Fang, the wife of the new political envoy of Suzhou, is the cousin of Fang Chongshan, the head of the Fang family, and comes from a side branch. She feels a little similar to Mrs. Cao's Cao Fang, but compared to Mrs. Cao's gentle and dignified appearance, but in fact she is a little arrogant, she is much more kind, and there is a strong bookish smell between her eyebrows.

Her father was a low-ranking Hanlin official, she herself married an inconspicuous new science and technology scholar, more than 20 years later, her husband has been step by step, steadily promoted to the position of political envoy, outstanding political achievements, excellent official reputation, she herself is a child and daughter. Although she is not particularly outstanding among the daughters of the Fang family, she has a smooth life and is satisfied with everything, compared with the once beautiful Fang family, it is really difficult to say who is happier.

She has been in office with her husband for less than ten days, and she has long heard that the Duchess of Jiannan County lives in Jiading with her granddaughter, and she has already had the intention to visit, but unfortunately Zhang and Zhao Xiu have returned to their hometown, so it will be delayed until today. As soon as she heard that their ancestors had returned, she immediately sent someone to deliver the post, and her eagerness was overflowing.

She came to thank Zhao Xiu.

The women of the Fang family have their own communication channels with each other, which is their natural connection. Fang Huizhu encountered a qiē after marrying into Meishan Bofu, the Fang family knew from the family letter sent by the sisters, and they were very angry, and at the same time they were glad that Zhao Xiu was righteous and sent a message to Fang Huizhu regardless of previous suspicions, which solved the latter's predicament. If it weren't for Zhao Xiu discovering the suspiciousness of Meishan Bofu and informing the Fang family girl in the capital, I was afraid that Fang Huizhu would really be calculated by her in-laws.

The daughter of the Fang family's descendants was actually bullied to this extent, how can people bear it? Even if the Fang family is down for a while, it is still a big family. No matter how big a mistake Fang Huizhu made when she was in her mother's family, she was still the flesh and blood of the Fang family. Which green onion is the Qiu family in Meishan Bofu? Why don't you take the Fang family in your eyes? When I proposed, it sounded good, but in fact, it was just a coaxing, I just wanted to climb up by stepping on the daughter of the Fang family. Vulgar people who don't understand poetry and etiquette also want to climb the dragon and attach the phoenix?

The Fang family was very disdainful of the Qiu family.

Zhao Xiu felt that he just said one more sentence casually. If it weren't for Fang Renzhu's face, she wouldn't have bothered to care whether Fang Huizhu was dead or alive. Of course, the Qiu family acts. She is also very unaccustomed to it, and she is still happy to add some blockage to his house.

She is more concerned about Fang Huizhu's current situation: "Can you be rescued?" Where are people now? Since I left Jining last winter, I haven't received a letter from Miss Fang Wu. I don't know what the follow-up will be. ”

Fang replied: "Naturally, the person was rescued. My younger brother and sister went back to Beijing to pick up people from Qiu's family, but Qiu's family refused to let her see her daughter. My younger siblings knew there was a ghost at a glance, and they broke into the back house regardless of it. Thanks to the old lady of the Qiu family, she still clamored and said that she was going to sue the royal court, accusing my younger brother and sister of being rude, and threatening to divorce Sister Hui. She thought it was a scare to use such words. Will my brother and sister give in? is too underestimated of the Fang family. My younger brother and sister agreed without saying a word, and directly ordered someone to carry Sister Hui away, and in turn threatened the Qiu family, saying that they would go to sue the royal court, sue the Qiu family for cheating on marriage, spoil concubines and kill wives, confuse concubines, and be suspected of bullying the king. At this time, the Xia Qiu family softened, and they didn't dare to say rude words again, but they even came to the door to beg my brother and sister to calm down. Mrs. Meishan even promised. will send that concubine away directly, and she doesn't want the child in her belly. ”

Zhang exclaimed when he heard this: "Ah, she is hateful enough, the concubine is down, but the child is her own grandson." ”

