Chapter 40 Tim Ding Jiakou, on the promotion of concubines

Early the next morning after returning to Shangguan Mansion, Tingjia's post was sent to Shangguan Mansion, inviting Qingdai and Qingwei to Wuping Hou's house on the seventh day of the seventh month.

Qing Dai met Qinglian in the courtyard of Rongxi Hall, and when she said hello, Qinglian still had a gentle smile on her face, but the tone of her speech - which Qing Dai smiled, no way, who asked her to come up and make friends with Zhou Danniang, which made Zhao Yuhua unhappy. Tingjia and Zhao Yuhua have a good personal relationship, and it is estimated that Zhao Yuhua will be invited to Qixi Festival, so naturally she will not be invited to be a guest. Fortunately, in the afternoon of the same day, Qinglian received Zhou Danniang's post, and the clouds above the Shangguan Mansion that drifted through the acid rain only dispersed.

Qing Dai had dinner in the old lady's > room, and went back to the room to read the "Shifang Lu" sent by Wang Tao. There was a sudden noise in the courtyard, Qingdai put down the book, and asked Yinhong, who was sitting on the side, "What's going on?" ”

"Slave maid go and see." Yinhong put down the needle and thread in her hand and was about to get up and go out, but Xinghua had already pushed the door in outside the door.

"Girl, it's the > of the two sisters Bi Tao and Bi Cao, who > want to see the old lady, Mei Fang said that the old lady '> rested and let them come back tomorrow, but the two didn't follow, so they knelt in the courtyard."

"You're really quick to report to God."

Xinghua is not as good as when she first came, and now her face is thicker, listening to Yinhong's teasing, she just smiled, "The girl said that it is called urgency and power, and sometimes you have to go in the head when you think about things and do things." ”

"I just learned two idioms and used them indiscriminately." Qing Dai pursed her lips and smiled, and asked about the yard again, "Do you know what's going on?" ”

Xinghua shook her head, and heard a female voice in the courtyard shouting: "Old lady, '>, the slave maid really needs to see you urgently, otherwise the slave maid will die."

Qingdai was startled, and then looked at the silver red and apricot blossoms on duty, and both of them were stunned.

"Don't shout, I'm going in and tell the old lady'>." Mei Fang was also taken aback, and hurriedly ran into the back room to report.

Not long after, the curtain of the main house was opened, and Mama Zhu came out and shouted, "Old lady, '> let you in"

The courtyard was quiet, Xinghua looked at Qingdai and asked, "Why don't you go and take a look?" ”

Yinhong on the side reminded: "Bi Tao is the old man's room, Bi Cao is Aunt Liu's eldest maid, they are two sisters' >, they all entered the house with the slave maid, and they were originally serving by the old lady's >......"

Qingdai felt that there was something strange about this, but she didn't want to go to find out the news, shook her head and said, "You don't have to go, it's not the maid in our house...... Don't worry about other people's business, you go next door and let the peach blossom and crescent moon give me some peace. ”

Xinghua went out, and Qingdai continued to read on the couch.

After a while, there was another noise outside the door, and Xinghua came back from outside the house and whispered to Qingdai: "Madame'> and Aunt Liu are here." ”

Qing Dai waved her hand and let her go about herself.

There was a howl from the front of the room, and then the crisp sound of porcelain falling to the ground was heard, and the crying gradually stopped, and the scolding was sometimes loud and sometimes small, and it was difficult to hear what was being said.

Xinghua couldn't help it for a long time, jumped to the window and opened half a fan to look out secretly. Yinhong lowered her head and embroidered, as if what was going on outside the window had nothing to do with her.

Qing Dai had long lost the mind to read, closed the book, raised her eyes and looked at the apricot blossoms, "Be careful, the head is out." Xinghua withdrew her gaze stupidly, lowered her head and cleaned up the things on the table again.

Qingdai got up and walked over to Yinhong, "What are you embroidering?" ”

"It turns out that the lattice pattern Shujiang brocade girdle is grinding, and the slave remembers that you said that the honeysuckle pattern on it is good, so I will make a silk girdle for you, and it will be done one day, and it will be used when you go out on Qixi Festival." Yinhong holds a piece of green silk in his hand, entwined with vine leaves and hooked edges, and connects eight pale yellow honeysuckle flowers in a horizontal row, which is light and elegant, which is very suitable for the preference of Qingdai.

