Chapter 15 The Lotus Fragrance on the Boat - Rui'er in the Gourd Lake
Su Huai'an, the sun is half floating in the Cao River, and there are scales floating on the river.
The wind in the evening has cooled a little, and the lotus flowers in the gourd lake in Caolian Mansion are swaying with the wind.
Lian Dahe handed over the account book to Bi'er in the hugging building and walked out. He stretched out his hand to beckon Lian Da Boat, and said in a low voice: "In a few days, I will go to the capital on an errand, when I am not there, you are careful in everything, the eldest lady is not a person who can be fooled." ”
Even Dachuan hurriedly responded, "Brother Dahe, don't worry, you won't go on a business trip." After thinking about it, he whispered: "Brother Dahe, are you going to the capital to pick up your wife?" ”
Lian Dahe nodded, and shook his head again, "Not only this, but also the errand sent by the fourth master." "Even the big boat was stunned for a while, "It is said that the surname Cui was too bold at the beginning, in order to get rid of the big boss, he actually used the fourth master as a gunman, no wonder the fourth master couldn't let him go." He said worriedly: "Brother Dahe, he is not easy to manipulate, otherwise, I will go with you." ”
Even Dahe was slightly there, "He is also negligent now, and those who come and go in the capital and Tianjin can always be found to be empty." You don't have to worry. ”
The lotus fragrance courtyard in the west of Hulu Lake suddenly moved, and Lian Dahe and Lian Dachuan turned their heads to look, but it was Sister Gui who came out of the lotus courtyard surrounded by the girl's daughter-in-law.
Lian Dahe was puzzled, the two aunts of Lian and Gui have been incompatible for the past two years, why are they coming to explore like this now. Even the big boat sighed: "She turned fast, and when she saw that the internal affairs were in the hands of the eldest lady, she wanted to calm things down."
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Even Dahe seemed to have some words when he heard it, so he put it aside. He looked at the big boat again and said, "Come out and ask her if Aunt Lian has written a letter." The big boss has been waiting for it. ”
Lian Boat stood in front of the hug. I waited for half an hour. I saw that the time for dinner was approaching. I still haven't seen half of the leaves come out. He wasn't impatient. Hiding under a tree and whistling.
Not the same. A big girl came out of it. Look around.
She was about 10 years old. Picturesque. Delicate and often arched on the body, the blue shirt is elegant and lovely. The white silk skirt is refreshing and refreshing. A pair of silk hibiscus jade bracelets on both wrists. The pearl on the ground on the head is shining and shiny, and it is half a leaf.
Even the big ship whistled again. Half of the leaf looked over.
Banba approached him and glanced closer. "You're lazy again. Brother Dahe saw it. Be careful. "It's powerful. But with a smile on his face.
She was carrying a white silk dress. Secretly slipped away with the big boat to the back of the rockery, "What's the matter?" Hurry up and have to wait for the eldest lady. ”
Lian Dachuan grinned and pulled her to sit side by side on the grass. Banye muttered, "Be careful, my skirt is stained with grass roots." He sat down next to him.
Lian Dachuan whispered: "How is it?" Did you talk to Aunt Lian about that? Why hasn't there been any movement in two or three days? The big boss is waiting for her to write a letter to ask his wife to come to Huai'an. ”
Banye heard him ask, and his face darkened a little. She sighed and said smartly, "How many years have I been looking forward to—"
Even Da Boat heard what she said, glanced at her, and bumped her shoulder, "I can't see, when we were begging together on Huai'an Street, I didn't see how much you had in mind, when did you know and never told you, Brother Dahe-let alone say." ”
Banye hesitated slightly, and even the big boat pushed her again: "This matter is almost settled, what are you still hiding, tell me." ”
Banye spat him, "I still don't understand you?" You're a broken mouth. But it was no longer too late, and lowered his voice, "When Aunt Lian entered the door, didn't Mrs. Yun come with her to handle the marriage?" Aunt Lian is the person who came out of front of her, and for the sake of her decency, the big boss did not let the East Wing be reorganized, but asked someone to start work
Lian Dachuan nodded, and said suspiciously: "You can see from this matter that looking at this half is also for the sake of Lord Chen's decency-"
Banye whispered in Lian Dachuan's ear: "That day, Mrs. was drunk and rested in the roll shed, Mrs. Yun left first because of Master Yun's heat stroke, and I was in the second master's room." At that time, the great master went to the roll shed—"
Lian Dafune was stunned, "You mean, the two of them would have been-" shook his head desperately, "Impossible, impossible, I'm not blind, if only I had a hand in the morning-"
Banye stretched out his hand and twisted it on his arm, and said angrily: "What are you anxious about!" I'm not done yet, just forget it if you don't want to hear it! ”
Even the big boat was angry, "Why did you stop in the middle of the road, isn't it good to stammer, I am so anxious to hear it!" ”
