Chapter Twenty-Eight: Portrait of Meritus
"Hmph, sister-in-law doesn't know a word, the huge Xia Gonghou Mansion is all managed by the sister-in-law, the head of the house, and the sister-in-law doesn't even know that her granddaughter is oppressed by the slaves, you look at what my granddaughter has become, you see this small body, the chest is close to the back, the small face is yellow and thin, and my cousin is sad to see it, and the younger siblings dare to ask the sister-in-law, what power do you still control, I'm afraid that the slaves below don't know what the sister-in-law does."
The second grandmother, Cai, spoke out indignantly, looking at Mrs. Marquis Xia with a playful look in her eyes.
The ladies in the hall all looked at Xia Yu, with sympathy, indifference, and schadenfreude in their eyes.
For the first time in Xia Yu's life, he was watched like a monkey, and he felt a little uncomfortable, but looking at the shriveled face of Mrs. Xia Gonghou, the slight discomfort of Liu's chicken-like appearance was gone.
Mrs. Ma stood up suddenly, and said in a very cold tone:
"The dignified family of the princess, there will be a slave who criticizes the concubine, Mrs. Ben is not only a slave, this Mrs. Liu was born as the mother of the third lady, and the two daughters have two appearances and two treatments, which is really thought-provoking."
Mrs. Ma really lived up to Xia Yi's expectations, and she couldn't see anything that violated the etiquette law, so she didn't say what everyone dared to say.
Everyone present knew what kind of character Mrs. Ma was, and because what Mrs. Ma said was indeed right, the old lady and Mrs. Xia Gonghou could not refute or reprimand, and their chests rose and fell greatly.
Sun Yuci looked at Xia Yu's appearance very familiarly, and he couldn't remember seeing it there for a while.
After taking a closer look, Xiumei wrinkled slightly and wondered:
"Mrs. Ben looked at these three young ladies as if they were an old man who had died, and Mrs. Ben remembered that these three young ladies were seven or eight points similar to my cousin Junhua, and I said how familiar they were."
Then, as if he had thought of something, Sun Yuci immediately stopped his voice and pointed at Xia Yu with a little trembling fingers.
The second grandmother Cai, the fifth grandmother Miao, and several aunts and uncles all changed their faces suddenly.
The other ladies are confused, few people have seen Junhua, and there are very few friends with Junhua, and Junhua marrying into the Mansion of the Marquis of Xia is not like an ordinary wife.
It was simply organized, and there were very few banquets attended after three years of marriage until his death, and outsiders only knew the name of Junhua but never saw Junhua people.
So for Xia Yu to be different from Liu's family, and unlike Xia Mingruo, no one ever doubted that she was the child of the second young grandmother.
Today, Sun Yuci pointed out that these three young ladies seem to be the deceased second young grandmother, but several ladies have never heard that the original second young grandmother was pregnant with Liujia, and only remembered that the first second young grandmother died of illness.
Others don't know why, although the people of the Xia Gonghou Mansion have divided the mansion, they still know that Junhua and Liu's were pregnant one after another, Liu's gave birth to twin daughters, and the first two young grandmothers Junhua died violently.
The second grandmother Cai's mansion and the fifth grandmother Miao's mansion seem to know a big secret.
If their guess is correct, these three young ladies Xia Yi are very likely to be the daughters of Xia Chengbo's wife, the second young grandmother.
If this is the case, then Liu's identity and Xia Mingruo's identity are a little embarrassing.
If the Jun family has no children and no daughters, then it is nothing to the Liu family, and if the Jun family has a son, then the status of the Liu family and Xia Mingruo will be lower.
If Xia Yu was born to his wife, he would be much more noble than Liu's stepfamily, who was later brought up, and he was the daughter of the eight classics of the Zheng'er rather than the child born to the main room by his aunt, Xia Mingruo and Xia Yu cannot be compared.
For a while, there was a lot of commotion in the hall, and the ladies exchanged words and discussions, and the maids and ladies also muttered quietly.
