Chapter 75: Coldness
Xia Ruixi asked Wu in surprise: "What did you say?" Mother decided the whereabouts of Lan Ye and Lan Xin in front of the whole family? ”
Wu smiled proudly: "Not really. The mother first taught him a lesson, which means that there are only two children around them, Chen'er and Fu'er, and they must remember to spread out their branches and leaves in the future, and more children will be more blessed. She responded, and her mother said that Lan Ye and Lan Xin have been following her, very loyal, and understand the rules, they are people she trusts, and they are older, so it is better to keep them, and when the filial piety period is full, they will be promoted to be aunts, lest she have to be a housekeeper and take care of the children and your third brother too busy. ”
Wu smiled hehehe: "Doesn't she look down on the honest person her mother chose for her?" This time, my mother got her wish and gave her two people who she liked the most and stood with her. Bai's face at that time was really wonderful, but Ou Qingying didn't react at all.
Xia Ruixi couldn't laugh a little. Jiang is really old and spicy, and Mrs. Ou's hand is yin and poisonous. As an old-fashioned patriarch and a mother, she resolutely does not allow her daughter-in-law to ride on her son's head to be a prestige and not take her mother-in-law seriously.
The filial piety period is still almost two years away, and during this time, the Bai family has many reasons and time to get rid of Lan Ye and Lan Xin. However, Lan Ye and Lan Xin are the Bai family's dowry girls, and they are also confidants, and the people who know the Bai family best are them, and the Bai family may have to spend a lot of effort to get rid of her.
And as soon as Mrs. Ou opened her mouth like this, she gave Lan Ye and Lan Xin strong support, so that they had capital, and naturally divided the relationship between master and servant, and let the master and servant fight in their own nests, the more fierce they fought, and the final benefit was naturally Ou Qingying, the male host.
This is the need to suppress the daughter-in-law, and it is also a disguised punishment.
Seeing Xia Ruixi's shallow smile and knowing her thoughts, Wu patted her hand and comforted her: "Don't worry. In this matter, if the husband and wife are of the same heart, no one can get involved. You have just been married for less than two years, and your mother likes you, so it won't be so fast. If there really is such a day, you can pick it up and talk about it slowly. Perhaps, after a while, the old man's mind will change. ”
Let's talk about it slowly, the second lady Ou is old, isn't it over after dragging it? The key is still in your own people. Xia Ruixi remembered Ou Qingjin's promise to her, and smiled: "Thank you, sister-in-law, sister-in-law is so kind to me." ”
Wu smiled: "Don't be so polite, I haven't thanked you." The days are long, if you thank you every day, you won't be tired to death. ”
The fourth room gives the family a hundred taels of silver every month, and the old two can't use up this money at all. The medicine and clothes worn by the old two are also extra burdened by the four rooms, and they lent them seeds during spring ploughing, which reduced a lot of burden on the Wu family and provided strong support.
In April, after the third room moved out, the Shang family also moved out, and the Ou family's old house was quiet. Xia Ruixi no longer always remembers the things in the old house, so he puts most of his mind on business and production.
A batch of vegetables and fruits in the hot spring Zhuangzi went on the market, the pawnshop's business was booming, and the pharmacy gradually had a supply of goods, and the income tended to be stable. Except for Ou Qingjin who is still very busy, Xia Ruixi's life is calm and leisurely.
But the peaceful and leisurely life did not last long, and after a period of dementia, Mrs. Xia finally couldn't stay up, the medicine stone was ineffective, and she died.
Ou Qing had no choice but to let go of what he was doing, and took Xia Ruixi and Da'er to mourn together. Yugu was reluctant to follow, she said that she had an important date, and in these two days, she was determined not to go.
Xia Ruixi and Ou Qingjin didn't force her, anyway, with Mu Fei here, there are quite a lot of people, just be more careful.
Xia Ruixi didn't expect that she would see Xia Ruibei and Zhao Mingtao at Xia's house, and she couldn't avoid it.
Xia Ruibei held her nearly five-month-old belly, and with Zhao Mingtao's diligent support, she slowly walked into the Xia family's house.
For funerals, people came and went, the door was wide open, and no one could stop Zhao Mingtao. No matter how reluctant Mr. and Mrs. Xia were, at most, they just stubbornly ignored Zhao Mingtao, but they couldn't blast Zhao Mingtao out.
Zhao Mingtao's face is really thick-skinned, he greeted everyone in the Xia family with a smile and greeted everyone next to the other, the old man Xia and his wife ignored him, and naturally some people were willing to pay attention to him.
For example, Uncle Xia's family can't wait to lick his PP to make him laugh, and the other Xia clansmen, even if they don't take the initiative to come over to please him, are unwilling to provoke him. Therefore, Zhao Mingtao seems to be quite proud.
Xia Ruixi was gossiping in the corner of the backyard by a group of gossiping women, and Wang came over: "Xixi, go and persuade your father, Lord Cheng is here to mourn your grandmother." It's good that the family is also the prince, Beibei married him again, and she is pregnant, so it's better not to do too much. The face and mouth are so ugly, who do you want to show it? ”
Xia Ruixi said with a smile: "Aunt is right. But the niece and nephew are young and juniors, so they don't dare to disobey their parents. You are an elder and can speak well, so why don't you ask your aunt to persuade my father. The niece was grateful. "Said a deep blessing.