"That's good" Qingdai nodded, and said to Yinhong with a smile, "Your skills are getting better and better." ”

"Is the girl a joke slave? Mama Zhu praised you for your embroidery skills over the past year. Yinhong said angrily, "It's not that I'm afraid of you, the slave maid did it for you." ”

Qing Dai glanced at the bored apricot blossoms, and looked back at the silver red embroidered with her head down, the silver red eyebrows and eyes were not outstanding, but they were better than this calmness and comfort.

She opened her mouth and asked, "Yinhong, are you seventeen this year?" Less words: I remember you were born in August. In the past two years, Yinhong is not like when she first came, her speech has been much more restrained, she no longer takes it big at every turn, she reminds more and commands less, and most of them can point to the point, Qingdai trusts her more than before.

Yinhong nodded "um" and lowered her head to embroider.

Qingdai asked again: "Sister, you are not young anymore, what do you plan to do in the future?" ”

Yinhong didn't expect Qingdai's half-year-old child to suddenly ask this, her face showed shame, and she didn't know how to speak for a long time. Qing Dai looked at Yinhong's appearance and chuckled: "Is there a set at home?" Or should I ask my grandmother to point you in a family business? ”

"Girl—"

"Okay, okay, I'm not going to tease you."

Qingdai was talking to Yinhong, and Xinghua was standing by the window beckoning, "Girl, everyone is out." ”

"Close the window, we'll talk about it tomorrow. I'm going to sleep. Qing Dai stretched and went back to bed. Yinhong followed and helped Qing Dai pull up the tent.

There were a few soft knocks at the door. Xinghua opened the door and saw Mei Fang standing at the door.

"Sister Mei Fang, is there something wrong?"

Mei Fang looked into the room, "What about the third girl?" ”

Xinghua replied: "My girl went to bed early. ”

Mei Fang smiled and said, "That's fine." Mama Zhu was afraid that the movement just now would be too loud and disturb the three girls, so she asked the slave maid to come over and take a look. ”

"What's going on?" Xinghua asked in a low voice. Mei Fang shook her head, signaling that it was not easy to say.

"Let's go, let's go out." Xinghua deliberately lowered her voice, then turned around and shouted inside, "Sister Yinhong, I'll go out for a while." After speaking, he pulled the door and dragged Mei Fang and the two of them to whisper in the corner of the porch.

The next day, Qingdai got up to wash, and Xinghua ran over to tell Qingdai the news she heard from Mei Fang. Although this matter is changed to others, I will definitely feel that letting Qingdai listen to it will pollute the girl's ears. But Xinghua has never treated Qingdai as a child, so she tentatively told Qingdai.

Qingdai didn't stop it, and Xinghua finished speaking in one breath, "...... You fell asleep when the slave came back last year, and Bi Tao had been placed in the back room by the old lady's >, and the old man spent it in the yali last night. The old lady's > sent someone to the yamen early in the morning, and asked the old man to come back tonight. ”

It turned out that the cheap dad had been pregnant for three months, and Lai Mama next to Xiao Feng said that Bi Tao's pregnancy day was wrong, Bi Tao denied it, and was locked up in the firewood room by Lai Mama, and wanted to prepare medicine for Bi Tao, and then Bi Tao's sister Bi Cao got the news and released people overnight to find the old lady's > here for refuge. Xiao Feng said that on the road in those days, the master had been resting in her room, and he had already asked the master, saying that he didn't remember it. So, the public said that the public was reasonable, and the mother said that the mother was reasonable, and the old lady's > simply left the person behind and waited for Shangguan Hong to come back and make a decision.

Qingdai pouted, a large family lived together and the bloody drama could not be finished, he had just lived a stable life for three years, and when he joined the army, he first met his stepmother and aunt fighting, and then it was a cheap daddy who was pregnant and made a fuss in the middle of the night, and I don't know how his old man would react when he heard the news?

In the evening, Shangguan Hong rushed back from the yamen, and before he had time to change his clothes, he was called to Rongxi Hall by the old lady's >.

