On the big day of the prime minister's son, the guests were full of guests, and as Ouyang Ye's prime minister, in addition to the officials of the court, his disciples were innumerable.

"Congratulations! Congratulations! ”

"Tongxi. Together, please take a seat inside. Ouyang Ye welcomed the guests to their seats.

As the only hostess in the Prime Minister's Mansion, Aunt Liu naturally has to dress up to attend and greet the female dependents, even if she is unhappy, she can't show anything.

When the bride's sedan chair arrived at the house, it was time to worship the hall, and when the second worship was high, Ouyang Ye was the only one who sat down, and Aunt Liu, the wife next to her, had no identity to sit on, so it was empty, and Aunt Liu was so angry that she almost bit a mouthful of silver teeth, but she didn't dare to show the slightest dissatisfaction.

After the ceremony, the bride entered the cave room with the support of Mama Xi, and the guests were seated and the wedding feast began, but some people were looking around looking for something.

"I didn't see Lord Zunyi." After looking for a long time and not seeing a figure, the man said quite strangely: "Lord Zunyi can't have an opinion on his brother, right?" ”

Some people secretly guessed in their hearts when they heard this, and whispered about the Zunyi County Lord who attracted people's attention.

The absence of the county lord of Zunyi was inevitably suspicious of those who were interested, but Ouyang Ye did not give a reasonable explanation, which is very intriguing.

"Last time, the eldest prince married the side concubine Zunyi County Lord was present, and today her eldest brother married and didn't even see a personal figure." The words mean something.

"Last time, the prince married, it's different." Someone talked, and it was idle anyway.

"This time it's even different, it's a big brother who is related to her by blood." The last two words are particularly emphasized.

"It's not from the same mother, people's hearts are separated from their stomachs."

"That's right, but isn't this a slap in the face of the prime minister, can the Zuo family be willing?" These words just diverted everyone's attention.

"You can worry about it, and it doesn't matter if the county lord marries." Clear-eyed people know when they hear it, and they don't want to be led by the nose.

"How can he be a dismount, after all, he is the lord of the county, and the emperor attaches great importance to it."

"If the Zuo family can win over the county lord, and the county lord will say a few good words for the Zuo family in front of the emperor, the position of the Zuo family will be more stable."

"You can't talk nonsense." One person reminded, and everyone dared to close their mouths when they heard the sound and concentrate on the feast.

On the second day, it was rumored that the county lord did not attend the wedding banquet of the prime minister's son, and it was rumored that the county lord did not like the sister-in-law married by the half-brother.

"Dad, I don't know who released the rumors." As soon as Ouyang Lin learned about the rumors outside, he immediately returned to the mansion to meet his father.

"You're all talking about rumors." Ouyang Ye replied calmly.

"But this is detrimental to the reputation of the Prime Minister's house." Ouyang Lin didn't understand why his father was so calm.

"It's a fact that Xi Chao didn't show up, how are you going to stop the mouths of the people?" Ouyang Ye looked at his son.

"Where did the little sister go, is she really okay when she is out alone?" Ouyang Lin was unhappy with this half-sister since yesterday's incident, and he didn't think about his family at all, and he didn't go home to a girl's house.

"Don't worry about those untrue things, it's the day to return to the door in three days, go and prepare." No matter how much Ouyang Ye had a headache, he couldn't find the culprit now.

"However, if Dad doesn't get the little sister back, if there are rumors that damage the reputation of the little sister, the Prime Minister will become the laughing stock of Shangjing." Ouyang Lin is not as indifferent as his father, he is thinking about the entire Xiangfu.

"Look, where to look." Ouyang Ye wanted to find people back, but he didn't leave any clues, and it was not easy to find someone in a haystack.

"Go down, you don't have to worry about this." Ouyang Ye was reluctant to mention the matter again.

Ouyang Lin saw that his father didn't want to say more, so he swallowed back the words that came to his mouth, and had no choice but to withdraw from the study.

Ouyang Lin returned to Moxiangzhai, Zuo Zhen stepped forward and saw that her husband's face was wrong, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Nothing." Ouyang Lin turned around and sat at the table and poured a cup of tea for himself, he really couldn't figure out why his father let himself go, could it be that the little sister had a lot of prejudices against her father as it was rumored outside.

"Little sister's business?" Zuo Zhen looked at her husband's face and asked, to be honest, her curiosity about the county lord of Zunyi before she entered the door had been exhausted due to the unbearable rumors outside.

"The rumors out there can't be trusted." Ouyang Lin didn't want to explain and couldn't explain why, so he could only ask Zuo to stop thinking about anything else.

