Yu Tang Golden Boudoir

Chapter 127
"Before I came, Mr. told me to go to his place in the afternoon. He said that there was something important. It's getting late, so I'll leave first." Jiang Hong spoke in an extremely gentle and elegant manner, but his attitude was extremely unfriendly. Without waiting for Lin Yangwen to answer, he turned around and walked away.

Jiang Hong galloped all the way, ran out of the gate and got on the horse, reined in the horse's head, looked up at the magnificent Nanning County Prince's Mansion, narrowed his eyes tighter and tighter, and said with hatred, "Want to get ahead? Good! I, Jiang Hong One day, this Nanning County Prince's Mansion and this Lin family will never get ahead!"

In the evening, the upper room of Qingtong Courtyard was full, and Li Tian sat alone on the kang. There was a circle of armchairs in front of the kang, and sitting there were Shui Qiuniang, Xiongmao, Wenmao, Yueniang, and Cao Si's daughter-in-law. Yingluo and Qingzhi listened intently while serving the tea.

"Someone has already cleaned out the Fengqiu Courtyard which is the closest to the Qingtong Courtyard. Tomorrow we will pick up Taozhi and the others from Zhuangzi. I never thought that Wu Niangzi could marry into the royal family. These girls have to be trained by Mr. Shui. Even Yingluo and the others have to follow Mr. Shui to learn the rules and etiquette in the palace." Nanny Wen first talked about the manpower, but Li Tian didn't know what to think of, so he nodded in a daze.

Mammy Xiong flipped through the booklet in her hand and said, "Since the dowry matter needs to be settled, a lot of manpower will be needed. Mr. Shui, Madam Wen and I have carefully calculated, and there are these people." Mammy Xiong counted down the people in the room: "Taozhi and the others can help when they come back. There are almost enough people. Even outside, shopkeeper Wang must not be able to handle it alone. The fifth lady has to figure out what to do. It's the same." , although the dowry is divided into two parts, the inside and the outside, but there must be a leader, and the leader depends on what Wu Niangzi wants."

"Well, yesterday I talked with shopkeeper Wang about the manpower, and there is no need to recruit special manpower, just distribute the things to be purchased to each shop and do it. The president can only be the president here, and I will bother the two mothers." Mommy and Mr. Shui, once you have something to buy, you make a list and hand it over to Shopkeeper Wang, and Shopkeeper Wang just assigns the list to each shop and urges the progress." Li Tian replied, and Mammy Xiong and the other three nodded in agreement. , Several people discussed carefully for a long time before resigning.

Li Tian left Mammy Xiong behind, pushed away the crowd, let Mammy Xiong sit on the edge of the kang, lowered her head in silence for a while, then looked at Mammy Xiong and said: "The dowry that grandma prepared for me, except for this The people in the courtyard, as well as the Wen mother's family, Lvlian, Taozhi, etc., I didn't think much about it before, but today I suddenly felt that "Li Tian didn't seem to know what to say, rubbing the jasper corners with his fingers, and stopped. After a while, he continued: "With so many people, what kind of family do you need to marry? Why do you have so many people for me? Is there something grandma is hiding from me?"

"How can the old lady tell you everything?" Madam Xiong said disapprovingly, "How old are you? You, you have to weigh everything up and down. You think too much. This is what the old lady told you when she was here." Several times, I said that thinking is too tiring and hurts the body, it is not good to think too clearly about everything, you have to correct this problem, besides, the old lady is hiding it from you, it is for your own good."

Li Tian sighed speechlessly when Madam Xiong said: "Mama, you can't think about it, this marriage is too weird, if there is a decree pointing me to fourth master as a concubine, it would make sense, I am alone A helpless orphan girl, the matter of the fourth master's visit to watch the ceremony is so troublesome in the city, but suddenly there is a decree to marry the fifth master. Second brother, is there such a thing? This is unreasonable, unreasonable is abnormal, abnormal is a monster, there is a monster but you don't know where the monster is, how can this make people feel at ease?"

