Chapter 10: My Sister's Marriage
In the evening, Mrs. Shen took Wen Ting and Tianyou and followed the housekeeper Tang Fu back home in a hurry.
The old lady sat on the Taishi chair in the hall, watching straight as the three of them, mother and son walked in, and Shen quickly asked her daughter Wen Ting and son Tianyou to kneel down, and she stood on the side, waiting to be trained.
Old lady: "Good grandson and granddaughter, get up quickly and come to grandma to do it." ”
Wen Ting and Tianyou moved two chairs and sat down with their grandmother.
The old lady pointed to the chair next to her and said, "You can sit down too." ”
Shen: "Thank you, Mother." ”
Old lady: "Do you know where your eldest son, my eldest grandson, has gone?"
Shen: "I don't know, I'll go to see Tianyou as soon as I finish lunch." ”
Old lady: "Your son, you don't know, I know, I'll take care of it for you?"
Shen wanted to say: "My son I want to take care of it, but if I want to scold him, you say that I can only scold, not educate." I want to fight, you have to say again, the eldest grandson is the treasure of the Tang family, I don't feel heartache when I fight, you have heartache. Do I dare to manage it?" However, Shen still didn't dare to speak, just lowered his head and listened silently.
Old lady: "I'll tell you, take care of your precious brother, don't take my eldest grandson badly." This month, he has taken my eldest grandson to Wanliu Lane three times, but fortunately, three times my eldest grandson watched your brother gamble. ”
Shen couldn't help but be curious: My brother has taken Wen Han to Wanliu Lane three times this month, how do you know, and you know so clearly, all three times I watched my brother gamble. Could it be that she has been sending people to spy on our mother and son?
Old lady: "Don't be surprised, it's all from Aunt Xia Mei next to the old lady." The old lady knows everything and can't hide anything from her. Your youngest son competes in martial arts, often secretly runs to the second floor to read books, and runs to the teahouse to play chess, and the old lady knows it. The old lady doesn't care, and I don't ask. ”
The old lady paused, looked at Shen and sighed: "Hey!" continued: "My life is hard, and you are also hard! Don't blame me for being mean as a mother-in-law, your two sons are the hope of our Tang family, if we don't educate them well, what will our Tang family do in the future?"
"Your husband, my son, Tang Qianzhi didn't know that nerve fever, today after lunch, he was making a fuss about becoming a monk, learning from his grandfather, and chanting the poem 'Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, and their fathers seek immortals and enjoy themselves', saying that they want to cultivate the way of immortals. I just stopped being educated by the old lady, and now I'm sitting on the futon in the study and meditating on the immortals. ”
Shen: "Okay, follow my mother's teachings." ”
Old lady: "I asked Tang Fu to call you back, originally I wanted you to persuade your husband to make him change his mind, but now that the old lady has agreed, I won't care, you can take a look later, but don't disturb him." ”
"Now there is a tricky matter that you need to decide, that is, the Tang family's industry, the Tang family in Qianguo Lane, and who will be in charge of Qianguo Wharf?"
Shen: "I listen to my mother. Shen listened silently with his head down in tears, since he came to talk to me, he naturally had an opinion, as long as he listened.
Old lady: "The eldest grandson of the Maoshan Tang family, Tang Qianbao, the eldest grandson of Tang Liliang, has been helping us take care of the things on the dock, and I want Tang Fu to take my eldest grandson to learn with him first." ”
Shen: "Okay, follow my mother's teachings." ”
As he spoke, the eldest young master, Tang Wenhan, flew in like the wind from outside, his snow-white robe was covered with a lot of dust, and his black hair was a little loose.
The old lady saw the eldest young master Tang Wenhan walk in, and showed a happy smile. beckoned: "Come, good grandson come to grandma." ”
The old lady pulled Tang Wenhan: "Good grandson, where did you go?"
Tang Wenhan: "If you go back to your grandmother, you and Tang Wensong will go outside the city to compare your skills." ”
Old lady: "What was the result?"
Tang Wenhan: "My grandson got the apple one step earlier. ”
The old lady smiled with satisfaction.
