Chapter 52: The Wu Family
Zheng Guogong saw that Lu Shi's anxious face was red and purple, and he was puzzled: "Although the Wu family is a little down, it is still passable, and you have also interacted with it in the past few days, and it is not too bad for your in-laws." ”
"Not too bad?" Lu Shi laughed angrily and said, "You are so slack about the marriage of your eldest son, you just need to be 'not too bad'?" ”
Zheng Guogong looked at Lu Shi with a look of 'children can't be taught', and the water vapor in the pavilion was overflowing, making people feel that the lungs were wet.
He put on his underwear, beckoned to Lu, and motioned for her to come out and speak.
As soon as Lu Shi went out, she found that the belt was pressed by the stepstool next to the bathtub, and she was upset and irritable, so she pulled it violently. The stepladder stool toppled over, causing soap and handkerchiefs to fall in all directions, and the ground was instantly embarrassed.
When Zheng Guogong heard this sound, he thought that Lu Shi did it deliberately to declare his dissatisfaction.
He was naturally uncomfortable in his heart, but over the years, he had allowed Lu Shi to mess around in more places, so he still raised his leg and went back to the inner room, and he was calm along the way.
Lu followed back to the inner room and saw Zheng Guogong sitting on the edge of the tea table peeling dried longan.
He always looked so unconcerned, which made Lu Shi feel very uncomfortable.
"Grandpa Guo, what do you mean?" Lu Shi squeezed out a gentle tone and said.
"The first emperor had a long life, and when our emperor ascended the throne, it was already past the year of his establishment. At that time, I was still looking forward to my current age, and I was ignorant and followed Wu Zhao to the right side, and I had today's status. ”
Wu Zhao is the old general Wu, and Jing Yu is the prince. Zheng Guogong chewed two dried longans and suddenly talked about the old past.
Lu Shi said with a little displeasure, "Why did Grandpa Guo talk about this, is it possible to achieve this, because of this, you want us to repay the favor with our son's marriage?" ”
Zheng Guogong shook his head, looked at the Lu family meaningfully, and said, "Today, Jing Yu told me that the emperor's body is getting weaker and weaker. Even if he wasn't so outspoken, I could see it. ”
Lu's expression was a little solemn, and he listened to Zheng Guogong continue: "It's naturally good to get married, and it is naturally good to be able to go to the next level. But the most important thing is not to invite trouble on yourself. The mother of the first emperor and concubine, the daughter is a concubine, the son is a general, and he is a first-class scholar. How many people got married on the pole and what was the result? Today, the emperor ascended the throne once he was beheaded, and his good in-laws were either killed or exiled. ”
The Lu family was not unaware of this, but she was still young at the time, and the Lu family was not affected by the lack of a name.
Now listening to Zheng Guogong talk about it so solemnly, I can't help but feel a sense of trembling.
"Wei Yin has made a lot of progress over the years, and he is also quite important to the emperor, although your Lu family does not show it on the surface, but in fact it cannot be underestimated."
Zheng Guogong rarely said a few words to the Lu family, and the Lu family was proud in his heart, and he couldn't help but raise his chin.
Zheng Guogong saw it in his eyes, disdainful in his heart, and did not show it on his face.
"But back then, when I married you, your Lu family was not a big family."
Zheng Guogong said slowly, seeing Lu's pale face, he only felt ridiculous in his heart.
The Lu family knew that the title of the Lu family was not valuable, and he also knew that he was a high climb when he married Zheng Guogong.
However, she has always felt that women marry high and men marry low, which is nothing. But after Zheng Guogong broke it like this, his face suddenly couldn't hang up, and he muttered unhappily: "Husband, what do you want to say." ”
Zheng Guogong grabbed Lu's hand and said, "I think my own luck is good." ”
The displeasure of that idea disappeared, and Lu Shi looked at Zheng Guogong with affection and listened to him: "When I got married, my mother told me that it would be good to marry a woman who keeps to herself. ”
The four words of peace and self-defense are like slapping Lu Shi in the face.
