On the third day of November, Zhao Yihui, the third lady of Anyuanbo's Mansion, sat in an eight-lift sedan chair and married to Xing'anbo's Mansion with a dowry of one hundred and twenty-eight lifts.

When she returned to the door three days later, her husband's cousin, Lu Shiyu, the son of Xing'an, accompanied her back to meet the elders of Anyuanbo's mansion.

Cai Wei is also very happy for Yihui, the five cousins in this house, she is the best with Yizhi and Yihui, and naturally she is also the most concerned about the marriage of the two of them. Yizhi's family affair was not a good marriage originally, but although he was with the same heart as the husband and wife of the Cui Gongzi, there was still a sinister stepmother-in-law on the head, and now he has left the capital far away, living in the wilderness, and he doesn't know if he is doing well?

There is also a Yifang, I heard that she married into Chen Shangshufu, her aunt doted on the concubine, and her mother-in-law always made things difficult for her, and her life was even more unsatisfactory.

Now the three sisters who are married out of the house are only Yihui who not only married well, but also married and beautiful, and loved by her in-laws, which is really happy. makes people finally no longer so afraid of getting married, and gives birth to a glimmer of hope.

But some people are happy, and some people are not happy, the eldest lady who was locked up in the small Buddha hall heard that Yihui had a very good life after getting married, the husband and wife were loving, and her in-laws treated her as a daughter.

First cursed Yihui that it was best not to have children, and then scolded Aunt Hu's mother and daughter for being all waste, and couldn't even do such a simple thing as drugging and robbing relatives, hoping that Mrs. Tai would punish this pair of fools fiercely!

At this time, the second lady was taking a few grandmothers and maids to Aunt Hu's room, and ordered the maid to open the lock, so that she could go in and sue Aunt Hu for punishing her.

Aunt Hu was already a dead pig at this time, and she was not afraid of boiling water, and when she saw the second wife coming in, she didn't get up to salute and say hello, she still leaned on the kang, and looked at the second wife with a defiant face with her eyelids half-raised.

The second wife didn't care about her, and she didn't want to sit in Aunt Hu's house, so she stood in the middle of the room and said, "Now that I'm busy with Sister Hui's marriage, it's time to let you go." I have already asked Mrs. Tai that according to the rules of this house, if you make such a big mistake, you will be sent back to the family temple in your hometown to repent for the rest of your life. ”

As soon as Aunt Hu heard that she was going to be locked up in the family temple in her hometown, and she would be locked up for the rest of her life, she immediately sat up from the kang and shouted: "You are talking nonsense, I made a big mistake again, and I gave birth to Brother Cheng for Uncle Xian, leaving him a root, I am a great hero of the Zhao family, and the old lady will never send me down like this?" You must have faked the meaning of the old lady, talking nonsense here? ”

The second wife didn't argue with her, and smiled at an old lady behind her: "In that case, please tell her what the old lady means again!" ”

Mama Wang took a step forward and said: "When Mrs. Fang Cai discussed with the second wife how to deal with her aunt, the old slave was waiting on the side, and Mrs. Tai had indeed ordered her to go down and send her back to the family temple in Liuzhou's hometown to guard the tomb of the first uncle, no matter who it was, from now on, she was not allowed to take her back again!" ”

Aunt Hu had already heard her son Zhao Yiquan say that she knew that this Mama Wang was the first confidant by Mrs. Tai's side, and since she said this, it seems that Mrs. Tai really wants to send her down like this! But, but to drive her to that poor country for the rest of her life? This, how can this be done, so how can she enjoy the rest of her life? She was expecting her children to have a good future, and she could have more blessings to enjoy, but she didn't want to put herself in for the sake of her children, and for the rest of her life, she would be locked up in the broken temple to eat fast and recite Buddha, and live that bitter life.

She jumped down from the kang all of a sudden, pounced on Mama Wang, and shook it, "Is that really what the old lady said?" Does my son Brother Cheng know that he didn't ask for a favor in front of the old lady for his mother? ”

That Mama Wang is also an old man in her sixties, and she shook her violently, shaking her head so much that she was dizzy, how could she care about answering her words.

