Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Second Lady's Worries
The third aunt in Liuniang's mouth is the Liu family who followed Sanniang's father, the third old man Wang Dong, to the post.
Although the Liu family has been following the third master in office. Over the years, she has only given birth to one daughter, the second mother Wang Qiong.
"Sanniang sisters have brought some gadgets from Yanzhou, and they will be sent later." Sanniang didn't answer Liuniang's words, only nodded and smiled.
"Thank you, third sister." Yuan Niang glanced at Wu Niang and said with a smile: "Third sister, you don't know, Wu Niang has been looking forward to your coming back for a long time, so every day I ask, 'When will the third sister come back', we will be annoyed." ”
Sanniang turned her head and saw that Wuniang was looking at her like a puppy, and couldn't help laughing.
"You're bullying." Wu Niang pouted.
"Now the fifth sister is going to be happy, the second sister and the third sister are back. Speaking of which, the second sister and the third sister are worthy of being sisters, and at the same time thinking about bringing gifts to the sisters. Siniang covered her mouth and smiled: "I just don't know whose gift is more brilliant." ”
"Everyone is a sister, where is there any relatives who are distant and close, the fourth sister laughed. Sanniang's gift is just some gadgets, and it can't be elegant, so it's good that my sister doesn't dislike it. Sanniang didn't listen to her provocative words, and she dialed thousands of pounds.
"Speaking of which, the second sister's handkerchief embroidery is really good, and the double-sided embroidery is not something that anyone can embroider." Liuniang took out a pink embroidered handkerchief from her arms and said: "It's just that there are so many pieces of handkerchief, and the second sister embroidered them piece by piece, I don't know how much time it took." She also has to write and practice the piano, and I don't know where she came from in this world, which really makes me envious. ”
Siniang also took out a piece of peach-colored embroidered handkerchief from her arms, which was similar to the piece of material in Siniang's hand, looked at it carefully, nodded and smiled: "This embroidery is indeed good, even Mama Lin said that it can't be embroidered without more than ten years of needlework." ”
"Huh? Do you have to embroider for more than ten years to do this? Could it be that the second sister was born to take needles and threads? ”
Siniang smiled silently.
Siniang and Liuniang sang and harmonized. It's nothing more than wanting others to know that the embroidered handkerchief embroidered on both sides that Erniang gave them is from someone else's hand.
Although the Liu family has not yet returned, the birthday gifts for the Sun family and the gifts for each room have been sent back a few days ago. I heard that twenty live sheep were loaded into several carts, and special people were sent to take care of them.
Others, such as blankets, wine, watermelons, and all kinds of dried fruits, were also loaded with several carts one by one, and these gift-giving carts went all the way from the city gate to the palace, which provoked the people in the city to come and watch. There are those who are envious and jealous, there are those who praise the filial piety of the three masters and three daughters-in-law of the Wang family, and there are also those who sigh that the governor of Datong is really fat.
In addition to these specialties, the Liu family returned them to the Sun family. The eldest lady and the second lady each gave two shiny fox skins, and each of the young ladies and young masters of the Wang family gave two fine sheepskins.
Erniang Wang Qiong embroidered a double-sided kang screen for Magu's birthday to Sun, and gave a fan to the eldest lady and the second lady, and the sisters each got an embroidered handkerchief. They are all embroidered on both sides.
Just when I came back. Taking advantage of the opportunity to change clothes, Mama Zhao told her about this, but she hadn't seen anything yet. Even if Erniang sent them, these are all her people's embroidery on her floor, and it has nothing to do with her. It's just that the Liu family and Erniang haven't arrived yet, and the mansion is already so lively. What the coming days will be like, open and covert battles, can already be imagined.
When the Sun family sent everyone back, the second lady Bai, who had always had little sense of existence, said to the Sun family: "Mother, daughter-in-law has something to discuss with you. ”
Sun's hand serving tea paused, and several young ladies who were walking out also looked at Bai with curiosity. Bai has always known very well that Sun doesn't like her, and she never goes to Sun when she is fine, and she basically does everything after Sun orders her. Do a good job and don't invite credit. When he did something wrong, he never defended himself, but only respectfully pleaded guilty. There has never been a situation like today when he took the initiative to stay and discuss something with the Sun family.
"The second daughter-in-law stays, you all go down." Sun said lightly.
Sanniang and the others exited Sun's room.
"Big sister. What is the second aunt going to discuss with her grandmother? Waiting out of Sun's courtyard, Liu Niang suddenly stepped forward and grabbed Yuan Niang's arm and said coquettishly.
"I don't know, my mother didn't mention it to me." Yuan Niang frowned and shook her head, with worry in her eyes.
Liuniang pursed her lips and put down Yuan Niang's arm, obviously not convinced.
"Did you come here for the second aunt's family to ask for some grace from your grandmother?" Siniang rolled her eyes and guessed: "Didn't the sister-in-law of the second aunt's family send someone to some house a few days ago?" ”
"My aunt didn't ask my mother for anything, fourth sister, don't guess." Yuan Niang hurriedly argued.
Siniang smiled when she heard this: "Uncle won't let you know about this kind of thing, besides, didn't you just say that you didn't know?" ”
"This ......," Yuan Niang said.
Siniang and Liuniang exchanged a "look, it must be like this" look.
