Wen Yi sent the tea she had just brewed to her grandmother, lowered her eyebrows, and said softly, "Grandmother, the tea is ready." ”

Old Madam Lu glanced at her, ignored it, and just said to Mama Zhao, who was standing on the other side, "Is the car ready?" When I go out, the house will be handed over to you. ”

Mama Zhao looked at Wen Yi worriedly, and responded: "Lao Zhang just reported that the car has been set." The old lady can rest assured that the family is wrapped up in the old slave. It's just that...... Are you really going to the ninth room? ”

Wen Yi looked surprised, and couldn't help but interject: "Grandmother, ...... you" Old Madam Lu glanced at her lightly, and smiled without smiling: "Are you looking forward to what you said now, or do you expect that you didn't?!" ”

Wen Yi was dumbfounded and bit her lip: "Granddaughter thinks ...... As long as we get people back in time that night...... Now let's talk about it, how can Aunt Fifteen believe it? "I'm afraid I'll think she's evil. It was because of this concern that she didn't dare to tell anyone after remembering this incident, and only thought that on the night of July 14, no matter what excuse she found, she ordered Uncle Zhang to go to Zhuangkou, and naturally she would be able to find the carriage and notify the clan to save people.

Mrs. Lu didn't respond, she still couldn't believe her granddaughter's words, no matter what, the world knows that July 14 is Halloween, not to mention a pregnant woman, even if it is a man, she will not easily go out at night, not to mention that her granddaughter also mentioned that it would rain heavily that night! The nephew and daughter-in-law of the ninth room have a peaceful temperament, are also respectful to the elders, and have always been steady, knowing that she is pregnant, how could she go out on a rainy night recklessly?! It can be seen that the granddaughter is talking nonsense!

It's just that she doesn't want to believe that her own granddaughter, who she has carefully raised, dares to curse her eldest after alienating her clansmen. And looking at the expression of the granddaughter that night, it didn't look like she was lying at all, if that dream was true, why did the granddaughter have such a dream?!

Mrs. Lu went out with a tangled mood. Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang followed the car. Mama Zhao instructed Zi Ying a few words, returned to the room, and saw Wen Yi leaning lonely by the door in a daze, so she sighed and stepped forward to persuade: "The old lady is actually flustered, and after fourteen, everyone's hearts will settle down. Miss, don't say what you said that night, just stay around, do needlework, read books, and don't you have to go to school in a few days? When the time comes, you will be happy to play with your sisters, and you will not be cranky. ”

Wen Yi glanced at her silently, not wanting to argue with the old man, so she just nodded wordlessly and went back to the room.

Sitting in front of the window, she stared at the slightly yellowing branches and leaves of the courtyard in front of her, lost in thought.

She didn't know if it was a wise decision to confess her past life experience in a dream. But she knew that with her current appearance and her age, it was impossible to convince her grandmother to follow her advice! Although this is a bit risky, after all, it is my own grandmother, and she knows the importance of it, so she will not spread her words indiscriminately. By the end of July 14, my grandmother knew that what she had said was true or false.

It's just that she remembered the sentence that her grandmother asked her again: Do you hope that you are right, or do you expect that you are not right?

If she is looking forward to what she says, it means that she is looking forward to Aunt Fifteen in danger.

If you expect that you don't say it, wouldn't you be beating yourself up? How will I win the trust of my grandmother in the future?!

She silently recited the Buddhist scriptures in her heart and prayed to the Buddha: it was not that she was looking forward to the fifteenth aunt in distress, but that she hoped to save the fifteenth aunt's master and servant.

There was a slight sound of footsteps behind her, she turned her head and saw that it was Zi Ying who came in with tea, and smiled reluctantly: "I have wronged you these days, please sister don't be surprised." ”

Since the night before the beating, she said that, although her grandmother did not send Zi Ying back to Pingyin the next day, she refused to accept her kowtow, only as a girl who Zi Ying borrowed from a relative, politely, although she never deducted her diet and daily life, she refused to accept the other party's wait in any case, and did not allow the other party to enter her room. In this way, Zi Ying's situation in Xuanhe Hall was embarrassing, and Aunt Zhang came up with a few sour words from time to time, although Wen Yi had the heart to knock and knock, but she was worried about her grandmother's thoughts, and she didn't dare to move lightly, so she felt deeply wronged by Zi Ying.

