Sheng Weiwei (II)
"You're naΓ―ve. Sheng Weirao shook the fan and said lightly, "Don't forget that the reason why the second sister has been favored by the Feng family and the Xuan Yu family since she was a child is a very important reason, that is, the Feng family and the old lady of the Xuan Yu family, there are no girls in our generation, and things are rare!"
"Even if the second sister now looks at the Feng family and the Xuan Yu family is more important than you, but this is because the old lady of the Xuan Yu family, the old lady of the Feng family, and the old lady of the Feng family are still there. In the final analysis, the second sister's emphasis on these two families is to attach importance to the elders! So if we don't stop us at this time, especially you, and get close to the second sister, what will happen in the future? In the future, there will be no elders in these two families, such as Feng Zhiyi's generation, because of the difference between men and women, and the second sister does not spend much time together, where can we not have a share? When the time comes, if we intend to let the Sheng family rise......
Seeing Sheng Weiwei's face change, she raised her eyebrows, with a cold smile on the corner of her mouth, "It's a blessing for our sisters to have such a cousin, don't think about it if you don't have it." Where in this world are there so many wishful wishes?"
Sheng Weiwei didn't mention that she wanted to meet Sheng Weiqiao after returning from these three sisters.
However, on the day she left the pavilion, an unexpected guest came, it was the eldest princess Chonghui.
The eldest princess of Chonghui is the princess of Fenyang during the reign of Emperor Zhenqing, because the relationship between Huan Ye and Sheng Weiqiao is not bad, and it can be regarded as watching Emperor Chengtai grow up, and Emperor Chengtai and King Lingqiu have always treated her as an aunt.
After Emperor Zhenqing ascended the throne, Emperor Chengtai ascended the throne not long ago, and was crowned as the eldest princess of Chonghui.
The eldest princess Chonghui is not only very favored by the royal family, but also Gongsun Xi, the hero of the dragon who has followed Emperor Zhenqing for the longest time, and the husband and wife have a pivotal position in the former harem. She personally went south and traveled thousands of miles to eat Sheng Weiwei's wedding wine, and the entire Nanfeng County was a sensation.
Although the eldest princess didn't stay in the Sheng Mansion for long, she went to visit the Feng Mansion and the Xuan Yu Mansion again, saying that when the family lived in Nanfeng County, they were not less taken care of by these two families. But this move was enough for the Sheng family to cry with joy, and Xiao was so excited that he almost scratched his daughter's arm: "Good boy, look, your second sister treats you differently!"
Sensing that Xipa's daughter was in tears, she was busy and coaxing, "Don't cry, don't cry...... A day of great joy...... Don't mess with your makeup!"
Even Old Lady Feng, when chatting with Princess Chonghui two days later, stroked her long beard and said with a smile: "Qiao'er must be relieved." β
"In the end, it's the queen's cousin who grew up, and the mother is such a playmate when she is young. Princess Chonghui smiled and said, "As long as she is doing well, Niangniang will not worry." β
Old lady Feng nodded and expressed her understanding: "Qiao'er is this character, we also guess that when the little girl of the Sheng family came out of the cabinet, she must have expressed something, but I didn't expect that it was Her Royal Highness the eldest princess who came in person, which was really surprising." β
"It's not all for the Sheng family. The eldest princess Chong Hui said, "It's also the mother who misses your second elder, and the old lady of the Xuanyu family, ask me to come over and have a look." β
This eldest princess has been famous for her eight-sided exquisiteness since she was a teenager, and there is almost no one she can't coax well, and Mrs. Feng and his wife are not fools with Xuanyu Feng, so when they met, they talked about it very much, and they were happy...... The eldest princess was in Nanfeng County for a few days, and after Sheng Weiwei returned to the door in the third dynasty, she also went to Feng's Mansion to meet her, and was kept to talk and gave a lot of things before leaving.
After Sheng Weiwei followed her newlywed husband back to her home in a neighboring county, Princess Chonghui left.
