The capital is full of heads, and ordinary people mention it, but it is just a little talk after dinner.

But those serious families who may be involved in it are closed doors, and they are very nervous for half a month, and even outsiders like Qiao's can vaguely feel the wonderful atmosphere.

The people she goes to socialize with naturally have no contact with the people at the top, and they will not be affected too much, but in a place like the capital, the news is always not easy to hide, and the small families should especially pay attention to the movements of those big families.

Several times, Qiao's went to the friend's house as a guest, and listened to the other party's complaints, which little master had a birthday, and said that it was a big deal, but now it is not done, they have prepared gifts, but they can't send them in, so naturally they have something to ask for, and they can't find a reason.

"I heard that the Xia family, even the Xia family is also closed, the knives at home are not for sale, and the day before yesterday there was a businessman who came from the south to pick up the goods, and he was almost so anxious that he hit the wall at the gate of the Xia family."

The businessman in the south is coming with the ship, and there is an urgent matter, he must go with the ship, and he can't be rubbed, if he is free to bring the goods, he is fine, I am afraid that he will accept the customer, collect the deposit, and bring special goods, in case he can't get it, go back and just compensate, it is enough for them to cry for three days and three nights.

While listening to the gossip, Qiao's marriage was roughly given. It is the third son of the Zhao family, and the youngest son of the grandson, who is seventeen years old this year, still studying, although he has no fame, he has no bad reputation for being romantic.

There is a tacit understanding on both sides, but it has not yet been explicitly said that the so-called family has a hundred women to ask for, in this, everyone does not have to worry, always take a closer look.

To say that this Zhao family, but also came to the capital five years ago, Zhao Lao is over forty years old, admitted to the Jinshi, entered Beijing to seek officials, is currently in the Hanlin Academy as an idle little official, but also opened a small academy, not a serious academy, but for those who go to Beijing to take the exam to study and study, although small, but a lot of entry.

Zhao Xin's eyes are flexible, and he is also a little talented, he is not stupid at the age of forty, and he is also very experienced, and those lifters are also willing to spend thirty or fifty taels of silver to study in his academy for a few days for his experience.

So in just five years, the Zhao family took the old lady into the capital and bought a house in a good location.

It is not easy to buy a house, the price of land in the capital is expensive, and the house is even more expensive, and many officials have been serving for most of their lives and are still living in rented houses.

Tell Sister Yao about such a personal family, Qiao's own is quite satisfied, this is not Fengcheng after all.

was so happy for a while that he didn't even care that his daughters were there, so he chattered in front of the old lady.

"I'm generally quite satisfied, I saw their brother Xing'er, he looks very good, he is worthy of our Sister Yao, he also abides by the rules, he is very educated in his speech and behavior at the table, Mrs. Zhao is a little stereotypical and smiling, but it doesn't matter, she is not like a bad mother-in-law who will grind her daughter-in-law, Master Zhao has only recently accepted two concubines, and the family is not chaotic, hey, as long as it is a well-behaved person, our Sister Yao will not suffer."

Joe's chatter.

The old lady only smiled and nodded.

To put it bluntly, the marriage of children still has to be decided by the parents, and no matter how much the grandmother cares, she can only give the gatekeeper.

"If you look good, that's good."

A group of little girls couldn't hear this, they all lowered their heads, and only ate the rice in the bowl one by one, and the food was sweet and delicious, as if it was some kind of delicacies from the mountains and seas.

Hongchen was amused in his heart, and he also pretended to eat there, but while eating, Qiao's eyes glanced over, looking very guilty and thoughtful.

Luo Niang and Xiao Yan also snickered in the back, and both said that now that the eldest lady has completed Sister Yao's marriage, the next step must be to consider their young lady, but I don't know if there is any way for my own young lady to deal with it.

Qiao Shi coughed, and just as he was about to speak, a particularly high, and a little shrill and poignant cat meow suddenly came from outside.

And then it was one after another.

A few people in the room were so panicked that even the old lady recited several words of the Buddha: "What's the matter, the wild cats outside have come to our house in the last two days." ”

Sister Yao'er frowned, and she was also a little uneasy in her heart.

As soon as Hongchen saw it, he turned his gaze and looked out of the door, and after staring for almost a moment, the cat's meow outside gradually became smaller, and after a while, he couldn't hear it at all.

