In the main room of the back house, the curtains were hung low, but it didn't feel stuffy. This is all because there are half-person-high ice jars placed in each corner of the room, and there are four little maids holding cattail fans, blowing the wind in unison - even though it is such a cool autumn experience in the hot summer, there are still two of them in hand. It was the time of year when we were making jelly cheese, and it was the noon time when we were most prone to sleepiness. Mrs. Song of the Wei family had just finished dealing with the day's affairs, and had just had lunch. It was a good time to take a nap at this time, so that she could go to my husband later. A person can be energetic only after greeting her - but Mrs. Song tossed and turned for a long time on the imperial concubine's couch covered with Xiang Fei's fine bamboo mat, and couldn't fall asleep.
"How are you now?" After much thought, Mrs. Song still felt uneasy. She climbed up and sat up, with fluffy hair on her temples and asked the wet nurse, Aunt Shi, who was accompanying her.
Aunt Shi said nonchalantly: "I just lifted the curtain and took a look through the crack of the window. The eldest lady was still kneeling... In the sun, it looked... strangely hot."
After hearing this, Mrs. Song hissed and asked, "Can someone bring her water?"
"This slave didn't see it." Nanny Shi said cautiously, "Madam, the sun is so hot right now, the eldest lady... I'm afraid I can't stand it anymore!"
Mrs. Song's face was ugly. She slapped the Begonia-style small incense table next to the couch with such force that she almost knocked it over. She said angrily: "Leave her alone! If she doesn't admit her mistake, she will... She was not allowed to get up! I didn't tell her where to kneel in such a big yard, but she chose a place where the black camphor trees couldn't cover her. It was just to make me feel soft-I am not soft-hearted now!" She said! With a straight face, he lay down again and ordered coldly, "No one is allowed to bring her water! Tell her to kneel down! If she doesn't admit her mistake, she's fainted from the sun. Just call a doctor to take a look at her." , You don’t have to tell me! This heartless little thing really doesn’t think I have the heart to discipline her!”
Grandma Shi said carefully: "Yes!"
When Mrs. Song's face turned inward and she seemed to be asleep, Nanny Shi winked at the two maids who were waiting beside the tent with their hands down, and led them quietly out of the inner room. When they reached the outside, Nanny Shi Grandma whispered: "Do you understand what Madam means?"
Huajiao and Huaping looked at each other and whispered, "Shall we go give the eldest lady some water?"
"Bring a portion of the jelly cheese to the eldest lady at that time... I advise the eldest lady to eat it slowly. Be careful that it is not good to eat something cold suddenly in the hot summer." Aunt Shi suggested, "Then coax the eldest lady to the shade. Kneel down... In short, we can’t let the eldest lady live under the sun anymore!”
The painting corner and the painting screen responded, and when they were about to go out, Granny Shi said again, "By the way, ask the eldest lady if she is willing to admit her mistake. If she still refuses... I will persuade the eldest lady to pretend to faint in a while."
Huajiao smiled bitterly and said: "I am afraid that the eldest lady is stubborn. If she refuses to listen..."
If the eldest lady in Wei's family room is willing to pretend to be fainted, she will not refuse to bow to Mrs. Song. Aunt Shi sighed: "If the eldest lady refuses to pretend to be fainted, you can coax her back to her room." "Didn't Madam say that the eldest lady should not be told if she fainted? If we didn't mention it, Madam would think that the eldest lady was knocked unconscious and was sent back to her room."
The two maids solemnly understood the true meaning of Mrs. Song's words and thanked Nanny Shi for her advice. Just as he was about to open the door, he heard a burst of footsteps on the corridor outside. Soon he arrived in front of the door and knocked gently. A very gentle voice said with a smile: "Is it possible for aunt to see me now?"
"Hurry up and open the door!" Hearing this sound, Mrs. Shi hurriedly ordered the maid and adjusted her clothes slightly. When the door opened, she saw a girl of about seventeen or eighteen years old standing outside. She has distant eyebrows, bright eyes and white teeth, and skin as bright as the moon.
Her crow-like hair was tied with a single snail, and two jeweled hibiscus flower hairpins were inserted sideways. She smiled at the corner of her mouth, revealing a pair of deep pear dimples on her cheeks. Wearing a lotus-colored double-breasted shirt with wide sleeves, a moon-white hidden flower skirt, and a light cinnamon sachet around her waist, she looked generous and bright. As soon as the door opened, he showed a very comfortable smile. After seeing Aunt Shi clearly, she immediately called out loudly.
