The little maid was still arguing with Ning Tong before, begging for a bargain.

But being threatened by Mrs. Cheng Guotai Zhu Hu, she showed a posture of resisting death, even if she was pressed there to be beaten, she didn't say a word.

Obviously, I just told the old lady that I knew, but even if I was killed, I wouldn't say it.

This can make Zhu Hushi angry enough: "Drag it out, fight!" ”

The little maid didn't beg for mercy, so she was dragged out of the door by the two mothers-in-law, and then there was a muffled sound outside, at first the little maid could hold back, but then she also shouted because of the pain.

"Grandmother, why bother with a little girl?" Zhu Lin was a little overwhelmed.

Zhu Hu was still reading books, and he was so angry that he couldn't help but fight: "It is because of these uninteresting girls that they brought such unsightly things to their housewife, which made their housewife's mind deviate." ”

As he was talking, the mother-in-law outside came in and said, "Mrs. Tai, the second young lady said that she has something to tell you." ”

"Humph! Let her in, and let her see what the girl she made up looks like! ”

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Ning Tong was led into the back hall.

When Ning Tong saw that her little maid was beaten to death, but she still didn't betray herself, she felt a sense of anger in her heart, and she didn't even kneel after entering the back hall.

"Mrs. Tai, you are a housewife, and you just bully a little maid next to me like this? What kind of ability? Ning Tong also went up.

Can't get along.

It's better to be dead.

Give Zhu Hu face? So who gives me face?

Zhu Hu was furious, and the mother-in-law next to him wanted to press down Ning Tong, but he never dared to be ruthless, in the eyes of their subordinates, they were not afraid of beating the little maid into anything, but although the second young lady was not sensible, it was An Bianbo's wife, and she was the main mother.

"Where do these books come from? Also, who are you out there? Zhu Hu held back his anger and asked sharply.

Ning Tong said: "This has nothing to do with you, Mrs. Tai. Zhu Feng has already given me a letter from Heli and asked me to take it to the government, and I have nothing to do with your Zhu family! I don't need to tell you that! ”

"You!"

Although Zhu Hu is angry, he can't really do anything about this granddaughter-in-law.

She soon made up her mind: "Take these two unruly masters and servants to the firewood room, watch them, and not release them until their masters and servants reflect on their own mistakes!" ”

"Mrs. Tai, what kind of ability is it to bully women? Then it's better to kill me and let me live with your grandson, or kill me!" Anyway, you have a great business in the Gongfu of the country, and you don't have to pay for your life if you kill someone! ”

Ning Tong's stubbornness also caught Zhu Hu unexpectedly.

When it came to this, if she changed to an ordinary woman, she would have begged bitterly, but Ning Tong didn't seem to be afraid of death, so she had to fight her to the end.

Originally, according to Zhu Hu's temperament, it was okay to directly find someone to beat Ning Tong and lock him up, but thinking that now his grandson is still leading troops in Liaodong, what if he puts his granddaughter-in-law in the capital...... If this affects Sun Tzu's mentality of leading troops to fight, then the responsibility will be great.

After all, Zhu Hu is the daughter of Shangshu, and she looks fierce, but in fact, her talent and wisdom are not low, and she will not do anything to Ning Tong for a moment.

"Take it down!"

Zhu Hu didn't bother to say anything more.

With Ning Tong's master and servant being taken away by his mother-in-law, Zhu Hu should still be angry.

Zhu Lin said beside him: "Grandmother, this is ...... Forget it? ”

Your old lady and granddaughter-in-law had a quarrel, but in the end it ended up "peacefully"? And me? Obviously I'm an outsider, but I've been criticized by the old lady, you are indecent?

Who did I recruit and who did I mess with?

Zhu Hu glared at his eldest grandson and said, "If something happens to the house, it will affect your younger brother to lead the troops, and see how the old body cleans you up!" ”

After speaking, Zhu Hu got up and greeted, "Are the gifts ready?" ”

"Yes, Mrs. Tai." The servant replied.

Zhu Lin asked, "Grandmother, what are you ......?"

Zhu Hu glanced at him and said: "Go to Zhang Zhou's Mansion with the old man, don't let people think that our Chengguo Mansion doesn't understand the rules." ”

Handle the inner courtyard in advance, the old lady has to complete the friendship with the people outside the courtyard, and it is also because the two titled Zhu Fu and Zhu Feng in the family are not in the capital, and this time it will be her turn to go out as an old lady.

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"Miss...... I...... I didn't say it. ”

Inside the firewood room.

After the little girl woke up, she saw her young lady holding herself and weeping, and couldn't help but say a word of pity.

