novelraw Chapter 23 Jinghe Liu Family
Chapter 23 Jinghe Liu Family
The nursery rhyme was sung over and over again, sending Miss Wei into a gentle and peaceful dreamland.
The sound of breathing in the ear was steady and rhythmic, Yu Zhi stopped slowly, looking at Miss Fourth's flawless face.
With such a face, anyone who sees her will be amazed by her beauty. It is impossible to imagine that a woman as beautiful as a fairy can have a vicious and changeable temper.
If you say warmth is more tender than anyone else, if you say it is ruthless, you will also lightly say "not many of you like it alone".
Yu Zhi coaxed her to sleep, and fell asleep by himself.
The scenery outside the window is beautiful, the autumn sun is not hot, not deserted, the courtyard is quiet, and the inner room is also quiet. Yu Zhi covered the brocade quilt for the fourth young lady with a blushing face, her bare legs retracted intentionally, and she was crushed to death .
At the age of 23, shyness is inevitable. She knows how to be ashamed, and the fourth lady doesn't know how to write the word "knowing how to be ashamed".
Dare to belittle her under the dinner table in front of A Niang, and even pester people during the afternoon nap, which makes her uncomfortable.
"Why, can't touch it?"
The person who was supposed to be asleep suddenly made a sound, which made Yu Zhi's face pale and his heart pounding with fright.
Wei Ping laughed at her timidity, and arched his head in her arms to find a softer and more comfortable position: "I said, as long as the body likes me. Let me ask you, do you like the body?"
Yu Zhi was ashamed and didn't answer.
When he was thinking about how to answer, the person in his arms fell asleep again, as if he didn't care about her answer, and dominated her domineeringly.
The tense heartstrings gradually loosened, and she didn't dare to move any more, so she fell asleep for an hour.
Late at night, the ivory bed was stable, hibiscus flowers were blooming, Wei Pingxi got off the bed with the beauty in his arms, Yu Zhi's waist was weak and his legs were weak, and he hadn't recovered from the tide just now.
Yu's mother was worried about her daughter's son-in-law's lack of dinner, worried that they would be hungry, so she came to the small courtyard where Yu Zhi lived.
The servant girls on the left and right held lanterns to light up, and Yu's mother fumbled to knock on the door: "Zhizhi, Xixi, are you asleep?"
The waves and seas were ups and downs, Yu Zhi's consciousness suddenly woke up, Fang was about to get up, but a hand clasped his waist.
"Mother-in-law, I slept with Zhizhi, what's the matter?"
She is a martial artist, her breath is long, but her voice is a bit hoarse.
Yu's mother was thoughtful through the door, not wanting to disturb the good things of the two of them, her face was slightly hot, and she hurriedly responded with a sentence to urge the servants to help her go away.
There was no more movement outside the door, Miss Wei Fourth picked up the limp beauty, and poured a pot of sake from mid-air, along the beautiful ridgeline into the alluring waist.
"It's appropriate to invite me to taste the wine, remember?"
She gracefully bent over to drink the red wine stained with red dust and beauty, Yu Zhi clasped the edge of the table and couldn't bear to hum any longer.
Although the ivory bed is stable, Fourth Miss doesn't like it, she likes the noise of creaking, like the restlessness of human heart.
After a long night, the table rang and the door rang, and my waist was broken.
Yu Zhi was crying in her dreams, and at dawn, Wei Pingxi knelt by her side holding a handkerchief and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes: "Are you still crying? Is it wrong for me to love you?"
To be a concubine is one's duty.
If someone else said it would be possible to be grateful to Miss Fourth Xie for the reward, Yu Zhi was clear in her heart, but her back was sore and her legs hurt.
During the battle last night, she suspected that the sound would float out of the room door, out of the courtyard door, and into A Niang's ears!
There was no sound, and tears flowed from the end of the crimson eyes again.
In an instant, Fourth Miss took off another veil.
Wei Pingxi laughed, put his arms around her waist and rubbed her ears: "Where did so much water come from? Isn't crying enough?"
Her puns are really beasts, how could Yu Zhi not understand?
Her eyelids were lightly closed, and tears fell from her hazy eyes again, she said hoarsely, "Why do you always bully me?"
