Chapter 33: Sima Chuge is missing
When a man marries a wife and a woman marries, they all go to the family temple to worship their ancestors.
Now that Zhou Shang has escaped by faking his death according to the plan, and then rescuing Sima Chuge, the two of them can fly away. Sima Chuge was looked down upon by the Xie family in the mansion, and this time going to the family temple to worship her ancestors was the only chance for Love's plan to save her from escape.
Sima Chuge's entry into the palace is a major event in the palace, this day has just dawned, dozens of Chinese cars and horses drove out of the Sima Mansion, escorted by hundreds of guards towards the Sima family temple outside the city.
When they arrived at Zhuangkou, the people in the car got out of the car and were led by a group of stewards to their respective accommodations.
The ancestral worship process of the family is cumbersome, and it takes two or three days to complete the ceremony.
Sima Chuge was the key "protection" object, and she was escorted to the courtyard where she stayed by more than a dozen servants.
This courtyard is not big, but it is a single courtyard, a quaint blue brick house, there are only two windows in the house, and they are all sealed with wooden strips, and the courtyard wall outside the house is two or three feet high.
Sima Chuge knew in his heart that the Xie family arranged it like this, but he was afraid that she would escape.
Sima Chuge glanced at the layout inside and outside the house, and smiled bitterly in his heart.
Her personal maids, the fourth and fifth sons, came over and said to Sima Chuge: "Second Miss, the house is stuffy, and the courtyard is spacious, you can go and sit outside." ”
Sima Chuge followed the two maids to the outside, this courtyard is really spacious, it is summer, the grass grows in the courtyard and the warbler flies, the scenery is everywhere, a bend of living water flows through the courtyard, there is a small arch bridge on the water connecting the gate and the house, there is a rockery with a peculiar shape by the living water, the strange rocks on the mountain are craggy, and the house and the gate are separated into a shield.
Sima Chuge sat under the corridor, she didn't say a word, she just looked at the rockery in a daze.
After a while, Xie took the third girl, Sima Chuning, into the courtyard.
The servants in the courtyard who were responsible for "taking care" of Sima Chuge were all Xie henchmen, and when everyone saw Xie Shi, they hurriedly bent down to say hello.
Xie Shi walked up to Sima Chuge, who was sitting under the porch, and said with a half-smile: "You kid, it's the etiquette rules that I bothered to ask my grandmother to teach you for so long, and you still look like you're uneducated." ”
Sima Chuning glanced at Sima Chuge, who was motionless when she saw her mother, and said coldly: "When you see your mother, why don't you get up and say goodbye, you are so rude, how can you be like the daughter of Sima's family." ”
Sima Chuge was still sitting still, Xie Shi was impatient, and said to her in a cold voice: "After a while, the family will go to the family temple to offer incense, and then the whole family will have a reunion dinner together, and there will be a ceremony tomorrow, you are the protagonist, the whole house is staring at you, you remember it for me, you have to listen to the words of the teaching grandmother, at this critical time, if you make trouble for me, I can't spare you when I turn back." ”
After that, Xie Shi was about to turn around and leave with his daughter, but Sima Chuge raised his head and asked, "Can I meet my mother?" ”
When Xie Shi heard this, she stopped, turned to look at Sima Chuge, and snorted coldly: "Your mother of the sinner has been locked up, you are going to enter the palace as a concubine, you can't see her." ”
Crystal tears rolled down from Sima Chuge's eyes, she looked at Xie Shi and said, "I'm afraid that I won't be able to see my mother again in my life after I enter the palace, can't you show mercy to let me see her?" ”
Xie's iron-hearted heart: "If I am soft-hearted and let you go to see her, and your father knows, I may be angry, and then I am afraid that even I will be affected, you will die of this heart, just wait for yourself to enter the palace." ”
With that, Xie turned and left.
Sima Chuning looked at Sima Chuge who was in tears, and gloated: "Although we are both daughters of the Sima family, who made your mother useless, and who can you blame." ”
Sima Chuge stared at the distant back of Xie's mother and daughter, she tried to dry her tears, sat down again, held her cheeks with one hand, and continued to stare at the rockery in the courtyard in a daze.
After a while, a servant woman came to invite her into the house to change her clothes, Sima Chuge followed the servant woman into the house, and when she changed her clothes, another servant woman came in to take her to incense, Sima Chuge only took Si'er and went out with her mother-in-law.
When she walked to the door, Wu'er called "Second Miss----"
Sima Chuge turned around and replied, "It's important to be optimistic about the house." With that, she took a deep look at the maid and took her four sons with the servant.
The masters of the Sima family gave incense to the ancestors in waves according to the rules, and it was the second half of the day when the end of the family returned to the backyard and had a reunion in the banquet hall.
Having a female dependent enter the palace as a concubine is an extremely glorious thing for Sima Fu, except for Sima Chuge, everyone's faces are full of joy, especially Xie and Sima Chuning, after this meal, I haven't seen the smile on their faces.
After dinner, it was already dark.
Sima Chuge was surrounded by a group of servant women and wanted to go back to the courtyard, and Luo Fu stepped forward and said, "My cousin is going to get married, and I will send you one." ”
Sima Chuge looked at Luo Fu deeply and nodded slightly.
The fifth girl, Sima Chuyun, is a straightforward person, and she also stepped forward and said, "Second sister, I'm here to see you off too." ”
The fourth girl, Sima Chuqing, was as mean as the Wang family, she originally disdained to be perfunctory with Sima Chuge, who became a victim of the family, but when she saw that the fifth girl wanted to send it, she didn't want to be tongue-in-cheek, and she also echoed: "I will also send the second sister." ”
The group took their respective maids and maidservants, and walked towards Sima Chuge's courtyard in a solemn manner.
When they arrived at the gate of the courtyard, the servant woman who was responsible for "taking care" of Sima Chuge said to the ladies who came to see Sima Chuge: "Ladies and gentlemen, please stay, the second lady is tired today and is going to rest." ”
Everyone knew that the Xie family was very strict with Sima Chuge, who was about to enter the palace, and when he heard this, he stopped at the door, and no one went inside.
Sima Chuge looked back at everyone and said, "Sisters, just look at me here, and you should give me a ride." ”
With that, she took the four maids into the courtyard, and the master and servant went on the arched bridge, bypassed the rockery, walked through a road, and slowly entered the house.
Seeing Sima Chuge enter the house, the fifth girl, Sima Chuyun, sighed: "The second sister is gentle and kind, but I didn't expect it to end up like this. ”
The fourth girl, Sima Chuqing, looked at the fifth girl when she heard this, and said coldly: "How many women dream of entering the palace as a concubine, what are you talking about here." ”
The fifth girl retorted: "So, the fourth sister also wants to enter the palace in the future?" ”
The fourth girl and the fifth girl sisters are fighting here, and the fourth child who accompanied Sima Chuge into the house folded out of the house again, it was already dark, she came to everyone with a closed small bamboo building, and said with a smile: "This is the happy candy that the second lady ordered the slave and maid to distribute to everyone, all the masters to taste it." ”
Everyone was happily sharing candy here, only to see Wu'er running out of the house in a panic, shouting at the servant woman outside the door: "Oh no, the second lady is gone." ”