12 family wives

Seeing the queen's gaze on herself, Aunt Duan pursed her lips and smiled, with a very comfortable intimacy and familiarity on her face. She is over thirty years old, but she is as well maintained as a girl in her twenties, and there are not even a slight wrinkles on her fine white skin. In terms of appearance, Duan's is actually not as good as Pei's, and he is much older than Pei's, but sometimes, people's feelings are not simply based on appearance or age.

Duan is Zhao Fengchun's cousin and Mrs. Zhao's favorite daughter-in-law.

If it wasn't for the champion Hou Mansion recruiting sons-in-law back then, I'm afraid that the Duan family would be a serious Mrs. Zhao now, not an aunt.

Mrs. Zhao naturally favored this niece, and looked at how the women of the Pei family looked at it and felt unhappy. In her heart, her son is good in every way, and Zhao Fengchun can stand out because he has the ability and has a fart relationship with the Pei family. However, the Pei family married two daughters, and her niece could only be wronged and become a concubine.

For so many years, Duan's position in the family has been as stable as Mount Tai, on the one hand, there is the reason why the old lady is biased, and on the other hand, I am afraid that Zhao Fengchun is weak and short of breath, and he has added a debt to his feelings.

But what owes her is Zhao Fengchun, who has no half-dime relationship with the Pei family, and even less with her Zhao Yanrong.

Why did the women of the Pei family want to let the Duan family press on their heads to be powerful?

Zhao Yanrong looked at Pei Shi, who had a stiff expression, lowered her eyes, lowered her head and took a sip of tea.

It's like she didn't hear her dad say it at all.

Aunt Duan's smile gradually disappeared, she felt a little uneasy, and looked at the old man whose face was already very uncertain.

When she was at home, the eldest lady was quite close to her, which was of course influenced by the old lady's indoctrination since childhood, but it was also inseparable from her efforts. The old lady educated the eldest lady like this when she was a child, saying that the Duan family was a real relative, and she was wholeheartedly devoted to the old Zhao family, although the Pei family was an aunt and also had a blood relationship, but in the end she was a stepmother and a stepmother. and used countless bloody examples and stories to tell Miss Zhao what a terrible existence her stepmother is.

Then the Duan family will come forward and greet the eldest lady with cold and warmth, and he will be closer than his own mother. She is very attentive to Zhao Yanrong. Because this is not a son-in-law, she will not compete with her son for position and wealth in the future, and through her relationship, her sons can also use the power of the champion Hou family to get a good background in the future. Moreover, the Pei family is weak and can be bullied, no matter how much Zhao Yanrong spends, she uses the Pei family's dowry and silver, and does not use the Zhao family to make up for anything.

Therefore, combined with the performance of the eldest lady in the past, Duan felt that compared to Pei's, the queen should be closer to her.

But why is she so cold today, and even her father's words are not obedient?

Could it be that he knew the purpose of her coming today, and he was dissatisfied and resentful of her in his heart?

When Duan thought of the purpose of entering the palace today, he was weak for no reason.

"Niangniang, your Aunt Duan and your sister have been standing for a long time." Zhao Fengchun softened his voice as much as possible, now it is not as good as at home, he can directly command orders. Yanrong is now a queen, a king, and a sky, he is a courtier first, and then a father. Thinking about his daughter being under house arrest in the palace for so long, maybe he was still complaining that he was unwilling to contribute, and he didn't come to the palace to visit, so from the moment he entered the door, Zhao Fengchun was relieved again.

She was young and young, and of course she didn't understand the dangers here. It's just a child's temper, no matter what, she is also the daughter of the Zhao family, and the Zhao family is her most powerful help and reliance outside the palace, how can her daughter not be towards him?

"A few days ago, we wanted to enter the palace to visit, but the palace is strictly forbidden, it's not that my father doesn't want to come in, but I really can't come in." Zhao Fengchun squinted his eyes slightly, and the love on his face was almost overflowing, "Your Aunt Duan has cried several times at home, and Qingrong has also gone to the temple to pray for you." The emperor is sage, now that the clouds have finally been cleared, the mother is safe, and our family can rest assured. ”

Zhao Yanrong smiled slightly: "Father Lao bothered. ”

only said Zhao Fengchun, but still did not mention Duan and Zhao Qingrong.

Zhao Fengchun's face stiffened, feeling that her daughter was a little too oily and salty today, and she didn't know if Pei said something in front of her, and she would share so much with Duan's mother and daughter. He looked at Pei's gaze a little more sharply.

