The Zheng family did not exaggerate to the extent that as soon as Mrs. Zheng caused trouble, the clan leader immediately knew about it and rushed to the Zheng Mansion immediately.
This time it was really a coincidence. Chief Zheng originally came to Beijing to find Qi Baoer.
The reason why the Zheng family has been able to maintain a place in the court from the previous dynasty to this day is that, in addition to the fact that the Zheng family knows how to advance and retreat and how to best preserve their strength, the Zheng family has never forgotten to do good deeds and has a good reputation among the people. Low.
The Zheng family can say that no matter where they are "scattered", if the people there mention good people, one of them will be named Zheng.
The burly and dark patriarch Zheng in front of him is even more impressive among them.
The head of a dignified clan does not live in the capital, the most prosperous place in the Qilin Kingdom, but guards the northwest of the Zheng family's ancestral land.
Yes, that's right, it's the northwest where Qi's army is currently stationed, where Qi Bao'er's father Qi Kang'an is.
There is also a Jixiang Tower in the northwest, but because of the ancestral residence of the Zheng family in the northwest, the children in the Jixiang Tower were not persecuted, but...
With this word "dan", we know that the situation of Jixiang Tower in the northwest is not good either.
For example, the "Zhennan Army" and "Zhenxi Army" have been iconic armies, as well as the Qi Family Army, which is equivalent to an army belonging to a certain person or a certain family. The generals will not be changed at will, and the soldiers will be replaced at will. After entering, you will basically be a member of a certain army for the rest of your life.
As for the entire northwest, in addition to the Zhenxi Army, the other two armies are the Qi Family Army and the Pang Family Army. They are all soldiers who will guard there for the rest of their lives if nothing unexpected happens.
Therefore, whether it is the Zhenxi Army, the Qi Family Army, or the Pang Family Army, those with military relatives have basically settled in the northwest, and the family naturally has to be neatly organized.
No matter how peaceful the border areas seem to be, there are constant small battles, and sometimes they may not necessarily be conflicts with other countries. In any border area, the words "bandits are rampant" are inseparable.
In the era of cold weapons, casualties were inevitable once there was a war; in the era of backward medical skills, a small inflammation after an injury could kill a person.
The folk customs in the northwest are much more liberal than those in the mainland. It is common for widows to remarry as soon as their husbands die.
But the northwest is relatively poor. There are almost no widows who remarry and are asked to bring up a baby or even several babies to stay with them.
This has resulted in the fact that there are many orphans in the northwest whose fathers are members of the military. In the Jixiang Building in the northwest, almost anyone picked up at random will find that his/her father was once a member of the three armed forces.
Originally, there was a small amount of silver issued by the imperial court every year, but the three armies in the northwest also squeezed out part of their military pay for the Jixiang Building to raise these children because of the special features of the Northwest Jixiang Building; and the Zheng family, the largest family in the northwest, He has also been supporting Jixiang Building.
Until now, Jixiang Tower in the northwest has been able to hold up reasonably well.
But since the year before last, the imperial court has not sent a penny to Jixiang Downstairs in the northwest; I don't know whether the imperial court cut off the money or whether it was swindled by others.
Unfortunately, something happened to the Zheng family at the beginning of last year, and they lost a lot of money, and they were suddenly short of money.
For more than a year, all expenses in the Jixiang Building in the northwest can only be squeezed out from military pay by the three armies stationed in the northwest.
The Zheng family has a large escort agency in the northwest, which often helps the Zhenxi Army transport military supplies.
One time, Patriarch Zheng personally escorted his bodyguard to the station of the Zhenxi Army. He saw that the food for the Zhenxi Army consisted of steamed buns with wild vegetables and a pot of boiled cabbage without even a trace of oil or water.
Seeing those soldiers gobbling up the food like this, Patriarch Zheng, a tough guy, got red-eyed at that moment.
They are soldiers stationed at the border, and they only eat food like this. If the enemy invades, where will they have the strength to resist?
