Cai Wei faintly felt that something was not quite right in her heart, so she asked her to tell her in detail about what she had experienced in the past two months, and after listening to it, she asked her, "In other words, when my sister first got married, although my brother-in-law treated my sister a little coldly, it was not as cold as ice later?" ”

Yizhi nodded, and remembered that the candle had been extinguished at this time, and he couldn't see, so he hurriedly said "um".

"After your mother-in-law has taught those two aunts a lesson, will they be disrespectful to you again? Brother-in-law......, well, how about treating them? ”

Yizhi thought about it for a while, and Fang said: "He doesn't go to their room much, and he only sleeps in the study all day." Every time their mother taught them, they would be able to give birth in peace for three or five days, and then they would accuse Sang and scold Huai, and say something irritating. After taking care of it a few times, my mother-in-law also persuaded me that she was not my husband's biological mother after all, and she didn't dare to take care of the affairs in his room. He also said that those concubines were from humble backgrounds, so they were so disrespectful to the master and mother who were ignorant and unruly, and for the sake of their service to the uncle for so many years without merit and hard work, and they had all conceived children for the uncle, don't worry about them. ”

"My mother-in-law said that whoever is a lady of the head, who has not suffered from the idleness of these concubines, if you really want to take it seriously one by one, I don't know what kind of anger you will become, if you are angry, it will be worth a lot, and it will damage the relationship between husband and wife, men like those who are tolerant and generous. But my sister knows that my own mother was angry with an aunt, and later I saw that the Liu family often gave my stepmother anger, and at that time I often blamed her for being weak in my heart, always thinking that if I became a family in the future, I would not be so angry. I don't want to be in this situation now, only to understand that which wife is willing to be idle like a concubine, but there are always all kinds of helplessness, and this first one is to take care of her husband's preferences! ”

Cai Wei heard that she seemed to be extremely close to Mrs. Sun in her tone, and she was willing to listen to her, so she couldn't help but ask her, "Does your mother-in-law really treat you very well?" ”

"That's natural, if it weren't for my mother-in-law who often comforted me in the past two months, I don't know how I survived this day? Some people said before that she was the most virtuous lady, but I didn't believe it, and I didn't want to wait until I got to the prime minister's mansion and saw it with my own eyes, only to know that she was indeed the most virtuous, not only to me, but also to our uncle! But the uncle is always cold and indifferent to her, and often brushes her face, she is not annoyed, and she still tries her best to think about everything for us. ”

When Cai Wei heard this, she was even more suspicious, and she couldn't help but remember that after meeting Mrs. Sun for the first time that day, she chatted with Mama Du, saying that she couldn't imagine that as Mrs. Xiangguo, she couldn't speak like that.

Mama Du laughed and said that it was just because she had never read a book, so some of the words were a little indecent. Although this lady didn't speak very well in the scene, she was clumsy, and she was the most powerful in scheming, and then told her a few stories about Mrs. Sun's past.

Cai Wei became more and more uneasy when she thought of this, so she asked tentatively, "Please also ask my sister to think about it, since you got married, is it that the better your mother-in-law treats you, the more estranged your brother-in-law will be from you?" ”

Yizhi might as well ask her this, she was stunned for a long time, thought about it carefully, and suddenly said: "Vaguely seems to be the case, since my mother-in-law handed over the housekeeper to me, I told the uncle to know, he was not happy, asked me a few words coldly, and then ordered someone to push the wheelchair away, and then never came to my room again." But? ”

Cai Wei thought for a while, clasped her hand and said, "Good sister, since you don't treat me as an outsider and told me such a hardship, there is one thing that I am not afraid to tell you." My upbringing Mama Du Shi, she was originally a female official in the palace, I heard about this from her, does my sister know how Mrs. Sun was straightened into Mrs. Zhengfang? ”

"I heard that it was because our uncle's mother went away due to illness, and she was an old person by the queen mother's side, so the prime minister helped her straight."

