Zhu Ying went out early in the morning, but Zhu Hong and other guards were all left at home. Even though she knew that there was a master like Ah Liu following her, and Zhu Ying herself went out with a sword, the wife was still a little uneasy. Especially when the night fell.
She had already arrived, but she still hadn't come back. Naturally, she was even more upset. After hearing a few words of advice from her daughter-in-law Jiuniang, she felt a little relieved.
"Mom, it's a very cold day. It gets dark early. If it were in midsummer, the sun wouldn't have set outside yet. Although it's snowing a little now, Yingying and Ah Shou are both sensible children. They haven't set yet.
I must have come back because I was delayed..."
The madam nodded slightly, but when she glanced at Zhu Er, who was sitting with her head conscientiously, she couldn't help but get angry: "Erlang, you said you were planning to go together, even if Yingying chases you away.
Let’s go, you have to stay with them even if you don’t care, why are you so easily swayed by her words? Just let her out like that?”
Zhu Er suddenly felt like crying. Grandma, it's easy for you to say that. Whenever my sister and I have any disputes, you don't scold me. Do I dare to provoke her? Last time, I was defeated because my father and elder brother were fighting outside.
It was rumored frequently, so he wanted to entrust his sister to someone like Lu Sanlang who he thought was reliable. The end result is that he can't even hold his head up, was beaten, scolded, and had to plead guilty all the time!
If I really followed you, you would definitely blame me for being in the middle of two people when you turn around!
He was about to defend himself, but when he saw the dowager snorted and complained upsetly that the tea was cold, he knew that his grandmother was showing off her anger, so he had to keep silent to avoid causing more trouble. Finally, word spread.
A voice like celestial music came.
"The madam, the madam, the second young master, the eldest lady and Mr. Shou are back together!"
"This is considered a return!" Jiuniang said this on behalf of Mrs. Tai, and then said, "I want to ask Mr. Shou, it's getting late, do you want to invite his mother to come over for dinner?"
Mrs. Tai nodded to Jiuniang with satisfaction. Her daughter-in-law had been practicing in Zhaoming Temple for so many years, and her temperament was finally not as arrogant and difficult to get along with as before. However, a voice came from outside the door not long after: "Mr. Shou, please take care of me."
The eldest lady arrived at the entrance of Qing'an Hall and said that it was getting too late and it was snowing again, so she went back first and came back tomorrow to apologize to Mrs. Tai and Madam..."
As soon as the maid outside the door finished speaking, the door curtain was pushed open. Immediately afterwards, Zhu Ying entered the house with a gust of cold wind. She flicked the snowflakes on her head and hissed softly: "This weather is bad."
, I woke up early and the sky was clear, and it snowed when I said it was going to snow! Grandma, mother, Ah Shou was worried about his mother, and said he was embarrassed to bring me back so late, so he went back first and asked me to apologize to you!"
"What kind of compensation do you have to pay for, this kid!" Madam Tai said angrily, beckoning Zhu Ying to come over, who took off her big cloak and stuffed it into Yutang next to her, then strode over and sat down next to her and Jiuniang.
, she stretched out her hand and shook it, and found that it was cold. She quickly asked someone to bring a small stove over, and Jiuniang asked, "Why have you been here all day? Why does it take so long to look at a house?"
Holding a warm hand stove, Zhu Ying's face was as bright as a smile: "Grandma, mother, we looked at four houses today..."
She chattered to Mrs. Tai, Jiuniang and Zhu Er who pricked up her ears and told her that when they passed by the house today, Zhang Shou had already arrived home safely through the back door of Zhao Guogong's mansion. Just as Mrs. Tai felt sorry for Zhu Ying whose hands were cold from the cold,
Mrs. Wu also asked Aunt Liu to bring warm water first, watched Zhang Shou wash his face and hands, and then took facial oil to force him to apply it, and then asked about the day.
Hearing that Zhu Ying had pointed out all kinds of problems with the first three houses she saw today, Mrs. Wu smiled and said: "Yingying is a rich young lady after all. She is used to living in a large, spacious and bright house.
Be picky, it's still early anyway, you can always choose the right one if you look at a few more places. If that doesn't work, you might as well pick a place and buy the land, or build your own house."
Zhang Shou was immediately happy: "Mom, how come you are exactly the same as what Yingying said before? Not to mention the cost, it takes three to five years to build a house..."
"Ah, that's not possible!" Mrs. Wu immediately changed her mind, "It's best to get married to Yingying as soon as possible next year. If you can't delay it, my wife in heaven will definitely be looking forward to you getting married and starting a family as soon as possible!"
Seeing Mrs. Wu getting worried as she spoke, Zhang Shou didn't want to make things worse, so he quickly told everything about the other courtyard of Prince Lu's Mansion. At this time, he saw Mrs. Wu was frightened at first, and then panicked. After he explained it, he was happy.
