124. Suicide
Knowing that Zhou Chongyan was so highly regarded by the queen, naturally there were noblewomen who were willing to chat with the Xu family while flattering the Chen family. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Mrs. Zhou personally posted that the guests who came were either rich or noble, so even if a certain lady only praised Xu's beautiful clothes, Xu felt flattered. I covered my face with a handkerchief and smiled from ear to ear... She is wearing a light cyan placket with a dark satin collar and a beige stand-up collar midshirt today. Because of Zhou Chongyan's troubles, she didn't dare to wear too gaudy clothes, she knew that she would dress up a little more gorgeously...
Chen's heart looks down on Xu's petty family, and the family will only rely on her husband to live as a parasite.
But Xiangye is right, harmony matters, she is the prime minister's wife, and she can support half a boat in her belly, so she doesn't want to worry about this family's parasites.
"Exactly... My younger brother and sister are wearing this today, and I look much younger..."Chen smiled.
Xu Shi was stunned, the handkerchief in his hand wrung his fingers, and he didn't know what to do. This Chen family will not praise her deliberately... She must have laughed at her for being plainly dressed...
Therefore, some words come out of the mouth of the wrong person, and even good intentions will change the taste.
Here, the Chen family did not take care of Xu's inner activities, and her main purpose today was to choose a good family for Zhou Baozhu.
In the capital, there is only one who has not yet said kiss. Chen's is naturally anxious, even if she doesn't like Zhou Baozhu, picking a son-in-law at this time is also picking up a good question. Hurry up and pick a very outstanding one, so that the old lady and Xiangye have nothing to say, see that Zhou Baozhu still relies on the family not to go out of the cabinet?
However, the mother-in-law has to be tempered with her...
So in the chatter and flower appreciation, there were two sentences in the three sentences, and the Chen family was asking each other about the talents and temperaments of the sons and daughters of each family. Naturally, the ladies did not forget the main purpose of the day, so they asked questions and answers, and occasionally praised each other. At the banquet, the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves, and each family didn't seem to explain anything, but they all had a success in each other's hearts.
Chen's look is pleasing to the eye, and it sounds good. Quietly sent the little maid to the little son who went to the front yard to participate in the poetry meeting, and asked him to take the opportunity of giving his poems to his grandmother for appreciation, and also sent the poems made by these sons. The old lady has her own decision.
The Chen family thinks that the family has done their best for Zhou Baozhu, even if the princess chooses the horse, and there is no Zhou Baozhu to mobilize the whole family like this.
This time, I will definitely marry that girl out steadily!
The Fu'an Hall was clean, and Mrs. Zhou leaned on the soft pillow, listening to Bing'er on the side whispering: "There is Anyang Boshi Jiang Nianyuan, seventeen years old... An Qiming, the second son of the Ministry of Rites, is fifteen years old..."
"Fifteen?" Old Madam Zhou squinted her eyes and said lightly: "The same age as Baozhu... Not good!" Mrs. Zhou directly denied.
"Yes, old lady." Bing'er didn't talk nonsense, and drew a cross on the three characters of An Qiming. Continue to read: "Xu Shiyuan, the son of the Marquis of Huaiyin, is eighteen years old..."
After reciting seven or eight sons in a row, Mrs. Zhou said again: "Go and inquire, what is the temperament of these people? Is there chaos at home?
Bing'er was puzzled: "Old lady, since Mrs. Chen sent her name to you, she must have learned about this, don't you wait for her to say it in person?"
Old Madam Zhou chuckled a few times and said, "Bao Yatou's lifelong affairs have been handed over to her on the surface, but my Hua'er, just such a girl, how can I not worry more?" Bing'er said: "There is an old lady you plan for the five girls for a lifetime, and the five girls will definitely marry a good son-in-law..."
Old Madam Zhou's smile froze on her face, how could there be a good son-in-law? After all, he was not the person that Bao Yatou had in mind... In the end, he treated her badly.
"Keep an eye on it... Although people can't be good-looking, our precious girl is born like a flower, and she can't be bad when she marries. If any of these people are bad-looking... Let's go for it. Mrs. Zhou added another sentence at the end. I picked up the list and looked at it a few more times.
Bing'er nodded respectfully. He also said: "Old lady, yesterday, the abbot of Shuiyue Nunnery copied the scriptures and sent them over, or I asked you to send them to Concubine Min in the palace..."
Old Madam Zhou looked down at the list and didn't speak.
Bing'er slandered, this Mrs. Huizhen, last time Concubine Min had her birthday, she somehow caught up with the second lady of Lian, and took the old lady to send some hand-copied scriptures into the palace. Since then, he has beaten snakes with sticks. If it weren't for the old lady's belief in Buddhism, she used to go to Shuiyue Nunnery to pay homage, and she would definitely have taught her a lesson! She also became a monk! In order to catch up with the nobles, she would do everything she could!
