The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

The Xu family has two old nuns who are seven or eighty years old, one is surnamed Li and the other is surnamed Wang. They are both gray-haired and strict.

In the past, Xu Qingheng was taught by Mrs. Xu personally, and the two old nuns were happy and leisurely. Now the two of them are sitting together on a chair and basking in the sun. Greeting her over, he told her to sit on the chair that Nanny Li was sitting on.

Xu Qingheng declined, forced a smile and said: "The old lady asked me to learn the rules from the two nuns."

Nanny Li and Nanny Wang, two white-haired and chicken-skinned old people, heard what Xu Qingheng said, but they also understood what Old Madam Xu meant.

Nanny Li rubbed Xu Qingheng's arm and said: "After all, the old lady is wise. Miss Wanting made such a fuss, I'm afraid our girl's reputation will be damaged. We must be stricter with the girl, and the girl must understand us in her heart." It's for the girl's good, don't blame us in your heart."

"Don't dare to blame the two nanny." Xu Qingheng asked the two childless old nanny to sit down again and again. Hearing the old nanny use the word "trouble" to describe Li Wanting, he couldn't help crying for Li Wanting again in his heart. uneven.

"It's just for the sake of a girl, it really can't be done." Nanny Wang, who had been concerned about Li Wanting's matter for a while, took Xu Qingheng's hand, and was about to pat her hand, but saw that Mrs. Xu had already slapped her hand. At this time, her pair of white and tender Her little hands were bruised and purple, "Who doesn't have such a thing in their family? Besides, our uncle has already sent people away, and she is still doing this, so she is a bit aggressive."

"Exactly, those maids are just playthings, and you are afraid that the uncle will foolishly spoil his concubine for a maid?" Li Nanny echoed in a vicissitudes of life. Seeing that Xu Qingheng's face was not good, she said calmly: "Even if you can't see it." Going to that maid, you should hold back for a while, after staying for a few days, the uncle will naturally be indifferent to that maid. When that day comes, what will happen, and you can't help Miss Wanting?"

Xu Qingheng forced a smile, and couldn't help flashing the words "everything has been changed but nothing has been changed" written on Jia Lian's letter. From being full of enthusiasm to being helpless, although he didn't agree with the words of these two old mothers, he responded with a smile Waiting, after the two old nuns finished their lecture, it was already dark, and on the way back to their own house, their stomach growled twice, and they went back to the house for a while, washed their hands and waited for the maid to serve them. When the meal came, he took the glass box from the treasure chest, poured out the twelve animals in the box on the handkerchief pear wood table, and picked up the vivid twelve animals on the peach core one by one with his index finger. Take a closer look at the zodiac.

"Girl, the old lady said to show the fourth master's letter to the girl." Wu'er said, and unfolded the letter that Xu Qingheng left in the old lady's room and placed it in front of Xu Qingheng.

For a while, Xu Qingheng felt that she would be mistaken. The Li family, the Yuan family, and the Xu family would be fine. She thought that the Jia family should be changed thoroughly, but the Jia family had changed as well. It's feasible, but in the hands of the sharp-eyed Jia Lian, if he had the heart, he would definitely not allow anyone to use this workaround. The golden bell on his wrist jingled twice, and the crisp sound made her tired of hearing it for no reason. He got up and took his right hand to take off the bracelet on his left hand. The palm of his hand was too white and fat, and he couldn't pull it off even with all his strength.

"Girl, don't hurt your hand." Wu'er didn't understand why the bracelet had offended Xu Qingheng, seeing that her hand was red from being strangled, she hurriedly asked someone to pick up the bracelet for her with a water basin and soap horns.

Wu'er didn't know, Xu Qingheng was out of his wits at this moment, he only felt that he was still wearing the bracelet he had when he was a child, and he would always be a child, so Wu'er picked the bracelet for her, and asked in a hoarse voice: "Tell me, what about fourth brother?" When is it true and when is it false?"

Wu'er didn't know why she asked such a question, but she lowered her head and didn't answer.

"It turns out that the most important thing he said was to save face." Xu Qingheng was about to sneer, but couldn't laugh. He just felt that he was too naive in the past. If he had doubts about Jia Lian's words and didn't believe him, he would not have given Li Wanting Write to her and tell her that not everyone in this world feels that "it's demeaning to be fussy with a maidservant". If I just keep persuading and laughing at her in the letter, maybe Li Wanting won't agree to marry her, even if she does. Because she feels that there are no "exceptions" in this world, she obediently lives in Xu's family according to the situation of the world.

Thinking about it this way, Xu Qingheng thought that Li Wanting's death was partly due to her own responsibility, so when Liu'er put a bowl of rice porridge and four side dishes in front of him, he ate half a bowl of porridge with tears in his eyes. When she came out from the west, she usually asked someone to take a copy of "Biography of Martyrs" and read it. After Wu'er urged her to wash up and go to bed, she felt that there were no bells on her wrists. Lying on the bed, she groped under the pillow and groped. The letters from Jia Lian, whom he regarded as his standard, arrived again. He immediately sat up, lifted the pillow and took out the letters one by one, and handed them all to Wu'er, saying, "Take it and burn it."

