Chapter 34: Must Die
"Wei Niangzi, it was really rude yesterday, this is a small thank you gift, and I hope Wei Niangzi will not dislike it. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
At noon the next day, Zhang Hansheng arrived at the Tongjiang Inn, taking a housekeeper who looked to be in his forties.
Wei Yuan was not polite, and took the box in Zhang Hansheng's hand with a smile, I don't know if it was the information from Huang Cheng, Zhang Hansheng also gave a sandalwood box.
"Was he good yesterday?"
Wei Yuan handed the box to Ah Xun and cared about the little baby's situation.
Speaking of this, Zhang Hansheng smiled with a smile on his face: "It's good!" Pulling my fingers, babbling and talking, just don't let go! And ......"
Zhang Hansheng went to the Tongjiang Inn to find Wei Yuan, and Chen Xi packed up and went to the Tongzhi Mansion.
In this Yangzhou City, everyone knows that the Tongzhi Mansion is famous for its exquisite luxury, but no one dares to say anything, just because this Tongzhi wife is a member of the Chen family.
"Auntie, do you remember the third aunt?"
Opposite Chen Xi sat a woman with glamorous makeup, wearing a gold silk eight-treasure beaded bun on her head, wearing a red painted waist narrow jacket, and a light-colored hibiscus scattered flower Xia Luo skirt underneath, with a gold-patterned butterfly on the skirt.
The woman had a round face and a nose, willow eyebrows and red lips, and was leaning lazily on the chair pillow with slightly squinted eyes.
"Third sister?"
Hearing Chen Xi's words, the woman suddenly opened her eyes, and her dark pupils looked at Chen Xi quietly: "Why did you get the third sister?" ”
Chen Xi was a little nervous when the woman looked at her like this, and pulled the corner of her clothes and said, "I, I seem, it seems that I have seen the daughter of the third aunt." ”
"How can the third sister's daughter be in Yangzhou, you must be wrong."
The woman's eyelids drooped, and there was no superfluous expression on her face, and there was a bit of melancholy in her tone.
"No, no, I think it's true, I also saw the third aunt a few times when I was a child, and it is indeed seven or eight points similar to the third aunt. And...... And the little lady is surnamed Wei, and she came from Kyoto ......"
The woman was silent for a long time, frowning slightly, but Chen Sanniang's smiling appearance appeared in her mind.
Few people know that although the Chen family has four rooms, the fourth room is nothing.
Because the lord of the fourth room was accidentally born to a maid by the old man, although it was later hung in the name of an aunt, it still can't change the fact that he is the son of a maid.
Later, no one cared about his marriage, so he married a concubine of the Sun family.
Compared with the other three rooms, the fourth room not only has no power and power, but the old lady feels that this is a shame for himself, and he has never been very happy to see the fourth master, so the people in the fourth room are extremely angry in the Chen family.
Chen Qiniang is an exception.
Chen Qiniang is the eldest daughter of the four-room concubine, and her food and clothing are not as good as those of a concubine in the other three rooms, and she is often the object of ridicule by others.
Until that day, she got the opportunity to go to the school to study with other Chen family daughters and met Chen Sanniang.
Somehow, Chen Sanniang likes her inexplicably, and even takes her with her to the dinner party in the palace, after a long time, not only is she no longer bullied, but even the fourth room has been sheltered by the second room.
"Qi Niang, if I give birth to a daughter in the future, I must teach her piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and I will definitely make my daughter the first noble girl in Kyoto! If you give birth to a son, let Wei Qian tell him to read and write, and when the time comes, he will take a champion and go home......"
"Qi Niang, you see how well Wei Yuan looks, her eyes are like me, her nose is like Wei Qian, you see, she smiled......"
At that time, Chen Sanniang was already sick, but she still insisted on accompanying Wei Yuan every day, making her laugh and feeding her......
"Are you sure?"
After a long time, Chen Qiniang asked leisurely, Chen Xi paused, and hesitated: "There are eight points of certainty." ”
"You go and ask, how did she come to Yangzhou, when did she come, and what did she do after she came......"
Chen Qiniang's voice was not loud, but it was quite imposing, which was subtly formed by Chen Sanniang's side back then.
"Yes."
Chen Xi nodded and pursed her lips, but she didn't dare to say that she wanted to leave, she was really a little afraid of her aunt.
"Is your father's side okay?"
Chen Qiniang has two younger brothers, one of whom took the Jinshi exam, and is now sent to Bingzhou to be a magistrate; Another...... Yelling that he wants to be a warlock, he doesn't do his job all day long, and he only knows how to deal with a group of idle warlocks.
Chen Xi's face flushed slightly, and his voice was like a mosquito: "It's still the same." ”
"Hmph, you have to get used to him, and a large amount of money is sent to him every month, I can't control this, but you still have to watch a little bit of it, so as not to ...... it again if something happens in the future."
Chen Qiniang glanced at Chen Xi with slanted eyes, and her tone was indifferent.
Chen Xi bit his lower lip and said nothing, and after a while, he saw Chen Qiniang waving his hand with his eyes closed, and then he gently retreated.
