Chapter 436: His Eldest Wife’s Relatives [Thank You! Thank You Again! I Owe You 30,000]

Xingguofang

Ningyuan Houfu

At the second gate,

Bai and Gu Tingyi walked out of the carriage. Pingmei, who was tall and long-legged, was already standing beside the carriage and stretched out her hand.

Gu Tingyi smiled and held it.

When the two of them get off the bus,

Bai turned her head and looked at Gu Tingye, who was being helped off the horse by Zhique, and shook her head helplessly: "Let the kitchen cook some stomach-nourishing rice porridge and send it to Ye'er tonight."

Aunt Chang looked at Gu Tingye with some distress and said, "Yes, madam."

Ping Mei said on the side: "Eldest brother, Zai Zhang and Xiao Wu are at the same table as Erlang, and they don't know how to stop them, just to see how Erlang gets drunk!"

"It has nothing to do with the Xu brothers and the others. It's Ye'er who brought it upon himself. Let's go!"

Entering the inner courtyard,

It felt much warmer after entering the house.

Bai's group began to take off their cloaks.

"Mom, when I just entered the door, the mother in charge said that Mr. Hou is back. Why didn't he see anyone?"

As Pingmei spoke, she took Gu Tingyi's cloak and handed it to Qingxia beside her.

Bai sat on the Arhat chair, holding a cup of hot tea and looked at the female envoy in the hall: "Do you know?"

"Back to Madam, I just vaguely heard Steward Qi say that a letter has come to our house. The Marquis may have gone to the study."

"oh!"

Pingmei nodded and sat on the chair under Bai's head. She glanced at Gu Tingyi and said with a smile: "Mother, the marriage between the Shen family and the Zheng family is going to continue. What kind of gifts should we give then? "

Bai thought for a moment: "Master Shen has been an official in the south for many years, and your sister-in-law's father is also in the south. I remember hearing you say before that the relationship between the two families is very good!"

"Brother Zheng Jiaxiao is friends with Ye'er and Jing, so we should give him heavier gifts than others!"

Gu Tingyi on the side said: "Mom! My daughter also wants to prepare a separate gift for Sister Zheng Ni."

When the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were talking,

Gu family ancestral hall,

in the brazier,

The envelopes and stationery are slowly burning,

The envelope has not been burned yet, and you can vaguely see the two beautiful calligraphy characters "Yanwen" on the envelope.

The firelight in the brazier was reflected in Gu Yankai's eyes,

Gu Yankai looked at a tablet in front of him, the fire in his eyes swaying just like his thoughts at this moment.

"Master!"

The voice of steward Qi Shengqi standing at the door came calling.

Gu Yankai raised his sleeve and wiped it at the corner of his eyes.

"Father! Why did you come to the ancestral hall?"

Gu Tingyu asked as he went to get the incense stick.

"Let me see your mother."

Gu Tingyu nodded and looked at the paper that was about to burn out in the brazier. He took out the incense and walked to the candle to light it.

Green smoke curled up in the ancestral hall.

After Gu Tingyu kowtowed in front of his biological mother's tablet, he looked at his mother's tablet and said:

"Father, when I went to court today, my son heard from Huangfu Shangshu that someone was preparing to give His Majesty advice, saying that he should prepare to attack Bei Liao next year."

"What do you think about this?"

Hearing Gu Tingyu's words, Gu Yankai was startled, and said in a deep voice: "These matters are naturally decided by His Majesty and the Grand Prime Ministers, but the war in the northwest has just ended and the war with Beiliao has just ended, so he is a little impatient."

"That's what father said! Then if you think someone really wants to speak up, will your majesty agree?"

"Looking at the way His Majesty was not in a hurry to conquer Bai Gao last year, most likely he would not agree to this matter. However, there will be many dignitaries in the capital to encourage His Majesty to agree. After all, the only way to fight a war is for a family like ours. Only then can we go up.”

