This is crazy, this is deliberately trying to harm them!
Mrs. Cheng's eyes were burning with anger, and she didn't bother to clean up the large and small bags in the house. After hearing what Mr. Cheng said, she went straight to Mrs. Cheng and cried.
"… They all say that brothers need to help. We also know that mother, you are not in good health right now, and my eldest brother is also seriously ill. Erlang is traveling so far away, so he can't help if anything happens..."
Before the second Mrs. Cheng finished speaking, Mrs. Cheng threw the cup.
"Nonsense! I'm in very good health, and I'm still waiting for my son to earn his life for me!" she shouted, "Da Lang is not in good health? Is there no one else in the family? There are a lot of grandchildren and great-grandsons.
If you embrace them all, can’t you even support your family? Besides, if Erlang goes to the capital to become an official, is it for himself? Or for our Cheng family!"
"Sure enough, he was confused because of his illness! Call him here!"
Looking at the maid who hurriedly ran out, Mrs. Cheng lowered her head and wiped her tears with a proud smile on her lips.
The scolding in Mrs. Cheng's room continued for half a day.
Mrs. Cheng knelt outside the door and cried, wanting to accept the punishment for her father. She begged the old lady not to let Mr. Cheng kneel down to accept the punishment since he was still seriously ill.
"Whoever dares to ruin Erlang's future will ruin the future of our Cheng family. I won't give up even if I risk my life!" Mrs. Cheng shouted angrily, "He is your brother, why can't you see him well?"
Woolen cloth?"
"Mother, I'm just doing it for his own good..." Mr. Cheng raised his head helplessly and said, but before he could finish his words, Mrs. Cheng grabbed him.
"Master, I beg you, please stop talking." She leaned over and cried.
Mr. Cheng sighed when he heard this and kowtowed.
"My son is not thoughtful, my mother forgives me," he said.
"Bring enough money for Erlang. They say it's not easy to live in the capital. You have to make friends and socialize. Don't lose the Cheng family's face." Old Mrs. Cheng said with a snort.
Mrs. Cheng couldn't help but raise her head any longer.
"My mother's family doesn't have any money, and my second uncle has gone to the capital so he doesn't have any shortage of money. That Jiao..." She said, but before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by Mr. Cheng hitting her with his arm.
"Yes, mother." Mr. Cheng said, "I will never make my second brother's future difficult no matter how difficult it is for a poor family to become rich."
Mrs. Cheng nodded with satisfaction.
"Go down." She said, and her words of consolation were earnest, "Why is your brother working as an official so far away? Isn't it also for the Cheng family? To help you? How can you complain?"
I'm afraid that if he goes away, he will harm his own future and the Cheng family.
Mr. Cheng smiled bitterly, but knowing that he couldn't explain it to his mother, he responded respectfully and withdrew with the eldest lady.
"Brothers and sisters, if you have anything to do, you can come and tell me directly. There are some things that my mother doesn't understand, so don't use her as a weapon. It's not easy to blame her when she is older. Why should she worry about you and my descendants?
." Mr. Cheng looked at Mrs. Cheng and said.
"Yes." Second Mrs. Cheng bowed and saluted with a smile, "Brother is still thoughtful."
Master Cheng ignored her and looked at Master Cheng.
"Even if you don't want to consider what I said, it's best to wait a little longer." He said, "Wait until after the New Year..."
Mr. Cheng Er, who had already said something about being respectful to his brothers and saying that he felt guilty for causing his eldest brother to suffer at home and being unfilial to support his mother at home, suddenly became anxious again when he heard these words.
"Brother, what do you mean? Are you going to go after the New Year? If Dali Temple leaves me, will there be no one else? If I don't go, there will be many people waiting to fill in the blanks!" he said.
"So you can move around without Dali Temple. You'd better go somewhere else. The place in the capital is really not that good." Mr. Cheng said.
"Brother!" Mr. Cheng Er was furious, "What do you mean? I am going to the capital to be an official, not to cross Daoshan or to destroy the Cheng family. Why do you have to stop me?"
Speaking of which, I thought of what my wife said.
Only women can say that, and he doesn't take it seriously at all.
But now seeing Mr. Cheng's weird look, he had to think a little differently.
"Don't you want me to live a better life than you, brother?"
"Ah, bah." Mr. Cheng spat, "Isn't it something to be happy about that you are not as good as me?"
"Then why don't you want me to go to the capital?" Master Cheng Er said.
"I'm afraid that there is a mountain of knives in the capital, and you are going to take advantage of someone else's case!" Mr. Cheng said in a low voice and solemnly.
