The one hundred and sixty-seventh round
More than ten days later, just in February, suddenly one day the second wife of Anyuan Bofu sent someone to quietly tell Zhou Caiwei that Mrs. Luo of Bofu and her maternal grandmother had passed away.
And less than three hours after Mrs. Tai took her last breath, her fourth uncle, the current An Yuanbo Zhao Mingji, also died.
Mrs. Tai was angry to death by her most beloved grandson Zhao Yicheng, and Zhao Mingyi was overly sad when she was crying for her mother, and when she went to the toilet to relieve herself, she slipped and fell into the pit and drowned.
The second wife sent an old man beside her, Mama Wu, and asked her to tell Princess Linchuan in detail. Although this Mama Wu is old, she has clearly explained the bad things that have happened in the Bofu Mansion in these days, and there is no confusion at all.
It turned out that since Mrs. Tai had a dowry war with Concubine Jin, although the saint did not rule that it was An Yuanbo's Mansion that secretly swallowed Princess Zhou's dowry, first, she knew what was going on, and she inevitably felt guilty, and secondly, Emperor Lin De found another excuse to seize 20,000 acres of meritorious land, and under the heartache, she felt ashamed of the ancestors of the Zhao family and fell ill in bed.
At this time, the big house has to come to make trouble, and the eldest grandmother Sun Xiluan has to go to Mrs. Tai's courtyard every day to scold Huai, complaining that the fourth master is a loser, and half of the family property earned by the ancestors will be defeated at once, and what should he say is that he will not be able to attack the position of this earl, so he has a black heart and deliberately commits a mistake, so that the saint will take back the meritorious fields of the Bofu, leaving an empty shelf for her husband, Zhao Yijun, the son of the prince.
On the side of the uncle, although the fourth master is an uncle, he has always been cowardly and incompetent, and he can't quarrel with his nephew and daughter-in-law, the second wife and the fifth wife have the intention to stop it, but they have to stop it.
There are more than 20 maids and women who serve Sun Xiluan, and she has been in charge of the housekeeper power in the house for the past few years.
Mrs. Tai's illness is already a little bad, and it is even worse to listen to her say something angry every day. She knew that she wouldn't be able to last a few days, so she wanted to make the decision to divide the house before she took her last breath.
Cai Wei thought to herself that although this old lady was sick like that, her brain was not confused, and she knew that if she separated after her death, she was afraid that she would not even be able to take advantage of it. Only then did she plan to use her mother-in-law to suppress the eldest lord and divide the family property first.
"Cousin, ah no, princess Niangniang, it's not me complaining, Mrs. Tai really hurts Brother Cheng, do you know how the old lady wants to divide the family property?"
The old lady lay on the bed and said that she had five sons, and now there were only two left, and it was better to divide the property according to the grandchildren than according to the sons. The remaining 20,000 acres of meritorious land in Bofu cannot be divided, and it has to be inherited by the next Uncle An Yuan. As for the Zhao family's private property, there are still a hundred hectares of land and five shops, and there are no more. ”
The old lady said that she now had five grandsons, and she had divided the 100 hectares of land and the five shops into five parts, and gave each grandson 20 hectares of land and one shop's belongings.
When Mama Guo heard this, she couldn't help but interject: "The old lady's division is obviously the second room on the side of the elder brother is more advantageous, where can the eldest master agree, I'm afraid it's noisy again, right?" ”
Mama Wu shook her head, "This is also what our wife thought was strange at the time, the eldest man didn't have any objections at all, and agreed without hesitation, saying that he would listen to the old lady's orders." said that his son Uncle Jun is the son of the world, and his daughter-in-law's dowry is more, and this equal division is only five hectares of land less, and it is only 500 acres of land, which is not worth anything. ”
When the old lady saw that he had agreed happily, she was relieved, and she said that the next day she would order someone to invite the patriarch and the people from the government to come together to testify and write the documents for the division of the family.
"As a result, the old lady suddenly got bad that night, didn't she?" Cai Wei asked softly.
Mama Wu nodded, "It was almost time for our wife to fall asleep, and suddenly someone came to report that the old lady was not good, I accompanied my wife to rush over to take a look, and I saw the old lady lying on the bed, vomiting blood on the side of the bed, and there were many more on the bed, only the air came out, and there was no air in." followed by the fifth wife, the eldest master, and several young masters, and the eldest grandmother was the last to come. ”
"The imperial doctor has already ordered someone to invite him, but before the imperial doctor rushed over, the old lady swallowed her breath, the poor old lady has been a decent and honorable old feudal lord all her life, but she didn't close her eyes when she died, she really didn't blink her eyes!"
Cai Wei listened with compassion and asked her guess in her heart, "Who made the old lady angry to death?" Could it be ......?"
Mama Wu sighed, "Who else can there be, the princess is afraid that she has already guessed in her heart, except for the fourth young master's evil obstacle, who else can there be?" Even the eldest man can't do such a thing that kills the elders! ”
"Oh, then Zhao Yixuan is no longer the fourth young master, why do I still call him that, alas, I am really!"
"Is it because he was angry with his grandmother that he has been expelled from the Zhao family and removed from the family tree?" Cai Wei asked.
"At that time, the eldest lord and the uncle who had just passed away said so, and later because he was busy with the funeral of the old lady and the uncle, he first locked him in the firewood room, and when the old lady's first seven years passed, he would ask the patriarch to open an ancestral hall to remove him from the family tree, and his biological mother Hu and his sister Sister Fen would all be erased from the family tree."
