The coffin of the Cui Governor's Mansion was even higher than that of ordinary four-rank officials, which was granted by the emperor. Although the matter of General Lu is still vague, the emperor is very generous in remembering the prefect of Cui. Not only was he rewarded with gold and silver, but he also wrote the words "sacrifice for the country", which can be regarded as a great honor.

For this glory, there are many people who come to say goodbye, especially the party officials who almost poured out of the nest, while bidding farewell to the Cui Governor's Mansion, and at the same time taking the opportunity to shout words such as punishing the incompetent and comforting the souls of the dead.

However, if you are particularly familiar with the court, you will find one thing: there are far fewer party officials than there were a few years ago. For example, the Zhao family, the in-laws of the Yu family, only set up a road sacrifice, and no one came.

Elder Yu Ge came in person today. He is over sixty years old, although he didn't need to be supported when he came out of the green sedan chair, but the white hair on his temples could not be covered, and his eyes were a little cloudy.

However, everyone in the Cui family didn't have the energy to pay attention to these, Cui Jing was in front, Cui Min was behind, the former was older and could still control himself, and the latter couldn't help but frequently look at the carriage diagonally behind.

The carriage looked unremarkable, as if it was used for groceries, and a box peeked out of the door, and a few bags were faintly piled up on it. It's just that the door curtains and curtains are tightly drawn, and the curtains are drawn especially flat, as if they have been nailed to death.

There are a few similar carriages, and if only one Cui Jing returned to his hometown this time, there seems to be a little more carriage. However, the ancestral home of the Cui family is thousands of miles away, and it is normal to have more luggage.

Besides, Governor Cui has been the prefect for many years, doesn't he have some family wealth? There must be a proper place to put it. It must be known that after the second girl Cui got married, the two brothers of the Cui family will return to their hometown to study filial piety, and it is also a penny to transport some things to their hometown at this time. Therefore, most of the people glanced casually and took their attention away from the carriage - there were not many things to the point of being eye-catching, and the emperor did not pursue them, so why should the others make trouble.

However, a few people on the hillside outside the city gate did not think so.

"The Cui family has brought a lot of things." Shen Shu touched his chin and said with a smile.

One of the guards pointed to a dirty-looking mule lane at the end of the convoy: "That car entered the back door of Cui's Mansion last night and only came out early this morning." ”

"What do you think will be inside?" Shen Shu asked casually.

Chu Yi guessed: "The Cui family's belongings? ”

Fifteen shook his head and said: "The Cui family has been operating in Fuzhou for many years, if there is property, wouldn't it be faster to transport it from Fuzhou to the nearest hometown, why bring it to the capital and bring it back?" ”

Shen Shu patted Fifteen's shoulder and said with a smile: "It makes sense." ”

"And what do you think will be in this car?" The first day of junior high asked rhetorically.

I couldn't answer this fifteen, and shook my head. Shen Shu smiled: "I don't know, don't you just follow and see?" As he spoke, he nodded to the four guards behind him dressed as foot merchants, and the four guards carried the burdens, and the horses rode around the back of the hill, and embellished the Cui family's convoy without a trace.

It was true that the carriage was not full of luggage. Behind the box at the door, there were two people sitting.

Don't look at the appearance of the car, the inside is still quite spacious, Cui Xiuwan is sitting there, no different from riding in an ordinary carriage, and even tea and snacks. If it weren't for a powerful mother-in-law sitting next to him, this trip would be like going out.

Of course, if you really go out, the curtains on both sides will never be nailed from the inside, so that if there is no curtain to lift a line, the carriage will really look like a cage.

This is true for Rao, because there is a box in front of it, and there are some things piled high on it, and the light that can come in is extremely limited, which makes the carriage very dim.

Cui Xiuwan leaned back against the carriage, her hands clenched tightly in her sleeves. She was locked all night last night, and even Mrs. Cui never came to see her again, but opened the door early this morning, and stuffed her into this carriage, not only told her to be silent, but also sent this mother-in-law to watch her.

