Chapter 89 Charity Bazaar (Part 2)
Madam Sun rolled her eyes in public. Su Luo was almost certain that Madam Sun didn't know about the rumors about her house, otherwise she wouldn't have had this attitude based solely on Li Rusong's relationship.
How abominable! Su Luo decided to make a straw man and poke her with it when she got back, so that her mouth and eyes would be crooked!
At this time, Bi Hen passed by Su Luo and gently touched her. Su Luo hurriedly followed her. Bi Hen did not say anything. She walked in front of Ji and whispered, "Madam, the people from the Qin Mansion are here."
Ji nodded slightly and walked towards the door with Ji Mei. Su Luo naturally followed behind them and turned back to thank Bi Hen in a low voice. Bi Hen just smiled and said nothing.
When Ji was halfway there, the visitors had already entered the hall. They were a beautiful woman in her forties and a girl in red clothes who was about sixteen or seventeen years old. People in the hall greeted the two of them. Ji greeted the beautiful woman and called her "Mrs. Gao". Su Luo guessed that she was the lady in charge of the Qin residence, Qin Ying. Although the beautiful woman greeted people with a smile, she gave people a very shrewd feeling, and felt quite like Wang Xifeng.
Looking at the girl again, Su Luo felt that she looked familiar at first, but was shocked when he took a closer look. The girl turned out to be Li Qing'er, who used to work at Qiangui.
Ji and Qin Ying were chatting nearby. Li Qing'er kept looking around, as if she was looking for someone. Ji Mei ignored her when she spoke to her. When she saw Su Luo, her eyes paused. Su Luo smiled and walked forward, "Li Qing'er..."
Just these three words immediately made Su Luo the focus of everyone's attention. Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then began to whisper. Some covered their mouths and laughed softly, as if they saw Su Luo picking his nose and farting in public. Madam Sun squeezed to the front and laughed non-stop, "Didn't you say you were very familiar with Mr. Qin? How come you don't even recognize his sister? And you called Miss Qin's name wrong."
"Ms. Qin?" Su Luo looked at Li Qing'er blankly.
Li Qing'er looked away, and Qin Ying stopped chatting with Ji and asked, "Qing'er, what's the matter?"
"I don't know." Li Qing'er didn't care. "Who knows what she wants to do." After saying that, she looked around the place until she saw Bai Qing and was about to walk over.
Su Luo stopped her and said, "Are you Qin Huai's sister?" No wonder she said nouns like "sofa".
Qin Qing raised her eyebrows, with a warning look in her eyes, "Everyone in Nanjing knows about this. If you don't know, don't talk nonsense."
Qin Ying came over and asked in a lower voice, "Did you get into trouble again?"
"How could that be?" Qin Qing grabbed Qin Ying's arm and said coquettishly, "Aunt, I don't recognize her at all."
Su Luo could understand why Qin Qing said that. Perhaps it was because she had gone to Qiangui before and ran away from home without saying goodbye, so she was afraid that her aunt would blame her. But if this happened, she, Su Luo, would be in trouble.
Madam Sun could no longer hide her gloating expression, and she covered her mouth with her hands and laughed until her eyes rolled back, "If you want to curry favor with someone, you should find out clearly first. You actually made such a mistake."
After she said this, eight out of ten people present laughed. Ji and Ji Mei didn't react much. They asked Qin Ying to go upstairs, saying that they could start the meeting after waiting for another distinguished guest to arrive.
Qin Ying said she hadn't heard of anyone else coming, and Ji smiled and said, "It's the real distinguished guest, Princess Huairou."
Qin Ying was stunned, and then she was shocked, "The princess is in Nanjing?"
"No, the princess is visiting near Nanjing. She heard that our gathering was to donate to the government school, so she sent someone to deliver a message, saying that she would definitely come to support us."
