Ordinary clear day

Chapter 98 Follow-up
Yuanning raised her eyebrows: "Hey, she has become the royal daughter-in-law. From now on, we should call her 'Fujin', right?"

Wan Ning said coldly: "It's just a princess, what is it called Fujin? I'm not afraid that others will laugh at her because she doesn't know the heights of the sky and the earth."

Yuanning chuckled lightly, and said, "Second sister's words, why do I feel so sour?"

Wanning lowered her head and copied the Buddhist scriptures, ignoring her.Yuanning felt bored, so she also shut up.

Shu Ning was writing with her hands, but she felt a little doubtful in her heart.Even if the enemy became Sisi's concubine, why did Wanning show so much concern?After all, she is a popular candidate for the old fifth Fujin. Could it be that she is also interested in April and Fourth?No way?Could it be that she really wants to learn how to wear the heroine, and must have emotional entanglements with the fourth child?Or was she just upset that someone she didn't like married into the royal family before her?

Less than two quarters of an hour later, Wanning said that she wanted to see the old lady, and left the water pavilion.

The other three sisters copied for a while, seeing that it was almost noon before packing up and going back to their respective rooms.Shu Ning thumped her shoulders and arms, suddenly remembered something, and asked, "After a hundred days, will we continue to have talent classes? Why haven't we seen Mr. Cai?"

Fang Ning shook her head to express that she didn't know, and walked away.Yuan Ning said: "Probably not. Mr. Cai has been dismissed since my second sister and I left Beijing, and since then no one has been hired in the mansion. I only heard that my second sister was in Baoding, and my eldest aunt was there I asked my husband to teach her. Why? Third sister wants to learn?"

Shu Ning nodded: "I also learned something when I was in Guangzhou, but I haven't practiced it since I came back, and I'm afraid it will be abandoned. I don't know where Mr. Cai is now? Can you ask him to come back and teach?"

Yuanning smiled softly. Seeing Shuning's puzzled look, she stopped laughing and told her: "Third sister, why do you think Song Zhicao is at odds with the second sister? After Mr. Cai resigned, it was the Song family who invited her." He went to teach his daughter piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. He couldn't forget his second sister as a student all day long. Jing, when Song Zhicao sees her, she gets very angry and always likes to have trouble with her."

She thought for a while, and couldn't help laughing: "Speaking of which, there is another joke. Once when everyone was chatting together and talking about ancient poems, the second sister actually said that "Jiangjinjiu" is a masterpiece of poetry fairy Li Bai , Isn't that laughing at others' big teeth? Who doesn't know that it is a poem by Xiao Yunjian, a silver flute scholar? Song Zhicao laughed at her. She didn't know such things and dared to call herself a talented woman. At that time, she laughed with several daughters. The second sister You don't have face, and every time you see her, you don't have a good face. It took a lot of effort to suppress it, otherwise the second sister would be a joke in Beijing."

Shu Ning sweats profusely. If she changed herself, she might reflexively say that it was Li Bai's poem, right?She couldn't help but feel a little pitiful for Wanning. After traveling to this specious world of the Qing Dynasty, risks exist everywhere.

She secretly made a decision that she would never talk about poetry and songs with anyone if she had nothing to do!Even the stories of historical figures should be told as little as possible!

Back in Huaiyuan, seeing her daughter, Mrs. Tong said, "Your Mama has come to the front to receive the guests who came to congratulate our family on being congratulated. At noon, we will eat in the room by ourselves. I asked someone to make sour soup. You can eat more." Go." Shu Ning agreed, remembering what she heard in the morning, she said to her mother: "Second sister heard about this year's draft, and heard that Miss Song's family was pointed out to the fourth elder brother, but it's just Gege."

Tong was stunned for a moment before she came to her senses: "Oh, is the fourth elder brother already at this age? I actually forgot." She was in a daze for a while, then suddenly stood up: "This is a happy event, I want to send some congratulatory gifts over The old doctor Chen prescribed a few prescriptions for nourishing the body. What about Changfu? I have to ask someone to send several packages. There are also silks and satins brought back from Guangdong. We don’t need them now. Send two boxes over, as well as jewellery, the couple should also have some headgear, by the way, those big rubies..."

Shu Ning was dumbfounded, and quickly stopped her: "Emiang, calm down!" She pressed her mother back on the chair, and said, "The palace and the Ministry of Internal Affairs will prepare these things, you just need to show your heart, it's fine with such a big fanfare." Land, are you afraid that others will not know?"

Only then did Tong calm down, looked at her daughter and smiled embarrassedly: "Emiang is so happy, she is a little out of control. You are right, our family is still keeping filial piety, so there is no need to rush into other people's happy events. Forget it , just send some clothing materials and a few accessories, plus a few medicinal materials, and send them to Pumpkin Alley, so as not to let outsiders know."

Shuning breathed a sigh of relief, but unexpectedly after a while, Mrs. Tong thought about it, and couldn't sit still: "We seem to have two good Doro, why don't we send them over as well, before we don't have them?" For dinner, I asked someone to open a small warehouse to pick it up. Ermo? Ermo?" Then he walked away.

