novelraw Chapter 34
Chapter 34
On the fifteenth day of this year, they knelt in the cold ancestral hall and did not go to Chengdeng City.
Jiang Mengzhen's open heart ready to accept a new relationship was drenched by a basin of cold water. Now he only feels that neither he nor Qi Heli can stay with the people who watched the lights with them back then. There is really no need to go.
The two walked one after the other, Qi Heji held a lamp in front, and used his body to help Jiang Mengzhen block the cold night wind, Jiang Mengzhen walked behind with a pen and paper in his arms. His behavior now seems to be deliberately ingratiating and apologizing, and even reveals an artificial guilty conscience.As soon as he changed his mind, all his actions changed. Jiang Mengzhen knew that he was being critical and critical, but no one who had witnessed her husband hugging someone else was able to calmly interpret the other party's aftermath. Behavior - He was afraid of being hurt again, so he had no choice but to push Qi Heju away cruelly.
All the way back to the main house, Jiang Mengzhen stood at the door and said, "Thank you, Second Young Master." He already felt dizzy, had a sore throat and a stuffy nose, and really didn't have the energy to deal with Qi Heji.
Qi Heju said in a low voice: "Tomorrow I won't go to practice martial arts, I will accompany you to the ancestral hall..."
"No need."
"What should I do?" Qi Heju was like a puppy shut out by its owner, dawdling and unwilling to leave, "Let me go in and explain to you from the beginning? Many things are misunderstandings..."
"Second Young Master did nothing wrong, so there's no need to explain." Jiang Mengzhen didn't want him to enter the house. Seeing that Qi Heju was still standing still, he couldn't help frowning, "I'm too tired to follow the preface. I'll keep you..." After this turmoil, the promise of the same room can't be counted.
Qi Heju seemed to have been stabbed in the heart, and said anxiously: "What do you think of me, what are you still thinking about at this time!"
Jiang Mengzhen sighed, and didn't have the heart to argue at all, "You just treat me as a blind man who can't tell people apart..."
Qi Heju looked at his pale to transparent face, swallowed the unbearable speculation, lowered his head and said: "You rest, I shouldn't bother you... Remember to ask someone to decoct the medicine, otherwise the disease will flare up .”
Jiang Mengzhen responded perfunctorily, and went into the house.
In the early morning of the next day, Qi Heju's servant brought a volume of copied house rules, and Jiang Mengzhen doubled the thickness. It is estimated that Qi Heju didn't sleep all night.As soon as the breakfast was served, the old lady under Mrs. Qi's hands had already come to the courtyard to remind her. Jiang Mengzhen only took a few sips, and then went to the ancestral hall again.At noon, when Biyan brought him a meal, she saw that refreshing oil was smeared on his forehead, and his whole spirit was suspended due to this coolness. His pair of hanging phoenix eyes were half-opened and half-closed, and his thin eyelids were pink , seems unable to support thick eyelashes.
Jiang Mengzhen still refused to take the medicine, Biyan couldn't let go, and secretly visited him again in the afternoon, only to see pens, ink and paper scattered on the ground, Jiang Mengzhen couldn't hold it anymore and fell to the ground, his whole body was burning like coals .She was frightened out of her wits, and hurriedly called for someone, Wan Yunxuan was asking a doctor and making medicine, the news spread to the main courtyard, Madam Qi just sneered: "Is this pretending to be sick to avoid punishment? Or is it a real illness because of depressed mood? It would be fine if he had endured this, wouldn't it be even more ridiculous now?"
Qi Queqiao is a person who is afraid of chaos in the world, and when she got the letter, she hurriedly asked Mrs. Qi to go to see her sick.The mother and daughter entered Wanyunxuan. Jiang Mengzhen just lay down after drinking the medicine. Seeing them coming, she forced herself to get out of bed and saluted. Mrs. Qi did not hesitate to stop him. The prescription on the table said: "Why did you suddenly get sick? I shouldn't punish you, right?"
"Don't dare..."
"Of course this has nothing to do with my mother. In my opinion, the second young lady is very serious!" Qi Queqiao stood on the dry bank and said sarcasticly, "How can there be a cat that doesn't eat fish? If you do this, you will get sick. But how to live?"
Jiang Mengzhen originally wanted to be strong, but his incompetence made people laugh at him, and his heart was even worse.Mrs. Qi casually flipped through the family rules piled up on the table, and said "tsk", "I wrote a lot, so I put my heart into it..." Suddenly her eyes lit up, and the tone of her words changed, "How come Are there two handwritings?"
