Madam Hou

Chapter 98

After Yinniang came back from Tangrong Courtyard, she didn't have the heart to ask the steward to come in for questioning, she sat alone on the kang, secretly sulking for a while.After a while, he asked Qinghua to call Qingwu and Fangzhou in.

Even though Qingwu and Fangzhou are housemaids, Yinniang usually doesn't care much about them other than being stared at and not letting them get along with Lin Fengqi alone. This time, it is so prudent to call them Entering, Qing Hua couldn't help asking strangely: "Young Mistress, what do you see them doing?"

Yin Niang said: "Just call them in."

After Qingwu and Fangzhou came in, they knelt down and kowtowed to Yinniang.Yin Niang didn't cry out, she just looked at the two of them straight.

Qingwu is delicate and charming but arrogant, Fangzhou is honest and responsible, they both seem to be easy to handle.Moreover, the two of them are old people who served by the male master's side before they got married, and they are also the sons of the Hou family. With the deed of prostitution in hand, they are not afraid that they will find out.If other women, either to please their husbands and mother-in-law, or for their reputation as a virtuous person, they may lift them up as soon as they enter the door.

But Yinniang is unwilling to do this, they will do this because they regard their husbands as their reliance, so they want to please.As for Yinniang, she likes Lin Fengqi, she really likes him as a man.Maybe when she gets old and her affection for him fades, she will put one or two maids by his side in order to please him, but now she is not willing, she is not willing to give up a little bit of her husband .

Qingwu and Fangzhou were scared by Yinniang. After a while, when they thought it was the mistress who called them here to grind, the crisp voice of the mistress came down from above.

"You guys should get up first, Qing Hua, and give them two little chairs to sit on."

After they sat down, Yin Niang said again: "Today when I went to pay my respects to Madam, Madam told me to take you up as concubines, what do you think?"

Qingwu became excited, they were originally the housemates of the young master, after the young mistress entered the door, she should have raised them into concubines on her own initiative, but the young mistress was not virtuous, not only did she not raise them into concubines, but also deliberately dominated them. Young Master, stop them from approaching Young Master.But so what if they are stopped, in the end they are not going to be carried into aunts.

Qingwu was a little proud, and said happily: "This servant will definitely take good care of the young master."

Fangzhou also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, she originally thought that she would wait until the eldest mistress became pregnant before the wife would mention it.Fang Zhou followed suit and said, "The servant girl is a maidservant, and the only thing I want to do is to serve the young mistress and the young master well. For the rest, the young mistress and madam will take care of me."

Yin Niang smashed Fangzhou's words a few times, and thought it was really interesting, the young mistress and the young master were serving, but the young mistress and his wife were in charge, hehe, this is really good at talking.

Yin Niang said again: "But I don't want to take you as concubines. If I am willing to pay you two generous dowries and find a good family to marry you off, would you be willing?"

The smile on Qing Wu's face froze, he stood up and said excitedly: "You can't do this, I'm the wife's gift to the young master."

Qing Hua immediately stood up and scolded: "Presumptuous, you still don't know how to be respectful, a maid, dare to say 'you you you' to the mistress."

Although Qing Hua was not convinced, she did not dare to speak again.Yin Niang ignored her, turned her head and asked Fang Zhou again: "Fang Zhou, what about you, would you like it?"

Fangzhou said: "It's up to the young mistress and madam to decide."

Yin Niang nodded and said: "I see, you guys go out first."

After the two of them went out, Qing Hua said to Yin Niang from the side: "This Qingwu is really getting more and more crazy. The young mistress is kind enough to give her a dowry and let her marry outside to be a good lady. She doesn't know Congratulations, isn't it better to be an upright old woman than to be an unworthy young woman. But this Fangzhou is really honest, and the young lady said she would marry her, but she also said that it was up to the young lady to make the decision."

Listening to Qinghua's words, Yinniang sighed in her heart, Qinghua's ability to see things is not as clear as Qingteng's.

Yin Niang patted Qing Hua's shoulder, and said: "You think Fang Zhou really wants to let me decide, don't miss it, she brought a wife after me. My wife and young mistress have the opposite idea. .”

Qing Hua thought for a while, then exclaimed: "You mean..."

Yin Niang nodded.

Qinghua said unfairly: "Ha, I didn't expect her to be so treacherous, much more treacherous than Qingwu, but I thought she was a good person."

