Chapter 43(1/2)
Mrs. Li Guogong was willing to make Yan Ning more glorious.
She raised two girls herself.
She doesn't have to worry about Arong being capable, but Yan Ning is soft-hearted. Although she grew up in the Duke's Mansion, there are many people in this world who value their original origins. She thinks Yan Ning is an orphan, so many people look down on her.
Because of this, Mrs. Li Guogong's wife hoped that Yan Ning could be protected and favored by more superiors.
For example, Concubine Li... If Concubine Li could favor Yan Ning, Yan Ning would have more glory in the eyes of people outside.
Those glory are obtained by Yan Ning himself, so they are naturally valued more than the so-called "coon girl" who is illusory in the eyes of outsiders.
Even if Mrs. Li Guo dared to guarantee to people outside that Mr. Li Guo Guo's mansion was Yan Ning's mother's home and he regarded Yan Ning as his own daughter. Even if Yan Ning had no biological compatriots, the three sons born by Mrs. Li Guo Guo's wife all had the same feelings as Yan Ning's brother.
Who can believe it completely?
Looking at Yan Ning, who was smiling like a flower and innocent and kind, the wife of Duke Li sighed in her heart.
Since Yan Ning and she rejected the proposal to marry Jiang Wei, Mrs. Li Guo’s wife actually couldn’t sleep well.
She raised a delicate little girl to marry outside, how can she feel at ease? Even if she entrusted her to Mrs. Fan, she still believed in Mrs. Fan's vision, but this mother... she would only worry about whether her little daughter would suffer grievances after she got married.
After marrying someone, how can you be as comfortable as when you were a girl at home?
Thinking of this, Duke Li couldn't help but complain to Yan Ning in his heart. Why wasn't he so weird that he didn't want to marry her third cousin... It would be great if he could stay in Duke Li's mansion. She took care of Yan Ning for the rest of her life and spoiled her beloved little daughter to heaven... Her eyes looked at Yan Ning with a soft and a little angry.
Yan Ning happily threw herself into the old lady's arms and said that she had spoken to the King of Chu in the palace, and the kindness of Concubine Li Guifei. She felt the gaze of Duke Li Guo. She turned her head and looked at Duke Li Guo for a while. Then she hurriedly rubbed her arms like a candy from the old lady's arms, and hugged her neck and whispered, "But I still like my eldest aunt the most."
"You little girl always have such a sweet mouth." Mrs. Li Guogong felt very comfortable and pointed Yan Ning's snow-white forehead.
Yan Ning hid in the warm arms of Duke Li Guo’s wife and smiled with a pursed lips.
"By the way, my aunt, this is the first time I have received a reward from the palace. The concubine rewarded me and my cousin and I, which looked so beautiful. My cousin told me that this brocade is rare, so it would be better to allocate it to my cousins. Our family is dressed beautifully. Do you think it's okay?"
When Arong and Yan Ning came back, they agreed that because once they entered the palace, they were rare to get rewards from Concubine Li, so it was better to share some happiness with the sisters. This was because Arong was afraid that the sisters in her family would be able to enter the palace and received the reward from Concubine Li, and felt uneasy about Yan Ning.
After all, Yan Ning was just a cousin, but when he went to and from the palace, he was loved by the imperial concubine and rewarded by the imperial concubine.
Even if the sisters in the family are generous, they are not jealous, but Arong is unwilling to use these to challenge the sisters' moods.
When you get rewards for the first time, you always have to share some of them to make everyone happy.
As for the future, if Yan Ning gets rewards again, it is because the concubine likes Yan Ning, so there is no need to share it.
Yan Ning thought Arong’s proposal was pretty good.
Even if I don’t remember the maintenance between the sisters in my previous life, even if it’s just this life, the cousins of the Jiang family brought Yan Ning to close and friendly. They have never been different from her just because she is not the daughter of the Jiang family. Yan Ning is also willing to share everything she has got with her sisters.