Mr. Cheng Er looked at him with an expression of shock.
"Brother, if this happens, everyone in the world will be eager to go to Hob Mountain to cook fish meat." He said with a smile.
Mr. Cheng did not smile, but nodded.
"That's true. In this world, pursuing office and profit is not just a matter of making fish and meat on the Hob Mountain." He murmured.
It seems that the eldest brother is seriously ill and his mind has become weird.
Mr. Cheng's face softened, and he no longer looked at Mr. Cheng with anger and impatience, but with a bit of pity.
"Brother, please go back and rest quickly. I have been an official for more than ten years, and I still don't know what to do?" he said.
"You have been an official for more than ten years, don't you think this is a bit strange?" Mr. Cheng asked.
"I don't think so!" Mr. Cheng Er said impatiently.
"Don't you think, if my dear mother hates us so much, she would be willing to let you come to Beijing?" Mr. Cheng asked, "She will definitely not ask for a reward for you. Even if His Majesty is interested, she will definitely refuse the reward.
"
Mr. Cheng Er was furious.
"How dare she!" He shouted, "She is so unfaithful, unjust, unfilial and unworthy of being the son of a human being! God cannot tolerate it!"
"Let's not talk about God's tolerance, let's talk about human tolerance first." Mr. Cheng also said anxiously, "With her ability, there is nothing she dare not say to the emperor, but now this reward is still given to you.
, it means someone must have given it to her forcibly, and it must not have been as she wished. If it was not as good as her wish, it must have been a grudge. Do you think you have become someone else's gun?"
Mr. Cheng Er looked at Mr. Cheng like he was a fool.
"Brother, what are you thinking about?" He frowned and pointed at himself, "That's my daughter! The daughter I gave birth to! She won't tolerate me? She rebelled against her!"
Master Cheng wanted to say something else, but Master Cheng stopped him first.
"Brother, what happened last time was not that I was disobedient as a brother. What you did was really too much. The dowry should have been given to her. This is not disobedient..." He said, "If you say she doesn't tolerate it, it's because she doesn't tolerate you.
It has nothing to do with me."
Without waiting for Mr. Cheng to speak again, he decisively raised his foot.
"Brother, I'm leaving tomorrow and I have to clean up today. There's no need for a family dinner to see me off. You can take good care of your health. I'll go sit with the government officials," he said.
Master Cheng wanted to say something else, but Master Cheng left in a gust of wind.
"Did I go too far about the dowry? It has nothing to do with you?" He was angry and funny at the same time. "Yes, I went too far and it has nothing to do with you. Then you must remember not to treat her badly when you get to the capital.
She did something excessive, otherwise it would be no wonder she became disobedient."
Having said this, he was startled.
Disobedience….
"So that's why?" He murmured, thoughtfully.
"Why?" Mrs. Cheng asked hurriedly.
"Hijacking." Mr. Cheng said slowly.
Mr. Cheng thought it over and wanted to talk to Mr. Cheng again, but Mr. Cheng came back very drunk at night and climbed into the car early the next morning, half awake and half drunk, and the family fled in the car.
They left without even having time to let them see them off.
The couple acted like this, which only made Mrs. Cheng so angry that they refused to see her off. Mr. Cheng, who couldn't bear the embarrassment, still hurriedly chased the children outside the city to see them off.
"...But I'm lucky..."
"...Qiniang and the others will be able to find a good family in the capital in the future..."
"...I heard that the eldest lady knows the emperor. According to the second lady, Qiniang might be able to get married to the royal family..."
"..Oh, then our family is going to have a relative of the emperor..."
The servants and girls in the yard were chattering in low voices, accompanied by cackles of laughter.
Cheng Liuniang stood up suddenly and smashed a vase on the window sill.
"Get out of here, are you bothered?" she shouted.
The crackling sounds and shouts frightened the servants and they quickly dispersed and ran away.
Cheng Liuniang was standing in front of the window, the wind in the lotus pond was blowing the fragrance of chrysanthemums to her face. In the golden autumn of October, in a few days there will be a chrysanthemum appreciation poetry party at home, but now they are all gone, all gone, chasing the capital
That fool called me sister.
Cheng Liu Niang pursed her lips and her tears couldn't stop falling.
"She is a bad person!" She shouted outside, "She is a bad person, and you will be harmed by her sooner or later!"
The bustle in front of Cheng's house has dissipated, but the news in the city about Mr. Cheng's receiving the imperial edict is still lively.
Compared to the hustle and bustle in the north, the south side is very deserted.
"I didn't expect that your wife is so powerful." Cheng Ping looked away from the river while holding the Gua flag and said.