She went back to Chang'an, and the 1510 Tongsheng Weiqiao finished telling the story: "Her mother-in-law's family, your grandfather also said that she is a kind person, and she must not treat her daughter-in-law lightly." What's more, your obvious hint can be seen by fools, if that family is not good to your sister, is it possible that it is a long life?"
Sheng Weiqiao was also pleased.
It's just that it didn't take long to be relieved, and I received the bad news that Sheng Weiwei's husband died of illness.
Sheng Weiqiao, who was abrupt with this news, couldn't believe it at first.
The eldest princess Chonghui, who was hurriedly summoned into the palace, was also stunned: "Good person...... The people around me went to see it on the day of the wedding, and they all said that he was a young man who was full of energy, and it was only a few days, how could he say that it was gone?"
"If it's really a sudden illness, it's okay to go. Sheng Weiqiao's face was very ugly, "If there was something bad a long time ago, he deliberately concealed ......"
The eldest princess of Chonghui nodded clearly: "I'll go again, if someone dares to cheat on marriage, I will teach his whole family to know how powerful!"
Sheng Weiqiao knew that she was shrewd, and she promised.
The eldest princess Chonghui went south again in person, on the grounds that the empress was visiting Mrs. Feng and other elders.
She stayed in the south for more than two months before returning to Chang'an, and after arriving in Chang'an, she entered the palace after a little freshening up, and talked with Sheng Weiqiao for a long time before leaving.
What the two said in the past half a day, but neither of them was known to outsiders.
More than a month later, Sheng Weiwei saw the messenger of Chang'an again, and she was ordered by Sheng Weiqiao to come to pick her up.
However, she refused.
Sheng Lanzi and Xiao rushed to her son-in-law's house overnight to scold her daughter for being ignorant, why did she miss such an opportunity?
Xiao Shi was especially puzzled: "You used to miss your second sister, but now people have sent someone to pick you up, why don't you want it again? Do you really want to be close to your second sister, or are you just talking?"
"Of course, I really like the second sister and want to be close to the second sister. "Not long after being out of the cabinet, Sheng Weiqiao is very thin, her eyebrows and eyes are quite similar to Sheng Weiqiao, especially a pair of apricot eyes, almost the same, when she looked at her coldly at this moment, she was in a trance when Sheng Weiqiao was angry in the past, which made people dare not make a mistake, "So I will definitely not be used by you to calculate the second sister!"
Sheng Lanzi and Xiao were confused: "Girl, what are you talking about?"
"Go back and ask your grandmother. Sheng Weiwei knew that her parents were neither smart nor valued by her grandfather and grandmother, and the Sheng family's big and small affairs were basically not in their hands, and they would not even tell them at all in many cases, waving her hands tiredly, "Don't come to me in the future, I will choose a successor from my husband's nephews to be my husband's heir, and concentrate on raising him to grow up." β
"What are you talking about? You are still so young, how can you live like this for the rest of your life because your son-in-law is gone?" Xiao disagreed, "Go back with your father and mother, stay for a year, and then we will find you a good remarriage...... The queen mother likes you so much, do you still care about this kind of thing? Not to mention that your uncle and aunt don't care much about the people in the chastity archway. β
"Remarry, and then watch your husband's death is not clear?" Sheng Weiwei looked at her, with insightful sadness and resentment in her eyes, "I don't like to be wronged, but I have never taken the initiative to harm others." I didn't know about such a sinful thing before I left the cabinet, but now that I understand it, how can I continue?"
Xiao still didn't understand what his daughter meant, but he instinctively felt that something was wrong, and exchanged suspicious glances with Sheng Lanzi.
The couple persuaded their daughter for a long time at their in-laws' house, and even the in-laws didn't know whether it was out of kindness or fear of the queen, and they also took the initiative to persuade Sheng Weiwei to go back to her parents' house to remarry, but Sheng Weiwei was hard-hearted and didn't listen to anyone.
Even later he was annoyed and threatened to be martyred, and the scared people didn't dare to make a sound.
When the in-laws saw this situation, they asked euphemistically whether they wanted to apply for a chastity archway for their daughter-in-law?
