Chapter 126: Breaking the Golden Cage
The same wisp of winter wind blows through the similar carved beams and paintings, some people through the window, smile and say that they don't need to run around at all, and there are also people who sit in the warm pavilion of the first-class marquis' mansion, but they seem to have seen the end of the Shoucheng marquis's mansion.
"Madam, there are no inscriptions on these gold objects, so they shouldn't have been given by the palace."
Looking at the cumbersome gold utensils that the mother-in-law brought up, Liang Yuying, who was holding a needle and thread, sighed:
"And when they were weighed, they were melted down and made into gold ingots."
"Yes, ma'am."
Seeing that a few mothers-in-law were about to go down with gold utensils, Liang Yuying stopped them again.
"You don't have to go anywhere else, just have someone bring the scales and weigh them in my face."
A few mothers-in-law responded, two mothers-in-law put the gold in the corner, and the other two went to get the scales.
Liang Yuying lowered her head, she had a pale satin jacket in her hand, and there was a two-inch-long opening on the hem of the clothes.
After a while, the curtain of the door was lifted, and a cool breeze swept in, and she thought that the mother-in-law who had taken the scale had returned, and she did not look up.
The person who didn't want to come in sat down next to her.
"Mother, why did you move so many gold utensils out? Are you going to give a gift to someone?"
Liang Yuying raised her head and said with a smile:
"Who else dares to accept gifts in our family now? It's almost the New Year, and I have to send something to my hometown, otherwise the people in my hometown will think that our side is really ruined, and there is still a large area of land in our hometown, if they look down on it, and then make a fuss, it will be *** annoying in our house."
The woman wearing a silver vermilion cardigan and a fragrant skirt helped the lying rabbit on her head and straightened the clothes she was sewing for Liang Yuying.
Seeing her movements, Liang Yuying put away the needle and pushed her hand:
"Don't spend time here with me, go back to reading quickly, since you said that you are going to take the woman's test, you will take out a thousand hundred percent of your strength, in the morning, your aunt also sent a special letter, although there are not many female officials who are admitted to the palace this time, but they are all unusual, there are a few who are unforgettable, you must not relax."
The woman pursed her lips and smiled, leaning half of her body on Liang Yuying's shoulder:
"Everyone else is urging their sons to be motivated, but you are the only one who is urging your daughter-in-law to be motivated."
Liang Yuying raised her head, touched the woman's hand, and took a satin sleeve embroidered with pink peach from the side and put the woman's hand away.
"I gave birth to two sons, who are of decent character and mediocre in talent, and I am lucky to let you marry Yuanrun as a wife, but I can do better than the two brothers together. Now our house is not as good as before, the Xin family returned to her parents' house early, only you, not only help me support the family, but also have the ambition to be a female official, I naturally want to cherish you and value you. I never thought that those two unsuccessful boys in my family would be able to advance to the imperial examination."
These words are gentle, and the sentences are appropriate, Xu Wenqing's eyes are slightly hot, and he is tired of his mother-in-law's body:
"Mother, you should also take care of yourself, don't always worry about us juniors."
Looking at the gold objects in the corner, she whispered: ....
"For the loss of my father-in-law's title, my hometown has been blaming you, those people, how can you send some gold and silver to get good from their mouths?"
Liang Yuying gently touched Xu Wenqing's back:
"It's not just to give them away, these gold artifacts can't be used at home, I wanted to pawn them, but now Yanjing City is all pawn sellers to make up for the deficit, I calculated, it's better to melt it directly to make gold ingots." Melt more, on the account it is said that it was sent back to your hometown, and secretly you also sent some to your family, won't your brother also have to take the exam next year? And you don't have to worry about it, although our family is ruined now, it's enough to help."
One by one, Liang Yuying already had a plan in her heart.
Her husband Cao Fengxi was deposed of the title, and the acres of land and property that the Hou Mansion had encroached upon over the years were successively liquidated and returned
They can't even afford to feed the maids in their own houses.
