Rushi smiled when she heard this: "The New Year is approaching, and the queen mother specially let me out of the palace to celebrate the New Year with you." You...... Rejoice or not? ”

Wang Pu looked at her blankly when he heard this, and he could hear the loud heartbeat.

He stammered, "Hou...... Hou Fu ......"

Rushi interrupted him with a light snort: "I'm asking you, not the Hou Mansion." ”

Wang Pu's face turned red: "I'...... I ......"

He rolled his eyes away, but finally uttered the words: "Rejoice." ”

Rushi blinked and leaned in front of him: "What did you say?" Be louder, I didn't hear it just now. ”

Wang Pu glanced at her, quickly looked away, and his voice was louder than before: "Joy." ”

Rushi looked at his flushed cheeks and said with a smile: "Who is happy?" ”

Wang Pu took a deep breath, suddenly turned his eyes to look at her fixedly, and said, "I, I'm very happy." ”

Somehow, Rushi suddenly blushed, she snorted lightly and looked away: "Don't think it's too beautiful, it's Miss who has returned to the Hou Mansion, let me call you back and have a meal together." ”

After saying this, she walked out, leaving Wang Pu standing in place, looking at her back with mixed feelings.

Rushi turned back to him and smiled: "Hurry up!" ”

Wang Pu came back to his senses, answered the hello, and followed.

It took some time to find Wang Pu, and when I went back, I had already started to make rice.

Xie Wan chatted with him for a while, and then gave him the deed of sale: "This deed of sale is for you, Ming'er will get rid of the slave, and when the Furong Building in the east of the city is opened, you should also prepare for the marriage with Rushi." ”

Wang Pu took the deed of sale, glanced at Rushi, and knelt down for Xie Wan with a plop.

He didn't say anything, only respectfully kowtowed to Xie Wan three times, each of which resounded through the room.

Xie Wan smiled and said, "Okay, get up, your marriage with Rushi may have to wait until the end of next year." It's not early, let's eat. ”

A meal, the meal was very lively, Wang Pu and Picturesque, and Steward Fang, although they were not seated, they were also watching from the sidelines, listening to Xie Wan's conversation, with a smile on their faces.

After finishing the meal, Xie Wan let the picturesque and picturesque them go down to eat, leaving Xie Qing to taste tea.

She looked at Xie Qing and said in a low voice, "Do you want to meet your mother?" ”

Xie Qing looked up at her in surprise when he heard this, wanting to see the truth of what he said.

Xie Wan opened his mouth and said, "I can only look at it from a distance, and I can't make a sound." ”

Xie Qing nodded hurriedly: "Everything is arranged by Sister A." ”

Xie Wan sighed lightly, in the end, she was her own mother, no matter how she thought about it.

It's like she thinks about her mother.

It didn't take long for the snow to stop and start to fall again.

The carriage stopped outside the long alley, and Xie Wan was helped out of the carriage.

After listening to the play for so long, it's time to see it with your own eyes.

Xie Qing was a little nervous, and his cuffs were clutched in his hands and wrinkled.

Xie Wan stepped forward, pulled out his cuffs with his own hands, smoothed them little by little, and said in a low voice: "Before I go to meet them, tell you a story." ”

The fourteen-year-old boy has grown in size, and he is even slightly taller than Xie Wan.

He lowered his eyes as he looked at the cuffs she caressed, and hummed lowly.

"Once upon a time there was a daughter of a fourth-rank official, who was the only girl in the family, and she was very favored. But she is not arrogant, but has a gentle temperament and always thinks about others. Her parents and brothers educated her very well, she never felt that the generals were five big and three rough, but admired those soldiers who defended the country and felt that they were big heroes. ”

"There was a young man who came from a poor background, but he was quite talented in combat, and at the age of twenty-four, he made great achievements. In the most famous battle, he led 10,000 people to defeat more than 100,000 enemy troops, returned to Beijing to discuss meritorious deeds, and was promoted by His Majesty, who cherished talents, and even made a marquis. ”

"But all this must have a premise, that is, he must be his own son in the capital and leave his family in the capital to prevent him from defecting to the enemy and treason."

Hearing this, Xie Qing already knew what she was talking about.

He didn't speak, just listened silently.

"Your Majesty set up a banquet and let the officials above the fourth rank in the capital bring the unmarried daughters into the palace. At the feast, His Majesty asked if any family would be willing to marry their daughters to men. Which of these officials doesn't know, this newly sealed Hou Ye looks glamorous, but he wants to be stationed in the border city, and marrying his daughter to him not only does not help at all, but makes his daughter stay alive and widowed. ”

At the banquet, none of the dozens of officials spoke up, and the glamorous new marquis was hung on the spot. The girl couldn't stand it, she felt that the hero who defended the family and the country should not experience such humiliation in public, so she stood up and said she was willing. ”

Xie Wan's voice paused, lowered her sleeves, and turned her eyes to look at the mouth of the alley, her voice faint.

"The next thing is very simple, the marriage of the royal gift, coupled with the distressed woman of the mother's family, almost emptied the family to prepare a rich dowry for her and send her to marry. After a few months in the capital, the man went to the border city, leaving the woman alone to deal with his mother and brother and sister-in-law. ”

"The man's mother and brother and sister-in-law have lived in the countryside for too long, and after coming to the capital, they are afraid that others will look down on them, and their lives are very extravagant, and they are afraid that women will look down on them, and they will rely on their status to tribulate women. The woman has a gentle temperament, does not fight or rob, and even uses the dowry to supplement the expenses of the house. ”

"But those people take all this for granted, as if she was the only outsider in the entire house. When a woman is pregnant, she still has to serve her mother-in-law, and she suffers from her mother-in-law's troubles. The woman was actually very happy that her first child was a daughter, but that night there was a lunar eclipse, and her rude mother-in-law insisted that the baby girl was a lonely star and wanted to drown her. ”

Xie Qing's eyes trembled when he heard this, and he called in a dumb voice: "Sister......"

Xie Wan didn't look at him, and her voice didn't stop: "Women are weak, but mothers are strong." She managed to summon her mother, and the baby girl was left behind. She thought that she would be fine when the man returned, but when the man returned home after March, he did not completely side with her, and proposed a compromise method to send the baby girl to the Taoist temple. ”

The woman sympathized with his filial piety and sent her daughter to the Taoist temple, and she went to visit every month, and the days in the Taoist temple were much more than in the house. The woman never complained, because she felt that she was married to a hero, and everything was worth it, after all, if there were no soldiers to protect the family and defend the country, how could the people live in peace. ”

Speaking of this, Xie Wan's face suddenly turned cold, and she turned her eyes to look at Xie Qing and said, "But do you know? The man that the woman admires is a down-and-out, famous, and selfish man! ”

"It is a trivial matter for a man to take a concubine nowadays, not to mention that they live separately, but the man has never mentioned the matter of taking a concubine. The woman always felt guilty, so how his family tried to belittle her, she also silently endured and treated them wholeheartedly. The man also has a good reputation because of the fact that he does not accept concubines, and the women in Beijing mention it, and they all praise a good man. ”

"However, no one knew that the man had already quietly taken a concubine in the border city to give birth to a child, not only that, but he also took advantage of the woman's guilt to take the woman's dowry to supplement the concubine's room, and even the woman's hairpin jade bracelet appeared in the concubine's room."