Chapter 15 third quarter

Fourth Master Lu had met his family members who came to report the news on the way, and when he heard about the gown, he was immediately enraged and fell down without a mouthful of phlegm.Fortunately, with the help of Mr. Qi Sanye, he managed to make it all the way back by asking for medical advice and medicine. Qi San was also very sad, Changshan was his chosen son-in-law Chenglong Kuai, who was going to hold a wedding for him and his daughter when he returned to Qingtong, but he turned out to be a short-lived ghost.The servant who reported the letter faltered, and in the end he didn't understand why the uncle who hadn't passed the family died of a sudden illness, which made the third master feel strange.When he arrived in Qingtong, he didn't care about going home, so he followed the fourth master back to the mansion directly. The name was to pay homage to his nephew, and he really wanted to see whether he was dead or just playing an empty city plan.

After seeing the coffin of the coffin, the fourth master caressed the corpse and cried loudly, and almost fainted again. The second aunt had already lost her voice from crying, and she was in a daze. Grandpa doesn't know how to say hello.The eldest wife, Lu Hu, persuaded him in every possible way, and dragged the fourth master to rest. At the same time, he sent a message, saying that the man had been dead for many days, and the weather was getting hotter. When Third Master Qi saw the coffin, he also caressed the coffin and shed a few tears, only sighed: "My daughter is unlucky."

Huici suddenly froze, remembering that her husband died before leaving the house, so she had to be wronged and married into Lu's family as a concubine, and suffered half a lifetime. The fate is that before getting married, she will die early.It turns out that all of this is fate.All of a sudden, I felt disheartened, and felt a bit of an epiphany, and the heart that hated the little snake a few days ago faded away. The next day was the funeral ceremony for the gown. Rows of mourning flags, rows of trumpet drums, followed by the whole family of Lu's family, filled half a street, and drove towards the grave in a mighty manner.When the coffin was buried in the ground, the little snake suddenly wanted to jump into the cave like crazy, two or three servants couldn't hold it back, and she had already run to the side of the grave, and it was fourth master who took action himself to hold him back.

The fourth master was furious, felt humiliated, and slapped the little snake twice in public, but the third master Qi already understood what happened, so he let out a "hum" and walked away. Two days later, news came out that Qi San led his family to worship the memorial arch in public, and the entire Qingtong County was shocked, and people went to watch the fun, and the impact was even more sensational than the fourth master marrying a concubine and going to the funeral in a long shirt . The fourth master's anger is not trivial, since he heard the crying in the firewood room that night, he has caught a cold, and he has been working hard all the way, and his illness has gradually become serious. Now his son has an affair with his aunt, and Qi San's visit to the memorial arch has made him feel ashamed In order to save face, the second aunt again clamored to become a nun. Although she tried to dissuade her, she closed the door to worship Avalokitesvara. The monk at home, the nun with hair... All kinds of troubles and complaints, one after another, entangled and intertwined, finally made the dying President Lu bedridden, and only half of his life was left alone.

Lu's mansion is full of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine coming in and out all day long, and they are constantly busy.All the big and small things in the house are handed over to Lu Hu and the short shirt.Then the short shirt became more pleasing to the eye, and started to act recklessly. Today, fourth master was a little better, so he let the maid help him to see the little snake. The little snake was dressed in plain clothes, dressed like a paper doll, with a pale face.The fourth master was very displeased, shook his head and said: "The rouge and gouache are from the public, and there are regular money distributed every month, why don't you see you dressed up? It's unlucky to dress like this." The little snake is embroidering, and I saw you Fourth Master didn't stand up when he came, and he didn't flatter him, he still bowed his head and embroidered wholeheartedly.

The fourth master leaned forward to look at the embroidery work. It was bright and watery, but it was a pair of mandarin ducks playing in the water. There was a sentence embroidered next to it: "As long as the sky is forever, there will be an end to the day, and this hatred will last forever." The fourth master was surprised: "These two sentences Is it the sentence in the song, did you hear it from the lyrics of the song?" The little snake shook his head: "It was taught by the third sister." The fourth master was even more surprised: "Oh, she can talk to you? This third child is so arrogant. She is tough and has the most hateful temper. She is willing to make friends with you if she is idle and ignorant of others. That's good too. You can walk around with her more and learn to read. It's a daily pastime and it won't be too boring. If you also It would be even better if you could teach her how to embroider."

The little snake just bowed his head and said nothing, as if he hadn't heard anything. Fourth master sat and talked for a while, then asked his servants to bring in food and wine, planning to eat and go to bed as usual.But seeing the little snake suddenly stand up, he said seriously: "It's getting late, sir, please go back." Fourth Master felt annoyed, and said with a downcast face: "This is also my place, can't I stay?" The little snake was expressionless, and said indifferently: "The master knows that I have already followed the young master, and the long gown is not cold, so it is inconvenient for me to let the master stay overnight."