Zi Ying smiled slightly: "What grievances do you have?" Slaves don't dare to be slaves. How the young lady treats the slave maid, the slave and maid can see it clearly like a mirror in her heart. The young lady does not have to be angry with the old lady for the sake of the slave. If the old lady is angry, it is not a pity for the slave to die! As the saying goes, after a long time, the old lady is just not used to it for a while, and slowly in the future, it will turn around. If the young lady treats me as one of her own, don't say such a foreign thing anymore. ”

Wen Yi knew that she had misunderstood, but it was difficult to explain, so she had to sigh in her heart, and nodded with a light smile.

Zi Ying persuaded again: "Miss only knows that she is worried about the slave, but she forgets herself. In the past two days, the young lady slept lightly at night, and in the morning she rushed to the upper room to wait for the old lady, and she didn't take care of breakfast, and when she was eating seriously, she couldn't eat a few bites. What's wrong with this? The young lady is still young, and she is recovering from a serious illness, so the old man ordered the slave maid to wait for the young lady, but he didn't want the slave to watch the young lady spoil her own body! She sent the tea forward, Wen Yi immediately smelled the rich aroma of red dates, and only heard her say: "This is the longan red date tea that has just been cooked, the most nourishing blood and qi, the young lady first eats a few bites of cushions, it is still early before the meal, and the slave maid steamed a plate of Jiang rice cakes in the kitchen, which was bought from the shop of the boss of Zhuangkou Shi." This morning, the slave saw him do it with her own eyes, and it was the freshest. The slave put the best red dates on the cake again, steamed again, hot, fragrant, soft, and not greasy, do you want to taste it? ”

Although Wen Yi didn't have much appetite, she was also a little moved when she described it, nodded with a smile, and when she turned to leave, she suddenly remembered that the boss Shi who sold pastries in Zhuangkou was not the person who heard the cries for help of the fifteenth aunt and servant in his previous life but ignored it? I suddenly felt that the cake might not be delicious.

Mrs. Lu carefully looked at the face of her fifteenth nephew Xu, no matter how she looked at it, she felt that she was a steady and gentle woman, and her complexion was good, how could she say that it would be gone after a few days?

Xu Shi was a little uncomfortable stared at by her, and said with a smile: "Sixth aunt, thanks to you these days, there is no old man in the family, my nephew and daughter-in-law are pregnant with this child, and my heart is up and down, if it weren't for you to be stable, my nephew and daughter-in-law really couldn't sleep." ”

Old Madam Lu said lightly: "I just come over occasionally to take a look, where did it come to this point?" You have already given birth to two sons, and I am afraid that you will be a little older than my wife. ”

Xu Shi laughed a few times, racking his brains to reply: "That's not what you said...... The two boys born to the nephew and daughter-in-law before are not as good as this one toss, and the nephew and daughter-in-law are really the first time to suffer this crime......"

Old Madam Lu stared at her stomach: "It's been more than eight months, right?" ”

"Yes......" Xu felt a little furious in his heart, and couldn't help touching his stomach.