After he went to inquire, he found out that these people actually sent the oil, rice and noodles to Jixiang Tower, saying that these were brothers' children, but they could not let the brothers die in peace, and they could just eat whatever they wanted to satisfy themselves.
Chief Zheng is the head of a clan, and his brain is not comparable to that of ordinary people.
Although Patriarch Zheng is not in the military, even if he has good relations with several leaders of the Zhenxi Army, those people will not reveal anything about the affairs in the army to Patriarch Zheng.
But Patriarch Zheng could guess from the soldiers' occasional chats and their meager food that there seemed to be something wrong with the Zhenxi Army's military pay.
Patriarch Zheng is a righteous person. No, the Zheng family's escort agency picked up the escort whose destination was the capital. Patriarch Zheng personally went out to find Qi Baoer, who was in charge of the world's soldiers and horses.
To put it bluntly, those soldiers in the northwest can be regarded as the soldiers of the wise king. So the soldiers in the northwest were bullied, and the descendants of those soldiers in the northwest were bullied. Should the wise king come out to take care of it?!
Who would have thought that as soon as he arrived in Beijing and the escorts in his hands had not been handed over clearly, he heard the news that something had happened at the residence of Prime Minister Zheng.
"Tell me, has your brain been soaked in sewage? Either you are someone who has been tricked into my Zheng family, otherwise how could you do such a stupid thing?"
Qi Bao'er, who was removing tiles from the roof with his men: "..."
Is this really the head of the Zheng family?
She thought that the head of the Zheng family had the same refined aura as Prime Minister Zheng, and looked noble and elegant.
I didn't expect it to be like this.
She even saw a little bit of her father in him.
After scolding Mrs. Zheng, Patriarch Zheng then scolded Prime Minister Zheng, "And you, the majestic Prime Minister of a country, you can't even manage your own daughter-in-law. Hurry up and resign to the emperor as soon as possible. It's not a big deal to lose the face of the Zheng family. If it brings trouble to the people of the world, our entire Zheng family will not be able to use it to make amends."
Zheng Xiang's face turned pale, and even though he was kneeling, his entire upper body was almost lying on the ground, as if he had no face to face Patriarch Zheng.
Seeing him like this, Patriarch Zheng became more and more angry. Prime Minister Zheng is the most promising person of this generation of the Zheng family, but...
Feeling guilty, he glanced at Mrs. Zheng who was already sluggish and distracted with disgust, and sighed helplessly in his heart.
It's all their fault, if it weren't for that year...
With sharp eyesight, Patriarch Zheng almost gritted his teeth and uttered two words: "divorce his wife."
The weight of these two words was obviously heavier than all the words that Patriarch Zheng had just scolded combined. Not only did Mrs. Zheng, who had been frightened out of her mind, come back to her senses, but even Prime Minister Zheng stood up suddenly and looked at Zheng in shock. Clan leader.
The Zheng family has a family rule that a man over forty can only take a concubine if he has no children; a wife who has a son cannot take a concubine and remarry before she has lost a son; and a man cannot divorce his wife for life.
It is because of this family rule that Prime Minister Zheng cannot stay with the one he loves, and his wife cannot be divorced if she is not virtuous.
As the daughter-in-law of the Zheng family, Mrs. Zheng naturally knows these clan rules that are beneficial to the Zheng family's daughter-in-law.
So no matter what she did, no matter how angry or disappointed Prime Minister Zheng was, she was not afraid that she would be abandoned, or that Prime Minister Zheng would ignore her.
As for what happened this time, she knew that she would be harmed by Prime Minister Zheng because of the plot, and she was afraid that Prime Minister Zheng would be angry with her and cause trouble for her, so she pretended to have lost her soul after returning to the house.
It was just because he understood the character of Prime Minister Zheng, and he was not the one who would fight against her. Seeing her like this, whether he was disappointed or felt that there was no need to teach her a lesson, he would not make things difficult for her again.
Everything is based on these clan rules.
But now, the patriarch personally asked Zheng Xiang to divorce her!!!