Chapter 63: Slow Down
The carriage stopped again on the road, and the two women and Banqin each came from behind the carriage with a stack of books.
"Lady, is this enough?" They asked.
The curtain of the car was lifted, and Cheng Jianniang nodded and watched them put the scrolls up.
There were already a lot of books piled up in the already small car, and at this time, some more were piled up, and it became more and more crowded.
"The lady looked at it for a while and rested, and hurt her eyes carefully." Banqin instructed.
Cheng Jianniang nodded, holding the scroll in her hand and unfolding it.
The carriage continued to move slowly.
Because her family has served in the Taishi Bureau for generations, reading history books has been something she has done since she was a child, but when she recalled it at this time, she didn't remember much of the things on the scrolls she flipped over.
Is it because the history books record all major events, and many people in the long history of a hundred years are as inconspicuous as mud and sand? I am now in it, hearing and seeing these so-called famous people, in fact, it is far from the point of being able to leave a name in history.
For example, among those famous ministers, there is no one named Chen Shao, Zhang Chun has some accounts, but he is only a great Confucian who preaches and teaches and solves doubts, and there is no record of him participating in court affairs, as for the Qin family and the Zhou family, there is no impression at all.
The next emperor was Zhongzong's eldest son.
Cheng Jianniang put down the scroll and stretched out her hand to count, ascended the throne five years later, and reigned for forty-five years, and her ancestor Cheng Ping began to emerge at that time, but Cheng did not start to step into the official career at this time, in fact, the ancestor has been living a peaceful life, living in seclusion in the small city of Jiangzhou Mansion, writing books and biography. For the rest of his life.
Just like any other family. The Cheng generation laid the foundation. The second generation has a strong foundation, and it is not until the third generation that it can flourish.
The foundation left by the ancestor Cheng Ping to the younger generations is his commentary on Lao Tzu, as well as his exquisite physiognomy and fame.
What happened to Cheng Jiaoniang's Beicheng clan?
Now it seems to be famous in Jiangzhou Mansion, but a hundred years later, it seems that it has never existed.
History books are heavy in every word, and the time is counted on the year by line and page, and the daily complicated and trivial things, how can they be easily recorded, if so, it will not be pursued by many people to be proud of leaving their names in history.
What if you find the match in your memory?
Cheng Jianniang put down the scroll in her hand and closed her eyes.
What does the people and things here have to do with her!
Three hundred years away. What if she's alive? It is still a great revenge that a loved one died tragically, but there is nothing that can be done to prevent it and cannot be avenged.
Liang, Yang's...
Yang!
Cheng Jianniang opened her eyes suddenly, and reached out to pull the curtain.
"Stop." She said.
The entourage next to the car was busy parking, and came over on horseback to ask for instructions.
"I'm going to Liangzhou." Cheng Jianniang said.
"Liangzhou?"
Steward Cao stroked his hat and walked over, a little puzzled after listening to Cheng Jianniang's words.
"Now?"
Cheng Jianniang nodded.
"I want to go for a walk." She said.
Another walk!
Steward Cao, who had already listened to the entourage describe the situation of leaving, was startled.
It's just a walk along the city, and when you go to Liangzhou, it's going to be fatal, why do you suddenly remember Liangzhou? If it is really like Cheng Ping said that he misses the old man, then he should also go to Bingzhou.
"Lady, Liangzhou is too far away...."He thought for a while and said. It's winter again, if you really want to go. I have to go home and prepare well, so that I have all the food and clothing, okay? β
Cheng Jianniang smiled and nodded.
"Yes, that's right." "Let's keep going, let's go home first, and then we will make an agreement." β
Fortunately, it hasn't changed too much, it's still reasonable and measured, Steward Cao breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the reasoning is measured, the woman's family is more emotionally changeable, and it's nothing.
"Let's go, get home in the dark!" Steward Cao turned around and waved his hand and shouted at everyone.
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Cheng family, Master Cheng is much better, and he can come down and walk around, but his condition is better, but his mood is not much better.
With the closure of the two shops, all kinds of rumors about the Cheng family in the city have led to other industrial shops also being deserted, although it has not yet reached the time when the lion opens his mouth, but more or less some tea money has been sent out, and this trend is definitely intensifying.
"Where's the second master?" He paced back and forth a few steps and asked.
Shicai has already asked the second master to come over to discuss the dowry, and at this time it has been time for a cup of tea, and it is time to climb over.
"The second master is back in office," the little guy said with his head down.
Master Cheng was shocked and angry.
"Who told him to go back? When will you go back? He shouted.
"Master, don't worry." Mrs. Cheng hurriedly came out of the inner room and persuaded.
Master Cheng took a few quick breaths and was helped by Mrs. Cheng to sit down.
