Lady Zhao

Chapter 5

The layout of the orchid garden is small, but it is full of elegance. The pots of orchids planted in the courtyard are orderly and pleasing. A small pot of exquisite orchids is placed in the room. Fragrant, delightful.

On the west side of the room, near the bamboo window, there is a pear marble desk, on which there are many famous people’s copybooks. On one side is an inkstone, and a woman in a lotus-blue swirl-colored golden brocade dress with golden characters and smoke is lovely, quiet and beautiful. Holding a three or four-year-old child in one hand, holding a brush and drawing strokes on the rice paper, it seems extremely attentive.

The child was wearing a water-blue gown, and the fleshy face was even more white and tender. The lotus-root-like arms were strenuously stretched, and the chubby little fingers loosened at the opportunity, and she said coquettishly, "Mother, My hands hurt."

"Brother Rui, let's finish writing this piece. Daddy will definitely praise Rui when he comes to see him later." Shih Xia comforted the child softly, looking at the child lovingly, with a look in his eyes that poured everything into him. The stubbornness of hard work, wishing that the child could be born capable of literature and martial arts, full of knowledge.

Brother Rui could only continue with a bitter face. He liked Daddy, but every time Daddy came he would suffer. Alas, what a contradiction.

"Miss San!" A voice suddenly sounded outside the door, and a person entered the room with wind.

Xia raised her eyes and swallowed the words she wanted to scold the servant for not knowing the rules. Looking at the red eyes of the servant, she asked the servant girl to take Ruige'er out to play for a while.

"How did you make it look like this? The etiquette and demeanor that mother usually taught you, what does it look like for outsiders to see?" When only the mother and daughter were left in the room, Xia Shi said with a sullen face, seeing the indistinct smile on her face. Hong Yinzi frowned, "Zhao Wenwan did it?"

Zhao Wenxuan was already aggrieved, but she was even more aggrieved when she heard this, and said something viciously to Zhao Wenwan, sobbing and crying, she finished the story, then stared at her mother, "Mom, it's that Zhao Wenwan who bullied you!" It's too much, who in the mansion treats her, but grandma is partial and spoils people even more!"

A woman came in from the outside with an egg. Xia took over and asked the woman to go out and closed the door. He pulled Zhao Wenxuan to sit on the soft couch on one side, peeled the eggshell, and took the egg. Rubbing her face for her, looking at the five distinct fingerprints on the fair face, her eyes were gradually stained with distress and other things.

"Mother knows that you have suffered a lot of grievances over the years for letting you follow that arrogant master, but this person has to be like this all the time. He has messed up people's hearts, and sooner or later something will happen." Xia said softly, her tone But with a hint of viciousness in it, the mother and daughter got together, with the same look of jealousy on their faces. "It's just an arrogant and domineering idiot. He dominates the status of the original wife's daughter-in-law, and he is loved by the old lady, so he learns to be arrogant. The old lady is getting old and can't protect her for the rest of her life. You just have to bear with it for these years, and wait. Follow the chance, disbelief can't cure Zhao Wenwan's little hoof."

"But I see that the mistress Ye treated Zhao Wenwan well, how did you wait..."

Mrs. Xia nodded her daughter's head, "Seeing that you can hold back the maid who reported the letter, I thought you'd grown your mind, but it's half grown. You need to learn more in the future!"

"Ms. Ye is generous on the surface. You really think that she wants to see Zhao Wenwan's thorn. It's just that the old lady loves Zhao Wenwan. She wants to please the old lady. Be a good daughter-in-law, and by the way, make yourself tired of the Duke's wife. Good reputation. Mother thinks, most of the maids who went to your garden this morning were called by Mrs. Ye. Who in the mansion has so much power to keep an eye on Zhao Wenwan's movements, and it just so happens that a maid saw her I came to tell you that I just want to use your hand to suppress Zhao Wenwan. I have been fighting with her for so long, and I still know a thing or two about her thoughts. Mrs. Ye also wants to pave a smooth road for her daughter besides Zhao Wenwan. With Zhao Wenwan here, Zhao Wenxue will always be the second-in-law daughter, how can it compare to the glory of the eldest daughter."

