Dragon Flies Phoenix Dances《龙飞凤舞》Long Fei Feng Wu
Dragon Flies Phoenix Dances, Chapter 4: The Suspected Third Master Long's Mistress...
Feng Ning heard from Madam Yu that she can't go back to her maiden’s family because she has a brain injury and still has to take medicine to treat it. If she were to go back to her maiden’s family and travel a long distance, it's bad for her health if she breaks the medicine routine. And Madam Yu said, if anything happens on the way, how can the Long Family explain to the Feng Family?
Feng Ning of course felt disappointed when she heard it, but Madam Yu said it reasonably, and she wasn't good at refuting anything she said. Anyway, she's eating well at every meal now, and she's satisfied with the status quo for the time being.
Seeing that it was not easy to see Madam Yu willing to budge over, plus this time her attitude was very friendly, Feng Ning hurriedly pulled her to sit down and talk slowly.
"Madam Yu ah, you tell me, why did I get married?"
She thought she would ignore her, but Madam Yu took a slow sip of tea and told her the story in earnest.
It turns out that the Long Family and the Feng Family are family which have been friend with each other for a long time and have been hardcore friends since their grandparents' generation. The two old masters of the families have been wandering together in the world, shared the hardship and have done a lot for the imperial court, defending the country against the rebellion and the families’ deeds are well known. At that time, the two elders made an agreement that they would give their descendants a child to marry, and a note was made in exchange for a token. But then both families bore sons, and so the matter was never mentioned again. In the end, Old Master Feng resigned from his post and took his family with him to the south, while Old Master Long was in poor health. After that, the two families gradually broke off contact and were never heard from again.
Old Master Long had an only son, Long Sheng, who took up his father's job as an imperial court official, and he gave birth to three sons, the eldest child Long Teng, the second child Long Yue, and the third child Long Fei. After the first son Long Teng married his wife, Long Sheng died in the battlefield, the Mistress Long was overly sad, and ended her life in depression. At that time, there was chaos in the country. The enemy from the frontiers continued to invade. Like his father, the first child Long Teng picked up his sword and went to the battlefield. Long Yue took care of everything at home and kept the family business of the two generations of the Long family stable. Long Fei also said goodbye to his schooling days and rushed home to assist his brother. At that time, they were not very old. It is needless to say that the hard work of the Long family tree caused a lot of up and downs. Fortunately, the three brothers worked together for several years, and finally calmed down the war and stabilized their family business.
Hearing this, Feng Ning gave a thumbs up and exclaimed, "That's amazing."
Madam Yu looked at her and seemed to want to find something on her face, Feng Ning didn't care and urged her to continue down the line. So Madam Yu continued, "At that time, the Feng Family, who had moved to the south for many years, suddenly came to the door, took the letter and token with their daughter, and asked the Long Family to fulfill the marriage contract established by the grandparents of the Feng and the Long Families."
Feng Ning was surprised, "Isn't the marriage contract already void?"
"That note says the Long Family and the Feng Family are to have a union in marriage, and it doesn't refer to which generation in detail, so although the old men meant their children to be married back then, speaking on the note, grandchildren are also valid."
"So the Third Master Long, Long Fei was forced to marry me?"
"At first, the Feng Family insisted on you marrying the Master of the family or most known as the First Master Long, but the Master had a wife and did not want to marry again, so the Feng Family withdrew to marry the Second Master, who naturally did not want to marry either, so at that time, the matter was quite straining, and then the Third Master couldn't stand the conflict that may arise and so he jumped out to say that he would marry, and if he didn't marry, there is no other solution. It's only now that it's settled."
Feng Ning opened his mouth in surprise, "The Third Master is really brave enough to sacrifice himself."
She seemed to be completely unaware that she was the party in question, and Madam Yu was secretly testing her in her heart, not knowing whether she was really stupid or faking being dull. In fact, the Feng Family's forcing of marriage had been already a suspicious thing because they targeted the eldest child who is an official and the second child who is in charge of the family business, but the third child is also an outstanding man, but they did not push the issue on him.
It's really surprising that the two families, who were out of touch for some reason, are now suddenly toughing it out with sending a daughter. For more than two years, the Feng Family's daughter has shown a lot of hobbies in the Long Family, but in the end, she couldn't do anything well. She then wanted to steal the Long Family's secret treasure, but she stole a fake one and escaped bumped her head and claimed amnesia. What a coincidence!
Feng Ning didn't know what Madam Yu was thinking, and she asked again, "Then did my parents ever visit me?"
"Yes."
"According to Madam, am I close to my parents?"
"Must be."
"Then do they know I'm being disliked here? Why haven’t they done anything for me?"
The words choked Madam Yu, Feng Ning bumped her head, the frankness of her words really impressed people and her, and I don't know what kind of trick this is, Madam Yu fixed her mind and said back, "Mistress, in our Long Family, life is not bad. Although we, the Long Family, are not very good people, but we have not done anything to treat our daughter-in-law so badly, so that you can eat and live in such a good place, and we think that we already have a conscience."
Feng Ning remembered the cold room, the people shunned the attitude, how can she live happily if she eat well? With a sigh in her mind, she could only continue to ask, "Why did I fall into the river?"
Madam Yu narrowed her eyes, "How do you know you fell into the river?"
"When I woke up, I found myself on the shore of the river..." Feng Ning trailed off, finally managing to hide the fact that a man had asked her about something, she continued, "That's when I touched myself and found there was blood on my head, then someone came over with a torch and I passed out again."
"What about before?"
"Can't remember."
