Chapter 66: The Housewife Who Teaches Her Children (5)
The Zhou Mansion is a large family, and the aunts and juniors in the family have to ask for peace for the family, but Zhou Zhan only comes back for a few days on Chinese New Year's Eve in a year, and there is no one in sight the rest of the year, and the original owner does not want to see the aunts and children who are in the way, so he only asks them to come to ask for peace on the first and fifteenth days of the first month of the month, and the rest of the time is not needed.
It was the fifteenth day of the day, and An Nan finally met the people of the Zhou family, although Zhou Zhan was not a person who liked women, but he also accepted three aunts and gave birth to several children.
The original body and Zhou Zhan were married by the current emperor, and they had no feelings, just living together. Although the original body also suppressed and rectified the concubines, it was all to maintain the majesty and status of the main wife, not because of jealousy and hatred, otherwise she would not have allowed the concubines to have children one by one, and let those children grow so big.
Now that the male owner is long away from the house, the aunts have no object to compete for, and because Zhou Zhan only has the false name of a general, there is no hereditary title to inherit, so there is no fundamental reason for the struggle between the aunts and the children of the concubines, and the life in the house is very peaceful and peaceful.
There has been no male host for a long time, and the wives and concubines who used to compete with each other and have naturally hostile identities have inexplicably given birth to a few sisterhoods, and occasionally get together to play cards, play chess, chat or something, after all, the house is lonely, and they can't go out often, except for their children, only the former opponents have topics to talk about, so Zhou Zhan's back house is actually harmonious, if other men see it, they will be envious.
An Nan looked at the aunts who had always come to greet her, and they each brought their own children.
They are called in order of entering the house, they are the eldest aunt, the second aunt and the third aunt, the eldest aunt is older than An Nan, and gave birth to the eldest daughter Zhou Minqin, who is twenty years old and has long been married; The second aunt gave birth to Zhou Zhan's only concubine, fifteen-year-old Zhou Jia; The third aunt gave birth to two daughters, sixteen-year-old Zhou Minqi and fourteen-year-old Zhou Minshu.
An Nan questioned a few aunts one by one according to the habits of the original body, and asked a few concubines about their recent homework, and after a few more greetings, he was about to send them away.
The only daughter had already married, and the eldest aunt, who had no desires, left as she said, but the second and third aunts and their children remained.
An Nan knew that they had something to tell her.
"Madam, Jia'er is now fifteen years old, and he is not a quiet person who can study quietly, he only likes to use knives, guns and sticks, no matter how he says, he will not change it, the concubine is really helpless, I can only ask Mrs. to talk about him well, let him work harder, lest he be so old that he will achieve nothing, and he will not be able to do anything...... "The second aunt said to An Nan with a worried face, obviously really loving her son.
And Zhou Jia, the second son, who was told by his aunt, lowered his head and stubbornly did not say a word, obviously unconvinced.
An Nan took a look at his appearance, a fifteen-year-old boy, with a slender figure, already faintly showing signs of adulthood, compared to the weak Zhou Ruilai, he was much stronger, and he really deserved to be a martial artist, it is conceivable that he would grow into a tall and strong man in a few years.
"Zhou Jia, are you sure you don't want to be a martial artist, you just want to be like your father?" An Nan asked, the original body did not agree to invite him to invite a martial artist before, because he hoped that the next generation of the Zhou family would abandon martial arts and follow the literature, and not produce any more generals who were easy to provoke the emperor's jealousy.
But An Nan felt that there was no need to be so scruples, because Zhou Zhan had no real power in the army for a long time, and it was difficult to place his son in an important position.
Therefore, if Zhou Jia wants to reach the level of being feared by the emperor, he must climb up step by step with his own hard work, and this process not only requires brave skills, but also a smart mind, after all, generals are different from soldiers, they need to look at the overall situation and be far-sighted, which requires real materials, and even if there are real materials, it will take decades to rise up one level at a time, so Zhou Jia wants to reach his father's current height, and it will take a long time.
The above is only the superficial reason, the most real reason, An Nan will not say that she actually doesn't care about the fate of the Zhou family in the future, whether they live or die depends on their own choice, even Zhou Rui doesn't care about her, these people who are not related to the original body, how can An Nan care, she will not be so great to consider the future safety for them.
Since Zhou Jia wanted to learn martial arts, why did he risk being resented by him to stop him? The original body felt that this was for his good and the good of the Zhou family, but he would only feel that the original body was for his son to suppress the motivated concubine, so this kind of thankless task, An Nan didn't plan to continue, they could do whatever they wanted.
When Zhou Jia heard An Nan ask this, he immediately raised his head, his eyes were firm, and he replied solemnly: "Yes!" Pray for mother's fulfillment! ”
The second aunt is a woman trapped in the inner house, and she doesn't know the reason why the original body let the next generation abandon martial arts and literature, she just thinks that she is because she was born in a civil official family, hates rude martial artists who dance guns and sticks, and only likes Sven's reading to do this, but the second aunt hopes that her son can inherit his father's business and become a general like his father, so when she heard that An Nan's words seemed to be a little loose, she couldn't help but be happy, and looked at An Nan with expectation.
An Nan did not disappoint her: "Okay, I will write to your father and ask him to recommend a more powerful martial artist to come back and teach you." ”
"Thank you, Mother! The son will definitely practice martial arts with the master and live up to the high expectations of his mother and father! Zhou Jia was so excited that he almost cried with joy, and made a deep gesture towards An Nan.
"Thank you, Madame! Madame is really benevolent and benevolent, and the concubine is grateful......" The second aunt also thanked An Nan again and again.
An Nan waved his hand and sent away the mother and son who were grateful to Dade, and asked the third aunt who was staying aside: "What's the matter with you?" ”
The third aunt looked at the two daughters behind her, and found an excuse to let them leave, and then said to An Nan cautiously: "Minqi is sixteen years old this year, I don't know if Mrs. has chosen a husband for her?" ”
When An Nan heard this, she remembered that it was also her responsibility as a housewife to choose a wife and a son-in-law for her children, now Zhou Minqi is sixteen years old, in this era of early marriage and early childbearing, if ordinary people are married, but she has not yet chosen a husband and wife, this is really a little late, no wonder the third aunt is in a hurry.
An Nan pulled the memory of the original body and found that Zhou Minqi's husband in the previous life was not a good one, so she didn't plan to find the son-in-law in the previous life, but she couldn't think of any suitable man for a while, so she said to the third aunt: "I haven't thought of a suitable candidate, do you have a satisfactory suggestion?" ”