This mother-in-law Cui Xiuwan naturally knows, surnamed Wang, has great strength, and she is one of the people who dragged Yinzhu down yesterday. However, this woman is just a rough servant who cleans the garden, and she can't serve people at all. Mrs. Cui sent her to her side, and the intention of supervision was simply obvious.

Liuzhou. It's so far away, it's still a place she is extremely unfamiliar with, and sending her there is just to prevent her from quietly running back to the capital like when she was in Quanzhou, right? I thought it would be fine to go back to my own home, but I didn't expect it......

Cui Xiuwan couldn't help but regret it again: Mrs. Wei may not dare to do anything to her, as for the future, as long as she controls Wei Yuan and gives birth to a son earlier, even if Wei Yuan has a reputation and already has a son in the family, he can't marry any wealthy family, so he can only marry himself? Then why did he leave him and run back to the capital?

At this point, Cui Xiuwan felt that she was indeed too impulsive. If she didn't follow Wei Yuan on impulse at the beginning, now that she is the princess of the county, why should she be anxious about her father's death? If she hadn't come back on impulse a few days ago, why was she being guarded in the carriage like a prisoner now?

You can't just go to Liuzhou. Cui Xiuwan's eyes wandered around, and finally landed on the teapot on the small table in the car. Because of the fear of the car bumps causing the cup and pot to shift, this teapot is made of a thick carcass and is much heavier than ordinary teapots.

If you smash it with this...... Cui Xiuwan secretly estimated her strength, and glanced at Mrs. Wang again. Thankfully, this year in Quanzhou, she had to do some work herself, and finally gained a little strength. It's just that she has to wait, if her brother is here, even if she escapes, she will be caught, and when the two sides part ways, the rest are their own subordinates, there will always be a way.

The Cui family's convoy passed through the city gate and walked away along the official road. Mrs. Cui took Cui Youwan and Cui Min to watch from afar inside the city gate, and sighed until the convoy was out of sight: "I don't know how Sister Xiu'er ......" The daughter sent away, and remembered that she was the meat that fell from her body, so she remembered it again.

Cui Min couldn't help but say: "Mother, in fact, I should send my eldest sister to Liuzhou's ......" It's really not reassuring to send a few people to send a few people to this thousands of miles.

Mrs. Cui sighed: "Not to mention that you are married, there must always be a man in the family." He said that if you go to send it, as long as someone finds you going to Lingnan, won't it arouse suspicion? At this moment, the Anjun Palace, I'm afraid it's staring at us. ”

Cui Min was silent. Indeed, both he and Cui Jing are now being noticed, and once the travel goal is too obvious, they can't escape at all.

Cui Youwan listened patiently for a while, and waited for her mother and brother to stop talking before she said, "Mother, let's go back, there are still many things to do." ”

"Yes, yes." Mrs. Cui perked up a little, "The Internal Affairs Office is already arranging your dowry, and it will send someone to tailor your clothes...... "The side concubine can't wear a red wedding dress, but when she enters the door, she can't be like an ordinary person's concubine.

"Mother will find you two shops." Mrs. Cui thought a lot in an instant, "The dowry should not be too eye-catching, the internal affairs office will arrange as much as it wants, and when the time comes, my mother will put those things back in and put some things in for you." If you have a few more items, you won't have a hard time in Nafu. ”

The dowry depends entirely on how to pretend it. With the same number, Mrs. Cui has her own way of stuffing at least half of what is prepared by the Internal Affairs Office.

"And your seal, this is the most important. With the seal, even if you are a side concubine, she can't do anything to you. "The side concubine of the palace is good here, she is a serious royal jade, a foreign woman with a command, according to her rank, she even has the qualifications to enter the palace to see her, and she is not an ordinary concubine who can be beaten and scolded and sold by the master mother at will.

Cui Youwan was also happy and worried in her heart: "Princess Anjun, will you come to obstruct it?" "It is said that this letter is to be handed over by the palace to the Zongren Mansion after marriage, and if the Jiang family blocks it, maybe it will take a long time.

"Probably not......," Mrs. Cui muttered, "The Queen Mother must have thought of it too." ”

Thinking of the Queen Mother, Cui Youwan felt a little more relieved: "Yes! As long as the Queen Mother speaks, she can't stop it even if she wants to. I just don't know if she'll come up with another way to make trouble......"