After thinking about it, Yan Ning was more familiar with Alan and Ajing in addition to Arong. The fourth room also had a cousin. However, her fourth aunt didn't like her very much and liked to worship Buddha. Therefore, she often went to the temple to worship Buddha for ten days and half a month, and she also took Yan Ning's cousin Aruo to go with her... Because of this, the old lady scolded her fourth aunt several times. After all, it is not bad for girls to like worship Buddha. Giving Buddha can make people tranquility, be kind, and behave safely and peacefully.
But it is not the kind of Buddhist rituals that her fourth aunt does.
He kept an old girl in front of the ancient Buddha of Qingdeng all day long. He heard that he only ate vegetables and tofu. He was the old lady's granddaughter. How could the old lady be willing?
This time, after hearing the old lady's words, the fourth aunt secretly took her daughter to the temple again. The old lady was so angry that she had already asked her fourth uncle to tie the person back, but the person had not come back yet.
However, Yan Ning remembers that her little cousin does seem to be because of this. She is particularly cold and has a transcendent world, which makes people feel uncomfortable.
Therefore, the relationship between her and her cousin is just ordinary.
In the last life, she was sorrowful at Duanyang Bo Mansion. Aruo's cousin knew that Aruo was just watching coldly and saying, "Among all sentient beings suffer."
Yan Ning felt uncomfortable when she thought of her fourth cousin's gaze with a bit of compassion. She felt that she was a common man and probably could not understand the exquisite Buddhist teachings of her fourth cousin. When she just talked to Arong about dividing these brocades, Yan Ning just suggested that Arong take some simpler materials to the fourth room.
Just thinking about so many messy things in the fourth room, she felt sorry for the old lady, so she was unwilling to let go of her happiness. She just shared the brocade with Arong and Alan and Ajing who rushed over after hearing the news. Although her temperament was different, the young girls all loved beauty. Alan and Ajing excitedly picked a few brocades to take them away.
In the evening, Yan Ning, with Duke Li Guo's wife and Arong, went back to the long room for dinner, and got the eight-treasure duck specially asked someone to bring to him. It was obvious that the second wife appreciated it.
The wife of Duke Li Guo and the sister-in-law of the second wife have always been very close. Because the second wife is not a disturbing person, Duke Li Guo is also sensible. The eldest and second and two bedrooms are the largest, and they are harmonious and close to each other. Therefore, the Duke Li Guo Mansion is still a very harmonious mansion.
However, Duke Li Guo’s wife had no complaints about the third room. She just brought the maid of Ajing, who was carrying a box of sugar cakes made by Ajing himself. Duke Li Guo smiled and took it away, asking the maid to reward the little maid next to Ajing. This was what Yan Ning and Arong said with a little emotion, "Ajing is different from her mother."
Yan Ning lowered his head and said nothing.
She thought Mrs. Li Guo was right.
Ajing is indeed different from the third wife.
No matter what, it is very rare to know how to be grateful.
But she is a junior, and she can't say what the elders are wrong. Although she feels that the third wife is very stingy and a little sarcastic, the third wife only has these small things that make people feel uncomfortable, and those evil things are not courageous.
After experiencing real malice and harm, Yan Ning felt that she had tolerated these trivial matters a lot, and buried her head in eating the sugar cake made by Ajing and whispered, "This sugar cake is soft, sweet and sweet, and Ajing's cousin is really clever." She sighed that a daughter of a mansion like Ajing could make two special snacks, and she was a little sad for a while.
Ajing strives to be the best woman, hoping that she can become the best wife, whether it is cooking, needlework, or even dignified and gentle character. Ajing always hopes that she can become popular, liked by her mother-in-law and respected by her husband.
But her husband doesn't cherish her.
Yan Ning suddenly felt that the sugar cake was not very delicious.
She always had to think of a way to make the marriage that the third wife was looking forward to not be completed.
But she didn't know that the third wife was talking about Ajing's marriage with Mr. Jiang San.