When she first got married, she was well-behaved, but since Lu Weiyin had to use it in front of the emperor, and Zheng Guogong was just doing some idle jobs, which could keep her false reputation, she became more and more proud.
Zheng Guogong knows everything she has done over the years, but he has many heirs, so he is too lazy to care.
"It's not impossible for you to find a high-ranking woman for Lao Wu, but now is the time when the situation is changing, how can you accidentally pick a person who has one foot in the palace of Hades?"
Zheng Guogong knew that Lu Shi ate soft or hard, and said softly, even if she was unwilling, she would not attack rashly.
"Then, what does Grandpa Guo think of this child?" When Lu Shi opened his mouth, Zheng Guogong knew that she didn't listen to what she said.
Zheng Guogong sighed and said, "Madam." You and I are husband and wife, and I will tell you the truth today. Vine is very capable, and this child can stand up from the heart. But once the son of heaven and a courtier, he and I are both emperors' people, and we will treat the emperor ......
The latter words are not even whispered by husband and wife.
Zheng Guogong paused and continued: "Besides, didn't you say that you would give Xian'er to your heart? Why tie two ropes? ”
"But the Wu family doesn't have much to do." Lu Shi reluctantly grasped Zheng Guogong's thoughts, but he still didn't want to let go.
"Wu Zhao is not incapable, he just hides his edge." Zheng Guogong remembered some past events, looked a little confused for a moment, and regained clarity.
"Even if General Wu is not old, the two sisters-in-law of the Wu family have the same temperament as Thirteen." Lu shook his head again and again and said.
Zheng Guogong sneered and said, "You are willing to admit that Thirteen's temperament is stubborn." ”
Lu Shi pretended to be angry and said, "Grandpa Guo, let's talk about the fifth child!" ”
Zheng Guogong thought for a while and said: "If you bring that matter back, I don't have to ask the fifth child to marry the daughter of the Wu family, but if the matter does not come back, the fifth child will have to marry the daughter of the Wu family." I don't want to end up with Wu Zhao because of this. ”
This is Zheng Guogong's attitude.
Although Zheng Guo didn't say anything on the fair day, he felt that Zheng Rongan's qualifications were mediocre and he didn't have expectations for him.
It's best to live a dull life and keep his plaque of Zheng Guogong.
Although the Lu family has a bright future, his sister-in-law is mixed with the princes all day long, and it is really difficult for Zheng Guogong to enter the eyes of Zheng Guogong in such a style.
Zheng Guogong spoke softly, but he refuted Lu's meaning every sentence.
Lu Shi opened his mouth several times to get angry, but he made Zheng Guogong's gentle and sharp gaze stabbed back.
She died down, so she had to think about how to maneuver in front of the Wu family.
The Lu couple are used to acting, but they are dissatisfied with each other, and now they are just a thunderstorm or a thunderbolt in the middle of the breeze.
The Wu family, on the other hand, was full of haze, and in the thick clouds without wind and rain, they were wrapped in one thunderstorm after another.
Wu Zhao, as Zheng Guogong said, is not a cowardly person.
The incident happened suddenly in the chrysanthemum garden, and Cuilong came to pass the word rashly, so Wu Zhao showed a few doubts in front of Zheng Guogong.
As soon as I thought about it in the carriage on the way back, I knew that I was called Qiao's calculation.
He and Qiao's have never shared a bed since two years ago, and the relationship between husband and wife is as thin as paper, and they have long been relatively silent.
Wu Zhao rarely walked into Qiao's Ling Pavilion, and as soon as he sat down, Cuilong hurriedly served tea and water, and hurriedly retreated after finishing his errand.