Zhao Xiu asked: "I heard that the concubine is the maiden relative of the old lady of the Qiu family, Mrs. Meishan made such a promise, is her mother-in-law willing to agree?" ”

Fang sneered: "It's true that they were originally relatives, but it's a pity that the family background is mediocre, and they don't know how to be honest, so they are willing to be cheap." What other face is there to say that it is a relative? The old lady of the Qiu family is also a fool. However, Mrs. Meishan Bo is quite decisive, but unfortunately she did not raise a good son. She begged to come to the door, but she didn't even want her own grandson, but her son demolished her stage. It doesn't matter if the wife is gone, but the lover can't be without. That concubine is his beloved, and the child is also his own flesh and blood, and he will never give in. Where is my brother and sister impatient to listen to such words? Directly asked him to write and leave the book. He wants to spoil that concubine and want the child born to that concubine, that's their own business. The daughter of the Fang family is not jealous and cannot tolerate others. But if he wants to borrow the life of the daughter of the Fang family. To elevate the identity of that child, that is a fantasy! The grandson of our Fang family, is it also what any child born who doesn't know who can do? ”

Zhang recited the Buddha: "This is the truth. In any case, if his family wants to deceive the world and confuse his concubines, he is doing something wrong. Since she is a girl from a relative's family, although her family background is different, she can not only be a concubine. The Qiu family not only wants a daughter-in-law from a big family, but also wants a girl from a relative's family, how can there be such a cheap thing in the world? You can't win 'em all. They ignore the law of etiquette, and if they have to have both, the law of the land will not tolerate them. ”

Zhao Xiu asked: "Then is Big Sister Fang reconciled now?" Is she recuperating at home now? Are you feeling better? She was tortured a lot in the Qiu family, right? ”

Fang sighed: "Sister Hui is now recuperating at home in the capital, and her mother doesn't dare to go back to Jining, so she stays at home to take care of her." She was not in any serious condition, but she was frightened, and she slowly recuperated, and she was already much better. When she first saw her mother, she cried so much that she even said that she should not stay in the Qiu family anymore. But later, her mother asked the Qiu family to write and leave the book, and she hesitated, for fear of ruining the reputation of our Fang family. Her mother didn't listen to her, and after receiving and leaving the book, she reported to the yamen, and she cried a lot. ”

Zhang expressed deep sympathy: "It's no wonder that a good girl is like this, the Qiu family is too much." ”

Fang nodded and sneered again: "His family is just relying on that title, and there is a son who works on an errand in front of the emperor, so what is it?" Qiu Huiyou has no talent and no virtue, and he is not worthy of the daughter of our Fang family, but now he has violated the etiquette law and is not qualified to be a leader. How could the imperial court appoint such an arrogant and impudent person! ”

Zhao Xiu raised his eyebrows, knowing that this was probably the Fang family's revenge.

Speaking of which, this marriage was deceived by the Qiu family first, but Mrs. Fang had already noticed that something was wrong, and it was Fang Huizhu who asked for it, and she did not hesitate to anger her parents and family for this reason, and now that she has such a result, she is probably also very unwilling, right? When she has no support, all she wants is to get out of trouble. With her mother as her backer, she felt that maybe there was room for redemption in this marriage. No matter how bad the Meishan Mansion is, it is also a family with a title. If she remarries after leaving, who else can she marry? Fang Huizhu has always been high-spirited, she is not happy to reconcile and leave, I am afraid that it is not because she is afraid of affecting the reputation of the Fang family's daughter, but because she is worried that she will not be able to marry a better person in the future, right? But anyway. Things have come to this point, and even Qiu Huiyou's career has been affected, and it is impossible for her to go back to Meishan Bofu to be the second young grandmother.

The wife of the new political envoy of Suzhou does not know whether the other party knows what Huizhu did before leaving the cabinet. If you know. She shouldn't think that Fang Huizhu was afraid of affecting the reputation of the Fang family's daughter, so she was reluctant to leave. After all, the things that Fang Huizhu did at the beginning had already stepped on the reputation of the Fang family's daughter.

