Xuanzhi and Xuanzhi, what is appropriate and inappropriate, Qing'er is confused."
"Hulu Qing'er knows, right? You throw the gourd into the water, press this end to puff up that end, press that end to puff up this end. Just throw it in the water and let it be. The officialdom is wise and wise to protect himself, and my father has realized such a truth in his life. ”
Master Shi is for the sake of the family, but not entirely for the sake of Mingzhe, he is sad about the current emperor's misfortune, and angry with him. Even the teacher himself can't tell which of the two sides is more important? Yu Gong, he should help the emperor tide over the difficulties; For private reasons, the emperor himself is in danger, how can he give up his life to support a faint monarch? In public and private, it is better to be still, and not to help the emperor, it is really the emperor who is mediocre, and he does not go with the Marquis of Wu'an, and because he is the emperor's courtier, he will never do anything that is not a king or a minister. Under the trade-off, the best way is to wait and see what happens, and go with the flow.
"Then when will Daddy have time to guide the child, the child will benefit a lot!"
"Daddy really wants to tell you everything in his stomach, but you're too young, and it scares you when you say it, so it's better to know it."
When Aunt Lin heard this, she said: "Girls, it's good to know how to sew and mend, and if you don't want to be the prime minister, what do you do with these children?" ”
Before the words fell, I only heard a sharp voice outside the window shouting: "Lin Yuxin, you give me a favor, I want to ask today, what kind of heart do you have for this old fox spirit." ”
As soon as I heard this voice, I knew that it was Aunt Gao, I don't know which nerve was on the wrong line, and she actually ran to the Cherishing Pavilion to say such a thing, it was really too deceitful! Wan Ying bounced up from the chair, walked to the door, and was about to open the door to reason with her, Aunt Lin hurriedly ran over, pulled Wan Ying behind her, and said fiercely: "Go back, sit there well, don't go out." After finishing speaking, he left Wanying behind.
Wanying stepped forward again, and Aunt Lin said angrily: "Qing'er, if you don't want your mother to have a good time, you just go out." ”
Seeing this, Master Shi had already gotten up, and when he saw this, he said loudly, "You are not allowed to go out in the house." Words are indistinguishable. Wan Ying stood there woodenly, watching Master Shi and Aunt Lin go out in turn. Running to the window, through the thin window paper, I vaguely saw more than a dozen maids and ladies up and down the Xizhen Pavilion standing up. Behind Aunt Gao, there were more than a dozen servants in Dongbao Tower, and there were a bunch of people at the door. Wanying gently pushed open the window, the cold wind blew in her face and was cold to the bone marrow, Wanying saw Aunt Lin standing behind Master Shi with a lonely face, her body was thin, as if a gust of wind could blow her away. My heart was cold, and two lines of hot tears on my face were hot across my cheeks.
"The master is also here." Aunt Gao, Aunt Lin, next to a lewd man, said.
"If you don't stay at home, you run here to mess around, don't get out of here." Master Shi said sharply.
I saw that the man was so frightened that his legs and feet trembled, and he stepped forward again and again to make a gesture, and said timidly: "The master doesn't know, I really see that my sister is wronged, so I have to stand up for her." Hearing this, Wan Ying realized that this person turned out to be Aunt Gao's brother.
As soon as the words fell, Master Shi raised his arm and slapped the man in the face, and the man was so frightened that he quickly knelt on the ground, covering his face and not daring to squeak.
"Open your dog's eyes and see what kind of place this is, when will it be your turn to come out, why don't you get out of here and wait for the next people to carry you to the corpse?" Master Shi was already furious at this time. The man was so frightened that he crawled away from the courtyard of the Treasure Pavilion, and several men and women with unfamiliar faces also walked away when they saw this. The rest are all members of the family.
Aunt Gao was still arrogant just now, and when she saw that her mother's family was beaten out by the teacher, her momentum immediately subsided, and she stood there silent.
"What's going on?" Master Shi spoke.
"Oh...... Which one...... I...... Isn't the master accompanying guests outside? Aunt Gao stammered.
Only then will Wanying turn around: Aunt Gao originally thought that Master Shi was not there, so she would make a scene with her mother so that she could show her prestige, but she didn't expect that Master Shi would be here with her mother, and she would be humiliated.
"Tell me, what's going on?" Master Shi said unrelentingly.