Good morning Mr. Zhongtang

Chapter 18

Tong Xianrou's marriage caused the Fucha family to make a fuss for more than half a month before they finally stopped.

Mrs. Li has been called by Mrs. Guarjia these days, calling her to help, but in fact it is all kinds of showing off, all kinds of irritability, which annoys Mrs. Li at the same time, but at the same time, she can't push her around.

Because Tong Wanrou is a junior, some occasions can be avoided, but soon after Tong Xianrou got married, in the name of Mrs. Sixth Young Master, she hosted a banquet for all the peers in the mansion.

Naturally, Tong Wanrou was also invited. Looking at Tong Xianrou's maids waiting on her left and right, the pearls and jade hairpin rings, the cloud bun and beautiful temples, she was much more luxurious than when she was at Tong's house. Tong Xianrou always looked shorter when she saw herself in the past. He took the lead in calling her his younger sister, but now that she flew up the branch, she still gave Tong Wanrou a lot of embarrassment.

Because she is the wife of the Sixth Young Master, she is also Tong Wanrou's older sister in the Tong family's hierarchy, so after Tong Wanrou went to the banquet, she stared at Tong Wanrou everywhere, asking her to pass her something for a while, and asking Tong Wanrou to show her Makeup, by the way, let her help those precious pearls and hairpins on her head. The two of them seem to be intimate and sisterly, but a discerning person can still smell the meaning of private resentment.

Presumably it must be that when Tong Wanrou was in the Tong family, the identity of the concubine's daughter was there. Although Tong Xianrou was an older sister, she was a concubine. Naturally, she couldn't compare to Tong Wanrou in terms of food and clothing. As the first wife, isn't this arrogance coming up?

Everyone watched closely all the way, wanting to see when Tong Wanrou couldn't help but explode. If the two sisters of the Tong family turned against each other, they would have a good show to watch. However, Tong Wanrou was like a piece of wood. There was no big reaction, and she did what she said, and what she did was very appropriate, so that no one could find the slightest mistake or omission.

Until the end of the banquet, Tong Wanrou didn't even bother to drink her saliva. After seeing the guests leave the courtyard, Tong Xianrou turned cold towards Tong Wanrou, and said to Tong Wanrou with a superior attitude:
"Doesn't it feel good to be trampled underfoot? I really want to thank you for giving up such a good opportunity and letting me pick it up. Do you regret it?"

Tong Wanrou smiled gently: "I don't regret it. This is my life."

Tong Xianrou snorted coldly, lowered her head arrogantly and lifted up her sleeves, intentionally or unintentionally exposed the two white jade bracelets on her wrists, then turned the rings on her fingertips with her bright red nails like cardamom, and looked at the rings behind her. The serving maid stared, and the two maids who followed from Tong's house brought her ceramic incense burner and smoked it on both sides of her clothes for a while.

As if deliberately showing Tong Wanrou the number of servant girls behind her, the Tong family followed two, and the Guarjia family arranged four more for her, adding up to a total of six servant girls, who only waited on her while she was walking. The ostentation is indeed what a concubine's wife should have, but in Tong Xianrou's view, all of this was originally Tong Wanrou's, but with her outstanding ability, she took it all over and made it her own. The pride in this is different.

In the past, she felt that Tong Wanrou's temper was too meek, and she always pretended to be indifferent and noble, but she was not suppressed by her. Now she, Tong Xianrou, has become a first wife. As long as her husband's official career is smooth, When the family is separated in the future, she will be the mistress of the house, but what about Tong Wanrou?
Hmph, she's just the wife of a petty official, what else can she do?
Thinking of this, Tong Xianrou glanced at Tong Wanrou up and down with sympathetic and schadenfreude eyes, and then Tingting lingered, and Pingting, who didn't even say hello, left, ignoring Tong Wanrou who was standing in the hall.

Seeing her entering, Tong Wanrou let out a deep breath and walked out of the main courtyard.

Back in the side courtyard, I saw that Mrs. Li, who used to love to tend the flowers and plants in the garden, had disappeared. There was a book basket outside the flower hall. The sunshade cloth above the book basket was worn out, as if it had been exposed to the sun for a while. Baptized by wind and rain.Next to the book basket was a walking stick that didn't look like a walking stick, and something that didn't look like useless wood.

Tong Wanrou walked to the flower hall and saw her mother-in-law, Li Shi, serving dishes attentively. It was already past noon, and it should not be time for meals. Tong Wanrou saw an old man with sixtieth hair sitting on the other side of her mother-in-law's attentive , with long braids coiled behind his head, his forehead is shiny and not slippery, although he is not tall, he looks solid, and his hands are stretched out, but there are no calluses, which is enough to show that this old man is not a farmer.

Seeing her walk in, Mrs. Li smiled and waved to her, saying:
"Come and pay respects to Grandfather."

It was only then that Tong Wanrou realized that this old man turned out to be the father of her mother-in-law and the grandfather of Xianggong Fu Heng. She hurriedly stepped forward, knelt down to Yingying, who was eating, and made a real kowtow.

The old man quickly put down his chopsticks, wiped his hands on his body, then raised his hand to Tong Wanrou, and said, "Hey, it can't be helped, get up quickly, kid."

