Huang Zunsu sat down on the round table next to the dressing table, looking ready to talk in detail, and asked, "You mean, concubine?" What kind of look do you like? ”

Yao's chest twitched, and he secretly said, he really had this intention.

As the one who took the initiative to bring up the conversation, she was sad first.

She then turned her heart sideways and said bluntly: "I think Miss Zheng of the Han Mansion is good." He looks good, and he is also literate and readable. Although he is a subordinate, the maid in charge who serves the eldest lady in the Han Mansion is not the same as the maid invited by the small household of Napengmen. Besides, I see, the lord ...... with her."

Huang Zunsu suddenly stopped when he saw his wife talking, and immediately forced a sentence: "What's wrong with me and her?" ”

"The lord and her have a lot of fun, and I think I like her."

Huang Zunsu chuckled lightly, with a sneer, but he could not hear the sorrow as he did at dinner.

"What are you laughing at, sir?" Yao Shi became more and more undisguised from his grievances, "Does the master feel that I am being jealous and deliberately say the opposite?" ”

Huang Zunsu shook his head: "No, I feel that you are sincere." Husbands and wives should be like this, if there is unhappiness in the heart, don't hide it. ”

"Then the old man gave a sentence accurately, but can you match that Miss Zheng?"

"Ah Xin," Huang Zunsu leaned over slightly, called his wife's name, took her hand, sighed, and said slowly, "You are no longer an ignorant little woman in the boudoir, is it possible to see that this world is still so simple, and you believe that there is only love and desire between men and women?" To tell you the truth, that Miss Zheng really impressed me. But I don't have any thoughts of taking her in and being a concubine. I only feel that she is not only a loyal servant and has a bit of courage, but also has the mind of a sage, and sees the world in a solid way, not an illusory illusion. ”

When Yao Shi heard the words "solid heaven and earth, illusory illusion", he suddenly felt familiar, raised his head, and asked carefully: "Is the master saying that she is not like the last class of mind and learning that you Donglin Academy despises?" ”

Huang Zunsu nodded: "Mr. Yangming's mind study is originally a superior knowledge, and my people in Donglin Academy do not have a view of the door, what we oppose is just that some juniors have gone the wrong way of mind learning." Don't talk about them, talk about this Zheng girl. Today, I went back to the house halfway, and it was indeed about the safety of her master and servant, and I wanted to ask her to report to the Han Mansion. I am the official of the government, and she is Miss Han's personal follower, this matter is above board, you don't have to suspect that you are a dark ghost. ”

Yao Shi was stunned, "um", and defended in a low voice: "I didn't care much, but the mother-in-law at home said that when the master came back from the front hall with her, she stopped her, and you, you talked for a while under the earporch.

Huang Zunsu smiled: "That's right, it's because of this that I have a sage evaluation of her." At that time, she told me that their aunt and nephew, who had fought a lawsuit in Zhangzhou, had to name the house that was almost occupied by the clan and sold it for seventy or eighty taels of silver. The aunt and nephew wanted to use the money to set up a school in Songjiang to accept children from poor families, regardless of gender. She reported this matter to Miss Han, and Miss Han agreed, but told her to ask the people in the government first, how to be more appropriate. ”

I see.

The sad and sad look in Yao's eyes faded away, and her brain seemed to have returned to normal operation.

Yao said with shame: "Master, I asked Miss Zheng at noon today, why she combed herself. She said that she had seen too many women married inhuman situations in her hometown, and she didn't want to live like that by herself. At that time, I only thought she was pretentious and strange, and I was indeed narrow-minded. ”