The old lady hated iron and steel, and glared at Mrs. Marquis Xia and the Liu family angrily.
A withered hand slapped it hard against the pear blossom wood dwarf collapse machine, and said angrily:
"Shut up to the old body, this Xia Yi is the old body of the Liu family, but it is clear that the old body is not the old body to arrange the deceased, then Junhua is simply a hen that can't lay eggs, married for three years until he died, and he never gave birth to a son or a daughter for Uncle Cheng."
Xia Yi's eyes widened angrily, she was such a vicious old woman with a honey sword, she didn't let her go even when she died, and dared to arrange it with her like this.
Xia Yi's heart was burning with anger, and if she didn't vent it, she had to be burned alive.
Before Xia Yi could attack, the great-grandmother Deng looked directly at the old lady and opened her mouth, with a coldness in her eyes:
"Be forgiving and forgiving, who is who must know in your heart that the deceased is already pitiful and died young, justice is at ease, and people don't go too far and hurt others and hurt themselves."
After a few words, it was even more thought-provoking, everyone in the hall was silent, and the old lady's fingers creaked, but she didn't say anything indecent.
Great-grandmother Deng beckoned to Xia Yi and motioned for Xia Yi to come to her side.
Xia Yan still looked nervous and scared, and cautiously walked towards Great-grandmother Deng.
Great-grandmother Deng's expression was still cold, and even her tone was light:
"Good boy, you're dressed too plainly."
As he spoke, he took off an oval piece of blood jade from his waist and put it in Xia Yi's hand.
"Go back and take this piece of blood jade to Jinxiuxuan to choose some jewelry, and every season the new jewelry great-grandmother asked the shopkeeper to send it to Gardenia."
Xia Yi's eyes were red, and she was very grateful to her great-grandmother Deng for supporting her.
Everyone in the hall gasped, this set of jewelry in Jinxiuxuan costs five hundred taels of silver, and this new style of jewelry every season may not be able to be grabbed if you have money.
Everyone knows that this splendid Xuan is the property of the Deng family, but they didn't expect that Mrs. Deng would value Xia Yi so much.
Xia Yi knelt down and really kowtowed to Great-grandmother Deng.
Great-grandmother Deng said that the old lady could not reward Xia Yu with something.
In order to show her generosity, the old lady immediately said, "Gardenia, come and tell your great-grandmother what else you want." ”
Xia Yi raised his little head, his eyes were shining, and he said excitedly:
"If Gardenia doesn't want anything, great-grandmother will give it to Gardenia."
The old lady's face stiffened for a moment, and although her voice was full of joy, she could hear the stiffness in it:
"Yes, Gardenia has figured out what she wants."
Xia Yi's big eyes stared at which jade Ruyi was glued to, and his eyes lit up with a very fond look.
The old lady hurriedly covered Yu Ruyi with her sleeves, for fear that Xia Yi would open her mouth to ask for Yu Ruyi.
Xia Yu almost laughed out loud when she saw the old lady like this, and the others in the hall looked at the old lady with great disdain.
Xia Yan's eyes rolled and said slowly:
"Gardenia wants to ...... I want Dongzhu on Mingruo's head. ”
Xia Yu deliberately stretched her voice and said, the frightened old lady's body tightened and wrote the jade Ruyi in her hand, when she heard that Xia Yu was asking for the Dongzhu on Xia Mingruo's head, her body instantly relaxed, if you want anything, as long as you don't want this jade Ruyi.
Xia Yu did it deliberately, only in this way would the old lady readily agree to give her the Dongzhu on Xia Mingruo's head, that Dongzhu was originally hers, and should not be worn on Xia Mingruo's head.
At that moment, the old lady agreed:
"Okay, take off the Dongzhu on the head of the second girl and give it to the third girl, at a young age, it looks cumbersome to bring so much jewelry to do, just take off the Dongzhu and send it to the third girl."