Qiao Shi breathed a sigh of relief: "Cats are all spiritual, and it's not easy for us to fight, but it keeps barking, and it makes people have a headache." ”

Everyone chatted about cats for a while, and the old lady talked about sex, and said with a smile: "People say that cats rape dogs, but in fact, it is not, when I was young in the early years, there was a strange thing in the family, once I went to the kitchen, as soon as I entered the door, I saw a big cat with black and white flowers running out of the window with half of our salted fish in its mouth. ”

As soon as the old lady said this, everyone else laughed, and the old lady also laughed, "It's not uncommon for cats to steal fish, but at night, an old widow near our house brought fish over to apologize, and brought the big cat with black and white flowers, saying that this little thing has recently loved to take other people's food to the house, and there are not many, that is, half of the fish left in the east family, and a bowl of rice left in the west family, which is not good, but she guards such a small thing, and she is reluctant to scold." ”

"My mother saw that it was the old widow, and she smiled, it was not good to embarrass people, the old widow had no children, lived alone, only a cat as a companion, at that time the big guys in the village were not rich, she was an old lady, relying on washing clothes for people, often going to the mountains to pick up some wild vegetables, difficult to make a living, no one would give people an ugly look for half a salted fish, our family was not rich at that time, and there was no shortage of half a fish."

"Since then, the cat still often comes to our house, but, not to steal, is to help catch mice, guard, one night, also helped our family catch a little thief digging a hole near the cellar, the cat caught the thief, did a good deed, just at the family rice noodles or something meowing, made my mother always laugh, said that this cat is here to work for the family, should be given a reward, so let me take the delicious food to it, don't care about the fish or meat, the cat itself does not eat, take my trouser leg to the house, and then we understand, This is to give its owner to eat, my mother is kind-hearted, I think this cat has spirituality, loyal to the Lord, so from time to time with some melons, fruits and vegetables, rice and noodles, etc., sent to the old widow, what kind of work, also think about her, sure enough, this cat came to our house more diligently, never near the house to recruit mice and the like, not even a sparrow, are its credit. ”

The old lady smiled and said, but sighed again, "Later, the old widow went, and the people in the village helped to buy a thin coffin for her, and found a place to bury it, and our family wanted to take the cat home to raise, but it refused, and kept guarding the old widow's grave, and in a few days I heard the humanity of going up the mountain to chop wood, and the cat died, and the body was stiff, and my mother rushed over and buried it in the old widow's grave." ”

This story told that everyone's hearts were a little heavy.

Sister Yao suddenly said: "I won't have a cat in the future, if I raise a cat with such spirituality, when it is gone, I still have to feel uncomfortable?" ”

Everyone likes to listen to all kinds of happy stories, but in reality, a cat may be able to follow the owner for a lifetime, but a person, but it is difficult to raise a cat for a lifetime.

Hongchen sighed, also thinking a little about her family's pets, she had also met cats who were loyal to their owners.

Speaking of which, it seems that loyal brutes are more likely to meet than loyal people, and I don't know what the truth is.

After eating, Hongchen deliberately picked a few pieces of cake and went to feed the cat, but it was not that there was no good food, that is, today's Lu family's food was full of oil and salt, and it was not good for the cat to eat, although the wild cat was probably not so particular, in the end it was necessary to pay attention to it.

After feeding the cat, seeing the two wild cats leaving along the corner, Hongchen stood for a while, and then went back to the house to rest.

Luo Niang and Xiao Yan read for a while, wrote for a while, and went to bed early.

Late at night, half-asleep and half-awake.

Hongchen suddenly sat up, glanced out, and frowned.

Luo Niang kept vigil today, on the soft couch outside, and when she heard the movement, she hurriedly put on her clothes and entered the door: "Miss? ”

"It's not quite right out there."

Luo Niang's face changed, and she hurriedly went out to wake up Xiao Yan, and the two of them went out together, turned around, and came back confused, "Miss, nothing happened...... It was this night that King An originally entered the palace, and His Majesty kept him to stay, but he came out of the palace in the middle of the night, and seemed to be injured, but it was just a rumor, and our people are not sure. ”

This kind of thing is not certain.

Hongchen nodded, pushed open the window, looked in the direction of the palace, smiled, and felt a little relieved: "Fortunately, it's not that there is a problem on the prince's side, it should be that the backlash is more serious." ”

She is now very sure that King An should be on the way, I don't know who to stuff a wild Buddha to him, the wild Buddha has an evil nature, the most is soft and afraid of hard, and suffers a loss outside, so that the purple gold dragon screen of the prince swallowed most of the gas, and he must make up for it from King An when he goes back, and in the heart of the wild Buddha, King An is it, and it will not be too polite to think about it.

