Chapter 13: Bone Play (13)
"Yo, there's a stage ahead. It's a feast today, ma'am, you're really generous. ”
On the corridor of the commander's house, Su Meng was walking towards the front yard with a large group of ladies and misses. The stage and the seats were set up there. Li Shu took the little girl to mix in the corner of the crowd, looking at the flowers around him.
"What's the big deal, it's just to make fun for everyone, and to give our commander a good fortune." Su Mengyan smiled and teased the ladies who spoke.
"Whoever calls it won't be long before he's going to leave again." Su Meng sighed lightly.
The people around were choked for a while, and they didn't know who said quietly: "There will be another war." ”
Su Meng smiled a little helplessly: "It's a matter of time, I just don't know how many people will die this time." ”
No one likes war, because no one knows if they will be the next to leave this world. But for the sake of peace, for the sake of the present days of peace, war is inevitable. Peace and war are a pair of contradictory words.
Su Meng said this not without brains, but it was instructed by the commander. After all, everyone has their own life, and you can't ask everyone to stay and defend a city like you. The movements in the north are becoming more and more frequent, and the well-informed points naturally know clearly. He can't hide it if he wants to, so it's better to take this opportunity to say it, so that those who want to escape for their lives can prepare early, so as not to be cannon fodder for others in vain when the army overwhelms the city. And when those ordinary people saw this battle, they naturally knew what was happening, and they could make their choice. After all, the Chinese New Year is only a month away. And this New Year is destined to be unstable.
The commander is a good man, but he is not a good commander. Su Meng knew from the first day he met the commander that he would be the Ming Jun of the prosperous times, but he would never be the hero of the troubled times today. It's not a good thing for those in power to be soft-hearted. But she had no choice but to do what he wanted, which was the only thing she, as his wife, could do for him.
Li Shu didn't speak, and when she knew the commander's arrangement, she also wanted to persuade her. But Su Meng shook her head at her, and she said, "If you could persuade me, you would have persuaded me a long time ago." But he's just a bull's temper, and no one can change what he decides. Moreover, this is also a way to ensure that there are no innocent casualties to the greatest extent. ”
"Our old man, he has come to this day not by his strategy, but by his benevolence. Hahahaha, his resourcefulness is actually not bad, but it is his generosity that will make so many capable people willing to serve under him. ”
Li Shu stood there quietly and looked at Su Meng, who had already turned into a good atmosphere, and felt that this woman was probably the smartest in the world. It's just that she hasn't been willing to show it, but if she doesn't say it, it doesn't mean she doesn't know.
"Oh, there are so many kinds of dramas today. This is Henan Opera, yo, the Kunqu Opera team has been invited. A lady covered her mouth and shouted as she looked at the play list written with a brush handed over by Su Meng.
"Let me see, let me see." A slightly obese woman wearing gold and silver waved her hand and directly snatched the play list in the lady's hand. The lady just wanted to turn around and scold, but when she saw the woman's appearance, she was no longer angry in her heart, and she closed her mouth and did not speak.
Su Meng looked at it indifferently, as if he was accustomed to it. It seems that this is not the first time that fat woman has done such a thing.
Li Shu just glanced at it casually, her attention was now all four or five people away from her, a woman wearing a black and red cheongsam with a mean expression. It was none other than He Yunze's mother, Sister Wang Shu.
It stands to reason that this lady is not qualified to come to such a banquet. Although she said to the outside world that it was the continuation of the He family, she was still a lady. But He Yun silently denied it. He Yunmo is a celebrity in front of the commander again, and people are in a hurry, where will they touch He Yunmo's brows. So this lady is very unpopular in Wuzhou.
But now she appeared, and she appeared at the commander's birthday party. Come to think of it, it should be Master He who came with him. Even if you bring it with you, it can tell a lot. The commander is planning to settle accounts with them for Mo Ye.
Sister Wang Shu was also uncomfortable at the moment, she was originally from the countryside, and she didn't have much chance to see this kind of big scene. When I arrived at this place, I felt the same as Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden. And she didn't know anyone here, so she could only stand by and laugh with an embarrassed face. There's no way, who told people who knew her identity to disdain to talk to her, and people who didn't know her looked at her in a hurry, not like she came from a big family, so naturally they didn't want to deal with her.
She licked her face and found a few ladies who had a few faces, and they were also from Lingzhou, and tried her best to get into the middle of the family. Although she didn't get any good faces, it was better than being looked at by others with disgust and contempt over there alone.
"I said, Mrs. He, you are also the wife of Master He. You said that you are like this now, and you are not ashamed of Master He. ”
But not all the ladies in Lingzhou will give Sister Wang Shu a little thin noodles, and many of them are no worse than the He family. If it weren't for the fact that their family didn't have someone who could speak in the army, the first family in Lingzhou really wouldn't have been able to get the surname He.