"That's interesting. If I don't bully you, who do you bully?" Wei Pingxi casually took out the little clothes and put them on for her: "Look at the two of us, you are the master? Still not satisfied? Raise your arms."
Yu Zhi tried, choked up: "It's sour, I can't lift it up."
"I'm not sore, how can you be so sour? Hypocritical, lift me up!"
She turned her face when she said that she turned her face, and began to deny people before she wore her pants. Yu Zhi bit her to death, but she was timid and cowardly. arm.
Last night, she leaned on the table and supported the door with her arm, which took a lot of effort.
"It's worthless, that's where it's at."
Wei Pingxi really couldn't see it, and said to himself: "Don't move, my lady will serve you today."
She said "you" one after another, Yu Zhi gritted his teeth, and raised his arm enduring the pain.
Quite unconvinced.
"Patience." Wei Pingxi kissed her ear tip and her sore arm: "So capable, shall we continue tonight?"
Yu Zhi suddenly became an eggplant beaten by Shuang, lost his mind: "If you kill me, where will you find someone like me?"
"The sky is big and the earth is big, are you the only woman?"
"The sky is big and the earth is big, isn't it just me?"
Fourth Miss Wei liked to hear this, and immediately smiled: "Not bad! It's just you, so save it."
"..."
Yu Zhi was not as thick-skinned as her, and buried herself in her neck and cried timidly: "I don't have the face to see my mother..."
Early in the morning, Wei Pingxi's shoulders trembled from her laughter.
When a daughter is worried that she will have no face to meet her mother, and if she is a mother who accidentally disturbs the intimacy of the juniors, she is also thin-skinned.
A family of flesh and blood, the fourth young lady is the most unscrupulous - she even dares to watch the "interesting stories" between her parents, let alone such a little rain?
Very calm, with a face of righteousness and immortality, Yu Zhi did not hesitate to slander her for being shameless.
But it was such a shameless person who offered to take their mother and daughter to see the autumn scenery.
Yu's mother can't see with eyes but can hear with ears. Miss Si drove Yu Zhi and her mother there with the reason that "one can't be bored at home all the time, one should blow the autumn wind properly and listen to the sound of withered and yellow leaves falling on the ground". Red Maple Mountain.
Autumn is thick, and Wei Pingxi rides a white horse to open the way ahead, trying to leave as much time as possible for the mother and daughter to talk about themselves.
Yu Zhi said that she did it on purpose, to make her lose face in front of A Niang.
"Zhizhi..."
Yu Zhi's heart was fluctuating, and immediately there was a feeling of "this is coming", and he sat upright: "Aniang, what's the matter?"
"You and Xi Xi...Xi Xi, didn't you bully her?" Mother Yu lamented the strong relationship between the two, but was also worried that her daughter would be bullied in a place where she could not see.
After all, Miss Si is from the Wei family. She was born in a famous family and has a noble status. She must be used to being praised by others.
Such a person can't stand a little bit of grievance, and he might not be able to please her in a hurry, so how can he care about her daughter's feelings?
"If your mother-in-law asks you, did I bully you, what would you say? Of course you have to say, bullying, you are very comfortable in bullying, understand?"
Whispering in the ear last night, Yu Zhi's face turned red when he recalled it: "She, she did bully me, but I... I can still bear it."
Wei Pingxi rode his horse and slipped back to the side of the carriage at some point, let go of his inner strength to listen, and when she heard a satisfactory answer, she cleared her cough: "Zhizhi, what are you whispering to your mother-in-law? Can I listen? "
She suddenly made a sound, held the rein in her hand and laughed and left.
A woman like her, not to mention Yu Zhi, even Yu's mother, who has lived for half her life, finds it rare.
The horseshoe rattled to confirm that she had gone far away and did not eavesdrop, Yu Zhi blushed and smashed the jar: "Mother, don't worry about it. I am with her, I am with her!"
"I see."
Mother Yu patted the back of her daughter's hand: "You can tell her if you don't like it, after all, it's the person next to the pillow who lives in the same room..."
"Mother!" Yu Zhi shyly said, "My daughter knows."
After she finished speaking, she silently covered her face. Fourth Miss's surface was elegant and demure, which was completely deceptive. In her heart, Meng Lang was stubborn, as much as possible, and it would take endless energy to torment her.
But she did say something right.
is comfortable.
The only downside is that it has a bit more stamina.