Gu Tingyu said: "Then my father thinks that the British Guild will not enter the palace."

Gu Yankai waved his hand and said: "The British Lord will neither incite His Majesty nor oppose this matter! Opposing this matter will chill the soldiers in the north who want to make achievements."

Gu Tingyu nodded: "If we fight, they can also take the opportunity to get more oil and water."

Then he added: "Auntie, why did she write this letter? Is she asking you, father, to come forward and agree with what your son just said?"

"Um!"

"The Dongchang Houfu is quite thick-skinned."

"Yu'er, no matter what, it's your grandfather's home! What's more, your aunt doesn't know what your uncle has done!"

"laugh!"

Then Gu Tingyu turned around and walked out. When he reached the door, he turned around and said, "Father, you are an excellent general! But you'd better not get involved in this matter!"

"Is this how you talk to your elders?!"

Gu Yankai looked at the eldest son who walked out of the ancestral hall without replying. He shook his sleeves angrily, his chest heaved violently for a few times, then he looked at Rulin's memorial tablet and breathed out slowly.

When he shook his head and was about to leave the ancestral hall,

"Brother!"

"Brother!"

Two men smelling of alcohol appeared at the door of the ancestral hall.

"Fourth child, fifth child, why are you here?"

"Brother, I was invited to drink by my old friend in the capital today. I said that those families in the northwest will make a lot of money by taking over Baigao! Bei Liao is currently fighting with the Kingdom of Jin. I, the Great Zhou Dynasty, should take advantage of the situation and send troops." Gu Lunkai, the fourth master of the Gu family, said.

"What the fourth brother is saying is that if we really fight Beiliao, with our Gu family's Guangrui army, won't we get the credit easily?" The fifth master of the Gu family agreed.

Gu Yankai shook his head: "Let's talk about this later!"

"Hey! Brother, listen to what I'm telling you, brother!"

The sound gradually fades away,

The ancestral hall became quiet,

In front of Ru Lin's memorial tablet, the incense candles were blown away by the wind.

The sun sets and the moon rises,

Hu Yanjiong's house,

In the children's room in the inner courtyard,

An Mei was sitting at the table with Mrs. Pan.

Both mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were holding fragrant drinks in their hands, and spread out on the table in front of them was a booklet of congratulatory gifts for each family recorded by the steward of the mansion.

"Hey, this gift from Miss Zhengzheng is quite heavy!"

Mrs. Pan said from the side.

"Let me take a look."

An Mei raised her head and glanced: "Hey, it's so heavy, we won't be able to return the favor then!"

Mrs. Pan nodded in agreement.

After thinking for a while, An Mei asked with a smile: "Mother-in-law, what did the Rong family give you?"

"I see it's a jade lock."

Upon hearing this, An Mei hurriedly said: "Ye'er, go bring the things and let me see!"

Mrs. Pan looked at An Mei curiously and said nothing.

After a while, Ye'er came over holding a wooden box.

After Anmei opened the wooden box, Mrs. Pan looked at an exquisite jade lock lying quietly in the box and sighed: "It is so ingenious that it is not a gift from the emperor."

"The Rong family is spending a lot of money!" An Mei said, taking out the jade lock and looking at it carefully.

"This Rong family's return gift is even more difficult to prepare."

An Mei smiled: "We'll talk about it later! By the way, mother-in-law, what did my mother-in-law give me?"

Then he put the jade lock back into the wooden box.

Mrs. Pan flipped through it, a smile appeared on her face, and she read a few words casually.

An Mei said a little unhappy: "How come they are all medicinal materials for maintaining the body!?"

Ye'er on the side smiled and said: "Girl, you still can't tell, Madam just wants you to have two children in three years!"

"Go! Go! Go!"

Yong Yi Hou Mansion

Lanterns hang under the wooden eaves beside the racecourse.

in the house,

Xu Zaijing sat by the stove and looked at the pile of gifts on the table.

