Chapter 11: The Uninvited Guest (1)

The next day, the Zhou family got up early in the morning. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Yiying is going to rush back to the house on an errand, and if the Qin family wants to go back to his wife, Zhou Chi hurried to explain the situation to Master Zhao, and Zhou Lang was full of passion to spend another day of looking at the accounts.

Yiying returned to the house and entered Ming Seju, but found that Zhao Qingyi was not there.

She was a little puzzled, and asked the second-class maid Yinsleeve, who was doing needlework: "Where's Miss?"

Yin Sleeve raised his head, found that it was Yi Ying, remembered her yesterday's relief, and replied with a kind face: "Sister Zhilan, you are back." Unfortunately, Miss just took Sister Zhishu to the upper room to say goodbye. ”

Please look at the sky, it's too early. In the past, Zhao Qingyi would sometimes play a temper and lie in bed, it was not easy to go on time like yesterday, how could she go so early?

Seeing that she was puzzled, Yin Sleeve explained: "I heard that Mrs. Changxin Houfu wants to come to see Mrs. today. ”

Changxin Marquis Mansion...... Mrs. Taiying's face turned pale, Chang's! Why did she come?

She seemed to see Zhao Qingyi's sharp eyes swept over when she scolded her in front of Chang's face, and Chang's eyes swept over; and saw Chang's punishment of her kneeling in the ancestral hall, and the cold bluestone slab pierced her bones and spine; and saw Chang's before she died, the front foot asked her to take good care of Xu Xian, and the back foot called Zhao Qingyi to her side, and said with a resentful face, "You must not leave her."

Seeing that her face was wrong, Yin Sleeve hurriedly supported her, shook her arm, and said, "Are you okay, Sister Zhilan?"

Yiying took a deep breath. No, she is not the Aunt Lan who was slaughtered now, she will never be committed to Xu Xian again, she will no longer have to be tortured by the Chang family, and she will no longer have to be afraid of her, or rather, afraid of the memories of the Marquis of Changxin's mansion.

Chang's came over, since it was because of the marriage contract between the Changxin Marquis Mansion and the Zhao family, she came to see her daughter-in-law as the wife of her in-laws, what does it have to do with her?

She sat down, took a sip of tea and slowed down, and said, "It's okay, it's probably a serious illness and my body is a little lost, and I feel a little dizzy after walking a little bit." ”

"Then sister, let's rest for a while, there are sisters around Sister Zhishu and Mrs. Zhishu to take care of Jifutang, so don't worry. Tone Sleeve laughed.

Of course she wasn't worried, and she wouldn't go to Jifutang to the death, first, after seeing Zhao Qingyi clearly, she didn't have the heart to fight with Zhishu in the ring, and second, Chang's person really didn't want her to get close.

Chang and Pei are of the same generation, but they are already Mrs. Tai in the Hou Mansion. This is because Chang's husband, the previous generation of Changxin Hou, died early.

Speaking of the previous generation of Changxin Hou Xu Yi, he is really a "character". Literary and military talents are average, but with a three-inch tongue to seek the favor of the emperor, the emperor's rewards and the gifts sent by the officials under the emperor are endless, and the Changxin Marquis Mansion is unprecedented wealth and prosperity. The first emperor even once moved the idea of making him the king, but the ancestral system said: "A different surname cannot be crowned a king", after all, it involves imperial power, and the first emperor had to give up, but the title of the third generation was promoted to hereditary.

In the Southern Ming Dynasty, the hereditary title was originally only given to the founding heroes or generals with outstanding achievements, and the ancestors of Changxin Hou were not great heroes.

It's just that the prosperity is not long, and now that he has ascended the throne, the ministers who are loyal to Concubine Yu have all been liquidated. Xu Yi was able to win the favor of the first emperor, and naturally he praised the emperor's heart for the concubine, so of course, in the liquidation, the decline of the Changxin Marquis Mansion was inevitable.

Xu Yi died violently, but the title and family property were still there. After all, no matter how dissatisfied with the behavior of the former emperor is, every will cannot be dismissed, and every official who has been imprisoned is released.

Now Changxin Marquis Xu Xian has a hereditary title and a rich family property, although his career is hopeless for the time being, but marrying him will have the fate of Mrs. Hou. Therefore, the powerful family looked down on him, but upstarts like the Zhao family and the also declining Hou Mansion regarded him as a sweetheart.

Two years ago, Pei met Chang by chance, and the two talked very well. After a detailed discussion, Chang learned that Pei had a thirteen-year-old daughter, so he proposed to marry two surnames and let her son, Xu Xian, who is now the Marquis of Changxin, marry Zhao Qingyi. Pei Shi was very surprised, in her opinion, although her daughter was good at identity, she was definitely not worthy of Xu Xian, so she naturally agreed, just because Chang took a fancy to her in-laws.

Yiying understood in her heart that the reason why the Chang family took a fancy to Zhao Qingyi was because of the rich family property of the Zhao family. Outsiders only think that they are soft-hearted and spare the Xu family, but they don't know that when they ascend the throne today, the treasury was almost lost by the former emperor. Most of it was spent on the concubine or rewarded to the concubine's mother's family, and a small part was sent to the Marquis of Changxin's mansion like water. How could he not hate!

Although there is only a small part of the Changxin Marquis Mansion, the treasury is huge, and that small part is not something that people with different surnames can get. So Changxin Hou was put in prison, and now he secretly ordered Chang to hand over the reward of the emperor, how dare Chang disobey, who knows that the person has redeemed it, and he doesn't plan to let him live today, but in three days, he died violently. This property is a waste.

Chang didn't want outsiders to know, because her son was still young at the time, and she still wanted to find a good family for him, so she still used the remaining family property to pretend to live a life of fine clothes and food, and she couldn't hide it from the people at the top, but she hid it from the eyes of the people below. Therefore, in the eyes of most people, the Changxin Marquis Mansion is still a golden town.

However, the day after Zhao Qingyi got married, Chang ruthlessly asked her to take out the dowry money to subsidize the family. Only then did the people of the Zhao family realize that the Xu Mansion was simply an empty shell, and it had long been unable to make ends meet. It's just that it's too late to regret it.

When Zhao Qingyi first got married, Chang's changed the law to ask for her dowry, set rules for her, and punished her for copying "The Female Commandment", and when Zhao Qingyi lost power and Xu Xian favored her alone, Chang regarded herself as a thorn in the flesh, insisted that she was a fox, and joined forces with Zhao Qingyi to make her suffer.

It can be said that Chang's life is full of imaginary enemies, and she only has a strong desire for control and selfishness, so there is no time for peace. When he was young, he fought endlessly with Xu Yi's concubines, married his daughter-in-law, and longed for his daughter-in-law to bow down and obey his orders, and was very small, and his son accepted a concubine, but he couldn't tolerate the existence of a favorite concubine. Everything has to be intervened, everything has to be asked, while squeezing out the benefits of others, and coldly slapping others on the other, it is simply unimaginable.

Therefore, it is not so much that Zhao Qingyi's later almost crazy personality comes from the Zhao family, but from her mother-in-law, Chang.

If you can avoid it, she let out a long sigh.

After having breakfast in the kitchen, Yiying began to direct the little maids to sweep, hoe, prune and other things. Zhishu took her place, so she naturally had to take on the matter of knowing books.