Da Suining

Chapter 227 lynching
After meeting Xiang Yan and Guo Kai that time, Xiang Suining never went to Mount Qingcheng again.

One caught scorpion is enough.

Second, I am afraid that I will not be so lucky to meet Guo Wei and others again.

In this way, I have been doing some scattered work in the mansion, sometimes watching Mingzhu embroidery, and sometimes going to Mrs. Xiang's place to talk with her.

It was peaceful during this period, and even Xiang Suining's mad mother passed through the hot summer in peace. Lu Yu occasionally prescribed some medicine for her to take care of her. Well, I slept soundly at night.

Xiang Daying still reported to the court on time.

Because the plague happened from time to time, the princes' classes were also intermittent. Xiang Guoxin went to the palace every now and then. Sometimes he went in the morning, read a little, and came back early.

When he was free, Xiang Guoxin wandered all over the yard, and rarely went to the study to read books. Most of the time he went fishing, walked the birds, went to the kitchen to watch people cook, and went to the door to listen to the doorman tell some bizarre stories.

Within a few days, Xiangguo felt something was wrong.

Why every now and then, Xiangyan is going out.The first time I bought some needles and thread, the second time I bought some pastries and fruits, the third time I bought silk and satin, the fourth time I bought hairpin pollen, gold jewelry and silver jewelry, and later I bought wontons and steamed dumplings. , Big or small, you have to go out anyway.

Every time Xiang Guoxin wanted to follow, he would be pushed back: "You are a man, it is inconvenient to follow us."

"Father said that I won't let you go out for a walk, third sister, you are a lady of everyone." Xiangguo rubbed his nose heartily: "In the past, third sister always pulled me and asked me to talk about things in the palace, but now I probably don't like to listen to it anymore. Don't play with me."

"Whatever you want to play, go and play. I don't have time to accompany you." Xiangyan looked up at the sky, and asked Chunyu to take out a tael of silver to Xiang Guoxin: "Take the flowers and go."

This year, some respectable women and maids in the Prime Minister's Mansion are only a tael of silver per month.

It's rare that Xiangyan is so generous, and Xiangguoxin is not a fuel-efficient lamp, so she immediately took the money to the fruit shop to buy all kinds of fresh snacks and brought them back to eat with Xiang Suining.

Halfway through eating, he said: "Second sister, I always see third sister going out to buy clothes recently. I think she has too many hairpins, and there is not enough for a hairpin. Instead, you only wear pearl flowers and silk flowers. It looks too plain."

"Did your third sister buy these fruits for you?" Xiang Suining picked out a crescent-shaped snack and chewed it in his mouth.

Xiang Guoxin shook his head: "She said what to buy today... oh, what kind of steamed cakes to eat, and she doesn't want me to follow her alone. She gave me a tael of silver and asked me to take the flowers by myself."

Sitting by the window, the women dozed off while watering the flowers with water ladles, the servants held brooms and chatted while sweeping the fallen leaves, the maidservants gathered together, their handkerchiefs were more delicate than anyone else’s, and after a while they I don't know what was said, and several maidservants hugged each other and laughed.

If Xiangyan was in the mansion, she should reprimand these people for not serving them well with money, and when she was angry, she would scare the lazy servants, saying that she would report to her mother and call the matchmaker to sell these people.

Even in the twelfth lunar month, when the front and back of the airy house are freezing, Xiangyan sits on a feather cushion under the window with a fire in her arms, and if she sees a servant who is working slowly through the window, she must report to her. Tang Xiaoniang, let Tang Xiaoniang deduct their monthly money.

Therefore, the servants of the Xiangfu have always been trembling, and they have to be cautious when they go to work, look around, for fear of bumping into Tang Xiaoniang and Xiangyan again.

Now that the servants are so loose, they can even think about their toes, Xiangyan doesn't care about them much, and Xiangyan's heart is long gone in the mansion.

Xiang Suining and Xiang Guoxin ate two plates of dim sum, drank a cup of fragrant jasmine tea together, went out to watch the fish in the lake for a while, ate lunch at noon, kicked shuttlecock for a while in the afternoon, Xiang Suining I accompanied Xiangguo to warm my heart and read for a while.Xiangyan still didn't come back.

At the dinner table, Xiang Daying asked about Xiangyan, and Tang Xiaoniang also covered up in various ways, and said that it was so easy for Xiangyan to go out to buy some flowers and powder. What's the problem? The daughter of that family wanted to play with Xiang Yan, so she specially invited her in a sedan chair.

Xiang Daying was sometimes suspicious: "Which family's daughter invited Yan'er to go? She is just a concubine, who would invite only the concubine? Why didn't Suining receive the invitation? At least she is a concubine."

