Chapter 233: Condolence

It was midsummer and it was hard to wait for the weather. The servants of Jueluo Mansion found that the days were getting harder and the faces of the masters became colder and colder.

In the main room of the inner courtyard, Xitara sat on the kang, fiddling with a string of black jade Buddhist beads in her hand, looking at the shaded vines in front of the window. This was specially arranged by her daughter-in-law last summer to reduce the heat for herself.

Although the wife has been in the house for less than two years, Xitara feels that it is like a family for ten or eight years. Although she is a slightly rigid person, she is very satisfied with the wife she likes. Needless to say, the Cao family tutor is good, just talking about Cao Yi herself, the cooking skills, and the accounts are all right.

As he was thinking, a nanny came in and replied, "Madam, Dong Zhi is coming, waiting in the corridor!"

Xitara nodded: "Call her in!"

The nanny responded, and then a petite maid with a melon-faced face followed in with her eyebrows down and leaned over to pay her respects to Xitara: "I, Dongzhi, please feel free to my wife!"

Seeing that she was wearing lilac clothes and a pair of agate pendants were hanging on her ears, Xitara's face looked a little ugly, and she didn't scream immediately.

Dong Zhi was already thin. After squatting for a while, she couldn't hold on and sweated on her forehead.

"Your master is mourning, but you dress like this. Whose rule is this?" Xitara asked in a cold voice.

Dong Zhi was so scared that she almost staggered. She knelt down and said tremblingly: "I... I know I am wrong. Please spare me, please spare me, I will not dare to do this anymore!"

Xitara used her fingers to pluck the Buddhist beads, looked at the pitiful Dong Zhi on the ground, sighed in her heart, turned to the nanny and said, "Come it to her!"

The old lady spoke up and wanted to say something, but when she saw Xitara's expression, she closed her mouth again and responded.

After a while, the old lady brought the bowl of brown soup and placed the bowl on the ground in front of Dong Zhi with a tray.

Dong Zhi was so scared that she had already burst into tears and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy: "Madam, beg me, please spare me!"

Xitara was upset when she heard this, and turned her face and stopped looking at Dong Zhi.

When the nanny saw it, she smiled and said to Dong Zhi, "Miss Dong Zhi, please stop, what are you doing? The wife is just pitying you. I know that you served the uncle yesterday, so I asked someone to boil the tonic."

Dong Zhi turned red, and she was indeed half-believing and half-doubting about the nanny's statement. She knew that Xitara was good to her wife and did not make any special reasons for making things difficult for the maid she was dowrying, so she lowered her head and thanked Xitara.

Xitara still did not respond. The nanny picked up the medicine bowl and sent it to Dong Zhi's face. She smiled and advised: "Miss Dong Zhi, please drink it soon. If the medicine is cold, it will be bad!"

Dong Zhi took it with a smile and secretly glanced at Xitara. How could he feel pity? He was shocked and remembered Qiu Xuan. The medicine bowl on his hand slipped, and the "bar" fell to the ground and broke. The soup sprinkled all over the floor and splashed on the corner of Dong Zhi's clothes.

Xitara turned her head, looked at the soup on the ground, and asked, "Look, you are a smart person, why do you do stupid things?"

Dong Zhi hurriedly kowtowed and cried, "Madam, I didn't mean it, I just slipped..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard footsteps coming from the yard, and it was Seshtu who was back.

Seeing Dong Zhi kneeling on the ground with trembling trembling, Seshtu was a little surprised, but he didn't ask much. There was no master in the Cao Mansion in the capital, but he had to change his clothes and mourning. Prince Ping followed him again, so he went over to help arrange the program.

After asking Xitara for peace, Seshtu sat on two chairs leaning against the western wall and told the matter about the Cao Mansion one by one. After talking about the Cao Mansion, he also said that as a son-in-law, he would have to mourn for three months according to the period of mourning. Although it was a small mourning, some relatives and friends also had to notify them, but it was just a relationship between people.

Xitara nodded while listening. When she encountered something intricate, she mentioned a few words and said at the end: "Your wife didn't eat much since yesterday. Go and see her, and comfort her very much. Don't call her too sad, cry carefully and ruin your eyes!"