She rubbed her ears: "She treats her daughter very well, Auntie, don't worry. By the way, I haven't asked Auntie how her eyes are doing?"
"Eyes..."
The scenery of Hongfeng Mountain is beautiful. In the thick autumn, the mountains look like fire from a distance. In this season, there are many people on the mountain and down the mountain to watch the scenery.
There is a red maple forest on the mountain, which is mostly a place where scholars and scholars gather to recite poems.
As soon as Wei Pingxi and his party appeared, all the literati who had flourished in poetry became ducks choked by their throats, unable to make a sound.
The legend of the Fourth Miss has been widely circulated in Lingnan Mansion for many days - she won the favor, acted absurdly, and resigned herself to depravity.
But he didn't know that the concubine of the weird Fourth Miss was also such a rare beauty.
She has a graceful figure, graceful gait, elegant dress, red and white face, and the posture of a weak willow supporting the wind. Wherever she goes, there is a fragrance in the wind.
It's a pity, for a while, I don't know who to pay attention to, who to feel sorry for.
Yu Zhi felt nervous, afraid that these people would talk too much when they came out of the door, it would be no harm for her to hear those words, she would just ignore them, and it would be bad if A Niang heard them.
She looked at Fourth Miss for help.
Wei Ping raised his brows up, and arrogantly glanced at the gathering place of literati, only one glance, no one dared to look or talk more.
"Come on, let's go over there."
No voice was heard, Mother Yu followed her daughter 'son-in-law' with a green jade staff, amazed by the power and influence of 'son-in-law'.
However, considering that Xi Xi was born in the Wei family, and that the Wei family had meritorious deeds in defending the family and the country, it seemed reasonable that the prostitute daughter in the family would be a bit cold and arrogant.
"Mother-in-law, Zhizhi, this place is quiet, let's enjoy the scenery here."
After choosing a place, the emerald and agate moved out one by one the belongings brought on this trip, arranged three screens to isolate the prying eyes of the idlers, and placed the incense burner, several tables and so on.
Having been blind for decades, it is a rare opportunity to come out to breathe. Yu's mother is in a good mood, especially after discovering that her 'son-in-law' is quite talented in poetry, she praises her even more.
As soon as Miss Wei Si's poems and essays came out, Agate recited them aloud. The paper was full of talents and sentiments and drifted away with the wind, embarrassing a group of students who had read poetry and books.
"Good poetry, really good poetry!"
"What's the use of good poetry? No matter how talented you are, can you be an official if you take the imperial examination? Even if she is the reincarnation of a poetic fairy, isn't she also a scourge of disobedience to ordinary human relations?"
"well said!"
"Brother Song is so courageous! With such courage, why don't you dare to say this in front of Miss Fourth? Why don't you dare say it in front of the empress?"
"you--"
There are many young talents who admire Wei Pingxi. They scold her because they love her, and protect her because they love her. Wei Pingxi's three poems are written in one go, and there is no need for her to do anything else. They besieged each other and dispersed with a wave of their sleeves.
The sky and the earth are clear and the autumn wind is refreshing, Wei Ping laughed and said, "Mother-in-law, why don't you write a poem too?"
"This..." Mother Yu hesitated again and again: "Okay."
Yu Zhi's eyes were filled with anticipation, and he really wanted to hear what kind of poems A Niang could make.
Yu's mother's voice sounded when she was brewing, and Wei Pingxi hugged her concubine loosely - Yu Zhi sat upright on the futon at first, but she had to soften her waist because of her, and even the poems written by A Niang Didn't hear clearly.
"it is good!"
With an applause, Yu Zhi's bewildered mind was half awake.
Relying on the fact that her mother-in-law couldn't see her, Miss Wei Si took a sip of Zhizhi beauty in high spirits, and praised: "Mother-in-law is so talented, it really opens people's eyes!"
I haven't written a poem for many years, but when I got such praise for one poem, Yu's mother couldn't help but waved her hands again and again.
After blowing the wind and enjoying the scenery, reciting poems, fishing, hunting and barbecue, and having a full picnic, when Yu's mother was out of energy when going down the mountain, Wei Pingxi personally carried her down the mountain.
Even though she knew that all she did was for herself, Yu Zhi still liked it—it was her luck to have someone willing to bend down and work hard for her joy.