"Today, Arong and Aning came back from the palace. I heard that they were very popular in the palace. Why don't you know how old you are to see these two children? It's the first time Aning is to enter and exit the palace. You are not unaware of Aning's temperament, you are the most timid. You are so scared when you come back from the palace. At this time, if you are an aunt, don't comfort you, why are you doing in the house? "
Mr. Jiang San is a very handsome man, but his temperament is mediocre, so people think that he is not as handsome as Duke Li and Minister Jiang. At this moment, he frowned and looked at the third wife half lying on the soft collapse, and complained, "Arong and Aning are both people who care about their sisters. After getting some brocades from the imperial concubine, they know to give them to Ajing. Ajing is good, and she also cares about her sisters in her heart, and made some snacks. But why are you an elder without any indication? Do you think Arong and Aning should give Ajing something in vain?"
Although he was a useless person, he was tremblingly doing some small errands in the yamen. With the momentum of the Duke's Mansion and the care of his two brothers, he could gain a foothold in the court, but he was not a person who was incompatible with the four or six.
He cherishes his wife, but he cannot tolerate her being so stingy and willful.
"What's wrong with me? Didn't you tell me to think about my mistakes behind closed doors and say I'm sick? I'm sick, why did you go to see two girls?" The third wife was scolded by Master Jiang San for the first time before, and now she is feeling uncomfortable.
She has been married to Mr. Jiang San, and has always been in love with her husband. Although she is just a concubine, she has tightened her husband's heart. For so many years, there is no concubine in the three rooms, which shows the relationship between the couple.
Therefore, when Master Jiang San scolded her before, the third wife was stunned.
"You! I told you to think about your mistakes behind closed doors, so that you can understand your own mistakes! Now, I don't think you understand!" Seeing that your wife is so confused, Master Jiang San was so angry. He just saw that his wife leaned against the soft wall and cried quietly. He couldn't help but feel a little soft-hearted, so he calmed down and said, "You are worried about Ajing's marriage. Am I not Ajing's father? I don't care about her marriage? But you don't have to worry. Even if you and I don't have any connections, my mother and sister-in-law are always in frequent contacts. Just ask them to help Ajing's marriage. Why are you jealous of Arong and Aning?"
"Arong is the legitimate daughter of the Duke's Mansion, the only daughter of her sister-in-law. She has a noble birth. Even if she marrys into the royal family, it is natural. I am jealous of what she does."
"What do you mean? Are you jealous of Aning? She is pitiful enough to be alone. Don't be petty about her."
Mr. Jiang San is incredible.
He didn't expect that his wife was actually jealous of Yan Ning.
Yan Ning is well-behaved and gentle. When he sees him, he always calls him third uncle softly. He is soft and sensible. What's there to be jealous?
"Can't I be jealous? You don't know how scheming Aning is! Why did the daughter of the Jiang family in Mansion follow Arong to the palace?! Are you Ajing's father? Why don't you think about us Ajing?" When the third wife thought of the brocade that Ajing happily brought back today, she immediately cried loudly, "Ajing is the girl of the Jiang family. She should have been rewarded by the imperial concubine when she entered the palace. But now she has no share in the palace, and the reward is not her share. She is just so happy after getting some alms. Do you think I feel good in my heart?!"
It is obvious that Ajing is the serious bloodline in the Duke of Li Guo’s mansion, but she is going to be given a few pieces of brocade by a little girl like Yan Ning, as if she had picked up what Yan Ning wanted. But Ajing’s silly girl was so happy and very moved. She felt that Yan Ning was very concerned about her and the relationship between her sisters was very good.
What's good about it?
If it weren't for Yan Ning, why would there be only a few pieces of brocade?
"What are you talking nonsense? How did sisters worry about each other's feelings become charity!" Seeing that the third wife suddenly lost her mind and crazy, the couple's little intentions were angrily aggravated, Master Jiang San would not care about his wife.
But when he saw the third wife, he seemed to be angry, and he didn't know whether he was complaining to the old lady, the wife of Li Guo, or even Yan Ning's child, he felt as if he had met his wife again. He looked at the third wife and frowned and said, "You don't have to cry so loudly. Ajing is indeed a girl from the Jiang family, but my father is a useless person. The imperial concubine is afraid that she valued our eldest wife, so she called Arong and Aning into the palace. Now Ajing cannot enter the palace because I am mediocre and incompetent, and the palace doesn't take me seriously, so she delayed Ajing. Now, would I want me to say sorry to you, delay you and your daughter?"
