Chapter 104: The Puppet Bears His Guilt
He Angelica walked towards the East Flower Hall while thinking about a few strange things tonight, could it be a coincidence?
Before, she saw that Dong and Luo Baishao were menacing, and she was not happy with her body, so she wanted to borrow the old lady's hand to drive them away first, and then worry about them when she was in a good mood another day. She remembered the crows in the previous place, so she pretended to be a magic stick like Bai Yangbai, and first predicted a "bloody disaster" that the gods chattered about, thinking that she would go back and wait for others to find those dead crows outside the backyard, with the superstitious nature of the old lady, she would definitely believe in the matter of "retreating for two days before crossing the catastrophe", so that she could buy some time to recuperate and heal.
Unexpectedly, immediately after that, there was a matter of the bitter bamboo forest walking water, and she was slightly surprised in her heart, there was a fire? Could it be that the fire was caused by the sparks flying out of the kitchen because the weather was dry? Before the matter of walking in the water was over, Luo Baiying suddenly appeared like a ghost again, causing the little girl in cicada clothes to offend her. He Angelica is also a little worried about this matter, Luo Baiying is a more serious person, I don't know what she will do with cicada clothes. Well, just as Luo Baiying's fall into the water was an accidental episode, why did the plaque on the hall fall by chance?
He Angelica shook his head slightly, people have three urgent things to coincide, maybe today is such a coincidence, anyway, he has already sent away Dong and Luo Baishao as he wished, and then he also has free time to think about how to deal with Dong's trouble. Looking at the old lady's attitude, He Angelica could probably guess that the Dong family came to find the culprit who killed her son, and the old lady picked among the four cards of Wei Ge'er, Dong's, Sun's and Silly Niuyi'er. The Sun family is the old lady's treasure and is the first to be excluded; secondly, no matter whether the miscalculation is on Wei Ge'er or Dong's head, the deeds of "the people in the big house lifted a stone and hit their own feet" will spread and become the laughing stock of the people in the house; So, the old lady finally fell in love with her who didn't matter.
Although it was expected and reasonable, it was not chilling to see the old lady trying her best to cover up the truth about Brother Zhu'er's rescue in front of everyone. In fact, she should have thought of this a long time ago, He Angelica smiled bitterly, and it was not the first day she knew the face of the Luo family, what was she expecting?
"Sister Luo, good evening, have you eaten?"
He Angelica frowned and raised his head, and saw that the person who spoke was Feng Yang, followed by the sick boy who looked like Lu Jiangbei, so he replied: "I haven't eaten, what about you?" ”
"Oh, we ate." Feng Yang replied.
He Angelica nodded and said, "That's very good, are you going to bed?" "What are these two people doing in the middle of the intersection of the East Flower Hall and the West Flower Hall, admiring the moon? Today is a faint last quarter moon, what is there to see?
Feng Yang also nodded: "Yes." ”
He Angelica continued to nod: "Very good, guests, please go to bed early, the mansion will walk in the water tonight, and I hope to forgive you for not greeting you well." ”
Feng raised his head: "You're welcome." ”
He Angelica raised his eyebrows: "Is the wind boy infected with the wind cold?" The voice sounds a lot hoarse, if you need to seek medical advice, there are ready-made ones in the mansion, just let the maid in your room call it. ”
Feng Yang touched his throat, cleared his throat and said, "Sister Luo, you are really careful, I drank the cool breeze on the way, and now unfortunately I am suffering from a wind chill that requires a month of recuperation." And to be honest, I've always hated seeing doctors and taking medicine, so ...... I will have to speak in a hoarse voice like this for the next month, sister of the Luo family, if you see the old lady, please inform her of this matter, so that she can be mentally prepared. ”
What is he talking about? What month can be a good wind chill? He Angelica's eyes turned around on Feng Yang's face twice, and when she saw the other party shyly skimming her face, she was even more suspicious, which one is this play? In the morning, the cheerful personality and the chattering wind that talks endlessly, but in the evening he shows a shy expression like a little daughter-in-law? Forget it, it has nothing to do with her anyway, He Angelica bowed his head and said: "Then Feng Gongzi, you continue to admire the moon, the little woman has retired." As he spoke, he bypassed the two of them and went straight to the East Flower Hall.