Mammy Xiong frowned at what Li Tian said, thought for a moment and said, "That's right, when you say that, I also think this marriage is like a gold ingot falling from the sky. The old lady said that if a gold ingot falls from the sky, When the gold ingot is loaded, the back of the gold ingot is designated to hide a barb and has to be attached to a fishing line, Wu Niangzi should tell Mr. Shui about this."

"Speaking of which, she also felt that this matter was strange, and she couldn't figure out what happened."

"Isn't the eunuch Zheng who came to pass the decree that day very familiar with her?"

"Well, that's the most useful person around the official family. Mr. Shui said that he is the chief eunuch in the palace. Almost everyone who has worked in the palace knows him."

"It's nothing if she knows Eunuch Zheng, but Eunuch Zheng knows her. It's not the same as whether Eunuch Zheng is the chief eunuch in the palace!" Mammy Xiong was not easy to be fooled, Li Tian sighed lightly: "Mr. Shui said that if she had something to do with me in the past, she would naturally tell me. Besides, she couldn't say a word. The reason why the superiors were willing to let her out of the palace was because they knew she would not talk too much."

Mammy Xiong nodded in understanding: "I don't want to lose my life in secret. The old lady used to teach me that Mr. Shui is very cautious, so of course he won't talk too much."

"But she doesn't talk much, how do I find out about this? This monster must be out of the forbidden area. I thought I would never find anything from our house, but when I prepare the dowry these days, I think carefully about what my grandmother prepared for me." People who have everything ready, the more you think about it, the more people think that grandma must know something, she seems to know that I am going to marry into the royal family!" Li Tian said distressedly, Xiong Mama thought for a while, waved her hands and said with absolute certainty: "No! If the old lady knew that you were going to marry into the royal family, would she still negotiate with the Leng family for you? Besides, according to the old lady's temper, if she knew that you were going to marry into the royal family, she would definitely try to make you a forbidden child Knowing everything, secondly, I must recruit a large number of palace people released from the ban for you. The middle-aged people are released every year, and people are recommended to our house every year. The old lady has never asked for it! You This doesn't make sense. The old lady left you such a large family business. How can you do it if you don't prepare more people? You think too much. By the way, let me tell you, when you were very young, the old lady took care of you I was the one who accompanied me to approve your life once. She said that you are extremely rich and noble. Doesn’t the old lady often say that you will definitely be extraordinary in the future? Then what’s wrong with preparing more people for you? If you It is abnormal to say that the old lady is like this, so aren't you even more abnormal?"

"What's wrong with me?" The more Li Tian listened, the more he felt that Mammy Xiong's words were right. When he thought that the clue he had been thinking for a long time was a useless dead end, he became annoyed, and when he heard Mammy Xiong say that about her, he couldn't help but blame him. Mammy Xiong looked her up and down and said, "When you were a little older, you took Sun Liu and raised him outside, saying that you wanted to inquire about some news about the government and the opposition. You little lady in the house, what are you inquiring about about the government and the opposition? How could you think of this? Later, the incident of the shopkeeper Cheng happened, and so much money was transferred to the past. What are you talking about, are you planning to rebel or what? Thanks to the old lady's knowledge and knowledge, she didn't take you as a monster. After a while, it turns out that the old lady is abnormally a demon! Really, what is this called?"

"Okay, okay, I won't say anything, and you don't want to say anything!" Li Tian hurriedly interrupted Madam Xiong: "Let's talk about serious business. Since grandma never wants people from the palace, how did Mr. Shui get here?" Our family came here? Not to mention it was to teach me how to play the piano, before Mr. Shui came, grandma had already found a good master for me to learn the piano."

"Mr. Shui was recommended by someone. I don't know who recommended it. The old lady never mentioned it. The old lady chatted with Mr. Shui all afternoon, and then she left her."

"Who recommended it? Mr. Shui said that she came here because grandma asked someone to invite her. I always think that Mr. Shui is not simple. Yinhua said that she must know Eunuch Zheng very well, and Yinhua also thinks that Zheng The eunuch is very polite to her, the person who can make eunuch Zheng very polite, and frequents Qingyue nunnery, if she wants to seek a quiet retirement, why not go to Qingyue nunnery? Isn't Qingyue nunnery better than our house? Li Tian's doubts were added one after another, Xiong Mama listened and nodded while thinking: "That's right, why didn't you ask the old lady at that time?"