His words were very heartbroken. When the third wife saw that he was really annoyed, she suddenly became frightened and said, "I don't mean that. It's just Aning, a little orphan who has nothing to do with our mansion..." Yan Ning's biological mother was originally from the Jiang family, but she just barely got married. When she arrived at Yan Ning, she actually had nothing to do with the Jiang family. It was just that she lost her parents in the cradle, so the Jiang family felt sorry for her and had no one to raise her, so she brought her back.
"Even if she has nothing to do with the Jiang family, she is still kept under the elder sister-in-law and is the adopted daughter of the Duke's wife. After all, I am useless and I can't give you decent." Mr. Jiang San said coldly.
His face was cold, and the third wife didn't care about complaining and hurriedly said, "Where is it? You are the best person! But I just can't stand Aning for being strong. Not to mention that she is the first in front of her sister-in-law. Her sister-in-law treats her as her own daughter, and now she is following Arong in and out of the palace. You just say that she is not as timid as she looks... Otherwise, why did the King of Chu come to our mansion last winter and she rushed over. After the prince's eyes looked at him, you see, how much the prince valued her now, give her all the snacks in the palace. Do you think this is something a simple girl can do?"
The third wife couldn't help but say jealously, "If I had known, I would have asked Ajing to pay my respects to the prince as well."
"Stop it. The prince and Aning are rare inseparable. If you want to change someone, try it. And Ajing... How many girls from the prince's Sun Xungui family in Kyoto went to the prince to please him, and the prince just asked to get out. Could it be that you also want Ajing to hug the prince and cry like Aning? I'm afraid Ajing will tell the prince to break his neck."
Mr. Jiang San has also been in the court for many years, but he still shuddered when he mentioned the King of Chu. Seeing that the third wife seemed to envy Yan Ning, she seemed to want to copy Yan Ning's path to favor. He hurriedly warned, "What the prince hates most is the woman's throwing her arms and intentionally getting close to her. Let me tell you, don't make any decisions. If Ajing asks you to make any mistakes, I can't spare you!"
Ajing is his daughter, so he naturally loves her very much.
It is precisely because of his love for Ajing that he cannot ask his wife to harm Ajing, and even affect Ajing's relationship with his sisters in the family.
If a family and sisters are in the same mood, they will prosper and lose together in the future. They will support each other for a lifetime.
"Not to it." Although the reputation of the King of Chu has always been scary, the third wife felt that the various protections of the King of Chu for Yan Ning all the time showed that the King of Chu was not such a terrible person.
Master Jiang San couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Why isn't it scary?
He didn't know how his Yan Ning got the favor of the King of Chu, but the King of Chu's attitude towards women was not that way on weekdays.
Thinking back to the beginning, a beauty who was born with a beautiful country and was shy and timid in front of the King of Chu when she heard that she had received the order from His Majesty. She wanted to snuggle into the King of Chu's arms to gain mercy, and asked the King of Chu to hold his neck and kick it out.
The beauty's neck was slender and soft, white and cute, but with the force of the King of Chu's big hand, he almost broke the beauty's neck...
Since then, Your Majesty has never mentioned the topic of rewarding the beauty of the King of Chu again. The beauty in Kyoto dares to embrace the King of Chu with affection.
As for Yanning...
Master Jiang San was confused.
Why didn't you ask the prince to kick it out?
"I think you can't come out." Mr. Jiang San has always loved his wife very much, but the words that Mrs. Third had just said to him and his jealous face made him tremble in his heart. He looked at Mrs. Third seriously and said slowly, "A Jing... I have to tell her to follow her mother. If she is raised by you, she will be afraid of being detrimental."
It's nothing he can do with his wife, but he can't break the harmony and rules of the mansion, and make Ajing a girl who only knows how to be jealous of her sisters and complain every day. Seeing that the third wife looked at him in disbelief, Master Jiang San said coldly, "You can keep getting sick!" He raised his foot and left.
"Wait, you come back, come back!" Seeing that he left directly, the third wife called out twice, but her husband, who had always loved him very much and was omnipotent to him, did not look back for the first time.
To be continued...