Chapter 742: Flexibility Conquers Rigidity
Hearing that this woman was so rude, Yuquan and Mother Li, who had been following her and Jiuniang and Wu, rushed forward almost at the same time and stopped the woman and the other three daughters. The rest of the servants and palace people reacted at this time, and their actions of rushing forward were much more rude, and they cut their arms and knelt on the ground without even thinking about it.
And Mother Li turned around and knelt down to salute in fear: "The Queen Mother, the people below don't know anything, and they haven't cleaned up the idle people in this new house!" ”
That woman was Zhu Tingfang's maternal uncle Qin, when she was taken down and knelt on the ground, she was ashamed and angry and wanted to scold, but when she heard Mother Li's voice as the queen mother, and said that she was an idle person, she was like being splashed on the head by a basin of ice water, and the whole person was about to freeze!
She saw that the old woman at the head was not young, but she was dressed simply, and she did not wear a crown like Xiaozhu Qingyun Crown on her head, she was definitely not from a wealthy family, and the dress of the Wu family, who supported people, was not as good as her, Jiuniang was just one step behind, she didn't see it clearly, so she was dizzy for a while in anger, who would have thought that she would actually collide with the Queen Mother!
The Qin family was still shocked, and the daughter-in-law and two daughters behind her were even more frightened, not to mention talking, they didn't even dare to move or raise their heads, but they couldn't help complaining and even cursing the Qin family in their hearts. I'm used to being the master at home, but I'm still so arrogant when I go to this Zhao Guogong Mansion, isn't this causing trouble?
"There is really no reason in this world that wealth does not recognize relatives, but the premise is that the so-called relatives need to be sensible."
When the Queen Mother said this sentence leisurely, Zhu Ying happened to come out of the main room when she heard the sound. As soon as she saw this scene before meeting, she was stunned at first, and then rushed forward with joy, and when she saw Jiu Niang smiling and letting go of her seat, she nodded to Wu first, and then took advantage of the situation to hold the queen mother's arm and coquettishly.
"Queen Mother, it turns out that you are here! This is a big surprise, I have always entered the palace before, and you didn't tell me in advance! You see, the eldest brother's marriage has been talked about since it was decided, and until today, there are still some world friends and relatives to compose the score! If I knew you were coming, who would dare to be so rude! ”
While she said, she didn't look at the Qin family underground, and directly invited the queen mother into the room, but looked at the Wu family on the side and said, "Aunt Wu, you haven't seen my sister-in-law yet, right?" In the future, we will all be a family, and we will see each other together now. She's not like me, she's gentle and demure, well, she's just too good-tempered, so she was bullied just now......"
The Qin family and their daughter-in-law, who were kneeling on the ground, were almost out of breath. What is gentleness and gentleness...... Does Zhu Ying have any misunderstanding of the word gentle and demure? Just now, the Zhang family smiled on his face, his mouth was gentle, but in fact, he had the attitude of hiding a knife in his words, she was simply a woman with a black heart and black lungs!
In the end, it is the daughter of Wei Nanbo, a rude and unliterate northern barbarian!
However, they didn't dare to say anything even if they had more complaints, so they could only watch the Queen Mother, Zhu Ying and the Wu family disappear into the door. When the person who had just twisted their arms finally let go, and when the four of them finally straightened up and raised their heads, what they saw was Jiu Niang's face with a faint smile.
They have always felt that their aunt and grandmother Mrs. Deng went early, which will be cheaper Jiuniang, and even cheaper Zhu Ying, who is now favored and favored, and now that she has experienced the scene just now, it is even more angry. But Jiu Niang's next words blocked all their words in their throats.
"The Queen Mother is here today, only talking about the family ceremony, not the national ceremony, so even if you are rude just now, the Queen Mother will also look at the face of her relatives and forgive. The premise is that you know how to be sensible relatives. Da Lang has a bright future, and his temperament of not rubbing sand in his eyes is also famous in the whole capital, don't mistake him. ”
Seeing that Qin's color changed suddenly, after struggling to stand up, he dragged up his two unmarried daughters and ran away, and his daughter-in-law was stunned for a moment before she hurriedly got up to follow, and Jiu Niang entered the house unhurriedly.
She wasn't worried that what she had just said would be heard by others, and what would happen to the ears of relevant people everywhere - she had been absent from the mansion for so many years, and no one had stopped Zhu Tingfang's brother from coming and going with his biological mother, Mrs. Deng's maiden family, but those people couldn't support the wall in the mud, let alone Zhu Tingfang, even Zhu Er had long been disappointed in them, and there was almost no love left on weekdays.
