Chapter 6 Uncles and Sisters
When Ye Qing returned home, he did not take out the roll of cotton cloth and hand it over to Bai Chun as soon as possible, because while the two were having dinner, Ye Qing suddenly realized that he and Bai Chun seemed to be in the relationship between his brother-in-law and his sister-in-law, and were not friends, or two people who lived together.
Ye Qing had never met his so-called brother Ye Hong, and when Bai Chun passed by, Ye Hong was already dead, and the two had not gotten married before, and they had never even seen each other.
It was entirely less than three days after he returned to Lin'an from Jiankang Mansion, Bai Chun was sent over by the Bai family, and then moved into the small building without saying anything, and then he had a sister-in-law for no reason.
Therefore, Ye Qing has not regarded Bai Chun as his real sister-in-law for this period of time. After all, he is a time traveler and has no brotherhood for the so-called brother Ye Hong, so it is difficult for him to regard Bai Chun as his sister-in-law.
When Bai Chun first came, Ye Qing once asked Bai Chun, and Bai Chun just said ambiguously that this was the order of his parents and the matchmaker's words. Although your brother passed away, since he had already been engaged, he had to marry now, and people could not speak without trust.
Ye Qing didn't believe such a statement. Although people at this time valued reputation extremely important,... two people who were only married, and after the other party passed away, it was necessary to make such a vow of miserableness and tragic and unswerving death?
This time she married, she would have to live a life of widowhood. Doesn’t Bai Chun know about it? Or is she not saying anything about her hidden secret?
After dinner, I brought a recliner and sat under the mulberry tree in the yard. I held a palm fan in my hand, savored the inferior tea I bought, and talked in unison with Bai Chunzheng, who was sitting on the balcony on the second floor.
"My errand was replaced today." Ye Qing looked up at Bai Chun on the balcony and said lightly.
"Switched?"
"Well, today, Lu Zhong, the general of the Imperial Army, called me and Li Heng to the famous wealthy Yan Yuanwai of Lin'an City, and start guarding the house tomorrow." It was already dark, and Ye Qing couldn't see clearly the expression on Bai Chun's face.
The dim lights in the room on the second floor were seen through the windows to the balcony, and it became less bright, so Ye Qing could only see Bai Chun's general figure. As for what Bai Chun was busy with, he could not see clearly.
Bai Chun sighed slightly in his ears, and his hands, which had been busy, also paused. After pausing, he continued to be busy with the girl in his hand, lowered his head and said, "Then... may Lord Ye make a comeback?"
"Mr. Ye?" Ye Qing didn't react for a moment, and immediately said, "Ye Heng, who knows, now he has been demoted to Lingnan, we don't know whether to demote or dismissal. What's more, even if one day he makes a comeback and the court will restore him to his post, I will pay attention to it, a small guard and guard in the house. I'm afraid he won't remember at that time, and I'll be like a small head of a distant relative who can't beat me."
"When your elder brother was alive, he was quite respected by the prefect Ye, otherwise he would not have been promoted to a general in an extraordinary way. Can you remember these things at all?" Bai Chun stopped his work again, and asked condescendingly through the barriers of the railings, looking down at the black shadow under the mulberry trees in the yard.
"I can't remember. Then say so... Prefect Ye still valued my elder brother very much at the beginning. How did you know about this?" Ye Qing blinked his eyes and looked at Bai Chun's figure. Although he couldn't see his sister-in-law's facial expression clearly, he couldn't say that today's conversation would allow him to get something he didn't know before.
"How do I know?" Bai Chun held the girl in his hand, and his thoughts seemed to fall into memories, and then said, "The marriage between your elder brother and me was the matchmaker that the prefect Ye personally worked as himself, so he naturally knew it from the prefect Ye."
"Oh..." Ye Qing nodded perfunctorily on the lounge chair, with some dissatisfaction with Bai Chun's answer in his tone.
Listening to Ye Qing's casual and obviously dissatisfied with her answer, Bai Chun couldn't help but take a look at the black shadow under the mulberry tree on the balcony, and then completely put down the female red in her hand on her knees.
"My father was the Transporter of Jiangnan East Road. Jiankang Mansion, Ningguo Mansion, Huizhou, Chizhou and other places were all under the jurisdiction of my father, but the official position and rank of the Transporter was not high. So if you want to do the emperor's responsibilities well, you naturally have to establish good relations with the real officials of the court such as Jiankang Mansion. So the prefect Ye made the decision for your brother and asked my father for marriage. Do you understand?" Bai Chunmei's eyes circulated and she looked at the black shadow in the yard and explained.
But there were more and more doubts in her heart. Although she didn't know what it would be like when a person lost his memory, why did she always feel a little abnormal if she lost her memory like her brother-in-law?
Looking at his brother-in-law's every move and his behavior over the past two months, Bai Chun felt that his brother-in-law did not seem to have lost his memory, but seemed to have become mentally retarded.
