Now that it is the beginning of autumn, the weather is still scorching hot, and a few people are walking scattered on the street, complaining that there will be another drought this year.
Unexpectedly, when the sun set, the originally clear and boundless sky suddenly sounded a thunderclap, and then fell one by one raindrops, and it became a splash in a short time.
The huge Anqing Marquis Mansion was like a defeated beast, curled up quietly in the rain.
The rapid rain washed the roof tiles and smashed them to the ground, and it was a foggy cloud of fog, and the blurred nose and eyes were all gone.
At the second gate, a girl of twelve or thirteen years old and a girl in a purple short skirt and a plain dress was struggling to walk in the rain, the oil-paper umbrella in her hand was half offset by the strong wind, and half of her body was drenched in the rain, but she still cared about the coarse cloth burden in her other hand.
Thinking that it was difficult to travel in the rain, she ran with her head bored, and inadvertently collided with the person from the opposite side.
The girl screamed, took two steps back and stood still, only to feel that the Venus in her eyes was rising, but the voice of reproach in her ears had already come: "The hooves that don't have long eyes, rushing to reincarnate can't be done!"
” The girl didn't care about the umbrella that fell to the ground, wiped a handful of wet forehead hair, looked intently, there were several people in front of her, the two in the middle, a middle-aged woman dressed in an old cyan bikina, dark green skirt, neatly combed sideburns, surrounded by dark purple silk to cover her eyebrows, it was the powerful mother Chen next to the eldest lady.
The one who taught the lesson was a tall girl next to Chen's mother, wearing a lotus lotus purple embroidered pipa cardigan, who was a powerful apricot girl beside the fourth wife.
The girl's eyes flashed with fear, and then she made an apology: "I beg my mother and sisters to forgive me, the little one just went to the concierge to get something, but I didn't want it to rain, I was afraid that I would get drenched and go in a hurry, and I would collide with my mother and sister's car." ” Qingxing untied the silk handkerchief and nodded on her lips, and looked at the girl who was originally the magenta next to the third girl in the second room, the color on her face did not ease, she shaved her eyebrows slightly, and said: "It turned out to be you, this time I don't serve your girl well in the house, what are you running around?"
What is this to take and see?
” Magenta knew that she had always been domineering, so she handed the burden in her hand forward a little, and said: "My girl has been taking bitter medicine for the past few days, and she remembered to eat sour plums in the west of the city, and she entrusted Xiao Zhang's steward to carry half a catty back when she went to handle the goods. ” Qingxing uncovered the coarse cloth and saw that the package was covered with some leaves to avoid the rain, so she didn't open it again to take a closer look, but only chuckled and said: "I just think it's a rare thing, but the little manager is stingy, I informed our wife in Ming'er, and bought a few catties for the girl to come back." ” Mother Chen didn't answer this, but turned her head to look at Qingxing and said, "Look, it's not early, let's hurry up and see the girl, so that we can go back and report to the masters." ” Qingxing just finished talking, and said to Magenta, who had just picked up the umbrella, "It turned out that my wife went to talk to the eldest lady and talked about the girl's illness, and when she saw that it was raining, she sent us to see the girl." ” Magenta was busy, and walked in front to lead the way, and the group went to Longfu Ju, where the second room lived.
This Longfu residence was originally a few houses in the west of the Hou Mansion, only because the second master suddenly had a bad illness when he was young, and the high fever did not go away, and the old Hou Ye personally sought medical treatment for him and did not see well.
It's a pity that the second old man burned so many days at a young age, and he was stupid, he couldn't do academics, and he could barely take care of his own life, thanks to the old marquis who took care of him for many years, and then hired the second daughter of Zhou Dingfang's family, a medical officer of the Tai Hospital, Zhou's gentle and respectful, and the old marquis had a lot of maintenance, and Zhou gave birth to a son and a daughter one after another after entering the door, and the girl was the third girl.
After a while, everyone had already stepped on the platform and entered the eaves, and Zhou had always been cautious, and did not dare to put up a shelf, but greeted him.
Chen's mother and Qing Xing gave a slight salute.
Qingxing Fang said with a smile: "My wife saw that it was raining, and the weather was getting colder, thinking that the third girl had not yet recovered from the wind and cold, and she was afraid that she would be rained again, and she would be seriously ill. ” Zhou's background was not high, and he was raised in his grandmother's house in the countryside since he was a child, otherwise a good girl's family would not be married to a fool, and now she smiled and thanked: "Thank you sister-in-law and four brothers and sisters for worrying, and the girl is much better." ” Mother Chen smiled slightly: "This is good, the third girl is auspicious, and the fourth wife doesn't have to worry too much."
He said a simple sentence and said no more.
Qingxing said again: "If the third girl is unwell, my wife should not go outside, just send someone to inform my wife." ” Zhou's only promised and sent the two out of Baoxia.
Magenta saw the two of them go out of the yard, so she took the burden and went back to the bottom of the third girl.
The room was small, but with only a few pieces of furniture, it looked empty.
The furniture in the house is a gloomy and old-fashioned sandalwood beech, and there is a six-pillar shelf bed with a beech wood four-fold ruyi pattern in the corner, a large cabinet at the head of the bed, and the paint at the foot of the cabinet has fallen off a few pieces, like a terminally ill old man.
