Chapter 8: Uncle's Family
PS: In order to add more, I coded more than 9,000 words yesterday, and I deeply felt that I had potential......
There have been a lot of hot topics in the capital recently, and the rumors that the eldest princess of Qingping was a concubine have just subsided, and the Marquis of Weiyuan Mansion has changed its owner again, and the eighteen-year-old Feng Mingxiang has become the new Marquis of Weiyuan.
Not only that, but the current Marquis of Weiyuan also got the emperor's blue eyes for some reason, and gave an errand for the avant-garde Zhenfu Division of the government army.
Hearing this news, I don't know how many noble children were so jealous that their eyes turned green.
Although it is only an errand from the fifth grade, everyone knows that since entering the Twelve Guards, there will often be opportunities to show their faces in front of the emperor, and they have a throne in their bodies, so it will not be a smooth road in the future?
People are still talking about another young marquis of Weiyuan Mansion, and there is another big incident in Weiyuan Mansion.
Two days after Feng Mingxiang took over the title, some people claimed to have seen Feng Lin, who had just become the old lady of the Hou Mansion, in Huangjue Temple, and he was dressed as a layman, looking like he was going to cultivate in Huangjue Temple for a long time.
This undoubtedly shocked countless people.
Huangjue Temple is the royal temple of the emperor today, the legend is that the Dawu Dynasty was not built, when the emperor has not yet gained power, he was saved by the monks of the Huangjue Temple who were not famous at that time, and it was not only crowned as the royal temple after the emperor ascended the throne, but also spent a lot of silver to overhaul the Huangjue Temple, and there is now the Huangjue Temple with extraordinary style.
Of course, these are all off-topic.
The crux of the problem is that Fenglin is not confused, why does he want to accompany the Buddha for a long time? Could it be that he has suffered some blow that makes his heart like ashes and see through the red dust? Could it be that it was because he saw through the red dust that he would give up the throne to Feng Mingxiang early?
For a while, many people speculated about what kind of blow Fenglin suffered to be like this, and some people even fought for it.
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The surprise of everyone outside the Hou Mansion could not affect Mu Qingwan and Feng Zhige in the Hou Mansion.
What happened in the Hou Mansion couldn't hide Feng Zhige's eyes, and even Zhao Youjun bought off the subordinates of the Hou Mansion on the same day and sent a letter to the Anguo Mansion, Feng Zhige knew it clearly.
In fact, if it weren't for her instructions to guard the secret guards of the Hou Mansion and let him go, even if Zhao Youjun was holding a mountain of gold and silver. That letter couldn't be sent to the Hou Mansion even a step.
However, this also let Feng Zhige know that there are still unruly subordinates in the Hou Mansion.
And Zhao Youjun, the reason why she gave her the opportunity to send the letter out. I just wanted to admire the look on her face when she fell into the abyss of despair not long after.
Putting these aside, early this morning, Mu Qingwan pulled up Feng Zhige, who still wanted to lie in bed, and the mother and daughter dressed up carefully, got into the carriage and went to Mu's house.
Originally, Mu Qing wanted to go back to her parents' house early on. But since returning to Beijing, the rumors have been suppressed after Mrs. Liang's birthday banquet, and then Feng Mingxiang Chengjue and Feng Lin went to Huangjue Temple to practice, and it has been delayed for a long time, so I finally have time to go to my mother's house to see.
The house of the Marquis of Weiyuan is the establishment of the Dawu Dynasty after the royal pen personally given, the old Marquis Weiyuan for the country countless merits, the location of this house is of course very good, in the nearest East Chang'an Street from the edge of the imperial city, the left and right neighbors are in the court in the important official house.
The east and west Chang'an Avenue is close to the imperial city, and it is convenient to go to the court. Most of the important officials of the court and the central government chose to live in these two places.
But compared to the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion, the location of the Mu family's house is too remote.
The Marquis of Weiyuan's Mansion is in the most lively and prosperous south of the city, but the Mu family is in the relatively deserted and remote north of the city, and this south and north almost pass through the entire capital.
Rao is the ground in the capital is flat, the carriage is fast, and it took more than an hour for Mu Qingwan and Feng Zhige to arrive at Mu's house.
Although the Mu family has passed away from both parents, they have not separated, and Mu Bingheng, Mu Binghong, and Mu Bingyuan, the three brothers who are away from Beijing, all live together.