When Aunt Shi saw this young girl, she couldn't help but look happy because it was hot outside at the moment. She hurriedly called her and the two maids in blue behind her to come in to talk. He asked the girl: "Thank God Miss Biao is here, but for..." Through the door, he also looked exactly at the place where Wei Changying was kneeling now.
This cousin is Mrs. Song's niece, and Song Zaishui, the legitimate daughter of the Jiangnan Song family, who is ranked first in the country like the Fengzhou Wei family. Her father, Song Yu, was a minister of Sikong and concurrently served as the eldest uncle. He was Mrs. Song's brother. He served as an official in the imperial capital of Haojing. His biological mother, the Wei family, died young. According to the review, the Wei family in Fengzhou and the Song family in Jiangnan had a relationship several generations ago. Covenant, marriage from generation to generation, although it does not mean only intermarrying with the other party, but when marrying a wife from the other clan, priority is always given to the other clan. Song Zaishui's biological mother is a cousin of Wei Changying and Wei Changfeng, so Song Zaishui and the Wei siblings are both aunt and uncle. Because the biological aunt is closer than the cousin, they are called Mrs. Song. .
The Wei family died of illness more than ten years ago. After his death, Song Yu asked his eldest son Song Zaitian and his second son Song Zaijiang to carry the coffin back to the south of the Yangtze River for burial. After the completion of his filial piety, Song Zaitian received a letter from Song Yuwang asking him to take his younger siblings back to the imperial capital, but Song Zaishui refused, using the excuse that he couldn't bear to leave the old lady of the Song family and wanted to stay. The old lady of the Song family considered that after the Wei family left, Song Yuwang did not remarry. After Song Zaishui arrived in the imperial capital, there were no serious female elders to teach her, so she agreed to keep her by her side to teach her personally.
This teaching allowed Song Zaishui to survive until this year. At the beginning of the year, Song Yuwang once again urged her to return to the imperial capital. Even the old lady of the Song family asked her to leave, so she slowly left Jiangnan. I was just passing through Fengzhou to visit my great-aunt Mrs. Song and my aunt Mrs. Song, but I found an excuse and refused to leave.
Although she lived in the Wei family for more than four months and refused to leave after receiving letters from her family several times, making it clear that she would continue to stay in the Wei family, no one in the Wei family dared to look down upon her. Just because before the death of his mother Wei, Song Zaishui was praised by Zhaoyi at that time and the empress today. She asked for the golden words and jade words from the emperor, and gave her a gold inlaid jade in front of the emperor to make her and her hairpin queen the crown prince in public. This was In the future, I want to be the queen of the world!
Therefore, confidants such as Aunt Shi and the eldest daughter of the eldest daughter like Miss Wei could be blamed as half-daughters, but they still had to show respect to Song Zaishui.
However, Song Zaishui was born in a noble family and had a bright future, but he was not cunning and arrogant. Instead, he had a humble and gentle temperament, which was typical of everyone. After hearing what Nanny Shi said, she nodded and whispered, "I don't know about this yet. My fifth cousin came to see me just now... Auntie is in there? But she's asleep?"
Aunt Shi secretly praised Wei Changfeng for his cleverness. In fact, it was not that she had not thought of asking Mrs. Song, her biological niece, to intercede. However, Song Zaishui was the quasi-princess. Besides Wei Changfeng, how could servants like them dare to disturb her
At this moment, he said hurriedly: "The eldest lady is kneeling outside. Where can the madam sleep? Cousin, please come in quickly!"
As expected, Mrs. Song couldn't sleep. Not only couldn't she sleep, she just listened with her ears open. When she heard the footsteps other than Aunt Shi and the maid entering the inner room, Mrs. Song didn't turn over, but was full of airs. He coughed and said coldly: "Did you realize you were wrong?"
Although it was a question, anyone could hear the expectation in the tone. This impatient question might as well be a hint... The maids lowered their heads and bit their lips.
Song Zaishui couldn't help but laugh a little, pursed his lips hard, and then said as usual: "Aunt?"
"In the water?" Mrs. Song was immediately disappointed. She turned over and sat up without caring about the shelf. When she saw that there was no shadow of her daughter behind her niece, she asked listlessly, "Why did you come out in such a bright sun?"
