Chapter 6 The Journey to the Long House
Old Madam Lu was still angry on her face, and said angrily as she walked into the house: "If you dare to love my granddaughter and not take things, you are disrespectful, isn't it?!" ”
Ruyi hurriedly said: "The slave doesn't dare, the slave just persuades Miss Nine to accept things." This was the kindness of the old lady......"
"So we don't accept it, we just don't know what to do?!" Mrs. Lu slapped the tabletop, causing the tea bowls on the table to rattle.
Ruyi didn't dare to say more, but knelt down and bowed his head and said: "The slave and maid don't dare, because the slave and maid were in a hurry, so they said the wrong thing." Old Madam Lu snorted coldly and ignored her.
Wen Yi walked over to help her sit down and persuaded: "Grandmother, don't be angry, presumably Miss Ruyi didn't mean it, she was just joking with her granddaughter." Hearing this, Lu's expression slowed down by two points, but the anger between his eyebrows was still there. Wen Yi noticed a flash of gratitude and surprise in Ruyi's eyes, and sighed in her heart: Where could she not hear the deep meaning of the other party's words? But it has been decided to make a good hand over the long house, and some things can't be taken too seriously, besides, the close maid next to the uncle and grandmother has a great impact on the master, and it is better not to offend, or not to offend.
Thinking of this, she looked at Aunt Zhang again, with displeasure in her eyes: "Didn't Fang just order you?" How can you go and wake up Grandmother?! Aunt Zhang's neck shrank, and she smiled and said, "The little one is afraid that Miss will suffer...... loss."
Old Madam Lu waved her hand at her granddaughter: "You should have told me to get up!" Turning to Ruyi, seeing that the other party was submissive, and thinking that this girl had always treated herself with great respect, her expression slowed down a little: "You may have no intention, but you said those words, just to force my granddaughter to accept things." If you old lady has the heart, it is enough to restrain the family, and there is no need to send things every day, the nine girls are young and can't afford these blessings! ”
Ruyi bowed her head and said: "The old lady has ordered someone to escort Mrs. Liu to the door and obey the six old ladies to fall, although Miss Nine spared her generously, but the six old ladies should teach her a lesson." ”
When Mrs. Lu heard this, she was slightly surprised, looked at her granddaughter, and Wen Yi hurriedly said: "The granddaughter thinks, although Mama Liu is at fault, in the end, it is the eldest aunt's person, and the granddaughter is the younger generation, so it is really difficult to send her down, so please Ruyi take someone back and let her dispose of it by her own master." ”
Old Madam Lu frowned and nodded: "What you think makes sense." He also said, "Although we don't accept anything, your uncle and grandmother are also kind, so you can go and thank her, so that she will not be at ease, and you will send someone to see if you are really well." After a pause, Yin Yang added a strange sentence: "Maybe I'm afraid that you will turn around and slander her again!" ”
Ruyi became more and more frightened: "It's all slaves, aren't they, our old lady never has such an idea!" Six old ladies, please put out your anger! ”
"Get up!" Old Madam Lu said angrily, "Let people see it, and think that I am angry with other people's slaves and maids without knowing it!" ”
Ruyi got up cautiously and said with a smile: "Our old lady is also thinking about the sixth old lady and Miss Nine, if we can see Miss Nine with our own eyes, we will be very happy." ”
"Of course she's happy!" Mrs. Lu snorted coldly, "My granddaughter is fine, her grandson doesn't have to go door-to-door, maybe she can tell someone that I'm making a fuss!" You don't have to say anything, it's enough for my granddaughter to thank her, and I don't need to come to the door to sell her in person! ”
Ruyi didn't dare to say anything more, Wen Yi carefully persuaded her grandmother and helped her back to the backyard to rest. Mrs. Lu said to her: "Let Mama Zhao accompany you, and you can take care of you in case of trouble." ”
Mama Zhao hurriedly responded, but Wen Yi said: "Mama Zhao is gone, isn't there anyone around Grandmother?" Aunt Zhang still has a lot of work to do, and it is inevitable to take care of one or the other, but it is just a few steps, and her granddaughter can go alone. No matter how vicious the people in the long house are, they won't eat their granddaughters, don't they have shame? ”
Mrs. Lu thought about it, so she complied, but then instructed: "You just thank you when you go, no matter what your brothers and sisters do to you, don't pay attention to them!" ”
Wen Yi knew that her grandmother was afraid that she would suffer again, so her heart warmed, and she said with a smile: "Grandmother, don't worry, although the granddaughter knows that her family background is difficult to defeat the long house, but she is also from the same ancestor, and they are all the same descendants of the Gu family, so how can she be arrogant?" ”
Mama Zhao shouted: "That's a good thing!" This is the girl from the family of the Wangclan! ”
Mrs. Lu was also happy when she heard this: "That's right, our family won't lose to them!" Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi, that is, our family is desperate, how many years can they be beautiful? ! It's not good to be restrained, and I'm so arrogant to the clansmen, I don't know what will happen in the future! ”
Wen Yi smiled, she didn't know that the long house would be beautiful for a few years, at least after more than ten years, the concubine of the long house could still lead a large group of guards to rampage through the streets of the capital, and even the queen mother was commensurate with her as a sister, so it seems that her own family should avoid it, as long as the people in the long house are not too much, and a little idle will endure it.