The Mu family now lives in a five-entry house, and the five-entry house in the capital is not cheap. This is still when Mu's father and mother were alive, thinking that their three sons would marry daughters-in-law one after another, and almost emptied their family savings and gritted their teeth to buy.
Now Mu Bingyuan is working outside, and only Mu Bingheng and Mu Binghong live in two families. It's a bit of a desertion.
Because they had already received the news, when Mu Qingwan and Feng Zhige arrived at Mu's house, the Mu Bingheng brothers had already led their wives and children to wait outside the house.
If you exclude the last time I saw Mu Binghong in Huzhou, Mu Qingwan hasn't seen his family for 20 years.
In the past 20 years, not only has she changed from a cardamom girl to a middle-aged woman today, but she is also the brother who was proud of the young spring breeze back then. The face is also stained with a lot of wind and frost.
Got out of the carriage with the support of the maids, almost as soon as she saw the two brothers who were looking forward to it, Mu Qingwan's eyes instantly wetted, if it weren't for so many people watching, I'm afraid she would have jumped into her brother's arms and cried like she did when she was a child.
But even with the surging emotions under the strong self-pressure, when he walked in front of his brother step by step, Mu Qingwan was still so excited that his whole body trembled slightly.
"Big brother, third brother, ......" was surrounded by the Mu family and entered the courtyard, only this one was called, and Mu Qingwan couldn't cry anymore.
Not only Mu Qingwan, but also Mu Bingheng and Mu Binghong, two big men, remembered the past when their brothers and sisters grew up together, and thought of the suffering of their sister over the years, and they couldn't help but redden.
After a long time, under the comfort of his brother and sister-in-law, Mu Qingwan gradually calmed down.
Mu Bingheng carefully looked Mu Qing up and down several times at night, confirming that she was really doing well now, and then sighed: "Seeing your current appearance, my brother is finally relieved, Ah Wan, I have suffered you all these years, it is my brothers who can't stand you, before my father and mother left, I specially told us to take care of you, but ......"
Speaking of which, Mu Bingheng couldn't say any more, if it weren't for their brother being useless, how could something like that happen back then?
Hearing Mu Bingheng say this, Mu Qingwan shook his head again and again, and comforted: "Big brother and third brother, the original incident has nothing to do with you, don't think so." ”
At this time, Mu Bingheng's wife Ye Shi was busy laughing and playing a round, and looked at Mu Bingheng with disgust: "Master is really, Ah Wan has finally returned to his mother's house now, so he doesn't want to say something happy, do you still insist on making Ah Wan shed tears?" ”
Ye's eyebrows are clean, and he is always smiling, and he looks kind-hearted at first glance.
On the side, Mu Qingwan's second sister-in-law Zheng also spoke out when she saw this, she held Mu Qingwan's arm affectionately, and pulled Feng Zhige with the other hand, leading the two to go inside, and said with a smile: "That's it, big brother, Ah Wan has only come back once after leaving home for so many years." It's better to sit down in the first room, and then lead her niece and niece to her, Ah Wan has never seen these little ones. ”
Zheng has lived with Mu Binghong at the border for so many years, and his temperament is very spicy and refreshing. But it's not annoying at all, and the hearty smile on his face is easy to get close to.
At that time, the Ye family and the Zheng family married into the Mu family one after another, but Mu Qingwan married into the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion soon after getting along with them, and because of this, he received those things from the two sisters-in-law when he was in Huzhou. Mu Qingwan was even more moved.
While talking, the group entered the hall of the main courtyard and sat down to talk.
Then, Mu Bingheng beckoned to the few juniors who were standing, and scolded with a smile in his mouth: "You little cubs, don't come over and see your aunt and cousin soon." ”
Mu Bingheng and the Ye family have two sons, Mu Zeyu and Mu Zekai, Mu Binghong and the Zheng family have two sons and a daughter, two sons Mu Zefei and Mu Zeyu, and the daughter is called Mu Xiaoxiao.
The Mu family was originally a military general. Several Mu family children stood together, all of them were heroic, and they were overjoyed to see Mu Qingwan.
As for Mu Xiaoxiao......
As Mu Binghong said at the beginning, this is a little monkey.
Mu Xiaoxiao is one year older than Feng Zhige, this year, Xu is a long-term stay, her complexion is slightly dark, but her facial features are extremely delicate under a closer look, especially a pair of apricot eyes are very energetic, she is a very lively and lovely daughter.
