Chapter 137 Powerful Minister [06]
Zhenbei Gongfu has been the center of topics in the capital recently.
The former Duke Zhenbei and his eldest son died in battle. The second son Meng Yuanjia went on a battle to defeat the Hu army and returned with Dasheng, but brought back 200,000 Zhenbei troops, which scared the emperor to rest in peace.
In order to appease Meng Yuanjia, the emperor issued a quick speech to inherit the Duke of Zhenbei and the imperial edict for serving in the Ministry of War. For a time, Meng Yuanjia was also a superb Duke and served as the Minister of War. He was in the limelight and was very popular.
Those families who were not politically aware enough that the emperor was afraid of Meng Yuanjia came to give gifts, trying to make good friends with the new Zhenbeigong. Those families who could see also maintained a respectful attitude towards Zhenbeigong Mansion without offending them.
It was the thrilling spring in Zhenbei Duke's Mansion that suddenly came out of the news that it was about to hold a ceremony to recognize the ancestors for the third young master Meng Chu of the mansion, and guests were invited to attend.
This is a bit strange. The third young master of Zhenbei Gongfu is not his biological son?!
Meng Chuan was very low-key when he moved out. He silently bought a house and moved in, but rarely went out. Yan's family was good at managing the family, and no servant dared to gossip. Therefore, no one knew that Meng Chuan had moved out of Zhenbei Gong Mansion because of his life experience.
Now that Yuan Jia has released the news and sent out the invitations, he naturally has no intention of hiding his life experience for Meng Chuan.
So everyone in the capital knew that his former Duke of Zhenbei Gao Yi adopted his only son as his legitimate son in order to take care of his family who sacrificed his personal guards. Now that the child has grown up, the Duke of Zhenbei also specially held a ceremony to recognize his ancestors and return to his hometown.
People praised the former Zhenbei Army for caring for their subordinates, and by the way, they extended the issue of death pension for the soldiers who died in battle. They dug out other generals and compared them with Zhenbei Gong, it seems that the one who did the best in this regard is Zhenbei Gong's lineage.
The soldiers who died in Zhenbei Gong's lineage never withheld the pension and were always caring for their families. Orphans like Meng Chu who remarried their father and mother had no other elders were directly raised by Zhenbei Gong's mansion.
Meng Chu can only be said to be the luckiest of the orphans of many sacrificed soldiers, because although his father Meng Shisan was a guard servant, he grew up with Zhenbeigong since childhood. He had a deep relationship and was extraordinary, so he was treated as an adopted son by Zhenbeigong.
Yuan Jia took this opportunity to gain a lot of reputation as Zhenbei Gong Mansion in the capital. After all, a general who can be so sympathetic to the soldiers under his command must be a good general.
The personal guards who came back with Yuan Jia were all excited. Thinking of the kindness of Zhenbei Duke Mansion to their personal guards, they were all as energetic as if they were injected with chicken blood, and they wished they could repay the lord with death.
Only Meng Zhi, the person involved, could not laugh.
He hid in the house he bought with private money and was unwilling to go out. When he thought of meeting his past acquaintance after going out, how would he answer when he asked about his life experience? Could he have to admit in person that he was not the legitimate young master of Zhenbei Gong Mansion, but the son of a mere guard?
The dandy he looked down upon in the past was more noble than his!
After receiving the invitation from Zhenbei Gongfu, Meng's biological mother, Lin, hurriedly put down her work, rushed to the door of the mansion bought by Meng's biological mother, knocked hard: "Zing'er, Zing'er, open the door quickly! I am your mother, let her in!"
Meng Chuan didn't want to pay attention, but Lin was too persistent and kept knocking, and the sound of shouting at the door became louder and louder. He felt embarrassed and had to let the maid come and open the door.
When Meng Chu left Zhenbei Gong Mansion, he wanted to take away the maids and servants he had used to, but the butler said that these servants were sold to Zhenbei Gong Mansion, and he did not have their contract to sell their body and could not take them away.
So after he moved to this small house, he had to buy a new maid to serve his daily life. With a cook, he couldn't afford more servants.
Meng Chuan gave the sanitation and cleaning of the mansion to Lin, who always wanted to come and fight for the autumn wind.
Meng Chuan was able to hold a grudge against his adoptive parents because of a small matter, which shows that he was cold-hearted and naturally he really didn't feel much about Lin's family.
Before, Lin asked him to cry and ask for money for money, he didn't care about it, because he spent money from Zhenbei Gongfu. When he thought of spending money on Zhenbei Gongfu on his back, he felt a strange sense of excitement.
Now that Meng Zu was driven out of the mansion by Yuan Jia, he used a little less private money in his hand. How could he be happy to Lin, who beat Qiufeng?
He didn't want to give him a penny, but he had to be like his son and mother. Lin was not a good person. He was proficient in rolling around, crying, making trouble, and hanging himself. Meng Zu, who cherished his reputation, had to take a step back and said that he could ask for money, and she had to come to help him clean the house.
Lin was also afraid that this rich son would make up his mind and ignore her. He would stop when he saw it. He came to Meng's house to clean it every day, had two meals, and then went home with one or two items, and his life was very happy.
Although Meng Chuan seems to be living a hard life now, it is only very hard compared to when he was in Zhenbei Gong Mansion. In fact, in Lin's opinion, he lived a life of a fairy. He could make her family eat and drink enough if something was leaking in his hands.
