The woman almost knelt down, with some tears in her eyes, and said, "Please Madam, please have mercy on these two children. Whether they sound good or not is another matter. As long as Madam is willing to give them names, it will be a great blessing for them."
She made Lin Rong stand up like this, and also made Lin Rong confused. It was a big day, and it was a hundred-day banquet. Why did she look like she was about to cry?
Her mother-in-law, Mrs. Qin, immediately frowned and stopped: "Okay, with so many guests here, naming is a big deal, so we are not in a hurry." She smiled and said to Lin Rong, "Madam, don't be offended, what did the Taoist priest say?" It was so accurate that it scared her. This is also the mentality of a mother. On weekdays, when two children have headaches and fever, she will always endure it."
Lin Rong also smoothed things over and comforted the woman: "Parents' love for their children is a lesson. Don't worry too much. I think these two children will live a long life if they are raised so well."
The female relatives of the foreign family who came to congratulate her also smiled and agreed: "Yes, you will definitely live a long life. You can see that you are blessed at first glance, so don't worry too much, grandma."
A silver-haired old lady from Beppu took the longevity lock and put it on the two children: "Hey, if you put on the longevity lock, you will be safe."
But the woman was still squatting half-crouched, unwilling to get up, looking at Lin Rong with a look of pleading.
Suddenly, the scene turned cold.
Lin Rong was very confused, a little angry and a little pitiful for her, so she could only say: "I can't get a good name for a while, so I don't want to rush it. When I go back, I will think about it carefully and write a post." , can I bring it to you?"
The woman burst into tears immediately: "My maid, thank you madam for your kindness."
Mrs. Qin made a face, and several girls standing nearby helped the woman into the house: "Grandma, you are dizzy again and can't stand steady. Come in and sit down for a while."
Mrs. Qin immediately spoke: "Hurry up and help your eldest brother and your daughter-in-law, don't let her fall." Then she turned her head and said to Lin Rong: "My wife is good at everything, a hundred times better than my son and daughter, but she is too strong-minded. The birth of these two Lin'ers was not smooth, and after the confinement period, some symptoms increased. I asked her to rest, but she refused, which really made me feel bad."
Lin Rong felt that this grandma was too strange. After chatting with everyone for a while, she heard the maid outside say: "Madam, the old master said that the Lord has arrived and is calling for the banquet to begin."
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Qin stood up with a happy face. She looked away from her preoccupied look, and said to Lin Rong with a smile: "Madam, the banquet is held in Qingyin Pavilion. We have invited a young actor from Nanfu. Where can we cool down and listen to the opera through the sound of water?" , it couldn’t be better, let’s go there right away?”
Lin Rong nodded and followed everyone to Qingyin Pavilion. Qingyin Pavilion was built on Qushui. It was a huge pavilion. It was divided into two parts: the male guests on the east side and the female relatives sitting on the west side. They were surrounded by colored satin, making each other invisible.
Lin Rong was invited by Mrs. Qin to sit down at the main seat. As soon as she had a drink, she heard the song on the opposite stage: "In the past, Liang Hong was paired with Meng Guang. Now the fairies will help King Xiang. They secretly laugh at my brother and arrange poisonous plots to kill him." King Liu..."
This word didn't seem to suit the occasion. Lin Rong sat silently. Mrs. Qin stood up and called the leader of the Nanfu Opera Troupe over: "Why haven't you ordered the opera yet, and you have taken it upon yourself to sing blindly? What should you sing on such a good day? "Single Sword Club" is not suitable for the scene, nor is it festive. Please stop the drums!"
He brought the play list again and asked Lin Rong to order a play. Lin Rong didn't know anything about this, and he had never heard of it in Jiangzhou. He passed it on to the old lady next to him. He couldn't shirk it, so he picked out the festive items above.
As soon as I sang a song, a Taoist woman came up over there, holding a tray in her hand. There were triangular yellow paper in the tray, something like a name charm. : "The talisman that the eldest lady in the mansion enshrined in Xiaoguan is already very good, so I sent it to the mansion today."
