Chapter VII

After contemplating for a moment, Shanniang, who was twisting her eyebrows, raised her eyes again, and the originally light and bright painting style suddenly became heavy.

"Alright, so be it," she smiled, her smile a little heavy. "However, it's good to get together and disperse, and now it's not time to disperse, I'm afraid I'll have to trouble a few people to work hard and help me pack up my things...... Ah, by the way, the old lady said, clean up what should be cleaned up, and what shouldn't be cleaned up, but don't clean it up for me. ”

Listening to the ears of Shuangyuan and the others, the thirteenth girl didn't care as much about being kicked out of the West Garden by the old lady as she had appeared. At this time, all the cards were showdowned, and the thirteen girls couldn't pretend to be virtuous in the end, revealing their true nature.

At this time, Wufu happened to come out of the inner room, she originally wanted to call a little maid to come over and move the cage, but when she heard Shanniang's words, she turned her head and asked stupidly: "Then what should not be cleaned up?" ”

Shanniang said expressionlessly: "The old lady didn't say that it was for me, so it wasn't mine." ”

Suddenly, Shuangyuan, Wang's mother and others looked at each other again.

Wufu blinked, but suddenly turned around, ran to the rosewood case, struggled to hold the Western chiming bell, turned back to Shanniang and smiled: "In this case, this thing has to be taken away." At the beginning, the old lady said that as long as the girl could repair it, it would belong to the girl, and this was repaired by the girl herself. ”

Shanniang was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that this was still her hobby when she was a child—ah, no, in fact, it wasn't so "child...... At her current age, it was only a year or two ago—but then the old lady said that it was not a lady's hobby, and she gave it up......

Wufu, who was holding the chiming bell in his arms, smiled so hard that he couldn't see his teeth, "I've inquired, this thing is worth five thousand gold coins!" ”

Looking at Wufu, who was smiling like a little wealth fan, Shanniang, who had already planned to pretend to be lost, couldn't help it, held her forehead and shook her head with a smile - well, well, in the eyes of Mother Wang and others, this is a bitter smile.

Shanniang was shaking her head and laughing, and a little maid came to report outside the door, saying that the eldest grandmother was here.

Shanniang's eyebrows immediately jumped-she said, well, she has already laid out the maid and the maid here, how could the old lady not hear the movement. Under normal circumstances, if she still has a little bit of "self-motivation", she will not be in such a hurry to send people, at least she will not take this step until she can't stay...... With such eagerness, it looked as if she was telling everyone that she was anxious to escape from the West Garden—even though it was true.

And the old lady, it's hard to say anything else, but she has a little "quirk", that is, if you are satisfied, she will be unsatisfactory. Now even if she doesn't want to keep Shanniang, just looking at Shanniang's desperate attempt to escape, she is afraid that she will deliberately keep her.

Fortunately, she woke up in time. Shanniang couldn't help but secretly rejoice.

"Please." She said.

It's just a bit of trouble, it's just a matter of acting in another scene, it's not difficult.

*・*・*

When the eldest grandmother Zhao came in, she saw Shanniang sitting alone in front of the hall, with a bit of lost soul on her face that she wanted to hide but couldn't hide. Such a small person, so lonely and trapped in the wide Taishi chair, looking as thin and helpless as if he would be swallowed up at any time.

Seeing the eldest grandmother enter the door, Shanniang blinked, and hurriedly stood up to greet the eldest grandmother. So, the lonely and helpless image just now disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Seeing that Shanniang was smiling with a strong spirit, and ordered someone to serve tea and snacks there, the eldest grandmother hurriedly waved her hands and smiled: "Don't be busy, it's time for lunch in a while, why do you need to eat any snacks at this time." He looked at Shanniang's face again and said, "Are you okay?" ”

Shanniang was stunned, suddenly lowered her head, turned around and poured a cup of tea for the grandmother, sent it to the grandmother, pursed her lips and smiled: "What is wrong with me." He added, "Even if you don't eat snacks and drink some tea, I'm afraid that I won't have the opportunity to invite my sister-in-law to tea in the future." In the end, there was a hint of amazement in his voice.

Zhao raised his eyes to look at her, took the teacup and put it on the coffee table, and waved his hand to order all the people in the room to withdraw, then he took Shanniang's hand and asked in a low voice: "I was about to ask you, what is wrong with you?" I didn't think you were such an uncalculated person before! ”

She looked at the inner room with the curtains. Although she couldn't see inside, the maid who came out just now still told her to guess that they should be packing up. "Look at your frame, why are you really planning to move out? I said you should bow your head to the old lady and beg for mercy. ”

Shanniang's eyes drooped, with an irrepressible resentment, and she stubbornly twisted her neck and said, "What if you don't move out?!" The old lady said so, no matter how hard I tried to stay, it was no longer interesting. It was a tone of anger.

Zhao blinked, but didn't speak.

Shanniang sneered again: "Sure enough, everyone says that adversity sees the truth, and now this garden is full of people, I'm afraid that everyone can't wait to see my jokes, and only the eldest sister-in-law is still willing to remember me, even the people here ...... me" She paused, shook her head and smiled bitterly: "Don't hide it from my sister-in-law, I didn't expect things to come to this point, I just wanted to use this matter to try them, I don't want these people to have a reliable ...... But it's no wonder that they are just people who don't die for themselves, I just don't understand, am I really such a failure as a human being? It's just that I'm a little sick, and even the old lady thinks I'm deliberately lazy......"