"Then why did Cui Xiangguo's original partner die of illness, how did his brother-in-law's leg break, and how did his brother-in-law and a younger brother of a fellow mother?" Cai Wei asked her again.

"This-" Yizhi knew very little about the affairs of the Prime Minister's Mansion before, but after being married for two months, she knew a little more, "I heard that my mother-in-law took her two sons back to her mother's house to visit her sick mother, and because she saw that her mother was seriously ill and wanted to serve for a few more days, she ordered her two sons to come back first, but the carriage on the way had an accident and fell off the cliff, and my uncle fell to his death on the spot, and my husband's leg was also broken, and he could no longer walk." ”

"My mother-in-law couldn't bear such a blow, and she fell ill all of a sudden, and a few days after her mother died, her mother-in-law's illness became even worse, and she went away."

Cai Wei said: "Sister, do you think there seems to be something suspicious about this, the carriage that the prince of the Prime Minister is riding will have an accident?" My father once said that when he decided the case in the past, he looked at who could benefit from the murder's accident, and that person was very likely to be the murderer. Besides, Mama Du also said that after the incident came out that day, many people in Beijing were suspicious, and there were some rumors. Later, it was Empress Dowager Sun who sent someone from Xuanyiwei to personally inquire about the matter, and only then did she stop the rumors. It's just that Xuanyiwei is a close confidant of the Empress Dowager Sun, can their words really be trusted? ”

"Originally, before my sister left the cabinet, I hesitated to tell my sister about these things, but after thinking about it again and again, I was always afraid to tell my sister to know, in case my sister had a preconceived idea and had a gap in Mrs. Sun's heart, it would ruin the relationship between your mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, what if it was my villain's heart and mediocrity? It's just that after listening to my sister's words tonight, I always feel that this Mrs. Sun is not as kind as she faces. ”

"Sister, please think about it, what kind of scheming means she can correct from the concubine's room, and she is the wife of the house, the celebrity in front of the queen mother, and even the daughter-in-law who is marrying a famous matchmaker can be disciplined, how can she not manage the two aunts? And since it is inconvenient for her to take care of the affairs in her brother-in-law's room, why every time her sister wants to discipline the two aunts, she will arrive in time, on the face of teaching them, but she does not use it, but persuades her sister to be tolerant and generous and not to deal with them? ”

"If she is really good, why is her brother-in-law still cold to her all these years? And when she saw her sister close to her, she didn't even like her sister? ”

"Let me ask my sister again, your mother-in-law asked you to take care of the housekeeper, and the money handed over to you is enough to take care of the housework?"

When Yizhi heard this, he was stunned again, and said after a while: "It's just that when I was handling the New Year's affairs and responding to the New Year's gift this year, I was short of one hundred and thirty-two taels of silver in the end, and I saw that there was not much missing, so I made up for it myself." My mother-in-law also knew, saying that when there was money in the account, she would pay me back immediately, and she would never teach me to make up the dowry. ”

Cai Wei frowned when she heard this and said, "In this way, you won't be able to see anything in the short term, and you have to wait and see." Mama Du said that there are many wives and wives from wealthy families in Beijing, and on the surface, they seem to have given power to their daughters-in-law, but in fact, they just want to use their daughter-in-law's dowry to fill the family. ”

"For the sake of today, my sister might as well wait and see, but don't listen to all your mother-in-law's words, for example, to those two aunts, my sister doesn't have to be polite, just talk to them. Since some wives can't fight the concubines, most of them are because they are afraid of face and reputation, so they have to blindly tolerate it, but they say that they are gentle and generous and don't care, as if this kind of secretly sulking in their hearts is the most hurtful. Sister can't be bound by this virtuous reputation, and can't let go of her hands and feet to discipline them? ”

Yizhi hesitated: "I'm not worried about face and reputation, I'm just afraid that I will teach them a lesson, but I will make your brother-in-law unhappy and hurt the relationship between husband and wife, after all, those two aunts have been waiting for him for more than ten years?" ”

Cai Wei smiled and said, "If my brother-in-law really has affection for those two girls, how can he only sleep in the study all day long?" What's more—" Her heart suddenly moved, and she asked again, "Are these two aunts the girls who have been waiting in front of their brother-in-law since they were young, or have they come to serve later?" ”

"This, but I don't know, whether it is them or my mother-in-law, they said that they came to the uncle more than ten years ago to wait."

