Rebirth of the Main Room Manual

Chapter 24
At night, Yiqing waited for Leqing to go to sleep, and sent Cuixiang and Zixiang to rest, but she got up and went to Dongcijian's mother's house.

Pang Ruxue had taken a nap during the day, and hadn't rested yet. She was leaning on the bed doing needlework, sewing small clothes for the baby in her belly, with a gentle and peaceful expression on her face. When she looked up and saw Yiqing push the door in, she asked with a smile: "Why don't you go to bed? Aren't you going to have a birthday banquet with your cousin tomorrow?"

Yiqing walked to the edge of the bed and sat down, picked up the small clothes with a smile to have a look, then reached out to touch Pang Ruxue's protruding belly, but Pang Ruxue slapped her hands away, and said angrily, "The two sisters have learned to be so naughty, and they are so naughty when they come here." Touching... Don't do this again! I'm ticklish, wait for him to come out, and play with him as you like!"

Yiqing asked: "How long will it take for him to come out?"

Ruxue caressed her belly and smiled, "Wait two more months, and he will come out!"

"Isn't that the new year?"

"It should be in the twelfth lunar month."

Yiqing thought to herself, this younger brother was born in the twelfth lunar month, and Xia Xiuping, the scumbag father, will come in two or three months after the new year. What will happen then?

Having a son in middle age, Xia Xiuping will undoubtedly be very happy, and perhaps he will "see them differently" to the mother and daughter. After the debriefing test results, he may force their mother and son back to Jiangnan as a husband and father!
Even the Qipin county magistrate is still an official ordered by the imperial court, and he is more respectable than these little girls in the back house. If he plays awe-inspiring, as a wife and daughter, it is really hard to resist.

However, following him back to the south of the Yangtze River, will there be a good life?

Absolutely not!

If Sister Yiqing took refuge with her aunt and cousin and would not return to Jiangnan, Pang Ruxue would definitely go back with Xia Xiuping. First, she was reluctant to part with her son, and second, she was infatuated with Xia Xiuping. Without Sister Yiqing by her side, what would happen to Pang Ruxue? It will only be more tragic!

The magistrate of Huzhou is the father of the Huang family. Even if Xia Xiuping has good grades and no strong background, if he is lucky, he can only be promoted by one level at most, that is, he will be transferred to the sixth-rank Tongzhi or something. No matter where he goes to work, he will follow him. The only official wife around him is Mrs. Huang!If she returns to Huzhou to work directly under the prefect of Huang, then the Huang family will be even more confident. This time, she will go all out to snatch Pang's son, trample Pang under her feet, and torture him to death. It's over!
Yiqing sighed deeply, and Pang Ruxue looked at her strangely: "What's wrong, Qing'er? Okay, why are you so preoccupied?"

"Mother, if you really want to make up with my father, will you be willing?"

Pang Ruxue paused, and the needle tip almost pierced her finger. She reprimanded lightly, "You're talking nonsense again? Wasn't it enough to make your father angry last time? Mother and your father will never... do that in this lifetime!"

"But Daddy doesn't want you anymore. You see, Aizhi is 11 years old. For 12 years, Daddy lived with other women lovingly. He didn't think about your feelings, and let you be poor and sick, to fend for yourself! Mother, how can you bear it?"

Pang Ruxue's eyes were full of water, she reached out to caress her stomach, and smiled extremely softly: "He didn't want me, we have two daughters, and now we have a son!"

Yiqing almost fainted: "My foolish mother!"

Pang Ruxue looked at Yiqing and said seriously: "Qing'er, no matter how your father treats me, I only have resentment against him for a while, and I will never hate him! He will always be your father and my man! I was born to be him Death is his ghost, and this life will never change! I can leave him far away for the sake of your sisters and the one in my belly, but I will never reconcile with him. If he gives me a divorce letter, I will take my son with me. But, this heart is still his - I swore it!"

Yiqing jokingly said: "Isn't it true that the pledge of eternal love has been pledged, my father sent it to you too?"

Pang Ruxue blushed, immersed in the beautiful past: "Yes, we swore together on the boat going south: we will grow old hand in hand and never leave each other... Qing'er, your father really has us in his heart! He just wants to To have a good future, I married the Huang family, and in the future..."

"That's enough, mother! Just listen to the sweet words, don't take it too seriously!"

In the future, the eldest daughter was killed five years ago. If a soul hadn't traveled through the void, the mother and daughter would have died long ago. No matter how brilliant Xia Xiuping's future is, it has nothing to do with you, Pang Ruxue!
Yiqing lazily leaned against the head of the bed, folded the little clothes, and said to Pang Ruxue, "I know why you are so kind to my father, because he once saved you!"

Pang Ruxue was taken aback: "How do you know?"

"I begged my aunt to tell us. Mother, your marriage with your father was very beautiful at first, and it was not a bad thing. Why have you refused to tell us?"

Pang Ruxue lowered her eyes, her voice was inaudible: "My mother was murdered by bad guys... This kind of thing is related to the reputation of the boudoir. It is not good for too many people to know, and it is not good for you... If you can't mention it, don't mention it. .”

"The body is not afraid of the shadow slanting, what are you afraid of?"

"That's what I said, but without your father, I wouldn't be able to live at that time!"

Recalling the dangerous situation back then, four or five men rushed forward to catch her with grinning smiles, the cold rain soaked the bones in the wilderness, and the twilight was falling... Pang Ruxue shuddered and felt goosebumps all over her body!

Yiqing comforted her, and asked, "Mother, could someone deliberately harm you? You have such a large dowry, more than 10 taels, and the Pang family only gave you 1 taels of silver, maybe it's just a fraction. What about the rest? Why don't you?"

Pang Ruxue looked at Yiqing in surprise: "Cousin, she, she actually told you this! Isn't this... chaos?"