Pei Shi only lowered his head and did not look at him. It's just that the hand on his lap unconsciously stirs the handkerchief, and he doesn't know that his fingers are red.

"Then give me a ......"

Zhao Yanrong didn't raise her eyelids, only gently put the tea cup in her hand on the table next to her, and beckoned to Xiao Jiang who was standing aside.

"Are there any rules for the head of the palace?" She asked in a non-serious voice.

Xiao Jiangzi has a flexible mind, especially with vision, when he heard the queen's mother ask like this, he already had a plan in his heart, and replied with a smile: "Hui Niangniang, the seat given in the palace is a seat that rewards the level of the woman, and the seat given by each grade is exquisite, and it is not good to arrange the seat in a disorderly manner." ”

Zhao Yanrong admired the newly promoted deputy chief eunuch very much, smiled at him, and thought that he would seal a big silver bag to reward this kid for a while.

"Can there be a seat for those who don't have a grade?"

Xiao Jiang showed a trace of embarrassment on his face: "Those who can enter the palace to see the master talk back are all high-grade internal and external women, and they are not the slaves and maids in the palace without rank...... I really haven't encountered it. However, according to the rules of the palace, the slaves and maids went back and forth to the master, standing or kneeling. If the master is sympathetic to fatigue, there is also a small pier to sit on. ”

The small pier for the subordinate to sit on is placed in the corner of the wall, only a limited height than the futon, and the small round one can't even hold a full buttocks. When a person sits up, his knees are higher than his buttocks, and there is not much difference between kneeling and sitting.

Duan and Zhao Qingrong looked at the small round piers that Xiao Jiang pointed to, and their faces turned green.

Pei's face was embarrassed, but there was a hint of a smile in his eyes, and Wanrong was still a child in the end, and her mind couldn't be strained, although she was holding her hand to cover half of her face, but looking at the way her eyebrows and eyes were bent and trembling, she was clearly laughing.

"How does this work?" Zhao Fengchun was the first to disagree, Duan's is his white moonlight, cinnabar mole, Zhao Wanrong is his heart, how can he sit on the small round pier with his knees hugged like a minion? If this is going to get out, how can their mother and daughter raise their heads in front of people?

"That's for the minions, how can you let them sit?"

"But didn't you say that they were tired from standing for too long, father?" Zhao Yanrong's gaze swept under their feet, "Since you are tired, you should rest your feet, otherwise your body will be exhausted, and my father will be distressed." ”

Zhao Fengchun saw that his eldest wife and youngest daughter were still sitting on the high-backed pine Eight Immortal Chair, and the old god was sitting on the ground, and he didn't say anything to help, so he stared at Pei Shi and wanted her to say something. Even if she can't sit on a chair like hers, she can't let Duan's mother and daughter sit on that unorthodox little round pier. But no matter how you look at it, the wife always keeps her head down and doesn't even look at him.

"Uh-huh!" Zhao Fengchun cleared his throat heavily.

In the end, she has been suppressed by her husband for eight or nine years, Pei Shi, who originally wanted to stay out of the matter, shook uncontrollably when she heard the warning voice of her husband's dissatisfaction, and then raised her head......

Zhao Fengchun touched the short hair under his chin, and was waiting for his wife to open his mouth to give up his seat, but he didn't expect his wife, who had always been weak and obedient, to say softly: "The queen mother gave her a seat, why don't you sit down quickly?" It's unorthodox like this. ”

Zhao Fengchun's hands stiffened, his slightly narrowed eyes widened suddenly, and he looked at his wife in surprise.

Pei Shi sat there honestly, looking at his nose and nose and mouth, like an old monk in his meditation, just like that, and there was no next sentence.

Zhao Fengchun almost pulled off his beard, he didn't know what went wrong.

His obedient daughter became cold, and his obedient wife ignored his requests, which made him feel a faint sense of panic in his anger.

Pei Shi has such courage, there must be someone behind her back. He dotes on the Duan family, and it is impossible for the Pei family, who is the main wife, to have no grudge against the Duan family. But she never dared to show it, let alone in front of him?

Who gave her such the guts to fall into the well?

Is it the Queen? Or, champion Hou Peiyi?

He prefers to believe that it is the former.

Zhao Yanrong was close to him and obedient to him, and he didn't need to use any means to make his daughter smear his liver and brain.

But Pei Yi is different.

Although it is said that Pei Yi is weak and sickly, he cannot inherit his father's business and maintain the prestige of the Pei family in the army. But Zhao Fengchun, as Pei Hou's two brothers-in-law, has a deeper understanding of this brother-in-law than others.

