Chapter 137: Peach Dynasty Li Zhuang
Three years ago, King Qi, who had a high voice among the people, was finally canonized as the crown prince, and his only son, the king of Changsha County, was even more loved by the first emperor and was named the emperor's grandson. However, a few days later, the prince's family died mysteriously, and the king of Wei, who was not the eldest of the king, unexpectedly ascended the throne.
It is said that on the night before King Wei ascended the throne, there was a river of blood in the palace, and more than half of the palace maids and eunuchs were killed and wounded.
Whether the rumors are true or not is unknown, but soon after the new emperor succeeded to the throne, he announced that he would be drafted in the civil air.
I don't know if it was because of the wrong way to take the throne, for fear that a large-scale draft would attract a lot of opposition, so he cautiously only allowed a small draft to be held, framing the scope in the town.
Qingxi, the little queen of Wang Mingtang's family in Changle Town, was in the prime of cardamom, with good looks and unmarried, so she deservedly became a show girl.
The palace is the richest place in the world, but it is also the most dangerous place in the world, especially after such rumors appeared not long ago, which parent is willing to send his daughter to that kind of Shura hell? What's more, the Wang family's son withered, and although Wang Mingtang accepted a concubine, he only had a son and a daughter. In addition, Wang Qingxi is still an old girl from the forty-year-old Bai family, Wang Mingtang's wife, and it is a baby bump that hurts by the old couple as an eyeball, and the Wang family is absolutely unwilling to send her to that kind of ghost place.
However, although Wang Mingtang has a talent and fame, he has no official position, and the news of the draft came too suddenly, the Wang family didn't have time to react, so they could only watch their beloved daughter on the list of show girls.
Once on the register of the county government, unless the show girl dies of illness, the family must hand over the person. And the death of illness is not so easy to report, the county government will send someone to check, after all, there is suddenly a show girl missing, and the county government is not easy to report to the top, so it must find another show girl of the right age to replace it.
However, according to the experience of previous years, by the time of the second wave of the draft, the people had already heard the rumors, in order to let the school-age girls in the family escape this catastrophe. Most of the parents have already married him quickly. The few remaining women to be married are difficult to ensure that even the most basic facial features are correct. That kind of "crooked melon and cracked dates" are handed over, can the county master do well in front of Shangguan? Therefore, the government will strictly verify whether the death is true. Once a false report is discovered, it will be severely punished. Under such circumstances, it is basically impossible to escape under the pretense of illness.
However, although the way of pretending to be dead did not work, the Wang family still refused to give up easily. His family, who was good at drilling, quickly adjusted their thinking and inquired about another brilliant method -- spending money to buy off the handling personnel. Let a girl of the same age take his place. In this way, the county government can account for it and increase its income at the same time, and the most important thing is that the pearl of his Wang family can be preserved, the best of both worlds, why not?
I have to say that the Wang family's method is really "wonderful", Wang Qingxi was replaced very smoothly, and he is still being carefully cared for under the wings of his parents.
However, some people rejoice, and some people are sad. Jiang's eldest daughter was therefore sold as goods by her closest relatives, and unfortunately became the unlucky stand-in. I still don't know if I live or die.
Although the masterminds of this tragedy are Zhao Yongnian and Zhao Chenglan, the Wang family is only the buyer of the money, strictly speaking, not the real culprit. But in Jiang's opinion, if the Wang family didn't use this method to cheat, how could her good girl be sent to the place where people eat - after Zhao Siniang uncovered the shady deal last time, she had no way not to resent the Wang family. is as simple as her, after learning that Xu Ji's next door is the buyer, she can't help but want to knock on the door to theorize.
Zhao Qiao's family didn't know the pain in Jiang's heart, or even if she was very likely to know what the Wang family had done. I won't care about Jiang's pain of losing my daughter. She only knew that the Bai family was the object she wanted to stammer, and the Jiang family's daughter-in-law actually ignored her, making her faceless in front of the Bai family.
Dare to throw your face in front of me?
Fang Cai turned his head at Bai's face when the sky was still clear. Zhao Qiao's face was suddenly covered with dark clouds, so gloomy that he could drip water.
"Jiang, you can do it! made a little money, and his courage became fatter, and he even dared to disobey his mother-in-law's words! ”
Seeing the "benefactor" Jiang being scolded by the "enemy" Zhao Qiaoshi, Li Cuilian's new hatred and old hatred came to her heart together. She hadn't forgotten. It was this shrew who led the little slut she raised to the door to stir up trouble and killed her five-month-old son.
Li Cuilian and her mother-in-law Shaw have the same temper, either they don't have a seizure, or once they have a seizure, they are extremely hot and impulsive.
