Chapter 2 Antecedents
The battle in the court was originally bloodless, but Yuantang was not an aggressive person, so he also gave everyone a step: "But since Concubine Qi gave birth to a princess, it is indeed a great achievement, and the emperor should indeed reward it." ”
Seeing that Yuan Tang had already given the steps, Qi Guifei's father, Qi Hai, hurriedly continued at the signal of the head of the Qi family: "Lord Yuan is right, Qi Guifei can give birth to Princess Xiaguang for the emperor is already blessed, how can she ask for more?" But the princess was born with auspiciousness, and it was against heaven not to reward her, so she dared to ask for a grace for the princess as a grandfather. ”
With Qi Hai's words, the scene eased for the time being, and everyone's eyes turned to the emperor.
After thinking about it, the emperor said: "Then give Princess Xiaguang three cities as fiefs," and after a pause, he added: "Then give the princess her own choice of horses in the future." ”
Such a generous reward is comparable to a county prince, of course the Qi family is happy, a newborn princess occupies a position similar to that of a county prince, and the little princess will be more important than ordinary princes in the future.
Disrupted the plan of the imperial concubine of Qi Guifei, a princess enjoys the prince of the county, Yuan Tang did not say anything more, as long as the queen's position is stable, the status of the emperor's eldest son is not affected, a small princess, the Yuan family still does not care.
Therefore, this result is acceptable to everyone for the time being.
Xicheng Road Home
Wen had been asleep for three whole days, and Lu Mingxuan had already returned, and when he heard that when he went out, his wife and child almost died in two, and his legs were almost weak.
However, when I saw my baby daughter, all the negative emotions were gone, especially when my daughter was so well-behaved, she woke up and looked at Lu Mingxuan with wide eyes and blinking, and Lu Mingxuan's heart was soft.
When the Qin family knew that the Wen family gave birth to a daughter, and it was basically impossible to give birth in the future, Shu Tai in his heart for a while, it was rare that he did not have trouble finding the fifth room of the Lu family, and the third and fourth rooms of the Lu family were guilty because of the Ming Zhe to protect his body when the Wen family asked for help, and when he saw that the Qin family was not embarrassed, he came over to take a look at the child.
Lu Sanye and Lu Siye are both very honest people, they basically live on a meager income on weekdays, and their daughters-in-law are also concubines, with a dowry of three or five thousand taels, not even a fraction of the five rooms, so their faces are full of bitterness, the three brothers continued to look at each other, and they all understood each other's thoughts, living under their mother-in-law, but they were more than willing and insufficient, and they couldn't help it.
After Wen woke up, he couldn't care about the pain all over his body, and when he saw his well-behaved daughter, his heart melted together, remembering the glow in the sky when his daughter was born, Wen said to Lu Mingxuan with a happy face: "Xianggong, you don't know, when our daughter was born, she really knew how to pick the time, the glow in the sky can even be seen when I am lying on the bed, we give our daughter a nickname for Xiaguang." ”
Lu Mingxuan, who was originally happy, heard the word "Xiaguang", revealing a bitter face, Wen's heart was the same, he always felt that something bad was going to happen, and then he heard Lu Mingxuan say: "Our daughter can't be called Xiaguang, it's taboo, the sixth princess was born on the same day as our daughter, and she was also born when the sun was shining in the sky, and as soon as the emperor was happy, he gave the sixth princess the word "Xiaguang" as a title, and we can't even use the word neon." ”
Wen's heart full of joy instantly became cold, yes, how noble the royal princess is, the glow of the sky is regarded as the glory of the princess, their daughter, the child of a concubine and the daughter of a merchant, even if she is born with the glow, such an auspicious name, their daughter can't even touch it, and even thinking about it is a sin.
In the end, Wen said with a tired face: "Even if you are a princess, you can't take all the auspiciousness of my son, Xianggong, let's give our daughter a long name." It's called a long road, is it good? ”
Originally, according to the genealogy, the girls of this generation are from the obvious character, and the boy is from the cloud character, but the Wen family wanted to insist for the first time, so that the daughter was called Lu Manman, indicating that the sky was full of sunshine and her daughter's share, and the princess accounted for the lion's share, could her daughter not even have a small head?
