Chapter 41: Grass Snake Gray Line (6)
This dispute started completely unexpectedly for Qu Ning, although in fact, from beginning to end, she seemed to be just a spectator between father and son - although Tang Shaoshuai seemed to be supporting her, and Tang Dashuai seemed to be dissatisfied with her "Ji Si Chen", but the woman in the back house, to a certain extent, really had little impact on politicians.
Qu Ning did feel a little moved by "being supported" in her heart, but soon, in the follow-up waves of events, she was quickly left behind - those ladies who came to the door every day to test her tone and wanted to know something inside, she was about to be unable to deal with it, okay, fall!
But if she saw anything from it, it was that the contradiction between the father and son of the Tang family seemed to have become more and more acute, more and more obvious, and gradually began to surface - on the one hand, it was a good thing, their dispute was singled out, and when she published the newspaper, it was just when the gossip reached the most β‘, which could boost her sales, but on the other hand, it also coincidentally frightened her.
This dispute in the back house made the young marshal's hat of "strict wife management" tightly covered, and even Qu Ning had to face the eyes of many people when he went out later.
The battle in the army was far fiercer than she had seen. Young Marshal Tang has been going out early and returning late these days, and now the cyan color is getting heavier and heavier, Qu Ning can keenly perceive from the increasingly condensed aura on his body that the burden on his shoulders is not light.
As far as she knows, in the Tang army, most of the current armaments supplied by the West such as guns and ammunition are controlled by the young marshal, and the replenishment of food and personnel is in the hands of the Tang marshal. If the father-son battle is to be divided for a short time, it will be possible to temporarily gain the upper hand when whoever can hold the other half of the power.
The father and son fought openly and secretly in the army, and the capital was naturally turbulent and impetuous.
As a result, Shili from all sides began to make frequent moves, and spies from all parties were also constantly listening to the news of the young marshal army, and even the Tang family, everyone wanted to know whether the Tang family's big drama of winning the heir would be Jiang or the old spicy, or the back waves of the Yangtze River pushing the front waves.
And this situation, after the Feng family's delegation secretly entered Beijing soon after, became more and more distinct, making it impossible to hide it, after all, the Feng family and the Tang family are now divided into two countries, if the Feng family supports anyone, I am afraid that the east wind will be able to overwhelm the west wind.
To everyone's surprise, when the Feng family came to visit the Tang family's mansion, it was five days ahead of their official itinerary.
The Feng family mission was all the way north by boat from the warm south, and there were people along the canal, and the itinerary was almost one stop at a time to report to the Beijing Division, and because of this, their itinerary was suddenly out of control, which caught people off guard.
The first thing the brothers and sisters of the Feng family did after entering Beijing was not to ask the emperor who was on the throne to say goodbye, but to hand over the invitation to the Tang family's mansion in their private name.
Because it was also a good family in the past, the eldest son of the Feng family, Feng Siping, went to visit his uncle Tang Dashuai, and the Feng family's sister-in-law, Feng Siyan, who was known as the tiger girl of the gate, went through the concierge to meet the young lady of the Tang family - it was Qu Ning.
It was late afternoon, Qu Ning was holding Tang Key's hand, teaching her how to read the account books, how to calculate expenses and manage the house, and she still had some samples passed by Kim Yunzhu on her desk to be published in the first issue β‘of the newspaper - all of them had to be carefully read by her, the 'helmsman', before they could be sent out.
In fact, since the day of the fight, Tang Dashuai and Tang Shaoshuai spoke cruelly to each other in person, the atmosphere of the Tang family has been very strange. It's like boiling water with red-hot firewood, but beneath the tranquil surface, it's hot enough to burn people.
The subordinates seemed to be watching, and Qu Ning's orders went down, although they were still honored one by one, but there was no such diligent and careless service as before.
If you ask for water two or three times more at night, you have to give money to the big kitchen, otherwise, you will have to ask for three or four foreign mills.