Qingyun stood aside and looked at Uncle Yin and said, "Uncle, are you saying that the old relationship between the two families outside Beijing has faded long ago, and it is impossible to give me a gift?"

Uncle Yin nodded.

Xu Zaijing looked at the steaming iron kettle on the stove and said, "I think the only one who knows about the relationship between the two families, but doesn't know that the relationship has faded, and even comes to send congratulatory gifts under false names, is the second girl from Dongchang Hou Mansion." ”

Uncle Yin glared at Xu Zaijing and said to Qingyun: "Since I gave it to you, just accept it."

"Yes, uncle."

Xu Zaijing picked up the iron kettle for boiling water and walked to the door, put it outside and closed the door.

"Master, even Uncle Deng can't recognize you now, so why bother detaining yourself in the courtyard of the Marquis' Mansion!"

Uncle Yin looked at Xu Zaijing: "I have seen the scenery all over the world when I was young, and the scenery outside is not as beautiful as the horses!"

"Jing'er, you have a good relationship with the head of the Imperial City Department now. Has he told you about the situation of the vassal kings in Da Zhou?"

Xu Zaijing scratched his bun: "I haven't met Brother Zhaomeifeng in the past few days. Master, why do you ask?"

Uncle Yin sighed: "Nowadays, the great Zhou Dynasty is all focused on the north, but Jing'er, you are having troubles with several vassal kings, so you still have to worry about some things."

"Master, now that the prince is strong and strong, and His Majesty has just regained Baigao, those vassal kings probably have nothing to think about!"

"Jing'er, you think too simply of people who have tasted power! King Yan is so close to Bianjing, so he secretly raises dead men, let alone those who are far away from the emperor!"

Xu Zaijing nodded seriously.

In ancient times, transportation was inconvenient. The sky was high and the emperor was far away. The earthly emperor was no joke.

"Now that there is a great victory in the northwest, there are many newly-declared soldiers, and there are backstages like the Cao family, the Xu family, and the Zhang family, they will naturally occupy the seats of other noble families."

"What Master said is that if the seats are gone, the way to bring in money will naturally be gone."

There was a smile in Uncle Yin's eyes: "Jing'er, do you think Duke Han, Duke Ling, etc., have the same chance of making a comeback as your family?"

Xu Zaijing thought for a moment, shook his head and said: "Your Majesty's Lu family, my father's generation has been ruined! In the Korean public family, regardless of their academic or martial arts, there are not many outstanding children in the main family. If you want to recover, you can only rely on opportunities." slim.”

"But this kind of family has many in-laws, so they can survive just by relying on their connections!"

Yin Bo continued: "Perhaps the things I encountered before have always made me think a lot, and I always feel in my heart that the princes of the Zhou Dynasty will not just be so obedient."

Xu Zaijing nodded heavily and said: "Master, I understand! From now on, I will feel a tightrope in my heart!"

Uncle Yin nodded, stood up and said, "It's time for me to feed the horses!"

Qingyun packed up the gifts and followed him out of the wooden house.

Uncle Yin stood outside the house, looked at the stars in the sky and said with a smile: "Jing'er, you are right, I should go out of the house and wander around when I have the opportunity."

The first day of February,

Early in the morning, it was still dark,

Quyuan Street,

The big lantern at the gate of the Hou Mansion was lit.

Under the lantern,

Mrs. Sun sighed as she watched Zai Duan disappear at the corner of the street, and said to the people on the side: "Go back!"

Seeing that the atmosphere of separation was a bit depressing, Xu Zaijing turned around and walked quickly for a few steps, walking towards the courtyard and said: "Mom, look at you, this time is a little different from when you sent your eldest brother away before!"

"Xiao Wu, the future of your father and brother was uncertain last time. This time the war is decided. Can I feel the same?"