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the pavilion laughed. A young daughter-in-law said with a smile: "You have to slap me for saying this. This child has been born for a hundred days, and you just sent this child-seeking talisman. No." It’s useless to say that the spirit is not effective, even if it is spirit.”
The tray was placed on the table, and the child-seeking talisman was beautifully painted. Lin Rong saw from a distance that there seemed to be modern mathematical symbols on it. He ordered Kingfisher to take one over, looked at it carefully, and opened it again. Only then did he realize that he was looking at it. Wrong, this is just an ordinary Taoist charm.
Just her actions attracted everyone's attention. The young daughter-in-law covered her handkerchief and smiled: "That's all. Grandma can't use it now. I can borrow flowers to offer to the Buddha and give them to Madam Junhou."
Everyone saw Lin Rong looking at the talisman over and over for a long time. They thought it was because she was eager to ask for a child, and they all agreed: "This talisman for seeking a child is also effective. You don't need to wear it. Just put it under the pillow for three days."
Another person also said: "It is most effective to worship in front of the white jade Guanyin statue. Burn three sticks of incense in the morning and evening. In less than three months, the king and his wife will definitely have good news."
Lin Rongsan put down the talisman, shook his fan, and smiled: "I think this heir is destined by God. I am not so lucky. Let's just listen to the show."
Lu Shen was sitting in the water pavilion on the east side with a warm expression on his face. His willingness to come and congratulate him already made the old man extremely happy. After sitting for a while, he wanted to stand up and say goodbye. Although the water pavilion in this thing was separated by a brocade tent, it was only three or four feet away. He had always been sharp and clear, so the woman's half-bashful words came out faintly. The news reached his ears that the heir was destined to come by God... I was not so lucky.
Hearing this, his face turned cold, and he thought to himself: This woman is playing the trick of resisting sexual desire and then accepting her, which made her even more disgusted.
However, the old man personally sent Lu Shen to the door. Relying on the fact that he had taught him to study for a year, he said: "My lord, I also want to marry a wife, and be more harmonious with the king and his wife. After a year or two, there will be a successor. Wait for the prince." After being born and growing up, what do I, Yongdi, have to worry about? When the late Sir was here, I often regretted that the Lu family had very few blood relatives. Now, I and other veterans can go underground to meet the late Sir."
As he spoke, he became emotional and began to cry.
Lu Shen stood still, rarely resenting others saying this: "Teacher, don't worry too much, just take care of yourself."
Only then did Mr. Xiahou stop. He stood there and waited for Lu Shen to go away. Then he let out a long sigh and walked in tremblingly.
The servant asked: "Old Master, are you going back to the table?"
Mr. Xiahou shook his head and said, "I'm not going. Please carry the sedan chair. I want to go to the ancestral hall to offer incense."
Chapter 30
On the west side of the water pavilion, Lin Rong sat at the banquet for a while, then excused himself to change his clothes and leave. Mrs. Qin wanted to send her to the next room to rest. Lin Rong waved her hand: "You don't need to be so polite. I can change my clothes and come to the banquet in just one cup of tea. There are many guests here, so don't be indifferent because of me."
Mrs. Qin secretly observed this day and found out that the lady of the lord did not like being crowded with people, especially flattery. Seeing her order, she nodded in agreement, called her two daughters, pointed to Lin Rong and said, "These are my two daughters." My daughter called Qinxiang and Qinhong, and asked these two girls to take Mrs. Junhou to change. Their small building is also close to here, only thirty or fifty steps away, and the daughter's house is also neatly decorated. .”
Lin Rong could no longer refuse. The two little girls were both thirteen or fourteen years old. Their clothes and jewelry were of the same shape and even their stature. He smiled and said, "I'm sorry to bother you."
The two little girls looked at each other, and the one in yellow clothes said, "Madam, please come with us."
