Yu Tang Golden Boudoir

Chapter 128 Sharpening Stone

"Let me tell you about the errands first. After you listen, you may be able to eat." Li Xiaozu accompanied Xiaoyi and said, Grandma Zhou sat firmly on the kang, took a pillow to hug her, and pulled out Pazi looked at Li Xiaozu and said, "It's ready, let's talk."

"When I arrived at the yamen in the morning, I went to look for Mr. Lu to resign. I said what you said. Who knew that Mr. Lu said something after listening to him, asking me to talk to the fourth master. How dare I go to find the fourth master?" ? Just tell Mr. Lu that he is my superior, and the fourth master is my superior's superior. How can I dare to find him? As soon as Mr. Lu heard about it, he asked me to go back and listen to him. Let someone call me in, and say that the fourth master is looking for me, and let me go to the household department to see the fourth master." Li Xiaozu's words were honest and detailed but dry and not interesting, but Grandma Zhou listened attentively.

"I went to look for the fourth master. The fourth master didn't say a few words in total. The first sentence said that you should not resign from the job, the second sentence said that you thought too much, and the third sentence said that you did the job well. From now on, I just need to do errands with peace of mind. Then I was sent out, I didn't dare to say a word, I didn't know what to say, and we didn't discuss how to speak after meeting fourth master." Li Xiaozu looked at his wife in distress and said, Zhou Da Grandma opened her mouth halfway, and couldn't react for a long time, she never thought that Li Xiaozu's resignation from his errand would result in such a result.

"But this job can't be done again!" Grandma Zhou threw the pillow in her arms and said, Li Xiaozu muttered: "I know this, but fourth master can't stand against him."

"This task makes me more reluctant than you, but isn't there nothing I can do now? Fourth Master made such a fuss, and now that sister is going to marry Fifth Master. Tell me, what will happen to Fourth Master and Fifth Master in the future?" How can we take advantage of the fourth master? Let people know that this spittle star can drown us! This is not good, that sister is not a good match, look at the matter of the third sister, we are greedy I don’t want to let go of this cheap price, and I don’t know what’s going on with her when I look back, I don’t think she’s free at the moment, this job can’t be done anyway!” Grandma Zhou is not so much trying to persuade Li Xiaozu, it’s more like saying Convince yourself.

Li Xiaozu looked at her and muttered, "I'm not reluctant."

"Why don't you resign again?" Grandma Zhou suggested, and Li Xiaozu shook his head like a rattle: "After coming out of Siye, I went to look for Mr. Lu again. Mr. Lu told me not to embarrass him, saying that he would do it. I don't know the master, I want to resign, I just ask Si Ye to resign, I can see that I can't say anything I'm afraid of, besides, if I keep resigning, if I offend Si Ye, I won't be able to offend him. "

"It's true of you, but this job can't be done! What can I do?" Grandma Zhou showed a sad face, and Li Xiaozu followed the group with a sad face: "Yes, what can I do?"

"Fourth Master, we don't dare to offend, let alone that sister, neither of them can offend, or I will go and find Fifth Sister." Grandma Zhou said suddenly after thinking for a long time, Li Xiaozu nodded and listened to each sentence. In the end, he was stunned: "What are you looking for her for?"

"Tell her about it and let her make up her mind. This is not what we want to do. Now I can't resign. I have to tell her. Maybe she already knew about it. I'll go find her!" Grandma Zhou has always been an actionist, she jumped off the kang and walked out while talking, Li Xiaozu hurriedly followed behind, Grandma Zhou waved her hand without looking back: "You wait at home." Li Xiaozu hurriedly stopped his steps, Watching his daughter-in-law go out helplessly, he hurriedly went back to the house and waited.

Li Tian looked at Grandma Zhou in surprise, unable to think of her reason for coming, Grandma Zhou took the tea that Yingluo handed over, raised it to her mouth, looked at Yingluo, and then looked at the ledger book next to the table to copy one by one Yinhua and Yuye, who were right, turned to look at Li Tian, ​​and scanned the three of them again. Li Tian understood what she meant, smiled and raised her hand to signal Yingluo, who turned around and told Yinhua and Yuye, "Get the tent first. Let’s put it away and go to the small kitchen at the back to make some snacks.”

Yinhua and Yuye agreed, put down the pen and paper, and exited. Yingluo followed the two and exited the room. Grandma Zhou breathed a sigh of relief, put down her glass, looked at Li Tian and said, "Come here to disturb you so late, Fifth Sister Don't worry about it, it's really urgent, because of this, I got blisters in a few days." Grandma Zhou gestured to Li Tian to see the blisters on her mouth.

"What's the matter?" Li Tian's heart rose, Grandma Zhou clapped her hands in annoyance, and said, "It's the errand that your elder brother took, this errand, alas, I didn't know how I got here until a while ago. I thought your elder brother had a great luck. He knew how the errand came about, and he also knew that he shouldn’t have received the errand, but didn’t you know it earlier? Now that I know, I’ll discuss it with your elder brother. Why can't I do it, I have to resign quickly, your elder brother will go to resign." Grandma Zhou told the story of Li Xiaozu's resignation in detail, looked at Li Tian with a little timidity and said: "I I have nothing to do with your elder brother, so I have to come and look for you, what do you think we can do?"

