98. Ninety-eight
In Ruji's impression, Yan Miao is always gentle and indifferent, in addition to the dignified elegance of a noble lady, she has a somewhat cold and arrogant atmosphere. Although the conversation at the birthday banquet in Bofu was quite cordial, and he used to care for and help Ruji in distress between life and death, it was still a little high-minded and difficult to get close to. So later, as Ruxi's situation got better day by day, she became closer to Minglu Sakura and Yan Xuan, and she didn't have too much contact with Yan Xuan.
"Big sister?" Ru Ji stepped forward, "Youβwhat's the matter?" β
Yan Miao was holding a silk to cover her face and walked out, and the maids behind her were chasing after her, and she was greeted by Ru Ji like this, her footsteps stopped, and the maids behind caught up.
The big girl Phoenix Tail and Iris are very anxious, but both of them have always acted calmly, rushed over and pressed Yan Yuan's hand, and the voice looked very calm from a distance, only Ru Ji, who was close to her, could hear that Feng Wei's voice actually had some affection: "Miss, you should bear with it first, in the end, it is the third of the second young lady." β
Ru Xi was even more surprised, because Yan Xun, the eldest son of Bofu, died early, and the so-called long house was actually only a tablet of Yan Xun. Yan Yuan, the eldest daughter of the second room, is the eldest granddaughter of Huan Ningbo Mansion, and she was raised by her grandmother after the death of her biological mother Zhan. According to the conventions in the back house, shouldn't she be the most confident girl? However, listening to the meaning of the words of the phoenix tail and the iris, it turned out to be very aggrieved?
Yan Miao gritted her teeth, and was about to speak, but she couldn't help it with tears and sadness, and she almost cried out loud, and hurriedly covered her mouth with a silk again.
Ru Ji instinctively reached out to support Yan Yuan in surprise: "Big sister, I don't know how to come to Bofu Road, can you take me around the garden?" This voice has raised a little, as for whether it is counted as three hundred taels of silver here, it is not a matter of care, Ru Xi glanced at Xia Yin, and helped Yan Miao to go in the direction of the garden.
It is a great joy for Ming Lu Ying to give birth to a great-grandson for the Yan family, although Huan Ningbo Mansion did not invite too many foreign guests, but the family banquet in the evening still prepared singing, dancing and a stage, to celebrate. Therefore, at this moment, everyone in the house comes and goes, and more of them are concentrated in the direction of the atrium and flower hall of the family banquet, and there are not many people in the section from the three-room courtyard to the garden, and it does not attract too much attention. Ruxi helped Yan Miao to walk briskly all the way, until she reached the Luoxia Pavilion in the far corner of the garden, and then asked Xia Yin and Iris to stand farther away, to see if anyone came, and only the phoenix tail was left in the pavilion to serve in front of him.
At this time, although Yan Yuan's crying gradually stopped, her eyes were already a little red and swollen, and her feelings were far from calming, so she went directly to ask Fengwei: "What happened?" β
Feng Wei looked at Yan Xiang with some embarrassment, Yan Miao still covered her mouth with silk silk and sobbed, and at the same time her left hand was holding her hand tightly, obviously trying her best to control her own mood.
"The phoenix-tailed girl can't trust me?" Ru Ji said in a harmonious voice, "The eldest sister came out with tears on her face like this, but I am afraid that there are not a few people who see it." I won't ask you about the inside story first, what happened in the room just now? β
The phoenix tail bent his knees and blessed: "The cousin forgives the sins, the maid didn't believe the cousin." It's just that it's a bit of a nowhere to start. Today, our grandmother came back to Bofu to visit the second young grandmother and eldest brother, and she was very happy. Later, in the middle of speaking, Mrs. Shizi came. Xu watched the second young grandmother have a brother after a year and a half of entering the door, so there was some comparison in her words. Our grandmother is not usually such a caring temperament, but it has been hot lately, and she has not rested well, and she is already a little chest tightness and irritability, which makes her a little sad, and it is not too strict. β
Feng Wei finished speaking euphemistically, and Yan Yuan's breathing finally calmed down: "Ruji, I made you smile today." When he let go of his hand, he saw that the back of Ruji's hand had been pinched out by himself with a few red finger marks, and he was even more apologetic: "I, I actually pinched you like this." Does it hurt? Phoenix, go to the ice and get a handkerchief. β
Ru Xi hurriedly pressed Yan Yuan's hand: "Big sister, although we haven't had many opportunities to interact this year, but it was you who invited the third aunt to find a doctor for me, so I had the opportunity to turn over later." I will never forget your life-saving grace, we are sisters again, so you don't have to be polite about such a trivial matter. What did Mrs. Shizi say today? Haven't you only been out of the cabinet for two years? β
Although Ruji is full of concern towards Yan Yuan, she also has a lot of doubts. According to the impressions and rumors of the past and present lives, the wife of the prince of Huan Ningbo Mansion Wen is probably a middle-to-upper-type figure in house fighting power.