Seshtu responded and stood up and said, "Since that's the case, my son will go and take a look first. It's so hot that my mother can't be angry with the younger ones. If she is angry, it's not the unfilial piety of her son and daughter-in-law!"

Xitara waved her hand and frowned and said, "Master, don't get involved in everything! My mom is the most impatient thing. Others don't know what you know yet? Treat your wife well and give her a grandson early after mourning!"

Seshtu smiled and scratched his head, and went out to the side yard to see Cao Yi.

Although Cao Quan did not recognize his daughter during his lifetime, he did not hide his life from the Jueluo family. As a married daughter, Cao Yi had to mourn his father for one year, move out of his main bedroom, and live in a chalk room. The chalk room is the house where he lived during the mourning, with white gray paint on all sides and only ordinary bedding.

When Seshtu went out, Xitara said softly to the nanny: "Call two people to pull this maid down and teach the rules!"

Dong Zhi was about to cry and beg for mercy again, but was glared coldly by Xitara and immediately stopped.

In the side wing room, Cao Yi was wearing a mourning dress with white velvet flowers on her head. She sat on a chair by the east wall, holding a brush and lowering her head to write something. When she heard Chunya at the door and Xia Fu and the other two greeted Seshtu, she stood up from her seat.

Since the news yesterday, Cao Yi has not been stained with water until now, and he can't help but feel dizzy and almost fall.

Seeing that her expression was wrong, Seshtu hurriedly stepped forward and helped her firmly.

Cao Yi smiled slightly and said, "Is the master back?"

Seshtu helped her sit down and looked around the house. There was no decoration except for a table and two chairs. There was a mat against the north wall, with neatly folded bedding. He couldn't help but frown and complained in a low voice: "If you want to be filial to your father-in-law, you don't need to do this even if you have the intention!"

Cao Yi lowered his eyelids and whispered: "What can you express your grief to your child except for this?"

Seshtu thought about it for a while and said, "Even if it is, it's not appropriate to just sit on the ground and lie down directly! Although it's a day of vain, there's inevitably moisture. Remember that there are a few pieces of wool felt in our warehouse. I'll ask someone to find it out later to separate the air from the ground!"

Cao Yi nodded and responded. Then Seshtu noticed the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the table and half-copied scriptures. The more I read, the more I felt something was wrong. I copied the inkstone and put it under my nose to smell it. Sure enough, I felt bloody. He grabbed his wife's hand and saw the needles on his fingers. He couldn't help but feel annoyed: "These two days are the first mourning, and three meals are from time to time. How can I afford this? The mourning period is still long. What are you in a hurry to do?"

Cao Yi gently withdrew his hand, Seshtu was stunned, and then looked a little annoyed: "Are you blamed me!"

Cao Yi shook his head and smiled, "What is this what I said? I did not make any mistakes. Who would blame me?"

Seeing that although she was smiling, her whole body was indescribable and cold, Seshtu whispered: "I really didn't mean it. I drank too much that night, so I did something stupid! Even if you are annoyed, it's been more than half a year, so let's calm down!" Speaking of this, when I remembered what happened last night, I couldn't help but feel guilty, but I really can't blame him. For the past six months, Qiu Xuan has been taking care of his daily life. Who would have thought that Dong Zhi would change to last night? When I noticed something was wrong, I couldn't stop it. I thought that Dong Zhi was punished for this reason just now in my mother's room.

The story starts half a year ago. In December last year, Cao Yi found out that there was a happy relationship. Seshtu was the only son, in his twenties, and it was too late to get married. The first time he had good news, he naturally felt very happy and had a drink with a few friends and colleagues.

After returning home late at night, I found out that my wife was taken to the front yard by her mother, where Qiu Xuan and Dong Zhi were kept here to serve him. It was because of her drunkenness that Seshtu pulled Qiu Xuan to the bed in a daze...

When the matter was revealed, Cao Yi didn't say anything, but wanted to open up Qiu Xuan and be a concubine for her husband. Before the day was decided, she had a miscarriage and had a confinement period.

Seeing that Qiu Xuan was still responsible, Xitara allowed her to serve her son, but she was still a big girl.

"What did you say?" Cao Yi said with his chin: "Qiuxuan is my girl, and she is also my girl. If you want to polite her, can you still make mistakes? Even if you are with your mother, you don't need to worry. I have been married for a long time and have no children yet. Not to mention a girl, even if I want to take a second wife, who can tell me that it is not?"

