Chapter 062 Three spindle spinning wheels

"That's right, the palace is also curious, when did there be a 'Second Grandma Su' in the house, could it be that Mrs. Zhao married two daughters-in-law?" The third princess saw that Mrs. Zhao slapped Aunt Su very unnaturally, and Zhao Yanniang's mean thin face also flashed embarrassment, so she smiled and said: "Oh, it's not right, our Da Zhou can marry a second wife from time to time, besides, the second young master Zhao doesn't seem to marry another daughter." ”

In fact, not only the Great Zhou, but also in the ancient feudal dynasties, social etiquette and customs agreed on monogamy, as for the so-called three wives and four concubines in later generations, it is not accurate. Because in the eyes of the ancient world, concubines are not legitimate wives, even after the death of the wife, the concubine can not be a wife, the "Tang Law Discussion" clearly stipulates: "The concubine is a cheap stream", "take the concubine and the guest girl as the wife, one and a half years in prison", if any family regards the concubine as a wife, not only to be spurned by the world, but also to be held legally responsible.

Therefore, the so-called "Second Grandma Su" of the Zhao family, no matter how Mrs. Zhao explains, is destined to lose the face of the Zhao family.

"This ...... Hehe," Mrs. Zhao laughed dryly, looked at Cui's family, and then looked at the third princess, looking embarrassed: "It's the first time I've heard of it, it must be those people who died nonsense."

"Oh? And what's going on? Cui's eyebrows raised slightly, and he sneered: "Mrs. Zhao's words are probably inappropriate, if there is no secret permission from the master, how dare the people talk nonsense?" Besides, the Zhao family is not such a new household, is there no rule in the family, even a family dares to talk nonsense, and even tries to injure the messenger sent by the master mother to deliver the letter, tsk, what a Zhao Mansion that is the richest man in a hundred years"

"Come on, don't call the housekeeper of the inner courtyard yet, I want to see which minions are so arrogant." Mrs. Zhao was squeezed by Cui's family, and her old face suddenly couldn't get off the stage, and she ordered repeatedly: "When the implementation is clear, let the housekeeper tie up the slave and deal with it according to the family law."

"Yes"

A big girl behind Mrs. Zhao hurriedly agreed and ran out of the hall quickly.

"The wife atones for her sins, and the slave and maid don't know which subordinate wants to frame the slave and maid, and asks the wife to know it."

Seeing this, Aunt Su knew that there must be an explanation for this matter, otherwise not to mention that the Cui family refused to spare her, even Mrs. Zhao would not let her go. I saw her staggering out from behind Mrs. Zhao, kneeling on the ground and saying aggrievedly: "Thanks to Mrs. Niang, the slave and Aunt Chen helped to take care of the housework in the inner courtyard together, just because the slave and maid were stupid and straight-hearted, and offended a lot of face-sgiving mothers-in-law and girls when they were on errands, presumably they secretly hated it and deliberately said bad things about the slave and maid everywhere, so that the so-called 'Second Grandma Su' was reported......"

"Mrs. Mingjian, the slave knows that her status is low, and she can be a concubine by the side of the second young master, she is already merciful and loving, how dare she dare to become the second grandmother? Besides, letting the subordinates call the slave maid 'Second Grandma Su' is not good for the slave maid at all, except for taking advantage of the tongue, but it is in vain, making people ridicule the slave and the second young master...... Woo, slave maid, slave maid is really wronged"

As she spoke, Aunt Su covered her handkerchief and babbled and cried.

"Aunt Su is right, this matter must be deliberately framed by those villains who hate Aunt Su." Zhao Yanniang took the lead in expressing her position, and without waiting for the housekeeper to ask about the situation, she directly put the responsibility on the subordinates, "Sister-in-law, Aunt Su just had a miscarriage and her body is weak, I think it is better to let her go back to recuperate." ”

"That's it, Mrs. Zhao should hurry up and let the 'Second Grandma Su' go back to the room to rest, so as not to be known by the second young master, and think that we are deliberately embarrassed, and then blast out my aunt who is an 'abandoned woman'"

Cui's was so angry by Zhao Yanniang's partiality that he was completely dead to the Zhao family in his heart, and secretly decided to find two safe grandmothers to send to Qi Niang as soon as possible.

