Chapter 48 Loyal and brave maidservant, causing rumors

Three years ago, the crown princess and the Zhen clan, the grandfather of Zhen Si Niang, died of illness at the age of seventy-six. In that year, the crown princess and the prince have been married for more than three years. Zhen Si Niang is just 14 years old and has not yet reached her.

Although Mr. Zhen has been an official for many years, his reputation still exists. In addition, he is the direct grandfather of the crown princess, so the funeral was held very grandly. The mourners have endless exchanges, and all the people in the Zhen family have been sent away, which is very busy.

No one expected that when Mr. Zhen was lost, most of the servants were transferred to the mourning hall while the house was understaffed. The back house was empty, but Zhen's fourth wife and her brother-in-law, today, the prince met in a secluded courtyard in the house and was inadvertently smashed by the maid Du Yu. She happened to see the lingering love between them and hugging and kissing each other. Jing, in shock, Du Yu broke a plum bottle by mistake, which shocked the pair of mandarin ducks and both moved their murderous intentions!

Du Yu woke up and walked away. He cried all the way to Mrs. Zhen, claiming that he had ruined Si Niang's beloved thing and was willing to be severely punished...

Zhen Si Niang was worried about being forced to be too cruel. Instead, she revealed the scandal and pushed the boat along the water. She spared Du Yu's life, but insisted on selling her.

Du Yu entered the wind and dust and was almost humiliated to death. With the help of the son of the king of Chu, he recommended her to join the Five Alliance.

Over the years, Du Yu's resentment and fear have been increasing day by day, so he often pays attention to Zhen Siniang. It is not difficult to find that she has taken the opportunity to go to Shuilian'an to enter the incense on the 15th of every month, and has repeatedly met with the prince.

-It has been several days since I learned about this, and there is still a kind of confusion that I can't believe.

Since the founding of the country, the folk customs have been much more open than the previous dynasty - the "male and female defense" is not as strict as in the Eastern Ming Dynasty. For example, there are well-known Langjun and his wife, who have the permission of their elders and travel together. When they go to poetry and tea parties together, they even hold banquets in the palace, and occasionally allow noble children to "get to know each other" with their talents. With the help of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, there is no elegant thing to gently express admiration. If the two sides have the same heart and get the permission of the elders in the family, they can achieve a good story. Even if there is no result in the end, the world will laugh, which is nothing to hurt the reputation.

Of course, those who conceal the "you meetings" of their elders and receive them privately are still not tolerated by the etiquette.

Just like Zhen Siniang and the prince, it is really immoral. If it spreads, Zhen Siniang's end will naturally not be too good. Even the prince is afraid that he will get into great trouble.

The morality with wives and sisters is much more serious than those who outsource prostitutes and make trouble.

Although after learning such a secret, Yijing really can't tolerate Zhen Si Niang's feelings of spoiling her eldest brother, and also made a promise in front of Du Yuniang, which will make Zhen Si Niang discredit and fundamentally prevent her from becoming a couple with her eldest brother - if she can do it, perhaps there is no need to worry about the eldest brother getting close to the prince in this life until the ninth year of the Yuanqing , involved in the shocking assassination case of Dalong, he lost his life.

Bing is very self-a knowledgeable and has never thought of preventing the assassination of the prince. She really doesn't have such ability. What she wants is only the safety of her family and blood to make up for the damage she caused to Yu.

To get back to the point, the trouble of the scenery is how to make Zhen Si Niang "treachery/disposed" and "lose her reputation", and also to control things to a certain extent and not involve the prince.

After a few nights of tossing around, I didn't have a clue.

Fortunately, Du Yuniang is very reasonable and knows that it is not easy, so she agrees with Xu Xu Tuzhi.

But what is anxious is the beautiful scenery. She still still remembers that when the little aunt's marriage is settled, the marriage between the eldest sister and the eldest brother will also be put on the agenda by the elders. It is at the grandmother's birthday banquet that Langjun and the wife will show their talents to cheer up, and the eldest brother is good at zheng and stroke an ancient song on the spot. Zhen Si Niang matched each other with a pipa, and the two cooperated tacitly. The eldest brother seemed to appreciate her talent very much.

In those years, although the crown princess was single-minded, her grandmother was very hesitant.

The Zhen family is a famous family, which is comparable to the Duke of Wei's mansion. However, Si Niang is two years older than Su Xing. Although today's aristocratic marriage pays attention to the eight characters of birth, and does not care much about the woman's slightly older. Within three years of age, she has to match her. However, the eldest princess is worried about Si Niang's elder and personality. He is also a little resolute, afraid that he will not get along with Su Xing.