Slowly closing the window, Hongchen hesitated, and motioned to Luo Niang to bring her clothes: "King An eats the consequences of his own evil, let's just watch it, but since Princess An has given us all the heavy gifts, let's go and take a look, if you can't save it, it depends on her luck." ”

In fact, no one knows whether Princess An is loyal or traitorous, and she can't see it, but Hongchen is not saying now that she will only shoot if she is loyal and traitorous, good and evil, the nobles in the palace, where do you have so much good and evil, and you still have a conscience in your heart, then you are not a wicked person, besides, if Princess An is really unlucky, it is useless for her to go.

Luo Niang took a simple dress and let Hongchen put it on, it was the middle of the night, and it was not good to alarm the Lu family, Hongchen simply took the two maids and walked away from the small corner gate in a very low-key manner, the old man guarding the corner gate was their person, so there was no need to avoid it.

Along the way, Hongchen could almost see the thick strange aura shrouded in King An's mansion, as well as the hidden trace of evil aura.

At this time, King An's mansion was quiet.

King An was injured, but he didn't go back to the backyard to alarm the princess, only in the front yard, the front yard was a mess, the kitchen was boiling water, several doctors were guarding the door, and an old doctor inside lowered his head to bandage King An's wounds.

His face was gray, not at all alive, his eyes were almost numb, his forehead was broken, and he was dripping with blood, and the blood was a little unstoppable.

The princess was heavy and unmoved, and the concubine sat on the side and wept silently, gritting her teeth and asking the doctor, "How is the prince?" ”

You won't break your head, will you?

The doctor also said ambiguously, and he didn't dare to give guarantees, and said vigorously that he must recuperate, and he must recuperate.

Concubine Fang had to order someone to cook medicine, and she didn't even dare to ask her own prince, why was a good person sent back so embarrassed when she entered the palace.

The Royal Forest Army, who sent the prince back, threw people down and left, all with a straight face, without saying a word, and they didn't accept any red envelopes they stuffed, and the prince's cronies and masters were waiting outside, looking frightened.

The side concubine was in turmoil, and couldn't help but turn her head to look at it, and turned back to ask the palace maid who was close to her: "Where is the princess......?"

She hesitated, and the palace maid said softly: "The lights are also on in the main courtyard, it seems that the princess is not very good, the palace maid who went to ask the side concubine to take care of the prince just now has a white face, and it is still ...... at this time."

As a subordinate, it's not easy to say it too bluntly, but the side concubine understood it and took a deep breath: "There can't be any more accidents in our house, the princess has a body, so we can't alarm her." ”

In fact, like An Wangfu, the situation of children dying one after another is spreading outside, saying that the women in the palace are like snakes and scorpions, they are all vicious people, and the princess and the side concubine are even more incompatible.

But in reality, it is far from being as bad as people think.

The princess's temperament is not bad, she is very passable on the surface, she never deducts the subordinates, she, the side concubine, is also a qualified person, when she first entered the mansion, the first princess of King An has already gone, and now she is in charge, and she didn't let the princess bully or anything, as for the child...... She didn't know if the princess did it, and she was scared for a long time, but this child, not only the death of others, but the children in the whole house could not stay, the princess died two sisters-in-law in one breath, eating fasting and chanting Buddha all day long, and the rules in the house were strict, everyone could see that the princess really wanted a few more children in the house in the past two years, and even the prince went outside to find a good woman to enter the door, she didn't say anything.

If you want to say that the only thing that people can mumble a few words is that the princess has spoiled the little son, but in this matter, I still have to say that the kid himself is not good......

Concubine Fang also didn't like Chen Mi's mother very much, and she didn't like this child even more, and she didn't feel that the princess had done anything inappropriate.

In general, the wives and concubines of King An's Mansion can be regarded as able to coexist peacefully, but they are all a little cautious, and they are not as dangerous as outsiders imagine.

The main thing is that King An is not a long-term person, and there is no woman in the mansion who keeps him in his heart, so naturally he doesn't care about jealousy and resentment.

The front yard was chaotic, and on the back yard, the willow leaves stood at the door, hiding in the shadows, leaving the other palace maids and grandmothers, barely calm, and their hearts were beating wildly. (To be continued.) )