Lu Mingxuan has never disobeyed his father and mother-in-law, after the birth of her daughter, because she wanted to avoid the princess's washing, her daughter could only be aggrieved and simply did a washing in the house, and even the name, the master of the Lu family did not take it, who let it be a girl, or a girl of a merchant's girl.
Lu Mingxuan saw his wife begging him like this for the first time, and saw his daughter's lovely face, Lu Mingxuan had never fought for anything in his life, and for the first time he wanted to fight for his daughter something of her own.
Lu Mingxuan went to the study of the Lu family, and soon there was a sound of smashing bowls in the study, and finally it was calm again, and finally Lu Mingxuan came back with a slap print, but Lu Mingxuan was very happy, because he finally won the name that his daughter deserved, and the road was long.
Lu Manman has become the entire Lu family, the only child who has another name, and at the same time, it has also made Lu Manman the focus, after all, everyone is very curious, why Lu Mingxuan and his wife want to bite Lu Manman's name, in order to avoid the royal family and not let people grasp the handle, it is disrespectful to say that Lu Manman's birthday is before the appearance of the sunset, and the real birthday is only known to a few people on the day's birthday, but they are all Wen's henchmen, and they are sealed with heavy gold, Even the old doctor was sealed with a thousand taels, who let the royal princess also be born at that hour, so as not to collide with the princess.
And the Wen family, for the sake of the peace of his family, and for the safety of the long road, gave up asking for the dowry that he "borrowed", and for a while, the back house of the Lu Mansion was strangely calm.
The news of Wen's birth to a daughter was also passed on to the shopkeeper of the Wen's shop in the capital, and the shopkeeper quickly sent the news back to the Jiangnan Wen family, Wen's aunt had already passed away, and Wen's grandson and his mother's grandson were the same size, so the grandmother was also kind to this concubine who could be a granddaughter.
On the one hand, Mrs. Lu despised the people of the Wen family who were full of copper smell, for fear that they would not know that their family was rich, and they were all golden, as if they wanted to blind others, and on the other hand, she was sour, although she was the daughter of the imperial doctor's family, but there were not many dowries for her at the beginning, only 10,000 taels, and when she gave birth to the eldest son and eldest daughter, there were not so many things sent by her mother's family.
Of course, Mrs. Lu San and Mrs. Lu are also very envious, after all, one of them is the concubine of the Qipin County Ling family, and the other is the concubine of the city gate guard's family, although they are all children of the official eunuch family, but they are all concubines of the side branch family, and of course there are very few things that can be obtained.
And in the days that followed, several sisters who married Wen sent valuable things, after all, the children of the sisters can marry wives and have children, and her children were born, such a little doll, of course, is the focus of everyone's attention.
Seeing the constant stream of things sent by the concierge, the Qin family was even more angry, if it was something else, the Qin family could accept it shamelessly, but those brothers and sisters of the Wen family sent things for the little girl, the accessories of the little girl, even if she grabbed it, she couldn't use it, could she let her granddaughter use the things of this concubine? I didn't have to devalue my identity.
Qin's henchman Tang's mother scolded and scolded there: "This Wen family is really a little family, who doesn't send things neatly, his family is good, the best materials are directly cut into diapers and sent over, good jade pendants, made into toys for little babies to play with, and they are not afraid of losing their lives." ”
Qin's identity is self-contained, and he has to hold back if he wants to scold, and Tang's mother is Qin's henchman, and in many places where Qin's identity is inconvenient to speak, Tang's mother scolds Qin's very good.
The Qin family is not used to seeing the people in the fifth room look like they have a woman who is full of everything, and they can't see a lowly concubine's daughter who eats and wears better than her own granddaughter, but she can't ask for it yet, because she can't use it at all, so after the Wen family came out of confinement, the Qin family began to be a demon again.
But Wen's family is no longer recruiting, she used to think that she couldn't offend her mother-in-law, but now her manman was almost killed, and she will not be easy to regenerate in the future, then she must take good care of her body, and she can no longer be trampled by these people, if her health is not good, her dowry is afraid that it will be eaten clean immediately, and her poor manman will have endless suffering.
