Chapter 34: Bait
Seeing Tan Sally's curiosity, she instructed Qingke to pour her a lamp as well, and introduced: "Miss Tan try it, this is Taiji Cui Luo."
This kind of discourse casually reveals a trace of intimacy but also noble and noble posture, no matter what the occasion can be handled at the right time, as well as the graceful and elegant demeanor between the words, the demeanor between the clouds, both the elegance of the famous lady, and the grace of the Wei and Jin celebrities. The kind of demeanor and self-cultivation that was soaked in the blood and bones from the moment Tan Sha Lifu met and made people feel ashamed of themselves.
Although Tan Sally felt that her family background was prominent, she was taught by a famous teacher at an early age, and she went to the best girls' school when she was a teenager, but in front of Chen Xi's wife, she felt that she didn't know how to put her hands and feet.
Probably only her background can be compared with the Zhou family in southern Yunnan.
Thinking of Chang'e's comments on the Zhou family, Tan Sally suddenly felt like a knife.
Mrs. Chen Shao is right, even if her father is in power and has a good word in Yunnan, if it weren't for his father's hard work for this marriage, it would never be possible to marry into the Zhou family as her sister.
Taking in Tan Sali's changing face, Auntie continued in a gentle voice: "This was a few years ago, one of my aunts married into the Li family in Shaoxing, the Li family is a famous local family in Shaoxing, and our Cui family is the right family, and the aunt has always been deeply respected by the Li family when she married in the past. It's just that the clan aunt is not in good health, and she died after only five years of marriage, leaving only a four-year-old daughter. The son of the Li family was afraid that his daughter would have no one to raise him, so he married a new lady after a year of filial piety. The new lady came from a small family, had a sweet face and a bitter heart, and did not understand how precious the status of the eldest daughter of a family like us was, and spoiled my cousin to be lawless, not only with vulgar language, but also with a violent temperament, and abused her subordinates if she did not like her, and when she was twenty years old, there was still no one to propose marriage. My uncle and grandmother have always been concerned about this granddaughter, but the distance between the north and the south is too far for the whip to be long, and it is also my cousin's delay in getting married that my uncle and grandmother noticed that something was wrong, and secretly sent a servant to live near Li's house for a month, and inquired in private, so that the truth of the matter was pieced together. It turned out that my cousin's stepmother had always seen the daughter left by the original partner as an eyesore, especially after she also gave birth to a girl, and tried her best to lead her cousin to the wrong place. When my uncle and grandmother received the news from the servant, they were so angry that they immediately ordered someone to take my cousin back to Cui's house. It's a pity that my cousin's temperament has been raised, and my uncle and grandmother tried their best to do anything about this granddaughter, and over time she died. Therefore, in this world, even if it is as close as flesh and bones, it is unreliable, ten fingers are long, and people's hearts are long. ”
Her lips moved slightly, and she gently blew the tea leaves in the cup.
"It is already difficult for a woman to survive, and if she can't stand up again, she will be like duckweed in the water, and she can only go with the flow. It is said that marrying someone is a woman's second reincarnation, and Tan Dashuai must think the same way. Your Tan family is the emperor of Yunnan, and there are three jade mines in Myanmar, and Tan Dashuai has generously accompanied a jade mine in order for this concubine to marry into the Zhou family smoothly. Miss Tan admired the young marshal, and when the family proposed to cooperate with the Tan family to mine the mine, the conditions offered were very generous, but Ling Zun refused without turning around. As the old saying goes, getting married is the best way to marry both sexes. Miss Tan, if you are a family man, can you ask such a helpless daughter-in-law to enter the door. ”
"I don't know anything about our family, how can you know so much detail?!"
Nie'e's words were like thunder, and Tan Sally's head was buzzing, and she instinctively looked at Chen Xi for help, and a pair of wet eyes wanted to speak...... Isn't it...... Is it true that as Chen Xi's wife said, she once really had the opportunity to marry into the Chen family, but because her father, who has always doted on her, was reluctant to give up the money, the Chen family refused? ! There was a bit of pity in that contemptuous attitude, which made Tan Salie's pasty head convinced.
Since Chen Xi proposed to his father that he wanted to marry the eldest lady of the Cui family in Wancheng, his father, who had always admired the Cui family, the spiritual leader of the Northland literati, immediately stood on his side, and immediately left the Tan family behind, and helped himself to treat the Cui family with both soft and hard, and was bound to marry the eldest lady of the Cui family.
Chen Xi didn't believe that Chang'e would not know about the marriage with the Cui family, but it was just that his father doted on him in order to fulfill his infatuation.
What is the purpose of saying this?
Chen Xi would never dismantle Xi'e's platform in front of outsiders, he retracted his thoughts and nodded to Tan Sally casually, which was regarded as affirming Xi'e's statement.
Tan Sally couldn't help crying, as if in this way, she could vent all the grievances and resentments in her heart! She still doesn't know why her father did this to her.
