Chapter 125: Death
The woman who came to the Marquis of Jining to deliver the message was in her forties, wearing a warbler's back-colored makeup gown, a gilded hairpin on her head, and a jasper bracelet on her hand.
Dou Zhao remembered her.
Her husband's surname is Jin, and everyone calls her Mama Jin, who is Wei Tingzhen's nurse and Wei Tingzhen's most trusted person.
In her previous life, she looked at Wei Tingyu's face and acted, and this life was naturally no exception.
Presumably this was Wei Tingzhen's idea!
Dou Zhao sneered, and he was even more polite when he spoke: "Marriage matters, the orders of parents, and the words of matchmakers." Didn't the Marquis of Jining invite a matchmaker to discuss with my father, but sent a subordinate to inform the elders of our family, could it be that I can't afford it? Or do you think that the women of our Dou family are unknowledgeable and weak and can be bullied? She loudly instructed Mama Liu, who accompanied Mama Jin to come over to greet her, "You go and sue the people of the Wei family, they are shameless, and our Dou family still has to marry a daughter-in-law, but we can't afford to lose this face!" They can tie it up if they want to, and if they don't want to tie it, they will return the jade pendant that my mother gave to Mrs. Hou, and from then on, men and women will marry irrelevantly. There is absolutely no reason to get married within 100 days! "I didn't even look at Mama Kim, as if there was no such thing in this house.
Mama Jin looked at it and her heart tightened.
The eldest grandmother was worried that Dou Shishu would enter the cabinet, and the identity and status of the Dou family would rise with the tide, and she was afraid that the fourth lady of the Dou family would marry Zhang Zuoqiao, so she proposed to marry in filial piety, but she didn't expect the fourth miss of the Dou family to be so spicy.
First, he sent a maid to the second wife to ask if the Wei family had come. Since she is on the right side, it is not good for her not to come to greet Miss Dou Si. But as soon as I entered the door, I didn't even have time to say a word. Miss Dou Si scolded her, which caught her off guard and put her in a dilemma.
Looking at the behavior of this Miss Dou Si, it is no wonder that the eldest grandmother is worried.
If you really get married. I'm afraid that even the big grandmother can't control it!
She couldn't help but say, "Fourth Miss misunderstood! Our wife and grandmother didn't mean to look down on the Dou family, but the Hou Ye was sick and the family was in chaos. I heard that Miss Fourth has a good name, so I want to marry Miss Fourth as soon as possible, invite Mrs. Feng for Miss Fourth as soon as possible, and hand over the affairs of the family to Miss Fourth as soon as possible. Our prince has no other brothers, and not all of this property is the prince's, and the expenses and chewing in this family are not worth the ...... of the prince and the fourth lady."
It's just that she didn't speak, and was interrupted by Dou Zhao disdainfully. "Who is this? How can you look like you can be the master of your own house? ”
Mama Jin had been slacked like this, her face turned red, and she explained: "The old surname is Jin, and she is the nurse of the grandmother of the Jingguo Mansion......"
It is precisely because of knowing that you have to be unforgiving, if it is someone else. I don't know her like her anymore.
If you hit a dog, it will naturally alarm the owner.
Dou Zhao snorted coldly, and said, "This is strange, why is the eldest grandmother of the Jingguo Mansion in charge of the affairs of the Jining Marquis Mansion?" What about the rules of the Marquis of Jining? Or the rules of the Jingguo Mansion? How come I've never heard of it? ”
This big hat was buttoned down, and Mama Jin was also a little unbearable. She argued: "Our grandmother is also a brother who cares about her mother......
Mama Liu can see clearly.
Miss Four, this is to give the Wei family a dismount!
Since Mama Jin was able to pass the word to the Dou family on the orders of the Wei family, whether it was from the Jining Hou Mansion or the Jingguo Mansion, they were all decent people in the Wei family, and the fourth lady would have to marry into the Jining Hou Mansion sooner or later. At first, she thought that Dou Zhao had attracted Mama Jin to entrap Mama Jin, but she didn't expect that the fourth lady didn't take the Wei family in her eyes at all.
That's fine. lest the Wei family still think that there is no one in the Dou family!
The result of filial piety is also due to them to figure it out.
Now that the fifth master has entered the cabinet, although he has gone to manage the criminal department, the fifth master has been an official in the ministry for many years, but his connections have not been broken. Whether the prince of the Marquis Mansion of Jining wants to inherit the title or find a better errand, he can't do without the support of the fifth master. Even if the fourth miss is a little more powerful, do they dare to give the fourth miss a bad look?
However, she really had no way to connect Dou Zhao, who was usually generous, with Dou Zhao, who was angry at this time, and was stunned for a long time before she came back to her senses, pretending to be deaf and dumb next to her without saying a word, and listened to Dou Zhao humiliate the golden grandmother fiercely, so she glanced at the maid who came with her, and motioned to the maid to find an excuse to call them away.
Those who can follow Mama Liu are naturally human spirits.
quietly retreated, walked around outside, and then hurriedly walked through the main courtyard with a look on his face, and asked Dou Zhao's maid to help pass it on: "The second lady still has something to ask the grandmother from the Wei family, and specially asked me to come over and ask the grandmother to come over and talk." ”
Mama Jin retreated in disgrace, pulled the little maid and asked, "I don't know if the second lady wants me to go over and talk?" ”
The little maid looked at Mama Liu and grinned.
Mama Liu smiled implicitly: "Mama Jin go to my place to rest!" After lunch, it's not too late to go and say hello to the second wife. ”
Mama Jin suddenly thanked her repeatedly, and quietly stuffed two large red seals for Mama Liu.
