Madam Hou

Chapter 14

The sky is completely dark, only a faint moonlight shines on the dark surroundings, and only people can see the shallow shadow of the mountain.

Manager Lin had ordered people to light the lanterns and hang them around the carriage.After the battle with the bandits, although no one among the servants was sacrificed for the time being, except for two who were unscathed, the rest were injured in various ways, and the most serious injury was that an arm was cut off. .Director Lin's hand was also cut, but the bones were not injured, and it was not a serious injury compared with other people.

Except for a servant girl who fainted from fright, the rest of the female family turned pale from fright, but they were not injured at all.Now that everyone was safe, the maids were very sorry to see the servants who were injured to protect them, and consciously took Jinchuang medicine and gauze to help the servants stop bleeding and bandage the wounds.

Not far from the carriage, those bandits were tied together with their hands and feet with a rope, and a dozen people formed a circle, surrounded by a few armored soldiers.

Yan Jin stood in front of the bearded bandit leader, the cowhide whip on his right hand made a round arc in mid-air, and then landed on the bearded man's face, the bearded man's face Immediately, a whip mark appeared on the face, and faint blood oozes from the whip mark.The whip continued to wrap around the bearded man's back with inertia, and the coarse cloth clothes on his back tore apart, leaving a red mark as wide as a thumb.Yan Jin withdrew his whip, put his waist down and hummed angrily: "You even dare to rob Brother Feng Qi's little lady, you are simply impatient to live."

After finishing speaking, he swung the whip again, and continued: "Kill you to death, let's see if you still dare to rob my sister-in-law."

On the other side, Mrs. Chen looked at the direction Yinniang was running in front of her, walking back and forth anxiously, looking forward every two steps, and looking forward every two steps, Qingteng supported her, and softly comforted her: "Madam, Don't worry, Shizi will definitely bring the second lady back."

Mrs. Chen nodded again and again: "You're right, you're right, Yinniang will definitely come back safely." After speaking, she asked Qingteng uneasy in her heart: "Then why haven't you come back after so long, you said nothing will happen Let's go." The more I talked, the more I felt that something was going to happen, so I covered my eyes with a handkerchief and cried out loudly: "It's all my fault, I should have grabbed her at that time, it's all my mother's fault , woo woo, Yiniang, mother's darling, if something happens to you, mother won't want to live anymore."

Qingteng patted Mrs. Chen on the back repeatedly to comfort her: "Madam, don't cry, Second Miss will definitely come back safely."

The youngest Ping Niang also came over, took Mrs. Chen's hand and said: "Mother, mother, don't cry, everyone says that the second sister gave birth to a good fortune, so you are lucky, the second sister will definitely come back safely. "

A gust of wind blew over, and Qingteng's ears moved. She seemed to hear someone's faint voice from a distance. Looking in the direction of the sound, she saw two overlapping figures looming in front of her. .As the shadow got closer, it became clearer and clearer.Qingteng shook Mrs. Chen's arm, pointed to the shadow in front of her and said, "Madam, look, the second young lady and the eldest son are back."

Mrs. Chen raised her head to look over, she saw the shadow, she shouted excitedly: "I'm back, I'm back, I'm back at last." After the excitement, she put her hands together and said "Ani Tuo Buddha" several times.

Lin Fengqi finally returned to the place where Mrs. Chen was with Yinniang on his back. Seeing that Lin Fengqi had finally returned, Steward Lin hurriedly followed Mrs. Chen and his party to meet him, hanging a wounded hand, and asked Lin Fengqi with concern: "My lord , are you okay?"

Lin Fengqi replied: "It's okay, Uncle Lin, it's not that you don't know my kung fu. If you are injured, you can rest well and don't worry about me."

Steward Lin watched Lin Fengqi grow up, and his feelings for him were more than simple as a master-servant relationship. After carefully looking at Lin Fengqi and finding that there were no injuries on his body, he said with confidence: "It's fine, it's fine."

Speaking of which, Steward Lin's family has a much stronger relationship with the Hou Mansion than other stewards in the mansion.Lin Guanshi's ancestors have been by his side since Lord Gao of the Lin family. Back then, Lord Gao of the Lin family was just a powerful villager who made a living by doing part-time jobs for the rich.Later, he was discovered by Taizu, and he followed Taizu to fight the world. When passing by the street, he rescued a little beggar who was chased and beaten for stealing steamed buns. Follower, Gao Houye saw that the little beggar had no name and no surname, so he gave the surname of the family Lin, and gave him a first name.

It can be said that the little beggar was loyal to Lord Gao. During the war, Lord Gao was plotted against and almost died in battle. It was the little beggar who risked his life and carried him out of the battlefield to save Lord Gao's life.Later, Taizu won the world, Gao Houye also named Hou Ye because of his contribution to the dragon, and the little beggar became the chief manager of the Linhou Mansion. Over the years, the descendants of the little beggar have been in charge of Lin, and they are loyal to the Hou Mansion. Of course, the Hou Mansion also treats Guanshi Lin's family with courtesy and favor.Out of respect, the juniors in the Hou's mansion also called Steward Lin "Uncle Lin".

