Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 22

[Chapter 22: Untitled]

The next morning, before dawn, Wei Shao got up and left. He went to The City of No End and personally took his grandmother Lady Xu back to Yuyang. It takes about three or four days to go back and forth on the road.

Wei Shao naturally didn’t want Xiao Qiao to wait for anything. But Little Joe soon got up with him.

It was really impossible to do so as before in Xindu, when Lao Tzu was alone and could sleep until late before getting up.

Morning and dusk are provincial, the son can be omitted because of all kinds of busyness, and there is no excuse to avoid the daughter-in-law. Even if she knew that the mother-in-law hated herself, she had to go through this cutscene.

After she finished her makeup and prepared to go to the East House, when she left the room, she subconsciously looked at the box that Wei Shao had asked her last night, and found that it was gone.

Xiao Qiao came to the front of the main room of the East House on time, standing under the porch waiting for Madame Zhu to summon, in fact, the whole Wei family’s circle of people was spreading the news of what happened last night.

It is said that the servants passed on the sound and color, and the lady called people to listen to the roots of the wall between the male prince and the bride, but the male prince found out, and the male prince was furious on the spot, and drew his sword and cut the door.

Lady Zhu’s popularity in the house on weekdays is not very good. When such a strange thing is made, the next person is behind his back, and naturally it will be rumored.

Xiao Qiao and the servant women who were waiting outside in the East House stared wide-eyed for a long time, and a steward servant surnamed Jiang who had served lady Zhu yesterday came out with a strained face and said that she could go in.

Little Joe went into the house he had been to yesterday. Madame Zhu was still in yesterday’s posture, sitting on the bed. Only on the side, there was no zheng shu.

Mrs. Zhu’s face was very ugly, and Xiao Qiao went in to greet her, and she slightly skimmed her head and did not say a word.

Jiang Mi said coldly, “As a wife of the Wei family, there are still some rules to know.” Yesterday the lady did not have time to teach a lesson, and now the maid will teach the lesson on her behalf. Lady listened.

Xiao Qiao said in a congratulatory voice, “Please advise, no one dares to disrespect.”

“As a Wei housewife, you must be familiar with women’s etiquette, abide by the way of women, be filial to your uncles, the Dunmu family, be virtuous and meritorious, be obedient and undisguised, do not do anything selfish, and do not anticipate foreign affairs.” Do you remember?

Little Joe repeated, answering yes.

“Very good. Madame got up early and did not use the morning meal, the lady can go to the kitchen and make a bowl of soup for the lady?

Little Qiao raised his eyes slightly and looked at Madame Zhu.

She half-opened and half-closed her eyes.

Where is what did not eat breakfast to make for her. It’s deliberately sending yourself to work and then tossing it around. Xiao Qiao dared to conclude that she was going to really cook to do it, and when the next end came, Mrs. Zhu was picky and asked her to redo, so the infinite cycle was still light, if she ate a bad stomach and made a vomit, or even poisoned bedridden, she would really be unlucky.

Jiang Mi saw that Xiao Qiao did not move, and a sneer appeared on her face: “What, lady Jun is unwilling?”

Little Joe already had a prevarication. Ready-made, borrowed and used. He said, “Don’t dare.” It is my duty to cook soup for my mother-in-law, will I shirk it? It’s just that it’s a little inconvenient. My grandmother’s sixtieth birthday is approaching. After I knew, I made a wish in front of the Buddha that day to pray for my grandmother’s handwritten scroll of the Immeasurable Life Sutra. The scriptures are voluminous, the grandmother’s birthday is tight, although the daily diligent copying, the progress is still limited, morning and evening rush work, do not dare to slack off for a moment. If my grandmother’s birthday is on the day of my life, and the wish I made before the Buddha is not fulfilled in time, I am afraid that it will go against the original intention and will not be fulfilled.

“In addition, there is another case,” said little Joe, “but I showed my sincerity, and at that time I made a wish, and before the scriptures were completed, I was vegetarian, and my body was not stained with meat.” In the place of the kitchen and the fishy, I am in and out at this moment, I am afraid it is not clean. I kindly ask my mother-in-law for her understanding. When I had finished copying the scriptures, I would come back to my mother-in-law to do the service. Little

Joe finished speaking, and then lowered his head.

She was sure that she would move out of Lady Xu’s big Buddha, and Lady Zhu would no longer be able to force herself.

Luoyang is now a buddha. According to the news inquired by Chunniang, Old Lady Xu also worshipped the Buddha. She copied the scriptures for the old lady to celebrate her birthday and pray for her blessings, what could be more important than this?

Sure enough, Madame Zhu’s face became even more ugly.

The room fell silent. After a moment, Xiao Qiao finally heard the Jiang Mi reluctantly say, “Even so, you should go.”

Little Qiao bowed again at Lady Zhu and got up to retreat. Back in his house, he changed into loose home-cooked clothes, lay down on the bed, remembering the face of Wei Shao’s mother just now, a little wanting to laugh, but also a little worried.

She was not worried about the scriptures.

In her previous life, she was a family of poetry and books, her parents were university professors, she had heard and heard, she had also learned calligraphy since she was a child, insisted on more than ten years, and could imitate a very beautiful Zhao Mengfu Xiaokai. Because of the congenital weakness and disease, when he was in his twenties, he finally died, and somehow, he woke up and became the little Joe he is now. Previously, in Dong County, for the purpose of passing the time, one after another, I copied a volume of the Immeasurable Life Sutra that is now highly respected by believers on the veil. Nowadays, books are precious, and when I get married, I will pack them up and bring them out. If it is used as an old lady’s birthday, it will be framed in two days.