When Lin Fengqi came back in the evening, after Yinniang helped him wash and change clothes, Lin Fengqi hugged Yinniang and said, "Yinniang, I'm afraid I'm going to fight in the south in a few days."

Yin Niang played with Lin Fengqi's sleeve and asked: "The emperor agrees to let you and General Su go out?"

Lin Fengqi nodded and said, "Well, the imperial decree should come down tomorrow."

When Yinniang heard that Lin Fengqi was going to fight, although she was worried about him, she also knew that a good man was determined to make achievements, not to mention that Lin Fengqi was not the kind of person who would be trapped in the inner house.Even seeing how happy he is now, she didn't want to stop him from realizing his ideal, so she held back her reluctance and said with a smile: "Then you must fight well after you go, and be a good boy in the future." A first-rank general, let me have face in front of other wives... Also, I have to eat well and take good care of myself, but no other women are allowed."

"Got it, little vinegar jar!" After speaking, he kissed Yin Niang's face again, and sighed, "Oh, we just got married not long ago, but we are going to be separated so soon, I really don't want to part with it!"

"Don't be reluctant, I'm waiting for you to let me be the wife of a first-rank general."

"Okay, we will definitely let Yinniang be the first-rank general's wife in the future."

Yinniang originally wanted to tell Lin Fengqi what Mrs. Linhou said today, and let him deal with Mrs. Linhou, but now, Yinniang felt that it was better not to cause him any trouble.Forget it, let's deal with it by myself, at worst, she will make trouble in front of Mrs. Linhou according to their mistakes. It is not easy for Mrs. Linhou to stuff the girl who made a mistake into her daughter-in-law's room again.

As a result, Yinniang had just finished thinking like this, but Caizhu ran in from the outside and said: "It's not good, it's not good, the concubine mother who was enshrined in the Buddhist hall was smashed by Qingwu."

After Lin Fengqi finished listening, his expression changed, and he asked, "What's going on?"

Caizhu said: "Just now Qingwu and Xiaolan had a quarrel in the Buddhist hall, but for some reason, Qingwu broke Songzi Niangniang into pieces."

Xiaolan is the girl who is usually responsible for cleaning the Buddhist hall and offering incense to the empress.

That day, Lin Fengqi said that he would sacrifice his son-in-law, and then he really had a room cleaned to make a Buddhist hall.It's just that Lin Fengqi himself didn't like the smell of sesame oil, so the Buddhist hall was set up in a room far away from the main room in Mudetang.Yinniang asked Xiaolan to be responsible for cleaning and offering incense, so that the incense burning in front of the empress would continue day and night.

It's just that Qingwu smashed Songzi Niangniang into pieces, could it be to get revenge on her?

Yin Niang went to the Buddhist hall with Lin Fengqi, Lin Fengqi looked at the Guanyin who was smashed on the ground, stared at Qingwu and said, "You want to curse me to have no children or grandchildren?"

Qingwu knelt on the ground, shook her head desperately, cried and said: "I didn't mean it, young master, I really didn't mean it, I just wanted to come in and pay my respects to the lady who sent the child, it was Xiaolan who wouldn't let me in, so I Will..." At this point, as if she suddenly remembered something, she suddenly turned to Xiaolan's direction, pointed at her and said, "I remembered, it was Xiaolan, it was Xiaolan who pushed me, and I bumped into her." onto the table."

Xiaolan, who was kneeling on the other side, hurriedly said: "Don't climb and bite people, I told you that you can't come in, but you still insisted on coming in, but when you broke in, I sent you to smash it to pieces."

When Yinniang heard this, she basically understood the ins and outs of the matter.It must be that Qingwu thought that she was going to become a concubine, so she came here and wanted to pay her respects to the concubine, but Xiaolan refused to let her in.The two of them argued, pushing and yelling sometimes, but Qingwu accidentally bumped into the table, which broke Songzi Niangniang.

Qingwu suddenly turned his target to Yinniang again, pointed at her and said, "It must be you, you don't want me to be the young master's concubine, so you deliberately asked Xiaolan to frame me." After speaking, he said to Lin Fengqi: " Eldest Young Master, it was Eldest Young Mistress who framed me, today Madam said that Fangzhou and I will be raised as concubines, she must not want us to serve Eldest Young Master, that's why..."