Fourth Master Lu was furious. He knew that it was one thing for a concubine to have an affair with his eldest son, but it was another thing to hear her tell the truth to her face.Then he kicked the embroidered stool and shouted: "Bring the whip, bring the rope of the bench, and beat this bitch to death!" When the servant brought the whip, Fourth Master didn't wait to tie up the little snake, so he whipped the snake himself and began to beat it.The whip was dipped in water, and every time it was whipped, the clothes on the little snake's body would burst open, revealing flesh and blood.However, Fourth Master Ren gritted his teeth and was sweating profusely, but he couldn't hear the little snake moaning.He saw her eyes that were so painful that she couldn't make a sound, but he didn't know whether the pain came from her body or from the bottom of her heart.The fourth master beat him softly, and scolded: "Bitch, I'm in vain for treating you like this, you actually did such a shameful thing behind my back, I'm really shameless!"

The little snake shook her head slowly, and said calmly: "Although I was bought by you, in fact, I have no real relationship with you, let alone a relationship between husband and wife. In this life, I only look for one husband, and that is the young master. My In his heart, there is only the eldest young master, and in his heart, there is only me. The two of us truly love each other, and there is nothing to be ashamed of. We wanted to leave here together, but it cost him his life. I only hate myself for not being able to die, to accompany him." The fourth master was even more furious: "Okay, I'll beat you to death and fulfill you!" His subordinates stepped up their strength and whipped a few times, just about to hit again, when they suddenly heard a "choking" sound from the beam, and hurriedly turned around and asked: " Who is it?" He heard a female voice laughing "hehe" in a daze, and then there seemed to be a long sigh of a man, and then he held his breath to listen quietly, but it disappeared again.

Fourth Master only felt his hairs stand on end, a burst of cold air hit him, he didn't dare to fall in love, so he threw down his whip angrily and said: "I'll settle the score with you some other day." Then he turned and went out. The door was wide open, the draft blew in, the wound on the little snake's body cooled down, and the maid heard her raise her head and say softly: "Waiting for me in the long shirt, I will go with you." From then on, fourth master didn't dare to pester the little snake too much, and he didn't let the little snake come to say hello in the morning again. He sent three meals a day to the house, thinking that she was already a useless person waiting to die.

