Chapter 332: Aftermath (Part II)
The next development of events was similar to what Princess Wuyang expected: Empress Dowager Meng scolded Mrs. Wu'anhou meaningfully and punished her for half a year, but she didn't mention Meng Bichen and his wife again.
only said Meng Liyi and Meng Liti: "These two girls, they have so many hearts and eyes at a young age, they are really not like the virtuous ladies of my Meng daughter! It just so happens that they have also reached the age of discussing relatives, so they will be sent away from afar, not only to give an explanation for the flower viewing banquet, but also to avoid bringing their nieces and nephews!"
Mrs. Wu'anhou and Mrs. Chengyanghou naturally won't object, anyway, these two girls are not their own children, let alone sent away from afar, or they directly "died violently", and they didn't care very much.
At this moment, Jun said: "What the Queen Mother said is that the concubine will do it when she goes back!"
Empress Dowager Meng glanced at the eldest princess of Wuyang and Empress Meng on the left and right, frowned and continued: "The children of the Xu Sheng family, you can't treat them badly! Especially the township lord of Mingning, a good girl, has such a thing...... If there is no good home in the future, the mourning family will definitely not follow!"
Mrs. Wu'anhou hurriedly said: "Don't worry, the Queen Mother! Even if you don't say it, it is absolutely impossible for the concubine not to go to the Ningwei Hou Mansion to bear the guilt!"
Mrs. Chengyang Hou sighed in her heart, Mrs. Wu'an Hou is so good that she wants to cover up her own daughter and make all kinds of compensation, but her own room is too wronged, right?
Although he was unwilling, he was helpless, and he promised: "The concubine will also go with the second sister-in-law to seek the forgiveness of the two families." ”
The eldest princess of Wuyang knew that things were almost here, and the Meng family was now at the time of employing people, and stability and unity were most needed internally. If it weren't for the fact that the incident happened in her neutral eldest princess's mansion, the Xu Sheng family involved was also inextricably linked to the Meng family and King Gaomi, not the kind of people who could press it casually, this kind of thing would not even alarm the queen mother at all, and the Wu'an Hou couple would have discussed a few words with the Chengyang Hou couple and solved it.
Now, although the culprit is still at large, the Marquis of Wu'an and the Marquis of Chengyang will apologize at most...... But it's already the best outcome.
At least their actions of coming to the door to ask for guilt will finalize the identities of Xu Baomo and Gongsun Yingjiang's victims, and it can be regarded as a return to the innocence of these two people.
The eldest princess was about to say a few words to end the matter, when Queen Meng suddenly spoke: "Is it also to give the Mingning Township Lord a title to show appeasement?" After all, in this situation, she will most likely be the wife of the Marquis of Ningwei, and she will live in Chang'an for a long time in the future, and when she goes out to socialize...... With Yi Zhi covering his face, he can also avoid a lot of unnecessary rumors?"
As soon as these words came out, not only Mrs. Wu'anhou and Mrs. Chengyang felt that Empress Meng was too good to the Sheng family, but even the eldest princess of Wuyang muttered: "Meng Shishi has always been cold and lonely, although he never takes the initiative to find trouble with others, he will definitely not meddle in things...... Why do you do this to the girls of the Sheng family?"
However, Empress Dowager Meng knew that this was because when Sheng Weiqiao's aunt and nephew saved people before, it was Sheng Weiqiao who took the idea, and it was Gongsun Yingjiang who contributed the most.
As a result, in order to cover up for the queen, this matter could not be announced, although Sheng Weiqiao was awarded the title of county lord, her two cousins Sheng Weirao and Sheng Weiwei were all stained as county lords, but Gongsun Yingjiang only became the township lord due to his low seniority...... Empress Meng took the opportunity to make up for it.
"But it's a matter of Yi's will, it's good to make the child's heart feel comfortable!" Empress Dowager Meng thought so, and nodded, "In that case, let people draw up a decree when they mourn the family...... Oh, first send someone to Ningwei Hou's Mansion to ask, if the Sheng and Xu families have already decided to get married, and then give the two children a marriage, how much brilliance will it be!"
