Chapter 22: The Five Girls of the Sun Family
This Sun Miaoru is the fifth girl of the Sun family who is about to say goodbye to Shi Linghuan in Caiyue's mouth. This Sun family, and Dongping Hou Sun's family, are the same clan. This vein is now the concubine of the former Marquis of Dongping, who did not live in Kyoto earlier, but lived in the southern ancestral home of the Sun family, because his children and grandchildren have no interest, so life is very bad. Always clinging to this family, eating and relying on that family, over the years, the old book is also finished, and it is becoming more and more sluggish.
Originally, they didn't have the ability to enter Beijing, but who knows how the ancestral tomb smoked, and a person suddenly appeared in the family. This lifter, named Sun Bosheng, is Sun Miaoru's father.
Sun Bosheng was originally only a seven-grade sesame petty official in the local area, but later he relied on his whiskers to pat the horse, and he fell into the eyes of the first marquis of Dongping, and then he went through the back door and was able to enter Beijing. After entering Beijing, the relatives of the same branch of the original ancestral hometown did not care, and only held the people of the Hou Mansion as the fathers and sisters of their own sons and sisters, and shouted "old ancestors, old women" to the ancestors, leaving all their own ancestors and grandmasters in their ancestral hometowns, regardless of whether they asked.
Outsiders don't know, and they all think that this Sun family is from the Dongping Marquis!
Sun Bosheng was young, and he relied on the first marquis, and the official child naturally became bigger and bigger, from a small official of the ninth grade of sesame seeds, all the way to a civil official of the fifth grade - the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Horse Washing. It's just that since the first Hou Ye went west, he has never been promoted to this official position.
Today's Dongping Housun Huating is the father of Mrs. Shi Sun. Unlike his father, Sun Huating didn't like this "Sun Xima" who affectionately called himself "uncle", and he couldn't wait to walk around him, and every time he met him to visit the house, he would find an excuse to hide away.
Up and down, the entire Hou Mansion slowly didn't want to see this foreign Sun family, which is why Mrs. Shi looked down on their family so much.
So over the years, no matter how hard "Sun Xima" tried to curry favor with the Hou Mansion, it was all in vain. The official position stopped at the fifth grade, and he wanted to enter the Hanlin Academy with his dream, but the Hou Mansion did not help, and there was no one else in Kyoto to climb, so Sun Bosheng could only be anxious.
After the death of the first emperor and the accession to the throne of the crown prince, Sun Bosheng became more and more panicked. Originally, the post of washing horses in this economic bureau was the official Zhan Shifu, and it was to assist the prince. Now that the original prince has just ascended the throne, the throne is still vacant, and the next prince doesn't know how to wait until the Year of the Monkey!
He had long heard that the new emperor intended to reorganize the personnel of the Zhan Mansion, which was a great hurdle for Sun Bosheng. If you think about it in a good place, it is to be promoted to the Hanlin Academy, and if you think about it badly, it is not impossible to be dismissed from your post by mistake. As soon as the news came out, Sun Bosheng ran to Dongping Houfu, but his leg was about to break, but he didn't even see the face of the main owner, and his hair turned a lot whiter in a hurry.
Fortunately, when he had no way to ask for help, one day he suddenly heard a useful news from his wife, which made him very happy!
The eldest daughter of Marquis Sun and his stepwife, she married the historian of Xuanguogong, one of the existing four princes of the Great Zhou Dynasty. This is not the key, the key is that Shi Linghuan, the son of this "sister", seems to have not said kiss because of an unknown secret!
As for what the secret was, Mrs. Sun also overheard it from the Dongping Marquis Mansion. It is precisely because of this secret that Sun Bosheng has the opportunity to have a relationship with the Guogong Mansion. If you want this relationship to be deeper and stronger, marriage is the best way, and for this, the couple has put a lot of effort into it.
Sun Miaoru - Sun Bosheng's eldest daughter, how to make her win the love of Mrs. Shi at this flower-viewing banquet is the most critical step for the Sun couple to climb the Shi family.
The beautiful Sun Miaoru in front of her not only relieved her mother, but also was very good at pleasing Mrs. Shi, and then looking at Mrs. Shi, the expression on her face slowly changed from cold at the beginning to satisfaction and joy.
Hearing Caiyue talk about this family affair before, Ning Yun still didn't believe it, but now, she had to believe it.
If marrying Bai Xiaochu, who has a humble lintel, is to suppress his adopted son, then what is the purpose of marrying this Miss Sun Wu to his son-in-law?
There is only one possibility, and that is...... This Shi Linghuan really has some shady secrets. And it is precisely because of this secret that Mrs. Shi did not hesitate to show her face and reputation, and coerced Bai Xiaochu to calculate the heirs of her adopted son.
If she guessed correctly, Shi Linghuan's secret would make him unable to inherit the title. That's why Mrs. Shi jumped over the wall in a hurry, calculating to raise her sons and heirs, and at the same time, she was in a hurry to find a daughter-in-law for her son. Sons can't do it, give birth to grandchildren. In short, outsiders can't be taken away.
If that's the case, it makes sense.
Ning Yun sneered in her heart: She, her mother-in-law, really cares a lot, and she is really not tired.