Got up.
"The Emperor is really compassionate and cares about the younger generation. This way, you and Yingying don't have to worry about your new home in the future." She happily walked back and forth in the room several times, and finally stopped suddenly, and then looked at Zhang Shou's
Eyes said, "Ah Shou, when you and Yingying go to live there after you get married, I will rent Mr. Qi's house first..."
Before she could finish her words, Zhang Shou suddenly darkened his face. Although the child in front of her was the child she had watched since childhood, as he grew up in the past two years, he became more handsome and handsome, just like a banished child.
At the same time as an immortal, she also unknowingly regarded him as the backbone of the family. Therefore, seeing Zhang Shou angry, she couldn't help but panic: "Ah Shou, listen to me, what I mean is..."
"Mom, you don't need to say anything."
Zhang Shou directly interrupted Wu's words, and then said calmly: "It is all kindness to give birth to kindness and nourish kindness. Mother gave me life, so that I can see this wonderful world. And my mother raised me from a little to little
I don’t know how much effort it took to raise the child. Even if you think you are just my adoptive mother, I should be filial to you for the rest of my life."
At this point, seeing Mrs. Wu couldn't help turning her back and raising her hand as if wiping her tears, he said softly: "My mother has been my mother for so many years as an unmarried woman. How can I not repay you well?"
?Of course, this reward is not just support and filial piety. If mother, you feel that just looking at me and Yingying is too lonely, as long as you are willing, I will find a suitable marriage for you."
"No, no, no!" Wu turned around in a hurry, her face full of fear and resistance, "That's good for me, that's good!"
She emphasized it twice in a row, and then she didn't dare to look up at Zhang Shou at all. She just said nervously: "It's thanks to my wife that I am what I am today. I raised you up, but it's not enough to repay her kindness. After all, all those years of expenses
It was all given by Duke Zhao's Mansion, I am just like a nanny...I am already in my thirties now, why should I propose a marriage?"
Knowing that his suggestion was a huge shock to a conservative and stubborn person like the Wu family, Zhang Shou quickly coaxed him in a friendly manner: "Okay, okay, mother, you can do whatever you want, but, Your Majesty,
The house I gave you will be my home in the future, and it will also be your home. If you don’t want to live there as a mother, then live there as an adoptive mother."
Without waiting for Wu to agree or object, he said decisively: "That's it!"
In a blink of an eye, the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month has arrived, and it is the day of worshiping stoves and sweeping dust. Most of the government offices have begun to seal the seals before this day. However, just two days before everyone was busy planning to celebrate the New Year's Eve, the people who had been arrested before
The second prince defeated an army, and the eldest prince, who was tricked by the emperor, finally took action.
He impassionedly wrote a letter requesting that the new spinning machine be promoted to the world. At the same time, he took the initiative to ask for help, hoping that he would be in charge of this matter. It must be said that after discovering that he had made mistakes again and again, he finally came up with a way out.
the road.
But it is a pity that he came up with this idea a little late. Although he tried every means to encourage some officials who supported him to support him, however, after several memorials including him and other officials were sent,
, most of the high-ranking officials did not react at all, and the emperor seemed not to know about this at all. He was naturally very impatient.
When he learned that the new textile machine was not Lu Sanlang's idea at all, but was completed by Zhang Shou and Lu Sanlang's teachers and students, his aggrieved feeling of being deceived became even stronger. But at least he still had some brains, thinking
After thinking about it, he felt that no matter how talented Zhang Shou and Lu Sanlang were, they couldn't secretly encourage him to attack their plans. When he thought about it more carefully, he remembered that the instigator was Ning Xi.
Remembering this, he entered the palace on Xiaonian's day, but instead of going to Qianqing Palace, he went directly to Kunning Palace to see the queen.
Because the second prince came to the palace last time and knelt down to clear the door. It can be seen that he left immediately after seeing the emperor without even looking at her. Afterwards, it was revealed that the second prince had sued the eldest prince. The queen was really hurt by this time.
She was relieved, now that she heard that her eldest son came straight to her when he entered the palace, she suddenly felt a little more comfortable.
However, what she didn't expect was that after the eldest prince came in to see her, he hinted that she should step aside, and immediately sued Ning Xi, the manager of Kunning Palace. She was so angry that she called Ning Xi without saying a word.
Xi arrived at Dongnuan Pavilion, inspected it for a moment, then slapped the armrest with an angry face: "I asked you to send roses to the palace at the beginning, but if you bring them along, where did I tell you?"
Seeing that Ning Xi was frightened and speechless, the queen said angrily: "You brought this matter to me before me, and it was you who started making trouble in front of me. What is right for a second man, and what should be done for a big man!"
Seeing that the queen was furious and the eldest prince was looking at her with cold eyes, Ning Xi suddenly screamed that something was wrong. He also tried to cover up his wrongdoing, but the eldest prince hated him now and the queen was even more annoyed with him for stirring up dissension.