The old lady pulled Tang Wenting and hugged her in her arms, shedding a line of tears. "Hey, it's still my good granddaughter, smart, obedient, sensible, but it's a pity that I'm a hard-working girl, and I'm twenty-three years old this year. ”
Wen Ting snuggled in her grandmother's arms and said coquettishly like a little girl: "Grandmother, granddaughter listens to grandmother and mother." ”
The old lady looked at Wen Ting in surprise, every time the old lady asked Tang Wenting about her marriage, she would say that she would accompany her grandmother and mother for the rest of her life.
Today's answer is unexpected.
The old lady looked at Wen Ting and asked again, "Is what you just said true?"
Wen Ting said in a low voice: "The granddaughter listens to her grandmother and mother. ”
The old lady and lady laughed happily and shouted: "Tang Fu! Tang Fu"
Tang Fu arrived.
Tang Fu: "Old lady, what are your orders?"
Old lady: "Has the eldest son of the prefect Chu's family married?"
Tang Fu: "No!"
Old lady: "Is the Chu family's proposal still valid?"
Tang Fu: "Yes! The Chu family left the birthday of the eldest son, Chu Linghao, in our mansion. The Chu family said that the eldest prince said that he would only marry the eldest lady of our family in this life, and he would not change until death, and he must wait until the eldest lady is sincere. ”
Old lady: "Quick, quick, go and choose an auspicious day of the zodiac, prepare a generous gift, and go to the Chu family to send the young lady's birthday over." ”
Tang Fu: "Alright!" Tang Fu smiled and turned to leave.
The atmosphere in the hall suddenly eased, and the hall was filled with joy.
Wen Ting is twenty-three years old, long past the age of leaving the cabinet.
In the past few years, people who have come to ask for relatives have broken through the threshold, Tang Wenting has refused, she insisted on staying at home to help her mother raise her younger brother, she said that her only wish in this life is to watch her younger brother grow up and become a talent.
Since Wen Ting was seventeen years old, Chu Lanqing, the prefect of Changzhou, asked the famous matchmaker Zhang in the east of the city to ask for the eldest son Chu Linghao for the first time.
Wen Ting couldn't figure out why Lord Chu, the prefect of Changzhou, wanted to invite a matchmaker to ask for the eldest son Chu Linghao to be so persistent, she and Chu Linghao had never known each other, the Tang family and the Chu family had never interacted, the Chu family was in the official, the Tang family was in the rivers and lakes, at most it was in business.
On the night of Tianyou's fourteenth birthday last year, Tianyou had a more special dream, sitting on the bed in the middle of the night and chanting loudly "Peacock Flying Southeast" to describe the luxurious scene of Taishou's family marrying Liu Lanzhi: green finches and white birds, four-horned dragon flags. Graceful with the wind, gold car and jade wheel. Heel on a green horse, tassel gold saddle.
The voice woke up her sister Wen Ting. Wen Ting rushed to see him and laughed, letting him dream. Suddenly, he shouted loudly and cried out heartbreakingly, and his sister Wen Ting hurriedly woke him up. He said it hurt to see his body burning, about to disappear, it hurt, it hurt.
His sister asked him what had happened, and he shyly whispered to his sister that he had seen the fairy in his dream, the same person, with a childish face and fluttering clothes, and said to him with a smile: "Don't be afraid, we are the same person, whatever you wish, I can help you realize it." He dreamed that he married the eldest lady of the Changzhou prefect, and the scene of the marriage was so luxurious and solemn, just like the luxurious scene of the Taishou family marrying Liu Lanzhi in "Peacock Flying Southeast".
The next day, Wen Ting let her personal maid Xin'er inquire and learned that the Changzhou prefect gave birth to a pair of children Chu Linghao and Chu Qinrou, the son Chu Linghao and Miss Wen Ting are of the same age, and Miss Chu Qinrou is the same age as the second young master Tianyou. Gongzi Chu Linghao has often had strange dreams since he was sixteen years old, and he saw Tang Wenting, the eldest lady of the Tang family, in his dreams. When he was eighteen years old, he dreamed that he was being chased and killed, and he was dying with a sword at the foot of Maoshan Mountain.
Wen Ting listened to the words of the maid Xin'er, and also felt that things were strange, and believed that maybe she Tang Wenting and Chu Linghao were destined for it. However, the marriage of children is the order of their parents, and I don't want to say much, so I heard my grandmother mention it today and just answered.