Second-hand lady

Chapter 99

Hearing the girl call her "sister", Ru Cui frowned slightly, and was about to speak when a middle-aged woman jumped out, grabbed her hand and started howling.

"Big girl, my aunt finally sees you. You have suffered all these years, and it is your second uncle who is sorry for you. If your second uncle didn't live up to expectations, you wouldn't..."

Ru Cui looked at the tearful look of the middle-aged woman, crying as if she was her long-lost daughter, she couldn't help but wonder, "Ma'am, who are you? "

"……Uh?"

The middle-aged woman's crying stopped abruptly, and even the girl who was timidly looking at her with the moist eyes of "meeting sisters" choked, her face full of embarrassment.Obviously, this scene should be a touching scene of family reunion, but the other protagonist is obviously a person who doesn't even bother to pretend, embarrassing them who wanted to recognize their relatives.

Rucui pulled back the hand held by the middle-aged woman, and wiped the hand that was caught with a piece of handkerchief as if nothing had happened, before asking the servants to bring refreshments, and asked the guards who escorted them over to ask about the situation.Although she really didn't know them, Rucui didn't really treat them as irrelevant people, just because the guard who escorted them back was a guard beside her husband Wen Liang.

Needless to say, the young girl was seven or eight points similar to her. At first glance, even she herself was a little dazed, but she was very sure that she did not have a younger sister.Look at this young girl, although she is wearing plain and simple clothes, she gives people a sense of pampering and tenderness, while the middle-aged woman looks older than her real age, with the traces of poverty on her face. Even if you wear the best silk and satin, you can't hide the aura of a country woman.

From the guards, we know that the mother and daughter were rescued by Wen Liang during the disaster relief in the south of the Yangtze River.And this was also a coincidence, a plague broke out in Xiajia Village where they lived, and the whole village was quarantined. When the plague broke out, the husband of the middle-aged woman died of the plague. Fearing the plague, the village chief was afraid that they would also be infected with the plague. Originally, he wanted to lock them up and kill them secretly. Naturally, the mother and daughter refused, so the middle-aged woman fled with her daughter. The villagers chased them, and Wen Liang happened to pass by and rescued them.

Needless to say, Wen Liang will save them immediately, because the girls among them are similar in appearance to Ru Cui.At that time, Wen Liang was taking guards to check the disaster situation in the surrounding villages, but he did not expect to encounter such a situation. A group of villagers chased a mother and daughter.

And at that time, the girl just fell at Wen Liang's feet, Wen Liang lowered his head and saw that the girl used Ru Cui's face to make a weak look with misty eyes, even compared to Ru Cui, she really had more ways to say no The amorous feelings he showed made him startled immediately, and he quickly took a few steps back.If it wasn't for knowing that Miss Rucui was raising steamed buns in the capital, Wen Liang's brain would get hot, and he would almost pick up the girl who fell in front of him with compassion and go to the doctor.

After asking about the situation, Wen Liang naturally wouldn't let the village chief take the mother and daughter back, and even went to the village with the imperial doctor and guards to check the spread of the plague.When Wen Liang finally left Xiajia Village, the mother and daughter were added to their group.

Wen Liang went down to the south of the Yangtze River to do business, so naturally he would not bring the old and the weak, women and children to hold him back, so he asked them to take them back to Beijing and throw them to Miss Rucui.

The guard was talking to Ru Cui about the origins of the mother and daughter, when Wen Yanping heard the news and rushed in excitedly.

"Mom, is dad back?"

When she found that there was no Wen Liang in the room, the little girl puffed up her cheeks, but when she found the girl next to her who looked very similar to Ru Cui, Wen Yanping was surprised, "Mother, is this your sister? Didn't you say Did grandpa and grandma die after giving birth to only one daughter of yours?"

Hearing Wen Yanping's words, the middle-aged woman was very displeased. Hearing that she was called Rucui Niangqin, she guessed that she should be the son of Mr. Wen who helped the disaster, so she could only bear her unhappiness.She had inquired clearly along the way, she did not expect that the black and lonely little girl who was bought by her back then would have such good luck, she even married Wen Liang, the grand master of the dynasty, not to mention, she was also the daughter-in-law of the Zhen Guogong's mansion Well, this status is distinguished. When she came out just now, the maids and nurses who surrounded her were extremely majestic. No matter what, she had to flatter her.

The girl had a relatively thin skin, she blushed slightly, and stood there awkwardly, not daring to speak.

Ru Cui stroked the little girl's hair, and said with a smile, "Actually, I don't know who they are, I'm about to ask."

Hearing this, without waiting for the guards to explain, the middle-aged woman hurriedly said: "Big girl, have you really forgotten your aunt? The old Xia family in our Xiajia Village, your father is Xia Dashu, your mother's name is Taohua, and your nickname is Taohua. My name is Da Niu, and her first name is Cui Ru. When you were born, your aunt was still holding you. When you were three years old, your parents passed away one after another, and your second uncle took you home to raise you. You are too hard to live on, and you will not be taken out of the village by Liu Yazi. Liu Yazi clearly said that he took you to the town to be the maid of the lady's family, but who would have thought that this black-hearted thing would go back on his word and take you to the village? We never heard from you again when we arrived in other places..."

The middle-aged woman spoke affectionately, and at this point, she began to wipe the tears from her eyes with an old handkerchief.The girl next to her obviously heard her mother say this for the first time, her almond eyes widened, and she looked a little surprised.It seems that in her heart, she probably has never heard about her cousin.

