Daiyu's stepmother is not easy to be

All eyes in the capital are on how the Su family is doing things, but the Su family does not owe a single penny in the household department.

After Madam Bai knew that people were waiting for their house, she laughed with Liu Shi, "It's not like these people are overthinking. They are just waiting for our house, and there will be no news until March next year."

Liu said with a smile: "Isn't that right? This group of people is just waiting for someone to act, and they don't make inquiries."

Although Su Shangshu and Mrs. Bai have four children, only the second son Su Wenzhe was transferred from Suzhou Tongzhi to the prefect of Yinwei. He is still on the way, and it is estimated that he will not be able to arrive in the capital until early November. The eldest daughter Su Wenjun is the current queen, and the second daughter Su Wen Jiao is the wife of the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu. She went to work with her husband, and only the eldest son Su Wenjian, the eldest son's daughter-in-law Liu Shi and grandchildren are left in the family.

Su Shangshu is the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs and a scholar of the cabinet, and Su Wenjian is also the minister of the Ministry of Punishment. Both of them are very busy and don't go home for dinner at noon.

According to the rules, it is filial piety to make peace in the morning and evening, but Liu is afraid that her mother-in-law will be lonely. If her father-in-law and husband are not at home, she will come to the main courtyard to have lunch with her mother-in-law at noon.

Although the Su family is said to be a family of poets and etiquette, they are not the ones who stick to the rules and pedantry. Madam Bai does not ask Liu to stand and serve when eating in the morning and evening, but eats together, and even sits together affectionately at noon table, drink tea and gossip together after the meal.

Today, a big event happened in court, so the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law couldn't help but talk about it. I just said that people in Beijing who owed money were waiting for their families, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had a good laugh.

But the Holy Majesty wanted to press for the repayment of the owed money, after all, it was because of the enemy troops at the border. Mrs. Bai and Mrs. Liu smiled for a while, but then stopped laughing. Mrs. Liu took a sip of tea, still couldn't help frowning and sighed: " I don’t know how the second sibling is doing in Yinwei.”

The Su family has a small population, and they are all blood relatives, and they are not narrow-minded people. The mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, and sister-in-law get along well.

The family has been together for nearly ten years, and the Liu family has a close relationship with Han Qiongying. Besides, the Liu family has given birth to four sons and has no girls. When they were at home, they used to rely on Jing Lan to satisfy their greed. Now that Jing Lan has also returned to the northwest, the Liu family is gone. The niece is rare and loving, and she is still a son after giving birth to her fourth child, so she will miss Han Qiongying even more.

Mrs. Bai and Liu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have also been together for nearly 15 years. Such a long time is enough to turn a girl from a baby who can only open her mouth to cry into a mature girl, and it is enough for Mrs. Bai to treat Liu as her own daughter.

Knowing daughter Mo Ruomu, Mrs. Bai glanced at Liu Shi, smiled and said, "Are you worried about Qiongying or Jinglan? Besides, Qiongying has reconciled with Wen Zhe, you two younger siblings don't talk about it anymore." Exit, you should call General Han."

Mrs. Liu said helplessly: "I've been calling it that way for ten years, and I'm used to it long ago. It's only been a year now, mother let me change it slowly."

Mrs. Bai sighed: "Jing Lan and Jing Xi are all in Wenjiao, Ganzhou City, so there is no need to worry about it, but Qiongying is in Yinwei, which is a border town, and I don't know about the battlefield..."

Seeing the worried expression on Mrs. Bai's face, Mrs. Liu hurriedly refilled her cup of tea, and said with a smile, "Mother, don't worry too much. Didn't it mean that last year Qiongying defeated three Han generals in a row, and this spring he defeated Yinwei again?" All the generals in the army have won?"

"If you ask me, Qiongying is almost as good as a female war god now. If she can have something to do, what should others do?"

Mrs. Bai sighed a few times, knowing that she was in the capital Qiongying and Yinwei, three or four thousand miles away, so there was something. When she found out, it would be a month or two. Why not follow Liu's words, I feel more at ease.

She drank a couple of sips from the teacup that Mrs. Liu had just filled, looked at the clock, and said with a smile: "It's getting late, you should go back to see Jing Xin earlier."

Mrs. Liu put her arms around Mrs. Bai's arm and said: "Mother, don't push me away, just let me stay in peace for a while longer, Jing Xin is learning to talk and walk, I can't rest for a moment in the house."

