Chapter 538: Wife and Concubine
In Yanbei, the unmarried little lady longs for Yun Wenting, Yun Wenfang is such a beautiful son, but the women who have become relatives have a mountain in their hearts that no one can overcome, that is, the old male god King Yanbei.
King Yanbei himself may not know how good his reputation is, as long as there are women in Yanbei, no one dares to say that King Yanbei is bad, otherwise the end will be miserable.
"The second son is also a good one, I heard that there are no concubines, only married a Ren."
"The second son has only been married for a few years? It's still a long time, isn't it good to wait for a few years to see? ”
"By the way, the fox spirit you brought from Yunyang City is also surnamed Ren, so it won't have anything to do with the young lady of the Xiao family, right?"
Gao Shi shook his head when he heard this, but shook his head and said, "It's just the same surname, how is it possible." ”
"That's right, what kind of family is the Ren family, how can they raise such a shameless woman."
Another young woman said cautiously: "It's better to find out, in case it has something to do with the young lady of the Xiao family, you should be careful when dealing with it in the future." ”
Gao smiled when he heard this: "Don't worry, I have asked my mother's brother to find out." The young lady of the Xiao family has only one sister, and this sister-in-law was disliked by her father, so she had already been kicked out of the house, and she died last year, which was recorded in the official household register. As for the Ren family, there are only a few girls, except for those who are already married, there is only one fourth miss, one seventh miss, and one eighth miss. Miss Four is devoted to the Buddha, has been eating fast in the temple and chanting Buddha, Miss Seven has married to Shunzhou in July this year, is her grandfather Su family to do the master, Miss Eight is not in good health, not to mention people, I have seen it once in Yunyang City when I was far away. ”
The other two wives were relieved when they heard this.
Gao didn't stay outside for a long time, because Zhou Wen was going to have lunch at home at noon today, she sat for a while and went back.
As soon as she entered the second door, a big maid she left at home hurriedly greeted her, leaned into her ear and whispered: "Miss, my uncle is back, just now the one in the West House made a fuss again, and the slave and maid heard the sound of smashing cups in the main room, and my uncle is also losing his temper." ”
Gao's steps paused, but he only smiled: "Wait a while to change Aunt Ren's new tea set." ”
The eldest girl pouted: "This is the first time, and my uncle's belongings are not enough for her to smash." ”
Gao Shi said nonchalantly: "It's not a rare thing, she likes to smash it." This time, it was replaced with porcelain from Zhoujiayao in Shunzhou, and the sound was brittle. ”
The eldest girl said angrily: "Miss, why do you follow her in everything? Uncle doesn't go to her house much now, are we still afraid that she won't make it? ”
Gao still said softly: "It's just a thing, I can't bother with her." Without her, there will be other aunts, and I would rather be like her. ”
Another big girl who had just come back with the Gao family covered her mouth and smiled when she heard this: "Miss is right, if it weren't for Aunt Ren this time, Miss wouldn't have been so smooth if you wanted to come to Yizhou with your aunt, so we have to thank her." ”
What woman is willing to stay in her hometown to serve her in-laws and give up her man to another woman? It's just forced by filial piety. Gao originally planned to follow Zhou Wen two months after taking office, but it happened to be diagnosed with Ximai, Gao is a smart person, knowing that the heir is more important to a woman than a man's favor, so after staying in Yunyang City and giving birth to a child, he used Ren Yaoying to let the Zhou family take the initiative to ask her to come to Yizhou.
Gao smiled: "Where is my uncle now?" ”
The eldest girl smiled and said, "Uncle is in the main room, when you didn't come back, my uncle asked three times when you came back." ”
Gao nodded, and walked quickly to the main room with the maids.
Ren Yaoying has been very unhappy recently, and she regrets it. regretted that he shouldn't have watched Zhou Wen become an official, and he couldn't forget her old feelings, so he escaped from the He family's marriage and followed him to Yizhou.
Although the Zhou family said that Gao was a virtuous person who could tolerate people, Ren Yaoying knew that Gao was a powerful person, Zhou didn't seem to have done anything, but he suppressed her from time to time, when Gao didn't come to Yizhou, her maid was very powerful, and now Gao herself came to Yizhou, she didn't even listen to half a sentence in this backyard, and the maid in her room had to ask Gao for advice if she wanted to do anything.
It's just that Zhou Wen's freshness to her has passed, in the past, when she lost her temper, Zhou Wen would coax her, but now she leaves without saying a word, Ren Yaoying is so aggrieved.
But what's the use of regretting it now? Will she still be able to go back to Ren's house?
