Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Luncheon of Zhang's Mansion, Everyone Calculates
Before Old Madam Zhang could finish the rest of her words, Jin Ran interrupted the rest of her words in shock: "Grandmother, where are you talking about?" The Zhang family still has uncles to support them, how can they say no? ”
After all, Mrs. Zhang's words are a bit too out-of-bound, if she and the Zhang family are talking about it alone, it doesn't matter. After all, the Zhang family is also the daughter of Mrs. Zhang, although she married far away to the Sheng family, it doesn't matter if the mother and daughter talk about their mother's family.
But at lunchtime, there were many people waiting. It was when there were many people and mixed mouths that let Mrs. Zhang say it so aggressively, and the reputation of the Zhang family in Jinling would not be wanted.
Mrs. Zhang also knew that she was speechless. Originally, she just wanted to tell Jinran's mother about the hard work of the Zhang family, so that she could have more attachment to her mother's family and help her more. I didn't expect that I didn't grasp this degree, and my granddaughter was tired of speaking.
Mrs. Zhang couldn't help but regret a little, if it weren't for Jin Ran's sentence, she said that she was addicted and didn't know what she would say at that time.
But in the end, it is a person who is old and refined, and Mrs. Zhang has not been in vain for so many years in the back house.
Old Madam Zhang naturally took the steps handed by Jinran: "Look at me." It's really old, old, and confused. When people get old, they become more sentimental, and I look at my granddaughters and granddaughters who are also so old, and I am inevitably worried that there will be no Zhang family without them in the future. ”
While saying that, Mrs. Zhang picked up a handkerchief and wiped it on her face: "When you married Luo'er, you cost me half my life, and in the future, there are so many hearts and livers and hearts that are married to other people's families, and I don't know how uncomfortable it is for this old guy." ”
Whether these girls of the Zhang family have grown up beside Mrs. Zhang since they were children or not, they all made a sad mood at this time. Especially Zhang Qi, Zhang Xin, and Zhang Zi, because they were brought up by Mrs. Zhang, thinking that they were going to go to the deep palace where they had no family in this draft, tears also fell like threads.
Mrs. Zhang's words came suddenly, and Jin Ran and Mrs. Zhang had only met a few times when they were children, but she also named herself today, and Jin Ran had to force herself to shed a few tears.
Thanks to the fact that Jin Ran always carries a purse stuffed with tear gas herbs, Jin Ran only needs to gently smoke this purse under his eyes to cry.
With this magic weapon, Jin Ran naturally cried with several other girls from the Zhang family. It can be seen that Zhang's eyes are also pantothenic.
In the end, it was the only man at this table, Jinran's third brother stood up: "Okay, grandmother, mother." Why do you cry so sadly? Today is just the grandmothers who have just arrived in Kyoto. The primary election will be three days later, and after the second election, if the girls are lucky enough to become palace concubines, it will be a few days later, so that the family will prepare the dowry scattered. I don't know how long it will take. How could you not stay enough for so long? ”
Seeing that all the female dependents stopped crying, Jinran's third brother continued: "Besides, not everyone can choose. If you don't choose it, it doesn't matter. Take the girl back and raise her for a while. When the girls in the family are of the right age, isn't it okay to choose the sons and daughters of those good families? ”
Jin Ran burst into tears and laughed: "What my brother said is true, we are crying too early now." It's not a shadow yet, a few of us girls are crying here. ”
Mrs. Zhang looked at her granddaughters who were crying with her: "Blame me, you made you cry too." She smiled and brushed the heads of the ladies of the Zhang family one by one: "In any case, if you have the potential to become a palace concubine, you don't need the Zhang family to help you with anything." If the draft is not successful, the old body must also find a good family for you with this super product! ”
As she spoke, she couldn't stop pointing to Jinran on the side: "And now there is still our Jinran, she is now the lord of Jinrui County, who is now the emperor's own title, is it not a trivial matter to help you?" ”
When Jin Ran heard this, he could pull it into his heart, and he sighed in his heart. After all, she was not raised by Mrs. Zhang's side, and Mrs. Zhang should be biased.
Jin Ran had already noticed that this old lady Zhang was very enthusiastic about herself when the Zhang family had just entered the Sheng Mansion, and she loved to boast about her granddaughter in the past day, and she has been surrounding Jin Ran to praise her today.
Jin Ran felt a little strange in her heart at that time, and now Mrs. Zhang's words can explain why she has such an attitude towards herself today.
It's just that Jin Ran once imagined such a scene, but he didn't expect that when this really happened in front of his eyes, he was still a little sad in his heart.