Qi Que cleverly exclaimed: "Hey, this is really wrong! Letting others write for you in deceit, and daring to deceive the ancestors of the world in the ancestral hall, it shows that you are not sincere in admitting your mistakes!"
Jiang Mengzhen didn't want to hand in the copy written by Qi Heju, but put it in one place temporarily, but she didn't expect that it would be another crime for her to read it, and she was exhausted physically and mentally.Mrs. Qi angrily ordered him to copy all of them. Jiang Mengzhen had a splitting headache, and just wanted to lie down and rest for a while, and agreed without a word of rebuttal. The mother and daughter of the Qi family went away contentedly.
Bi Yan was so angry that his seven orifices were smoking, and after serving Jiang Mengzhen to lie down, he asked Jiang Xiang to stay by the side, and went out alone.
Jiang Mengzhen didn't know whether he passed out or fell asleep, and when he woke up again, Qi Heli was sitting on the edge of the bed holding his hand, his eyes were bloodshot, and when he saw that he woke up, he hurriedly asked, "What are you doing?" How do you feel? Do you drink water? Are you hungry?"
Jiang Mengzhen withdrew her hand and said in a hoarse voice, "...I'll show you a joke."
Qi He was so concerned that he choked back. He clearly felt that Jiang Mengzhen's heart door was closed to him along with the door of the previous night. No matter what he did, he would only be pushed further and further away.
"I've never been in good health. It's not because of anyone or anything. You don't have to think too much, just go and rest." After Jiang Mengzhen finished speaking, he turned his back to him, closed his eyes and stopped. say.
Qi Heju sat blankly, neither leaving nor staying, and Jiang Xiang on the side stepped forward to persuade: "Second young master, you should go, the second young lady is sick and has no energy to take care of you, you sit here, he wants It’s not good to drink water and take medicine.”
Qi Heju had no choice but to get up, tucked the quilt for Jiang Mengzhen affectionately, and went to the study step by step.After a while, his valet ran in in a panic, "Second Young Master, go and have a look, Aunt Biyan has led a group of people into the yard, and wants to take the Second Young Madam away!"
"what!"
Qi Heju ran out quickly, only to see Biyan was about to leave holding the glazed lantern.Seeing him coming out, Bi Yan squinted at him from the corner of her eye, and said: "Wangfei heard that our young master is sick, and she was so anxious, she decided to pick him up and go to recuperate. The housekeeper of the palace has already told his wife, and I am here too. Call back to Second Young Master, the carriage is waiting outside."
After she finished speaking, she turned around and left. Qi He entered the main room, and saw that Yu Jin was rolled up on the bed, and the kitten jumped on the bed and called "meow meow" in doubt. There was nothing missing in the room, but Jiang Mengzhen took it away. that lamp.His head was numb, and he ran towards the gate before he could do what he wanted, but he still couldn't make it in time, and only saw the smoke and dust raised by the carriage.
Qi Heju stood alone in the night, his heart seemed to have been dug out by life, and the cold wind poured into it. He remembered the intimate whispers of the two when they returned to the house with Jiang Mengzhen on New Year's Eve. There are many expectations in the new year, but now they are all shattered before the first month.
Jiang Mengzhen lived in the Prince Jin's mansion, and missed both of their birthdays.On the day when Qi Heju turned eighteen, as usual, he spent a few pennies for the old lady in the kitchen to make noodles. The old lady smiled happily and said, "The second young master married my husband, and I don't think I can earn this money this year... .”
Qi He swallowed the noodles with mixed feelings, and secretly made a wish in his heart: next year, my husband will definitely make longevity noodles for me with his own hands, and when I choose Habayashi, everything will be fine, and we will be fine get up...
"Little uncle, are you better?" Brother Yu blinked and asked in a childlike voice beside Jiang Mengzhen's bed.
"I'm much better," Jiang Mengzhen carried him to the bed, kissed the child's tender face, "Brother Yu is so good."
"If you recover from illness, are you going to leave?" Brother Yu put his arms around his neck coquettishly, "Don't go, Brother Yu doesn't want you to go!"
Before Jiang Mengzhen could speak, Jiang Mengyou said first, "What are you going to do, you just stay here, the Qi family dares to go to the palace to rob people? His family is too deceitful, and your mother-in-law was quite kind to me a few years ago." , you live in the Qi Mansion, and she made offerings like a bodhisattva, but her face changed after marrying into his house!"
