Rebirth of the Main Room Manual

Chapter 18 Gossip
Xia Yiqing found the panic-stricken mother Zhang and the others, and told them that her eyes were hurt by the smoke, and because there were too many people in the Buddhist temple, she couldn't find them for a while, so she had to go there by herself to rest for a while.

Mother Zhang breathed a sigh of relief, patted her chest and said, "Amitabha! Girl, you don't dare to go too far when you encounter such a thing in the future. Just stand at the door and wait for us to find out. This person is so messy. What if... Sigh, Fortunately, there is nothing wrong! Let’s go! I’m afraid my aunt will be waiting impatiently in the hall!”

Sure enough, Fang Yuxian was waiting in the main hall, and when she saw Yiqing coming, she pulled her and smiled, "Let's go, I ordered a table of vegetarian food, and I came all the way, at least eat some Buddhist food, and add some blessings to my life!"

There are many cloud rooms in the courtyards on the left and right sides of the temple for pilgrims to rest and eat vegetarian meals. They are refreshing and clean, with hot water and fragrant tea supply. Of course, this kind of cloud rooms are only for those pilgrims who donated enough sesame oil money In order to enjoy it, especially the rich and powerful families in the capital, some will pay the whole year's sesame oil money, and spend another money to cover the whole yard. Day is very convenient.

Fang Yuxian took Yiqing into a courtyard. The old lady Gu used to eat fast and worship the Buddha, so the Gu family also rented a cloud room in Baiyun Temple. They came here once or twice a month for twelve months a year. The old lady was sick. After that, Fang Yuxian came and went frequently. She didn't like to eat fast and chant Buddha, but in the temple, she would meet many noble ladies from the capital. But it is very interesting.

After the fast meal, someone came to invite Fang Yuxian, saying that several acquaintances and wives were drinking tea and gossiping with the young lady, and invited Grandma Gu to come over and talk.

Fang Yuxian asked which family she was from, she smiled, got up and pulled Yiqing and said, "It's Grandma Jiang, and they are all acquaintances, come on, I'll take you there to have a look!"

The two sisters were led through the wisteria trellis, and approached a large cloud room in the south. The woman in front of the door raised the curtain and announced: "Grandma Gu is here!"

Fang Yuxian pulled Yiqing into the room, and scolded with a smile: "Whose woman is this? I have no eyesight! I obviously brought my younger sister, but she only said that Grandma Gu is here, and if I miss a cup of tea later, Watch how I scold her!"

There were five or six women sitting on the couch in the room, and they all laughed when they heard Fang Yuxian's words. Some older ones sat still, waiting for Fang Yuxian to go up to salute and greet each other. To salute, just chat and joke with her, and two other young girls aged fifteen or sixteen stood up and saluted her. Fang Yuxian held one of them, smiled and greeted her, then turned around and beckoned for Yiqing to come closer.

Yiqing quietly followed behind, two steps away from her cousin, so that she could greet acquaintances, salute and talk. As early as when she entered the door, she received the X-ray scan of everyone's eyes, and she had no chance to speak, so she took the opportunity to be very Quickly glanced at the situation in the room, they were all the female relatives of wealthy families, because they went to the temple to burn incense and worship Buddha, they deliberately dressed plainly, with three points less beautiful, but seven points more precious, that kind of luxurious and elegant, It is beyond her reach.

Then a young woman in purple clothes who was about the same age as Fang Yuxian came and said with a smile: "Everyone in the world does not know that Grandma Gu is the only aunt of the Fang family. Where did she come from? Such a good girl, don't tell me where you kidnapped her?" Is it right? Isn’t it true?”

He took Yiqing's hand again, and coaxed: "Sister, don't be afraid, just accept me as your older sister. I'll take you home!"

Everyone laughed again, Fang Yuxian threw off the veil of the young woman in purple, and said to Yiqing with a smile: "Don't be afraid of these people, they are all a bunch of shabby householders with no cover! Young Mistress, you are very good with me!"

Yiqing bowed to Grandma Jiang, calling her "Grandma Jiang", and Grandma Jiang smiled and said, "Since you are her younger sister, you are too born to be born, and my natal family name is also Gu, so you can call me Sister Gu!"

As he spoke, he reached out and pulled out a crystal wishful hairpin that was crystal clear and moist from the bun, and inserted it in Yiqing's bun as a meeting gift.

Yiqing wanted to decline, Fang Yuxian said: "She has a lot of good things, other people don't have to, but hers must be taken!"

Yiqing had no choice but to call out to Sister Gu, and saluted again to thank her.

On the cloud couch, a 30-year-old woman in a blue shirt with a golden hairpin and jade jade smile said with a smile: "This girl is young, and her body is too plain. Come, come to me, call me sister, I have something too." nice one!"

Fang Yuxian and Grandma Jiang were startled when they heard the words. Yiqing was wearing a satin dress embroidered with wintersweet on a white background today. She wore a double snail bun, surrounded by strings of beads, and the two bean-sized ruby ​​earrings on her earlobes were exquisite and lovely. Everyone only thought they were beautiful, but they didn't think they were too plain. The tone of the woman in the blue shirt made people listen Very bad taste.

Yiqing pretended not to understand, and gave the woman in the blue shirt a little blessing, and said with a smile, "Thank you Madam! My sister can't be mistaken!"

"Yes, how can relatives be misidentified?"

