Chapter 820: Coming
The housekeeper welcomed Zhu Qingtong and his party into a temporarily rented house. Zhu Qingtong saw something was wrong, so she grabbed the housekeeper and said, "Where's my cousin? Does he live here too?" < br>
"Hey, cousin, how can you say this? You don't know your identity yet. How can you, a young widow, live in your cousin's house? Besides, your cousin is quite nice. It’s not convenient to have a big belly. Others will gossip.”
The housekeeper deliberately murmured loudly so that the neighbors could hear her. After finishing her rant, she deliberately looked Zhu Qingtong up and down with a scrutinizing gaze, as if she was evaluating a commodity. Seeing this, Zhu Qingtong almost burrowed into a hole in the ground.
Zhu Qingtong suppressed the anger in her heart and said solemnly, "I was asked by my grandmother to take care of my cousin. How can I live here? My cousin is about to give birth. You'd better arrange for me to live with my cousin."< br>
"Bah, bah, bah..." The housekeeper hurriedly spat on the ground a few times, then pointed at Zhu Qingtong, and cursed with an angry face, not her face, and her nose was not her nose, "You, a widow whose husband has just died, are going to wait on the young master?" Madam, confinement, isn’t this unlucky? Madam, people are getting old and confused, and you are young, and you are also confused, and you don’t know how to avoid taboos?”
"Don't say that you, a widow, can't get close to the mother. Even girls' families are strict about not entering the confinement room of the mother. You are in your twenties and you don't even know this?"
The housekeeper gave her a good scolding, and then said with an impatient look, "The young lady is about to give birth. I have to watch over the young lady these days. I don't have much time to spend with my cousin here. If my cousin It’s really good for the young master and young lady, so it’s really good for them not to cause trouble to them.”
Zhu Qingtong's face turned red when she said that, but she was unable to refute.
Since ancient times, a new widow whose husband has just died has been considered to be a bad luck. Most people are unwilling to get close to her, especially pregnant women. People who are discerning will stay away from her.
Zhu Qingtong would instigate Mrs. Liao to come to Jiangning City because Zeng Jing and Liao Jingtang were young and did not understand these things and wanted to fool them.
Unexpectedly, the housekeeper next to Zeng Jing knew about this and even said it loudly. If she continued to insist on living in Liao Jingtang's house, she would be unkind.
Because she brought bad luck with her, she was the culprit. If Zeng Jing had something bad going on during her delivery, she would be the first to be blamed, thinking that she was the one who brought the bad luck.
If a wealthy family has a widowed young woman, she will not go out or even attend banquets held at home, for fear that her bad luck will bring it to others.
In a situation like Zhu Qingtong's, she couldn't go out at all and had to stay alone in her own yard, spending her whole life alone and guarding her husband for the rest of her life.
If Mrs. Liao hadn't asked her husband's family for him with a shy face, her husband's family would not have let him go.
Now that his identity has been questioned by the housekeeper, Zhu Qingtong does not dare to act rashly.
As soon as the housekeeper left, Zhu Qingtong ordered her two maids to clean the yard.
After the housekeeper returned, she reported Zhu Qingtong's affairs to Zeng Jing and Liao Jingtang.
Liao Jingtang frowned and said, "I think I'd better write a letter to my second cousin's in-laws and ask them to pick her up."
I believe Zhu Qingtong's husband's family would not like to see Zhu Qingtong remarry.
Whoever's son dies will hope that his daughter-in-law can be a widow for his son for the rest of his life. Although he would feel a little sorry for Zhu Qingtong when he called her husband's family, but when Zhu Qingtong came to try on him, he didn't care who he was sorry for.
Liao Jingtang wrote a letter that evening and sent someone quickly to deliver it to Zhu Qingtong's husband's house. Zhu Qingtong, who didn't know it, decided to make a desperate move after thinking about it for a whole night.
Early the next morning, Zhu Qingtong asked along the way, and at almost noon, he finally found the house where Liao Jingtang lived.
Liao Jingtang did not live in the Yamen, but rented a three-bedroom house.
The first step into the front yard is where the servants and housekeepers live, the second step is where Liao Jingtang, Zeng Jing and her two children live, as well as two eldest maids and two second-class maids.
The rest of the maids, stewards and women all live in the third room.
Zhu Qingtong came to the door. The boy guarding the door didn't recognize her, so he went to inform Liao Jingtang. When Liao Jingtang got the news, his eyebrows were as ugly as a sea cucumber.
Liao Jingtang directly ordered the housekeeper, "Go and send her away. I will visit her again when I am free."
Zeng Jing was pregnant and about to give birth to a child. He also had two sons at home who needed his guidance. He was so busy that he almost ran out of time to eat. He had no time to see those insignificant women.
When the housekeeper learned that Zhu Qingtong had come to the door, she laughed at her shamelessness and left in a rage.
"Hey, cousin, why are you here? You...you are trying to harm my young lady. How come my young lady has offended you? Are you so unkind as to come here to bring trouble on her?"
When the housekeeper walked out of the door, she pointed at Zhu Qingtong's nose and yelled whatever was unpleasant.
After living for decades, she knows that some people are not afraid of scolding and are shameless. Even if they step on her, she will shamelessly stick to them.
The more such a person is, the more she has to protect the young lady and never let her get close to their young master.
"Yesterday, all the slaves told my cousin that it's not good for you to come here because of your status. Tell me, why don't you listen? Even if the old lady asked you to come, whether the old lady is a god or an immortal, she can bring you down. Get rid of that bad luck? ”
"My young lady is still pregnant. You came here as soon as you asked. You are still my young master's cousin. Why don't you think more about your cousin?"
"There are many maids and women around the young master, and there is no shortage of people to take care of him. Our young lady appreciates the kindness of my cousin and grandma. My cousin and grandma should go back to where they came from."
"Besides, my cousin and grandma are not servants. Do our young master and young madam dare to instruct my cousin to do work? My cousin is here, and not only can't help, but the young madam has to send someone to wait on my cousin."
"Also, you said that the young master only rents such a big yard. My cousin and grandma are here and want to live in it. Where to live? There is no place to live. All the old men live in the front yard, and all the maids and ladies live in the back yard. We, the young master, his wife, and the young master live in the middle courtyard. We can’t let our cousin and the young master live in the same courtyard. What’s going to happen?”
The housekeeper didn't allow Zhu Qingtong to speak, and kept saying things one after another. Zhu Qingtong was so embarrassed that she almost felt embarrassed when she spoke, so the housekeeper stretched out her hand to ask her to leave.
(End of chapter)