2. Chapter 2
If you want to say that you want to open it, the eldest lady naturally can't think about it.
The old lady can look at the doctor's face, and the Chen family can naturally do it too. And for the sake of insurance, she hired more than one doctor, but the doctors' words were extremely vague, which made people feel uncertain.
The old lady is partial to the second room, and she wants the second master to inherit the title, which is clear from the top to the bottom of the long room. For this, Chen has cried several times, angry that he is not angry, except for giving birth to his second brother, in the past five or six years, he has never been pregnant, this time it is not easy to have it, but he may not be able to give birth to a boy.
is even more angry that God doesn't open his eyes, so that her husband has no future, and her only brother is weak and sickly, and now even the subordinates can give her cold eyes, and she really feels that there is no one in the long house.
Mama Qi was afraid that she would be angry, so she patted her shoulder and carefully comforted: "It is said that people who have a brother are small, aren't you a little petty wife?" Then everyone Li is just a housekeeper in the kitchen, how can you have the courage to embarrass us? Who doesn't know, you are pregnant with our brother-in-law in the long house, and the gold is expensive. If you continue to cry like this, how can you cry badly? ”
"Mama, don't coax me, I know this very well." Chen's tears couldn't be wiped clean, so she had to choke with tears: "Usually I can still deceive myself, thinking that the doctor is not mistaken, I may be pregnant with a boy in my belly." But these days, my heart has become clearer and clearer, and somehow, I just know that this child is a girl. The people below are the best at watching people get off the plate, and I know exactly what they are thinking. Those people outside are laughing at me for being incompetent and not being able to give birth to a son, and the people inside hate me even more, I am the wife of the long house, and if I can't give birth to a son to help my husband keep the title, I am a great sinner. When the time comes, don't say it's someone else, it's me, and I'm going to hate myself to death. ”
"Madame, look at you, what are you talking about? People are a lump of meat, the gods can't see through it, and now the child has no shadow, who says it must be a sister? Besides, at first, the doctor said that it was a daughter, and it was not for nothing that he gave birth to a brother. Let's just say that the lady of the Ning family, when she was not born, many people saw it, and she said that she was a girl, what happened? gave birth to a big fat boy in her life, and the angry Mrs. Ning howled and cried......"
Mama Qi didn't say that it was okay, but when she said Mrs. Ning, Chen was even more sad.
You must know this Mrs. Ning, that is really a blessed person.
I heard that she was just the youngest daughter of a Jiangnan merchant, and by chance, she had an intersection with the Ning family, and later married her daughter into the Ning family.
With the daughter of a merchant and marrying into a high-ranking family like the Ning family as a daughter-in-law, it is really a miracle in the capital. What's more, in the generation of the Ning family, there is only one son-in-law of Lord Ning, not even a brother-in-law, it is simply a lone seedling on a thousand miles of dry land, the Ning family is up and down, what is the same treasure, who would have thought that he would marry the daughter of a merchant in the end?
Mrs. Ning, who had just entered a high-ranking family, was ridiculed a lot at first. laughed at the tea seller at her house, and laughed at her for not knowing etiquette and being rude. But within a few years, no one could laugh.
Because of this Mrs. Ning, she is a top student.
Mrs. Ning was born in Jiangnan, and her family was wealthy, but she had little intersection with the official eunuchs. After marrying into the Ning family, after meeting the daughter of the family and the wife of the family, I was very envious. Therefore, he threatened that when he gave birth to a daughter, he would teach her to be one in a million girls, which made many people laugh. However, God is even more joking, Mrs. Ning has threatened to give birth to a daughter since she was pregnant with her first child, but she has not given birth for fifteen years.
She gave birth to one boy after another, and until today, there are eight brothers in the Ning family's generation, all of whom are Mrs. Ning's life. Mrs. Ning took all kinds of prescriptions in order to fight for her daughter, and even heard that when she was pregnant with a girl, she gave birth to a girl, and she raised the little girl of other people's families to come and wanted to bring a girl. As a result, he was finally born, and he was still a handle.
Mrs. Ning's mother's family also has sisters, but she has both children and daughters, and she can't give birth to a daughter. After thinking about it, he decided that the roots of Lao Ning's family were not right, so he made a fuss about reconciliation and separation, and was so frightened that Lord Ning cried and rushed to beg his father-in-law, and it was easy to coax his wife back.
But there must be conditions to coax it back, and if you can't have another daughter, you have to leave your husband. Lord Ning swore to the sky that he would accompany his wife to fight for his daughter, and soon after, he was really pitiful and begged to come to the imperial doctor, and asked the imperial doctor to prescribe a medicine to see if he could eat it and give birth to a daughter.
This matter has almost become the talk of the imperial doctors, and they want to make fun of him when they have the opportunity.
In the capital, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, how many high-ranking families are deep in the inner courtyard of the house, and there are thousands of people who are daughters-in-law, and how many people are cautious, begging for a living under the hands of their mother-in-law, burning incense and worshiping Buddha, only hoping to have two more sons to gain a firm foothold.
This Mrs. Ning is really blessed, others can't think of her son, she thinks of her daughter and wants to live or die.
Although Chen also felt that Mrs. Naning had given birth to a litter of sons in the past, and it was normal to want a daughter, but when she was mentioned by Mama Qi at this time, she felt that Mrs. Naning was a person with a good fate, and a person with a good fate was hypocritical.