This proposal was decisively rejected by Sheng Lanzi and his wife, and there was no archway, Sheng Weiwei's attitude was resolute at this time, and she figured it out when she looked back, and it was nothing to remarry.
After the archway is erected, it can only be stubbornly guarded for a lifetime.
They are such a daughter, and they will never let her spend the rest of her life alone.
The couple returned to Nanfeng County in the dust, and went to the back hall to find Mrs. Ming without caring about tidying up their appearance: "Mother, do you and your second brother have something important to hide from us?"
Old Madam Ming was slightly stunned and said, "What?"
"The death of the concubine. Xiao glanced at her husband, Sheng Lanzi has always had a respectful attitude towards her parents because she was not loved by her parents since she was a child, and she refused to come forward at all, but this time it was related to her daughter, and he could only bite the bullet, "Is it something sudden, or is there something else?"
ββ¦β¦ What are you talking about?" Old Madam Ming was stunned, but she was furious, "Could it be that you suspect that I will harm my own granddaughter's young widow?!"
Xiao Shi was silent, only quietly stepped on her husband's feet, asking him to ask him to understand all the doubts that the two of them had sorted out on the road.
"Why doesn't that woman go to Chang'an with the queen's people?" Sheng Lanzi said cautiously, "She has always liked the queen, and she was very enthusiastic about trying to send something to the queen before, how could she not want to go to Chang'an to see the queen?"
"Is she confused?" said Mrs. Ming blankly, "but what does this have to do with her husband's death?" what are you talking about...... By the way, did that woman go to Chang'an in the end? This child can't be confused, she and her husband had a good time, but now that the child is gone, she continues to stay in her husband's house, is it possible that she will have to keep it for the rest of her life? This is also too bitter! After going to Chang'an, I met the queen, and asked the queen to find her a good one, so that I could forget these sad things!"
Xiao Shi glanced at her husband, and saw that Sheng Lanzi didn't say a reason for a long time, frowned, and simply went on her own: "Mother, is this for this?"
Old Madam Ming looked at her inexplicably: "What?"
"The queen has always treated her as a sister-in-law, there are so many children in the family, whoever becomes a queen just lets the people below give a gift, but the queen is out of the cabinet, and the queen sent the eldest princess Chonghui to congratulate her in person. Xiao Shi took a deep breath and said in a hurry, "It shows that he attaches great importance to Fu'er! Then if Fu'er leaves the cabinet and her husband is gone, can the queen not feel distressed? No, she will be taken to Chang'an for a reunion at this time, and in the future, she will have to personally choose a noble man as her husband for Fu'er...... Although the Feng family and the Xuan Yu family have been watching and not allowing us to get too close to the queen, but on this eye, the queen is only afraid that she will be close to her first, isn't it?"
"So you suspect that I managed to murder her husband because when I was out of the cabinet, I congratulated the eldest princess in person, so that I could catch up with the queen?"
Sheng Lanzi looked at her mother's stunned appearance, and felt a little weak: "Mother, someone may have said so in front of Fu'er, we also listened to her......"
"The second brother caused trouble again last month. Xiao interrupted him, his eyes fixed on Mrs. Ming, and said slowly, "Who is he not good with, so he has to hang out with the newly transferred county guard's concubine?" That concubine is of course the county guard's neglect for a long time, so she can't bear to be lonely and find the second brother, but how can she also be a county guard...... The county guard didn't send a message to the second brother, and the second brother had a head and end with her, but where did this put the face of the parents and officials? But Old Lady Feng must have told Chang'an the truth, and even added fuel and vinegar. Otherwise, the eldest brother and sister-in-law would not suddenly send someone over to deliver things, and let us not embarrass the queen...... Mother, you have always loved the second brother. β
Seeing that the old lady looked at herself gloomily and did not speak.