Qin Ying was overjoyed, and pulled Ji upstairs, as if she had something to discuss. Qin Qing glanced at Su Luo, and was about to step forward to warn her, but Bai Qing had already arrived, and it seemed that he had come to Qin Ying to quarrel with her. As soon as the two met, they entered a state of complete oblivion, and it was very lively.
Su Luo wanted to find someone to find out who Princess Huairou was, but Madam Sun kept following her. Su Luo couldn't bear it any longer, and suddenly turned around and said, "What do you want to talk to me about?"
Mrs. Sun shrank back, her expression neither surprised nor shocked. Anyway, it took her a long time before she pointed at Su Luo and spoke. She said, "I didn't look for you because I wanted to see if you had any tricks to curry favor with people. Don't think you can walk around Nanjing City unscrupulously just because you have won over Miss Ji Mei. If you want to do the fabric business, you have to ask whether my Sun family agrees."
Who wants to do the cloth business? Su Luo asked Mrs. Sun inexplicably what her family did. Mrs. Sun proudly said that her father-in-law was the vice president of the Nanjing Chamber of Commerce, specializing in cloth products.
Su Luo's chat function was suddenly closed. She opened her mouth for a long time but didn't know what to say. Was this person out of his mind? Or did he look at the wrong enemy? What did this have to do with anything?
Later, when she ran into Bihen in the toilet, Su Luo finally understood. It turned out that Miss Ji Mei had already found out about the business that the Su family had done in Zhuxian Town before, and thought that Su Luo would go back to his old business when he came to Nanjing (sweat, it sounds a bit like a sex life). It just so happened that the father-in-law of this Madam Sun was the president of the Nanjing Cloth Commodity Guild and the vice president of the Nanjing Chamber of Commerce. She thought that Su Luo should not skip the Sun family and contact Ji Mei directly. Isn't this overstepping one's authority? So she was particularly disgusted with Su Luo's "fawning" on the Ji family. Of course, if he fawned on Madam Sun, it would be another matter.
Su Luo decided to ignore this Mrs. Sun in the future. Although Su Luo admired Sun Wukong, who also had the surname Sun, she was obviously not as smart as the monkey.
Su Luo asked the Huairou Princess again, and Bi Hen was surprised, "You don't know?"
"Famous?"
Bi Hen nodded vigorously. "Princess Huairou is from the line of Prince Yi. She is the aunt of the current emperor. Her fiefdom is in Jianchang Prefecture. You know, the royal family cannot leave their fiefdom without the emperor's order. This Princess Huairou is different. The emperor has a special decree to allow her to travel around and enjoy the famous mountains and rivers of the Ming Dynasty. He also summons her to Beijing to stay for a while from time to time. The emperor and this aunt are very close."
"What's so special about her?" The royal family of the Ming Dynasty was almost as numerous as the hairs on a cow. In the late Ming Dynasty, the expenses of the royal family alone could drive the local governments of the royal fiefdoms crazy. There were also many people whose tax revenue was not enough to cover the expenses of the royal family in a year, and they owed money to the royal family instead. Su Luo felt that Wanli would definitely hate these relatives of his family. Why did they have so many children when they had nothing to do? So in this environment, the Princess Huairou must have something unique to make Wanli pay so much attention to her.
Bihen pulled Su Luo to a corner and said, "Princess Huairou did something big ten years ago. She was dissatisfied with the prince's extravagant life outside, so she wrote a letter of divorce to divorce him."
This is really a big deal. Nowadays, a divorce letter is definitely more useful than a divorce agreement. A man only needs to write a divorce letter with a stroke of a pen and he doesn't have to go to court, lose property, or pay alimony. There are also many reasons for writing a divorce letter, which were summarized by the ancients into seven, which are the famous "Seven Reasons for Divorce".
