Chapter 137: The Four Great Families

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Qi Nian was a little envious of her happy temperament, after all, the more simple the person, the more happy and comfortable she was. And those who think too much and do too much are rare after all.

Just like the question A-Yao just asked, she didn't understand why Qi Nian refused to let go of herself, and wherever she went to live a chic and happy life, she wanted to lock herself in this courtyard, bound by these rules and regulations, etiquette and control, and had to intrigue with others, and was always in all kinds of unexpected crises.

What she doesn't understand is that some hatreds can be avenged immediately if they want to, and some burdens can't be unloaded if they want to.

Dinner was quickly brought by the girls, Washington's diet is very rich, fine and extravagant, but unfortunately lunch was delayed for too long, Qi Nian still has food in his belly, yes, and he can't eat much.

After entering the room, most of them fell into A-Yao's good appetite, and the rest was let out and distributed to the girls who had not yet eaten dinner.

No matter where Qi Nian is, he is as generous and kind as ever, after all, it is not easy for anyone these years, so no one should be easy to be embarrassed by anyone.

As on the first day of her entry into the house, the next few days were very peaceful, except that Mrs. Hua had to go to her courtyard every day to listen to her teachings for most of the day, and the rest of the time was quite happy.

If you really have the care of the housewife, you can save so much trouble.

But this shelter is definitely not long-lasting, not to mention that when Mrs. Hua finds out that Qi Nian is not Qi Shu, I am afraid that her anger will be several times more serious than everyone's temptation.

And the tree is very popular, Mrs. Hua is not the most favored by Hua Zhang in this prime minister's house, and she has no heirs of her own, even if she is in power, if Hua Zhang is annoyed with her that day, she refuses to give her power again, and she wants to take it back, it is not a matter of making a trip for her.

After all, this time is different from the past, among the four first-class families with great fame and power in the Changle City of Weiyang, Mrs. Hua's maiden Rongguo Mansion has been reduced from the second to the last, enjoying the wealth and fame brought by the Duke of the Kingdom, but there is not much real power in his hands.

I think that when the emperor was alive, the Duke of Rongguo was still in his prime, but he also had a bit of skill in dealing with government affairs, and people knew how to flatter the monarch and control his subordinates, and the Zhou Mansion was indeed prosperous in those years.

It's just that now he is already old, and after the baptism of these years, he has not seen the wisdom of old age, but has become more and more dim and incompetent. Today's saints are not as generous, benevolent and tolerant as the former emperor and Prince Zhaoren, and if you think of the means he used to seize the throne thirty years ago, he is definitely not a fool.

Yes, Rong Guogong's set of sycophants who are three points real and seven points false obviously can't get any benefits from the emperor, and the actual position on his body has been cut again and again, and in the end, he almost got an idle job to care for the elderly at home, and he scribbled to his old age.

And in addition to Mrs. Hua, the eldest daughter of the Rongguo Mansion, the daughters of the concubines have not been able to marry a few good families, they are just living a salty life, and they can't help their mother's family at all.

The daughters are in a recession, and the sons are even more unpleasant.

The elder brother who gave birth to Mrs. Hua died when he was about to give birth, leaving only such a daughter, so that Rong Guogong and his wife grew up in the palm of their hands every day like a gold ingot.

Since then, Mrs. Rongguo has never been pregnant, and she loves her only daughter even more.

However, the aunts added two more sons to Rongguo Gong, but one is more than the other, although it is not as notorious as the fourth prince Li Jinyu and the prince of Jin, but it is almost the same.

Although the Rongguo Gong Zhou clan is gradually declining, it is much better than the fate of other families who were also first-class four families when they were emperors.

For example, the Qi family, the former emperor's state minister, completely lost his position because of the new emperor's succession, and finally had to move out of the prosperous Changle City, and went to the remote border Tianyin City.

For example, Qi Nian's maternal ancestor Murong clan, even if he was so hot at the beginning, what if the eldest daughter married the noble Prince Zhaowen as the main concubine, once the situation changed color and the world turned upside down, the VIP sitting on the court became a prisoner wearing shackles and shackles in a blink of an eye.

When the whole family was wiped out, a century-old clan was like a high-rise building suddenly toppling down, and the dust shook the government and the opposition, which was not a warning to the world.

Since the battle for the throne thirty years ago, the only thing that the original four great families can stay to this day, except for the Rongguo Gong Zhou family, is only the Taifu Shen family.

This Shen Taifu was just the champion of the top three in the middle school when the emperor was still a young prince, and then because of his talent, there was no one in the world who gathered the heroes, and it attracted the emperor's dragon heart to be happy, so he personally named him the position of a scholar of the first grade, and also the position of the prince and the prince, teaching the knowledge of the former emperor who was still a young prince.

Because although the two of them are kings and ministers and master and apprentice, they are not a few years apart in age, and Mrs. Shen is a very chic and funny scholar, not like others who detain the prince and himself, but after teaching homework for a few days, he was introduced by the prince as a confidant and praised him.

All in all, Shen Taifu's life was quite smooth, before the weak crown year, even with the top three in the company, Yuan Lang won the emperor's decree, was named a university scholar and Taifu teacher, in those years, the students were really peach and plum, all over the world, it was glorious.

Later, he got the green eyes of the prince who was still the prince, and after the prince ascended the throne as the emperor, the previous glory rose to a higher level, and he was in the limelight for a while.

When he was thirty years old, the emperor married his sister Princess Yunya to him, and broke the rule that the concubines of Weiyang State were not allowed to have real power, and still awarded him the position of a scholar of Zhengyipin, and continued to accompany the king as an important minister in the court.

Princess Yunya is also a gentle and virtuous woman, she used half of the money allocated by the emperor to build a princess mansion for her, and only built a quiet and elegant Taifu mansion, and the other half was donated to the poor people, and she didn't know how many lives were saved in that famine year.

Since then, not only has Mrs. Shen's reputation spread far and wide, but the reputation of the Shen couple has spread all over the world, and it has been passed on by word of mouth for a long time.

And they were harmonious and loving after marriage, and Mrs. Shen never took another concubine except for the princess, even if the princess only gave birth to a daughter, and there was no heir.