Chapter 15 Jade and Jade Cabbage
Mama Wang is Zeng's wet nurse, she watched Zeng's grow up since she was a child, and married to Taofu as a housekeeper's mother.
She regards Zeng's as closer than her daughter, even if Zeng's husband and daughter, she will not change her words-
still calls Zeng as Miss according to the name in Zeng's Mansion, and calls Tao Jiang Little Miss.
And she has always been upright and bold, and anyone who despises the Zeng family will be scolded by her for three days and three nights.
Even when the Gu family in the second room saw her, he could hide and hide--
After all, his hands can't reach the nurse in the long house, and this kind of ancestor can't beat or scold.
It is precisely for this reason that although the Zeng family has no support in Tao Mansion, few people dare to belittle her too much.
The original body was most afraid of Mama Wang, and felt that her eyes were like eagle beaks to dig a hole in her body, and every time she saw her, she had to say that she couldn't know people clearly, so the original body was not close to the long room.
Seeing that Tao Jiang was silent, Zeng thought that she was angry again as usual, and hurriedly looked at Mama Wang with disgust.
Unexpectedly, Tao Jiang took the soup bowl in Mama Wang's hand, blinked her eyes and made a grimace, squeezed her side, and said affectionately:
"Okay Mama, I know it's wrong! In recent days, I've been busy competing for the general business, and it's always my fault to ignore my mother, so I'll move my things back to Ruiyun Courtyard tomorrow and stay with my mother every day. ”
Zeng's mouthful of decoction was in his mouth and he didn't have time to swallow it, and when he heard this, he immediately choked and coughed:
"Ahem, ahem...... Jiang'er, what did you say? Are you really going to move back? ”
Since the accident in the long house, Zeng's has obviously felt that this daughter is not close to him.
She also once blamed herself, she cried and lamented day and night, which child wants to live under such gloom and gloom?
But when she wanted to reconcile with her daughter, she found that Tao Jiang's heart was biased towards the second room, and she even lived in the Xiyao Courtyard in the second room.
Tao Jiang pressed the corner of his mother's mouth with a silk handkerchief, and then put the hair of Zeng's sideburns behind his ear, and then asked pretending to be angry:
"What's wrong? Could it be that my mother didn't agree with me moving back? Or do you not want me to come back? ”
Zeng's tears overflowed from the corners of his eyes and fell impartially in the soup bowl, with a crisp "ding dong".
Seeing the bitterness, Mama Wang quickly turned her back and took a deep breath, still in a strong tone:
"I'm an old slave, what's not to welcome! Let's clean up the house for the little lady! ”
Walking out of the door, Tao Jiang saw Mama Wang raise her sleeve and wipe the corners of her eyes.
Tao Jiang's heart is slightly pantothenic, her original life is bitter and she is a demon, as an N female supporting role, she has no role to change her life.
I'm just doing my filial piety on her behalf.
Tao Jiang was immersed in Zeng's gentle eyes, but he didn't see that the clouds above the two of them had quietly dissipated.
……
Tao Luo on the other end walked all the way to Xiyao Courtyard, and Ren Gu couldn't catch up with him no matter how he chased behind.
As soon as he entered the inner courtyard, he saw that the maid with a bad face of the master offered tea knowingly, but Tao Jiang raised his hand and lifted it, all of which were overturned on his face.
The evening night was cool, and the people served warm strong tea, and the maid was pounced on by the hot soup, and a layer of pustules appeared on her forehead in an instant.
Gu Shi came panting, glanced at it coldly, and hurriedly ordered someone to drag the scalded girl down, and then instructed the mother-in-law beside him:
"Give her some money and send it out! Remember, seal your mouth tightly for me! ”
As soon as he entered the house, the teacup flower bottle had been shattered, and Tao Luo leaned over on the beauty couch with no image, crying so much that his back fell together:
"Mother, I don't want to live! Give me a white silk to cut myself off! Today, my grandfather beat me indiscriminately, which obviously doesn't want me to live in the Tao family! ”
Tao Luo hated and annoyed in his heart, if Tao Jiang stood in front of her at this moment, she would be able to eat her raw--
In terms of age, she is only less than a month younger than Tao Jiang.
But in the past 20 days, Tao Jiang crushed her and became the eldest granddaughter of Tao Mansion.
When the eldest uncle was there, he just took her to run a few trading houses, and then went to the west a few times, and after coming back, Tao Jiang became "the first merchant girl in Xiangxi".
