Chapter 68: When the Beast Meets the Beast
As soon as the dull Lantern Festival passed, Renyazi led people to the door.
Although there are a lot of people brought, there are few people who Xia Ruixi is really satisfied with, the girls are either too small or too stupid, or they are not right-minded. In the end, I only picked two twelve or thirteen-year-old girls and a cook. The cook's surname is Li, and she bought it with her daughter Xiaozhu, who has a round face and round eyes, which is very cute. Another dark-skinned and big-eyed girl was taken by Aunt Yu at a glance, so she stayed, and went directly to serve Aunt Yu.
Speaking of wet nurses, it made Xia Ruixi picky. Except for a few who looked poor, thin, and looked malnourished, there were two or three very good, all of them were clean and neat, articulate, innocent, with good milk, and they all had a hand in raising children.
Especially one of the Fan is the most outstanding, in terms of appearance, it is the safest and most pleasing, looking at the facial features, but revealing a kind of cordial and easy-going, talking and laughing, cheerful and generous, and quick hands and feet.
It just fits Xia Ruixi's plan to find a cheerful and generous person.
Xia Ruixi basically decided that it was Fan's in his heart, and was about to ask the price, but when he heard the curtain ring, Ou Qingjin coughed outside. At the moment, I found an excuse to let Liang'er guard and go out of the house to see.
Xia Ruixi entered the left wing, only to see Liao holding Da'er and standing aside, Ou Qingjin sitting on the chair in the middle, his fingers lightly tapping on the table, and asked Liao: "Tell Madame what you just said to Wang Zhou." β
Liao Shi was a little uneasy, blushed and said softly: "Back to Mrs., the slave maid is saying that Mrs. and the little master are really blessed, and the nurse is usually the most difficult to find." The lady said that she wanted to find a nurse, so there were several of them, all of them were very good, as if they were raised by others and waiting for the lady to pick them. β
Xia Ruixi looked at Ou Qingjin a little blankly, Ou Qingjin reached out and took Da'er from Liao's arms, and said softly to Liao's: "Okay, you go down first." β
When the Liao family walked away, Ou Qingjin frowned and said: "Ordinary people's food is not enough, and there is not much milk, only enough for their own children." came out to be a nurse, if it wasn't for the fact that the family was so poor that they couldn't open the pot, or they were lonely and helpless like Liao's, in short, few were happy. Those in large families are generally found and raised early, saving them from being difficult to find temporarily. Liao didn't say this, I didn't expect it, why did she just ask for her resignation and tell Renyazi, she was looking for so many nurses? It's so coincidental, and it suits your heart, I'm afraid that there is something weird in it. β
Those nurses just now are really strange, one outstanding one is hard to find, how can there be two or three? All of them are smiling, which is in great contrast with Liao's sad appearance. To say that it is too coincidental, it is indeed too coincidental. Xia Ruixi couldn't help but be excited: "What do you mean?" She looked at Ou Qingjin worriedly: "Then don't you want the other people too?" β
Ou Qingjin comforted her: "I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm just afraid of what if, maybe I'm too careful." There is no problem with me looking at the others, so don't look for the nurse, anyway, Da'er is not difficult to get now, and she is eating your milk, just help Wang Zhou's help. Don't do it on the face, go out and say that people are good, but Da'er is hard, and it depends on whether the eight characters fit together, and when people come to ask questions in a few days, they will all be pushed. β
Xia Ruixi was about to go out, but Ou Qingjin said again: "When the Liao family leaves, you can give her more silver." Although this person is weak and sulky, he really feels sorry for Da'er, and today it is thanks to her words. β
What did Liao encounter? Why did she feel in a trance, and why did she resign, did she say this intentionally or unintentionally? These Ou Qingjin couldn't know, but he knew that the Liao family really cared for Da'er, and he was not a bad person. In fact, everything has a cause and effect, Liao's distress is one reason, and Xia Ruixi has always been very good to her is also a reason.
Xia Ruixi went out, pretending to be very interested, and asked each nurse about the situation in detail from beginning to end, and then asked for everyone's eight characters according to Ou Qingjin's words. From beginning to end, she stared nervously at the appearance of those people, always hoping to see something, but naturally she couldn't see anything.
On the morning of the nineteenth morning, Liao Shi quit his job, and when he left, he turned back three times in one step, with tears in his eyes, which made Xia Ruixi feel countless guilt out of thin air.
Next, spring ploughing and sowing, raising fish and cutting spring clothes, Xia Ruixi did not have a day of leisure. The days flickered to February, during which Zhao Mingtao sent someone to spread the good news and brought Xia Ruibei's "message" saying that he hoped that Xia Ruixi would take Da'er to see her and talk to her to relieve her boredom.
Later, the Liao family came back again, saying that he wanted to work part-time, Ou Qing did not let Xia Ruixi see her, and took twenty taels of silver himself, and the two muttered for a long time, and the Liao family left in tears. Xia Ruixi asked, and Ou Qingjin only said that the Liao family actually came to borrow money.
On this day, according to the day, the Bai family and the children will arrive in a few days, and the Wu family invited Xia Ruixi to help sit in and renovate the various yards. In fact, I just want to discuss with her and arrange the Splendid Garden to Ou Xinshe, Ou Xinshe is not young, and he should get married as soon as he is filial.
Where is Xia Ruixi not allowed, when the family was separated before, the second master Ou made it clear that in the future, this courtyard will be inherited by the long house, since she has moved out, this place is no longer hers, and the Wu family specially invited her over, in fact, it is also to make the relationship better, I am afraid that she will think too much.
