Chapter Seventy-Five: The Bracelet
Because he knew that Gongsun Yingjiang had repeatedly taught him on the issue of male sex, Sheng Weiqiao was worried that he would not be able to deter this niece, so that night, he stayed up until midnight and waited for Rong Sleeping Crane to ask for advice.
Rong Sleeping Crane didn't return until midnight, although he was strong and strong, after these days of continuous running, it was inevitable that there was a look of exhaustion between his eyebrows. Sheng Weiqiao felt distressed when he saw this, and after a few warm words, he fell asleep without mentioning it.
The next day, she took the Guangchang Junjun and the Yunyang Junjun to the Hou Mansion.
Because Rong Sleepy Crane went out early in the morning, although it was said that the two nieces and nephews came to live mainly for the fifth day of junior high school, they didn't care much about the company of her aunt. But considering that if he went to the Hou Mansion alone, there would be no serious adults in this county palace, so he seemed to be very unconcerned about the two nieces, so he simply brought them.
Guangchang Junjun and Yunyang Junjun were not very reluctant to go to Xu's house as guests, firstly, they were reluctant to waste time with the fifth day of the junior high school, and secondly, they were afraid of trouble.
Sheng Weiqiao had no choice but to say: "I have something to find the wife of the Marquis of Ningwei, and your third uncle is not in the mansion at this time, so I can't throw you down." It's only half a day's work, and we'll be back, and we're entertaining our in-laws right here, so it's impossible to stay for a long time. ”
The two nieces reluctantly agreed.
The Xu family was a little surprised to see Guangchang and Yunyang coming to the door, but after all, they were just two children, and the Nan family was probably having a headache for their daughter's marriage at this time, and they didn't have much energy to pay attention to the rare twin sisters, so they said two sentences of the scene meaningfully, gave a meeting gift, and said to Sheng Weiqiao: "Do you want to see Cai Kui?" She is in the garden now, it seems to be with Ying Jiang, I will ask Chensha to take you there." ”
looked at Guangchang Junjun and Yunyang Junjun again, "Who are the two Junjun......?"
Guangchang Junjun hurriedly said: "I'm tired of Mrs., we naturally follow my aunt." ”
As a result, when I arrived in the garden, Xu Caikui and Gongsun Yingjiang were indeed talking at the stone table under the flower stand, but the Cen family was also there!
When Sheng Weiqiao passed, she was trying to persuade Gongsun Yingjiang: "...... Isn't it a matter of course for this woman to spread the branches of her husband's family?"
"Then you still don't want to give Master Wu a concubine?" Xu Caikui's face turned pale next to this, but Gongsun Yingjiang asked with a smile, "You, the governor of Xuzhou, don't allow the people to light the lamp, how can you convince my mother-in-law, right?" In my opinion, you first give Lord Wu eighteen delicate concubines, and then buy twenty or thirty pretty maids to serve Lord Wu, so, come and tell my mother-in-law again, my mother-in-law has nothing to say, right?"
Cen Shi said unhappily: "You kid! I told you, my husband is not in good health......
"What do you say, if you accept a concubine, you must accompany you every day?" Gongsun Yingjiang said slowly, "Then my aunt must put on a hundred and eighty dishes for a small meal? So many dishes are told to her to eat only one bite, and she can't eat them anymore! The reason why the meals are all on the table is not about to put on a pomp and show to see? The Wu family is also an official eunuch, why don't you even have the money to buy a concubine and a maid? Or are you jealous and refuse to even pretend to be one to show my mother-in-law? Then you are embarrassed to say this and that?"
She said this very politely, Cen Shi was annoyed, and patted the stone table: "How did you talk?!"
"What are you angry about, ......" Gongsun Yingjiang was not afraid of her, sneered, and was about to continue, when he saw Sheng Weiqiao's aunt and nephew coming over, and hurriedly got up to greet him, "Auntie, why are you here...... Hey, and you brought two county gentlemen?"
Seeing this, the Cen family didn't care about her, so they hurriedly brought Xu Caikui over to greet her.
"Isn't this thinking that I haven't seen Cai Kui for a long time, I will also go to Xijiang with Mizhen in a few days, I'm afraid that if I miss these few days, it will be difficult to talk to your face like this in the future, so I squeezed some time to come over today and get together with you?" Sheng Weiqiao and his nieces were greeted and sat down, and after a few words of greeting, he said euphemistically, "I didn't bother you, right?"
