Chapter 244 Leaving
The Yongping Marquis' Mansion began to prepare for returning to Beijing, and Aunt Mei also wanted to go to the capital with her this time.
The shops in Yulin County are now well organized and are in charge of business. Aunt Mei no longer has to worry about these things, so naturally she doesn't want to separate from the three brothers and sisters Xiutao and Shuyao.
Although Shujie had already solved the body contract between them and their daughter three years ago, and also built a small village, a shop, and a house under Aunt Mei's name. However, Shujie and his three siblings said early in the morning that Aunt Mei will always be the aunt of their three siblings, and Xiutao will definitely marry from the Yongping Marquis Mansion. Yongping Marquis Mansion will always be Mei's home and Xiutao's mother's home.
There are three days left. Shu Yao and Lan Jin and Zi Jin sorted out the things they wanted to bring to the capital in their small study. Lan Jin smiled and said, "The Guo family is really happy. I heard that Mr. Guo got a position a few days ago and was the magistrate of a suburb of Menqing County in the capital. In the early morning of this day, Mrs. Guo gave birth to a boy." The people who reported the good news from the Guo family also arrived at the Yongping Marquis' Mansion. Nangong Miao and Shu Yao just asked an old lady to send some ordinary gifts.
Zi Jin also said: "No? I heard that in addition to those who entered the Hanlin Academy, there were also those who had related responsibilities to join the six ministries. Most of the others went to remote county towns. Mr. Guo was very good, just in the suburbs of the capital."
Shu Yao smiled and said, "After all, they are the first place in the second list." Shu Qing calculated and took her son to the capital and left the chaotic sight of the whole family in the Xia Mansion.
Lan Jin curled his lips: "The master and the eldest wife of the Xia Mansion boasted everywhere, saying that their aunt was lucky and that it was a good fortune for her husband and son. It seemed that Mr. Guo failed to pass the imperial examination and could not become the magistrate without marrying this wife."
Shu Yao gave her a funny look: "What does it have to do with us? Why are you so unfair?"
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The master and servant were joking. The old lady came to report that Zhu was visiting and was taken to the flower hall. Shu Yao had already told the doorman that the people from Zhen’s house would come and notify her, so she didn’t have to bother her sister-in-law. She was not afraid that Nangong Miao would not be able to deal with it, but was worried that Nangong Miao would be jealous of her and Shuwen like her elder brother. She was too polite to the Zhen family.
Lan Jin sniffed: "Young Master Chou is tactful. You are not here today? Let her wife come to plead for their family?"
Zhen Keying and Murong Zhi got engaged, but Zhen Kebao actually came to invite Nangong Miao and Shuyao to come over, and said that it was the request of Old Mrs. Zhen, and that it would be very unfilial if she didn't go.
How could the people from the Yongping Marquis’ Mansion take such a funny threat seriously? They just feel even more disdainful.
Zhen Kebao is a man, and Shujie is not in Yulin. Nangong Miao and Shu Yao naturally have sufficient reasons to not see him. All he can see is the book "I have been lenient since I was a child."
Shuwen glanced at him and said "sneered": "Murong Mansion bullied my mother back then, and my mother came out of Murong Mansion and Li. Your Zhen Mansion claimed that we had severed relations with my mother. We were young and didn't know about this before, and we treated you as our uncle's family. Do you think that our brother, sister, and brother are easy to bully?
Since the relationship has been cut off, the people in your Zhen family want to marry the girl from the Murong family and the master of the Murong family, they have nothing to do with us. Do you dare to ask us to celebrate and think we are a mud?
Old Mrs. Zhen is interested, even if she goes to the city gate to scold us for being unfilial and asks everyone to comment on it, should we be filial to our own mother, or should we be filial to our grandmother and uncle who have already broken off relations with our mother?"
Zhen Kebao was stunned on the spot. He only thought that Yulin was not the capital. Not so many people knew about the severance of Zhen’s family and Donnie Yen. After "severing the relationship", his father borrowed money from Donnie Yen and Xia Linxuan. Although he was forced to write the IOU, he still borrowed it?
Moreover, Jin Xida and Shujie are not there, Yulin has no empress dowager, and the wife of Weiyuan, and there are only women and children in the mansion. No matter how sharp Shuwen is, he is still just a child, right?
