Chapter Twenty-Six: The Past
Tang Yuru, the Duchess of Zhenguo, is the eldest daughter of Tang Wei, Marquis of Xuanping. The Xuanping Marquis Mansion is connected to Mrs. Zhang's residence, and Tang Wei and Mrs. Zhang have similar hobbies and similar personalities, and often play chess and chat together. Later, the two families gradually became like relatives, and they moved around each other during the New Year's holiday. The wives of Tang Wei and Mrs. Zhang became pregnant one after the other. They also mentioned that if two children were born, one was a boy and the other was a girl, they would be engaged to be doll parents.
In this way, the two girls of the Tang family and the Zhang family grew up together since childhood, studied together, and were like sisters. When Tang was fifteen years old, the Marquis of Xuanping and the Zhenguo Mansion were married. In the same year, Zhang Yanzhao was proposed to marry by the third prince. Mrs. Zhang actually didn't like the three princes very much in his heart, and felt that his character and knowledge were not very good, and he was still small-minded. The first emperor saw that the third prince liked the daughter of Mrs. Zhang's family, and he was also very willing to marry Mrs. Zhang's daughter into the royal family, so the emperor opened his mouth to Mrs. Zhang. As soon as the emperor spoke, Mrs. Zhang couldn't refuse.
When the Zhang family first married the third prince, the relationship between the two was also better, and after the third prince won the throne, they became more and more estranged from the queen and the crown prince.
When the queen collapsed, Tang had been lying in bed because of his daughter's physical loss. Hearing that Empress Zhang went, she cried sadly and aggravated her condition and almost didn't survive.
Tang often sighed that if she didn't marry into the royal family, she would marry into other high-ranking families like herself, or she would live a long time.
Tang said to Jinghong apologetically: "Aunt, I'm sorry for you, after your mother left, I never took care of you, and let you be bullied alone in the palace and outside the palace." β
Jing Hong shook his head and said, "You can't help yourself, I know the situation of the Zhenguo Mansion now." β
The Xuanping Marquis Mansion is now the eldest brother of the Tang family, Tang Hui, who took the title. Since Empress Zhang left, the status of the Zhenguo Mansion has plummeted, and the Tang family is worried that dealing with the Xuanping Marquis Mansion will bring disaster to her mother's family, and she has not returned to her parents' house for many years.
Some time ago, her eldest brother sent someone to ask, if the second son Jianyun's relatives couldn't find a suitable family, he would marry his second daughter Tang Jia. Tang cried when she heard this, although she didn't go home, the eldest brother still remembered her and her children.
After discussing with the masters of the Zhenguo Mansion, they decided to quietly make this marriage with the Tang family first. Let's take a look at the situation of the prince, if he doesn't involve the nine clans, he will handle the family affairs when Jianyun is eighteen years old.
Jinghong knows very well about these things in the Zhenguo Mansion, they are difficult to protect themselves, how can they protect him. In their previous life, they also protected themselves, and as a result, the nine clans of the Zhenguo Mansion were punished. I must protect you in this life, Jing Hong thought firmly in his heart.
Jing Hong looked at the unity and harmony of the family in the Zhenguo Mansion, and no matter how bad the situation was, he could maintain a good attitude, and he was constantly laughing and laughing. He loved the atmosphere and felt like home.
Jing Hong asked Hei Si to present a gift list, and said sincerely: "The dowry gift given by the royal family before is really too unusual, I asked someone to sort out a dowry gift, and now I will present it." β
Everyone excused themselves, and finally the Duchess took it, she looked at the gift list and sighed and said, "With such a thick dowry, you have emptied your own treasury, right?"
Jing Hong smiled: "This dowry is not enough to empty the treasury of the Prince's Mansion. β
The old grandfather said: "The prince has not had an easy time these years, the palace doesn't care about you, you don't have any position, and you don't have any position. I'm afraid this is the family foundation left by Taifu and Empress Xian. β
The old Duchess nodded: "We all know the prince's intentions, and we don't care about more courtesy." As long as you two can live a good life, we will be happy. β
The old grandfather said: "These dowries are all given to Feng Ling as a dowry, but I am afraid that when the time comes, I will not be able to give ...... in a bright way."
Mrs. Guo thought that it was a pity that her daughter couldn't wear red makeup.
