Chapter 152: The child’s protective mother asks for a guaranteed monthly ticket
Hearing the sound of empty drums coming from the Qiao Tower in the distance, it was already midnight. Zhang Yuan had been running around all day and was taking a bath. Wu Ling was helping to add water. He heard the wooden door knocking lightly and Mu Zhenzhen's voice said:
"Xiao Wu, has the young master taken a bath? I will wash the young master's clothes..."
Wu Ling said: "Change your clothes here. Sister Zhenzhen, please come in and get them."
Mu Zhenzhen opened the door and walked in, holding a bamboo basket in her hand. She had just taken a bath, and her long hair was still a little shiny under the light. It was obviously still wet. When she came in, she saw Zhang Yuan sitting naked in the tub.
, even though she was only naked, her face turned red with embarrassment. She quickly bent down and picked up the clothes Zhang Yuan had changed into the bamboo basket, turned around to go out, but stopped again, neither leaving nor turning around.
Come here, I don’t know what you are hesitating about?
Zhang Yuan looked at the long-legged and slender back of the fallen girl and asked, "Zhenzhen, what's the matter?"
Mu Zhenzhen turned around slowly, but suddenly knelt down to Zhang Yuan and said with tears in his eyes: "Master, I'm sorry——"
Zhang Yuan rested his elbows on the edge of the bucket, sat up straight, and said curiously: "Why don't you say sorry? Get up quickly."
Mu Zhenzhen cried: "It's all because of the maid's fault. It affects the eldest lady, uncle, and the young master——"
It turned out that it was for this reason. Zhang Yuan leaned back to make himself more comfortable and said: "You get up first and talk. If you don't get up, I will get up."
Wu Ling on the side covered his mouth and smiled.
Mu Zhenzhen stood up quickly. She didn't laugh, she couldn't laugh. She saw that the young master was filing a lawsuit for her matter today, and that the uncle was scolded by Mrs. Lu so badly that she was very sad, but she didn't know how to make up for it.
, it would be better if the young master scolded her, but the young master did not scold her——
Zhang Yuandao: "Oh, so that's what happened. Then what do you think you can't do with me?"
Mu Zhenzhen said: "My servant has caused trouble."
Zhang Yuan asked: "Why did you cause trouble?"
Mu Zhenzhen looked at the young master blankly and said, "My maid beat someone."
Zhang Yuan said: "Shouldn't you hit me? Do you like to be robbed?"
"No, no." Mu Zhenzhen shook his head quickly, and his long hair spread behind him, which was very eye-catching. "I feel very sorry for causing trouble to the young master and the eldest lady." He thought to himself: "If I had run away at that time.
You can just go back after those people. Why arrest the servant girl as a witness? At that time, I thought those people were coming for the young master. Please remember
Zhang Yuandao: "Zhenzhen, let me tell you, if you encounter something like this again next time, you have to beat me hard. I don't like it if you are weak, you know?"
Wu Ling said: "Yes, beat her hard. It's a pity that I was not there today and didn't see Sister Zhenzhen show off her skills. I regret it so much."
Mu Zhenzhen was finally amused and laughed, but then said: "But this time the trouble is not small, and the eldest lady -"
Zhang Yuan interrupted her and said: "This is a chronic disease with strong medicine. My sister was wronged in the Lu family for not just one or two days. If we ask her to go back with us this time, if Lu Zhaofang doesn't repent, she will still suffer."
Yes, the Lu family doesn't dare to do anything to my sister. A Songjiang Dong family is enough for Mr. Lu to ask Grandpa to sue, what else can he do!" He said in his heart: "I hope that after this incident, my brother-in-law will no longer be submissive and just foolish and filial.
A writer’s voice is the greatest filial piety.”
Wu Ling said: "Yes, what are you afraid of? As long as I treat the eldest lady well."
Mu Zhenzhen asked, still a little worried: "Master, is it really okay?"
Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, if you really do something wrong, I will definitely scold you. Don't scold you now, just wash your clothes and have a rest."