"Hehe, what mother said is true! Look at my son, maybe his father will be able to return to Beijing at the end of the month!"

Xie, who was holding Xu Xingdai, looked at Sun's expression and smiled: "Xiao Wu can still talk!"

Had breakfast,

Xu Zaijing and Zai Zhang arrived at Jiying Lane despite the still cold morning wind.

What surprised the two of them was that

In the past, there were only a few people at the entrance of the Sheng family, but today there were actually a few carriages.

"Xiaowu, could it be that the Sheng family's big house has arrived?"

Xu Zaijing shook his head: "Brother, not so fast!"

"Then this is?"

“You’ll know after you take a look!”

Arriving near the carriage,

The young man from the Sheng family looked at Xu Zaijing and his group and quickly raised his hands: "Sanlang, Wulang, you are here!"

The master and servants beside the carriage looked at the clothes and horses of the two brothers and hurriedly saluted.

Xu Zaijing returned the gift and said, "I wonder who these are?"

"Wu Lang, these are the descendants of Mr. Liu's family who are in the same year as the Lord. They are here to participate in this month's examination. They will be staying in the outer courtyard these days!"

"oh!"

Xu Zaijing cupped his hands and said, "You guys are so polite!"

After exchanging pleasantries,

Xu Zaijing entered the school.

While taking off his big cloak and giving it to Qingcao, he looked at Changbai who had arrived early and said, "Changbai, why don't you go greet the people outside the gate?"

Under the candlelight, Changbai waved his hand and said, "I greeted you when I came to the school just now!"

"I see."

The sky is getting brighter,

When Xuexue Zhuang came to the school, the seats for three orchids were still vacant.

"Everyone, yesterday Shanda people told me that three students will come to participate in this exam today. Let's discuss and exchange ideas with these people today!"

"Yes, pedant!"

"Chang Bai, Brother Heng, Chang Feng, you go to the three girls' seats and make your seats available!"

When Xu Zaijing was discussing and communicating with the ‘senior seniors’ in the school,

Quyuan Street,

Yong Yihou Mansion,

Mrs. Sun, who was arranging today's affairs, was talking to her two daughters-in-law.

"Madam, Mrs. Wu is here!"

The envoy finished speaking,

Mrs. Wu's hearty laughter came over: "Sister Sun, I asked you to blame me today!"

Mrs. Sun, Mrs. Xie and Mrs. Hualan stood up and looked at Mrs. Wu who opened the curtain and walked in. "Sister, please tell me first. Sister, I can give you a price!"

Mrs. Wu smiled at Xie and Hualan who had bowed, walked to Sun unceremoniously, and pulled Sun to sit down.

Looking at Dan's mother on the side, she said: "Give me a cup of tea first!"

Mrs. Wu took the tea cup and took a sip of the warm tea and said: "Sister, I have also looked for many people, but in the end I couldn't do it, so I had to come to you!"

"Madam, whatever you say is fine. Mother-in-law will definitely not refuse if she can help." Hua Lan said with a smile.

Mrs. Wu held her handkerchief and nodded at Hualan with a smile, and then said:

"Sister, that's what happened!"

"A relative of a Yuzhou clan eldest lady is going to Bianjing, but this month is the day of the exam, and all the good courtyards have been rented by the students! They couldn't rent the courtyard, so they came to my place!"

"This family is somewhat related to the Liang family of the Yongchang Marquis Mansion, so I can't ignore it!"

"But my family has a large population and the yard can't be crowded, so I want to come to my sister's Quyuan Street to borrow a yard!"

Sun nodded and said hesitantly: "The clan of Yuzhou"

Mrs. Wu waved her hand: "It's not from the clan, it's his maiden relative! The surname is Zou!"

"I have met the Zou family once. The person in charge is the eldest girl of the Zou family who married into the Shen family. She is an enthusiastic and cheerful person!"

"That clan member is also an honest man who is obsessed with farming. Don't worry, sister!"