Chapter 21: Concubinage

Sheng Mingzhu almost dropped the porcelain vase in the room, "You say it again?" ”

"Then the envoy of the Zheng family took the dowry, saying that he wanted to take Miss as a concubine", the little girl said again with a bitter brow. Sheng Mingzhu's chest gasped angrily, and he didn't know if their Zheng family was crazy or he was crazy, and asked again, "My father agreed?" ”

The little guy said: "How is it possible, the master immediately drove people out!" ”

The Sheng family and the Zheng family, not to mention the Shengguo Mansion in the capital, just such a small place as Bingzhou. Sheng Qian is the mansion, the Zheng family is an eight-grade sesame official-sized figure, and the eight sedan chairs to marry the daughter of the eldest lady may not be able to marry back, let alone accept? Talking about this is a thing that people laughed out of.

"What about the matchmaker?" Sheng Mingzhu asked again.

"I'm back to Zheng's house." The little guy said, hanging his head again, a little hesitant, not knowing whether to say or not, he went back before, and came again and again.

Sheng Mingzhu looked at him and spouted, "What's the matter?" ”

At this time, Yun Niang came out of the outside, saw the little guy and waved him out. She frowned, Sheng Mingzhu got out of the chair, she sat up, took a fan in her hand, kept fanning, and her face was still angry. Sheng Mingzhu looked at the sky and was not afraid of the earth, but in fact, she was afraid that her mother would be angry.

He obediently shrank aside, and served tea and water diligently.

Yun Niang took a sip of herbal tea, but she couldn't help it, looking at her daughter, she was also a rare quick speaker, "Mingzhu, tell me, have you been entangled with that Zheng Rui?" ”

Sheng Mingzhu's heart was as bitter as eating a yellow lotus, "My daughter swears to the sky, never." ”

"Zheng Rui's idiot, don't even stick it to me."

Yun Niang looked at her daughter, and couldn't help but get up from the chair and poke her head, poking her brain hurt, and she kept retreating, "Say that others are stupid." I think you're a fool, you're a big girl, since you don't want to do anything to him, you go to the lake in the middle of the night to have a private meeting? Now that people have taken your handkerchief to the door, and now they are all insulted to the door, you are a daughter of a mansion and go to be a concubine for others? Who are you trying to throw to death? ”

"What handkerchief?" Sheng Mingzhu found the point from her mother's angry words.

"Then the Zheng family took your handkerchief and said it was a love thing." Yun Niang naturally knew that her daughter was straight, and she said that she didn't like Zheng Rui, but she didn't like him, "You don't like him, why did you go to meet him that day and night?" Baby, have you ever met him, or have you been threatened by others? ”

That day and night, it was nothing more than Zheng Rui taking Yun Niang's things as a raft.

But Sheng Mingzhu couldn't worry about this matter, so she hung her head, "He's good with Sheng Yan." I didn't like smoke, so I took my gray coat and wanted to teach him a lesson. ”

"You-" Yun Niang hated to beat this nonsense daughter to death, "Do you know the seriousness of this matter?" Do you know what you will do if you lose your reputation in the future when you are a girl's family? ”

Sheng Mingzhu didn't care, "My father is a mansion." How dare their Zheng family, do they dare to marry me as a concubine? ”

"The matter of the inner house, don't say that your father is a mansion, even if your father is the king of heaven, it doesn't matter if his reputation is bad!" Yun Niang glared at her daughter, "Fortunately, I'm about to leave the capital in the next few days." Then the Zheng family doesn't dare to mess with your father, you stay at home in peace, and there shouldn't be any trouble if you don't go out. ”

Yun Niang thought clearly in her heart, and when she arrived in the capital, the emperor was far away. And Mingzhu is the only daughter in this room, she is a concubine and a princess of the Guogong Mansion, and no one dares to provoke her.

"Aunt Liu, the lady outside called, saying that the seventh master is here, and there is something to discuss." Yun Niang immediately got up from the chair, and before leaving, she told again, "Stay in the boudoir these days, don't go out to make trouble for me." ”

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The matchmaker sent by the Zheng family is still in the house, and the dowry that comes also fills the entire courtyard.

However, there are many gifts, but they are not valuable, after all, they are just concubines.

At this time, there were already many people sitting in the Sheng family in the front hall, and many elders of the Sheng family, such as Sheng Yan's juniors, and Sheng Qi's master, all looked very pale. Sheng Qian still didn't come back in the mansion, and in the face of female streamers such as Yun Niang, these elders also took up their momentum.

"The matter of Mingzhu has been discussed by others in the past few days, Brother Qian's daughter-in-law, what are you going to do?" Sheng Qi is the eldest among the seniors, and he didn't look at Yun Niang, and asked the Song family directly.

Song shook his head, "In the end, the identity is different. Mingzhu is the daughter of my Sheng family, even if she really has a personal relationship, she can't be a concubine. ”

Yun Niang immediately frowned, what does it mean to really have a private relationship?

"Private affairs, now her mandarin duck handkerchief and private meeting with men at night are known throughout Bingzhou City. If you don't marry, how will the Sheng family gain a foothold in the future, if she doesn't marry, she will have a bad reputation, what should happen to the daughter of the Sheng family in the future? ”

"Don't marry!" Yun Niang said, "Seventh master, my daughter's marriage is decided by the father and daughter, the master has not come back yet, and she is still young, it is too early to talk about these things at this moment." "She is gentle on a daily basis, but every mother can raise her claws when facing her children.

