Chapter 45: Exorcism
Chen Qiaoqiao is still worried about this gentleman in her heart, and she also wants to inquire about the situation first, doesn't she? After thinking about it, if you want to inquire, it's better to find the lady of the Fan family, she is an omniscient person. Thinking like this, Chen Qiaoqiao bought some pastries or something at the roadside stall, and asked Si Zuo and Si You to go back with their things first, and she went to the Fan family's lady by herself. But she carried the money bag with her, and she didn't feel at ease.
The lady of the Fan family was embroidering, and she was extremely happy to see Chen Qiaoqiao coming to visit, you know, Chen Qiaoqiao is an official wife, and it is a great honor for her to take the initiative to make friends with a businesswoman! Chen Qiaoqiao doesn't have so many class concepts, she just wants to inquire.
"Mrs. Chen! You can come to my house to look up to me, what kind of gifts do you bring! "The joy of the lady of the Fan family is beyond words." I have something to ask for, the lady of the Fan family, our family Si Zuo and Si You are not young, I want to go to school, I heard that there is a female gentleman in this alley, but I don't know if it's good or not, the Fan family lady is well-informed, and she said? ”
"This! You just asked the right person, you can ask me about the things in our area, I know all the big and small things, there is indeed a female gentleman in this alley, surnamed Liu, I heard that I used to be a gentleman in the Prime Minister's Mansion, but I don't know why I offended the Prime Minister's wife, so I was kicked out, some people say that the Prime Minister coveted her beauty, let Mrs. know, she will be driven out, and then she was taken in by our Chen Baochang, this Chen Baochang Mrs. must know, it is the patriarch of your Chen family, I have always seen it a few times, right? I heard that Mr. Liu is a distant relative, so I left her to teach this generation of girls again, originally only accepted the girls of the Chen family, but in recent years, the children of other families have also accepted, as long as they can afford the silver, I heard that it costs twenty taels of silver! That's a lot of money, and what kind of restraint do you have to prepare, not for ordinary children! ”
Chen Qiaoqiao really didn't know who the chief security was, so she just listened with a smile. When Wang Anshi of the Northern Song Dynasty changed the law, he proposed that ten households were one guarantee, five guarantees were one big guarantee, and ten guarantees were one guarantee, so the authority of the chief was quite large.
After listening to the words of this lady of the Fan family, Chen Qiaoqiao already made a judgment in her heart, since this Mr. Liu has been in the Prime Minister's Mansion, he must be talented, knowledgeable, and quite beautiful. As for this silver, Chen Qiaoqiao decided to give twenty-five taels, if it was more, she would definitely return it, she couldn't give less.
"Thank you so much, lady, if it weren't for you, who would I ask for? It can be known that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors! Chen Qiaoqiao said with a smile. These words made the Fan family lady smile from ear to ear, "That's not it!" Mrs. Chen, it costs a lot of money to send these two children to school, and your daughter-in-law agrees? ”
The lady of the Fan family is very curious. "Alas!" Chen Qiaoqiao sighed slightly, "Isn't this for the sake of the child?" Now if you want to marry a good family, where is it so easy? You also know my daughter-in-law, she can't give birth, where do you understand the worries of being a mother! Fortunately, our uncle is a sensible person, and it will be beneficial for them to marry his sister well in the future, right? So the matter is still settled! ”
Chen Qiaoqiao said sincerely, and the lady of the Fan family also nodded again and again, "Yes!" Your eldest daughter-in-law really doesn't know what to do, last time I asked for a secret recipe, saying that it was specifically for the treatment of infertility, and I wanted to tell her, who knew that when she heard it, she scolded me! How can a woman not know the difficulty of not having an heir? ”
Although this lady of the Fan family is gossiping, she is not a bad person, but a warm-hearted person. "Oh? What is the secret ingredient? Chen Qiaoqiao couldn't help but be interested, she also said today that she wanted to find a prescription for Hu Feng! If Hu Feng has a child, she will have no time to separate, and she will have to give up the position of the housewife.
"A sister of my mother's family has also been infertile for many years, and later got a prescription, saying that it is to ask for wolfberry, dodder seed, schisandra, raspberry, psyllium, Yizhiren, black medicine, and the turtle plate in the pot, steamed through the water, people stay in the steamer, feel the blood in the whole body, the whole body is feverish, the disease is cured, my sister gave birth to a big fat boy in the second year!"
Chen Qiaoqiao couldn't help but laugh dumbly, no wonder Hu Feng would scold people, put people on to steam, Hu Feng thought she was burying her! However, Chen Qiaoqiao has heard of this kind of steam treatment for infertility, but modern steam therapy devices are used.
"This Hu Feng really doesn't know anything, I said when I go back, I must ask her to give it a try, our family is a long house, how can I have no heirs, and now I have gone to the Jingxi Forbidden Army, the future is unlimited, and the bloodline of our Chen family can not be cut off in Hu Feng's hands!" Chen Qiaoqiao said. "That's right! That is to say, your uncle has a good temperament, if it is a man in our family, if I don't give birth to a son, he will take a concubine early in the morning! The lady of the Fan family is still very envious of Hu Feng for this.
