The Book of Raising Children by Houmen

Chapter 17 Remediation (1)
The snow outside had stopped, and Zhao Jing was sitting on an official hat-backed chair covered with squirrel chairs in the conference hall, with her foot on the stove and holding a bronze hand stove in her hand, she was staring blankly at the women outside. child sweeping snow in the yard.

The snow on the branch was blown by the wind, and fell off in pieces, hitting the ground and shattering.After the hustle and bustle of the past few days, Zhao Jing seldom had such a leisurely time. Thinking that in two months, she would come out of the palace and still have a lot of leisure time, even her heart was warmed.

Inside and outside the palace, inside and outside the house, no place is easy.Although Zhao Jing also understands Xu Xian's difficulties, thinking that it is really not easy to make a living in such a big family, but after all, she is still bitter about her failure to tell the truth this morning.

Thinking about it again, I felt that I was meddling. When she was in the palace, Zhao Jing had already practiced a set of magic skills of turning a deaf ear to it. as invisible.It's good to know the words right and wrong in your heart. What you want on the scene is to be wise and protect yourself. She is too idle to take care of other people's housework.

Thinking of this, Zhao Jing sighed leisurely, thinking that after this errand was over, she would be able to go to the palace to do business.

At this time, suddenly a few little maids passed by outside, chattering in their mouths: "Those two women who were sweeping snow in the back garden did not know what happened, so they were tied up for no reason, and they said they were going to be kicked out." When Zhuangzi went up, Mama Zhang next to the old lady personally ordered it, is it strange to you?"

Zhao Jing obviously didn't hear this, but was overheard by the two snow-sweeping women at the door, so she grabbed the two little maids and asked, "Which two women have been sent to the Zhuangzi?"

The little servant girl murmured, "It's the two rough envoys in the back garden, one whose surname is Ma, and the other whose surname seems to be Ding, I don't know either!"

"Do you know why you were kicked out?"

"How can I know this? I was too far away to dare to go, and I saw a group of people tying up these two women. It is said that the two of them usually do things fairly neatly, but they talk a lot. I like to chatter a few words."

When the sweeping woman heard this, she immediately raised her eyebrows and asked curiously, "Could it be about our dead Madam Hou?"

The little maid didn't understand the words, and asked curiously: "What's the matter with the dead Mrs. Hou, mother, tell us too."

Seeing that she didn't know it, the woman waved her hand and said: "Go, go, children, they are also learning to chew their tongues and what to do. Carefully, your mother will expose your skin when she finds out."

The two little maids were originally held back, and now they heard what they said, and they didn't bother to pay attention, they just walked side by side holding hands and said: "Good mother, look at me telling you this in the future!"

Only after the two little maids had left, the other woman who had been listening for a long time just said in a daze, "Why, you also know about our dead Madam Hou?"

The woman was startled, and hurriedly covered the mouth of the other woman, seeing that there was no one around, and the curtain at the door was tightly closed, she whispered: "You can't talk nonsense. , I also heard from the sister-in-law of the Liu family in the kitchen, that Mrs. Hou has only been in the house for a few days, and she likes to eat sour soup. She asked the kitchen to make sour soup and radishes several times. How to bring it out!"

Zhao Jing was also a little tired from sitting on the chair, and was about to go out for a walk, but when she reached the door, she heard the words of these two people, she was so frightened that she hurriedly stopped, and walked a little closer to the door They leaned against the wall and continued to listen to the two of them talking.

"Amitabha, you dare to listen to these words indiscriminately, and you dare to say nonsense after hearing them. Don't you mean that our Lord is wearing a green hat?"

The woman was speaking with high spirits, but the other woman didn't appreciate it and scolded her for a while. Suddenly she felt a little uncomfortable, and said with a tiger's face: "Isn't this what you want to hear? Why are you pretending to be a serious person with me?"

When the other woman heard this, she knew that she couldn't fool her, so she said with a smile: "I'm just reminding you, it's all right to tell me what you said, but don't tell others. If the old lady finds out about this, it will not be as simple as being driven to the village." The old woman sighed and said, "Actually, I have heard what you said a little bit, otherwise I won't ask you directly like this, think about it, although our Lord Hou is 25-[-], but he is the first marriage after all, I remember that day he was drinking outside until the second quarter of the day before entering the bridal chamber , I came to deliver the decree when I was in the palace, and it only takes half an hour, so how can it be accomplished?"

(End of this chapter)