Lin Fengqi's eyes became colder and colder, and he snapped, "Enough!"

Then he said to the rough envoy next to her: "Take her to the firewood room first, and I'll deal with it later."

The two women rushed up and saluted, then pressed Qingwu to go down.Qingwu struggled desperately and said: "Eldest young master, believe me, I was really wronged..."

Seeing Lin Fengqi's expression getting more and more unhappy, one of the women hurriedly took out a white cloth from her body and covered Qingwu's mouth.

Lin Fengqi took Yiniang's hand and said, "Let's go, let's go to Mother's yard."

When they arrived at Tangrong Courtyard, after Lin Fengqi and Yinniang greeted each other, they sat under Mrs. Lin Hou.Lin Fengqi said to Mrs. Linhou: "Mother, Qingwu in my yard made a mistake, I want to send her out, but after all, you gave her to me, so I'm here to ask you to show me."

Mrs. Lin Hou looked at Yin Niang who was sitting next to Lin Fengqi, her expression was a little unclear.This morning, he just told her that he wanted to promote those two roommates, but he did it at night. The speed is really fast enough.

Mrs. Lin Hou said indifferently: "Oh, what mistake did she make?"

"She smashed the mother-in-law who I made an offering in the Buddhist hall. Her behavior is basically a curse on me to cut off my children and grandchildren."

Mrs. Linhou said slowly: "Qingwu is acting a little arrogantly, so let her send it out. Fangzhou is an honest person, so let's praise her first."

"I think taking advantage of this opportunity, we can match Fangzhou with him. I don't like Fangzhou's dull temper."

Madam Linhou looked at Yinniang again, with a somewhat dissatisfied expression.

Yin Niang couldn't help lowering her head.She naturally knew what Mrs. Lin Hou suspected, and she really wanted to blow the pillow wind.But when I thought about it later, she was really wronged this time. She hadn't had time to say it yet, so why did she have a guilty conscience.So he raised his head again and straightened his back.

Lin Fengqi said again: "Mother, don't look at Yinniang, it has nothing to do with her. She also told me today that she wanted to praise Qingwu and Fangzhou, but I didn't want to. I am the head of the family, and I made the decision She can still disobey me. Besides, I have never used Fangzhou, she is now eighteen, and she is sent out to be matched with someone who can be matched better."

If you really have a daughter-in-law and forget your mother, you will be safe as soon as you enter the door.Mrs. Lin Hou also lost patience with her son, and said a little angrily: "Okay, since you don't like Fangzhou, then I will pick one you like from among the maids. If you say what you like, mother will help you choose slowly." , fat, thin, or..."

"Mother," Lin Fengqi hurriedly stopped his mother, sighed softly, and said helplessly, "I'm going to fight soon, and I don't know when I'll be back, so why bother others."

"What?" Mrs. Lin Hou was shocked by this news, and she put aside the matter of flattering the girl, and hurriedly asked: "The emperor has decided to let you go out?"

"Yes, the imperial decree should come down soon."

Mrs. Lin Hou was happy.

Mrs. Lin Hou is shrewd in the inner house, and she doesn't know much about the affairs of the court, but she still knows about the fact that Dayan Nan was beaten by the Fusang people, and she also knows that her son and General Su are talking to the two Xue family members recently. The generals compete for the opportunity to lead the army.

Mrs. Lin Hou is naturally worried about her son going to war.But on the other hand, Fusang people have harassed Dayannan from time to time over the years, but they never really succeeded.She was far away in the capital, and all she heard was the news of the final victory, so she had no idea how thrilling the fight was.In her mind, the Fusang people were not beaten at all, and her son led soldiers to deal with them, it was basically like picking up military merits, basically there would be no danger.

All Madam Lin Hou's imagination about this expedition is that her son led the soldiers to wander around the south and come back, and then he can be promoted and make a fortune.

Therefore, Mrs. Linhou was very happy, and she even looked better towards her son, and said with a smile: "If you don't want it, maidservant, you can send Qingwu and Fangzhou if you want. You go to fight well, and don't worry about the family. , I will take care of your daughter-in-law for you."

After saying this, Mrs. Lin Hou said with emotion: "Mother's pride in her whole life is that she gave birth to you. Your father looked like that. Back then, I worried day and night that you would also look like your father. Fortunately, you didn't give birth to me. Mother is ashamed."

(End of this chapter)