"Mother, if my cousin and aunt don't tell us, we will know in the future! Because the dowries of my grandmother and sister are almost the same, will there be people who don't know when they communicate with each other and talk to each other? Pick my thorn in the face—you know who I met? I went to the temple with my cousin to pray for my mother and the younger brother in my mother’s womb, and I met your sister of the same father, Pang Ruyun! She is full of jewels and silk shirts Luo Qun is rich and comfortable. When she saw me, she said that I was dressed too plainly and thought I was shabby. If she wanted me to recognize her as my sister, she gave me a meeting gift! I heard from my aunt that Pang Ruyun married to Jian's family back then, with red makeup, One hundred and eighty carrying the dowry, the best and most decent things in it are all left to you by your grandmother! She took advantage of you, but she was rich and unkind, and satirized me for being poor when she met. How thick-skinned is she? When I was young Bully you?"

Pang Ruxue sniffed, a little unnaturally: "Qing'er, those are all external things..."

"What are extraneous things? Those that do not belong to us are called extraneous things! Otherwise, this clothes are also considered extraneous things. Can we go out without clothes?"

"Qing'er!"

"Mother, you can't always be like this! We are not unreasonable, what are you afraid of? We will never be greedy for things that don't belong to us, but you don't fight for them when they are clearly yours. This is not humility, it is Cowardly! It's disrespect to my grandmother and your grandfather, Mrs. Wu! You have abandoned their love for you, and they will be sad if they know it!"

"Qing'er! Please stop talking..."

Pang Ruxue covered her face with tears streaming down her face: "What can I do? How can I fight? After my grandparents and grandfather passed away, I was an orphan who no one saw. Tricky and bad, father and younger brother don't care about the rear house affairs... The Pang family is only theirs, and Helemeiman has nothing to do with me... I can get out of Pang's house and be with Xia Lang. dowry!"

"Mother, so you know that there is a dowry! Why don't you? It's your mother's. Don't say you didn't make a mistake. Even if you did make a mistake, it's still your mother's dowry. It's surnamed Wu, not Pang. Who would dare to withhold it?" ? You can tell your cousin and uncle about this matter, even if you are facing Bo Gongtang, why should you be afraid?"

Pang Ruxue wiped away her tears, and said softly: "How can I confront my father in court? Qing'er, this is impossible! As a son and daughter, even if you step back ten thousand steps, as long as you don't make your parents feel sad, it's worth it! I was the one who rebelled back then. Father's will, broke his heart..."

"what have you done?"

Pang Ruxue took a breath, and sighed again: "When I was born, my father held a big banquet for me. Many relatives and friends came to watch the ceremony and congratulate me. Prime Minister Li posted a post asking his father to discuss marriage, and asked me to be the successor of the third son of his family, but his father agreed! The stepmother told me that the third son Li was over 30 years old, had four legitimate children, and concubine Ji In groups, with countless concubine children, who also have a concubine, holding the top card of the brothel... How dare I marry such a man? Prosperity, Prime Minister Li is a celebrity around the emperor, leading the court, if I marry into the prime minister's house, it will benefit my father's official career in the future, and my younger brothers will also be able to support them when they grow up... I was young and self-willed at that time, but I just refused, and my father was angry Under the circumstances, I ignored me for several days. Seeing that I was depressed and difficult to let go, my stepmother asked my sister to accompany me to the mountain to worship the Buddha and make a wish. I prayed for the blessing of the Buddha so that my father would take back his life. , After making a wish, my father changed his words and said that he would not force me anymore, so that I don’t have to be too nervous, and I can eat well and take care of myself... Surprisingly, I met Xia Lang, who is your father! I took Xia Lang back to the Pang Mansion, because we were alone and widowed for a night, Xia Lang treated me considerately and tenderly, and would like to propose marriage sincerely, I also love Xia Lang is a kind hearted person The true love man, vowed to marry Xia Lang! My father resolutely refused and was furious. Only then did I know that it was a lie that he no longer forced me to marry into the Xiangfu. Eat well and sleep well, and when I get married, I will be sent to the sedan chair forcibly! I am very sad about this, but I vow to die! My father said that if I don’t follow, Xia Lang’s life will be lost. I was terrified at the time. Fearing that Xia Lang would be harmed by them, my stepmother gave me an idea: let me sever ties with my father, and said that my father did encounter difficulties, and my dowry might help him, so I should not be greedy for money, and quickly follow Xia Lang away. Capital city, if you don’t come back in this life, never set foot in Pang’s mansion, it’s as if you’re dead, so you can be safe! I listened to her words, didn’t care about anything, and left with Xia Lang!”

After hearing these words, Yiqing was silent for a while, then suddenly sneered a few times, startled Pang Ruxue, stretched out her hand to touch her forehead, Yiqing took her hand and said:

"Mother, I'm fine, I just think you are so naive and cute! Also, mother, your life is so good! Really! I just realized now that you are not lonely or pitiful. Your mother and your grandfather have been there all the time. The sky is guarding you! You are right, the dowry is not in your hands, so you can live till now!"

Yiqing stood up, made the bed and helped Pang Ruxue to lie down: "Mother, I don't want those old things anymore! Go to sleep, I will cover you with a quilt - you have to take good care of yourself, give birth to your younger brother smoothly, we will raise you He will never be handed over to the Xia family and the Huang family! If you want to be with daddy, your younger brother is your only bargaining chip! Maybe daddy will really change his mind and come to you by himself... We must hold on, hold our breath, and not let ourselves go Disorderly! Are you okay? Mother?"

Pang Ruxue looked at the eldest daughter with a smile and nodded: "Mother knows, don't worry! You and Le'er have grown up, you are both capable and stronger than mother, mother listens to you!"

(End of this chapter)