"Hey," the man next to Feng Yang suddenly spoke as he staggered by, "What's your name?" ”
It was too rude for a stranger to open his mouth to inquire about his daughter's name, but He Angelica casually said truthfully, and the name was originally called by people. After she walked away, Ning Yuan turned his head, frowned and glared at Feng Yang and said, "You performed so badly, haven't you been practicing all afternoon?" Can't talk to people normally? ”
Feng Yang said with a bitter face: "Childe, my temperament and Chang Gongzi are very different, how can I learn his ability to chase girls and talk for a long time!" ”
Ning Yuan lowered his head and thought for a moment, then sighed and said, "Chang Nuo's kind of person doesn't know if he pretends to be me, I hope there will be no mistakes." ”
"Childe," Feng Yang wondered, "why did you knock down the plaque of the Luo family just now?" ”
A cold glint flashed in Ning Yuan's eyes, and he said coldly: "Because I don't like that thing, everything about Prince Yiwen is hated to the core, if it weren't for him, my mother wouldn't have died so miserably!" ”
He Angelica hurriedly ran back to the room, and saw that the cicada clothes went to serve Luo Baiying to change clothes and had not returned, so he began to rummage through his luggage in a hurry, and took out a jar of medicine in the Taoist temple with twenty-four flavors, washed and roasted three times, and then soaked it in spirits, and then added the sand jade bezoars of the Western Regions, and finally carefully concocted nine egg-sized purple bezoars. He Angelica hooked her lips and smiled, with this thing, she would be able to gain a firm foothold in Luofu first.
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"Third Miss, where have you been?" Mama Tang anxiously greeted her, He Angelica was about to speak, but the old lady's voice sounded on the other side of the screen, "Is it Sister Yi?" Come on, grandma has something to tell you. ”
He Angelica turned the screen and saw the old lady's weak appearance, and couldn't help but worry: "Old ancestor, your face is so ugly, it's still important to recuperate, I have some ...... here."
"Good boy, come here," beckoned the old lady, "and let Grandma see you." ”
He Angelica walked over obediently, sat on the small brocade at the old lady's feet, lowered his head under the old lady's forced gaze, and flickered his eyelashes: "What's wrong with the old ancestor?" ”
After the old lady had just scolded the Dong family, she thought about it for a while and felt that something was wrong with this matter. She remembered that every October, the Dong family would send someone to Yangzhou to visit the Dong family, in case the Dong family poured the bitter water in their stomachs into her mother's family, and it would be bad if outsiders spread that their Luo family mistreated their daughter-in-law. Anyway, now, the Dong family is coming to ask Brother Zhu for an explanation, so it is better to follow the previous plan, let Sister Yi make amends for her crimes, and apologize for almost killing Brother Zhu.
The old lady took out a string of Buddhist beads from her sleeve cage, twisted them one by one and said: "Sister Yi, this time you exchanged the method of saving your cousin from the immortals, which is really indispensable, and you should have been rewarded well, but after thinking about it, the matter of the immortals must not be made public." Once outsiders know that Brother Zhu was saved by the gods, and they think that our family has hidden such a valuable elixir, then how can our Luo family have a stable life? So, even if we want to reward you, we can't use this excuse. ”
He Angelica nodded convincingly: "What the ancestor is thinking about is that the husband is not guilty of his crimes, and he must not let outsiders know about the immortals." ”
When the old lady saw that she was so reasonable, she was very relieved to turn half a circle of Buddha beads, and then raised her eyes to look at Mama Tang, so Mama Tang also moved Zhang Jinqi to sit next to He Angelica, and said in a consultative tone: "Third Miss, since the matter of the immortals can't be said, then your credit can only be secretly written down for you, and your kindness to Brother Zhu'er's family can only be known by a few of us in private." ”
"Angelica is not doing this for the sake of fame, now that Brother Zhu is alive, the rest is not important." He Angelica raised his eyes to look at Mama Tang and said calmly.
Mama Tang patted her hand and said, "Having said that, but now the eldest and youngest grandmother is unwilling to give up, Third Miss, do you remember what I told you in the Taoist temple?" You are the master of the West Cross Courtyard, and there is a rat infestation in your place, no matter what the cause is, you have to take responsibility, therefore, the old lady and I mean to let you take the initiative to admit your mistake to the young grandmother, so that she calmed down her anger, and secondly, Brother Zhu also got justice, and the family ended happily with harmony, and the old lady was also happy to see it. Looking at the calm face of the girl in front of her, Mama Tang asked a little worriedly, "Third Miss, what do you think?" ”
A pair of lacquer-like eyes seemed to hide a piece of shattered starlight, which instantly startled Mama Tang, but when Mama Tang looked at it again, she suspected that she was dazzled, because the third lady didn't even lift her eyelids.
