Chapter 22: Adoptive Mother
Hearing Fang Yuniang say this, Du Xiancheng also felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly bowed to the West with his hands together, and said something in his mouth, "Don't blame, don't blame!" It's weird! There are no taboos......"
followed Fang Yuniang back to the house, Du Xiancheng tossed and turned on the bed, unable to sleep.
Fang Yuniang, however, was very tired because she was pregnant, and she fell asleep quickly.
Du Xiancheng turned his head sideways, looked at Fang Yuniang's beautiful sleeping face, and then thought about his daughter Du Hengshuang, who was the same as his wife's eyebrows, and his heart was like hanging in the air.
"No, I can't. I must not let my daughter grow up and be angry with these stinky boys. Well, tomorrow she should go to Qian Bo and ask him to teach Shuang'er kung fu, so that she is not afraid of someone bullying her. Du Xiancheng felt that he had finally found a good plan, so he fell asleep happily.
Du Xiancheng was sleepy at night, and woke up later than Fang Yuniang the next day.
By the time he got up, Fang Yuniang was already sitting in front of the dresser and drawing her eyebrows and sideburns.
"I thought about it all night yesterday, and finally came up with a good idea, I plan to let Shuang'er worship Qian Bo as a teacher and learn some fist and foot kung fu from him......" Du Xiancheng smiled and sat down beside Fang Yuniang, holding his head with his hands, and looking at her next to the dresser.
Fang Yuniang's eyebrows were drawn with her hand paused, and she glanced back at Du Xiancheng, and her bright pupils made Du Xiancheng's heart tremble.
"You're messing around again. Girl's family, learn what to fight and kill. If it is peaceful today, you have a shop and an official body, our daughter, where do you need to learn those fists and feet like those girls who go to the rivers and lakes to show their skills? What should I do if my hands are rough? Fang Yuniang twisted her body, disagreeing with Du Xiancheng's proposal.
Du Xiancheng didn't expect Fang Yuniang to oppose his proposal, and hurriedly said: "I'm worried that Shuang'er will be bullied in the future and can't protect herself." ”
Fang Yuniang couldn't help laughing, her jade pipe-like green jade fingers stretched out, and nodded a little to Du Xiancheng's forehead, "You are also a member of the rich family, your daughter, even if she is not the same as Sister Long said, if you want to be a lady, at least you have to look like a daughter, right?" After learning those fists and feet kung fu, you will do it with your husband at every turn in the future, are you really good for her? Or will it harm her? ”
Du Xiancheng hesitated again when he said this, "Then what should I do?" When I think of Long Qiuye, I'm really worried that I won't be able to sleep well. ”
Fang Yuniang put the charcoal back into her makeup box, took out the lip grease and dotted it on her lips, and then looked carefully in the mirror before closing the mirror box, turned back to Du Xiancheng and said: "Where are you not good at comparing, but you want to compare our daughter with Long Qiuye's indecent woman, isn't it boring?" You say, the children we raised will be as shallow as Long Qiuye? After speaking, Fang Yuniang thought of Long Xiangye again, and said with a smile: "It's really strange." Sister Long and her sister Long Qiuye were born to the same parents, but they are like two people who are not related. Although Sister Long is a little pedantic, her bearing is there, and she really doesn't look like a concubine from Long Xiucai's family. Long Qiuye is the kind of concubine that can be raised by the Long family. ”
Long Xiucai's family was originally a well-off family, but they couldn't stand Long Xiucai's lustfulness, because the original main room could not give birth to a son, and several concubines were accepted, and only Long Xiangye and Long Qiuye's biological mother gave birth to a son to inherit the incense.
Of course, such a family is not very wealthy.
"Sister Long told me that daughters must be rich and sons must be poor in order to have a great future. I listened to it, and then thought about what happened to Long Qiuye, and I thought it made sense. Our rich daughter will definitely not be seduced by some stinky boys' petty profits in the future and do such unreliable things. Besides, her daughter is rich, and her bearing must be no worse than that of everyone's ladies. Therefore, I specially entrusted my eldest sister to help Shuang'er find this adoptive mother who came out of a big family, and promised her an offering of 1,000 taels of silver a year. Fang Yuniang said mysteriously.
