"There is no shortage of ordinary concubines, but there is a lack of concubines from high-ranking families."

Geng Cheng twisted his beard and said, his expression a little unfathomable.

Yao disagreed, "Although he is the son of the servant of the Zhengsanpin Minister's Department, he is only the second son, he can marry a noble girl from a high family, it can be regarded as a good opportunity, and he also accepts a noble girl from a high door as a concubine?" Wishful thinking. ”

"Do you think our family is considered a high-ranking family, and is our daughter a noble girl?"

Geng Cheng's question was fluttering, but it made Yao's heart move.

She subconsciously looked at Geng Cheng, only to see that his expression was indifferent and his eyes were calm.

For a while, Yao was a little suspicious, doubting not only herself, but also the man in front of her who had lived with her for more than 20 years, her husband.

"Okay, don't worry, I know it in my heart, let's eat."

Geng Cheng patted Yao's hand on the table soothingly, sat down next to her, and called the maid to come and serve.

"Auntie, Shen Shui has become my father's daughter, it is my wife who should be worried about this matter, what does it have to do with my aunt, why should my aunt bother herself, so that she can't eat and sleep well, and she will be several years old in vain."

Geng Xingyu, the fourth girl of the Geng family, is a clever tongue, although it has only been a day since the sinking of the water, but the whole of the Bofu basically knows everything.

Of course, what others know is the version that Geng Cheng wants people to know.

But Aunt Peng's mother and son know the truth.

Geng Xingyu and Geng Shuxian's sister and brother purely had the mentality of watching the excitement about this matter, and even gloated a little, feeling that the second wife was so upset.

The mother who came to marry betrayed her, and her husband had an extra concubine, and the biological mother of the concubine was still a descendant of her mother's family, which was a triple crit, and it was terrible.

Geng Xingshuang hasn't found out what kind of person Tan's mother's sister is, but Aunt Peng, who has served her mother for nearly 20 years, knows more about the Yao family and the people around the Yao family than Dafang.

"How old are you? I didn't sleep well all night, where is there such an exaggeration, you girl doesn't have a word of truth in her mouth. ”

Aunt Peng subconsciously touched her face, and although she said this, she couldn't help but get up and walk from the hall to the inner room, wanting to go in and look in the mirror.

Aunt Peng was born charming and charming, over thirty years old, at first glance there is not much difference from twenty-eight girls, only close look, you may see from the fine lines in the corners of the eyes and face, you are no longer young, but still a few years younger than the actual age.

"Auntie, not old, really not old, you don't have to take a photo, eat quickly, the dishes are cold, today there is the fifth brother's favorite sauce stewed elbow, if this elbow is cold, it will make a stomach trouble if you eat it, the fifth brother has a bad spleen and stomach, and you can't eat cold and heavy oil meals anymore."

Geng Shuxian glanced at the fourth sister, opened his mouth, and wanted to say that he had a bad spleen and stomach before, was that really bad, wasn't it all because his aunt made him bad, he was not good, but in the past two years, my aunt no longer used this trick.

The aunt didn't use it, but the fourth sister still used it, but the other little tricks of the fourth sister and the aunt could see through it at a glance, but it was tried and tested again and again with this trick.

"Auntie, what are you worried about?"

For some reason, Geng Shuchen became rebellious at this time, he just didn't want to make the fourth sister easy, so he pulled the topic back again.

"What do you know? You think it's just one more concubine, and it only hurts your wife's face, and this matter really doesn't have much impact on Brother Chen, but for you, Sister Yu, you are fourteen years old this year, only one year younger than the third girl, with the current situation of the Bofu and your father's current official position, there are not many opportunities for you to choose Sister Yu.

Although we have been inseparable from the big room and the three rooms over the years, you can see the gap when you look at these dishes, and then look at the dinner table of the big room and the three rooms. ”

Aunt Peng looked at the still confused expressions of her children and sighed.

"The eldest young master and the third girl are all masters who will spend money, I know the wife's dowry, and there is not much, how it has been operating over the years, although I don't know, but I can still guess a little from your father's words, whether it is the eldest young master marrying a wife, or the third girl marrying, the lord will inevitably have to take out a large amount of money, originally left to you less, now there is more sinking, she is seventeen years old this year, two years older than the third girl, everything has to be one step ahead, you have to follow her first, and I don't know how much is left for you."

"Just because of this? Daddy would be better to sink than to me? Sink her ...... She's just a maid? Even if she is now her father's daughter, she is at most an outer room girl......"

Regarding the fourth sister's words, Geng Shuchen felt that it was quite reasonable, but Aunt Peng, who has always been smart and rational, still shook her head.

She hesitated for a moment, thinking that these words were not suitable for a pair of young children, but after thinking about it, with the current situation of their mother and son, it would not hurt to know more.

"The mother of Shenshui is the sister of Tan's mother, Shenshui is seventeen years old this year, that is to say, she was born sixteen years ago, I remember that it was the twentieth year of Changning, at that time your grandfather was still leading the position of the commander of the four products of the Imperial South Weizheng, and also held the idea of passing the title down again, and the family was very strict, your uncle and third uncle have been practicing martial arts since childhood, and they have taken the Wu Xiucai exam, but they have returned in several martial arts, and they have no chance with the Wuju people, and they wanted to get an official and a half position as Wu Xiucai, with the relationship between your grandfather's official position and the Bofu at that time, It was not difficult, but this matter was personally stopped by your grandfather, for fear of affecting the reputation of the Bofu and attracting the attention of the imperial envoys. ”

Aunt Peng was ready to talk to her children, so she said it in detail, Geng Xingyu was a little impatient, feeling that these had nothing to do with what they were talking about now.

Geng Shuchen was very interested, listened carefully, and asked: "The eldest uncle and the third uncle both practice martial arts, and the son knows about this, but he doesn't know that they have all been admitted to Wu Xiucai, so later, the grandfather actually gave the favor to the father?"

Aunt Peng is not good at evaluating this matter, which includes not only the partiality of the uncle, but also the strength of the uncle's overt and secret, and the second master's own secret efforts.

"So in those years, except for his wife and me, the lord didn't recruit any new people, but once, the old man was drunk, talking nonsense, and said a lot, and I couldn't hear it clearly, only one sentence, the old man did so many constraints, maybe in the end it was still empty, but he was wronged by Chunliu'er, etc., and so on...... He must set up a few tables for her and welcome her into the door in a beautiful manner.

Not long after, the lord and his wife quarreled, and they did not enter the door of the main house for more than a month, and of course they did not come to me, and they stayed in the outer courtyard.

At the time, I didn't know why they made such a big fuss, but now that I think about it, there seems to be something wrong with Tan's mother at that time, and she always thinks that she doesn't belong. ”

When Aunt Peng said this, Geng Shuxian had already understood, and Geng Xingyu also understood.

It's just that Aunt Peng hasn't finished speaking, "I haven't seen what that Chunliu girl looks like, but I have heard Chen Shanjia say that she said that the Zhang family looks very much like Chunliu, and even the voice is a little similar." ”

Chen Shan's family used to be a maid next to his wife, and after marrying Chen Shan from the outer courtyard, he didn't enter the mansion to serve again, and Zhang's family was Geng Cheng's room.

"But the sinking water doesn't look like Zhang's." Geng Xingyu wondered, if it was like it, it would have been discovered so many years.

"Whoever says a daughter must be like a mother, you are not like an aunt." Geng Shuxian said.

This is also true, Geng Xingyu did not dwell on this issue.

She now has the same troubles as Aunt Peng, worried that her father will give all the good things in her marriage to her lost daughter.