Seeing her husband's expression of not talking much, Zuo Zhen secretly wondered if something was wrong, and her face did not reveal half a point, and she diverted the topic and talked about something else.

Seeing that tomorrow was the day when the three dynasties returned to the door, after finishing the makeup early in the morning, Ouyang Lin accompanied Zuo Zhen to get into the carriage and go to Zuofu.

As soon as he entered Zuo's mansion and met his parents first, Zuo Zhen followed his mother to the backyard house, and Ouyang Lin went to the study with Zuo Weizuo.

The mother and daughter sat on the couch and chatted about how their daughter was doing after marriage, and brought up the rumors outside.

"Is it true that the Lord of Zunyi County has not shown up?" Zuo Mu asked, puzzled in her heart.

"Hmm." Zuo Zhen responded.

"Then have you seen anyone in the mansion in the past few days?" Zuo Mu asked again.

"No, my daughter asked Xuan'er to inquire, and the subordinates in the prime minister's mansion were very tight-mouthed, and they didn't say a word about the county lord." This made people suspicious, Zuo Zhen frowned slightly.

"That's strange, you can inquire carefully and don't make any taboos." The left mother admonished: "If it doesn't work, it doesn't hurt to make some silver, and there are many greedy people among the subordinates, and they will open their mouths when they take the silver." ”

"Hmm." Zuo Zhen also wanted to know why this Zunyi county lord couldn't mention it in the mansion.

"Is the Liu family embarrassed for you?" Zuo's mother asked, afraid that her daughter would suffer.

"Nope." Zuo Zhen said: "The etiquette is over, and my daughter also went twice to ask about some things in the house, and was revealed by Liu's smile." "Liu's swaggering smug look is really disgusting.

"You're too anxious." Zuo Mu said gently: "The Liu family can be said to have no status as a wife in the mansion but has the ability to be a wife, otherwise if the big prime minister's mansion can let a concubine take care of it, don't be in a hurry." ”

"The daughter is not anxious, but she is afraid that her daughter will not know anything at that time, so she will take over the housework and make a mess to make people see the joke." Zuo Zhen said without her own considerations: "My daughter just wants to know more about it from the Liu family first." "Lest the people in the house only know the Liu family and not know her young grandmother.

Knowing the daughter Mo Ruo's mother, how could the left mother not know her daughter's worries, "Now is not the time, ask more from the subordinates, and you will understand after a long time, you will understand if you read and remember more, and the mother will teach you to remember, and the rest will not be a problem." ”

"Hmm." Zuo Zhen knew that she couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry and had to take her time, she was not afraid that the Liu family would stumble on her, she was afraid that she was afraid of the Zunyi County Lord who had never met before, if she looked down on herself, it would be really difficult to gain a foothold in the future.

"Your top priority is to rein in your husband first, give birth to the eldest son as soon as possible to stabilize your position, and don't get the concubine favored when the time comes." Zuo's mother repeatedly reminded her that she was a person who came over, and she had to make it clear to her daughter in this regard, so as not to make a mess for her daughter at that time.

"Concubine, why does my mother want to take a concubine!" Zuo Zhen panicked when she heard the word concubine, she had just entered the door a few days ago and was going to watch her husband Jun accept other women into the house, how could she be willing to serve a husband with others.

"What are you talking about!" Zuo's mother scolded: "It's normal for a man to have three wives and four concubines, and my mother will also give you a wake-up call, so as not to learn that there will be chaos in the future." ”

"However, the husband didn't mention the matter of taking a concubine?" Zuo Zhen argued: "My daughter has just entered the house, how can she serve with others." ”

"Silly girl, not all men are the same, how can any man marry only one wife, it is written in the book to coax people to play, there are few men in the world who can live a lifetime and a couple." Zuo's mother touched her daughter's cheek soothingly and said: "You have to capture your husband's heart, so that no matter how many newcomers enter the door in the future, it will not endanger your status as a housewife, and then there are children, with children by your side, even if there are many beautiful concubines, you can't compare with you." ”

Zuo Zhen pursed her lips and felt quite unhappy, the more she thought about it, the more she didn't feel good, "Isn't the Liu family the only one in the Prime Minister's Mansion?" "Why can't she be like Liu.

Hearing this, Zuo's mother frowned and looked at her daughter's eyes full of displeasure: "What are you thinking, there is indeed only one Liu family in the Prime Minister's Mansion now, but there are two deceased wives before, and there are two more in Tongfangyahuan, how can you compare." ”

"I don't." Zuo Zhen didn't know why she had a fight with her mother. "I just entered the door, and you told me about taking a concubine, did your father say something?" Before getting married, my mother hadn't said anything about it, so why did she mention it in just a few days, she must have something to hide from herself.

