The Road to Doting Wife

Chapter 84 Keeping the empty room alone
Coming out of Rongshou Hall, the young couple went to Xinlan Garden as usual.

Suddenly there was the sound of running behind him, Ah Ju and Zhao Chen turned their heads together, and saw Zhao Yi in a peach red dress jogging after him, his little face was flushed, and the only butterfly hairpin on his head was trembling, pretty and agile.Ah Ju hurriedly persuaded her: "Sister, don't run away, just walk slowly."

Zhao Yi went to Wangzhuxuan to find her once, she was lively and sensible, Ah Ju still liked talking to her.

Zhao Yi still ran over and stopped in front of Ah Ju, and after calming down, he looked at Zhao Chen first. Seeing that the man's face was pretty good-looking, she was more confident, and said to Ah Ju: "Sister-in-law, this year's Spring Festival couplets in your yard are my own. Do you want to write? In the past few years, I have used the second brother to write, this time the second brother asked me to ask, ask if the eldest brother can help me write a picture. "

The couple has yet to mention it.Ah Ju looked at Zhao Chen, her father wrote the spring couplets in her family, and she didn't know the rules of the Zhao family.

Zhao Chen looked at his wife, and remembered that the last time he came back from the outside, he saw the pair of sisters-in-law sitting together on the kang embroidering orchids, one teaching the other, so he said to Zhao Yi: "Go back and think about what you want to write. , I'll write it for you."

After Zhao Yi opened his mouth, he kept looking at him anxiously. Hearing his answer, the little girl's apricot eyes immediately turned into crescent moons, and she showed a big smile at Aju, and said cheerfully, "Thank you, brother, I'll go back and choose right away!" After saying that, she turned and ran away, but the servant girl advised her to slow down, but she didn't listen.

"Do you like her?" Zhao Chen asked softly as he continued to walk back.

Ah Ju thought for a while, and said honestly: "She is quite sensible. When she came to our place, she respected me as the elder sister-in-law, but she also got close to her naturally. After all, she is still a child. She likes to talk to me and learn things. I happen to be fine. Do it and teach her."

Zhao Chen didn't say anything more.Passing by a plum tree, he casually picked a plum blossom and stuck it in Aju's hair. Aju blushed and wanted to pick it off. Zhao Chen took her hand and looked at it carefully, and said with a smile, "It's pretty pretty." , put it on, I'll break another branch for my mother."

Ah Ju had no choice but to choose flowers with him.

After finding a good branch, Zhao Chen pulled down the branch and let Ah Ju break it.

Zhao Chen didn't like to be accompanied by maidservants when he accompanied Aju in the Hou's mansion, so at this time there were only husband and wife in the garden, so Aju didn't hold back, and just used his hands to fold plum blossoms.The plum blossoms were bustling, redder than her cheeks, not as bright as her red lips. Zhao Chen lowered his head and stared at his wife, seeing how shy she was in front of him after so many times of mingling.

His heart was full of tenderness and love, but what he said had nothing to do with tenderness at all. He let go of the branches and walked with her while saying: "Zhao Yi still has five or six years to get married, Mrs. Tai is old, and the Qin family can't be the master of the backyard. And you are her eldest sister-in-law, and I am the eldest son that my father values ​​most, Zhao Yi has a good relationship with you, there are only advantages and no disadvantages."

Ah Ju's shyness and sweetness were gone, and she asked him in disbelief: "She is only ten years old after the new year, how could she think so far?"

Zhao Chen touched her nose and smiled dotingly, "She is ten years old, and she has more eyes than you do now."

Ah Ju couldn't laugh at all, she avoided his hand and turned around and walked forward, her voice muffled: "Since you said that, I'll ignore her in the future, right?" Thinking that in Zhao Chen's eyes, she also has ulterior motives, is she really too stupid to see that even a little girl can fool her, or is Zhao Chen thinking too badly about people?
She was full of anger, Zhao Chen chased after her with a smile, grabbed Ren and said, "I'm just telling you the truth, why are you angry? Besides, I didn't say anything bad about her. Ah Ju, I can see that Zhao Yi is still She likes you, she is a smart person, if you have a bad personality, even if you can decide her marriage in the future, she will not take the initiative to get close to you like now. Just because you are gentle and kind, you will be a good sister-in-law, Zhao Yicai really wants to get close to you."

Ah Ju lowered her head and looked at the plum blossom in her hand, but her eyes gradually drifted to the overlapping shadows of the two.

Zhao Chen took her hand and walked forward: "I'm telling you this to tell you that getting along with people is sometimes for profit, sometimes purely because of similar interests, and sometimes you can take both into consideration. Like me and Zhao Qing's relationship may be a bit of brotherhood when he was young, and more of mutual support. He is a concubine of the Hou family, and his status outside will be higher when I am better. As for me, it is better to have a clan member who can take care of me. Always being alone is strong. If Zhao Qing marries a good wife in the future, your sister-in-law will be considered as a helper when she is away from home. The same is true for Zhao Yi. She relied on us to form a good marriage. When you become in-laws, you will take care of each other more or less, and the inextricable connections between the various families in the capital are like this."

He is teaching her...

Ah Ju let him lead her away, and pondered his words seriously.There are not many relatives in my family, and some truths seem to be understood but not understood. After Zhao Chen came out so clearly, I felt a sense of enlightenment.

"You mean, if someone wants to get acquainted with me in the future, as long as I hit it off with her, even if she may do it for some purpose that is not harmful to me but beneficial to her, I can get along with her with a normal heart?"

Zhao Chen nodded: "If she needs your help, you can help as much as you can. Don't worry about it if it's too much trouble or it's harmful or not beneficial to you. Of course, if you can do the same to others in the opposite way, I won't do it again. Don't say you're stupid."