"I couldn't sleep just now. I wanted to talk to my cousin Chang Ying. I didn't want the person next to her to fall in the house, but she said she was with my aunt." Song Zaishui walked to Mrs. Song affectionately and sat down, hugging her arm and saying coquettishly, "I think it's quiet in the house right now. Don't think my aunt has hidden something good for my cousin and got suspicious, so she came here to have a look!"
Although Mrs. Song was worried about her daughter's stubbornness, she couldn't help but smile when she heard this: "How can you be obedient and sensible, Chang Ying? Even if I have good things hidden, I will definitely give them to you rather than to her!"
"You should ask your cousin to come and hear this!" Song Zaishui said with a smile, "Just make her jealous!"
Mrs. Song said bitterly: "Don't ask her to come, I just told you! If she doesn't admit her mistake, she won't be allowed to get up!"
These words were said in a vicious manner, but according to those who are familiar with Mrs. Song's nature, such as Granny Shi and Song Zaishui, the real meaning is - I just said this, but this child Chang Ying refuses to let go, what should I do to call her? Justified
Song Zaishui couldn't laugh or cry in his heart, but he still said seriously: "Didn't my cousin admit her mistake a long time ago?"
"Huh?" Mrs. Song and Grandma Shi were both stunned.
Song Zaishui said: "When I came over just now, my cousin was still there saying that she felt sorry for my aunt!"
"Are you serious?" Mrs. Song was stunned for a moment. When did her daughter become so good
"Isn't that true?" Song Zai Shui Sha said, "If I don't believe it, I might as well ask Chun Jing and Xia Jing."
The two maids in blue nodded in unison: "I did hear what Miss Wei said."
Song Zaishui took the opportunity and said softly: "It's sunny now and it's extremely hot outside. My aunt looked at my clothes. I just changed them before going out. They're so wet when I get here. My cousin has been outside for I don't know how long... Don’t let the sun burn you!”
Mrs. Song had a sullen face and hummed: "She deserves to be sunburned! She did it all by herself!" After saying this, she changed the subject again and said quickly, "Since she has admitted her mistake, she is still thinking about it. For the sake of interceding for her, I will spare her this time... Nanny Shi, go and ask her to go back to her room! I don’t want to see her now!” I said the last sentence, and I hate her! I hate the fragrance! I am afraid that others will not see that I am actually a "strict mother".
Grandma Shi tried her best to hold back her laughter and said seriously: "I'll go right now, slave."
As soon as she came out of the inner room, Nanny Shi covered her mouth with her hands. Even so, she still let out a muffled laugh - Mrs. Song clearly saw that her niece and the maid were telling lies with their eyes open. I have been waiting for such a step to step down for a long time. Naturally, she couldn't wait to believe it, but she felt that it was very shameful. She was obviously afraid that Song Zaishui's lies would be exposed when her daughter arrived, so she even drove her daughter back to her room while pretending that she was still angry with her daughter...
It's so pitiful that Mrs. Song can't help it. Although Wei Zhenghong, the eldest son of the Wei family whom she married, was the eldest son of the head of the family, Wei Huan, he had been in bed since childhood, so that Mrs. Song had no time to go out for nearly ten years after she passed away. It wasn't until the ninth year that he got a good doctor's prescription, and with proper care, he began to get better, and there were siblings Wei Changying and Wei Changfeng. Wei Zhenghong still lives in a separate hospital from Mrs. Song. It's not that the relationship between the couple is not harmonious, but that Wei Zhenghong needs a long-term rest and cannot be disturbed at all.
As the eldest daughter-in-law, Mrs. Song almost went crazy thinking about her children in the first nine years after her marriage. Therefore, after having a child, I really put it in my mouth for fear of melting, held it in my hand for fear of falling, and gave endless love and pampering to the stubborn Wei Changying, the eldest daughter of the Wei family. Things are going nowhere. Ever since I was a child, I don’t know who taught me that force is king. I don’t even bother to take a serious look at things like poetry, prostitutes, and other things that every lady must learn. Instead, I focus on learning martial arts well and using my fists to fight with my husband. The family has a "good idea" for a good future.
"The eldest lady is so smart. She saw through ten years ago that Madam can't be cruel to her own flesh and blood." Aunt Shi hid behind the door and snickered for a long time, then she held it back again, wiped the corners of her eyes and laughed. She burst into tears and began to worry again, "It's just that the eldest lady will leave the cabinet next year. Apart from martial arts, she doesn't understand anything else. How can she live this life? Madam Pian has nothing to do with the eldest lady..." (To be continued)