There is a difference between Xuan Guo's concubine and concubines, those who have a little bit of face, those girls born to serious wives on the stage don't bother to play with girls from Xiangyan's background.

This is also Tang Xiaoniang's weakness, and she was unwilling immediately: "Which girl from other families likes us, can she decide? Yan'er is beautiful, but it's a pity that I, as an aunt, dragged her hind legs , not like others..." Tang Xiaoniang deliberately dismissed Suining: "Unlike others, she was born with short limbs, withered and yellow hair, a nose that is not a nose, and eyes that are not eyes. , the family is noble. It turns out that we, Yan'er, are not worthy."

One sentence from Xiang Daying, one hundred sentences from Tang Xiaoniang.

Xiang Daying sighed, why bother to poke this hornet's nest, and end up with a headache.

"In the future, when other people come to invite Yan'er, the master just won't let her go, saying that she is a concubine, and she is not worthy. Don't go to any rich and powerful family, just such a concubine, in the future, the son of a decent family is not worthy to marry. Marrying a boy who drives a carriage will save you from being disgusted by the master."

"Ma'am, why are you saying such things? I'm just worried about Yan'er's safety. In the past, she seldom went out for such a long time. After all, she is a girl from a wealthy family and always shows her face. I'm afraid of causing unnecessary criticism." After all, she and Suining have also reached the age to discuss marriage."

"Master..." Tang Xiaoniang wiped the teardrops from the corners of her eyes, handed Xiang Daying a cup of Tieguanyin with her waist softly, and then gently thumped his back: "I'm a woman, I don't understand the principles, master I also understand the matter of discussing relatives, I will make good arrangements and teach Yan'er well, in the future, I will definitely find a son-in-law for the master, so that the master can be decent."

"Very good, very good." Xiang Daying leaned back on the chair with half-closed eyes.

Tang Xiaoniang is very good at serving people, after she beat her, Xiang Daying almost fell asleep.

This night, there is moonlight.

The round and bright moon hung outside the window, and the moonlight was so soft.

Mingzhu did the sweeping, picked out some shoes, and wanted to make a pair of shoes for Xiang Suining.

Xiang Suining leaned against the window to see her busy, and gradually, he wanted to take a nap.

It cooled down at night and the temperature was suitable. It is rare to have such a comfortable temperature in a year.

The candle in front of me flickered on and off, and occasionally there was a "crack" sound of flames exploding. When Mingzhu heard it, she took a silver needle and pointed it at the wick of the candle, and the candle burned enthusiastically again.

The light jumped sharply in the eyes.

Xiang Suining seemed to have dozed off, but didn't seem to have fallen asleep, so he yawned in a daze, and looked out the window, it was completely dark.

The moon is slanting westward, and the stars are densely covered. It is really a fine night.

"What time is it?" Xiang Suining asked Mingzhu.

"It's about the time of Hai. Today, the girl is picking bean sprouts with the old lady in the backyard. She said it was for fun, but she bent down and picked half of the basket. Thinking about it, she was very tired. The temperature is suitable tonight. It's time to sleep, I'll wait for the girl to sleep."

"I don't know if those bean sprouts will grow. Grandma has been thinking about it these days." Xiang Suining yawned again.

A few days ago, it rained frequently, heavy rain and light rain never stopped, Mrs. Xiang felt uncomfortable, and she got tired of looking at the embroidery, and the flowers in the yard were no longer eye-catching. There happened to be an open space near the east wall. It's flowers, Mrs. Xiang thinks that bees and mosquitoes are too attracted in summer, and those flowers are not easy to feed, so she has someone planed the flowers, added three baskets of new soil to cover them, and asked someone to get some beans to plant.

When the weather is fine, Mrs. Xiang will go to see it. According to her, she was the daughter of a rich family back then. At that time, the family farm was very big and there were many fields. She also went to the farm with her parents to see the crops. , At that time, I thought it was very interesting, but now I grow my own beans, I didn't expect it to be a success.

Still the result of careful care.

It's fertilizing and watering, and Mrs. Xiang is old enough to do it herself.

After planting it for a few days, it sprouted, and after a few more days, it grew up "cracking", and now it is as tall as a palm, green and dense. After the wind blows, the neat bean sprouts look like a green blanket.

The bean sprouts were too dense, which affected their growth. Xiang Suining and Mrs. Xiang squatted in the bean sprouts and picked them out one by one. The tender bean sprouts that were picked out were boiled in bean sprout soup at night.Mrs. Xiang drank two bowls, and Xiang Suining drank three bowls, and his stomach was full.

