198 Virtuous reputation
"It's not teasing, it's envy, it's jealousy!" Du Mingxin said with a smile, "It's rare for a man in the world to be like my uncle, why did I ask you to meet him!" ”
Yuan Ying glanced at her with a smile and said, "Isn't King Jin like this to you?" The people in Beijing say that apart from you, King Jin doesn't even have a female mosquito by his side. ”
"It's almost winter, where do the mosquitoes come from?" Du Mingxin couldn't breathe with laughter, "Uncle is different from him, I put on a jealous face early in the morning, don't say that I arranged a concubine room for him, and even the people who served tea and poured water in the house were all my people." If I were to be like you, and throw two women at him, who knows if he will take it or not? ”
Yuan Ying listened to her words, and stopped talking.
In the end, she still said with some concern: "You...... In terms of seniority, I am your elder, but the two of us have always been like sisters...... It is really against your will to persuade you with these words, but if you don't, I am afraid that your reputation will be lost......"
"What does my aunt want to say?" Du Mingxin took a handkerchief and picked up the golden loquat on the plate, and asked while peeling it.
"You say what you say about being a jealous woman...... Yuan Ying was a little embarrassed, "Women in the world are difficult, and I am also tired of those words that say that women should be generous and virtuous." But this world has always been like this, how can the world ever say half a word for a woman? ”
"I see that King Jin really loves you, so you just show yourself to do it and block everyone's mouths...... Not for anything else, I'm afraid that if you give birth to a little county lord in the future, you will be so tired that your daughter will not be able to find her in-laws. ”
Du Mingxin handed the peeled loquat to Yuan Ying, pursed his lips and smiled: "People live for a lifetime, and it takes only a few decades to unify the Communist Party." If I had never thought that I would be able to live to this point, I would still have someone who loves me by my side, and I could still find a relative like my uncle......"
In her last life, she lived to be sixteen years old, and she didn't even get a glimpse of the bustling capital, let alone be able to fall in love with Chen Xi and give birth to two people who were like two people.
"If everything depends on what the world on both sides say, then what's the fun of living?" Du Mingxin touched his son's soft hair and said with a smile, "As for my daughter, I will only choose a son-in-law with a good character and a clean family style for her in the future, who can stand my family's rule of not accepting concubines, but I don't look at it!" ”
"Hey!" Yuan Ying sighed helplessly, "That's what I said." With your uncle here, you will not be wronged. Rest assured, we have everything in your hands! You just have to live your life as you please. ”
Du Mingxin threw himself into Yuan Ying's arms and said with a coquettish smile: "I know that my aunt feels sorry for me!" ”
Yuan Ying was a little crying and laughing by her, and said: "They are all mothers, and they are such a little girl with a temperament!" ”
Xia Ye watched from the sidelines, but there was some emotion in his heart. The girl has been a teenager since she was a child, without the love of her parents, how could she have seen such a delicate appearance of a girl in the early years? Or have I become a relative to the prince in the past two years, and I have become more and more active......
"The reason why I mentioned this is because of something I heard two days ago...... Yuan Ying said hesitantly, "Sister-in-law said that it is better not to let you know, so as not to be idle." But I thought, if you don't know, in the future, when it spreads, you will be caught off guard......"
"What's the matter?" Du Mingxin frowned.
"The former sister-in-law and her mother went to Du's mansion to discuss with the eldest lady about marrying Sister Shu'er next year, and happened to meet Du Mingjing returning to her parents' house."
Du Mingxin frowned, Du Mingjing has been back to her parents' house many times this time, and Aunt Zhang doesn't know how much to reince in!
The sister-in-law didn't look very good when she saw her, so she didn't ask in detail, but the eldest lady took it as a piece of news, broke it up and crumpled it and told Mrs. Ding. Yuan Ying said with a little helplessness in her tone, "It is said that Du Mingjing's father-in-law recently accepted a noble concubine, and she is the daughter of a teacher in a school in Beijing." That gentleman still has the reputation of Xiucai, but he suddenly fell ill and died two months ago, leaving a group of orphans and widows. The girl was the eldest daughter, and when she saw that the family could no longer live, she said that she would sell it for herself, and she would leave a few taels of silver to support her mother and younger siblings. ”
Du Mingxin has been the housewife for so long, and when he heard about this girl's background, he knew that it was a difficult one to deal with. Xiucai's daughter must be a literate and hyphenated person. If she is smarter, she may be able to become a talented woman, which is much better than a semi-literate person like Du Mingjing.
Originally, being a concubine with others was self-willing, but if it was on the reputation of "selling oneself to support one's family", not only was it not cheap, but it would make a group of gentlemen and masters sigh.
"Whose idea is it for the Li family to take such a concubine?" Du Mingxin asked, "I seem to remember that Mrs. Li values Du Mingjing very much. ”
"It's Li Ling's own meaning." Yuan Ying said helplessly, "It was said that he had seen this girl by chance, and he hated to say that he couldn't talk to Du Mingjing, so he wanted to accept such an aunt to enter the door, and there was a meaning of red sleeves and fragrance." ”
Through Yuan Ying's words, Du Mingxin could imagine the way the eldest lady's eyebrows fluttered when she said this. It's a shame that everyone has been thrown to Ding's house!
"This is Du Mingjing's own house, I can't take care of it." Du Mingxin said leisurely, "My aunt is still in the hall, maybe Du Mingjing still thinks it is an opportunity to pretend to be virtuous and generous." ”
"That's exactly what I said!" Yuan Ying said, "At that time, my sister-in-law was also out of kindness and played a few rounds. Who knew that Du Mingjing said that the Du family is now married to the two of you, and you regard the King of Jin to death, if she is not diligent, I am afraid that the reputation of the Du family girl outside will not be good. ”
These words really disgusted Du Mingxin, Du Mingjing is going to step on herself and put gold on her face?
She waved her hand and said with a smile: "Uncle doesn't need to pay attention to these idle things, if there is really someone who doesn't know how to say this to my face, I have something to say." ”
"Hmm." Yuan Ying nodded.
After the Chongyang Festival, when the north wind was about to rise, good news came from the real wax rice seeds that Deng Hong tried to plant in the suburbs of Beijing.
As Deng Hong said, the rice fruit was harvested in less than three months, and two-thirds more grain was harvested in the less fertile B and other fields than in previous years.
Chen Yuantai looked at the bucket of grain that had been moved into the Qianqing Palace, and his face was happy. "You can harvest one season in three months, and if you cut out the winter days that are not suitable for farming, you can always get one or two more seasons of grain in a year."
"The decree went down, and ordered the household department to send rice seeds to the political envoys. The governors of the prefectures and counties are responsible for distributing the rice seeds to the farmers and tenant farmers, and each county has to plant them for me to a greater or lesser extent according to their own conditions! Next year, I want to see that the official warehouses in various places are abundant and surplus, enough to resist the catastrophe! ”