The little snake was still beautiful, but there was a ghostly look on her face.During the day, he would not talk or laugh, but at night, he would suddenly cry for no reason, and it would not stop, and sometimes he would walk up and down in the small garden all night.People then said that the little snake was possessed by a ghost. The eldest and young master Changshan died miserably, and his grievances persisted. Only then will he be reconciled, otherwise the entire Lu Mansion will not be peaceful. Hearing these gossips, Fourth Master also scolded several times, and tried his best to find the servants one by one to pinch the board with their fingers to find out who made the rumors and who scattered the paper money in the small garden, but they didn't find out after all. This is right and wrong, but it makes me feel a little fuzzy. Little Snake didn't have any illnesses, and she didn't necessarily lose weight, but she looked pale and haggard day by day, as everyone imagined or expected.Fengqin waited for several aunts to visit her together, and after sitting there for a long time, she felt uncomfortable all over, so she had to leave in a hurry.Gradually it is not too big.Apart from delivering meals and sweeping the house, the maids can't come in without coming in. The little snake lives in the embroidered quilt under the double curtain, but it seems to be in prison. The only person who walked around as usual, and came more frequently than before, was Third Aunt Pingting. Pingting is a self-proclaimed person. Usually when the aunts chat with each other, she always puts on a condescending attitude, either showing off her cleverness with a sharp tongue, or condescendingly sneering at her. But now she is kind to the little snake and takes the initiative to get close to her. , even a little flattering, talking to her every day as a companion, and asking her for advice on embroidery, chatting miscellaneously, always looking for reasons to stay in the sixth courtyard. However, Xiao Snake is already like that. When others treat her well, she just ignores it; when others scold her and laugh at her, she just doesn't know how to get angry. Third Yiniang has a good temper, regardless of whether the little snake should respond to her or not, she just talks to herself and laughs at herself every day, but she is almost like a half-lunatic.One day, she asked the little snake: "Little snake, how old do you think I am?" The little snake still didn't answer.She continued on her own: "I am 28 years old, still very young, right? But I am already old. I have been with an old man for ten years, and I am already old. The old man will not live long, but I know , if he dies, I can't live, I'm sold into the Lu family, I live as a Lu family, and die as a ghost of the Lu family, this is the life of all the women in the Lu family." As Pingting spoke, she looked at Xiao Snake's calm face and sighed, "I don't know if you will hear or not what I said, but I just want to say it, find someone to talk about it. If you dare to run away, you will explain it." You have the same idea as me - I also thought about changing my destiny, but I am not reconciled, I want to find my own life. But I am a woman, even if I can read and write, I am still a woman after all. I think To get out of Lu's house, someone must help me, so I chose the eldest and young master's gown." When the little snake heard the name of "Changshan", she was slightly startled, raised her head, and her eyes lit up. Pingting nodded, and said sadly, "It's the young master. As soon as I entered Lu's house, I fell in love with him. In the whole Lu's house, he was the only one who was good, upright, and knowledgeable. I was in Lu's house once. When I met him in the garden, we talked for a long time. We were all about the knowledge of the classics and Chuci. We talked very speculatively. The young master said, you are so knowledgeable and ambitious, you should not live such a life. You have to escape Go out, go far away, and find another world..." Pingting lowered her head, as if she was about to cry, but she didn't cry. The little snake was a little dazed, these words seemed familiar, the young master vaguely said them to her, it turned out that before this, he also said it to the third aunt. Pingting raised her hand, wiped her cheeks, wiped away the tears that didn't exist, and continued, "From then on, I've been looking forward to seeing the young master again, hoping that he can take me away. At home, I suddenly had a new hope, the idea of ​​living, I have been looking forward to him, every day, every night, looking forward to it so hard..." This expectation is also familiar.Little Snake looked at Pingting blankly, not knowing whether it was Third Aunt or herself who spoke. "Then, I finally hoped for him back, but he treated me differently. He became cold and indifferent, and he didn't want to say a word. Later, he always treated me like this. I almost The next time I wanted to ask him clearly, but he avoided me when he saw me, with a look of disgust on his face, as if I was so dirty. I was his aunt, and he avoided me, how could I get close to him? I had to I gave up my heart, looked at him from afar, and thought about that conversation time and time again, hoping that one day, he would change his mind, and talk to me again with a pleasant face and carefree manner. But at this time, you came..." Pingting's tears finally flowed down, but she didn't wipe them anymore. Suddenly, two small flames jumped out of her eyes, she stared at the little snake, and said quickly, "Do you understand how much I hate you? You When I came to the Lu Mansion, I attracted the attention of everyone in the Lu family. I don't care if the master stays in your room every night, but I'm jealous of the way the young master looks at you. It's rare for him to come back, but once he does, The eyes just follow you, looking for opportunities to come to you every day. Do you know? Every time you meet, I know when he came in and when he left! I will stand by you Outside the courtyard gate, under the old locust tree, waiting for him to come out. I stood there waiting for him, shivering from the cold, and one night it rained, but I waited, and when he came out, I was far away. Take a look at him. When you are lingering in the house, you will never think that I am alone in the rain outside the house!" Pingting started to cry, her voice changed, like crying and laughing.Listening to these words, Xiao Snake thought of all the tenderness and sweet memories of her tryst with the long shirt, and the warm memories, as if thousands of needles were pricking her heart, and murmured: "So, it was you..." "It's me!" Pingting said desperately, "I told you the secret! I saw the young master waiting for you outside the door, and saw you sneaking into the small garden. I deliberately shouted "Stop thief" to attract the guard , I ruined your plan... But, I didn't want to kill the young master, I just wanted to stop you, I didn't intend to kill you, I didn't expect it to be like this, I didn't expect Changshan to die, Changshan, I killed it myself I didn't want to kill him, I didn't mean it, I didn't mean to kill the young master, no..." Pingting burst into tears, knelt on the ground, and tore her hair with her hands indiscriminately. The blood was torn off, but he even forgot the pain, crying and tearing like crazy, very pitiful. Little Snake was stunned by the sound, his mind was rumbling, like thunder rolled by, and it went blank.These days, she was immersed in the grief of Changshan's death and couldn't extricate herself from it. She was so distressed that even her breath was in pain. Occasionally, she thought that the plan between herself and Changshan was seamless, and how could something go wrong in the middle, but she never thought about it. It turned out to be the hands and feet of the third aunt!But third aunt is a poor person like herself, she set up this trap not for hatred, but for love.Her love for the young master's gown is actually no less than her own!However, it is useless to say anything, the gown is dead, the young master is dead, no matter love or hate, can't bring him back to life, now in this world, there is only a pair of miserable people who are in the same sickness as himself and the third aunt, they hate each other, What's the use? Little Snake held Pingting's hand, and for the first time since the gown passed away, she burst into tears...