More than ten years ago, not long after the rebellion had just subsided, the new emperor ascended the throne, and he made two decrees, one was Lu Huarong, the daughter of the Lu family, as Concubine Rong, and Lu Huanan, the head of the Lu family in the second Jin Dynasty, was the Duke of Ruiguo, hereditary replacement.

As soon as the holy decree came out, the whole world was in an uproar, and the Lu family was in the limelight for a while, and the world envied and feared it.

The Lu family was originally a scholar and a prominent family in Jiangling, since the old man Lu resigned from the post of pavilion elder, although there are still young talents in the clan, but most of them are civil officials, neither generals nor honors, how can they become one of the four major public mansions?

This matter needs to start with the friendship between Lu Huanan and the new emperor.

At that time, Old Man Lu had not yet resigned, and Lu Huanan and the third son of the emperor, Meng Tan, were both high-spirited young men. The mother family of the three highnesses is not obvious, and no one cares about the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, but Lu Huanan deeply feels his talent, and often travels with him to guide the world's articles.

Unexpectedly, a few years later, the old emperor was seriously ill, and King Wen and King Cheng competed for the throne, and finally both lost. At that time, the old man Lu, who had resigned and returned to seclusion, wrote a long book, saying that "the third son of the emperor is scorching and has the ability to govern the country and level the world."

Lu Ge served as the director of scientific research for several years, and the world's jinshi did his best. When this article came out, all the scholars responded.

The queen had no concubines, so the elders of the six ministers and cabinet ministers came forward to respectfully ask the third son of the emperor, Meng Tan, to ascend the throne and change the year name to Qingping.

As a result, the Lu family's achievements from the dragon are unparalleled, and the honor and glory are inexhaustible.

The new emperor ascended the throne and granted amnesty to the world, and the Lu family naturally went up and down, and returned a group of old and unmarried slaves and maids.

Among them, there is a maid, whose real name is Wang Ruohua, later changed to Ruoxiang, who was originally a good son of the Lu family who was sold to the Lu family in the famine years, but fortunately, her parents and relatives still have a conscience, and she only sold a living deed, saying that she would come back to redeem her daughter in the future.

She had read the book and recognized a few words, so she won the appreciation of Mrs. Lu at that time, and put her in the inner study as an errand, and she came out of a good family, but she also smoked a little high temper.

When Ruoxiang was working in the house, although her long lips were red and her teeth were white, she looked beautiful, but she was a master who was not enlightened, because she was molested by the master of the second room, and she happened to be told to the mother of the big house, and everyone knew that after that, no one dared to touch her side, and even those little stewards also knew that she was the one who made the second master deflated, and no one dared to offend the master to marry her.

More than ten years have passed, and Ruoxiang is already twenty years old. On the occasion of the first year of Qingping, she and her group took out all the body they had saved over the years, went to Knowles, and ransomed themselves.

She is a scheming person, in the early years, she got along very well with a Li Pozi of the Lu family, and later Li Pozi went to Zhuangzi to support the elderly, Ruoxiang came to her because of this, and bought two acres of land with the little silver left, rented it to others to plant, and only collected some rent, which can be regarded as a source of living.

Renting the land is a pair of mother and son, surnamed Jiang, the character is honest, the man is also loyal and capable, a year or two, Mrs. Li persuaded Ruoxiang, "You are not young, it is better to find someone to marry, Mrs. Jiang has asked me a few times, I also think that her family is good, and she is a person who can live." ”

The mother and son of the Jiang family also have their own land, and the family is quite wealthy.

Since Mrs. Jiang saw that Ruoxiang wanted to be her daughter-in-law, she naturally showed 100,000 points of hospitality, and brought Ruoxiang a copy of whatever she had to eat at home, and often asked her son to do some chores and heavy work for Ruoxiang.

So Ruoxiang happily became a parent, and soon after the marriage had a pregnancy, the attack was at night, because the moonlight was bright and clean, and the clear light was scorching, and it was a girl, Ruoxiang made the master, named Jiayue.

After another two years, she gave birth to a boy and followed the artistic conception of her eldest daughter Jiang Jiayue, named Nanqiu.

Time flies, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have always been harmonious, and family affairs are smooth everywhere, but Mrs. Jiang is getting older, and she still closes her eyes in the end.

Since then, the young husband and wife have worked together, one husband and children, the other has worked hard and tired, and they have raised their two children for nothing, and they have also learned to read and read with Ruoxiang.

But the good times didn't last long, when Jiang Da was discussing with Ruoxiang whether to send his son Jiang Nanqiu to the school to enlighten, Jiang Da, who was overworked, suddenly suffered a stroke, was unconscious, and had to hang himself with decoction every day.

After another two or three years, Ruoxiang pawned out all the fields in the family, and the little savings were used up one after another, and she only relied on her and her daughter Jiang Jiayue to do needlework every day, and then entrusted the Li Pozi on the Zhuangzi to sell to the Jiangling Lu family to live by.

It's just that Jiang Da's condition is still not improving, and I don't know when such days will come to an end.

At that time, Jiang Jiayue was already in the prime of her life, slim and slim on the ground, she was a good girl with clear eyebrows and handsome eyes, and she was ingenious, and she was top-notch in all aspects of needlework and family affairs.

She was engaged to the son of the local Zhang Xiucai, but the family saw that the Jiang family was rapidly declining, so they were a little reluctant in their words, and in the past three years, not to mention weekdays, even during the New Year's holidays, they have never set foot in the Jiang family.

When Ruoxiang cheekily came to borrow money once, the talented lady finally had a seizure.

"Where did you come from, you will ask for money when you open your mouth, and you don't want to be cheeky! According to me, since you have worked as an errand boy in a large family, why don't you go to your master to ask for it? If you don't have to come to my house, the temple can't accommodate you, the Bodhisattva, and I don't know who is cold! ”

Ruoxiang was originally a noble lord, if it weren't for Jiang Da, how could he not lower his head, although he felt insulted, but there were nails under his feet, his face was red, and his mouth was screaming, "Xiucai lady, please also help my family for the sake of children's relatives, and I will definitely pay it back in the future." ”

"In the future? Bah! Xiucai Lady opened her mouth and spat at the mouth, "Since you have said everything to this point, I won't talk to you about it, let's make it clear!" Your daughter is noble, but my son can't climb high! ”

In a word, he wanted to retire Jiang Jiayue's family affairs.

When Ruoxiang heard this, she waved her hand again and again, "Xiucai lady, I won't borrow this silver, I won't borrow it, you can't talk nonsense, our two families have a ceremony......"

Before she finished speaking, the Xiucai lady had already closed the door with a "bang", and the faint scolding could still be heard in the room.

No matter how difficult it was, Ruoxiang, who had never cried, was also red-eyed at this time, standing in front of the door in a daze.

"Mother, let's go, let's go home!"

Suddenly, Jiang Jiayue rushed out from the hypotenuse and took Ruoxiang's hand, "My daughter didn't want to marry in the first place, but you and your father didn't say that Xiucai's son had a chance, so it was just right, and it saved her daughter from marrying reluctantly!" ”

Jiang Jiayue's temperament followed her mother, she looked beautiful, but she was very stubborn, and she pulled Ruoxiang's head and walked home without looking back.

As soon as I arrived at the door, I saw Mrs. Li standing there with a happy face.