Jin Ran forcibly raised her low spirit, this kind of old lady Zhang can say, but Jin Ran can't respond, she sighed and said, "Grandmother, what are you talking about?" I'm just a little county lord, and people outside don't know what a real title I am. But an old lady like you doesn't know the weight of my lord? It's just that the emperor raised it a little. ”
She turned her head and grabbed Mrs. Zhang's hand and said coquettishly: "Jin Ran doesn't care what outsiders say. Grandmother, you can't say anything like that. This is a disaster for Ran'er. I'm just a little county lord, can I still influence the marriage and draft? ”
To deal with an oily and experienced old lady like Mrs. Zhang, you can only play a straight ball, and you can talk to her tactfully. She can pretend she doesn't understand you. Jin Ran is sure that if he just euphemistically excused himself, his grandmother would smile mysteriously and continue to praise herself, so that she would not be able to shirk it.
Mrs. Zhang's words made the Zhang family also sober up. It is true that she pities her mother's family, but she doesn't want her pity to tire Jinran, who is not very close to her mother's family. Now although Jin Ran is half of the Fang family's daughter-in-law, she has not yet passed the door, and she is still an unmarried girl of Yunying, she is not willing to let her daughter spread any rumors of meddling in the emperor's harem.
Therefore, Zhang hurriedly took over the conversation: "Mother, what does this Jinran kid know?" You might as well ask her to help, although my husband and I are not of a high grade, we still know a few people, and we will talk to the father-in-law in the palace when the time comes. Just arrange some good places for your nieces and nephews, and just arrange them in a good order. ”
Zhang's words are true, now most of the big families in Kyoto can arrange a scene for their daughter to be offended.
After all, the current draft still needs to be cleaned, if it is not done well, this good official girl will fall into the hands of the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, and I don't know how many grievances she will suffer.
This Zhang family has been in Jinling for a long time, and his connections in the Kyoto Palace are not good, so this kind of thing is bound to rely on the power of the Sheng family.
However, Zhang's good sale was not satisfactory to Mrs. Zhang. In her opinion, the Sheng family's help with the intrauterine process is the most basic, and it is what the Sheng family must do.
Therefore, when Zhang said this, she still didn't appreciate it.
If Jin Ran knew the inner thoughts of this old lady, Jin Ran would probably be angry enough. This palace is not so easy to deal with, especially in this draft, the background of each of the show girls in it is not low, the family doesn't want their girls to show their faces more, and they don't want their girls to be good in the palace and not be wronged?
There are so many powerful people who want to take care of it, but there are not so many eunuchs and palace daughters in the palace for them to take care of, and when the time comes, it will inevitably be divided into which is better and which is inferior.
Therefore, it takes a lot of effort for the Sheng family to help the seven or eight girls of the Zhang family buy them.
This old lady actually thinks it should be.
Mrs. Zhang already had a faint displeasure at this time, and she was a little unhappy when she looked at her daughter she hadn't seen for a long time: "Jinran is not small, are they all engaged?"
Jin Ran saw that this old lady was still unwilling to give up, and her heart was naturally uncomfortable, so she saluted lightly: "Grandmother is confused." Jin Ran is not sixteen today. It's a year younger than all of your sisters. ”
As soon as Jin Ran said this, the old lady Zhang was a little embarrassed to say it, after all, she couldn't force a fifteen-year-old girl to help her sixteen, seventeen, or eight sisters get married, right?
Although this old lady still didn't give up in her heart, she also knew that it was best not to continue to be aggressive at this time, after all, it was the Zhang family who asked the Sheng family to do things at this time, and the owner of the family was not happy, and they couldn't scold the Sheng family.
Although Mrs. Zhang knew that she couldn't continue, but after being in power in the Zhang family for so many years, she was the old lady of the Zhang family, and she was not as smooth as when she was young. Therefore, the feelings in my heart inevitably brought out some on my face: "Hey, I can do it when I look at it." Everyone's interest is gone. I'm tired, too, so that's all for now. ”
For a while, Mrs. Zhang seemed to have returned to Zhang's mansion, where she was the master of the house.
Jinran's mother, Zhang, would not fight for anything at such a time. She smiled good-naturedly and beckoned the people who didn't move under Mrs. Zhang's orders to clean up the table: "Cheng, after all, the girls have cried, and the dishes on the table are cold." In this way, you put everything away, and let the small kitchen make some good snacks and milk and other things to fill the stomachs of the girls. ”
As soon as Zhang's order was given, the people in this house moved in an orderly manner, cleaning up and withdrawing the dishes. Some of the girls brought pots of water with the scent of roses to clean their hands.
For a while, more than a dozen girls moved together, but there was no chaos at all, each had their own responsibilities, and everyone did the work in their hands very well.
Zhang Qi washed her hands with the water with the rose petals floating, and the maids waited for her to apply a cream with the scent of an unknown flower to her hands. She curiously smelled the elegant and beautiful fragrance on her hand: "Ran'er, your family's subordinates are really well-behaved." It's such a mess, but it can be cleaned up so quickly. ”