novelhk Chapter 106: Reluctant to leave the child but unable to ensnare the wolf
Chapter 106: Reluctant to leave the child but unable to ensnare the wolf
Aunt Zhao asked in surprise, "Did you buy all of them? That's more than four hu."
Madam Gu Liu also felt a little pained and asked, "What else can we do?"
Zhao Ma said, "Why not get the Third Madam to join us, and we can share the profits. If we make a profit, it's fine. If we lose, there will be someone to share the burden, right?"
Mrs. Gu Liu said nothing.
Madam Zhao said again, "Madam, don't you still want Miss Zhen to get married to Madam San's cousin? Why not take this opportunity to do something good?"
Madam Gu Liu chuckled and said, "Engagement is engagement. How can she, a married woman, be the master of her cousin? I want to keep this fortune for myself. You saw how happy she made the old lady in the upper room just now. Do you know what she took out? It was medicinal incense. She said she made it herself. I don't know where she got it from to offer it to the old lady. If she makes enough money, she will be even more powerful."
Nanny Zhao also had some knowledge. She said, "When our family was still prosperous, the eldest master got a medicinal incense. I heard it was very rare. If the third lady knew how to make this when she was at her parents' home, she would have been famous in the capital long ago. Neither the Qin family nor the Cui family has ever heard of anyone who is good at making this. I don't know where she got the chance from."
"What other fate could there be? It's just because of our Marquis. Alas, it's all because the man I married is useless. He's neither good at literature nor martial arts. He only thinks about taking concubines all day long. It's caused me to lose face in front of the old lady."
"Last time, the old lady said to me that Sixth Master is a man after all, and it's not good to dig his face. When guests come, he has the face to go out and meet them. But the old lady knows that Eighth Master should not be hated."
"Our Jiao Chen protected you so closely, and he was short of money to spend. Qin Yuan came back yesterday, and you had no more medicine to offer to please the old lady this morning. He was thinking, why are you so unlucky."
The Marquis returned to Wutong Garden and, as usual, dealt with matters outside the mansion first.
That's true.
"So little? So valuable?"
Recently, she has been saying behind the two children's back that Qin Yuan is unfaithful and wants to abandon us, mother and son.
Dahong smiled and said, "But is that so? The old lady said that the perfume pills sent by the lady were extremely bad, and when she was in a bad mood, she said that she would send some of her own bad things to the lady as well. That's called no return."
The Marquis said he wanted to keep Dahong to play for a while, so Qiuju went back to the lower room to serve him.
The Marquis smiled and stroked Dahong's big braid, saying, "He is so amazing, let Sister Hongye bring him some candy."
The Marquis sent the people away in an incense stick of time. Just as he returned to his room to drink tea, Qiuju and Dahong came. Qiuju smiled and said, "Madam, the old lady asked me to bring some things."
Aunt Rong brought the topic back and said, "It's still too risky after all."
Qiu Ju said, "In the past, only the nobles didn't care about it. I heard that because the concubines in the palace hate it, fewer and fewer people use incense. When I was serving the old lady, I heard the shopkeeper Re say that now even the men of the big families hate using incense."
The Marquis immediately asked the maid to fetch a bag.
The Marquis thought about it and said, "You should keep it. Mother has been so mean to you. You should have been more filial to her in the past."
Old Madam Gu knew that she was holding a grudge, but she could only endure it and wait for someone from Zhao Niang's husband's family to come and send the person away.
It seems that kid knows how to borrow flowers to offer to Buddha.
Dahong said, "Madam, you have taken the trouble. Just give the sugar to Dahong. Master Cheng Duo and Sister Yu can share it. Eating too much will only get in the way."
Madam Gu Ba lamented.
Qiu Ju immediately said, "I only made this trip, how dare I ask for a reward from Madam."
The head maid brought them over, and the marquis gave them all to Qiu Ju.
Nowadays, the mothers in charge try their best to figure out your thoughts before doing anything, fearing that they will not be able to handle things properly, and thus the process is extremely slow.
Jiao Chenyuan knew that he could persuade her again, so he did as Madam Gu Ba said.
Zhao Mama had no plan. She made up her mind yesterday to go to school and this morning pestered Cheng Ge'er to teach her a few more words. Yu Jie'er was still confused and just followed Zhao Mama to learn. She did whatever Zhao Mama did.
Qiu Juzhen placed the important thing outside her sleeve pocket.
The Marquis opened it and saw that it was a box of thumb-sized pearls, emitting a faint and lustrous glow that seemed to make the outside of the room brighter.
Madam Zhao taught us to make Qin Yuan bad. As long as Qin Yuan does what he wants, we will have a good life and no one will have to worry about anything.
The Marquis added, "You should give it to him as a reward from the old lady. Your clothes are just some unusual things, so he should not despise them."
Qiu Ju said, "The old lady said that your filial piety is precious. Those things are useless to the old lady. If you use them to make your headwear look bad, or to make your face powder bad, they will be bad too. Even if you put them under your shoes, they will have nowhere to go and won't turn yellow in vain."
The Marquis exclaimed.
Qiu Ju then said, "Madam, open it and take a look. Do you like it or dislike it? I will report to the old lady when I return."
Qiuju just laughed.
The more the Marquis and Hongye listened, the more frightened they became.
Ten years later, after a long war, the people became more prosperous, and many of the things that the nobles had previously disliked no longer spread among the people, and more people began to use incense.
The Marquis suddenly had an idea and asked Qiuju, "If those incense pills were put on sale in the West Market, would it be okay for no one to do it?"
"You get a child if you sacrifice it, and you get a wolf if you trap it. The eldest sister-in-law is always thinking about the household expenses, and you always make yourself the one who gets all the bad things."
"So that's what he wanted?"
The Marquis thought for a moment, took a flower hairpin from under the dressing table and pinned it under Qiuju's bun, and said with a smile, "That's what you often wear at your mother's house, don't dislike it."
Jiao Chen was surprised and asked, "Did your mother give you something again?"
Jiao Chen said: "He is still changing his teeth, so forget it and let Hongye find him something else to eat."
Dahong grinned, revealing her missing teeth.
The Marquis thought to himself that a child like Dahong could find a job anywhere, and it was you who had to worry about him.
It turned out that Nanny Zhao and Sister Yu usually just played with a few old women brought from the northern frontier, and they also interacted with the children of other lieutenant generals. The children of the Eighth Master disliked us for being vulgar and tough, and we even talked privately before fighting a few times.
What Cheng Ge'er and Dahong talked about in those days is the ways of the world, which made us realize our own situation.
"You didn't prepare enough in the last few days, and there was nothing ready."
Qiu Ju smiled and said, "Madam has used it, so I am not too unhappy, but I don't have any other ideas. It would be bad if Madam could give me a bag of the perfume pills that she gave to Cheng Ge'er."
Qiu Ju said, "That thing is bad. Cheng Ge praised it and said that he wanted to give some to some old sisters when he went home on vacation. I'm afraid my mother outside the family would hate it too."
As expected, Dahong came over and had nothing to say. She told in vivid detail how Zhao Mama and Yu Jie'er behaved in the lower room those days, how Cheng Ge'er and Old Madam Gu taught them, and how she also encouraged them on the side.
Qiu Ju also said: "Da Hong said the original words, not even one word is too much."
Hongye smiled and went down, pulling Dahong away.