The east courtyard of the second bedroom of the Cheng Mansion, next to the lotus pond, is the garden shared by the second bedroom of the big house. It is also a good place to cool off in summer. The young girls in the family all live nearby.
Early in the morning, servants and women came and went to serve, but what was different from the past was that when passing a house, everyone stopped to take a look and talk.
In the middle of the night yesterday, this house was temporarily cleared out and a woman lived in it. It was said that she was the eldest daughter of their family.
"We all have to line up in the back, Qiniang will be called Banniang from now on." Twelve-year-old Cheng Liuniang said with a smile.
After hearing her words, the other two young girls eating in the room put down their chopsticks, lowered their heads and suppressed laughter.
The nurse came over in a panic.
"Sixth lady, please stop teasing your sister," she said.
Liu Niang was the legitimate daughter of the eldest family, not a concubine of her own family, so she did not dare to scold her.
Cheng Qiniang's anger that she had accumulated all night was aroused by this sentence. She threw away her chopsticks and ran out crying.
The wet nurse yelled "Hey" and hurriedly chased after her.
Seeing that Cheng Qiniang was made to cry, Cheng Liuniang stuck out her tongue and walked away staggeringly.
The two remaining girls in the room looked at each other.
"Do you still remember that fool?" Cheng Siniang asked.
"We were only two years old when she left home, how can we remember it?" Cheng Wuniang said, slowly picking up the chopsticks to eat again, "Besides, if a fool has anything to remember, it is always like this."
As she spoke, she made a naughty face, sticking out her tongue and rolling her eyes.
Cheng Siniang was amused by her.
"Then I will be Cheng Wuniang." She said, pointing at Cheng Wuniang.
This was really funny. The two sisters looked at each other and giggled together again.
Mrs. Cheng Er barely slept a wink all night and didn't even eat. She wanted to sleep a little longer, but her daughter was crying and had to get up.
"No one will stop you from being the seventh mother. You are the seventh mother and you will always be the seventh mother." She reached out and pinched her head and said.
Cheng Qiniang grabbed her mother's sleeves, her big eyes filled with tears. She felt a little more at ease after receiving her mother's assurance.
"Then, I don't want to have a stupid sister, others will laugh me to death." She started twisting and shouting again.
If it is possible, everyone in the Cheng family must have this idea, but what can be done.
This fool abandoned the Taoist temple for seven or eight years, but he survived and came back.
Mrs. Cheng Er only felt a splitting headache.
"Okay, Qiniang, why are you making such a fuss? Look at you, do you look like a lady? If you continue to behave like this, you will be like your idiot sister and be laughed at by the whole city!" She said
He lowered his face and shouted.
This was Cheng Qiniang's biggest nightmare. She looked at her mother and burst into tears.
The second room of the Cheng family was in a mess early in the morning.
When the news reached the main room of the Cheng family, Mr. Cheng and his wife, who had been up almost all night, looked at each other and sighed heavily.
"The second brother lives in a man's house. The younger brother and sister came in late and haven't seen the child before. He doesn't know anything. I don't think he should let them ask. Bring him over and let me ask." Mrs. Cheng said.
Mr. Cheng nodded, a little tired.
"Has the child eaten?" Mrs. Cheng asked the maid to ask.
The servant girl came back soon.
"Still asleep," she said.
Mrs. Cheng was a little stunned. She looked at the sky outside. It was bright early in the summer. The sun had already risen very high. It was bright and dazzling inside and outside.
"You're such a fool, do you still expect her to have a normal routine? She just eats and sleeps!" Mr. Cheng said angrily, "Don't ask, just throw it away like that."
Cheng Jiaoniang had a good sleep on her first day back at Cheng's house.
Banqin returned home and nestled with her mind at ease. The worries and fears of the past few months were all gone, and she slept extremely soundly.
Cheng Jiaoniang had been unable to sleep at night since she woke up a few months ago, but now her sleep is getting better and better. Especially last night, she didn't even have a dream. Could it be that she was at home and her soul was at peace.