And although Mrs. Tai used to blame her for being stubborn, she no longer has a problem with her, as for Zhu Jing...... He is naturally unforgettable to Mrs. Deng, but that is his affection for Mrs. Deng, not for the Deng family. What she said just now, these people are okay to listen to it, at least they can live in peace in the future, if they don't listen, the Deng family's way in officialdom will be extinct.
And the Queen Mother also heard the admonition of Jiuniang to those women outside, but at this moment, she didn't bother to pay attention to this. Because at this moment, she saw the Zhang family who came forward and bowed down.
Although Zhang Kang, the uncle of Weinan, was promoted by the first emperor Ruizong, and the emperor has always trusted people, but the Zhang family members are not diligent in walking around the harem, and the Zhang family is a concubine, although she said that she met Zhu Tingfang once after the marriage, she did not ask too much. After all, children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, and since everyone in the Zhu family recognizes it, she has no intention of managing too much.
However, after the death of the abolition, the "death" of the eldest prince and the second prince, there was originally only one son left, but her grandchildren were barely full, and at the same time, she couldn't help but feel sad at the same time, and decided to go out of the palace in person today to take a look.
For her, this kind of impromptu intention was very rare, and even she felt a little ridiculous when she got off the bus at Zhao Guogong's mansion. She always accused the emperor of wearing a white dragon fish suit and mixing with the people, but today she is even more excessive than the emperor!
The Queen Mother bowed slightly, and when Zhang, who was dressed in a big red dress, got up, she looked at the person for a moment, and then asked a few words casually. This is different from the last time she summoned people, that time Zhang was obviously cautious and restrained, but at this time he seemed to be down-to-earth and generous, as if when there were many people, it made him feel a little more confident.
Even when it comes to the Qin family, who just left in embarrassment, Zhang's words are also very calm: "It's just because the difference between the two families is getting bigger and bigger, and the uncle is frustrated in officialdom, so he came over to provoke in a hurry, which is human nature." I didn't suffer, not to mention that my sister helped me wholeheartedly. ”
Zhu Ying suddenly smiled and her eyebrows crooked: "Forget these people." Before, my sister-in-law faced two talented girls who ran to the study to ask her to evaluate the poems, and it was interesting to deal with them. ”
She told them very earnestly that she didn't know how to write poetry. When they were sneering, she said that when she was still in the boudoir before she got married, of course she could play piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine and tea, but since she was married to a wife, she should take care of firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea first. ”
However, among the dowries she married, there was a set of "Quantang Poems" that she had hand-copied since she was a child, and Grandpa Taizu personally took the president and ordered Hanlin Cichen to compile "All Tang Poems", and asked them if they wanted to read it. The two also confidently said that there was no Tang poem that she hadn't read, but as a result, the sister-in-law casually recited an extremely out-of-the-way poem, and she was dumbfounded! My sister-in-law lied to me before that I didn't read much...... What about liars! ”
Hearing this, even the Queen Mother couldn't help but be surprised: "The "All Tang Poems" that Emperor Taizu asked people to compile? I heard that there are more than 40,000 songs, millions of words, have you really copied them by hand? ”
"Actually, I didn't copy it all," Zhang smiled embarrassedly, "Daddy was born in the north in the past, and later returned to the first emperor Ruizong, so he didn't have a chance to read any books, and later took charge of the Ordnance Bureau, that is, he just read some books on military strategy." He heard that Grandpa Taizu once claimed that there is nothing more beautiful in the world than Tang poetry, so he simply spent a huge amount of money to buy a set of 900 volumes of "All Tang Poems" hidden in the library at home. ”
"That's not all, he also made us copy word for word from the age of six, and we copied as much as we copied, but the more we copied, the more we copied, the prize. Boys are rewarded with weapons, and girls are rewarded with beautiful clothes and jewelry. In this way, it is natural that everyone is full of energy to copy. ”
"But it's easy for a day or two, it's easy for a month or two, it's hard to stick to it for a year or two. Later, my brothers and sisters secretly asked their subordinates to copy or sent them out for outsiders to copy, but my father knew that no one dared to cheat anymore after being beaten half to death with a stick. ”
"So, over the years, I was the only one who persevered. The right to read and read, adjust the day, that's also good. However, I copied 200 volumes, less than a quarter. However, by copying books, I was lucky enough to memorize some very unpopular poems, but I just memorized them, and I didn't understand their meaning. ”
Although Zhang said modestly, the Queen Mother knew very well what the so-called two hundred volumes meant. Because that means tens of thousands of poems! "All Tang Poems" is not all short and concise five-word and seven-character quatrains, in addition to the poems and Yuefu poems, there are also longer hundreds of words of ancient poems, if you copy hundreds of volumes, how many words do you have to copy every day? If you don't say it, it will take hundreds or thousands of words!
