The lights of the Meng family in Xuncheng were bright tonight, and the two women accompanied by a group of servants and maids panicked.

It's just because Meng Hongxian, the only male master of the Meng family, was arrested by the Empress Dowager of the West Palace a few days ago.

They never imagined that a family that honestly did porcelain painting would provoke the palace.

It's just weird, Meng Hongxian's skills are too good, the embryo body is extremely elegant or interesting ink freehand, the unique color glaze is applied, and there is a perfect firewood kiln for precise firing, and the porcelain made is famous far and wide, and can even be sold abroad.

But because of his fame, he went abroad, which caused tonight's trouble.

The foreigners came, and asked the Meng family to make some porcelain for them, and Lafayette asked Meng Hongxian to take him away.

In fact, the main livelihood of the Meng family in the past was only porcelain painting, that is, to paint all kinds of patterns and patterns on porcelain, using the embryo body that has been formed.

But the glaze they use needs to be fired at a temperature that many kilns can't figure out, for the effect, they have to burn their own, for a long time, this is a porcelain chain are their own.

They are famous for porcelain painting, the most important thing is also porcelain painting, porcelain painting, at this time the most popular in the market is blue and white and light silk, the style is similar to ink painting, if you want to do a good job of porcelain painting, you must first practice the ink Danqing.

Meng Hongxian has been cultivated in "Meilan, bamboo, chrysanthemum, flowers, birds, fish and insects" since he was a child, and when Lafayette took him away, he said that there was an official kiln in the palace, only let him paint, guide the glazing, and don't worry about the firing, he looked at the reward given enough to open another kiln, and it was simple to paint a painting, or it would take long for him to agree.

However, when he entered the palace, he couldn't help it.

It's not that he needs to do anything else, as long as it is related to porcelain burning, he can do everything, but this is the only one, which is the one he is best at, he can't do it.

In order to cater to the preferences of foreigners, Galeries Lafayette asked him to paint Western paintings.

He had heard of Western paintings, but he didn't understand them, and Lafayette didn't understand them.

Change the ink ingots made of palm oil smoke to linseed oil, and paint less scenery and more people, and it will be.

Meng Hongxian thought that this would ruin the realm of Chinese painting, but on this occasion, he could only reluctantly do it, so he had to start writing, and when he saw a blue-eyed foreigner coming over, he muttered a lot, and after translation, it turned out that he also had requirements for the content of the painting.

They were going to draw a woman without clothes.

This time Meng Hongxian was really annoyed, this is a humiliation of Chinese painting, and he has to do porcelain, which also humiliates porcelain art, he would rather die than do it.

Lafayette is probably accustomed to seeing this kind of high-profile literati, and has his own tricks to deal with them.

They are not afraid of death, but they are afraid of the calamity of their families.

This night, a small platoon of officers and soldiers poured into Meng's house, which coincided with Meng Hongxian's wife Pan Lanfang giving birth today.

Although Meng Hongxian has a daughter, this is his first son, and he is used to blackmail Meng Hongxian, which is "a hundred shots and a hundred hits", and the officers and soldiers followed the crying to Pan Lanfang's yard and wanted to snatch the child.

It was chaotic for a while, the more chaotic it was outside, the more the newborn child cried, Pan Lanfang was anxious to cover his mouth, but she was afraid that she would suffocate him, and there was no way, so in the end, she cried with the child.

At the critical moment, Meng Hongxian's mother-in-law, Mrs. Meng, stood up and knocked the cane in her hand to the ground: "If you want to take the child away, give it to you, how can you enter my daughter-in-law's house?"

When the old men heard this, they had to stop, and said to the first officer and soldier wearing a small weft hat: "Since the old lady knows the overall situation, please take the child out, as long as Mr. Meng completes the painting as required, the child will be returned alive." ”

Mrs. Meng said, "Wait." ”

After that, he turned around and walked inside, walked to Pan Lanfang's room, stopped for a moment, but suddenly turned around, turned to the side, went to the ear room along the verandah, stood outside the door and coughed softly, and immediately someone quietly came and opened the door.

It was Lao Liu in the room, he only opened half the door crack, and tiptoed out with a cloth bag in his arms, and there was also a newborn child in the cloth bag, sleeping quietly.