Ning Tong wiped her tears and said, "You stupid girl, what you should say, it's not worth keeping a secret." ”

The little maid asked, "Did the young lady say that?" ”

"I didn't say either." Ning Tong said hatefully, "They can torture me as much as they want, I have nothing to do with this family." ”

The little maid pursed her lips and said, "Then I won't say it." ”

The master and servant have been dependent on each other for many years, but they are also holding each other tightly at this time.

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When Zhang Zhou returned home, he was still sorting out his court clothes.

Everyone else is given a court dress at a time, and the rest has to be customized by themselves, but Zhang Zhou's side has several sets of official clothes and regular clothes alone, and the emperor is afraid that he will not fit well, so he is tailored in advance.

He was still trying them on one by one, and Wang Mingshan, who helped him get dressed behind him, had already been taken advantage of by him several times.

After all, it's going to be ...... at night

At this meeting, Xia Zhi came in and said: "Master, there are guests from outside, and they say that they are from the Chengguo Mansion." I also brought gifts. ”

Jiang Pingyu came out of the inner room and said curiously: "Is it from the Guogong Mansion?" ”

Jiang Pingyu had heard about her father's business with the British government before, and she also heard that old man Jiang was detained by the British government, so she was still very wary of the national government or something.

Zhang Zhou smiled: "It's okay, this prince is Zhu Zhijie's family, which is different from the British princess." ”

Joke.

Zhang Mao has a "cooperative" relationship with him at most, and now Zhu Fu and Zhu Fengye, the Duke of Chengguo, are now counting on him for dinner, and if they don't mention Zhu Feng, they will say Zhu Fu...... The ministers of the DPRK and China have impeached him so much, if it weren't for his help, it is estimated that Zhu Fu might have been dismissed and escorted back to the capital to live idle.

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Zhangjia Zhengtang.

Zhang Zhou met with Zhu Hu, followed by Zhu Lin, which Zhang Zhou did not expect.

The Zhu family has done quite a good job in etiquette, and he is also thinking, finally it is no longer time to send someone to inform me of the banquet at the house, and he knows that he will send things to my house, and he will come in person?

"Mrs. Tai, you are polite, how can you be embarrassed?" Zhang Zhou said with a smile.

Zhu Hu said with a smile: "The dog and the Zhijie are both under the care of Mr. Zhang, although the old man is not in Beijing, but when he was in Nanjing, he heard a lot of Mr. Zhang's deeds. Mr. Zhang is the top student in high school, and it is easy to enter and exit in the future. ”

Zhang Zhou thought to himself, this sounds familiar.

Zhu Lin also smiled: "In the letter to Jingshi, my father also mentioned that I should thank Mr. Zhang for his cultivation, especially for his ...... to Zhijie."

Zhang Zhou asked the two to sit down.

He said politely: "I am friends with Zhijie, and he worked tirelessly to come to Beijing to offer medicine to the princess, and when I started at the end of Wei, he took care of me a lot. This is just a moral duty between friends. ”

Between words, Zhang Zhou was actually curious.

Didn't it mean that Zhu Feng had already sent the documents for Heli to the capital? Isn't your Zhu family restless now? I can't see you like this.

Then Zhu Hu asked people to bring the gifts in.

Box by box of things is obviously much richer than when he gave gifts to Zhang Zhou in Nanjing before, but it is only worth four or five hundred taels.

Zhang Zhou is a good hand at calculating the value of gifts, and Zhang Zhou doesn't know where he got this talent.

"Mr. Zhang, don't be disgusted." Zhu Hu said.

"Prepare for the feast." Zhang Zhou pondered, since he gave a gift, then please have a meal.

"No need, there are still a lot of things to do, just come to visit Mr. Zhang, and then leave."

Zhu Hu is also interested.

I all know that you Zhang Bingkuan slammed the door, what good things can you eat in your house? Besides, if you Zhang Bingkuan really have the heart to have a banquet, you won't have nothing to prepare in advance.

Zhang Zhou smiled: "Then prepare tea." ”

Zhu Hu smiled.

This host's house is really slamming the door, and it's not easy to even drink tea at your house.

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In the main hall, Zhu Hu and Zhu Lin sang and harmonized, and while expressing their gratitude to Zhang Zhou, they also euphemistically expressed their hope that Zhang Zhou would continue to help Zhu Fu and his son.

Zhang Zhoudao: "The war in Liaodong has not yet come to an end, but it is expected that there should be a result before the end of the month." As for Yansui's ...... Oh, it's not me saying it, the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee have quite a few complaints about Cheng Guogong's immobility, and there are not a few people who have participated in the impeachment. ”

Zhu Hu obviously knew this.