Although Pei Yi couldn't lift a gun and leap on a horse, his ruthlessness, his wit, and his cunning far surpassed his parents.

What outsiders saw was that the Pei family gradually released its military power, but he knew that this military power was deliberately released by Pei Yi. In today's peaceful and prosperous world, the military is too powerful, and the family with too much military power will be more dangerous than others.

He let go of military power, but chose the right thigh. At that time, Zhao Fengchun was still like other ministers, when he had a headache to rely on the crown prince or defect to the third prince, or the sixth prince, Pei Yi quietly stood behind the nine princes who were not favored.

King Kang finally succeeded to the unification, and the Pei family contributed a lot.

As long as the emperor reigns for one day, the Pei family is not an existence that he can afford to offend.

With cold sweat pouring down, Zhao Fengchun began to reflect on his behavior during this period of time, and calculated the possibility of Pei's family going back to his parents' house to file a complaint.

"Why don't my aunt and sister sit yet?" Zhao Fengchun was still pondering, and the crisp laughter of his little daughter came to his ears.

He raised his head and saw a graceful face that looked like the Pei family, and smiled a little flamboyantly.

How could he forget that although Pei's life was shrunk by the virtuous name, this little daughter was not as supple as her mother. If this girl goes to Pei's house, it is difficult to guarantee that she will not talk nonsense. In the past, he ignored this daughter, and when he took them back to the house, he wanted to share some spirit and teach and admonish her well, so that she knew how to be a daughter of a family who knew how to be polite and filial.

"Thank you Niangniang for giving me a seat, but Qingrong and I are not tired, let's just stand and talk to Niangniang." Duan didn't want to sit on the small round pier of the humble man, she would rather stand behind the old man and talk to people with her waist straight than sitting like a rough person holding her legs.

"Presumptuous!" Before she finished speaking, Xiao Jiang waved the dust in her hand, and screamed with a shy stomach, "The foreign woman has to call herself a courtier in front of the mother, and ordinary people have to call it a slave, how can you be in front of the mother, what kind of system is this!" ”

Talent! Xiao Jiangzi's performance was really surprising. Looking at Duan's blue and white face, Zhao Yanrong almost laughed. The Duan family is used to being at home at home, not to mention that she is in the palace now, even in the Zhao family, she still has to call herself a concubine in front of the master mother and the young master, so that I, I, I speak, isn't there no rules!

"Xiao Jiang is the deputy chief eunuch in charge of the etiquette and rules of the Zhaoyang Palace, don't look at him young, but he is the one who attaches the most importance to the rules and abides by his duties, and the emperor also values him very much, so he will be rewarded to the Zhaoyang Palace on an errand." Zhao Yanrong said "hehe", "He is a Lu person, he has always spoken so bluntly, his father saw that he was sent by the emperor to take charge of the rules, don't be like him." ”

Zhao Fengchun didn't care about the young man standing on the side, just after hearing him choke the Duan family like that, his heart was on fire, but as soon as he heard that he was pointed out by the emperor and the deputy chief eunuch, the fire in this nest dissipated with a "boom".

"It's okay, it's okay, my father-in-law is also doing his duty." Zhao Fengchun looked at Xiao Jiangzi's expression compared to the spring breeze in March, as if he wanted to see a flower on his face, "A stupid woman who has never seen the world doesn't understand the rules of the palace, and she is taught by Father-in-law Lao." After speaking, he glanced at Duan. Duan has been following him for more than ten years, and he understands what he means, so he hurriedly saluted Xiao Jiangzi: "The little woman doesn't understand the rules, thank you father-in-law for mentioning it." ”

Xiao Jiang didn't return the salute, but only asked someone to move the small round pier over two, one left and one right, in front of Duan's mother and daughter.

"Concubine Xie Niangniang gave me a seat." This concubine hadn't shouted for many years, and when she said it again, Duan only felt a burst of bitterness in her chest. Just two words, let her suddenly save her taste, it turned out that the days of being happy and comfortable for more than ten years were just self-deception.

She glanced at Pei Shi, who was sitting at the top, and in an instant, countless sour resentment surged in her chest, this woman can only sit here because of a princess's mother, and the seat under her should obviously belong to her!

However, this emotion was only fleeting, and Duan took a deep breath and sat down cautiously.

But Zhao Qingrong refused to sit.

She pointed at Zhao Wanrong and said, "The third sister can sit there, why can't I?" ”