"Girl, this is fourth master's letter." Wu'er opened her eyes wide, wondering what happened to Xu Qingheng.

"Take it and burn it. If someone sees it, there will be disputes. Besides, although they are not engaged, both families know about this matter. We should avoid suspicion in the future. If it is not necessary, it is better not to see each other." Xu Qingheng said angrily Lying on the pillow, his eyes were so swollen that they couldn't close them.

Seeing that Xu Qingheng suddenly wanted to "behave", Wu'er was taken aback, and didn't dare to go against her wishes, so she took the letters and burned them.

Xu Qingheng lay sideways on the bed, covered her eyes with her hands and cried again unconsciously, suddenly felt someone rubbing her back, turned her head and saw Mrs. Xu sitting on the edge of the bed and looking at her kindly.

"Old lady—" Xu Qingheng choked up, and immediately hugged the old lady Xu and began to cry silently, "...It turns out that the fourth brother is full of righteous words, but he is using Sister Wanting's death to cover up Sister Wanting's shame, not It's from the bottom of my heart..." As he spoke, his voice disappeared again, and he couldn't utter a single word with his mouth open.

"If it wasn't like this, why do you think your grandfather and I like him so much? No matter how absurd his words are at any time, just follow his words and you will never go wrong." Mrs. Xu put her arms around Xu Qingheng, and it was only a day after seeing her. The small face looked a lot thinner, and thinking of Li Wanting's matter again made her heart feel like a knife was twisting.

"But..." Xu Qingheng only said one more word, but couldn't say anything.

The old lady Xu smiled and said: "You are still young, and you don't know what it means to follow the trend. If you don't follow his words, your sister Wanting is gone, and the Li family hates our family; now you follow his words, it will be your mother." , Your aunt hates those servants with the same hatred. Otherwise, is it possible that our Xu family and the Li family are going to turn their backs? Are we going to make up for it, humbly beg for peace with the Li family, and then ask your brother to marry a girl from the Li family?"

Xu Qingheng was originally speechless, but now he is even more speechless.

"Tomorrow someone will come to comfort me, a white-haired man who sends black people, just follow and watch." Mrs. Xu wiped Xu Qingheng's tears with a handkerchief, stood up from the bed, and told Wu'er, Liu'er, "Persuade the girl to eat more." As he spoke, he slowly got up and went out.

Xu Qingheng listened to the old lady Xu, and seemed to be wrong, and lay down on the pillow again, tossing and turning full of thoughts.

There was nothing to say all night, and in the early morning of the next day, the old lady in Mrs. Xu's room came to urge Wu'er and Liu'er to go over.

Xu Qingheng picked out an emerald green blouse to wear, because Xu Laozhi'an, Yuan Shi and others were still there, so he couldn't dress too plainly, so he put a white flower on his temples, and with a little rouge on his face, he led the maid to follow along The veranda went to Mrs. Xu's room, and people passed by, but Mrs. Xu sent her to stay on the kang in the west room to do needlework, and then ordered her not to come out to meet people.

Xu Qingheng was puzzled, and just played with the silk thread idly, and heard the maids outside reporting that "the old lady of the Jia family, the old lady of the Yuan family, the old lady of the Liu family, the old lady, and the grandma are here."

Hearing that Jia Mu was coming, Xu Qingheng left the couch and went to stand behind a small window covered with green gauze on the green gauze cabinet. Looking outside, he saw the very rich Jia Mu and several family members. Old ladies, wives, and grandmas all came over.

After everyone came in, they exchanged a few words of greeting, gave up their seats to each other, and heard Jia Mu gnashing her teeth: "It's all caused by that screwball! I always knew that the girl in your family is educated, reasonable and peaceful. She is such a good person, she was given alive..." As he spoke, he wiped his tears with a handkerchief, "I heard about your family, and I was so angry that I didn't sleep all night. When I saw Lian'er, I told him Said: "Don't look at what happened to Xu's family. Our family will be fine for a while and then we can sit back and relax. Hurry up and send out all the dirty seeds in the family who are picking and picking and hiding evil intentions." Lian'er listened to me and was sleepy. His eyes turned blue, and he didn't dare to rest, so he immediately led a group of male and female stewards in the house to send out all the restless people in the house; I thought it was too much for our daughter-in-law to serve Zhu'er alone. It's hard work, and I have to send a maid to help, I heard this news, how dare I send it."

"Isn't it? Our family was shocked when we heard it. Although there is nothing suspicious about the author's statement, if there is no doubt, Yuheng's daughter-in-law, who knows the general situation, will hang the beam? According to me, it should be done again. Please ask the two foremen to check it out, it must be that lowly servant girl who committed the murder!" Mrs. Yuan said, and after she finished speaking, she replied: "Oh, I am so confused. Although we are middle-class people, Is the girl in the family willing to ask someone to investigate? I'm afraid she would rather suffer a secret loss than let someone touch the girl's finger. I scolded the master and the young master in the family for two days, and only told They said, "If you want to be happy for a while, and leave the root of trouble, what will happen in the future?" They also asked the housekeepers and daughters-in-law to keep a close eye on the young maids at home, and picked out a few vicious ones to send them out."

