Chapter 6: The Zhu Family's Mansion (Part II)
Zhu Youning's voice is immature and well-behaved, and it makes people's hearts soften when they hear it.
But the old lady didn't raise his eyes, as if he hadn't heard the movement, and he hadn't seen this person, his elbows were tilted leisurely on the soft dark green satin pillow, and he said:
"The clothes on the eight girls are good, the embroidery is exquisite, and the colors are festive."
Miss Eight is a second-room maid, and she was just raised by the old lady two days ago.
"I am grateful to the old lady and his wife for their love and reward for such good materials." Miss Eight immediately got up and replied.
"Aunt Lin is a skillful person, and she was also the leading figure among embroidery girls in our Fuyang at the beginning, so she naturally worked hard for her daughter." The third lady said and smiled.
The third lady is twelve years old, and she has a little bit of the brightness of the second wife, Wen, and her smile is extremely beautiful.
Miss Eight immediately said, "The third sister is too awarded. Aunt Lin didn't see the warm hat that Aunt Lin made for her grandmother, it was a hundred times more exquisite than her sister's. ”
When the old lady heard this, he smiled: "I have seen the warm hat, it is indeed good." ”
The third lady frowned and puffed out her eyes.
When the two were talking, Miss Seven in the third room and Miss Zhu Youning's sister-in-law Miss Six kept bowing their heads and eating the walnuts peeled by the girl, ignoring everything.
But Miss Eleven, who was the same age as Zhu Youning, couldn't hold her breath and said loudly: "Old lady, Sister Nine asks you for peace." ”
Miss Eleven's voice fell, and she was stunned by Miss Three.
Zhu Youning lowered his head and told himself that if he came, he would be safe, but he seemed to understand why the Bai family would take his daughter out with Zhu Huating in the first place.
This kind of family is really depressed, but it is not as comfortable as eating bran vegetables outside.
"Old lady."
At this moment, a maidservant girl at the door replied, "Uncle Feng, Fourth Master Guang and Fifth Master Lan are back." ”
The old lady sat up slightly straight, "Let them in." ”
Not long after, three young men in brocade clothes came quickly and saluted the old lady.
The old lady asked kindly, "Why did you come back so early today?" ”
The fifth master, Zhu Yanlan, said quickly, "I took the exam in my home school today, and I will call us back after the exam." ”
The old lady looked at the eldest grandson: "Can you go this afternoon?" ”
Uncle Zhu Yanfeng smiled and nodded: "Yes, I have to rub my grandmother here tonight." ”
"You kid." The old lady laughed amusedly, and everyone in the room laughed amusefully.
Zhu Yanfeng and Miss Three are compatriots, more handsome than Miss Three, and sophisticated and calm, and the old lady likes him the most.
Instead of looking at the harmonious scene, Zhu Youning lowered his eyes and only studied the patterns on the carpet, and had already counted the stamens of the flower in front of him.
At this time, I heard Zhu Yanfeng say: "Grandmother, the ninth sister is young, if you make any mistakes, just teach her a few words, just let her get up."
When Miss Eleven heard this, she nodded again and again, looking at the old lady expectantly.
The old lady seemed to have just remembered that there was such a person, and without looking at Zhu Youning, she said, "Oh, take her to eat in the middle of the house." ”
Mother Wang immediately responded, and came to take Zhu Youning out.
When I went to the west with Wang's mother, I entered the door and smelled the fragrance of food.
Life with his father is just kept in a state of food and clothing, and he has not eaten anything good for a long time, and when he smells this smell, Zhu Youning feels hungry in his belly.
When the little girl lifted the dark blue curtain and led her to the back room, Zhu Youning found that those meals were not prepared for her.
A beautiful woman who looked like she was in her prime, was sitting at the table of the Eight Immortals, flipping through an account book, while being served by a maidservant, casually taking a bite from time to time.
This person is Zhu Youning's second aunt, Zhu Yanfeng and the third lady's biological mother Wen.
Wang's mother arranged for Zhu Youning to sit on the small pestle in the corner, and two daughters-in-law carried it into a small square table and put it in front of Zhu Youning, and another mother-in-law brought a food box and put a bowl of japonica rice, a plate of fried eggplant, and a plate of braised fish on the table.
Mother Wang handed over the bamboo chopsticks, saluted the second wife respectfully, and then retreated.
For a while, only the second wife, master and servant and Zhu Youning were left in the house.
If it is a real seven-year-old child, seeing what he eats, and then looking at the delicacies of the table mountain and the sea that the second wife eats, I am afraid that he will not be able to hold his breath for a long time.
But Zhu Youning was very calm, she picked up chopsticks and ate quietly.
The second wife over there ate a bite of the old black chicken soup fed by the maidservant, and Meimu was still staring at the account book, and opened her mouth lazily:
"Your father did such an insulting and corrupt thing, if it was left on a bloody man, I am afraid that he would have died long ago! This kind of filthy goods is also worthy of being called a reader? Eighty percent of his talent is also obtained by cheating, right? It's also his good luck, why wasn't it exposed back then?
"Your father is useless, and he doesn't have the courage to cut himself, and he is already merciful if there is no bowl of arsenic at home. It's a good thing that he went out to fend for himself.
"But you two don't know how to lift, so you actually left home and followed him out!
"You eat the Zhu family, use the Zhu family, don't think about how to repay the Zhu family for nurturing and teaching when you grow up, don't think about how to contribute to the family, so you leave the family and leave? Are you worthy of being human?
"Look at what you're eating? Tsk, come, perch. ”
When the second wife said this, she gave a bowl of half-eaten black chicken soup to the maidservant, and then raised her eyebrows slightly, and said with her red lips slightly curved:
"See? You are a young lady who doesn't know how to contribute to the family, and you are not as good as a maidservant! Qicui has black chicken soup to eat, you don't have it!
"If you don't repent and don't hurry back to the house to study, and marry someone who will help the Zhu family in the future, you will eat bran for the rest of your life!
"When the time comes, your sisters and sisters will all marry good families, wear gold and silver, eat and drink spicy food, what about you? You're not even as good as a girl like Qi Cui! ”
Zhu Youning put down the dishes and chopsticks, picked up the hot tea to rinse his mouth, and raised his eyes to look at the second wife who had been shouting.
"Second aunt stabbed me like this, did the old lady mean it?"
The second wife looked at Zhu Youning's eyes and was stunned for a while.
Why didn't she find out before, honestly, the nine girls who only know how to cry when they encounter things, actually have a pair of such big and round cat eyes, her eyes are shining, but the pupils are pitch black, as if she can suck people in, and she seems to be able to see through everything.
The second wife was inexplicably embarrassed.
The old lady did only instruct her to persuade Zhu Youning to return home. It's because she can't be angry, why does the nerd in the long room only read books, and he can be rich and noble for so many years without working hard, so he said more about this.
"Old lady." In front of the door of the house there was the voice of a handmaid greeting.
The second lady came back to her senses and hurriedly stood up.
Zhu Youning also slowly got up to greet him.
The old lady came alone, looking at Wen with a kind face, "How is the persuasion?" ”
The second wife opened her mouth and was just about to answer, but Zhu Youning had already taken the lead and saluted respectfully and obediently:
"Back to my grandmother's words, I have written down everything my second aunt said. When I go back, I will definitely be filial to my father, and persuade my father to leave Fuyang and go far away, so that we will not bother the house much in the future. ”
When the old lady heard this, she immediately lowered her face and looked at the second lady suspiciously.
The second wife was stunned for a moment, then suddenly burst out, pointed at Zhu Youning and scolded: "You little brute, what are you talking about!" When did I say that? ”