Thinking of the Ren family, Ren Yaoying had a little hope in her heart, she secretly left the Ren family, and the Ren family would definitely look for her, if she went back, she would lie that she was taken away. Ren Yaoying is not familiar with the place in Yizhou, and she has no support from her mother's family, and the Zhou family treats her as a cheap concubine, Ren Yaoying really doesn't want to live this kind of life anymore.
Ren Yaoying thought about it for a long time, and finally made up her mind to leave Zhou's family and leave Zhou Wen, if Zhou Wen didn't let her go, she would go to the government to sue him, saying that she was deceived by him and abducted. If Zhou Wen still wants to lose face, he has to let her go obediently.
Thinking so, Ren Yaoying called the maid to ask where Zhou Wen was now, whether Gao had returned, and after learning that the two of them were in the main room, she asked the maid to help her fetch water and wash her face, comb her hair again, and then go to the main room proudly.
When Ren Yaoying entered, Zhou Wen and Gao were both sitting on the kang, the two were very close, Gao's face was still a little red, and his sideburns were a little messy, Ren Yaoying had also experienced an affair, so she naturally understood what Zhou Wen and Gao were doing just now, and looked at Zhou Wen's eyes with hatred.
Zhou Wen was also a little embarrassed by Ren Yaoying's look like this, coughed lightly, lowered his head and drank tea.
Gao asked gently, "Is there anything wrong with Aunt Ren coming to me?" ”
Ren Yaoying glanced at the Gao family and said coldly: "I know that your Zhou family can't tolerate me, I'm here to beg today!" ”
Hearing this, Zhou Wen suddenly raised his head and frowned: "What nonsense are you talking about!" ”
Ren Yaoying glanced at him and sneered: "I was deceived by your sweet words and left my hometown to follow you to Yizhou, but what did you do to me?" I won't say anything else, you give me a thousand taels of silver, and then give it to Yunyang City, let's treat it as if we've never known each other. ”
Zhou Wen was inexplicably embarrassed by Ren Yaoying's duties, and he also lost face as a man in front of the Gao family. Zhou Wen felt that Ren Yaoying was unreasonable, he didn't think that he had treated Ren Yaoying badly, since Ren Yaoying followed her, the food and clothing were good, even the Gao family wanted to make clothes, and the fabric was also let Ren Yaoying pick it first, and she never forgot Ren Yaoying's part when she was playing jewelry, but Ren Yaoying was still not satisfied with this or that, and she was picky everywhere.
Compared with Zhou Wen's impatience, Gao was much calmer, she asked Ren Yaoying with a smile: "Aunt Ren wants to go back to Yunyang City?" Are you from Yunyang City? ”
Ren Yaoying looked at the Gao family with contempt: "I am naturally from Yunyang City, my father Ren Shimin is the gentleman of Yunyang Academy, and my two sisters and sisters are the young lady of Yanbei Wangfu and the lady of the Lei family. ”
Zhou Wen's face changed when he heard this.
Gao gently patted Zhou Wen's hand, and said to Ren Yaoying without changing his face: "I know which Ren family it is when you say this, but as far as I know, the Ren family does not have a daughter like you." ”
Ren Yaoying thought that what Gao was talking about Ren Shimin severing the father-daughter relationship with her, and immediately said loudly: "My father is just angry with me for a while, as long as I am willing to go back, he will definitely recognize me!" ”
Gao shook his head and said, "I heard that Mr. Ren has three daughters, one is the young lady of Yanbei Wangfu, the other is the wife of the Lei family, and one is a concubine, but he died last year. There are no other daughters besides. ”
Ren Yaoying was stunned when she heard this, and then said sharply: "You are talking nonsense!" I'm standing here so well, how can I die! ”
Gao looked at Ren Yaoying with pity: "What did I lie to you about?" When you followed Xianggong, I wanted to give you an identity and let Xianggong accept you as a good concubine, but I don't want you to be unwilling. However, as a father-in-law, if he keeps a woman of unknown origin by his side, it will have an impact on his future career, so I thought that since you are the girl of the Ren family, I will go to the Ren family to ask the Ren family to be in charge, so that you can enter the Zhou family as the daughter of the Ren family. I didn't want to find someone to inquire but found that Miss Ren Jiajiu was dead, I didn't believe it at the time, so I asked my brother to go to the yamen to check the household registration, and found that Mr. Ren personally went to the government to eliminate the household registration for you, and the official documents clearly wrote that Miss Ren Jiajiu committed suicide after meeting the bandits. ”
Ren Yaoying felt that the world was spinning for a while when she heard this, she almost fainted to the ground, her face turned pale, and she shook her head and said, "No, how can it be, I am obviously alive and well, how can I die?" ”
Gao sighed: "Even if you are really Miss Ren Jiajiu, now that we let you go back to Yunyang City, how do you explain to the Ren family where you have been for more than a year?" To put it mildly, the Ren family would rather you have died outside. ”
Ren Yaoying really couldn't stand on her feet now, and she stumbled and fell to the ground.