Seshtu listened to her saying this, his tone was as if he was talking about something outsider, and he whispered, "Yi'er..."

"Yi'er? Yi'er?" Cao Yi murmured, "Where am I Cao Yi? Or Liu Ping? If I hadn't met my brother, what would I look like today?"

Seshtu was confused and heard Cao Yi continue, "Speaking of all, I am also raised by a girl. My mother is the dowry of my wife, so the master has been politely promoted... The wife is not tolerant and sold her son. At that time, I already have me in her belly... When she was seven years old, her mother was gone, and her adoptive father called her son to get married to her house... If she hadn't met her brother and was recognized by her father and mother, she might have lost her bones now..."

It was nearly two years since she got married, and this was the first time Ceshtu heard it and couldn't speak.

Cao Yi lowered his head and smiled, "How could I make things difficult for Qiuxuan? I don't have to take care of me. Even if it's for the sake of filial piety, I should breed children as soon as possible!"

"My mother cherishes you so much, I'll give it to you..." Before she finished speaking, she saw Cao Yi's body shaking. Seshtu hurriedly held it. Then she realized that her face had started to be terrifyingly red and she had fainted.

Seshtu hurriedly picked up his wife and left the wing room. Chunya and Xia Fu and the other two were frightened when they saw Cao Yi like this, and they spoke in a crying voice: "Son-in-law, what's wrong with the girl?"

Seshtu carried his wife to the main room, and while walking, he ordered Chunya who had followed him, Xia Fu went to report to his wife and asked the housekeeper to invite the doctor.

The mansion suddenly became busy. Fortunately, it was fine, but I caught a cold, so the doctor prescribed a few pairs of medicines to reduce fever.

Xitara was muttering "Amitabha" in her mouth, but her eyes glared at her son a few times, then sent someone to pay the doctor's fees and sent him away. She arranged two appropriate people to take the prescription and go to the pharmacy to get medicine.

Xitara sat by the kang, wiped the sweat from Cao Yi's forehead with a handkerchief, and asked someone to throw a wet towel on her forehead. She tucked the thin quilt on her body. Looking at her wife's haggard face, she sighed and told Chunya and Xia Fu to take good care of her before getting up and going to the outer hall.

Seeing his mother's face cold, Seshtu followed her nervously. Xitara lowered her face and said nothing until she returned to her yard and sent all the waiters down. She turned around and looked at her son, her face was gloomy and horrible.

"My mom..." Seshtu whispered: "The doctors say Yi'er is fine, Mom is relieved..." Before he finished speaking, he heard a "pop" sound, and a heavy slap on his face.

Xitara pointed at her son and said sternly: "When you were gone, you were teenagers, so why don't you remember? What kind of life did your mother live? When did the tears in your eyes stop? Now, you want your wife to suffer the same crime as your mother? In order not to let your brother suffer the loss, your mother's heart has never been soft! You said, "If your uncle had stopped me, you would have divorced you!"

Seshtu had already kneeled down on the ground, and he dared not defend himself. He kept saying, "Don't be upset, my son knows his mistake, my son knows his mistake!" He also choked up and said, "It's all my son's unfilial, my mother wants to beat and scold her, but don't hurt her body!"

Xitara didn't look at her son, so she walked to the kang and sat down, and explained: "Our family was poor before, but life was comfortable. Now that you have been promoted and your relatives have more fun, they have no fun! Now that you are old, you are not the young boy who follows your mother after you were young, your mother can't control you. If you like this excitement and want to learn from other men's romantic life, then tomorrow we will go back to the old house and pour out the place for you to avoid being hindered by your eyes!"

Seshtu didn't dare to speak anymore, but he just kowtowed, "bang bang bang", making a loud noise, and his forehead suddenly became purple.

"Okay!" Xitara frowned and said, "I thought you were old, but my mother didn't want to interrupt, but I didn't think you were so unlucky! That girl Dong Zhi didn't look like a peaceable person, and my mother dealt with her. Even Qiu Xuan couldn't keep her anymore. I'll ask someone to send her to the village outside the city tomorrow!"
Chapter completed!