Lao Liu handed the child forward, hung his head and said: "Old lady, while my child is asleep, if you want to take this child away, hurry up and promise me to repay ......my gambling debts."

Mrs. Meng picked up the child and said coldly: "As long as you don't reveal it, I will not only help you repay your gambling debts, but I will also give you two the money to go back to your hometown for retirement." ”

Lao Liu hurriedly thanked him, and the old lady took the child back to the main house, but there was no crying here, and she thought that her grandson was tired from crying and slept.

She looked at the child in her arms, thought for a moment, pushed open the door, found a satin bag, and replaced it with a cotton bag.

Pan Lanfang looked at her in surprise and asked in a low voice, "Is this okay?"

"If you can't do it, you have to do it, you can't let my own grandson take this risk, who knows if you will be dead or alive when you enter the palace, you can coax my grandson well, at this time, don't make him make a noise." ”

Pan Lanfang hurriedly nodded like garlic and hugged the child tightly in her arms.

Mrs. Meng pushed the door and strode towards the officers and soldiers.

Xiao Wei took the child and held it in his hand, but he didn't want to, the child was awakened, shook his head a few times from side to side, and suddenly cried loudly.

The daughter-in-law of the old Liu family recognized the cry of her child, and this cry made her sleepy, and when she touched the side, she was immediately frightened, and rushed out in a hurry following the voice, and when she saw that people were in the hands of officers and soldiers, her soul flew away, and she didn't care about wrapping her clothes and was about to come forward.

Before she could run two steps, Mrs. Meng noticed that with a look, the family who had been prepared for a long time had an order, and she quickly grabbed her in the dark, covered her mouth and dragged her to the backyard, she struggled and bitten, and the family did not let go.

At this time, let go, it is not only this child who will die, but the entire Meng family.

The officers and men never thought that two children would be born in this house on this day, and they left with the children without suspicion, leaving behind a mess.

They walked away, and the old lady ordered someone to close the door, so that Lao Liu's daughter-in-law was released.

The old daughter-in-law of Liu, who was freed, got up and wanted to chase after her, but how could she catch up, the officers and soldiers had long since disappeared, and they didn't even know where to go.

She staggered a few steps and turned back, stood and lost her soul for a while, and suddenly, looking back at the main room, she walked slowly.

At this time, the two old mothers who were originally guarding the door of the main room saw that the children in the house were asleep, and the lady was reluctant to let the next person touch her child, so they chose the time to go and go to the work at hand for the time being, and the old Liu daughter-in-law went in and out of the lady's room every day to deliver meals, and a few distant family members were not wary of her, and saw her slowly walk into the room.

In the main room, Pan Lanfang was carefully coaxing her child, and when she saw her come in, she opened her mouth, not knowing what to say, but only cast an apologetic look.

When the people came to see her child, they could no longer restrain it, and for a while the blood was gushing upward, and suddenly their eyes were red, and they stepped forward to snatch it.

Pan Lanfang realized that something was wrong, and suddenly clenched the edging, and her body was taken and fell out of bed, but her hand was still not grasped, and the child quickly fell into the hands of the other party, and she shouted for help urgently.

After a while, Mrs. Meng and a few maids and old mothers broke in, and for a while they pulled people and grabbed children.

Lao Liu's daughter-in-law was red, she hugged the child and didn't let go, her lips bit out of the blood and shouted loudly: "You hurt my child, I won't let you have a good time." ”

Saying that, she reached out to pinch the child's neck, the old lady was terrified, she didn't care about her image, she stepped forward to tear it, and several old mothers also hurriedly went over, punching and kicking her hands hard.

Lao Liu's daughter-in-law is used to doing work, she has a lot of strength, several people are on the same page, and she is afraid of hurting the child, so she was stunned for a while before breaking her hand.

At last he took the child, and the old lady held it in her arms, and the child's cheeks were red, his eyes were closed, and he did not make a sound.

She trembled and stretched out two fingers to the bottom of the child's nose, only to probe it, her head exploded, and suddenly she lost her strength and fell to her knees.

Several people over there who were still pulling and beating stopped at the same time, stunned.

Pan Lanfang reacted, hugged the child, and was so heartbroken that she couldn't even cry.