Fang didn't mention it, and Zhao Xiu wouldn't slap someone in the face and greeted him politely. Fang's was probably really very grateful to her. thanked them several times, and said that their sisters, aunts and nephews had made an appointment in the letter, and they wanted to keep Zhao Xiu's grace to Fang Huizhu in mind, and Zhao Xiu would ask for something in the future, as long as it was within their power, they would definitely do their best.

For example, in the current disaster relief in Shanghai, because Zhao Xiu is also a member of the "Cixian Association" and one of the advocates, as long as the Fang family girl can join, she will also be involved in this organization. Fang also made a statement to her husband. Please take more care of the Zhao family's property in his jurisdiction. The new political envoy of Suzhou has already agreed.

Zhao Xiu was a little surprised when she heard this, she didn't expect the daughter of the Fang family to attach so much importance to Fang Huizhu's affairs. If this is the energy of the Fang family's daughters, then she probably really underestimated them before.

In the capital, she has come into contact with only a few girls of the Fang family, Fang Huizhu, Fang Renzhu, Mrs. Feng, and Mrs. Cao...... She thought that the daughter of the Fang family had gained fame by virtue of her upbringing. Now that I think about it, no matter what the status of the husband they married when they first came out of the cabinet, as they grew older, they all rose to a good level. Cao Fang's husband is the commander of the forbidden army, and the husband of the Fang clan in front of him is a political envoy. What about the other Fang family girls? Together, their husbands are a force to be reckoned with. And these women of the Fang family who married outside the country maintained frequent contact, helping each other, and one of them was in trouble. Everyone else came to help. With such energy, how could the daughter of the Fang family not be famous? Marrying a daughter of the Fang family, what you get is not just an in-laws, there are many in-laws behind it. Meishan Bofu really did a stupid thing.

The Fang family sat in Cuilu for a while, and then left politely, leaving a rather generous meeting gift. Zhang looked at the gift list. smiled at Zhao Xiu: "I asked you to interact more with the girls of the Fang family, but you are still not happy, look at what is going on now?" Isn't this lady elegant and dignified, with an extraordinary bearing? Although the eldest girl of the Fang family has a bad character, the other Fang family members are still good, and what is rare is the friendship between them and helping each other. You also have to take care of the Zhao family more in the future, don't be estranged because you are far away, see less and communicate less. ”

Zhao Xiu responded with a smile, but his heart was a little empty. If it's just to take care of the Zhao family, then of course it's no problem, but if it's an old woman surnamed Niu, then she won't be happy.

The next day, Zhao Xiu and Zhang took their luggage back on the ship of King Guangping, bid farewell to Jiading, and went north along the canal. At this time, the Midyear Festival has passed, and the weather is getting cooler, but the autumn wind is not too cold, and the climate along the way is quite pleasant. Zhao Xiu is used to life on the ship, and it is not difficult.

Every day, she either talked with her grandmother and King Guangping, or practiced calligraphy and painting in the cabin, or enjoyed the river view under the porch, which was very leisurely. This time she went north, her luggage increased a lot, including two large boxes, all of which were given to her by Little Wells and his wife.

Nanhui Port was hit by a tidal disaster, and the little Wells and his wife happened to be out of town and escaped, but there were casualties in the fleet. Because of the chaos on the road after the disaster, they couldn't rush back in time to deal with the aftermath, so the casualties in the Western fleet were all settled, treated and buried by the Zhao family, and the funeral was held according to Zhao Xiu's instructions. After Little Wells rushed back, he was very grateful, and even more grateful to the Zhao family and Liufang for not falling into the well and bearing the loss of the goods with him. He immediately set off to Guangzhou to buy all kinds of overseas treasures, intending to transport them to Beijing to make huge profits, so as to make up for the losses caused by the tidal disaster. Before leaving, he specially asked his wife to send Zhao Xiu a lot of Western books, many of which he had bought and half grabbed from several missionaries he knew......

Some of them are atlases, diaries of missionaries as they missionaries around the world, and small dictionaries of Chinese and English, Chinese and French, which they made themselves.

Zhao Xiu looked at them, thinking that maybe he could do something. (To be continued.) )