Xiao was silent for a moment and continued, "At the beginning, the concubine in the second room and the concubine in our third room originally had the county lord canonized by the Empress Dowager Meng of the previous dynasty, and they were the queen's cousins. But because of Mrs. Feng's request, she couldn't even marry the eunuchs, so she could only find her relatives in the gentry in the countryside. At this point, not only did we grieve for the child, but my mother was almost unscrupulous at that time...... But the father consciously took care of the loss, never agreed, and insisted on following the promise to Mrs. Feng and refused all the high-ranking proposals. β
"I remember that after the marriage of the concubine was decided, the mother cried for a long time. β
Tears gradually appeared in her eyes, "In fact, the daughter-in-law also regrets this to this day, after all, who is the mother of the family and doesn't want the child to have a good life?" But the marriage is decided, the son-in-law is honest, the in-laws are kind, and the eldest princess Chonghui is present in person...... The future of the concubine was originally visible to everyone, whether it was out of noble conduct or out of consideration for not offending the queen's mother, her in-laws would love her in every way. She doesn't need to be disturbed by the outer room of the concubine, she doesn't have a concubine to share her children's favor and family business, and her in-laws, aunts and uncles will definitely love and respect her...... She will live happily for the rest of her life!"
"But her husband is gone!!"
ββ¦β¦ As long as the queen is still there, if you find another husband, can't you live a smooth life with Le?" After a while, Xiao Shi even got up and retired in frustration, and Mrs. Ming said indifferently, "You can't understand it when you're young, can't you understand such a simple truth?!"
"Mother?!" Sheng Lanzi was shocked!
Although his wife's confession has made her suspicions clear, Sheng Lanzi still holds the hope that her mother will not be ruthless in letting her granddaughter who has just come out of the cabinet lose her husband for Sheng Lansi.
But Mrs. Ming's words are tantamount to a tactful admission!
Sheng Weiwei, who is not really hard-working, just passed the door and lost her husband.
Rather, because of the grandmother's calculations!
Her husband's family is just a powerful family in a neighboring county, and it belongs to a high family in the county, so it is nothing if you look at the whole country...... After all, the neighboring county is not a big county in the sea.
Although Mrs. Ming is not treated in the Sheng family's big house, how do these outsiders know?
The grandmother of the much-loved queen, this identity, is more than enough to deal with a powerful family in the county.
"Isn't it also for your own good that I do this?" Old Madam Ming looked at her young son without flinching, and her tone was calm, "The Sheng family has a total of three rooms, what kind of life is the big house living now? What kind of days are the two rooms and three rooms living now?!" As the saying goes, one person has attained the Tao and the chicken dog ascends to heaven, and the big house is now extremely noble, and Qiao Er has become the most noble woman in the world...... But what about her own uncle, her cousins and sisters? Even need to look at her foreign family's eyes!! she can't write two words of 'Sheng' with one stroke, we should be Qiao'er's most caring and protective relatives, not some Feng family's family...... Why ......?"
"Why has the eldest brother honored you for so many years, and the son and daughter you gave birth to can't help him with anything, it's just a hard pit for him and his daughter, and their family will continue to make cattle and horses for your mother and son?!" Xiao burst into tears, "How did the big house get away from us, how did it drift away from us, mother, you still don't know?!, what kind of temper does the eldest brother have, how important the queen is to them, don't say anything else, just talk about what the sister-in-law did, and change it to others, I'm afraid that the nine clans will be peeled and cramped!! This is you, the second brother, and the sin of our family, what is there to complain about if you can have the current situation?!"
"You keep saying that you can't write two 'sheng' words in one stroke, why don't you say how Feng Jiaxuan's Yu family helped the big house and hurt Qiao'er in those years?!"
"The old lady of the Feng family has a full house of children and grandchildren, and she is not enjoying the blessings of Nanfeng County at a great age, but she has gone to Chang'an for the emperor and queen to go through life and death several times...... With such affection, what's wrong with the emperor treating them favorably?!"
"The most important thing is that you still want to fool us?!You hurt the second brother the most, everything you do is for your son!! what is also for our good, if it weren't for the second brother's obsession and trouble, the trouble is getting bigger and bigger, seeing that the father is getting older, you are worried that once the father goes, the eldest brother will no longer have nostalgia for us, and when the second brother makes trouble again, no one will protect him, and you will do something to kill your grandson-in-law and calculate your granddaughter to climb the high gate?!"
