Chapter 35: Muai
Imperial capital.
Early summer.
The backyard of a separate courtyard of the Gu family in Hongzhou is lush and full of green trees.
In the sound of cicadas that were not too intense, Shen Zangning, who was dressed as a noblewoman, frowned tightly at her two crescent-like eyebrows, almost connecting them together: "This wife is Qi Ye, how can the candidate be ignored?" Are you the eldest son of our Ming Pei Tang's long house, or the only son, your wife, how can you settle down so easily? ”
Shen Shuming, who was lazy next, said in a very indifferent tone: "My nephew doesn't expect to rely on the power of the Yue family, and besides, with all my uncles and aunts here, does my nephew need to ask the Yue family?" ”
Shen Zangning glared at him and said, "Your future, your third uncle will definitely give you a good plan!" It's the same with your marriage! Don't mention it! ”
"No way!" Shen Shuming refused without thinking about it, and insisted, "I just want Her Royal Highness Princess Shang Qingxin, I don't want other people's ladies!" ”
"You know something!" Shen Zangning is not a very patient person, plus she is not yet married for a full moon, and she has no elders and no sisters-in-law above, and she will be in charge as soon as she passes the door, so she deliberately took the time to persuade this nephew today It is already easy to make money, but Shen Shuming is still not entering, so he is annoyed at the moment, and shouted, "How many times have you only met that princess?" You don't have to marry her? This lifelong event is also so angry, do you think you are still three years old?! Besides, you don't count as seniors?! Her sister Princess Linchuan descended to my eldest uncle, but you are still Qingxin...... Does this sound like a word? ”
Shen Zangning had a good relationship with Princess Qingxin back then, but this did not mean that she would approve of her nephew Shang Qingxin.
In the end, the nephew is more important than the playmate of the girlhood.
Besides, the changes in the East Gate back then, in the past few years, Shen Zangning has more or less heard some faint rumors, how can he have any good feelings about the Great Wei royal family? Although those things were not done by Qing Xin, the people around her, from the abolished Gu family to her brother Shen Xun to her foreign family Gu family...... After experiencing life and death, in the face of the eternal death of blood relatives, the friendship of youth is far away.
Princess Qingxin is no longer the arrogant, domineering but innocent little princess.
Shen Zangning is no longer a stubborn aristocratic girl who has no worries under the protection of her father.
After all, they are just former playmates, and it is difficult to say whether they will be friends or enemies in the future.
What's more, the generational difference between Shen Shuming and Qingxin - let's talk about it from Shen Zangning's husband's family, Shen Shuming's second aunt Shen Zangxiu, that is Princess Qingxin's fourth sister-in-law.
Being reprimanded by her little aunt, who was only six years older, Shen Shuming's already stiff face became a little gloomy again, and he said stubbornly: "The beauty of Her Royal Highness Princess Qingxin is rare in the world. The nephew liked her good looks. ”
"It's rare in the world, and it's not unparalleled in the world!" Shen Zangning said coldly, "You like good-looking girls, I will write back to Xiliang to your third uncle and third aunt when I go back, and promise to marry you a national beauty and heavenly fragrance - our Shen family's son marries a wife, how can this request not be done?" "Isn't it just a beauty? Children of the Shen family, as long as you want to, are you afraid that there will be no beauty?!
I don't want Shen Shuming to snort: "Then little aunt, let's talk about whose daughter can be more beautiful than Her Royal Highness Princess Qingxin?" ”
Shen Zangning choked - if this was before the fall of the imperial capital, she could still say that she would send someone to find it, but there was no in this sect, which of the six valves in the sea was not flourishing, and it was impossible for the branch and the side branch to really find a lady comparable to Princess Qingxin - at most, the status was relatively low.
But now...... Not to mention the fall of the imperial capital, how many talented and beautiful women died tragically in the city, let's just say that there is a big chaos in the world today, and it is not easy to visit!
She thought for a while and said, "Since you just took a fancy to Princess Qingxin's beauty, wouldn't it be better to take a few beautiful concubines in the future?" ”
Princess Qingxin's beauty is passed on to the abolished Gu family of Huanzong, but after the Gu family is older, her complexion has not deteriorated, and she has not been favored by Miao Jieyu and Zhong Xiaoyi? It can be seen that the Gu family is not so beautiful that it is the only one in the world.
