Mrs. Yu looked at Fu Tingyun's background with a complicated expression.

At the age of twenty-four, she had neither a prominent family nor a noble background, and became a lady of the third grade from a woman who did not even have the protection of her family and fell like duckweed...... Looking at it, except for the royal family and nobles, I am afraid that it is the only one!

Not only that, but also won the favor of the Empress Dowager, standing with Mrs. Longping Marquis and Mrs. Wuding, accepting the Empress Dowager's questioning, and being in the limelight...... How many people can have such an honor!

She returned to the street with all her heart.

The daughter-in-law Fan took the maid and the mother-in-law to wait in front of the hanging flower door.

She looked good, smiled meekly, and respectfully stepped forward to help Mrs. Yu get out of the carriage.

But inexplicably, Mrs. Yu felt irritable.

What's the use of being pretty? There are so many beautiful women in the world, can they go to the 70th birthday banquet of the Empress Dowager?

Mrs. Yu's beautiful face suddenly appeared in her mind.

She stood in front of the Empress Dowager, her smile was bright and bright, and her pitchers were generous and modest and polite, which was truly gentle, generous, and beautiful...... And how can the women who never know their own lowliness like a finch understand!

Thinking of this, Mrs. Yu was even more depressed.

She went to the main house with a calm face.

Fan only felt that it was incomprehensible, so he had to serve Mrs. Yu with extra care.

Seeing that she was blindly flattering, without any of her own opinions, Mrs. Yu saw that Fan's eyes were becoming more and more unpleasant, and said, "Did Depu say when he would come back?" ”

Because of the birthday of the Empress Dowager, the Imperial History of the Heavenly Survey returned to Kyoto. Yu Jingxiu is not good enough. I can't attend today's birthday.

Fan said with a smile: "In the evening, there will be fireworks in Xiyuan, and Xianggong said that he will come back later." ”

Mrs. Yu nodded and said, "Depu and the people went to Xiyuan one day?" ”

"I don't know." Fan's smile was graceful, "Xianggong didn't say anything, so I didn't ask more!" ”

Inexplicable. Mrs. Yu was furious.

She said in a deep voice: "If he doesn't say, you won't ask." If one day your father-in-law and I die, he will sell his land outside. Did he not say it, and you did not ask? ”

Fan was stunned.

Then I felt very wronged.

Is it wrong to act according to the three obedience and four virtues?

But she didn't dare to argue with Mrs. Yu. I had to bow my head and admit my mistake: "Mother, don't be angry, it's me who is wrong." Where will the prime minister go in the future, I will just ask. ”

I didn't ask her to check her son's whereabouts, but hoped that she wouldn't always be troubled by the food and clothing of Depu, and occasionally care about what her husband was doing...... Seeing that Fan didn't understand what she was talking about at all, Mrs. Yu stroked her forehead weakly, and then waved her hand at Fan with a look on her face, signaling her to retreat.

Fan's face was red and white, and he left the main house for a while.

A little maid cautiously prayed through the curtain: "Madam, the uncle is back!" ”

Mrs. Yu looked up and saw Yu Jingxiu, who was wearing a bamboo-green Hangzhou silk jacket, walking in energetically.

She couldn't help but wonder: "Aren't you going to go to Xiyuan with your friends to watch fireworks?" Why did you come back so soon? What happened? ”

Yu Jingxiu saluted his mother. He sat down beside his mother with a smile and said, "It's nothing." It's just that someone accidentally spilled wine on the upper of my shoes in the restaurant just now, and I came back to change my shoes. ”

Mrs. Yu listened, and her eyes fell on the upper of his shoes.

The dark green Fuyun shoes can't see where they are dirty.

She nodded slightly unhappily. said: "Go to Xiyuan with those people today to watch the fireworks?" "I actually spilled wine on the vamp of my shoes, which shows that I am not a good place!

"It turns out that a few colleagues from the pedestrian division." Yu Jingxiu said with a smile, "You haven't seen me for a long time, so you specially asked me to go out to see the excitement." ”

Mrs. Yu muttered: "Today, the Empress Dowager has a birthday, and the people from the pedestrian department seem to be helping too......

Yu Jingxiu said with a smile: "There are thirty or forty people in the pedestrian division, and you can't go to everyone. Just pick a few people who are familiar with etiquette from the past......"

Do the Beijing official. It is important to be familiar with etiquette. Such people are usually also prone to promotion.

Mrs. Yu's expression was even more unpleasant, and she said, "Since you are going to be lively, you should also make an appointment with a few colleagues from the Metropolitan Procuratorate." The term of office of the Imperial History of the Survey is one year, and when you return to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, there must be someone who will either be promoted to the sixth department to be the main officer, or be released to be the parent official of a county, and then I am afraid that it will not be so convenient if you want to get together. ”

Yu Jingxiu smiled disapprerovingly: "Mother, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has always been an iron-clad soldier of the Yamen, and if someone is released this year, someone will be selected to come in." When I get back to Kyoto, it's not too late to socialize with those colleagues. ”

Seeing that her son didn't take her words to heart, Mrs. Yu was a little displeased, and said, "You are not young anymore, how can you still afford to squander?" It's ...... to make up your mind early."

Before her words fell, Yu Jingxiu's face changed slightly, and he said, "It's too late to make an appointment today, let's talk about it when I'm free!" Then he stood up, "It's not early, they're still waiting for me in the restaurant, I'll go back to the house to change my shoes first." ”

Mrs. Yu was angry and couldn't help but say: "It's really 'half a blessing for a wife'......"