The second wife hurriedly asked the two mothers-in-law to pull Aunt Hu away, and said: "Brother Cheng naturally knows, and he did intercede for you in front of the old lady, and wanted you to stay in this mansion and punish you in another way." It's just that the old lady didn't agree. ”

Aunt Hu was pressed into a chair by the two mothers-in-law and shouted, "Why doesn't the old lady agree? She has always loved our Brother Cheng the most, no matter what Brother Cheng asks her for, she will agree! ”

"Yes, the old lady loves Brother Cheng very much, otherwise she wouldn't have been raised by her side personally, but it is precisely because the old lady really loves Brother Cheng that she can't agree to his invitation this time. Having a prostitute-born mother like you is already extremely unfavorable to him, and you are vicious and vicious, and you have a vicious idea. If you let such a scheming mother be by his side, he will not be tired of him. ”

"Haven't you noticed that the old lady hasn't let you see her son often since Brother Da Cheng moved into the old lady's yard? Now that you have made a fuss again, how can the old lady let you stay with Brother Cheng anymore? You have already brought the old lady a granddaughter, is it possible for you to destroy the grandson she values very much? The second lady said coldly.

Aunt Hu was stunned, she had calculated and planned so much before, not all for her son to have a good future, all for the good of her brother Cheng, but these people actually said that she was a stepping stone in front of her son! How could she say yes?

She immediately shouted: "How can I bring them tired, I am his own mother, I will not hurt them even if I hurt myself!" ”

The second wife looked at her, with a slight pity in her eyes, the most terrible thing in the world is such a mother-in-law, who thinks she is for the good of her children, but because of her stupid insight, she has ruined the lifelong happiness of her children.

"Originally, I wanted to tell Sister Fen a good kiss and let her live a comfortable and happy life, but because of your instigation, she actually drugged her sister-in-law, do you think she can have a better future?"

Aunt Hu glared at the second wife viciously and said: "You don't pretend to be pretentious here, you didn't think about telling us Sister Fen what to kiss, this time, first send me to the broken temple, and I don't know how to manipulate my Sister Fen, and marry her to someone who is not as good as pigs and dogs to rub her to vent her hatred!" ”

Then she scolded, and her words were so vulgar that Mama Wang, an old woman who had accumulated years, couldn't listen to it, and said: "Auntie's mouth is clean, don't talk nonsense, the second wife is not the one who will be repaid, just now the second wife discussed the family affairs of the fourth girl with the fourth lady, and the two families mentioned are excellent families, and the second wife also said that the three thousand taels of dowry she originally promised to give the fourth girl is a lot of silver!" ”

When Aunt Hu heard the three thousand taels of silver, she looked at the second wife, and said with some doubts: "I don't believe it, my wife can have such a good heart, and she will repay her grievances with virtue?" ”

Mama Wang opened a small box in her arms and showed it to Aunt Hu, "There are a total of three thousand taels of silver tickets here, and the second wife has handed it over to the old lady to collect, so that the fourth girl can prepare a dowry at that time. ”

Aunt Hu ignored the ridicule in her words, broke away from the hands of the two mothers-in-law, took the boxes and counted them one by one, and finally finished counting, and returned the boxes to Mama Wang and said, "Why did you pick two families for the four girls?" Which are the two households? ”

The second wife said to Mama Wang: "Tell her about it, lest she don't believe it when I say it!" ”

Mama Wang said: "According to me, my aunt and the fourth girl are too much, and they have such a dirty mind, and they also have a lot of people, so they don't care about the fourth girl, and they also bother to pick two families for her." The reason why she chose two households was because the second wife said that she thought one of them was good, and she was afraid that her aunt couldn't look down on it, so she deliberately chose another one according to her aunt's wishes and asked the old lady to look at it. The old lady also knew how big-eyed and big-hearted the aunt was, so let's tell Aunt Sù, and let the aunt decide which one to choose for the four girls, Aunt Hengzhi is the mother of the four girls, and this family matter was finally selected by the aunt, and it also saved the aunt from saying that we treated the four girls badly! ”

