Chapter 21: Determination
Brother Nian said softly: "I heard that this girl is from Mrs. Xu, the main room of the Wen family, the Xu family has stood for several dynasties, and the queen concubine has been repeatedly produced in the family, and the goddaughter is famous all over the world." The four daughters of the Wen family have unrivaled piano skills with one hand, and they can make good calligraphy and painting, and they are also the best among the ladies that the young master has seen. ”
Luo sneered: "Skill ear, no other." ”
Turning his head, he smiled lightly: "That master sings and dances, is it also a rare lady in the world?" ”
Brother Nian was in a cold sweat, and he didn't dare to speak out, the more happy the young master of his family laughed, the more annoyed he must be.
After a while, Brother Nian'er's hand shrunk in his sleeve tightened, and he knelt down in front of Luo, bowed his head and said, "The eldest young master has a letter." With his hands outstretched, he held a letter flat.
Luo narrowed his eyes, and the smile on his face became brighter and brighter, "You have been with me for many years, do you still need me to teach you how to deal with it?" ”
Brother Nian's hands trembled, and he tore up the letter without hesitation, lifted the curtain of the car, and raised it casually, leaving confetti behind the car.
Mei Niang sent off many guests after the banquet, then took a boat to a brightly lit three-story ship, went straight to the third floor, stopped in front of a room with a plaque of Linjiang Pavilion, and said softly to the little maid in Tsing Yi who was guarding on both sides: "Mei Niang has something to ask to see the master, and I hope my sister will report it." ”
But I heard the servant reply: "The master instructed, Aunt Mei's desire is known, but the Wen family is rich and rivals the country, and Miss Wen Si is afraid that she will not be able to invite her." ”
Mei Niang was blessed and quietly retreated.
In the room, there is only a couch and a table in the very empty space, and two men on the couch are playing around the table, a man in black and a boy in a brocade robe. The black-clothed man saw that the chess game was in a dead end, so he pushed it and laughed: "Brother Qi Yuan's chess skills are exquisite, and he is willing to bow down." ”
After a pause, a narrow smile appeared on his face, and he said, "Brother Qi Yuan can be such a beautiful lady as Miss Wensi, it is really gratifying." ”
Xu Qiyuan smiled slightly, and a gleam flashed in his eyes: "How can you compare to Brother Lu's beautiful boat, drunk and lying in the beauty town!" ”
Lu Zai'an stretched out his feet, grabbed the wine jug, poured it into a big pot, and sighed: "Three thousand weak water, I don't want to drink that scoop." ”
Xu Qiyuan got out of the boat, the river wind blew, his face sank like water, he got into the carriage, and immediately someone sent a cup of sobering tea, Xu Qiyuan reached out and took it without raising his head, and drank it all, but the temperature of the tea was just right.
Xu Qiyuan leaned back on the carriage and asked in a deep voice, "How is she today?" ”
A gentle female voice whispered, "Pride is the same as ever." It was Han Jieyu, sitting in the corner of the carriage, like a maid, and the tea was brewed by her own hands.
A smile appeared on Xu Qiyuan's lips, are you still proud? Gotta keep it up and wait for me.
In Wen Zhu's low and shallow chanting, the carriage finally arrived in front of the gate of Wenfu, the article and the eldest lady Xu were already guarding the door, and Wen Lan helped Wen Mei to stand aside.
Wen Zhu and Wen Xiaomei helped Wen Ju get out of the car, Xu immediately rushed forward, hugged Wen Ju, shed tears in distress, helped Wen Ju to get into the soft sedan chair, and went straight to the inner house.
The article turned his head, his chin straightened, his nose twitched, and he said softly to Wen Zhu: "Zhu'er, if you don't take good care of your sister, you will be punished to go to the ancestral hall to kneel and sit and repent." ”
Wen Zhu looked at the direction Wen Ju left in a trance, and before he could react, Wen Xiaomei on the side knelt down first: "My daughter is also at fault, she failed to stop the fourth sister, and asked her father to punish her together." ”
Wen Zhuden came back to his senses, looked at his father, looked at his sister, and said categorically: "My daughter is willing to be punished." ”
Helped Wen Xiaomei up, and said awe-inspiringly: "The fourth sister still needs you to take care of it, go quickly." ”
Wen Xiaomei bit her lower lip, wept and said goodbye, Wen Lan helped Wen Mei over, Wen Zhu lowered her head, remembering Wen Mei's instructions before leaving, she was ashamed, but Wen Mei stretched out her hand to hug her, Wen Lan also stretched out her hand and hugged the two of them into her arms together, and the article on the side looked up at the sky, with two faint water marks on her face.
After a while, Wen Lan helped Wen Mei up, although the two did not say a word, Wen Zhu had already saved, the two sisters did not blame themselves, silently blessed, and a mother-in-law played a lotus lamp to guide Wen Zhu.
There are only two ever-bright lamps lit in the dim ancestral hall, and the three-story platform is densely filled with ancestral tablets, and the scalp of the people who watch it is numb, if it is a weekday, Wen Zhu will never dare to step further, at this time her heart is full of guilt but has no time to think.
Remorse and chagrin are mixed, Wen Zhu's heart is like ten thousand ants gnawing at it, what if others say a word or two of gossip, why do you care so much, what do you do with that edge? What about becoming a generation of talented women?
If Wen Ju hadn't stood up for herself, she wouldn't have played any phoenix at all, she had said at the time that the piano was self-cultivation rather than entertaining, and it was really deafening to think about it at this time.
Silently recalling the bits and pieces between the sisters since the crossing, I don't know when, my knees were wet, tears were like beads, and the dust that fell on the ground was flying.
Raising his head suddenly, facing the ancestors of the Wen family, Wen Zhu kowtowed three times in a row, bit his lower lip, raised his hand over the top, and resolutely swore: "In this life, I am the daughter of the Wen family, I only want my sisters to be safe, and those who destroy my sisters will be killed by God, and Buddha will kill Buddha!" ”
When a touch of fish belly white appeared in the east, the door of the ancestral hall was pushed open, and countless dust flew in the sunlight through the air, and the shadow of the person who came was dragged for a long time.
Wen Zhu bit her lower lip, stared at her, and a slightly hoarse voice came: "Ju'er is fine, the doctor said that you should pay more attention in the future, and you can't be tired." ”
The strings that had been tense in Wen Zhu's mind suddenly loosened, and suddenly his legs were numb and painful, and he couldn't support it anymore, so he pounced and fell to the side.
The article saw that the ink on Wen Zhu's face was darkened, like the mother-in-law under the stove rubbing the ashes at the bottom of the pot, and then thinking of this daughter's plagiarism at the poetry meeting, I couldn't help but be a little confused, what does this daughter want to do? What she did seemed to have only one result - to make her reputation stink.
Could it be that this daughter doesn't want to get married so much?
The article sighed for a long time, let's go, the Wen family is rich enough to rival the country, can't they support a daughter who refuses to marry? I suddenly had a plan in my heart.
The article looked at Wen Zhu for a long time, pursed his lips slightly, Jun's face was full of firmness, and said: "After Xiaomei gets married, you will be in charge of the house!" ”
Wen Zhu's eyes widened instantly, "Is the fifth sister going to get married?" ”
The article replied vaguely: "Probably." ”
Xu was afraid that Wenzhu would continue to ask, the article hurriedly called Wenzhu's two maids, and helped her all the way back to the room.