No, a wife who had never been able to look at this Mrs. He opened her mouth. Frank and clear, without mercy.
"Qiao's family, what did I do to hinder you?" Sister Shu's face was very bad, she was already embarrassed, but the mocking meaning of what the Qiao family's wife said was obvious, and she couldn't get off the stage.
"What's in my way? You're in my way. Originally, the good mood of participating in the commander's banquet was all defeated by you. Mrs. Qiao sneered, not taking Sister Shu seriously at all.
"I really don't know what kind of madness Master He smoked, he was really dizzy when he married someone like you back then."
At this moment, Li Shu watched the play very well, just because this Mrs. Qiao and Sister Shu still had an "indissoluble bond" back then. Back then, Master He wanted to continue the strings, and it was this lady who was originally set. But Sister Shu succeeded in taking the position halfway, and this matter is naturally over. But Sister Shu's incident has provoked a large number of powerful people. The first to bear the brunt was the wife of the Qiao family. Now the "rivals in love" are very red-eyed when they meet, as if they have taken medicine.
There was such a lot of commotion here, which naturally affected other people. But coincidentally, everyone chose to make trouble with them. Anyway, my own old man is still drinking with the commander for three rounds, and I can't come to this opera garden for a while. Then they are also happy to watch a big drama of "love rivals".
"Am I disappointed? I'm sick to see you. Who doesn't know that you didn't marry my lord back then, and you have a grudge in your heart, so much so that you have caught me until now. "Sister Shu is not easy to get along with, and she will not speak politely.
"Heh, you're thinking too highly of yourself." Mrs. Joe snorted disdainfully. "I'm not close enough to deal with a snarky woman."
"Who do you say is snarky?!" Sister Shu shouted at her.
"Whoever yells at me like a shrew now, that's who I'm talking about. You ask who came out of Lingzhou, who doesn't know how mean you are to the eldest young master of the He family. From the age of thirteen to the age of eighteen when he enlisted with the commander, the hardships of staying with the He family in the past five years are clearly known to people who are a little powerful in the entire Lingzhou. ”
Sister Shu was red-faced when she said this, she had just become a phoenix at that time, and Master He didn't like the son born by his ex-wife, so she became blatant. Although you have to pretend in front of others, how to bully in private.
As for why this kind of thing is known to everyone in Lingzhou, we have to start with a small guy who was dismissed by the He family. That little guy doesn't have a door, and when he gets to work in a new family, he likes to break his mouth in his spare time. This spread ten, ten spread hundreds, and it was spread out like this.
"It's not your turn to be an outsider to take care of our family's affairs. Mrs. Joe's hand should not be stretched so long. Just when Sister Shu couldn't get off the stage, a gloomy male voice came from behind everyone.
When everyone heard the sound, they looked back, it was none other than the second young master of the He family. Many people rolled their eyes unconcernedly and continued to watch with relish.
He Yunze's face was gloomy, he pulled Sister Shu behind him, and his well-prepared Zhongshan suit was a little wrinkled, looking embarrassed, as if he had experienced something before coming.
"Yo, who should I be, it turned out to be the second young man of the He family." Mrs. Joe's face was very contemptuous. In her opinion, He Yunze is just a moth who relies on his father to ascend to power. If it were replaced by He Yunmo, she would still be afraid of paying him three points, but unfortunately, it was this one, she would not give an illegitimate child any good look.
That's right, strictly speaking, He Yunze is indeed an "illegitimate child". When He Yunmo's mother had not died but was already critically ill, Sister Shu hooked up with Master He. Later, the He family wanted to continue the strings, and it was Sister Shu who took He Yunze who was still in her belly to blackmail her, so she successfully became Mrs. He.
To say that Sister Wang Shu is really ruthless enough, originally Master He wanted to marry her as an aunt's wife, but this crying, making trouble, and hanging himself was to play with Master He, and squeezed Mrs. Qiao away.
"Oh? Are you the second child of the He family? At this time, the fat woman who had just snatched the program list suddenly spoke. Her eyes, which were squeezed by the fat, looked back and forth on He Yunze's body, making He Yunze furious.
"You are?" Although He Yunze was in a very bad mood, when his father came, he told him that he wanted him to be a low-key person. These big people in Wuzhou are not something he can provoke from a small state. Those people hold real power in their hands, and if they are not careful, their family will end up in a catastrophe.
"Oh, didn't your father tell you? I'm your future mother-in-law. The woman squeezed out a smile that seemed "kind", but everyone around her felt a churn in their stomachs.
Li Shu and Su Meng's faces were as usual, after all, they were both people who had seen strong winds and waves, and they could still endure this kind of thing. But the little girl was not good, she turned around and hurriedly stopped looking at the lady of the Hu family.
There is no way, who made this lady laugh is simply indignant. Coupled with this lady's demeanor, no one treats her.