Even if Fourth Miss is asking for her body.
……
Liulanyuan, Li Le reported from the side: "Miss Fourth raised Aunt Yu's mother in Baihu Street, and the three of them went to Hongfeng Mountain together yesterday.
"The Fourth Miss Hongfenglin met a group of literati and wrote three poems in a row. The literati scattered like birds and beasts. What's interesting is that the blind woman also wrote a poem."
"Read it to me."
"Yes."
Green smoke curled up from the incense burner, Mrs. Wei twirled the beads in her hand and closed her eyes to listen, and asked for a while, "Yes, she seems to have read the book. What is her last name, but is she from Lingnan Prefecture?"
"Returning to Madam, I only found out that the surname is Liu. She has a beautiful face and a poor family. She moved to Lingnan Mansion many years ago and married a poor scholar. She is not born here."
"Liu?" Her hands paused: "Jinghe Liu's family?"
Li Le asked in shock: "How could it be the Jinghe Liu family? The Liu family... no, wasn't that person expelled from Beijing long ago?"
"In your opinion, our Aunt Yu is beautiful?"
"Beautiful. Ruyu is flawless, otherwise she would not be in the eyes of the fourth lady. The eyes of the fourth lady are higher than the top, but this time she bowed her waist for the beauty, and to make Aunt Yu happy, she was willing to carry the blind woman down the mountain by herself. How precious is the fourth lady , the mother and daughter of the Yu family, what can they do?"
"Let her be happy." Mrs. Wei twirled the Buddha beads again, and smiled gently: "It's all about being greedy for a while, when will Ping Xi love something for more than half a year?"
"That's what the lady said."
"Jinghe Liu's family has produced beauties since ancient times, whether they are queens, concubines, or disasters. If they are from the Jinghe Liu family..." She closed her eyes: "That would be interesting."
……
"Jinghe Liu's family?" Fei Cui's eyes widened: "Miss suspects that Mrs. Yu is from the Jinghe Liu's family?"
When Hongfeng Mountain came down, Wei Pingxi sat on the back of a horse and peeled lychees to eat: "Isn't my cheap mother-in-law beautiful?"
"Ah?" Fei Cui's complexion changed, she waved her hands slightly, furtively: "No, miss! No matter how cheap it is, she's my aunt's birth mother!"
"..."
The lychee shell smashed her face unceremoniously, and Fourth Miss Wei smiled half-smile: "How does Miss Ben not know that your heart is so dirty?"
Realizing that there was a misunderstanding, Fei Cui slapped herself, laughing, "You should hit me."
"You should be beaten, go back and receive the punishment of ten sticks."
"Ten sticks?!" Emerald's small face turned pale, and her bright face suddenly turned into a bitter face, and she also looked sickly: "Yes, I would like to follow the order of the young lady."
Wei Ping sneered: "What I mean is that my mother-in-law is beautiful, and Zhizhi is beautiful. My cheap father-in-law who died early couldn't give birth to such a good daughter, that is to say, Zhizhi's beauty follows her mother's lineage.
"The Liu family of Jinghe in the Dayan Dynasty has produced beauties since ancient times, and in the past, every family in the family was proud to marry a woman from the Liu family.
"However, the Liu family offended the Empress Dowager, and it happened that His Majesty was in power for a short period of time. In order to protect the lives of the Liu family, they had no choice but to expel him from Beijing.
"The Liu family of Jinghe, a family of poems and books, learned the teachings of sages, and showed the arrogance of literati. Liu Zicheng dared to scold the Queen Mother for dictatorship in the tower. His descendants, not to mention he is very courageous. some.
"Look at my mother-in-law's steady behavior, she has a daughter-in-law of the Wei family as a 'son-in-law' from ordinary background, dare to ask me to carry it? I'm not afraid of losing my life!"
The old things, even the empress dowager were involved, Fei Cui was dumbfounded: "Then?"
"Stupid." Wei Pingxi patted her forehead with his fingers: "Go and check, check the Jinghe Liu family!"
……
The carriage drove all the way towards Baihu Street, Yu Zhi looked curious: "Ah Niang is really amazing."
"It's not as good as before." Yu's mother sighed long, feeling sorry for the past: "Dancing with literature and ink, our family has never been afraid of anyone. I just sigh that I haven't seen a grand literary event in many years. Think about the prosperity of the past, and Huangliang is the same as a dream."