So even if the Qin family asked the Wen family to give Lu Mingxuan a concubine on the grounds that the Wen family had no children, the Wen family was still indifferent, and let the Qin family take as much as Lu Mingxuan wanted, anyway, she would have no children if she had no children, and she didn't want to fight for her life to have children, whoever wants to give birth can give birth, anyway, no matter how many sons, she doesn't want to take a penny from her, and the concubine room and the children in the concubine room have to be out of the public, no family, there is no reason to let the daughter-in-law pay for the concubine room, if the public does not pay, Then she can also watch those concubines starve to death and freeze to death, anyway, it is not her people who are lost.
And Qin's punishment kneeling, Wen's repeatedly on the grounds of production and great injury, just fainted in front of all the masters and maids, didn't care about the face at all, after waking up, every time he cried that his child was miserable, he was almost without a mother at a young age, and the stepmother was a tiger and wolf, she didn't want to die, she didn't want her daughter to fall into the hands of the stepmother, and said that she would donate all her dowry to the temple, hoping that after her death, she could ask the Bodhisattva to bless her daughter to grow up safely, I hope that those great monks will often recite the peace mantra to her children for the sake of her sincerity.
Anyway, the two of them are you who make a move, and I will take it, so I almost wiped my face off and rubbed it like a cloth to wipe the floor, anyway, let those people not want to get her dowry again, and in the end, it was Master Lu who saw that the Qin family was really making too much trouble, tossing the concubine and daughter-in-law who had not recovered from dystocia, and beat the Qin family, and the back house of the Lu Mansion gradually stabilized.
What the Qin family is angry about, no one really cares, and the concubines on the side of the road are also left out because of the new concubines in the Cheng Wangfu, and they are fighting with those concubines in the palace, and they don't care much about how the Qin family tears a concubine and daughter-in-law.
In order to prevent the dog from jumping off the wall in a hurry, Wen sent people to watch the treasury day and night, and asked Yu's mother to take the 50,000 taels of silver tickets to buy a hot spring village, intending to leave it for her daughter as a dowry, so as not to be robbed by those unscrupulous worries when she got it.
When Qin learned that Wen had spent 50,000 taels to buy a Zhuangzi, he was so angry that he was about to lose his temper, and then immediately asked Wen to hand over the deed and warned Wen to merge this Zhuangzi into the public school, but unfortunately Wen didn't care at all, and the hot spring Zhuangzi also let Yu's mother find a reliable person to run it, and there were still thousands of taels of income a year.
Now even Mrs. Lu, who has always been proud of herself, is a little red-eyed, this is not a simple Zhuangzi, but a cornucopia, which is simply a steady profit.
And no matter how the Qin family coerces and tempts, the Wen family just doesn't speak, even if the Qin family threatens to take a long walk, the Wen family is not afraid at all, because the road is long, what are the three long and two short, then the Qin family, as the mother-in-law, let her grandchildren and grandchildren not be educated, but prefer to raise a concubine's daughter-in-law, and if the upbringing is bad, then the reputation of the Qin family will be bad, and the children of the roadside concubine will also have a bad reputation, you know, now the youngest daughter of the roadside concubine, Xuanyuan Yan'er, has been named the county lord, Although it is not as good as the title of the county lord of Xuanyuan Jin issued by Princess Cheng, it can be regarded as a first-class noblewoman, if it is because of the dowry of the daughter-in-law of the concubine, the reputation of the roadside concubine is ruined, and the county lord is affected, then it is strange that the roadside concubine does not hate the Qin family.
And the Wen family is not vegetarian, since they spent so much money at the beginning, relying on the name of the Lu family, they have already caught up with a lot of nobles, the Xicheng Lu family is just a side branch, if the reputation is bad, the people on the side of the branch can draw the entire Xicheng Lu family from the family tree.
It was the first time for the Qin clan to meet such a stingy person, but there was no way, there was always a difference between a merchant girl and a noble girl, and the method of dealing with ordinary noble girls was useless to the Wen family, so the Qin clan began to target Lu Mingxuan.