"Princess, don't you know, that Zhao Yijun is really not a thing, he is eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling with a group of scoundrels outside, and has never done a serious thing, our wife has mentioned it to the old lady twice, but I don't know what * soup this kid poured into the old lady, the old lady has never been ruthless to discipline him, she only knows that she blindly spoils him, gets used to him, and is arrogant to such an evil obstacle! Even the dowry of the princess was stolen by him, and he was defeated, which caused the old lady to carry the black pot for him, and in order to make up for him, he forced the dowry of more than 100 water-mixed dowries, and the result was that the princess ......."
Mama Guo was surprised: "Good girl, old sister, are you saying that our girl's 35,000 taels of dowry silver and porcelain were all stolen by Zhao Yixuan's bastard boy?" ”
Mama Wu nodded, "And the title deeds of the three storefronts were also stolen by him, and he also stole a lot of things from the old lady." ”
"Then, why didn't the old lady care about him getting those things back?" Mama Guo said hurriedly, although the saint gave her girl more than 300 hectares of land, but the dowry that was greedy by the old lady of Bofu has not been recovered!
"How can you get it back? The porcelain and silver things, as well as the title deeds of the princess's three shops, were all used by him to gamble with others, and he lost all of them, and he owed a lot of debts outside. ”
"How did the old lady get mad at him? Hearing Su Yun say that night, Brother Cheng suddenly came and knelt in front of the old lady, saying that the family would be separated the next day, and begged the old lady to give him more of her private room before splitting up. The old lady originally didn't agree, because Brother Cheng stole the princess's dowry, and finally caused the Zhao family to be robbed of 20,000 acres of meritorious land by the saint, and she was also very angry with him. But Brother Cheng couldn't bear to hold her body and kept crying, saying that he still owed 10,000 taels of silver to the loan shark, and if he couldn't pay it back within three days, the moneylender would cut off one of his arms. ”
"The old lady still feels sorry for her grandson, so she said that she still has 10,000 taels of private silver that she has saved over the years, and she originally wanted to give him 6,000 taels, and the rest will be distributed to the other three grandchildren, and now she will give it all to him to pay off the debt."
When Zhao Yixuan heard that the old lady still had silver, he was happy, and when he saw the old lady handing him the key, and heard the old lady ask him to find a small boxwood box in the closet, his face changed a little. I took out the box and opened it, and sure enough, it was empty, and there was not even half a silver ticket. It turned out that the 10,000 taels of silver hidden by the old lady had already been stolen by him and spent all his money. ”
When the old lady saw that her last remaining private money had been stolen by her grandson, she was immediately a little angry. Listening to the maids who waited for the old lady, they heard that something was wrong outside, and then they saw him running out of the old lady's room, and ran out in a panic, and the maids saw that his expression was not right, and they hurried into the house to see, and saw the old lady half of her body lying outside the bed, and vomiting blood out of her mouth. The old lady treated him like a baby and hurt him for so many years, but when he saw that the old lady was so angry with him, he didn't even shout at anyone, just ran out by himself, trying to hide, what a white-eyed wolf with no conscience! ”
Cai Wei has always felt that although the old lady is patriarchal, but after all, she is from a family, and she can't do the kind of thing that secretly embezzles the dowry of her daughter with a foreign surname, and wants to come to her birthday, Mrs. Tai calculates her like that, I am afraid that since Zhao Yicheng has spent all her dowry, she will let herself simply marry him, so that she will not be greedy for her dowry, and she will no longer have to think about making up money to pay it back for herself. But she didn't want Qin Fei to cut a bar and ruin Mrs. Tai's plan, so that in order to cover up for her favorite grandson, she still didn't guarantee the late season and made a scandal of embezzling the dowry of an orphan girl.
In fact, sometimes she doesn't know whether the old lady really loves Zhao Yicheng or is blinded by a heart that loves her grandson, but she forgets, "Love is not the way, and it is suitable for harm."
She only knew that the reason why the old lady felt sorry for Zhao Yicheng was because this grandson was the only blood and blood of her most beloved and proud eldest son, and he looked like his biological father, which made the old lady always have a green eye for him. But I don't know that the reason why Mrs. Luo loves Zhao Yiquan almost doting, and it is because of his temperament, is actually a compensation for her eldest son who died young.
When Shu's eldest son was born at the age of six, she gave birth to Zhao Mingshuo's first son, her real eldest son. In order not to be pressed down by the eldest son, she treated Zhao Mingshuo very harshly, and the milk doll, who was only a little more than a year old, began to teach him to read and write, and set a bunch of things for him to learn since he was three years old. It can be said that Zhao Mingshuo has hardly been truly relaxed since he was a child, just like a bow that has always tightened the bowstring, which is why he was only thirty-six years old at a young age, and died suddenly due to heart disease at a young age.
Mrs. Luo vaguely knew where her son's heart disease started, and after Zhao Mingshuo's death, she felt that she couldn't live up to this son, who had gained a firm foothold in the Zhao family, felt that he was too ruthless when he was young, and never let him enjoy the innocence and happiness that a child should have for a day. After getting such a grandson as Zhao Yicheng, he invested all the guilt and love for his son on his grandson, and no longer disciplined his son as strictly as before, but went from one extreme to another, spoiling him inappropriately, which not only harmed this precious grandson, but also ruined his old life.