Mrs. Ming stood up, grabbed the tea bowl and smashed it down: "It's against you, dare to talk to me like this! Who are you?!"
β¦β¦ It was already two months later when this turmoil reached Sheng Weiwei's ears, and at the same time, the news came that Mrs. Ming and Sheng Lansi were both sick.
As for whether he is really sick or fakely sick...... Anyway, the queen said that they should recuperate with peace of mind and not think too much, so everyone thought that they were indeed sick.
"The old lady was really sick after hearing the news, and she asked the doctor to watch it for the past two days. The messenger lowered his head and said cautiously, "When the little one set off, I heard the maid who was waiting in the inner courtyard say that the third master and the third lady were discussing, should you report to Chang'an?"
Seeing that Sheng Weiwei didn't speak, he hesitated for a long time before he asked softly, "Miss, will you go back and see the old lady?"
didn't mention the old lady and Sheng Lansi, obviously the condition of these two people is not so simple.
It is equivalent to confirming Sheng Weiwei's original suspicions.
She held a plain fan to cover her face, and tears fell down her face.
The husband who died violently when he was newly married was selected by Sheng Lanzi and his wife as much as possible in the requirements limited by Mrs. Feng, but the couple was actually not satisfied. However, Sheng Weiwei has had a good relationship with Sheng Weiqiao since she was a child, and she is very tainted with some of this cousin's habits, such as despising money because of her rich life.
What she cares about is her character, whether her appearance is outstanding, and she doesn't have any concept of the lintel of her family.
Sheng Lanzi and his wife were full of grievances, and they were not in the mood to arrange for their daughter to take a few more glances before marriage.
The young couple only met on their wedding night, and they have only been together for a few months, so it is not enough to say how deep and righteous they are.
But Sheng Weiwei felt sorry for him.
The queen sent Chong Hui to congratulate the eldest princess, which was a good intention, but she didn't want to become a lifeline for her brother-in-law, and even made her sister a widow.
Sheng Weiwei didn't complain about her cousin, she just regretted that she shouldn't have made all kinds of trouble before leaving the cabinet, and looked for people everywhere to tell her feelings about wanting to reunite with Sheng Weiqiao.
If it weren't for this, the Sheng family would have had several children get married in recent years, for example, her brother Sheng Weiche and Sheng Weiqiao were all handled in a decent manner, and asked the palace people to send something over, that is, there was never a superfluous move.
Why is it different when it's her turn?
In the final analysis, she was too willful and naΓ―ve at that time, and she didn't see the madness behind her grandmother's unwillingness to marry Sheng Weirao's sisters.
Thinking of the day I left the cabinet, I was still full of joy, and my cousin really didn't forget herself.
When I arrived at my husband's house and had children, my bond with my mother's family faded, so I should have hope of seeing my cousin, right?
Now Sheng Weiqiao sent someone to pick her up, and the sister reunion was just around the corner, but she didn't want to go to Chang'an at all.
"I don't have much to say to the Sheng family. Sheng Weiwei retracted her thoughts, looked at the servant in front of her, and said indifferently, "Don't come here again in the future." β
Without waiting for the servant to say anything, she added, "I have already given my father-in-law, and tomorrow I will have my stephusband's nephew as my heir." In the future, I will raise my children with peace of mind...... Everything else has nothing to do with me, and I won't go to Chang'an to see the queen again. β
Since then, she has really never returned to Nanfeng County, and she has never seen any Sheng family again, including Sheng Lanzi and his wife, including Sheng Weide and Sheng Weirao.
A few years later, her husband's family decided to ask her to set up a memorial arch, but the government had already agreed, but when it came to the end, she regretted it and was vague. The husband's family vaguely told her that it was Sheng Lanzi and his wife who went to Chang'an to ask Sheng Lanci and his wife.