She pulled her grandmother to complain a lot, but she didn't feel that she was at fault, as if everyone in the world was sorry for her. The grandmother's eyes couldn't help but drift. After another tea time, the eldest grandmother felt that the surface work should be done enough, so she pushed away Shanniang's hand that was still holding her, and said goodbye gently but firmly.

Looking at her back, Shanniang breathed a sigh of relief.

"Alas, trouble."

She shook her head and sighed, looking distressed. Under the palm of the hand that is propped up on the forehead, the corners of the lips that are slightly sunken are filled with triumph that is almost overflowing.

*・*・*

And just as Shanniang guessed, after the eldest grandmother left Shanniang's yard, she entered the old lady's yard again.

The old lady who was having lunch listened to the grandmother's reply and sneered: "Sure enough, just like her old man, she is a stubborn donkey who can't distinguish between good and bad!" Since she is bent on death, let her go, so that people can know that my West Garden is not something that can only enter and not leave! ”

The eldest grandmother sighed with emotion: "Among the girls, I originally looked at the thirteenth sister as the safest one, why did it suddenly become like this?" ”

The old lady snorted lightly and said detachedly in a tone from a passerby: "People's hearts are slowly raised like this. I just hope that she can understand some truths from now on and know her own weight. ”

*・*・*

Not to mention that the old lady completely let go of these thirteen girls, only that Shanniang was herself.

After sending the eldest grandmother Zhao who came to inquire about the news, Shanniang turned around and called Fang's mother and asked her carefully about the situation in the fifth room.

Shanniang was only seven years old when she left home, and she knew nothing about the situation at home, she only knew that there was a father, a mother-in-law, an elder brother and a younger brother, and neither of her nor the two brothers was the same mother. In addition, she only knew that their five rooms were well-known rice worms in the eyes of the Hou family - they didn't do anything to produce, they only knew how to use flowers.

Fortunately, her father was the old lady's own son, although the old lady also felt that this little son who could not earn money was unproductive, but she still had a mother's heart, that is, she could not look down on this unproductive little son, nor could she watch her son starve to death in vain, so she took some money from the dowry to raise this little son - of course, the property rights were still in the hands of the old lady.

It's just that, just like that, this matter has become a little knot between the eldest son of the old lady, the eldest master and the fifth old brother. Because the eldest lord thinks that it is very unfair for the old lady to do this - it is indeed unfair, the eldest man is desperately managing the family's large amount of property, and he has not seen the old lady subsidize his private house, but the useless brother does not have to do anything, he can sit at home and get money for nothing, and it is strange that the eldest man can balance his heart. As for the money he earns more than his younger brother, that's his own ability, who calls the fifth child not that ability!

In fact, Shanniang felt that she was also at a loss for not handing over the family's property to her father. I heard that her father didn't even understand the basic common sense of life, and once spent a thousand silver coins to buy a so-called famous painting forged by others, and the people who sold the paintings at that time had already declared in public that this was a fake painting.

Well, from another point of view, her father is actually quite elegant......

As for her mother-in-law......

Shan Niang was surprised to find that she still remembered what her father looked like, but she had no memory of her grandmother at all—that is, she had not seen her grandmother so often when she had lived at home......

And from Fang's mother's somewhat cryptic words, Shanniang understood why this was so.

But it turned out that the fifth wife, Yao, was obsessed with embroidery (a very weird hobby) when she was a child, and even became so obsessed with family affairs, ignoring the world, and only pounced on her embroidery room. Therefore, it is said that whenever there is something in the family, the grandmother, who is deeply trusted by the fifth wife, will specially pick the fifth wife to report when she is in the embroidery room (a familiar plot)......

Sure enough, the impatient Fifth Lady also waved her hand lightly, just like the ruined carpenter emperor in the previous dynasty--Don't trouble me!

So, the mammary is like this, and gradually becomes the "nine thousand years old" in the fifth room.

What's more, she is not the only one behind her......

As for Aunt Ma, she is not only the daughter of the nurse, but also the dowry maid of the fifth wife, so it is only natural that she will eventually become the concubine of the fifth master.

The fifth wife is not only a trouble-free, but also deeply knows how to delegate power to be a leader, just married less than a year, she entrusted all the housework to the ma's grandmother, and entrusted her husband to three of the four dowry maids, from then on, she only happily immersed in her embroidery world, no longer bothered by those "mundane affairs".

It's just that the fifth master is also a man with pursuits and ideals, so he naturally won't be lazy about women, although the fifth wife stuffed three concubines at once, the fifth master is very principled to only pet one at a time. The one who was the first to be favored died of illness within two years of giving birth to Shanniang's brother, and then it was Shanniang's biological mother's turn. Shanniang's biological mother was unlucky than the previous one, and she didn't survive when she gave birth to Shanniang, so it was Ma's mother's turn to be Aunt Ma.

This time, Aunt Ma's luck was good, and after being a pet concubine for several years, she gave birth to a brother, and she lived a good life. So now there is only such a wife and a concubine around Shanniang's father.

And now in these five rooms, it is not so much the fifth wife who is in charge, but the mother and daughter of Grandma Ma and Aunt Ma are in control.

After feeling the situation at home, Shanniang's hand couldn't help but support her forehead again-your circle is so messy......

She thought that she would be able to return her peace when she left the West Garden......

Well, as long as you don't mess with her, let those five rooms mess up. She doesn't even care about her own father and mother, what is her origin as a girl, right? Right!

It's just that people's wishes are often beautiful, but the reality is cruel. It's that Shanniang doesn't want to step on people, and there are always people who think Shanniang is cranky. So......

Life is a big trouble!