Jiang Mengzhen smiled wryly and said, "Who told me to marry the Second Young Master? If the First Young Master is still here, how could she be like this?"
"Regardless of the young master and the young master, she is the aunt. Qi's second son calls her mother, and those aunts are just servants. She can't have a son, and she is our aunt anyway. With this level of relatives, It's time to win you over, so I can't figure it out because of the concubine!" Jiang Mengyou sneered, "I think it's because she is a concubine, so she can't see it...I really regret Gao Looking at her, when I was discussing your marriage with my parents, I thought that the first young master is gone, and she will only rely on you and the second young master in the future, but who would have thought that she does not look like a mistress at all, such a small belly!"
"She uses the word filial piety to suppress me, but there is a word for reason in everything. She can't go too far when she wants to find trouble, but she just uses it to play... This time, I made a mistake around me, and people caught the mistake. "
"Although you are a cautious person, how can you be considerate in everything?" Jiang Mengyou sighed and said, "The matter of Zhu Hen is really unexpected. The second son of Qi was sincere when he sent the job, but he was also a bowl-eating one." Looking at the person in the pot! There are really no men in the world who are lewd..."
"Brother-in-law is going to call for injustice after hearing this!"
"My brother, you are so naive!" Jiang Mengyou pointed Jiang Mengzhen's forehead with his finger, "Your brother-in-law is the eldest son of the emperor. At the age of 14, there were maids around him to tease him. At the age of 16, the foster mother arranged four Tongfang, at the age of 17, the sage gave him two beautiful concubines. When he married me, he was a man. Not to mention the prince, he is the son of a family in Beijing. When he is not married, most of them have concubines and Tongfang. It's all about being born. The Qi family is rare in this respect, otherwise how would we want to marry his family? But we didn't expect this result, maybe we haven't gone through these things, and we are more likely to be teased by others. I can't hold back when I'm face-to-face..."
Jiang Mengzhen let out a long breath, and murmured: "I didn't think so before, but now it seems that people like Daddy are really rare..."
"Not only is there no one in a million, but there is no one in a million people who is as affectionate and dedicated as father! Your brother-in-law treats me very well, but in his position, sometimes he has to Playing on the spot, I know his heart is on me, so I don't care about it. Among the princes, he is already considered clean and self-sufficient. Since others have a large group of concubines and beauties, children are born one after another. If King Jin wants to do this, I actually don't The way... Can I also drive my husband to sleep in the study like you? The second son of Qi dare not force you, and the Qi family dare not ask for someone from me with great fanfare. If you marry Gao The door, even this little bit of cleanliness can't be hidden."
"What my sister said is that I am actually not dissatisfied with this marriage. Mother-in-law is difficult to get along with, and sister-in-law is difficult to take care of. It has always been the case. The second young master is not a bad person, but..."
"It's just that the young master Zhuyu is in front, so you can't forget him?"
Jiang Mengzhen looked at the glazed lamp by the bed, and said slowly: "I thought I could forget it... I really almost forgot it, but I found that when I thought of the young master, my heart was very calm, and I thought about it. When the Second Young Master was young, my heart was very chaotic."
Jiang Mengyou was quite surprised when he heard the words, and thought about it: "Then...do you like the person who disturbs your heart or the person who calms your heart?"
Jiang Mengzhen didn't speak for a long time, and finally he pinched Brother Yu's sleeping face, "If the heart is not calm, troubles will arise by themselves. I know that I don't have the blessings of my mother. Why don't I ask for a stable and stable place to talk to for sustenance?" .”
Jiang Mengyou didn't know what to say, when the siblings were looking at each other speechlessly, someone outside came back and said that the Second Young Master Qi had come to the door again, and he stood outside the palace and refused to leave.Jiang Mengyou only said to let him ignore him as usual, but Jiang Mengzhen said: "Has he come to me many times?"
"I come here every few days. I don't want to upset you when you're sick. People stop me."
"Sister let him in, he's a bit stubborn, what's he like poking there?"
"Young Master Jiang is right," the person who spoke back and forth said with a bitter face: "This Second Lord Qi stands at the door for a whole day, like a watchman, and all the people who come and go go around him. "
"...that idiot."
Jiang Mengyou raised her eyebrows, "Why, are you softening now?"
"It's hard and soft, but I can't live with you forever, and I have to see you sooner or later..."
"Okay, I'll ask someone to bring him in. There's only one thing, you're not allowed to leave today! You have to ask him a few more times!"
Jiang Mengzhen smiled and said, "I listen to my sister."