As expected, the small building was very close to the water pavilion, but it was only about thirty steps away. Looking over the stairs, one could see the Nanfu opera singer opposite.
As I walked into the room, a sweet fragrance hit my face. When I looked up, I saw a magnificent "Mountain Travel Picture". Although the furnishings of the room are exquisite, they are always decorated in green, blue and white colors, not like the soft red of ordinary daughter's homes. The boudoir place. The man in goose-yellow clothes said, "Mrs. I'm laughing at you. Even though our names are fragrant and jade-red, we don't like it when decorating the house."
Lin Rong nodded and saw that there were embroidered fabrics and fabrics in the room, and there were shawls from her daughter's house on the hangers, so she knew that this was indeed the boudoir of the two sisters. She smiled and said, "This room is very well decorated. It's my daughter's house." It doesn’t have to be a soft red embroidered tent, the most important thing is that you like your own house.”
When the two girls heard this, their faces were filled with joy: "Thank you, madam." They exited the room and said, "Madam, please have a rest. We will wait outside. If anything happens, just ask a few sisters to come out and give instructions."
Lin Rong nodded. Kingfisher and Fengxiao helped her change her clothes. Even Fengxiao was sweating: "It's so hot these days. These two girls look really unusual."
Kingfisher pointed to the bookshelf behind Bogu Pavilion: "Look, there are three large bookshelves. It's unusual to read so many books."
At this time of year, there were many complicated etiquettes for ladies. Lin Rong took off his shoes and socks and leaned on the couch, saying to Kingfisher: "Go and ask if the Lord has gone back. If he goes back, we don't have to stay here to socialize. It’s quite tiring.”
Feng Xiao also laughed: "The county master's face froze with laughter."
Lin Rong patted her on the top of her head with a round fan and pointed outside: "Keep your voice down, don't let the girl be overheard."
Kingfisher got the order and went out. Fengxiao took the fan and fanned it as he said, "County Lord, please wait a while. I got up very early today. I only slept for three hours last night."
Lin Rong hummed, not wanting to fall asleep. She pointed out that the sweet fragrance coming from the fan meant she was sleepy. After a while, she closed her eyes and fell asleep.
She didn't sleep well at all. She was lying on the couch half asleep, and she always felt like a vague figure coming outside the door, trying to pull her up and sit down. She struggled a lot, but her hands and feet gradually became unable to move, and her whole body floated up, straight to the roof.
Feng Xiao was sitting by the bed, closing her eyes and fanning the fan. Lin Rong called her, but no sound came out.
Suddenly, hearing the sound of pearls falling to the ground, Lin Rong was able to open his eyes and saw that a golden necklace fell off his arm, and the dozen or so huge Nanpu pearls inlaid on it scattered and rolled into the room inside. .
Feng Xiao still tilted her head and dozed off. Lin Rong gently took off the fan from her hand and put it on the couch. She put on her shoes and squatted on the ground to pick up beads one by one. She picked up seven or eight beads and looked up. , saw a portrait of a man in Tsing Yi carrying a backpack hanging on the wall.
Lin Rong muttered: "Why is there a portrait of a young man in this girl's boudoir? It's better to go out quickly, so as not to break into other people's secrets..."
Before she finished speaking, her whole body froze. She walked closer and covered the man's high crown and belt in the painting. Her hands were already shaking a little. The small moles on her eyebrows and forehead clearly... she clearly looked a few years younger. Senior brother who has changed a little more and has a more serious expression on his face?
She was so excited that she couldn't stand, her legs became weak, and she turned towards the desk next to her. With a clattering sound, she dropped a lot of books on the desk.
Outside, the two girls from Xiahou's family and Fengxiao heard the noise and came in immediately: "Madam, what happened?"
Lin Rong asked Feng Xiao to help him sit on the armchair beside him. His hands were numb and his voice was trembling. He forced a smile and shook the golden bracelet on his arm: "A few beads fell off. Roll them to the inner room. Don't sleep until you don't want me." Wake up, my hands were soft and my feet were soft, and I knocked over this pile of books. I'm so sorry for messing up your house."