Mrs. Cui sneered, "I sure will." However, now that your family affairs are well known, everyone is watching it, and she doesn't dare to really do anything too much. ”

In fact, Cui's mother and daughter are really worried, Taohua doesn't plan to make any trouble for them at all, she has her own things to do - the first batch of pox in the capital is about to start.

It is said that since the pox vaccine is produced, the first to plant the pox is of course the children in the palace, and then the children of the royal family. However, after Taohua saw the two children of the eldest princess and Prince Cheng in the palace, she could only say regretfully: these three children are not suitable for pox.

The eldest princess is less than seven years old this year, although she is thin and small, but she can still be around ten years old with a good recuperation. Prince Cheng's two sons are more obvious congenital deficiencies, the eldest is ten years old, and his face is still pale and weak, even if cowpox is already a very safe method, Taohua does not dare to use it for him. Such a child may be able to kill him if he gets hot, that is, he was born in the royal family and can only grow up by maintaining a thousand treasures. If you change to a poor family, it is estimated that you will die a long time ago.

"Why can't you plant it?" Prince and Princess Cheng are about the same age as the queen, but they are far inferior in appearance. Probably because she gave birth to two children, the whole person is relatively round, and she looks gentler and more amiable than the queen. However, as soon as he heard that his son couldn't get pox, he immediately raised his eyebrows, and he didn't know where to run away from that gentle energy.

Taohua was a little unhappy in her heart, but in the face of a mother, she still explained again: "The two little boys are weak, so they should not get pox." ”

"Didn't you say that the cowpox you made was the safest?" Prince Cheng raised her voice, "How did you come to us, so it is not suitable to get pox?" ”

Taohua This is the first time to ascend to the Prince's Mansion. Speaking of Prince Cheng and Shen Shu are also brothers, Shen Shu returned to the capital these days, and also sent some northwest products to Prince Cheng's mansion as a gift, but I didn't see Prince Cheng return anything, and now I thought of her when I was going to have pox, and I still had this attitude, Taohua was not a temperless person, and immediately sank her face and said: "The princess thinks she hasn't carefully read the instructions for that kind of pox, and planting pox is to give birth to a very slight smallpox." If the child is healthy, he is naturally fine, and if the body is too weak, he can't stand the cold even if he is a little cold, and how can he get pox. ”

Long before she started to make pox vaccines, she asked Huimin Pharmacy to issue a notice explaining the principle and danger of pox.

Prince Cheng and Princess Cheng hugged her son, angry and anxious. She also tried her best to give birth to two sons-in-law, but unfortunately they all inherited Prince Cheng's frailty, all of which were congenitally insufficient, and she didn't know how many tonic pills she used to raise them to such a big age.

For the sake of her son's frailty, Prince Cheng didn't even dare to let them out of the mansion, for fear that they would come back with something unclean outside. Even the people around the sons are not allowed to leave the house easily.

Despite this, Prince and Princess Cheng are still not sure. There are too many diseases in this world, who can guarantee that their sons will not encounter them in the future? No matter how well she protects her, when her sons are adults, won't she be allowed to leave the house?

Of these, smallpox was the most terrible. At the beginning, there was a side concubine in Prince Cheng's mansion who gave birth to a son, but a concubine somehow got a smallpox patient's handkerchief and passed the child on. Later, the concubine was beaten to death by Prince Cheng, but the child also died.

At that time, Prince Cheng and Princess Cheng were simply in a panic, afraid that her son would be infected if she died, and even the courtyard where the concubine lived was sealed. Later, although nothing happened, the terrifying feeling always lingered. Now she suddenly heard that Princess Anjun had come up with a way to avoid smallpox, and tried it in the northwest, and it was personally verified by the two younger sons of Dingbei Hou, which made her overjoyed, and she felt that her son could be safer from now on, and she really didn't study the instructions carefully.