And Jiuniang couldn't help but take a breath softly, but she only heard Zhang's wry smile and said: "My father told us that in order to train their children, the real scholarly family often lets them copy books from an early age, which is better than inviting Mr. to come back and teach us to read." I stupidly believed him, but later he proudly said that there were many children in the family, and copying books would save trouble. ”
He said that eight or nine-year-old children running around all over the ground are disgusted with dogs and are the most naughty. If you don't know how to copy a book, it's empty, or just ask Mr., but where did he think, we knew how to write at the age of six or seven, and then began to copy poems, and we didn't recognize more than half a word of a poem, and the gentlemen invited by the family almost annoyed us to death. Therefore, my Mr. Xixi, that is the fastest change in the whole capital. ”
"Later, when the word spread, it became that our family was born as a barbarian, and we didn't know how to respect teachers."
When he said this, Zhang's expression was very calm, and he did not shy away from his origin. After all, she firmly remembered Daddy's words, her background is not something that can be changed because of her title, instead of whispering to please those who look down on her family, it is better to make it clear in a big way, if anyone still interacts with you without care, that is the person who is really worth befriending.
At the end, she smiled, and showed that extremely playful single dimple on her face: "So, my dowry has a lot more because of these books, and it looks extraordinarily beautiful, which can be regarded as an unexpected joy." ”
These words finally amused both the Queen Mother and the Wu family. The queen mother had heard that the Zhang family had a lot of dowry, and the dowry team at that time was two miles long, and the onlookers said that they couldn't imagine that Wei Nanbo was so rich, and there were quite a lot of noble families who added makeup, which gave the Zhang family enough face. It's just that I didn't expect that ten or twenty of them were all "All Tang Poems" copied by Zhang......
And the Wu family couldn't imagine that the daughter of the Zhang family's dignified earl was so attentive, and couldn't help sighing: "No wonder my lady...... Even when Ah Shou's mother was still alive, she often said that as long as the kung fu is deep, the iron pestle is sharpened into a needle. Ah Shou is good at everything, but he can't practice his handwriting well, and I can't supervise it effectively, Yingying in the future, you have to urge him to practice more words, even if it's copying books. ”
Zhu Ying didn't expect that the Wu family would be one and the other, and suddenly thought of Zhang Shou, but thinking about Zhang Shou is indeed good at everything, but she can't see people with that handwriting, so she hesitated for a moment, and finally said in a low voice: "Ah Shou is because he is too busy, so he doesn't have time to practice calligraphy...... It's a big deal, he'll draft it, I'll copy it, and that's it. ”
Well, her other words are not as good as Zhang Shou, but her handwriting can be better than his!
Zhang has long heard that although Zhu Ying and Zhang Shou are just making a marriage contract, the relationship between the two is so good that they are like honey blending oil, and they often go in and out of pairs. She always felt that the rumors were exaggerated in the past, but now that she heard that Wu's de facto mother-in-law said so, Zhu Ying was still so partial to Zhang Shou, and even she couldn't help but be envious.
Of course, it is Zhang Shou who is envious...... can make the most famous daughter in the capital so preferenced, what more can the husband ask for?
"Yingying, you!" Even the Queen Mother couldn't help but point her finger at Zhu Ying, "Your mother-in-law has already said so, you are still reluctant to make him tired a little, let me tell you what is good." ”
Seeing Zhu Ying pursing her lips and smiling, she just didn't want to change her words, and the Queen Mother didn't bother to force her, but her eyes looked at Zhang's eyes a little more excited. Because the Zhang family did not publicize this matter before, and did not know that she, the queen mother, would come tonight, it was enough to see Neixiu, so she nodded and said: "Your father asked you to copy the book, although it is a bit of a trick, but it is really not easy for you to persevere." ”
"I am here today as a relative and elder of the Zhu family, but I am not pointing fingers as the queen mother, so there are no valuable rewards, only gifts from elders."
Speaking of this, she took off a bracelet from her wrist and directly motioned for Zhang to stretch out her hand. When the person stretched out her slender right hand in some trepidation, she gently turned the glossy bracelet and patiently put it on, and then smiled.
"It's not something precious, it's just something that I've been carrying around for years and wearing it for years. Your husband is an assertive man, but he is not a man of his own words. I just hope you don't dislike him for being cold. You know, soft can overcome rigidity, just look at Yingying. "But Zhu Ying is reversed, in the past, she was a hundred steels, but when she met Zhang Shou, she became a finger twister!
Zhang only felt grateful and frightened in his heart, and hurriedly stepped back and saluted: "The Queen Mother is serious, ten years of cultivation can be crossed in the same boat, and a hundred years of cultivation can be spent sleeping together." I can marry the eldest daughter-in-law of the Zhu family of the Zhao Guogong Mansion, who has always been strict, and the husband is young and promising. As long as I am sincere, I will definitely be in harmony with my husband. ”