"The child greets his mother"

"Sit"

Shangguan Hong sat down on the circle chair, looked at the old mother's gloomy face, and couldn't help sweating on her back, "Mother is in a hurry to find her son back, I don't know what is the so-called matter?" ”

"You don't know what good things you did yourself?" The old lady's > glanced at Shangguan Hong, her eyes condensed, "I think your daughter-in-law has already told you about Bi Tao." Bi Tao is the person I brought out single-handedly, and her temperament can't be said to be unchanging, but she may not dare to steal people if she gives her three dares in such things. It's your business to spoil your daughter-in-law, but you can't take the life of the child in Bi Tao's belly in order to coax your daughter-in-law? ”

"It's not that I don't believe your daughter-in-law's words, it's just that she's not really a big-bellied person who can tolerate people, you won't forget the fact that she died in childbirth three years after entering the door, right? There are few words and why she entered the door, you and I are clear in our hearts. It's not that the old lady of the Feng family is kind to your father, and when she asks me to come here before she dies, she has to watch her enter the door before closing her eyes, she can be a concubine at most. ”

Xiao Feng was okay when he didn't give birth to a son, and he always kept his duty and didn't dare to make mistakes. But in the past three years, she has not been in charge, and she gave birth to a son in Qingyang, relying on her son's body and Shangguan Hong's favor, and her temperament has become pampered...... The old lady > shook her head, looked at Shangguan Hong, who bowed her head and listened to the training, and asked, "I'll just ask you, is the seed in Bi Tao's belly yours?" ”

Shangguan Hong's face showed embarrassment, Xiao Feng asked him that day, he vaguely confused, and then thought about it, he was a guest at a friend's house in Mianxian County, and when he came back, he drank a few more glasses and went into the wrong room, and woke up in the middle of the night before touching Xiao Feng's room, and then he forgot about it, but he didn't expect Bi Tao to have a body, and he was afraid that Xiao Feng would cry and cry, so he wanted to get by. I didn't expect such a big mess.

Shangguan Hong didn't speak, and nodded helplessly.

The old lady's > snorted coldly, "Isn't it reasonable to give birth to a son?" Wait for the child to be born, and give Bitao a concubine. ”

Shangguan Hong broke out in cold sweat on his forehead, secretly annoyed that he was negligent, and remembered what he heard from Liu Shilang of the household department two days ago, and said busily: "But it is up to the mother to decide, but the matter of raising a concubine is afraid that it is difficult to do." ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"I heard Liu Shilang from the household department say that a few days ago, the wives and concubines of the Duanjun Wang family fought for favor and killed people, and they were sued to the emperor by the imperial history. The emperor reprimanded the king of Duanjun, not to mention the fine, and ordered him to think about it behind closed doors. In the past few days, the court officials who left the household department discussed and said that they would change the guild code and customize the matter of marrying concubines between the people and the royal family. Listening to Liu Shilang, the county king can accept a maximum of four concubines at this level, a maximum of two at a time, and only two more can be accepted if there is no one in the future, and even if there is nowhere in the future, it cannot be accepted again. Those who have no merit and fame cannot marry concubines. The son is an official in the court, and now he has a wife and a concubine, so he must not affect his career for the sake of carrying a concubine. The son also asked his mother to find a safe way to deal with the matter. ”

"The Qi family governs the country and the world, how can the Qi family govern the country. Your Majesty standardizes the rituals and uprightness, and this move is very good" The old lady'> greatly appreciated it after hearing it, and glanced at her son, "Since she is too busy with the housekeeper and neglects such a major matter, that person doesn't need to be put there for her, let Bi Tao go to the Liu family's yard, it just so happens that her sister-in-law is also over there, and I will point to the two maids to go over." The rest will be talked about when the child is born. ”

"Thank you for your kindness." Shangguan Hong breathed a sigh of relief, dealt with his mother, and went back to talk to Xiao Feng.

"You are not confused in foreign affairs, but you are too lax in family affairs, and it is too late for you to regret when something goes wrong. If the family is not in order, you will be the end of the official. There are some things I can say, and some things I want you to wake her up. I see that Feng's housekeeper is too tired and lacks energy, so I will handle Brother Xi'er's marriage next year and ask my daughter-in-law to help her."

Xiao Feng is only twenty-six, but her lack of energy is not her turn, and the old lady's > is dissatisfied with Xiao Feng's many behaviors after coming to Beijing, and she wants her granddaughter-in-law to take care of it. Although Shangguan Hong felt that his mother had lost the face of Xiao Feng, even he was a little unhappy about this time, so he nodded and agreed.

The mother and son discussed, and after half a month, as soon as the affairs in Shangguan Hong's yamen were over, they took the letter to Jiangnan Qian's house to discuss Shangguan Xi's marriage.

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