"Mother, you go and tell the eldest young master, is it okay to raise me as a flat wife? …

Rou'er threw herself into her mother's arms, entangled like kraft candy.

"What kind of wife is not a wife, you are a little lady who has not been out of the cabinet, why are you embarrassed to say such things?" Lu Qiuniang patted her daughter's back hard, but as soon as she patted it, she suddenly thought that she was such a daughter, and because she fell out with her husband, she would have to count on her for the rest of her life. Still arrogantly talking about being a concubine for others? Also, the eldest young master is your elder, how can you mess up the seniority?! ”

When Rou'er received the second slap, she knew that her mother had softened again, she cheered in the bottom of her heart, muttered her red and bright mouth, and muttered: "What kind of seniority is not seniority, didn't the eldest young master declare to the public that you are the sister of her old friend, where did you come from if you are an "old friend"?!" Besides, even if he is my cousin, then the Mourning Emperor of the previous dynasty also married his daughter-in-law Fù as a concubine, isn't no one saying anything? ”

"Nonsense again! Emperor Mourning acted perversely and disregarded Lunchang, so he lost his own country, who are you not good at learning, but you want to learn from him? Lu Qiuniang was choked by her daughter again, patted her shoulder angrily, and reprimanded: "Is it that Jing'an who instigated you?" Hmph, stay away from her in the future, I don't think this woman is a good person. ”

Her Rou'er was sent to Tietang Nunnery, completely framed by that slut, but that Jing'an may not be innocent. Since the first meeting, Lu Qiuniang disliked Jing'an very much, and always felt that this woman was too soft, and she didn't say a word every day but had a bad stomach. Since her Rou'er was with her, she has become more and more ridiculous, often saying inexplicable things and doing things that are becoming more and more unacceptable.

As a mother, Lu Qiuniang never thinks that her daughter is bad, even if she does something wrong, she must have suffered from someone else's cup. Now that there is a problem with her words and deeds, Lu Qiuniang feels that someone else has brought her badly.

No, for the sake of her daughter's good, she must keep her child away from the source of bad influences.

"Mother~~ What's wrong with Jing'an, why don't you like her? If it weren't for her good brains, I wouldn't have been able to escape from Tietang Nunnery. Think about it, if you let the eldest young master know what kind of place Tietang Nunnery is, even if her daughter is wronged, but people are terrible, he may not be willing to take me into the house. Rou'er's head was tightly buried in her mother's arms, and Lu Qiuniang didn't see the sneer and smugness on her lips Whether she was wronged or not, only she knew it.

However, when it came to entering the mansion, she continued her topic, hugged her mother's waist with both hands, and desperately withdrew: "I don't care, I'm going to marry the eldest young master as a flat wife." Mother, you don't want me to have a bad time for the rest of my life, right? You want to raise your eyebrows in front of that slut mother and daughter, right? Only if I marry a good husband, our mother and daughter will not be bullied, and for the sake of my husband's face, my father is very likely to beg you to go back. Mother, don't you want me to live well? Don't you really want to go home? ”

Lu Qiuniang hesitated, to be honest, after she came to her cousin's house, her cousin and sister-in-law were really good to her, but she was a guest here after all, how could her cousin raise her cousin for a lifetime? In the final analysis, it doesn't depend on whether a woman is doing well in this life or not?

And her husband?

Thinking of this, Lu Qiuniang was a little moved, she had been married to her husband for more than ten years, and it was impossible for her to leave home if it wasn't for her daughter this time. The thought of leaving to make room for that slut made her heart hurt like a pinprick.

Can you go back?

Well, what my daughter said also makes sense, my cousin is good to her, but I think about my aunt's affection, and I feel guilty about her innocent being implicated, and this kind of relationship connected by memories is too fragile, if you can turn this fragile relationship into in-laws,

"Do you really want to marry the eldest young master as a flat wife? Even if he's a decade older than you? ”

Lu Qiuniang held up her daughter's chin hard, looked straight at her, and asked seriously.