"After my sister goes back, I might as well inquire secretly to see if these two aunts have been with my brother-in-law since childhood, or whether Mrs. Sun gave it to him later, the difference between them is big! If it was given by Mrs. Sun, as long as the sister took advantage of it, she would just teach the two aunts a lesson and set up rules for them, and then see if the brother-in-law would protect them? If the brother-in-law still doesn't care, then what does the sister have to worry about? ”

Yizhi thought about it for a while, and felt that it was very feasible, so she held Cai Wei's hand and said: "Good sister, it's hard for you to think of such a way for me, it's just that I can discipline these two aunts, if your brother-in-law still treats me coldly like that, my days in that mansion—"

Cai Wei understood the unfinished meaning of her words, thought about it, and asked her: "As far as I know, once a woman in my dynasty marries a wife, the people who can be relied on in her husband's family are one husband and the other is a mother-in-law." Although the husband and wife are of the same heart, the profits and gold are broken, but it can be said that sometimes the weight of the mother-in-law is heavier. In the Southern Qin Dynasty, there was a great poet who was in harmony with his original wife, Qin Se, but his wife did not like his mother-in-law's intentions, and forced them to reconcile. Now that my sister is married to Nafu, if you want to gain a foothold, you have to rely on it, if you can have both of them, it is the best, but since his stepmother and stepson are not in harmony, my sister must choose a party before she can plan for the future, but it is inevitable that there will be some giving and taking! ”

Yizhi was silent for a moment, and Fang said: "I understand what my sister means, and in my heart I still want to be more towards our uncle, after all, I am married to him as a husband and wife, and I want to live with him for the rest of my life." It's for him to offend his mother-in-law, thinking that she is a stepmother after all, as long as I don't make a big mistake, she can't force her stepson to divorce me, and my father-in-law looks at it, my father-in-law treats my uncle, although he is not as pampered as he treats the third and fourth uncles, but he is well protected. ”

What she didn't want to say was that since she was lifted by her husband Cui Hu on her wedding night, she saw that although the man in the wedding robe was in a wheelchair and was not good at walking, he had clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and his face was like jade. Although it is a piece of cold jade, she is always cold and indifferent, but her temperament and elegance have made Yizhi feel secret, and it is precisely because of this that she has been so distressed in the past two months, and even for his sake, she did not dare to strictly discipline the two aunts.

But I heard Cai Wei smile and said: "My sister has made up her mind about her brother-in-law, but I don't have to worry about my sister anymore in the future, my sister has been raised by my grandmother since she was a child, and she is smart and assertive, if she is not in the game and is afraid of hurting the jade bottle by hitting a mouse, how can she be so difficult." Good sister, let's go to sleep first, my sister has figured it out, and tomorrow there is a way to unravel this mess, and you will have to go back to the upper room tomorrow before the old lady wakes up. But don't your grandmother wake up and see that you don't sleep with her in her room, you run away from me, and you want to eat my vinegar when you come back? ”

Yizhi chatted with her for a long time, and the depression in her heart had dissipated a lot, and when she saw her talking about some naughty jokes here, she had to twist it on her mouth, "You little monkey, even the old lady has made it up, go to sleep quickly, Ming'er I still pointed at you and called me up?" ”

The two laughed a few more words, and then rested. Early the next morning, Yizhi said goodbye to Mrs. Tai and went back to the Prime Minister's Mansion. Since she left, Cai Wei only cared about worrying about Yizhi, but she didn't know that she had been remembered by others.