from widow to dame

Chapter 116

Su Huiniang took a look, and saw a fist-sized grass cage in her daughter's hand, inside which a yellow-green grasshopper was chirping non-stop.

"Where did you get this?" Noticing that the corners of Sister Yuan's skirt were messy, she couldn't help but stare and said, "Could it be that you got yourself on the ground to catch it again."

After hearing this, Sister Yuan straightened her small breasts proudly, and nodded happily: "Yes! Yes! I caught it, mother, look at how big it is!" It looked like I was amazing.

"You, you don't look like a girl at all." Su Huiniang shook her head, and patted her daughter's little head: "It's okay to be crazy at your own house, why go crazy at someone else's house, I'm not afraid of you Aunt Shen and Xi Sister and they joked."

Sister Yuan raised her head and said mischievously: "Mother, do you know? My victory general (the grasshopper's name) won against Tan Wei's little overlord. It's amazing!"

Su Huiniang laughed and said, "Tan Wei is younger than you, yet he actually bullies my younger brother."

"Cut... Who told him to say that his little overlord is the most powerful grasshopper in the world, but my victorious general is!"

When children are together, they will inevitably have some conflicts of loyalty, and Su Huiniang doesn't care when she hears this.Let the servant girl serve her daughter to freshen up and wash, and when she came back, she had already changed into a neat short shirt.

The mother and daughter were sitting on the mat and talking, but mostly it was Sister Yuan who was talking, and Su Huiniang listened with a smile.As children grow up, some character traits will involuntarily show up.Sister Yuan is a very cheerful girl, with a domineering temper and not submissive enough, but she has a good heart. Su Huiniang has never asked her daughter to become a lady of the family by that standard. She only hopes that her daughter can be carefree After living a wonderful childhood, as long as Su Huiniang's bottom line is not touched, she will never stop such things as climbing trees, catching insects, and running wildly all over the yard. Under this kind of "herding sheep" education, Sister Yuan is growing up happily.

"... There is a little girl surnamed Jun." Sister Yuan happily talked about what she had seen and heard when she was a guest at the Tan family: "It seems to be an orphan girl from Mrs. Tan's natal family. People call her Cousin."

When Su Huiniang heard this, her heart couldn't help but move: "Oh, there is such a thing? Tell mother about it."

Seeing that her mother was interested, Sister Yuan immediately "remembered" her vigorously: "It looks like she is a year younger than me, she looks quite white and thin, um, I don't like her."

Su Huiniang raised her eyebrows and asked, "Why?"

"Because she always has a, um, shrunken expression, as if someone bullied her, and she is especially able to cry, even for little things!" Sister Yuan shrugged her mouth and showed an indignant expression: "My As soon as General Victory killed Xiaobawang, she started to cry beside her. She also said that I was too cruel, how pitiful Xiaobawang is... Huh, my victory was also fought with my life on the line!!!”

This Junbiao girl is probably the woman in Tan Weixin's previous life who could never let go.For some reason, Su Huiniang's heart suddenly filled with curiosity. When she married, this cousin girl passed away. She was fighting a dead man, and she never fought in the end.She also thought secretly, what kind of woman could make Tan Wei miss her all her life?Hearing this from my daughter today, I couldn't help but become even more curious.

The mother and daughter were talking, when Cui'er, who had been guarding outside, suddenly walked in. Seeing that her complexion was not good, Su Huiniang couldn't help straightening herself up, and asked calmly, "What's wrong?"

"Ma'am, the Marquis of Yongping came to report that the old lady just left!"

"What?" Su Huiniang couldn't help being slightly stunned when she heard this.The wife of the Yan family is as strong as her bones, so how could she just say no.But if you want to come to Yongpinghou's mansion, you won't lie about this kind of thing, Su Huiniang immediately ordered: "Immediately send someone to Wucheng Bingmasi to inform the master that I found Xiaoyi Baifan from the warehouse. Sister Yuan, you and Let's go together."

The sudden news broke the leisure time of the mother and daughter, and the whole mansion began to move, but within a quarter of an hour, Su Huiniang and her daughter boarded the carriage to Yongpinghou Mansion.

"When you get to the place, just follow Mother, kneel when you need to, and cry when you need to cry. Well... this is a bag of onions, you secretly put it in your sleeve, if you can't cry, just gently wipe your eyes, But it must be done secretly, and must not be discovered by others.”

Sister Yuan obediently took the things her mother handed to her, and then quietly asked: "Mother, um, is great-grandmother dead?"

