The next day, it was still dark.
It was drowsy outside, and the East Room was lit by several lamps, illuminating it brightly.
This room is where Lu Jinxi lives, and where Qingque found the letter yesterday.
Yiying's decoration is similar to that of Westinghouse, but it is more like a boudoir daughter. There are also small tables with plum blossom and foreign lacquer on both ends of the kang, and a small bronze incense burner with auspicious beasts is displayed on the table, but there is no incense.
An exquisite dressing table is displayed inside.
Lu Jinxi's face was not very good, and with a bit of tiredness in her eyes, she sat in front of the makeup mirror.
The egret gestured with a golden bamboo leaf bridge hairpin on her head, and she just waved her hand: "It's nothing to see my wife, it doesn't matter, it doesn't need to be so grand. It's as simple as changing the hairpin."
Her voice seemed to be hoarse compared to yesterday.
The voice was rustling and soft, and there was a sickness to it.
Sitting in front of the makeup mirror, the person only feels that the waist is slender, and it has a posture of a weak willow supporting the wind.
The egret heard what Qingque said and guessed that it was coughing last night.
She replaced the large hairpin with golden bamboo leaves, took a thin white jade flower and fruit hairpin with cloud pattern from the makeup tuft, and put it on her new flowing cloud bun.
"You coughed all night last night, and you didn't sleep well. The wife doesn't want to say hello every day. Would you like to go back to sleep for a while?"
"I'm completely ill, and the incident with brother Chi happened again yesterday. Even if she doesn't want anyone to ask for her peace, I have to go and report the matter. Besides, no matter how sleepy you are, Didn't they all get up?"
Lu Jinxi said, smiled, and looked at the makeup mirror.
Lu's facial features are also similar to her in the past.
It's just that her eyebrows are sharper, while the corners of Lu's eyes are relatively soft.
Today, the egret put light makeup on her, and she looked elegant and tight.
"It's done, that's it."
Not too lazy to bother to clean it up, Lu Jinxi saw that he was almost done, and got up from the dressing table. Seeing that Qing Que had already held up the cloak, it was thicker than yesterday's, so he couldn't help asking, "It's still snowing outside?"
"It stopped in the second half of the night, but the snow was heavy, and the outside was covered in white, and it was cold. You are afraid to hold a hand stove today."
Qingque came over, put a cloak on her, handed her the stove, and remembered what she heard halfway.
"When the first servants went to serve hot water, I heard from the women below that there was a lot of noise at the third grandmother's place yesterday."
Wei Xian
Lu Jinxie can still remember how this younger brother and sister was able to toss.
Holding the small stove, she couldn't help but wonder, "How else can she make a fuss?"
"You asked Wu's family to punish that maid Ruizhu, and the third grandma brought it back later."
"It was all good at first, but after a thorough questioning, I found out that Ruizhu was choreographing the beating of Brother Chi because of his mouth full of Hu Yong."
"I don't know if she's acting or she's really angry. When she found out, she was so angry that she asked Ruizhu to be beaten again."
"I heard that the girl was lying in the room and cried all night, but she still can't get up."
"That's surprising..."
According to Lu Jinxi's understanding of this third younger brother and sister, even if he is acting, he should not be so real.
but…
"Let her go. Maybe it's because I feel that I've saved my face and find a punching bag, or maybe it's because my maid can beat me."
"Too."
Qingque sighed softly, only a little embarrassed by Ruizhu's dramatic encounter.
Lu Jinxi didn't feel anything in her heart, only a shadow of suspicion remained.
Before she went out, she ordered someone to inform her brothers and sisters that there was no need to come to greet her in the morning: "I'm going to see my wife, and I don't know when I'll be back, just ask them to come at night."
After giving the order, she stepped out the door.
There was a gust of cold wind blowing across the face. Fortunately, she was wearing a hood, which blocked a bit of the cold, but the cold air that was poured in made people tremble.
The yard was really white.
Two or three fingers thick snow, pressing on the ground, hanging on the branches, and covering the courtyard walls, makes it increasingly difficult to see the meaning of early spring.
At this hour, the maids and wives who were serving had already got up.
Lights shone through the windows along the way.
Mrs. Sun, the chief wife of the General's House, lives in the most secluded southern courtyard.
I heard that she is in her fifties this year, but her body is strong and strong. Although she came from a small family, she had accompanied Xue Yuan, the master of the long house, to live a hard life at the border gate.
In a critical moment, she also once disguised herself as a man, was born to death, and carried her injured husband out of the dead.
It's just that God didn't spare Xue Yuan in the end. He was rescued, but his injuries were too serious. After a few days of delay, he still died at the border.
Since then, the Sun family has supported the general's mansion.
She is a widow and has several children under her knees. She has to handle foreign affairs and tidy up the housework. She is indispensable when she shows herself.
At first, the big families in the capital were all criticized.
But after a long time, which one does not admire
The men of the Xue family have paid too much for Da Xia.
If the remaining women who are going to be in charge of the family are still like the women of other families, how can they afford such a big general's mansion
Therefore, the general's wife of the Xue family gradually became the most special existence among the women in the capital.
They are free to move and not bound by ordinary etiquette. They can represent the men in the family to attend all kinds of grand occasions, and they can also show their faces to deal with all kinds of trivial matters on their own village.
No one dared to speak up.
The sour Confucians in the DPRK who taught etiquette didn't think of entering the first two books, but once they thought of the Xue family men who returned home wrapped in horse leather and the military generals who supported the General's Mansion in the DPRK, they would feel that the memorials in their hands were too heavy to hold. stand up.