Aren't she and her eldest brother their father's sons and daughters?!
Unexpectedly, a beautiful and gentle face appeared in Tan Sally's mind, the woman always lowered her head, always respectful to her eldest brother and herself, seemed to be knowledgeable, did not fight or grab, and always stood quietly behind several aunts and wives, the face in that memory has never aged with time, and the tame eyebrows and eyes have never become arrogant with time, silently, gently and quietly, hidden in the corner and silently watching everyone. Fourth aunt too! Sally Tam had never found this woman scary, and now that she looks back, she is like a ghost hiding in the shadows, revealing her hideous fangs at any point, which makes people shudder.
Sally Tam shook her body.
Seeing this, the smile was hidden on her lips, and she intimately handed over a snow-white silk handkerchief, and a lively kitten was embroidered on the corner of the handkerchief, squinting and lying in the sun in a cluster of peony flowers.
Tan Sally took the delicate embroidered handkerchief from her hand and wiped her eyes carelessly.
Chang'e sighed, her eyes helplessly as if she was looking at an ignorant child: "Miss Tan, a foolish person like you, I don't know what to say about you." Emerald eyebrows were raised, and a pair of eyes as soft as spring water fell on the ice and snow in an instant, and the awe-inspiring look frightened Tan Sally, who was crying silently.
"Since I am going to marry into the Chen family, how can my mother's family not inquire about my future aunt clearly? Our Cui family's Yipin Pavilion has a semicolon in the north and south of the twenty-two provinces, and the Chen family almost became intimates with the Tan family, so of course the Cui family has to inquire about the affairs of the Tan family. "Auntie's words can be regarded as explaining the reason why she can know everything about the Tan family's family affairs.
"Miss Tan, in my opinion, this smart person has always sounded the drum without a heavy hammer, and it is easy to penetrate at one point; This stupid person, even if you pierce the window paper for her, she can close her eyes and think of herself as a blind person, cover her ears and think of herself as a deaf person. If Miss Tan is unwilling to be deaf and blind, and doesn't want to be deceived and manipulated anymore, I can help you analyze your situation. ”
Tan Sally, who forced herself to calm down, wiped her eyes that were constantly overflowing with tears with a handkerchief, and wiped the corners of her eyes red with great strength: "I want to know why, why did my father do this to me!" Madame, please. ”
Seeing that the fish swallowed the fragrant bait, Chang'e unhurriedly put away the fishing line: "Miss Tan's biological mother is the daughter of the Duan family of Yunnan Tusi, which is right." At that time, your father had not yet made a fortune, and your maternal grandfather had the insight to marry his only beloved daughter, so that the Tan family is rich today.
Before your father married your mother, he had a cousin who was a childhood sweetheart, who was the biological mother of your father's later fourth aunt, second son and third lady. Speaking of which, there is a very interesting thing, obviously after marrying your mother, Tan Dashuai took two more concubines, but after the fourth aunt gave birth to the second son of the Tan family, the remaining two aunts became pregnant one after another. Miss Tan, don't you think this is interesting? ”
Without waiting for Tan Sally to think, she continued: "The eldest son of the Tan family and Miss Tan, your mother's compatriots, are both from the main family, their identities are both long, and they have the blood of the Duan family.
If Tan Dashuai wants his eldest son to have a stable position, he will definitely choose a wife for the eldest son in the local famous family. But Tan Dagongzi married a girl from a small family, and Tan Dashuai not only did not stop him, but also told the second son about the marriage that he was originally going to say to his eldest son.
Miss Tan, I know that the relationship between you and your sister-in-law is on the same page, but have you ever thought about how this girl who made Brother Ling who made Brother Ling not marry her would appear so coincidentally, Brother Ling was just about to discuss marriage with the He family, and she came out? !
Duan He's two families are both deeply entrenched in Yunnan, there is the Duan family behind Tan Dagongzi, and there is a family behind Tan Ergongzi, one is the mother family, and the other is the wife family, which happens to be divided into courts. Back then, if the Tan family and the Chen family became in-laws, the eldest son of Tan would have the Chen family as a strong support, and he would be able to crush this cousin into the mud.
Tan Dashuai was even more reluctant to be wronged by the second son, not only did he not take the olive branch thrown by the Chen family, but also married the third lady who was a fellow mother of the second son to the famous Zhou family, and did not hesitate to build a jade mine for this purpose, presumably in order to add another weight to the second son that can completely tilt the scales, Miss Tan, I am not alarmist, in my opinion, your brother will ...... in the future. Dangerous. ”
When she said this, her star-studded eyes brought out a touch of contempt: "Speaking of which, I'm going to talk about you, Miss Tan, your sibling brother is in a difficult situation, his status is in danger, but you yourself are still only concerned about running behind the man, I don't know, are you really big-hearted or really ruthless?"