Chapter 20: Conspiracy
"Big brother!" Wu Yuanshuang's eyes flashed with a glimmer of light, he stood up with a little bitterness, and said slowly: "Big brother, my father is just our two sons, and now that the emperor is coming, he thinks of the old relationship with his father, so he proposes to choose the heir of the martial family to be an attendant by his side." But if the eldest brother, you, don't take the lead... Daddy's side is not happy in the first place, let alone Your Majesty? “
Wu Yuanshuang, who was the son of the world, also sat upright, rubbed his temples anxiously with his middle finger, and the ink-stained calligraphy also added a little annoyance, and threw it to the ground angrily, beckoned to his second brother, motioned for him to come over, and whispered: "Good brother, our two brothers have the most ghost ideas for you... When I came to visit Ningxiang Pavilion, those sisters also liked to look for you... As a brother, as the son of the country, why did he become popular with any birds? Why... Brother, are you going to the emperor's side? ”
Wu Yuanshuang rolled his eyes secretly, and wanted to spit on his brother's face, hello Chang'an's prosperity, why should I be a servant? Being a young master at home, opening his mouth every day for clothes and stretching out his hands for food, this is much better than being a waiter!
A sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he pursed his thin lips, "Why does the eldest brother stick to you and my brothers?" Don't our mothers still have children? That's also the son of the samurai family! ”
"Fourth sister?" Wu Yuanqing frowned, glanced at Wu Yuanshuang, and said angrily: "If you don't want to help your brother, just say it, don't prevaricate with the fourth sister, how old is the fourth sister, and a three-year-old girl can be chosen?" If we accidentally make a crime of deception, our martial artist..."
"Huh!" Wu Yuanshuang sneered a few times, leaned over and stabbed the ground with his eyes like poisonous snakes, and after a while, the chill on his face gradually disappeared, and he persuaded in a soft voice: "Big brother, you shouldn't know, the current Yingguo Mansion may not be able to make up a thousand yuan!" A thousand? On weekdays, there is more than this grease between your fingers! ”
"Brother, to maintain a life of luxury, these are the only things..."
Wu Yuanshuang pointed to the messy table, the pen, ink, paper and inkstone were placed in a mess, and a delicate Mao Xuan Analects was also quite new, and there were three or four small pictures of the Spring Palace hidden underneath, with exquisite painting skills and lifelike.
"Tsk, this is the pear of Ningxiang Pavilion, I heard that the eldest brother smashed down three hundred yuan to charter her, if it was the former martial arts, just by virtue of the name of Ying Guogong, it would be worth a thousand gold, but it's hard to say now, maybe tomorrow it will be listed in Ningxiang Pavilion."
"You're talking nonsense." Wu Yuanqing's face turned red, and he hastily put the Spring Palace Diagram in his sleeve in anger, and after a while, he gritted his teeth and asked, "Second brother, what should you do?" ”
"Dowry!" Wu Yuanshuang was a little excited in his words, "The Yang family has always felt sorry for his dowry, but there are many curiosities in it, and dozens of mahogany boxes are worth at least 10,000 yuan!" But the fourth sister... is still young, if there is no such thing as the emperor's grace, it will not be able to get it, but... If you are a monk, then you don't belong to the martial family. ”
"This is a double thing, you and my brother don't have to be tired and tired to be an attendant, and they also get a dowry..."
Wu Yuanqing was also moved in his heart when he heard this, Wanguan family wealth saved flowers, and clamped between his fingers, such a luxurious life was really intoxicating.
The two planned for a long time and finally finalized the plan.
"I've seen Madame below." Steward Wang's high-pitched voice sounded, and the two martial arts brothers in the house panicked in their hearts, and hurriedly cleaned up the messy things in the room, and then walked to the door to greet the Yang family.
"Steward Wang, why are you in the inner courtyard? According to the family rules, the housekeeper is not allowed to enter the inner courtyard without a communication, Mrs. Ben is not mistaken, right? Yang's pretty face was tense, and his face was like frost, but he said it softly and softly, without a sense of stiffness.
Steward Wang bent down slightly, gave a salute neither humble nor arrogant, and said indifferently: "Madame is very strict in management, I came to see two nephews, do you want to pass it on to you?" ”
Yang's brows furrowed, and he was about to ask angrily, but who expected the Wang housekeeper to say lightly: "I really think I am a lady, and a certain sister is a righteous lady who is named a third-grade lady, and besides, this family is managed by the master, and the master has something important to inform you that a woman is not a woman?" ”
"You!" Yang was speechless angrily, and a large number of people behind him were silent, and they didn't dare to rush up and say something.
Because Steward Wang told the truth, after the death of Wu Shitong's previous wife Wang, the court posthumously awarded the title of Sanpin Lady and Mrs. Haoming, and although she is the main house, it is a continuation, and the court is of course not obliged to divide it again. Therefore, the Yang family is just a white body, and calling himself a lady is a bit unrecognizable.
Just like the landlord in the countryside, not everyone is qualified to be called the master, generally speaking, for the benefit of the township, to be respected, and then to be honored as a lord, otherwise why should others lower their ranks? Just use the name of the proprietor.
And the system of Mrs. Hao's life began in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the "Chinese" said: "Ordered women, become sacrificial clothes." "The 'life woman' of the Spring and Autumn Period enjoys the right to sacrifice, but there is no grade.
In the Tang Dynasty, Mrs. Haoming, who gradually resembled the rank of palace concubines, was released, and generally only rewarded high-ranking officials or courtiers with great merits, and more often posthumously.
For example, Mrs. Haoming in the Ming Dynasty, legally only one or two products are qualified to be called a mouthful of 'Mrs.', and the others are more secularized titles.
"Steward Wang? What did the old man say? Bothering your old man? The Yang family gritted her teeth and said hatefully, as a royal daughter, she had never suffered such a great shame, and in her heart, she looked down on such a merchant and a high-ranking family.
"Mother, it's not a big deal, it's just that Your Majesty wants to choose a few people to be his attendants, and my father likes my two brothers and asks for this good job." Wu Yuanqing walked out with a smile, shaking the folding fan in his hand, quite a bit of a son's style, but the frivolity between the lines and stops made the Yang family a little disgusted.
"If that's the case, it's Mrs. Ben who misunderstood Steward Wang." After Yang said that, he turned around and prepared to go home, today's words have suffered a defeat, and they have already lost face, and if they continue to entangle, their prestige among the people will really be gone.
But who would have expected that Wu Yuanshuang came out and stopped the Yang family with his hand, and said with a smile: "Mother, why do you have to leave in a hurry?" The father said that the attendants who elected the emperor this time were selected from among the heirs of the martial family, and the fourth sister was also the daughter of her father, so she should go with a certain brother. ”
"You also know that your fourth sister is a daughter's family, not to mention that she is only three years old, what is the meaning of going?" Yang waved his hand and said angrily.
"Definitely! Definitely! Father said that the heir of the martial arts family must have been ordered by the emperor, if the third sister is here, our brothers will definitely want the third sister to go... Besides, it's just a formality, so why should my mother be angry. Wu Yuanqing said loudly.
"That's..."Yang looked at the daughter holding her hand, a little hesitant, but thinking that it was impossible for the Emperor Taishang to choose her, he let go of his heart and said softly to Wu Xu: "Go and play with your eldest brother for a while." ”
Wu Xu let go of Yang's hand, timidly walked to Wu Yuanqing's side, without saying a word, although they were brother and sister, the two had not had much intersection.