Mu Zhenzhen smiled, blessed the young master, and went out holding the bamboo basket.
Wu Ling said at this time: "Master, do you think Sister Zhenzhen is getting more and more beautiful?" Seeing Zhang Yuan turning to look at him, Wu Ling was also very smart and said hurriedly: "Just Xiao Wu, I don't mean anything else." Zhenzhen.
Sister is obviously the young master's son. How dare he, Xiao Wu, have any unreasonable thoughts? How can he do it if he doesn't have such eyesight?
Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "You mean she is so beautiful that she always gets into trouble. The first time it was Dong Zuchang who wanted to buy her, and this time it was Lu Yangfang?"
Wu Ling said repeatedly: "Yes, that's what Xiao Wu means."
Zhang Yuandao: "Those people don't regard slaves as human beings and think that they can be bought and sold at will. They are really beautiful, especially when they have nunchucks in their hands. She used to sell fruits in Dashan Temple. Her clothes were ragged, she was still young, and she was inconspicuous.
Now that she has grown up and is wearing new clothes that fit her well, there are naturally lustful people coveting her."
Wu Ling suggested: "Sister Zhenzhen can tie the small coiled dragon stick around her waist in the future. She doesn't need to hide it. She can just hold it in her hand and dance with it when she has nothing to do. This way, those lustful people will be afraid and dare not mess with her."
Zhang Yuan laughed loudly and said repeatedly: "Good idea, good idea."
…
The next morning, Zhang Yuan got up a little later. Lu Tao had already been ordered by his mother to visit his younger brother Lu Yangfang in the county jail. The jailers knew that Lu Yangfang was the second son of Lu Zhaoshen, so they did not embarrass Lu Yangfang, but they squatted in the cold cell.
One night, Lu Yangfang was extremely frightened. When she saw Lu Tao coming, she threw herself at the fence and cried loudly, begging her brother to save him quickly——
Lu Tao saw that his second brother had become much more haggard overnight, and the frightened look on his face made him feel sad. He comforted him: "Don't be afraid, I will take care of you in this prison so that you won't suffer."
, but your crime this time is not small, and it is useless for me to plead for mercy. I have to wait for dad to come back."
Lu Yangfang hurriedly said: "Then hurry up and have someone go to Huating to call dad back."
Lu Tao said: "We have sent people to Huating, but dad will not be back until tomorrow evening at the earliest." After comforting his second brother for a while, he went back to his mother. Just as he turned around and walked a few steps, he heard Lu Yangfang
He shouted from behind: "Brother, I know I was wrong. Please forgive me for once."
When Lu Tao came back, he saw that his younger brother Lu Yangfang couldn't get his head out. He could only stretch his hands and shake them.
Lu Tao felt sour in his heart. This is his biological brother. Although he instigated mischief in front of his old mother yesterday, which was extremely bad, but now seeing his pitiful appearance, he really couldn't hate him. He responded: "It's good to know your mistakes.
I'll see you again in the evening."
After taking care of the jailer and prisoner, he went to the execution room Dian Shi to deliver five taels of silver. Then Lu Tao took his servant Lu Dayou home. He first reported to his mother, Mrs. Liu, about his second brother's situation. Mrs. Liu cried, "How could Fang'er ever do this?"
It doesn't frighten him to have suffered like this."
Lu Yangfang's wife Wang on the side also cried sadly.
Mrs. Liu said: "Tao'er, can't you let your brother-in-law go to the county magistrate to withdraw the lawsuit? That Zhang Yuan was too cruel. He actually opened the door and asked the police to arrest Fang'er. It's really hateful!"
At this time, if Lu Yangfang was on the side and provoked a little bit, Liu's anger would flourish. Fortunately, Lu Yangfang was still in prison, and Liu was only concerned about Lu Yangfang's safety and did not care about Zhang Yuan——
Lu Tao said: "Zhang Yuan is going back to Shanyin today. He is also a young man and cannot bear to swallow this breath. As soon as he leaves, no one will pursue the second brother's case, and the second brother will be released soon."