Shizi Yanche leads the troops all the year round, and Mrs. Wen's relationship with her mother-in-law Mrs. Huan Ningbo and the third wife Lin Chengyue at home is not very good. The reason is very simple, the Yan family is a military upstart who started before the Chenzhou battle. Going back decades, the old uncle Yan Xingyuan's family was all for the Empress Ming, who had not yet been married to today. It sounds better to be from the dragon with the army, and the emperor and queen are close ministers. To put it bluntly, in the early years, Old Man Yan was a steward under Empress Ming who was still in Jianghuai at that time, and the two sons were guards, and Mrs. Shang also assisted in managing the accounts, not to mention the third lady Lin Chengyue, everyone knew that she was the maid of Empress Ming.
Although the Yan family did not have any refuge documents or slave household registration when they were working for Empress Ming, compared with the Wen family, who was the daughter of the Marquis of Yiyang, this background was still heaven and earth, which was too far behind.
The Yiyang Marquis Mansion is not inferior to the many wealthy families in Dasheng, and it has never been as powerful as the British Mansion and the Yuguo Mansion, but it is not too declining. On the one hand, the family's usual style is more moderate and conservative, and on the other hand, it is also the luck to stand in line in the previous dynasties.
But when it came to the changeable and ups and downs of the Rui, Xuan, and Xiang dynasties, the Wen family could be said to be very unlucky, and every time it was a sideshow.
At the time of Emperor Rui's reign, the original son of Empress Pei, Prince Yuande, chose a concubine. However, after being the crown princess for a full thirty years, his father-in-law Emperor Rui insisted on living the demeanor of the Queen of England, and directly survived the already somewhat weak Prince Yuande, and almost even the next Prince Xuankang also died, and Mrs. Wen, who had lived in the East Palace for almost a third of the century, finally moved out of the imperial city to retire with the title of Prince Yuande and Princess. The first attempt by the Marquis of Yiyang to be upgraded to the Cheng'en Mansion was a complete failure.
When it came to Emperor Xuan, that is, the first emperor dynasty, there were three princes. Although Emperor Xiang at that time was promoted from the grandson to the crown prince, and his name was determined early, everyone knew that the relationship between the father and son was like fire and water, and the four princes born to Empress Gu in Emperor Xuan's middle palace were the real heirs in Emperor Xuan's heart. So there is another concubine on the royal family tree who is the fourth prince. Although the four princesses are known to be virtuous, the difficulties of the heirs are well known, so when Concubine Wen entered the palace, she also carried the expectations of the Yiyang Marquis Mansion and even Emperor Xuan and Empress Gu at that time.
It's just that Concubine Wen, who has worked hard for several years to conceive a male fetus, has not had time to seriously dream of Zhaoyang Zhonggong, and the news of Prince Yuanxiang and Crown Princess Ming's Chenzhou victory and recapture of Qibei Pass came. Then the turmoil in Beijing was rapidly turbulent, and the thunderous methods of Prince Yuanxiang and his wife were fully launched, and Emperor Xuan had no real power to fight back. The Marquis of Yiyang had to turn around again, and this was the marriage in which Mrs. Wen became the son of Huan Ningbo, Yan Che.
For the successive Yiyang Marquis, the shape is stronger than people, and it is natural to turn the rudder early when he sees the wind. As long as the continuation of the family's status can be maintained, what is the concubine and the side concubine, the original steproom, five words floating in the sky, marriage is not a thing.
But for this Mrs. Wen, it was a different matter. After Emperor Xuan ascended the throne and before Dasheng recaptured Qibei Pass, in fact, Prince Yuanxiang and his wife still kept a low profile for a while. At that time, the fourth prince Yu Feng was really high-spirited and proud. As the younger sister of the concubine of the fourth prince, Xiao Wen, who was still young at the time, still had some dreams and ambitions. Although Yan Che, the son of the world he married later, is also heroic and outstanding, but in the end it is completely different from the original girl's dream. What's more, from the in-laws to the concubines in the family, they all came from such ordinary and even humble backgrounds, and the indescribable unease in Mrs. Wen's heart has never really stopped.
But if it doesn't stop, it doesn't stop, whether in the past life or in this life, the reputation of this Mrs. Wen of Huanningbo Mansion is still in the past. The reputation has passed, it should have a certain IQ to support the back, although there are few outsiders who come to congratulate Minglu Sakura today, but the three relatives and six relatives close to the Yan family add up to a lot, Mrs. Wen will say particularly inappropriate words to Yan Hao in front of so many people? Isn't it a little lower-grade?