Chapter 12 Ask for advice(1/2)
This is crazy, this is deliberately trying to harm them!
Mrs. Cheng's eyes were burning with anger, and she didn't bother to clean up the large and small bags in the house. After hearing what Mr. Cheng said, she went straight to Mrs. Cheng and cried.
"… They all say that brothers need to help. We also know that mother, you are not in good health right now, and my eldest brother is also seriously ill. Erlang is traveling so far away, so he can't help if anything happens..."
Before the second Mrs. Cheng finished speaking, Mrs. Cheng threw the cup.
"Nonsense! I'm in very good health, and I'm still waiting for my son to earn his life for me!" she shouted, "Da Lang is not in good health? Is there no one else in the family? There are a lot of grandchildren and great-grandsons.
If you embrace them all, can’t you even support your family? Besides, if Erlang goes to the capital to become an official, is it for himself? Or for our Cheng family!"
"Sure enough, he was confused because of his illness! Call him here!"
Looking at the maid who hurriedly ran out, Mrs. Cheng lowered her head and wiped her tears with a proud smile on her lips.
The scolding in Mrs. Cheng's room continued for half a day.
Mrs. Cheng knelt outside the door and cried, wanting to accept the punishment for her father. She begged the old lady not to let Mr. Cheng kneel down to accept the punishment since he was still seriously ill.
"Whoever dares to ruin Erlang's future will ruin the future of our Cheng family. I won't give up even if I risk my life!" Mrs. Cheng shouted angrily, "He is your brother, why can't you see him well?"
Woolen cloth?"
"Mother, I'm just doing it for his own good..." Mr. Cheng raised his head helplessly and said, but before he could finish his words, Mrs. Cheng grabbed him.
"Master, I beg you, please stop talking." She leaned over and cried.
Mr. Cheng sighed when he heard this and kowtowed.
"My son is not thoughtful, my mother forgives me," he said.
"Bring enough money for Erlang. They say it's not easy to live in the capital. You have to make friends and socialize. Don't lose the Cheng family's face." Old Mrs. Cheng said with a snort.
Mrs. Cheng couldn't help but raise her head any longer.
"My mother's family doesn't have any money, and my second uncle has gone to the capital so he doesn't have any shortage of money. That Jiao..." She said, but before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by Mr. Cheng hitting her with his arm.
"Yes, mother." Mr. Cheng said, "I will never make my second brother's future difficult no matter how difficult it is for a poor family to become rich."
Mrs. Cheng nodded with satisfaction.
"Go down." She said, and her words of consolation were earnest, "Why is your brother working as an official so far away? Isn't it also for the Cheng family? To help you? How can you complain?"
I'm afraid that if he goes away, he will harm his own future and the Cheng family.
Mr. Cheng smiled bitterly, but knowing that he couldn't explain it to his mother, he responded respectfully and withdrew with the eldest lady.
"Brothers and sisters, if you have anything to do, you can come and tell me directly. There are some things that my mother doesn't understand, so don't use her as a weapon. It's not easy to blame her when she is older. Why should she worry about you and my descendants?
." Mr. Cheng looked at Mrs. Cheng and said.
"Yes." Second Mrs. Cheng bowed and saluted with a smile, "Brother is still thoughtful."
Master Cheng ignored her and looked at Master Cheng.
"Even if you don't want to consider what I said, it's best to wait a little longer." He said, "Wait until after the New Year..."
Mr. Cheng Er, who had already said something about being respectful to his brothers and saying that he felt guilty for causing his eldest brother to suffer at home and being unfilial to support his mother at home, suddenly became anxious again when he heard these words.
"Brother, what do you mean? Are you going to go after the New Year? If Dali Temple leaves me, will there be no one else? If I don't go, there will be many people waiting to fill in the blanks!" he said.
"So you can move around without Dali Temple. You'd better go somewhere else. The place in the capital is really not that good." Mr. Cheng said.
"Brother!" Mr. Cheng Er was furious, "What do you mean? I am going to the capital to be an official, not to cross Daoshan or to destroy the Cheng family. Why do you have to stop me?"
Speaking of which, I thought of what my wife said.
Only women can say that, and he doesn't take it seriously at all.
But now seeing Mr. Cheng's weird look, he had to think a little differently.
"Don't you want me to live a better life than you, brother?"
"Ah, bah." Mr. Cheng spat, "Isn't it something to be happy about that you are not as good as me?"
"Then why don't you want me to go to the capital?" Master Cheng Er said.
"I'm afraid that there is a mountain of knives in the capital, and you are going to take advantage of someone else's case!" Mr. Cheng said in a low voice and solemnly.