Du Xiancheng almost jumped up when he heard this, "One thousand taels of silver a year?" Could it be that she is the adoptive mother from the queen's mother's family? Do you know that the big shopkeeper in my shop, the annual dividend is only 1,000 taels of silver! ”
Fang Yuniang slapped her palms and smiled, "It's not from the queen's mother's family, it's from the queen mother's family!" ”
"What?!" Du Xiancheng was surprised, "Tell me quickly, what's going on?" ”
Fang Yuniang explained to him carefully, "This adoptive mother said that her surname was Ou, and everyone called her Ou's mother, in fact, she was surnamed Ouyang, and it was said that she was the son of the Ouyang family, and her ancestors made great contributions to the Ouyang family, so she gave her the surname Ouyang." She died of a man and didn't want to remarry, so she let the wind out, saying that she wanted to be a foster mother for the little lady of a rich family. My sister happened to know that I was looking for a mother for Shuang'er, so she told me once, saying that because her asking price was too high, most people couldn't afford it, and if she could afford it, it was a noble family, and everyone had a family with children, so she couldn't go up or down, and she never found a suitable family. ”
Du Xiancheng suddenly realized, "If she is really from the Ouyang family, this price is not expensive at all." ”
The Ouyang family, but a real wealthy family, is one of the wealthy families in Guanlong, and it is a famous queen family.
In the previous dynasty, the Ouyang family produced many queens. Now in the Great Zhou Dynasty, the first queen and the current first queen mother Ouyang is also from the Ouyang family. The daughter of her brother-in-law is Ouyang Zi, who married Qi Boshi, the Duke of Qi, as the original match. In the palace, Emperor Dezhen took the opportunity of hiring a noble girl into the palace as a concubine, and included two concubines of the Ouyang family into the palace and named them concubines and concubines.
The adoptive mother who came out of such a family really had nowhere to find the silver.
If it weren't for Ou's mother who has been incognito, she wouldn't have let the Du family hold a hot fried dump in her cold hands.
"That's good! It turns out that you have already arranged it! Du Xiancheng was very happy, and immediately ordered someone to call Ou's mother over to talk.
Ou's mother came over with Du Hengshuang, who was dressed in new clothes, and saluted Du Xiancheng and Fang Yuniang.
Du Xiancheng saw his Yuxue's lovely daughter holding a little fat hand to give him a blessing gift, and his mouth was crooked in distress, so he hurriedly picked her up from the ground and asked her repeatedly: "Why did you get up so early?" Cold or not? Hungry or not? Did you have breakfast? ”
Du Hengshuang's voice was crisp with a child's voice, "It's not early, Ou's mother said, you have to get up early in the future." It's not cold, Ou's mother wore a fox fur jacket and a skirt. Just had breakfast. Have you eaten it? ”
Be clear and methodical in your answers.
Du Xiancheng praised again and again, "My daughter is really smart. At only two and a half years old, he speaks more methodically than many adults. Come, Daddy will give you a silver ticket. As he spoke, he took out a silver ticket from his sleeve pocket, and without looking at it, he stuffed it into Du Hengshuang's hand.
Ou's mother coughed, curtsied, and said, "Master, the old body has some words, I don't know if to say it or not?" "Ou's mother is an adoptive mother who is hired with a lot of money, not a subordinate who has signed a deed of sale, so she does not call herself a slave.
If someone else said this, Du Xiancheng would definitely roll his eyes and answer impatiently, "If you don't know if you should talk about it, don't talk about it." - Wait until you understand before you speak. ”
But when it came to Ou's mother, he didn't dare to slack off at all, and was busy with some respect, and said in a deep voice: "Ou's mother, please speak." ”
Ou's mother was very satisfied with Du Xiancheng's attitude, stepped forward, took out the silver ticket from Du Hengshuang's hand, and put it back in Du Xiancheng's hand, "The first thing is what the old man wants to say to the master, don't mention these money and silver to the eldest lady in the future." - Everyone is beautiful, even if they know the importance of money and silver, they don't put it in their mouths all day long, carry it in their hands, and put it in their hearts. You can only see silver in your eyes, but you only know how to calculate silver in your heart, and you will fall into the inferior. Not to mention the girls of wealthy families, even if they are ordinary scholarly families, they will not raise their daughters like this. Unless the poor family wants to sell their daughter, they will pay less. ”