What she meant by saying this was to let the Cen family be interested and leave, after all, Sheng Weiqiao had said that she was about to leave Chang'an, and time was tight, so she came to the door today to squeeze it out, just to talk to Xu Caikui and Gongsun Yingjiang...... So what is the Shum still doing here?
However, this Cen family didn't know whether he didn't hear it, or deliberately, and said back when he heard it: "Princess Jun, it's just right that you came, but you gave me a comment, our Wu family's heirs are thin, and Cai Kui has been in the door for a whole year, and there has been no movement! I want her to allow the concubine to enter the door, what's wrong?"
If she wants to talk about this, Sheng Weiqiao has heard Sheng Weirao's words before she came, and it's okay, the Nan family is not easy to mess with, and the elders of the Xu family are not fuel-efficient lamps, Sheng Weiqiao thinks that she doesn't need to support Xu Caikui by herself.
However, Cen followed up and said, "Speaking of which, the maiden parents of the princess of the county, aren't they also because they have no children under their knees, so they took the prince of the county back as an outer room, and have you achieved a marriage with the prince of the county? Since the Xu family is friendly with the Sheng family, why did they go north to Chang'an before the life of the princess of the county was in vain, and they were very concerned about the cold and warmth of the prince of the county, and regarded it as if it were their own! At this time, it is the turn of my Wu family, but all kinds of things are not allowed? Or does the Xu family look down on my Wu family?!"
"......" Gongsun Yingjiang's eyes were bent, and he pinched Xu Caikui, who looked anxious and wanted to apologize to Sheng Weiqiao on behalf of his mother-in-law, and whispered, "Don't care!
Sure enough, she got along with Sheng Weiqiao a lot, and she just understood this aunt:
When Sheng Weiqiao heard Cen Shi's previous words, he was still calm, and when he heard the next few words, his face instantly sank!
After listening to it, his face was already pale!
Sheng Weiqiao had known about Sheng Lanci's and his wife's confusion of blood, and now no matter what the outside world thinks the truth is, it will be in the past after all.
But this doesn't mean that Sheng Weiqiao will be happy for others to take it out!
Or say it to your own face!
However, to everyone's surprise, before she could get angry, the two little girls she brought over were already blind and spoke first: "This lady, when the Sheng family didn't know about our third uncle's background, when they brought him into the ancestral house, it was to inherit the family business! What does this mean that this move has fulfilled the marriage of our third uncle and three aunts? Our third uncle and third aunt are obviously husband and wife with three media and six certificates, and they are openly worshipped! What you say is as if our third uncle and three aunts have been taught and received by each other privately! Are you deliberately finding fault? Or do you have any dissatisfaction with our Gaomi Palace?!"
Although these two county monarchs are similar in age to Sheng Weiwei, they have been strictly trained by the Qi family since childhood, and they grew up in the palace, lively to lively, greedy to playful, knowledge, eloquence, and adaptability are not comparable to Sheng Weiwei.
At this moment, he came out to his aunt in unison, and suddenly asked the originally eloquent Cen family with an embarrassed expression and was speechless!
"Guangchang and Yunyang are right!" Sheng Weiqiao was overjoyed in this situation, she brought her two nieces over, but she felt that it was not good to throw the child in a mansion without adults and only call the servants, but she didn't expect to gain two helpers because of this, she glanced at them approvingly at the moment, and said with a smile, "Mrs. Cen, what do you have to say about me or the Sheng family or the Gaomi Palace, please make it clear to the gong and drum in person, but why bother to splash dirty water around the corner?" In the end, Lord Wu has entered the court at this time, and he is also a serious member, you are a lady of the command, you can't continue to learn from other people's country women, and you don't even dare to confront each other when you scold Huai all day long, right?"
When Cen Shi heard this, his face turned blue and red, and he said in his heart: "Oops! I wholeheartedly pulled the princess of this county to help me speak, but I forgot that she did the ugly things and never allowed others to mention them." What now?"
Although she has not been in Chang'an for a long time, she has already been thunderous to Sheng Weiqiao, after all, the dowry is so much that Sheng Weiqiao is, not to mention the Da Mu Dynasty, it has been very rare throughout the ages.