"Maybe it's for the Midyear Festival and my grandmother's birthday. Okay, let's all go back to the courtyard, the affairs of the elders are not something we can discuss on the sidelines. Sanniang smiled.
"I, I'm waiting for my mother here, and my sisters will go first." Yuan Niang shook her head and said.
The Midyear Festival and grandmother's birthday were all handled by the eldest aunt, and the mother did not interfere at all. Thinking that her mother was always sitting there alone and frowning these days, and accidentally pricked her fingers when teaching her acupuncture, Yuan Niang was very worried.
Sanniang sighed, no longer persuaded her, only said: "Then sister go to the porch over there and wait for the second aunt, there is no place to shade the sun here, I am afraid that I will suffer from heat stroke if I stand for a long time." ”
Yuan Niang nodded, and helped the maid down the corridor.
Siniang and Liuniang saw that there was no excitement to see, so they also left.
"Third sister, what did you promise to bring me?" Wu Niang finally had a chance to be alone with Sanniang, and hurriedly stepped forward and pulled Sanniang's sleeve.
Sanniang smiled: "When I go back, I will let someone send it to you." ”
"Then I'll go to your yard and get it!" Wu Niang said happily.
Sanniang saw that she was happy, so she let her go and took her to her yard.
At this time, in Sun's room, Bai Shi gave Sun what he had already thought of to Sun, seeing that Sun was silent after listening to it, but he stood with low eyebrows on his face, but he couldn't help but be a little anxious in his heart, and was thinking about saying a few more words, but he heard Sun say slowly: "I know what you mean, it's just that Yuan Niang is the eldest sister, and I have to slowly consider her marriage." Although your sister-in-law cares about her nephew and daughter and wants to be this matchmaker, our Wang family is not a small family after all, and the marriage is not sloppy. ”
"But Yuan Niang will be fourteen after the Mid-Autumn Festival......"
"That's it! Yuan Niang, she is my granddaughter, I still don't know how old she is? There are many daughters who are fifteen or sixteen, what are you anxious about! When I slowly visit a good person's house, I will naturally call the shots for Yuan Niang. You don't need to say more, step down. After Sun finished speaking, he closed his eyes and leaned on the couch, no longer paying attention to Bai.
The fifteen or sixteen people who agreed to marry were all daughters of small families, in order to keep their daughters for a few more years so that they could share some work with the family. Bai Shi was even more anxious when she heard this, but she understood that Bai Shi had already said that the Sun family would be concerned about Yuan Niang's marriage, and she was unwilling to listen to her, the candidate who was looking for a mother.
It's just that looking at Sun's attitude towards their second room over the years, is she willing to bother to find a good in-law for Yuan Niang? Maybe because of the face of the Wang family, there is wealth, but only everyone knows whether it is good or not.
Bai knew that it would be useless to say more today, and it would annoy Sun, so he could only bow and retire with anxiety.
While waiting, Yuan Niang walked back and forth under the corridor uneasily, and when she raised her eyes, she was finally relieved to see the Bai family out of the Sun family's main room. But when she saw the expression on Bai's face, Yuan Niang raised her heart again, she ran to Bai's in small steps and asked worriedly: "Mother, but what's the difficulty?" ”
Bai was still thinking about how to make Sun loosen his mouth, and he caught a glimpse of a figure trotting towards him from a distance before he came back to his senses. Seeing that his daughter was obviously anxious to run over, but she had been paying attention to not daring to lose her manners, she only took a small step, and the jade ring pressure skirt on the skirt did not even move too much, with the demeanor of everyone's ladies, Bai had a faint pride in his heart, but there was some indescribable sadness in the pride.
She educated Yuan Niang in strict accordance with the criteria of famous ladies, taught her to respect her elders and love her siblings, and let her always keep gentleness and frugality in mind.
The identity of the second room is already embarrassing in this house, she only hopes that her daughter's future can go smoothly and give people less opportunities to find faults. It's just that although Yuan Niang's temperament is excellent, she is too kind, and I don't know if it will be a blessing or a curse in the future.
Thinking of this, she remembered that she asked her sister-in-law to find the one who was the same as the Bai family, although that kind of family background and temperament are not necessarily good, but they are really suitable for Yuan Niang's temperament, if you miss it, it's really a pity.
Yuan Niang saw that her mother's eyes had been staring at her, but she frowned and didn't speak, and couldn't help but be even more anxious in her heart: "Mother? ”
Bai came back to his senses, shook his head at Yuan Niang with a smile, and reached out to pin a strand of her windblown hair to the back of her head: "It's okay, don't worry." ”
Although Yuan Niang was suspicious when she heard this, she saw that her mother didn't want to say it and didn't ask any questions, so she only said: "Then let's go back, my daughter will rub your shoulders." ”
Bai smiled and nodded, and took the lead out of Sun's courtyard.
When Sun saw Bai come out of his main room, his originally half-closed eyes slowly opened, and his eyes were amazingly bright.
Half a ring, Sun actually laughed out loud, and said softly: "Back then, you relied on the support of that old pious woman to not take me as a lady in your eyes, and now you don't know that you have been sold to that man's bed, while your son and granddaughter stay in this mansion and watch my face live." Dong Wanfang, did you ever think that there would be today? (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )