Chapter 536: Funeral
Cao Wenfeng was wishful thinking, thinking that he was more important than Cao Wenyan, and was willing to hug the thighs of Chengenhou's mansion, and it was impossible for Mrs. Chengenhou not to accept it.
However, the reality disappointed her.
When Mrs. Chengenhou saw her, she would also show a gentle and kind smile when she heard her say bad things about her mother and brother, but she did not mention that she was left to be nurtured by her side, only that her mother still needed her children to serve, and that her aunt could not take away the flesh and blood of her concubine. As for letting Cao Wenheng out of the ancestral hall, Mrs. Chengenhou didn't pay attention to it at all.
The only thing she agreed to was to let Cao Wenfeng and Cao Wenyan attend the funeral ceremony of Duchess Chengen together, and cry in the ranks of the family's daughters. It was still Cao Wentai who had been arranged in advance, and Cao Wenheng would continue to suffer in the ancestral hall. I heard that on the day of the funeral, twice as many people were added around the ancestral hall, surrounding the entire courtyard, and directly cut off Cao Wenheng's food supply a day in advance, and only provided water to drink, lest he have the strength to escape and make trouble.
When Mrs. Ping Nanbo heard the news, she was so distressed that she was about to vomit blood, and immediately asked her daughter to come back, not to go to the long room to do a little low, do useless work, and suffer a lot of grievances. But Cao Wenfeng thought that his brother could no longer be saved, and he finally hugged his thighs, if he gave up at this time, wouldn't all the sacrifices he had made before be meaningless? No matter how you grit your teeth and persevere, you can show your face in front of people. If she can win a reputation for filial piety, or win the pity of a prince and nobleman's daughter, there is hope for her future!
However, even if Cao Wenfeng swallowed her anger and followed the Cao family's daughters to send her grandmother's coffin out of the city and come to Bao'en Temple to be placed, her treatment could not be compared with that of her sister Cao Wenyan.
Mrs. Chengenhou will ask Mrs. Cao to take Cao Wenyan to visit the relatives and daughters of the relatives, praising her for being a good child with filial piety, gentle and obedient, and not all the way with her mother, brothers and sisters.
Mrs. Chengenhou herself took her daughter Cao Wenluan, the youngest daughter of the second room of the Cao family, Cao Wenjuan, the concubine of the third room, Cao Wenyan, and the daughter of the fourth room, Cao Wenyuan, to pay respects to the daughters of the high-ranking families who set up the road sacrifice, and they did not think of bringing Cao Wenfeng.
Cao Wenfeng has always been proud of the Cao family's identity as a concubine, but she has never been able to enter the eyes of Cheng Enhou and his wife. If the Chengenhou Mansion wants to marry people, it will not consider the three-room concubines who are not in line with them. Whether it is Cao Wenyan, the concubine of the uncle's mansion, or the daughter of several concubines, they are all good candidates. Taking a step back, there are also girls from Mrs. Chengenhou and Mrs. Cao's mother's family, as well as the descendants of Chengenhou's biological mother's family to consider. Let Cao Wenfeng marry an important ally of the Chengenhou Mansion, but send the ally to the third room? Cheng Enhou's family is not that stupid!
Cao Wenfeng is so dressed in linen and filial piety, she can't even follow a henchman to wait by her side, and the person who is responsible for taking care of her diet and daily life along the way is a third-class little girl originally assigned to Cao Wenyan by Mrs. Chengenhou. She had nothing else to do except cry and kowtow according to the rules. Seeing that the foreign passenger ship could not reach her, Cao Wentai also instructed her mother-in-law to keep an eye on her, not allowing her to move around at will, and it was difficult for her to show her face in front of the royal relatives and nobles.
At most, the rest of the Cao family casually mentioned when others caught a glimpse of her: "It's Ping Nanbo's eldest daughter, who came with her sister." She wasn't very ruly, but she was honest compared to her mother and brother. Our Hou Ye told his wife that he should let the old lady's relatives send her on her last journey, so that her old man would not be sad under Jiuquan. ”
When others heard this, whether they were sincere or false, they would praise the generosity and benevolence of the Chengenhou Mansion, and then they changed the topic and talked about something else, no one thought of summoning Cao Wenfeng to ask a few words.
The defeat of Pingnanbo Mansion is a foregone conclusion, and his family has never been a good style, can there be a few friends who treat each other sincerely? However, when he gained power in the past, he did a lot of arrogant, mean and unforgiving things, and offended many serious relatives and friends. Didn't you see that even Mrs. Ning Guohou only took her grandchildren to talk to the people in the Chengenhou Mansion and the second room of the Cao family, and didn't pay attention to her granddaughter? Why should outsiders meddle?
Cao Wenfeng was so tired, hungry, and aggrieved to follow the Cao family's daughters, none of the original plans could be successful, and no one came to care about her, even her grandmother just looked at her from a distance, and did not come forward to comfort her. She was so sad and indignant in her heart that she was watched again, and she couldn't go forward to find her grandmother's theory, so she could only cry even louder. But others will only think that it is normal for her to cry for her grandmother, and no one will think that she has been wronged by anyone's family.
After the ceremony, the female relatives of the Cao family withdrew from the mourning garden where the coffin was placed and went to the quiet room in the Bao'en Temple to rest. Cao Wenfeng was only able to take a breath until this time, and when she turned around, she saw Cao Wenyan being surrounded by a group of girls and mothers-in-law to another bigger and better quiet room, as if she was the concubine of the Cao family.
At this time, an annoying voice sounded outside her window: "It's really thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi." Cousin Wenfeng, how did you get to this point? Even a concubine's cheap skin can step on your head? ”
Cao Wenfeng turned his head to look, and found that it was indeed Cheng Baochuan, the eldest daughter of his uncle Cheng Li, and suddenly showed disgust: "What are you doing?" Seeing that I am now down, do you come to find my bad luck?! When you were infatuated with my brother and dreamed of marrying him, you didn't have this face, but now you have learned to be like those mediocre people outside, and you have become a snob, which is really ridiculous! ”
Cheng Baochuan sneered: "Hugh wants to talk about old things!" At that time, your father and mother had not killed my uncle, and your brother was still pretending to be a dog, and no one knew that he was a straw bag, and I would be confused, so what was so surprising?! Your family will have today, all self-inflicted! Treachery, turning his face ruthlessly, even relatives can say that they will abandon it, how can I have the face to say that I am snobbish?! ”
The two little girls took a sip at each other, and Cao Wenfeng sneered: "Don't think that now that your family can rely on Wang Meiru to win the favor of the prince, you can show off your power outside!" Then Wang Meiru is still a prisoner! Let people know her identity, beware that your family can't eat and walk around! Obviously, you rescued people and quietly sent them to the Xue family, but your mother had to plant the crime on my mother's head and do that good show, do you really take people for fools?! ”
Cheng Baochuan rolled his eyes: "I don't know what you're talking about, the cousin of the Wang family was burned to death by your family a long time ago, and now who do you want to frame?!" Our Ningguo Marquis Mansion is not a stupid person like the Xie family, and we can still be framed by you! After scolding, she smiled contemptuously at Cao Wenfeng again, "However, your family can't do anything now, right?" What's the use of you being angry at me here? Let's worry about myself. I heard that the Chengenhou Mansion has been recruiting merchants recently, in order to make up for the losses caused by the failure to marry the Yang family in the southwest, and they are all looking for big salt merchants in Yangzhou. Maybe after you are filial, you will be arranged to marry the son of a salt merchant. That's not bad, at least you don't have to worry about running out of salt for the rest of your life. ”
Cheng Baochuan turned around and left proudly, but Cao Wenfeng stayed in place in a daze, and after a while, he reacted and chased out the door with a big change in his face.