Bing'er slandered her belly, and said, "The slave is still the same as before?"
"Hmm..." Mrs. Zhou didn't raise her head, and casually agreed. But after Bing'er ordered, he said: "It is also hard for the abbot to copy the scriptures, I remember that during the New Year's Festival, the palace rewarded a pair of plum bottles." I saw that the Bodhisattva should like it, and sent two safe people to send them to the Suigetsu Temple. It's a reward for her..."
Bing'er stared for a while, and then said: "The old lady is really kind-hearted! If someone else is changed, someone else will ignore her!"
Old Madam Zhou shook her head with a smile and carefully put down the list. He also said, "When people are old, they are easy to be tired. I'm a little crooked, and the Chen family came to call me..."
Not long after Bing'er carefully served the old lady and lay down, a slave and maid shouted outside: "Oh no... The old lady... Oh no..."
Bing'er frowned, the old lady was old, and she couldn't be noisy about anything! Who is shouting here?
You must know that there is nothing bad with the old lady!
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Nie Xiaofan and Zhou Qiaoqiao's investigation soon had results.
Mrs. Zhou is a nobleman, and it is not difficult to inquire about her.
"My aunt and grandmother rarely went out. Even if you go out, you will go up the mountain to burn incense. Few years... In recent years, my aunt and grandfather have passed away, and I have gradually become more active, but I have little contact with others..."Nie Xiaofan said.
Zhou Qiaoqiao said: "Which temple does she go to? Like you, my aunt and grandmother... She is married to a non-human, and her life is not very happy, when your aunt and grandfather are still there, the person she is willing to go out to meet must be very important!" Zhou Qiaoqiao thought about it again and said. But I didn't want Nie Xiaofan to look at her sideways...
"What are you doing, I'm not wrong..."Zhou Qiaoqiao said busily.
Nie Xiaofan sighed, and no longer shared these things with her, but said: "She went to Shuiyue Nunnery, two or three times a year... I haven't been there for nearly two years. ”
"That pretending to be a ghost..."Zhou Qiaoqiao's mind was on her, and at the same time he looked at Nie Xiaofan.
Nie Xiaofan said: "Where are you pretending to be a god and playing ghosts? People say that your life is extremely expensive! It can be seen that you have won the Tao!"
Zhou Qiaoqiao pouted, just to get some silver...
However, if she is really the young lady who can leave fame and fortune behind for love, it is unreasonable to cheat people out of money like this!
"Or... How can you cheat the old fish head?" Nie Xiaofan asked.
Zhou Qiaoqiao was thoughtful...
At this moment, there was a commotion outside Mochizuki Pavilion... Several subordinates shouted at the same time: "Oh no... Oh no... Miss Baozhu killed herself..."
Miss Baozhu committed suicide?
Nie Xiaofan's face turned pale with shock...
This silly girl!
"I'll take a look!" she ran out with the hem of her skirt, not even caring about the usual ladylike image. Liu Yu and the others couldn't catch up with her.
Zhou Qiaoqiao didn't feel much, but if you want to say that she gloated because of Zhou Baozhu's suicide, it wouldn't be enough. She's busy!
Zhou Qiaoqiao went down the mountain.
In the main courtyard, Lian and Nie Xiao'e had already arrived first, and the people who were waiting for Zhou Baozhu knelt on the ground, in order not to appear crowded, they didn't even bring their own maids in, and at this time they anxiously looked at Zhou Baozhu's maids for first aid.
Nie Xiaofan really ran all the way over, she didn't care about wiping the fine sweat on her forehead, she looked at the bed, the former beautiful and proud Zhou Baozhu was already unconscious, her face was snow-white, and the maid Bai Ling was anxiously pinching her...
"Where's the doctor?" asked Nie Xiaofan, gasping.
"I've already gone to please..."Nie Xiao'e said worriedly, the doctor from the mountain came over, everyone knew that it would take a certain amount of time... I'm afraid...
"Isn't there a doctor's wife, go and call!" Nie Xiaofan hurriedly shouted to the crying maids on the ground. Nie Xiaofan knew that in many people's homes, the doctor only looked at the maids' illnesses, but in this mountain, the doctor occasionally saw some simple diseases, did she still dislike the doctor's poor medical skills at this time?
"The doctor... I went to collect medicine in the mountains, but I don't know when I came back... If the girl has three long and two short, how can we live?" cried a woman.
However, she didn't have time to cry out loud, so she was carried out by the vigorous Zijuan, and Zijuan asked: "Why is that the doctor, she doesn't collect medicine in the morning and doesn't collect medicine in the evening, but she collects medicine today?"