With her chin tilted, Rou'er looked back at her mother and nodded firmly, "Well, mother, I'm serious, what's wrong with being a teenager, isn't my father seven or eight years older than you." ”

Speaking of her husband, Ping Qiuniang sighed slightly again, took her daughter into the conversation with her backhand, and said faintly, "Your father, alas, ......"

"Mother, don't always sigh, I know you think about your father, since you want to, then go for it, you are always silent, how does your father know your mind? Also, if I marry the eldest young master, then I will be the wife of the eldest prince of the Guogong Mansion, and if I give birth to a son in the future, I will be able to be the grandfather of the country. At that time, are you still worried that your father will come to the door and beg you to go back? ”

"Rou'er, what are you talking about? The cousin also has a wife, and the title should also be inherited by the eldest son. Lu Qiuniang listened to Rou'er's words, and suddenly felt that her daughter's thinking was a little wrong, she was worried that her daughter was too taken for granted, and she would suffer a loss when she lived, and after a little contemplation, she deliberately struck: "Besides, whether the eldest young master is willing to marry you or not." I see that my cousin respects his cousin very much, and he may not marry an equal wife easily. ”

"Oh, mother, that's why I begged you to find a way." Rou'er rolled her eyes impatiently and reminded, "Don't you have the handle of the eldest young master in your hand?" If the eldest young master doesn't want to marry me, we'll have a dead end. Anyway, barefoot people are not afraid of wearing shoes, our mother and daughter have no way out, what are you afraid of? It's the eldest young master, he has such a big mess in his family, and he lives a rich life, he must not be willing to lose such a life."

Outside the window, under the huāyīn, two figures, one tall and one short, stood quietly, listening to the conversation of the mother and daughter in the room with expressionless faces.

"Of course, Young Master Lost is so good to us, and I don't want to hurt them, but if he refuses to agree, I can't help it. Does the mother really want her daughter to be unable to marry and live alone for the rest of her life? ”

Rou'er saw that Lu Qiuniang's face became ugly, and hurriedly explained softly.

"But" Lu Qiuniang was very embarrassed, one was her cousin who was kind to her, and the other was her own daughter-in-law, and her only relative, she really didn't know how to choose.

"Mother, I did this for your own good. That Wang Qi Niang looks very kind on the surface, but in fact she is poisonous. I heard the cousin of the Cui family say that the eldest lady of the Li family married Cousin Cui into the door for the eldest young master, but she was forced out by Wang Qiniang, not only refused to accept Cousin Cui's concubine gift, but also did not even admit her name, forcing a noble girl in the family to lose her reputation, and she couldn't marry until now. ，

Rou'er added fuel and vinegar to the story she heard from Xiyun Niang and performed it wantonly, and she will give it to Lu Qiuniang.

"Cousin-in-law, cousin-in-law is so vicious? No way? "I think that when my mother-in-law took a concubine for her husband, she was no longer willing to accept the concubine, nor did she refuse to accept the concubine and not recognize the identity of the concubine.

My cousin-in-law did this, and she did not abide by the way.

"How not? Cousin Cui said that Wang Qiniang not only killed her biological mother, but also forced her stepmother to death, and drove her half-sister out of the house. She's really a kind-hearted poisonous fù. ”

Seeing that her mother had been shaken, Rou'er tried to add firewood to the fire and said: "There is such a vicious woman as a lady, and the eldest young master may not suffer any crimes in the future." Mother, I know you care about the eldest young master, instead of watching him being held hostage by poison, it is better for me to serve him, I am your daughter, you still don't believe me?! ”

Of course, Lu Qiuniang believed in her daughter, but she suddenly thought of a question: "No, Rou'er, if Wang Qiniang is really a poisonous fù, won't you have to suffer under her hands?" No, absolutely not, I can't watch you jump into the fire pit. ”

"Oh, mother, don't worry, who am I, I'm your daughter, how can a Wang Qi Niang make me suffer?" She dared to poison her mother and sister, and she was afraid of a woman?