There is no beauty in the famous family who can compare with Princess Qingxin, and are you afraid that you can't find it in the Shu family?
Shen Shuming said dissatisfiedly: "My nephews have taken a fancy to me, why didn't my little aunt agree to me?" ”
Shen Zangning said angrily: "How can you clean up nonsense?!" I don't want to think that Princess Qingxin is two years older than you, and now she is eighteen, and the royal family hasn't found her a colt yet, what do you think is the reason?! ”
Without waiting for Shen Shuming to answer, Shen Zangning had already sneered and said, "Earlier, before we arrived here, the Holy Lord mentioned this matter to Wei Xinyong. That's the sixth uncle of your third aunt's family! It's just that Wei Xinyong didn't agree, so it was shelved. And now you're here...... Wei Xinyong and Qingxin are only one generation, don't forget that if your second aunt is still here, it is Qingxin's sister-in-law! The saint was in a daze, so he grabbed Qingxin and asked people everywhere...... Are you dizzy too? Speaking of which, Qingxin is your uncle's own sister! Can you still her?! ”
"Wei Xinyong is a good man, it's strange that Princess Qingxin will want it." Shen Shuming said disapprerovingly, "My nephew thinks that Princess Qingxin's beauty is unprecedented!" Besides, it's not uncommon for the royal family to be chaotic. ”
There is often confusion in the royal family, but you kid is a son of the valve?
Self-esteem as the world's exemplary etiquette ...... Can you afford to lose such a face?
He was clearly bewildered by the beauty - Shen Zangning looked at him speechlessly for a moment, and said, "You...... You can believe your cousin's words?! That Gu Naizheng made this rumor, and almost made Wei Xinyong angry to death, even your Aunt Su was so angry that she got sick for two days before she got up! You're going to have to pass it along! ”
"But everyone in the city is talking about it, who knows if it's true or not?" Shen Shuming was resentful of his uncle and aunt, since Wei Xinyong was the maiden of his third aunt, of course he would rather believe the unpleasant words, and sneered, "The so-called no wind and no waves, how can such words come out without a little shadow?" Besides, Wei Xinyong didn't go back to Ruiyutang, how could he have no inside information? ”
How much Wei Xinyong values the tiger slave, I'm afraid only Mo Binwei, who was around him in those days, knows best.
Even Wei Huan can't be very sure.
I don't know if he is afraid that after returning to Ruiyu Hall, although he has been protected and supported by Ruiyu Hall, he is also subject to Ruiyu Hall, and he can't avenge the tiger slave as he wants, so Gu Naizheng's strange "It's all for General Mo" speculation, there are actually a lot of believers.
Shen Zangning listened to her cousin Su Yuli's refutation of rumors before she believed that Wei Xinyong's plan did not have any unusual hobbies.
However, whether Wei Xinyong is good or not has little to do with Shen Zangning, anyway, it was not her husband who was sent to stare at this Mr. Wei......
Now the most important thing is to dispel the idea of his nephew Shangzhu: "Wei Xinyong has little to do with us, let alone him." Let me tell you, Princess Qingxin should have declined a long time ago, and she was filial piety last year, and the reason why it has dragged on until now is because it is rare in the royal family to have such a beautiful and fragrant princess, and when the royal family is declining, she can be used to envelop her arms to help - otherwise why did the saint restore her princess status when she ascended the throne? Do you really think it's just sad that the clan is withering? And the saint first consulted Wei Xinyong, and then let you see Qingxin...... It's just that he has taken a fancy to Wei Xinyong's talent and the power of our Shen family! ”
She reminded her nephew, "Your uncles have already planned for this kind of big thing, don't mess around with their arrangements!" ”
Shen Shuming was not very comfortable when he heard this, he had been stubborn since he was a child, because his father Shen Zangli doted on him, and he was very perfunctory in his schoolwork. When he was in his teens, he went to the unlearned and unskilled. He knew this, and he didn't think so.
But now Shen Zangning compares him with Wei Xinyong, as if he is saying that Wei Xinyong relied on his own talent to attract the royal family to take the initiative to lower the princess, but he has to rely on his family reputation. Although it is a fact, at the age of Shen Shuming, he has a strong blood, and he can't stand being looked down upon.