The feeling of disillusionment was so bad that Princess Cheng couldn't help but be a little speechless: "If you say that cowpox is safe, how can it be dangerous?" If it is dangerous, why say that it is extremely safe to get pox? Is it a lie? ”

Taohua felt that it was unreasonable to say: "Princess, for healthy children, pox is extremely safe." "But your child's health is not healthy at all, so what's the safety," the two little sons are congenitally deficient, and they are really not suitable for pox. ”

"You say my son is not in good health?" Prince and Princess Cheng didn't like to hear this the most, and suddenly raised their eyes.

Momoka didn't want to say anything more to her. Even if she can understand her mother's love for her son, it doesn't mean that she has to listen to Princess Cheng's unreasonable troubles here, she still has a lot of things to do: "The eldest princess in the palace should not grow pox now." The princess has a lot of business every day, so I won't bother. ”

The eldest princess should not be vaccinated, the emperor didn't say anything, and Prince Cheng's two sons are not as good as the eldest princess, not to mention.

As soon as the emperor was mentioned, Prince Cheng and Princess Cheng were speechless, and her eyes turned red. Taohua's heart softened a little when she saw her like this: "Smallpox is the most likely to infect children, and when the two little sons reach adulthood, the risk of smallpox infection will be much smaller." ”

Prince Cheng's concern is that her son will not be able to become an adult. Prince Cheng's Mansion has not invited the prince to be crowned so far, because the eldest son is particularly weak. Although she refused to listen to others say that her son was weak, she knew it very well in her heart.

Taohua came out of Prince Cheng's mansion and sighed. This head is really good, one in the palace and two in the prince's mansion can't get pox immediately. If this matter is going to get out, I'm afraid that other families will also be suspicious of pox. Anyway, Taohua can be sure that the Yu party faction will definitely make a big deal about it, and it is best that no one dares to get pox, and they will probably be the happiest.

Shen Shu was waiting for her in the carriage outside the mansion, and when he heard this, he smiled: "They said that theirs, many people in the northwest have pox, and it is not something that they can erase by talking." ”

"It's not a good start." Momoka shook her head.

"It's not necessarily a good thing." Shen Shu smiled, "The higher they jump, the heavier they will fall in the future." What's more, it's okay to make a fuss about this matter, at least no one will care about the Cui family's affairs anymore. ”

In the past few days, he has heard that the daughter of the Cui family wants to marry him as a side concubine, which is really annoying. However, those who followed Cui Jing hadn't sent back useful news, so they could only endure it.

Momoka also laughed: "That's right." However, I expected that the eldest princess might not be able to get pox, so I thought about the first candidate for pox. "These days, the Internal Affairs Office, Qin Tianjian and even the Zongren Mansion have all handled the matter of the Anjun Palace's side concubine as if it was a major matter, and some people even came to her to ask if it was a more dowry than the regulations, isn't this a clear provocation?

"Who was the first person to get pox?" Shen Shu had just finished asking, and he had already thought of the answer, "Is it Brother Bai?" ”

Although Jiang Bohua is only six years old, his small body is healthy and strong, which is suitable for pox. Taohua had already planned to plant it for the royal children as soon as she finished planting it for Jiang Bohua, and now it kills two birds with one stone.

As Shen Shu and Taohua expected, as soon as they knew that the two children in Prince Cheng's Mansion could not grow pox, the capital was about to explode immediately, and there was everything to say, even the notices of pox posted on the streets and alleys were torn off and thrown on the ground, trampled on a mess.

In the backyard of the Liu family, Chen Yan was peeling a basket of edamame.

said that it was peeling beans, but in fact, daylilies were doing it, and Chen Yan was just sitting on the side and posing. Liu Zhijing's errand under Jiang Jun was not taken away, and Mrs. Liu's attitude towards Chen Yan was relatively lenient, and most of the time as long as she put on a working appearance, she would turn a blind eye.

However, it was already mid-April, and even if she was sitting in the yard like this, Chen Yan felt a little unbearable from the sun. When she was in the Chen family, she was locked in the room every day to do needlework, and although she didn't have to work hard when she arrived at the Jiang family, she spent more time sitting in the house every day in order to study and paint. And Cao was afraid that she would tan, so she always asked her to go out of the room less, so she couldn't stand staying in the open air like Liu's house.

