illegitimate child

A large area of ​​rhododendrons was planted in the Luoxia courtyard, and at this time Tian was holding a pot to water the flowers.

Zisu pushed open the courtyard door and came in, walking hurriedly with sweat on her forehead, "Madam, I have inquired about it, and the master will ask the young master to apologize to Song Ling at today's dinner."

Tian's hands paused, and Zisu continued: "Ma'am, you have to think of a way. The master made it clear that he wanted to use the young master to make face for Song Ling. How can the young master let that bastard look like a noble man?" Practice, the master is really confused!"

Zisu was Tian's maid when she was in her boudoir, and later she married Luo Qingshan as his wife, and Zisu also followed her as a dowry. To Zisu, the real masters in this huge Luo Mansion are only Tian's mother and son.

Tian finished watering the entire azalea without haste, handed the silver clepsydra to Zisu, and then said, "Let him go."

Zisu's eyes turned red, she stomped her feet, and said, "Ma'am, don't you care about the young master? The young master has always been arrogant and arrogant, so why did he suffer such grievances?"

Tian patted Zisu on the shoulder reassuringly, "He asked for it, it's not a bad thing to make him suffer."

Then she looked stern, "You ordered Song Ling to enter the mansion through the corner gate?"

Zisu fell to her knees with a clepsydra in her arms, "Yes, I was the one who said it, but Ma'am, you don't know how it was spread outside, it's all because of that little bastard!"

Mrs. Tian sat down in the gazebo, with a calm tone as if she was talking about something irrelevant to her, "Does it mean that Tian Guogong's daughter is a shrew? Or is it that she is a poor wretch who has been beautiful all her life, but her husband raised a nine-year-old in private?" A big illegitimate child? Or maybe she is a hen that can’t lay eggs, and she has only one son after marrying the general for almost 15 years, and she stopped the general from letting him take a concubine, and she was punished in the end?”

Zisu choked up, "Lady, they are all talking nonsense."

Listening to Zisu's intermittent crying, Tian suddenly remembered her previous appearance.

Zisu used to be a first-class handsome maid with a sharp temper. Many capable butlers in the village once asked her for grace and wanted to ask Zisu to be their regular wife. Who would have expected that Zisu would reject her outright and only said that she would follow her. Miss, if she doesn't want her, she cuts off her hair and becomes a sister-in-law.

Zisu followed her into Luo Mansion like this, and became a servant girl all her life. After all, she was the one who harmed Zisu.

Tian sighed, "Get up, kneel on the ground to cool off."

She had given Luo Qingshan two chances, the first time was at the Bianjiang Tower, she thought that if Luo Qingshan could keep the child far away, she would just pretend it never happened.The second time was in Panshouyuan, she thought that if she could send the child away, she would be able to make do with it, but right now.

"Go and tell the old lady that I unfortunately caught the wind and cold, and I need to recuperate for a while. I won't go to the family dinner tonight. In the future, I will leave the housekeeping to the second younger sibling."

Mrs. Luo is a woman who has no daughters. She gave birth to five sons in a row, and all three of them stayed on the battlefield of Di Rong with the old general. Father brother hell crawled back.

There are not many other things in the General's Mansion, but there are quite a few widows. The Li Dynasty does not like widows remarrying, so these women who lost their husbands at a young age also stay in the General's Mansion.

Jiaozi led Song Ling to Panshouyuan, and introduced the masters of the house briefly for him as he walked.

There are four aunts in the house, all three are widows, the eldest aunt has only one daughter named Luo Qianqian, who was married to one of Master Luo's subordinates in her early years and rarely came back.

The second aunt and the fourth aunt have nothing to do, and the fifth aunt has a four-year-old daughter named Luo Qianyu.

As for his fifth uncle, Jiaozi kept secret and didn't say much, only told Song Ling that his fifth uncle had a weird temper and rarely showed his face in front of people, telling him to act as if he didn't see him in the future.

Song Ling retorted in his heart, how could he act as if he didn't see his elders after seeing him, and at the same time he became curious about this mysterious Fifth Uncle.

What surprised Song Ling even more was that there were actually only four grandsons in this huge general's mansion, and he was counted as a man with a dishonorable name.

He can now understand why the old matriarch accepted him so easily. If his family members were weak and his heirs were unhappy, he would probably be happy to turn around and have such an excellent grandson.

When he arrived at Panshouyuan, General Luo was waiting at the gate, looking around constantly, his eyes lit up when he saw Song Ling, and he hurried up to reach out to hug Song Ling.

"Ling'er, dad will take you in, and have dinner with the family today, don't be afraid, what's not in the habit of telling dad, dad..."

Song Ling dodged General Luo's outstretched hands and saluted respectfully, "Lord Luo."

General Luo's enthusiasm was extinguished by Master Luo's shout, and his fatherly heart was soaked by the cold water of the cold winter of March [-]th. He withdrew his hand embarrassingly, "Ling'er, come in quickly, it's windy at night, You just don't stay outside for a long time."

Song Ling followed Luo Qingshan into the main room of the Panshou Courtyard, where there was a round table with a circle of rose chairs, and several women were sitting around playing leaf cards, but his grandmother was nowhere to be seen.

Luo Qingshan led Song Ling into the house, and a cheerful female voice sounded, "This is Ling'er? Come here and show your aunts."

