Chapter 5: The Secrets of the Year

Where has all the time gone? Wang Xinyao still wants to ask. In the blink of an eye, she is about to turn one year old.

After nearly a year, Wang Xinyao has completely adapted to the life of the stars and the moon.

She also has a general understanding of the circle in which she lives in this life.

She now lives on a continent called Hongwu. The current dynasty is the Dayong Dynasty, which has never appeared in history. Now reigning is the fifth emperor Yongsheng Emperor.

The ancestors of Heshun Marquis Mansion fought with the founding emperor, so they were listed as one of the four great princes and eight marquis. At the beginning of the day, the country and the people were safe, and the original head of the family of Heshun Hou chose to retreat bravely. He voluntarily gave up his military power and engaged in idle work. It is precisely because of this that the prosperity of the Marquis of Heshun for a hundred years has been exchanged.

The current head of the Wang family, that is, Wang Ruling, the Marquis of Heshun, and the old marquis Wang, have a total of three sons-in-law under his knees.

Among them, the eldest son, Wang Ziyi, was invited to be named the prince early. Wang Ziyi did not hold any position in the court except for the position of the second prince. All he has to do every day now is to go out and connect with others and ask for some news.

The second son, Prince Xiao, got the title of a general with a positive fifth grade. But it just sounds good, and it doesn't have real power. It belongs to the camp on the outskirts of Beijing. It was General Huwei's subordinates. He himself usually doesn't even have the qualifications to go to court. However, General Huwei is a close minister of the Son of Heaven, and if there are any major and minor affairs in the court, he got the letter earlier and more reliable. Harmless things will also reveal some righteousness to the prince. These news played a vital role in the Hou Mansion's pursuit of good fortune and avoiding evil.

The third son, Prince Lian, relied on Yin Feng to get a false title from the sixth grade, of course, it just sounds good, not Bai Ding. He is usually in charge of the family's chores.

Because of the Jiang family, a few days ago, the emperor just promoted Wang Yuze, the eldest grandson of the Marquis of Heshun, to be the captain of the Imperial Forest Military Academy, responsible for the royal security work. This position is not a big official position, but it is indeed a real close minister of the Son of Heaven. Imagine what emperor would leave his security to someone he couldn't fully trust.

From the positions held by these people, it can be seen that this is such an unmotivated family. But it is precisely because of this that the emperor will be much less wary of the Marquis of Heshun's mansion, and he is slowly looking down on the things of the year, and he will continue to be rewarded during the New Year's holidays.

Of course, at this time, Wang Xinyao didn't know that her family had a bad record with the emperor.

Could it be that the Marquis of Heshun has a son-in-law and no concubine?

Yes, how can you not.

It's just that due to the chaos in the last years of the previous dynasty, especially the last emperor's favor of the concubine, he abolished the position of the eldest son as the crown prince, and set up the youngest son born to the concubine who was only two years old as the prince. But before the year was up, the old emperor died. The prince, who was less than three years old and had no protective power, was immediately poisoned.

And so the throne became vacant. There was a vigorous battle between the princes for the succession. In the end, the evolution came and went, and it turned out to be a big mess in the world.

The Marquis of Lunan in the previous dynasty saw that the time had come, so he took advantage of the chaos to rise up. Responders gathered, and eventually won the world.

At that time, the Marquis of Lunan was Xia Zuhui, the founding emperor of the Dayong Dynasty. He himself grew up under the poison of his mother-in-law.

Therefore, when the dynasty was first decided, Xia Zuhui raised the position of heir to a position that could not be higher. And in the court, it will also be reused.

At this point, the division of the descendants of the Dayong Dynasty was very serious.

Although today's son Xia Mingqian was also a concubine at first, in the end, his mother Jiang was promoted by Concubine Jiang to succeed. He is also the unification that he inherited smoothly after having the identity of his son-in-law.

Although the concubines of the Marquis of Heshun Mansion are also on the genealogy, they are listed in the side branches. When these concubines reach adulthood, the Hou Mansion will give a certain amount of silver taels to let them pass through the government.