Huang Zunsu waved his hand, signaling that his wife didn't need to blame herself anymore, and said: "This Zheng girl, she really wants to do this, and even the amount of silver has been reported, and her nephew, named Zheng Shoukuan, will be thirteen next year." Her aunt and nephew didn't sign the deed, so she naturally didn't want her nephew to go to Gufu to continue to be a small servant, so she just put the academy under her nephew's name, and her nephew could also study and take exams in it. Miss Zheng just sighed, the price of my Daming house is low, and the huge courtyard in Fujian can't be sold for a hundred taels of silver, so I don't know how long it will be able to support the academy. Miss Han agrees with Miss Zheng's righteous act, but she is not in charge of the Han Mansion, even if she has a rich dowry when she marries into the Gu Mansion next year, the Gu Mansion already has a Wenzhe Academy, and she is a daughter-in-law of the Gu family, and she openly runs another school with the maid of her mother's family, so I am afraid that there will be rumors. However, the master and servant are also planning, Miss Han teaches embroidery, and the school provides silk thread and embroidery bandages, so that the girls can usually do some needlework and sell it outside, and continue to be the bundle of gentlemen. ”

Yao was originally a soft-hearted woman, but because of her sensitivity and suspicion as a wife, she couldn't help but think about it, but now she heard the reason clearly, and the chivalrous spirit of active participation and the enthusiasm for giving advice all came up.

She said with a little shallow coquettishness, Huang Zunsu said: "If the academy is really established, if the master allows it, I can also go to be a female gentleman, my Xiaokai, the style of bones, may not be inferior to a man." ”

Huang Zunsu smiled knowingly, reached out and grabbed the hair on his wife's sideburns, and said softly: "There is nothing that is not allowed, you still have a little Danqing kung fu, you can teach the dolls, paint Buddha statues for the temple nunnery." Or teach them to draw some small frames of famous posters, and send them to the paper shop to consignment. ”

Yao became more and more happy when she heard this, as if she had seen in her husband's description the concrete achievements of that good deed in the future.

Huang Zunsu saw that his wife's eyes were shining, her cheeks were red, and under the reflection of the small glass lamp, her complexion was pleasant, and she couldn't help but be emotional, so he took her over and whispered sincerely and gently.

"Don't be cranky. Every family has its own way, I don't care about the three wives and four concubines of other families, in my Huang Mansion, it is enough for me to have you. I was robbed by bandits a few months ago, and it was a hell of a bolt to think about what you and your two children would do if I died. Since God has let me escape, I must cherish the creation, not greedy, not hateful, no delusional, no matter what I do in the future in the affairs of the state and the world, in family affairs, I will stay with you until the end of the day, it is right. ”

The person in his arms moved his head obediently, snuggled in her husband's arms, Shaoqing, remembered something, and said: "By the way, Miss Zheng also mentioned today that after the Chongyang Festival, the old lady Miao of the Gu family will lead all the female relatives to climb the heights to appreciate the autumn, and Miss Han wants to invite me to go with her." ”

"Go ahead, Liu Yuxi said a long time ago, I said that autumn is better than spring. In such a good season, how can you be stuffy in the house? ”

……

The day of autumn is chosen before and after the frost falls.

According to the meaning of the old lady of the Gu family, Miao, firstly, it can avoid too many ordinary people who climb high during the Double Ninth Festival, and secondly, it is ten days late, and there is a sense of coldness in the wind. As the saying goes, the north wind rises, the crab feet are itchy, the female crab is full of yellow, the male crab is fat, and the female family members are over the tour, just go to the food garden to enjoy the crab feast.

Songjiang Mansion is at the mouth of the Yangtze River, a land of flat rivers.

There is only one Sheshan, twenty or thirty zhang high, if compared with the real famous mountain Dayue, it is also a small dirt slope, but it is rare to put it in Songjiang Mansion at zero altitude.

Looking at the flat ground, there are nine mountain bags in a row, and there are three rivers and ponds around it, and "nine peaks and three ridges" get the name from this.

Sheshan is lush with trees, and the maple is red and yellow in autumn. In the clear day, there are sika deer frolicking in the forest from time to time, and there are Huating cranes lining up the clouds, which leads the poetry to the blue sky, and the mountain scenery is gorgeous and pleasing to the eye, adding wild interest frequently.