"Fifth brother, look at you, you don't have a son, your daughter-in-law's body is injured, I'm afraid I can't have a son-in-law with you, and I wronged you when I married your daughter-in-law, your third brother and fourth brother are all official daughters, and your mother wants to hire a wife for you again, what do you think."
Lu Mingxuan knew that the more he defended the Wen family, the more the Qin family would toss, so he said respectfully: "Listen to my mother." ”
Qin's family was choked all of a sudden, she wanted to pinch Lu Mingxuan and make Wen's soft, but now let Lu Mingxuan say this, she will not be able to step down, do you really want to hire a room for this Lu Mingxuan?
As soon as Lu Mingxuan left, the more Qin thought about it, the more he felt that he should hire a young lady from the official family in a room, so that he could handle it, and when the time came, he would demote the Wen family to a concubine, and see if she could still be rampant, and the baby daughter she was thinking about became a concubine, and when the time came, Wen would cry.
The Qin family said that they would do it, and soon began to act, and many people who were familiar with the Lu family knew that after Mrs. Lu Wu gave birth to a daughter, she was afraid that she would not be able to regenerate if she hurt her body, and Qin's mother-in-law felt sorry that Lu Lao Wu had no son-in-law, so she planned to hire another wife.
When the Qin family was still happy, the big shopkeeper of the Wen family in the capital came to the door and found Lu Tianqiao and Lu Mingyuan's father and son: "Master Lu, Lord Lu, it's really embarrassing to take the liberty of coming to the door to disturb, but this involves the friendship between the two families, and I still have to communicate with the two." ”
Although he looks down on the merchants, the Wen family has always been the in-laws of the Lu family, so Lu Tianqiao still gave face: "The shopkeeper Wen has something to say." ”
"That's the case, I heard that the Lu family wants to hire another wife for my uncle, and the flat wife of our merchant family is just a good name, but your family is different, if your Lu family's flat wife is the descendant of the Zheng'er Bajing, then our Wen family is no longer the only in-law of your Lu family's five rooms, so the 500,000 taels given by the last recognition of relatives, our Wen family has to get back half of it, it makes no sense that we only got half of the name, but we have to pay all the recognition fees, no matter how shrewd the businessman is, he has not done this."
As soon as the father and son of the Lu family heard that the Wen family was going to take back half of the money because they were only half of their in-laws, they panicked all of a sudden, they couldn't take out 250,000 taels at the moment, not to mention, even if they could, they wouldn't take it out.
Therefore, Lu Mingyuan said with a smile on his face: "Misunderstanding, definitely a misunderstanding, don't listen to the nonsense outside, our two families are serious in-laws, where is what is half of the in-laws, there is no thing." ”
The shopkeeper also accepted it when he saw it: "So that's the case, those people are really full and have nothing to do, so that our Wen family thinks that we can really only be half relatives of the Lu family, so I can't worry about it." ”
Soon the shopkeeper Wen left with something to do, and Lu Tianqiao became angry for the first time, shouting outside: "Invite Mrs. to me." ”
As a son, Lu Mingyuan can't say anything about his mother's fault, and Lu Tianqiao also knows his son's position, so he said: "You go down first, come and tell your mother for your father, don't worry, it won't affect you." ”
The Qin family quickly arrived at the study of the overpass: "Master, what are you doing, the concubine is busy." ”
Lu Tianqiao directly smashed the tea bowl and shouted: "Are you busy? Busy with what? Busy giving away all our money, isn't it? ”
The first time the Qin family saw Lu Tianqiao treat her like this, even if he knew that she killed his concubine and children before, he was not so angry, and the Qin family was aggrieved all of a sudden: "Where will the concubine send the money out, the concubine is eager to send everything that can be pulled over to your father and son, you actually said this." ”
"You stupid woman, you know a fart, do you know how stupid you are, find a wife room for the fifth child, you are really capable."
"Isn't the concubine distressed by the fifth child? Besides, the fifth daughter-in-law is a bastard, and the concubine is just beating her. ”
Lu Tianqiao was so angry that he slapped the table directly, but he didn't expect it to be in pain, glared at Qin a few times, and couldn't wait to slap Qin over.