Chapter 167: Mrs. Xiang's Calculations
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Meng Boheng is the eighth son in the entire Meng family, and the second son in the big house. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
He has two half-sisters, two sisters, four sisters, all of whom have been out of the cabinet, because the age gap is too big, and they are not the same mothers, they do not have much contact, and they do not interfere in the affairs of their mother's family, and they are just repaid; there is only one brother, that is, the half-brother Meng Boqin, the son of Zheng Guogong; the two younger sisters, one is the younger sister Meng 14 Meng Biyun, and the other is Meng Lijiang, the 15th of the aunt Jiaoyu; there is also a half-brother, who is the youngest child of the Meng family's generation and the tenth son of the aunt Jiaoyu, Meng Si'an.
Because Zheng Guogong's original wife Zhong was born to Meng Boqin, Zheng Guogong did not continue until Emperor Xuanjing ascended the throne, and after Empress Dowager Meng took revenge on Concubine Rou, she relieved herself, cared about her mother's family, and gave the female official Xiang to Zheng Guogong as her stepwife, and Zheng Guogong's mansion had a new hostess - Mrs. Xiang was a full generation younger than Zhong, and she was not a few years older than Meng Boqin.
When Zhong died, she had not yet entered the palace, and she had never met with her step-room. Before marrying into the Zhengguo Mansion, she figured out the mind of the Empress Dowager Meng, and took great care of Meng Boqin.
Later, she became the hostess of Zheng Guogong's mansion, and in the first few years, she was very loved by Zheng Guogong and gave birth to Meng Boheng, she also took good care of Meng Boqin, put her heart into her heart, and never put her stepmother on the shelf.
Therefore, Meng Boqin, the son of Zheng Guogong, has always had a good relationship with this stepmother, otherwise Meng Boqin's family is now in northern Xinjiang, and he would not have sent his daughter to Mrs. Xiang to raise him - this is to entrust Meng Shuangxiao's marriage to Mrs. Xiang, which shows Meng Boqin's trust in her.
As the most relied on confidant of the Empress Dowager Meng, Mrs. Xiang understands herself: she is not from a high background, otherwise she would not have entered the palace as a palace maid, and was sent to serve the Empress Dowager Meng at that time.
Fortunately, she was honest when she was a teenager, although she was disappointed in serving the mother and son of the Empress Dowager Meng who were trembling under the oppression of Concubine Rou, she did not reveal it in the end, and she was always diligent in her work. After that, the mother and son of the Empress Dowager Meng unexpectedly turned over, and Mrs. Xiang followed the rising tide to become the highest-ranking female official in the palace, and because of the Empress Dowager Meng's matchmaking, she became the Duchess of Zheng Guo, and the pair of children born to her were also treated differently by the Empress Dowager Meng.
However, Mrs. Xiang knew in her heart that the younger generation of the Empress Dowager Meng's most valued maiden family was, in the final analysis, Meng Boqin, the son of Zheng Guogong.
And Meng Boqin's age and ability are also well-deserved mainstays of the Meng family.
When she was old and decrepit, lost Zheng Guogong's favor, and was constantly suppressed by her aunt Jiaoyu, Mrs. Xiang was able to keep the status of Mrs. Guo, largely because of the good impression of Empress Dowager Meng and Meng Boqin towards her, so that Zheng Guogong had no way to spoil his concubine and kill his wife.
Therefore, she must not do anything that makes these two unhappy - she usually does not need to do anything that makes these two unhappy, the key is the marriage of a pair of children.
Daughter Meng Biyun's marriage has been decided by the Queen Mother, and she is about to become the queen, as long as Mrs. Xiang is supported by the Queen Mother Meng, watch the mother and son of Jiaoyu, and not let them disturb her daughter's good future.
But the choice of his son Meng Boheng's wife is very worthy of consideration: First of all, the family background is too good to choose, because Meng Biyun is already going to be the queen, if Meng Boheng finds a family with a bunch of fathers and brothers, and a wife who is more outstanding and capable than the other, what will the Empress Dowager Meng think? Can Meng Boqin, who is far away in the north, not suspect that Mrs. Xiang's mother and son have ambitions that he should not have?
Secondly, you can't look too bad for the queen mother and Meng Boqin's thoughts, after all, Meng Boheng is Mrs. Xiang's own son, how could Mrs. Xiang not want her son to find a good one?