Yu Jingxiu frowned when he heard this, and said with some displeasure: "Mother, what's the matter?" If you say I'll talk about me, why did it get involved with Fan's again? ”

"What? I just sighed, I haven't named your daughter-in-law yet, you can't stand it? For her sake, even her mother has to fight against her! Mrs. Yu was furious, and the anger that she had endured since she saw Yu Tingyun finally couldn't be suppressed, and it burned fiercely, "Your father is still alive, and I am not old and confused, so you can't tolerate me as a mother for the sake of your daughter-in-law?" You're so filial! It's not in vain that I got pregnant in October and worked hard to give birth to you......"

Mrs. Yu said the opposite, Yu Jingxiu's face turned pale, and she knelt down in front of her mother.

When Shu's mother saw it, she immediately retreated with the servants in the house.

"Mother, I didn't mean that!" He pulled his mother's sleeve as if begging for mercy, "I just think that the Fan family is now your daughter-in-law." There are some things that she doesn't understand, just teach her well. You talk to Fan's face like this, how do you let her gain a foothold at home. She is the daughter-in-law chosen by her son, she is not good, but I am not good. You just don't save face for her, but also leave me some dignity......"

Mrs. Yu snorted at Yu Jingxiu. said: "Do you also know that when I say that she is not good, I just don't give you decency? Who cares about my face? I teach her? Do I dare to teach her? As soon as I opened my mouth, you immediately protected her as if I were going to eat her. I'm afraid she has been wronged a little. Do you know who I saw today? I saw Fu's! She's a lady of Sanpin now! Don't you understand what you did to her in the first place? If you change someone, I'm afraid that you will die a long time ago. But do you know what Mrs. Longping said to me today? said that the reason why the emperor decided to reuse Zhao Ling was at the beginning. In addition to being recommended by the Marquis of Yingchuan, there is also an important reason for Fu Zhenlie, the emperor said that with such a woman as his wife, even if Zhao Ling has transgressions, he will not lose his morality. ”

Yu Jingxiu's face changed greatly.

Mrs. Yu smiled coldly at him and said, "Don't you often say how virtuous and virtuous the Fan family is?" Then give me a few examples! Is she contributing to the Yu family's succession? Or persuade her husband to pursue his career and glorify his ancestors? Even the mess in his own house is criticized...... That is, you treat her as a treasure! I'll tell you the truth, our Yu family doesn't have a cousin, but if she is still so unrepentant, it is reasonable for me to send her back to her hometown in Nanjing to fulfill your filial piety in front of your aunt instead of you. No one would dare to say 'no'! ”

"Mother!" Yu Jingxiu was in a hurry, "I know it's my mistake. I will definitely teach Fan well in the future......" he said, kowtowing to his mother a few times.

Mrs. Yu said "um" disdainfully, and shouted to Mother Shu: "You go and talk to the eldest grandmother, so that she can settle down from tomorrow." Don't break the norm. She is the eldest grandson and eldest daughter-in-law of our Yu family, and the concubines in each room are watching, and there are concubines in the house to teach a lesson, but she can't break the rules and make people look at jokes. ”

Shu's mother quickly glanced at Yu Jingxiu, who was kneeling on the ground with a somewhat dull expression. He whispered "yes".

Mrs. Yu helped her mother's arm and got off the kang, and without looking at her son, she went to the study.

The room fell silent.

The rustle of the spring breeze through the treetops can be heard clearly.

Yu Jingxiu's heart was a little out of breath as if he had been crushed by a stone.

Mrs. Longping really said that the emperor reused Zhao Ling and also had a share of the Fu family's credit? Or is it nothing more than a promise made up by his mother to provoke him...... Thinking like this in my head, I vaguely understood in my heart that my mother was not such a person...... But the Fu family is a woman, how can the emperor look at Zhao Ling differently because of this?

He suddenly remembered the scene when he went to see Fu Tingyun that time.

She held her head high, and there was a pride in her eyes that looked down on the world...... Unlike all the women he'd ever seen...... It seems that nothing can bother her...... It is such a woman that my mother admires the most...... The eldest aunt seems to like such a woman just like her mother...... He also said that a man is a tree, a woman is soil, and no matter how good a tree is, if there is no earth, it will not grow into a towering tree...... If she had married that woman, even if she didn't get along with her mother, she would definitely have a way to fight with her mother, right? Maybe it's even more powerful than his mother, or even suppresses his mother......

The thought flashed, and Yu Jingxiu couldn't help but shudder.

How could you think that?

It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous......

He immediately got up and walked out of his mother's house as quickly as he could run.

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Over there, the Fan family was sulking, and when he saw Yu Jingxiu walking in a little distraught, he greeted him with a smile: "Didn't you say that you were going to Xiyuan to watch the fireworks?" Why did you come back at this time? Have you eaten? I let the old hen stew in the kitchen, and I was going to leave it for you for supper, do you want me to have someone serve you a bowl? ”

"No need." Yu Jingxiu cheered up and smiled reluctantly, and said, "I'll come back and change my shoes and leave, a few colleagues from the pedestrian division are still waiting for me in the restaurant!" As he spoke, he asked Fan, "How much silver do you have in your hand?" Give me two hundred taels of silver, I have something to do. ”