He Angelica lowered his eyebrows and said, "Mama's proposal is very good, if it can end happily, I will also be very happy." ”
"Sister Yi, the old body knows that you have grievances in your heart, and you have been bullied by some Diao slaves in the past six months of living at home, and when you go back to Wang Qi's house, your grandmother will let the account room give you a few hundred taels of silver, and then give you a few sets of gold and silver head and face touch-up makeup, which is the kind that your second sister often wears." The rosary in the old lady's hand paused for a moment before she slowly turned around, "I heard that this time your cousin-in-law suffered a lot for Brother Zhu'er's affairs, and she also let your cousin beat her in front of a courtyard of people, and now she has no face, and she feels that everyone is laughing at her behind her back." By the way, you will make amends for your cousin, kowtow to her in public, and give her a tea, so that she can regain some face, okay? ”
He Angelica had to use almost all his self-control to suppress the sneer that overflowed from his throat, first allow her to use gold and silver to make money, and then let her make amends for Luo Baiqian and save face for Dong Xinlan? Let a ten-year-old girl have a grudge against a pair of resentful couples? Hehehe, sure enough, as long as you return to Luodong Mansion, where you dream the most, you can hear the funniest joke in the world.
Seeing that she didn't speak, Mama Tang thought that she felt that she would lose face by doing so, so she persuaded softly: "As the saying goes, the eldest sister-in-law is the mother, and the eldest and youngest grandmothers are also regarded as the elders of the third miss. Now that the eldest young grandmother and the eldest young master have a little conflict, and the eldest lady has made a mistake and can't manage things, why don't you, who are a younger sister, take this opportunity to mediate from the middle? First, you can apologize to them for Brother Zhu'er's affairs, and secondly, you can get closer to the relationship with the eldest and youngest grandmothers, and there will be one more sister-in-law who loves you in the future, why not? Actually, we ......"
"Sister Ying!" The old lady interrupted Mama Tang's words, looked at Luo Baiying, who was dressed in red and green dress, standing quietly beside the screen, raised her eyebrows and asked, "How do you match such a set of clothes?" Pink willow green! ”
Luo Baiying nodded and replied: "It's just freezing, and I'll wear it with the warmest body - hey, you maid will borrow it from me for two days." Luo Baiying is more similar to Dong's in that he likes to use "hey" to call the third sister who came out halfway. And "you maid borrowed me for two days" without the slightest tone of discussion or inquiry, but just happened to meet its owner, so a notice, even if you don't meet, you will still borrow it.
He Angelica glanced at the cicada clothes that the cat was shrinking behind the screen and was sending a signal for help to her with his eyes, and then at Luo Baiying, who was expressionless, so he smiled and said: "Don't say it's borrowed, it's okay to give it to the eldest sister, but I heard that the eldest sister is clean, and the garden must be sprinkled with rose-water three times in the morning, noon and evening...... My little girl was not seriously picked from the grass bull market, and she has not received the unified training of her subordinates, which is secondary, she still has a small problem, I don't know if the eldest sister can see Rong ......"
Luo Baiying frowned and snorted: "Borrowing a maid is also so verbose, what's wrong with her?" ”
He Angelica glanced at the cicada's clothes, shook his head regretfully and said, "She wets the bed." ”
"Bedwetting?" Luo Baiying was surprised, and unprecedentedly looked at He Angelica with his eyes.
"That's right," He Angelica blinked, "Children, it's normal that they haven't grown up, and I'm going to go to Nanyuan Pharmacy in two days to grab two patches of medicine for her to eat." ”
Luo Baiying glanced at the cicada clothes with disgust, and changed her words: "Then I won't borrow her, just let her send me back with a lantern, I don't like to walk alone at night." ”
"She's new here, where can she know the way, turn around and bring the eldest lady confused," Miss Ji also turned out from behind the screen, and said with a smile, "Why don't I go with me, I just have a companion to talk to when leading the way, and relieve the eldest lady's boredom." ”
Luo Baiying walked out of the main hall directly without comment, and Mama Tang asked in the back, "Miss, you said just now that you were looking for the old lady, what is the urgency", Luo Baiying didn't look back, just threw out a sentence of "I don't remember now" and went straight to the door.
Seeing the three of them walking away, Mama Tang turned her head to continue the topic just now, and explained in a low voice: "Actually, the old lady and I discussed that I want to tell the truth about your saving Brother Zhu'er, so that she can accept your love and love you more in the future." But next month, the Dong family's mother-in-law and several sons will come to Luofu as guests, and we are afraid that the young grandmother will be quick to talk about the miracles in Luofu, so we plan to hide it from the young grandmother for the time being. Wait for two months to find a suitable time to inform her about this, and tell her to keep this secret. So, before the young grandmother knows the truth, please ask the third lady to grieve you once! ”
"Besides, you are Wei Ge'er's cousin," added the old lady further, "and you have a duty to guide him to the right path, but you have allowed him to tinker with that thing for half a year, and have never restrained him. For this matter alone, you should also solemnly apologize to your cousin-in-law! ”
He Angelica listened with low eyebrows and said: "What Mama Tang said is very true, what the ancestor said is also very reasonable, Angelica also feels sorry for the cousin's family, and the way to apologize in public is very good, I don't know when it will be good?" ”