Chapter 462: Calling the Shots
At night, the lights in the courtyards of the Fang family were all extinguished, and the lights under the eaves of the corridors beside the roads were also half extinguished, but the candles in the bedrooms in Fang Jingyi's courtyard were still burning.
Fang Jingyi was wearing a simple homely dress, and slowly walked back and forth in the not too wide place in front of her bed, as if she was thinking about something.
The sound of "pop" made Fang Jingyi come back to his senses and turn his head to look.
"Miss, it's a lantern flower, you must be able to make your wishes come true." Chunhua said with a smile.
Fang Jingyi smiled, walked to the edge of her bed and sat down, and was about to speak, but there was a gentle knock on the door. Fang Jingyi glanced at Chunhua, Chunhua understood, and walked gently to the door.
After a while, she came back again, still holding something in her hand: "Miss, bring it." Chunhua smiled and handed the things in his hand to Fang Jingyi, it was a letter, and the words "Mother personally enlightened" were written on it.
Fang Jingyi smiled at Chunhua: "Remember to reward her with ten taels of silver later." β
Chunhua nodded: "The slave knows, Miss, hurry up and take a look, and let her send it back after reading it." I don't know what kind of trick she wants to use to harm you this time, Second Miss. Miss, if she really comes back to Yin, you are not allowed to let her go again. Since she never cares about any sisterhood, we must also have grievances and revenge to resolve our hatred! β
Fang Jingyi didn't speak, she walked to the candle, took the letter out of the envelope, opened it and looked at it at a glance. Chunhua stared at her with bright eyes, and when she saw that she had finally finished reading the letter, she took the initiative to go up and take it, folded it as it was, and then put it back in the envelope, and said urgently: "Miss, what does the second lady say in this letter?" Do you want to collude with your wife to harm you? β
Fang Jingyi frowned slightly and didn't speak, and when she heard the words, she gestured to Chunhua. Chunhua understood, immediately took the letter in his hand, turned around and went out.
After a while she came back again: "Miss, the letter has been returned, and the silver has been rewarded to her." β
Fang Jingyi had already sat back on the edge of her bed. nodded: "It's not too early, let's turn off the lights and rest first." β
Today is Chunhua's night, she waited for Fang Jingyi to go to bed, and dimmed the light and brought it to the outside room. It is convenient to wake up in the middle of the night and light it at night.
After she had also made a bunk under the bed. Hearing that Fang Jingyi's breathing on the bed was different from when she was asleep, knowing that she hadn't slept yet, she couldn't help but say, "Miss, Second Miss, her letter ......" She still didn't feel at ease if she didn't ask clearly.
Fang Jingyi couldn't help but sigh lightly, she knew that if she didn't say it, she was afraid that her maid would think about it, and she couldn't sleep all night: "It's just that my wife wants me to persuade me to agree to retire my family." β
"It's that simple?" Chunhua was a little unconvinced. She felt that the second lady had bad water in her stomach, and she had never had any kindness, and she was not Fang Jingyan if she did something to block her own young lady from time to time.
Fang Jingyan smiled bitterly. Naturally, there was more to the letter, and that Mrs. Li was also a powerful person, and she was unwilling to bear the infamy of voluntarily withdrawing from the marriage, so she told Fang Jingyan that if the Fang family could not let the Li family take half of the responsibility and withdraw this family business, she could agree to Fang Jingyan to enter the Li family's door.
Fang Jingyan asked Mrs. Li to find a way to let her get a "bad disease". and took the initiative to send people to Longxi to give the Li family face. Don't let the Li family become the laughing stock of everyone in Longxi. This side of the capital is far away from Longxi, and the news here has not yet spread for the time being.
But paper can't contain fire. Fang Jingyan still thinks that her and Li Yuan's reputation can be preserved? Fang Jingyi shook her head, she was really naΓ―ve. And that Mrs. Li is not willing to take care of it at all, and the promise to Fang Jingyan is also very vague, obviously not an easy person to get along with.
"I don't know if Madame will listen to her rumors that I have a bad disease." Fang Jingyan said lightly.
Chunhua gasped, and said angrily: "Sure enough, the dog can't change eating!" She is also too vicious, not to mention robbing your marriage, if the reputation of this 'evil disease' spreads, Miss, you don't want to find a good in-law in your life. Mrs. She...... The second miss is her own child, and she will definitely help the second miss. What to do? Miss? Do we just watch them calculate us? β
Fang Jingyi looked at the top of the tent with her eyes open. The voice was faintly tired: "I'm wondering, does a woman have to marry to have a way out?" If I have a bad reputation, I naturally don't have to get married, will it be easier for me to live? I've experienced so many ups and downs over the years, and I'm really tired...... When is it going to be a head......"
Chunhua was stunned when she heard this, and stammered a little: "Miss." You, how did you have such an idea? Women naturally want to get married, and besides, you are so good, how can you be lonely for a lifetime? This...... It's so unfair! β
When Fang Jingyi heard this, her head turned outward, and she joked with a faint smile: "Don't worry, even if I don't get married, I will find a way to find a good family for you and Qiu Shi." You have followed me for many years, and I will not let you grow old alone with me for the rest of your life. In the end, the tone was serious.
