stormy clouds

Chapter 6
Chang Luoyun looked at Pei with clear eyes, and the corners of her lips slightly raised, "Miss Pei, this is embarrassing me. My daughter has always been my father and I will do whatever I want, how dare I make things difficult for my father? This time, it is naturally my father who made things difficult for me." I will live in whichever courtyard I live in, and my daughter will never dare to pick and choose.”

Pei's smile froze on his lips, very ugly.

"Okay," Chang Pu waved his hand, a little impatiently, "Yincui Pavilion was originally lived by Yun'er, and if we talk about disputes, it is Yao'er who is fighting with Yun'er. Besides, Yun'er is the younger sister, let the elder sister And it should."

"Also," Chang Pu called to stop Mrs. Pei, "call a lady tailor with better craftsmanship to make some clothes for Yun'er. It used to be fine in Zhuangzi, but now in Qingzhou, Yun'er's clothes are shabby. It will only disgrace the Chang family."

Pei's face became more and more ugly, he clenched his hands tightly, pursed his lips and did not speak.

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In March, the winter jasmine flowers bloomed in Chang’s courtyard, especially in the east courtyard. The flower branches grew over the wall, and the flowers were bright and clear. When the wind blew, the flowers rained in arrays.

Chang Luoyun came from the flower formation.

At the gate of the east courtyard, a woman was sitting in front of the courtyard cracking melon seeds. When she saw her, she cast a sideways glance, lowered her eyelids and continued eating melon seeds.

Chang Luoyun lifted her skirt and stepped over the threshold, and the mother-in-law stood up and shouted in a rough voice, "Girl, this is not a place for everyone to enter, I have to go to another place."

Chang Luoyun stopped, turned around, and asked playfully, "Mother Zhang, can I go in too?"

Zhang's mother squinted her eyes and looked at her carefully. Against the light, she couldn't see her face clearly. She only felt that her eyes were bright and kind, her smile was like a flower, and her demeanor was indistinguishable.

The two girls of the Chang family are both very beautiful.Miss Wu often sees it herself, so she recognizes it.Then in this yard, besides the fourth girl, who else has such a good-looking appearance?Who would talk to her like that?

Zhang's mother trembled, her eyes were puzzled and her tone hesitated, "Are you...the fourth girl?"

The corner of Chang Luoyun's mouth raised slightly, "Mother Zhang has a good memory, after all these years, she still remembers me."

Zhang's mother straightened her clothes immediately, bowed slightly, raised her hand and slapped her face, and said with a smile on her face, "Look at my mouth. Fourth girl, for the sake of my old lady's old eyes, you can Forgive me for being unreasonable!"

Chang Luoyun looked at the empty yard and asked, "You are the only one guarding such a big yard?"

"After Mrs. Han left, there was no one in this yard all year round. I was just in charge of cleaning, so it was easy." Zhang's mother followed Chang Luoyun obediently, and when she saw something blocking the way, she quickly stepped forward to help remove it.

Walking to the middle of the courtyard, Chang Luoyun pointed to the stone table in front and asked, "Where did the pomegranate tree go? Did it die or was it chopped down?"

"Chop... off."

"Who told you to cut it?"

"Miss Pei." Zhang Ma looked at her and said cautiously, "It is said that the tree has grown and covered the light of the wing room."

Chang Luoyun scoffed coldly in his heart and did not speak.

The pomegranate tree was planted by my grandmother when A Niang married into the Chang family, saying that it was for the sake of having more children.Ever since Chang Luoyun could remember, A Niang liked to sit under the pomegranate tree and do embroidery work.Every year in April and May, when durian blossoms are like fire, A Niang wears a moon-white gauze dress and concentrates on flying needles. This scene often appears in her dreams.

However, in the end, the Chang family couldn't even accommodate a single tree.

Mother Zhang pushed open the door of the main room.The furnishings in the house are still the same as before, the difference is that in a house where no one lives, even if the light is right at noon, it still looks decadent and cold.

The house was cleaned very clean, and it could be seen that Mama Zhang was very dedicated.However, there was no longer A Niang's hairpin on the dressing table, and the quilt on Babu's bed was also cleaned up.

Chang Luoyun went to the bed and sat down, reached out and picked up a thin white porcelain pillow left on the bed, she pressed the porcelain pillow to her face, and the cool feeling slowly flowed through her whole body, "The people in this room Where did they all go in the end?"

