Yu Tang Golden Boudoir

Chapter 7 Yu Ze
Li Tian hurriedly nodded to show her to come in, Yu Ye stepped forward and opened the curtain, Hu San's daughter-in-law was wearing an indigo dress, and the bright color on her hair was gone, she fell to the ground and kowtowed a few times when she entered the door, Mammy Xiong waited for her to kowtow Good head, hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, Li Tian leaned his upper body slightly forward and said politely: "You are welcome, Mammy, the congee and vegetables are very good just now, Mammy is taking care of you."

"As long as Fifth Lady likes it, as long as she likes it!" Hu San's daughter-in-law rubbed her hands on her apron, and bowed nervously and cautiously: "I heard that Fifth Lady is back, and the servant is very happy, old lady... that day I heard early in the morning that the old lady is gone, servant..." Hu San's daughter-in-law grabbed her apron to wipe the tears from her face, but the apron was not that long, so she had to stretch the sleeves and wipe her face horizontally: " The servant wanted to kowtow to the old lady's soul, the servant is a slut and dared not go, the whole family kowtowed in the yard, and made paper for the old lady, knowing that the old lady didn't like this, but the servant... the servant..." Hu San The daughter-in-law couldn't speak anymore.

Li Tian was saddened. The third daughter-in-law of Hu was an old man brought out by her grandmother. She was honest, hard-working, and cooked well. A few years ago, she gave birth to a child with hemorrhage. It was her grandmother who sent someone to hire a doctor for her. Ten taels of silver and two sticks of 50-year-old ginseng were given to her, and only then did she be brought back from the gate of hell. The old man her grandmother used back then took good care of her.

"Your caring grandma and I both know that birth, old age, sickness and death are normal. Grandma passed away very peacefully. Don't be too sad." Li Tian persuaded in a low voice, and Mammy Xiong took out the veil and handed it to Hu San's daughter-in-law, saying, "Hurry up." Don't cry, if you cry again, Wu Niangzi can't take it anymore." Hu San's daughter-in-law nodded repeatedly, sobbed heavily, choked for a while, and then said with red eyes: "What does Wu Niangzi want to eat? ...Just tell me, this servant will go to Dongshi to buy clams at dawn tomorrow, and..."

"It can't be like this!" Li Tian hurriedly waved his hands and said, this is the Duke of Yongguo's mansion, if Mrs. Yang finds out, I don't want to say that my life is hard, I'm afraid that Hu San's daughter-in-law will lose her job, Li Tian took a look at Madam Xiong , Mother Xiong lowered her eyes, signaled that she understood, took Hu San's wife out, turned out of the Chuihua Gate, and then confessed in a low voice: "You are a real person, and Fifth Lady knows what you want, but now this In the mansion, the Duke is the Grand Master, and the wife is the Grand Mistress. How could it be Mrs. Ning at that time? You have to keep your thoughts in your heart. Naturally, Qingtong Courtyard has a role in serving tea and dinner. You must not pass it by. Follow the rules, just quietly prepare Wu Niangzi's meals clean, salty and delicious."

Hu San's daughter-in-law is not stupid to be honest, she understood a little bit, nodded hurriedly and said: "Thank you for your guidance, I understand, don't worry, I cook the fifth lady's food by myself, it is clean and delicious, I can guarantee it." Madam Xiong Showing a gentle smile, he took out a purse from his sleeve and stuffed it into the hands of Hu San's daughter-in-law: "This is rewarded by Wu Niangzi. Take it back and buy candy for the child. You and Wu Niangzi are more polite? Take it, if If you have anything to do, go to Ma Dalang's house in the back street to find Mother Wen."

"Sister-in-law Wen is back?" Hu San's daughter-in-law was pleasantly surprised, while Xiong's mother-in-law led Hu's third daughter-in-law out, she replied: "I'm back, and I will live at the eldest son's house from now on."

Xiong Mama and Hu San's daughter-in-law went out, Li Tian stood up and stretched his arms and asked, "Is Yue Niang back?"

"I've been back a long time ago." Before Qing Zhi could reply, Yue Niang answered by herself and came out from the East Wing. He first said: "All arrangements have been made. Fayun Temple has rented the easternmost room of the Dizang Hall, and there is a corner gate next to it. It only takes a quarter of an hour to walk from the corner gate to that yard. Your small steps are slow. , we have to go for a quarter of an hour."

"Are you sleeping in the East Wing?" Li Tian walked to the door of the East Wing, raised the curtain and asked, Yue Niang said 'hmm': "This courtyard is so good, it has been closed for all these years, really, you in this capital city Come on, I don’t know how many battles I have fought, and where has no one died?”

"It's as clear as you, how can it be cheaper for us."

"That's right." Yue Niang brushed off her skirt and said, "Qiu Niang lives in the east courtyard in front, I'll go talk to Qiu Niang, I've seen this courtyard before and after, so don't worry about living here."

Xiongmao came in to welcome Yueniang, passed Yueniang sideways, followed Li Tian into the west chamber, sat sideways on the kang, and said in a low voice: "Mother Wen came back yesterday afternoon, and has seen three or four people, five Ma'am, don't worry."

"En." Li Tian responded. Nanny Wen was the son of the Duke of Yongguo's mansion, and was also the most useful confidant of Mrs. Ning. In the hands of the old lady, Mrs. Lin deregistered for Nanny Wen's family, wrote a letter of refuge, and turned her son into Li Tian's righteous servant. Taking care of the few small businesses that Li Tian did privately, Nanny Wen received the money from Mrs. Lin, and secretly took care of the elderly that Mrs. Ning used to use.