Mr. Cheng Er looked at him with an expression of shock.
"Brother, if this happens, everyone in the world will be eager to go to Hob Mountain to cook fish meat." He said with a smile.
Mr. Cheng did not smile, but nodded.
"That's true. In this world, pursuing office and profit is not just a matter of making fish and meat on the Hob Mountain." He murmured.
It seems that the eldest brother is seriously ill and his mind has become weird.
Mr. Cheng's face softened, and he no longer looked at Mr. Cheng with anger and impatience, but with a bit of pity.
"Brother, please go back and rest quickly. I have been an official for more than ten years, and I still don't know what to do?" he said.
"You have been an official for more than ten years, don't you think this is a bit strange?" Mr. Cheng asked.
"I don't think so!" Mr. Cheng Er said impatiently.
"Don't you think, if my dear mother hates us so much, she would be willing to let you come to Beijing?" Mr. Cheng asked, "She will definitely not ask for a reward for you. Even if His Majesty is interested, she will definitely refuse the reward.
"
Mr. Cheng Er was furious.
"How dare she!" He shouted, "She is so unfaithful, unjust, unfilial and unworthy of being the son of a human being! God cannot tolerate it!"
"Let's not talk about God's tolerance, let's talk about human tolerance first." Mr. Cheng also said anxiously, "With her ability, there is nothing she dare not say to the emperor, but now this reward is still given to you.
, it means someone must have given it to her forcibly, and it must not have been as she wished. If it was not as good as her wish, it must have been a grudge. Do you think you have become someone else's gun?"
Mr. Cheng Er looked at Mr. Cheng like he was a fool.
"Brother, what are you thinking about?" He frowned and pointed at himself, "That's my daughter! The daughter I gave birth to! She won't tolerate me? She rebelled against her!"
Master Cheng wanted to say something else, but Master Cheng stopped him first.
"Brother, what happened last time was not that I was disobedient as a brother. What you did was really too much. The dowry should have been given to her. This is not disobedient..." He said, "If you say she doesn't tolerate it, it's because she doesn't tolerate you.
It has nothing to do with me."
Without waiting for Mr. Cheng to speak again, he decisively raised his foot.
"Brother, I'm leaving tomorrow and I have to clean up today. There's no need for a family dinner to see me off. You can take good care of your health. I'll go sit with the government officials," he said.
Master Cheng wanted to say something else, but Master Cheng left in a gust of wind.
"Did I go too far about the dowry? It has nothing to do with you?" He was angry and funny at the same time. "Yes, I went too far and it has nothing to do with you. Then you must remember not to treat her badly when you get to the capital.
She did something excessive, otherwise it would be no wonder she became disobedient."
Having said this, he was startled.
Disobedience….
"So that's why?" He murmured, thoughtfully.
"Why?" Mrs. Cheng asked hurriedly.
"Hijacking." Mr. Cheng said slowly.
Mr. Cheng thought it over and wanted to talk to Mr. Cheng again, but Mr. Cheng came back very drunk at night and climbed into the car early the next morning, half awake and half drunk, and the family fled in the car.
They left without even having time to let them see them off.
The couple acted like this, which only made Mrs. Cheng so angry that they refused to see her off. Mr. Cheng, who couldn't bear the embarrassment, still hurriedly chased the children outside the city to see them off.
"...But I'm lucky..."
"...Qiniang and the others will be able to find a good family in the capital in the future..."
"...I heard that the eldest lady knows the emperor. According to the second lady, Qiniang might be able to get married to the royal family..."
"..Oh, then our family is going to have a relative of the emperor..."
The servants and girls in the yard were chattering in low voices, accompanied by cackles of laughter.
Cheng Liuniang stood up suddenly and smashed a vase on the window sill.
"Get out of here, are you bothered?" she shouted.
The crackling sounds and shouts frightened the servants and they quickly dispersed and ran away.
Cheng Liuniang was standing in front of the window, the wind in the lotus pond was blowing the fragrance of chrysanthemums to her face. In the golden autumn of October, in a few days there will be a chrysanthemum appreciation poetry party at home, but now they are all gone, all gone, chasing the capital
That fool called me sister.
Cheng Liu Niang pursed her lips and her tears couldn't stop falling.
"She is a bad person!" She shouted outside, "She is a bad person, and you will be harmed by her sooner or later!"
The bustle in front of Cheng's house has dissipated, but the news in the city about Mr. Cheng's receiving the imperial edict is still lively.
Compared to the hustle and bustle in the north, the south side is very deserted.
"I didn't expect that your wife is so powerful." Cheng Ping looked away from the river while holding the Gua flag and said.
To be continued...