"You kid, I'm here for your good, why do I blame your father." Zuo's mother was unhappy, why was her daughter disobedient.

"Husband didn't mention it, it's not too early for you to say this." Zuo Zhen said: "I will say it in the future, and I will be unhappy." ”

"Alright, alright." Zuo's mother coaxed: "If he takes a concubine, you must not happily respond, not to say that he does not accept others as concubines, if he really has this thought, you had better move faster, and open the face of the girl who accompanied you to marry, how to say that it is also your dowry girl, who knows the roots, has the deed of sale in his hand and can not give birth to the mind, you can also rest assured, that is, show your virtuous generosity and can hold your husband's heart, the mother is a person who has said some things that you don't want to hear, but at that time, you still don't open your mind to let people see that the joke is small, spread the word that you are jealous, it is a big thing to ruin your reputation, you can weigh it yourself. ”

Zuo Zhen looked at her mother in a daze, her heart was sour, she knew that her mother was for her good, and she also knew that it was common sense for men to have three wives and four concubines, but she just couldn't agree with why she wanted to share a man's favor with those vixens.

Zuo's mother looked at her daughter's stunned eyes and didn't bother, and ordered her subordinates to pass the meal, and then went back to the prime minister's house after lunch.

"What's wrong?" On the carriage, Ouyang Lin looked at his wife with a pale face and asked, it was still fine when he went, why did his face change as soon as he came out.

"No, nothing." Zuo Zhen came back to her senses and forced a smile.

"Something's wrong, your face is not good." Ouyang Lin wouldn't believe Zuo Zhen's words, because it was too obvious, and the expression on his face was obvious.

Zuo Zhen looked at the handsome husband in front of her, pursed her lips and hesitated for a long time, and asked carefully: "Do you have anyone you like?" As soon as the words came out, I regretted it, that is, I was afraid of getting the answer and wanted to know the result, and my heart was entangled.

Ouyang Lin was asked inexplicably, and when he saw his wife's panicked and cautious look, he sighed in his heart: "I don't have anyone I like, you are the first person I like." ”

Zuo Zhen was very happy to hear it, a blush floated on her cheeks, and she thought in her heart that her husband liked herself, the first, she was excited by this sentence that could be said to be what she wanted to hear the most, but she forgot the meaning of the first, it was the first yes, but not the last or the only one.

Ouyang Lin stopped talking when he saw that Zuo Zhen was happy, and he said that women are all to be coaxed, although he doesn't know what happened, seeing Zuo Zhen's appearance should not be a big deal, but the little woman's family has more thoughts.

"Miss, I inquired." Xuan'er said with a happy face: "The slave spent fifty taels of silver and finally found out something. Don't forget to close the doors and windows and let another maid ring stand guard outside the door.

"Oh, tell me." Zuo Zhen put down the embroidery work in her hand.

"It is rumored that the county lord is vicious." Xuan'er said: "Now the subordinates in the mansion are all avoiding Pinglan Yuan, I heard that the subordinates inside were all driven out, and the county lord was only followed by two red, two green, four personal maids and two dumb women. ”

"Have you ever inquired if the county lord is in the house?" I haven't seen anyone these days, and Zuo Zhen has to wonder if the person is in the house.

"I don't know, and the man doesn't dare to say more." Xuan'er also felt something strange: "The county lord usually stays in the Pinglan Garden, and he doesn't step out of the garden lightly, and his daily needs are taken care of by four maids, and he also said that the county lord has been weak and sick since he was a child, and he went out to recuperate some time ago and didn't come back until the saint's birthday." ”

Zuo Zhen lowered his eyes slightly and thought deeply, and felt more and more that something was wrong, as the county lord, he didn't go out of his courtyard for half a step and even his family was rare, but he was dressed in men's clothes and walked in the streets, this disease also came strangely, since he entered the mansion, he had not heard of the county lord going out to recuperate, so he avoided it in the mansion? No, on the big day, someone talked about it and never heard the prime minister explain why the county lord did not come, and the more I thought about it, the more unsettled I became.

Zuo Zhen suddenly stood up and said, "Let's go, go and take a look at Lanyuan." "I don't know where I got the courage to see with my own eyes whether the person is really in the house, so as to confirm my guess.

"Master, isn't this okay?" When Xuan'er heard that she was going to that terrifying place, her body trembled unconsciously.

"What are you afraid of!" Zuo Zhen straightened his face and said: "If she is in the house, I should go to see her as the eldest sister-in-law." "It's even more intriguing if it's not there.