Her two sons have already married wives, the eldest son Cao Yuanlang is the first nephew of her sister-in-law who is the queen mother, and the eldest grandson of her mother-in-law who became the wife of the country, when it is time to marry a wife, these two people do not give her a chance to speak at all, as if they are afraid that Cao Yuanlang will marry the daughter of a petty official like her, and they have tried their best to finally let Cao Yuanlang marry the granddaughter of the Anguo Mansion.
For this matter, her sister-in-law of the Queen Mother was simply forced to buy and sell, first let people inquire about the head and face that Duchess An Guo likes to use, and then made the same one and sent it to her, and the two families were forced to pull a marriage line by virtue of the fate of "wearing the same head and face when being summoned by the Queen Mother".
Duke An Guo is the same as the British government after the founding fathers, although unlike the British government still holds Liaodong in hand, and still produces generals from generation to generation, Cao Yuanlang only has a false title of guard, and according to the rules, there is no title to inherit in the future, and it really makes the Cao family tremble for a long time to get such a family business.
Liang Yuying knows what Qi Dafei is, she married Cao Fengxi, who is the uncle of the country, as the daughter of the county order, and she is trembling, how can her son marry the daughter of Gaomen by relying on his aunt's nepotism? Sure enough, the Xin family was born in the family, and was so calculated to marry into the descendants of the mud legs, and he couldn't wait to lift the Cao family up, and even when he met the queen mother after marriage, he drooped his face, and refused to live a stable life with Cao Yuanlang.
She didn't look like it, so she simply split half of the eldest son's courtyard and opened another door, saying that it was a family, but in fact there were two families, so that it stopped.
With this experience, seeing that her mother-in-law and sister-in-law still wanted to find a noble wife with Cao Yuanrun, Liang Yuying really couldn't sit still.
Even if it is good for Qin and Jin, Qin and Jin are both big countries, what does the Cao family have? The marquis who is doing evil, the queen mother who is not in a proper manner, and the relatives who are unconscious, and the "clinging to the magnates" who can fight two and a half by chopping off ten heads, such a family, it is better for those high-ranking families to marry their daughters to the sons of the county order than to send them in to suffer.
In order not to let her second son be pitted, Liang Yuying really thought of a way. ….
First took advantage of the death of her mother-in-law for two years, and secretly looked for a candidate for her second daughter-in-law, although her second son Cao Yuanrun was smarter than his eldest brother, it was also limited, and she would not be much of an official in the future, she only went to those who had a clean family style to look for it, just wanted to find someone who could live a stable life with her son and urge her son to be motivated.
After looking around, just when she was undecided, Han gave her a choice, that is, Xu Wenqing.
Xu Wenqing's uncle is the right waiter of the Ministry of Industry, the doctor of the third grade, his father is just a seven-grade petty official, she is the eldest daughter in the family, knowledgeable and sensible.
If it's just like this, Liang Yuying may not be willing to let such a good girl come to the Cao family to suffer, but there is a defect - she is the eldest daughter who has lost her mother, and she is among the so-called "five don'ts", and there is a biological younger brother below.
Xu Wenqing's stepmother handled the marriage for her, and the dowry was meagre, and she asked for a large dowry, as if she was going to sell Xu Wenqing.
Taking advantage of the fact that His Majesty eliminated Zhang Wan's party and the turmoil in the DPRK and China, Liang Yuyingqing and Cao Fengle entered the palace to help talk about Xiang, and finally persuaded her that the empress dowager's sister-in-law should not rush to settle a family affair for Cao Yuanrun.
At the same time, she asked Han Ruowei to come forward to invite Xu Wenqing's aunt to the banquet, and bluntly said that she wanted to hire Xu Wenqing as her daughter-in-law, Xu Wenqing's aunt was born as if she was Liang Yuying, although she had no daughters under her knees, and she didn't want the Xu family to have a reputation for selling her daughter, so she agreed.
A few months later, while the Queen Mother was fasting and no one was gone, Liang Yuying made the concubines drunk Cao Fengxi agreed to the marriage, and when the Queen Mother learned about it, the three books and six ceremonies were almost over.
The Queen Mother was furious and called her into the palace to reprimand, but Liang Yuying just faced the spit with a wooden face and did not let go.
