Shengshichun

Chapter 22 Bodhisattva Appearance
When Bixi came in with breakfast, Fu Zhen had been sitting at the table for a long time.

Bi Xi looked her over as soon as she came in.

Fu Zhen didn't pay attention at first. After drinking a bowl of shredded chicken porridge, he saw her eyes widen even more from the corner of his eye, which he couldn't hide.Then he put down the bowl and said, "Is there a flower on my face?"

Bixi shook her head quickly. "There are no flowers, but there is something else on the girl's face."

"Oh?" Fu Zhen picked up a yam cake with interest, "Tell me, what's there?"

Bixi looked at the yam cake that she had eaten in two bites and was actually gone, and her eyes widened unconsciously. "Yes, there is the one in the statue of the gods that was posted during the Chinese New Year. The thing with the big head, the big mouth, and the eyes in the armpits!"

Fu Zhen stopped and thought for a moment: "Taotie?"

"Yes, yes, yes! It's Taotie!" Bixi high-fived, "There are so many strokes in that character that I haven't even seen it clearly. The girl is still awesome. That's so sweet. I heard she's very lucky. The girl looks very lucky now. .”

It is a blessing to be able to eat!

God knows how many ways my wife and the people around her have tried to help her eat more over the years.

In the past, she could eat more than half of this yam cake, but in just a short time, she had eaten three pieces in one go!
Fu Zhen smiled.

"Girl," Bixi stared at her face again, "Actually, except for that sweet peach, there are many things on the girl's face, no, on her body, all over her body, which I have never seen before. I heard that the Bodhisattva in Baihe Temple is very spiritual. When you went to the temple yesterday, the Bodhisattva must have appeared, right?"

Fu Zhen nodded deeply: "It's the Bodhisattva's appearance. The night before, I dreamed that the old uncle of the Fu family was speaking in person!"

"Really?" Bixi asked in surprise, "Did you dream about the old lady? What did he say?"

"He said, true sister, the Bodhisattva couldn't bear that you and your mother were bullied by bad people, so you were spared your death and you can live a long life.

"But from today on, you must take good care of your mother's inner house, bring order to the chaos, and control all the unruly people, so as to ensure that the reputation accumulated by our ancestors of the Fu family is immortal. Otherwise, you will not be able to live up to the Bodhisattva!" "

Bixi's whole body tensed up: "Did the old lady really say that to the girl?"

"Is there any lie?" Fu Zhen said seriously, "Didn't you hear that I beat the second girl yesterday? If I hadn't been ordered by the old lady, why did I dare to beat them yesterday? Where would I have come from? Do you have the strength to hit them?

"This house is the former residence of a generation of loyal and virtuous ministers. When we live here, we don't think about how to run the house prosperously, or how to stabilize the inner house so that we can make some contributions to the court and the people. We only think about how to make profits, make calculations, and even create things. Are these things that confuse right and wrong and ignore rules and laws worthy of the old master? Are they worthy of the ancestors of the Fu family?"

Bixi has been stubborn since she was a child. She was originally sent by Mrs. Fu to be Fu Zhen's playmate.But in front of them, the original maid was married, and there was nothing going on in the courtyard anyway, so he pulled her up to take the seat of another maid, mainly accompanying her to play, and helping Zi Yan in her free time. Take care of things in the house.

How much can a little girl like this be capable of?
After hearing Fu Zhen say that he had a nose and an eye, she immediately believed it.

After calming down for a while, she suddenly puffed up her chest: "Old Taifu is so wise, no wonder he can be the Taifu! He has a spirit in heaven, and he actually sees everything in our house clearly!
"Those who are obsessed with scheming others and engaging in crooked ways to bully others - girl, you are right, we must punish them severely! We can't live in the old lady's house and let them do evil and make him look bad. Shame on you!"

"Have you ever been bullied?" Fu Zhen asked her. "Of course!" Bixi was excited all over, "Everyone in our courtyard has been bullied! Last month, Caixia, who was next to the second girl, kicked the vegetables sent to us by the chef courtyard. The slave went to pick them up. She He also stepped on the slave’s finger! Zi Yan even received a slap from the second girl.”

Fu Zhen stopped chewing.

"Aren't the servants at Qiluo Yuan at my mother's disposal?"

"How can Madam have this power? The roster is in the hands of the old lady!"

old lady!
An unpleasant memory suddenly flashed through Fu Zhen's mind.

During the Lantern Festival two months ago, the whole family went to pay their respects to Mrs. Fu and had a reunion banquet.As a rule, the girls at home will prepare poems or homemade meals to show their filial piety.

Fu Zhen steamed a basket of fancy snacks such as jade rabbit and peony. Unexpectedly, before the banquet was over, the old lady pinched her throat and couldn't breathe. After checking, it turned out to be the basket of snacks that Fu Zhen had steamed. There are peanuts in my heart that the old lady will never touch!
Fu Rou immediately complained in a sharp voice that she was so cruel that she even gave her grandmother peanuts to kill her.

The old lady punished her by kneeling in the Buddhist hall all night, it was so cold!Mrs. Fu cut her forehead, and under Mrs. Fu's overt and covert threats, she took out 6000 taels and bought them a [-]-acre farm in the southern suburbs that others had quickly sold before taking Fu Zhen back to their house.

Later, Fu Zhen was ill for many days. Whenever she mentioned going to bed, she would tremble with fear.

It was this illness that made Mrs. Fu feel physically and mentally exhausted, so she took her to Baihe Temple to ask for a fortune.

Fu Zhen had been unpopular with the old lady since he was a child. This time he wanted to repair the relationship with great sincerity and show kindness to his mother in the upper room. How could he put peanuts to harm her?And every ingredient is made by her personally, so there can be no mistakes.

Now that time has passed, there is no way to find clues to find out the real murderer.

But what about the farm worth 5000 taels?

Fu Zhen tapped his finger on the table, then picked up the bowl and drank the soup.

Seeing that Bixi was still looking over with red eyes, Fu Zhen said: "From now on, if you suffer a loss, you have to sue me, and you can't hide anything you see or hear from me. Also, I'm afraid there will be people in our courtyard from time to time. Come, you must take good care of the people below for me and guard this gap.

"In our courtyard, rules that have never been established before must be established from now on, do you understand?"

"My slave knows!" Bixi nodded heavily, "This slave will never disobey the girl! Just like last night, the slave will definitely guard our door! To be honest with the girl, the slave has long wanted to do what the old master said. ! I just don’t dare to…”

"Stop!"

Before she finished speaking, Fu Zhen reached out and covered her mouth: "The most important thing is this, you must never let a third person know about things like last night.

"As long as everything I tell you, don't say a word to anyone without my permission, including my mother, so as not to worry her. Do you remember that?"

(End of this chapter)