Chapter 24: Provocation
After Mama Chang visited Mama Lin, she returned to Songling Courtyard, and then went back to the house and sat for a while, and a little girl came to the main courtyard to call that Sun had woken up and asked Mama Chang to comb her hair. Mama Chang took care of the mirror a little and went to Sun's room.
"The old lady got up a little earlier today than usual." Mama Chang said while skillfully helping Sun put his hair up.
"It's fifteen today, and all rooms have to come to Songling Courtyard for dinner at night, and the boss doesn't know if he can rush back today." On weekdays, the Wang family eats in their own courtyard, but every New Year's Festival and the fifteenth day of the new year of each month, people from each room come to Sun's courtyard for dinner.
"If the eldest master is free, he will naturally come back, and if he can't rush back, he must be busy with official business." Mama Chang said while carrying the hairpin.
Sun sighed: "It's not interesting to raise this son, one or two are not at home all year round." ”
Mama Chang helped Sun insert the hairpin and said with a smile: "It is said that men are ambitious in all directions, and this son has a future, and you, a mother, are complaining." ”
Hearing this, Sun also shook his head and smiled: "It's not mine." You're right, at least the two children are not like them. Speaking of the old lady, Wang Hong, Sun's face that was still smiling just now sank again. A few days ago, he heard that there was an extremely rare nine-colored bird in Yanzhou Mansion, so he drove to Yanzhou Mansion overnight with a group of followers, and has not returned, so he only sent someone back with a letter and said that he would stay there for a while.
Mama Chang saw that Sun's face was not good-looking, and after thinking about it, she changed the topic: "The slave and maid looked at the two masters to be filial, and said that the third master, although he is in Datong, the filial piety that is sent back to you during the New Year's holidays has never been thin. ”
Sun's face looked better.
Mama Chang said again: "Speaking of filial piety, the slave and maid remembered another thing. ”
"Oh? What's going on? Since the Sun family re-recruited Mama Chang to serve closely, he also likes to chat with her about family life on weekdays, and when he saw Mama Chang say this, he naturally asked.
"Old lady, do you remember the Song family who lived in Maoyan Hutong when she was in the capital?"
Sun Shi thought about it for a moment and then suddenly said, "Oh, it's the Song family with a five-jin sect and a very thin population?" ”
Mama Chang smiled: "The old lady has a good memory, and when the slave maid heard about it, she still thought about it for a long time before she remembered that there was such a family." But you can remember it all at once. The grandson of the Song family is said to be an out-and-out filial son. ”
Sun thought about it again and said, "I remember that the grandson of the Song family is a single descendant of three generations, and in his generation, the Song family only got him a male. His biological mother had already gone, and his father's new wife was not a virtuous person, and his life was not easy at that time. Why is he now resentful of his stepmother with virtue? ”
Mama Chang shook her head and said, "That's not it, this stepmother heard that she had died of a sudden illness the year before last." ”
"Oh?"
Mama Chang continued: "This Young Master Song has not insulted the name of his ancestors, he has been in the spring of this year, and when the emperor of the Jinluan Palace summoned him, the emperor temporarily asked him about the school and wanted to test him, and he also answered fluently. The emperor asked him what reward he wanted. Old lady, guess what Young Master Song wants? ”
Sun Shi pondered for a moment and said, "The reward is nothing more than some official property and property, and it must be unusual for you to ask me." Could it be that he fell in love with a famous lady or even a princess and county lord who wanted the emperor to marry? ”
Mama Chang shook her head and said, "It's not." No wonder you couldn't guess, even the people present at the time didn't expect that Young Master Song actually asked the emperor to canonize his nurse. ”
"How can such a thing happen?" Sun said in surprise.
Mama Chang said, "But isn't it? This nurse is also the ancestral grave of the family, and she can be so valued by the master. Mama Chang's tone did not hide her envy.
"What about after that? Has the emperor ever allowed this Young Master Song's invitation? ”
Mama Chang shook her head: "This has never happened." The emperor said that it was not in accordance with the rules to seal the nursing mother, and his deceased mother could be posthumously sealed. However, the emperor also praised the filial piety of the young master Song, and also rewarded the nurse with gold and silver fields. ”
Sun nodded: "The biological mother has not been sealed yet, how can the nursing mother be sealed?" ”
Mama Chang said: "Young Master Song later said to people that although she was a nursing mother, she was comparable to a biological mother. He lost his mother at a young age, and he relied on this nurse to take care of everything. ”
The Sun family was very disapproving, but since the emperor praised Young Master Song first, she naturally didn't want to say that Young Master Song was confused.
"You go find a little girl and bring Mama Li, I want to see the menu tonight." Sun said to Mama Chang that he would no longer talk about the topic of Young Master Song.