Only now did Zhao Wenxuan suddenly realize, "Mr. Ye just wants to reap the benefits of being a fisherman, and she doesn't want to get blood on her hands. Why didn't mother expose her?"

"My aunt's status is not comparable to yours, she can only be considered a half-master, but you are different, you were born as an upright young lady of the Zhao family, you can't do things that my mother can't do, and I will count on you and Rui in the days to come. brother."

As long as Brother Rui grows up to be promising and Zhao Wenxuan can marry someone famous, she will be able to get over her hard life. Every time Xia Shi thinks about this, she will feel sore and her eyes will be filled with tears.

She was originally the daughter of Dali Siqing, her mother Huang and Dou were handkerchief handkerchiefs, and they had close contacts, so she almost became the first wife of Zhao Hongsheng's matchmaker, but a sudden change happened overnight, she was implicated by others, her family was convicted, and she was full of crimes. After entering Yeting, Meng Dou's family came to rescue him. Since then, he has stayed in Dingguo's mansion to serve the old lady.

It's just that she faces Zhao Hongsheng day and night, no matter how difficult it is to suppress the past feelings, with the real skin, the old lady still gives her a name even though she is disappointed, but she is not as close as before.But obviously she was the one who came first, Shen's and Ye's were not as good as her back then, but now she is asked to lie down and be a minor, how can she not feel resentful.

Her children are common sons and daughters, and she is not reconciled to others becoming dragons and phoenixes.

"My mother will seek justice for you about today's matter." Mrs. Xia wiped her tears with a handkerchief, and picked it up. "Stop crying, let people see the joke for nothing."

"En." Zhao Wenxuan was comforted, and felt better, so she went back to her garden without delaying her mother's teaching her younger brother.

Brother Rui, who was having fun outside, saw Zhao Wenxuan come out, his expression stiffened immediately, and the latter pinched the flesh on his face, "Brother Rui studies hard, and will be more promising than your elder brother and second brother in the future!"

Covering his painfully pinched face, Zhao Yuanrui pursed his mouth. He was almost out of breath, so who cares!
At noon, Zhao Hongsheng went to Lanyuan to have dinner with Mrs. Xia. As soon as he entered the garden, he heard the sound of a piano. Her temperament is very emotional, and she sympathizes with Xia's family's experience. In addition, Xia's appearance is delicate and beautiful, and her bed is warm, so she dotes on her a little.

"Yueniang's piano skills are not unfamiliar at all, and she still has to walk around the beam for three days." Zhao Hongsheng entered the room, saw the woman sitting beside the piano as expected, and praised without hesitation.

Mrs. Xia got up, smiled, and called out to the master, with a bit of graceful and shyness unique to Jiangnan women, which made Zhao Hongsheng smile even more. Who doesn't like a woman who is knowledgeable and fully attached to herself.

Ruige'er was instructed to appear at the right time, still holding the rice paper with wet ink in his hand, and his immature handwriting on it, but he also imitated some signs.

"When the wind and the waves cleave, hang the sails on the clouds to help the sea... Heh, Brother Rui, do you know what this means?" Zhao Hongsheng picked up the child, with a smile on his face, obviously very satisfied.

Zhao Yuanrui stole a glance at Mrs. Xia, strained his face, and said solemnly, "It is Li Bai's journey that is difficult, difficult, difficult, with many divergences, and now is safe. Even if the road ahead is full of difficulties, one day he will be able to ride the wind and waves, Brother Rui wants to be like Daddy, to be a court... Dongdong Dongliang! But Daddy, is Dongliang delicious?"

