With the gradual "recovery" of Bai Fuling, all the female family members of the Yasukuni Mansion also began to appear on the stage, harassing the door from time to time.
Yang Mei could finally no longer act as a repeater, and kept repeating in front of Reading Yunxuan's door: "My girl is not feeling well, and she finally fell asleep. Ladies, please go back first!" Her expression was quite cheerful, and those who didn't know thought she was so loyal. Little master, I am happy that the little master is recovering.
In fact, she was just glad that she was finally out of the sea of suffering and that she had something to watch every day.
The first to come to the door were the two older cousins of the Yasukuni Mansion—Hui Yun, the fourth daughter of the first house, and Hui Ru, the sixth girl of the third house. However, because the former is a concubine, and the latter is too young, it seems that neither can succeed.
Huiru's state of mind is difficult to judge at the moment. As for Huiyun, Bai Fuling only heard her wonderful "true words" in the tunnel a few days ago. Bai Guo and Yangmei were also there at the time. Re sat next to Bai Fuling's bed and asked for warmth, and said "sister", all of them felt a chill in their bodies.
Bai Fuling was pretending to be sick anyway, no matter how enthusiastically Huiyun performed, she just hummed twice or showed a weak and pale smile to perfunctory, and let her sing the one-man show alone.
Huiru curled her lips, disdainful of Huiyun's flattery in her heart, concubine daughters are concubine daughters, and indeed they are not good enough to stand on the stage, so they know how to humiliate and smile, and usually have the nerve to put on the posture of a long-term eldest daughter in front of her , but it was born of a concubine, what is it! snort!
As soon as she entered Yunxuan, she secretly looked at the furnishings in the room, and found that although there were not many things here, all of them were high-quality goods. Looking at the cushions on the chairs and the beautiful brocade embroidered pillows, each style was unique and unprecedented. , but the style looks like the product of Nylon Embroidery Workshop, she felt a move in her heart, and soon felt that it was impossible.
This family has been away from Beijing for more than ten years, and they have only been in the capital for a few days. How do they know about Nylon Embroidery Workshop? Everyone in Beijing knows that there is only one Nylon Embroidery Workshop, and there is no other semicolon. On the 19th, some small embroidery workshop stole the teacher in the capital and imitated it and sold it outside the capital!
Nylon Embroidery Workshop sells at least 20 taels of pillow for a show pillow. Wouldn't it cost thousands of taels of silver to decorate the embroidery pieces in this room? No matter how rich the Zhongguo Mansion is, it wouldn't be so generous to a granddaughter!
Moreover, Nylon Embroidery Workshop is famous, even if you have money, you may not be able to buy things.
The more Huiru thought about it, the more she felt that her guess was reasonable, and she deliberately asked: "The embroidery pieces in my sister's house are all imitated from the craftsmanship of the Nylon Embroidery Workshop, right? They are so delicate and similar, you can't tell if you don't tell me! I didn't expect Nylon embroidery The styles of the embroidery workshop have been spread outside the capital, is this made by the embroiderer of my sister's house or bought from outside?"
Bai Fuling leaned against her bed and wandered, not knowing what these two girls were chattering about by her window, let alone reacting. Bai Guo secretly laughed when she heard her rant.
Relying on her seniority and her status as a descendant, Huiru has always been used to domineering among her sisters. Since Bai Fuling came to the Zhongguo Duke's Mansion, her parents have been nagging her every day, asking her to find a way to get close to this cousin. She reluctantly I came to visit a few times, but my bayberry blocked the door. I had already accumulated a lot of anger and wanted to show Bai Fuling some color.
But it was as if she hadn't heard her words at all, and she didn't respond at all, which immediately aroused her anger, but she still remembered what her parents said, and she didn't dare to turn her face easily, so she stretched out her hand and pushed gently, pretending to be innocent and innocent. Pushing Bai Fuling, said: "Cousin, someone is talking to you!"
"Yangmei..." Bai Fuling weakly called Yangmei to stop her, as if she was about to faint at any time.
Yang Mei knew that she was bored, so she pulled Bai Guo forward together, and confessed: "You two cousins, the girl has improved a little today, and her energy is not very good, so I have neglected you two. When the girl is better, please invite the two of you again." Miss Biao is here to talk and play, okay?"
She was dressed as a married woman, and both Huiru and Huiyun only regarded her as a nanny and housekeeper next to Bai Fuling. The frail appearance was really boring, so he reluctantly stood up with a smile and left.
They stepped out of Reading Yunxuan with their front feet, and Bai Fuling sat up energetically on their back feet, ordered people to prepare mahjong, and pulled bayberry, ginkgo, and white peony to start the battle. Under the "inspiration" of Bai Fuling, there are many Mahjong lovers in the Bai family! .
Hong Qu and the other maidservants looked envious, Bai Fuling waved her hand and said, "Don't be in a hurry, everyone has a share, everyone will take turns to play, and if you lose three rounds, you will be replaced."
Yang Mei rolled her eyes and said, "Looking at you just now, I thought you were terminally ill! I really can't see how good you are at pretending."
Bai Fuling curled her lips and said: "You should admire those two sisters, they can last so long talking to themselves! I said how old these girls are, and they are already so boring, so boring!"
