Maid of a wealthy family

Chapter 29
When she was indulging in her reverie, Lan Horn had already lit the incense sticks.Suddenly, a tangy fragrance lingered in the pavilion.Chrysanthemum inhaled involuntarily, and looked back at the incense, only to see a faint mist, like floating moonlight, floating upwards gently.The air in the pavilion became sweeter, and Chrysanthemum felt that a joyful and beautiful emotion was flowing through her body.Moreover, the vague feeling of gratitude to the old lady, the master, and the wife that had once arisen in my heart became stronger and clearer now.

Lan Hongen lit the "Douxiang", turned around and saw Chrysanthemum staring at the moonlight obsessively, and said with a smile, "Chrysanthemum, sit down! Let me tell you the story of the Moon Palace."

Chrysanthemum did not hesitate to sit down beside the altar.The instinct of defense and shyness that flitted in my heart before, slowly drifted away in the moonlight with the passage of time and Lan Hongen's kind words.But once the barriers and pushbacks in her heart were removed, Chrysanthemum suddenly became an innocent peasant daughter.She rested her head on her hands, opened her big beautiful eyes, and looked at Lan Horn expectantly.

So Lan Hongen told Chrysanthemum stories such as "Yi shot nine suns", "Chang'e flew to the moon", "opened the gate of heaven", "Eighteen arhats descended to earth" and other stories.The beautiful moonlight, sweet air, and moving myths and legends bring chrysanthemums into a fairy tale world.After Lan Horn had finished speaking, she was still looking at him absent-mindedly.

Lan Hongen smiled and said, "Chrysanthemum, what's wrong with you."

Only then did Chrysanthemum come back to her senses, smiled embarrassedly, and said, "I...it sounds so nice."

Lan Horn said, "Is that so? Come quickly and worship the moon!"

Chrysanthemum asked: "How do you worship?"

Lan Hongen said: "Make three bows to the moon, and then whisper what you want to say to the moon!"

After hearing this, Chrysanthemum thought it was very interesting, and she walked in front of Douxiang and folded her hands facing the moon.Just as he was about to bow, he suddenly turned around and asked Lan Hongen naively: "Master, what did I say to the moon?"

Lan Hongen said: "Generally speaking, when worshiping the moon, men hope to go to the eaves palace early and climb up to the celestial osmanthus; women pray to look like Chang'e and round like a bright moon."

After hearing this, Chrysanthemum seemed to understand a little bit, and asked again: "My lord, what does it mean to look like Chang'e and round like a bright moon?"

Lan Hongen explained: "It is as beautiful as a fairy, as charming as the moon!"

Chrysanthemum blushed immediately, and hurriedly said: "No! No! I won't talk about that." After speaking, she bowed three times respectfully to the moon, but what Lan Hongen said silently in her heart was exactly what Lan Hongen said just now.

After worshiping, Chrysanthemum returned to the altar and sat down again.Lan Hongen stood up again, and said, "It's my turn!" After saying that, he also walked to "Douxiang", bowed three times to the moon, and then stood silently and said something.

When Chrysanthemum saw her, she hurriedly asked mischievously, "Master, what do you ask the moon to bless?"

Lan Hongen opened his eyes and jokingly replied: "The heavenly secret must not be revealed!"

Chrysanthemum said: "I know."

Lan Horn said, "Tell me about it?"

Chrysanthemum said: "You must be asking Moon Bodhisattva to bless you for promotion and wealth."

Lan Horn smiled and said, "That's right!"

Chrysanthemum clapped her hands again and shouted: "I guessed it."

Lan Hongen said: "Okay, you guessed it!" Said, Lan Hongen took the moonlight paper and burned it to the moon.He took the knife that cut the watermelon just now, cut the moon cake on the plate into small pieces, and said to Chrysanthemum: "Okay, the moon worship is over, let's start eating these sacrifices!" Then he said: "Chrysanthemum, try it, this is a bean paste mooncake made from the city!"

Chrysanthemum is not welcome, just pick up the mooncake and eat it.Sure enough, the surface of this moon cake is a layer of puff pastry, and the inside is filled with bean paste filling, which melts in the mouth.After eating a piece of mooncake, he turned his head to see Lan Hongen, staring at him intently, as if bewildered.

Chrysanthemum immediately felt embarrassed, blushed and said, "Master, why don't you eat it?"

