In June, the beauty of the capital is really amazing.
The heat wave makes the clouds hot to the last trace, leaving only the pure blue sky. The tall ginkgo tree, standing for a hundred years, washes away the dull dark green in the hot sun. The sun penetrates the green leaves, making it green. The beauty is delicate and fresh, sending a rare coolness to the bottom of people's heart.
In Weisheng mansion, Zhou youzhao met Guo Huimin, the biggest and most powerful woman in the mansion.
Weisheng Chengwen left Beijing to work since he was a year old. Zhou youzhao didn't know what happened. He was able to let the Minister of the Ministry of officials leave behind and go out for nearly half a year.
Just now, Guo Huimin asked her to come. I heard that Wei Sheng Cheng Wen sent someone from Yunnan to send back some local specialties and the most famous Pu'er tea.
Zhou youzhao disgusted to sweep the tea cake in Yuanbao's hand. She was lucky to have eaten such tea once at Guo Huimin's. she almost vomited it on the spot with a musty smell that was hard to swallow.
She didn't believe it at all. It was because Guo Huimin knew that she and her brother were fake. She didn't even want to face up when the adult was not at home.
"Miss, did the lady just say that the adults would not come back?" Yuanbao felt that her daughter had been gloomy since she came out of the house. She was afraid that the servants in the house would chew on her back when they saw her.
Zhou summoned back to his senses, looked at the tea in her hand again, and replied: "mother said that father will not come back for the time being. She said that if he wants to do a job, he will have to grind it elsewhere."
Yuanbao was curious and asked, "what is it that makes the master leave Beijing for half a year?"
"It seems that it has something to do with an unjust case. The old emperor of the meeting remembered it and wanted to overturn the case for others. But it has been more than ten years. I don't know if he can find out something. It has nothing to do with us. Don't ask about it any more." Zhou youzhao looked around soberly.
Then he asked Yuanbao, "how is my brother doing recently? Has he been studying?"
Yuan Bao replied: "yes, next year will come to an end. The young master has been studying in the house. Now he has invited this gentleman to praise him twice. It's a pity that the master has never been in the house."
"Hum, he has that talent, and he has to squeeze to the bridge to death. My mother and my father... Don't know where to get the confidence. By the way, there's a letter from home?"
Yuanbao replied: "count the days. There should be letters from home. I don't know if the master's plan can be achieved."
Zhou youzhao squinted slightly and looked at the beautiful scenery in the back garden. It seemed beautiful and charming, but who knew where the flowers were hiding the cold, hissing poisonous snakes, waiting for the opportunity at any time, giving people a fatal blow.
Just like this seemingly prosperous weishengfu, I don't know its name, but I'm afraid it has buried many people's bones.
"After lunch, you go to the post station to have a look. Remember to be careful. Don't let anyone find out. If someone asks, they say I'll send you to buy some Chuzhou snacks on the street."
"Girl, do you want to go to the young master?" Yuanbao saw that he was at a fork in the road. He looked up and asked Zhou youzhao.
Zhou youzhao shakes his head, with a plaintive tone: "no! Hum, let's go back to the house. "
At noon, Yuanbao really went out for a trip. From time to time, he came back with some Chuzhou snacks.
This matter is reported to Guo Huimin secretly by her servants. She just smiles casually and doesn't care about it at all.
"Let her go. After living there for more than ten years, it's hard to give up, and the taste tends to Chuzhou."
Since then, no one has been in charge of it.
Yuan Bao went back to his home with a letter in his arms and a food box in his hand. He went to see Zhou youzhao happily.
"Miss, I really sent a letter to you from the south. My servant touched it. I felt that the master missed his wife, girl and young master very much."
Zhou youzhao raised his head to stare at her, looked around again, and then scolded: "Yuanbao, if you talk like this again, I will send you back to Shunshui village."
Yuanbao naturally refused, kneeling in front of her, crying and swearing, regretting that he was too straightforward.
"Get up, you know, in this house, you are the one who is most interested in me. If it's easy, how can I give you up?"
Zhou youzhao called her up and asked her to give her the letter.
Yuanbao, according to the words, takes the book from her arms and hands it to her.
Zhou then asked her, "Yuanbao, when you go to get the letter, is this the only one?"
treasure is as like as two peas, but she is not literate. She thought she was wrong, and asked, "but the letter is not correct. The servant girl will be changed. The servant girl clearly remembered that the words on the envelope were exactly the same as the letters that the girl had received before."
"That's right. Unfortunately, it wasn't written by my father." Zhou youzhao had a fire in his heart.
She can want to kill her father, but she can't accept that when Zhou Changgen has a little woman named Zhou Ding, she will leave her mother-in-law behind and let the three of them live and die in the capital.
"Maybe the master's letter is still on the way. Maybe, girl, who wrote it?""I don't know. I'll take it apart." Zhou youzhao didn't know the words on the letter.
She turned to the last letter in a hurry and realized that it was Qian Gaosheng, her elder sister's husband.
Zhou youzhao read the letter from the beginning.
After reading the letter several times, she wanted to make a big hole in it.
