common color

Chapter 61

"How can you forget two after learning one?" The old lady asked with a smile when she heard her boasting that her grandson and granddaughter were in a good mood.

Everyone hurriedly replied: "The old lady doesn't know something. Originally, the old slave knew some common characters, but since he learned the characters, he has mixed up his memorization. For example, after learning the character 'dog', he even saw the character 'big'. Not sure. Isn’t this learning one and forgetting two?”

"Hahaha. The old lady always said that the third girl is eloquent, but I didn't expect the old lady's mouth to be so clever." The old lady was happy, and everyone naturally chatted for fun. The second wife looked at the third wife while talking.

The third wife had a smile on her face, but felt uncomfortable in her heart.These days the big house always shows its face, how can it be so easy to catch a woman who bumps into an old lady and just laugh it off like this?
She said with a smile: "Young people are not only smart in mouth, but also smart in body. It's not like someone in their 50s who just swung a stick to chase away mice."

"Where did such a big mouse come from? I was shocked when I glanced at it just now, no wonder they panic." The grandma said with lingering fear.

Nian everyone put away their smiles and replied in panic: "The old slave didn't intend to run into the old lady, but the beast came and chased after it. It got out from the wall of the warehouse, and it may have harmed many good things in it." , the old slave was angry for a while, so he didn't care about it."

The old lady's face changed slightly when she heard that, there were dowry gifts from the Chen family in the storeroom, and there were high-quality mahogany furniture and fabrics inside. It would be terrible if the mice bit them.She immediately lost interest in swimming in the lake, and led everyone to the warehouse not far away.

The old lady took everyone to the storeroom to check the betrothal gift from the Chen family. A trace of panic flashed in the third wife's eyes, but it was suppressed in an instant.

Opening the storeroom, the woman in charge led others to check it first, and found a few small rat cubs.The old lady ordered people to check the wooden furniture and fabrics carefully, but found that a mahogany carved Babu bed, a screen with a picture of a hundred sons engraved on it, and a set of tables and chairs were missing.It's a blessing that other objects were not eaten by mice.

The woman in charge reported back to the old lady, and everyone's eyes were focused on the third wife.Seeing that the third wife was not in a hurry, she replied with a smile: "I saw that the warehouse is too small, so I ordered people to move the furniture that occupied the space to Wangyuan. I have already ordered people to bring the rat poison, and I will invite you later The old lady moved to Wangyuan to have a look."

This statement is quite reasonable. After a while, Mrs. Wu took rat poison and put it everywhere in the warehouse.The big camphor wood box was opened, and some mothballs were put in it.

The third wife told the warehouse guards to be more careful, and if they found a mouse, they would let a cat in.The crowd moved to Wangyuan again, and all the furniture was indeed put in the small warehouse.

The second wife saw a trace of disappointment in her eyes, but said with a smile on her face: "The Chen family attaches great importance to this marriage. Although the betrothal gift they sent is not the best, it is the largest."

Previously, the betrothal gifts from Dingbohou's Mansion and Wailang He's Mansion, a member of the Ministry of Rituals, were mostly precious things. Master Chen was just a sixth-rank Lanling bodyguard who had no roots in the capital, so it was naturally a bit shabby to do so.However, the Chen family put in all their strength, and Ruo Ling didn't feel wronged by one thing on the left and one thing on the right.

Although the third wife didn't want to see Ruoling, mother and daughter, she couldn't let the other second rooms make fun of her.She heard the sarcasm in the second wife's words, and replied with a smile: "The dowry and dowry are just for outsiders to look good. Who can count on these to live? Although Mrs. Chen's family is not a famous family in the capital, it is an out-and-out family." A scholarly family. Mrs. Chen is already a scholar at eighteen. If she can pass the high school this year's autumn exam, she will be a master. It's not impossible for the sixth girl to be blessed to be the wife of the imperial court. By then, your aunt will also be honored."

These words touched the sore spot of the second wife. Her son Han Hao is also eighteen but has not even the slightest degree of fame. This year's autumn exam is considering whether to try it.Now being ridiculed by the third wife, she gritted her teeth and said, "Hao'er has been working very hard recently. He is busy in the shop during the day and reads at night at night, saying that he wants to earn fame and honor his ancestors. I feel sorry for him and I am afraid that he will die I can't stand it, but it's rare that he has grown up in understanding."

"Let the kitchen stew more tonics for Hao'er, don't break down your body. I'll send someone to deliver century-old ginseng to him in a while, so he can make up for it." The old lady was very happy to hear that Han Hao was willing to study hard. The master is separated from her by a layer of belly, but after all, Han Hao is the grandson of the Han family she watched growing up.

The second wife was flattered when she heard the words, she pretended to decline a few words and thanked Han Hao.

After tossing this trip, the old lady's sleepiness was gone, she ordered everyone to disperse, and took Ruoxi back to Rong Shan Tang.

"Oh, I'm old after all, and I'm a little tired after going out and wandering around." She lay on the Arhat bed with her head on one hand and her eyes closed.

Ruoxi lightly put a thin quilt on her body, and heard her softly say: "If one day I'm not here, this family will be divided immediately."

"Grandmother." Ruoxi's eyes flashed when she heard the words, and she said, looking at the old lady's lingering sadness, "Grandmother often reads Buddhist scriptures, so she should know the truth of resignation. There is no permanent banquet in the world, and a family is a family." No matter how far apart they are, they are still connected by blood. As the saying goes, blood is kinship from generation to generation, and broken bones are connected to tendons! Why should grandma worry about the future, and it may not be as grandma guessed."

"You child understands my heart more and more." The old lady opened her eyes, and suddenly smiled, "I have been studying Buddhist scriptures for more than ten years, and I claim to have some knowledge, but now it seems that I am not as good as you. .I can only achieve that my body is a bodhi tree, and my heart is like a mirror stand; I wipe it diligently at all times, so as not to cause dust. But you have no bodhi tree, and the mirror is not a stand.

"Grandmother Miozan, I don't know any Buddhist gatha. It's just that grandma thinks about the whole Han family, and wants everyone to live a good life. If she cares about it, it will be chaotic." Ruoxi hurriedly replied.

The old lady stared at her for a while, then told her to go back and rest, Ruoxi resigned and left.

"Mother Liu, Jiu girl often waits in front of me these days, what do you think of that girl?" She closed her eyes again.

Mama Liu next to her is the old lady's companion. She is about the same age as the old lady and has gray hair all over her head.Her son has a house in the city, and there is Zhuangzi outside the city. She wanted to take her out to enjoy life, but she insisted on staying with the old lady.In the past few years, the old lady didn't treat her like a slave, but talked like a sister.

At this moment Liu Ma was sitting and drinking tea, when she heard the old lady ask and said with a smile: "The old lady is blessed to have such a refined granddaughter as Jiu Yatou. The slaves and servants watched coldly, but the Jiu girl was young but knew very well in her heart. Zhang Yang, there is a sense of propriety in what he says and does. Forgive me for saying something too far, Aunt Zhao was also a smart person back then, but she was not as smart as Nine Girls."

(End of this chapter)