Zhao Ze didn't say anything for a long time, and Niu's heart gradually became displeased, and he pulled down his face: "Brother Ze, didn't you hear what I just said?" ”

Zhao Ze hesitated for a moment before bowing his head and replied, "Grandson heard it, but it was just ...... Great-grandmother...... No, Mrs. Zhao, she ......"

"What is your name, Old Madam Zhao?" Niu smiled a little strangely, "She is your great-grandmother, just call your great-grandmother." Regardless of whether our family has been expelled from the clan or not, your brothers are still the descendants of the Duke of Jiannan County, and this bloodline cannot be cut off no matter what. Your great-grandmother is a house-filler and a daughter-in-law who married outside, and she is not qualified to expel your great-grandfather's children and grandchildren. Although her family Zhao Wei is now attacking, she is young, who knows what will happen in the future? If you die without leaving an heir, won't your great-grandfather be cut off? Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if Zhao Wei survives a long life, he doesn't know how many sons he can have. Who doesn't like to have their own branches? Your great-grandfather is dignified and noble, and there is only one grandson, Zhao Wei, who has only one descendant, is too shabby to say, and it is naturally good to have a few more grandchildren and great-grandchildren. If your great-grandmother doesn't allow it, then she is a sinner of the Zhao family! ”

Zhao Ze heard it harshly, and he reminded the Niu clan: "Grandmother, our branch was expelled from the clan, and it was agreed by the clan. If it weren't for Mrs. Zhao's nod, Xiao Erfang would have been able to recognize us back. Now the clan does not want to recognize us. ”

Niu's face sank: "The clan still doesn't listen to the one who fills the house?!" At the beginning, it was Xiao Erfang who played tricks, so that our branch was expelled from the clan, and we had to complain. Why can't it be? ”

Zhao Ze sighed, now he was afraid that the Zhang family would be soft-hearted and re-admit them. The clan refused to agree, for fear that the words "conspiring against sinners" would ruin the reputation of the Zhao family. He looked at the Niu clan and gently persuaded, "Since grandmother has the heart to return to the clan, why don't we go back to our hometown together?" If we make some efforts to let our people see our sincerity, we may not be able to convince them if we think about it. ”

The Niu clan wants to return to the Zhao clan. It's just that they want to touch the light of the Hou Mansion, if they go back to their hometown, where will they go to touch the light? The Niu family married into the Zhao family. He rarely returned to Fengxian, and he was not used to the life there, and he looked down on those who had lived in the countryside for generations. How could she possibly say yes? He sank his face again: "Hugh is talking nonsense, we live well in the capital." What to do when you go back? If you go back. But the clan refuses to accept us, so what? It's better to continue to stay in the capital, the capital is prosperous, your brothers can't take the imperial examination, and if you want to find an errand, it's cheaper than in a rural place like Fengxian. ”

Zhao Xiang also helped his grandmother speak at this time: "Yes, eldest brother, where are my father's bones buried." We don't know yet, but now there is more about the mother...... Their bones must be recovered. A good student is buried, and it is only right to keep filial piety for three years. ”

Zhao Ze glanced at his sister and didn't say anything. Although my sister is very cold to her parents and only close to her grandmother, her words are just, and there is nothing to refute. It seems that their family will not be able to return to Fengxian in the short term, Zhao Yan still has to redeem his biological mother, and the others are all not giving birth, and they still have a few girls and mothers-in-law, how will they live this life? Even if you have a few hundred taels of savings, you can't last long if you sit and suffer like this.

