Chapter 364: Losing Ground
The fourth master has no sons to inherit the incense in this house, only two daughters, both of whom have been married for many years, and treat Zhao Fengnian as his own grandson on weekdays, so this time Zhao Fengnian was the first to find him, and the letter weight can be seen in general, at this time, the big event has been over, he is happy in his heart, and he responded, "Okay, let's go." ”
The third master laughed, and pulled the second master out together, leaving the fifth master with a sneering face, and chased after him with a cheeky face.
As soon as the elders left, Zhao Fengnian took a group of uncles to put all the sacrificial objects in place with his own hands, and kowtowed to the ancestors, and then carried the old father out of the courtyard, settled on the lifting chair, and waited for the wind and rain outside, and immediately lifted it up one after the other.
After everyone made an appointment to have a wine gathering tomorrow, they all dispersed.
Zhao Fengnian leaned on the side of the chair and slowly walked towards the hospital, looking past, grass and trees, all familiar and unfamiliar, so he couldn't help but sigh long, Old Man Zhao seemed to understand his son's mood, and whined twice in his throat, I don't know whether it was comfort or encouragement.
Zhao Fengnian hurriedly picked up the chaotic mood, picked up some gossip and told his father, laughed twice from time to time, and all the slaves and maids he met along the way retreated to the side of the road and bowed, doubting and rejoicing in his heart, as if the eldest young master came back, this house was three points brighter than usual, and it was lively for three points...
In the main room of the main courtyard, Mrs. Zhao was furious and smashed all the porcelain in the house, Zhao De trembled and circled around the house, complaining to his mother, "At the beginning, I said, don't be the head of the family, don't kill the eldest brother, you don't mean to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, he is back now, back, what should we do, he will kill me, what should I do, what should I do?" ”
Mrs. Zhao was so angry that her face turned pale, slapped her son in the face, and scolded, "You are a worthless thing, who said that if you don't marry Miss Wu, you will jump into the river, who said that if there is that cheap seed, there will be no future, if it weren't for you, would I poison him?" ”
"It's not okay for my mother to put all the mistakes on my head, don't you also hate him and not your own, the poison is still something you found someone to get, and it has nothing to do with me..."
The mother and son were staring at each other like cross-eyed, and they saw Zhao Fengnian carrying Master Zhao in, glanced at the mess in the house, and carefully put Master Zhao on the main seat, and then said with a smile, "Since I was a child, my mother said that she wanted me to grow up and be the head of the family, and now I have taken over, why is my mother so angry?" ”
Mrs. Zhao gritted her teeth with hatred, and she didn't care about any more superficial work, pointed at Zhao Fengnian's nose, and scolded angrily, "Don't think that you are proud of being the head of the family, it is just an expedient measure, I can pull you down with just a finger." ”
"Oh," Zhao Fengnian raised his eyebrows, then made a look of horror again, and said, "Mother forgives her sins, the child is not the head of the house, I just beg my mother not to kill me." ”
Mrs. Zhao and Zhao De were stunned when they saw him like this, and they didn't want Zhao Fengnian's face to instantly turn back to a cold and mocking appearance, and sneered, "Mother doesn't think that the child will talk like this, it's a pipe dream!" I died once at the hands of my mother, and I have repaid the kindness of raising for twenty years, and I will never miss my mother again in the future, no, I can't call my mother again, because you are not my mother, and you are not worthy! You are just Mrs. Zhao, when your father recovers from his illness, he will send you down! ”
Mrs. Zhao's face was already darkened by his ridicule, how could she endure it, grabbed the soft cushion next to her and threw it on the ground, and said angrily, "You, in the past twenty years, every time I hear you call my mother, I want to strangle you, obviously you were not born to me, but in the name of the eldest son, you robbed my son's family wealth, my son's status, I can still allow you to live to be twenty years old, it is already soft-hearted." ”
She stretched out her hand to comb her clothes and sideburns, turned around and sat on the chair next to her, and said, "Let's be honest, don't think that if you come back alive, the Zhao family will still fall into your hands, a few days ago your father was not in good health, I fed him a hundred days by mistake, carefully calculated, there are more than fifty days, I originally thought that De'er was the head of the family, I can remember where the antidote is when I am happy, I never thought that you came back and took away this position, I lost my temper for a long time, and I can't remember." ”
Zhao De listened to these words on the side, his mind turned and turned, and then he understood, it turned out that his mother still left the back hand of the eldest brother, he immediately straightened his waist, and his hands and feet were not trembling, he also found a chair to sit down, raised his chin, and said very proudly, "Yes, eldest brother, aren't you the most filial, don't talk nonsense, father's life is important." To be honest, the younger brother didn't want to sit on the position of the head of the family, but for the sake of his father's life, the younger brother had to reluctantly embarrass it..."
Before he could finish speaking, he felt a cold wind blowing beside him, and the next moment his face was already crackling and he had been slapped more than a dozen times, and Venus was shining in front of him, and his head was booming, as if hundreds of millions of thunderbolts had hit the top of his head...
