Chapter 204: Wading through the Troubled Waters
The things decided by the royal family, even if you are dissatisfied as a courtier, you can't fight, thunder, rain and dew, all are the grace of the king.
The uncle and his wife could only think like this at that time, but fortunately, the prince Fujin still fell on the concubine of his own house.
Although Ning Hua's aunt is still unwilling, she can only face it at this point.
Especially Yuhua was left with a sign, and after a long time without a holy decree, Aunt Ninghua became anxious.
You must know that if you have left a sign, if you don't have a will, you can't get married, you can only stay in the house and become an old girl.
And before, due to the carelessness and "can't help it" of the eldest aunt, others thought that Yuhua had climbed the high branch, but now everyone is waiting to see other people's jokes, or people really fly on the branches and become a phoenix.
After all, it is also possible to become Kangxi's harem, who makes Jiajia Yuhua look good, and Concubine Yi likes her?
has really become a Kangxi's woman, and it's okay to help Concubine Yi compete for favor, this kind of thing, don't have too much among the nobles.
It's just that it's very small, after all, how can a cousin become the wife and concubine of the father and son?
Although there will be such a chance, who will make us full?
And the eldest aunt begged grandpa to rely on grandma, and finally three months after Ning Hua married into the palace, let the palace put her daughter's brand.
At this time, the show girl who has put off the card from another family is not the engaged of the betrothed, and the marrying of the married.
is suitable for Yuhua, and the aristocratic boy of the same age has long been picked up.
Therefore, Yuhua can only marry in other places, after all, even if she can really pick a few more good ones. But who is willing to marry the daughter of the Earl's Mansion from such a "high-minded and arrogant" family, they are going to marry the royal "Phoenix", and our son can't climb high.
And because of this relationship, the eldest aunt and his wife naturally would not help Ning Hua in the palace, and the original owner was not very good at being a person, so the original owner's days in the palace at that time can be imagined.
First, the palace needs money everywhere, and second, there is no family to rely on.
In addition, the dowry given by the original owner's mother had already been misappropriated by Faka's stepwife. Although it was chased back quite a bit. But it also belongs to shoddy haode, so the life of the original owner in the palace may not be as good as the clan sister Nala Shuyuan.
Three years ago, it can be said that she was arranged by Ning Hua's aunt.
Who made Shuyuan's family poor. Can you hold it in your hands?
And now it's not Yuhua who comes in, it's Ninghua. Shuyuan gave birth to the eldest daughter and the eldest son. Where is the elder brother, he naturally has the confidence to compete with Ning Hua.
And Steward Zheng here looked a little strange when he saw the seventh elder brother's expression appear in pain. Isn't this sweet with the memories of the eldest brother and Eniang?
How can it be like this? It's so strange, but, as a loyal minion, seeing that the master is in pain, let's go and interrupt, otherwise, wouldn't it be disloyal?
If it's sweet and warm, then let the master remember it well, but now...... Alas, these days, the more real the housekeeper is, the more difficult it is to be a housekeeper.
The seventh elder brother was reminded by Steward Zheng, only to know that he had been distracted for so long, and the girl from Zhiyuanzhai was sent by Zhiwei to ask, when the seventh elder brother went to give her advice on dressing, and the seventh elder brother hurriedly went to where the baby daughter was, and almost forgot about his daughter's trial of auspicious clothes, sweat!
When Steward Zheng saw that the seventh elder brother was leaving, he summoned Xiao Shunzi and a few traveling entourages in turn.
And from Xiaoshunzi and those entourages, I learned that this seventh elder brother really saw someone who looked exactly like the eldest brother's mother.
Although Xiao Shunzi's appearance is as exaggerated as a ghost, however, those entourages are more sophisticated and reliable people, so Steward Zheng is a few people's words, and he knows that the woman is really exactly the same as the eldest brother's mother, not only in appearance, but also in demeanor and gestures.
However, the only thing that made Steward Zheng feel fortunate was that the woman had a husband, but the man was quite unproductive, just a very down-and-out flag man who worked in the Ministry of Labor.
The reason for the incident is this, one day the seventh elder brother was interested, so he took his entourage to hang out, ready to buy some books, calligraphy and paintings, or something to go back and enjoy it.
Who made his daughter-in-law the first talented woman, as a talented woman, naturally she can't be inferior to her daughter-in-law, plus for so many years, the seventh elder brother has also been carefully taught by Kangxi, and the seventh elder brother's attainments in calligraphy and painting are definitely not lower than the original owner, compared to the current Xibei goods Ninghua, it is not nine streets.
And just when the seventh elder brother was happily preparing to return home, he saw a woman who looked very much like Shuyuan, Shuyuan's position in the seventh elder brother's heart was extraordinary, and the seventh elder brother naturally wanted to catch up and see it clearly.
And when he chased him until he reached the mouth of the alley where the woman lived, the seventh elder brother found that it was not a god-like, but very similar, and he was stunned.