This is not to say that the prosperity of the Sheng family is unmatched throughout the ages, mainly because even if other people's families are rich, they may not be willing to marry out such a large sum...... In this world, most people are still more oriented to their sons after all.
So now the whole country knows that the princess of Mizhen County is a rare rich girl.
Of course, she is also famous for her richness in marriage, that is, her pampering, it is rumored that this is the first time she has seen the queen mother and scolded the queen mother, which shows her fierceness and arrogance.
The Cen family didn't want to provoke this person in their hearts, but they just wanted to persuade the Xu family to agree to let their son take a concubine, so they said the wrong thing in a hurry. At this time, he was questioned by the three aunts and nephews, but he was at a loss, and he didn't know what to say.
"It's all nonsense from the messy people out there. The atmosphere stiffened for a while, Sheng Weiqiao waited for the Cen family to explain with a cold face, and Guangchang Junjun and Yunyang Junjun were also angry that they didn't reveal it.
However, although Xu Caikui was blinded by Gongsun Yingjiang's unstoppable pull of his sleeves, he couldn't bear to see his mother-in-law unable to get off the stage, took a deep breath, and said, "Mother, she has always been in Xiazhou before, I don't know the real experience, I misunderstood Sister Qiao's place, and I ask Sister Qiao not to be surprised!"
As he spoke, he got up and gave Sheng Weiqiao a salute.
Sheng Weiqiao glanced at her a little helplessly, and said in his heart You are gentle and virtuous, and you also look at people! According to Sheng Weiqiao's thoughts, this kind of mother-in-law who doesn't know a good person, do you care if she is embarrassed or not?!
However, in front of the Cen family, she didn't want Xu Caikui to be embarrassed, so she waved her hand with a not very good face: "Look at your face, forget about it." ”
Cen Shi breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, smiled and admitted a few mistakes, and saw Sheng Weiqiao's ignorance of his love, and was about to leave, but at this time, Gongsun Yingjiang said: "I see that Mrs. Cen is also listening to too many messy things outside, so Cai Kui has only been married for a year, and he is so anxious to add someone to her." Those who know say that you are looking forward to Sun Xinche's dizziness, and those who don't know think that you have no suspicion that you are in love with Lord Wu, but you can't see Cai Kwai and his wife grow old!"
"......" Cen Shi was choked by her anger, and his eyes widened and wanted to attack, but out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Sheng Weiqiao's lukewarm gaze, gritted his teeth, and was afraid that Sheng Weiqiao's anger had not subsided, and he would continue to trouble himself on the grounds of helping his niece, pursed his lips, and suddenly noticed the bracelet Sheng Weiqiao was wearing today, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he pointed and said, "Princess Jun, where did you get this bracelet?"
Sheng Weiqiao inexplicably glanced at the jade bracelet on his wrist today, thought for a while and said, "This is a meeting gift from Aunt Nan." ”
She has received so many greeting gifts since she was a child, and she doesn't remember them at all. Today, I didn't bring it specifically to come to the Hou Mansion, but it was a coincidence.
Seeing Cen ask like this at this moment, I thought she wanted to divert the topic.
I didn't want the Cen family's eyes to wander back and forth between her and Gongsun Yingjiang, and his expression became subtle, and he said: "I heard that my in-laws have such a bracelet before, but I didn't expect it to be given to the princess of the county." ”
When he said this, Xu Caikui's face changed, and he hurriedly said, "Mother!"
Sheng Weiqiao frowned: "What do you mean?"
"What else does it mean?" Cen Shi smiled and took a sip of tea without saying anything, Xu Caikui bit his lip anxiously, but Gongsun Yingjiang said unconcernedly, "Auntie, the bracelet on your wrist was handed down to your daughter-in-law by the old Xu family." I think that when you first came to Chang'an, my father and mother liked you very much, so I changed my mind and gave you the bracelet!"
She glanced at Cen Shi with a smile, "What's the matter? You still want to provoke discord between our aunt and nephew? I have already heard my mother tell me about this matter, do you think that my mother-in-law is as uneasy and kind to her daughter-in-law as you are to Cai Kwai ?!"
…… After a while, watching Cen Shi's face leave with a red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple face, Sheng Weiqiao frowned and asked Gongsun Yingjiang: "You talk to her like this, but the Xu family has already decided?"