Madam Hou

Chapter 88

When Mrs. Linhou finally spoke dryly, she let Yinniang go.

After Yinniang left, Mrs. Lin Hou thought of Yinniang's thin and petite body, and sighed to Yuan Memo: "It's still too young. At the beginning, I thought about hiring Yinniang, so that the concubine Jing would miss us more. It is very important to have a relationship with the empress. But looking at it now, Yinniang is too young, and I don’t know how long I will have to wait until I want to hold a grandson."

Yuan Momo persuaded: "Ma'am, don't worry. Now the young master and the young mistress are mixed with honey, and it is not a matter of time before they have a grandson. Besides, the young mistress is young, even if she is pregnant, she won't have to worry about it." It's easy to give birth, and if something happens during childbirth and the mother and child are lost, then the loss outweighs the gain."

Mrs. Lin Hou said helplessly: "Why don't I know, but I'm 41 this year, and there are no grandchildren at my age in the whole capital. I'm so envious when I look at it. There are still people in the manor who are eyeing the title, I'm not at ease if Feng Qi doesn't give birth to the eldest son sooner."

Yuan Momo said: "Ma'am, you worry too much. The young master is the son of the eldest son. In the future, he will become a prince. The young master is promising. No matter how much you struggle with the house, you will not be able to make a fool of yourself." .”

Mrs. Lin Hou snorted and said: "Feng Qi Chengjue and the others can't figure it out, but who knows if they will have the idea of ​​the generation of nobles below Feng Qi. Back then, even the vicious thing of kidnapping and selling If she can do it, who knows what else she can do."

Yin Niang naturally didn't know what Mrs. Lin Hou said to Yuan Momo in private.She walked all the way back to Mude Hall from Tang Rong Courtyard, and met Feng Zhi on the way, so she greeted her, "Second Sister, where are you going?"

Feng Zhi bowed to her and called her sister-in-law, and then replied: "I am going to serve my mother."

Yinniang's impression of this concubine's sister has always been that she is quiet, rarely speaks, almost looks a little cowardly, and doesn't like to approach her aunt, every time she appears, she tries to make herself as inconspicuous as possible.At this time, she actually took the initiative to serve Mrs. Lin Hou, which surprised Yin Niang.But after thinking about it for a while, he felt that maybe he had suddenly become enlightened and wanted to please his aunt, so he didn't pay much attention to it, so he said to her: "Then you go, I won't delay you."

"Yes, sister-in-law, I'll talk to sister-in-law when I'm free."

Yin Niang nodded casually, said: "Yes, good." After finishing speaking, she left first.

When he returned to Mudetang, he entered the inner room, and saw that Lin Fengqi had returned, and was lying on the bed with his feet on the edge of the bed, and his shoes and socks were still on.There was still a bowl of hangover soup on the table in the room, but he didn't drink it, and there was no maid in the room, probably because he kicked it out.

He also went to General Su's Mansion today to drink with Su Yun, Su Yu and his son, so at this time Yin Niang smelled of alcohol on him.

Yin Niang complained as she walked over: "Why don't you let the servant girl take off your shoes and socks for you, and you don't drink the hangover soup." He hugged her, pushed her down on the bed, then hugged her and said: "Leave them alone, you can sleep with me for a while."

After speaking, he put his head on Yinniang's neck again, and spit on her neck with alcohol-smelling breath, making her neck numb.Yin Niang turned her head and sniffed him, she said disgustedly: "How much wine did you drink today, you smell like wine all over your body."

Lin Fengqi said: "Not much, I just drank two jars, five catties of jars."

Lin Fengqi leaned against Yinniang's neck for a while, then suddenly put his hand on her stomach, touched it lightly, and stopped after touching it for a while, saying: "The one who saw Su Yu at Su's house today Two children, they are so cute."

Yin Niang turned around and hugged his waist, faced him and asked: "Do you want a child?"

Lin Fengqi nodded.