Not to mention, in the Xue Mansion today, there is also the Princess Yongning who plays an important role in the court.
Who dares to participate
It's almost death!
Therefore, Lu Jinxi is actually very happy.
To be a widow is not lucky; but to be a widow of the general's mansion, and to be Xue Kuang's widow, is a fortune among misfortunes.
The original Lu family came from a scholarly family. After the death of her husband, she did not go outside the door. She never took advantage of the general's residence. This was beyond the convenience of secular etiquette.
But Lu Jinxi will not.
She comes from modern times, and although she has no ambitions, she never wants to live in a high-class family and live the rest of her life.
The General's Mansion was a good place for her.
Her mother-in-law Sun and her aunt, Princess Yongning, are people she should be grateful for, even though she knew that the relationship between the two sisters was not very good, and she even knew that this mother-in-law had some problems with Lu's attitude.
call…
Cold wind blows.
The road beneath my feet was covered with remnants of snow that had not yet been swept away.
The lantern lit by the green sparrow shone on the snow with a warm yellow light.
The southern courtyard is already in front of you, and the lights in the room are also on.
Sun has a habit of getting up early, and now he has a stomach-nourishing soup in his hand, and he is already sitting on the heated kang, drinking.
The temples are a little gray, and there are wrinkles on the face, which is a bit old.
She was dressed in dark blue clothes with only a silver hairpin on her head. She looked very simple, just like an ordinary old woman in the market. She could not tell that she was the mother of the famous Wuwei general Xue Kuang.
Feng's mother had been serving her for two years, and when she saw that she had finished drinking, she took the soup bowl and said, "Yesterday, someone told me that the second grandmother is coming to greet her today. This old slave heard that the second grandmother's illness is very good, but she I got into trouble with the third grandmother, fighting and killing, as if I had changed a person..."
"Ghost Gate is a good place to experience people."
Sun shi leaned on the half-old autumn fragrance-colored throw pillow, holding a hanging of ordinary red sandalwood beads in his hand, and there was a bit of vicissitudes in his voice.
"I have seen so many young men with vigor and vitality back then. I have been on a battlefield once, and I have seen cruel life and death. All of them are like changed individuals."
"She's still a son and daughter. She managed to get her life back from the hands of Lord Yama. It's time to see it clearly."
"If you haven't seen it clearly, you should be dead."
Older people generally rarely talk about life and death.
But the Sun family has never been taboo about these things, and she has always been rude when she speaks.
When Feng's mother heard this, she couldn't help sighing, but she was a little more entangled and hesitant: "Madam, you can understand it. But if this is the case, won't the house be in chaos?"
The General's Mansion was once propped up by the Sun family.
It's just that since the Lu family got married, Xue Kuang invited the Sun family, hoping to give the family to Lu's palm.
When Sun was old, her husband died. At that time, her eldest son also died young, leaving behind a widow and a young daughter. Xue's family room, no matter how it is calculated, Xue Kuang will support it in the future.
Therefore, the Sun family was also happy to let go, and from then on, she lived in the southern courtyard and didn't care much about the juniors.
In the beginning, the Lu family was still very good. During the few years when Xue Kuang was there, there was no major trouble in the house.
But when Xue Kuang died, she lost her external support, and it became difficult.
When Wei Xian married four years ago and became the third grandmother of the long house, the situation worsened.
Wei Xian is the young lady of the Grand Master's Mansion and the half-sister of Wei Yi, the now favored concubine.
No one knew why she fell in love with Xue Rin, the most mediocre third master in Xue's long house, and took the initiative to find someone to say that the matchmaker would marry in, but everyone knew her ability.
Honorable status, arrogant temperament.
Win over people, cook inside and outside.
Her methods, learned from Wei Yi, her eldest sister-in-law, and her long-sleeved and good-dancing mother, are several times better than her sister-in-law Lu Shi.
In addition, she intends to target the Lu family, and within a few months, the people in the house see the wind direction one after another, and they start to ignore the Lu family and object to Wei Xian respectfully.
At this time, the weakness in Lu's temperament was undoubtedly exposed.
She was powerless to compete with Wei Xian, and she couldn't protect her subordinates. It only took a few months to lose people's hearts.
Of course, Mrs. Sun knew that Mrs. Lu was a kind and pitiful person, but so what
Kindness can't support this family.
She can tolerate someone like Princess Yongning who oppressed her, because the identity of the other party is also a kind of support for the entire Xue family.
She can also tolerate letting go of the mid-feeder, just for Xue Kuang's words. Because Xue Kuang is the pillar of the family.
But she couldn't tolerate Lu Shi.
Why Wei Xian insisted on marrying the mediocre Xue Rin, and why she even insisted on targeting Lu who wanted to take away the mid-feeder in Lu's palm, Sun knew vaguely.
It's just that she doesn't care.
Even if Wei Xian's words and deeds spread to her, she would not ignore it.
Because, a weak wife in charge was never what the general's residence needed.
But now...
He also said that Mr. Lu suddenly woke up, tough, transparent, and capable.
If he had heard the news four or five years ago, Sun would definitely be happy.
now...
She frowned slowly, held the hand of the Buddha bead, and after a pause, she slowly pinched it again, and said, "Since she is coming to greet her, let's see you later."
Coincidentally too.
As soon as she finished her words, before Feng's mother could ask a few more questions, the little maid outside came in and said, "Madam, the second grandma is here."