What are the seven grounds for divorce? First, disobeying parents. This is easy to understand. The husband has every reason to kick his wife out of the house because she is disobedient to her parents-in-law. However, the standard of filial piety should be determined by men . For example, there was a man named Jiang Shi (what a name...) in the Eastern Han Dynasty. His wife scolded a dog in front of her mother-in-law, and he defined her as "disobeying parents". After divorcing his wife, Jiang Shi was still praised as a filial son, which is ridiculous. Of course, it is not ruled out that his wife was making indirect accusations. Everything should be viewed dialectically.
The second most serious of the seven reasons for divorce is "childlessness". Modern medicine tells us that men who cannot have children are more likely to have problems, but men are unwilling to admit it. Men in ancient times were even less willing to admit it. Therefore, if a man cannot have children, he would divorce his wife and then remarry. If he still cannot have children, he would divorce again and remarry again. This cycle would repeat endlessly.
Third, lust. There is nothing much to say about this. If a man can tolerate this, he probably won’t have the courage to divorce his wife, so he will just wear the green hat obediently.
Fourth, jealousy. This jealousy does not mean jealousy of others' wealth, status, and women, but jealousy of the concubines married by your husband. If you are jealous of your husband's favoritism towards his concubine, then you deserve to be divorced. The person who established this system must be cursed to death by all the big breasts in the world.
Fifth, she has a serious illness. The reason is "cannot share the sacrifice", which means she cannot participate in the sacrifice. It means that if the wife is seriously ill, the husband will not care about her, but he will divorce her on the grounds that she is sick and cannot participate in the sacrifice. What is this sacrifice? Even if the woman is really a ghost, she will not let it go!
The sixth one is "talkative", which means that talkative women are not suitable, but do you want women to be less talkative? I can only say that men are too idealistic.
The seventh is "theft". Some people say that this is understandable, and a woman who steals can be divorced, but comrades, the connotation of Chinese characters is broad and profound. In addition to the literal meaning, these two words also have an "antonym", that is, "not in accordance with the rules that should be followed". Do you understand now? Have you seen the King Kong Calabash Brothers? From the first to the sixth, each has a unique skill, and the seventh is the culmination of all the best. In other words, if the husband wants to divorce his wife, and this wife has not committed any of the previous "six reasons for divorce", he can use the seventh reason to deal with it. It is really unfathomable, unfathomable.
Then again, the Seven Reasons for Divorce are prepared for women, but there is no male version of the Seven Reasons for Divorce. It is a typical example of favoring girls over boys. Well done to this Princess Huairou, she understood the general development direction that applies to both men and women, and boldly used classics to achieve a nationwide eye-catching effect.
No wonder the current emperor also looks at this aunt differently. Even if she is a princess, it takes a lot of courage to divorce her husband. Su Luo would definitely feel very regretful if she missed the opportunity to meet such an extraordinary woman.
Back in the lobby, Su Luo was thinking about how to attract Huairou's attention, but found that everyone was peeping at her.
No matter which direction she looked, several glances would quickly look away, like they were playing a game of whack-a-mole.
After playing around for a while, Su Luo finally found the culprit.
Madam Sun was describing in detail to several socialites what had just happened, saying that Su Luo was pretending to be a daffodil, and was not a socialite but was pretending to be one. Not only did she try to curry favor with Miss Ji Mei, but she also claimed to know this and that. As a result, when she was pretending to be familiar with people, she even called them by the wrong names.
If the protagonist she was talking about was not Su Luo, Su Luo might have despised the person she was talking about together with her, but unfortunately, Su Luo was the honorary heroine.
As the saying goes, if the water is too clear, there will be no fish; if a person is too cheap, he will be invincible. Su Luo felt that Madam Sun was quite invincible. Now, wherever Su Luo went, she was looked at with sympathy and contempt by the celebrities. It was all thanks to her.
Isn't it just that he didn't give her a gift? Isn't it just that he didn't curry favor with her? God knows that Su Luo didn't want to do any cloth business at all, how could he curry favor with her?
Madam Sun once again mixed in the crowd and gave a speech with saliva flying all over her mouth. Su Luo floated behind her with a dark face and stared at her silently, like a ghost from behind. The celebrities who were listening to the speech dispersed tactfully. Madam Sun felt a chill on her back and turned around to see Su Luo's half-black face.