However, she couldn't say these words to her grandmother, so she could only say vaguely: "No matter how arrogant their family is, the granddaughter only acts according to etiquette, and the last time it was the granddaughter who was not careful, this time she will not make the same mistake again." ”
Mrs. Lu was very satisfied, Wen Yi waited for her to sleep again, added a small piece of soothing incense, and then went back to the room to change her clothes and go out of the front yard. Ruyi and Lu Sanjia have been waiting for a long time.
The area of Guzhuang is not small, and there are many houses, in order to facilitate the travel of female dependents, people are traveling by horse-drawn carriage. Xuanhetang only has a half-old carriage, which can accommodate two or three people to sit together, and the green cloth curtain is washed white, but it looks quite clean, but it has a bit of a downbeat after all.
Ruyi asked if she needed to call a carriage from Xuanle Hall, and Wen Yi shook her head: "I have a carriage at home." So he asked Uncle Zhang to set up the car, turned around with a bit of a strong look, and instructed Aunt Zhang: "Good life guards the door, grandmother has rested, don't bother if you have nothing to do, if there is anything difficult to decide, just ask Mama Zhao." Mama doesn't nod her head, and she doesn't let anyone outside into the door! Don't open the door and gossip with others! Aunt Zhang was a little shocked, and didn't understand how this always docile little master could suddenly be so strict, but she finally remembered the difference between master and servant, and stammered, and Wen Yi got in the car and set off.
When the carriage went out of the gate, Wen Yi lifted the corner of the curtain and saw that Mama Liu, who was kneeling in front of the door, was no longer there, and she didn't know if she was escorted back to Xuanle Hall. She looked away and looked at the scene outside, thinking back to Gu Zhuang in her memory. For a moment, she was so touched that her eyes were slightly red.
Guzhuang is located eight or nine miles north of Pingyang City, backed by Taiping Mountain, close to the Taiping River, with convenient water and land transportation, fertile land, and is a good place to settle. The ancestors of the Gu family came here with their families to settle down, that is, they fancy the superior location here, not only close to Pingyang City, but also go to the Dabu Kangcheng at the junction of the Taiping River and the Dongjiang River along the waterway, but only two days' effort, and then go to the first port at the mouth of the sea to return to the sea city, it is only seven or eight days of road, it is very convenient, and the climate is pleasant, the products are abundant, and what is even more rare is that this land is still ownerless at that time, and there is no land at all. Later generations often say that the ancestors of the Gu family were able to choose this blessed land with their discernment, instead of settling down in the big city, which was really prescient. Today, Guzhuang has a population of thousands of permanent residents, in addition to the Gu clan, there are also slaves who have been serving for generations, craftsmen who have been attached to them, tenants, merchants, etc., markets, shops, workshops, taverns...... Everything, very lively,
After the ancestor of the Gu family decided to settle down in Guzhuang, he planned the houses on the village very carefully. Because he gave birth to a total of nine sons, including the Yuan match, the two successor rooms and the second room, and the concubine room, six of which were all grandchildren, he built a large mansion in the middle of Gu Zhuang, and he took his wife and concubine and the eldest son's family to stay, and then built two smaller houses on the left and right sides of the house, and the other two sons-in-law and his family lived in the Yuan match, and the three smaller houses in the back row were prepared for the three sons-in-law from the two successions, and the houses of the three concubines were further back, and then around the nine main courtyards, and then built an ancestral hall. Buildings such as school houses, granaries, and servants' housing. After nearly a hundred years, the Gu clan people continued to multiply, some of the clansmen built new houses when they separated, and some of the clansmen moved to other places, these nine main courtyards have long ceased to be the original appearance, plus Zhuangzi moved a lot of outsiders, added a lot of houses, and slowly added shops, taverns and workshops, etc., the wharf was also rebuilt, the scope continued to expand, and today it is the scale of a small town.
Wen Yi's sixth room lives in the "Xuanhe Hall", one of the nine main courtyards, which is the westernmost mansion in the second row of main courtyards. As early as less than a year after her father's death, the original three-way five-hall mansion had been reduced to the area of only the middle road and three-hall, and the rest was occupied by other clansmen. In my memory, after turning my face with Changfang in my previous life, it was only three or four years of hard work, and the courtyard of the three entrances was occupied by the clansmen.