Sheng Weiwei listened, her heart was like water, she only got up and rolled up her sleeves, wiped the sweat on her forehead for the heir who ran in from outside, and complained that he was wearing too little clothes: "Catch a cold carefully." β
The heir has grown up, and has been instilled in his mother's high demeanor by the people around him, and he is very respectful and respectful to her.
Not to mention the husband's family, the queen's favorite cousin before leaving the cabinet was willing to observe the festival for her son, and they were deeply flattered, and they almost regarded it as a palm.
Although she is not accompanied by her husband, Sheng Weiwei feels that this kind of life is actually not bad.
However, although the mood gradually calmed down, Mrs. Ming died, Sheng Lansi died, and Mrs. Sheng died...... When the news of the funeral came, Sheng Weiwei listened as if she hadn't heard it.
Ignore without saying a word.
Even the news of Sheng Lanzi's illness failed to change to the person who reported the news to meet her.
She was so determined to break with that family.
Is such a firm attitude for guilt or resentment...... It's been so long that I can't even figure it out myself.
Or maybe the wound is too deep and painful to look into in detail.
β¦β¦ The husband's family actually didn't know why she fell out with her mother's family, but the Sheng family insisted on letting her remarry and she didn't want to, so he took special pity on her, and persuaded her a few times to see her and didn't want to hear it, and didn't say more.
But every time the Sheng family came to report the news, they quietly used her name to take care of the world, and only said that she was too grief-stricken to see the scene, and she kept lying on the couch and couldn't get up.
Sheng Weiwei later learned that she wanted to say something, but when the words came to her lips and she felt tired, she ignored it.
As the days passed, the heir's eyebrows and eyes gradually grew, but the jump from his childhood did not change at all, and the place where he was there was never was cold.
He went to the clan every day to study, and when he came back, he went to Sheng Weiwei to tell the story of the day, his eyebrows danced, and he was more than hand-insighted, even if it was a small and inconspicuous thing, and the ups and downs of it were fascinating, so that the maids and women gathered to listen at this time, and the people who listened were all laughing.
Sheng Weiwei looked at him and thought of her youth in a trance.
Lying on his cousin Sheng Weiqiao's knees, he chattered, chased after Emperor Zhenqing, scolded him for his outer room, and told him to get out of the Sheng Mansion...... At this moment, looking at himself in the mirror, those young people are reckless and unscrupulous, as if they belong to someone else.
There was only a heart between her eyebrows, and the indifference and calm after death.
Retracting her gaze, she thought indifferently, probably she would live like this for the rest of her life.
Raise an heir well, watch him marry a wife and have children, and maybe take a few concubines and give birth to a bunch of grandchildren for himself...... It's lively and noisy to live this life.
However, plans are always not changing fast.
That day, Sheng Weirao rushed to her all the way despite Menzi's obstruction, and said, "The old lady of the Xuanyu family is gone!"
Sheng Weiwei, who had almost no intersection with Xuan Yu Feng, didn't react to the meaning of this sentence at first.
"The old lady is gone, and the people who have a good relationship with the second sister in Feng Jiaxuan's family are gone. Sheng Weirao cried and laughed, but in the end the tears still fell, "Our Sheng family is similar...... They're all gone, no one is pressuring us to keep our distance from the second sister, who is now in the palace of Nanfeng County!"
Sheng Weiwei seemed to have been struck by lightning, and for a moment she stiffened, before she said blankly, "Can we go to see the second sister?"
"Yes, no one is stopping our sisters from getting close anymore!" Sheng Weirao jumped up and hugged her, crying, "But the old lady of the Xuanyu family is gone!!"
The woman who supported and guided Sheng Weirao at the critical moment went, Sheng Weiwei may not be able to understand her cousin's sadness at the moment, but when she led the worried heir to the carriage to the palace, she suddenly burst into tears.
The grievances and estrangements between sisters have quietly disappeared with the death of their elders, but after many years, they have been thrilling in these years...... What will it be like to meet each other this time?
The past is in a hurry, Huafa has changed his face, this belated gathering, Sheng Weiwei looked at the distant mountains in spring from the half-hidden curtain, and suddenly gave birth to infinite hesitation: Do you want to go, or not go?