Li Tian secretly breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out to be this matter: "I know about this matter." Li Tian thought for a while and said: "This job is irresistible, so let's do it. Please do nothing."

"That's fine." Grandma Zhou didn't expect Li Tian to reply like this, she was stunned and hurriedly agreed: "Don't worry, I will ask you once a day to make your elder brother be careful about his errands. If you don't take it, you will be satisfied if you can get a salary." Li Tian pursed his lips and smiled, and nodded in agreement.

Seeing Grandma Zhou away, Li Tian lowered his head, walked slowly back along the veranda, stopped at the door of the upper room, stayed there for a while, turned straight forward, passed through the moon gate, and found the house in the backyard after dinner. Yue Niang, who made a fistful of fists, briefly said about Li Xiaozu's resignation, and then ordered: "Go to Qingfeng Tower and see if Fifth Master is there. If he is, tell him this in person. If not Just come back, and he will go tomorrow when he comes."

"Just talk about the three sentences of Dalang's resignation and fourth master, what about the rest?"

"What else do you want to say?"

"That's right, you people talk like this, why is it so troublesome, you say a riddle, I guessed it, but I can't say it, I have to answer another riddle, guessing all day long, don't worry about guessing wrong? "Yue Niang thought of Shui Qiu Niang's training on how to speak at noon, and she was full of complaints. Li Tian looked at Yue Niang and smiled and said: "If you think it is not good to speak like this, I will teach you a way. , it’s better to be silent, you just need to talk less.” Yue Niang thought for a while and sighed: “If you don’t talk, isn’t this mouth useless for eating? Well, it’s easier not to talk than guessing riddles, okay, I’ll go Don't worry, I guarantee that there will be no more words."

The fifth prince watched Yue Niang go out of the courtyard, and slammed the cup out of his hand. Huang Jingjie was startled. With a cold face, the fifth prince took the handkerchief, and wiped the splash on his hands vigorously. Serve tea.

"Don't think about it too much. The fourth master arranged this mission for Li Dalang at the beginning, but now he dismisses the mission after he is married. How can he be so stingy." Huang Jingjie said forgivingly, and the fifth prince sneered: "I dare not tell others, Mr. Fourth, Li Dalang is not allowed to resign, it is definitely not to show his generosity! I grew up with the fourth child, and he is the phoenix in the hands of everyone. He never looks down at me, but I look up at him every day! He What kind of person he is, I know very clearly in my heart!"

Huang Jingjie's face added a bit of dignity: "Then fourth master?"

"How many times have I told you that his things are never allowed to be touched by others. He thinks that person belongs to him!" The fifth prince patted the table and said, the expression on Huang Jingjie's face became very strange. The marriage of Mrs. Li's family is an official order, what else can he do?

"If the fourth master keeps thinking about it like this, won't he be suffering himself?" Huang Jingjie said helplessly, the fifth prince's face was full of gloom: "I have suffered? Father is here, he can only suffer himself, but if father is not there What? One day he sat in that big position, how can he suffer himself?" Huang Jingjie shuddered cleverly, and it took a long time to force out a sentence: "Why did Wu Ye say that?" Halfway through the conversation, Huang Jingjie couldn't continue, the Tian family had no family ties: "Why did the officials point out such a marriage to Fifth Master?" Huang Jingjie couldn't help complaining.

"I just can't figure it out." The fifth prince said in a heavy tone, "I've been thinking about this since I knelt outside Jixian Hall, and I still don't think about it now. Which one do you really like in Dad's mind?" Wei Shan, staring at the fifth prince, couldn't help but get up and down in his heart.

"We have six brothers, the second child is already useless, don't mention it, the third child is too stupid, he puts on an appearance of being cautious, practicing Zen and Buddhism, and aloof from the world all day long, but the thought in his heart is heavy, and he is walking Not to fight is the way to fight, I can see this at a glance, and the fourth brother and elder brother can also see it naturally, let alone hide it from Dad, what kind of person is Dad? He must not like such a fool, Mrs. Six Small, the previous dynasty lost its foundation because the official family was too young. Besides, my father favored Concubine Jiang so much, but he still refused to use Jiang's family. From this point of view, the sixth child is not like that, so there are only the eldest brother and the fourth child. Which one did Father take a fancy to?" The Fifth Prince asked in confusion.

"Fifth Lord has let himself go." Huang Jingjie looked at the Fifth Prince and said something very softly, and the Fifth Prince shook his head and waved his hands: "I am lazy, let alone those scriptures, those rules, it is the one that goes to court every day at five o'clock, I will It can't be done. If the empire is put in the hands of a lazy person like me, sooner or later the power will fall apart and disasters will arise. Father understands this better than I can see it myself. How could he give me the inheritance of the ancestors? It won't be me, I I never had that heart, never before, and never in the future.”

Huang Jingjie sighed secretly, and had to admit that the fifth prince was right, he was indeed too lazy to enjoy himself.

"It must be one of the eldest brother and the fourth brother. Which one does Dad prefer? The fourth? If it is the fourth, why did you not correct Concubine Ye Gui's position? Elder brother? If it is the eldest brother, why did you allow the Ye family to form a clique? Father himself didn't make up his mind? Did he mean this marriage, could it be?" The fifth prince's back was stiff, his eyes were as cold as ice and snow, could it be that father pushed him out to be that whetstone?Use his wealth and life to grind a satisfactory successor for him?
(End of this chapter)