Mrs. Xiang said very satisfied: "I drink bean sprout soup now. In a few months, the beans will be ready, picked and ground into soy milk, or let the kitchen make tofu. It tastes different."

Xiang Suining accompanied Mrs. Xiang to explore the future, talking about how tall the bean sprouts will grow next month, how to fertilize them, how many months the beans will mature, and how many beans should be ground to make soy milk.

But all the preparations were destroyed by the voice of "Boom... ah...".

Xiang Suining heard the voice coming from Mrs. Xiang's yard, and rushed to Mrs. Xiang's yard before she could put on her coat.

Mrs. Xiang was lying on the couch, her clothes were wrinkled, her face was sallow, and the breath in her mouth was uneven. At this moment, Madam Su was serving her chest. She was born as a noble lady, and she rarely Looking flustered now.

Seeing Xiang Suining coming in, Mrs. Xiang's eyes were red: "Suining..."

"Grandmother was frightened. Quickly bring the tranquilizing pills." Xiang Suining instructed the little maid in Mrs. Xiang's room.

Mrs. Xiang was served by Xiang Suining, who took Anshen Pills, took her hand and said, "I can't fall asleep even after taking Anshen Pills... how can I sleep... commit crimes..."

"grandmother……"

"I'm not afraid of the movement just now. How many things have I experienced since I was a child, and those storms and waves have passed. What are these shouts?"

"Who is that grandmother?"

"It's not that... Most of my bean sprouts have been trampled... Sin, my beans are so easy to grow. I spent a lot of thought in the process, and now I want to plant them again, and it's too late." Mrs. Xiang became angry when she said that: "You... what's going on?"

Xiang Suining came in in a hurry, but he didn't see clearly that there were two people kneeling at the door.

Isn't it Xiangyan and Chunyu?

Now Chunyu is kneeling at the door with her head down. Although Xiangyan is raising her head, her hair is in a messy bun, hanging over her face like a ghost. Mud, all over his teeth, right now there is a little maid waiting to spit it out with a "peh pee pee".

Good fellow, the water in the copper basin held by the little maid has turned a khaki color.

"What's wrong with you? I'm trying to climb over the wall like someone else, but I can't do it right. Look, look." Mrs. Xiang pointed to Xiangyan's shoes.

There were also bean sprouts on Xiangyan's shoes, and the poor bean sprouts had suffered, either sticking to Xiangyan's shoes, or sticking to Xiangyan's body, and even a few sticks on her hair.

Mrs. Xiang's east courtyard is not as towering as the front yard, and the courtyard wall is not high. There is a locust tree with a crooked neck outside the wall. Perhaps this is the reason why Xiangyan climbed over the wall from here.

After all, she was a girl, and she was not sure when she fell from the top. Chunyu continued on the bottom, and took the time. Xiangyan fell into the bean field and rolled for a long time without getting up.

Xiang Suining and Mrs. Xiang picked out the bean sprouts, and poured water again with a ladle. The bean field was wet with mud. Xiang Yan fell from a height and stuck her body in the mud. She still hasn't spit out her mouth. clean.

Mrs. Xiang still felt sorry for the bean sprouts: "Like others who climbed over the wall and committed crimes... Well, what mistake did the bean sprouts make to make you so fussy. I am afraid that this piece of bean sprouts... it will be difficult to produce beans. "

"Grandma just wants beans. What's the problem? There's nothing in the kitchen, not to mention beans, but soy milk, tofu, tofu brain, all the women in the kitchen can make it, but grandma cultivates it privately in the mansion, and also grows it. What kind of beans, mud all over the place, look at my clothes, good smoke cage gauze, how dirty it is." Xiangyan curled her lips: "If grandma is free, you can feed my starlings, let's go It’s not a poor family, so what kind of field do you plant.”

"You... you smashed my bean field, you are justified." Mrs. Xiang shook her hands angrily: "Go, go and call him Lao Tzu, I want to ask how he educated his daughter, now she daughter, to educate his mother."

Said that Cao Cao Cao Cao will arrive.

As soon as Mrs. Xiang finished speaking, she heard messy footsteps coming from the gate of Dongkua courtyard. Hearing the footsteps, she was quite anxious.

You don't need to look to know that it is Xiang Daying and Tang Xiaoniang who are here.

"Yan'er, what's the matter? This is, who bullied you again, huh? Why are you so dirty?" Tang Xiaoniang wanted to hug Xiangyan, but she didn't know where to start. She immediately knelt down in front of Mrs. Xiang and looked up. Tears welled up on her face: "Madam, even if Yan'er made a huge mistake, the master will naturally take care of her. The old lady shouldn't lock her up in the Dongkua courtyard in the middle of the night for lynching."

(End of this chapter)