Aunt Hu's eyes widened, "I choose to choose, I can't ask for it, which two are they?" ”

Mama Wang said: "The second wife is interested in a family surnamed Tao, who has been a scholarly family for generations, and there is a three-entry house in the north of the city, ten hectares of land, his father once served as a doctor of the Five Classics of the Hanlin Academy, and now his parents are dead, and he has just been filial piety in October. He is an only son in his family, and now he has a reputation for raising people, because of his filial piety, he was not able to participate in this year's Spring Festival, but he heard that he read the book very well, and it will be the title of the gold list after three years. If these four girls marry in the past, there is no father-in-law and mother-in-law to wait, and there is no sister-in-law to worry about. ”

asked Mama Wang to say that this is really a good family affair that is difficult to find even with a lantern on the door, but Aunt Hu frowned when she heard it, and said: "This surnamed Tao's family background is too thin, ten hectares of land, only 1,000 acres of land, and now there is nothing to be done in this field, it is good to be able to enter the account for 200 taels a year, is it possible to rely on our Sister Fen's dowry to support him?" And what about the other one? ”

Mama Wang shook her head slightly, and continued: "The other surname Wan, not a person from the capital, his hometown is in Ganzhou Mansion, Jiangxi, his ancestors are in the medicinal materials business, and his family has a huge fortune, so he donated an official to him, he stayed in Beijing for a few years, and made some money, and found a fellow acquaintance of his hometown Ganzhou Mansion, and wanted to ask for another noble girl as a wife from the high-ranking family in the capital, so that he could return to his hometown and return to his hometown with honor!" ”

When Aunt Hu heard this, she patted her thigh and said: "This is very good, the rich and powerful, I don't know how much better than the first poor scholar!" ”

Mama Wang was afraid that she didn't clear it for a while, so she hurriedly reminded her: "Although this Wan Tongzhi has more money than that Tao Ju's family and has an official position, but his family is not in the capital, if Sister Fen marries him, but she wants to follow him back to Ganzhou Mansion in Jiangxi, then it will be thousands of miles away from the capital!" It's like marrying that Tao Juren, as the saying goes, 'Don't bully the poor youth', people are now lifting people, and they can't say that they will be able to become a big official in Jinbang High School in the future! In the past 30 years in Hexi, 30 years in Hedong, don't just want to be a man! ”

Aunt Hu snorted coldly, sneered at Mama Wang's bitter words and said, "Is it so easy to title this gold list?" said that high school is high school, so why didn't the second aunt and her son come back to take a look at the last time? In this world, I don't know how many scholars have been admitted to old age all their lives, their hair is gray, they are still poor and talented, sour people, and they can't get into Jinshi in life or death! ”

"What's wrong with marrying far away? What happened to Dejing? Hengzhu's mother and mother have been locked up in the broken temple, even if she marries in the capital, I can't see her, it's better to let her marry farther, so as not to stay in the capital and be retaliated by some wives and grandmothers! ”

In fact, this Hu family has taken a fancy to the identity and status of Wan Tongzhi, as well as his family's ten thousand family wealth, and having such a sister-in-law must be more able to give Brother Cheng some help than the bare pole, Tao Juren, who has no relatives and no reason. She tried every possible way to find a good family for her daughter, but in the final analysis, she was still planning for her son.

Her biggest hope in this life is all on her son, that is, she knows that Brother Cheng is liked by Mrs. Tai, and Mrs. Tai is worried about him, but she still hopes to marry her daughter better, so as to give her son more help.

Mama Wang saw that Aunt Hu was determined to choose the same acquaintance surnamed Wan, and she didn't bother to persuade her in vain, but secretly scolded her in her heart for being confused.

When the second wife saw that she had finished her business, she said to Mama Wang: "Since the Hu family has chosen a family, let's go and talk back to the old lady, then Wan Tongzhi will return to his hometown in a hurry, and Sister Fen'er's marriage must be handled quickly." ”

Mama Wang agreed, and was about to let the second wife go first, when she heard Aunt Hu shout again: "Mrs., please stand again, I have a few words I want to say to my wife again!" Why don't you stay and listen to it? ”