Mrs. Chen cared more about Yinniang's situation than she did Lin Fengqi. When she saw Yinniang leaning on Lin Fengqi's shoulder, her eyes were closed, and her face was a little pale. She touched the back of Yinniang's head with her hand, and cried out anxiously. After a few calls to Yinniang, seeing that Yinniang didn't respond, she worriedly asked Lin Fengqi: "Why isn't Yinniang awake, is she injured?"

Lin Fengqi turned to Mrs. Chen and said respectfully: "Mother-in-law, don't worry, Second Miss Chen just fell asleep and was not injured."

Mrs. Chen only noticed the second half of what Lin Fengqi said, "Yinniang is just asleep, she is not hurt." After she heard this rest assured Yinniang, she realized that the eldest son of the Lin family seemed to call her It's "mother-in-law".

He called her mother-in-law, but called his fiancee, Miss Chen Er. Why did she think it sounded so weird when the combination of these sentences sounded so strange.In addition, being respectfully called mother-in-law by this famous son-in-law who has never met before, she always has a feeling of trembling, guilty conscience, and a sense of dreaming.

Mrs. Chen wiped her forehead with a handkerchief, and said somewhat at a loss: "This, this, that, then you should quickly put Yin Niang in the carriage, it's not good to tire you with carrying her on your back like this."

"It's okay, she is very light, not as heavy as the big knife I usually carry when I practice."

"Oh, this, so, then I, I..." God forgave her, she really had a short-circuit in her head, and she didn't know what to say for a while.

When she woke up in the morning, Yin Niang couldn't remember what happened last night at all.

Yesterday, I was on the road for a whole day, and I ran into a robber again. My heart was tense with fear, and I ran away and was rescued.When she was leaning on Lin Fengqi's shoulder later, her eyelids were fighting, and then they snapped shut, and she could only faintly hear someone shouting "Master" and someone shouting "Mother-in-law" Yes, she doesn't know anything else.

When she woke up again, she found that she was lying in a family's house in the next county. When she got up in the morning, she found that the heroic brother from last night had already left, leaving the soldiers from last night to escort them to Beijing.

Sitting in the carriage, Yin Niang recalled the words she had cursed last night, dipped her finger in some saliva, tapped under her eyes, and then spat twice.Seeing her, Ping Niang held her chin and asked curiously, "Second Sister, what are you doing?"

Yin Niang turned her head and answered her younger sister, "I heard that doing this can take back what I said."

"Second sister, what did you say that you want to take back?"

"It's just bad words, such as swearing words that I even brought with me."

"Oh, the second sister, did you scold yourself?"

Yinniang put her hands on her waist, stared at Pingniang pretending to be serious and said: "You are a child, why do you ask so many people?"

Mrs. Chen, who was sitting in the carriage at the moment, had no energy to care about the noise of her two little daughters. She was tossed and turned last night when she was startled by the mother-in-law. non-stop.

She thought of her son-in-law-to-be, she couldn't choose her appearance, she was definitely so pleasing to the eye and would make people eat an extra bowl of rice. Looking at their appearance last night, she didn't dislike them because of their low status.Well, that's right, she chose this son-in-law well, she really has a good eye, and she picked the wrong Mr. Chen back then, it was because of her misjudgment.

The journey in the next few days, because they passed through relatively prosperous towns close to the capital, and they were escorted by soldiers left by Lin Fengqi, the journey was extremely smooth.Because there were wounded inside, they walked slowly all the way, and finally arrived at the city gate into Beijing on the afternoon of the eighth day.

After Madam Lin Hou calculated the distance, she sent someone to wait at the gate of the city since the morning.

The leader among those who came was a woman wearing a stone-blue embroidered blessing. She wore a big bun and wore a red silk flower on her left side. She stood there with a smile on her face. Yuan?Followed by four or five maidservants, wearing uniform Qiantao-colored bi-armour, standing behind Yuan Momo in an orderly manner, and seeing that no one came after waiting for such a long time, they did not appear impatient at all. Madam Chen looked out from the curtain of the carriage, secretly marveling at their rules.A little further to the side, there are three young men driving a carriage, each pulling a horse, and behind the horse is a blue silk carriage.

The carriage rumbled to a stop beside the city gate. Whether it was the maidservant or Mrs. Chen Yinniang and the others in the carriage, they all felt very excited. This finally reached a place that seemed like a rumor to them.

Yuan Memo winked at the maids behind her, and the maids stepped forward steadily to lift the curtain of the carriage, and helped Mrs. Chen and others get out of the carriage.After everyone was seated, Yuan Memo came forward to bless Quan Li with a smile, and said: "My wife, you are here, our wife has been looking forward to your arrival."

Mrs. Chen received a half salute on her side, repeatedly saying that she didn't dare to do it, and then returned the half salute.

(End of this chapter)