Chapter 23: The Concubine

Zhu Yi seems to be a lazy person. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

When he came to the Li family's mansion, every day he just played with the Li family's young people, sometimes rode out on horseback, indulged in the fun of mountains and rivers, and didn't know what the purpose of coming to Fujian was. During the orthodox years, it was a period of rapid changes in the social customs of the Ming Dynasty, with the accumulation of social wealth, the atmosphere of enjoyment flourished, and the teachings of Emperor Taizu were gradually forgotten by the court society. Li Hongyun is the son-in-law of the Li family, so the task of accompanying Zhu Yi to play fell on him, which aroused the envy of many people.

When the prince of Chengguo came to the Li family, the local prefect came to visit him once, and there was no difference from usual. Now that the uncle and the third uncle are not in Fujian, only his father Li Yan is still there, he is an official in the capital to Wupin, and he will return to Beijing in a few days, Zhu Yi seems to be on the road with his father.

But all this has nothing to do with Li Ting, Li Ting has never seen Zhu Yi since he met Zhu Yi once.

After a few days of calm, a big event happened at home.

"Second Young Master, Mrs. Li wants everyone in the family to go to her."

It was only when the lantern was in hand, Yuzhu hurriedly ran over and said this to Li Ting. Yuzhu came to him, Li Ting was not very strange, these days, whenever there is a ventilation message at home, Yuzhu will come to tell him, but this time Yuzhu's hurried appearance made Li Ting think that the matter was not small.

You must know that Zhu Yi is still in the Li Mansion, who is not cautious in words and deeds in the Li family at this juncture, and who dares to touch the old lady's head at this juncture?

Li Ting changed his clothes, got up and went on the road with Yuzhu, and asked Yuzhu about the specific situation on the way: "Yuzhu, do you know what your grandmother called everyone over?" ”

Yuzhu was instructed by the Lin clan to be responsible for contacting Li Ting, and he also had a good impression of Li Ting these days, and after listening to Li Ting's question, he immediately replied: "The slave doesn't know either, but I saw the eldest master come back today, I think it's because of the eldest master." ”

Uncle is back?

Li Ting's impression of the uncle is that the uncle often beats and scolds the subordinates in the family, and the uncle's mantra "damn minion" seems to be heard.

The old lady has a total of three sons, Li Kuan in the big room, Li Yan in the second room, Li Chen in the third room, and a daughter who has already married, and the marriages are all official eunuchs.

According to Li Ting's knowledge, Li Yan was an official in the capital, and the official was up to the fifth grade, and the uncle Li Kuan was in Nanjing, that is, Jinling, as everyone often said, was an official, and he also did the business of silk and satin shops, while the third uncle Li Chen was a sleek person, and traveled between Suzhou and Yang, buying goods from the southwest and Guangzhou, and doing some medicinal herb shop business.

Mrs. Li Yu Wei is still there, and her uncle and father are both officials in the court, so they have not yet separated from each other. The third uncle had already taken his wife and children out independently and settled in Suyang.

Li Ting recalled the uncle on the road, and as soon as he arrived at his grandmother's yard, he saw that almost all the people from the Li family had arrived, the uncle and the aunt, the Lin family and Aunt Du, and the maid steward, which seemed to be very lively.

Li Tingzheng was a little strange about what happened and walked into the house, but there was silence in the house, the uncle stood in front of his grandmother and bowed his head silently, and in front of the uncle stood a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy, who had been secretly looking at the people in the house. The only sound was the sobbing of the eldest aunt, and the Lin family was still comforting the eldest aunt Wang.

The silence in the room was terrifying, and Li Ting didn't dare to speak when he entered the door, but just raised his eyes and looked at the uncle secretly. I saw that the uncle was fat and looked like he had eaten a lot of wine and meat, which was completely different from his cousin Li Hongyun's book business, and the uncle's expression was very ashamed at this moment, and he didn't know what he had done to make his grandmother unhappy.

Li Xi'er smiled when she saw her second brother coming.

"Pan'er, call grandmother."

Finally, Uncle was the first to break the silence.