Only then did Lan Hongen come back to his senses, and replied in a flustered manner, "Well, yes, I'll eat." As he spoke, he took a bite of the mooncake, but his eyes were still on the chrysanthemum.

Chrysanthemum thought she ate the mooncakes too hastily just now, and she dropped crumbs on her clothes, so she hurriedly looked down, but there was nothing on her body.

When Chrysanthemum didn't know what was going on, Lan Hongen stood up and said: "Chrysanthemum, such a beautiful night, such a good moon cake, it's a pity not to drink some wine! Just wait, I'll get some wine." , Lan Hongen turned and left without waiting for Chrysanthemum to reply.

Chrysanthemum doesn't drink, she originally wanted to tell Lan Hongen not to take it, but then she thought, on such a beautiful night, the master has such a good mood, how can she dissuade him?

After a while, Lan Hongen really brought a plate with two tall glass wine glasses made in Jingdezhen and a bottle of red grape wine in the middle of the plate.He put down the plate, filled two wine glasses, held a glass in front of Chrysanthemum and said, "Come on, Chrysanthemum, wine luminous glass, drink a little."

Chrysanthemum hurriedly said: "Master, I don't drink alcohol!"

Lan Hongen picked another piece of watermelon that looked like lotus petals and put it on the plate in front of Chrysanthemum, saying: "How can it be, Chrysanthemum! This wine is not intoxicating, you will know after a taste." Looking at the chrysanthemum steadily.

Chrysanthemum hesitated.From Lan Hongen's eyes, she had seen a hint of blame.She still wanted to refuse, but she was afraid that the master would be angry.After hesitating for a while, she thought of the master's care and enthusiasm for her, as well as his kindness and kindness, and felt that it was really unreasonable not to drink a little.So, she made up her mind, stopped hesitating, and raised her glass to Lan Hongen.

When Lan Hongen saw it, he became happy, and said: "That's right, Chrysanthemum." After speaking, he raised his cup to touch Chrysanthemum's cup, and drank it down in one gulp.

Chrysanthemum slowly brought the wine glass to her lips, she didn't drink it first, and carefully licked the edge of the glass with the tip of her tongue.I really feel that this wine is not strong, but a little sour, a little sweet, and a little fragrant.She secretly cast her gaze over the rim of the glass, and seeing the old man looking at her with a slightly encouraging look in his eyes, Chrysanthemum became cruel, gritted her teeth, raised her head, and drank the glass of wine cleanly and thoroughly down.When she drank the wine, she felt that in addition to the sour and sweet taste in her throat, it was only slightly astringent.She put down her wine glass, hurriedly picked up the watermelon that Lan Hongen picked up just now, and ate it.

Lan Horn sat opposite, smiling, looking at her motionlessly.

Not long after, Chrysanthemum felt her cheeks burning, and her mind was a little groggy, as if she drank a lot of wine.Seeing Lan Horn staring at her so intently, she couldn't control herself and said, "Why are you looking at me like that? What's so interesting?"

Lan Hongen still looked at her greedily, but said with a smile, "Look at you, you are so beautiful, Chrysanthemum! It's like Chang'e in the moon descending to the earth, hooking people's souls away."

After hearing this, Chrysanthemum felt that what the master said was too much.She wanted to find words to refute, but she felt that her mind was in a daze, as if she had lost her commanding function.But she still understood that she was drunk, so she stood up staggeringly and said, "I, I'm drunk, I'm drunk, go back to sleep... sleep!" Crooked, and involuntarily collapsed on the rail again.

When Lan Hongen saw it, he rushed over and hugged Chrysanthemum tightly in his arms, but deliberately screamed in his mouth: "Chrysanthemum, Chrysanthemum, what's wrong with you."

Chrysanthemum opened her eyes wide and looked at Lan Hongen.She knew in her heart that she felt very ashamed. She wanted to break free from Lan Hongen's hand, but her whole body was so weak that she had no strength at all, as if she had been cramped. She wanted to shout, but she didn't know what to shout.After a while, her body moved in Lan Hongen's arms, and then she struggled to utter a few words: "Master, don't, don't be like this..."

Lan Hongen returned to his wife's room after completing the feat he had dreamed of on the maidservant Chrysanthemum.At this time, the moon is in the middle of the sky, and the night is deep.Mrs. Ning came back at some point, and was staring at an oil lamp alone in a daze.She lowered her eyelids, her face was pale, and she looked haggard, as if it wasn't the chrysanthemum who was raped but she.Seeing Lan Hongen coming in, she didn't stand up to greet him as usual, but just raised her eyelids and gave Lan Hongen a cold sideways glance.