Rou'er rolled her eyes absently, and said with confidence: "As long as you let me marry the eldest young master as a flat wife, I will have a way to subdue Wang Qiniang." Hmph, don't say anything else, the three children under her name are her weaknesses "Hmph, as long as I'm afraid that she will be disobedient at that time?" "Kill Wang Qiniang, successfully ascend to the throne as a wife, and have another son to inherit the title, hehe, don't live too happily......

Lu Qiuniang was so abrasive by her daughter that she had no choice, so she had to nod her head in the end, "Okay, I'll talk to my cousin when he comes back." ”

The sound drifted out of the window, and the two figures outside quietly left the courtyard.

Wang Qifang tore the handkerchief in her hand to death, wishing that this handkerchief was something that Rou'er could let her rub and crush. To tell the truth, she has eaten this white-eyed wolf alive at this time, and she has the mind to dare to calculate her children, damn it!

Li Jingtian also had a calm face, and the two of them walked silently all the way, until they came to their own courtyard, entered the room, and closed the door, he sighed bitterly and said, "Qi Niang, everything is handed over to you, you, you look at it." ”

I thought about my relatives' affection and took care of her like a sister-in-law, but I didn't expect her to return the favor like this, hehe, what a good cousin to him.

"No matter what method I use?"

Wang Qifang already had an idea in her heart, but she still wanted to confirm Li Jingtian's thoughts.

"Well, you can do it freely, our backyard is at your disposal."

Li Jingtian was really a little sad, but after thinking about it again, he also understood Lu Qiuniang's choice, after all, compared to his cousin, Rou'er was her real relative. After figuring this out, Li Jingtian has no burden, his cousin has his own relatives, and he also has it, in this courtyard, the four of Qi Niang's mother and son are his real family, as for the others, what does it have to do with him!

In the early morning of the next day, Wang Qifang hugged the young lady and took the literacy card to recognize the words in the room. Speaking of this literacy card, or when she was on Taohuā Island, Wang Qifang made it in her spare time, she first drew it according to the memory of her previous life, and then asked people to take it to the little carpenter, and made a set of palm-sized pieces of wood.

"..............., what is this? Little Maruko, tell my mother! ”

Wang Qifang grabbed one at random, put her two hands in front of her, tilted her head and asked.

"Peach, mother, this is a peach!"

Xiao Maruko held up the white and chubby little fat paws, pointed to the pink pink peach drawn on the literacy card, drooled and said, "Mother, 1 Xiao Maruko also wants to eat peaches." ”

"Well, it's a peach." Wang Qifang flipped through the literacy card and looked at it, and saw that her daughter did not admit her mistake, so she chirped and kissed her little face, then looked around at no one, and then turned her hand to a peach from the space and handed it to her daughter, "Oh, Xiao Maruko has learned" peach, this word, my mother specially awarded it to you. ”

"Thank you, mother!" 1 Xiao Maruko held two fat claws, hugged the peaches with a smile, lù out two rows of white small teeth, sat on the big kang and gnawed happily.

"Grandma, Li Gui asks to see!"

Outside the door, Zizhu replied softly.

"Well, I know" Wang Qifang put down the literacy card, called Xiao Maruko's rǔ mother, explained two sentences, and kissed her daughter again, then turned around and walked out of the room, not noticing the tangled appearance of rǔ mother? Where did the young grandmother get such a big fat peach? When she sent the little lady in just now, she didn't seem to see it, right?!

"Grandma Qiyu, the official errand of Yunchu County is here again, the small one really can't shirk, you see?"

Li Gui was too depressed, last time those people were obviously very good, a few good words, and then stuffed a hard purse, and finally casually mentioned the relationship between the Li family and the Guogong Mansion, and those officials left in a hurry.

But this time, he said all the good things, and he said a lot of threats, and he didn't give less money, but these people didn't seem to be able to eat oil and salt, and they had to take the two criminals alive or dead.

