I was Idle and Cool Chapter 19: East wind and west wind

The next day, it was still dark.

It was drowsy outside, but the East Room was lit by several lamps, illuminating it brightly.

This room is where Lu Jinxi lives, and where Qingque turned out the letter yesterday.

The decoration and furnishings are similar to Westinghouse, but more of a boudoir daughter. There are also small tables with plum blossom and foreign lacquer at both ends of the kang, and a small bronze incense burner is displayed on the table, but there is no incense.

An exquisite dressing table is displayed inside.

Lu Jinxi's face was not very good, and with a bit of tiredness in her eyes, she sat in front of the makeup mirror.

The egret gestured with a golden bamboo leaf bridge hairpin on her head. She just waved her hand: "It's nothing to see my wife. It doesn't need to be so solemn. It's as simple as changing the hairpin."

She spoke in a hoarse voice compared to yesterday.

The voice was rustling and soft, and there was a sickness to it.

Sitting in front of the makeup mirror, the person only feels that the waist is slender and has a posture of a weak willow supporting the wind.

The egret heard what Qingque said and guessed that it was coughing last night.

She replaced the big hairpin with golden bamboo leaves, took a thin white jade flower and fruit hairpin with cloud pattern from the makeup tuft, and put it on her new flowing cloud bun.

"You coughed all night and didn't sleep well. My wife doesn't want to say hello every day. Would you like to go back to sleep for a while?"

"I'm completely ill, and the incident with Brother Chi happened again yesterday. Even if she doesn't want anyone to greet her, I still have to go and report the matter. Besides, No matter how sleepy, don't you all get up?"

Lu Jinxi said, smiled, and looked at the makeup mirror.

The facial features of Mrs. Lu are seven or eight similar to those of her past.

It's just that her eyebrows are sharper, while Lu's eyebrows are relatively soft.

Today, the egret put light makeup on her, looking elegant and tight.

"It's done, that's it."

I didn't bother to clean it up anymore, Lu Jinxi saw that it was almost done, so she got up from the dressing table and saw that Qing Que was already holding the cloak, which was thicker than yesterday's, so she couldn't help asking: "It's still snowing outside? "

"It stopped in the second half of the night, but the snow was heavy, and the outside was covered in white, and it was cold. You are afraid to hold a hand stove today."

Qing Que came over, put a cloak on her, handed her the stove, and remembered what she heard halfway through.

"When the first servants and servants went to serve hot water, I heard from the women below that the third grandma was noisy yesterday."

Weixian?

Unfortunately, Lu Jin still remembers the tossing appearance of this younger brother and sister.

Holding the small stove, she couldn't help but wonder, "How else can she make a fuss?"

"You asked Wu's family to punish that maid Ruizhu, and the third grandma brought it back later."

"It was fine at first, but after a thorough questioning, I found out that it was Ruizhu who was choreographing the beating of Brother Chi because of his mouthful of hustle."

"I don't know if she was acting or was really angry, but when she found out, she was so angry that Ruizhu was beaten again."

"I heard that the girl was lying in the room and cried all night, but she still can't get up."

"That's surprising..."

According to Lu Jinxi's understanding of this third younger brother and sister, even if he is acting, he should not be so real.

But...

"Let her go. Maybe it's because I feel that I've saved my face and find a punching bag, or maybe it's because I think my maid can beat me by myself."

"Also."

Qingque sighed softly, only a little sighed at Ruizhu's dramatic encounter.

Lu Jinxi didn't feel anything at all, only a shadow of suspicion remained.

Before she went out, she ordered someone to inform her brothers and sisters that there was no need to come to greet her in the morning: "I'm going to see my wife, I don't know when I'll be back, just ask them to come in the evening."

After giving the order, she stepped out the door.

A gust of cold wind blew across her face. Fortunately, she was wearing a hood, which blocked the cold a little bit, but the cold air that was poured in made people tremble.

The yard is really white.

Two or three finger-thick snow, pressing on the ground, hanging on the branches, and covering the courtyard walls, makes it increasingly difficult to see the meaning of early spring.

At this hour, the maids and wives who were serving had already got up.

Lights are shining through several windows along the way.

The wife of the chief of the General's House, Mrs. Sun, lives in the most secluded southern courtyard.

I heard that she is in her fifties this year, but she has a strong body. Although she came from a small family, she had accompanied Xue Yuan, the master of the long house, to live a hard life at the border.

In times of crisis, she once disguised herself as a man, was born and died, and carried her injured husband out of the dead.

It's just that God didn't spare Xue Yuan after all. He was rescued, but his injuries were too severe. After a few days of delay, he still died at the border.

Since then, the Sun family has supported the general's mansion.

She is a widow and has several children under her knees. She has to handle foreign affairs and tidy up the housework. She has to show her face.

In the beginning, the big families in the capital were all criticized.

But after a long time, which one is not admired?

The men of the Xue family have paid too much for Da Xia.

If the remaining women who want to run the family are still like the women in other families, how can they afford such a big general's mansion?

Therefore, the wife of the generals of the Xue family gradually became the most special existence among the women in the capital.

They are free to move and not bound by ordinary etiquette. They can represent the men in the family to attend various grand occasions, and they can also show their faces and deal with all kinds of trivial matters on their own farms.

No one dares to speak up.

The sour Confucians in the DPRK who taught etiquette did not think of writing two books, but once you think of the Xue family men who returned home wrapped in horse leather and the military generals in the DPRK who supported the General's Mansion, you will feel that the memorials in your hands are thousands of pounds. , can't pick it up.