"The month is older, and the body is heavy. Don't go out if there's nothing to do. Old Madam Lu looked away, "It's gloomy these days, I don't know when it will rain, the road is slippery, if there is a delay, it's terrible." If you have something to do, just leave it to your subordinates to do, and you won't move yourself, you know?! ”

Although Xu was puzzled, he still obediently responded. Mrs. Lu calmed down a little in her heart, and felt that after such an instruction, her nephew and daughter-in-law should be able to listen, and she would naturally be fine on the night of the fourteenth. She was about to ask a few more words about the living and eating of pregnant women, so as not to be delayed, when she suddenly heard the girl report that Mrs. Wugu was coming, so she straightened her face and said, "Since you have a guest, I will go back first." ”

Xu Shi hurriedly said: "The fifth sister is not an outsider, and the sixth aunt stays for dinner, right?" The niece and daughter-in-law have already asked the kitchen to add vegetables. ”

"No need." Mrs. Lu immediately got up, "There is only one child in the family, and I am not at ease. You don't have to send it, I'll come back to see you another day. After saying that, he walked out of the door, and met the married daughter of the ninth room, Grandma Qian, and was stunned.

Grandma Qian's face flashed with surprise, and she greeted her aunt with a dignified and gentle smile, Mrs. Lu nodded expressionlessly, and walked out.

The sister-in-law exchanged a few words, and Grandma Qian asked, "Why did the old lady in the sixth room come?" I haven't heard of her being close to her sister-in-law in the past?! ”

Xu said with a smile: "I met Aunt Jiu a few days ago, and after talking for a while, she came to see me twice. The sixth aunt is an old man, and she reminds me a lot of things. Thanks to her old man, I'm not so uncomfortable these days. ”

Grandma Qian glanced at her belly, her heart was a little sour, and she smiled reluctantly: "Sister-in-law is really blessed, when I was born last time, everyone said that my sister-in-law was injured, but I didn't expect that after only a few years of hard work, my sister-in-law became pregnant again." If this child is a girl, my brother will have both children and daughters. It's not like me, I've been in the door for ten years, and there's only one girl. ”

Seeing that she didn't speak well, Xu smiled and didn't answer. Grandma Qian took the initiative to lead the topic to Mrs. Lu: "Just now I saw the style of the sixth old lady, she still looks like she doesn't eat oil and salt, which is really unpleasant." I heard a few days ago that she had a quarrel with the long house because of her granddaughter's fright? The eldest aunt compensated her, and sent medicine and silver, and things were piled up all over the yard, but she still didn't give up. Sister-in-law, you say, isn't it too much for the old lady to do this? Nine girls are fine, can she make such a big fuss?! What kind of family is the long house? Isn't it enough to whisper like this?! ”

Xu lived in Guzhuang, knew the truth more clearly, and knew that what the sister-in-law said was biased, but she was not a person who liked to chew her tongue, so she smiled: "After all, she is the only flesh and blood, and I can't complain that the sixth aunt is panicking." Later, the matter also calmed down, and I heard that Xiao Qi personally compensated the nine girls. In theory, he is too nonsense, and it is good to be taught a lesson. ”

Grandma Qian disagreed: "I've seen Xiao Qi a few times, but it's just a half-grown child, smart and smart, and he knows the most etiquette, how can he mess around?" I see, it's clear that the nine girls are timid, and the brothers and sisters joke with her, but she can't play. A little girl, who was detained by her grandmother again, had never seen the world, and was pampered, and she couldn't stand the wind, so she would get sick. The sixth old lady was just angry. She has that leisure, it is better to discipline her own granddaughter, don't raise the child like a kitten, she can't withstand the slightest wind and rain! ”

Xu knew that the sister-in-law's mouth had always been unforgiving, and she didn't want to argue with her more, but the sixth aunt had already left, and the girl in the house was her own cronies, so she wouldn't spread the word, so she pretended to be inadvertent, and talked about the weather, worried that it would rain in a few days, which would affect the autumn harvest, so she gradually moved the topic away.

On the twelfth day of July, it rained heavily. At first it was only two or three hours in the afternoon, but on the night of the 13th, the heavy rain did not cease until noon on the 14th, when it was slightly lighter. As evening approached, the rain began to subside.

Wen Yi looked at the water droplets dripping under the eaves outside the house in a daze, and her grandmother's words came from behind her: "It's okay now, you know that your words are ridiculous, right?!" If there is no rain tonight, you can kneel in the Buddha hall for me! ”

Wen Yi silently lowered her head and did not speak. She knew it was going to rain tonight.