For example, if Mrs. Ruoning falls into her own situation, see if she can still shout about her daughter.
"People and people, why is there so much difference, people are a good life, how can a life like me have a hard life?" Chen cried even harder, and said, "It's not just me, but the uncle is also a poor person." You say, in this world, how can there be such a mother? They are all their own children, the palms and backs of their hands are full of meat, the uncle is still the eldest son, and the title of Yingguo Mansion should have been his. The old lady was eccentric and went to the armpit, and she actually wanted to help the second son take the title of the eldest son, which was really the first time in the world. ”
Mama Qi knew that she had mentioned something that she shouldn't have mentioned, and was about to diverge, but when she heard her talk about the dislike between the mother and son of the uncle and the old lady, she couldn't help but sigh: "Who said it wasn't?" The mother and son of the in-laws, the uncle is also the meat that fell from the old lady! ”
Chen said: "If it weren't for the one in front who only left one aunt, I would have thought that our uncle was not born to the old lady, but to the one in front." ”
That's true.
If you want to talk about the current old lady Pan of Yingguo Mansion, she is really not the old man's original match, she is the stepfamily.
When the old man Xie Jingting was young, he had a wife, whose surname was Lan, who was a girl from the Jinling Lan family, although her background was not high, she was also the daughter of an official eunuch.
It's a pity that the old man followed his father to join the army soon after he got married, and when he returned home, his wife Lan had already died.
The Lan family went early, leaving only one girl, which is Xie Jing, the eldest aunt and grandmother who are now married into the Chu family.
As for the old lady Pan, it was the old man who married later, and when she entered the door, the old man had already become the grandfather of the country. The old man's biological mother, Mrs. Bai, naturally followed her son to the capital.
"Although she is not the biological child in front of her, the old lady doesn't like the uncle, and she does have something to do with the one in front." Mama Qi said: "The late old lady was a southerner, and she was used to seeing her gentle and dexterous daughter's family in the water town, so she naturally felt that the northern girl was stout. In addition, there was a daughter-in-law Lan who had been with her for many years, and after the old lady Pan entered the door, she was always picky. The old lady thought that the Lan family had worked hard for her son for many years, and she went without enjoying a day of blessing, but the old lady had this wealth as soon as she entered the door.
When the old lady gave birth to the uncle, the old lady insisted on going her own way, hugged the uncle to her side to raise her, and forcibly recorded the uncle's name under the Lan family. It is only said that the Lan family has no children, and his body is desolate, and remembering his name can be regarded as a thought. To put it mildly, this is just a formality, no matter what, the uncle has been dead for many years, and the uncle has always been the flesh and blood of the old lady, what is there to worry about? Who knew that the old lady really remembered it in her heart, and since then she has been a lot colder to the uncle, and later she has a second master, and she looks at the uncle even more unpleasantly, and she is really no different from her stepmother. ”
"The uncle has never seen that lady, so he naturally only recognizes the old lady as his mother. But the old lady's attitude is really hurtful. ”
"Who's to say it isn't?" Mama Qi said: "Uncle is difficult, now only his wife is the closest person to him, up and down in this house, how many people are waiting to see our jokes." Not to mention the side, in order not to let the black-hearted man get his wish, Mrs., you have to cheer up, and after giving birth to your brother, you will slap them in the face. ”
As soon as he said this, Chen was terrified again, "But if it's ......"
"Don't think about it, wife, I'm from here, and my wife must believe that this time what you are pregnant with must be a brother. Besides, what if it's not a brother? You and your uncle are still young, and you will grow up in the future, how many young masters will you have? As for the moment, the old man is still in charge. The old man has always owed the uncle in his heart, as long as the old man is in one day, this title is properly the uncle's ......"
As Mama Qi spoke, seeing Chen's pale face, she thought that she was stimulated by her words again, so she quickly stopped. I regret that I was soft-hearted for a while, and I said that even if I wasn't a brother, it would be fine. Now my wife is worried, and she can't stand it at all.
She was anxious in her mind, and was thinking about changing something to make up for it, but she saw Chen's voice trembling and said, "No, it's not good, I seem to be ...... It's like I'm going to give birth......"
"I'm going to give birth!"
Mama Qi was so frightened that her brain was confused: "Isn't there still a few days?" Quick, come on, people......"
There was a meal of chickens and dogs jumping in the courtyard of Zihu, but fortunately, Dr. Wen Po had already invited in the door, sent someone out, and quickly called someone in.
In recent days, the Chen family has come and gone several times and is about to give birth, everyone thought that this time it was another false alarm, but Wen Po came in and took a look, and immediately said: "It's really going to be born, hurry, quickly carry people to the delivery room, and hot water, go get hot water." ”
The courtyard was busy all of a sudden, and Mama Qi didn't care about anything else, only guarding Chen's step.
Fortunately, the girls are governors, and they neatly assigned errands, some people went to inform the old lady, some people went to ask the uncle to come back, and some people delivered letters to the Chen family, each performing their duties and unimpeded.
Soon, everyone in the house knew that the eldest lady was about to give birth, and soon they gathered from various courtyards, and even the old lady came over in person, sitting in the Zihu courtyard and waiting for the eldest lady to give birth.