Her life was ruined in an unbearable marriage, and she couldn't let her sons follow in her footsteps.
On the day Xu Wenqing and Cao Yuanrun got married, she still had injuries on her body that were beaten by the palace grandmother, and the Queen Mother even issued an order saying that Xu Wenqing did not have to enter the palace to thank her.
Liang Yuying didn't care, and to her relief, her son and daughter-in-law didn't care either.
To this day, in addition to the two sons, she and Xu Wenqing can support the whole family, what wealth, what luxury, what a double uncle, is just a golden cage smashed down, let them work hard to support inside.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were talking considerately, and several mothers-in-law came in with scales.
Remembering the weight of the gold ware, Liang Yuying told the style of the gold ingots again, and as she was talking, several little maids stumbled in.
"Ma'am! The old man drank too much wine again, and he was throwing things."
Liang Yuying, who was still smiling a little lightly just now, frowned, and said softly:
"Keep the door shut as usual, and let him go about the courtyard, and when he wakes up, tell him that there will be no more wine for the next ten days."
Several little maids trembled, one of whom had been embarrassed in front of Cao Fengxi in the past, and whispered:
"Madam, just, just keep the master locked up like this? After all, the lord ......."
Liang Yuying stood up, a homely lotus-colored jacket with a plain horse-faced skirt underneath, and a simple headdress, which didn't look like a first-class fate at all.
But her eyes swept over, and several little maids didn't dare to speak. ….
"I am the one in charge of the Shoucheng Mansion, and you will do what I arrange."
"Yes...... Yes......"
Seeing the little girl talking wearing a pair of peach-colored embroidered shoes, Liang Yuying's eyes lit up:
"There are not too many people in the house to serve you now, if you want to go out of the house to get married, tell me, and the house doesn't want your ransom money. Now that the house is in this situation, it is better for you to go out and be a plain-headed civilian wife than to stay here. If you still want to go to Cao Fengxi's face, thinking that you can be a concubine, it will be too stupid."
The peach-colored embroidered shoes stepped back a few times and were hidden in the corners of their skirts.
Liang Yuying waved her hand and let these maids retreat.
People are gone, she sighed.
Xu Wenqing pulled his hand out of the sleeve cage and shook her sleeve slightly:
"Mother, don't be sad, there are always people in this world who will be blinded by the wealth in front of them."
Liang Yuying closed her eyes gently.
Since she took Cao Fengxi out of the edict prison, she locked Cao Fengxi in the courtyard where the old lady used to live under the pretext of recuperating from her injuries, leaving only a small door.
These days, when she opens her eyes, she thinks about whether to let Cao Fengxi die like this.
Such a scourge, living will only be a drag on the whole family, if they die, their whole family will go back to their hometown to keep filial piety, it is better than trembling in Yanjing City, for fear that one day they will be used by the Queen Mother.
But she couldn't give up her heart.
Does she want Cao Fengxi to dirty her hands again when she is dying?
Standing behind Liang Yuying, Xu Wenqing looked at his mother-in-law's much thinner back than before, and sighed in his heart.
Her mother-in-law is a good woman, but a good woman never survives.
Her mother is a good woman, and she went early in order to make her father tired of the imperial examination.
Her aunt was also a good woman, and her eldest uncle looked like a humble gentleman and married seven concubines.
Because she is a good woman, she will be in a dilemma, and she will use her conscience as a lamp to illuminate the way forward, and how do you know that the jackals in this world, no matter how they look, eat this conscience.
"Mother."
"Huh?" Liang Yuying turned around, but saw Xu Wenqing take out a thin piece of paper from his sleeve.
"Do you know Nüshu?"
Liang Yuying frowned, looked at her daughter-in-law and said with a smile:
"Mother, you always say that the Cao family is a golden cage that will collapse sooner or later, why do you have to stay in this golden cage that is about to collapse?"
"Mother, go out."
Liang Yuying didn't understand any of the words on the back of the paper, but looking at those slender strokes, she always felt that it was a gust of wind.
From a place where no one was seen before.
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