Chapter 83 The Second Master and His Wife Argued
After Jiang Cinian left, Cui Si stood at the door for a long time, looking in the direction his carriage left.
Before I knew it, it had become completely dark.
Dark clouds cover the moon, the night wind is cold, the shadows of the trees sway, and coldness and loneliness permeate the world bit by bit.
"My lady, it's getting cold, let's go back." Yanzhi advised her.
Cui Si nodded and turned back with her two maids. The water on the road had already dispersed, but occasionally they saw a brick surface that was not completely dry and was still a little wet when they stepped on it.
Cui Si suddenly stopped and looked up at the sky.
"Madam, what's wrong?" She suddenly stopped and Song Lu almost bumped into her.
Cui Si came back to her senses and said, "I was wondering when the moon would come out."
When the moon comes out, the night on earth is no longer completely dark.
She met Jiang Cinian in this life, and perhaps she could really come out of the oppression in those dark nights.
Song Lu didn't understand what she meant and was about to chase after her to ask, but she saw that Cui Si had already continued walking forward, so she had to shut up and follow her.
The next morning, just after breakfast, the person from the third room came again to deliver the invitation.
"My wife said she forgot that Madam Yan was a guest at the Cui family. Since she is a legitimate daughter of Madam Liu's maternal family, she must have an invitation. So, I have prepared a copy for you to pass on."
"Just two?"
"Exactly."
"What about Ah Hao's share?" Cui Si asked directly.
The maid replied, “My wife has said that if Sixth Lady asks, then she can tell me that if Ah Hao Lady wants to come, then she can just follow Sixth Lady.
As for the invitations, we'll have to wait until she truly becomes Cui Jiuniang. For now, we'll just follow the old rules."
"Oh?" Cui Si raised an eyebrow. "Did she really say that?"
"Exactly."
Cui Si nodded, indicating that she understood. "In that case, I will accept the invitation. If I am free that day, I will go there."
"Thank you, Sixth Lady."
The maid bowed and left, and Song Lu said with some frustration:
"Madam, are you really going? Fifth Lady is too disrespectful. Although Ninth Lady's reputation has not been cleared yet, it will happen sooner or later."
"If Madam hadn't asked, it would have been fine. But since she asked, and she still didn't give it to me, then she's not giving Madam Nine face, nor does she give Madam face either."
"Why are you going?" Cui Si threw the invitation on the table. "Didn't I tell you that if you have time, you can go. If you don't, you don't have to go."
Since Cui Yao doesn't give her face, why should she give Cui Yao face?
"I was going to the Jiang family that day and was too lazy to talk nonsense with them."
After Cui Si made the decision, she asked Song Lu to send another invitation to Yan Suxin, telling her to go if she wanted to, and not to go if she didn't want to.
Then she looked at the account books of the farms and shops in her hands.
Although she has always been in charge of these things, she has experienced a lot of things and can't remember them clearly. She needs to look at them again to understand the situation.
In the evening, he went to have dinner with Old Madam Yan.
These days, Old Lady Xu is keen on going out for a stroll to find suitable girls for Cui Changyou. Today she will have dinner with Old Lady Zhao and tomorrow she will have tea with Old Lady Qian. She is often not at home.
Therefore, Cui Si just happened to spend more time with her grandmother, Old Lady Yan.
Old Madam Yan was also very satisfied with her granddaughter's filial piety and companionship, and for a while the two of them were very harmonious.
But today, Cui Si and Yan Suxin were having dinner with Old Madam Yan when a maid came hurriedly.
"Sixth Lady, please go over and take a look. There's a quarrel going on over at the Qinse Courtyard."
Cui Si was surprised: "Why are you arguing?"
Qinseyuan is no other place but the courtyard where Mr. Cui and Song Rou live.
When Yan was here, Mr. Cui and Yan lived in the main courtyard of the inner courtyard.
Later, when Song Rou was about to move in, she did not want to live in the courtyard where others lived, so she cleaned up a larger courtyard and named it "Qinse Garden", which means "harmonious sound of zither and harp".
Although the courtyard where their mother lived was despised and Cui Si and her two siblings were not very happy, they also felt that it would be best if their mother's courtyard could remain, so they let them go.
But hadn't these two always been inseparable, loving and affectionate, constantly saying they 'truly loved each other'? Why were they arguing?
"I don't know about this. Right now, the old lady is not at home, so the people in the Qinse Courtyard wanted to ask Sixth Lady to go over and take a look. They also said that the old lady has been crying all the time, but the Second Master doesn't care."
Cui Si frowned. Song Rou always looked aggrieved, pitiful and delicate, and she was always crying, but Master Cui always spoiled her and coaxed her.
Are you not going to coax me now?
Cui Si originally didn't want to get involved, but when she remembered that Song Rou was pregnant, she became hesitant.
Come to think of it, maybe it was really the flapping of a butterfly's wings that blew out this child that didn't exist in the previous life - Song Rou was really pregnant.
"Let's go and take a look." Old Madam Yan's face looked a little bad, but she still said, "The child is innocent. After all, he is your biological brother or sister."
Although Old Madam Yan really disliked her son-in-law as her second wife, Song Rou had never used any means to harm anyone. Now that Old Madam Xu was not at home, it was appropriate for Cui Si to go and see her.
Cui Si nodded: "Grandmother, you and cousin, enjoy your meal. Liu Niang will go and take a look first."
Cui Si put down her bowl and chopsticks, then hurried away to Qinseyuan.
When she arrived, Mr. Cui was standing in the hall with a sullen face and not saying a word. Song Rou was sitting on a chair on the right side of the hall wiping her tears.
Seeing Cui Si coming, their expressions relaxed, and then they said in unison: "Sixth Mother, please go and persuade your father/mother."
Cui Si's lips curled slightly, and she was speechless. "What on earth are you two arguing about? The whole mansion knows about it. Grandmother is away, and the servants have reported it to me."
Mr. Cui was embarrassed for a moment, then sighed: "It's nothing special, I just wonder if the clan is going to hold a ghost marriage for your fifth uncle?"
"Although your fifth uncle has a daughter, Ah Hao, he has no son to carry on the family line..."
"I was thinking, I already have five sons, three of them legitimate. Now your mother is pregnant again, and I was thinking...if it's another son, I'll adopt him to your fifth uncle."
Song Rou said, "But he is my son. If he is adopted by someone else, wouldn't he have to call them his parents, and I would just be his aunt? This is absolutely impossible. I don't agree."
Cui Si: "..."
So the two of them quarreled over the issue of adoption.
One wanted his younger brother to have offspring, and since he had many sons, he planned to adopt one of them under his younger brother's name. The other did not want his own child to call other people his parents.
"What's the point of you arguing about this? What if the baby is a daughter?"
"Besides, father, there's no need to worry about this. My third brother has considered this before.
He said that Brother Cui Ping was a good person, and if the time was right, he would let Brother Cui Ping be adopted by his fifth uncle.
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