Madam Bai put down her teacup and said helplessly: "At the beginning, I said that you are over 30, and you have three sons. You are already a person with good fortune. Why do you have to have another one?"

"You just said that you have three sons and no girl. You definitely want a girl to raise you. The belly is yours, and Wen Jian also depends on you. Are we parents preventing our sons and daughters-in-law from having children? That's all."

"Piansheng gave birth to Jing Xin, and he is still a son. Yun Qing, you are 33 this year, and you have taken care of your body. If you have another child, you will be 35. How dangerous, don't have another child."

"I just like little girls. We don't have any in our family, and there are not many relatives? If you think that relatives are outsiders, you will often go to Lin's house when Wen Jiao comes back two years later. Didn't Wen Jiao give birth to a girl last year?"

Mrs. Bai called her boudoir name to teach her earnestly, Liu Yunqing lowered her head and smiled and said: "Mother, I understand."

Seeing that it was getting late, Mrs. Bai urged Liu Yunqing to go back to her room.

Seeing that she couldn't hold on any longer, Liu Yunqing had no choice but to stand up reluctantly, and sighed: "I really don't listen to the old man's words, and the loss is in front of me. I didn't feel it when I was raising Jingde, Jingli, and Jingyou. Now I'm raising Jingxin. It seems to be several times more tired than before."

Mrs. Bai said: "You were young when you raised the first three. You were only 26 when Jingyou was born, and you are 33 this year. These years are not forgiving. No matter how carefully you take care of them, 20 is not as good as a dozen. When I was [-] years old."

Liu Yunqing sighed, "It's true."

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law finally bid farewell, Liu Yunqing put on a cloak and stepped out of the threshold of Mrs. Bai's main room, and saw a young man talking to the mother-in-law at the door, and the mother-in-law hurried in to report the news.

It seemed that something happened outside, Liu Yunqing was not in a hurry to go back, she just stood at the door and waited for the woman to come over, waited for the girl to close the curtain, then walked into the house again.

Mrs. Bai was already lying on the kang and ordered the girl to beat her legs and was about to take a rest. When someone reported something, she had to open her eyes and wait.

Unexpectedly, it was Liu Yunqing who entered the inner room instead of the woman who reported the letter. Madam Bai frowned, and waved to her helplessly: "Come and sit down, let's listen together."

Liu Yunqing pursed her lips and smiled, seeing that her mother-in-law did not blame her, she saluted and sat upright on the kang, listening to the woman tell about the return of money from Jia's family to donate the garden.

The imperial decree was only issued near noon, and it has only been more than an hour now. The Jia family not only returned the silver, but also donated it to the provincial relatives' hospital. Such a swift and decisive move, Rao Madam Bai lived for 56 years After going through three dynasties, I can't help admiring in my heart how many things I have seen.

After the woman finished speaking, she saw that the masters and children had no orders, so she saluted and went out again.

Inside the room, Mrs. Bai thought for a while, then smiled and said: "It never occurred to me that the men of the Jia family are not up to date, but the wives they marry are all up to date. The general's wife, Mrs. Wang, who is now in charge of the family should be someone."

Liu Yunqing nodded along, then whispered to Mrs. Bai with a smile: "Mother, just now the lady replied, saying that the third-rank Weiyuan general Jia Lian and Jia Mian, a member of the Jia family, donated the garden, but there was no mention of Concubine Xian at all. "

"I remember that General Weiyuan and Wang Shuren who are currently in charge are the daughters-in-law of the big house in the Rongguo Mansion, and the concubine Xian is from the second room of his family. Now it seems that there is such a scene between the two houses. The second-rank concubine Xian didn't mention a single word, you see..."

Now that the virtuous concubine in the palace is favored, although Mrs. Bai knows that it is Empress Su's scheme, but there has never been such a favored concubine in the palace, her mother still can't help worrying about her daughter.

Although Empress Su didn't care if Concubine Xian was pregnant or not, it would be best if Concubine Xian gave birth to a son, but Mrs. Bai was outside the palace, seeing Rongguo Mansion collapsed but not dead. Concubine Xian's younger brother entered school at a young age, and it would not be difficult to raise someone to be on the Jinshi list in the future. If the two families can be united, it will be of great help to Concubine Xian.

Originally, there were two high-ranking concubines in the palace, Concubine Zhuang and Concubine Hui. The concubine was regarded as a first-class concubine, and the prince was regarded as a prince. She was equal to the princess and concubine, and both had princes. It is not a small hidden danger to be able to bow down in front of the queen.