He looked down at her with some complacency in his eyes, as if he was right to call her stupid before.Although Ah Ju admired her husband's understanding of so many principles, she was also dissatisfied with his arrogance that he had everything under control. She turned her head and said, "If I were really as smart as you, I wouldn't have let my parents be fooled by you."

Zhao Chen smiled, and didn't tell his wife that no matter how smart she was, if he wanted her, she would still fall into his hands. Instead, he leaned into her ear and whispered: "So I like you, you are beautiful and beautiful." She's cute and silly, and she just likes me."

He was as thick-skinned as a city wall, and Ah Ju didn't bother to pay attention to him, so he let go of his hand and walked forward quickly.

Zhao Chen followed her unhurriedly, watching the breeze blowing his wife's skirt embroidered with orchids, his heart also swayed.

After talking with Ning Shi for a while, Ah Ju and Zhao Chen looked back at Zhuxuan.

Zhao Yi came over soon, Zhao Chen did what he said, and wrote the Spring Festival couplets for her personally. Zhao Yi sat obediently at the table and watched, his eyes followed his brother's pen, and he concentrated on it.Aju glanced at the little girl quietly, no matter how she looked at it, she didn't seem to have such complicated thoughts. Anyway, Zhao Chen also said that Zhao Yi could come and go, so Aju entertained her as before, and the sisters and sisters-in-law sat and watched Zhao Chen together. write.

Now that he started writing, Zhao Chen simply wrote about Wangzhuxuan and Xinlanyuan.

I write Spring Festival couplets in the morning and make dumplings in the afternoon.

Both Wangzhuxuan and Xinlanyuan have their own small kitchens, Zhao Chen went to find Zhao Yunting, and Ah Ju went to Xinlanyuan to make dumplings with Ning.For the New Year's Eve dinner, they must go to the Rongshou Hall to eat with Mrs. Tai, because there is not much to eat there, so Aju discussed with Zhao Chen, and then go there after dinner with her mother-in-law.

Zhao Yunting didn't know where he got the letter, so he also came, and he went through the secret road as usual.Ah Ju went to the kitchen to watch the maids put dumplings into the pot, and when she came back, she saw Zhao Chen and his son were more in the room, she just thought they came from the main courtyard together, she didn't think much about it except for being slightly surprised at how the father-in-law avoided being noticed by others.

A family of four sat around the kang table, and the sound of firecrackers outside made it feel unreal.

After a short period of warmth, the few of them were going to Rongshou Hall.

Zhao Yunting let his son and daughter-in-law go first.

Ah Ju looked at her mother-in-law worriedly.

Tonight, when they all have to watch the night at the Rongshou Hall, it must be uncomfortable for the mother-in-law to stay here alone, right?
Sensing her gaze, Ning smiled at her and waved his hands to let the young couple go away in peace.

Zhao Chen didn't say anything, and walked away with his wife.It's useless to say anything, my mother is not a person who hurts the spring and the autumn, and he will not let her stay in Xinlan Garden like this all the time.

When the two walked away, Ning looked at the man who still didn't want to leave, and said helplessly: "You go too, I'm not a child, I'm afraid of living alone."

The sound of firecrackers outside was too loud, her voice fell into his ears intermittently, but Zhao Yunting could hear it clearly.He hugged her into his arms and promised in her ear: "I said, I will never let you stay alone in an empty room again. I will come over tonight after the vigil. If you are sleepy, lie down first, don't wait for me."

Ning Shi quietly looked over his shoulder.

Zhao Yunting suddenly felt a sense of irritability in his body.

After returning to Beijing, his wife never asked him if he would come over at night, as if she didn't care if he went to find other women.Just like tonight, if there is no special situation, any man in any mansion in the capital will have sex with his wife, even if he doesn't like each other in his heart.He didn't think about going to Qin's side, but his wife didn't ask any questions, and ignored him from the beginning to the end. He was really uncomfortable.

She never refused what he did to her, but she refused to give him a little snack.

He looked at her, saw her lift her foot to the grand master's chair opposite, saw her sitting on it and looked sideways at the orchids on the coffee table, the restlessness in Zhao Yunting's chest turned into a fire of ignorance for no reason, his eyes turned, and fell to the candlestick beside him superior.The candle flame jumped, he loosened his collar, trying to suppress the fire, but in the end he strode forward, reached out and swept the candlestick to the ground, and extinguished it with his foot.

Wenmei, who was guarding the outside room, suddenly shuddered.

There was the sound of men's eager footsteps, the muffled sound of heavy objects being thrown on the kang, and the sound of clothes being torn...

Wenmei rushed to the door nervously, wanting to go in, but there was no movement of the madam inside.Wenmei was worried, clutching a veil in her hand, and pressed her ear against the door curtain, and then she heard Lord Hou's heavy breathing, and heard him whisper something, vaguely as if there was something in his mouth.Madam gradually made a sound, followed by familiar movements...

Wenmei quietly retreated to the outside door.

The inner room was pitch black, and occasionally the sound of firecrackers fell, and there would be broken sounds.

Hou Ye seemed to be asking his wife something, but it was too vague to ask Mei.

With one sound of firecrackers, the night fell completely, but the movement inside did not stop.

Wenmei was a little anxious, what should Mrs. Tai do if Mrs. Tai came here to find someone if Master Hou still didn't leave at such a late hour?
She walked in again, and when she was about to approach the door of the inner room, she suddenly heard the sound of the mechanism turning.

Lord Hou left.

Wen Mei stood in front of the door, wondering if he should go in.

"Ask May?"

Madam's voice came from inside, the calmness was more soft and weak after gentleness, Wenmei was relieved, at least now she could conclude that Master Hou hadn't been completely violent.

She responded softly.

"Bring a bowl of soup."

(End of this chapter)