Defeated by her!
Shu Ning stared at the ceiling speechlessly, it was already like this now, when her elder brother marries a wife in the future, what would her mother be like?
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Zhang Bao was sweating profusely, walked slowly into Huaiyuan, and fell on the reclining chair with a tired face.Shuning hurriedly put down the needle money in her hand, passed a handkerchief to her father, and poured tea for him.

Tong clapped the fan for him, and said with some distress: "Why didn't the people stop? Our family didn't plan to make a big show, after all, we are still in Xiaozhong."

Zhang Bao drank a cup of tea in one breath, handed the cup back to his daughter, and said: "After all, it is a rare honor. Although we don't want to make it public, the houses that have made good friends with us should always be considerate. The trouble is those People who can’t touch the real power, as well as small officials who are waiting for vacancies in the capital, take the opportunity to cling to them. I have to socialize, how can I really do them any good?”

Mrs. Tong complained a bit: "It's fine for the eldest brother and the fourth brother to go to work. The second brother stays at home all day and doesn't help to greet him. He leaves you busy from morning to night, but he goes on his own. How can there be such a thing?" brother?"

Zhang Bao smiled wryly: "He's not happy. If others come to congratulate him, don't they just sprinkle salt on his wound? Forget it, it's just a matter of a few days. I'll work hard first."

Shuning poured another cup of tea for her father. Zhang Bao patted her head, took the tea, took a sip, and said, "Master Chen Liangben came here this morning and said something to me."

Shuning froze, and hurriedly listened to what was going on.Tong asked: "What is it? Is he not satisfied with your resignation?"

Zhang Bao shook his head and said, "Master Chen is really a very tolerant person. Not only is he not angry, but he is also very considerate of me. It turns out that there is a former classmate of his among the officials of the Guangzhou government, who told him everything about that place. He said, I It's a pity to resign like this. Since I have a useful body, I should do more practical things for the people of the court. But my father is newly mourned, and my mother is ill, so I should stay at home to take care of her. So he told the officials The people in the Ministry recorded that I was in Dingyou instead of resigning. After a while, when the family settled down, he would find another good job for me. If you are worried about factionalism in the court, just find a position with less entanglements. "

"This Chen Liang is very good at being a man." Shu Ning thought to herself.

After listening to Tong, she also sighed: "His kindness, if you refuse it, it seems too ignorant." Zhang Bao said helplessly: "Isn't it? I was really ashamed at the time. Although I didn't agree to him explicitly, But if he really finds a job for me in the future, I won't be able to push it away."

Tong said with a smile: "If it's really a good job with no entanglements, you can just accept it, and don't waste other people's good intentions."

Zhang Bao nodded slightly, at this time Chang Gui came to report: "Master, there are a few more adults here, look..."

Zhang Bao let out a long sigh and left with a wry smile.

The next day, Shu Ning continued to copy the Buddhist scriptures in the water pavilion, but found that Wan Ning looked at her frequently, hesitating to speak.She was surprised in her heart, but she didn't show it on her face, she just pretended not to notice the other party's strangeness.

Sure enough, after less than half an hour of copying, Wanning couldn't help it anymore, and asked quietly: "I heard that Mr. Chen Liangben came to our house to look for third uncle yesterday, is it true?"

It turned out to be this thing.Shu Ning said calmly: "It's true that there is such a thing. They knew it before, and there are many people who come to the door these days. Mr. Chen is just for a special occasion. Why did Second Sister ask about this?"

Wanning didn't answer, and said after a long while: "I think he...is not a very good character, it's better for you to keep associating with him less."

Shu Ning raised her eyebrows: "Bad character? Second sister, why did you say that? Even the emperor said Mr. Chen is a direct and pure minister. Could it be that second sister still remembers what happened back then?"

"No, no, how could it be? I've forgotten about that incident long ago." Wanning said hastily, "I just heard people say that he acted a bit insidiously, and I was afraid that my third uncle would suffer if he had too many contacts with him, so I just said that. .”

He is indeed a little insidious, but it's just for you.As for her father, he was not so honored.

Shu Ning smiled: "Thank you sister for reminding me, but I don't know anything about the affairs of adults outside, so it's not easy for me to take care of it."

She continued to copy the scriptures, Wanning couldn't say anything more, she rolled her eyes at Yuanning's sneer, and then turned her attention back to the copying work.

But the calm only lasted for a moment, a little girl rushed into the water pavilion, and said to Wanning in a panic: "Second Miss, go and have a look, there is a commotion in the main courtyard, and the old lady is angry."

Wanning hurriedly asked what was going on, but the little girl only said "Second Wife...", she caught a glimpse of Yuanning's presence, and stopped talking.Yuanning's complexion changed, Wanning only glanced at her, and then said: "Let's go and have a look." Then she took a step ahead.

Shuning and Fangning looked at each other, and then followed suit.Yuanning's face turned blue and red, stomped her feet, and chased after her.

When I came to the main courtyard, there was a lot of noise in the house. The courtyard was full of people, including the masters of the family and maids and servants.Shuning saw that Suyun and several other aunts and aunts' personal maids were there, so she knew that Mrs. Tong and other sisters-in-law were in the room at the moment.