I met the children of the Mu family. Mu Qingwan introduced Feng Zhige to the Mu family with a smile: "This is the little girl Zhige." ”
Feng Zhige got up and saluted his uncles and aunts, and greeted his cousins and cousins one by one.
Among the Mu family, only Mu Binghong had seen Feng Zhige before, and after he returned to Beijing, he often mentioned to his family that Feng Zhige was different, so the Mu family had long been curious about Feng Zhige. At this time, when I saw a real person, I had my own thoughts in my heart.
Ye and Zheng were particularly pleased.
The previous generation of the Mu family only had one daughter from Mu Qingwan, and in this generation plus Mu Bingyuan's three sons, there were seven children, and there was still only one daughter, Mu Xiaoxiao, but Mu Xiaoxiao was an active person. Jumping up and down like a kid all day long, even if Zheng's mother-in-law sometimes can't help but feel a pain in her brain when she thinks of her daughter.
Therefore, it is rare to see Feng Zhige, a truly elegant and reserved lady, and both of them can only feel that they like it indescribably.
The four cousins are afraid of the difference between men and women, although they are curious about Feng Zhige in their hearts, but it is not obvious, but Mu Xiaoxiao, who is a lively character, and when he saw his cousin who had been curious for more than half a year, he immediately stepped forward and took Feng Zhige's hand affectionately, chattering non-stop.
Seeing this, Ye's face was helpless.
Although Mu Xiaoxiao is the daughter of the third room, the Mu family not only lives in one place, but also gets along extremely closely, and the Mu family has only one daughter, Mu Xiaoxiao, it is not an exaggeration to say that the Ye family regards Mu Xiaoxiao as their daughter.
Pointing at Mu Xiaoxiao, who was pulling Feng Zhige and refused to let go, Ye scolded with a smile: "You monkey, you know that you are pestering your cousin, come on, you can take your cousin around." ”
In front of the elders, Mu Xiaoxiao already felt a little unable to let go, how could she be unhappy when she heard the words, so she said hello to Mu Bingheng and the others, and then dragged Feng Zhige away.
Feng Zhige also has a good impression of this hearty and lively cousin, and he does not reject getting along with her.
As soon as he got out of the main room, Mu Xiaoxiao let out a big sigh, patted his chest and turned back to Feng Zhige and said, "Cousin, don't you know, I don't like going to the main courtyard the most, as soon as I saw the uncle's stern face, I couldn't help but wonder if I was in trouble somewhere." ”
In Mu Binghong's letter, he complained to Mu Qingwan that his daughter was not as gentle as a noble girl in Beijing, not only jumping up and down like a man, but also often fighting with others.
The most important thing is that Mu Xiaoxiao has been learning boxing and kicking with Mu Binghong with her brother since she was a child, and she is quite talented.
Feng Zhige couldn't help but smile when he thought of this.
Seeing Feng Zhige laughing, Mu Xiaoxiao was mistaken, with a little anxiety on her face: "Cousin, do you also think that I don't look like a girl?" ”
She likes this cousin who doesn't talk much but is beautiful and moving, for fear that her cousin will also think that she has no rules like other noble girls in the capital who claim to be beautiful girls, so she will be anxious.
"How so?" Feng Zhige turned his head to look at Mu Xiaoxiao and said with a smile, "My cousin is very cute." ”
Feng Zhige was not comforting Mu Xiaoxiao, after all, from the perspective of her later generations. Mu Xiaoxiao's lively and straightforward personality is indeed very pleasing.
What Mu Xiaoxiao has heard the most since she entered Beijing is the dislike of those noble girls, and at this time, she was praised for her cuteness, and it was from her cousin who had a good impression, and she was rarely ashamed for a while. His face was slightly flushed.
The lively girl is shy, but she also has a special style.
However, Mu Xiaoxiao's temperament is different from ordinary ladies after all, so she let go of her shame for a moment and said with a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, my cousin doesn't think I'm unruly." Everyone says that the capital is good, if you want me to say, this capital is not as good as the frontier, the daughter's family has to go out of the gate, and even climb a tree to make a group of people stunned, I think I was in the frontier, but I also went hunting with my father, if they let them know, they can't fall out of their eyes? ”
Speaking of the back, Mu Xiaoxiao's tone was not without sorrow.
She grew up on the frontier. The conditions on the frontier are difficult, Mu Binghong pities his daughter for suffering with him at a young age, and he has always been reluctant to restrain her.