Qu Ning knew in her heart that this was not a good time to settle accounts, so she let it go for the time being, only holding on to Tang Key, and obeying her to be careful in everything.
Tang Jian has been learning housekeeping with her for the past few days, and today is no exception, the two of them were stunned when they heard the communication from the porter and the greeting post handed over: "Miss Feng? β
Qu Ning got up and put on her embroidered shoes, her eyes lit up: "The Miss Feng from the Feng family in the south?" Why did you arrive today? β
"The two were said to be impatient and depressed, so they got rid of the guards and came by land themselves." Menzi has obviously done his homework in advance, and he will answer all questions, "Miss Feng said that if it is inconvenient for the young lady, it is better to meet a few young ladies and aunts to catch up with the old days. At that time, her father and her master were also the same year, and it was considered a good family, thinking of the friendship with a few young ladies when she was young, she thought that she and a few girls could meet before they got married. In addition, when she came from Jiangnan, she also brought some southern specialties for our eldest lady, so she was looking forward to meeting the fourth aunt. β
Qu Ning frowned slightly, put down the pen in his hand, and said to the porter, "I'll go right away." β
After the porter retreated, she turned her head and asked Tang Key, "This Miss Feng Siyan, did the third sister get along with her before?" β
Tang Jian was also stunned, and shook his head again and again: "She used to think that we were delicate and weak, and she acted softly, and she was most impatient to deal with our female dependents, if you want to say familiar, I'm afraid that my brother is familiar with her, and there are more than me, right?" β
"Oh?" Qu Ning raised his eyebrows when he heard this: How is this completely different from what Tang Shaoshuai said?
When she talked to Tang Shaoshuai about Feng Siyan before, he showed that he was completely strange and even disdainful, and he didn't have the nostalgia of the old man or even his childhood sweetheart.
Tang Jian looked at her expression and hurriedly added: "Uncle Feng and his father used to study under a teacher, but my father was depressed and returned to his hometown in his early years. Uncle Feng was different, he rose straight to the top, and was ordered by the emperor to go south to dominate the party. At that time, my brother and I were still young, and I couldn't even remember Miss Feng's appearance. β
Qu Ning pondered for a moment, nodded, put down the mountain of affairs at hand, and got up: "Let's go, let's go meet this Miss Feng." β
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When the two of them came to the flower hall, there was already a scene of warblers and swallows.
There was an unfamiliar, deep voice that was particularly conspicuous, Qu Ning and Tang Jian pushed the door in and took a look, her face sank almost instantly: "Second sister, fourth sister, why are you all here?" β
Turning his head to look at the woman sitting with a tea bowl in the hall with Erlang's legs crossed, Qu Ning smiled: "This, it must be Miss Feng?" β
"Don't call me Miss Feng so old-fashioned," the woman stood up, took a step forward, stretched out her hand, and shook it hard, "Let's strictly Westernize in the south, if the young lady wants, just call me Miss Feng." β
"......" Qu Ning said 'hehe' in his heart, and the corners of his lips hooked with mockery, "Okay, Miss Feng." Come, please be seated. β
The second girl Tang and the fourth girl Tang who had stood up a little uneasily when they saw them coming in were blessed to her at this time: "Sister-in-law." The porter just said that someone had brought the news of the big sister, and we remembered the big sister in our hearts, so we came over first. β
"Miss Feng also brought the news of our eldest sister?" Qu Ning smiled in surprise, "This is an unexpected joy." β
Feng Siyan nodded: "But the gift is still on the accompanying boat, my brother and I are in a hurry to meet my uncle and a few sisters, so we are one step ahead, and the gift will be presented later." β
Qu Ning helped her with both hands: "How can it be, Miss Feng is so polite, is it because he can't meet me?" β
She paused slightly: "Since it's a good family, it shouldn't be so polite." β
After a few people exchanged pleasantries, they sat down separately, but obviously, when Qu Ning and Tang Jian arrived, the atmosphere in the hall was far less harmonious and joyful than when they heard it at the door.