"Did Madam send anyone over?" Li Tian changed the subject and asked, Mammy Xiong curled her lips: "When we came in, except for a few peeking, no one saw a thread, alas, How did Duke Yong’s mansion, which was considered to be in the capital back then, fall to such a low level? Look at this behavior, it’s worse than that small family.”

"It's better like this. You don't know the situation in this mansion yet. Grandma...how ruthless she is, so she left an empty shelf for her. It's not easy for her these years. She supports the family with a dowry. Eldest uncle does nothing but drink. Regardless of the matter, the second and third bedrooms know how to cause trouble all day long, one patronizes to spend money in his small house, and it's okay to stand on the dry bank to watch the excitement, and poke the fire from time to time, we'd better not make trouble with them , when Shun Shun Dang gets married next year, it's enough to save each other's face."

"That's true." Mama Xiong replied straightforwardly: "We only need to guard our one-third of an acre of land. You have been tired for the past three or four days, so hurry up and rest." Saying this, she stood up and called Yingluo and the others Come in and wait for Li Tian to freshen up.

Li Tiantong got her hair done and changed her clothes. He just lay on the bed, Yingluo signaled Qingzhi and the others to go out first, then sat sideways on the footbed in front of the bed and asked in a low voice, "Fifth lady, you asked me to go to the library last night, and you want to go out again today?" No one has been arranged for those books... Do you want to send a letter in? Or have you arranged everything?"

"No need." Li Tian looked at Yingluo with a slight smile in his eyes. Yingluo is the eldest girl picked by her grandmother. She is loyal, reliable, prudent and careful, and has a good character. She often fails to respond to these small tricks. Come on, but grandma said that it is best for the eldest girl in the palm to be like this, and she very much agrees with this.

"Do you also think there is some mystery in that library?"

"Fifth Lady never does useless things."

"Even you think that there are mysteries in the library, so they will think so even more. If the banknotes, land deeds and so on are stuck in the books one by one..." Li Tian smiled sarcastically, and Yingluo suddenly realized: " It turns out that there are thousands of books in the library, and they have to be turned over one by one...how tired are they going to be?"

"It's just that they are tired and have no time to think about anything else. There are nearly [-] books in the library, which is enough for them to find grandma's funeral day and night. We also have time to catch our breath. You have been tired for the past few days, so hurry up." Take a rest." Li Tian ordered in a warm voice, Yingluo responded, stood up and waited for Li Tian to sleep, turned off the lights, put down the curtain and went out lightly.

In the main courtyard of Duke Yong's Mansion, Mrs. Zhou's mother-in-law, Mrs. Yang, who served her dinner, was about to leave and go back to have dinner with her husband, but Mrs. Yang ordered: "Go and see if the list from Fifth Sister's side has been delivered. "

Mrs. Zhou had no choice but to agree, and took the flower list sent by Mammy Xiong and handed it over. Mrs. Yang stared at the list for a long time, frowned and pointed at the list and shouted: "Four teaching mothers, two The rough envoy, two big maids, two young maids, twice as many as the third sister, she is so pompous!" Mrs. Zhou glanced at her, dropped her hands and said nothing.

Mrs. Yang held the list with two fingers and raised it in front of her eyes. She squinted her eyes and stared at it. That wicked woman evacuated the Duke of Yongguo's mansion. If it wasn't for her, why would the Duke of Yongguo's mansion be here... Mrs. Yang raised her hand and held it. With a chest full of hatred, I tried to breathe, what a grandeur the Duke of Yongguo was back then... When Yue Rong got married, I wanted to cry with all the dowry in forty!

Mrs. Zhou watched her mother-in-law's angry face turn pale, paused for a while, and then reported in a soft voice: "The mother Xiong who sent this list said that since the fifth sister is back, she has to rely on the help of our family. According to the rules, how many monthly cases are there in the third sister's courtyard, and how many monthly cases are there in the fifth sister's side."

"There are only monthly cases in this life? Thanks to your family background, how much is the monthly case? There are seven things to open the door, which one is not money?" Mrs. Yang reprimanded sharply. After talking, Mrs. Yang made a lot of miscellaneous remarks. Seeing Zhou's wooden figure, she waved her hand irritably and said, "Okay, Da Lang should have come back a long time ago. If you don't go back and wait, what are you doing here?"

Mrs. Zhou resigned and came out, turned a few turns, saw no one around, with one hand on her hip, the other on her chest, panting heavily.

"Grandma be patient, which daughter-in-law didn't survive like this, back then..." Zhou's nanny, Nurse Xiao, persuaded softly.

"I know, I don't need your persuasion, I just let it go." Zhou took a deep breath and exhaled several times. Thinking of what happened in the morning, she couldn't help but pursed her lips and smiled again: "She ate someone else's head in the morning and took it out on me." Forget it, let her do it, I'll treat it as if she let... what."

"It's good that grandma understands." Madam Xiao heaved a sigh of relief, and Zhou took a few deep breaths and exhaled a few more times. While walking back, she whispered to Nanny Xiao: "I'm afraid, there are more than a dozen people in this family. The mouth, she wants to beat and beat me to make up with the dowry silver, and she uses her own dowry to make up for it, and I admit it, and she wants me to take the silver, but there is no way!"

"Grandma is a sensible person, so it doesn't make sense, just the same, grandma can't be born with the uncle because of this."

"Don't worry." Zhou said with a sweet smile on her face, "If it wasn't for him being so kind to me... Well, as long as he is kind to me, that old woman, I wouldn't care about her!"

(End of this chapter)