Zhao Fengnian slowly retreated to his father's side, shook his palm, which was a little numb because of too much force, and snorted coldly, "As a son of man, you are so wolf-hearted, these slaps are considered as a lesson for my father." ”
Mrs. Zhao saw that her son's face was rapidly expanding like a dough, and she was so distressed that she immediately jumped up, and she was about to pull Zhao Fengnian desperately, "Okay, you cheap seed, you little brute, you dare to beat my son, you don't want your father to live, or you have already made up your mind to want him to die early, you are so good to sit firmly in the position of the head of the family, you cruel thing..."
Zhao Fengnian dodged Mrs. Zhao's hands, grabbed her clothes and threw her back, she fell to the middle of the hall, and there was a layer of broken porcelain on the floor of the house. ”
Zhao De was still dizzy, looking at people with double shadows, hearing his mother shouting like this, he wanted to step forward but helped, but he stumbled under his feet and fell with his mother, and the wound on Mrs. Zhao's body suddenly deepened by three points, and the screaming became more tragic.
Zhao Fengnian Shi Ran walked up to them and laughed in a low voice, "Didn't Mrs. Zhao clamoring for my father's life, why did she see blood beforehand, this is really retribution." Also, I was busy taking over as the head of the family for a while, but I forgot to tell you an important thing, my father's 100-day poison has been resolved, and the deed paper and silver tickets of all the family's properties are in my hands, Mrs. Zhao can rest assured. ”
"What?" Mrs. Zhao heard that the biggest handle in her hand was gone, and she was so shocked that she couldn't care about the pain, and desperately got up, her eyes opened as if they were about to pop out, "You lie, the antidote and the deed paper are in my hands, I also saw it last night, you will never find it!" ”
Zhao Fengnian sneered, "Madame doesn't believe it? Well, you will also live in the West Chamber in the future, and you will have time to rummage through it yourself. After he finished speaking, he shouted outside the door, "Someone! ”
The wind and rain followed the sound and entered the door, Zhao Fengnian pointed to the shocked Mrs. Zhao's mother and son and said, "Lock them up in the West Chamber, have a pot of water and a meal every day, just make sure that they don't starve to death, and wait for the old lady to recover before they fall." ”
"Yes, young master." When Zhao Fengnian disappeared, Feng Tuo and Yushun were made an excuse by Mrs. Zhao to go out of the house, so they didn't help their master, they were already anxious to die, Mrs. Zhao said that they left the mansion without permission, and the protector was not good enough to drive them out, and the two hated Mrs. Zhao to the core, and now their mother and son are defeated, and their own master is in power, how can they let go of this good opportunity for revenge, that subordinate has added twelve points of strength, and Mrs. Zhao and Zhao De are screaming in pain, where do they still have the strength to let go of cruel words, was dragged all the way to the West Chamber and locked up.
The slaves hiding in the corner of the courtyard did not dare to come out when they saw the atmosphere, only the orchid was alone, and her heart was so happy that she was almost bubbling, and after thinking about it, she ran out first, took a broom and a dustpan and went into the hall to pick up.
Zhao Fengnian recognized that she was the maid who served her father wholeheartedly, so he called all the maids in the main courtyard to the front of the steps, and after a few simple reassurances, he promoted Orchid to the steward of the inner courtyard, temporarily commanding all the maids, disposing of all kinds of trivial matters and miscellaneous items, and having the right to transfer people everywhere.
This is much higher than the power that Orchid expects, she is so excited that she knelt down and kowtowed repeatedly, you must know that most of the power of such an inner court is the master mother or the most favored concubine who has the opportunity to get it, and now the head of the family has actually handed over this right to a little maid like her, is it... The more she thought about it, the redder her face became, until Zhao Fengnian returned to his happy home, and many maids and maids came around to say goodbye, and she was still in a trance and didn't come back to her senses.
The apricot blossom, who is usually good friends with orchids, was also excited and her little face was flushed, she pulled her sleeve, climbed to her ear, and whispered, "Remember to keep the old woman by your side first." ”
Orchid blinked, but also understood, although she is now taking over the backyard of the Zhao family, but she knows very little about internal and external trivial matters, if there is no one who understands to guide her, it will definitely be a mess, it doesn't matter if she bothered to get angry, if she is seen by the eldest young master, what will she think of her?
Thinking like this, she nodded gratefully at Xinghua, squeezed out of the crowd, pulled the old woman who was standing under the wall, her face was full of horror and complexity, and said with a smile, "Mother-in-law, I just took over the backyard, I don't understand many things, and I need my mother-in-law to teach me more." ”
"Don't dare, don't dare. The Orchid Girl has something, even if she is told. "People are old and fine, and the little maid who was slapped twice by her from time to time in the past is now gaining momentum, but she is plummeting, the old woman feels uncomfortable, but she barely endures it and does not show it, and even squeezes three points of joy and touches it, and quickly responds, as long as she is still useful, her life is temporarily saved.
Not to mention the many maids and sisters-in-law, who are stammering orchids for their future work, only saying that Zhao Fengnian settled his old father in the main house and returned to the happy home that he had been separated for a long time, and his heart became heavier and heavier.