In Wang Xinyao's generation, in addition to the three brothers-in-law and the four cousins, there are also six cousins. Among them, the eldest and fourth are from the second room, and the rest are the result of the hard work of the third uncle.

All of the above are Wang Xinyao's children's shoes in the study, and when the old marquis Wang and his children and grandchildren are discussing, they can be heard.

Wang Xinyao's children's shoes also have some news that they came from the Meixiangyuan where her mother lived, and her mother Jiang Xinmei Jiang handled the internal affairs of the Hou Mansion and saw her aunt and concubine.

"Mrs. Shizi looks really good today. Is it that the eldest lady has eaten well these days and slept soundly, and even with Mrs. Shizi to worry a lot. The one who spoke was the third aunt of the big house, Bixiang, that is, Aunt Xiang, one of the original maids of the Jiang family.

"Isn't it? Mrs. Shizi looked younger and younger. Who would have thought that our eldest and youngest masters were about to get married, and the sons and daughters were all about to be grandmothers. It seems that the saying that people are in good spirits when they are happy is true, and our Mrs. Shizi is not because the eldest lady is about to turn her birthday, and the whole person is a lot more happy. "This one is the second aunt Ruyue, and the people below call her Aunt Yue. Wang Ziyi's room girl was born, that is, the one who has always been favored.

This moment said that Mrs. was young, and then said that Mrs. was about to become a grandmother, which made people feel very uncomfortable.

Jiang just smiled and ignored it. Holding his little daughter, he cared about whether his good daughter ate and slept well.

The one who hasn't spoken is the fourth aunt in the big room, Dange, Aunt Ge. Her appearance is relatively close to that of the Central Plains, but with her tall figure and deep face, it is not difficult to see that she is a foreigner.

Jiang is not strict with these aunts and concubines. Delicious food, good drink, good clothes are offered, not to mention a lot of silver per month, and usually if there are any good things, they will be rewarded with one or two.

The Jiang family doesn't need a few of them to come to Meixiangyuan every day to ask for peace, and they won't let these concubines and concubines wait like maids in front of them from time to time, and put on what to be the housewife.

She just symbolically asked them to come over a few times a month.

Because of this, he has won a reputation for being virtuous and generous.

Jiang's own idea is: These aunts should be regarded as decorations, as long as there are no concubines who come out to disgust people. As for the concubine? It's just a dowry of a few thousand taels.

On the first and fifteenth day of the new year, the Jiang family had to go to the old lady Li to ask for peace. The big house is also arranged on the second and sixteenth days of the junior high school, so that they can do their best.

Today is the second day of junior high school, and the aunts came earlier than the concubines.

But not too early. No, it didn't take long for Aunt Wang and Wang Siniang to come together.

As soon as they entered the house, the two concubines first greeted Mrs. Shizi: "Say hello to your mother, mother is well." Then he asked Wang Xinyao for children's shoes: "Hello to the eldest lady, the eldest lady is well." ”

The status of the concubines of the Dayong Dynasty is also low, only the same as the aunt, and they are only half the masters of the house. Don't expect other people's daughters to be worthy of your sisters, they don't need you to serve you.

The eldest lady they call in their mouths is Wang Xinyao, who has always been entangled in ranking eighth in the Wang family.

The genealogical ranking of the Dayong Dynasty is not a mixed list of men and women, but a separate column of men and women.

A concubine will never be included in the genealogy, but a concubine is different. Even if Wang Xinyao is ranked ninth among the granddaughters, because she is the eldest daughter of the eldest daughter, her name will be listed in the family tree, and she is the first in this generation. Therefore, Aunt Wang and Wang Siniang called her the eldest lady.

The rest of the concubines can't go to the genealogy, and they don't even have names. It is called the eldest mother, the second mother, the third mother and so on.

After they marry into their in-laws' family in the future, they will be crowned with their husband's surname, called a certain Wang family, and included in the man's genealogy. Of course, this must also be a wife to have this honor.

As for the aforementioned matter of Miss Wang's genealogy on the full moon at that time, Wang Xinyao would like to report a good news to you:

In this life, she finally has a name.