Chunhua said hurriedly: "Miss, what are you talking about?" If you really don't marry, then the slave will follow you and serve you all your life, you just marry Qiushi. β
Fang Jingyi smiled, still a little moved in her heart: "It's too early to say this now, let's talk about it later." There's a lot of trouble ahead. β
"Miss, since you already have plans not to marry, what's the trouble? Isn't it just that the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth? β
Fang Jingyi shook her head: "Where is it so simple?" This marriage is not something that we can withdraw smoothly if we want to. Let's watch. In fact, Fang Jingyan really doesn't need to deal with me like this, I also hope that she can go well, if she had discussed it with me at the beginning, maybe I would have helped her become Li Yuan's wife. The position of the young lady of the Li family...... I really don't want it. β
Chunhua pouted: "She's just worthy of picking up the rest you threw away." The tone was very disdainful.
Sure enough, as Fang Jingyi said, this divorce is not something that the Li family and the Earl's Mansion want to do. In the Fang clan, someone came the next afternoon, and it was the eldest daughter-in-law of the patriarch, the third old lady of the Fang family, who was highly respected.
Mrs. Fang took Fang Jingyi to greet people at the second gate in person, and the third old lady glanced at Mrs. Fang and Fang Jingyi, who saluted her, and nodded lightly to let them get up, but beckoned to Fang Jingyi cordially: "Jingyi, you come over and help me, I'm old, my legs and feet are not good, and it's better to be supported when I walk." β
Fang Jingyi hurriedly stepped forward and helped the third old lady to stop: "Third grandmother, Jingyi will be a crutch for you." β
The third old lady smiled and asked Fang Jingyi to help her go to the main room.
Madam Fang glanced up and only hurriedly followed. Earl Fang has given thousands of instructions, he must not offend the people in the patriarch's room, and he has to rely on the clansmen to contribute to the errand he is heading towards.
"In this house, I haven't been here since Mrs. Tai died, and I just took a look, and it hasn't changed much." The third old lady was helped by Fang Jingyi to sit on the upper seat, and Mrs. Fang sat on the side.
"If the third aunt is free in the future, she will come to the house to sit more. You're here, my nephew is happy. Mrs. Fang hurriedly said.
The third old lady glanced at Mrs. Fang and was noncommittal.
Mrs. Fang was a little embarrassed, she naturally guessed what the third old lady was here for. As for why the clan got the news so quickly, it is not difficult to guess. In Old Madam Fang's yard, there were two old ladies sent by the clan.
"I heard that the Li family is here? Go and call someone up. Some things have to be decided by the elders, otherwise they will make people laugh. Our Fang family is thin-skinned, and we can't afford to lose anyone anymore. Otherwise, after a hundred years, I am afraid that I will not be able to face the ancestors and ancestors. β
Mrs. Fang smiled reluctantly, she had no choice but to turn around and tell her maid to invite the Li family's Mama Li over. Since the third old lady is here for this matter, it is natural that she will not stop if she does not see anyone.
Mrs. Fang accompanied the third old lady to drink tea for a while, and after a while, the maid led a grandmother who was about forty or fifty years old and walked in.
The grandmother saw Mrs. Fang sitting on the throne and a strange old lady, thought about it, and stepped forward with a smile to say goodbye: "The slave maid greets the old lady and the lady." I should have gone to kowtow to the old lady a long time ago, but the lady said that you were sick, and the slave dispelled this idea. Our lady asked the slave to bring some good medicinal herbs over, and asked the old lady not to dislike it. β
This old lady was articulate and smiling, and she knew at a glance that she was a clever one.
The third old lady took a sip of tea, didn't look at the grandmother, and said lightly: "I'm not the old lady in this mansion, I can't afford your gift." β
Mrs. Fang hurriedly said: "This is the third old lady of the Fang family, the third aunt of the lord. β
Seeing Mrs. Fang's respectful posture, the old lady naturally understood that she was not low-status, and hurriedly said: "Worthy of it, worthy of it, it's a slave who is clumsy and clumsy." β
The third old woman didn't speak, but only said to Fang Jingyi, who was standing beside her, "Jingyi, good boy, you go and make a bowl of tea for the third grandmother, these little girls can't eat it." As for the things here, you don't have to worry, there are three grandmothers for you to decide everything. β
Fang Jingyi smiled bitterly in her heart when she heard this, she really didn't want people to call the shots for her. But he bowed his head and retreated.
The old lady was shocked when she heard this, and looked up at Fang Jingyi, and when she saw that it was a young woman with a demure posture and a beautiful face, she was still a little suspicious.
This is Fang Jingyi, the eldest lady of the Fang family? Didn't it mean that this eldest lady of the Fang family was sick in bed all the year round and couldn't see anyone? Why does it look like you're in good health? (To be continued)