All in all, the master and servant were in a good mood, so after getting up and washing themselves, they didn't have any objections when they saw the cold food.
"It's early for dinner at home. You newcomers don't know this, but it's hard to turn the stove on again after it's been turned off. There's no rule of having a small kitchen for a large family." A maid outside the corridor explained to Banqin with a half-smile but not a smile.
He said, while looking at the sky, "Either we wait a little longer, this lunch will almost be used."
This was a mockery of them getting up late, but Banqin ignored it.
"It doesn't matter, I can just warm it up myself," she said, smiling at the maid.
Do you want to warm yourself up? The servant girl was stunned for a moment, and sure enough, she saw that not long after the girl entered, she set up two small stoves in the hall, opened a food box, and inside it was actually complete with pots, shovels, bowls, chopsticks and other utensils. Not only complete, but also very exquisite, several
She has never seen anything like this.
How could a fool use it so cleverly?
The servant woman looked a little dumbfounded, then a servant woman came from behind and stabbed her.
"What are you like?" the maid who came later asked in a low voice with some curiosity, while quietly glancing into the hall.
The servant girl from before shook her head.
"I haven't come out, and I haven't gone in either. The window is open, so you can take a look quietly." She laughed in a low voice.
The two maids laughed together.
Watching Banqin here heat up the food, place them one by one in the food box and carry them to the bedroom, the two maids were not in the mood to follow.
"When I was a child, I still remember that I couldn't eat or urinate. In the winter, my clothes couldn't be washed, and I smelled all day long. My wife used to smoke handfuls of incense in the house, and she choked.
That idiot kept sneezing, peed every time he sneezed, and peed every time he sneezed."
On the other side, the servants and wives of Sasao also gathered together to chat and joke, and they all burst into laughter when they said this.
"It's really hard for Madam, I really shouldn't have kept such a child in the first place."
"It's not that the old man let him drown to death, but the wife refused to let him go. She cried and moved into the in-laws' house. She only made the old man lie there in anger for three days. She became discouraged and didn't care about the second wife's affairs anymore."
"If you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer a lot. My wife is burdened by this idiot. The second master doesn't like it, and he doesn't want another child. In fact, his body is also worn down. He went early. It's not that he left this child behind and suffered."
It would be better to be happy in the beginning and reincarnate now to live a good life."
"Look what you said, if the first wife hadn't died long ago, there would be nothing to do with the new wife now."
This remark caused another burst of laughter, and the topic shifted to the new lady.
"Which one do you think is better, the former madam or the current madam?"
Comparing herself with dead people is what Mrs. Cheng is most taboo about. For a step-brother, this is unavoidable. She knew this from the time she discussed marriage with the Cheng family in her boudoir.
Which girl doesn't want to be married? You only have me and I only have you. However, there is always some helplessness in life. Because her father was convicted and involved in family affairs, she was forced to become an old girl and had to marry someone for a second marriage.
Fortunately, her husband is young and handsome, has a smooth career, and her sisters-in-law are friendly. Her mother-in-law is dedicated to chanting Buddha. When she came to this home, she felt more like an old daughter-in-law than a daughter-in-law. Now that she has given birth to a legitimate son, all the things she worried about before getting married have gradually disappeared.
has been forgotten.
I didn't expect that these things would come up when the days were getting better and better, and all the things that had been suppressed in my heart and didn't want to be thought of suddenly came up.
When she dies in the future, she and her husband will not be able to sleep together and be buried together. There will be a coffin between them, and she will have to be placed in the lower position. Even if she has been with her husband for decades, giving birth to children and carrying on the family line, she will not be buried in the same coffin.
She couldn't compare to that woman who lived only a few years and had no importance at home, just because she came in before her, and just because she was her husband's first wife.
Mrs. Cheng Er was trembling all over. Her daughter had been crying all morning, and her ears were still buzzing as she recalled her daughter's words, "I don't want a stupid sister."
Fool, this fool caused all the trouble, why didn’t she die in Bingzhou and come back! (To be continued)