Wang rolled his eyes: "Why are you so disobedient?" If I can persuade you, why did I come to you? ”
Xia Ruixi said in surprise: "You can't persuade you as an elder, how can you persuade your niece?" It's really embarrassing for my niece. Otherwise, you teach me, how to persuade? ”
The Wang family is usually not treated by Xia Er and his wife, and he also knows that she is a greedy and conscienceless rammer, and he saw that she ate a soft nail here in Xia Ruixi. A group of women snickered to see Wang's joke.
Wang said angrily: "No matter how favored Beibei is, she is just a noble concubine, and the prince personally accompanied her to the door to mourn, what an honor!" Why don't you take it seriously? ”
There are many people and many things, Xia Ruixi originally didn't want to make jokes to others, but Wang's words made her can't pretend to be stunned. sneered at the moment: "I don't need my aunt to remind me, I remember Beibei's identity." So please also ask your aunt to remember your identity, don't go to the nobles to be courteous when you have nothing to do, what kind of niece and son-in-law and the like, don't export again, beware of losing the rules and eating the board! ”
Wang opened his mouth, unable to say a word, and said angrily: "I don't know how to lift." It's not bad luck for yourself, but you have to pull the whole family to be unlucky. ”
Xia Ruixi's face had already sunk, and after sweeping the corners of his eyes left and right, he changed his mind, raised a smile and asked, "Who is this scolding?" Who is unlucky, how can the whole family be unlucky? Who caused our family's bad luck? The eldest aunt told her niece about it. ”
Wang felt that her smile was simply a knife hidden in her smile, and she had bad intentions, and she was angry. Only to say that the second room offended Zhao Mingtao, and it made Uncle Xia and Xia Ruili so miserable, out of the corner of his eye, he saw Zhao Mingtao helping Xia Ruibei to stand not far away, only three feet away from her.
Zhao Mingtao looked at her with a smile, Xia Ruibei's face was extremely ugly, it could be seen that he had listened to all her words. When Wang saw these two plague gods, he immediately sweated, glad that he didn't rush out those few words that caused trouble, and walked away.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the other women also found excuses to leave. Xia Ruixi pulled an aunt from her own family who usually has a good relationship: "Auntie, please help me call my husband to come over, just say, Lord Cheng is here, it is inconvenient for me to be a woman, please come over and say hello." ”
The woman glanced at Zhao Mingtao and squeezed Xia Ruixi's hand: "Okay, you wait." Then he turned and left.
Liang'er nervously hugged Da'er tightly and asked next to Xia Ruixi in a whisper, "What should I do?" ”
"It doesn't matter. He didn't dare to do anything. Xia Ruixi stepped forward to salute Zhao Mingtao, and greeted Xia Ruibei with a smile: "Beibei, you are here." ”
"Second sister." Xia Ruibei stepped forward and stretched out her hand to hug Da'er, Zhao Mingtao strode forward to hug Da'er, and said softly: "You are inconvenient, don't hug it." He smiled flatteringly at Da'er: "Good boy, let your uncle hug you?" ”
Da'er frowned, raised a pair of inky jade-like eyes to carefully look at the uncle-in-law who suddenly appeared. Liang'er's face turned pale, and he hugged Da'er tightly and didn't dare to let go.
Xia Ruixi clenched his fists, his nails sank deep into his palms, smiled and pulled Liang'er behind her, and lowered his head slightly: "Thank you for your love, you are a nobleman, the child has just been wet, and he doesn't dare to stain the nobleman's clothes." ”
Although Zhao Mingtao claims to be Da'er's "uncle", in fact, everyone knows that Xia Ruibei is just his concubine, and the side concubine he promised is not counted, so he is promoted, but Xia Ruixi is not rare.
Zhao Mingtao stood very close to Xia Ruixi, Xia Ruixi could feel his angry breath on her cheek, and she took two steps back without a trace. was a little farther away from him, and she had the heart to talk to Xia Ruixila: "How is your body?" ”
Before Xia Ruixi could answer, Zhao Mingtao said, "It's not very good." Beibei always hopes that her family can go to see her, but neither her father-in-law nor your mother-in-law or you will go to see her. Speaking of which, what do you think of me, that's why you stay away from us? He hypocritically patted Xia Ruibei's hand, "It makes her cry every day." ”
Why pretend to be a sheep when it's a wolf? Xia Ruixi secretly despised him, and had to reply with a smile: "The prince said he was joking." How can we feel anything about you? It's not that I don't want to see Beibei, but because of my identity, I haven't been summoned by the princess to allow it, so I don't dare to disturb it, for fear of breaking the rules. ”
She repeatedly reminded Zhao Mingtao to pay attention to his identity and not to get close to the Xia family, his real father-in-law and mother-in-law are Rong Dashuai and his wife, not Mr. and Mrs. Xia. Although she may be sad when she says this, the facts are the facts. She just looked forward to delaying a little longer, Ou Qingjin or Mu Fei coming quickly.
Xia Ruibei's face was a little ugly, and she pulled Zhao Mingtao and begged: "I'm a little tired, let's go over there and sit, okay?" Second sister, if she's busy, let her be busy. ”
"Didn't you want to see Dar for a long time? It's rare for you two sisters to see each other, so why don't you take this opportunity to have a good chat. Let's go together, right? Zhao Mingtao seemed to be asking Xia Ruixi's opinion, but in fact, he had squeezed to Xia Ruixi's side, his right hand seemed to rub her ears inadvertently, his sideburns stretched out behind her, and firmly grabbed Da'er's pink little hand.
He couldn't afford her to refuse. He had waited too long.