Chapter 10 A Glimmer of Life
After Zeng Yukun finished entertaining a wave of officials, he hurriedly entered the inner room and drank a cup of sobering tea. was about to enter Ba Province, Zeng Yukun sat on a big boat, and just let go of a group of local officials. These officials heard that Zeng Yukun was the first to stand for Qincha, can they not flatter?
After Zeng Yukun finished drinking the sobering tea, his mind cleared up a little, and he couldn't help but look at the bustling crowd on the dock outside the window, and he couldn't help but hold his head.
As the son of Fuchun Hou, in fact, he is not as beautiful as outsiders see. Or rather, once, he was also beautiful. After all, he was made a son very early. Although the Zeng family still has a few brothers, he is not only a descendant, but also the eldest son. If you don't give in, he must be the son of the world.
However, such a secure position as the son of the world has become more and more unstable in recent years. First, his father pampered a concubine. It's not really a problem. He also has a favorite concubine, but he still has a lot of respect for his wife. However, something went wrong with their family. His father pampered the concubine a little too much. First, his mother fell ill angrily.
It's nothing, women, it's nothing to be jealous. As a son, he also went to comfort his mother. Anyway, his position as a son is a thug, and he has already married a wife anyway, and his mother, as a grandmother-level figure, still cares about these concubines? If my father likes it, he thinks he has a pug.
My mother also listened to his persuasion and cheered up. However, I didn't expect that this minor illness had never been cured.
My mother began to linger on the sickbed, and she has not been well until now. At first, it was just a lingering sickbed, and I couldn't go out to participate in the entertainment between the ladies. Later, I slowly couldn't manage the housework, and finally I began to fall into a coma, and now day by day, I wake up less and less.
The mother couldn't manage the housework, and the father actually let the third aunt start to manage the housework, which made the entire noble circle in the capital laugh to death.
is just like the Qin family of Liguo Gong, who has spoiled concubines and killed wives for several generations, and there is no mention of letting concubines manage housework. His own family is famous.
That's it. The father actually let the third aunt start to contact the outside affairs. Everyone in the capital knows that the third aunt is still looking for a wild man outside, and the wild man she fancied took a fragrant cart and left. Later, these men were all killed by the third aunt. Whoever didn't obey her, she actually took her father's name post, found the officials of the county government around the capital, and brought such a man to the official mansion and was wronged to death.
This kind of thing was secretly spread all over the capital, making him dare not come forward in the noble circle. Everywhere there were mockers of him. He couldn't help but talk to his father, but as a result, his father not only beat him severely, but also gave it to the emperor to take away his position as the son.
He was cold, and had no choice but to ask his wife's maiden family and his mother's maiden family to come forward and negotiate with his father, so that his wife could get the right to be a housekeeper. However, the third aunt continued to be outside. To be precise, the woman named Begonia doesn't care about the power of these inner houses at all. She wants outside power.
And he, as the son of a mansion, was strictly controlled by his father in the mansion, and even acted with his father with him, and he had no freedom at all.
Not only was his heart cold, but even his wife was afraid. If it goes on like this, as long as the third aunt gives birth to a boy, I am afraid that this mansion will change, and Zeng Yukun's position as the son of the world is in jeopardy.
Zeng Yukun had no way. This kind of thing is not something that his maternal uncle and wife's mother-in-law can help. After all, this is a family affair of the Zeng family.
As a son of a family, Zeng Yukun knows very well that in the future, when he has no throne, and when the third aunt becomes more and more powerful, he will not only have no status, no title, and even no life. Even his wife's life could not be spared.
Thinking of this, Zeng Yukun and his wife quietly hugged and cried in the house. For this, Zeng Yukun hated the concubine room more and more, and even sent out several of his favorite concubines, only guarding his wife.
But what's the use of that? The fate that should come will still come. As a son, Zeng Yukun absolutely can't resist his father.
It was at this time that things suddenly took a turn for the better. His sister was actually taken by the Qin family, and the two families got married, and her sister became the fiancée of the prince of Liguo. His own family and the Qin family became in-laws.
If it had been before, Zeng Yukun would not even have pinched the Qin family with his eyes. Although his family is a marquis, and the Qin family is a duke, the Qin family has long since declined, how can he compare with a powerful lord like Marquis Fuchun?
The ruin of the Qin family is well-known in the entire noble circle. Not only is there no power, but it is also extremely poor, and all the family property is eaten and cleaned, and only some sacrificial fields are used to mix their mouths. Even the mansion of the Liguo Mansion was mortgaged out. The children of the family were divided up early, and even the servants that had been accumulated for generations were almost sold. Such a complete family with no rules, no power, and even poorer, if he wants to marry the daughter of his Fuchun Marquis Zeng family, it is simply impossible.
If it was a few years ago, it is estimated that Zeng Yukun would be able to beat the matchmaker out.
However, now it is different, the Qin family has a Qin Mingyue, as a disciple of Shen Guoshi, and he will still take over the position of national teacher in the future. This is a real and true supreme minister. This is the position of power in the world. The Qin family is developed, and that is just around the corner.
The magnates of the entire capital vied with each other to get up with the Qin family. The Qin family trembled again.
Of course, the Zeng family also began to tie up with the Qin family. At the flowering party in his house, he sent an invitation to Qin Mingyue, but he didn't expect Qin Mingyue to come to the door as a guest. However, Qin Mingyue actually gave face. This already made him overjoyed.
Later, his sister actually fell into the eyes of Qin Mingyue and Shen Xingyi, and acted as a matchmaker for Qin Guosong, and the two families finally got married. It's really undreamable.
The Zeng family immediately became hot in the Xungui Mansion in the capital.
is the father who has always looked at him unpleasantly, and for the sake of his sister, not only let him out, but also let his wife have full authority to manage the family affairs, not only to manage internal affairs, but also to manage the grange and business outside, just to sort out some dowry as soon as possible and bring it to the Qin family for his sister.
This in-law, my father still attaches great importance to it. Even in order to stabilize this in-law, his father encouraged him to go out more often and make friends with Qin Guosong. This made Zeng Yukun, who was already sitting still, see a glimmer of life.