Combining these two considerations, Mrs. Xiang believes that the future daughter-in-law should be the kind of daughter-in-law who is not from a good family background now, but has great potential, and can help Meng Boheng and Meng Biyun break free from the domination of the Queen Mother and Meng Boqin in the future and become the masters of the house by herself - this is not that Mrs. Xiang has a secret hatred for the Queen Mother and Meng Boqin.
It's just that you can make your own decisions, and normal people don't like to be managed by others after all.
Xiang Xiang took a fancy to Mrs. Huan Yehe before, so he asked Meng Boheng to chase people to Bishui County, but he didn't expect his son to go, and he almost couldn't come back - although under the superb mediation of Huan Yehe, Mrs. Xiang did not hate her, but her mind about letting Meng Boheng marry Huan Yehe also faded: My son has been doing well, and he had an accident when he accompanied this girl out of the door, how do you think this girl is unlucky!
What's more, Huan Guanlan has no successor, and the reason why Huan Yehe can become a hot candidate for marriage is that her family background is only one aspect, and her own talents and city government cannot be ignored - this may be very attractive to the man who wants to marry her, but for the person who wants to be her mother-in-law, the pressure is very great.
For example, Mrs. Xiang admitted that if Huan Yehe became her daughter-in-law, she would not be sure to control this daughter-in-law.
Therefore, after listening to Meng Guiyu's convincing words and ruling out the possibility that the Sheng family had a relationship with Bishui County, Mrs. Xiang was also moved, and felt that this girl was very suitable to say to Meng Boheng: "This girl of the Sheng family is very good-looking, worthy of my son! Although the child is in a hurry, she is still young, so she can be trained slowly! As for saying that the city is too shallow, it is not a big problem, and I am not too old myself, so I can mention it more in the future, but it is really not good, and then I will be a virtuous helper to Xiao Bana's two-room shrewd and interesting concubine room, isn't it done?" What's more, the city government is easy to handle, and in the future, she will let the old lady of the Sheng family and her father and brother contribute money and efforts, and just use a little trick, which is really worry-free!"
It must be known that the relationship between Old Lady Sheng and the army, General Zhou and the Xu family is destined to pay attention to this help in the next battle with King Gaomi.
Even for long-term considerations, the Sheng Sleeping Crane, who is not far from Lianzhong Liuyuan, will not lack the guarantee from his wife's clan after a few years - as for whether Sheng Sleeping Crane's ability to be an official can keep up with his achievements in the imperial examination, no one who knows the inside story will doubt this, after all, this secret six-yuan discussion was originally started by Sheng Sleeping Crane himself.
How can such a young man who is good at speculation, and who is said to be able to afford the reputation of six yuan, not be able to climb to a high position in the future?
In contrast, although Huan Yehe himself can help her husband far more than Sheng Weiqiao, compared to the prospects of her mother's father and brother, she will lose in the end.
In this way, if Meng Boheng marries Sheng Weiqiao, it can be said that it is for the consideration of the entire Meng family, which can not only get the praise of the Empress Dowager Meng and Meng Boqin, but also use this to enhance his status and weight in the Meng family, and also get benefits: Mrs. Xiang's maiden family is not noble, and her husband's family Zheng Guogong is now developed and developed, but it is a pity that she has only been favored in front of Zheng Guogong for so many years, and she has been favored by Jiaoyu and regarded as a thorn in the flesh, so she has nothing to do with the property of Zheng Guogong's mansion, and there are not many private houses in her hands.
Meng Boheng is not the eldest son, and due to Jiaoyu's instigation, he is not very proud in front of Zheng Guogong.
In the future, when the family property is divided, Meng Boqin has a powerful position to rely on as the mainstay of the Meng family, who dares to lose his share?
Meng Si'an has the help of her biological mother Jiaoyu, and Zheng Guogong has not given this girl a few things in private over the years;
Only Meng Boheng, his father and mother can't count on it, what else can he get except the leftover water?
Therefore, although Mrs. Xiang's mother and son are not like Meng Guiyu, who have a thin family background, they also have a strong need to marry a daughter-in-law with a rich dowry.
In this regard, Sheng Weiqiao is much stronger than Huan Yehe. After all, although Huan Guanlan was a very popular minister back then, he was famous for his honesty, his net worth was not very good, and his children and grandchildren were mediocre. Where can it be compared with the pearl of the Nanfeng Sheng family?
Helplessly, Meng Boheng has been missing for many days, and only two days ago did he have a letter saying that the person is still alive - it was too late to worry about his safety to Mrs. Xiang before, after all, if his son is gone, what daughter-in-law do he want to think about - this will finally mention the idea of looking for a daughter-in-law, and then he is optimistic about the candidate, but the Empress Dowager Meng wants to match Meng Guiyu, and Mrs. Xiang is unwilling.