As soon as these words came out, a room full of people held their breath. Nie Xiaofan also looked at Zhou Baozhu on the bed suspiciously, and suddenly, Nie Xiaofan was not so worried. The heartbeat is not so fast, and even a smile is hooked at the corner of the mouth. But she quickly covered it up.
Bai Ling, who was sitting on the bed and giving Zhou Baozhu a good breath, heard this and asked angrily, "Zijuan, what do you mean by this?"
Of course, Zijuan had her own meaning, but because of the large number of people, she couldn't say it, so she twisted her head to the side, gritted her teeth and ignored Bai Ling.
The girl took advantage of her inattention to hang herself, and everyone knew about it. The capital also sent people to make trouble, and the reason for it was that it couldn't be scrutinized at all. This Bai Ling's courage is getting bigger and bigger... Zijuan secretly clenched her fists.
Lian's ., Nie Xiaofan and Nie Xiao'e glanced at each other, and each had a spectrum in their hearts. So the previous panic was gone, and everyone simply found a place to sit and wait.
Half an hour later, Dr. Li and his wife, who were often invited in the courtyard, arrived late. took the pulse and said, "It's okay for the time being!"
The big stone in everyone's hearts finally landed. Then we waited for the show.
But after waiting for another hour, I didn't watch the big drama I wanted to watch, but I just waited for a list of Mrs. Zhou.
Bai Ling sent everyone away, only then did he gently shake the girl awake and said, "Girl... The old lady did not come, and no one else came... I only sent a piece of paper..."
Bai Ling whimpered, in fact, there was another sentence. The messenger she sent didn't come back. I don't know if it's dangerous... But the girl was so annoyed, so I didn't tell her yet.
Zhou Baozhu slowly opened his eyes, rubbed his neck and said, "You are too slow to untie the rope..."
Bai Ling was a little aggrieved, it was the girl who said that there should be marks on her neck...
Zhou Baozhu's face gradually changed from a relaxed look to sadness, and finally two lines of tears fell. "I'm so stupid..."
"What's the matter, girl, she's not stupid! Girl is smart..."Bai Ling said busily, and then took the rice paper and looked at it. "Girl, what is this?
Bai Ling didn't believe it, Xiangye had always loved girls. Although the old lady is rumored to be the favorite of the five girls, no one in the family knows that only the Baozhu girl can get into the eyes of the old lady.
Now... Now that the girls are determined not to marry, does the old lady still want to persecute the girl?
"It's... That's impossible... Girl, is it useless to be a slave, the person sent home is not clever enough, and the momentum is not loud enough... It's not scary enough to say... It must be like this... It must be like this... Girl..."Bai Lingwa cried.
The girl just didn't want to get married, so why did the old lady want to do this? Is it more serious to ask the girl for her life than to get married?
Bai Ling whimpered and knelt in front of Zhou Baozhu on both knees: "Girl... I'm sorry... It's useless to be a slave, and a slave shouldn't have given you this bad idea...... "The girl really suffered in vain...
Zhou Baozhu smiled and said: "Silly Bai Ling, how can I blame you? It's me who is stupid, my grandmother and father don't like to be persecuted by others..."
"I can't help it..."Zhou Baozhu sat back on the bed decadently and said, "That's it... Marriage, the words of the matchmaker. "It's just a pity, it could be him in the end.
Zhou Baozhu fell back with a "bang", just keeping talking about Han Maodian in his heart.
If he is willing to go further... Even if it's just one step...
Nie Xiaofan knocked on the door with the medicine, and Bai Ling hurriedly wiped away his tears and opened the door. When he saw Nie Xiaofan, he just owed, and then took the medicine over and stopped talking.
"I'm going to talk to your girl?" Nie Xiaofan smiled.
Bai Ling nodded.
Nie Xiaofan went inside, and saw Zhou Baozhu lying on the bed on all fours, without any of his former manners, so he sighed: "Why torture yourself like this?"
Zhou Baozhu smiled, touched the bruises on his neck, and said: "Now I have repented that my intestines are green, and it is really not worth it to suffer this sin..."
Nie Xiaofan sat down by himself and said, "The human body is the most precious, you are really not worth it like this!"
There was no one around, and Zhou Baozhu also relaxed a little, got up with a grunt, sat down next to Nie Xiaofan, and threw the list sent by Mrs. Zhou to Nie Xiaofan's hand. Nie Xiaofan glanced at it and nodded, "Hmm... Yes, the old lady is still very attentive..."
Zhou Baozhu frowned. If Nie Xiaofan wants to persuade her to accept her fate... There's really nothing to talk about.
Bai Ling was more direct: "Third Miss Nie... It's just someone else, you know what our girl is talking about... What do you mean by that?"
Nie Xiaofan smiled and said, "That's what you heard! The old lady cares about your young lady very much." If someone hurts her... She's going to be angry!"
(To be continued.) )