Zhumen Chunshen

Chapter 41 The Beating of Master Yao

Gu's eyes flashed, and he couldn't help but pay attention.Her eldest son, Yao Shihua, has not been doing the silk and satin business all these years. It's just that there are good times and bad times, and he doesn't make much money. He barely makes a living and has a little surplus!Traveling between the two places for many years, buying and shipping goods, is very hard work.

If, with the Jiangning weaving line, a little leakage between the fingers is enough for a lifetime!
Gu's heart skipped a beat, her heart couldn't help getting hotter, the more she thought about it, the more she couldn't help herself.

"That's not it," Gu sighed, half-complaining and half-probing: "Your first cousin has no skills, he's just doing some small business to make ends meet, and he's running around buying and selling goods all year round, and he can't make a lot of money in one trip. Tired to death! I feel distressed when I see it. I didn’t want him to work so hard, but he has been in this industry for several years and is used to it. What else can he do if he doesn’t do this? It’s funny to say, he himself has great ambitions The boss said that as long as you work hard and persevere, sooner or later there will be a day when you get ahead, and if you insist on not giving up, I have no choice but to let him go!"

"Eldest cousin has the heart, is so determined, and endures hardships and stands hard work. He will definitely have a bright future in the future! Auntie is just waiting to enjoy the blessings! Auntie also knows that eldest sister is the best. In the future, if eldest cousin If you go to the south of the Yangtze River to buy goods, you must pay a visit to the elder sister!" Yao Cunhui laughed.

"Hehe, even though they are relatives, I'm afraid the Xie Mansion has a high threshold, so how can I get in!" Gu Shi smiled unconsciously.

"How could it be!" Yao Cunhui retorted: "Don't my elder sister's temperament and my aunt not know? I heard from Mama Rong and the others that the Xie family is also a scholarly family, and the family education is very strict. Respect for relatives and friends, and the most polite way of dealing with others!"

Mrs. Gu laughed: "The people selected by Mrs. Yun will naturally have good character!"

Yao Cunhui also smiled and said yes.

As he was talking, he suddenly saw Yao Shizan running in from the outside yelling "Second Sister, Sister Xiantang", Xiao Jiu and Wu Guang trotted behind.

"Why are you being naughty again? What are you doing running so fast! I haven't seen my aunt soon." Yao Cunhui lovingly held him in front of her, and took out a handkerchief to wipe her sweat.

Yao Shizan glanced at Mrs. Gu with his dark eyes, walked up to Mrs. Gu with a well-regulated step, bowed his hands and bowed to greet Mrs. Gu.

"Zan'er is so good!" Gu raised her hand with a smile.

Yao Cunxian pursed his lips and said with a smile: "Did Zan'er get something new again? Baba showed it to my sister again!"

Yao Shizan has become very familiar with Yao Cunxian in the past few days, and when she heard her say this, she raised her pink makeup and jade-painted face and said with a smile: "I know that cousin Xian is going home tomorrow, so I specially give it to sister Xian. It's a gift!" Yao Shizan said, took a small food box from Xiaojiu, handed it to Yao Cunxian and said, "This is the eight items of Pinxiangzhai that Daddy specially bought for me yesterday. It’s alright, I’ll keep it on purpose and give it to cousin Xian to eat on the way!”

Gu Shi, Yao Cunhui and others all laughed when they heard this.Yao Cunhui laughed and said, "You're not ashamed, a box of snacks is still a gift!"

Yao Shizan pouted, and muttered unconvinced: "When I grow up, I will send more and better ones to cousin Xian!"

Listening to his childish and serious words, everyone couldn't help being even more funny.

"Thank you Zan'er, Zan'er is really caring, Sister Xian likes it very much!" Yao Cunxian saw the slight annoyance and eagerness on Yao Shizan's little face, and couldn't help feeling warm in his heart. He quickly took the snack box and put his arms around Yao Shizan's shoulders Gently patted and comforted him, with a very intimate expression.

"Really? Really?" Yao Shizan was very happy.

"Of course, Sister Xian likes Zan'er the most, how could she lie to Zan'er!"

"..."

Yao Cunhui also laughed and joked, and there was a lot of laughter and joy in the room.

Gu looked at it with a smile, his eyes sparkling.

The next day, the two brothers from the second room of the Yao family and the brothers and sisters of Yao Cunjia politely sent Gu and Yao Cunxian away, saying goodbye.

"Let's all go back!" The carriage of Gu's mother and daughter disappeared in front of his eyes, Master Yao glanced at him, his tall and straight body was full of the spirit of the head of the family.

Everyone scattered.

Master Yao briefly instructed the second master Yao to do a few things in the rice shop, then turned around and walked towards the main courtyard.

"Master, won't you go out today?" Mrs. Ma asked with a smile when he saw Master Yao coming in.

Master Yao gave a faint "hmm", glanced lightly, and said unhurriedly: "I have something to tell you."

"Master, but please tell me." Mrs. Ma smiled and personally served the first-class Longjing brewed just now, and screened all the women and maids out.

Master Yao held the tea bowl, opened the lid and fiddled with the tea lightly, put the tea bowl down after a while, glanced at Mrs. Ma and asked indifferently: "How is the preparation for Jiaer's dowry?"

The smile on Ma Shi's face froze immediately, he wondered secretly, and said with a smile: "Why did the master think of asking this? It's almost ready, master don't worry! Why don't you take out the dowry list tomorrow and show it to the master? "

"Alright, send it to my study tomorrow!" Master Yao nodded, and said earnestly: "The Xie family is not an ordinary family, the Jiangning weaving has been hereditary for three generations, who in the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River does not know the name of the Xie family? Our Yao family wants to do business in the south, and there will be many places that rely on the Xie family in the future! This marriage was decided by the old lady of the Yunfu, so we must be careful and careful, and there will be no mistakes!"

