004 Life History (2)
The eldest lady Zhong Xiaoxin was born without her mother, and when she was one year old, her father reunited with the niece of Mrs. Hou's Shen family, so Zhong Xiaoxin was physiologically considered to have an extra mother, but in fact, mentally she lost her father again.
The biological mother, Dou, was a well-known beauty in the village back then.
Listen to it...... In the village, it can be seen how poor the background is, Dou is the only daughter of a teacher in a small village outside Beijing, his wife died in his early years, and then his daughter died, so he also died.
Zhong Xiaoxin's maternal ancestor died and became a desperate family, so there is no need to mention it.
However, it is precisely because Zhong Xiaoxin's biological mother's background is too low, so Zhong Xiaoxin has never hindered anyone's eyes in this mansion, but has lived smoothly, without any major illnesses and disasters.
Mrs. Hou Shen married the daughter of the Bofu who had real power, and married the daughter of a teacher to the concubine, although it was said that the concubine himself was making a fuss about the person he fancied, but in the end he also had the intention of suppression, and then the second room Dou died, and the Shen family remarried the niece Xiao Shen who remarried the concubine, and also wanted to fully control the second room of the concubine. Now the big house is her sister-in-law, and the second room is her niece, and the old lady is talking about it in the Hou Mansion, of course, she will not take a granddaughter who has died of her mother as a thorn in her heart.
Anyway, if it weren't for Zhong Xiaoxin's nurse Fang's illness and death last month, forcing Zhong Xiaoxin to cry in front of her and begging for silver, the old lady would have forgotten that there was such a person in the house.
Because Zhong Xiaoxin rarely appears in front of people.
Zhong Xiaoxin is now 14 years old. When Dou's gave birth to her and died in childbirth, but the nurse Fang's was prepared early, she was a little sister in the same village of Dou's, that is, Zizhu's mother, Zizhu was four years old Zhong Xiaoxin, it can be said that Zhong Xiaoxin and Zizhu are sisters who are not related by blood, Fang's because the days were too difficult, and her husband had an accident again, so Dou's took charge of taking her and her daughter into the house together, which can be said to be a great grace to save lives, Zizhu and Zhong Xiaoxin were raised by Fang's milk together, so Zizhu has always regarded Zhong Xiaoxin as a younger sister.
Back then, the daughter of a teaching gentleman of the Dou family, if it wasn't for her beauty, how could she let a second young man of the Hou Mansion fall in love at first sight and marry her as the main room, so before Dou's death, she was the only pet in the second room, and most of the money was in her hands.
Fang is a village girl who doesn't know a big word, but she has a good heart and is also steady, since the death of Dou, because the second master wants to marry a new man, she took her two children and a few people to move to a very remote courtyard in the Hou Mansion to live, and she guards the yard with her duty, with the children, and the new second wife Shen wants to save face, and she can't eat and wear at least a few of the master and servants. The nurse Fang saw that although the masters in this house were cold and ignored an orphan girl, at least they would not beat and scold at will, so they said that their little lady was not in good health and would not go anywhere. On weekdays, don't say hello to the elders, even on the occasion of the New Year's Festival, this Miss Zhong will never come out, in the nurse wants to come, far fragrant and smelly, do not see each other on weekdays, there is always a little face, if you often come and go, I am afraid that there will be trouble. It is said that this is an extremely rude thing, but the Zhong family is not a family with a lot of courtesy, and no one really cares about Zhong Xiaoxin's life and death.
And it turns out that although the village aunt of the Fang family has not read, the reason is still correct, the low-key life in the Qiluo Courtyard where the eldest lady was located before had almost no intersection with the house, and she has lived in peace for a few years, and now Zhong Xiaoxin has not been long before she appeared in front of people, and people were pushed into the water and almost ...... Or rather, it's dead.
As for why the eldest lady Zhong Xiaoxin finally abandoned the house attribute and decided to leave the turtle shell to come out to bask in the sun, because last month, the nurse Fang died of illness.
At the beginning, Dou was in charge of the second room, even if there was some money in his hand, it was pitiful, in the end, her man was a concubine, or a not very serious business, not to mention that after 14 years, the money that Dou left to the nurse had already run out, and the things that could be used in Qiluo Courtyard were almost used, so Fang's got a cold illness this time, of course, he would not go to see Dr. Laoshizi, but the sicker he became, the more he died.
Before she died, she commanded three things.
One is the purple bamboo, bitter chrysanthemum, and ginkgo three rings, and you must take care of the eldest lady. Because there are only three little girls in the courtyard besides her.
The second is that everything in her posthumous life is simple, just hire someone to bury a mat back to the village. Because Kirain is very poor now.
However, the Fang family thought so, but Zhong Xiaoxin really couldn't do it, in the end, she still begged her grandmother, Mrs. Shen, and cried for 5 taels of silver, so that the steward of the Zhong Mansion could help bury her back to the village. I feel chilling when I think about it, and I was rewarded with 5 taels of silver for the posthumous life of a nurse who took care of Miss Hou's mayor, which is the big girl around several masters of the Hou Mansion, and the dowry rewarded by the house will not be like this.
The third is ...... It is also the point that the Fang family asked the eldest lady Zhong Xiaoxin to get closer to the big house in the future. Because Zhong Xiaoxin is now 14 years old, it is the age to say goodbye, Fang is afraid that the second wife, Xiao Shen's sweetheart, will pit her young lady, after all, since ancient times, stepmothers and stepdaughters have been like mother-in-law and daughters-in-law, and there are few good ones. I also felt that the big house was also a concubine, and Mrs. Shizi was born in a big family, so for the sake of face, she would take care of this niece to some extent, so she ordered it like this.
After Fang's order, he sighed and sighed that it was a pity that he couldn't watch the young lady get married and have children, and then closed his eyes.
Where did she think that long after her death, Zhong Xiaoxin went to get close to Dafang because of her words, but she happened to meet Dafang's cousin and cousin visiting the garden, and it turned out to be a dead word.
Because of all this, Zizhu hated and poisoned the Hou Mansion, originally she was fierce with a pair of hanging triangular eyes, but now the resentment in her heart is on the surface, and it is even more fierce.
"Kuju, you serve the young lady, eat it while it's hot. Zizhu handed the bowl to Kuju, but he took down the rag that Kuju had passed through the water before, and continued to clean the Buddha hall, this small Buddha hall is not the Buddha hall of the old lady in the Hou Mansion, but a side courtyard with two rooms, only a few rooms inside, for a Buddha, in Zhong Xiaoxin's opinion, it is more like the aunts who were punished before, cold, damp and dark.
"I have lost my conscience, and I haven't eaten anything hot in the past four days. Kuju Xiaoyahuan looked tearful again, and put the bowl in front of Zhong Xiaoxin. The master and servant looked at the bowl of noodles, which were hand-rolled thin noodles with a layer of minced meat sprinkled on top.