The cannon fodder original wife's bad story

Chapter 503

Song Guanzhou was practicing calligraphy with Xu Lingqiao when he heard Qi Yueniang walking in with a helpless look on her face. Seeing this, Rendong and Hehua hurried forward to lead the way.

"No, no, I came to sit with your young lady for a while. I am so tired today."

Qi Yueniang asked Rendong to go and do her thing. She brought Lanxiang directly to the desk in the yard. She glanced at the characters Song Guanzhou was practicing with a complicated expression.

However, after Song Guanzhou greeted her, he immediately laughed when he saw how embarrassed she was.

"Sister-in-law, I know I need to practice this calligraphy. Please give me some time. There is no need to rush." ​​After hearing Song Guanzhou admit it himself, Qi Yueniang sighed, "But the method is wrong? Or are you stubborn? I see you have practiced for quite some time, but you still can't find the method. It looks like a mess."

Xu Lingqiao touched the hot tea served by the maid and handed it to Qi Yueniang with both hands, "My dear sister-in-law, it's a good thing that you are here. Let's talk about watching the boat. I can't do it——"

When Song Guanzhou heard this, he laughed out loud.

"My cousin has been so angry that she is like a pufferfish. I know the calligraphy methods you mentioned, but I am not a child who has just started learning at the age of five or six. I am like a blank slate. I just follow what you teach me. I have muscle memory in my hands, and it will take time to change it."

In fact, the writing is not that bad, but Song Guanzhou did suffer from the disadvantage of adults writing with a brush.

Besides, she doesn't like it.

If it is a hobby, then one would be willing to put in the effort to study and write. On the contrary, Song Guanzhou reads and watches purely to cope with it, and she just feels bored.

It just so happens that she is good at writing with a hard pen, and has many writing habits of hard pen calligraphy. Now when she writes with a brush, not only can she not use these advantages, but they have become an insurmountable disadvantage.

Xu Lingqiao must have high standards and requirements for Pei An's handwriting.

This made Song Guanzhou suffer. If she had to write a good character like Pei An, she would feel unhappy. However, she could express it on her own and ruin the structure of the character.

Xu Lingqiao had no choice but to let her do it herself.

Qi Yueniang waved her hands, "I only know a few words, how can I understand these. My sister is really talented, so please teach her."

Then he picked up the tea and took a big sip.

Seeing her in a hurry, Song Guanzhou also laughed, put down his pen and ink, asked someone to carry the desk back, and replaced it with a high table to place tea and snacks.

"Sister-in-law, try this. My cousin and Honeysuckle made these five-color crispy candies and seven-piece golden cakes in the kitchen. I think they taste better than Qianweizhai's."

Qi Yueniang picked up the food with a hairpin and took a bite, then nodded.

"That's good. Why not let the maids in the kitchen learn it so that our whole family can have a meal on August 15th."

Xu Lingqiao naturally agreed.

Ren Dong said, "If the eldest young lady has decided on a time, just ask Sister Lan Xiang to call me, and I will go to the kitchen and teach the maids and servants myself."

"Excellent."

At this point, she shook her head and said, "There were a lot of things going on in the kitchen before. I finally managed to sort them out, but then something else happened."

Before the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion, each residence has complicated welcoming and seeing off rituals and a large number of families.

Qi Yueniang originally wanted to go to Xiao Yinxiu's house to ask for help, but she never expected that something bad would happen. Now that she had arrived at Shaohua Garden, she really had nowhere to go, so she simply came to Song Guanzhou to complain.

"Your second brother... is going to take another concubine."

Song Guanzhou heard this out of the blue and frowned, "Who has the second brother offended again?" Last time, he heard Pei An say that Pei Chen had something going on with the daughter of a scholar from a peasant family in the suburbs of Beijing, and he also said that he wanted to take her in, but in the end, for some reason, it came to nothing.

It's only been two months since another incident happened.

Qi Yueniang shook her head and waved her hands repeatedly, "Your second sister-in-law has been crying for several days. She is so shameless. If I hadn't come to ask for a Mid-Autumn Festival gift, how would I know about this... I don't know what to do after hearing this!"

If she hadn't tied her hair into a bun, she would have wanted to scratch her head.

Song Guanzhou smiled, "Sister-in-law, you don't have to worry too much about the affairs in Second Brother's room. Let them take care of it. You are taking on the responsibility for nothing. Whether you do a good job or not, you will offend people inside and outside."

Pei Chen would not be happy if he didn’t do it well.

Well done, Xiao Yinxiu might go crazy.

Qi Yueniang wiped the residue from the corner of her mouth with a silk handkerchief, and then she continued, "Your second sister-in-law agreed. She said she wanted to marry her as a concubine, and asked me to worry about her. How could I worry about it? I just refused a few times and ran away with an excuse."

"Second sister-in-law... agreed?"

Song Guanzhou remained calm, but was very surprised. "This is not her character. Last time I heard her crying and making a fuss, and even took away my second brother's livelihood. Why did she give in this time?"

Qi Yueniang waved her hands, "If it wasn't for your elder brother Hua to handle Tu Da's matter, then Zheng Zhuo was reprimanded and almost lost half his life, and had to get out of the capital. Tu Da was demoted, and the Mei family said that in October, Uncle Mei would personally force the two Mei brothers to apologize to Sister Shuyu. The matter was supposed to be over, but Tu Da asked someone to wait in the building to meet our prince——"

Hearing this, Song Guanzhou was surprised, "Sister-in-law, please tell me that this concubine has some relationship with Tu Da?"

If this is the case, how could the Pei family possibly tolerate it?

Qi Yueniang quickly shook her head, "Not really. Tu Da wanted to offer his daughter, but he made things worse and let my second brother see the sister of a scholar named Gao——"

"This is?"

It turned out that the Gao family went to Beijing for the imperial examination and went to live with their uncle. They did some business in the market town, and the whole family worked diligently to earn a little money. They hoped that their son would study hard. Not to mention something like a Jinshi, even if he passed the imperial examination and returned to his hometown, it would be a better life than living in a poor kiln.

Originally, things were relatively good. The old couple of the Gao family set up a cloth tent and sold wonton noodle soup in winter and made sweet syrup tea in summer. In addition, the Gao family's daughter did some embroidery to supplement the income, which was enough to support the Gao family's son to study.

Just when everything was settled, the young master of the Gao family went out and was caught in a rainstorm. After he came back, he fell ill. Several herbal medicines not only failed to save his life, but made his condition worse, and he died within ten days.

When the old father of the Gao family saw that his only child was gone, he became dizzy and fell off the eaves of the porch, dying on the spot.

Leaving behind an orphan girl and a widowed mother, it was like the sky had broken. Seeing this, the uncle wanted to find a marriage for the pretty and charming Miss Gao. Not to mention that her father had not been in mourning for three years, even the three-month mourning was not enough. The girl knew that she had no support and could not stand the anger of her uncle's family, so she simply brought her mother out to start her own business and support this small stall.

The daughter of the Tu family and her maid happened to be standing here, allowing Pei Chen on the second floor to admire them. Unexpectedly, Pei Chen fell in love with Miss Gao, who was busy by the pot and wearing coarse clothes and a hairpin.

"That girl knows she is beautiful, and an old widow cannot protect her, so she just mentioned it to my second brother. Although she is of low status, she is of clean origin. She does not ask for a matchmaker, but she wants a name."

Qi Yueniang shook her head. "Your second sister-in-law has seen that woman. She said that her manners and appearance were impeccable..."