The housekeeper, Uncle Ming, looked at the excited middle-aged woman, and then at Ru Cui, and found that she was sitting on the upper seat with a cold expression, and without even moving her eyebrows, he signaled the rest of the servants to go out with great winking. , Even the guard who came to report the letter was dismissed, leaving only himself and Ru Cui's personal maid to serve.

The middle-aged woman was still talking excitedly, she didn't notice all this, but the young girl noticed, the uneasiness on her face deepened, and she was even a little ashamed.

"Big girl, those people are really too much. They actually bullied no one in our old Xia family. If your second uncle hadn't contracted the cold and passed away, how could our orphans and widowed mothers be bullied like this? Big girl, you are different now." , you have to decide for your aunt and your sister..."

After she cried and told a paragraph, Ru Cuifang said: "I remember, you are indeed Auntie. However, I seem to remember that it was Auntie who made the decision to sell me to the boy."

"What? Is there such a thing?" Wen Yanping glared angrily, with a dagger in hand, his sleeves flicked, and he stared at the middle-aged woman with a murderous look.

The middle-aged woman stared stiffly at the dagger that was glowing with cold light, but she didn't dare to regard it as a child's plaything, so she quickly laughed and said, "No, no, at that time, Auntie, like your second uncle, didn't want to let it go. Liu Yazi took you away, but our family really can't get rid of it, and your brother Zhuzi is very sick again, and needs money to buy medicine, there is really no way..." There was another burst of crying, and at the same time secretly watching Ru Cui's complexion made her afraid that she would have a lump in her heart and throw the mother and daughter out.

Rucui listened for a long time, then Fang said: "So that's the case, by the way, is this the younger sister of the second uncle's family? What's her name?"

Seeing the smile on Rucui's face, Aunt Xia was overjoyed, she quickly pulled her daughter over, and said, "This is Xiangru, and her nickname is Xiaoniu. Both of you sisters look like your grandma. I heard that your grandma is our daughter. The most beautiful girl in Xiajia Village, when she married your grandfather, your grandfather was envied by many people in the village..."

Seeing that she was about to chatter again, Rucui interrupted her, "Auntie, where is Brother Zhuzi?"

Aunt Xia's face froze, then she whimpered, wiped her tears and said, "Three years ago, your Brother Zhu Zi got sick and passed away. He just married a wife and left before leaving a drop of blood for our old Xia family. Let us white-haired people send black-haired people, it really hurts our hearts and lungs. Your second uncle also fell ill because of Zhuzi's death, and his health is getting worse. This year, our village also had a flood. Not long after the flood receded, the old people in the village The children are getting sick, and even if you have money, you can’t hire a doctor or buy medicine, your second uncle couldn’t bear it, so he went away..."

Rucui's face showed sadness, and the atmosphere in the room seemed stagnant for a while, and the girl named Xiangru saw her mother crying, and her eyes were red too.

After a long while, Ru Cuifang said: "Everything is over, my aunt and sister have worked hard all the way. Come here, take my aunt down to wash and rest."

Seeing Rucui's soft attitude, Aunt Xia finally felt relieved, and happily dragged her daughter away with the maid.

After the Xia family's mother and daughter left, Ru Cui called the guard in again to ask Wen Liang's situation in Jiangnan, and what he meant by sending the mother and daughter here.According to Ru Cui's heart, she doesn't want to recognize any relatives at all, even if the cousin looks very similar to her, she can't produce any joy.

Don't say that she didn't care about family affection. Although she was very young at the time, she still remembered her aunt's face very clearly, and she almost regarded her as an oil bottle for nothing, and wished she would disappear immediately.When Liu Yazi came, she hid aside and heard her aunt talking to Liu Yazi clearly. The aunt said to Liu Yazi that she hoped to sell her far away, and it would be best not to see her again in this life. Don't worry about her life or death, as long as she crawls It would be fine if she didn't go back to Xiajia Village, that's why she was sold to the capital in the end.

"Your Excellency is a bit busy on weekdays, but you are in good health and there is nothing wrong. Your Excellency just asked his subordinates to send them back and did not order anything else." The guard replied honestly.In fact, Wen Liang was so busy at that time that he didn't have the mood to care about the mother and daughter. If it wasn't for Ru Cui's face, he wouldn't bother to pay attention to them. Later, thinking about Ru Cui's life experience, he thought maybe she would He wanted to see his family, so he sent them to the capital.

After asking some more information, he said, "Did Mr. Wen say when he will be back?"

Naturally, the guards couldn't answer. It depended on when the situation in Jiangnan could be brought under control, and then they had to give the emperor an order. The emperor would only come back after approval, so he had to wait.

After seeing the guards leave, Wen Yanping twisted his waist, and said angrily: "Mother, these old women are uneasy and kind, let's beat them out."

Ru Cui patted her on the head and said: "No, this is sent by your father, you have to give him face."

"Mother, I don't like this old woman, and even though that woman looks like you, but she looks uneasy and kind, I hate it too. Mother, why don't we deal with them directly before father comes back?" Wen Yan Ping opened a pair of beautiful eyes, but said very outrageous words on his mouth.

"Don't talk nonsense, if you let your father know that you have such thoughts, you will have to invite a few more nuns to teach you how to behave." Ru Cui laughed.

Hearing this, Wen Yanping became sleepy, what she was most afraid of now was the foster mother in the palace, she was about to vomit blood after learning the rules.However, she still hated the mother and daughter. Needless to say, the old woman would be the first to not forgive her if she dared to sell her mother.As for the other woman, Wen Yanping would never admit that she used Rucui's face to make that timid expression, which really made her goosebumps dance, it was so scary!So decided to hate her!

(End of this chapter)