Chapter 33: True Intentions
"Madam, the eldest and youngest grandmother refuses to drink the medicine." Qiu Qin secretly glanced at Wang, and saw that she didn't speak, so she asked tentatively, "The eldest young master is still kneeling outside the door, what should I do?" ”
Last night, the young grandmother Zhang Wan was asleep, and was woken up by the barking of dogs outside in the middle of the night. Zhang Wan doesn't care much on weekdays, but yesterday she was upset by the movement outside, so she got up and walked out of the bedroom. Hara was just walking around the garden, and when he heard a heart-beating gasp from the flowers. When I went closer, my father-in-law and my cousin, who had always loved to stick to her, were hugging each other in rags, and they were furious, their throats were sweet, and they vomited blood.
It's just a matter of getting angry, so it's just a matter of recuperation. However, Chen Dai was most afraid of his wife in the day, and he was afraid that his wife would fall in front of others and make a big deal about it, so he pushed her. Under this push, something bad happened, Zhang Wan happened to hit the raised stone of the rockery, and immediately there was a pool of blood under her, and the child could not be saved.
Chen Yuanwai only has one son-in-law, and he doesn't care about the two concubines, and he attaches great importance to blood. His son Chen Dai was weak and had little talent, so he deliberately asked his brother-in-law to marry the daughter of the Zhang family, a large family in the county that has been inherited for a hundred years, just hoping to find a capable mother and a capable foreign family for his grandson. Although Chen Dai has no opinions, but he is gentle and considerate and honest, there is no concubine room, although he is married, Zhang Wan is extremely satisfied with this family business, and her husband Qin Se and Ming, Su Ri also respects the elders, helps the Wang family to preside over the feed, is kind, sympathetic to the subordinates, and is deeply respected. That is, since she became pregnant, her body has become heavier, she no longer cares about things, and she has gradually become deaf and blind to what happened in this house, which gave Chen Dai the courage to hook up with her cousin who came to Chen's house to live temporarily behind Zhang Wan's back.
Seeing that the sun was poisonous outside, Wang asked Chen Dai to kneel in the ancestral hall, and asked him to kowtow to his ancestors and confess his sins and reflect on himself. In fact, he felt sorry for his son, but he had to show Zhang Wan. Although Zhang Wan is only a daughter-in-law, her mother's family is not easy to mess with. Originally, when Zhang Wan was born, it was not a big deal to raise her niece as a concubine, but the Wang family hated his son for being stupid, and his hands and feet were not good enough to make people grasp the handle at this juncture, which made her so passive. Sure enough, as soon as Chen Dai was sent away, there was a rumor outside that someone from the Zhang family had come.
Wang Shiqiang greeted him with high spirits, and the people who came were Zhang Wan's mother, Mrs. Zhang, and her eldest sister-in-law, Wu.
"Mother-in-law." Wang was accompanied by a smiling face, and was about to speak, when he was interrupted by Mrs. Zhang.
"My daughter has such a big incident, and you can still laugh!" Mrs. Zhang glanced at the Wang family coldly, "The backyard is smoky, how can you be the housekeeper!" ”
The pickled backyard of the Chen family is an open secret in the entire Jintan County, and most people are reluctant to marry their daughters into it, but Chen Dai has always behaved in a proper manner, and his reputation outside is acceptable, and there is Lu County Cheng as the middleman, so this family business is barely formed. Later, her daughter got married, and every time she came back, her face was like a peach blossom, and the spring color at the end of her eyes would overflow, which showed that her life after marriage was extremely happy. Mrs. Zhang was relieved at this time, thinking that the rumors from the outside world could not be believed, and the bad bamboo could still produce good bamboo shoots, and she couldn't kill a boatload of people with a rod. The daughter is pregnant, the uncle is gentle and petty, and even has no intention of taking a concubine at this moment, Mrs. Zhang's hanging heart is completely put down, and she praises this uncle everywhere, saying that her daughter is really married to the right person, which makes others envious, and she says that she has a good eye and pearls, and she is only waiting to hug her grandson to enjoy happiness in the future. As a result, it was only a few days, and I was slapped in the face!