"What kind of face does one of your concubines have to talk here?" looked at the Song family again, and pointed at Yun Niang, "Brother Qian's daughter-in-law, is this the Sheng family's family rules?" ”

Chen, Sheng Yan's mother, threw out a handkerchief to Yun Niang, "People even took out your daughter's private belongings, let you say anything." It's not that we're selfish, in this situation, who else can Mingzhu marry besides marrying him, it's okay, the big house in the house is our family's smoke, and the two of them have a deep sisterhood in the past few days, and they want to come to serve a husband and live a beautiful life in the future. She said, "That is, we are generous and don't care." If she doesn't marry again, it will not only ruin her own reputation. ”

Yun Niang looked at the handkerchief, "Based on your empty mouth and white teeth, you said that this is my daughter's, how do you know that it is not your daughter's spring heart rippling and having a private meeting with her fiancΓ© at night?" ”

Sister Ping was standing behind the Song family, and when she heard the words, she leaned out, "I've seen Sister Mingzhu's handkerchief, auntie...... It's really hers. Yun Niang glared fiercely, and Ping'er was so frightened that she shrank directly behind Song.

Song slapped her hand to comfort her, and said, "In the end, it's useless for you to stare at people." ”

"I won't respond to this proposal today. I am Mingzhu's mother, and I am still in charge of her marriage. ”

"Liu Yun! You are a concubine, and you don't have the ability to make a big fuss with me here! Our family knows shame and etiquette, how could they do such a thing. Master Sheng Qi was angry, "You came down from the flower boat, what kind of tree bears what kind of fruit." Now that something has happened to the child, it is the cause of you! ”

Yun Niang sneered, her patience was completely gone, "What does Master Sheng Qi want?" ”

"She has done her own thing, and she has practiced her own reputation", thinking that she had softened, and Master Sheng Qi did not continue to keep a calm face, "I also know that it is not appropriate to let a Futai lady marry as a concubine." But she is also a concubine herself, and your background is not very glorious, and now there is such a thing, either she gets married, or Brother Qian tries to block the mouth of Youyou, and you can't ruin the reputation of the whole clan. ”

Blocking the mouths of the crowd, saying it nicely, is just to get benefits. By the way, they also hold a handle, if they are able to handle it, they will be like moths in the future, and they can pinch this handle anytime and anywhere.

Yun Niang looked at the Song family who was drinking water lightly, she always knew that the housemother in the family was not simple. Like, she doesn't seem to have done anything now, so she can easily benefit from both parties and pinch her a handle.

"Come on, get them all out for me!"

Yun Niang is good-tempered, but not temperless. On the side, Master Sheng Qi got up from the chair, "You dare?!"

"What am I afraid of?" Yun Niang smiled, and glanced at the Song family on the side, "You came to the door to bully our mother and daughter, what do you mean that my daughter is shameless?" If you still want to be good, don't let me personally call someone to catch up? Since I say that I am a witch seducer, and wait for the night when I blow the pillow wind, then you will not be able to run away one by one. ”

Before Yun Niang finished speaking, Master Sheng Qi slashed his crutches on the ground, "Tian is shameless!" ”

I'm afraid that it will be as she said, "I'll wait for Brother Qian to come back and tell her, and I won't be guilty of talking to you little woman." He hurriedly found himself a step down, and took a large family with him and hurried away.

There were only two left in the house, Song and Yun Niang. Song took the tea and took a sip gently.

"In the end, it shouldn't ruin Mingzhu's reputation."

Yun Niang didn't speak, but at this time, there was a sudden sound behind her, and Song's brows furrowed, "Who is there?" ”

After a while, there was no movement, and when the Song family asked the Zhou family to go over to explore, Chen Cen slowly walked out. Yun Niang was shocked, "You just listened here now?" What about the pearl? ”

Chen Cen hung his head, "Miss-I just ran out." "Don't call it to run out, it should be called to grit your teeth, and go to the field with gray clothes.

Yun Niang looked at him, "Did she hear it all?" ”

Chen Cen nodded and said, "Miss carried away all the things brought by the Zheng family, and the handkerchief just now was also snatched from the Seventh Master." ”

Yun Niang couldn't hold on, and almost fell down with weak legs, but Huang's mother was still supporting her by the side.

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Guan Ping had already arrived at the gate of the city, but the crowd suddenly became dense, and when he heard the words of the Sheng family's daughter, he couldn't help but prick up his ears.

"The Zheng family proposed?"

"Where can you be a wife, then Miss Sheng Mingzhu wants to have a private meeting with others, and she wants to be a concubine?"

The crowd was full of voices, and many of them couldn't really hear it. Guan Ping frowned, relying on his guess and the one or two sentences he had just heard from the people, he also touched the matter, and immediately turned the horse's head, "Don't go back first-" Before the words were finished, the crowd was about to start again.

"Miss Sheng has gone to Zheng's Mansion!"

"How dare she come out?"

"The eldest lady is amazing, now the Zheng family is blocked and dare not go out!" The crowd was still saying that Guan Ping had already ridden his horse and rushed back.