Qinxiang and Qinhong smiled and said, "I'm not afraid of Madam's jokes. Our sister's house is already in a mess. I don't know how many miscellaneous books have been piled up. Or are they tidied up today so that we can barely see people?" They picked up the books. , asked: "I wonder if Madam was injured anywhere?"
Lin Rong shook his head, pointed at the painting on the wall and asked, "Why is there such a painting hanging in the house?" He felt it was inappropriate, and finally added: "It's too rough, but it's not your boudoir's daughter's house." The ones hanging in the room look like New Year paintings bought on the street?"
Qinxiang and Qinhong looked at each other, smiled, and asked, "Madam, haven't you seen this painting?"
Lin Rong looked at it again, and Feng Xiao also tilted his head to look at it. Both of them shook their heads: "Is this painting by some famous artist? Everyone has seen it? If it is a famous artist, it must not be seen by everyone. Pass."
Qinxiang, who was dressed in goose-yellow, laughed and said: "My lady came from Jiangzhou and didn't know that we also have customs in the north. The person in this painting is Pei Linggong. During the Kaiping period, there was a great epidemic in Jiangbei, which affected almost every family. People all died of illness. It was Pei Linggong who wrote a prescription for treating febrile disease and typhoid fever, and countless people survived. In order to express gratitude to his kindness, we people in Jiangbei bought his portrait and put it on the wall for worship. This gradually After a long time, anyone with a sick family would ask for a portrait of Pei Linggong."
Qin Hong, who was dressed in water-red clothes, said: "Our sisters have been weak since childhood, so there is always a portrait of Pei Linggong in the room."
Lin Rong looked up and realized that the basket on the back of the man in green in the painting contained freshly picked dewy herbs. Pei Linggong... Pei Linggong, it seemed that someone had heard these three words before, but he didn't take them to heart. , I had a headache for a while, and asked after a long time: "It's Pei Linggong. When I was in Jiangzhou in the spring, I heard... I heard..."
Qinxiang and Qinhong said: "Pei Linggong died of illness in the spring. His last wish was to be buried at Qiandang Cliff. I heard that several of his adopted sons of the Pei family were fighting. One party wanted him to be buried in the Pei family's ancestral tomb, and the other wanted to be buried in the ancestral grave of the Pei family. After dragging it out for several months in Qiandangya, I heard that he has just been laid to rest."
Already... passed away from the illness. After hearing this, Lin Rong let out a long sigh. His eyes turned black, his head was filled with stars, cold sweat poured down like rain, and he gradually became out of breath. Feng Xiao was startled, and knelt down beside her and called: "County Master, County Master, what's wrong with you, don't scare me..."
Lin Rong's eyes gradually became weak, and the sound of the phoenix flute in his ears became smaller and smaller. When he came to his senses again, Kingfisher had come back and was applying an ice towel to Lin Rong's forehead. Seeing her faintly waking up, he asked : "Master, are you feeling better?"
Lin Rong nodded and saw Qinxiang and Qinhong also gathered around with worried faces, and said, "It's okay, maybe it's because it's too hot and stuffy." Qinxiang and Qinhong hurriedly asked everyone to disperse and opened the windows. , told the girl: "Go get ice and sour plum soup."
Kingfisher whispered in Lin Rong's ear: "County Master, the Lord has left the table and gone back."
However, Lin Rong waved his hand and was not in a hurry to go back. He sat for a while and managed to feel better. He smiled and said to the two girls: "I'm afraid I won't be able to go to the banquet here. I'll sit down and rest for a while before I can go back. Idle time is also idle. Why don't you tell me about Pei Linggong to relieve my boredom? I'm not afraid of your jokes, we in the south really don't know much about it."
The south does not know much about Pei Linggong, how is this possible? It’s just that Lin Rong didn’t know!