Xia Ruixi has always been a person who gives her one point, and she has to pay back two points. At that moment, Huanhuan helped the Wu family to take care of the housework, and went to talk to Mrs. Ou Er, and was pulled by Shang Min to lie for a while, and saw that the time was almost up before going home.
Ou Qingjin came back from the yamen, and as soon as he entered the door, he laughed and fell. Xia Ruixi asked him a few times, and he couldn't hold back his laughter, saying that Liu Lizi was broken into the mansion by the Rong family and whipped twice, but he was the initiator.
It turned out that for the fact that the women's army always followed the Rong family's rampant and domineering, he gave Liu Lizi an idea, that is, to ask Liu Lizi to write a letter to Rong Liugongzi, the Tao is that the soldiers who defend the city in Xijing are far away from their hometowns, most of them have never been married, and there have been several scandals of harassing local women, which is not conducive to gathering the hearts of the local people.
Most of the women's army are women who have reached or exceeded the age of marriage, and it is better to marry women of the women's army age with the soldiers who defend the city in Xijing, which is more conducive to stabilizing people's hearts. The other is also the meaning of breaking Rong's wings and narrowing the scope of her nonsense.
Because the Rong family made a lot of trouble, Rong Liugongzi was really annoyed in his heart, so he waved his pen and responded to the matter. Liu Lizi kept it a secret until everything was ready, and while asking people to invite the Rong family to tea and dinner, he informed her of Rong Liugongzi's decision by the way. On the one hand, he asked people to call the female soldiers in the palace back to the station of the women's army, and led people to surround all the women's soldiers who could be summoned.
If she is unwilling in the women's army, she will be sent back, and if she is willing to marry, she can choose a husband by herself, and each couple will be rewarded with five taels of silver and two sets of new clothes, and she will worship heaven and earth at that time. Most women are willing to marry, let alone choose by themselves? Only a handful of women who did not want to, or who already had a family, took the money and left.
After the Rong family found out, she overturned the table on the spot, and took a few female soldiers who came out with her to gallop to the station of the women's army, but was stopped outside by Liu Lizi's people for an excuse. Let her dance like thunder, the whip dances wildly, and no one pays attention to half a point.
When Liu Lizi finished her errands and avoided her and left, she went in again, the women's army had been disbanded and became an out-and-out military dependent, and from then on she only listened to her own man's words and was no longer her subordinate.
Without the support of the Women's Army, the Rong family is no longer the Rong family of the past, there are only a few personal soldiers left around her, in the palace, it is no longer her world, and Zhao Mingtao's people occupy the absolute. Isn't that more uncomfortable than kicking her in the chest? So she chased Liu Lizi's house to make a fuss.
Liu Lizi thought that just hiding from this matter was not a way, and sooner or later he would have to face it, otherwise this woman would come to make trouble every day, and he wouldn't be able to do his work? So he asked Rong to go in.
Rong had a fire in her belly, and although she went in, she didn't move the whip, but just sat and drank teaβshe was hungry and cold, and her mouth was dry.
Liu Lizi was still guarding against her messing around, but seeing that she had been drinking tea and had no extra movements, he relaxed his vigilance, and just suffered Rong's big loss.
Rong asked him for Rong Liu's letter, and when he turned around to get the letter, Rong threw him two whips from behind. Liu Lizi was furious, pulled her horsewhip and threw it into the brazier, his eyes were as big as copper bells, his face was full of fierceness, as if he was going to eat the Rong family alive, and roared: "I don't think you want to do it, princess, go back to your aunt to support the elderly, and let your family send another person." I'll write to your sixth brother. β
Looking at this Xijing City, apart from him, there are really no two people who dare to talk to the Rong family like this, and they speak so thoroughly. He is different from others, he is not from the Rong family, although he was born as a slave, he has a lifelong friendship with King Rui, and he has great military achievements, and he is a close minister and a meritorious hero. So he dared to speak and manage.
But these words are just to scare the Rong family, just think about it, where will there be so many suitable women in the new dynasty to marry Zhao Mingtao? But one thing is for sure, the more troublesome Rong is, the worse her situation becomes.
What Rong thought in his heart was that Zhao Mingtao even dared to kill her personal maidservant, not only did her family not say anything, but also disbanded the women's army, she really had nothing to rely on? I wanted to be angry and leave, but I didn't dare to go back to the palace, I was afraid that Zhao Mingtao would get the news and wait there to clean her up - he would not divorce his wife or kill her, but he would definitely double the humiliation of her.
After thinking about it, Liu Lizi was the only one she could count on, so she cried sadly, saying that Liu Lizi was going to force her to death. She didn't have the women's army to guard the palace, and she couldn't sleep well at night, if Zhao Mingtao came to bully her, she would die in the general's mansion, and she wouldn't let Liu Lizi go if she was a ghost.
Once in front of the big and small officials in Xijing City, he hacked to death the former political envoy Zhang, and cut off people's heads and used them as a gun to play, blood splashed everywhere, his face did not change, and Liu Lizi, who was extremely ruthless, had no way to take a crying woman who died and came alive for a while, so he had to endure the two whips in vain, and repeatedly promised that her life would not be threatened.
Rong still cried non-stop, and the cry spread outside, causing many people to probe their heads to look. Liu Lizi cut off dozens of hairs, and almost wanted to make a mess for Rong's, but begged her not to cry.