When she went out, Chen Xi's face was also a little bad, and she also knew that it was not good to be so accustomed to her father who didn't learn and didn't know how to do it, but ...... That's her father after all! What could she do?
"I don't like I'm from Yangzhou when I listen to the lady's accent."
Zhang Hansheng was talking to Wei Yuan, remembering what Chen Xi said last night.
"We're from Kyoto."
Wei Yuan was stunned for a moment, and didn't know how to reply, but Luliu interjected: "I was going to Huzhou Province, but the lady was sick in Yangzhou, so we stayed in Yangzhou." ”
Listening to Lu Liu's words, Wei Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, she thought that she said that Zhou Chao's words were not clear.
Huzhou, the Wei family's old house is in Huzhou, because of Chen Xi's relationship, Zhang Hansheng knows a little bit about these.
Wei Yuan's expression froze, and her eyelids drooped slightly, she had been in Yangzhou for a long time, and she had forgotten that Wei Qian asked her to go to Huzhou.
I don't know if Mrs. Xu, who said that she went back to Huzhou to invite people, has arrived at the old house now, and what is the attitude of those people in the old house.
"That big lady really thinks of herself as a character!"
"Who wants to rob the broken house in Huzhou, seeing that we are from Beijing, it is not a nose to our nose, and our eyes are not eyes!"
"Humph! Who is rare that Huzhou's house, our Kyoto's house is more than twice as much as that......"
In a small inn in Zhenze County, a woman covered in embarrassment gritted her teeth and cursed, her eyes a little red.
This is the Xu Pozi who left Wei Yuan and returned to Huzhou alone.
The slave next to her secretly glanced at her a few times, but did not dare to answer.
It was only seven or eight days from Yangzhou to Huzhou, and their group arrived in Huzhou before they were stopped by the porter.
It's good to say that I'm from Kyoto, but people have to ask for any tokens, how can there be any tokens, and the customs clearance documents are still in the hands of the lady.
It took half a day to hand over some benefits, and the porter took the master's letter in to help say goodbye.
They don't know much about the rest of the matter, but they can also hear one, two, three by listening to Mrs. Xu's swearing in the past few days.
If it is just the eldest lady asked: Since it is to send the eldest lady back to the old house, then how can the eldest lady be left alone in Yangzhou.
Mrs. Xu couldn't speak, so she was beaten out by the eldest lady.
"Heartless! The master is still in Yangzhou, but he has run back! What do we Wei family want a mother-in-law like you to do......"
The mother-in-law who instructed the guards to beat them out stood far away by the threshold, scolding unforgivingly, and spitting hard before turning around.
From beginning to end, the group didn't even see the old lady's face.
"Auntie, what are we going to do now?"
One of the miscellaneous servants is the nephew of Mrs. Xu's family, and he felt that he shouldn't go, but he couldn't resist Mrs. Xu, and now it's okay, and he was driven out by people before he arrived in Huzhou.
"Let's go to Yangzhou first, find Ah Xun's little hoof and get the customs clearance papers, and then we'll go back to Kyoto."
Mrs. Xu snorted, her face showed a little disdain, and she seemed to mutter: Who is rare in that broken Huzhou.
"But...... But as we were leaving, the lady was sick...... In case ......"
If they die, they will not be able to escape the relationship when they go back.
"When we left, the eldest lady was fine, but she had a little cough, and she asked us to go to Huzhou to ask someone to pick her up, saying that it was a long distance and a long journey......
Mrs. Xu glanced at her nephew obliquely, and her tone was unhurried, as if a stray cat or dog had died on the street.
Seeing that her nephew looked ignorant, Mrs. Xu drooped her eyelids and covered the disapproval in her eyes.
According to the rules of the Great Zhou Dynasty, after a woman marries into her husband's family, the dowry is her own private property, that is, her own money, and after the death of a woman, those dowries are also to be distributed to her children, and others are not allowed to get half of it.
Mrs. Xu is a member of the Feng family, and she had heard the rumors of Chen Sanniang's dowry before she entered the Wei family, and later came to the Wei family and found that the Wei family was indeed extraordinarily rich.
Even the maid is dressed in Wanruifang's clothes!
Later, Mrs. Xu learned that Chen Sanniang was married to a Wanruifang shop.
Although I always knew that Chen Sanniang had a lot of dowry at the beginning, it was some time ago that Mrs. Xu knew how much the dowry was!
So many as three generations of the Wei family can not worry about money!
So much so that the Wei family's annual income from those shops alone is more than all the belongings of some so-called noble families in Kyoto!
So much so that the Wei family is up and down, and now all the money earned by those shops that lay golden eggs is used!
More than ...... Wei Yuan must die!
Such a large amount of family property, according to the rules of the Zhou Dynasty, this is all the private property of the eldest lady alone!
After she gets married, so much family property will become someone else's! Who doesn't feel distressed! Who isn't crazy!
As a virtuous and virtuous lady, how can Mrs. detain her predecessor's daughter at home for the rest of her life without marrying!
The best way, the only way, is ......
She must die.
Death is so that no one can implicate this in the lady......