Mrs. Lu glared at her angrily, turned around and instructed Mama Zhao: "In the past few days, because of the rain, I missed the offering in front of the Buddha, and now it is too late to enter the city, you send the offerings prepared at home to the Qinglian Nunnery in the west of Zhuangzi." Although it is not as pious as the worship of the temple in the city, in the end, it is a heart, and the Buddha will not blame it. ”

Mama Zhao responded, glanced at Wen Yi worriedly, Wen Yi smiled softly, and said, "Mama be careful on the road, you must come back before dark." Old Madam Lu snorted coldly, flicked her sleeves and went back to the room, Mama Zhao shook her head and said to Wen Yi: "Miss, admit your mistake earlier, and you will be fine." He lowered his voice again, "Mama went to the ninth room to inquire, and Mrs. Fifteen had no intention of going out at all, let alone her, even the fifteenth master and the two young masters, and even her maid-in-law, none of them wanted to go out!" ”

Wen Yi said in a low voice: "Mama, I have been staying at home in my dreams, if I hadn't heard Aunt Zhang gossip about the village with you, I wouldn't have known about it." I don't know why Aunt Fifteen went out, I just know ...... She was out of nowhere. ”

Mama Zhao sighed helplessly and left. Wen Yi stared at the dark clouds in the sky, knowing whether she could win the trust of her grandmother was because of the rain tonight.

At the end of the first watch (19 to 21 o'clock in the evening), there was a thunderclap in the sky, and heavy rain poured down.

In the backyard of Xuanhe Hall, Aunt Zhang cautiously replied to Mrs. Lu: "I didn't see anyone going out in the ninth room, the rain outside is heavy, and the water is almost over the instep, so no one will go out." ”

Old Madam Lu nodded: "Tell your man to continue to keep an eye on it." Go ahead! Aunt Zhang didn't understand the intention of her order, her eyes rolled a few times, and then she answered.

Zi Ying whispered in Wen Yi's ear: "Miss, it's late at night, let's rest early." You are weak, and the old lady is too old to stay up late. ”

Wen Yi shook his head: "Wait a while, just a while." ”

"What are you waiting for?!" Old Madam Lu suddenly started a fire, "It's all at this time, don't you give up?!" If you don't sleep, just wait by yourself! "I called Mama Zhao to go back to the room.

At this time, Aunt Zhang suddenly ran in from outside and shouted, "Old lady, someone in Jiufang really went out!" ”

Old Madam Lu's body shook and asked sharply: "Speak clearly!" Who's out there?! ”

Aunt Zhang trembled and said, "The little one can't see clearly, just look at the car, it seems to be Mrs. Fifteen's carriage......"

Wen Yi stared at her and asked, "How long have they been gone?!" ”

"This ...... For a while, right? I just finished talking, and as soon as I went out, Lao Zhang ran and said......"

Wen Yi glanced at her grandmother, Old Madam Lu's face was full of shock, and she muttered: "Amitabha, how can you be so ......" She bit her lip and ordered Aunt Zhang: "Tell Uncle Zhang, catch up, you have to chase you out of the village until you can't see the carriage!" Just say...... The road is slippery in the rain, and it is not safe for Aunt Fifteen to go out, so let him ask people to come! ”

Aunt Zhang went with a puzzled face, Wen Yi walked to Mrs. Lu and knelt down, and said with a straight face: "Grandmother, now that my granddaughter's words have come true, I ask my grandmother to prepare early." When Uncle Zhang comes back, he has to prepare medicine, Wenpo, rain gear, stretchers, etc., in order to save people! ”

Old Madam Lu looked up at her granddaughter, sighed, and closed her eyes: "You go, thing...... It's all ready, right in the front yard. Let the Zhang family go and invite Wen Po ......"

Wen Yi kowtowed: "Please grandmother...... Relax. After that, he pursed his lips, stood up, turned around, called Zi Sakura, and resolutely walked out the door.