But Mrs. Xiang has always played a generous and loving role in front of the Empress Dowager Meng, and she takes good care of any of the children of the Meng family, so it is naturally not good to say directly at this moment that I actually think that Sheng Weiqiao is good, so it is better to leave it to my own son, as for Meng Guiyu, it is only my nephew after all, so find another one for him!
In this way, the objections she could raise on the basis of not damaging her own image were all resolved by the Empress Dowager Meng, and she was afraid that if she continued to talk about it, the Empress Dowager Meng would see her thoughts, so she had to praise the Empress Dowager instead: "Xiaoliu is really blessed with your protection like this! Otherwise, even if he marries that girl, I am afraid that there will be many twists and turns!"
Mrs. Xiang said this, she looked at Meng Guiyu, who was sitting dignified and respectful at the bottom, and said with a smile, "By the way, Xiaoliu, what do you think of this family business? Don't be shy, this is a lifelong event, and there will be no outsiders here, you just have to say what you think." Whether it's the Queen Mother or my eldest aunt, they must be towards you. โ
Empress Dowager Meng didn't know that her words were actually putting pressure on Meng Guiyu - the Empress Dowager was old, although with the efforts and flattery of Meng Guiyu's brothers and sisters, she had taken care of the Meng family's four rooms in the past two years, and it was impossible to take care of all aspects after all.
Before Meng Guiyu took the path of Jiaoyu mother and son, and then because Meng Biyun was favored by the Queen Mother and was ready to be established, he switched to Mrs. Xiang Niang'er, and then through the introduction of Mrs. Xiang, he took the line of Meng Boqin, who was far away in northern Xinjiang.
In this case, Mrs. Xiang is confident that Meng Guiyu will never hate herself for the sake of Sheng Weiqiao!
Sure enough, after Meng Guiyu was silent for a short time, he smiled and arched his hand: "Aunt thinks about her nephew like this, what can my nephew say except gratitude? It's just that I heard that Guihuan was strong before, and she was very angry with Miss Sheng San, and I don't know if Miss Sheng San will be angry with her nephew because of this? If so, I'm afraid it will disappoint my aunt!"
"They are young girls and children, who hasn't been in the limelight yet?" Hearing this, Empress Dowager Meng waved her hand indifferently and said, "Go back and talk to Guihuan a little bit, and let her find a chance to make amends with Wei Qiao's child, that is! The mourning family is not stingy when they look at that child-how can they not be tolerant of each other when they are going to be sisters-in-law in the future?"
encouraged him again, "Your child is handsome, capable, and the family is also refreshing and simple, not to mention that Qiao's child will definitely like you, even the elders in her family, and they will definitely like you." Moreover, after all, this marriage event is decided by the elders, and you get along with each other when you look back, as long as you don't really get along, the mourning family will personally connect you, is it difficult for the Sheng family to not even give this little face?"
Meng Guiyu glanced at Mrs. Xiang, thanked the Queen Mother with a smile, and said a few words of caring for the Queen Mother, seeing that it was not early, and under the pretext that there was still business to deal with, he left with the Queen Mother.
Now that Chi Zuosi happened to meet Sheng Weiqiao when he sent him away, he told him about letting Sheng Weiqiao take Meng Guiyu to the side hall, and Empress Dowager Meng naturally felt happy, and said to Mrs. Xiang again and again: "Just said that these two children, they met each other!
Mrs. Xiang was thinking that Meng Guiyu had already told the Queen Mother that Meng Guihuan had a gap with Sheng Weiqiao, I am afraid that Sheng Weiqiao was worried that her sister-in-law would not be in harmony with her in the future, and she would alienate the Meng family's fourth room, so it can be seen that this nephew is an interesting person.
Even if the two of them go to the side hall together, if they want to come to Meng Guiyu with their own measure, they will never dare to take this opportunity to tie up their favorite daughter-in-law, maybe take this opportunity to completely destroy Sheng Weiqiao's mind - hearing this, the corners of his lips curled slightly, and he chuckled meaningfully: "We work hard for the children, as long as the children are good, then everything is good! I just hope that these children can not live up to our hard work!"
It's just that Mrs. Xiang didn't know that Meng Guiyu, who she thought was interesting at this time, although she did not take the initiative to pick up Sheng Weiqiao, she was calling her sister Meng Guihuan to teach her in the corner outside the side hall.