After being free and easy in the frontier for so many years, when she returned to the capital where everything she did, it was like being tied up with a rope, and Mu Xiaoxiao was really a little unaccustomed to it.
Feng Zhige has never been a person who can look at other people's eyes, and of course he will not persuade Mu Xiaoxiao to be such a person, in such an era of strict etiquette and extremely strict treatment of women, how rare is a girl with a temperament like Mu Xiaoxiao.
So. Feng Zhige patted Mu Xiaoxiao's hand and said, "Cousin, why bother what others think, people with a similar temperament to you will naturally know how good you are, as for those who don't get along, of course you don't have to care what they think." ”
Mu Xiaoxiao has been in the capital for more than half a year. Several times when she went out, she was ridiculed by many noble girls, and even her mother and aunt who loved her were worried about how she would talk about her in-laws in the future, but no one had ever said such a thing as Feng Zhige to her.
The Mu family is very spacious, but the Mu family has always advocated simplicity. Second, the Mu family itself is not rich, so the house is big, but it is not luxurious, but it reveals the warmth in the plain.
Mu Xiaoxiao was talking to Feng Zhige about the scenery in the house, and suddenly a maid of the same age as Mu Xiaoxiao, wearing a blue bikini, walked over quickly, first saluted Feng Zhige and called "cousin", and then turned to Mu Xiaoxiao, "Miss, that Miss Feng is here again, saying that she wants to visit Miss." ”
Hearing this maid mention the word "Miss Feng", Mu Xiaoxiao's originally radiant face couldn't help but be dyed with a little bitterness, and when she heard that Miss Feng was going to visit her, she frowned.
Obviously, this Miss Feng did not please Mu Xiaoxiao.
However, since Mu Xiaoxiao is not close to her, why does that Miss Feng still come to visit?
And looking at Mu Xiaoxiao's appearance, Miss Feng hadn't delivered the post yet, otherwise Mu Xiaoxiao wouldn't have been so surprised.
Feng Zhige raised his eyebrows and asked, "Cousin, who is this Miss Feng, you seem to be very good, don't you like it?" ”
"It's not that I don't like her......" Mu Xiaoxiao's face showed distress, as if she didn't know how to describe it, "Speaking of which, the young ladies I have seen since I arrived in the capital, others can't even wait to avoid me when they walk, only this Miss Feng has never disliked me and is willing to be friends with me." ”
"However, this Miss Feng is like a little white rabbit, she can't touch it, she can't touch it, she can't touch it, I have to be careful every time I talk to her, if I say something wrong, it will cause her tears and make people have a headache."
"Several times, when she shed tears, she was seen by other ladies, and they all thought that I was bullying her, and she was really full of mouths and couldn't tell clearly."
Mu Xiaoxiao had a bitter face, as if she remembered the scene again.
Feng Zhige thought deeply for a while when he heard this.
It's not a white lotus!
Mu Xiaoxiao grew up in the frontier, rarely has contact with this kind of boudoir miss, and is a straightforward and simple character, she will not play with others, Miss Feng is this kind of appearance, and everyone with a discerning eye knows that there are ghosts in it, but she can't see it at all after eating so many boring losses.
The little finger moved slightly, and Feng Zhige only felt an itchy hand.
Cleaning up the White Lotus, when you have nothing to do, it's not a little fun.
Thinking of this, Feng Zhige said to Mu Xiaoxiao, who was still distressed: "Cousin, since the guest has already come to the door, it's not good for us to ignore it, but if we want to ask someone to say that it is rude, why don't we invite that Miss Feng to come in and walk together, let's not talk about anything else, won't it make her cry?" ”
Mu Xiaoxiao hadn't made up her mind, but when she heard Feng Zhige say this, she also nodded, and ordered the maid to invite Miss Feng in.
It didn't take long to see a weak girl in white with fluttering clothes leading two maids who were obviously not from the Mu family.
The girl was about fourteen or fifteen years old, with a weak face and a posture like a weak willow, and her clothes flew when she walked, as if she could dance with the wind at any moment.
Such a demeanor, if seen by men, is really easy to arouse their desire to protect.
However, there was no man present at this time, and Mu Xiaoxiao and Feng Zhige were both girls of the same age as her, one had a simple temperament and didn't know the years, and the other was a lot of people who had seen a lot, so her behavior was in vain. (To be continued.) )