Banye gritted his teeth in anger, and he couldn't take him, so he had to say: "I returned to the shed from the second master's room, and I saw that there was something wrong everywhere in the room, and it seemed that someone had come." The tabernacle on the left side of Madame's bed was rolled up, and her clothes were a little disheveled, and I thought I had been wrong—until I saw the fan at the foot of the bed—which I distinctly remembered was placed on the chair on the east slope in the outer room! Banye bit his lip, "I've thought about it one by one, no one will be free except for the big boss." I counted the hours again, and it must not be what happened, so I put away the fan while my wife was drunk, and took care of everything properly, and from that day on, I always paid attention to it, and I understood——"
Even the big boat was speechless for a long time, and after a long speech, Fang said: "No matter what happened at the beginning, now it is finally going to get its wish." The people in the capital have all been arranged, as long as the lady accepts the letter and nods, it is just a matter of an eye. Aunt Lian wrote a letter
Banye shook his head, "You didn't call me over to get the letter." I have been sent to the eldest lady by my lord now, and I know the situation, but she has been in poor health for the past few days, and she can't eat from time to time-" Banye sighed, "She and Madame have a good relationship, as soon as she heard that Lord Chen died at the source of the Yellow River, her face turned gray." Later, I persuaded her to write a letter to ask her to come to Huai'an, so that she could take care of it. She only nodded, and said no more. He rejoiced again: "Fortunately, Master Chen had an accident in Qinghe that year, and I also received my master's instructions to persuade her to write a letter, and she won't be too worried about it this time." Thanks to the fact that she didn't know her master's thoughts, otherwise she wouldn't have written it if she died, according to her temperament—"
Even the big boat sighed, "I said how did you help that room last time, I already understood that the big boss didn't want to set up the main room - just went to the Lianxiang Courtyard in that room, maybe it was to visit the sick." ”
Caolian Mansion is already a lamp in the palm of your hand. The lord of Lianfu took the eldest lady Lian Bier to eat in the main hall. Because of the eldest lady, the aunts can no longer sit together, and they all stand on both sides like the concubines.
Half a leaf and seed stood behind Bill. Sister Gui led the concubines to stand on both sides, but Lianxiang didn't see a shadow.
Bi'er looked at Rui'er who was uneasy, and said with a smile: "I saw that Aunt Lian's appetite is not very good these days, and Miss Rui'er went to the small kitchen to boil whitebait tonic soup and send it over."
Rui'er listened to Bi'er say good things for Lianxiang, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly responded: "The eldest lady is right, but Aunt Lian's grandmother can't eat fish soup these days, so is it good for the slave maid to let people boil chicken soup?" ”
Bi'er smiled and nodded, "Now that Aunt Lian's personal girl hasn't been picked well, it's a little bad, Miss Rui'er has to worry more." Rui'er smiled: "Don't worry, Miss, I'll be waiting in front of her for a few days." With that, he turned and went down the hall.
Sister Gui looked at her back, then at the silent half leaf in the corner of the house, and smiled coldly, it was a good thing that fell from the sky, and it didn't take her any effort.
The drum beats three times is the third watch. All the people were asleep, and only the night watchmen walked along the way they were accustomed to the night watch.
The gentle sound of water waves in the gourd lake came into the lotus fragrance courtyard, and Rui'er, who was left in the left wing, was already asleep. The inner room was pitch black, except for the moonlight shining through the open window. The chicken soup on the round table condensed into a white oil moonlight and turned into a miserable white color, just like Lianxiang's face.
The brand-new inkstone pen on the round table moved a little, and shimmered in the moonlight with a white shimmer like a sharp blade.
Lianxiang finally stood up slowly.
She pushed open the door, and the bed in Half Leaf and Seed Ding was already empty, and the old cronies of the old man of the Lianfu Mansion were transferred to wait for the eldest lady, and the new girl Ming'er went with her to pick it.
Lianxiang's hand caressed the quilt of Ayaluo, the bed rails decorated with beads, the makeup box of Luodian, and the jewels inlaid with gold and jade, and walked slowly to the outer room.
The rosewood furniture in the main room glowed dead in the moonlight. Lian Xiang walked up and sat on the bed of the rosewood Arhat, only to feel as cold and hard as Hai Jing's little coffin.
The night breeze blew, sweeping the moon and stars behind the thick clouds. Lianxiang walked slowly along the path that she was accustomed to without a dark whistle. The kudzu shirt on his body rustled in the night wind, and the long white silk around his waist fluttered in the wind.
She followed the stone path and walked through the gourd lake full of lotus flowers in front of the Lotus Fragrance Courtyard.
Outside the turn of the stone path, there is the crown calyx residence of Dong Guan'er and Qin Cao, the drunken hibiscus flower garden in front of the house is deserted, the flower time has not passed, but the flower admirers have been in the future for a long time.