I never thought that Su Xing admired Si Niang's talent and appreciated her outspoken temperament. After that song, the two actually had the intention of singing together.

Su Xing's opinion dispelled the eldest princess's only concerns.

I'm afraid that the Zhen family and the crown princess are unpredictable. Under the straightforward surface, Zhen Si Niang is actually romantic and shameless in her bones.

While contempting Zhen Siniang, she inevitably thinks of herself...

I couldn't help but blame myself.

But thinking of the desolate end of her eldest brother, she really doesn't want to let go of Zhen Si Niang, let alone accept such a sister-in-law in this life.

When he had no choice, Xu didn't care too much. Even if he made the matter impossible to end, he would let his eldest brother see Zhen Si Niang's face clearly. In the end, beautiful scenery gritted his teeth and decided.

However, Du Yuniang, who strongly persuaded the beauty of "Xu Tuzhi", to act very quickly. Just yesterday, Mother Song entered a thief in her private house - Luo took Song Ming to another house to chat, and even called the cuckoo with him. Lamei was still as usual. She went to the market to buy fresh tea and vegetables. When she came back, she happened to The flying thief met a righteous person, so Miss Lamei was very brave, pestering the thief while shouting loudly.

The flying thief was anxious and took out a dagger to threaten him. Lamei was not afraid of danger and was scratched on her arm. She still gritted her teeth and pestered the flying thief. Finally, she delayed the neighbors to arrive, seized all the stolen goods of the flying thief and sent them to the official office.

Lamei's heroic behavior of protecting the Lord immediately spread.

In the early morning, this matter was passed down by word of mouth by the servants and women of the government. When it came to the ears of the scenery, it had become a thrilling story of several knives and bleeding in Lamei's abdomen, but still holding the thighs of the flying thief. It was dragged a hundred steps away and stained with blue stones, and finally caught the flying thief.

Several maids knew the inside story in the twilight. After listening to these rumors, they also "sighed". Qiu Yue also specifically inquired about Dongyu - "Is that girl's life in danger? Such a loyal maid should be rewarded and must save her life.

Dongyu didn't have time to communicate with Mother Song, and he was not sure what was going on, but he also held two bubbles of hot tears and praised Lamei with gratitude - "She was also a poor person. Her parents died early, and both sisters fell into the hands of human teeth. At the age of six, she sold her to my family as a slave. She was usually diligent, but she didn't want to Such a strong nature is just some wealth. Even if it is gone, it doesn't matter. It's not worth giving up your life. Alas, if there is a good or wrong, how can it be born? I think my father and grandmother will be grateful and will definitely ask a doctor to treat her" - Xia Ke watched on one side, bowed his head silently, and finally gritted his teeth to hold back the corners of his mouth. Twitching.

Yi Jing and Ba Niang had breakfast, dressing up neatly. One of the two sisters was wearing a moon white hibiscus gauze skirt, the other was wearing a cherry red grass coat, with a pair of beautiful buds on their heads, and went to Yuanying Hall to greet each other.

The eldest princess is also lively today.

The second wife Li was finally released from the "banned foot" and led the second mother and the fourth mother. The mother and daughter were dressed in pearls, but only Li and the second daughters were talking and laughing. The fourth mother was very sad. Today, she combed a single snail bun, inserted two huge red gold flower hairpins, and was forced to wear a bowl-sized begonia silk flowers. Yijing looked aside and felt that her neck was exhausted and frequently expressed her sympathy with her eyes.

And Mother Yang, a busy person, even took time to talk with the eldest princess, mentioning the matter of resetting the school for the little ladies - as expected, Li Ji and Yi agreed to serve as the Western seat, but Huang's intention was to wait until the eldest princess's birthday in early July before officially start teaching.

Of course, Mother Song was also beside her, still holding a fan and slowly fanning for the eldest princess. She looked indifferent and only inserted irrelevant words from time to time, which were all funny. It seemed that she did not realize the strangeness of the flying thief.

Ying paid attention to Mother Song intentionally or unintentionally. When Mother Yang talked about the new second-class maid in Lvqingyuan, she found a suitable opportunity: "It must be appropriate to have the palm of mother and mother, but when it comes to choosing a maid, I have to admire Mother Song. I heard the maids in the yard talking early in the morning. , how can I say that the mother's family suffered a thief yesterday? Thanks to meeting the maid of the mother's family, I heard that the thief also stabbed the maid. The maid covered the wound and chased her out, so she did not let the thief get away. Dongyu cried after hearing this and worried about the maid's safety. Mother, how is the maid now? Is she seriously injured?