Zhang's mother folded her hands in her sleeves, frowned slightly and tried to recall, "Huan'er has been missing since she discovered the poison in Mrs. Han's house; I went. Liu Ma, who was watching the yard, was taken back to her hometown by her son, and it is said that she is gone."

That is to say, all three people in the room who may have known about it have been dismissed.

Chang Luoyun sneered, "Since you are looking at the courtyard, let me ask you, what about my mother's jewelry? I remember that my mother had a set of ruby ​​headgear back then, and it was for me and Jingli, do you know Where did you go?"

Zhang's mother's complexion was ashen, and she knelt down on the ground with a "plop", "Girl, when I came in, everything here was cleaned up, let alone ruby ​​tops. If you don't believe me, you can go Ask Mrs. Pei about Qiu Hen in Mrs. Pei's room, she brought me in."

"It's up to you whether I see you or not. In your hearts, I'm afraid I won't be able to come back at all!" Chang Luoyun's voice was slow, and his words became frozen.

Zhang Ma fell on the ground, not daring to raise her head.

Such a small child still has a high fever, and there is no adult to look after him.On the day she left Chang's house, it was raining heavily. Who would have thought that she would come back alive.

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In the west courtyard of the Chang family, Chang Luoyao stomped her feet vigorously, exasperated, "Mother, why? Why did she rob my yard as soon as she came back? In the past, it was fine if she was the first daughter of the Chang family, but now, I am also the daughter of the Chang family." My daughter, if she can live, why can't I live there."

Mrs. Pei pulled her to sit on the stool in front of her, raised her hand to wipe the tears off her face with a juan handkerchief, and coaxed, "I told you, your father asked her to live in Yincui Pavilion temporarily, waiting for the embroidery competition." When it's over, she will go back to Zhuangzi, and when the time comes, you can move there."

Chang Luoyao grabbed the Juan handkerchief from Mrs. Pei's hand and threw it on the ground, "Why did I wait for her to move away? Ever since I was a child, she was a prostitute, so I had to let her go everywhere, but later, Her mother poisoned her mother-in-law and committed such a big mistake, she is still acting like a concubine daughter, why? A Niang, why should I be inferior to her in everything. "

Sitting opposite Chang Luoyao, Mrs. Pei saw her daughter crying so much that her heart was in a mess.It seemed that she was still being careless, that broom star looked quiet, but unexpectedly, she was not easy to take care of.

"Mother—" Chang Luoyao cried heart-rendingly, "You are now the head of the Chang family, and the affairs of the inner house were originally in your hands, so you go and talk to your father and let me move to Yincui Pavilion. I have already told Sister Luoxia and the others that I will invite them to fight tea when I move to Yincui Pavilion, but now that I have not moved in, what face do you have for me to see them in the future?"

Pei Shi was confused by her crying.She walked back and forth in the room for a few times, and said hesitantly, "How about you wait a few more days, after the spring feast, I will go and tell your father."

"Didn't Daddy give her a high opinion of her just because she invited Mrs. Shaoling? If the spring banquet is over, how could he agree to it?" Chang Luoyao flicked her hand, and a Ruyao teacup on the table responded It fell to the ground and broke into pieces.

Qiu Hen hurried over to clean up the broken porcelain on the ground, and quietly retreated.

Chang Luoyao lay down on the table, crying so hard.

Pei Shi bit her lip, seeming to get angry.After a while, she said word by word, "What if the spring banquet can't be held well?"

Chang Luoyao raised her head and asked with tears in her eyes, "Aniang, what did you say?"

"I mean, what if the spring banquet can't be held well?" Mrs. Pei went to sit down opposite Chang Luoyao, with a tranced smile, "The scenery over the waterside pavilion is nice, but the small bridge by the lake still has dew in the morning, so it's wet and slippery , if Shaoling Qianjin accidentally fell into the lake while admiring the scenery, tell me, can this spring banquet still be held?"

"Aniang, you mean." Chang Luoyao stopped sobbing, with a shocked expression on her face.

"I didn't say anything." Mrs. Pei wiped the tears off Chang Luoyao's face with a juan handkerchief, and said softly, "Yao'er, you don't know anything either.

(End of this chapter)