Zhao Ze thought about it again and again, gritted his teeth, and said, "I'll go to the outskirts of the city to find a cheap place to rent, and my grandmother and younger siblings will move over first." If you want to find the remains of your parents, it is always easier to be outside the city. Although this place is good, the house is too small, and my grandmother said that I am afraid that I will not be able to live in so many people. ”

Niu was a little annoyed: "What suburbs are you going to?" This is an outer city, and it is remote and simple enough. Even if it is difficult to find a house in the inner city and the rent is expensive, it is better to find a prosperous place in the outer city and rent a good house in the middle of the noise. Instead, you're going to move out of the city, do you want me to go to the countryside? ”

Zhao Ze smiled bitterly: "Grandmother, my grandson has limited money, and my grandmother and sister are afraid that they don't have much money." Everything in Beijing is good, but the cost is too great, and the grandson is afraid that he will sit on the mountain, so he wants to move to a cheaper place outside the city. ”

Niu's was even more angry: "If you don't have any money, go to the small second room!" Didn't you have no money from them, and it would be very difficult for you to go again? If it weren't for the fact that your great-grandmother didn't like me, I was afraid that if I went to her, it would only annoy her, I would have gone to the door a long time ago. What is the net worth of the small second room now? The Nanhou Mansion was built in a dignified manner, and the things confiscated that day were rewarded back to them by the first emperor. I've been a homemaker, and I know how rich that home is. Originally, they were just side branches, and the title and family property should have been inherited by our house, but now that they are cheaper, let them take out some silver to supplement us, what's not to do?! ”

Zhao Ze had a terrible headache, and he couldn't communicate with his grandmother, so he persuaded him, but it made Niu's temper tantrum: "You can go to the door for me now!" Sister Xiang and Brother Yan will accompany you, don't think you can get by. If you can't come back with money, you don't have to come back today. Hengzhu, you are not here, but our ancestors and grandchildren are more comfortable! ”

Zhao Ze was completely stunned.

Zhao Xiu didn't know that the Niu family had been eyeing her own piece of big fat, she got the news when she went to the Guangping Palace, and the prince and the prince would return to the house tomorrow, which also means that Zhao Wei can also go home. She happily led someone to clean up her brother's room, prepared the things for grooming and the clean clothes to change, and began to discuss with Lu's mother what good dishes to cook tomorrow. Grandmother has already gone to Beijing, and she also brought the cooks she is used to at home, so she has to cook a few more hometown dishes that Zhao Wei loves to eat.

Zhang watched her talk to Mother Lu with a smile, and only felt peace and joy in her heart. The title is back, the Hou Mansion is also back, and when the national mourning passes, she will go to the Hou Mansion to take a look at what has become of the house she lived in before. Thinking that soon after Zhao Jiong's attack, he died of the Jue, and it was less than a year before the Communist Party of China, so the Niu family should not have time to make too much damage, right?

She suddenly remembered something: "Sister Xiu'er, the former servants of the Hou Mansion, those who were not dismissed and were not taken away by Zhao Jue's family, have the Internal Affairs Mansion all returned to us?" ”

Zhao Xiu turned around and replied, "Most of them have been handed back to us, and there are some that I don't know where to go." I don't know if I died or went to someone else's house. But I don't know the person who handed it back to us, and my brother knows some. But I don't remember everyone's names either. Princess Guangping once reminded me that these people were all biased towards the side of Xiao Changfang at the beginning, although they were not their henchmen, but they should also be wary of one or two. Therefore, under the pretext that the state funeral was busy, I asked those people to settle down in the lower house of the Hou Mansion first—they had lived in Hengzhi before, and then sent some silver rice over every day to support them first. When I am free in the future, I will slowly observe and pick some people from the outer courtyard to summon. The rest of them sent Zhuangzi up. My grandmother, my brother, and the people around me are more reliable to use the old house for the time being. ”

Zhang nodded when he heard this: "This is a safe way, but there is no need to send everyone to Zhuangzi." Except for the people who use the old house in front of them, they are used for other seats. It doesn't matter either. These people used to have their own offices in the Hou Mansion. I am familiar with the situation of the Hou Mansion and various industries, and my own ability is not small, I am quite familiar with them, and I am easy to use. ”

Zhao Xiu hesitated: "Is this good?" I've heard that many of them are born to families, so they must have a lot of children, relatives and friends, right? I don't know if any of them are close to Zhao Ze's family, I'm afraid that they will leak the news of the family. ”