When Empress Meng heard this, a smile appeared on her originally cold face, and she said, "Aunt Xie!"
And said, "It's still my aunt's thoughtfulness!"
Empress Dowager Meng smiled and said a few words to her, "You came here early in the morning, and you are tired of thinking about it." Now that the matter is over, let's go back and rest!"
Seeing Empress Meng's playful retirement, the Queen Mother said to the eldest princess of Wuyang: "The matter at the flower viewing banquet, since Deping also has a share, you probably have to meet Concubine Mo, right? ”
After sending the eldest princess of Wuyang, he left Mrs. Wu'an Hou and Mrs. Chengyang Hou to come down and talk: "You guys, why are you so stupid?!"
Empress Dowager Meng's face was full of hatred, "Why did the Mourning family choose Fourteen to enter the Wangchun Palace, do you think that the Mourning family is just favoring the big house?!
"In the final analysis, it's not because Kang Zhao and Aunt Ming Ning helped Fourteen before?!"
"Then two outsiders, don't talk about feelings with Fourteen before, they haven't said hello to one in particular, and they haven't spoken in private!"
"Just because I saved Fourteen, Fourteen still protects them like this!"
"Those of you who are uncles, aunts, cousins, if you are also good to her, can she not remember?!"
"Bi Chen's brainless thing!"
"Actually used the means of treating outsiders to Fourteen, thinking that Fourteen could be subdued?!"
"She doesn't want to think about it, even if Fourteen is her cousin, now that she is the queen of my Da Mu, in the future, sooner or later, she will take over the mourning family and become the master of this Xinshou Palace!"
"What do you mean by Bichen?!"
"Above the future Queen Mother?!"
"Then is she still thinking about letting the mourning family be a puppet for her?!"
"Now there is a family of intimacy and harmony and beauty, and I just want to be competitive!"
"This will be fine, fourteen look at the girls of the Sheng family, they are more affectionate than their own sisters!"
"If you treat her well, the mourning family can blame her for not being able to distinguish between inside and outside;
"People who are so old, they don't even have such a little eyesight, they are simply older and more confused than the mourning family!"
The two Mrs. Hou did not dare to raise their heads by the Queen Mother's training, their faces were respectful, but they were also a little disappreciative in their hearts, when the Empress Dowager Meng wanted to choose a successor from the younger generations of her mother's family, she was picked in the big room from beginning to end, and she didn't think about the two-bedroom, three-bedroom and four-bedroom at all.
Nowadays, the so-called "because of the sex of the Fourteen Knowing Grace and Wanting to repay the Son" is just a high-sounding rhetoric!
However, the Queen Mother mentioned that the reason why Empress Meng was good to the girls of the Sheng family was because Sheng Weiqiao's aunt and nephew had saved Empress Meng, but she moved them: "Because of the coquettish words, although Fourteen is the stepdaughter, she has never been surprised. We hadn't paid much attention to her before...... If she is really a soft eater who does not eat hard, she can get great benefits by coaxing her, why not?"
At the moment, he said: "The lesson of the queen mother is that the concubine must often go to Jingshao Hall when she turns around, and get close to the queen mother!"
Empress Dowager Meng is very clear about the thoughts of these two brothers and daughters-in-law, but as long as they are willing to please Empress Meng, the Empress Dowager is old, although the people below have a mouthful of "you should be old and strong", but her body knows in her heart, and she can't last a few years.
The only son, Emperor Xuanjing, is like that, and the Queen Mother really doesn't expect any grandchildren, but what she is most concerned about at the moment is her mother's family.
In order to take care of her younger brother, she chose Meng Biyun as her successor, but she didn't want the big trouble of King Gaomi to be eradicated, but the Meng family had made several moves within the Meng family. Especially the young Empress Meng was originally very cold to Zheng Guogong because of her biological father's spoiled concubine and killed his wife, and now the second and third rooms are also disrespectful to this queen, isn't this a hidden danger to the future of the Meng family? !