Nangong Miao is the new wife, Shu Yao is the girl in the boudoir, and Shu Wen is a scholar. Who should not pay attention to reputation?
Unexpectedly, Nangong Miao and Shu Yao didn't see him at all, so he made it cold. He waited for Shu Wen to come back from the school to "receive guests". While sitting in the hall waiting, the tea was cold and there was no maid coming to add it.
The result of waiting for so long and suffering so much grievances is Shuwen's sentence "If you are interested, just go to the city gate to scold us for being unfilial"?
Zhen Kebao looked at the book with contempt and disdain, and for the first time he felt "satisfied" and he really regretted not listening to Zhu's words.
Zhu did not let him go this time, saying that with the current strength and good reputation of the Yongping Marquis Mansion, the threat of Mrs. Zhen would only be "indignity". Although Shu Yao is young, she is very smart. Nangong Miao's new wife cannot be underestimated. The Nangong family is not just the richest man. Can the eldest daughter-in-law from such a family be simple? No matter what, there are always a few powerful dowry mothers around you! Can Old Mrs. Zhen and Lin play with them with their heads?
Zhen Kebao felt that Zhu was too pessimistic and cautious. He would be more sluggish in the capital. He was also a little scared with Jin Xida or those nanny, father-in-law, etc. Now there are only two little girls and one book.
However, after coming out of Yongping Hou’s Mansion in shame, he realized that Zhu was right, but unfortunately it was too late.
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After that time, no one from Zhen’s house has come over for a long time. Is it true that they are going back to Beijing and come to "say goodbye" again?
Seeing Lan Jin's face of ridicule and disgust, Shu Yao smiled and shook her head: "Okay, I'm a guest, and Zhu has never done anything to us." To be honest, Zhu is a sensible person. Since she married into the Zhen Mansion, the Zhen Mansion has "knowing" a lot. Although Shu Yao's three brothers and sisters are not afraid that they will not know each other, they will always feel more comfortable if they can face less the best things done by those top-quality people.
Shu Yao was shocked when she saw Zhu. They had seen him once a year ago. It took only half a year. Zhu's face was quite ugly, as if she had a serious illness. Maybe she knew it herself, she wore an orange-red roe today, as if she wanted to make herself look more energetic, but the effect was not good. Anyway, Shu Yao felt "so haggard!"
It seems that the open and secret struggle between Lin and Zhu, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, is very fierce. Shu Yao sighed inwardly that although Zhu is smart, Lin is vicious and shameless, and she is really unpredictable.
Zhu now knows that he has been drugged and has found a famous doctor through his family to treat him. Fortunately, he has not given many drugs and can be treated in one or two years.
Zhu's family went to Zhen's house to make a big fuss. Although there was no direct evidence to prove that Lin's attack was taken. However, Zhu's family slapped the kitchen mother, a distant cousin of Lin's family, and the personal maid next to Lin who was taking medicine, and threw it out of the mansion dyingly, and sold it to the lowest building. He ruthlessly slapped Lin's face and made a strong presence in Zhen's house.
Lin just became an old lady in the official family because Zhen Keying became an official, but after receiving such a heavy gift, he hated Zhu to the bone. But she only dared to hate him secretly because she committed a crime of harming the legitimate son and grandson of the Zhen family. Once she was caught, not to mention Mrs. Zhen, what would Zhen Dafu and Zhen Kebao think of him? Even the official journey that Zhen Keying finally got was affected. Her "old lady in the official family" chair was not yet hot, so how could she fly like this?
There is a thing Shu Yao never figured out. In the past life, Lin did not drug Zhu! Why did this happen in this life? But this is better, it is all the civil strife in their Zhen family, and the more chaotic the better.
When Zhu saw Shuyao coming in, he quickly stood up and said, "Sister Yao'er." Every time he saw Shuyao, Zhu felt that her aura had increased her body, making her afraid to look down on her.
Zhu thought about it. She had been working hard to repair the relationship with the three brothers and sisters of Shu Yao, but the Zhen family, who was confused, had made her work so uselessly.