In addition to Mrs. Sun, the other people who were sitting at the same table with Mrs. Shi had known Ning Yun before. There are several duchess of the country, such as the wife of the fourth room of the historian, the wife of the Duke of Wei, Wei Chen, the wife of the Duke of Dingguo, Chu Qiu, and several Mrs. Hou under the leadership of the Dawang family of the Marquis of Anqing.
I don't know if Mrs. Shi deliberately didn't post, or if people didn't come, in short, Ning Yun didn't see the figure of the Bai family.
The fourth room of the Shi family, Ning Yun had heard of it before. The four-room was originally a concubine, and the four-room master didn't have any serious errands, only helping the second room take care of a few shops. The husband was impatient, and he didn't even have the confidence to speak with the fourth lady, sitting there, just a foil, looking at Mrs. Shi's face everywhere. Although the ancestors are alive, the Shi family has not completely separated, but the current situation of the fourth room is not much better than the family, I heard that in order not to please the dislike of the second room, he has consciously moved out of the Shi family's mansion in the early years and made a living alone in a mansion on the outskirts of Beijing.
In addition to the inconspicuous Dow, the other ladies at the banquet are all well-known figures in the noble circle of Kyoto. Inside, there is Wei Chen, the second wife of the Duke of Wei's family, who is preparing to marry Shi Lingfeng. This lady is older than Mrs. Shi, but she is very well educated, and she has always had an amiable smile on her face, even when she saw Bai Xiaochu who had mixed up her own family affairs, the smile on her face did not fade in the slightest.
Compared to her, the others were not so dignified. When I saw Ning Yun at first glance, the expression on my face was wonderful. Especially the Dawang clan, if he grows a beard, he will almost be curled.
Ning Yun didn't feel embarrassed at all, she poured wine and spoke generously, and she forgot all about what happened at the Shi family's birthday banquet. In fact, "amnesia" is completely a true performance for her. I was unwilling to do anything about her! Naturally, she didn't feel embarrassed. The parties were naturally speaking, and the others were not good at mentioning the old stubble, and the atmosphere on the table quickly returned to normal.
In the end, it was this Sun Miaoru, who looked at Ning Yun's eyes, always with hostility and provocation, which made Ning Yun feel inexplicable. Fortunately, this Sun girl only cared about currying favor with Mrs. Shi, but she didn't make any trouble for Ning Yun.
Halfway through the banquet, Ning Yun was a little tired. She didn't bother to watch Mrs. Shi and Sun's mother and daughter act here, so she found a reason to "change clothes", and wanted to go back to the courtyard to hide and be quiet, and by the way, she also had to inquire if the Ning family was here, and if she came, she had to find a way to meet "Bai Xiaochu".
After walking away a few steps, Rusheng came over to salute, saying that the second master asked her to pass the word, and asked Ning Yun to go to the pavilion in the back garden, where he was waiting for her to enjoy the flowers together.
The cherry blossom viewing is just an excuse, what is he trying to say to himself, right? It's okay, Ning Yun also has something to say to him.
Ning Yun instructed Yuchai to go back to the courtyard first to prepare a change of clothes, and at the same time inquire if anyone from the Ning family came, if so, he would lead him to the house and wait first, and he would be led by Rusheng to the pavilion in the garden.
Rusheng's mouth said that this garden, because the location is a little biased, so Ning Yun has never been there.
If you want to go to this garden, you have to go around the Ruixiang courtyard first, go through a sandwich road, and go straight to the north, where there are also several exquisite courtyards, I heard that it is the original residence of the big house and the second room before leaving Beijing.
This flower yard can be regarded as a partition between the third room and the other two rooms.
Because the other rooms don't live in the house, this place seems to be very empty now, and there are not even a few people passing by.
As soon as the two of them entered the garden, a little maid hurriedly ran over from behind, saying that the second master was about to use tea at the moment, but the tip of the hair he had been used to couldn't find it, so he came to ask Rusheng. Rusheng said a few places, but the little maid said that she hadn't found it.
Seeing that they were so anxious that they were sweating, Ning Yun said: "It's better for Rusheng, you go over and look for it yourself, I'm not in a hurry, just take a walk in this garden first." There you go! ”
Rusheng thanked him for his guilt, and then took the little girl and trotted away.
The garden here is called Fang Yuan, the area is very large, in addition to flowers and plants and rockery ponds, there is a small forest in the middle. Ning Yun didn't dare to walk around, and only walked around the entrance at will.
Now is the time when a hundred flowers are blooming, but this garden is very depressed, Ning Yun guessed, probably because of the remote location and no one to take care of it.
However, unlike the gloomy atmosphere of the whole garden, not far in front of her, there was a separate place of red and green and flowers. The area is not large, but it is particularly eye-catching. When you get closer, it's a dense cluster of flowers, the vegetation is waist-high, high and low, and the flowers of various colors compete with each other, so it's not beautiful. Ning Yunxin said: "I don't know what variety it is, if the flower season is long, it's good to move one to your yard and raise it." ”
Thinking about it, Ning Yun moved closer to the flowers again. Before I could think about it, I took a step and felt that I had hit something under my feet. Frightened, she retreated again and again, almost screaming.
When she looked closely, she was even more frightened into a cold sweat: the corners of a blue brocade robe were exposed in the flowers, and a back squatting on the ground was faintly visible.
It turned out to be a man, squatting among the flowers.
Ning Yun held back the shock in her heart, recalled the eccentricity of Fang Cai Rusheng, and the first thought that broke into her mind was:
Someone deliberately lured her over to harm her!
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