Wang was told by his mother-in-law, and he was angry in his heart, but he didn't accompany him on his face. I have to say that Wang's face is kind and bitter, he is kind and angry wherever he speaks, and he always has high-sounding rhetoric when he does bad things, so that people can't grasp the handle. As the mother of the house, she knew about her son stealing people for a long time, and she also helped cover it up, and beat a group of subordinates behind her back, and no one was allowed to chew the root of her tongue in front of the young grandmother, and the offender beat twenty boards and then sold them. Zhang Wan is charitable and has a lot of loyal servants, so the Wang family did not make any intention of defending her son, but only said that the eldest and youngest grandmother is now pregnant, and she can't be stimulated, so she will hide it first, and wait for the child to be born. If it hadn't been for the accident last night, this might have been kept a secret.
Mrs. Zhang saw her daughter's bloodless face, and the originally delicate girl was now like a withered flower, which had failed before it bloomed, and she was very distressed, and she cried when she grabbed her daughter's hand.
"My poor daughter, what the hell is going on with such a great sin!" She also only heard rumors outside that her daughter suffered a night in Chen's house last night, and after so many years in the Zhang family, Mrs. Zhang had some guesses in her heart, and the horizontal and vertical were those messy things in the backyard, but she didn't know what the specific situation was, "How do you serve!" As he spoke, he picked up the teacup in his hand and threw it at the maid who was waiting on the side.
The maid is Zhang Wan's dowry maid Cailian, who was trained by Mrs. Zhang's side for a while before being a personal maid in her daughter's room, and her daughter also let her go out with her when she got married, only letting her help her daughter on weekdays, and solving the trouble for her daughter, if the girl is stupid, she will be advised, as long as the girl is good. As a result, if nothing happens, such a big thing will happen, the grandson that Mrs. Zhang has been waiting for is gone, and her daughter has lost half her life, how can you not be angry!
The tea cup smashed directly on Cai Lian's body, fortunately the tea was not hot, but the clothes were wet a lot, in the face of Mrs. Zhang's anger, Cai Lian knelt down directly, and told everything that had happened. Only then did Mrs. Zhang know that there are so many stories behind this back, and she was even more furious.
"What a Chen family, what a good son!" Mrs. Zhang said sharply, "My good daughter married in, what did you torture her into!" ”
"Mother-in-law, what you say is really sad, I have always treated Wan'er as my daughter, and I am reluctant to wronged her at all, my heart hurts more than anyone else when I lose my grandson." Wang wiped his tears, and said in a tone of hatred that iron is not steel, "Who knew that unfilial son would dare to do such a thing!" ”
"Where's the little brute?" Mrs. Zhang spoke mercilessly, and called Chen Dai a little beast in front of the Wang family, and the face that Wang hid under the veil was almost invisibly cold, and then accompanied him carefully, "I have already let that rebel son kneel in the ancestral hall." ”
Mrs. Zhang snorted coldly, only pulling her daughter to wipe her tears, Zhang Wan didn't seem to hear the surrounding movements, she only opened her eyes expressionlessly, her eyes were empty, and she didn't know what she was thinking, which was even more heart-wrenching.
Wu glanced at his mother-in-law before coughing, "Mrs. Chen, my sister-in-law has been spoiled by the family since she was a child, and now she has been wronged in your mansion. ”
Wang's expression was embarrassed, this was her niece, and it was naturally not good for her to send some money to drive people away when this kind of ugly thing happened, and when she heard Wu's question, she had to bite the bullet and say, "Since she was ruined by my rebel son, I can't ignore it, just carry her in and find a yard to settle her and let her fend for herself." ”
Hearing Wang's words, Zhang Wan's expressionless face showed a hint of sneer, she used to be blind, but now looking back, who is sincere and who is false, isn't it clear at a glance?