And he can only hide in the boudoir to practice calligraphy, painting and embroidery, not only did he not get any appreciation, but whenever he talked about his grandfather, he always snorted coldly in his nose, "No matter how much you know, she is just a woman"!
finally survived until the death of the eldest uncle, Tao Luo felt that his father had overcome the lack of the eldest uncle, so he would definitely be able to take himself to the north and south, and she would finally have the opportunity to prove that she was stronger than Tao Jiang.
As a result, her father said that she was not a business material, and it was a woman's responsibility to let her read good poetry and books at home and be a good female worker.
Why can Tao Jiang do it, but he can't?
There is also a fairy-like cousin, who I like very much, but my mother, who has always loved her, tried her best to match her cousin and Tao Jiang!
Could it be that he is really worse than Tao Jiang? Could it be that she is destined to be robbed of all her fame and favorites by Tao Jiang?
Thinking of this, Tao Luo was even more annoyed in his heart, and casually picked up the soft pillow on the couch and threw it out without raising his head!
"Madame, be careful!"
The soft pillow was impartial and smashed right on Gu's face.
Gu Shi breathed a long sigh of relief, motioned to the mother-in-law and maids to go down first, and then picked up the soft pillow and gently placed it beside Tao Luo.
My daughter is so wronged, how can she, a mother, not feel distressed?
It's just that the current situation makes them have to choose to take it step by step.
The four major families of Xiangxi, the Qianzhuang Shui family and the granary rice family can be regarded as the old family rooted in Xiangxi.
The Silk Tea Gu family and the Yaoxing Tao family are rising stars, both of which are foreign businessmen who have established a foundation in Xiangxi, and they have not exceeded three generations.
Due to the similarity in the time and method of development, the Gu family and the Tao family inevitably parted ways for each other on various occasions.
Ben was also evenly matched, but after the Nanling Zeng family married into the Tao family's house, this balance was broken.
Everyone knows that the Zeng family in Nanling has a family heirloom jade jade cabbage, which is worth dozens of cities, and when the Zeng family got married, the old lady of the Zeng family added this jade jade cabbage to the Zeng family as a dowry.
Since then, I don't know if it is the auspicious blessing of this jade cabbage, or the continuous green smoke on the ancestral tomb of the Tao family, the Tao family has started silk tea, money houses, granaries and other businesses one after another, leaving the Gu family far behind and becoming the head of the four major families.
This made the Gu family's eyes red.
In the old days, when the Tao family and the Gu family had a good relationship, Gu Xiaomei and Tao Changze, the second son of the Tao family, were set to kiss each other, and the former head of the Gu family told the unmarried Gu Xiaomei many times:
"The Tao family and the Gu family are indistinguishable from each other, and the reason why his Tao family's luck has risen in recent years is that I estimate that there is some suspense hidden in the jade and jade cabbage. So after you marry into the Tao Mansion, no matter what means you try, you must bring this jade cabbage to me to review home! ”
And after Gu Xiaomei married into the Tao family, she found out that although this jade cabbage was the dowry of the Zeng family, in fact, even Tao Yongjin, the head of the Tao family, had never seen what it looked like.
It is not appropriate for a father-in-law to spy on his daughter-in-law's dowry.
And Gu Xiaomei secretly calculated that if you want to get this jade cabbage, the best way is to have a long house.
As long as there is no boy in the long house, and her belly is angry, she can give birth to a boy and go to the long house.
For large households, this practice is not uncommon.
So, she used vicious means to damage Zeng's two baby boys, but I don't know if it was unpleasant to retribution, since she gave birth to Taoluo, her stomach has not moved at all.
This path will not work, and Gu Xiaomei can only think of another trick.
So, she set her sights on Tao Jiang--
Tao Sanniang of the long house met Gu Chonglou a few times under her own arrangement, and it seemed that her heart was budding.
As long as she can marry Tao Jiang to the Gu family, isn't this jade cabbage in the Gu family's bag?
In this way, it is the overall situation that I have carefully laid out.
It's a pity that her daughter doesn't understand her hard work at all!
She stepped forward, gently hugged Tauro's shoulder, her chin hit her daughter's bun, her eyes were slightly empty, and she landed in the distance with a hint of cruelty:
"Luo'er, don't worry, what Tao Jiang has today will be yours in the future, and there will be no less!"
Tauro was chilled by his mother's words, and couldn't help but raise a pair of teary eyes and asked:
"Really? Will my cousin be mine too? ”
Gu Xiaomei smiled ghostly:
"As long as it's her pottery ginger, my mother will snatch it for you!"