I don't know, after this toss, Cui's finally understands why Qi Niang is cornered. This Zhao Mansion, from top to bottom, from masters to slaves, none of them took Qi Niang in their eyes.

"Don't be angry, Mrs., I will definitely give Qi Niang and the Li family an explanation for this matter," Mrs. Zhao was so choked that she almost didn't come up, she bit her lower lip hard, and said fiercely: "I'm not in good spirits these days, and I don't care much when I see that the two aunts are also dedicated." Unexpectedly, those Diao slaves were so arrogant. Yinqiao, go and take a look, see if the second housekeeper is here? ”

Another girl beside Mrs. Zhao hurriedly responded, and was about to go out, but she saw the second housekeeper walk in with an embarrassed face. He stopped his steps, turned back to Mrs. Zhao's side, and reminded in a low voice.

"Well, let him come in and talk back"

Mrs. Zhao rubbed her swollen eyebrows and said with a hint of exhaustion.

After a while, the second housekeeper Zhao Yi came to the hall with his head down, first respectfully greeted the distinguished guests, and then bowed down to stand in front of Mrs. Zhao, and said in a low voice, "Mrs. Hui, the porter in the house came in to report that the mother-in-law and girl you sent to Zhuangzi are back."

"What? Why did they come back, didn't I let them serve the second young grandmother well. ”

When Mrs. Zhao heard this, her temples jumped suddenly, and her originally swollen head became more and more dizzy.

"That, they, they were tied up and sent back by the people of the Li family in Haicheng, it seems that there is still some misunderstanding inside. Madam, the Li family's descendants are still outside the courtyard, let them in. ”

The second housekeeper also has a terrible headache, if something goes wrong with the people in the courtyard, he, the steward of the inner courtyard, also wants to settle down.

In? Why are you coming in, you don't think the house is messy enough? Mrs. Zhao closed her eyes forcefully, and was about to open her mouth to command. The three princesses, who have excellent ears, have already heard the words of their master and servant clearly, lest they be lively enough and say:

"Mrs. Zhao, let's invite people in, just let Mrs. Cui be the master, after all, they are all from the Li family."

When Cui Shi heard this, he looked at the third princess suspiciously, and then turned his gaze to Mrs. Zhao, who had a gloomy face, and didn't know what kind of riddle they were fighting.

"Go ahead, call the people of the Li family in, and just ask about the situation of the second young grandmother."

Mrs. Zhao opened her eyes suddenly, as if she had made up her mind, and commanded in a loud voice.

"Yes"

The second housekeeper heard a trace of unkindness from Mrs. Zhao's tone, and hurriedly raised his eyes to take a look, and happened to catch the cruelty that flashed in Mrs. Zhao's eyes, and hurriedly lowered his head, trembling in his heart.

After a whole day of riding a fast horse, Qingfeng came to the small mountain village in the neighboring county of Qingyang again, and in the placket of her clothes was a roll of torn white paper, which Wang Qifang asked her to show to the Wu family.

"Alas, I really don't understand, why is the second young grandmother so persistent in such a woman with a bad reputation?"

Qingfeng ate a lot of white eyes in Lin Village, and the villagers she asked, when they mentioned the Wu family, their faces were full of disdain, and they couldn't wait to spit two mouthfuls of foam to express their hatred for this Yin woman. When she asked about the whereabouts of the Wu family, no one was willing to say.

After working for most of the day, I asked almost all the villagers in Lin Village, but Qingfeng still got nothing. She sat a little tired at the edge of the mountain at the head of the village, biting the dry food, and couldn't stop thinking about what to do next.

Hmm, although I didn't find out the whereabouts of the Wu family just now, I still asked where Wu's maiden family was. Well, it just so happened that the village was not far from here, so I simply went to Wu's maiden house to investigate.