Yinniang pouted and complained: "Mother told me about the child today, alas, it's not easy being your daughter-in-law. I have to give birth to a child within three months after entering the house. I'm under a lot of pressure."

Lin Fengqi touched Yiniang's head, and said: "I won't let you give birth now, you are too young. I heard from Su Yu today that women who give birth too early are not good for their health. I heard that the Chengxiang county magistrate The second wife I married was because I was too young to give birth to a child. As a result, I didn’t have the strength to give birth, and finally died of dystocia. Compared with the child, my Yiniang is naturally more important. After a few years, Yinniang will naturally help her. I have had many children."

Yinniang was slightly touched, and to express her touch, she lightly kissed her husband's face.

Seeing Yiniang kissing him, Lin Fengqi smiled, and in return, he kissed Yinniang on the cheek again.After kissing, he said: "However, Yin Niang, you have to eat well in the future, you are too thin, you have to eat fatter, otherwise you will not have the energy to have children in the future."

Yin Niang thought to herself: The matter of the children not being seen yet, in fact, there is no need to think so far.

Seeing the smell of alcohol all over his body, Yin Niang was afraid that he would be uncomfortable, so she pushed his hand holding her and said, "Let me get up, and I'll make you hangover soup."

Lin Fengqi was very disobedient today, he shook his head and said, "I have a headache, I don't want to drink hangover soup."

"Then I'll ask someone to fetch water for you to bathe. Your body smells too bad, and it's smoky."

He continued to shake his head and said, "It's okay, I'm not smoked."

"I mean you smoked me."

Lin Fengqi nodded, and said: "Well, then I have to wash it, it's not okay to smoke Yinniang."

After finishing speaking, he struggled to stand up, and after standing up, he thought for a while, then turned around and pulled Yin Niang, and said with a giggle, "You wash with me!"

Yin Niang refused, saying: "No, you have to do something bad again."

In the morning, Lin Fengqi was going to be on duty. After Yinniang sent him out, she went to Tangrong Court to learn from Mrs. Lin Hou as a director. .

After lunch, there was nothing to do in the afternoon, and the weather outside was just right, the sun was shining brightly, and the birds were singing and the flowers were fragrant.Yin Niang asked someone to open the window in the house, and the outside sunlight came in, and she sat on the kang where the sun was shining, and took a needle and thread to do it.She was about to help Lin Fengqi make a close-fitting underwear.

Speaking of which, her daughter-in-law is really not virtuous enough. If she is a virtuous wife, let alone the clothes her husband wears, even the middle clothes and outer clothes will be arranged by others.But Yinniang has been in the house for three months, but even the close-fitting clothes have to be made in the sewing room.Yin Niang felt that she was really ashamed.

But now, she would not dare to help her husband make clothes for outside wear. She knew that her sewing level was definitely a level that would embarrass her husband when he went out.But close-fitting clothes always have to be made by yourself, and no one can see them anyway.

Halfway through the needlework, Qingteng came in to report: "Second Miss is here to look for Young Mistress, do you want her to come in?"

Yinniang was a little strange, including when Yinniang lived in the Yongning Hou Mansion before getting married, Fengzhi had never looked for Yinniang, but yesterday she heard that she was free and wanted to talk to her, but Yinniang only thought it was that. Kind words, but I don't know why she came today.Yin Niang said: "Please come in, Second Miss."

Qingteng went out after hearing the words, Yinniang put down her sewing basket, stretched her legs off the kang to put on her shoes.After a while, Qingteng led Feng Zhi in, followed by her maid, Lan Er, who was still holding a bundle in her hand.

Fengzhi came over, bowed to Yinniang, smiled and said: "Sister-in-law, do I disturb you by my coming?"

Yin Niang seldom sees Feng Zhi smiling, seeing her smiling now, she thinks it looks pretty.Feng Zhi's facial features are not outstanding, not as good as her eldest sister Feng Xuan, and even worse than her third sister Feng Ying, she can be considered delicate at best.But when she smiled, it added some sweetness to her.