As mentioned earlier, although Mrs. Miao is a concubine, her status is noble, not a mother-in-law, but a mother-in-law. Today, the three daughters-in-law of the second generation of the Gu family, the eldest grandmother Shen, the second grandmother, that is, Gu Shouqian's mother Lu, the third grandmother Li, and several aunts, all accompanied Miao to go out.

Dafang Shen and two aunts have four daughters, all of whom are married. The second room only cares about Shouqian's only son. The three houses are the most prosperous, Li and his aunt, have two sons and two daughters, the two girls are still twins, only five or six years old this year, Yuxue is cute.

The Li family relied on the incense of the three rooms, regarded himself as a hero of the Gu family, and spoke according to his own temperament on weekdays.

This morning, the Gu family and the daughters of the Han family, the Dong family, and the Huang family met outside the city, and went to Sheshan under the escort of the family members. ”

Gu Shouqian's Lu family has always been good-tempered, but when he heard it at the moment, he only smiled gently, and said, "It's good to see the daughter-in-law who is about to pass the door, I like that child."

However, the Shen family, who was sitting in the big room opposite, although his face was also calm, the meaning of his mouth was straightforward: "The third daughter-in-law, why do you find fault and find fault as soon as you are free?" It's not that you don't know that since the third son of the Han family went with the foreign monk to preach what Lao Shizi's foreign teachings, the third grandmother of the Han family hated the foreign religion. We are intimate with the Dong family and Xu Hanlin (referring to Xu Guangqi), who believes in foreign religion, and the third grandmother of the Han family will be willing to play with us? If the third grandmother doesn't come, the second grandmother who is in charge of the house is not too hot, otherwise, isn't it a slap in the face? ”

The Gu family is now the eldest daughter-in-law Shen is in charge of the middle feed, and the old lady Miao and the old man of several rooms are very satisfied with her, and the little daughter-in-law like the Li family, who owes her mouth but has no actual combat effectiveness, is also under the control of the eldest sister-in-law.

Li then pursed his lips and said with a smile: "Our Gu family is good, so I naturally can't think of the twists and turns of the Han family." ”

Lu also smiled at Shen, and the depth of his smile was self-evident gratitude.

Half an hour later, the sedan chair procession with great momentum finally walked to the foot of She Mountain.

The young and strong tenants who rented the Gujia land were already waiting, and asked the old lady and the grandmothers and ladies to sit in a bamboo sedan chair and carry them up the mountain.

Zheng Haizhu, like other maids, followed the bamboo sedan chair and waded up.

In front of Han Ximeng, Huang Zunsu's wife Yao. Along the way, Zheng Haizhu often went over to introduce a few words to Yao's Songjiang style.

But at the same time, she was always distracted by the person behind Han Ximeng.

Han Xiying.

Zheng Haizhu had already bluntly reminded Han Ximeng that her cousin was not as simple as she appeared on the surface, and she had signs of secret admiration for the second son of the Gu family.

After Han Ximeng and Zheng Haizhu went through hardships together, they trusted the vision of this loyal servant, but when it comes to the girl who grew up in a small place, it is inevitable to be more tolerant, and smile at Zheng Haizhu, secretly admire, and not openly rob, anyway, next year, the Han family will also find Xiying's in-law, which will not be a problem.

Yesterday, Han Xiying didn't care about her mother's anger, and went to lie with her second aunt Qian, who was in charge, and had to come to Sheshan to play together, and Han Ximeng also agreed.

When changing the sedan chair at the foot of the mountain, Zheng Haizhu noticed that this little green tea would have a sense of presence in front of the three grandmothers of the Gu family.

After a while, he raised the silk fan to block the sun for Shen's family, and asked innocently and happily, "Which shop does the grandmother usually use, it's so beautiful", and after a while, he beckoned Li's "Third grandmother beware of mud pits".

For Gu Shouqian's mother and second grandmother Lu, he was even more careful, not to mention that the bamboo chair on Lu's sedan chair was crooked, and he asked Lu Xianxian to sit in his sedan chair.