Madam Yu took a sip of tea and decided to lay down a heavy dose, "Madam, ever since you left the Long Family that time and were injured, we at the Long Family have found that one family heirloom treasure has gone missing."
Feng Ning stared in surprise and pointed at his nose: "You mean, I stole it?"
Madam Yu did not reply positively, but said, ''When we found madam on the shore, Madam was wearing her night clothes. Before the accident, Mistress had been inquiring about the whereabouts of this treasure, and when the family found out that Mistress was missing, they also discovered that the treasure was missing. I'm a servant, so I can't jump to conclusions, but I'm in trouble because I'm not sure if I can remember what happened to it. Perhaps the Madam actually knows where that thing is?"
Feng Ning froze, not bothering to pay attention to her sarcasm. She remembered the night she was injured, when the man who couldn't see her face was looking for her and asked her, "Where's the stuff"? Is that the Long Family treasure? Did she really do such a nasty thing?
She met Madam Yu's gaze, shook her head, and somewhat painstakingly spat out the words, "I really don't remember anything."
Madam Yu didn't let go of her every expression and finally said, "I don't think it's a big deal to talk about this subject of mythology things, but I'm afraid it's maybe that you ran into something dirty in the river and was hit by an evil spirit, I will arrange it, for a monk to come and pick an auspicious day to pray for the Mistress.”
Feng Ning was still sad in her heart about what she might have done, and didn't care so she said, "Oh".
After that, Feng Ning lost all her energy for the whole day. She took a bored nap, got up and felt bad, so she went to the kitchen and stole the Second Master Long's afternoon snacks again, this time not buns, but crab roast.
Feng Ning clutched the large bowl containing the crab roast and ran quietly alone under the tallest tree in the mansion, she suddenly had an urge to climb up and take a look. She jumped up, she didn't know if she was a martial artist before, she just thought she could go up and she went up, anyway, a little bit on tiptoe, a palm on the trunk, and the whole person leapt to the top of the tree lightly.
The tree was indeed tall, the top branches swaying gently in the wind, and Feng Ning sat on it and swayed without being afraid at all. She looked down at the Long Mansion and could even see a little bit of the street outside the Long Mansion's main entrance, and while she watched, she stuffed the whole bowl of roasted crab into her mouth and felt better.
Chef Tang is so good at his craft, she thought so, looking at the Long Mansion gate and frowning. She had no recollection at all of what it would be like to come out of this gate. Strange streets, strange faces, did she ever go out?
In fact, all the people and things in this mansion are also strange. She had thought the husband could help her, but now she hadn't even seen his face. She was disappointed and upset, and simply didn't want to meet anymore, anyway, everyone said they weren't close, according to Madam Yu, even marrying her he was forced, so how could they be close?
Feng Ning sat on the top of the tree and wiggled around, thinking and thinking, she felt unhappy again, she felt that she still needed a bowl of dessert to comfort her, but according to the experience of so many days, there was only one bowl of dessert every afternoon, it seemed that no one else but her second brother in law was allowed it.
Feng Ning jumped down from the tree and decided to go back to the kitchen to see if there was anything to eat.
It turns out it does! The first thing she did was to take a look at the dumplings, which were steamed with glutinous rice, which were filed with minced meat, diced bamboo shoots and shiitake mushrooms.
Someone entered the kitchen, and far outside the back window there were servants carrying axes to this side of the backyard to chop firewood, Feng Ning reacted quickly, jumped a bit on tiptoe, and rolled over onto the roof of the kitchen. The saying that the most dangerous place is the safest place, she popped her head, and she couldn't remember who had told her that.
She cradled the big bowl and ate it. While eating, she could hear the movement in the kitchen below, but it turned out to be Chef Tang and another cook talking.
Then Chef Tang replied, "Luckily, I have some diced mushroom balls for dinner, so I'll just roll some steamed rice balls, which the Second Master loves." Chef Tang said and then snapped, "If you let me know which son of a bxtch it is who took my food, I'll kill him."
Feng Ning from the roof froze and hurriedly shoved another bun into her mouth, she must be full before being slaughtered.
The cook said, "Don't be angry, it shouldn't be a problem this time, no one will steal twice in a row."
Chef Tang "grunted" and said, "I've learned a lesson for the future, once the food is in the pot, you should never leave the kitchen. The snack food, I also have to have two more ready to go."
Feng Ning listened and nodded her head in succession on the roof, preparing two foods was good, and one was hers if two copies of the same food were prepared. She was happy to think that she would have something to eat in the future, and she didn't care if the buns in her mouth weren't cooked through, thinking that they tasted exceptionally good.
After a while, she suddenly heard a roar in the kitchen: "What the hell is this rat who eat would a thousand swords, even the not cooked buns were pilfered away? It wasn't even steamed right. Eat, eat, and just eat...what is this going to do?"
The cook said, "Why don't you, Chef Tang, steam the glutinous rice and knead it into rice balls?"
Hey, Feng Ning thought to herself, will that be good? Too bad she didn't taste it. Because Chef Tang hadn't left the kitchen again since then, not even half a chance was given to her. The result of this event was hearing that, the Second Master Long, had personally visited the kitchen to examine it and finally personally picked up an empty bowl on the roof.
The next day, Feng Ning's three meals, the amount of dishes were doubled, and someone instructed Xiao Qing to send her a message: "Eat up and don't cause trouble." It wasn't until a long time later that Feng Ning came to his senses, and the Second Master Long thought that his sister-in-law had deliberately snatched food from him.
But she didn't notice that the empty bowl exposed the fact that she knew how to fight, and to the Long Family, her purpose of marrying the Long Family had become even more suspicious.
~ Dragon Flies Phoenix Dances ~
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