Qinxiang and Qinhong nodded hesitantly, thinking about their mother's instructions, and slowly spoke: "I wonder what Madam wants to hear? When they were young, their parents told the story many times about how Pei Linggong led his troops to kill the servants and help the country. .”
Lin Rong looked at the blue sky outside the window and slowly shook his head: "No, tell me about his origins and why his surname is Pei..."
The younger girl burst out laughing: "Madam, what you said is really interesting. Naturally, my ancestor's surname is Pei. If this surname is passed down, it will be Pei."
The girl in a goose-yellow shirt tugged at the corner of her sister's clothes and smiled: "My little girl once heard from my grandfather that Pei Linggong was not originally named Pei, but was saved by the Pei family. In order to repay his kindness, he changed his surname to Pei. As for the origin, he didn't know it. People can tell clearly. Some say that he was born in a poor family, and some say that he was a foreigner from a noble family..."
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I don't know how long it took, Lin Rong straightened her hair, her face was extremely pale, she stood up, and barely maintained the demeanor of a noble girl: "I'm sorry for disturbing you today. I'm not feeling well, so I won't say goodbye to your mother in person."
Lin Rong leaned against the wall of the car weakly, feeling empty in her heart. It turned out...it turned out that her senior brother had already left long ago. It turned out that she dreamed of her senior brother that day, but...it was just that she fell into a dream when she was dying. She opened the car curtain, Seeing a cloudless sky and a row of white birds flying past in the clear blue sky, I stared at it silently for a long time until I couldn't see it anymore. I muttered in a low voice: "The mountains are long and the water is wide, you know where you are, you know where you are..."
After a while, he burst into tears.
The two maids, Kingfisher and Fengxiao, were both very surprised. They looked at each other and shook their heads, not knowing the reason.
When they returned to Jiedushi's residence, Lin Rong ordered people to move the books Qinxiang and Qinhong had given them today to the open pavilion at the back next to the water, and closed the door so that no one could come in and disturb her.
Kingfisher asked worriedly: "County Master, you haven't eaten anything all day today, and you only had half a glass of wine at the banquet. Why don't you ask the kitchen to bring some dishes for you to use? Isn't it too late to read again?" "
Lin Rong just shook his head and said nothing.
Kingfisher waited outside the open pavilion for a while, but when he saw that Lin Rong didn't ask anyone to come in, he turned around and walked out, grabbing Feng Xiao's ear: "I only went out for a while today, what happened to the master?"
Chapter 31
Although Feng Xiao and Jing Qin are both first-class maids, they have the same monthly payment and jewelry, but Jing Qin is prudent, and Aunt Qu has not been liked by Lin Rong recently and usually does not ask her to come into the house. Therefore, the young and old girls in this yard gradually began to take the Kingfisher as their priority.
Fengxiao called out and Kingfisher pulled his ears and came to a quiet place: "I really don't know what happened to the county master? Take a good rest and talk to the two girls... The county master is afraid of the heat, you know …”
Kingfisher frowned: "You are following the county leader, how come you don't know?"
Feng Xiao thought about it carefully: "After you went out, the county master fell asleep soon. I was fanning the wind. Outside, the two girls from Xiahou's family and the little girl from our mansion were there, and no one else came in. Maybe I listened to Pei Linggong. The story made me cry..."
The two of them sat outside and thought about it one by one, but they couldn't make sense. After a while, I heard Lin Rong's instructions from inside: "My predecessor, Hang Qing, sent several jars of wine. Bring one jar in."
Since the county master fell off the cliff, he has not been able to drink well. Kingfisher hesitated and sent a bottle to the door to persuade him: "Master, if you have something on your mind, just tell us, don't keep it in your heart."
I just stood at the door of the open hall and tried my best to persuade him for a long time before I heard the reply from inside: "I have nothing to do but I am too tired. I am too lazy to move so I will rest here tonight. You all can go to bed as well. I don't need anyone to wait on me."
Kingfisher refused to leave, calling out from time to time: "County Lord?"
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