In this case, Lin even tried to let go.
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Meng Zhi looked at Lin's house in the door gloomy and said coldly: "Didn't you tell me if you're okay, don't bother me?"
Lin didn't care about his attitude, so he took out the exquisite invitation given to her by Zhenbei Gongfu, and asked with a serious look: "Zhi'er, didn't you say you just don't want to be angry at Zhenbei Gongfu, so you just moved out and calm down yourself? This post says you want to recognize your ancestors and return to your ancestors? You are so good at the young master of the Gongfu, why do you accept your ancestors and return to your ancestors? Your devil father has been a waste of time for generations. What benefits can you do if you recognize them?"
Lin values immediate interests more. She is too lazy to care whether her ex-husband, who has been dead for more than ten years, can inherit the incense. She even thinks that Meng Chuan can always be the third young master of Zhenbei Gongfu, so she will be the deceased ex-husband, to be glorious to the ancestors!
Therefore, Lin is the person who is least willing to recognize his ancestors except Meng Chu himself.
Meng Chu's face suddenly changed. He reached out to snatch the invitation from Lin's hand. When he opened the content, his eyes suddenly turned red and he gritted his teeth and said with gritted teeth, "Meng Yuanjia! You are too much!"
He thought that Yuan Jia had said before that he would hold a ceremony to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors just to speak, and he was so scared that he would be able to let him go if he honestly moved out.
However, this invitation clearly told him: Let you go? Dream!
Meng Chu tore off the invitation in anger. He wanted to see if the ceremony could be carried out without him as the protagonist!
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After Meng Chu tear off the invitation, he made up his mind not to attend this ceremony of recognizing ancestors. He wanted to leave Meng Yuanjia and a group of guests there, embarrassing Meng Yuanjia!
However, Yuan Jia was prepared for this. He sent the butler to come and Meng Chuan obediently agreed that he would go there.
It’s not that he is not firm enough, but that he can’t withstand the power of Zhenbei Gongfu now.
Lin was also beside him at that time. After watching her, her particularly tempered son, heard the threat of the words in the smile of the butler of Zhenbei Gongfu, he obediently admitted his timidity.
She felt very panicked.
Because she remembered that she had slandered Zhenbeigong in front of Meng Chu.
In fact, she had never met Zhenbeigong more than ten years ago. As soon as she received news of her ex-husband's death in battle, she packed up her things and went back to her parents' home to remarry. Her son threw it directly to the neighbor, saying that she was asking her neighbor to take care of her for a day, and then she went there forever.
At that time, Duke Zhenbei was still on the front line and did not return to the capital. When he came back, Lin had already married her second husband.
Lin had never cared about how Meng Chuan was left behind by her. In her heart, she thought that Meng Chuan was either thrown away by her neighbor or sent to someone, and it was still nothing to do with her.
I never thought that after more than ten years, Meng Zhi would come to him and look like a wealthy young master. Obviously, her son lived a very good life, so after she learned that this son was adopted by her ex-husband’s boss, Zhenbeigong, she panicked as soon as she knew.
When Lin was lying nonsense, she thought about the benefits. Now that she saw that a servant of Zhenbei Gongfu had such power, she realized that she was scared. If Zhenbei Gongfu knew that she was messing with Zhenbei Gong, would her whole family die without a place to die?
After the butler left, Lin couldn't hold on to his legs and collapsed on the ground with weak legs. He asked Meng Chuan in panic: "Zhi'er, why do you think this Zhenbei Gongfu is so cruel? Just scare us ordinary people. Do you think the Zhenbei Gongfu will come to arrest us?"
Meng Zhi glanced at Lin, who was frightened and understood in his heart what she was afraid of, and smiled sarcastically: "As long as you didn't say any lies that discredited the reputation of Zhenbei Gongfu, Zhenbei Gongfu will not care about you."
Lin suddenly became even more panicked. He reached out to hold Meng Chuan's clothes and lost his backbone: "Zhi'er, you have to help your mother. My mother didn't think about it. She was misled by the corrupt officials in the play. She didn't intend to discredit the reputation of Zhenbei Gongfu!"
"Do you admit that you voluntarily abandon me to remarry?" Meng Chu looked at her calmly, not knowing what it felt in his heart.
Lin said hesitantly: "I, I have no choice but to do it. When your father died, I was still young. How could I stay with you for the rest of my life? It is not easy for me to remarry. You have to think about your mother for the rest of her life! And if I hadn't remarried, how could you be so lucky to be adopted by Zhenbei Gong? The other sons who sacrificed their personal guards do not have the luck of you. Zhenbei Gong Mansion will at most give some money..."
Although there were speculations, when Lin personally admitted that she was slandering and lying, Meng Zhi still couldn't help feeling disappointed and regretful.
As Lin said, how lucky he is to be compared to those children whose father died in battle and who can only live with other elders in the family, or orphans whose parents are not adopted by others!
But this luck did not always favor him. Why was he just too lazy to recognize Lin's family and believed Lin's nonsense?
Meng Chu, exhausted, pushed Lin away and said to her faintly: "Go out! I never want to see you again!"
Lin was very good at looking at people. Seeing that Meng Zhi looked very wrong, she didn't dare to roll on the tantrum this time, so she got up from the ground and slipped away.
Chapter completed!