"Forget it, we are people from the Guogong Mansion, and we must abide by the law. Here is the foot of the Son of Heaven again, and there are many rights and wrongs in the capital, so we must not cause trouble for the grandfather of the country. Wang Qifang sat on the main hall, her little white hand held her chin and thought about it, and finally sighed helplessly, and said: "Let's go, I personally brought someone to invite them out, as long as the other party verifies that Rou'er and Jing'an are indeed lost criminals in Yunchu County, let's let them take people away, and then send someone to Yunchu County to deal with it." ”

Wang Qifang's meaning is very clear, Rou'er is a relative of the Li family, but she must not be involved in the Guogong Mansion because of her.

"Grandma, what if the young master is to blame? Why don't you say good things to the officials again, ask them to be tolerant for two days, and wait for the eldest young master to come back before making a decision? ”

After all, this person is a relative of the eldest young master, and now he has been handed over by the eldest young grandmother himself, if the eldest young master misunderstands the eldest young grandmother, causing discord between husband and wife and restless family, how can it be good?!

"Can't wait, the reputation of the Guogong Mansion is important. Let's go. ”

Saying that, Wang Qifang didn't say anything, stood up and walked out.

Seeing this, Li Gui had no choice but to follow.

When she came to the East Cross Courtyard, Wang Qifang asked people to find Rou'er and Jing'an, looked at them steadily, and suddenly asked, "Does Rou'er know about Tietang Nunnery?" ”

When Rou'er heard this, she was taken aback, and hurriedly looked at Jing'an, not knowing how to answer.

Jing'an lowered his eyes, was silent for a moment, and nodded slowly.

Getting the hint, Rou'er swallowed her saliva uneasily, and said, "I know, I know, but I don't know why Grandma mentioned this place." ”

Wang Qifang sighed, bit down in embarrassment, and said: "There are a few officials outside the door, saying that they are coming out of the county to hunt down the two criminals who escaped from Tietang Nunnery."

"What, they're coming? Oh my God, what should I do, I—I don't want to go back.

Mother, mother, come and save me! When Rou'er heard the name Tietang'an, her heart was in a mess, and it was easy to stabilize Shen'er under Jing'an's prompting. It's just that when she heard Wang Qifang's words again, her whole body was about to collapse, and she didn't bother to ask Jing'an, so she ran out of the door in a panic.

"Stop her!"

Wang Qifang hurriedly said hello, and the breeze guarding the door, the figure flickered, and after a while, she pulled the out-of-control Rou'er back.

"No, you let me go, I won't go back, and I won't go back if I am killed. It's not a place for people to stay at all, woo, mother, come and save me, I don't want to go back, mother~"

Rou'er couldn't see anything in front of her anymore, and as soon as she opened her eyes, she was beaten, scolded, and abused by those perverted nuns: if she didn't work, she couldn't eat: she was imprisoned in a small school if she played xìngzi

The black house was defeated, and he didn't eat for a few days and nights: he was beaten when he returned his mouth, and his hands were red and swollen with a thick ring ruler, and it wasn't over: his knees were red and swollen and peeling, and he had to continue chanting: he went to the well to fetch water in the cold winter, and his hands were full of sores, and he was not spared on special days. Why catch Rou'er? ”

Lu Qiuniang heard her daughter's cry in a trance, pushed away the shì girl who was guarding the door, and broke in, only to find that her daughter was looking at a place in a daze with her eyes lost, and she was muttering to herself, just like when she just came back from Tietang Nunnery.

"Alas, cousin, I, I can't help it, just from" Wang Qifang briefly said the matter of the official messenger coming to ask for people, and finally said embarrassedly: "I have ordered someone to send the official messenger away, but I didn't expect that after two days of hard work, they came again, this time they didn't give any amount of silver, they had to take people away." ”

"No, no, you can't let them take Rou'er, cousin-in-law, you listen to me, Rou'er is wronged, my Rou'er is innocent, woo, cousin-in-law, please, please save Rou'er."

Lu Qiuniang knelt down at Wang Qifang while crying, and kowtowed, "By the way, what about my cousin, my cousin is the eldest son of the Duke of Fuguo, and if he comes forward, he will definitely be able to save my family Rou'er." Cousin-in-law, I want to see my cousin, please let me see my cousin. ”

Wang Qifang looked at Lu Qiuniang with pity, shook her head and said, "My husband has gone out to run errands, and it will take three or four days to come back." In this way, why don't I send someone to escort Rou'er back to Yunchu and re-verify her case, if there is anything suspicious, we will help Rou'er overturn the case, and when the case over there is closed, how about bringing her back? ”

Lu Qiuniang hesitated, it was obvious that Wang Qifang's proposal still made sense.