Gao hurriedly said, "Come on, please come to the doctor." ”
After the maids carried Ren Yaoying away, Zhou Wen said to Gao with a shameful face: "I...... I shouldn't have ...... in the first place."
Gao reassured Zhou Wen and said: "The matter has come to this, what is the prime minister saying about this?" I can trust Xianggong's character, and Aunt Ren must have said that she couldn't stay in Ren's house, so you would take the risk of taking her away. ”
Zhou Wen nodded, and Ren Yaoying wrote her many letters, saying that the Ren family forced her to marry an old man who was old enough to be her grandfather, begging him to take her away, and said that her rejection of her was not out of her original intention, but by her grandmother.
Gao sighed, but said to Zhou Wenzhengse: "Xianggong, what has happened cannot be changed, but you are now an official, for the sake of your future, you still need to think twice about doing things in the future." ”
Zhou Wen nodded hurriedly: "Madam is right, you must be careful for your husband in the future." What about Ren? If you really want to send her, will Yunyang City be successful? ”
"Xianggong, you are confused again!" Gao rebuked in a soft tone, "Miss Ren Jiajiu is dead, where are you going to send her?" Since Mr. Ren has eliminated her household registration, he doesn't want her to return to the Ren family again, otherwise where will you let the Ren family's face go? If you send people back, the Ren family will not only not be grateful to you, but will also make enemies with you. ”
"So what?" Zhou Wen was also a little scared when he heard it, he didn't want to make a feud with the Ren family, and he also wanted to mix in the officialdom of Yanbei.
Gao Shi said softly: "Naturally, I want Aunt Ren to stay in our Zhou family, but she is just the aunt you bought back, not the ninth lady of the Ren family." ”
Zhou Wen is also a smart person, and he immediately understood when he heard Gao say this. Miss Ren Jiajiu is already "dead", even if she is not dead, she can only be treated as dead, if she is allowed to go out to make trouble, the government may convict him of abducting a woman from a good family, in that case, his future will be over.
Gao saw that Zhou Wen understood, so he took his hand and said: "When Aunt Ren wakes up later, you can persuade her well, she and you are young and righteous, you treat her well in the future, I will also treat her as a sister, so that she can rest at ease in the Zhou family." But if she talks nonsense again, for the sake of Xianggong's future, I can only be a wicked person and lock her up. Aunt Ren is a smart person, she will figure it out. ”
Zhou Wen held Gao's hand with his backhand: "I have wronged you." ”
Gao pursed his lips and smiled: "It's nice to say now, when I really lock her up, don't blame me for being ruthless and bullying your sweetheart." ”
Zhou Wen looked at Gao affectionately: "Don't you know who my sweetheart is?" If a woman is like this in this life, what more can a husband ask for? ”
Gao blushed and lowered his head shyly.
After Ren Yaoying woke up, she really refused to be honest, and she still kept making trouble, Gao persuaded Ren Yaoying several times and refused to listen, and finally Gao could only order Ren Yaoying to be locked up, Ren Yaoying cried in the room all day long, and finally cried out of her throat, and then when she spoke loudly, she yelled and itched and coughed up blood.
Zhou Wen was originally willing to go to her room to sit and sit, wanting to coax her to change her mind, but later she gradually became cold and refused to enter her room again. Another year passed, Gao and the maid were both pregnant, and Gao was in charge of giving Zhou Wen a well-behaved and beautiful concubine room, and Zhou Wen's colleagues all envied Zhou Wen for marrying a good wife.
Although Zhou Wen was romantic, he always respected Gao, and after Gao's old age and decay, he stayed in the main house for at least half of every month. When Zhou Wen's descendants were full and Gao died, Zhou Wen couldn't help himself with grief and fell seriously ill. After that, every year on Gao's memorial day, Zhou Wen would write a eulogy for his deceased wife, two of which were also regarded by later generations as classics for missing his deceased wife, which will be passed on to future generations.
As for Ren Yaoying, Zhou Wen had already forgotten such a person, Ren Yaoying's life was not good, and she died of tuberculosis within a few years with Zhou Wen.
Well, people like Zhou Wen and Gao are the models of loving couples in feudal society
Don't be too envious ~o(∩_∩)o.
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