Wen Yi recalled the past, pursed her lips tightly, and suppressed the grief and indignation in her heart. She knew that her family was desperate, there was no male support, and the ancestral property had been recovered by the clan after her father's death, and she had to pay a fixed amount of money and grain every month. In addition, their grandparents and grandchildren live on the marriage of their grandmother and mother. My grandmother and mother are from everyone, and they marry a lot, so the family is quite prosperous now, and except for being despised a little, life is not sad. It was only after turning against the long house that the family's fortunes gradually deteriorated, and finally in the uncle's house, he got back his mother's marriage, and after his grandmother was seriously ill and postponed his medical treatment, he was defeated.
Wen Yi gently wiped away the tears in her eyes, took a deep breath, and calmed down. Now that the contradiction between the long room and the sixth room has been eased, as long as she smooths out this matter, she can plan again in the future. Since the Buddha gave her a chance to be reborn, how could she live up to the Buddha's kindness? The tragedy of the previous life will never be repeated in this life!
The sound of children laughing and playing outside the car window was heard, and when she looked out, she found that they were several little cousins in the eighth and ninth rooms, all of whom were six or seven years old, and it was the time of innocence. One of them, the eleventh in the ninth room, was proudly showing off to his cousins the new schoolbag his mother had made for him, and clamoring to buy his mother her favorite pastries, and when his mother was happy, maybe she would give him a pink little sister.
A hint of envy flashed in Wen Yi's eyes, and she was quickly attracted by a passing mansion. That is where she went in her previous life for several years after her grandmother's death, the house of her uncle Gu Yizheng, who was in the second room and the fourth room. At that time, the fourth uncle was the patriarch and was a strict person, although he was not mean to her, he was not close to love, and when it was time to say goodbye, it was even more ......
Wen Yi gritted her teeth and shook her head slightly, as if she wanted to put aside those unpleasant pasts. At this time, the carriage stopped for a while, and the sound of the mother-in-law greeting people came from outside the carriage, and then there was a squeak, as if a gate had opened, and the carriage moved again, and went forward for a while before stopping again. After a burst of footsteps, the carriage moved forward a little further, and only then did a Ruyi voice come from outside the carriage: "Miss Nine, it's here, please get off Miss Nine." Then he lifted the curtain.
Wen Yi helped her hand and bowed out of the carriage, and immediately a mother-in-law sent a footstool for her to step on the ground. She tilted her head, and found that it was no longer Uncle Zhang who was driving, but replaced by a mother-in-law she didn't recognize, looked around, and found that she was in a strange courtyard, surrounded by dense flowers and trees, and the walls and the moon cave door were decorated very elegantly, which should have been to the inner courtyard.
The Xuanle Hall in her memory was already very vague, Wen Yi was not sure if she had ever been here, and when she heard Ruyi ask her to go with her, she put aside her distracting thoughts and followed Ruyi to the courtyard where her grandmother lived.
Mrs. Yu lives in the Xuanle Hall Middle Road behind the Xuan Courtyard, which is a large courtyard with three entrances, and there is a plaque with black gold paint hanging at the door, and the words "Jin Xuan forgets worries" are written on it. When I entered the courtyard gate, my eyes were full of young girls wearing red and green, and they greeted her with a smile - but not to Wen Yi, but to Ruyi - and said, "Why did my sister come back at this time?" The old lady is talking about it! Another person said: "Mrs. Su is here, Sister Wufu is anxious to find her sister!" ”
Ruyi was puzzled, but he still remembered his duty, asked the girls to report to the old lady Yu about Miss Jiu's arrival, and respectfully asked Wen Yi to sit in the front yard and rest with a cup of tea.
Wen Yi heard that Grandmother Uncle had a guest, so she didn't say anything, so she went with Ruyi, who knew that before she was there, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl came over and said, "The old lady told me to invite Miss Nine to go!" Ruyi was stunned, and asked her in a low voice: "Then Mrs. Su's aunt ......" The girl shook her head lightly and smiled at Wen Yi: "Miss Jiu, come with the slave." ”
Wen Yi recognized her as another big girl beside Old Madam Yu, named Wufu, groaned slightly, glanced at Ruyi again, and saw that she also smiled and invited herself, so she answered and followed them back.
Who knew that when she turned a corner, she was greeted by a beautiful girl of twelve or thirteen years old, wearing a light purple shirt, a plain gauze skirt, a jasper pendant tied around her waist, and a pearl hairpin on her head.
Wen Yi's heart was shocked, and the indifference on her face could barely be maintained, so she finally covered up the resentment in her eyes and regained her calm look, but the sourness in her heart was still rolling.
It was none other than Wen Hui, the sixth cousin who watched her die.
(Today's cameo: Wufu.) Please apply for the reader to take the lead to receive a box lunch ~~~)
www.Welcome book friends to come and read, the latest, fastest, and hottest serialized works are all here!