Chapter 5 Rivalry
After Emperor Xiping's only son, Emperor Longqing, succeeded to the throne, he respected Concubine Cheng as the queen mother, and the Cheng family was the uncle of the Son of Heaven, so he got the title of Marquis of Chengen.
Emperor Longqing was only eight years old when he ascended the throne, and the Empress Dowager Cheng listened to the government, and the power of the Cheng family was prominent for a while.
However, except for the Empress Dowager Cheng, the Cheng family has never produced any talents, Chad is rich and noble, and everyone has no rules to do things, fortunately, the Cheng family is still self-aware, and they are consciously born in this mud leg, and they want martial arts without martial arts, and the papers are not literary, and those people are incomparable, never mixed with political affairs, even the Empress Dowager Cheng is only in charge of Emperor Longqing's food and clothing, although the curtain listens to the government, but never says a word, and the political affairs are all decided by the cabinet courtiers.
The Cheng family knows each other, whether it is the ministers, the family or the nobles, and even the emperor is a little more tolerant of the Cheng family, several masters of the Cheng family have nothing to do all day long, drink wine, listen to small songs, and return to the gentlemen, but their temperament is not bad, they rarely bully others, cause trouble, and no one dares to take the initiative to provoke them, and their lives in the capital can be regarded as leisurely.
Because the Cheng family is not a noble family, there are not so many rules, from the old lady to the lady, all of them are from small families, whether they are acting or speaking, they are not as dignified as the nobles, thinking about the complicated rules of Zhao Hua's family, she thinks that this Chengenhou Mansion is really good.
"I've only heard of the brain being struck stupidly by thunder, and I haven't heard that thunder can still split people clearly, I think my sister-in-law is stunned, I have to ask a doctor to take a good look at her, hahaha......" Mrs. Cheng Er held her stomach and laughed.
"Okay, okay, you're having fun all morning, let's stop a little." Mrs. Cheng glared at her impatiently, although she didn't like that stupid granddaughter either, but the second daughter-in-law laughed so endlessly, which also made people feel very uncomfortable, "Master Yuanming said back then, Sister Jin is a person with an organic fate, once the opportunity comes, the soul will naturally return to its place, I also heard it really, I can't fake it, maybe the spring thunder last night was her big chance." ”
"Yes, second sister-in-law, such a big matter, sister-in-law will not be nonsense, Sister Jin is not stupid, she can see it at a glance, she doesn't need to lie to us." Mrs. Cheng San flattered Mrs. Cheng in front of Mrs. Cheng every day, and naturally followed the old lady's words at this time.
"Humph!" Mrs. Cheng Er did not hide her disdain for this concubine who had just started, a concubine of a five-grade official family was poor and sour, and she used unpopular means to marry Cheng San, and no one in the mansion looked down on her.
Mrs. Cheng San didn't care, and offered a treasure to Mrs. Cheng with a smile, "I just got a piece of Xinzhou soft silk and made a pair of socks for you, you can try it later." ”
Old Madam Cheng motioned to the big girl Pearl beside her to take the socks, her eyes only swept slightly on it, and she nodded slightly, "The needlework is good, you have a heart." ”
"Mother, this is Sister Ling'er embroidered your forehead." Mrs. Cheng San's face was flushed with joy, and she pulled her stepdaughter who was sitting quietly on the side.
"This needlework is not as good as when I was back then, I have to practice again when I go back, and if I don't get married, I will be disliked by my in-laws." Mrs. Cheng looked at her forehead and said unceremoniously, that attitude was clearly disgusting, and she didn't bother to take it.
"What you said is that Sister Ling is now ten years old, and she will work needlework for a few more years, and she will have to rely on her to go out of the cabinet in the future." Mrs. Cheng San didn't feel embarrassed at all, but just looked at Cheng Ling and smiled lovingly.
Cheng Ling's face was thin-skinned, he looked down at the ground and didn't dare to say a word, but there was already a thin layer of water in his eyes, and there was a trace of resentment.
"It's hard for you to think about it." Old Madam Cheng nodded.
Mrs. Cheng has never been a kind elder, she went to other people's houses as a guest, which old lady is not kind and kind, and her grandmother was mean.
And she, the grandmother, knew her grandmother's temperament, and deliberately pulled herself, clearly using her concubine as a raft to please the old lady, where did she really think about herself.
Mrs. Cheng San didn't use Cheng Ling as a raft to please the old lady, not to mention it, the old lady Cheng was really wronged by her.
Mrs. Cheng is not the kind of old lady who deliberately means people, she is just straight, willful, she will say whatever she wants, never consider the feelings of others, in the past, when Mrs. Cheng was there, she could always help her turn around, and now although the old lady is gone, she has the backer of the Empress Dowager Cheng behind her, she can say whatever she wants, even the queen mother in the palace has to give her three points, where anyone dares to say more in front of her, she speaks more wantonly.
"Second sister-in-law, Sister Lian is also ten years old, the needlework must be stronger than our Sister Ling, right?" Mrs. Cheng San said with a smile.
Second Mrs. Cheng rolled her eyes, she didn't say anything, Mrs. Cheng Third came to find her bad luck by herself, and said with a smile, "Sister Lian doesn't work needlework, even if she is a concubine, she is also the concubine of our Cheng family, not like the concubine of a broken family who still has to live by doing needlework." ”
Mrs. Cheng said this mercilessly, not only humiliating Cheng Ling, but also Mrs. Cheng San.
Cheng Ling didn't dare to raise her head, trying her best to hold back the tears in her eyes, Mrs. Cheng San's nails almost pulled out a hole in Cheng Ling's embroidered forehead, but there was still a smile on her face, "The second sister-in-law is laughing, how can a woman not work female celebrities?" The old lady of our family and the queen mother in the palace, the female celebrities of the year were all the top of the beam, and anyone who talked about it had to praise a few words. ”
Mrs. Cheng, who didn't pay much attention to the two of them pinching each other just now, nodded and smiled this time, "This is true, if it weren't for my double-sided embroidery, with the old lady's salary back then, I wouldn't be able to pull a few of them grow up." ”
The Cheng family was humble back then, and the little money that Mrs. Cheng was a warden made the family live tightly, fortunately, Mrs. Cheng's embroidery was good, relying on one-handed double-sided embroidery, so that the family lived a decent life, she herself was good at female red, although she never asked her daughter-in-law and granddaughter how to be, but in the end she still had a little more affection for the good female red, Mrs. Cheng San had nothing to rely on, but she could only do what she liked.
"At this time, at that time, what was the situation of the Cheng family at that time? Now we are the Hou Mansion, and the girls in the Hou Mansion are expensive, how can we not go to the school to learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and do embroidery work in the room all day long? Could it be that the younger brother and sister will send Sister Ling to be an embroiderer in the future? "Mrs. Cheng is rich and rich, and like Mrs. Cheng, she is a casual and willful person in the family.
What's more, she has been a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law with Mrs. Cheng for so many years, and she has already felt the old lady's temperament clearly.