"But, but ......" Xuan'er didn't want to rush and said: "Master, I heard that I can't go to Lanyuan." ”

"How can I go?" Zuo Zhen raised her eyebrows and asked.

"Someone in the house sneaked into Pinglan Garden out of curiosity, and the next morning, the people who sprinkled the sweep found a corpse lying outside the door of Pinglan Garden." Xuan'er replied tremblingly, she was startled when she heard this, she thought that the person was alarmist, but she didn't expect the person to remind her again and again, so she took it to heart, who expected that Miss Jin'er would really go to Pinglanyuan.

"Oh, how did you deal with it in the end?" Zuo Zhen was slightly shocked when she heard this, and she was even more puzzled in her heart.

"The body was dragged out and buried, and it was not investigated." Xuan'er said: "It's just that the Prime Minister ordered anyone not to step into Pinglan Yuan without permission, and this matter caused a thousand waves in the mansion, but no one dared to say a word." ”

I didn't know what happened thoroughly, which surprised Zuo Zhen, although it was a subordinate who died, but he was killed because he trespassed into Pinglan Yuan, it was too much, it is difficult to see that there is some ulterior secret in Pinglan Yuan, just looking at the situation that the mansion avoids talking about the lord of Zunyi, it makes people suspicious.

Zuo Zhen thought about it and wanted to sit down again, Xuan'er was greatly relieved when she saw this, no matter whether the rumors were true or not, she would rather believe that she had a little girl ring and that she didn't have it, and there was only one life.

The reason why Zuo Zhen sat down was because she was still sane, no matter how curious and suspicious she was, she couldn't take it lightly at this time, she didn't have to make something out of a few days after she entered the door to damage her reputation, she had to ask if it was really something to make the next step, and she couldn't let people think that she didn't know the general situation.

In the evening, when Ouyang Lin returned to the house, Zuo Zhen personally served Ouyang Lin to wash, and asked about the affairs of the house after dinner.

"The mansion seems to be very secretive about the lord of Zunyi, but what are the taboos?" Zuo Zhen did not have the temptation to beat around the bush, and directly expressed the doubts in his heart.

"What?" At first glance, Ouyang Lin was confused when asked.

Zuo Zhen said it again, thinking back and forth in her mind whether she had said something wrong, and carefully observed her husband's expression.

"It's taboo that I don't have it, but I heard my father say that my little sister likes to be quiet and doesn't like to be disturbed." Ouyang Lin has already made it very clear.

"yes, I see." Although Ouyang Lin didn't say it too thoroughly, Zuo Zhen understood it somewhat in her heart, and she still kept the words in mind, but she was more curious and wanted to find out.

Aunt Liu enjoyed a bird's nest porridge and asked, "What did you find?" ”

Wang Ma knew what Aunt Liu was talking about, so she said: "As Madame expected, the young lady did send her henchman Huan Xuan'er to spend fifty taels of silver to get the news of the county lord of Zunyi, and it was really generous." ”

"It's strange that she doesn't ask." Aunt Liu curled the corners of her lips happily and said, "Look, she will definitely go to Pinglan Garden." The tone was very steady, and there was a bit of schadenfreude.

"Then there is no need to remind me, after all, it is not a good place, in case something really happens, it will be involved with Madame." Mother Wang kindly reminded that after all, Aunt Liu is still the head of the house, and the young lady has just arrived in the house and does not know anything, and Aunt Liu has the obligation to inform.

"What are you afraid of, she spent money to get what she wanted to know, and she will miss my reminder." Aunt Liu said uneasily: "Since she knows but still wants to go, who can she wish for?" ”

"It's hard to explain to Xiangye." Wang's mother is still not at ease.

"What is there to worry about, she is not a fool, she will definitely take Ouyang Lin's words to determine whether the news she heard is true, look at it, this is a rare good show, but it's a pity that the main owner is not there, I don't know what will happen." Aunt Liu was so idle and panicked, it was so easy to get the opportunity to watch the play, how could she miss it so easily.

Wang Ma opened her mouth and finally swallowed back the words that came to her mouth, she thought that the main master was gone, and there were only two rough and dumb women left in the Lan Garden, so nothing should happen.

Sure enough, as Aunt Liu expected, Zuo Zhen took Xuan'er and the two to avoid the people in the mansion and went to Pinglan Yuan on the second day.

Standing in front of the gate of Pinglan Garden, no one around gave people an invisible sense of depression, and Xuan'er entered the courtyard under Zuo Zhen's signal and shouted.

"Anyone?" Xuan'er shouted and walked forward in small steps, paying attention from time to time for fear of a person coming out of nowhere.