At this moment, he said lukewarmly: "Now that the Wei family exists in name only, how can they choose?" Auntie, if you are willing to speak for your nephew, you can definitely do it, right? Besides, the uncles have already made plans, will they change because of the nephew's wife? ”
Shen Zangning frowned and said, "You kid! Why are you so stubborn? Is this something that can be angry? The eldest brother and sister-in-law are just your son, and your wife will also be the eldest daughter-in-law of our Shen family's generation in the future, how can there be no benefits except beauty? ”
"Hengzhu, our Shen family has a big business, can't we live without our in-laws?" Shen Shuming said lightly, "Besides, my nephew doesn't learn and doesn't know how to play a child, this is what my uncle and aunt all see in my eyes, speaking of which, my nephew is eight years older than my second cousin, but when it comes to schoolwork, I'm afraid that my second cousin is not clear yet." In the future, Ming Peitang has a second cousin to inherit, and his nephew has no heavy responsibilities, this wife is from a higher and lower level, so what's the matter? ”
Shen Zangning felt the irritability of Wei Changying when he faced Ji Yiren - even if your words were from the bottom of your heart rather than anger, you don't care about low marriage or the fallacy of seniority, but think about what others want to say!
Shen Shuguang will definitely marry a famous lady in the future, and she is a noble girl who is highly valued in her mother's family. And the eldest brother above Shen Shuguang married a princess of the last generation, and it was passed out, and it was strange that Shen Zangfeng and his wife were not discussed for deliberately treating their nephew badly!
The reasons for the mistreatment are all ready-made: they are afraid that Shen Shuming, the eldest brother in the same generation, will threaten Shen Shuguang's status.
Although it is possible to refute this reason by thinking about it, sometimes people believe in something, not because they really think it is so, but because they need to think it is so, or they want to think it is so......
Even if Shen Zangfeng didn't care about this, but Shen Shuming regretted it in the future?
This is not an impossible thing, according to Shen Zang's gaze, Shen Shuming is now resentful of his family, and he speaks and does things with the meaning of anger. He now insists on being the master, at least three points because he knows that the Shen family will not agree.
So he thinks so now, if he really gives him the lord, after two or three years, he will be angry, and he will figure it out, Princess Qingxin is good-looking, but in addition to beauty, this princess really has no advantages worthy of him to marry - and then he regretted it, and felt that he was deliberately cheating on him as an elder, and this kind of big thing would not stop him, what should I do?
All in all, children have temper tantrums, and they are not biological parents, they are not human beings inside and out.
Not to mention what kind of accusations and ridicule will be brought by the Shen family's aunts and nephews marrying brothers and sisters of the same generation in the royal family.
Shen Zangning's face changed for a long time before he said, "For such a big matter, I don't dare to be the master for you." Either write back to Xiliang and ask you what your third uncle and third aunt mean! After thinking about it, he said, "There is still Jing'er!" The eldest sister is like a mother, you have a gap with your third aunt, Jing'er will never harm you, right? ”
Seeing that the little aunt carried her sister out, Shen Shuming frowned, and finally responded, and said, "When will you be able to reply to the message?" My nephew heard the second uncle say, when you are full of moon, we may have to go back. ”
"If your third uncle agrees, do you have to enter the palace in person?" Shen Zangning said impatiently, "What are you anxious about?" "I won't have the time to talk to you, and I'll leave this errand to the third brother and them to worry about...... Shen Zangning thought to himself.
Shen Shuming saw that the little aunt had already shaken her face, thought for a while, and stopped entanglement, and said, "That nephew won't bother the little aunt." ”
…… When he left, Shen Zangning frowned and called Aunt Xuan, who was married: "You go to Cousin Su tomorrow and ask her to ask, are there any girls who are particularly beautiful and look like Shu next year!" ”
Aunt Xuan didn't know that Shen Shuming had just come over to talk to Shen Zangning privately, and reminded: "Fifth Prince Su has been trapped in Donghu so far, and the rest of the Su family is not in a very good situation. I'm afraid that Miss Biao will not be in a good mood, and may not have the spirit to deal with this? ”
"Then send someone to ask the third cousin!" Shen Zangning counted his old acquaintances with his fingers, and sighed, "You can't ask your fifth cousin, right?" ”