Chapter 014: Punishment and Prohibition of the Ancestral Hall
Although Xiao Xile was frightened by the old lady's fierce words, her little face turned pale, but she was spoiled by the Li family in the palm of her hand since she was a child, how dare she easily bow down to this grievance now, although she was afraid in her heart, she still gritted her teeth and responded, "Grandmother, if my sister didn't trip me on purpose, how could I ......?"
Before Xiao Xile's words were finished, the old lady swept the teacups on the table abruptly.
With a 'snap', the teacup cracked in front of Xiao Xile, and the hot tea splashed on the back of her hand, and she stood up with a scream.
"Get on your knees! Did I get you up? The old lady snorted.
Xiao Xile trembled, and then finally couldn't hold it anymore, and cried out, but he always refused to kneel.
"It seems! You don't want to hear my words! Mama Liu, go, invite me over the family law! The old lady's eyes were slight, and there was a trace of anger floating around her body.
"Le'er, don't kneel down yet!" Li's heart trembled, and he hurriedly stepped forward to pull Xiao Xile and gave her an anxious look.
Lao Taijun is not only her mother-in-law, but also her cousin, and she knows her temperament best. At the moment, the old lady no longer wants to know why Xile fell into Pogoer's arms at the flower viewing banquet, she only knows that Xile dared to do it with her sister in front of her, and dared to talk back to her. When Li Shi thought of this, he couldn't help but secretly complain in his heart, he originally wanted to tear off Xiao Xiwei's mask in front of the old lady, but he didn't think about it, but he was cheated by her. I'm afraid that she anticipated Xile's temperament early in the morning, and deliberately slapped the old lady to make the old lady angry.
Xiao Xile cried out loud with a 'wow', but finally knelt down again.
"Mother, Le'er is young and ignorant, you must not worry about her." Li looked at Xiao Xile crying very miserably and aggrieved, and he had to feel a pain in his heart.
The old lady snorted coldly, and her cold eyes swept over the Li family, "She's young and ignorant, so what about you?" In my opinion, she is used to her domineering temperament today! ”
"Mother......" Li was swept away by the old lady's cold eyes, and a trace of fear burned in his heart.
She knew that the old lady was afraid that even she would be angry.
"Layue, clean up the room in the east wing of the ancestral hall, from today on, the third lady will live in that room and learn the rules well, without my permission, no one can see it!" The old lady said coldly.
"Yes." Mama Liu replied with a bow.
The old lady is preparing to teach Xiao Xile in person.
"I don't want ...... Mother...... Mother......" Xiao Xile's face turned pale with fright, and he hurriedly pulled Li's clothes, his face full of fear.
She was finally released from the ancestral hall, and she really didn't want to be locked up in that cold and gloomy place again.
The mother of this voice slashed Li's heart and liver like a knife, "Mother, Le'er's body is thin, and the ancestral hall is cloudy and cold, how can Le'er stand it......" Li saw that the old lady was still unmoved, and couldn't help but turn his face to look at Xiao Xi and said sadly, "Wei'er, Le'er has been close to you since she was a child, if you hadn't been wronged and heard that you went to the old lady's place, I thought that you would have done it to you if you exposed her short, anxious and angry...... And please forgive her for your sister's sake, for Mother is here to make amends to you for her sins. Li burst into tears as he made a gesture to salute.
"Mother, don't say that." Xiao Xi hurriedly stretched out his hand to support Li. If she really received Li's gift, she didn't know what she would be arranged by others. "I also know that my sister has been wronged, but it's just my mother, I really didn't trip my sister...... I didn't speak ill of my sister in front of my grandmother either...... I don't know why my sister said this about me......" Xiao Xi lowered his eyes slightly, tears stained his eyelashes, and his voice was a little hoarse.
She didn't say a word about grievances, but the more she heard it in the ears of the old lady, the more she couldn't help but feel wronged for her.
It's not your own life!
"Layue, what are you still doing in a daze, don't take the third lady to the ancestral hall yet!" The old lady's face was condensed, and she spoke again without refuting.
"Nope! I don't go to the ancestral hall! I don't go to the ancestral hall! Xiao Xile screamed and desperately hid behind Li.
"Mother's ......"
"Why, I don't even have the power to punish a little girl!" The old lady raised his eyebrows, and his eyes swept towards the Li family with fierce colors.
Li Shi trembled, hurriedly lowered his head and said, "Daughter-in-law doesn't dare." ”
All the words of plea were stuck in his throat and could not say a word again.
In the end, the Li family still watched Xiao Xile being forcibly imprisoned in the ancestral hall by Mama Liu with a few girls. Listening to Xiao Xile's miserable cry, he only felt as if he was being stabbed one by one, but he couldn't do anything about it, so he could only watch.
The old lady sat back on the Luohan bed, took a sip of the tea that the girl handed over again, raised her eyes again to look at Li, and said, "In a few days it will be Sister Chun'er's birthday, and she should take back the illness she has been nursing in the Zhuangzi for so long!" ”
Li was stunned at first, and then shocked.
How could the old lady suddenly mention this concubine who had been forgotten by the Waiting Mansion? You must know that although Xiao Xichun is nominally a young lady in Houfu, she is disgusted because of her biological mother and second aunt, so she let her mother-in-law take her to Zhuangzi in the countryside soon after she was born.
"Mother, where is the old man......"