The imperial concubine position in the harem is full. Although the virtuous concubine cannot go any further, the concubine position is also regarded as the second rank, and the noble is regarded as the county king. If there is a prince and a family background, it should not be underestimated.

Now Mrs. Bai knows that the two heads of the Jia family are extremely well-known, and the big house of the Rongguo Mansion doesn't even want to get involved with the second-rank concubine, and doesn't even mention it. In this way, the only family of the virtuous concubine is the criminal minister and the second wife, Jia Zheng and his wife, even if they are brothers. To be successful, you have to wait ten or eight years to get ahead, and the concubine Xian is nothing to worry about for the time being.

The Rongguo Mansion returned the money to donate the garden to relieve Mrs. Bai outside the palace, and the emperor inside the palace had finished their lunch with Empress Su and took a nap.

Although it was a big deal for the Jia family to repay the money and donate the garden, it was not big enough to wake up the Holy Empress to rest.

That's why the emperor, Empress Su, took a nap before listening to the eunuch's report.

The joints that Madam Bai Liu Yunqing could think of, the Emperor and Empress Su were also aware of.

Empress Su laughed at Concubine Xian in her heart for a while, thinking that she was really good at asking, but with sincere congratulations on her face, she said with a smile to the emperor: "Now that the Rongguo Mansion is taking the lead, those who pay back the money are not good at all." I hesitated, congratulations to Lin Lang for recovering the owed money."

The emperor laughed and said: "The thing to congratulate is not only the recovery of the owed money, Wenjun really doesn't know?"

Empress Su smiled and said, "God knows and the earth knows, Lin Lang knows and I know, why bother to say it out loud."

The eunuchs and female officials all smiled and waited for the two masters to finish the charade. Eunuch Xia wanted to compliment the concubine Xianxian with a few words of righteousness. Seeing the situation, she quickly swallowed her words. In this way, he really can't compare with the empress, and I don't know if his plan is useful or not.

Eunuch Xia was secretly regretting and doubting himself, the emperor and Empress Su didn't know it, the emperor smiled for a while, and ordered: "Although Jia Lian of the Rongguo Mansion and Jia Mian of the Jia family have no position in the court, they also have the heart for the country and the people. , worthy of being a descendant of a hero.”

"As the decree goes on, Jia Lian and Jia Mian donated the garden. I deeply feel that he understands the righteousness, and remembering the merits of his ancestors, I will specially reward Jia Lian's descendants with a place in the shadow prison. After Jia Mian enters school, he can go directly to the Imperial Academy without taking the exam."

Empress Su was overjoyed when she heard the emperor's reward, and felt pity for the concubine Xian.

Jia Lian and Jia Mian donated the garden, although they never mentioned that they donated it in the name of Concubine Xian, but the garden was built for her family visit.

Her natal family didn't mention her a single word, and the emperor didn't reward her. In the eyes of outsiders, isn't it that the Rongguo Mansion took the initiative to draw a line with the concubine Xian, and the emperor also acquiesced and approved of this matter.

Thinking about it this way, is the Rongguo Mansion's donation of the garden a token of loyalty to the emperor, or is it a way to distance itself from the Jia family's second wife and Concubine Xian again...

Empress Su pursed her lips and smiled.

In Rongguo Mansion, Jia Lian came back with someone who donated the garden according to Wang Xifeng's words. It was obviously winter, but he was sweating all over from worry.

The old lady meant to donate in the name of the concubine, and brought them along, but Feng girl sent him out, and whispered to him not to mention the concubine at all, and only said that it was donated by Jia Lian of Rongguo Mansion and Jia Mian, a member of the Jia clan. He is the one to do the left and right things, and if it is done, what can the old lady do if she is angry?

Jia Lian didn't dare to go against the old lady's wishes, but Feng girl told him about the palace affairs in the morning, which made him angry, and he actually followed Feng girl's words.

After finishing his work, he felt guilty on the way home.

After all, the old lady is both a grandmother and an old matriarch. Isn't it unfilial for her to act like a junior?

In case the old lady blames it...

Sweat broke out on Jia Lian's forehead, and he gritted his teeth and thought that the old lady was going to blame her, and she only said that it was his own idea, and it had nothing to do with Feng girl at all.

Feng girl does everything for the good of him and the children, but the old lady...

After all, I still prefer the second room.

The author has something to say:

Hey, infighting...

Xiaowu counted, and I will see Daiyu tomorrow~

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