At dusk, the breeze rushed to Wu's maiden home, Wujiatang, and when she easily touched Wu's cousin's house, before she finished speaking, Wu's cousin-in-law spat on her face:

"Phew, our family doesn't have such a lewd and shameless yin slut, do such ugly things that are immoral, don't say that she has no face to come back, even if she dares to come back, I will also beat it out with a big stick." Fuck off, don't mention this slut in our house, you don't have to dirty our family's territory."

As she spoke, Wu's cousin-in-law picked up the broom, waved it desperately, and after pushing the breeze out of the door, she slammed it against the door and inserted the latch hard.

"No, I'm just asking someone."

Qingfeng helplessly wiped the saliva on his face with his sleeve, and pushed the door again, but did not push. Thinking of the ardent expectations of the second young grandmother before going out, it was not good to turn around and leave if the Qingfeng task was not completed, so I had to call the door again.

"Whoosh"

In response, a broken shoe flew out of the low courtyard wall

Er, looking at the reaction of Wu's cousin-in-law, it is estimated that Wu's will not dare to come back

Qingfeng shook his head and decided to ask someone else.

It's a pity that they knocked on the doors of more than a dozen villagers next to each other, and when it came to the Wu family, although everyone did not have the reaction of the cousin-in-law, they did not have a good face, and most of them coldly said "I don't know" and "died" and closed the door.

Seeing that it was getting late and late, Qingfeng was also a little anxious, and when she knocked on the last one, she changed her thinking, not saying that she was asking for directions to find someone, but saying that she missed the inn where she stayed and wanted to borrow a night at the villager's house.

The owner of this yard is a ** in her twenties, she saw that Qingfeng was beautiful and cleanly dressed, not like a bad person, so she warmly greeted her in.

In the evening, after eating the dinner hosted by the host, Qingfeng saw that the man did not come back, so he tentatively chatted with **. When she consciously asked about Wu's, ** first looked at Qingfeng vigilantly, and saw that she looked normal, completely like a passerby, so she continued to chat with confidence.

"Alas, speaking of this Sister Wu, she is really wronged. Obviously, his own man wanted to divorce his wife and marry another, but he couldn't find any excuse, so he could only frame her for adultery...... Hey, how could a virtuous and virtuous woman like Sister Wu steal people, I won't believe it if she kills her...... It's a pity, who let the Zhou family get married to the Su family, we and the people of Lin Village are afraid of the power of the two families, so they don't dare to help Sister Wu speak fairly, let alone let her go home."

"Then where is she now, a weak woman has a home and can't go back, isn't there no way to live?"

When Qingfeng heard this, it suddenly dawned on him, no wonder the last time he went to Lin Village, there were still a few villagers who helped the Wu family speak fairly. It's only been two days since then, and everyone's tone has changed, it turns out that the Zhou family and the wealthy businessman have made trouble.

"It's not, alas, fortunately, before Sister Wu's father passed away, he left a small house for her at the entrance of Shanxi, as well as two acres of thin fields, as long as she survived this time."

Shanxi Kou?

When he finally got the answer, Qingfeng was very happy, and rode to that place early the next morning.

"Excuse me? Heh, doesn't your second young grandmother know my current reputation, and I'm not afraid of being affected by me? ”

Wu wore a blue and white small-sleeved shirt on his upper body, a pair of wide-edged coarse cloth trousers, and his black hair was wrapped in a blue cloth handkerchief, typical of a peasant woman's outfit.

"As long as you haven't done that, my young grandmother won't be afraid"

As he spoke, Qingfeng took out the scroll of drawings from the placket of his clothes and handed it to Wu, "My young grandmother said that she wants to do this, but she needs your help." If you don't want to put up with other people's white eyes and malicious false accusations, then follow me"

"What is this?" Seeing Qingfeng's eyes were clear and his expression was open, not like the Zhou family sent to practice himself, Wu wiped his hands on his apron, took the scroll and unfolded it, and said in surprise: "This, where did you get this?" Who is your young grandmother and what is she going to do? ”

Most of the scroll was burned by fire, but Wu still recognized the object at a glance by the half-cut wooden wheel and spindle drawn on the paper—it was not a wheel, but a three-spindle spinning wheel designed by the owner and built by her father himself