Lan Hongen didn't get angry when he saw it, instead he smiled and walked up to Ning with a guilty conscience, put his hands on Ning's shoulders, and said flatteringly, "What's the matter? Did you not have a good time tonight?"

Ning shivered twice, shook off Lan Hongen's hand, and turned her head to one side.

Lan Hongen smiled flatteringly again and said, "Huijuan, why are you... so angry?"

Ning still didn't answer, and quietly rolled down two lines of tears.

Lan Hongen paused for a while, then took out a towel to wipe away Ning's tears.He understood why Ning's heart was suffering, but deliberately pretended not to understand and asked, "Huijuan, who bullied you? When did you come back?"

Ning's lips were puckered, and she cried out.He said intermittently: "You don't care, what do you care about me, when will you come back, come back? You just want to live, live your happy, happy life..."

After hearing this, Lan Hongen stopped pretending to be confused, laughed "hehe" twice, and said shyly, "Huijuan, this...isn't it you and mother who asked me to do this..."

After hearing this, Ning just cried for a while, and suddenly beat Lan Hongen's body with both hands, shouting loudly as if arguing with someone: "You, you are heartless! Heartless..."

Lan Hongen panicked, grabbed Ning's hand and said, "Huijuan! Huijuan, what are you doing?"

Seeing that her hands were caught, Ning slammed her head on Lan Hongen's body, and continued to shout: "I, I'm dead! I'm dead... hoot!"

At this moment, the old lady leaned on a cane and came upstairs "dud-tuk".When he saw it, he immediately lowered his face and said loudly, "What's the trouble, huh?"

After hearing this, Ning immediately let go of her hand obediently like a mouse seeing a cat, retreated to the bed and sat down, not even daring to cry.

The old lady gave Ning another stern look, then sat down on the chair by the table, turned her head and looked at Lan Hongen calmly.After a while, the old lady asked calmly, "It's done?"

Lan Horn smacked his lips like a cat that had eaten oil. He didn't dare to treat his mother with a shrunken smile like he did in front of Ning, and replied solemnly: "It's done."

The old lady seemed worried for a while and then asked: "The medicine works?"

Lan Horn said: "It works." After a while, he added: "After drinking for a while, you will be drunk."

The old lady showed a satisfied smile, but after a while, she seemed to ask further: "You promise?"

Lan Horn said: "I think...it must be done!"

The old lady smiled, the vertical and horizontal wrinkles on her face shone brightly under the oil lamp, and she praised happily: "Okay, you are promising."

Lan Hongen suddenly knelt down towards the old lady and said, "Mother, I'm sorry for my ancestors! I'm sorry for Huijuan..."

Before he finished speaking, the old lady interrupted Lan Hongen dissatisfiedly, and said: "Get up! If you don't leave descendants for the Lan family to continue the incense, you will be sorry to the ancestors! You know, how much effort I have spent to get it. Do things like this?" After speaking, without waiting for Lan Hongen's answer, he turned his head to Ning who was still weeping secretly by the bed, and asked clearly: "Huijuan, are you jealous?"

Yu kept shrugging his shoulders and didn't answer.

The old lady suddenly became furious, looked at Ning and shouted loudly: "Ning, I'm asking you, did you hear me?"

Ning was startled, and immediately stopped crying, and replied in a low voice, "I heard it."

The old lady still seemed angry, and ordered loudly, "Kneel down for me."

Ning had never seen the old lady treat herself so severely, and immediately knelt down in fear.

The old lady paused for a while on the floor with her dragon head and crutches, and then said seriously: "Listen. As a woman, she should be filial to her parents-in-law, and her husband below her. Women's virtue. You have been in Lanfu for more than ten years, and you have not given birth to a man and a half woman for your husband. There are three unfilial acts, and the biggest one is having no offspring. You are unfilial. Now you are jealous and jealous with a maid, You can be regarded as an unfaithful person! If you are unfaithful and unfilial, don't blame the Lan family for punishing you with family law in the future."

Ning was very embarrassed and ashamed to be told by her mother-in-law about the pain in her heart, and after hearing the old lady's last two words, a layer of cold sweat broke out on her body.She hurriedly replied submissively: "I dare not!"

(End of this chapter)