Chapter 91: The Second Watch
Leaving the military camp and living in the Mafu Mansion in the city, Tang Haitang began to readapt to the life of this era, and every day in the courtyard with Xiaocui and Qian Yingying, he was a female celebrity, talked about the guqin, learned medical skills, and learned a few tricks of self-defense with Qian Yingying, and the life was very comfortable.
It's just that the three of them haven't gone out for five consecutive days, and Ma Xiaotian has never come back.
Although Ma Huo and Xiaofeng served with all their hearts, the three of them still tried their best to do what they could, and did not add too much workload to the two of them. Ma Hu was worried that he was not taking good care of him, and when he turned back, the master came back and blamed them, so he secretly wrote a letter and released a carrier pigeon to report the letter to Mafu in the capital.
The housekeeper of the horse mansion took the letter from the carrier pigeon from the hands of the people below, and after reading it, he hurriedly turned around and entered the inner courtyard.
Since Ma Xiaotian left, it was originally to welcome the bride into the Ma Mansion, but at that time Ma Xiaotian was not allowed to decorate the decoration, so the Ma Mansion did not have a festive atmosphere for happy events at all, this season, Chang'an has been full of flowers, before Ma Xiaotian set out on the expedition, the Ma Mansion was still a deserted mansion, and now the pavilions and pavilions have been full of flowers.
In the middle of the lake in the back garden there is a beautiful gazebo with a gray tiled roof, and six red painted masters are along the blue tiles. A pink veil hangs down from the top of the pavilion, decorating the pavilion beautifully.
A beautiful lady wearing a pink fairy dress, combing her hair in a towering bun, is lazily lying on the fence of the pavilion, turning around to grab a pinch of fish food made of cornmeal from the stone table on the side, the slender jade fingers move softly to gently rub these fish food, a little by little in the artificial lake, the fish food particles floating on the water surface, after a while, attracted a large number of beautiful red and white koi, these koi swim extremely fast, at first it was five or six, seven or eight, and soon gathered a group of koi, They greedily grow their mouths and devour their food on the surface of the water, making pop and pop sounds from time to time.
The lady watched the fish compete for fish food lively, with a lazy smile on the corner of her mouth, and saw that the fish had almost snatched the fish food, so she turned around and grabbed a handful of fish food to feed.
Ma Fu walked towards the pavilion from the shore of the artificial lake, and when the noble lady was feeding the fish, she raised her eyes and saw him, stretched out her hands above the water, patted each other in her hands, and the fish food dregs in her hands fell on the water, and she did not look at the picture of the fish competing with each other on the water, but turned around, straightened her back and sat up straight, so as to wait for Ma Fu to enter the pavilion.
"Miss, this is the letterhead sent back by Ma Sloppy, he said in the letter, Tang Haitang, the young lady of the Tang family, has arrived in Youzhou, and the master arranged for Tang Haitang to live in our family's mansion in Youzhou. What do you think of this arrangement? ”
Ma Fu is the old family of Ma Fu, he is busy with Zhang Luo for the big and small things in the house, usually these things don't need to be reported by Ma Furong, but today he feels strange about this matter, didn't Tang Haitang say that he jumped into the river on the way to the capital and couldn't find it? Why did he appear in Youzhou at this time, and he was found back by the young master?
That's why he told Ma Furong the news.
After listening to Ma Fu's words, Ma Furong frowned, just now she was leisurely admiring the fish in a row, but now she was full of sadness. Looking at the scroll of paper in Ma Fu's hand, he didn't say anything but reached out to him to ask for it, and Ma Fu immediately handed her the letterhead in his hand.
Ma Furong held it in her hand, and the ten fingers of both hands jumped to unfold the letter, which was completely consistent with Ma Fu's description, she raised her head from the letter, stood up and faced the direction of Youzhou, and her eyes became dark.
Miss Ma Fukumi was silent on this matter, and she didn't know what to do, so she could only stand on one side and wait for her reply.
After coming over for a long time, Ma Furong turned back to Ma Fu and said, "Uncle Ma, since my eldest brother arranged for her to live in our Ma Mansion's outer house, then he recognized this woman."
Saying that, she lowered her head and took a step or two forward, paused and continued: "Get ready, I'll leave tomorrow, put on a few maids and housekeepers who are doing it at home, and we'll go to Youzhou." ”
"Miss, I'll go, this way, the road is far away, you still don't want to go." Ma Fu heard Ma Furong arrange it like this, and felt that she was so grand out of respect for Tang Haitang as her sister-in-law, so she felt that Miss's heart was good, but she was a girl's house, and there was no need to go out of this far, so she kindly petitioned her and was willing to go to Youzhou for her.
Ma Furong waved her hand to him, smiled, and said to him gently: "Uncle Ma, it's better for you to stay at home, you are old and tired of driving all the way, I am afraid that you will not be able to bear it, I don't care, I am still young, and it is not that I have not been to Youzhou, you can rest assured that I can." ”
After all, Ma Xiaotian and Ma Furong were both raised by Ma Fu since childhood, and now that the lord and wife of Ma Fu are gone, Ma Xiaotian and Ma Furong both regard Ma Fu as their elders, so they are also very polite to him.
Ma Furong saw that Ma Fu still looked uneasy, so she smiled and said, "Uncle Ma, isn't your son Ma Hu in Youzhou?" What else is not to worry about, there is a sloppy housekeeper over there, I am nothing more than the fatigue of the car and horses along the way, and I still have the family and the little maids with me, there will be nothing wrong. ”
Ma Furong was so determined that she must go, Ma Fu saw that she hadn't opened her mouth yet, she had already thought of a reason to refuse herself, and knew that she had no way to convince her, so she could only nod and respond: "Then the old slave will go and prepare to send the young lady out tomorrow." ”
Ma Fu hurried to prepare his things and quickly retreated. There is also a maid waiting on the side of the gazebo, Ma Furong told the maid to go back first and prepare the clothes she needs to bring when she goes out tomorrow, and when she is the only one left in the gazebo, Ma Furong, who has just been gentle, immediately changed into another gloomy look and a cold face.
She vented a whole plate of fish food on the stone table, face plate with fish food, and threw it into the lake, poof, the fish food plate fell into the lake, and soon sank to the bottom of the lake, just formed a circle of ripples on the surface of the lake, and soon a group of koi swarmed in, and in the silent place of the fish food plate, hundreds of colorful koi were densely crowded.
Ma Furong watched the scene of the fish unceremoniously competing with each other, her hands clenched into fists, her long nails pierced deep into her palms, she didn't feel the pain, she didn't say a word, just bit her lower lip, forcing herself to hold back all her anger.