"Yes, master! The concubine understands the stakes in this!" Mrs. Ma didn't expect that Master Yao really wanted to see the dowry list, and suddenly felt a little depressed, and when he heard that Master Yao regarded Xie's family so important, Mentioning Yun Mansion again made her feel even more unhappy, and her eyes turned red with jealousy: How could Yao Cunjia marry such a good family?
"It's good that you understand," Master Yao said with a smile, "Jia'er is my eldest daughter. If her marriage is not done well, the next two daughters will also be affected. You must take care of it! Also, take advantage of this The weather is fine and the rain is less. We have tidied up two or three courtyards in the south. Next year when Jiaer gets married, the elders of the clan say they will come to watch the ceremony. There will be a place for them to live so as not to be in a hurry. What a joke!"

Mrs. Ma immediately thought of Mrs. Gu, and felt a "thud" in her heart. She couldn't help feeling unhappy, and complained: "What does Jiaer's marriage have to do with the clan? It's really hard for them to come here from such a long distance! I see, It's just an idea of ​​playing the autumn wind and wanting to take advantage of the opportunity, master, you are too kind!"

"Presumptuous!" Master Yao slapped a few times fiercely, and Mrs. Ma was so frightened that she stood up and stood up without saying a word.

"Women, what do you know!" Master Yao said coldly: "The elders of the clan are willing to come, this is the dignity of our second wife and Jiaer's, so the Xie family dare not underestimate Jiaer and our family! No amount of money can buy it! You'd better hear me clearly, this marriage must be done well, if anything goes wrong, I can't spare you!"

Master Yao gave Mrs. Ma a cold look, thinking that a woman is just a woman, with short-sightedness, only seeing the few money in front of her eyes, and has no long-term vision at all.

When granddaughters get married, the elders of the old family are willing to travel thousands of miles to watch the ceremony. What does this mean?It means that this granddaughter is educated, wise, virtuous, and she is a top-notch person. The elders love her, so they are willing to come!She thought that if any granddaughter got married, the elders of the clan would go all the way to watch the ceremony?joke!

With Jiaer receiving this honor, the second room will naturally be honored as well. When the time comes, the Xie family and the Yun family will not be able to look up to their own family?It is also good for future relatives to move around.As long as you walk around twice and diligently, won't friendship come out?With friendship, what is difficult to do?
"Yes, yes, it's my concubine who is confused!" Madam Ma hadn't heard such a harsh word from Master Yao for many years, her face flushed with embarrassment, she hung her head and dared not lift it up.

Master Yao snorted coldly, lifted his foot and went out.

The more Mrs. Ma thought about it, the more angry he was, he grabbed the blue and white tea bowl on the table and threw it on the ground angrily. The boiling hot tea splashed all over the floor, and the steam rose curlingly.

Mother Qiao saw that the master went out with a sullen face, and there was another big commotion in the room, so she hurriedly opened the curtain and came in.Seeing the fragments of tea on the ground, he hurriedly ordered the little girl to come in to clean them up, while he walked forward slowly, calling "Ma'am" softly, and helped Mrs. Ma into the ear room of the usual living room.

"Ma'am, why bother to get angry? It's not worth it to get angry!" Mother Qiao smiled, helped Ma Shi to sit on the imperial concubine's bed, and gently squeezed her shoulders.

"Hmph!" Madam Ma sneered, "I'm not angry, I'm—" Madam Ma sighed softly, and finally felt uncomfortable, and said bitterly: "That old whore, Madam Gu, dares to play tricks on me! I I remember her!"

"What, what's the matter?" Qiao's mother was surprised: "The madam gave her so many valuable things, didn't she accept them all! How can this be, you are against others after receiving things from others!"

Qiao's mother was aggrieved and felt wronged for Mrs. Ma.

"So it's true to say that troublesome people come out of poor mountains and evil waters!" Mrs. Ma hated her, and her anger subsided a lot, so she told Qiao's mother exactly what Master Yao had just ordered, and finally said angrily, "Tell me what you said." , Master is not confused! Our Yao family has a great career, so why bother to rush to the Xie family, what's the point of watching people's nose and eyes!"

Mother Qiao knew that she was not upset that Yao Cunjia married well, and she also knew what kind of calculations she had been planning. Now that Master Yao has made his words clear, and there are two ends between the old family and the Yun family, if Mrs. Ma touches this again Mind, once Master Yao finds out, the consequences will be disastrous!

After weighing the matter twice, Mother Qiao thought for a while, then tried to persuade with a smile: "Missy is the eldest daughter of our family after all, but you are her serious mother. If she is married well, how can she not recognize you as a mother?" , Don’t you honor you? Since the master said so, it’s imperative that the madam should take care of it and finish this marriage properly. If the master is happy, the eldest lady will definitely accept your favor!”

Mrs. Ma stared at Qiao's mother from head to toe as if she didn't know her, and said coldly, "It's a pity that I have always taken you as my confidant! What? Even you said that?"

After being stimulated by Master Yao just now, and annoyed that Mrs. Gu was chewing her tongue in front of Mr. Yao, now that she heard the same truth from Mrs. Qiao, who had always been one with her, Mrs. Ma felt that The anger was unbearable, and the blood in his chest was churning.

(End of this chapter)