Lianxiang's hand stroked the petals of the drunken hibiscus, and I could hear the babbling singing sound in the wind not far away, and the lights were still on in the flower pavilion, and the sound of Huai'an Su Opera was very pleasant. However, the unknown little flowers in front of the flower pavilion were too lazy to listen.
Lian Xiang walked in front of the Flower Pavilion, and an empty courtyard was silent in the dark, and the flowers in it had already fallen, and there was not even a trace of the stems and branches.
Turn around the triple bamboo forest, and you will find the Osmanthus Temple. The early blooming osmanthus is filled with a strong sweet fragrance in the night, although there is no cry of children day and night, the love of men and women is still endless.
However, the towering main house due north pressed its dark and dark shadow, and the love in the osmanthus courtyard was also illusory.
But when the snow saw that the snow was gone, the flowers bloomed, and the flowers thanked again......
Lianxiang stopped in front of the second door, looked at the dark and unknowable world outside the inner house, and wanted to stretch out her feet, but the three-inch small golden lotus under the skirt couldn't take a step, she slowly stretched out her hand, looked at the slender and soft, ten fingers that had not been touched by spring water for more than 20 years, sighed softly, and slowly turned around.
The long white silk fluttered in the wind, flying higher and higher, flying higher and higher......
Lian Dahe suddenly heard a heavy sound of water in his sleep, his whole body trembled, and he suddenly woke up.
Lian Dahe looked at the dark sky, looked at the concubine Si'er beside him, sat on the bed and thought for a while before waking up.
The sound of water heard in the dream was clearly the sound of a person falling into the water, but the heart was a dream.
The four drums suddenly sounded.
Even Dahe's heart sudden. He got out of bed with his clothes on. Si'er said in a daze, "What's the matter......"
A hurried knock sounded on the courtyard door, "Brother Dahe, Brother Dahe, it's not good......"
The night breeze blew into the lotus incense room through the open window, blowing up the empty letter paper and falling into the gourd lake outside the lotus incense courtyard, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
Rui'er was fished up from the gourd lake, she had already swallowed her breath, the lotus incense untied from the beam of the house, and the lower body was still bleeding, and even Dahe looked at the corpses of the two in a daze, and stomped his feet heavily.
"Brother Dahe......" Lian Dachuan cried with a sad face, "what should I do...... Aunt Lian seems to be still pregnant with her two-month-old child...... We don't know...... That's how she hanged herself...... Why can't she think about it like this...... And Rui'er, she has been with the big boss for fifteen or sixteen years......"
Lian Dahe sighed, "You don't have to be afraid, it's none of our business." It was the big boss who personally instructed Banye to ask Aunt Lian to write a letter to ask Mrs. Lian to come to Huai'an......" He turned his head to look at the courtyard and shook his head, "If Aunt Lian knew that she had a body, even if she knew what the big boss thought about her and was unwilling to write a letter to coax her to come to Huai'an, she would not take this road......"
Lian Dachuan shuddered and said in a panic: "Brother Dahe, I'm ...... I never told anyone about my wife again...... I won't tell Aunt Lian ......"
Lian Dahe looked at Rui'er's face that was soaked in the gourd lake, and the stones tied to her feet, "Aunt Lian doesn't know, but Rui'er is hard to say." She has been with the big boss for fifteen or sixteen years, and she can't see what a girl can see in half a leaf? ”
"Half a leaf guessed by looking at the fan...... Rui'er, how did she know......" Even the big boat looked left and right, and whispered, "I don't know about that......"
Even Dahe was silent for a long time, "She...... I'm afraid that you only need to look at the face of the big boss to understand...... She's not stupider than Aunt Gui...... She just has a better heart than Aunt Gui...... No wonder Madame likes her ......"
Lian Dachuan suddenly said, "No wonder she has been serving Aunt Lian with all her heart over the years, I am afraid that she will understand the future Mrs. Mainroom...... It's just ......" Lian Dachuan looked at the stone on Rui'er's left foot, which was tightly tied with a colorful ribbon, "Aunt Lian, I understand that she and Madame have such an affection, if they knew the inside story, they would not write a letter anyway." She was not favored in the first place, and if she blocked the good things of the big boss like this, I am afraid that she will not end well...... Rui'er, why do she have to seek death......"
"Aunt Lian is dead, is there any hope for her in the future...... Is it possible to go to Aunt Gui and Grandma again now? ”
"Madame likes her ......"
There was a bright drum sound from the bell and drum tower of the Yamen of the Governor of Caoyun, and the sky was already beginning to white, and the lord of the Lianfu was about to get up. Lian Dahe slowly walked towards the Guixiang Courtyard where Lian Zhenyun was staying, "She understands too well. If Madame knew that Aunt Lian had committed suicide and the dream of being a big boss, she should wake up......"
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