"Ma'am, have you ever seen a literary event?"
"I only saw it once. I was still blind at that time. I was taken away by your grandfather. At that time, I was sitting next to your grandfather, watching him and the Quartet writers fight with each other. That scene has been going on for decades. I haven't forgotten."
"Grandfather sounds very powerful, Auntie, why don't you hear about your grandfather's family?"
"It's not yet time, the less you know, the safer you are."
Yu Zhi nodded, and couldn't bear to bother A Niang with the old things, making her worry in vain.
"Zhizhi, you don't want to stay one more night?"
"I'm going back. A Niang, we will come to see you some other day."
"Okay. When you're not busy, remember to check back more often."
Before you leave, you will be hurt and parted.
Sending Yu's mother back to Baihu Street, it's too late for dinner to use Wei Pingxi to take Yu Zhi back to Wei's house.
During the period, she went back to Juanxin Bieyuan to get a white jade seal, and before stepping in the door, Yingying Yanyan was like a tide and drowned the fourth lady.
Yu Zhi's chest was full of suffocation that had nowhere to break out, and he could only feel the noise in his ears.
Sitting alone in front of the flower garden, the afterglow of the setting sun fell on her shoulders, her figure was lonely, and the two maidservants of gold, stone and silver ingots picked up interesting stories from the market and told her, but they never saw her show off.
"Miss Si is very popular with women, my aunt can't help being jealous now, what should I do in the future?"
The words were spoken by Jin Shi, who is stable by nature.
She is the servant girl given to my aunt by the fourth lady, and she only needs to be loyal to her aunt in the future.
Unexpectedly, when she said "jealous", she actually stepped on the cat's tail, Yu Zhi cheered up: "I'm not jealous!"
"Auntie said she wasn't jealous, so she wasn't jealous."
Yu Zhi couldn't make sense with her.
"Miss Si is good at painting, especially good at painting pictures of beauties. The 'Beautiful Girls' in the backyard are all oirans bought by Miss from flower houses in various places. Auntie knows that Miss Four is looking for 'Beautiful Girls' to paint. What should Yan Ji do?"
"How do I know?"
Jin Shi said: "When Miss Fourth summons her, Yanji will be naked for Miss Fourth's painting."
Click.
Small twigs are broken from it.
Yu Zhi took a deep breath: "I don't care how many women she has seen over the years."
Jin Shi shook his head: "I said this to remind my aunt to be prepared for danger in times of peace. I'm afraid it would be inappropriate to let the fourth lady get along with Yan Ji."
"How long has she been gone?"
Yin Ding pondered for a while: "Go back to Auntie, Miss Fourth has been gone for nearly half an hour."
Just looking for a seal, how could it take half an hour?
Yu Zhi stood up: "Lead the way!"
She finally looked like a concubine, Jinshi Yinding was delighted to see her: "Concubine is the only concubine in the Jingzhe Garden, if she is willing to make progress, why not make her your wife?"
wife? !
Yu Zhi got up and was scared back in the blink of an eye: She didn't even dare to think about being Miss Fourth's wife, the people around her are really brave...
"How do you know if you don't try it?" Yin Ding spoke decisively: "Both slave and elder sister are optimistic about my aunt!"
"Take care of me?"
"Not bad!"
Yu Zhi immediately looked at them high, and thought to himself: If you are so bold, why are you willing to be a slave and a handmaid?It was a shame to stay by her side.
"Why are you optimistic about me?"
"Auntie is beautiful."
"Auntie is in good shape."
"Auntie has a delicate temper, Miss Fourth likes it."
"By the way, Fourth Miss not only likes Auntie's sweet temper, but also likes Auntie's crying."
The two sisters said something to each other, and Yu Zhi blushed when he heard it.
Needless to say, she also discovered that every time she was crying on the bed, Xi Xi always treated her a little more tenderly, making fun of her as a "crying bag" in her mouth, but touching her hands.
"The most important point: Auntie is Miss Fourth's first woman."
"If you can survive half a year, with Miss's disdain for etiquette, you would even dare to take a concubine, and it would be no problem to be raised by a concubine as a wife!"
Seeing the attitude of the two maidservants swallowing like a tiger, Yu Zhi's throat moved slightly: "Why do you have to survive for half a year?"