Zheng Haizhu was sneering to herself, only to hear Mrs. Miao raise her voice: "Ah Ying, this kid is good, when she helped me adjust the paint last time, she was in a hurry, I said that she is a sloppy person, and she has to change it." Sure enough, Shibei should be impressed for three days, and he is so careful and cautious today. The third daughter-in-law, it's a pity that your eldest son is only ten years old,......"

The women laughed playfully, and Han Xiying hurriedly pretended to be ashamed and hid behind her sister Ximeng.

was stabbed by Mrs. Miao so meaningfully, Han Xiying restrained a little, and only called Zheng Haizhu from time to time on the mountain road, ordering her to send the candied fruit she prepared to the old lady and several grandmothers to eat.

Finally arrived at the top of the mountain, Miao had to go to the Wusheng Temple first.

Zheng Haizhu is very familiar with the Sheshan area of Shanghai in later generations, the modern Sheshan, there are observatories, churches, six-star hotels, and top mansions with a market value of three or four billion, but Zheng Haizhu has never heard of any martial arts temples here.

When I entered the temple, I saw that it was Yue Fei.

Zheng Haizhu recalled the experience of traveling from Fujian to Jiangnan after crossing over, and roughly understood.

At this time, the Manchurians had not yet invaded the momentum, and all parts of the Ming Dynasty, especially in the south of the Yangtze River, there were many temples and ancestral halls that worshiped Grandpa Yue. Later, after the death of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, Yue Fei was a famous anti-Jin general after all, and the Houjin of the Manchurian people was also gold, and the Qing court could not see that Grandpa Yue, who had beaten his ancestors to the ground, was worshiped by the Han people, so he naturally either smashed the temple or replaced the martial saint in the temple with Guan Yu.

It's just that Zheng Haizhu didn't expect that the Miao family would be so serious about worshiping Yue Fei, and ordered the subordinates of the Gu Mansion to prepare all kinds of decent snacks, put them at the feet of Yue Fei's statue, and donated a bag of incense and silver to the temple.

"Give me back the rivers and mountains, return my rivers and mountains." Mrs. Miao raised her head, looked at the plaque hanging high, and repeated the four words engraved on it.

Zheng Haizhu stood behind the side of the women, looked at Miao's appearance, and gently asked the maid of the Gu house beside her: "Does the old lady often come to worship Grandpa Yue?" ”

The maid replied, "Well, spring and autumn are coming." In the past, the winter solstice also came, but now the age is up, and the grandmother will come after the winter. ”

Zheng Haizhu was inevitably puzzled.

The old lady was born on the coast of Fujian, far from the site of several tragic battles against the Jin and Mongolian armies in the Southern Song Dynasty, such as Ningbo in Zhejiang Province and Xinhui in Guangdong.

Moreover, she was originally a palace person around the emperor and Niangniang, and the Ming Dynasty's culture of advocating literature and suppressing martial arts has been deeply rooted, and it is impossible for her to get martial arts from Emperor Wanli and Queen Wang.

So, why does Miao have feelings for a martial artist like Yue Fei and the words "return my rivers and mountains" that surpass those of ordinary old women in this era?

After the worship, everyone visited several pavilions, overlooked by the railing, looked for a large area of farmland near Sanmao, tasted and discussed, and then arrived at lunchtime.

The crab banquet is arranged in a restaurant in the back mountain that specially receives the eunuchs' family, because there are many cranes in Sheshan, it is called "Crane Ming Tower".

The Heming Tower is located on the bank of the river at the head of the village.

Han Ximeng saw that at the murmuring stream, Qiulan was clear and elegant, and she was embroidering an orchid stone map recently, and she took Zheng Haizhu to move to see the real orchid grass in nature.

I don't want to be behind the stone, there is already a little girl of eight or nine years old, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, holding a round embroidery shed in her hand, and she is seriously stitching.

Han and Zheng looked at it, but it was a cross embroidered.