Chapter 25: Letters
As a result, Geng Shuhuai did not continue to stay in Suzhou, which made Geng Cheng and Ruan relieved, and finally did not raise a son for their in-laws.
But he followed Yang Tianmo to Pingcheng together, and also entered the Wucheng Dart Bureau, the largest dart game in Pingcheng, and became a reserve dart master.
Geng Cheng and Ruan Shi didn't understand that their future son-in-law would be a good showman and a dart master, and they would go to what dart game and be a dart master, and the in-laws didn't object to it, nor did they understand why their son also wanted to be a dart master.
I didn't understand it, but in the end they didn't object, they just hoped that their son would come back to show them often.
The family of three in Qingcui Courtyard was in a general mood, and in the Yinghe Courtyard, while the masters were still in the main courtyard, Shen Shui, a quasi-master who had not yet been justified, did not have the excitement and excitement imagined by the other maids in the Bofu.
She really didn't have to do the menial work that the maids needed to do, and she also put on clothes that only Miss Bofu could wear, and put on Geng Xingbing's gold and jade jewelry, but she couldn't help but hear some disdainful gossip in her ears.
"I used to hear my grandmother say that some people are sweet and then bitter, and some people are bitter and then sweet, but there are still some people who can't keep the sweet life, as long as there is something good, it won't take long, bad things will happen, and that bad is far better than the original good, but it is better not to have the original good, just like us, born with a human life, we will be a person for a lifetime, at least we can live completely, and the life is not sad."
Staying in Geng Xingyu's house, Shen Shui heard the words outside clearly, and when the first word came out, she heard that the owner of the voice was the eldest maid in the wife's house, Akiba.
"Sister Akiba, what do you mean by that...... Even if that one became...... Girl, life is not easy? ”
The other voice was even quieter, and it seemed that it was still taboo about something, but if they dared to respond, it was not really taboo, after all, they all knew that they were sinking in the house, and they could hear the sound of talking outside.
"I didn't say that, how dare we talk about the master, aren't we afraid of being sold to Yu Yapo, and then let her be sold to that dirty place?"
Akiba's voice is neither loud nor small, but it implies a sharp edge.
"But......" Another voice wanted to ask something, but Dongmei was a little impatient, "Okay, I have to go back, there are still a lot of things, Mrs. They will come back in a while, if the matter is not done, I will be punished." ”
"Hey, isn't it in the wife's house, take Joe everywhere!" I couldn't hear the muttering in the water, only the footsteps that were gradually leaving.
Shen Shui's heart sank a little, did Akiba know any news, or did she just make herself feel bad and deliberately say something specious to disturb her mind?
After all, the exposure of his identity is also related to Yan's mother, for this reason, Yan's mother was not only reprimanded by his wife, slapped her palms, but also fined a year's monthly money, Qiuye befriended Yan's mother's daughter Xiaojuan, could she be helping Xiaojuan get angry?
But in order to help Xiaojuan get angry, she was so cynical to herself, didn't she worry about making trouble for her in the future, even if she was no longer a favored miss, she was also a young lady, and she naturally pressed the maid in terms of status.
Or Autumn Leaves is in the wife's house, and she feels that she is protected by her wife, and she can't do anything to her as an unpopular lady.
The mood of sinking water will go up and down for a while, floating and sinking, like a driftwood that is bumping up and down in the waves, without a focus point, it can be overturned by the waves at any time, and the whole person is also nervous and even panicked because of this series of conjectures, like a string that can break at any time.
"Sister Shenshui, is Sister Shenshui here?" At that moment, a voice called in a whisper.
Shen Shui was so immersed in her own thoughts that she heard the man call several times.
Shen Shui was slightly startled at first, but quickly calmed down, with the same gentle smile on his face as before.
"Which sister is it?"
"Sister Shenshui, it's me, Xiao Miao."
Shen Shui naturally knows Xiao Miao, she is the little maid in the second wife's house, and Yan's mother's daughter Xiaojuan and the two mothers-in-law are responsible for sprinkling and sweeping in the yard, and Xiaojuan has a good relationship, why did she come to find herself, is she also here to ridicule herself.
The sinking water made a silent "heh".
"Sister Shenshui, open the window." Xiao Miao whispered outside the window.
Shen Shui hesitated, but still opened the window, and saw Xiao Miao looking around nervously, as if he was afraid of being seen.
"What are you looking for me?"
"Sister Shenshui, this is what Mother Tan asked me to give to you."
Xiao Miao quickly took out a letter from the placket, sealed the envelope tightly with wax, and handed the letter to Shen Shui, Xiao Miao said: "Sister Shen Shui, I have inquired, Mother Tan was sent to Zhuangzi in the second wife's county, although she was hit by a few boards, but it was not fatal."
Mother Tan?
Shen Shui took a deep look at Xiao Miao, who was still anxiously telling the news she knew, she was told that she was the flesh and blood of the second master, and her father asked Mother Tan to bring her into Bofu for her life, even if there was no such incident, she would recognize her ancestors and return to her ancestors in the near future.
But Shen Shui knew that this was fake, and it was a self-justifying reason they made up to explain their appearance, but they also knew that because of this reason, Mother Tan should not lose her life, but according to what Xiao Miao said, the punishment was indeed not heavy.
With her understanding of the second wife, even if Mother Tan is not disabled, she will be sold, sold to the dirtiest and worst places to do the hardest hard labor, or is this just a delaying tactic to block the mouths of the people in the house?
"Tan's mother said that my sister should know after reading the letter."
After Xiao Miao finished speaking, he left in a hurry.
After Xiao Miao left, Shen Shui opened the envelope and looked at it, Tan's mother was literate, but her writing was not good, Shen Shui could barely understand the meaning of a sentence by reading and connecting with the context, but looking at it, her eyes widened, her heart beat faster, and her breathing became short.
After reading it, he crumpled the letter into a ball and wanted to light a fire, but he was afraid that he would find the smell of fire in the house, so he wanted to swallow it with a heart, but he hesitated.
The next day, the ancestral hall was opened on the genealogy, the process was very smooth, although the elders of the Geng family had doubts, but the patriarch Geng Ke and An Pingbo agreed, not to mention that it was just a girl, and no one raised objections on the spot.
Geng Xingshuang stood outside the ancestral hall with all the ladies of the Bofu, just waiting for the lengthy procedures inside to be completed before they could go to have a rich lunch.
Thinking of the noon meal, Geng Xingshuang, who casually nibbled on half a steamed bun in the morning because she got up late, felt more and more hungry at this time, and she even smelled the sauce aroma of braised pork and the burnt aroma of fried crispy fish.
One of the ancestral hall and the kitchen are on the east side of the Bofu Mansion and the other is on the west side of the Bofu, which is far apart, where can you smell it.
No, she had to think of something else, or her saliva would overflow.
Thinking about it, Geng Xingshuang thought of Yang Tianmo in Pingcheng, and I don't know if the second brother is still on the way, or if he has returned to Pingcheng.
Pingcheng
At this time, the situation of the two people who were worried about Geng Xingshuang fell one by one.