"Hahaha..." Zhao Hongsheng was overjoyed by the child's uncertain funny expression at the end. He rubbed the child's head lovingly, hugged him and sat on the edge of the round table with Ruyi pattern, and said unabashedly, "Dongliang It's not delicious, dad asked the cook to make glutinous rice cold cake and almond cheese for you, okay?"

Before the child could nod his head, Xia Shi sat down next to him, quite disapprovingly said, "It's just a little superficial learning, the master doesn't need to spoil him like this."

Zhao Hongsheng turned his head to look at the gentle and pleasant Xia family, and said with some sincerity in his eyes, "Yue Niang, you have taught the two children very well, very good."

"The concubine should."

Brother Rui was still young and hadn't grown. He looked like a chubby white flour steamed bun. Zhao Hongsheng liked it from the bottom of his heart, so he kept holding it and teasing him from time to time.

After the meal was over, the maids removed the dishes from the table and made a pot of bird tongue for the two masters.Mrs. Xia asked Mrs. Wang to take Rui Geer out for a stroll to refresh herself, so that she could take a nap later, and she had a heart-to-heart talk with Mr. Zhao.

"When I come to you, I will inevitably have to eat. All I like to cook, and your small kitchen can hold my stomach firmly." Zhao Hongsheng leaned comfortably on the back of the mahogany chair, with a smile on his mouth, Normally, she always had a stern look on her face, but Ye's temperament was cold, where there was Yueniang who was so understanding, naturally she was not willing to show her a stern face.

Xia Shi approached, stood behind him, and pressed his shoulders with strength, "Master is working hard outside, and this concubine is just doing my best to share my worries and make him feel at ease."

Zhao Hongsheng squinted his eyes and enjoyed it, his heart was ironed.

"It's just that my concubine has something to say, and I don't know whether to say it or not." After a long time, Xia Shi spoke hesitantly.

"You and I, there is nothing to talk about, but it doesn't matter." Zhao Hongsheng still squinted his eyes.

"Xuan'er came to my place today, and I saw that half of her face was flushed, as if she had been beaten, and she refused to tell me when I asked, she just felt wronged, which made my heart hurt." Xia's voice fell, Zhao Hongsheng immediately opened his eyes, and gradually changed his expression after staring at her.

Mrs. Xia didn't press it any more, and pretended to be sad while pinching the veil, "I found out after asking the maid in Wenxiangyuan that Xuan'er went to find Wen Wan, but by chance she met Wen Wan who was sleeping and got up with a bad mood. Big, beat Xuan'er like a maid."

Zhao Hongsheng had already guessed from the moment she opened her mouth that who would dare to do this, seeing Xia's distressed and wronged appearance, he also got a little bit angry with Zhao Wenwan, and said angrily, "It's reasonable for that girl to sleep until the sun rises. "

"Master, the concubine did not say this to destroy the relationship between the two sisters. After all, the two children have been friends since they were young, and they were accidentally injured. Xuan'er's grievances are grievances, and it will be fine after a while, but... Wen Wan is also here. Hurry up and get married." At my age, when I get married, the one who gets beaten is my sister-in-law, or someone else, what should I do?"

"Wen Wan's mother left early. Girls should learn what everyone should learn. I have no one to teach me. I am afraid that I will suffer when I marry in the future, and I am even more worried that Dingguo's mansion will let people gossiping behind our backs, saying that we..." Xia Shi He didn't dare to say the following words, but the meaning was obvious.

Zhao Hongsheng grimaced, nodded for a while, and also agreed with what she said, pressed his head with a bit of a headache, and sighed, "Wen Wan's mother is so spoiled, she really needs to be taught. "

When Xia heard this, she followed suit, "If the master can trust me, I'll make the decision to find Wen Wan a ceremonial mother, how about it?"

Zhao Hongsheng said "Yes", and Zhao Wenxuan was relieved that Xia's training was excellent.

(End of this chapter)