Song Ling and Luo Qingshan came in together, but the people in the room seemed to only see him.

Song Ling looked at the person who was speaking. It was a woman about 40 years old, wearing a dark long-sleeved shirt, her hair was coiled up with a jadeite hairpin, her eyebrows were high and her eyes were deep, and her face was calm.

Song Ling recalled the characteristics of the aunts that Jiaozi told him, and he was sure that this was the aunt Luo Jishi.

Luo Qingshan didn't know when he went from in front of Song Ling to behind him, he pushed Song Ling's back, lowered his voice and said, "Ling'er, you can go, your aunts are very nice, don't be afraid, dad will find a place for himself first." Sit."

After speaking, he hunched his back and found an inconspicuous corner to sit down. Song Ling found it strange that Mr. Luo seemed to be afraid of the women in this room.

Song Ling shook his head to get this absurd idea out of his head. These women are all pointing at Master Luo to live. Even if they are afraid, they should be afraid of Master Luo.

Song Ling walked to the table and bowed to the woman who spoke, "I've seen you, auntie."

Ji Shi looked surprised and asked, "Ling'er knows me?"

Song Ling nodded solemnly, "I heard the servant girl talking about your aunts."

Sitting next to Ji Shi, Wang Shi became interested, and said with a smile, "Then Ling'er, which aunt am I?"

Song Ling looked at her carefully. The woman was wearing a dark narrow-sleeved dress, with slender eyebrows, hanging eyes, and a hooked nose. She had a mean look. Song Ling replied, "It's the fourth aunt."

Mrs. Wang pulled Song Ling over with a groan, and brushed his hair, "This kid is really smart."

By the way, he hugged the man into his arms, and while embracing Song Ling, he took out a golden steamed bun from his arms and stuffed it for Song Ling. In fact, the gold was like an ingot, but the head was the size of an adult's fist, not worthy of being an ingot, only an ingot. Steamed bun.

Song Ling was so out of breath from the ups and downs of his aunt's chest, he gave this aunt a stamp in his heart, and he had a shrewd and silly face for nothing.

It took a long time for the fourth aunt to let him go. Just as Song Ling wanted to thank him, a slender hand pulled him over. Song Ling looked at the owner of the hand, knew what she was going to say without thinking, and said first, "Hello, second aunt."

Mrs. Du was also happy, and pulled a jade bracelet off her wrist and put it on Song Ling's hand, "Good boy, this is a gift from Second Aunt."

Song Ling's reed-like hands can't be called this bracelet. The bracelet hangs empty on his wrist, making Song Ling even thinner. Mrs. Du frowned, looked him up and down carefully, and then said in one direction: "Fifth Sister, The child is too thin, you take good care of him, he doesn't look like a child in our general's mansion."

Following Du's line of sight, Song Ling discovered that there was a pear-wood couch on the west side of the main room, on which sat a gentle woman hugging a little girl with flower bud hair.

This is the fifth aunt Bai.

Upon hearing this, Bai smiled and waved to Song Ling, "Ling'er comes to Aunt Fifth to play with my sister."

Song Ling first saluted a table of women solemnly, "Thank you aunties for the gifts."

It also made the women laugh out loud, he is a small person, he tends to behave like an old pedant, he is serious and cute.

Song Ling walked to Bai Shi's side and sat down on the other side of the small couch. Bai Shi pushed a plate of pine nut candies on the small table in front of him, "Ling'er eat some of this to relieve boredom, but don't eat too much, wait It's time for a banquet."

Sugar was a rarity in the Li Dynasty. Generally speaking, only the children of officials and nobles could eat it. Ordinary people, not to mention eating it, had never even seen it. Song Ling's life with Mrs. Song was not bad. He didn't have to worry about eating and drinking, but it was the first time he saw such a precious thing.

This plate of pine nut candy is not the ordinary kind of low-quality candy, each one is very full, with a layer of white icing on it, Song Ling doesn't know if she's hungry or not, but the little girl in Bai's arms must be hungry.

The little girl nestled in Bai's arms, staring at the plate of pine nut candies with half of her deer eyes on her face.

Seeing that Mrs. Bai didn't notice this, Song Ling took the pine nut candy and handed it to the little girl. The little girl's eyes lit up, she stretched out a chubby hand from under her mother's arm, took the pine nut candy, and stuffed the candy all at once. Putting it into the mouth, the bulging cheeks made a crackling sound, and I still didn't forget to give Song Ling a sweet smile.

Song Ling looked at the fat girl nestled in Bai Shi's arms, and there was a longing in his eyes that he didn't realize. His mother had never hugged him. He had seen all kinds of appearances of Lady Song, cold, sad, and hateful. I have never seen a merciful one.

He took a pine nut candy and put it in his mouth, he was reluctant to bite and just sucked it slowly.

How could Bai not notice their small movements, she pinched her daughter's fat butt helplessly, "Eat less fat girl."

"Is Ling'er hungry? The banquet will start when your elder brother arrives."

Song Ling found it inconceivable that the whole family, including the elders and younger generations, would have to wait for Luo Jinnian to hold the banquet. It can be seen that Luo Jinnian's status in the Luo family, where the young master is clearly the ancestor.

He also woke up from the sweet aftertaste. These people belonged to Luo Jinnian's family, not Song Ling's.