"Madame, go and sit under the porch, I'll finish peeling this bean soon." Xuancao looked at Chen Yan's forehead with a layer of fine sweat, and said. She was born in a bitter family, although she did a lot more work in the Liu family than the Jiang family, she didn't feel anything particularly bitter.

Chen Yan saw that there were not many beans left in the basket, sighed and said, "Let's go and rest after peeling it." Otherwise, if the mother-in-law sees it, she will nag again, and she will be impatient to listen.

Daylily saw that she was not happy, so she thought about picking up some happy things and said, "The business of the tea shop this month is much better than last month." ”

"It's only seven taels of silver...... Chen Yan was listless. Thinking about Taohua's private property is thousands of taels every year, her seven taels of silver are pitiful.

"As long as there are more and more." Daylilies were originally bought for five taels of silver, and it was not as much as this month's income, "It's always like this in business, it's good to be cooked." ”

That's a good thing to say. Chen Yan felt a little better after thinking about it, and was about to speak, when the door was pushed open, and Liu Zhijing walked in with a calm face.

"My husband is back." Chen Yan hurriedly got up to greet him, but Liu Zhijing only hummed absentmindedly and walked into the room.

"Coming back? Why is it so early today? Although Mrs. Liu has been promoted to become an "old lady", her ears are unusually sensitive, and she ran out of her room as soon as she heard her son's movements.

It's just that Liu Zhijing seems to be in a really bad mood, and even his mother didn't say much, just nodded and went into the room. Mrs. Liu was about to follow in, but suddenly remembered that her son had already married, and it was not easy to enter this room, so she turned her head and glared at Chen Yan: "Why don't you go in and have a look." I don't know if my man is considerate? ”

Chen Yan was going to follow in, but because she saw that Mrs. Liu had the intention of entering the house, she stopped and wanted to let her go first, but who knew that she was subjected to such a sentence. But this is her mother-in-law, and she can't say anything, so she has to bow her head and go into the house, pretending not to hear Mrs. Liu's words.

Liu Zhijing fell on the bed without even taking off his official uniform, and when he saw Chen Yan coming in, he turned over and sat up and said, "Since you returned to the door last time, haven't you ever been back to your parents' house?" ”

Chen Yan was stunned for a moment and said, "Yes." The mother said the woman who married......"

In Mrs. Liu's concept, her daughter-in-law is married to her own family, except for the New Year's Festival, how can she run to her mother's house casually?

Liu Zhijing frowned: "Tomorrow, you go back and see your mother." Besides—when will your brother come home? "Only when Jiang Bohua returns to Jiang's house, Princess Anjun will probably follow back.

"This—" Chen Yan really didn't know.

Liu Zhijing's brows furrowed a little deeper: "Why don't you even know this?" Isn't that your mother's house? ”

Chen Yan lowered her head aggrievedly: "My mother won't let me ask about my mother's family." ”

Liu Zhijing was choked for a moment, and said reluctantly: "Won't you inquire yourself?" In fact, I also knew in my heart that Mrs. Liu detained Chen Yan and the maid who accompanied her very tightly, and she couldn't usually go out, but she didn't want to say that her mother was not, so she changed the topic and said, "Anyway, you go back to your mother's house tomorrow to see your mother, and ask your brother how he reads." In addition, if you can see the princess of the county also probing the mouth, what should I do about this kind of pox? ”

Chen Yan was a little inexplicable: "What's wrong with the pox?" Isn't it about to be promoted? ”

Liu Zhijing sighed heavily: "The eldest princess in the palace and the two little sons of Prince Cheng's Mansion can't get pox, and now they are talking outside, saying that your sister's method of planting pox is not possible at all." ”

Chen Yan was surprised: "It's not all planted in the northwest, why can't it be?" ”

"That place in the northwest ......" Liu Zhijing felt that Chen Yan didn't understand anything, and it was really difficult to communicate, "That's the world of Dingbei Hou, what news is not up to him?" Anyway, just go home and ask. Could it be that he was on the wrong side again, and he shouldn't have had to get involved in this kind of pox in the first place?