Yin Niang said: "I happen to have nothing to do, you are here so you can talk to me, hurry up and sit on the kang."

"Yes."

Fengzhi then sat down on the other side of Yinniang, and after she sat down, Fengzhi said again: "Sister-in-law, I made some clothes for you and elder brother a few days ago, I'm free today, so I just brought them here for you to see .”

As he spoke, he took the bundle from Lan'er and opened it.Inside is a set of women's white butterfly dress with floral cloud satin skirt and a set of men's purple dragon-patterned arrow sleeves.The stitches are fine and the workmanship is fine. The butterflies on the skirt are lifelike, as if they are really about to fly, and the dragons on the arrow sleeves are also lifelike.The level of needlework is really a few blocks away from Yinniang, and it can be seen that the people who did it are extremely hardworking.

Yin Niang picked it up and looked at it, then exclaimed: "It's so beautiful, you have a heart."

Feng Zhi pursed her lips and smiled, "It's just as long as sister-in-law likes it, I'm afraid she won't like it."

Then Feng Zhi talked with Yin Niang for a while, it was all about homework or sewing, Yin Niang accompanied her and talked for a while.When it was almost time to talk, Feng Zhi took the initiative to stand up and bid farewell to Yin Niang.

Yinniang sent her out of the yard, and when she returned to the house, she said to Qingteng in doubt: "It's so strange, Fengzhi never comes to our yard very often, but today she finally came, and she sent clothes again. I thought she needed my help with something, but after talking for a long time, she didn’t look like she was asking for help.”

Qingteng smiled, and said to her young mistress, "It's not asking for someone."

Yinniang looked at Qingteng suspiciously.

Qing Teng said: "The young mistress is confused, think about the age of the second young lady, she is afraid that she is anxious about her marriage."

Yinniang thought about it, but no, Feng Zhi and Feng Ying are both the same age as her, she is already married, but Feng Zhi and Feng Ying's marriage has not yet been settled.No wonder Feng Zhi, who has always been shy about showing off, thought of serving Mrs. Lin Hou yesterday, and came to her again today.Thinking of how Fengying's biological mother, Aunt Li, was acting like a child in front of Mrs. Linhou these days, she must be worrying about Fengying's marriage.

Mrs. Lin Hou doesn't care about her concubine's son and concubine's daughter. I'm afraid she has forgotten that there are two married daughters in her family.Speaking of it, she was not conscientious enough as a sister-in-law, and even forgot that her two sisters-in-law had reached the age of marriage.Yin Niang said to Qing Teng with some embarrassment: "I'll find a time to mention it to Niang."

Qing Teng said again: "It's enough to mention it to Madam and do your best. Don't confront Madam about this. Anyway, she is not the eldest young master's direct sister. You don't have to dilute your relationship with Madam because of them."

"Yes, I know, my good sister Qingteng."

Qingteng smiled, cleaned up the teacups on the table and went out.

Yin Niang looked at the back of Qingteng going out, thought for a while, and thought to herself, speaking of marrying, Qingteng is already 20 years old, and the maids of the Hou Mansion usually go out to marry when they are 20 years old. There are also those who go out at the age of nine.I haven't married in before, so I can't worry about her marriage anymore, but now I can plan her marriage carefully.

There is also Qinghua, who is already 17 years old, and she has to plan her marriage carefully.

But who should they be assigned to? It is best to assign them to the stewards in the mansion, who are capable and motivated, and who are good at caring for others. In addition, they must be stewards who do business in Beijing. After they get married, she still wants them Come back to the house to serve her.It's just that she is not familiar with the stewards of the Outer Court, so she still needs to ask Lin Fengqi to come out to help with this matter.

Yin Niang then worried, Qing Hua Qing Teng had served her by her side for so long, she naturally felt that they were better than all the maids, but she wondered if the stewards of the mansion would dislike them for not being born at home.Alas, there are so many things to worry about.

(End of this chapter)