The old lady Xu smiled wryly and said: "There is no hidden loss or not. I also complained that the old lady made a big fuss, but he didn't believe it. He insisted on killing others, insisting on clamoring to rectify the rules in the house."

"Old sister, Ming people don't speak dark words, your family has been wronged so much, how can we not understand you?" Mrs. Liu hurriedly said.

Xu Qingheng looked at the expressions of everyone through the screen window, seeing that no one believed that the Xu family had no "secret loss", slowly left the screen window, returned to sit on the kang, and thought: Yes, the Xu family's Those things that seem to be "rebellious" are just a cover for shame in the eyes of outsiders; if the Xu family did nothing and just buried Li Wanting in a grand manner, people would think that the Xu family had treated Li Wanting wrongly; now the Xu family has done nothing However, the news was released that Xu's family helped Li Wanting together with Li's family to remediate the maids in the mansion. No one doubted that Li's family and Xu's family would be merciful - afraid that Mrs. Li and Li Bizhou would not come to their senses and ask for "justice" from Xu's family for Li Wanting. .

It seems that the Li family forced the Xu family to change the rules, but in fact, why didn't the Li family step down the steps given by the Xu family?

Now the Li family is right, the Xu family is also right, the ones who are wrong are Suqin, Sun Siniang, and Sun Yue who have committed the most crimes.

The outside room was full of words cursing the unscrupulous slaves, Xu Qingheng waited for an hour, and then came out of the green gauze cabinet when the women were invited to a banquet in the garden.

"Maybe you can think of a better way than this to resolve the embarrassment of the Li family and the Xu family?" The old lady Xu sat in the open room with some desolation, looking at Xu Qingheng mockingly with her old eyes.

Xu Qingheng's lips moved, originally the Xu family and the Li family should criticize each other to be logical, but now the two families are working together to scold the lowly maid, naturally there is no better way than this.

"You used to say crazy things about releasing the slaves of the world, but you don't think that now every family is more wary of the slaves and restrains them more." The old lady Xu asked mockingly again.

Xu Qingheng nodded slowly when he heard the words. This situation and the scene cannot be described in four words.

"In the future, I will learn more from brother Lian. It's fine to be crazy, but you have to be crazy to the point." Seeing Xu Qingheng's depression, the old lady Xu stopped reprimanding her appropriately.

Xu Qingheng humbly agreed, resigned from the old lady Xu, and walked towards Li Wanting's mourning hall, first saw Li Wanting lying quietly in the embroidered quilt, and lit a stick of incense for her, then knelt down beside Xu Yuheng .

"Brother, do you believe what the fourth brother said that day?" Xu Qingheng turned his face to look at Xu Yuheng who was very haggard without eating or drinking, and couldn't help feeling distressed. The mourning hall was very clean, because Li Wanting was young, and the furnishings were not very grand.

"What are you saying?" Xu Yuheng asked back, staring at Li Wanting's coffin, always thinking that she would turn over and sit up in a while.

"It's about the Biting Society." Xu Qingheng picked up the Biluochun in front of Xu Yuheng and handed it to his mouth, seeing that he didn't drink, he put down the cup again.

"...I was sad at that time, so I believed it. Looking back, I didn't believe it at all. How could he be cautious when he made a punctuation, so how could he risk the world's dissatisfaction and release some slaves?" Xu Yuheng said in a low voice, lips After the split, his mouth was filled with fishy sweetness, "But I believe his intentions are not bad." At least at that moment, everyone was sadly out of proportion. There was a Jia Lian who decisively won a "best of both worlds" idea for everyone; otherwise, would the Xu family and the Li family really turn against each other?

After hearing this, Xu Qingheng clasped his wrists with each other and put them on his knees. He frowned and thought that the men understood Jia Lian's thoughts better, so he asked again: "Then he just changed it if he didn't change it. Saying that it has been changed, but you have to write to me to tell me that it has not been changed?"

"I think you're annoying, and I can't say it bluntly because of my upbringing. I wrote this sentence to tell you not to make trouble for him by doing useless things." Xu Yuheng took tinfoil and sprinkled it in the brazier.

Xu Qingheng sat up straight abruptly, then slumped his shoulders lazily for a while, thought about it carefully, and couldn't help but patted his head with his hands. Hearing what Xu Yuheng meant, she took other people's politeness as hospitality, so she thought about it in frustration It turned out that the fourth brother was not as approachable as she thought, and then he mustered up his fighting spirit, thinking that before Jia Lian was hired by the three matchmakers, he would teach her a lesson. If he still believed in his words, he would enter Jia's house in the future Don't you want to let him rub round and flatten and be led by the nose by him?It can be seen that she hasn't learned enough about those false and real tricks, and she needs to work harder.