Feng Siyan is sharp-tongued, she was wearing a narrow and slim Western dress, at this time, the corners of her eyes are spring, and her tongue is given, when it comes to the battlefield, she is the head of the road, but she lives up to her title of the tiger girl, and it also made several girls startled, completely absorbing their attention, but Qu Ning always vaguely felt that under Feng Siyan's smile, there were some indescribable barriers, and Feng Siyan occasionally looked her up and down, which was quite indescribably weird.
In fact, some people are not in tune, which is probably something that can be affirmed at the first time.
Qu Ning has already had a haze in her heart since she started beating Feng Siyan and calling herself "Miss Feng", so the follow-up is not very enthusiastic: But isn't it, even in later generations, this kind of fake foreign devil who likes to talk like to be caught in the middle of the English is not popular abroad, let alone this era?
On the contrary, it was the second girl Tang and the fourth girl Tang who were extremely affectionate to Feng Siyan, talking and laughing, and they also recalled their past, which was already very vague in Tang Key's memory, and became a thin touch of silhouette.
It was also from their jokes that Qu Ning heard that Tang Shaoshuai was also a flying eagle lackey when he was young, bullying the little girl's small actions, Feng Siyan's memory, when he was a child, he was often bullied by Tang Shaoshuai's little bully.
"Later, everyone met each other on the battlefield, and I still thought in my heart, isn't this the wrong person?" Feng Siyan said while gesturing, and said with a smile, "The young marshal was completely a round bastard when he was a child, how did he become a big lump of ice later?" Oh, that black face, it scared me to death. β
When it came to the difference between the past few years, the circle of people who knew the reason for the change before and after Tang Shaoshuai suddenly quieted down.
Qu Ning sneered again and again: What are you pretending to be cute and innocent? Could it be that your Feng family came to Beijing for peace talks, and as one of the envoys, this Miss Feng didn't do her homework in advance? It's obvious that he deliberately poked someone's wound and wanted to test the reaction.
She was unhappy in her heart, so she just raised her eyes slightly, and didn't answer the round. All of a sudden, the room was exceptionally quiet.
Feng Siyan felt that she had said the wrong thing, and immediately stuck out her tongue, coughed lightly, and was about to change the topic, when suddenly the girl jumped up with a smile, and waved to the door lively, completely naΓ―ve: "Uncle Tang, brother!" β
Tang Shaoshuai walked in with a young man in a suit and leather shoes smiling, and walked in with vigorous steps, and his posture did not look like a person who was over half a hundred years old.
He glanced at the room, nodded to Qu Ning very kindly, introduced the man to Qu Ning, and said to her: "Zi'an, they are all entering Beijing for the first time, and we are all good friends, and I have been friends with their father for many years." My daughter-in-law has been working a lot harder recently, and everything is taken care of by you. β
Qu Ning followed awe-inspiringly and bowed: "Yes." "Zi'an, it's the son of the Feng family, Feng Siping's words, An Heping can be regarded as agreeing, this word is also in line with the ancient law.
Who thought that she thought that this was over, but the two over there didn't seem to be satisfied.
Feng Siping smiled at the moment: "Don't hide it from Shibo," he glanced at his smiling sister dotingly, "My sister has been in the wild since she was a child, and she can't sit still." Originally, this envoy group had nothing to do with her, didn't she hear that the young lady's life style was also very westernized, so she clamored to learn from the young lady. As for me, I shouldn't have been, but now I saw the young lady, and I have an outstanding bearing, I'm afraid that I can control my wild girl well. If Shibo doesn't mind, why don't I let my sister get close to the young lady, and learn some ladylike demeanor? β
The author has something to say: Recently, * pumped a lot, this is even more timely to come up, the next one I don't know if it will be drawn until I can upload it at eleven or twelve o'clock in the evening_(:Π·"β )_ Don't wait, if you don't send it at 8 o'clock, it's better to see two tomorrow morning.