The eldest princess also vaguely heard these comments, but Li came early today and did not have time to ask for a moment. At this time, she naturally took over the words: "I heard that yesterday was very dangerous, and it was also thanks to the maid's loyalty... If the injury is serious, although Song opened his mouth, I still recognized several doctors with outstanding medical skills."

Mother Song was flattered and quickly thanked her and explained with a smile: "It's also word of mouth that it's so dangerous. Although Lamei was injured, she was scratched a few cuts on her arm and did not hurt her muscles and bones."

Yi Jing quickly stroked her chest: "That's good. I was very scared when I heard those comments, and Dongyu was also very surprised." He solemnly ordered Qiu Yue, "When my son goes back, I have to remember to tell Dongyu what my wife said, so that she can feel at ease."

Qiu Yue squeezed her lower lip several times before choking back the muffled smile in her throat and said solemnly.

But only one day later, at noon the next day, several maids who were idle and waiting in the corridor had other comments.

"I heard that the reason why the one named Lamei is so brave is that Mother Song is too powerful and afraid of letting the flying thief escape, but she has to be beaten."

"I also heard that Lamei's sister was beaten to death."

Some people are still like cicadas: "Careful misfortune comes out of your mouth, let's say less."

"It's just gossip. What's there to be afraid of?" Some people are not convinced.

More people are naturally curious: "I don't know if it's like a rumor or catch the wind."

"It's mostly true, or who dares to chew Mother Song's teeth behind her back."

"This is too cruel. How dare you beat people to death? Even if the slaves and maidservants are humble, they are not cats and dogs, but also a human life."

Some people turned around and left, but there was also the fearless rejoining. Gradually, she became enthusiastic. Then she mentioned Mother Song. While she was afraid, she gave birth to some enemies, and she did not dare to scold her.

These comments spread to Dongyu's ears, which naturally made her angry. She almost didn't bite her silver teeth, and didn't have time to reward the little maid who volunteered to be the god of ear. She turned over from the kang, pinched the horn comb and shaved her hair randomly. While straightening her skirt, she walked to the porch and happened to see it. Several maids pulled Xia Ke who passed by.

"Isn't your sister's house in the same courtyard as Luo? I think she used to know Lamei. Is she often beaten?

Xia Ke didn't appear to see the winter rain standing under the steps and frowned slightly: "When I was a child, I often saw Lamei. Most of the time, I saw her with injuries on her body. I also asked her, but she said that she didn't pay attention to her, and I don't know what happened."

After the words fell, the maids broke out a heated discussion: "She is not stupid. How can she often touch her all over her body? He must have been beaten. Forced by the prestige of Mother Song, he dared not say it.

"Dongyu praised Lamei's diligence yesterday, and her red eyes said that she was poor. Her feelings were pretending to be a cat crying mouse. She used to be gentle and polite, but it turned out to be pretending." - It was the maid named May who said this.

"M Mother Song is too vicious. No matter how noble she is, can she be more noble than the master in the Duke's Mansion? We usually make small mistakes. At most, we are punished to do more work. No matter how serious it is, it is just a monthly deduction. For example, those in Jinguiyuan have made such a big disturbance and have not been killed.

"In Xia Yun's behavior last time, Wu Niang didn't move a finger from her."

"I heard that Lamei is really a real person. I saw that she was treated so harshly and didn't complain everywhere. It's really pitiful that she was so loyal and brave yesterday."

"If she goes out, I'm afraid she will end up like her sister."

Although these maids and maidservants are used to trampling and flattering, there is still some justice in their hearts, and other things are fine. When they learned that Mother Song is so vicious to the slaves and maids at home, they can't help but hurt them. For a while, they didn't notice the pale winter rain under the steps. The more he talked, the more angry he became, and his voice unconsciously raised a little.

There are also sages like May. If you have seen Qiu Yue and Xia Ke's dissatisfaction with the winter rain, you may have secretly said that although Mother Song is powerful, will Mother Yang be weak? Speaking of which, Mother Yang is now the one who seriously assists the Duke's wife to take charge of the middle feed. She is their solid superiors. In addition, Qiu Yue is close to Wu Niang, and Xia Ke is also the "new favorite" of Wu Niang. With such a measure in her heart, she does not pay attention to Dongyu.

So he sneered: "I already saw that Mother Song's family were all pretentious, kind and amiable, and in fact, they were ruthless people. The original warbler's voice was so flattering their ancestors and grandchildren. As a result, they turned around and their hands to suffer in the Zhuangzi. Although Yingsheng is also self-inflicted, the Song family is not a real person.