At this time, she couldn't hold back any longer, and scolded sharply: "your mother-in-law!" Is there a mother-in-law who asked her daughter-in-law to walk more than ten miles with a big belly for eight months to call her own daughter? Is there a mother-in-law who lets her daughter-in-law who has given birth to twins drink vegetable soup, but lets her own daughter-in-law drink chicken soup sent by her daughter-in-law's mother-in-law? I'm embarrassed to call myself my mother-in-law here, I'm so worried about you! ”
This is not the end, Li Cuilian, who came up in anger, scolded Zhao Qiaoshi and turned to bombard Bai and said: "And you!" Don't you feel sorry for your own daughter, so you let someone else's daughter top the tank? If it were someone else, you would have already gone into hiding when you saw the bitter master, and only you, the shameless one, came to the door to take advantage! ”
Today, the Bai family saw that the old Zhao family, who had recently been very close to her family, came to drink the wedding wine, and heard that the family next door who was holding the wedding wine had made a lot of money and prepared a lot of good wine and food. She loved to take advantage, so she followed Zhao Qiao's and rubbed in together, planning to get some wine and food and go back for lunch.
To be honest, Bai didn't know that Jiang was the girl's mother in advance, and he didn't know until he was angrily reprimanded by Li Cuilian. However, she doesn't feel indebted at all, you have to know that she has spent money, and she has already lost money and goods, and no one owes anyone!
Now, after being a talented lady for half her life, she was actually accused by a village woman "for no reason", which she couldn't accept anyway.
"Mrs. Zhao, your family has a child, and it can be regarded as half a scholar who knows etiquette. How could you marry such an unruly countryman? Tsk, I've lived most of my life, and it's the first time I've seen a woman mix in the food in the new house. I don't know what to say, I really don't know what to say! ”
It turns out that according to the customs of the Jinghai area, the wedding box, wedding cakes, dumplings and other foods in the new house must be prepared by the daughter-in-law arranged by the man, and this daughter-in-law is best to be a "Quanfu person" with both parents and children, and Jiang is of course the best candidate.
However, in addition to preparing to eat, the Blessed must also be asked to "lay the tent" on that day. To accomplish so much work, it is definitely not enough to rely on the Jiang family alone, of course she has to find a helper.
But look at the man's side, the old Zhao family can't count on it, only the Song family can help. But unfortunately she is a widow and is not very suitable.
Jiang wanted his sister-in-law Yao to help, but Yao was diagnosed with a happy pulse two days ago, God knows how his eldest brother did it, and the whole family was so shocked that their jaws couldn't close.
For this reason, the thin-skinned Yao was embarrassed to go out for a few days. I finally agreed to come over to help, and this morning I heard that she was a little red. Seeing this, Yang dared to be careless, and was busy letting her raise the fetus at home.
In desperation, Jiang had to temporarily pull Li Cuilian to help.
In terms of work, the arrogant Li Cuilian is not only inferior to the Shaw Brothers and the Dong Family. Even the elderly Chan is not as good. But there is no way, who let the Li family be widows except for her, so they can only use her to make up the numbers.
In fact, customs are all observed by people, and in an emergency, it is not impossible to be flexible. In normal times, it is nothing for the woman to come to help decorate the new house on the day of marriage, and no one will come over to say something that is not acceptable.
is the only one who deliberately finds fault with Bai's family, and he has to hold on to this little thing. Intentions make people unhappy.
Seeing that Li Cuilian, who was sharp-tongued, Bai Shi frowned at this time, looking distressed, thinking that she was blocked by herself and couldn't speak, so she became more and more proud, and smiled maliciously: "I see, it's okay if you don't get married today!" ”
"Tell me, don't let the Zhao family marry our family, who do you want his family to marry? Is it possible to tie the knot with your family? Li Cuilian was thinking about whether to let the Wang family go, but who knew that the Bai family didn't choose what to say. Since this is the case, she will not save face for the Wang family. glanced at Bai Shi and sneered: "Since you have left your daughter by tricks, then educate yourself well!" Cut, a noble family who is still reading and reasonable. I actually let my daughter learn from whoever ......"
At this point, Li Cuilian glanced at Zhao Qiaoshi meaningfully, and then said, "...... Ran to hook up with the son-in-law in the county. It's a pity, after all, the Tao is not as deep as others, and it is thrown away as a broken shoe after being used by people. This kind of goods, no one wants to give it away for nothing. It's just that there are still people who don't have long eyes and are in a hurry to climb relatives, it's really blind! ”
When Zhao Qiao's heard this, he didn't care about the bad luck of looking for Li Cuilian who was insinuating, and looked at the Bai family with a shocked face - it was his own family who was interested in marrying, and Li Cuilian was definitely talking nonsense! Right?
