The summer night was hot and muggy, and it was a sunny day, but in the evening, it was stormy and rainy.

The cool breeze enters the room, which is very relieving.

However, the old lady was in poor health, and her mood was even more worrying, and she was sitting on the kang with her eldest son facing the window with a straight face.

Bai Sheng smiled and comforted her: "Mother, don't you want to be angry for a few ignorant juniors, and you are angry, isn't it your son's unfilial piety?" ”

The old lady raised her hand and condensed her eyebrows, and sighed: "It's not that I want to meddle in the affairs of your room, but you have been too indulgent to the Qin family over the years." Look at what the good girls have taught her now, she is a bodhisattva outside, and even the beggars on the side of the road have asked her to settle down, but at home she has attacked her sisters several times; In order to climb the dragon and attach the phoenix, you don't even care about the reputation of your daughter's family, can't you hear the rumors outside? ”

Bai Shenggong complied: "Mother said this, my son was confused, the Qin family is the daughter-in-law you personally chosen, how can there be a difference?" ”

The old lady looked at him deeply, "You don't have to use words to squeeze me. Let me ask you, what are you going to do with the Qin family? ”

"Last time, the Qin family knew that she was wrong, and her son had already taught her a lesson."

The old lady snorted lightly and asked rhetorically, "Lesson? Where have you taught people? beat a few people in her house, and then packed up and went back to her parents' house, where did she know that she was wrong? ”

Seeing this, Bai Sheng hurriedly said: "Mother don't be annoyed, it was her son who asked her to go back to the Qin family to reflect on her own mistakes." ”

The old lady looked at the eldest son who was proud of the officialdom in front of her, and closed her eyes in disappointment, "Once upon a time, you were also a child of a Qingliu family who was not afraid of power, how can you learn the sleek world in officialdom now?" "She's really saddened.

Bai Sheng said expressionlessly: "Mother wants her son to become a dragon, and her son doesn't dare not be angry." When you asked for me to marry the Qin family, wasn't it for the power and wealth of the Qin family? ”

"Bastard!"

The old lady was so angry that her face turned red, and she was so annoyed that she patted the case: "The reason why I asked you to marry the Qin family back then was not because you were in the limelight when you were a young man who was proud of the capital, and I don't know when I was looked at by the second lady of the Qin family. At that time, it was the Qin family who first intended to marry our family, otherwise you would be a mother and would not care about your lifelong happiness for the sake of power and wealth? ”

The old lady has regretted this marriage for many years, and she knew that she was sorry for her son, so she explained with kind words: "I have inquired about the second lady of the Qin family, thinking that she is the concubine of the marquis's mansion, and she will definitely be able to take charge of the Zhongfu and raise children for you." What's more, her sister can be selected as the crown princess, which shows that the Qin family has a good way to teach the daughter, who knows that the old lady of the Qin family blindly favors the young girl and spoils her into a domineering and willful temper. This matter was sloppy for my mother, but if you hadn't shouted at the beginning......"

Speaking of the past, the old lady was sad and regretful. At that time, the noble trustee of the Marquis Zongyu Mansion came to the mansion to inquire about the situation, and she was anxious to marry her eldest son to break his undeserved thoughts, so she directly responded to the marriage.

Bai Sheng's expression was indifferent, as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with his body, and there was no emotion in his words: "My mother is thoughtful, and it is a blessing for my son to marry the daughter of the Hou Mansion for me, otherwise I would not be so rich today."

But with the Bai family's family, our family is high. Gao married Gao and Gao married, since they all married back, doesn't the son have to indulge her? The hereditary nobles of the Marquis of Zongyu, the clansmen are intertwined in the court, not to mention the crown princess Niangniang and His Royal Highness the grandson in the East Palace. Since the emperor set up the emperor's grandson, let alone our family, who dares to openly oppose the Qin family? ”

"When you say this, are you resenting your mother?" The old lady looked at him in shock with a pain in her eyes.

Bai Sheng hurriedly stood up, bent over and replied without sincerity: "It's my son's gaffe, but the truth is so." Even if it is rumored that the saint intends to change the prince, but after three or four years, there has been no real action, and the son can have today's prestige in the court, in the final analysis, he is still stained with the light of the Hou Mansion, otherwise even if the son has the talent of the world, no one will recommend him, and it will be impossible to become a close minister of the Son of Heaven.