Everyone was silent, only Lao Liu's daughter-in-law smiled with a bloodstained face: "Retribution, this is retribution......

She got up from the ground and walked to the backyard, muttering, "Retribution, retribution......"

An old mother followed uneasily, and before she got closer, she suddenly heard a "poof", and the person in front disappeared in the blink of an eye, only a well next to her gurgled and bubbled a few times.

The old mother's face turned pale, and she crawled back to report: "Madam...... Lao Liu's daughter-in-law threw herself into the well. ”

A room full of people was in a mess, asking for instructions on whether to save people, and Mrs. Meng was still immersed in the pain of her grandson's untimely death, where could she take care of her, so she just sat paralyzed and ignored it.

On the other side, Lao Liu had heard the news and broke into the courtyard, but he was still stunned: "I...... The children have been given to you, why are you ...... And you want to kill my daughter-in-law......"

Only then did the old lady raise her head and said hatefully: "She strangled my own grandson, she deserves to die!"

When Lao Liu heard this, all his blood and qi rushed to his head, and he couldn't help but say that he wanted to go up and fight hard.

The old lady said to the family members with a cold face: "Beat hard, avenge my grandson!"

The family members were instructed, with full strength, and Lao Liu's desperate resistance and insults, they didn't know how long they fought, and when they were tired, they found that the people under their feet were no longer moving.

Everyone was shocked, and couldn't help but be silent, and looked at the old lady in fear.

The Meng family's house lost three lives this night.

In the second half of the night, the old lady finally recovered some spirits, and went to the backyard to fish up the body of Lao Liu's daughter-in-law, wrapped it in a straw mat with Lao Liu, and arranged to bury it in a grave outside the city before dawn.

The two of them didn't hear about any relatives in the family, and they didn't see anyone asking, and they didn't dare to gossip, so the matter passed in a daze.

Meng Hongxian has not come back yet, and the child's funeral is not daring, and the whole family is covered with dark clouds.

And such a big event happened in the Meng family, and Meng Hongxian, who was in the palace, didn't know about it.

He only said that his newborn child was brought into the palace, and now in Lafayette, he has integrity in his bones, but he can't escape the normal feelings of people, and finally painted the painting requested by the foreigners.

Glazing again, firing, and waiting for the finished product to come out, it was already more than ten days later, and the foreigners were very satisfied, and the palace also talked and gave the child back to him.

On the day he returned the child, to his surprise, it was Lafayette who personally hugged him.

Xu is chance, as soon as the child entered the palace, he smiled at Lafayette, Lafayette saw that his lips were red and his teeth were white, and he liked it at a glance, he didn't treat him badly these days, he specially invited the nurse to feed, and assigned two people to take care of him.

She asked the child's name, Meng Hongxian said that the man of this generation has not yet taken the name from An, and Lafayette happened to hold the child in his arms and casually gave him a name: Huai'an.

Meng Hongxian took the child's front foot back, and the back foot Lafayette sent someone to pass on the Yi decree, and specially named Meng Huai'an, the son of the Meng family, as the cloud cavalry captain, and was a first-class public of the fifth grade.

As a result, due to a blessing in disguise, the Meng family became the only folk porcelain painting family that could enter the palace, and Meng Huai'an was the only non-hereditary duke who had a title when he was still in his infancy.

Meng Hongxian knew that there were many folk porcelain paintings, and his Meng family could have this honor, but he just inherited a smile from his own child, and these honors were brought by this child, and this child was sent by God to benefit the Meng family.

And when he returned home with his son, he was dumbfounded when he saw the white candles and white curtains that were secretly placed on the ground.

After the decree was issued, the family had a hard time riding a tiger, so they had to tacitly say that from then on, this child, he is Meng Huai'an, and he is the eldest son of the Meng family.

It's just that Meng Hongxian learned that his parents and children died young, and he thought that he painted against his will, but he still harmed his children, and he couldn't hold a pen anymore.

Fortunately, even if he no longer paints, just relying on the mass production of those painting templates in the past is enough to have a steady stream of orders, not to mention, they still have the head of the palace to cover it, as long as they hold Meng Huai'an over every once in a while, they can always get some rewards.

Time flies, Pan Lanfang later added another son, and Meng Hongxian married two more aunts, each of whom had a daughter.