The war was about to break out, everyone thought so, including Mrs. Sun.
Madam Sun took two steps back guiltily. "What do you want to do? I am not someone who can be easily bullied! There are so many people watching now! It will not do you any good to use force..."
"What good will it do you if you slander me everywhere?" Su Luo could no longer bear it and did not control her voice. Anyway, she had been embarrassed enough today.
"So and so are slandering you! I am telling the truth!"
"The fact is that I really know Qin Huai. Calling Qin Qing by the wrong name was just a misunderstanding!" Su Luo was ready to call Qin Qing at any time. Even if she revealed that she had previously worked at Qiangui under a pseudonym, she had to prove her innocence. "Besides, what does it have to do with you who I know or don't know? What does it have to do with you who I flatter? People strive for higher positions. This is an eternal truth. I don't think there is anything wrong with it. Don't you follow Miss Ji Mei and flatter her every day?"
"Who are you calling a suck-up?"
"Is there anyone else in front of me?" What was Su Luo afraid of? She was originally an unknown little person in Nanjing City, and now her only reputation has been destroyed. If she doesn't drag others into it, she will really be worthy of this Madam Sun!
Madam Sun saw that the ladies around her were all enjoying the show, so she tried her best to control her emotions. "Our Sun family has a good reputation and status in Nanjing City. How can we be the same as you? By the way, didn't you say that you know Lord Li, the general of Xuanfu?"
"So what?" Su Luo really wished that Li Rusong was here right now so that she could prove it with facts and make this woman angry to death.
"Lord Li is upstairs. If what you said is true, prove it to us."
"What?" Su Luo was shocked. She had just gone to the toilet when Li Rusong suddenly appeared from the sky?
"Lord Li was ordered to escort Princess Huairou back to Jianchang. The princess was supposed to attend the party, but something delayed her, so Lord Li was sent here to explain. What's the matter? Did you let the cat out of the bag? Are you scared?" Madam Sun finally shook off her anger and panic, and became complacent. "Then stop bragging about it. If you know what's best for you, leave now. Haven't you made enough of a fool of yourself tonight?"
"I'm afraid it's you who will make a fool of yourself later!" Su Luo clenched his fists, his eyes burning, his expression excited like a liberated serf singing and criticizing the slave owner while singing.
Su Luo rushed up to the second floor under the gaze of all the celebrities. Seeing that she was not afraid at all, Madam Sun panicked. If Su Luo was really an acquaintance of the general, then Madam Sun would not be able to save face.
When Su Luo went up to the second floor, a group of people were coming out of the largest private room on the second floor. The leader was naturally the wife of the prefect, Ji, followed by Qin Ying and Ji Mei, and Qin Qing and Bai Qing on the other side. In front of the two stood a man, wearing a black robe, looking slender and neat, with two sword-like eyebrows reaching his temples, and his long hair was tied up at the back of his head, but not tied into a bun, and fell down casually, showing a bit of chic and handsomeness, so handsome that it was dazzling.
Without the half-smile and nonchalant look on her face, Su Luo almost didn't recognize him. She was stunned for a long time before she realized that everyone was looking at her, including Li Rusong.
The entire Rejuvenation Residence was unusually quiet. Su Luo didn't know how many eyes were staring at her. She suddenly became nervous. It turned out that being a public figure was not a very comfortable thing.
"Zi, Zimao." Su Luo stuttered helplessly, "Why are you here?" The latter part of the sentence was nonsense, Madam Sun had already explained it, but Su Luo didn't know what else he could say if he didn't say it.
Everyone's eyes shifted from Su Luo to Li Rusong. Li Rusong raised his eyebrows slightly, with some emotions in his eyes that Su Luo couldn't understand. He raised his thin lips slightly with a smile, and was polite like a gentleman, "Who is this girl?"