In the country of Yan, reaching the age of sixteen is regarded as a chengding, which means adult. Most teenagers of this age are already married, and even if they don't, they should be married.
However, due to various considerations, the old man Zhao, who held the eldest grandson in the palm of his hand, did not marry Zhao Dalang for a long time. It wasn't until he came back from the county seat a few days ago that Old Man Zhao instructed Zhao Yongnian to let him see if there was a suitable person in the town.
I really just wanted to fall asleep when someone brought me a pillow. At this moment, Wang Laoxiu in the town actually spread the news that he was going to marry his beloved daughter, how could he not make the old Zhao family excited? So Old Man Zhao immediately sent Zhao Qiao's family out and asked her to do her best to promote this family business.
Although the Wang family has not spit out yet, looking at the meaning of his family, this family business can be successful.
That's the Wang family, the only famous family in the town, or a wealthy family in the ranks, is actually going to form a family with his own family, and the excited Zhao Qiaoshi is overjoyed.
Some people may find it strange - isn't she Zhao Qiao's family a relative of the emperor, and doesn't she even take the Li Zheng family in her eyes? Why did a talented family in a town market make her happy like this? You must know that the Wang family is not as good as the Li Zheng family! And now Zhao Qiao's family and even the entire old Zhao family are acting so positively, this is not logical!
That's right, under normal circumstances, of course, the Wang family can't satisfy the greed of the old Zhao family. Old Man Zhao did not hesitate to send his little daughter to be a concubine, just to find a powerful Yue family for Zhao Dalang through the Wen family. The Wang family? It's not qualified enough!
But a few days ago, the Wen family, the biggest reliance of the old Zhao family, seemed to have changed.
It turned out that since Zhao Chengqing "married" to the Wen family, the old Zhao family has never heard from her. Zhao Qiaoshi, who was thinking about her daughter, saw that Zhao Chengqing had never asked anyone to send some gifts back after the Dragon Boat Festival, and she was worried that the little girl would encounter any difficulties, so she took Old Man Zhao to the Wen family together.
Before coming to the door, Mr. and Mrs. Zhao were still quite confident. After all, when they begged to come to the door for Zhao Chenglan's lawsuit last time, although they couldn't see their "uncle", they were still warmly entertained, and the Wen family also fished out Zhao Chenglan in time.
But this time, when they came to the door, Mr. and Mrs. Zhao didn't even touch the door of the Wen family, and they were stopped by the porter.
When the old couple explained that they were the family members of Aunt Zhao in the second room, a porter replied directly and unceremoniously: "Aunt Zhao? There is no more aunt surnamed Zhao in our house! Hmph, a thing bought with money, and he doesn't weigh how many pounds and taels he has, but he dares to argue with his grandmother, this is not looking for death! ”
As he spoke, the porter beckoned a few companions to come and help, and drove the old couple out as if they were in a hurry to ask for food.
How could Zhao Qiaoshi, who had been arrogant at home all his life, be able to endure this kind of slow treatment, and he splashed on the spot. But her set was made at home and used outside, and she was directly slapped a few times by the porter, and even with Old Man Zhao, she was kicked a few times.
In desperation, the old couple had to retreat, dragging their injured legs and feet and climbing onto the mule cart.
In fact, Zhao Yongnian also came with him that day, and the mule cart was driven by him. He said that he wanted to tell his little sister the news of Zhao Dalang's high school in person, but in fact, he just wanted to get some cheapness. It's just that he followed closely behind the old couple and saw that his eyesight was good, and as soon as he saw the menacing porter, he hurriedly got into the car.
Old Man Zhao saw his second son, who was unharmed, and was speechless for a while.
Although it is unfavorable to be a teacher, Zhao Chengqing's safety is closely related to the wealth of the family, how can the three of them go home? After several twists and turns, he finally spent money to inquire about Zhao Chengqing's recent situation from a mother-in-law who went out of the house to do business.
It is said that Zhao Chengqing offended the young grandmother of Wen Mansion for some reason, not only did her aunt not have to do it, but she was almost sold to the mansion. Fortunately, it was found out that she was pregnant, so she was able to stay in the house, and now she is confined to the small Buddha hall in the second room.
Hearing the news, Zhao Qiaoshi breathed a long sigh of relief and said ruthlessly: "Slut surnamed Miao, you wait for me!" When Cheng Qing gives birth to a little son, I have to give you some color to see! (To be continued.) )