Chapter 118: There is another secret
The eldest lady heard that the girl outside came in to report that the second lady had come to see her, and she was busy asking the girls to come in quickly.
"Mother, did you do that thing?" As soon as the second lady came in, she questioned the eldest lady in a rather unkind tone.
The eldest lady couldn't help frowning, this girl ......
She asked Yahuan to serve tea to the second young lady, and said slowly: "Fang'er, what is it that makes you so anxious that you even speak upside down? Don't worry, talk to your mother slowly." ”
The second lady glanced at the eldest lady: "Mother, did the fifth sister do that thing with the concubine Niangniang, and besides, what kind of Shouwang is also involved......
The eldest lady's face suddenly turned ugly: "Who did you listen to about this?"
The second lady was stunned for a moment, originally she came here to ask for verification, at least she hoped that the eldest lady could deny it verbally, it was not she who joined forces with Cen Guifei to do it, in that case, she would at least feel at ease.
However, the tone and expression of the eldest lady already said everything: she did the whole thing!
"Mother......" The second lady looked at the eldest lady in a daze, although she had confirmed in her heart that the eldest lady did it, but she still couldn't believe it, "Mother, how did you become like this? How could you do such a thing?"
The eldest lady snorted coldly and said, "What has become of it? Your mother has always been like this, otherwise, do you think that in this family, there is still the status of our mother and daughter? Your third brother went early, otherwise he would be a smart one, much better than your eldest brother. Now only your fourth brother is left. After all, I'm too young, I'll take care of you all by myself, how do you think your mother and I have survived all these years? The goods in the second room have been eyeing each other, and her daughter is not a vegetarian, and she is a virtuous person with her mother, and she knows how to calculate people all day long, do you suffer less from her?"
The second lady bit her lip. Stamped his feet: "Mother, why are you talking about this again?"
"What did I say about this?" said the eldest lady, "someone's daughter." The city is very deep and good at planning, otherwise, the second room can oppose me everywhere. It almost hit my head! It's you who are not angry as children, your eldest brother is like this, you are like this, you look at others, your son is angry, reads well, poems and articles, etc., and has been repeatedly praised by Mr. Out of the limelight. My daughter is also angry, didn't she almost compare you to the number one lady in the capital? There is nothing, nothing is better than others, you say, your mother doesn't use some means, but I'm afraid that the property of these three rooms will be taken up by them!"
The more the second lady listened, the more shocked she became: "Mother, what are you talking about, what is the property of the third room?"
The eldest lady looked at the second lady with some hatred, it seems that her method is wrong, and she has cultivated her daughter into a famous lady in the capital, as a result, in addition to piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, other calculations between people, as well as human sophistication, she doesn't understand anything, and she doesn't know how to plan for herself.
"Fang'er, you are so old, and my mother won't hide it from you. Do you know why your mother did this? Isn't it for you children? Your eldest brother is about to weaken, and it is time to marry a daughter-in-law, and you say that with your eldest brother's temperament, can there be a good girl willing to marry him? If you want your eldest brother to marry a satisfactory daughter-in-law, you have to sprinkle a lot of money. ”
Speaking of this, the eldest lady paused, looked at the second lady dotingly, and said: "And you, you are the hope of the mother, you are going to marry the prince, the dowry of the future princess, there is no one hundred and twenty, isn't it a joke for the people in the capital to see our Yuanning Marquis Mansion? Besides, if the dowry is too thin, how can you hold your head up in the palace in the future?"
"Mother!" The second lady frowned and looked at the eldest lady, how could she talk about this matter, she actually talked about herself, and she hadn't really decided about marrying the prince to be the princess.
Seeing that the second lady lowered her head and was silent, the eldest lady thought that she was moved by what she said, so she eased her tone and said: "Fang'er, you must not underestimate the third room, although there is only your fifth sister left in the third room, but this land is several times more than our entire Yuanning Hou Mansion." Don't say that our room, the second room, and the old lady are all staring at the fields in the third room. ”
The second young lady raised her head in amazement: "Old lady?"
The eldest lady sneered: "Don't think how merciful the old lady is, when she saw the orphan girl in the third room, she took pity on her, took her in the house, and waited for her to eat and live well? As long as it is beneficial to the Yuanning Hou Mansion, she will do everything possible to be good to you, if it is not good for the Yuanning Hou Mansion, even if it is her own granddaughter, it is like the seventh miss who died last year, if she doesn't listen to the old lady, she will not be killed by the old lady in a different way?"
The second young lady was so shocked that her face changed, and she trembled her lips and said, "Impossible." Mother, isn't the matter of the seventh sister being exposed because she looked at that Dong Xiucai a few more times at the Qixi Lantern Festival, and then missed him?"
The eldest lady snorted coldly: "That's a rhetoric to the outside world, the real reason is that the old lady has already booked someone for her, if she can do what the old lady wants, so many things won't happen." But she was stubborn and refused to listen to the old lady, so she had to choose her own husband, and secretly met with the kid of the Dong family, made a private engagement for life, and then proposed to the old lady to marry into the Dong family. Think about it, what are the consequences of disobeying the old lady? ”
The second lady's face turned white, she didn't expect that the old lady, who had always been kind and amiable, would be so vicious, just because she didn't listen to her arrangement, she didn't even let go of her own granddaughter. In that case, if he refuses to marry the prince, then according to the old lady's means, will he also marry himself like the seventh sister to a bad old man who has been married to a half of his body in the coffin in the province?
Thinking of this, the second lady couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
Where did the eldest lady think that her daughter had such thoughts, she looked at Gu Yuanfang earnestly and said, "Fang'er, I know that you are the most distressed mother, and you can understand your mother's hard work the most." You have worked so hard over the years, and the hard work in it is all in your eyes. Therefore, the position of the crown princess, my mother will fight for me no matter what, and she will definitely not give anyone else any chance. You have to believe in your mother, your mother does this for your own good, your mother's hard work, and when you become a parent in the future, you will be able to understand. ”
The second lady hurriedly got up: "Mother, I have something, I'll leave first." After speaking, without waiting for the eldest lady to agree, she hurriedly turned around and walked out quickly.
"This child!" the eldest lady looked at her daughter's departing back dotingly, and shook her head with a smile.
The second lady hurriedly walked out of Juping Courtyard with Cuihuan, and walked all the way, as if there was a ghost chasing her. Cuihuan followed inexplicably, and when she saw that her young lady was walking too fast, she hurriedly shouted: "Miss, don't go so fast, wait for the slave." But the second lady didn't hear it for a while, and walked until she reached the bridge of the pond, and then she held on to the railing and stopped.
She was so surprised, first, what happened to her fifth sister in the palace was really done by her mother, second, that there was no other reason for the death of her seventh sister, and third, that she had decided to pursue her own happiness and marry the person she liked, so what should she do?
In front of him, a burly and majestic figure crossed by, and his face was full of smiles: "Miss, this road is not smooth, if Miss is willing, then how about I give Miss a ride?"
She closed her eyes in pain, what was she going to do, what was she going to do? (To be continued......