"Hu! Thank you, miss, you are the most energetic!" Bai Guo knocked down a row of thirteen mahjong tiles in front of her with a snap, and stretched out her hand to ask Bai Fuling, who had lost a game first, for money.
"Wow! Qing Yishi, you are too cruel! Yang Mei, you two sisters-in-law are in collusion, right?! One teased me to distract my attention, and the other took the opportunity to play my cards. You are in a mess!" Bai Fuling took out money. Make excuses for your own failure.
Laughter and laughter in the small yard blocked the cold wind and snow outside the house.
With Bai Fuling's "gradual recovery", more and more people came to visit. A large number of cousins came to the door every day, and even their mothers brought concubines and maids from each house to step on the field in turn. Bai Fuling immediately did not hesitate. She began to perform "Repeated Illness". Her distressed daughter, Mu Peilan, used this excuse to complain in person in front of Lord Yasukuni and his wife, forcing the wife of Lord Yasukuni, Mrs. Li, to speak in person, asking her daughters-in-law and granddaughters to be considerate of the little girl's weakness, and not to bother her again. She rests.
After sending Mu Peilan away, Mrs. Li snorted coldly and said to her husband: "The girl from your niece's family is so delicate. A few cousins and aunts are afraid that she will be bored when she is sick, so they kindly went to visit her, and they can see that she is sick. .”
Lord Yasukuni turned cold and said, "Is it really kind or fake? You have to be ashamed to chase away customers before you are willing, right? All these years, because of your selfishness, I have lost all face in front of my younger siblings! Finally, my niece returned to Beijing. , just stop for a while."
Mrs. Li was angry, and retorted loudly: "What kind of selfishness am I?! Is it because of your useless sons? Or for the Juelu of your Lin family's descendants?! Why don't you ask your good brother and sister about it? What's the matter? How many years has passed since the second brother passed away, and he just refuses to nod his head and let Mu Li and his brothers take over the title!"
Duke Jing was trembling with anger from her: "You also know that some of your sons are worthless! The title of the second younger brother was obtained by his real skills, what about them? He can't be a man of letters, he only knows how to take concubines and play with women! Thirty or so I'm dead, I haven't done a lot of good things, but everyone has taken concubines, and many people in Beijing are secretly ridiculing me for my lack of parenting. You are good, you only know how to indulge, and even think hard and forgive your two grandchildren Let’s learn from others! It’s better not to let them inherit the title of the second brother, but let them be ordinary people and practice hard, maybe Qinyu and Qinzhi will have something to do in the future.”
The Qins he mentioned were the sons of the first and second families. Among them, Lin Qinsi, the eldest son of the first house, had already married a wife and took one concubine and another house, and Lin Qinshu, the eldest son of the second house, also took a wife Tongfang, Qinyu, and Qinzhi are all concubines, one is married and the other is still young and has not discussed marriage, but they are relatively well-behaved.
In fact, in ancient times, taking concubines was not as simple as it is said in the novels most of the time. Not every man had the right to take concubines. He had to have a certain degree of fame. He is a member of the officialdom, unless he is at the level of Yan Shifan, he can play however he wants. Otherwise, if there are too many wives and concubines around, it is very easy to attract people's attention, and it may even affect the official career.
Apart from the fact that there are more women than others in the house, his own son is not as good as others in everything. This has always been a poisonous thorn in Duke Yasukuni's heart. Every time he thinks about it, he hates it. Perhaps because of this, there are a few sons born from concubines who are more decent in the Duke's mansion.
Seeing her husband turning pale with anger, Mrs. Li panicked. If she really made her husband angry, the family would be broken up! No matter how much resentment she felt in her heart, she could only go forward and speak nicely to appease her husband first.
Everyone in the Yasukuni Mansion is looking forward to the long life of this old master. The reason is very simple. Once he goes, the court will take back his title, and even the mansion will be taken back. All of them have become civilians, relying on their ancestral property and losing all their privileges, how will they live!
There was a temporary pause here, Bai Fuling was reading Yunxuan to discuss with her mother whether to reopen the tunnel leading to Liufen Pavilion where her grandmother lived, and she also felt that it was inappropriate for her parents to come to see her all the time .
Mu Peilan rubbed her long hair and said with a smile: "It's good that you have this kind of filial piety, mother is not too old to walk, and it's not easy to go out on weekdays, let's see what's the matter with you, just take a walk .”
Mu Peilan's current appearance is really inconvenient to appear in front of outsiders. People in the Duke's Mansion just vaguely say that she is a distant relative of the old lady and specially accompanied Bai Fuling to the capital to visit relatives, but did not announce her identity as the eldest lady of the Duke's Zhong's Mansion. Even many old boudoir friends did not dare to make an appointment. Mu Peilan is a very proud person. Although she doesn't care much about her appearance, she is also unwilling to bear the eyes of pity or fear from the old man.
Bai Fuling immediately decided to go out tomorrow to find Bai Pingzi and contact the people in the Jiyun Hall to ask if the Gu mother of the Ghost Face Gu is there.
The next day she walked through the tunnel to Shibu Lane, but happened to catch up with Bai Pingzi who was about to go out: "A girl who called herself Jiyuntang came to Baishu's village this morning and asked to see you urgently. I was just going to take a look on your behalf. What's the matter?"
"What a coincidence? Let's go and have a look together." For some reason, Bai Fuling suddenly had a bad feeling in her heart.