Zhang smiled: "Is there any news in our family that no one can know?" It doesn't matter, if anyone dares to do this, just get rid of him. ”

Zhao Xiu was still a little worried. But my grandmother had made up her mind, and she couldn't persuade her much. Thinking of waiting for my brother to come back, and then asking him to persuade my grandmother, I made a procrastination: "Then we have to wait until the Hou Mansion is repaired, now those houses are very dilapidated, just looking for craftsmen is enough for me and my brother to have a headache." ”

Zhang did not object this time: "This is also easy, there are a few houses in Beijing that are the best at building houses, just find one." The house of the Hou Mansion was built by the style of Cheng. He is not young now, and he doesn't know if he can still move, but his sons and grandsons have learned his craft, and their skills are in the same lineage. Mother Lu went back to find someone to inquire, whether the Cheng family still lived in the original place, if so, tell them to clean up the house later, but they need to prepare the silver. ”

Lu's mother agreed, Zhao Xiu listened, and felt that the Zhang family had lived in the capital for decades, and it was really not built, food, clothing, housing and transportation, no matter what she wanted to do, she knew how to proceed, much better than her, a rookie who didn't know anything.

Zhang can even provide information about the internal gossip of the official family in Beijing, such as the details of the grandmother Wang, she knows some: "Wang Shangshu was a well-known and capable person in the past, he sat in the Ministry of Industry, built city walls, houses, and river dams, and made a lot of contributions in the local office." The embankments and city walls that he personally supervised have not seen a single crack in them for one or two decades, and they can be said to be impregnable. The new emperor has suffered the loss of Chuansha Castle, and he must attach great importance to talents like him, not to mention, although Wang Shangshu is from a scholarly family, in fact, he is just a farmer and a scholar, his family is poor, and he is not a child of the world, and his background is simple. His father-in-law was a well-known landlord in his hometown, and when he was still a talent, he fell in love with him, not only marrying his daughter to him, but also sponsoring him to study all the way. He has a good character, so after he became famous, he never neglected his wife, and he also helped the Yue family a lot, which is really rare. Even those who were hostile to him in the court could not find fault with his conduct. ”

Just because Wang Shangshu is a kind person and knows how to repay his kindness, the brother-in-law can rest assured that he will raise his daughter and marry her to his nephew. Grandma Wang has an aunt as a mother-in-law, her father-in-law is loving, and her husband is angry, she has been pampered since she was a child, but she is the background of a rich man, and she has not kept up with the education of the ladies of the official eunuchs, and can barely be regarded as knowing some words, but she does not learn the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting very well, and she does not know anything about the affairs of the court and politics, and she is not interested in it. Now she and her husband have been married for less than a year, and they are still newly married Yan'er, so they are very affectionate, and I don't know what will happen in the future.

Zhang's commented: "Among the female dependents of the rich and noble families in the capital, there are not a few people like Grandma Wang who ignore political affairs, but even if they ignore external matters, they will not talk about things they don't understand at will, let alone accuse the princes and nobles without eyes." Grandma Wang is just too young to know the seriousness of things. Madame Wang is also the daughter of a rich man's family, and although she dotes on her niece, I have dealt with her in the past, and I think she is quite sensible and not confused. ”

Zhao Xiu smiled: "That's really lucky." If Mrs. Wang and her niece are the same, it is still unknown whether Wang Shangshu can be promoted to his current position. I hope that the eldest young master of the Wang family will quickly teach his wife to understand better, some things are really not something that you are not interested in, and you can prevaricate casually. It's okay if you don't understand, but don't pretend to understand, don't know anything, just let others use her as a gunman, she herself thought she was proud, and she actually used some poems, books, etiquette rules and the like to pressure me. In fact, she is not very familiar with poetry and etiquette, can she look down on people so much? ”

While talking and laughing, the porter suddenly sent someone to report that Zhao Ze brought his sister Zhao Xiang and younger brother Zhao Yan over. (To be continued......)