Seeing this, Wang Qifang added faintly, "Now the wind in the capital is very tight, and several founding fathers' homes have been copied in a row, and the next one is likely to be our Fuguo Mansion............... and the Xianggong is for this...... Cousin, I know you feel sorry for your daughter, but you also have to be considerate of our difficulties. It's not that we don't care about Rou'er, we just can't let political enemies seize the handle of the Guogong Mansion, you have always been a kind and virtuous person, and you will definitely be able to understand the eldest young master and the Guogong Mansion, right?! ”

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Lu Qiuniang wanted to say that she could not be kind or virtuous for her daughter Lou, but she really didn't have the face to say it. In desperation, she had to agree to Wang Qifang's suggestion, but she still had requirements,

Curse... I'm going to go with me and ask my grandmother to fulfill it. ”

"Okay, don't worry, I will never let people wronged Rou'er, after all, you are Xianggong's relative, that is, my relative, my sister just rest assured." After Wang Qifang said this, she personally bent down to help Lu Qiuniang, and then glanced at Qingfeng and Qingyu, and the two quickly took Jing'an and Rou'er out.

Lu Qiuniang wiped her tears and followed out without hesitation.

Coming to the second gate, Jing'an, who had not spoken, saw a few officials with cold faces, his face changed, and he pointed at Wang Qifang: "You, you one"

Don't wait for her to this" you, after the word was finished, the official messenger who had been waiting for a long time rushed over, stuffed a veil into Jing'an's mouth with three times and five divided by two, and then locked her and Rou'er together, almost in the blink of an eye, Jing'an and Rou'er, who were struggling, were pushed out of the Li family, Lu Qiuniang only had her daughter in her eyes, and she didn't pay attention to Jing'an's abnormality at all, and followed the official messenger to leave Pingkangfang step by step.

Wang Qifang arranged for two knights to follow, and the two knights comforted the crying Lu Qiuniang while paying close attention to the surrounding movements, and the group went out of the workshop, got into the carriage, and soon left the capital.

In the afternoon, Li Erkui from the ancestral house came, brought a letter from the eldest lady, and came to pick up Cui Yunniang very respectfully.

"I, Lou don't go, it's all minions there, what is it if I live there?"

Cui Yunniang didn't cooperate at all, and made a gesture of not leaving.

Li Erkui's face did not change, but he secretly scolded in his heart, I am a slave, but I am also a slave of the Li family in the Guogong Mansion, why do you look down on a lowly woman who rushes to be a concubine for others?

Besides, if you want to be a concubine, won't you also become a slave of the Li family? Hmph, it's not appropriate to let the master go, if you have to be a slave, it's just a cheap thing!

"Miss Biao's words are inappropriate, since you are the niece of the eldest lady, you should listen to the arrangement of the eldest lady when you come to the Li family in the capital as a guest." Mama Chen has already endured enough of these foxes, and it is easy to wait until the eldest and youngest grandmother is willing to make a move, how can she not help, with a chubby face, Mama Chen stood in front of Cui Yunniang straightly, drooping her eyelids, and said in an unkind tone: "Besides, Miss Biao has also reached the age of talking about family affairs, and it is not appropriate to always live in the newly married young master's house, if there are any rumors and rumors, your reputation will be damaged, not to mention, it will also affect our eldest young master and eldest young grandmother." I know that you have a deep relationship with the eldest and young master's brothers and sisters, but if you don't know, I think you have any other thoughts. I see, it's better for you to listen to the words of the eldest lady and go to the ancestral house, otherwise, in order to protect the reputation of the Cui family, the eldest young master can only personally invite the Cui family's clansmen in the capital to take you home. When that day comes, Miss Cousin will be in a dilemma"@.