There was a small silver hanging by the south window, boiling medicine, and an old woman in green clothes stood by, drowsy, everything was so old-fashioned and heavy.
The bed of rose-pink embroidered koi and lotus plays with lotus slightly shows the real age of the owner of this room.
Seeing this, Magenta felt even more angry in her heart, walked to the smoke cage and took a change of clean clothes, lifted the curtain and entered the compartment, complaining: "There are no tigers in the mountains, and the monkey is called the king."
It turns out that this is true, but now in this house, the surname is Yao," the voice came through the curtain, and his tone was still full of indignation: "Really, our master can be regarded as a concubine, and the fourth master is just a concubine, and now the wife has to accompany the next maid under the fourth wife......
She said this endlessly, but she also told the situation of the Marquis of Anqing.
The old marquis Xu Hongxian was originally a white body, from Qingzhou Mansion to escape all the way to Haozhou, just in time to catch up with Emperor Taizu Gao's Northern Expedition, he joined the army to follow Taizu to start an incident, because he stole a few words in the private school, and since he was a child, he learned the water geography of Qingzhou, and was rewarded for his meritorious service all the way, and was awarded the title of Marquis.
Taizu Shenzhi, wanted to marry the daughter of the king of Changsha Zhending, but learned that the old marquis had a wife Liu in his hometown, and had two sons, and the matter had to be stopped, who knew that later Liu suddenly fell ill and couldn't afford to go west, a few months later.
Taizu still promised the county lord of Zhending, and Liu's mother was afraid that her two grandsons would be bullied, so she married Liu's sister to make a second room.
Thanks to the fact that the county lord of Zhending has a measure, the husband who has not entered the door has asked for the second room first, and the wife of the second room is called Aunt Jin, and it hurts like flesh and blood for the two sons.
After the county lord of Zhending married into the mansion, he was happy to ignore it, only teaching his husband and children, and managing the Hou Mansion.
Although the old marquis is in harmony with the lord of Zhending County, he also feels ashamed of his wife, and invites a famous teacher to teach the two sons to read, the eldest son is keen and studious, and he can read through the historical records at the age of ten, and the second son is also very clever.
Who knew that the eldest son was thirteen years old because he couldn't sleep at night reading, and the next day he contracted a cold, which gradually did not heal, and even contracted tuberculosis, so he married the Jiang family who was married from his fingertips, and who knew that the new daughter-in-law passed the door for three days, and the eldest son returned to the west, leaving the eldest wife alone to be widowed.
He also said that the second son burned his brain due to a high fever not long after, and his mind was far inferior to ordinary people.
After the county lord of Zhending passed through the door, he successively gave birth to the eldest girl Xu Zhaoqing, the third lord Xu Zhaokuan and the fifth lord Xu Zhaorui, and the little Liu family, that is, Aunt Jin, gave birth to the fourth lord Xu Zhaojia, and the title naturally fell on the third lord of the county lord of Zhending.
To say that the third lord Xu Zhaokuan attacked the lord, not only by virtue of his background, but also by virtue of his background, the bishop of Zhending County has a good son, Xu Zhaokuan and Xu Zhaorui are both good in character and learning, Xu Zhaokuan entered the court by the ancestors, and all the way to the military department.
In contrast, Xu Zhaojia, the fourth master produced by Aunt Jin, is unsatisfactory, usually greedy and lustful, extravagant, and has no weather at all.
Now the rebellion of Xishu, the general of Dingyuan, the British Duke Chuqi, was ordered to march westward, and the three old men led the Xuanwei envoy to Datong on behalf of the British Duke, called Xuanwei, but in fact it was also a guard.
The third lady is the daughter of Xuande Hou Yang Shoucheng, this time the emperor is gracious, and the third lady can go to Xuanfu with the army, so the fourth lady is in charge of Cebu at home.
The girl's complaint became louder and louder, waking up the old mother who was dozing next to Yao Chozi, and the mother interrupted her by saying, "Don't say these words again, let the wife and the girl hear it, and it won't make them sad." ” This mother is Zhou's mother, Liang's mother, who has been affectionate since she was a child, and she couldn't be more kind, because Zhou wanted to take care of the little master personally, so she was sent over, and she was a very stable and proper person.
Magenta Fang restrained a little, lifted the curtain and stretched her neck to look at the big bed in the corner, seeing that the rose pink embroidered tent shook slightly, revealing a fleshy little hand, she subconsciously took two steps forward, hesitated for a moment and then withdrew her feet, just pouted and lowered the curtain.
Liang's mother had already stood up to greet her, took the placket paddy field clothes on the beech hanger in her hand, dressed the little girl on the bed, and muttered: "Why did the girl wake up after sleeping for a while," as she spoke, she stretched out her hand to test the temperature on the little girl's forehead, and showed a little joy on her face: "Poor man, the fever has finally subsided, and the old slave will go to tell his wife." ” The little girl is Xu Jinghe, the third girl of the Marquis of Anqing.
She quickly got dressed, walked slowly to the window on her short legs, and looked out the window at the rain that was gradually collecting.