Hearing this, Dong Yurao remembered his grandmother's repeated instructions, and he couldn't help but burst into anger. He walked up the stone steps with his skirt and stared at May with a pair of eyes: "What dares to spray blood here?"

May was shocked. Originally, he was still a little guilty, but he was also angered by Dongyu's attitude. He immediately got up and met Dongyu face to face: "What are you? What do I dare not say? What I said is true. I'm not your domestic slave, and I'll let you bully and scold me.

Dongyu had ever been treated like this. He immediately blushed and was ashamed of his identity. He didn't want to scold the cheap maidservant. He only used his cold eyes to gouge out fiercely, gasped in his nose, and turned to Xia Ke and said, "My sister is a first-class maid. Can't she watch them talk about the filth?"

Thinking of the hardships of Lamei over the years, Xia Ke only felt relieved and did not blush with Dongyu. Instead, she smiled lightly at the corners of her lips: "The Qing Dynasty is self-Qing. If Mother Song has never been harshly beating domestic slaves, why do you need to be so angry with Dongyu? Everyone just had doubts, so they talked about it for a few words. Can I still make them shut up and talk?

"Xia Ke's words are reasonable. Besides, now the whole government is talking about this matter. Dongyu, how dare you swear to God that these words are groundless? How do you treat Lamei? You know that your body is straight, and the shadow can still lean across the wall? May was proud, but he didn't dare to mention Mother Song's name again.

Thinking of Xia Ke's blunt statement that Lamei was often injured, Dongyu couldn't wait to tear her into two pieces with a few paws, clenched and clenched her pink fists, and finally couldn't help but do it. After all, he was a little unsponsive: "Sister Xia Ke, I just came here, but I also know the rules of the court rules of Wu Niang. It is strictly forbidden to privately discuss the master behind the scenes. No, aren't you afraid of the master's punishment when you indulge them so much?

When it came to the rules, some maids were discouraged and hung their heads coincidentally. Some people even stepped back a few steps and wanted to leave the place quietly without making trouble.

Xia Ke really laughed and shook his head: "Sister Dongyu, you also said that Wu Niang's court rules strictly prohibit servants from discussing the master's right and wrong. Just now, although we exchanged each other's opinions because of doubts, which master was involved? Or do you think that Mother Song can also be called the master of the Duke of China?

The maid, who had just retreated, woke up and immediately regained her spirit. Several sarcastic eyes coincidentally looked at Dongyu.

Isn't it? Didn't you think of yourself as the master of the Duke's mansion? Although Mother Song is trusted by the eldest princess and is different from ordinary slaves, she is a servant, let alone Dongyu. Speaking of which, she is no different from everyone else. Her personal relationship can be pinched in the master's hands. Even if she is the general manager, she is still a shameless slave. What is there to show off?

I always respect her, just to leave a way out, but who can really take advantage of her as Mother Song? It's better to be careful. If you can get the trust of the fifth mother, it's better than to beat up to ten Mother Song.

Dongyu also regretted his anger. For a moment, he was unscrupulous and fell such a big handle, but he couldn't bear the disdainful gaze of these cheap maidservant. His small face turned red and suffered from indistinguishable, and he only gritted his teeth fiercely.

"What's going on? Wu Niang is still taking a nap in the study. She was woken up by you. However, he stepped out of the main hall in the evening and glanced at the crowd with a solemn face.

The corridor was completely quiet, and several maids stood with their eyes down and dared not say anything more.

Spring twilight eased his look: "Stay on duty, the rest of the people will disperse. Xia Ke and Dongyu, you two come with me."

Naturally, Xia Ke was not in a hurry. He only looked at Dongyu with a smile, but Dongyu was anxious, angry and worried. He stood behind him for a long time before he followed him to the study.

Beautiful scenery leans against the beauty's couch, with blue silk on her head, and her eyes are still sleepy.

Dongyu looked at her as if she didn't look angry. Her heart was calm, and the grievances suddenly surged up. The two lines of coldness lingered down, and only knelt in front of the scenery.

The sudden move surprised Chunmu: "What are you doing? You kneel and cry well... If you don't talk well, you will carefully startle Wu Niang."

Yijing bento was really "shocked": "I only vaguely listened to you stumbling outside, and then I wanted to ask you to come in and ask a few questions. What's the matter? Chunmu is about to help the winter rain. Don't let her kneel and hurt her knees.

"Wuniang, please ask Wuniang to be the master for the maidservant and grandmother!"

The winter rain suddenly brought pear blossoms and rain, crying pitifully.