Chapter 4: Master and Servant
When she heard this name at first glance, the cold hairs on Shu'er's whole body stood up, and she felt that the cold wind of the nine days poured into her cuffs and skirts, and it was bitterly cold. She wanted to slam the door regardless of it, but after thinking about it, she opened the door with a "whew", and looked coldly at the plump figure who was hiding behind the fat woman, with skin like snow, wearing the most popular gauze clothes at the moment, the pomegranate red belly pocket under the clothes was exposed, and the beauty with her hair combed in a bun more than a foot high, laughed "sneering", and said bitterly: "It's rare that Sister Yutong still remembers this door...... Oh, Shu'er should call you Miss Yutong. Forgive sins, forgive sins. ”
The beauty raised her slightly drooping head, a pair of black and white eyes under her long and curved moth eyebrows were full of crystal tears, she trembled her rosy lips and said, "Shu'er, why do you say that?" ”
Shu'er circled around her, glanced contemptuously at her belly, and said coldly, "What should I say if I don't say that?" Should I call you aunt? You haven't been raised to be an aunt yet, I'm afraid I'll be beaten if I shout. ”
The beauty covered her face and sobbed quietly: "Shu'er, they don't know the truth, and you don't know either?" I didn't mean to, so wouldn't the young lady still forgive me? ”
"Phew!" Shu'er took a sip of her and said, "You also deserve the young lady to remember you?" Something with a wolf's heart and a dog's lungs! What are you here to do? Don't be annoying! Get lost! ”
The beauty wiped away her tears and said, "I'm here to thank the young lady." ”
I'm here to demonstrate. Shu'er sneered: "Don't be disgusting here. Taking advantage of the absence of Sister Yuhe and Mother Lin, you hurry up, otherwise when they come, you will say that someone is jealous of you and can't get along with you. ”
The fat woman smiled and said: "Miss Shu'er, you all come out in one place, Miss Yutong has a future, you are also glorious, and everyone is better off pulling each other, why do you have to fight like this?" When it was spread, people also said that the young lady was intolerant. There are so many aunts and concubines, and there is no shortage of Yutong girl, and there is one more Yutong girl, or the help of the young lady. ”
"You say it again?" An old woman with a thin figure and a blue and gold skirt stood behind the fat woman with a fierce face, looked at Yutong with bad intentions, and reached out to pull the fat woman, "The young lady can't tolerate anyone?" Did the young lady beat her or scold her? Let's go, let's ask the old lady to make a judgment! ”
Yutong looked at the mother-in-law nervously, took a few steps back in fear to protect her lower abdomen, and said aggrievedly: "Mother Lin! Don't do that! ”
"Mother Lin, Shu'er, the young lady asked why you are arguing so much! It's getting more and more unruly. But it was another little maid in the peony courtyard, Kuan'er, standing under the porch to greet the two.
Mother Lin thought for a while and said with a smile: "There are indeed no rules. Then he threw the woman away, and said, "Be careful to hold on to your Yutong girl, don't fall and regret it." He dragged Shu'er into the courtyard door and closed the courtyard door tightly.
Shu'er stuck to the door, and heard the fat woman persuade Yutong: "Girl, let's go back?" Beware of the heat in your heart, but you can take advantage of other people's intentions. Don't cry, I raised the little boy and pleased the son, what do you want when the time comes? ”
Yutong sobbed, "I really didn't mean to. ”
The fat woman said impatiently: "Okay, the door is also closed, and you can't get in left and right, whether you did it on purpose or not, no one listened." Let's go, let's go, if something happens, the son will ask me. ”
"Sister-in-law Wei, why do you say that!" Yutong choked and cried more and more. The crying faded away.
Shu'er turned her head to Mother Lin and said, "Mom, this person is really shameless and vicious. She cried so loudly and went back, falling into the eyes of others, afraid that she would have to give birth to more gossip. ”
The parrot flicked and heard, "Whew! The ground screamed, flapped his wings and said in a strange tone: "Gossip! Gossip! ”
"Little thing, you know what gossip." Peony walked out, poked and shook it affectionately with the handle of the fan, and said: "So let's not mess with her, she wants to cry and she will cry herself, and when others ask, it can't fall on us." Your temper is getting more and more like a charcoal, this is not good, if you see her stay away in the future, don't ask her to bite you. ”
"Afraid of what? Anyway, we have a lot of gossip here, and her crying is nothing. Mother Lin's face was darker than the bottom of the pot, and she looked at the peony angrily, with a look of hatred that iron could not become steel.
Peony put the fan away, leaned over to her side, and said with a smile on her face: "What's wrong with Mom?" Who upset you? What gossip have you heard today? Tell me about it? ”
Mother Lin is He Peony's nurse, she has no children and no daughters, so she only pounces on Peony and follows Peony over, she wanted to guard Peony for Mrs. He, protect Peony so that Peony can heal, and live a good life, but Peony is too pitiful, too weak and stubborn, and she was hurt by Liu Chang like that but she never could extricate herself. I am not angry, no matter how much she tries to change Peony's situation.