Mama Chang immediately bowed down and responded: "The slave and maid will go now." And he withdrew.
Mama Chang came out of Sun's main room, beckoned Agarwood who was waiting at the door to the side and asked, "Where did Mama Li go?" ”
Agarwood replied crisply: "I heard Agarwood say that Mama Li's son asked someone to see her, and Mama Li went out of the weeping flower gate." ”
Mama Chang said: "You go and tell Mama Li that the old lady wants to see the menu in the evening." ”
Agarwood responded, and Mama Chang saw that there was no one around, and whispered a few words in Agarwood's ear.
Agarwood listened quietly, and finally nodded and went in the direction of the Hanging Flower Gate.
At this time, Mama Li did see her son outside the Hanging Flower Gate.
The hanging flower gate of the courtyard of the deep house, also known as the second gate, is the boundary between the inner courtyard and the outer house, and it is also the only passage from the inner courtyard to the outside world.
"Mother, you have to say good things for me in front of the old lady, let me continue to serve in front of the old lady, and I won't go anywhere else." Mama Li's son Ping'an begged Mama Li.
Mama Li said with a cold face: "Do you think that we have the final say in this house, how to serve and how you want?" ”
Ping An disagreed: "You are the old man in front of the old lady, and you are still the nurse of the old man." Although it is not up to you to say that it is up to you in this house, it is also under one person......"
"Shut up." Mama Li drank her son, looked left and right and found that no one came over, and scolded: "You let the eldest master follow the eldest master in order to see some of the world outside and grow some skills, why are you still not growing at all?" ”
Ping'an was scolded by Mama Li like this, and it was difficult to reply, so she had to stand aside and listen to the training.
Mama Li glared at her son and said, "Who did you listen to about this?" ”
Ping'an leaned over and whispered: "It's Wang De'an who has been looking for someone to replace me for a while, so that a kid next to him knows what he told me secretly." ”
Mama Li sneered when she heard this: "Wang De'an, he's a fart!" ”
After speaking, he frowned and said, "No! Wang De'an: He is not a person who likes to make his own decisions. Mama Li looked at her son, "Did you do something to make the eldest master unhappy?" ”
When Ping An heard this, he shouted that he was wronged: "Can I make the eldest master unhappy?" Although he grew up eating my mother's milk, I was too well-behaved to be a dog in front of him. ”
Mama Li glanced at her son suspiciously, but she also understood that he really didn't dare to mess with the eldest master.
"Alright, you can go back first. I know that, until I figure out what the hell is going on. You should be an errand first, remember, you must serve the master well, and everything must go smoothly to understand? ”
Ping'an said: "Okay, mother, you don't need to tell me this." If the master wants to sleep with a woman, I will take off his pants for him, and if he wants to kill someone, I will hand him a knife, and I will ensure that he is satisfied. "Ping'an usually has a lot of mixed with the old man in the Qinglou Chu Pavilion, when the master and the beauties spend the moon before the moon, he drinks and farts with other old men's followers, and dares to say any joke, this time I forgot that it was my own old son and mother in front of me, and I was poor when I opened my mouth.
When Mama Li heard this, she raised her hand and was about to slap him, but Ping An had already slipped away. Before leaving, he didn't forget to shout: "Hey, mother, don't forget." ”
Mama Li was so angry that she shouted, "Wronged! ”
The mother and son were talking, not paying attention to a small blue figure flashing behind the hanging flower door.
After her son left, Mama Li also turned around and went back to Songling Courtyard, and when she arrived at the gate of the courtyard, the third-class little maid Agarwood came forward and said that Sun wanted to see the menu for the evening, so Mama Li did not enter the yard and went to the kitchen to get the list.
Seeing that Mama Li had gone away, Agarwood went back to the main room and said to Sun's family: "Old lady, the maid found Mama Li at the Hanging Flower Gate, and she said that she would go to the kitchen and get the list and come back to you." ”
"What is Mama Li doing at the Weeping Flower Gate?" Sun asked.
Agarwood replied with a pair of big eyes: "It's Mama Li's son who came, and Mama Li met me outside the second gate." ”
Sun nodded, as if casually asking, "At this point, what is Ping An going to do?" Why didn't you go out with the eldest master? ”
Agarwood tilted her head slightly and thought about it, and said uncertainly: "The slave only vaguely listened to what Mama Li's son said...... Ice...... Help with ideas...... Hide it first...... The slave and maid were far away, and did not hear clearly. Agarwood blushed and was a little embarrassed.
Sun's eyes narrowed when he heard this, hiding it? Hiding from whom? Who does her own son need a servant to help him hide?
Thinking like this, Sun's eyes were already clouded.