"That's natural." Manager Cao said.
"However, no matter how powerful a person is, he can't escape the kindness of his parents." Cheng Ping said with a smile, with a bit of schadenfreude, "I wonder if your wife still dares to be domineering in the capital?"
Manager Cao looked at him sideways.
"My wife never talks about bullying," he said, "My wife only talks about preaching."
Cheng Ping looked at Guanshi Cao and suddenly clapped his hands with great joy.
"Guanshi Cao, you didn't follow me in vain, and you have realized the truth." He smiled.
Before he finished speaking, Manager Cao raised his hand and knocked his hat crookedly.
"Stop talking nonsense to me, and go and show Feng Shui to the wealthy Qi family. It's been a long time since I saved up enough to save a hundred pennies. If you earn it so easily, just save it, and you'll eat and drink it all in three or two days." He cursed.
Cheng Ping smiled and covered his hat.
"Don't be in a hurry, don't be in a hurry, everything is settled." He said.
Manager Cao pretended to beat him, so Cheng Ping ran away.
When Master Cheng Er and his family were on their way to the capital, Cheng Jiaoniang in the capital was still living her usual life, shooting arrows in the morning, practicing calligraphy outside the door, cooking with a few girls in the afternoon, and reading in the evening...
"In short, we should never leave this three-acre land." Huang said, sighing, "Although women's families should go out less often, young people should also go out more often."
"Madam, do you want to go out? Where are we going to play? We will go there tomorrow." The maid who walked by heard it and said with a smile.
"I've already walked all over the capital, and I'm still going out." Huang said angrily.
Now that I'm familiar with the family, I'm no longer so reserved. Huang is a talkative and laughing person, so her nature has become natural.
"Madam, how can you finish sightseeing in the capital? There are still many things to do." The maid said with a smile.
While he was talking, there was a knock on the door.
"Someone is here. I'll go take a look." Huang quickly stood up and said.
Because of the great achievements of the Divine Arm Bow, the demand for it suddenly increased greatly. The emperor wanted to have all of them available overnight, so Fan Jianglin simply lived in the Gongnu Yard to supervise the work day and night.
The Huang family is no longer afraid of being welcomed and sent off. Even the royal family has seen them. Others are nothing in the eyes of the Huang family. Besides, no one comes.
There was a man standing outside the door. He seemed very nervous. He was startled when the door opened.
"I, I want to ask Mrs. Cheng for advice." He said in a panic.
"My wife writes in front of the door every day. If you want to ask for advice, just come tomorrow morning." The maid said.
The man shook his head hurriedly.
"No, no, I'm..." He hesitated, "I'm asking for advice on something else."
Ask for something else?
The maid couldn't help but look at him. He really didn't look like a scholar. He was too stout and lacked the spirit of a scholar.
"Are you here to learn cooking too?" she couldn't help but ask.
After Qin Shisan sent the three girls, the news spread, and several people were eager to send the girls. Cheng Jiaoniang did not refuse, she only said that the place at home was small, and there were many people and it was difficult to see clearly. When they were sent away,
It will be delivered after a few people.
When the news spread, the wealthy families in the capital became lively. It was not a matter of sending a few cooks to learn how to cook, but an important matter of making friends with Mrs. Cheng. All of them immediately came to inquire.
The man was stunned by what she said and didn't seem to understand. He was stunned for a moment before shaking his head.
"I do, I just want to do business with my wife," he said.
Doing business?
The maid looked at the man.
"Who are you?" she asked.
The man then remembered and was busy touching his body. After touching for a long time, he lowered his hand.
"I, I no longer have an official status, so I don't have a name card." He lowered his head and said with a bit of shame, "I, my surname is Li Mingmao..."
"Li Mao?"
When Cheng Jiaoniang heard this, she put down the book in her hand and sat upright.
"Yes, a member of the Li family is the one who caused the fire and was punished half a month ago." The maid whispered.
Cheng Jiaoniang nodded and looked at the man kneeling in the corridor.
"Your family has come to see me," she said.
Ever since the fireworks that day, people from the Li Family Fireworks Shop came to our door with heavy gifts and wanted to talk about cooperation.
"But I'm not in this business." Cheng Jiaoniang continued.
Li Mao responded, raised his head and glanced at the maids around him, but hesitated to speak.
The maid glanced at Cheng Jiaoniang and saw that she did not refuse, so she immediately stood up and led the others away.
"Madam, I'm not here to do my fireworks business with you," he said, taking something out of his sleeve and pushing it over, "I just want to do this business with you."
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Four thousand words, updated every Monday, Haihan Haihan. (To be continued)