The child has inherited his mother's teachings since he was a child, and he should be a man who knows how to repay his kindness, the Qin family is kind to me, and the Qin family also gave birth to a pair of children for me. I remember that in the early years, it was your mother who persuaded me bitterly, saying that the Qin family was the wife of the Bai family, so that her son and her would respect each other like guests. Family harmony can lead to a smooth career, these are what you said. ”

The old lady was sad, she knew that there was a dislike between mother and son, and knew that he blamed himself for blocking him and Bai Yu's affairs back then, and drove her out of the capital. But after so many years, I didn't expect that behind his obedience and greetings every day, there was still so much resentment in his heart, and he would mock himself with the Qin family's affairs.

"Sheng'er, my mother really thought about you back then, you are my biological son, how can I harm you?"

The old lady gasped weakly, hesitated for a long time and finally said: "Ah Yu, she has been your sister for fourteen years, how can you think of her like that?" Besides, you didn't ask her what your father meant? ”

At the mention of Bai Yu, Bai Sheng's face finally changed, and he looked at it with surprise and joy, "Father asked Ah Yu back then?" ”

"Your father loves her, and you know it. Just because Qingping returned home, he still only had Ah Yu in his eyes, so I was moved for Qingping, and I was confused and embarrassed for her. But she was raised by me and your father personally, and I couldn't bear to really ignore her, your father saw that you were determined, so he went to talk to her, and asked her if she was willing to name her as a righteous daughter in his old friend's mansion in Jiangnan. ”

Even after many years, even if the answer was known in his heart, Bai Sheng still looked at the old lady with a blazing look and waited for the answer, "Then what did she say?" ”

"Ah Yu, she is a sensible person, and she rejected your father in one bite, saying that you are only a brother, and you have never had other ideas. Sheng'er, she didn't want to. ”

Because of this, the old lady looked at Bai Yu more and more unpleasantly. It's one thing for her to come forward to stop her, it's another thing for the other party to reject her son, and she is also arguing with Qingping everywhere, which makes her feel that she has raised a white-eyed wolf.

"It turned out that the son misunderstood his mother."

Bai Sheng knelt at her feet and kowtowed, "It's the son who is unfilial and has failed his mother's kindness." ”

The old lady didn't let him get up, "I say so, do you really believe it?" ”

"What the mother said, how can a son not believe?"

Bai Sheng knew that his parents loved him all his life, and the old lady would never joke with the old lady.

The old lady raised her hand, "Get up." ”

Bai Sheng served tea for her and blamed himself: "It's all my son's fault, I said a lot of foolish things, and I asked my mother not to take it to heart." What you are worried about, your son knows, to be honest, my son feels that it is okay for Jin Yao and His Royal Highness Taisun to break off. ”

The old lady's heart jumped, and she asked nervously: "What's the matter, but there is a movement in the court?" ”

Bai Sheng shook his head back in place, "It's not the court." ”

"That's after. Palace? ”

"I heard from the people in the palace that the emperor is going to canonize Du Guifei, the mother of the sixth prince, as Du Huang Guifei."

The old lady's face was horrified.

"It is well known that the saint loves the mother and son of the concubine, His Royal Highness the grandson has always been at odds with him, the imperial uncle, and now the direction of the wind in the court may not be known, and the son can't gamble with the Qin family with his net worth." Bai Sheng's tone was serious.

The old lady looked at the eldest son in front of her, and felt more and more strange. Fang Cai also said that today is all because of the support of the Marquis of Zongyu's mansion, and if you want to repay your kindness, you will have to find another way to make a living......

Of course, this is just to think about. Everything he does is for the Bai family.

"That's why you let the Qin family go back to their parents' house?"

Bai Sheng tapped a few times, and suddenly sighed: "The incident in Pinmei Xuan was that she did too much. Anyway, Jing Hao is the eldest lady of my Bai family, she rushed in like this, and wanted to kill her daughter in Ah Yu's former residence, and her son could not be tolerated. ”

The old lady took out the Buddha beads from her sleeve and slowly turned around: "Jinghao, that child is a bitter life, but it is always your own, now I look more and more like Ah Yu, I sometimes can't help but think of her mother." ”

"The matter of the back house, it is better for Mother Lao to think more about it."

Seeing that he didn't want to care, the old lady only said that he didn't want to evoke the sad things of the past, and she didn't insist on talking about it, so she asked again: "What are you going to do about Jinyao's affairs?" The young lady of the Bai family is being talked about like this, so how will the girls in the family go out to meet people in the future? ”

"I checked this matter, and the sixth prince himself passed on the tryst between him and our Jinyao. But the six princesses in his palace are still there, and this matter is not urgent. ”

Bai Sheng just pondered this difficulty, but within two days after Du Guifei was crowned as the imperial concubine, the sixth princess died.