Jing Hong took out a deed from his purse and handed it to the old grandfather: "I thought that Feng Ling was still young, and he would not get used to it for a while after leaving home, so he gave the house next door to the Guogong Mansion." In a few days, find someone to build a moon gate on the partition wall, and when we live there in the future, we will return to the government mansion a few steps away......"
Everyone was stunned when they heard this, next door was Huang Zuoxiang's mansion, how could he sell it? The traitorous minister who controlled most of the imperial court was not short of money.
The next door was formerly the residence of Tobe Shoshu. Huang Zuoxiang played a book of corruption and perverted the law, and His Majesty ordered the mansion to be raided, the men were exiled, and the women were slaves. His Majesty gave this mansion to the left minister. Because the Zhenguo Mansion and Huang Zuo are different, the two have never interacted.
Jing Hong roughly explained: "Zuo Xiang was crowned the crown prince by His Majesty a few days ago, and His Majesty gave him an idle princess's mansion. Zuo Xiang told His Majesty that he studied with Mrs. Zhang when he was very poor in the past, and borrowed money from Mrs. Zhang to marry, and he did not pay off the account until the death of Mrs. Zhang and the former queen. Now that he has given me the mansion, it can be regarded as repaying the money and affection he once owed, and the two will not owe each other in the future. After hearing this, the emperor praised him for his affection and righteousness, and agreed that he would give me this mansion. β
Everyone looked at each other, and the left minister was affectionate and righteous, and he knew how to repay his kindness? Is this the left minister who controls the imperial court, brutalizes the loyal and good from time to time, and dictates the power of his relatives?
Tang nodded and said, "Zuo Xiang has indeed received a lot of favor from Mrs. Zhang in the past. I heard Sister Zhang mention to me that Zuo Xiang's mother died early when he was a child, and his stepmother did everything she could to harm him after entering the door. Once Zuo Xiang was thrown into a sparsely populated ravine, he was hungry for a few days, and he was injured when he climbed onto the official road. It was Taifu and Sister Zhang who passed by to rescue him, found someone to cure him, and then asked him to follow Taifu to study and learn calligraphy......"
Jing Hong listened and thought, no wonder he saved me with his life in his previous life, it was his grandfather and mother who saved him and trained him to grow up. I have to find a chance to talk to Zuo Xiang......
The old duchess said: "Isn't his stepmother the one in the Enguo Mansion? β
Grandpa Guo took the deed and handed it to the second master: "Second brother, you are good at arranging the house, and this matter will be handled by you and your younger siblings." β
The second master nodded: "I'll find someone to start work on the auspicious day." β
Jing Hong said: "Some dowries don't have to be sent to the prince's mansion, you can put it in the next house if you see what Feng Ling likes, and that will be our home in the future." β
When Feng Ling heard Jing Hong say that the next door was their home, she smiled. She thought in her heart that no matter how many concubines the prince married in the future, he would not be able to follow him back here, this side just belonged to her home, what a joyful thing.
The second master asked, "What sign is hung on the door of the next house?"
Jing Hong said: "Since the mansion that Zuo Xiang told His Majesty is to return the favor of the Zhang family, let's call it the Zhang house." β
Jing Hong stayed in the Zhenguo Mansion until the moontop treetops before reluctantly returning home.
Along the way, the black three and the black four looked at the prince with a happy look on his face, and glanced at each other, they were rare to see a smile on the master's face. They are looking forward to marrying the crown princess as soon as possible.
Jing Hong suddenly asked, "When do you estimate when Wu Renhe will be able to arrive in Chang'an?"
Hei San: "Back to the master, he is already halfway through, if it goes well, he can get to Chang'an before May." β
"Send a message to make him sick, and let him enter Chang'an after I get married. β
Hei San, Hei Si thought that the master was busy marrying, so he put down the plan in hand for the time being.
Jing Hong now is more and more concerned about Wu Ren and marrying Feng Ling in his previous life. He thought of the girl he liked now, the wife he had betrothed since childhood, and the man he had married in his previous life...... He gets angry every time he thinks about it. What's more, in his previous life, Wu Renhe also ordered someone to kill Feng Ling, and he himself died at his hands. He clenched his fists and thought fiercely in his heart: I must pay the price for you in this life, I want you to live rather than die.
The way the fiancΓ© retaliates against people is similar, and it really is, it's not that the family doesn't enter the door.