She opposed Zhen Keying's marriage with Murong's mansion. She said that it was further severing the relationship with the Yongping Marquis' Mansion and further destroying the reputation of the Zhen family.
The people of Zhen’s family, who were confused by the word “official”, were determined to make the Zhen family an official, but they couldn’t listen to her. They insisted that even if they didn’t marry the Murong family, Shujie and the other two would not help Zhen Keying, but they would help them.
But after Zhen Kebao returned in shame last time, they were scared again. The forces in the Yongping Hou Mansion now surpassed the Murong Mansion. Judging from Shuwen's strong attitude towards speaking, what if Shujie and the three brothers and sisters and Jin Xida want to turn against them, it would be difficult to get rid of Zhen Keying's official position?
Thinking that Shu Yao and the others were about to return to Beijing, Zhen Dafu and Zhen Kebao became increasingly uneasy and urged Zhu to come and find out.
Shu Yao smiled calmly: "Grandma Zhen, don't be polite."
Grandma Zhen? Zhu's heart was cold. Is it true that I was going to sever the relationship with them?
Zhu Shiqiang smiled: "Yao'er joked about her cousin's wife. Today, she is bringing you some specialties from Daming Mansion. I specially chose some new ones, and my parents also picked some to send them. It is very convenient and beautiful to take you back to the capital to send people. In addition, please help my aunt bring a bag of tea and clothes for my cousin Li Jingui. Uh, just ask the maid to explain to the doorman, and my cousin will go to the doorman of Yongping Hou Mansion to pick it up.
Zhu was very clever and did not mention the Zhen Mansion. The things she brought were originally bought with her dowry. The people in the Zhen Mansion were eager to carry things back from the Yongping Marquis' Mansion, so how could they think of sending things?
Shu Yao smiled and said, "You can ask your cousin to find the second housekeeper of Uncle Rong at that time. As for those specialties, I will accept them. Thank you for your trouble. It just so happened that the dragon fruit was sent to the farm today. I guess the mothers outside had already loaded the car. Grandma Zhen took it back and thanked Mr. Zhu and Mrs. Zhu for us. By the way, Mrs. Zhu." She still remembered that when she was a wedding boy, the two old men smiled and gave her five hundred taels of silver to buy what she liked.
Zhu agreed: "Thank you, Yao'er." The dragon fruit produced by the Marquis of Yongping's mansion is hard to buy even if you have money. The old master of the Zhu family likes it the most, but unfortunately he can only get a few of the whole Zhu family every year.
Zhu sighed secretly, the Zhen family is really not smart. In fact, Shu Yao's three brothers and sisters are the kind of people who treat him well and he treat you twice as well. Just look at the neighbors who originally lived in Xitang Street.
Forget it, I just have a good time to look at my room and my dowry. I can't do anything else. Shu Yao and the other two were not easy to deceive when they were young, and now they are not something that they can do.
After Zhu left, Liu's mother, who had just entered the door, smiled and said, "She is a smart person. Unfortunately, she has a bad attitude to choose a husband and marry into such a family." Zhu and Zhen Kebao met with each other, and then the Zhen family invited a matchmaker to propose marriage. This is just an ordinary merchant. If she is in an official family in the capital, she will have a private relationship and will be criticized.
Shu Yao also felt sorry for Zhu, who was so smart and active, was really wronged to marry Zhen Kebao. Fortunately, she was strong and her parents' family was capable, so Lin could not get anything better.
"Mom seems to be very happy. Is there any good news?" Shu Yao suddenly found that Mom Liu's face was very good today and she smiled. She just went out to pick up a letter. What good things did she encounter?
"Haha, the girl will know that at that time, good things! Good things!" Mother Liu's expression at this moment was like a mouse falling into a rice jar filled with rice.
Shu Yao was stunned: "It has something to do with me? Mom, don't keep it from hiding me, talk about it." Shu Yao began to act coquettishly, which she rarely used. She knew that Liu's mother was the most used. When she acted coquettishly, she would immediately find a ladder to ask her mother Liu to pick stars.
Sure enough, Mother Liu took her hand to the study and asked Lan Jinzijin to guard outside the door. Then she lowered her voice and smiled mysteriously: "This time I return to Beijing, the Empress Dowager will give you a marriage." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.)
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