Mama Liu accepted it unceremoniously.
Jin Mama Dou Zhao was angry here and went back without mentioning it, and Lu Ming, who was placed in Song Mo's Dou family, heard that Dou Zhao and the Hou Shizi of Jining had a marriage contract, so he hurriedly wrote a letter and quietly sent it back to the British Mansion.
Song Mo took the letter and went to Yan Chaoqing.
"What do you think?" He handed the letter to Yan Chaoqing.
Yan Chaoqing glanced at the ten lines, and after reading the letter, he breathed a long sigh of relief: "Since she is the wife of the Wei family, she naturally has to plan for the Marquis of Jining." ”
The implication is that it is impossible for Dou Zhao to oppose the British government for the sake of her husband's family.
"That's what I thought too." Song Mo bowed, "In this way, things will be easy to do." Dou Zhao's snow-white face and long eyebrows suddenly appeared in his mind, and he couldn't help but say, "Does anyone know the Hou Shizi of Jining?" ”
Yan Chao looked appreciative.
Since Miss Dou Si is going to marry into the Hou Mansion of Jining, if the prince can make friends with the Hou Shizi of Jining, this will also be a deterrent to Miss Dou Si - she definitely doesn't want her husband to know about what happened in the grange.
"The Marquis of Jining died of illness two days ago." All those earth-shattering big things start with a few small things. He kept an eye on all kinds of news in Kyoto, and now that Song Mo asked, he could answer immediately, "Our family still has some friendship with their family in the early generations, and these generations have not moved around, and they have never received a funeral report. The Marquis of Jining only has a son and a daughter, and his son is the son Wei Tingyu, after the old marquis's seventy-seven, the Wei family should apply for the matter of inheriting the lord, and with the help of the five masters of the Dou family, there should be no problem. The daughter married Zhang Zongyao. You can get to know Wei Tingyu through the Zhang family. ”
Zhang Yuanming, the table word Zongyao.
Song Mo suddenly didn't want to see Wei Tingyu again.
He muttered, "Let's talk about this later!" ”
Yan Chaoqing also felt that this matter could not be rushed - the Marquis of Jining was just a barely supported dilapidated household, but the British Mansion was the family of Xuanhe, one on the earth and one in the sky, and the two families had no connection, Song Mo suddenly became close to Wei Tingyu, for fear that it would arouse the suspicion of many people.
You have to create a natural opportunity.
The two talked about the affairs of the court: "Lord Lu's excerpt was left by the emperor and not released, which is really worrying. ”
The Lu family has nothing to do with the Jiang family, and the Song family is in-laws, Lu Zongyuan's third son Lu Zhili is still the eldest princess of Ningde, and his granddaughter is married to Zhang Xuming, the third son of Jingguo Gong. Now the emperor doesn't say anything, and he doesn't send it, but it is not good for them to continue to let people read.
Song Mo suddenly felt a little irritated in his heart, and said: "Why don't you divide the soldiers into two ways, and find someone to impeach the uncle, and see the emperor's reaction?" ”
"I'm afraid Madame won't agree." This is the safest way, Yan Chao's face darkened, "Madame can't bear to decide that the prince of the country has time for Bai Yu!" ”
Song Mo frowned.
Yan Chaoqing's personal servant stumbled in, and when he saw Song Mo there, he was even busy remembering the ceremony, and shouted with tears on his face: "Dingguo Gong, his old man, said that he was tortured too heavily and died......
"What did you say?" Song Mo's face suddenly turned pale, and he grabbed the little guy's shoulder, and the little guy only felt that his shoulder seemed to be clamped by iron tongs, and it was immediately broken, and he was in pain, but he didn't dare to say a word, and said busily, "I just came from Fujian, saying that Grandpa Guo was executed by Jinyiwei, and he rushed overnight, no one treated him, and Grandpa Guo was too injured...... He has died......"
"Jin Yiwei is just responsible for escorting Grandpa Guo back to Beijing," Yan Chaoqing, who came over, had already reprimanded, "Grandpa Guo has not been convicted, why should they be punished?" What about Xu Qing? What about Shi An? Didn't they let the two of them lead someone to secretly protect the grandfather of the country? What are they doing? ”
"When Xu Qing and the others arrived, Grandpa Guo had already been tortured," the little servant said, "This time, all the elites of the Jinyi Guards were dispatched, and by the time they got in touch with the third master, Grandpa Guo had already ...... I went the next day...... The third master said that it was because there were people in the rivers and lakes who came to rob the prison, so Jinyiwei had an excuse to kill the grandfather of the country, let us not shout injustice, thunder and rain and dew, it is all Jun's grace. He also said that if he stays in the green mountains, he is not afraid of no firewood. ”
Song Mo felt as if there was a fire burning in his chest, making the blood in his whole body boil, and his ears were full of gurgling boiling water, even the conversation between Yan Chaoqing and Xiao Wu became blurred.
He slowly let go of the little girl's shoulder, took a deep breath, and said, "Does my mother know?" The voice is calm and rational, calm and calm.
The little guy looked at Song Mo, and there was unconcealed horror in his eyes, until Yan Chaoqing's stern gaze fell on him, he reacted and said hurriedly: "We, we didn't dare to tell Madame." ”
Song Mo stretched out his hand, his palm was white and delicate, but there was a thin cocoon between his fingers: "Take it!" ”
The little guy was dazed for a moment before he understood what Song Mo meant, and hurriedly took out the bag in his arms.
"I'll go tell my mother." The bag was tightly held in the palm of Song Mo's hand, and he walked out of Yan Chaoqing's room leisurely without hurrying.
Yan Chaoqing suddenly felt a heart-rending pain.