Not to mention, in the Xue mansion today, there is also a princess Yongning who plays a pivotal role in the court.

Who dares to participate?

It's almost the same as courting death!

So, Lu Jinxi is actually very lucky.

It's not lucky to be a widow; but to be a widow of the general's mansion, and to be Xue Kuang's widow, is a fortune among misfortunes.

The original Lu family was born in a scholarly family. After her husband died, she did not go outside the door. She never took advantage of the general's residence. This was beyond the convenience of secular etiquette.

But Lu Jinxi won't.

She comes from the modern age, and although she has no ambitions, she never wants to live in a big family and live the rest of her life.

The General's Mansion is a good place for her.

Mother-in-law Sun and her aunt, Princess Yongning, are people she should be grateful for, even though she knew that the relationship between the two sisters was not very good, and she even knew that this mother-in-law had some problems with Lu's attitude .

Call...

Cold wind blows.

The road beneath my feet is covered with remnants of snow that have not yet been swept away.

The lantern lit by the blue bird shines on the snow with a warm yellow light.

The South Courtyard is already in front of you, and the lights in the room have turned on early.

Sun has a habit of getting up early, and now he has a stomach-nourishing soup in his hand, and he is already sitting on the heated kang, drinking.

The temples are a little gray, and the face is wrinkled, looking a bit old.

She was dressed in dark blue clothes, with only a silver hairpin on her head. She looked very simple, just like an ordinary old woman in the market. She could not tell that she belonged to the famous Wuwei general Xue Kuang Mother.

Mother Feng has been serving her for two years. When she saw that she had finished drinking, she took the soup bowl and said, "Yesterday, the following people reported that the second grandmother is coming to greet her today. This old slave heard that the second grandmother's illness has passed. Great, but I got into trouble with the third grandmother, fighting and killing, as if I had changed a person..."

"Ghost gate is a good place to experience people."

Sun shi was leaning on the half-old autumn fragrance-colored throw pillow, holding a hanging of ordinary red sandalwood beads in his hand, and there was a bit of vicissitudes in his voice.

"I have seen so many young men with vigor and vitality back then. I have been on a battlefield once, and I have seen cruel life and death. All of them are like changed individuals."

"She is still a child and a daughter. She managed to save her life from the hands of the Lord of Hell. It's time to see it clearly."

"If you haven't seen it clearly, you should be dead."

Older people generally rarely talk about life and death.

But Mr. Sun has never been taboo about these things, and he has always been rude when he speaks.

Mother Feng couldn't help sighing when she heard this, but she was a little more entangled and hesitant: "Madam, you can understand. But if this is the case, wouldn't the house be in chaos?"

The General's Mansion was once propped up by the Sun family.

Just since the Lu family got married, Xue Kuang invited the Sun family, hoping to give the family to the Lu family.

Sun's husband died at an old age. At that time, his eldest son also died young, leaving behind a widow wife and young daughter. Xue's family room, no matter how it is calculated, Xue Kuang will support it in the future.

So the Sun family was so happy to let go, and since then, she has been living in the southern courtyard, and has not cared much about the juniors.

The Lu family was still very good at the beginning. During the few years when Xue Kuang was there, there was no major trouble in the house.

But when Xue Kuang died, she lost her external support, and it became difficult.

When Wei Xian married four years ago and became the third grandmother of the long house, the situation worsened.

Wei Xian is the first lady of the Grand Master's Mansion and the half-sister of Wei Yi, the now favored concubine.

No one knows why she fell in love with Xue Rin, the most mediocre third master in Xue's long house, and took the initiative to find someone to say that the matchmaker would marry in, but everyone knew her ability.

Honorable status and arrogant temperament.

To win people's hearts, to cook inside and outside.

Her methods, learned from her great sister Wei Yi, and her long-sleeved mother who is good at dancing, are several times better than sister-in-law Lu Shi.

In addition, she intends to target the Lu family. Within a few months, the people in the mansion gradually saw the wind direction, and began to neglect the Lu family, and objected to Wei Xian respectfully.

At this time, the weakness in Lu's temperament was exposed.

She was powerless to compete with Wei Xian, and she couldn't protect her subordinates. It only took a few months to lose her heart.

Of course Mrs. Sun knew that Mrs. Lu was a kind and pitiful person, but so what?

A kindness can't support this family.

She can tolerate someone like Princess Yongning who oppressed her, because the identity of the other party is also a kind of support for the entire Xue family.

She can also tolerate letting go of the IF, just for Xue Kuang's words. Because Xue Kuang is the pillar of the family.

But she couldn't tolerate Lu Shi.

Why Wei Xian insisted on marrying the mediocre Xue Rin, and why she even insisted on targeting Lu to take away the mid-feeder held by Lu, Sun knew vaguely.

She just doesn't care.

Even if Wei Xian's words and deeds spread to her, she would not ignore it.

Because, a weak lady in charge was never what the general's house needed.

But now...

He also said that Mrs. Lu suddenly woke up, tough, transparent, and capable.

If I heard the news four or five years ago, the Sun family would definitely be happy.

Now...

She frowned slowly, held the hand of the bead, and after a pause, she slowly pinched it and said, "Since she is coming to greet her, let's see you later."

It was just a coincidence.

As soon as she finished her words, before Feng's mother could ask a few more questions, the little girl outside came in and said, "Madam, second grandma, please come."