So the young man Li Pan, who was standing next to the uncle, no longer wandered his eyes, and immediately knelt down to salute Mrs. Li, and called his grandmother, the movements were very skillful, and he had practiced many times since he thought about it.

Hearing Li Pan's words, the eldest aunt sobbed even louder.

Li Ting saw this before he figured out what was going on, he couldn't help but look weird, he thought something was wrong, it turned out that the uncle brought an illegitimate child back, I had long heard that the uncle was romantic, and in the early years, he was secretly hooking up with his grandmother's maidservant, and he caused a lot of grievances and debts.

Li Hongyun and Li Erlan stood aside and looked at the extra brother for no reason. Li Hongyun's eyes flashed slightly, and he didn't say a word, but the hand behind his back was secretly clenched into a fist.

Mrs. Li's face has always been very bad, and at this moment she looked at Li Pan kneeling in front of her, who was her grandson, and finally said, "Get up." ”

"Thank you, grandmother." Li Pan stood up, not daring to say more, but his eyes looked around again.

The eldest aunt didn't wipe her tears and said: "Mother, everything has to be reasonable, if it is really the blood of the master, I will admit it, but now I don't know what the origin of this cheap seed is, whether it is born by the master needs to be clarified." Our Li family is a family with a head and a face, and it is not easy to say that there are people with a heart to covet our family's wealth. ”

After listening to the words of the eldest aunt, the uncle had already prepared his words: "Pan'er is indeed the son born to me and Xiuniang, and the son can be sure." Speaking of shame to my mother, when I was in Jinling, I took care of Pan'er and grew up, I didn't want to deceive my mother, but Xiuniang was a prostitute, after all, it was not a bright family, so I never dared to bring Pan'er to see my mother. ”

"You know the shame too? Do you want to say that if it weren't for Pan'er's age, she would continue to hide it? ”

Mrs. Li couldn't help but scold, and everyone was silent for a while. She usually pays the most attention to family style. The most disliked thing is the Qinglou woman, but she didn't want to beat her eldest son so disobediently, and she dared to hide it from her when she gave birth to a child with the Qinglou woman, it wouldn't sound good to say it, and I didn't know what rumors would spread outside, but Zhu Yi was still in the house at this time.

"Mother, dissipate your anger." Lin comforted him.

The uncle opened his mouth to argue, but after thinking about it, he finally didn't speak. In his opinion, his mother is making a big fuss, this is not a big deal at all, who is an official in a foreign place these years, and does not accept a concubine to have a child? So he thought it was a normal fact.

Mrs. Li barely calmed her breath, her face was full of disappointment with her eldest son, she waved her hand and said, "That's it, you are also old, I can't control you, you are the son-in-law of my Li family, Hongyun is the grandson of my Li family, I don't care what you make outside, but you should also be closer to your wife and son-in-law." ”

Uncle nodded yes, wishing it would be solved sooner.

This uncle is also the best, he is cold to his wife and sister-in-law, but he is extremely attentive to the warbler Yanyan outside. The relationship between the uncle and Li Pan seems to be very close, and he patted Li Pan on the shoulder in the past, and it was this scene that fell in Li Hongyun's eyes, making Li Hongyun unable to take his eyes off it.

Old Mrs. Li said again: "Okay, everyone remembers the new young master Li Pan here, it's not early, and it's all gone." ”

Li Ting looked at Li Pan, thinking that Li Pan was a concubine like him, and his concubine had always been different, and his mother was a Qinglou woman, so he was afraid that Mrs. Li didn't like it very much, but what does this matter have to do with him, as a lively look.

Seeing that everyone was leaving, Li Ting was also about to leave, but suddenly saw Li Hongyun standing still, and his eyes were full of gloom when he looked at the uncle.

Li Ting couldn't help but be surprised, and then thought that his uncle was an official outside, and he was so close to a concubine like Li Pan, and he had snubbed Li Hongyun for more than ten years, no wonder Li Hongyun was unbalanced in his heart. Thinking about it like this, Fang was relieved.

Everyone dispersed, Zhu Yi heard the news later in the residence, and did not say anything, too lazy to take care of the family affairs of the Li Mansion, and ordered the subordinates to turn off the lights and go to sleep.