Yuan Bao noticed that her face was wrong and asked, "girl, what's wrong with the letter?"
Zhou youzhao gritted her teeth and said, "it's a good thing, a great thing. I didn't expect that the smelly woman should have such a good way. My father, that old fool..."
when she said that, she couldn't help thinking of what her mother sun Cuihua said. They all said that when she had a stepmother, she would have a stepfather. Sun Cuihua came to the capital with her and the third generation. There was only Zhou Changgen left in the family, and then she welcomed Zhou Dingshi into the capital The door, although only a concubine, but her mother has a word right, pillow side wind blows too much.
Yuanbao asked again, "what's the matter, isn't it that the master doesn't like that Liu Sanniang?"
It turns out that Liu Sanniang and Lin Shunhe had been mentioned by Zhou youzhao in his letter to Zhou Changgen.
The reason why she knows it is because her elder sister accidentally mentioned it in her letter to her, and the reason why her elder sister can know it is because Qian Gaosheng said that Qian Gaosheng and the head of Xiatang village have some crooked relatives.
"How can you look down on it? You don't know that Liu Sanniang was very beautiful when she was young. When my mother mentioned her, she was envious. Even when she and Li lived a carefree life, my mother's heart was not comfortable. If she didn't come to Beijing, I don't know when she would compare with Liu Sanniang."
"But, girl, what does the letter say?" Yuanbao asked again.
"Unexpectedly, this Ding's lamp is not a fuel-efficient one. You've seen Liu Sanniang before, In the past two years, I've had a good life, and I've been more and more beautiful. My father's old man always has a lot of heart. Liu Sanniang is good-looking and has private property. He can't wait for it. I'd like to think that if he can marry Liu Sanniang, the Lin family will be my help in the future. If he annoys the Lin family, sooner or later he will suffer a big loss. "
What a pity!
Zhou youzhao felt that her resentment was almost unbearable. She said to Yuanbao, "you know, my father couldn't marry me. Instead, she was told by Zhou Ding's family. Hum, she took her mother's family and rushed to Liu Sanniang's shop, smashing her shop. As a result, she lost a lot of money. Later, Ding's ex husband's family came to make trouble, and he went back He came forward and paid fifty taels of silver, which is two hundred taels. "
Yuan Bao was shocked and asked: "when the new year was just over, the master wrote to cry for poverty. He said that the family's expenses were getting bigger and bigger. He also said that he wanted to get more property. The girl and the young master had to give him 200 Liang to buy property."
She knew that her daughter seemed to be a girl in the mansion. In fact, the lady was very polite to her and the third generation.
The two hundred taels of silver were obtained by Zhou Daihe and Zhou youzhao under the guise of weishengfu without telling Guo Huimin.
Guo Huimin invited three people to act, but they didn't really come to enjoy their happiness. In addition to monthly silver, Zhou youzhao and Zhou zhoudai had to make money by themselves.
"No, he's so poor that he can't afford to eat. He's a generous man. In a twinkling of an eye, he can give 200 Liang silver to a concubine for disaster relief."
This is how Zhou youzhao can not hate. She and the third generation can save 200 Liang, so they don't know how much hair has been lost.
"Girl, that Ding family is so hateful that he is so black and white. Let's tell the young master quickly. I think the young master will be more unhappy than the girl."
Yuanbao is right. Zhou youzhao takes a deep look at her. This guy on Wednesday has already regarded his family's property as a treasure. How can he ask others to pick the fruit.
"You're right. Go ahead and see if my brother is in his own yard."
Yuanbao got the order, went to the front yard to look for three generations, and said the letter that Zhou had recruited again.
"Young master, the letter from the eldest uncle to the girl mentioned this, which must be a reminder. I heard that the younger master of the family could study more than the younger master, and even the eldest uncle appreciated it."
On Wednesday, Dai Ben sat there in silent writing. When she heard her words, a drop of ink fell on the words she had just written, and a page was wasted.
He frowned slightly and said, "go back and tell my sister that I will find her later. My husband told me that I will copy today's lesson five times."
Yuanbao answered, and then he went back to recover his life.
Zhou youzhao sent people to find sun Cuihua. Soon after, the third generation came.
After entering the house and sitting down, Zhou youzhao ordered Yuanbao to guard outside the door.
Sun Cuihua asked with a smile: "my son, it's too hard for me to study recently, but I've lost a lot of weight. Didn't my mother tell you that although the food here is not good for my appetite, it's better than at home."
Most of the people in the north are forthright, and most of the dishes are filled with big fish and meat, which is not as exquisite as the people in the south.Sun Cuihua likes this very much.
"Niang, now is not the time to say this. I'll take care of myself. Do you know that the smelly woman has added a son to her father. Now the news comes from the south that the son of the smelly woman is not only more gifted than her son in studying, but also has a great interest in the pillow wind. You don't know that in just a few days, my father has lost a lot of money for that damned smelly woman Two hundred taels. Do you remember that these two hundred taels were put together by the three of us. I'm so angry that I'm going to vomit blood. "
"What, this bloody girth root." Sun Cuihua is so angry that she wants to curse her mother.