It's easy for Peony to understand after a serious illness, and the Liu family has also changed their view of Peony, and their situation is better, but Peony seems to have taken everything lightly, and looked at Liu Chang as if he didn't see it. Today she met Yuhe halfway, and heard Yuhe say that Peony rejected Liu Chang, and met Yutong to demonstrate, so angry that she was like something, and she only hated Peony.
Seeing that Mother Lin had a calm face and didn't speak, Peony rubbed her shoulder like a puppy, and shouted "Mom" a few times in a long voice.
Mother Lin couldn't help sighing, and remembered that Peony always liked to lean on her side when she was a child, like a small tail, delicate, with a "mother" on the left and a "mother" on the right, she couldn't bear to refuse anything. Now that she is older, she still has to pay attention to her, but she thought that she couldn't let Peony go on like this, so she hardened her heart and said coldly: "Danniang, if you still regard me as your nurse in your heart, just listen to me." ”
Peony smiled flatteringly: "You say, I'll listen." "Mother Lin's stubbornness is not the first time she has been taught, at that time she just came here, she was recovering from a serious illness, she was in a daze, refused to accept the status quo, and hid in the bed to pretend to be an ostrich, it was Mother Lin who dragged her out of bed, and then escorted her to Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Qi, forcing her to please Mrs. Qi and forcing her to face Liu Chang's concubine. After that, there were several similar things, all of which made her deeply appreciate the stubbornness of Mother Lin.
Mother Lin asked Shu'er to pay attention to the side and not to ask the idlers to come over, and said with a calm face: "In the past, my mother advised you, don't take it too seriously, don't be bitter about yourself, you don't listen, you ask for trouble every day, and you have that serious illness, which scared both your mother and the old lady half to death." It's easy to get sick, I think you understand, it's too inappropriate for you to be born, and the opportunity to send it to the door has to be driven away, isn't this cheap for nothing? I know you've figured it out, but if you want to gain a foothold here, if you want to protect the people around you, so that a little slut like Yutong doesn't dare to come to the door, you have to come up with a means. What does this look like? Don't lose the face of the He family! ”
Peony knows very well that Mother Lin, like Master and Mrs. He, is superstitious that her illness is only cured after marrying Liu Chang, and this marriage contract is her life talisman, even if life is not good, she will not agree to her and Liu Chang reconcile, so she never dared to tell Mother Lin that she wanted to reconcile. He lowered his head and said meekly: "Mom, I know what you said, I'm just angry that he didn't take me seriously at the time, I will pay attention to it in the future." ”
Mother Lin sighed, hugged her and said, "I have wronged my little Danniang." If it weren't for your illness, the lord and the lady would not have thought of letting you marry here, so that his family would feel that we were climbing high, and they would force his family. If you are worthy of the right person, why should you be so angry! But it's coming, life has to go on, even if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about the old lady who feels sorry for you. ”
Peony smiled: "I can save it." So tomorrow I have to dress up to attend the banquet, so that they don't underestimate me, my mother helps me think, what kind of bun to comb tomorrow is worthy of this dress? In a few words, Lin's mother's attention was diverted, and Lin's mother discussed with her with great interest about hairstyle jewelry. After a while, Yuhe came back from looking for silk threads, so he took out the dress, and the master and servant discussed it seriously.
When Shen Zheng arrived, Peony calculated that her mother-in-law and Mrs. Qi should be free, so she asked Yuhe to hand over the unfinished work in her hand to Mother Lin, rearranged her dress and hair bun, and the two of them walked to Mrs. Qi's yard with a silk bamboo umbrella.
The main courtyard where Mrs. Qi lives is a little far away from the courtyard of Peony, and it takes a quarter of an hour to walk. Although it is early summer, the sunlight is very strong, and the heat wave is surging up one after another, even the umbrella can't stop the heat, and after a while, the forehead and nose of the peony and the rain lotus are dripping with fine sweat, even the armpits also feel a little damp, which makes people feel uncomfortable.
Yuhe pointed to the wisteria trellis not far away, and said with a smile: "If the young lady is tired, why don't you go there to hide from the sun first?" Let's go again when we're refreshed. Anyway, there's nothing urgent about Madame's place. ”
Peony shook his head: "No need, it's good to sweat in the sun." "What is the point of walking for more than ten minutes in this weather? I think that when she wore seven-centimeter high heels, she walked like flying against the dog day noon sun and grabbed the bus with the men, and she never lost to anyone. It's just that there are too many good days now, and it's just getting more and more delicate, but if you don't regard yourself as a delicate person and be ruthless, you will naturally not be delicate.
Yuhe smiled: "The slave remembers that you used to be most afraid of the sun and sweating. ”
Peony pointed to the bluestone intersection leading to another courtyard in front of him, and said with a smile: "You see, it's not just that we are not afraid of the sun. ”
A group of people walked out of the bluestone intersection, a plump young woman in the middle, wearing a willow green chicken heart collar ribbed gauze shirt, a goose yellow high-waisted pleated skirt, and a pair of sparkling golden partridges were embroidered on the pleated skirt, combing half of the bun, the eyebrow painting contains smoke eyebrows, and a full water chestnut mouth painted red and gorgeous, it is Liu Chang's favorite concubine Biwu who gave birth to the eldest son.
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Do scumbags wash their hands? The answer is in the book.
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Do scumbags wash their hands? The answer is in the book.