"Didn't there be such a thing as a marriage at that time? It was also common practice for all the houses to invite the nanny from the palace to teach. I didn't think so much. Besides, at that time, I didn't know that Eunuch Zheng was actually familiar with Mr. Shui. " Li Tian was troubled, and Mammy Xiong sighed: "Now that I think about it, where else can I ask the old lady? Is Mr. Shui's matter related to your marriage? Just because they all came from the palace? "

"Well, it's not only because of this, although I can't say why, but I always feel that the reason why Mr. Shui came to our mansion has something to do with this marriage gift. I just can't figure out how our mansion and the palace can be related. Mr. Shui kept his mouth shut and refused to say a word!"

"Let Yue Niang play tricks on her?" After Mammy Xiong finished speaking, she knew that she had come up with a bad idea. Let Yue Niang set Mr. Shui's words, that would be a game between a three-year-old child and Erlang God!As soon as the words were finished, he waved his hand and said, "I'm so confused, you pretend I didn't say anything."

"Well, Mr. Shui refuses to say it. I have to respect her. Besides, Mr. Shui won't hide anything from me if he says anything about me. I believe her. I'm afraid she won't know about some things. Forget it, first I don’t want to think about it anymore. It’s useless to think about it. By the way, I remember my grandma said that the things my parents used before their death were all boxed and sealed by my grandmother and left to me. You can check which warehouse they are stored in, and there is also my grandmother. Don’t let people touch the things sent over, I’ll go over and sort them out myself later.”

"It's stored in the C library outside the city. I sent it in with Nanny Wen back then. No one has touched it in all these years. Fifth Lady, after I've been busy with Nanny Wen for a while, the dowry list must be sent to shopkeeper Wang quickly. In the past, after sending out the list, Mother Wen and I accompanied Wu Niangzi to sort things out, and Mother Wen and I cleaned up those things by hand."

"It's not urgent, wait until you've been busy for a while." Li Tian replied.Those things may not be able to find any clues, but a dead horse is a living horse doctor, just in case.

The east and west courtyards of the Duke of Yongguo's mansion were busy with the dowry. In the evening, Grandma Zhou came out of the mother-in-law's courtyard after serving dinner, and walked half a circle around the garden. The Qingtong Courtyard, which is hidden among the green trees far away, only after the incident of watching the ceremony, did she want to understand the origin of Dalang's good job, alas!Grandma Zhou heaved a long sigh, who knew that there would be a marriage offering right after that, and the thunderous events one after another made her unable to live a stable life for half a month.

Grandma Zhou pressed the blisters at the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief, and received the order of marriage from the West Courtyard. Because of Da Lang's errand, she suffered so much that her mouth got blisters. Thinking of Da Lang's fat and fat errand, Zhou Da Grandma's heart twitched in pain, and she asked Da Lang to resign from the job. It was like taking a knife out of her heart, so why not?Alas, it's all Da Lang's fault. She shouldn't have accepted the job at the beginning, so she said, how can a fool like Da Lang take advantage of it for no reason?If Da Lang hadn't accepted the job at that time, I wouldn't feel so distressed today!
Da Lang went to resign from an errand today, Grandma Zhou pressed her chest hard, took a breath, and hissed a few times in pain, what a white money!
Grandma Zhou walked back to her yard. At the gate of the courtyard, Li Xiaozu was leaning on the door and looking at him. Seeing Grandma Zhou coming, she rushed out to welcome him. Grandma Zhou raised her hand to stop him before he could speak, and said, "Don't say anything, let me I'll go back and have a cup of tea for a rest, otherwise I won't have the strength to be sad."

"Then I'll help you in first." Li Xiaozu had a sad face, and obediently reached out to support Grandma Zhou and said, Grandma Zhou let him support her, and entered the upper room with a long sigh, before the girl could speak, she waved her hand sadly and said : "There's no need to set up a meal, I can't eat, my heart hurts."

(End of this chapter)