When she closed the door, she heard Wu Zhaobing say coldly: "Today, what's going on?" ”
Qiao Shi and Wu Zhao have been with Wu Zhao for so many years, and they are clear about Wu Zhao's temperament, so they hurriedly said softly: "Husband, Rouxiang fell down, and it happened that the child in Rong'an saw it and helped him." The two children have known each other since childhood, so they didn't avoid taboos and let others see them. That's it. ”
"That's it? Aren't you enough? Wu Zhao's thick eyebrows were almost meeting, he knew that his wife was very restless, and the children he taught were the same.
I don't know what the word 'down-to-earth' means, and I don't know what 'being kind' means.
Wu Zhao is a concubine, his biological mother died early, and he was raised under his mother's knees since he was a child.
The grandmother is a virtuous and virtuous woman, who treats her aunt and concubine well, and takes care of the big and small matters in the family, but when she returned to her mother's house to save her relatives, she was killed by mountain bandits, and only lived for more than 30 years, so that Wu Zhao often remembers it in his heart.
Because of his mother-in-law, Wu Zhao thought that most women in the world were like this, and he thought that after he married his wife, she would also act like this, so since he married Qiao's family, he handed over the entire Wu family to her, and never asked about trivial matters in the back house on weekdays.
Since that incident, although Wu Zhao has doubts in his heart, the entire back house is firmly in Qiao's hands, and as the head of the family, he can't intervene in the hands of others, how useless it is.
Qiao Shi looked at Wu Zhao innocently and said suspiciously: "Otherwise, what else does my husband think?" ”
In the past, her appearance could always dispel Wu Zhao's doubts.
"You have empty eyes, you are worse than a blind man! I believe in this poisonous woman. ”
The sound of the young man's hoarse tearing suddenly penetrated into Wu Zhao's ears, piercing his eardrums with severe pain, Wu Zhao covered his ears and looked straight out of the window.
Qiao Shi followed his gaze and looked out the window, but there was no one else in the courtyard except for a few maids standing in the distance.
In Wu Zhao's eyes, it was the scene of that day.
Two long sticks pressed against the boy's back, forcing him to kneel.
The young man's plain clothes were soaked in blood, his long hair was scattered, and a plain hairband fell into the blood of the stall condensed beside him, and half of it had turned red.
The subordinates in the Wu Mansion couldn't help him, but Wu Zhao moved and injured him.
The kung fu in his hands is Tongzigong, a little bit of his own personal inheritance, how good a young man is to practice martial arts, no one knows better than Wu Zhao.
When he was six years old, he took out a book of hidden fingering from Wu Zhao's study and shouted to learn it.
Wu Zhao thought that the secret weapon was not above board and didn't want to teach him, so he let him watch and learn by himself.
didn't think about it, but asked him to grind it out himself.
A stone hit Wu Zhao's acupoint, but he taught himself a little acupoint, but did not learn to solve the acupoint, so Wu Zhao made a whole wood for an hour of incense, and then according to Wu Zhao's dictation, he solved the acupoint.
Wu Zhao was annoyed on his face and happy in his heart.
Afterwards, he was punished for practicing the plum blossom pile for six hours, and after the punishment was over, he still had the strength to smile at him.
Wu Zhao gave him all his heart, and with this son, he no longer minded the mediocrity and uselessness of the other two sisters-in-law.
Until that happened, it was a disgrace to men. Wu Zhao wanted to believe it, but the evidence was ironclad, so he couldn't believe it.
"Those servants are all Qiao's people! Can you believe what they say!? ”
The boy's roar echoed in Wu Zhao's ears again.
Since the boy disappeared out of thin air in the Zheng Guogong Mansion and could not be found, Wu Zhao always had these auditory hallucinations in his ears.
"Husband? Husband? Qiao Shi saw that Wu Zhao was distracted for no reason, so he held his hand and said.
Wu Zhao withdrew his hand and said in disgust: "Anyway, Rouxiang has always been in charge of you, and she won't listen to my words, so you can toss as you want!" ”
lost the child who won his heart the most, and the child next to him was determined again, and it was difficult to turn around.
Wu Zhao didn't have remorse in his heart, but he didn't know how to fill this remorse.