In addition to not knowing people, he didn't even understand some common sense of life and the customs of the Song Dynasty. He made jokes every day, which made people foolishly make jokes, which made her remind her from time to time when she met Aunt San and others: "At home, you are also a scholarly family, and you are the daughter of an official family. Teach him more often on weekdays. It would be fine if you don't know people, but why did it seem like it's abnormal here?" Aunt San pointed at her brain, and then continued to say: "At these days, when you go to a tavern, you always say something incomprehensible, do something unfamiliar, or sing some weird little tunes. As the saying goes: The eldest sister-in-law is like a mother, now you two depend on each other for life. If you don't know, just find a marriage for the family. I think the girl from Lao Liu is good."
Every time Bai Chun faces a reminder from a kind-hearted person like San Aunt, Bai Chun feels that it is absolutely reckless to continue to pass through the Ye family after Ye Hong's death despite his family's opposition.
"Oh..." Someone continued to lie on the recliner, suddenly realized it, and then continued to ask: "There is no matter how big the official of the fortune commander is, he can take charge of a path. In theory, even if he is not as big as the prefect of Xingdu Jiankang Prefecture, he should be bigger than the official of Ningguo Prefecture or some state, right?"
Bai Chun was very tired. These should be common sense things, but his brother-in-law couldn't figure it out, so he had to hold back and say, "I'll tell you in a few days, I'll be in a bad mood these two days..."
"Then what's going on with your father, Uncle Bai? Can you find your father and see if you change the place for me, even if you don't think of this person anymore? You don't know that Li Heng almost exploded today. When he heard that he was going to Yan Hongyuan's family..."
"It's exploded? What does it mean?" Bai Chunzhen felt very tired. This happened again, and what she and the neighbors couldn't understand. How could the person explode? He was not fireworks!
"It's very angry when it explodes, and it's almost anger." Ye Qing felt that he could understand it if he exploded.
"I can't do anything about Li Heng, because..." Bai Chun picked up the Nu Hong on his knee and stood up, looked at the black shadow under the mulberry tree, took a deep breath and said, "My father, like the prefect Ye, was impeached by the censor Tang Bangyan in front of His Majesty, and was exiled to Lingnan."
“What a pity….”
"you……."
"Oh oh oh, sorry, I don't mean that, I... sister-in-law... listen to me... by the way, here is a roll of cloth I bought when I came back today. Can you help me make a few pairs of socks?" Ye Qing realized that he had said the wrong thing, so he hurriedly jumped up from the recliner.
Looking at the hazy dim light, Bai Chun walked into the room with his tall body and quickly raised his head and shouted at the door that slammed on the second floor.
"Twist it up." Bai Chun said coldly in the room without any doubt.
He was calm and unpredictable on weekdays. When he talked to his younger brother-in-law Ye Qing, he became angry for some reason. In addition, after menstruation these days, Bai Chun's temperament became even more irritable.
The guy downstairs was just talking, so Bai Chun was sitting in the room and sulking, and his jade hands were about to twist the embroidery in his hand into a mess.
When he heard a bang on the balcony where he was sitting on the second floor, as if something was thrown up, Bai Chun glanced at the wooden door with a blue face, then turned his head and continued to be angry on his own.
There was no sound downstairs at this moment, and the whole courtyard suddenly returned to silence. Even outside the courtyard wall, the sound of water that should have been swaying because of a boat passing by disappeared.
Bai Chun, who was sitting in the room, angrily smoothed the embroidery she had just now. This was the close-fitting clothes she embroidered for herself. It was because it was night that she took them to the balcony for embroidery. If it were during the day, she would not dare to take them to the balcony and embroider the woman's close-fitting clothes in front of her brother-in-law.
She smoothed the embroidery hard, and soon she ran to the matter of going out to buy things today. She remembered that she had a menstrual period and wanted to buy some cloth for use, but she didn't expect that she was entangled by the golden man. In the end, she was sent back by her brother-in-law with nothing, which made her feel a little embarrassed. After all, when a woman had a menstrual period, she couldn't live without the close-fitting thing during the day or at night.
Sitting in the room, dimming the lights, looking at the flames as big as soybeans, Bai Chun sighed silently, got up and planned to turn over the dowry he brought to see if there was a suitable cloth for this time.
Then I remembered that my brother-in-law asked her to do so, so I sighed again, turned around and pushed open the wooden door of the balcony. Under the dim light, I saw a package wrapped in a cloth that could not be seen clearly.
So he raised his legs and walked out of the room, picked up the package, gently patted the dust on it, and was about to turn around and walk in.
"No need to do too much, one or two pairs are enough, so keep the remaining cloth first."
"Ah..." Bai Chun was startled by the sudden sound.
I had been immersed in my little emotions, and I thought my brother-in-law had already entered the room to rest, but who knew that the dead man was still sitting in the yard without making a sound.
Chapter completed!