I could only hear the old lady in the room yelling: "I'm not dead yet! You all dare to step on my head, it's really lawless! You can't wait for me to kick my feet now and go with the old man!" Don’t you? I’m telling you bastards, don’t dream! As long as I’m here, I’ll have the final say in this mansion! You unfilial sons, you bullied Ama just a few days after his death. Erniang is here? Are you worthy of your Ama, and your ancestors?!"

She continued to curse loudly, and then vaguely heard Sotrolo's whispering something, she cursed even louder and coughed loudly.

When Wanning heard this, she rushed into the room and coaxed her grandmother softly.Mrs. Li, who was standing in the corridor, turned her head and saw that the sisters were all there. She frowned, and heard the old lady in the room continue to scold after coughing. After leaving the courtyard, he said: "The old lady has been ill for a long time, so she is naturally more angry. You should pretend that you didn't hear what you said just now. When you go back, you must restrain the people below, don't let them gossip, you understand?" See Shuning and others The man nodded, and said lightly: "It's all gone." Then he went back to the courtyard and continued to stand.

Shuning returned to Huaiyuan, thought for a while, and then began to do needlework.When it was time for lunch, Mrs. Tong came back.She looked calm, but a little tired.Ermo hurriedly followed, and asked Suyun, "Madam, are you angry?" Mrs. Tong waved her hand, making Shuning and the others to retreat, leaving only Ermo, who talked for a while, and then ate half a bowl of rice , took Suyun and a few maids out again.

Shuning was a little curious, so she quietly asked Ermo what was going on.Ermo said in embarrassment: "Girl, Ermo didn't mean to hide it from you. You girls really shouldn't know these things. Don't ask me." Shuning raised her eyebrows, but she didn't force it.

But she has other channels to inquire about the news.In the past at the Earl's Mansion, if she wanted to know any gossip information, apart from hearing from her mother and elder brother, she could only ask Ermo or Qiaoyun.Suyun is honest and doesn't like to spread gossip, but Qiaoyun is expecting childbirth at home, and Ermo refuses to tell, so she has no choice but to use her newly established intelligence network.

She went back to her room, called Suxin, and after giving such instructions, Suxin would accept the order and leave.

This little maid who was kept by her side because of her cleverness, her family has served in the Earl's Mansion for generations, coupled with the high-yield traits in heredity, each generation has given birth to many children, and these children are basically ordinary-looking Therefore, people with mediocre intelligence will not become a concubine because of their good looks, nor will they become a steward because of their outstanding talents. They have always stayed in the middle and lower classes of the servant society. Promising.

The members of their family are not only connected with other servant families, but also spread all over the mansion.People in the mansion may be wary of Ermo's family because Ermo is Tong's confidant, or they may regard Wang Ruibao as the old lady's family because Wang Ruibao is the son of Wang Momo. But when they gossip about the master’s house in private, they will not be wary of a guard on the second gate, a woman who sweeps the floor in the back porch of the old lady’s yard, a daughter-in-law who washes clothes in the backyard of the second bedroom, or a servant who helps the manager who buys goods.

These inconspicuous little people are always able to get in touch with gossip from all sides, and Shu Ning also discovered this by accident.Suxin is still young and hasn't received much training, so she can't really play the role of this family network, but if she just asks about what happened in the old lady's house, there must be no problem.

Sure enough, after an hour, Suxin had collected all kinds of information and came back to report.

She said: "My second aunt does chores in the old lady's house. According to what she said, when the second wife greeted the old lady, she seemed very angry about the second master's title. The old lady only read her a few words, and she said What, since the old lord passed away, the lord and the wife have always been the same in the house, and the old lady has nothing to do. Now that the lord has taken over the lord, the old lady is the mistress of the house. No matter how powerful the old lady is, she can only be obedient Being at the mercy of the eldest daughter-in-law, and she and the second master are going to be overwhelmed even more, how dare they count on the mother-in-law?"

Wow, this is blatantly sowing discord!Although the second aunt was usually bitter and mean, she was not so disrespectful. It seemed that the knighthood dealt a heavy blow to the second room.

Su Xin took a cautious look at Shu Ning, and said: "Second Madam is really bold to say this, everyone in the house is gossiping, saying that the Second Master will separate sooner or later."

It is indeed courageous enough, but it seems that it has little to do with their third room.Shu Ning thought for a while, and said to Su Xin: "Don't tell anyone about these things, and don't talk nonsense to your family members. It's other people's business to pass on what others like, don't let others take advantage of you." Su Xin How can you not understand what she means?Immediately responded.

Shuning stayed in the room and thought for a while, seeing that her mother hadn't come back, she was also worried that she would suffer a disaster and was wronged, and felt a little disturbed for a while, so she simply put out the four treasures of the study and copied a few pages of Buddhist scriptures, Let the mood calm down.

As the evening approached, there was a sudden commotion outside the courtyard. Ermo hurriedly asked someone to inquire, but before anyone came back to report, she saw a maid who had gone out with Mrs. Tong rush into the courtyard and shouted outside Shuning's room door. : "Girl, something happened!"

(End of this chapter)