That's what she's here for.

She hurriedly said: "Cheng Guogong used to be in Nanjing, and it didn't take long to succeed to the position of Guogong. ”

"That's what I said, but since Your Majesty has used him, he should show his due responsibility as a national prince, and it is useless to rely on me to speak for a while." Zhang Zhou's meaning.

You should get to know each other a little better, and let your sons and grandsons listen to me more in the future, and don't make your own decisions.

Zhu Hu nodded, probably thinking that the gift to Zhang Zhou was not enough, and Zhang Zhou was too little.

"Master, Gonggong Xiao of the celebrant is here, saying that there is an imperial decree to convey it." Liu Guili said at the door.

This Zhang Zhou is quite busy.

Xiao Jing ran to Zhang Zhou's house when he was fine.

When Zhu Hu heard that Xiao Jing was coming, he said in his heart that this was terrible, so he would be redundant here.

Zhang Zhou said: "Two of you, I'll go out to entertain Grandpa Xiao first, and I'll be back in a while." ”

"Socializing?"

Zhu Hu didn't understand.

A person of Xiao Jing's status is here, shouldn't you politely invite people in? If you don't give Xiao Jing face, you have to give face to the emperor! People said it, but it was for the emperor to convey the imperial decree.

But Zhang Zhou obviously didn't take Xiao Jing too seriously, mainly because Xiao Jing has been coming too often recently, and also because he won the champion, Xiao Jing felt that it was natural to disturb Zhang Zhou later, and he had nothing to do to visit the door, as for whether he sent the imperial decree...... It may be that Liu Gui is talking nonsense there.

Zhang Zhou also gave Liu Gui a blank look when he went out.

This kid...... Seeing people and talking about people, and talking nonsense when he sees ghosts, he is a great candidate, but Zhang Zhou is afraid that this kid will go astray and make his house like Cheng Minzheng, which will not be good.

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"Grandmother, shall we go out to meet us too?" When Zhu Lin saw Zhang Zhou going out, he couldn't help but ask.

Zhu Hu sat upright and said, "He doesn't need us to see him, he has his own arrangements, just wait here." ”

Zhu Lin said: "Then he was ...... before What does that mean? ”

Zhu Hu glanced at him and said, "You really don't look like a prince of Chengguo, his words are not clear enough?" Actually, it's asking us for money! Haven't you seen how greedy he is for money? ”

"Grandmother, there are some things that grandchildren don't know whether to say or not......" Zhu Lin wanted to remind this grandmother.

Let's not look at Zhang Bingkuan with old eyes.

This kid just looks greedy for money on the surface, but in fact, he is not greedy at all, and he is the kind of courtier who is very measured, otherwise he will not be able to gradually gain the favor of the emperor, don't think that anything is wrong with gift-giving.

Zhu Hu said impatiently: "If you don't know whether to talk about it, then don't talk about it!" ”

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When Zhang Zhou came back, the grandfather and grandson didn't say a word, and the atmosphere was still a little awkward.

"Mr. Zhang, I don't know why Gonggong Xiao came?"

Zhu Hu saw that Zhang Zhou didn't have any imperial decree in his hand, so he just came to pass on the message.

Zhang Zhou smiled: "It's just a daily triviality, where did we talk about it just now?" ”

Zhu Lin reminded: "Speaking of asking Mr. Zhang to help my father and brother-in-law speak in front of His Majesty. ”

"This ......," Zhang Zhou said, "say what should be said, and don't say what shouldn't be said." I can't break the rules. ”

"Yes." Zhu Hushi smiled and nodded.

She pondered for a moment, and the rule was probably that the silver given was not enough.

Zhang Zhou asked, "By the way, Mrs. Tai, I heard...... There's been something going on in your house lately...... It was Zhijie who told me, and he said that he wanted to ...... with his wife. Uh, what's going on now? ”

When Zhang Zhou saw that Zhu Hu seemed to be coming as if he was nothing, he felt that this old lady should have used some thunderous means to subdue Ning Tong.

And what kind of temperament Ning Tong has, Zhang Zhou can feel it.

The style of women in this era is most obvious in this woman, marrying into the Guogong Mansion and daring to reconcile and divorce from her husband, what kind of courage is this? This also shows that Ning Tong has indeed endured enough!

If Ning Tong, a "strong" woman, encounters a strong and unreasonable old lady like Zhu Hu, then the unlucky one can only be Ning Tong.

Since the matter of Heli was unintentionally brought up by him Zhang Zhou at that time, he felt that he couldn't help Ning Tong.

"This is a family matter of the Chengguo Mansion." Zhu Hu was also frowning.

