After Liu Yun and Ru Wei chatted with the old lady for a while, Ji Donglin's wives and concubines also came to pay their respects to the old lady. The first wife Yu Peijun looked like a lady of the family and was also Yanran's mother.
Ji Donglin's concubine Xi Qiu was also a daughter of an official family. Unfortunately, she was a concubine, so she could only serve as a concubine when she arrived at the Ji family. However, Ji Donglin was also kind to her. Moreover, she gave birth to a son for the Ji family.
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After a while, one of Ji Boping's favorite concubines, Dong Qianxue, also came over. She was the youngest and most beautiful among the concubines. Although she was of humble origin, she was also smart, so she was favored by Ji Boping.
Where there are many women, there are many right and wrongs. Liu Yun has always understood this truth deeply. In the past in Mu Mansion, she never liked being among a bunch of wives and concubines discussing family issues. She always felt that the words of these women always meant something, or they were false and snake-tailed.
, or it's just polite and hypocritical, which is really not acceptable.
But at this time, she could only stay in the old lady's room and listen to the speeches of these women. No matter whether they were shy, comparing, or showing off, she could stay out of it like a bystander. After all, she was just a woman.
The sudden intrusion of an outsider was only caused by external forces. She was just staying temporarily, so naturally she didn't need to join the so-called camp of women like them.
It's quite interesting to talk about. In the past, whether in the Mu Mansion or later when I married into the Hou Mansion, there was always only one head of the house, but it was different in the Ji family. I heard that Mrs. Ji was afraid of being lonely, so she insisted on giving in.
Both sons live in the ancestral home, thus creating the current situation of one mountain and two tigers.
Maybe the two gentlemen don't have feelings for each other, but those women are not giving in to each other. It's very interesting to think about it. They have to unite their sisters to be external, but also compete for favors internally. It is really an interesting drama. Liu Yun tilted his head to think.
, I wonder if her grandmother thought her life was too boring, so she put so many women with their own thoughts under one roof and allowed them to fight to the death.
"Really, why are we chatting among ourselves and forgetting about my cousin who just came to the capital? Isn't it boring for my cousin to listen to us talking about these things?" Dong, the concubine of the Ji Boping family, is a man of both ways.
, otherwise she would not be so favored by the smiling man, not to mention that she came with a mission this time. She covered her mouth and said with a chuckle, "Although my cousin lives in Linyang,
But looking at the temperament of this lady, I know that my sister-in-law must have been very good at teaching in the past."
When Ji Mengxian was mentioned, the atmosphere froze slightly, and a touch of sadness flashed across Madam Ji's face. Just when everyone didn't know how to smooth things over, Madam Ji sighed and said slowly: "When Mengxian was young, she was in the capital.
She is one of the most talented women, even the emperor praised her highly, but it is a pity that she later married to Linyang, and my old bones cannot bear the fatigue of running around, and I have not seen her again for so many years. "
"Yes, my sister-in-law was a well-known talented girl in the capital back then. It's just a pity that she was already married when I got married, so I didn't have the opportunity to meet her." Mrs. Dong's face was full of regret, and she immediately raised her eyebrows and looked at her.
Liu Yun said, "My sister-in-law must have taught my cousin a lot in the past, right? I heard that my sister-in-law used to be proficient in all kinds of music, chess, calligraphy and painting."
"Liu Yun was naughty. My mother passed away before she was nine years old. She didn't have time to teach her anything. It's Liu Yun's regret." This is indeed a regret in her heart. Although her mother started teaching her literacy exercises very early,
But she was really too young at that time, and she even complained in her heart why she had to practice calligraphy in the study while the third and fourth sisters were still playing.
It is probably the wish of many people to be taught by their mother, but she did not cherish it. Instead, she hoped that her mother would occasionally forget to check her homework. Now that she thinks about it, she is really ignorant.
"So that's the case, that's really a pity." Mrs. Dong said with a smile on her face, and then said, "But speaking of which, I have always heard that my sister-in-law is the most famous for her calligraphy and painting. Didn't she leave some calligraphy and painting for you?
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Liu Yun suddenly realized. It seemed that Mrs. Dong had received instructions from her second uncle and was here to trick her. She looked around at the crowd. Her uncle's two wives and concubines didn't seem to care. Apparently they
She didn't know these things, but Mrs. Ji seemed indifferent, but in fact she was attentively waiting for her answer, right?
"In fact, there are a lot of calligraphy and paintings. My mother left me a lot of things. But I was young at that time and didn't know how to distinguish good from bad. I broke many antiques and other things, but my father didn't.
You didn’t say anything, so I didn’t pay too much attention to it.” Liu Yun’s words made the other person’s mind go up and down. She looked at Dong’s expression of being angry but not saying anything. She was really shocked.
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"Actually, before my mother passed away, she wrote a letter saying that she wanted someone to send it to the capital. Later, because she passed away too hastily, the house was in a mess. Many of my mother's books were buried together, and some were sent to the warehouse. Then
I don’t know where the letter went. Later, there was a fire in the house and many things in the warehouse were burned down." After Liu Yun said this, Mrs. Dong looked a little disappointed, but Mrs. Ji's face looked very ugly.
This actually allowed Liu Yun to see some clues.
This concubine probably didn't know what her second uncle wanted, so she just rushed to the front and made excuses. Mrs. Ji was obviously very disappointed. It seemed that she was indeed misled by Liu Yun, thinking that Ji Mengxian once wanted to take her away.
The whereabouts of the things in her hands told them, but it was a pity that people were not as good as God, and they might end up being buried deep in the loess with her.
If it is true as Liu Yun said, then I am afraid that the secret Ji Mengxian holds in her hand will really not be found. We can't go to Linyang City to dig up her grave and see the things buried with her, right? The Ji family still has
I can't afford such a reputation, but I'm really not willing to let them give up like this.
What Liu Yun actually wanted to know was that Madam Ji and the others knew that her mother had secrets in her hands, so did she know that there was a secret guard organization? From the looks of it, she probably didn't know.
"So that's how it is. It's embarrassing for her. She still thought about me as an old woman when she was seriously ill." Mrs. Ji's face was sad. Everyone thought she was sad that her daughter had passed away early. Only Liu Yun knew what she was sad about.
It's funny to think about it. In the past, Liu Yun always thought that Mrs. Ji put pressure on Mu Mansion not to let her father continue their relationship because of her and Yu Chen. Now it seems that she is just being sentimental. The Ji family may only care about her mother's hand.
They were afraid that these things would fall into the hands of others, so they suppressed her father from continuing their relationship. Unfortunately, after so many years of searching, they never found the secret in their mother's hands, but Liu Yun accidentally obtained it.
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But at this time, Liu Yun didn't know the importance of this thing. She only thought it was a secret that could threaten many people. It wasn't until much later that she realized that she really almost got burned like her mother.