Chapter 107: Rumors
On the second day, after Xiuzhu got up, he was still very unfortunate to be sick, but it was not serious, but his voice was a little muffled, and nothing else was serious.
However, Li Miaoxian still heard it, and before going out, he turned back to Xiuzhu and said: "When we leave, don't do anything else, let the small kitchen boil you a pot of hot ginger soup, drink a big bowl, and then go back to the house to sleep." It's not too late to get back when we get back. ”
Xiuzhu hurriedly responded gratefully, and really went to the small kitchen to find the cook, asked for a bowl of hot ginger soup, returned to the house after drinking, covered the quilt, and fell asleep.
When she woke up, Li Miaoxian had not returned, and in the Anguo Mansion, it seemed that rumors had been shrouded in rumors, and the people spread the word-of-mouth, and even the aunt and wife of the housekeeper had heard about it, so angry that she cried and ran to Mrs. Tai's leisure house.
Soon, Xiuzhu heard three versions of the story from Dangui's mouth.
The first feeling is relatively ordinary, that is, because of the scarcity of the He family, when Aunt He took his family to other counties to take office, he handed over all the fields and properties in the family to the clansmen to take care of.
This time for nearly ten years, those things have nourished their eyes and warmed their hearts, and this time the clan only said that Aunt He, an official master, would pay for the rebuilding of the ancestral hall and return the ancestral house to them, but they did not talk about returning the fields. That's 30 acres of fine land, and it's a lot of money just to collect rent for a year!
Of course, Uncle He didn't do it, and the two sides have been arguing, so it has been delayed until now, and Aunt He has even delayed returning to Beijing to wait for the vacancy.
Just three days ago, the two sides suddenly clashed, and the cousin was young and vigorous, and knocked the other party to the ground alone, supposedly injured, but returned home and died not long after.
Now people are carrying the coffin and have to go to the government to complain!
The second version brought the hobby of ordinary people in the market, and added a lot of peachy news in it, and the center was also a European injury, but the reason became that the He family became an official, hated the poor and loved the rich, and wanted to withdraw from the originally scheduled marriage, but the man's son didn't do it, and took the token to theorize, but was killed.
Because this version involves the young lady of the He family, it is much more widely spread than the first version.
If you want to talk about it more deeply, it is the third version.
said that Miss He and the son were childhood sweethearts, and they were engaged at a young age, because of the parents' repentance, the two children were very sad and agreed to run away from home together, but when the time came, the son did not wait for Miss He, but waited for the eldest son of the He family to rush over with a cadre of housekeepers, not to mention beating the son, and accusing him of abducting a woman from a good family.
Miss He didn't come as promised, and the boy was beaten again, and when he went back, he was ashamed and angry, and he fell on the bed and died!
Now Childe's family has taken the letters and other things that Miss He has fornicated with Childe, and has sued the government......
For these three versions of the story, Xiuzhu scoffed, and the more he made it up, the more unclever he became.
Dangui tilted his head and asked puzzledly, "How do you know it's made up?" I saw that what others said had noses and eyes looked very determined, and I almost believed it! How do you know it's fake? ”
Xiuzhu wanted to teach her a lesson, so he looked at her and asked, "Let me ask you, Mrs. Gu has been living in the mansion, these days, have you seen anything unusual about her?" ”
Dangui shook his head.
"Also, how many daughters do my aunt and my aunt have? How old is the eldest son of the He family? What does it look like to be born? ”
Dangui said while thinking about it: "Mrs. Gu has only one daughter, and she is only eleven years old now, and I haven't heard of Aunt Gu and other concubines and aunts. There is also Si Swenwen, who was born by the eldest cousin, who is white and pure, and looks like a scholar at first glance. What's wrong with that? As he spoke, he raised his head and looked at Xiuzhu.
Xiuzhu nodded and said with a smile: "Don't say that Miss He is only eleven years old, she has been living in our house, and when she went out for a day, she was also followed by a large number of maids." Is there time to elope with a son in the suburbs of Beijing? The suburbs of Beijing come here, not to mention a day's drive, even if it is a fast horse, it will take two or three hours! You say, how did they get to the point? ”
"Yes." Dangui nodded, "Miss Cousin is very gentle and polite, how can she be as shameless as they say?" After saying that, I couldn't help but be a little worried, "...... We know that Miss Biao won't, but people outside don't know about this! ”
"It's not difficult, as long as Mrs. Cousin takes Miss Cousin to walk around in a similar person's house in the future, and people see Miss Cousin herself, this third rumor will naturally be self-defeating." Xiu Zhu smiled: "There is also a big cousin, it's not that I underestimate him, if he is allowed to fight with a maid of the same age, I am afraid that he will lose very badly, and there will be a beating of people's lives?" ”
"Besides, the marriage contract, it's even more nonsense, Miss Cousin is very on the way to the post of my aunt, this is not a secret? Because every time the lady in our house sees her, she is very distressed! Since it's not a marriage by fingertips, it's impossible. There is also the saying of fighting for land and property, the acres of land produced by this field are all deed by the government, and the aunt asked people to farm, so it is impossible to give the land deed to others, right? If there is a dispute, the title deed is taken, and the government has its own judgment, so why bother arguing? ”
Dangui nodded, looked out of the courtyard, and smiled sheepishly, "I heard just now that Mrs. Gu cried and went to Mrs. Tai's courtyard, and even the account books, keys and other things in our house were taken away." I don't know what's going on, I'm going to see ......."
Xiuzhu laughed, patted her hands, and said, "You be careful, don't bring your anger to yourself, if there is anything wrong with the situation, withdraw immediately...... Got it? ”
Dangui agreed, and before the voice fell, the person had already run to the door of Miaoxianju. A person came in front of him, and one was caught off guard, and the two collided together.
Dangui said "oops", and when he saw that the person who was hit was also covering his mouth in pain, he shouted with a smile: "Sister Rosewood!" Where are you from? ”
After Zi Sandalwood arrived at Miaoxianju, she was still a second-class maid, and because she was two years older than Dangui, Dangui generally called her sister.
Rosewood said almost at the same time: "Dangui, where are you going?" ”
After asking, the two people laughed in unison, and answered each other's questions at the same time:
"Idle Fortune."
"Mrs. Tai's yard."
They said it again, and they both laughed even more. After laughing, Zi Tan grabbed Dangui and pulled her out of the courtyard, and then whispered in her ear: "Mrs. Tai is angry, what about the gossip minions, now the people who are kneeling on the ground over there, don't go, be careful to hit the muzzle." ”