I was wondering in my heart, my grandson really told outsiders about everything, isn't it a shame to say this kind of thing? If Zhang Zhou is allowed to say it again, then the Chengguo Mansion will really lose face!

Zhang Zhou nodded: "It should be a family matter of the Chengguo Mansion, but there is a sentence below, I don't know whether to talk about it or not." ”

Zhu Lin was stunned.

I also said this just now, Zhang Bingkuan, don't talk about it, my grandmother doesn't like to hear it.

Zhu Hu smiled: "Sir, please speak." ”

Get!

Only then did Zhu Lin realize that only he was not treated by the old lady.

Zhang Zhoudao: "Before Zhijie went to Liaodong, let me take care of his family affairs more, and this time there were some ...... between them and his wife Contradictions, as a friend, I also think it is necessary to remind me that everything should wait for him to return to Beijing, and then sit down and talk about it in detail. It's also not good for Daming. ”

Zhang Zhou's meaning was to remind the old lady of the Zhu family.

You punish Ning Tong not to go overboard, otherwise you are not dealing with family affairs, and it is likely to affect the war in Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty, and also affect the national fortune of the Ming Dynasty.

"Mr. Zhang reminded me that the old body knew."

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Zhu Hu laughed with him and took his grandson out of the Chengguo Mansion.

When she returned to the door of the house in a small sedan chair, she got off the sedan chair, and Zhu Lin, who used to support the sedan chair, could obviously feel that her grandmother's face was completely different when she got off the sedan chair and when she got on the sedan chair.

"Is Zhijie a lack of heart? Why do you always have to mention family matters to outsiders? If Zhang Bingkuan informed His Majesty of the matter...... Then my Zhu family will become the laughing stock of the whole world! Zhu Hu said.

Zhu Lin looked "whoever you love will be destroyed early", turned his head to the side and said: "Grandmother seems to have forgotten, the second brother likes to let his wife come out to deal with the second room, when he was in Nanjing, the younger brother and sister knew Zhang Bingkuan, and they also met after arriving in Beijing." ”

"What?"

When Zhu Hu heard this, he had already heard some bad signs.

Ning Tong and Zhang Zhou also know each other, and they have a personal relationship...... Still enough?

As she was talking, the mother-in-law in the house hurriedly ran out and said in Zhu Hu's ear: "Mrs. Tai, I have asked the people in the house, and the people who usually make friends with the courtyard of the second young lady, it seems that the book is a son surnamed Zhang, who has come to the house and gave it to the second young lady." ”

"What?"

Zhu Hu was a little untenable.

"Grandmother?"

Zhu Lin hasn't understood yet, what's wrong with the old lady?

Zhu Hu glared at Zhu Lin and said, "Recently, the surname Zhang, who has come to visit the mansion?" ”

Zhu Lin said: "Grandmother, my father is in Beijing, and it stands to reason that he can't see outsiders, and his surname is Zhang...... Except for Zhang Bingkuan, there is no one else! ”

"Ahem......"

Zhu Hu not only had to be supported by his grandson, but also had to hold the edge of the sedan chair with his hand in order to barely stand still.

Zhu Lin said with a look of indifference: "Grandmother doesn't want to say that the matter of my brother and sister has something to do with Zhang Bingkuan, right?" ”

Zhu Hu glared at his grandson and said, "You already knew? ”

"Nope." Zhu Lin replied very simply, "The second brother didn't say it, but it is impossible to say that the younger brother and sister have someone outside." I...... Never ask about the second room. ”

His words seemed to be saying, "What are you asking me for?"

Ask your second grandson yourself, and ask your second granddaughter-in-law to go.

"Old lady, the Ning family has arrived, and they said that they can enter the house to see the second young lady at any time." Another subordinate came to pass the ceremony.

Previously, Zhu Hu found that the granddaughter-in-law was incorrigible, so he could only ask people to call the Ning family and put pressure on Ning Tong.

"No need, let them all go back!"

Zhu Hu's mind is now in turmoil.

"Yes."

The next person hurried to inform the Ning family.

Zhu Lin asked: "Then if the book was given by Zhang Bingkuan, the matter of Heli was also mentioned by Zhang Bingkuan, and even the outsiders of his younger siblings...... It is Zhang Bingkuan, and the second brother may still know about this matter and even intend to fulfill it...... What should we do? ”

"Shut up! Zhiyi, why are you so useless? Zhu Hu made a challenge to his eldest grandson, "My father and younger brother are not in the house, and I can't even look at the house?" ”

Zhu Lin seemed to have expected that he was a punching bag, and said calmly with a faceless face: "Grandmother is angry, and next time my grandson will correct it." ”

(End of chapter)