Jin Shi sighed: "Because the fourth lady will never be obsessed with one thing for more than half a year. Usually two or three months, usually five or six months, she will get bored and give up. After so many years, she has persisted in painting."
Half a year.
Yu Zhi's heart sank.
"Then, what about martial arts?"
"Practicing martial arts doesn't count. The fourth lady said that practicing martial arts is the foundation of one's life, and should not be compared with vulgar things."
vulgarian.
Yu Zhi stopped there, no longer daring to move forward.
……
Sitting and waiting until no one came to remind him, Wei Pingxi said coldly: "Okay, we're all gone!"
The gorgeous girls twisted their waists and reluctantly walked away.
The Fourth Miss, who has touched a woman's body, should have tasted the fun of it, why is she still acting like a dog?
They couldn't figure it out, and all guessed that the concubine didn't like Miss Fourth, and she would get tired of it sooner or later.
"Where's Zhizhi? Where is she?"
Manao looked at her with a frosty expression. She guessed that it was because Auntie hadn't come for a long time that the young lady lost her mind to show off her beauty, so she was annoyed?
She said cautiously: "Auntie, she is wiping tears in front of the flower garden."
"what?"
Manao touched her nose: "I cried so badly."
"..."
She didn't bully her, why did she still cry?Wei Pingxi was deeply baffled: "Go and see!"
……
"Auntie, please stop crying!"
The gold, stone and silver ingots knelt there on one left and one on the right, with panicked faces.
"I, I don't want to cry either..." Yu Zhi's eyes were red, and the tears were streaming down.
She didn't know why, but she felt scared and felt that she had to cry to feel better.
Half a year.
Half a year is too short.
After all, she had just given her body to Miss Fourth, and the freshness has not yet passed. I don't know if Yao Chenzi can cure A Niang in half a year. If not, they have to stay in Lingnan Mansion.
If it is in Lingnan Mansion, even if Miss Fourth doesn't come to look for her, what should she do if she meets her one day?
Half a year was enough for Fourth Miss to get tired of her, but not enough for her to get tired of Fourth Miss.
Yu Zhi wet the handkerchief from crying, and a pair of willow eyes turned red from crying.
Tears fell on the flowers and leaves protruding obliquely, and when the wind blew, the teardrops seeped into the soil along the veins.
"Auntie, don't cry, it's to save my slave's life! I kowtow to my aunt!"
The two sisters regretted so much, it was because they were eager to make merit in front of their aunt, and had known that aunt was a crybaby and talkative and alarmist.
If Miss Four bumps into her, she will definitely think they are the ones who made Auntie cry!
The beauty suppressed her tears: "I, I won't cry anymore, you guys get up quickly."
She still can't get used to being a master, someone knelt down and kowtowed to her begging for mercy, she was under a lot of pressure.
Hearing the words, the gold, stone and silver ingots stood up tremblingly.
Wei Pingxi came in a hurry, and when he approached, he saw the ashen-faced maidservant and the concubine who was suffering from tears and grievances.
She took a deep breath and kicked Jinshi over: "Give you face? Bring the whip!"
Yu Zhi's tears were about to be forced back, but when she saw that she kicked people with a disagreement, she trembled in fright, and tears flowed down: "Don't blame them, I want to cry."
She tugged at Wei Pingxi's sleeve, and winked for gold, stone and silver ingots to find a chance to slip away.
Fourth Miss wants to beat someone, how dare she slip away gold, stone and silver ingots?
It was also because they said some things that shouldn't be said, and they are not wronged if they are beaten up, so they should learn a lesson.
The two sisters knelt there obediently, waiting to eat the whip, and Yu Zhi was there, how could they watch them being beaten?
She sobbed, hugged Miss Fourth's slender waist tightly, and cried uncontrollably: "Why did you come here at this time? Did the seal fall into the crack of the brick? Are you not going to want me?"
Wei Pingxi suppressed his anger and hadn't let it out yet. He was annoyed, and his ears were filled with her complaints about acting like a baby.
After thinking about it for a while, her anger gradually subsided: "I was crying because of this."
She turned her anger into a smile and wiped Yu Zhi's tears with a smile, as if no one else was around: "Why don't you want you? I want you when I get out of the door and get in the carriage."