"Yan'er, I'll go and say, you can arrange someone to bring Sister Chun'er back first!" The old lady said unhurriedly.
"Yes." Li forcibly suppressed the shock in his heart.
"Then you can go down and make arrangements!" The old lady put the teacup down and leaned in front of the couch, slowly closing her eyes.
"Yes, Mother." Li Shi blessed his body, and before leaving, his eyes swept Xiao Xiwei fiercely, and then he walked out of Jingyuan angrily.
The room fell silent, and the old lady leaned on the couch with her right hand on her forehead, not knowing whether she was asleep or just closing her eyes to recuperate, and she didn't care that there was still a person standing in the room.
Xiao Xi lowered his head slightly and stood quietly.
After about half a pillar of incense, the old lady finally opened her eyes slowly.
The girl in front of her stood quietly aside, and the pair of gold filament inlaid ruby doubles on her head were quietly attached to her ear, and there was no trace of impatience on her snow-white face.
In her impression, this granddaughter has never been a quiet and introverted person, she is gorgeous and swaggering all day long without a trace of restraint, since when did this child be so angry?
The old lady frowned slightly, "Sister Wei, do you know what happened today?" ”
The old lady can accompany Xiao Qi to climb all the way from a cloth cloth to the Zhongyong Waiting Mansion, and she is not an ordinary mediocre woman. She can naturally see that today's incident is not as innocent as her seemingly innocent granddaughter seems.
Xiao Xi raised his head slowly, his clear eyes looked directly at the old lady, and his face was indescribably arrogant and cold, "Grandmother, Wei'er is dull, I don't know what is wrong with me." ”
The old lady was stunned.
She didn't expect Xiao Xiwei's answer to be like this!
This kid!
The old lady makes her granddaughter extremely smart, but her wisdom will hurt! I hope you will cherish her a lot!
Mrs. Hui's words suddenly rang in her ears.
The corners of the old lady's lips moved, and after all, she didn't say anything, only waved her hand slightly at Xiao Xi, and sighed faintly. "Girl, Hui Ji will be hurt, don't go too far in everything, always leave some room for yourself."
She has been in the back house for all these years, how can she not know the unsightly calculations in the back house.
Xiao Xi's eyes moved, and his eyes couldn't help but be wet, "Grandmother......
She didn't expect that the old lady knew that she had made a scene today, but she could still say this to herself.
Looking at Xiao Xiwei's appearance, the old lady was also a little moved, "Silly girl, no matter what, you are always the eldest granddaughter of our Houfu." ”
Anyway, she at least remembered that there was a concubine in Zhuangzi that no one cared about, even if it was just an excuse, but she was at least willing to intercede for her.
In this deep mansion, no one has a means, but there must always be a little conscience in doing things, and don't go too far in everything.
Xiao Xi couldn't help choking up for a while, "Yes, my granddaughter knows." ”
"Go ahead." The old lady waved her hand.
"The granddaughter is leaving." Xiao Xi was slightly blessed and exited the room.
When Mama Sun came in, the old lady was frowning, gently rubbing her temples with her right hand. Seeing this, she naturally stepped forward and raised her hand to press her temples for the old lady.
"I'm back." The old lady changed her posture, "She's not making a fuss?" ”
Mama Sun smiled, "The third lady was originally a little aggrieved, but then the lady rushed over and persuaded for a long time, and the third lady stayed in the ancestral hall peacefully and never lost her temper again." ”
The old lady snorted coldly, "It's all used to her!" After a while, Ah Yan came back and asked him to come to Jingyuan first. ”
"Yes." Mama Sun smiled and responded.
The old lady sighed, reached out and rubbed her sore forehead again, "Layue, did you say that I was wrong when you agreed to Ayan to help Qingmei as a steproom?" ”
The old lady had no brothers and sisters, and the only cousin who was a little dear died of illness, leaving behind a group of children, who begged all the way to the capital to join her cousin. She saw that the child was really pitiful, and she also remembered a little kindness from her cousin when she was a child, so she adopted the pair of children, and originally wanted to find a home for each of them in Beijing and repay her cousin's care for her when she was young, but she never thought that Li and Yan'er secretly had a love affair and a secret knot. At that time, although she was angry, Li was her cousin and niece after all, and finally she persuaded her daughter-in-law Chen to accept Li as a concubine as a mother-in-law, which gave birth to Xiao Xile, the third lady of Houfu. Later, Chen passed away due to illness, and her health deteriorated day by day, and the huge Houfu gradually had Li's hand in charge, during which Li also looked at Houfu in an orderly manner every day, and she read that she was her cousin's blood and promised Ayan to help Li as a stepfamily. But now it seems that ......
"Layue, sometimes I always think that if I hadn't forced Wan'er to accept Qingmei, she wouldn't have ended up depressed......"
It was also because of the unspeakable guilt in her heart that she didn't dare to face that she didn't know how to treat Xiao Xiwei, the daughter left by the Chen family.
"Old lady, don't you know the temperament of the lady? The most reasonable and filial piety, don't blame yourself for the old lady, if the lady is still alive, I don't know how distressed it should be. Mama Liu hurriedly comforted.
The old lady sighed, "That's it, don't say anything." After a pause, he continued, "Sister Wei'er...... You use more snacks. ”
"Yes, the slave has written it down." Mama Liu hurriedly agreed.
The old lady nodded, and then Mama Liu helped her into the inner room.