Tong Wanrou just stood up.I was just wondering, I had also heard that my mother-in-law was from Jiangnan, and my grandfather's official family was small, but he was also a decent official family, but now it seems that this grandfather has no official appearance in his body.

But regardless of whether the grandfather is an official or not, even if he is just an ordinary farmer, Tong Wanrou's proper etiquette cannot be missed.

After meeting her grandpa, Tong Wanrou naturally took the jug from Mrs. Li's hand, and stood beside her, serving her grandpa to drink and eat.

During the conversation, Tong Wanrou finally found out that her grandfather's name was Li Zheng, he was the censor of Jiangnan Dao, and he was an official of the fifth grade.

Li Zheng seemed to have not finished his rice for many days. He only spoke to Li Shi and Tong Wanrou when he was chewing. The rest of the time, he was gobbling. He would eat what Li Shi gave him, and Tong Wanrou gave him. Pour a glass of wine, and he drinks one.

After eating for half an hour, he held his chubby belly and shook his hand at the steamed stuffed bun that Mrs. Li handed over:

"Don't eat, don't eat, I can't eat anymore."

Only then did Mrs. Li order someone to clean up the wind-swept tabletop, and ordered someone to make a pot of fragrant tea, and asked Li Zheng to sit on the grand teacher's chair.

Tong Wanrou helped clean up the dishes, and then stood behind Li Shi to see if she could help with serving or something. Li Zheng looked at her again and again, and finally nodded in satisfaction with Li Shi, and said sincerely:

"Heng'er, this daughter-in-law, I think well."

Li's face was proud, and he said in his mouth: "Wan Rou is also blessed to be praised by the old man's mean mouth."

When Li Zheng heard his daughter burying him like this, he immediately became unhappy: "Hey, what are you talking about, old man, is my mouth so bad?"

Mrs. Li covered her lips with a handkerchief and smiled, Li Zheng muttered a few words in his mouth, then picked up the tea and drank it, and asked while drinking:
"How is your life? It's been so many years, and you're still a concubine. What did I tell you? Why do we have to get married?"

Mrs. Li lowered her head and did not speak, her demeanor was that of a little girl who would not speak back even if her father scolded her. Seeing her like this, Li Zheng couldn't say much, so he sighed greatly.

At this moment, Fu Heng came back wearing the official mansion with soldiers printed on his chest. He took off his hat and walked towards Li Zheng. He saluted Li Zheng as he walked. , Fu Heng came to him, handed the hat to Tong Wanrou naturally, then took Li Zheng's hand and asked:

"When did Grandpa come, why didn't you let me know in advance, so that I can pick you up."

When Li Zheng smiled, flowers bloomed on his swarthy face, with creases all over, showing the marks left by the years on his face.

"What are you picking up! I know my family by myself, but I'm so hungry, your mother prepared food for me when I came, and I said don't ask anyone to notify you, your mother shouted really fast."

Hearing Li Zheng's words, Fu Heng smiled all over his face. It could be seen that he loved this grandfather very much. From the moment he entered the door to now, he never took his hands off his grandfather.

"Father, look at what you said. You finally went back to Beijing. If I don't call him, he will blame me when he comes back. I have become a bad person who hinders the meeting between your grandparents and grandchildren."

Knowing that they have a good relationship, Mrs. Li joked in the middle.

Fu Hengqi said: "What's the matter with my grandfather returning to the capital?"

When Li Zheng heard Fu Heng's question, the smile on his face subsided a little, and gradually became more serious, he nodded and said, "Yes, there is something."

Fu Heng saw that he looked a little strange, Li Zheng saw him staring at him, so he stood up from the grand master's chair, pointed to Fu Heng in the direction of the study, and then the grandfather and grandson walked out of the flower hall together, when Li Zheng went to the study , and picked up his broken book basket from outside the flower hall, and carried them to the study together.

Tong Wanrou looked at Mrs. Li in confusion, and asked, "What's the matter with Mr. Xianggong and grandpa? It's mysterious."

Mrs. Li shook her head: "Who knows, the two of them are always so secretive, sometimes they go to the study to talk for hours, and they don't even remember to come out to eat."

"..."

Tong Wanrou placed Fu Heng's hat squarely on the long table. Li Shi remembered that she went to the main room for a banquet at noon, and she probably didn't eat well, so she walked over and gave Tong Wanrou a big smile, and said:
"I'm not full at noon. I'll cook a bowl of noodles for you."

Tong Wanrou rubbed her belly, remembering that she hadn't eaten until now, although she felt a little embarrassed, but Li Shi was so kind, she couldn't refuse, so she simply accepted:

"Well, good. I have to worry about Lao Niang."

Mrs. Li laughed: "You child, why don't you bother. Mother knows that you have been wronged at noon, so don't take it to your heart, understand? I always believe that Heng'er is definitely not a thing in the pool, he is just missing one A chance to prove himself, as long as he is given a chance, he will be able to rise to the top."

Tong Wanrou knew that Li Shi was afraid of her overthinking, and also afraid that she would regret marrying Fu Heng, so she couldn't help giving her a reassuring smile:

"Mother, I understand. My daughter-in-law also thinks that my husband is definitely not an easy person. From now on, both of us will rely on him to live."

Mrs. Li was amused by her, and patted Tong Wanrou's face twice before turning around and walking out of the flower hall, towards the small kitchen.

(End of this chapter)