Mrs. Liu said: "Then let him leave quickly, leave quickly."
Lu Tao said: "Ruoxi wants to take Lu Chun and Lu Jie back to Shanyin to visit their mother. My father had already agreed before going to Huating the day before yesterday. My son will let her come and bid farewell to his mother later."
Mrs. Liu said with a straight face: "No need to say goodbye, let her go."
Lu Tao returned to the small courtyard and said this to Ruoxi. Ruoxi said: "How can I go back to Ning without saying goodbye to my aunt?" He immediately took Lu Chun and Lu Jie to the courtyard, and Lu quietly warned the two children.
Lu Chun said some words, and Lu Jie nodded and said: "Remember, mother."
Seeing their grandmothers Liu, Lu Chun, and Lu Jie, they immediately kowtowed, then raised their two little faces, and the six-year-old Lu Chun said: "Auntie, my grandson is going to Shanyin to visit his grandmother. I came here to say hello to you."
Tell me, mother, your grandson will miss you. She has chestnut cakes that she wants to keep for her grandson."
Lu Jie said: "Auntie, I also want to eat chestnut cake. Don't let me eat all of it for my brother."
Mrs. Liu was nearly sixty years old. She didn't like her eldest son Lu Tao, but she still liked her two grandchildren. When she saw the two of them coming, she frowned slightly and said with a smile: "You two
When you think of Da Mu, you think of Da Mu’s cakes, right?”
Lu Chun and Lu Jie got up, holding the hands of their mother Ruoxi on the left and right, Lu Chun said: "No, my grandson misses his eldest mother the most, and eldest mother loves his grandson the most."
Four-year-old Lu Jie said: "My eldest mother loves me more."
The two children started arguing again.
Mrs. Liu hurriedly said: "Come here, come here." She held her two grandchildren in her arms and coaxed: "My eldest mother likes you two and loves you equally." She looked up at Zhang Ruoxi who was standing timidly aside.
He snorted coldly and said, "You are worse than two children."
Ruoxi quickly knelt down, Lu Chun, and Lu Jie saw their mother kneeling. They also broke away from their grandmother's arms and knelt beside their mother, raising their little faces and looking innocently at their grandmother with wide black eyes.
Mrs. Liu sighed and said: "Get up, everyone get up - Ruoxi, I won't say much about you in front of the two children. If you still have a conscience, just reflect on yourself. This time you go to Shanyin and only take me."
Take good care of these two grandchildren, otherwise——" Without saying anything auspicious, he changed his question and asked: "Then when will you come back?"
Zhang Ruoxi did not dare to say that she would stay in Shanyin until the end of the year, but she just said: "I will come back in a few months when Mr. Lu is free to pick him up."
Mrs. Liu was too lazy to talk to Zhang Ruoxi. She was going to scold Ruoxi today just for the sake of her two grandchildren. She thought about it and let it go. One more thing is worse than one less thing. The most important thing now is to rescue Lu Yangfang. If It would be good for Xi to go back to her parents’ house for a while, so as not to be upset by watching——
Mrs. Liu asked her maid to take out cakes for her two grandchildren to eat, and gave some instructions. Then she asked Ruoxi to take the two children out, and said: "Ruoxi, let me tell you straight, your brother will
Don't come again, he is not welcome in our Lu family."
Ruo Xi came out of the courtyard, wiped her tears and led the two children away. Lu Chun and Lu Jie were silent. After walking for a while, Lu Jie raised her head and asked, "Mother, my brother and I are in the eldest mother's house."
Isn’t it good to say it in front of you?”
Ruoxi knelt down and hugged the two children, and said with a tearful smile: "You two are very good. If you weren't here today, how would my mother dare to come alone?"
The two children became happy now.
The new January is here, and Xiaodao is asking us for a guaranteed monthly pass, so that Yasao can continue to move forward in the new month.