Su Huiniang nodded, considering that she already understood what death was at her age.For Mrs. Yan, neither Su Huiniang nor Sister Yuan are really very familiar with each other. Except for the few necessary visits every year, the two families have always maintained a relationship of mutual respect like "ice".Most of Su Huiniang's impression of Mrs. Yan was learned from Yan Hongzhen's mouth. "Mean and eccentric" are the two most frequently mentioned words on his lips, which shows how disgusted he is with this grandmother.

The carriage rolled, and arrived at Yongping Hou Mansion two quarters of an hour later. At this time, white sails and hemp tents were hung at the gate of the Hou Mansion. Seeing Su Huiniang coming, the big housekeeper who was standing at the gate of the mansion hurriedly greeted her. Su Huiniang made adjustments. With an expression on his face, he pulled his daughter out of the car and walked all the way into the inner hall. Sure enough, he saw that a mourning hall had already been set up, and a large pure black coffin was parked in the very center of the room. Shi, Wen Shi, Yan Tingyi.Yan Chengran, Zhu's, Yan Hongchun from the second room, and Qi from the third room all came again.Everyone was wearing sackcloth and filial piety, and their faces were sad. Su Huiniang quietly squeezed her daughter's little hand, wiped her eyes, and cried, "Grandmother..."

"Why didn't you see Hongzhen?" After a while, when Su Huiniang was almost "crying", Qi said in a reproachful tone: "On weekdays, his grandmother was strict with him, but that was also for him. Looking forward to it deeply, could it be that he felt resentment in his heart, so he refused to come back to attend the funeral even when the old man passed away?"

"Mother misunderstood!" Su Huiniang looked at Mrs. Qi and said bluntly, "Hongzhen is already on his way now."

If not, after about half a cup of tea, Yan Hongzhen, who had not had time to take off his official uniform, rode over on his horse. He glanced at his wife and daughter, and then flicked his hem, plopping. Kneeling on the ground, facing the coffin with a "sorrowful" voice, he called out: "Grandmother, grandson is late." I'm afraid they have to think that they have a lot of grandparents and grandchildren!

There are rules and procedures for the death of Mrs. Hou's wife.However, it is strange to say that the Qi family is in the name of being a widow and should not intervene, the Yu family also looks like he will quit, the Zhu family is uneducated and can't make up his mind, and the serious Yongping Hou's current wife Wen's It's unstoppable, Su Huiniang stayed here for a while, and she could see that if this spiritual matter was to continue like this, the Yongping Hou Mansion would definitely become a joke of the entire Shangjing.After thinking about it again and again, Su Huiniang offered to help, which saved Mrs. Zhu and received a lot of gratitude.

Su Huiniang is very organized in her work, and she is well aware of the hurdles involved. She is handy in handling things, and quickly figured out a process, but when she asked for money from the government, she was rejected. Mrs. Yongpinghou Wen's Ai Ai told her that the family can only take out 800 taels of silver at most, and they can't get any more.Su Huiniang choked when she heard this, and immediately called Mrs. Zhu to ask what happened, but the news she got made her feel ridiculous.

It turned out that Mrs. Tai would "return to the West" so soon, which was also related to this.

"...The old lady just had a cold at first, and the mansion boiled ginseng to replenish her body, but who would have thought that after taking it for many days, she would not see any improvement. Later, the doctor came to see it, and said directly, those ginseng, bird's nest, snow lotus and so on are all fake. The old lady was even more furious when she heard this, and she ordered people to conduct a thorough investigation, and after all the investigations, the big house was found." Zhu said that there was also a strong hatred on his face. : "It turned out that the old man did it. He made actors outside, raised fans, and gambled with others. He spent 60 taels of silver in just one month. When the money in his pocket was gone, he played the public's money." In the end, even the famous medicines in stock were secretly replaced with Xibei products... After the old lady knew everything, she was so angry that she suddenly had a stroke, and she was useless in the evening."

The corners of Su Huiniang's mouth twitched when she heard this.

What is evil, this is called evil, which mother's stall has such a son, it is really "terrible".

"I can't blame any of you for not taking over this matter." Su Huiniang looked at her quietly: "Emotions are waiting for me to take the initiative to jump in!"

Mrs. Zhu's face turned red instantly when she heard this, thinking how many people had taken care of her family in the past, but she didn't even communicate the news beforehand, so she couldn't help but said with shame and shame: "Hongzhen's daughter-in-law, my aunt knows this. I did something wrong, but, but I can't do anything about it, they said, if you don't want to take over, then ask our second room to handle it, woo woo..."

Su Huiniang looked at her crying on the ground out of breath, and shook her head slightly, the so-called poor people must have something to hate, and Zhu's pity is not due to her weakness?

But the matter has come to this point, it is useless to say more, since Su Huiniang has taken the matter into her hands, there is absolutely no reason to give up halfway.

(End of this chapter)