Fang Yuxian said, while embracing Yiqing, she said to the woman in the blue shirt: "Mrs. Jian is really good at joking, you are so old, I can't even climb up to you, let alone her? Don't think she is taller than your girl A lot, I just reached Ji a few days ago! Do you think I am so capable that I can abduct a younger sister at will? This is indeed my younger sister, but a cousin! Her mother and my mother are close cousins Her father’s surname is Xia, and he’s an official in another province, and her mother’s surname is Pang from the capital. The mother and daughter came back only last month!”

The woman in the blue shirt listened to Fang Yuxian's words, her face was slightly astringent at first, but she was taken aback when she heard the latter, straightened up and asked, "What did you say? Her mother's surname is Pang? They... come from Jiangnan?"

Fang Yuxian pretended not to hear what she said, took Yiqing with one hand, and Grandma Jiang supported her with the other, talking and laughing, and went to sit down in another cloud.

A maid brought hot tea earlier, Grandma Jiang gave Yiqing the gossip, and started gossip with Fang Yuxian. Yiqing sat on Fang Yuxian's right side and didn't listen deliberately, but she could get a general idea of ​​it.

It turned out that Mrs. Jian, who had ridiculed her just now, came to offer incense this time was a fake. The real purpose was to bring her husband's 16-year-old daughter born to his previous wife to someone to see. Old lady and wife, I heard that this time the old lady tried her best to bring Rong Pinghou here, but Mrs. Jian was not kind. The old lady of the Hou's mansion wanted to see Miss Jian, but Mrs. Jian took her away. A cousin from the uncle's family also brought them here, the meaning of which is intriguing. Poor Miss Jian lost her mother and fell into Mrs. Jian's hands. I'm afraid her life will not be very good!This matter is ridiculous to say, the two families deliberately picked this day, thinking that there would be no one to burn incense, but today is full of people, there is no way to arrange it, only the old lady and wife of Rongping Hou Mansion looked at the two Girl, Marquis Rong Ping said that he was ill and refused to move out at all. Mrs. Jian was willing to take the girl to see Marquis Rong Ping, but Marquis Rong Ping was indifferent. In the end, he simply left first because of his poor health!
Fang Yuxian covered her mouth and snickered: "That's it! I said how she got this evil fire, whoever caught and bit who, it was the first time in my cousin's life, and she was humiliated in public... Then this matter is seen Can't you?"

"Zheng Jingyan ran away, and he didn't even look at anyone, so of course he couldn't do it! You also know that Zheng Houye is arrogant, and people thought he was sick, paralyzed, and thin as a bamboo pole, so he picked up Qiao and went out. Famous people can pick and choose, but if the girl is born or not, he has to look it over and agree with him! Mrs. Zheng and Mrs. Zheng only hope that he can get married and have children. By the looks of it... the people of the Zheng family have been tormented by him all these years, and he just refuses to let go and marry a wife!"

"Hey, don't be him..."

Fang Yuxian avoided Yiqing, leaned over and whispered into Grandma Jiang's ear, "You're so masculine, right?"

Grandma Jiang burst out laughing: "Who knows? But I would rather he refuses to get married because he has someone in his heart and refuses to let that person down!"

Grandma Jiang was talking, she glanced at Yiqing, Yiqing pretended not to notice, and drank tea by herself, she didn't feel embarrassed at all when she heard such a conversation, she was a few years older than the two women in front of her, It's not that I haven't seen love affairs in my previous life. Masculinity means same-sex love. It's nothing, it's understandable.

I just heard Grandma Jiang say that Zheng Jingyan, the Marquis of Rongping, was a man who was "sick, paralyzed and thin as a bamboo pole", and my heart skipped a beat, thinking of the group of people I met in the side courtyard, the old lady and the thin and thin young man. Young Master, it's them who don't know what to say, right?

Rongping Hou Mansion?It's a powerful person, but fortunately, I was correct enough to admit my mistake at the time, and their adults let her go regardless of minor faults!

Yiqing secretly warned herself: This is the capital city, full of wealthy and dignitaries, you must be careful in the future, don't cause any trouble.

Fang Yuxian asked again: "Who do you think Rong Pinghou has in mind?"

"Do you remember Wang Yaozu, the left servant of the Ministry of War? He has a daughter named Wang Yaozhen. She is very good-looking. She is proficient in all kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. She is also a talented girl. We used to see each other at flower banquets in various mansions. she."

"It's her? Didn't Wang Yaozu commit a crime and was expelled from other provinces? I heard Wang Yaozhen play the Yaoqin at the flower banquet of Linyang Marquis before. It was really good and she looked beautiful, but it ended like this! "

"No, it's very pitiful! I heard that Wang Yaozu used to be a subordinate of the old Rongpinghou, and later returned to Beijing to work together. The two families often communicated. Zheng Jingyan and Wang Yaozhen knew each other since they were young. The old Rongpinghou died young, and the Wang family still went to the Marquis from time to time. Later, Wang Yaozu was impeached and demoted to Jiujiang. Fortunately, Wang Yaozhen did not go with her parents. Halfway through the water bandits, several members of the family died, and she was left with an old grandmother! Now even the old grandmother is dead. Emphasis on filial piety Since he was born, he couldn't talk about marriage, and Zheng Jingyan couldn't find a suitable woman to marry in three or four years, do you think this is a coincidence?"

Fang Yuxian nodded ponderingly: "After what you said, I understand better!"

(End of this chapter)