"How can I not be in a hurry!" He gritted his teeth and said, "Sure enough, they are worthy of being father and daughter, ordinary hard-hearted wolf-hearted dogs." β
"It must be colluding again, the second family came back, and Erlang changed again, first came here three times a day to serve, and now he turned around and left, and he didn't say a word." Mrs. Cheng said, while she couldn't hide her anger, "I'll let people drive away the woman from the troubled family and send them back to the Peng family, so that they can take a good look at the good daughter they raised!" β
Master Cheng stretched out his hand to grab her.
"That's it!" He said, "That woman wishes you to drive her away, if she goes out and shouts again, our Cheng family's face will be completely ruined." β
"Isn't that ruined now?" Mrs. Cheng said angrily.
"At least it's still a matter of family affairs to be able to close the door." Master Cheng gasped and said.
"Can you still close the door now?" Mrs. Cheng said.
Master Cheng is holding the tea bowl.
"Yes, isn't she just asking for a dowry?" He gritted his teeth and said, "Give it to her!" β
To her? Mrs. Cheng raised her voice.
"So what are we? Lost face and hurt Lizi? She said, her hands trembling in distress and anger.
Those industries are said to be the marriage of the Zhou family, but they have been her painstaking management for so many years. Why do you give others a dowry for nothing!
"You're confused." Master Cheng sighed. "Originally. It's someone's dowry. β
Mrs. Cheng bit her lower lip and her face was pale.
"Let's close the door first, otherwise our Cheng family's door will be opened like this, and it will be tossed and scattered by outsiders." Master Cheng said, and asked outside, "Has the woman come back?" β
"Not yet." The servant woman outside the door replied, "But, sir, that girl and the steward of the Zhou family left in a hurry last night. I haven't come back yet, are you going to pick up the lady? β
"Last night? Hurried? Master Cheng frowned and asked, sitting up straight.
"Yes." The servant woman nodded, "It seems that someone came back to report something, they are in a hurry to leave, I don't know if something happened to that lady..."
Mrs. Cheng sneered.
"A woman's house runs around at every turn, and it's no wonder if nothing happens." She said.
If only something really happened! It can be regarded as God's retribution!
"I guess I'm coming back, you guys look at it, and tell me as soon as you come back." Master Cheng said.
The servant woman replied.
There was nothing to say all night, when it was very bright. After Master Cheng had taken the medicine, the servant woman hurried in to return. That Cheng Niangzi is back.
"The door I entered in the middle of the night last night." She said, "Second Mrs. Cheng has already passed. β
Mrs. Cheng sneered.
Master Cheng sat up with some hesitation.
"Master, we can't go." Mrs. Cheng said.
Master Cheng pondered for a moment and called the housekeeper to come.
"Go to her, in my name, and tell her that the dowry may be given to her." He said.
The butler answered and went out.
Mrs. Cheng couldn't hide her distress.
"Don't feel distressed, all the dowry will be given to her, and it will be taken to your mother's house at that time, and it can be regarded as a fertile water without leaving outsiders in the field, and then I am afraid that you will have to take care of it." Master Cheng comforted and said, "Think about it, if you really want to make a deal on the dowry, the second child will definitely make trouble in family affairs, and when the time comes, we will not say anything at all." β
is also the truth, and it can only be like this now, Mrs. Cheng nodded, take a step back first, and talk about it later.
Not long after the butler was gone, another servant woman hurried in.
"Madam, Mrs. Wang is here." She said.
It's time to come, Mrs. Cheng is busy with her clothes, she has made so many things before and after and has dragged on for so long, and she is anxious to know if she can still do family affairs a year ago.
Master Cheng got up and avoided, Mrs. Cheng waited in the hall, but waited left and right but did not see Mrs. Wang enter the door.
"What's going on?" She asked with a frown.
The servant woman was also a little strange and hurriedly went out to see, and after a while, she came back with a strange face, and there was still no figure of Mrs. Wang behind her.
Wrong? It's impossible to be mistaken.
"Madam, Madame Wangβ" said the servant, and stopped talking.
"What's wrong with her?" Mrs. Cheng asked.
"She's gone south." The servant woman said.
South?
Mrs. Cheng was a little puzzled.
"What are you doing in the south?" She asked.
Shicai was at the door, she casually asked if Mrs. Cheng was back... Just as the butler was about to pass, he replied back, and thenβ" The servant stammered, but it was a bit too unbelievable, and she didn't even know what she was saying, "and then Madame Wang went with her."
"You mean, she's gone to see that idiot?" Mrs. Cheng asked, looking stunned.
She heard her right, right?
"Probably." The servant woman said.
"What did she go to see her for? Look at your daughter-in-law? Mrs. Cheng said, "Then you have to come to see me first, how can there be any reason for her to come to see me in person?" β
So it's strange, the servant didn't know what to say, and Master Cheng came out when he heard it.
"You just said that Mrs. Wang asked Mrs. Cheng if she had come back?" He asked.
The servant woman was stunned, thought about it seriously, and nodded.
"Yes, that's what Mrs. Wang asked when she got out of the car." She said.
Master Cheng's brows furrowed.
"She, how did she know that the woman was out?" He asked. (To be continued......)