"You don't know about our Chen family, the Hu family has a lot of money, suppressing the Chen family everywhere, and our uncle is also hard, I just hope that the life of the family will get better, if this Hu Feng still can't give birth to children, it will only be a matter of time before he takes a concubine." This Chen Qiaoqiao understands that there are three unfilial pieties, and there is no queen, Chen Bonian is just a bad career, if he was in a high position, he would have taken a concubine a long time ago. Because although the relationship between Chen Bonian and Hu Feng is good, it is not so good that the love is deep and there is no complaint, this Chen Bonian still minds Hu Feng's infertility very much.
"It's hard for you, Mrs. Chen, people like this can't avoid it! At the beginning, the reputation of their Hu family was not very good, but they were able to climb your General's Mansion, everyone wondered, and they didn't know what General Chen liked about their family back then! Don't you know, this Madame Hu has been in a state of suspense for a while! "The eldest lady of the Fan family is very curious. In fact, this is also the question in Chen Qiaoqiao's heart, Shinong Industry and Commerce, this businessman's family is the most unacceptable, with the prestige of the Chen family back then, how could he marry the Hu family? Or the eldest son Chen Bonian?
However, this question is only known to the dead Chen Wei and Chen, and she Chen Qiaoqiao can't answer this confusion.
"It's all wrong! Alas, big lady, I won't bother you anymore, it's time to go back and get ready, and go to visit Mr. Naliu! The lady of the Fan family nodded, "However, I heard that this apprentice is going to apprentice, is Mrs. Chen prepared?" ”
This stopped Chen Qiaoqiao, why did she forget about this one? "What literati does the lady of the Fan family know?" Chen Qiaoqiao asked, this apprenticeship post is unusual, it is best to be someone who is also a gentleman, in order to show their sincerity.
"Hehehe, Mrs. Chen! You all have literati in your own family! I heard that the father of the third daughter-in-law is a gentleman! And I heard that Mr. Naliu is an old acquaintance! Chen Qiaoqiao suddenly realized. Look at me, how did I forget my in-laws! I also want you to remind you, since it is an old acquaintance, this matter is easy to say, come on, I will discuss this matter with my third daughter-in-law when I go back later. ”
Chen Qiaoqiao got up to say goodbye, this lady of the Fan family was very affectionate, and actually sent her to the gate. "That's right! Mrs. Chen, I forgot to tell you, a few Taoist priests came to your house early this morning, and I don't know what they did! The lady of the Fan family remembered something and hurriedly told Chen Qiaoqiao.
Chen Qiaoqiao was suspicious, what to do with a Taoist priest? Isn't it that Chen Wei's sacrifice day has arrived? Oh yo, what she can do as a widow is not decent at all, I don't know what, it seems that there is time to make up for the past between her and Chen Wei, otherwise I don't know what will be exposed!
As soon as Chen Qiaoqiao walked into the door of Chen's house, she smelled several kinds of incense, smoky and burning, Si Zuo and Si You just stood aside, very scared. Several Taoist priests were doing this, and as soon as they saw her come back, Hu Feng and Ye Wanrong signaled, "Daoist! Here she comes! Those Taoist priests rushed up, surrounded Chen Qiaoqiao in the middle, chanted words in their mouths, and held a peachwood sword in their hands, the sword was a charm, and sprinkled glutinous rice on Chen Qiaoqiao's body, shouting: "Demon, don't show up yet!" ”
Chen Qiaoqiao understood that Hu Feng and Ye Wanrong felt that she was a ghost and wanted to exorcise her ghosts! Chen Qiaoqiao couldn't help sneering, what a big jumping god, he actually jumped on her, see how she cleaned them up! Didn't you say that she was possessed by a ghost, okay, just play with them!
Chen Qiaoqiao turned her back to Si Zuo and Si You, and made a gesture to remind them not to be afraid. Then suddenly there was a thrill all over his body, his eyes were straight, and the whole person froze, just jumping straight. "Wronged...... Wronged......" Chen Qiaoqiao deliberately screamed strangely, trying her best to deduce the weird atmosphere in the chat, but the Taoist priests were startled, they were originally swaggering and deceiving, and they didn't expect to really attract powerful ghosts today! Hu Feng and Ye Wanrong screamed even more!
Chen Qiaoqiao learned the jumping method of zombies, jumping and stopping, shouting, "Hehehe, hehehe" Chen Qiaoqiao smiled sadly, snatched the peach wood sword in the hand of the Taoist priest, and folded it into two ends, and those Taoist priests were so frightened that they shouted: "Go away!" The devil is coming! "One by one, the ran away.
Hu Feng and Ye Wanrong hid under the incense case, their bodies trembled with fright, and several maids were even more scattered, "Don't, don't find us!" Help me! Help me! Chen Qiaoqiao originally wanted to scare them, but seeing Ye Wanrong squatting on the ground with a big belly was really hard, in case the child had a good crime, it would be a big crime!
"Get up! Is there so much money that I have a fever, I saw that they were fake, and I brought them back stupidly, if it wasn't for my mother-in-law and me, there would be only a few of us women in the family, maybe I want to take the opportunity to rob it! Chen Qiaoqiao scolded them, they were stunned, and it took a while to come back to their senses, this mother-in-law is pretending!