So at this moment, seeing that Mrs. Wu'an Hou and Mrs. Chengyang Hou were being taught, she didn't bother to ask them to treat Empress Meng sincerely, so she waved her hand and said: "Go back! Go to Ningweihou's Mansion as soon as possible to give them an explanation to the two families, don't procrastinate, make people suspect that the Meng clan is bullying!"
The two of them said goodbye, and after leaving the Xinshou Palace, Mrs. Chengyanghou's face became ugly: "Second sister-in-law, what Bichen did, pulled us into the third room and was scolded and punished, this is too unauthentic, right?!"
"Third brother and sister, don't feel wronged. However, Mrs. Wu'anhou sneered when she heard this, "If you want to make it clear, I still want to tell you well: What virtues do you not know about the beauty in my room? That is a waste who can't even beat the lord of Deping in a verbal battle! If there is no Liti in your room to mention it, she will at most chew a few words behind her back, where can she come up with the means to calculate people at the flower appreciation banquet?!"
Mrs. Chengyang Hou said hesitantly: "If it weren't for Bichen and his wife to seduce him, I don't believe Liti would do this!"
"But it's always her own mind. "Mrs. Wu'anhou didn't want her to do it, but when she thought about it, the Queen Mother specially left the two of them, hoping that the Meng family would put down the infighting and work together.
Only then did he slow down his tone and said, "Brother and sister, our husband is a sibling, and we have always advanced and retreated together. At this time, things have happened, and there is no point in pursuing these anymore, the key is to calm this matter down quickly, so as not to annoy the Queen Mother!"
Mrs. Chengyang Hou said with a calm face: "You said it easily! The matter was made out in your room, and when you went to Ningwei Hou's Mansion to apologize, you had to be accompanied by our three rooms...... Are you happy to change you?!"
She deliberately bit the word "li", and Mrs. Wu'anhou finally understood what she meant, and sighed: "Okay, go back and give Xu Sheng's two families an apology, the one in the third room, we will go out in the second room!"
Mrs. Chengyang Hou was satisfied, smiled, and said, "Thank you for the second sister-in-law!"
They intended to appease the anger of the Empress Dowager Meng, and after returning that day, they prepared generous gifts, brought their respective concubines, and went to the Ningwei Marquis Mansion to ask for guilt.
After arriving, they saw that the eldest princess of Wuyang was there first, and she had already explained the attitude of Concubine Mo to the two families, and conveyed the queen mother's decision for them.
Although both the Sheng family and the Xu family were very dissatisfied with the result of Meng Bichen and his wife being left out, they also knew that if the Meng family did not fall, they could not help the couple.
After putting on a face, he reluctantly agreed to reveal it...... If you don't agree, you can't help it, the situation is stronger than people.
After sending off the guests on this day, Old Marquis Xu and Old Lady Sheng comforted each other: "Feng Shui takes turns, this couple is so vicious, sooner or later there will be no good end!"
"Cai Kui's wedding date is imminent, how about the marriage between Baomo and Ying Jiang, I think it will be set at the beginning of May?" After cursing Meng Bichen and his wife, the two discussed the matter, "If it is set for this month, it is too rushed." I'm afraid that this up and down will not be too busy, and when the time comes, it will not be comprehensive enough, and I will be wronged by Ying Jiang. ”
Old Marquis Xu said, "But we can let out the news now, so that we can learn about it inside and outside, so as not to be talked about by Ying Jiang." ”
"Didn't Her Royal Highness the eldest princess whisper that the Queen Mother still plans to marry the two children?" Old Lady Sheng reminded, "Why don't you wait for Yi Zhi to come down and take a look?" Although this matter is not easy to delay for too long, Mrs. Wu Anhou and Mrs. Chengyang Hou have brought their daughters to accompany the ceremony, so it is still nothing to delay for so many days. ”
The old marquis was right to think about it, so he gave up for the time being.
However, before the Empress Dowager's decree came down, Queen Meng passed on another message and summoned Sheng Weiqiao into the palace to speak.