And when she heard the people in the alley calling her to call Bao Chun to come home, coupled with the woman's dress, she knew that she already had a husband's family.
Although people have husbands, however, the seventh elder brother is not dead, God knows, if the man is dead, if he dies and is a widow, then he can also "take care" of the next family, right.
As the prince of the Qing Dynasty, it is my responsibility and obligation to help the people of the Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, the seventh elder brother sent someone to inquire.
This kind of thing has always been done by Steward Zheng before, but since Steward Zheng's daughter went to Zhuangzi, some things that are more about privacy, Seventh Elder Brother does not plan to hand them over to Steward Zheng to inquire.
What if he told Ning Hua? What kind of character is Ning Hua, the seventh elder brother knows best, rather than broken jade, not for the whole tile, you said that a helpless and lovely person, how could he resist Ning Hua's retaliation?
What's more, there is no need for Ning Hua to make a move, there are many fans of Ning Hua in this capital, as long as Ning Hua has such an idea, there are more people to help her do this job, and noble women who don't want to have a son given by the Bodhisattva!!
Therefore, those entourages were told by the Seventh Elder Brother every day that they were absolutely not allowed to tell Steward Zheng, and usually for fear that Steward Zheng would be suspicious, the Seventh Elder Brother only went to see his sweetheart for two or three days to relieve his lovesickness.
It can be said that due to Steward Zheng's usual busy official duties, coupled with the Seventh Elder Brother's deliberate concealment, if it weren't for the Seventh Elder Brother who drew the picture himself today and fell into contemplation, Steward Zheng would not have been suspicious at all.
"Ridiculous!!" Steward Zheng's inquiries to several people were all one-on-one, so after all the inquiries were completed, he called several people in at the same time and reprimanded several people.
"Lao Zheng, actually, it's not as bad as you think, the people in the west courtyard are all from that background, nothing, what's more, that, it's almost all clean, compared to that, it's much better."
Several people were a little unhappy after listening to Steward Zheng's reprimand, although you Steward Zheng is in a high position, but we are also people who serve the master closely, you said you, why should you train us, not to mention, we just did things according to the master's orders, what's wrong?
"Xiao Shunzi, think about it yourself, how did you not have a master, how did you get into this position." Steward Zheng saw that Xiao Shunzi was especially looking at him with that disdainful face, so he said coldly.
There are some things that some people have forgotten, so let's give them a heads-up!
"As for you, hehe, you didn't follow Ye as soon as he opened the mansion, right? Oh, by the way, it was the one who came in and then came in, right? Hehe, think about it yourself, I don't know anything about this. ”
Steward Zheng flicked his sleeves and prepared to walk out of the door.
Several people were reminded by Steward Zheng that they remembered that at that time, nearly 100 people were killed in the mansion, and there were close eunuchs Xiao Quanzi, even the former big housekeeper and the three housekeepers all died overnight, and the minions up and down the house died not ordinarily.
And Steward Zheng was on an errand outside the house at that time, so he was immediately promoted from the second housekeeper to the chief butler, and later because of his ruthless methods, he stepped on several people who wanted to compete with him for the position of the chief butler.
Therefore, it has been smooth sailing in the past few years, and there are no two housekeepers and three housekeepers to restrain him.
Some of the stewards in the house and some of the stewards in Zhuangzi were also all his confidants.
"Grandpa Zheng, you can save us!" If there was anything that Xiao Shunzi couldn't figure out before, now he understands everything.
If this matter spreads again, it will be another pot of kicking, anyway, the first batch of deaths must be a few of them, as for whether Steward Zheng will be implicated, it is unknown.
When Steward Zheng saw a few people kneeling down and kowtowing, he sighed and said, "If you had told me earlier, things would have come to this point, and now ......."
Steward Zheng can be said to be the first time that he felt a knife on his neck.
Kangxi would not kill his son in anger, but he could figure out with his toes what people would do, in the eyes of the masters, the life of the slave would be life!
The most important thing in the Qing Dynasty is the minions.
The only thing I am glad about now is that where the girl is in Gege, maybe she can save a small life.
"That's not the case, Grandpa Zheng, you always escaped from the last incident, there must be a way to save it, right?" Xiao Shunzi and the others are in a hurry, although wealth and glory are important, but nothing is as important as their own heads.
What's more, it may not be only himself who dies, maybe there will be his wife, children and parents?
Several people couldn't help but get scared, and their heads banged even louder.
"Okay, okay, let's all get up, fortunately it's the Golden Festival, the master will be busy for a while, we still have some time to think about it, you can't show a flaw in front of the master, otherwise, the master will bring people in in advance, think about how many heads your family has enough to cut off our saints!!"
Steward Zheng viciously threatened that if he had been outside, or in Zhuangzi, and something happened to them, he would not be willing to intervene to help, but the question is, he has been in the mansion, who would believe that he would not know as a big housekeeper?
It seems that he can only wade into this troubled water, alas! (To be continued......)