What she was worried about was that although Mrs. Zhu’s difficulties this morning were blocked by her borrowing the old lady’s birthday, this excuse could be used for a few more days. When Lady Xu’s birthday has passed, when the time comes, if Wei Shao’s mother continues to live with herself, how should she deal with it?

Thinking that in the future, if the next few days had been living like this with Wei Shao’s mother, Xiao Qiao suddenly felt lifeless, and his eyes were dark.

……

A few days later, Little Joe went out to a mounted red pavement in the city.

In fact, with the status of the Wei family, it is completely possible to call the people in the shop over, but this is a birthday gift for Mrs. Xu, even if it has been prepared, it will also be prepared to be undesirable by Mrs. Xu, Xiao Qiao still hopes to try to frame things as perfectly as possible, and personally go to the shop, whether it is a tattoo or a color matching, there is more room for choice, so this afternoon, send someone to the East House to say, order the car, and go out.

It was the first time she had been out.

Yuyang City is quite large, and after three generations of the Wei family’s rule for decades, the hukou in the city alone has reached more than 10,000, and the population is hundreds of thousands. The streets are lined with houses next to each other, cars and horses are flowing endlessly, and goods from the north and south are all complete.

One of the best decorated shops in town is located on a street in the east of the city. Because the street is narrow and there are many passers-by, Xiao Qiao let the carriage stop at the intersection of the street dozens of steps away, and he entered the shop accompanied by Chunniang and another maid.

Her appearance is really outstanding, so that after walking dozens of steps, she has attracted a lot of attention, and passers-by have looked at her one after another, and there are also those who have to look back in the past.

Xiao Qiao entered the shop, although he did not show his identity, but the treasurer had a pair of eyes that knew people, and although she was not very old, she was fourteen or fifteen years old, but she was dressed as a woman, her clothes were strict and beautiful, and her beauty made people dare not look at her directly, and she must be the bride of the big family in the city, and her attitude was very respectful. When Xiao Qiao took out the copied scroll and unfolded it, the treasurer saw the words, his eyes lit up, and praised: “I have countless frames in my life, and when I first saw such a high and elegant word, I don’t know whose hand it came from?” Zhao Ti

naturally couldn’t see it in the world, and Xiao Qiao was just imitating it. Vaguely pushed a few words, explaining the intention. Hearing that it was to pay tribute to the old lady of the Wei family, He Shou, the treasurer did not dare to be sloppy, and immediately exhibited many cases of color patterns.

Xiao Qiao slowly picked it up, and finally caught a pattern of Zhu Si Jinbao, but the treasurer shook his head: “Unfortunately, this Zhu Si JinBan has been fixed by the guests, this is the only one, if the female monarch is in a hurry, can you pick something else?” “She’s

in love, let her be!” I can’t help it! Suddenly

at the doorA loud voice came.

Little Joe looked up and saw a man who looked to be twenty-seven or eight years old roll over from the back of a horse, throw the reins of the horse to his entourage, and stride into the store.

The man was very strong and heroic in appearance. Although he is dressed in regular clothes, his attitude is very arbitrary, and if there is no one around, he should be a person with an identity. When he got closer, his eyes glared at Little Joe, faintly revealing a stunning color.

Little Joe Ben was also used to the attention of men. But this man, looking at her, implied a kind of persecution, with the meaning of Bell Aggressiveness.

Intuitively unhappy, she turned around.

However, the treasurer recognized this man, and with a flattering smile on his face, he hurriedly greeted him and bowed down: “Wei Lingjun, the birthday you want, tomorrow can be prepared, when the time comes to send you to the palace, how dare you bother to make jun come personally?” The

man surnamed Wei said, “I came back from Dai County today, and I remembered to go along the road and asked for a question.” Words were spoken in his mouth, but his eyes were intermittently looking at Little Joe’s back.

The treasurer laughed and said, “How dare you delay what the old lady he shou uses?” Rest assured! The

man surnamed Wei smiled, did not speak, and motioned for him to greet Xiao Qiao.

The treasurer was slightly stunned, and then he understood, and smiled at Xiao Qiao: “The lady of Fangcai is looking at this Wei envoy Junding.” But the king said that if the queen likes it, she can give it to the queen. This man happened

to be surnamed Wei, and mentioned that it was for the old lady He Shou.

Little Joe subconsciously turned his head, looked at him, and bumped into his eyes that were still looking at him. Couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow.

“No, I’ll change it.”

She said lightly. Pointing to another pattern, agreeing on a good date, leaving a deposit, without looking at the man again, he turned around and left.

The man looked at Xiao Qiao’s back, and then watched her board the carriage parked at the intersection of the street, and when he was slightly distracted, the treasurer followed and said, “Coincidentally, the ribbon that this lady wants to frame is also a birthday gift for the old lady of your house.” I just didn’t hear her mention that she was from the family. The

man looked surprised, hesitated, took the reins from his hand, and turned over on the horse’s back.

Xiao Qiao returned to the Wei family, and this little episode was soon not at ease. In the evening, word came, saying that Wei Shao had taken the old lady back and had arrived home.

[End of This Chapter]