Under the coercion of the two men, he realized that if he continued to hold on, he might really die without a burial place, so he immediately sold the second prince without hesitation.
At this moment, the eldest prince, who had originally believed that the second prince had tricked him, was so furious that he almost fainted again; and the queen was even more furious, only hating that she had spoiled the second son in the past, which led to a fight between the two brothers.
Both sides suffered losses, and the outsiders got an advantage in vain. Therefore, when the eldest prince cried out and begged the queen to take charge of the second prince, the queen agreed immediately.
"Don't worry, no matter how bastard that villain is, he can't deny me as his mother... I will ask the female official to go to his other courtyard with a ruler and urge him to copy the "Book of Filial Piety" to me a hundred times. I can't copy it.
Don't even think about it! Not even the emperor or the queen mother can stop me, a mother, from disciplining my son!"
The eldest prince suddenly burst into tears. Although the queen had been trying to persuade him and the eldest prince to make peace, the second prince, the troublemaker, refused to obey him. This time, he even lost his money.
, extremely embarrassed! At that moment, he no longer cared about the majesty of being a prince, and hugged the queen's knees and cried loudly.
When he cried, the queen thought of the comfortable years after she entered the palace. Then she thought about the fact that she was now alone in the empty house, and she was a stranger to the emperor. The queen mother was only average to her, and her two older sons were obviously the most promising.
The people in the East Palace were incompatible with each other, and she gradually couldn't help but burst into tears. For a while, mother and son cried together.
As a result, the emotions of the mother and son immediately infected the entire Kunning Palace. Everyone was in panic, thinking that the emperor was going to be deposed, or that the eldest prince had made some big mistake like the second prince and was going to be punished.
It wasn't until the queen removed Ning Xi from being the steward of Kunning Palace, scolded her and sent her to the corridor, and sent her husband Hu Shanggong out of the palace to warn the second prince, that her emotions finally calmed down a little.
It stabilized. However, some frightened people went to Qingning Palace and Qianqing Palace to inquire about the news, and naturally spread the news about the queen and the eldest prince hugging each other and crying.
The emperor was originally in a good mood because Zhu Ying came into the palace yesterday and mentioned that he and Zhang Shou went to see the house together two days ago and discovered the arrangement he had made in the courtyard of the former Prince Lu's Mansion. At this time, he heard the news from Kunning Palace.
Regarding this matter, he suddenly lost all his good mood. After thinking about it, he told Liu Feng, the steward: "Pass the word, I'm going to Concubine Yu!"
And when the Queen Mother in Qingning Palace learned about the farce in Kunning Palace and heard that the emperor went directly to Concubine Yu's Yonghe Palace, she couldn't help but sigh deeply. However, as for the queen's order to warn the second prince
She still agreed with the matter, and immediately told Yuquan: "The second prince used to kill slaves. The forty sticks will be read as the New Year is approaching, so I will record them in the account for the time being. Remember to remind me."
If such a daring boy does not teach him a lesson, he might really have another quarrel between brothers in the future!
When the emperor arrived at Yonghe Palace with only a few entourage, he saw that only Concubine Yu and a few palace attendants came out, but Princess Yongping was not there. Thinking that today was the New Year, he couldn't help but ask: "Where is Mingyue?
At this time, she won't accompany you as a mother?"
Concubine Yu saw that the emperor's expression was obviously bad, so she said calmly: "I asked her to go to Zhao Guogong's mansion, firstly to greet Mrs. Tai, and secondly to help me bring some cakes I made to Jiuniang. Thirdly, I
Ask her to go and thank Yingying."
The emperor knew Concubine Yu's temperament and immediately smiled. He nodded and entered the Dongnuan Pavilion first. Waiting for the servants to come in and help him take off his outer cloak. He glanced around at the elegant and elegant people who had been there for more than ten years.
Looking at the shabby furnishings, he immediately smiled and said: "Jiu Niang and you both have the same temperament that we don't like foreign things, so Mingyue is also raised like this, but Yingying prefers fancy clothes and beautiful accessories."
"She is suitable for wearing beautiful clothes, beautiful clothes and beautiful accessories. Besides, the Duke of Zhao's palace is not without money, how can he wrong her?" Concubine Yu's face stretched with a smile, obviously in a good mood, "Moreover, she has to treat him wholeheartedly.
Your husband, such a beautiful girl from heaven, should naturally fly freely and live a relaxed and happy life."
As she spoke, she suddenly became depressed: "Unlike Ming Yue, who has been a little gloomy due to my temperament over the years. After all, it was me who harmed her. When she didn't know that she had A Shou as her fiancé, Yingying knew it clearly.
My future marriage may not be perfect, but I will still go my own way, as if I don’t care what you do, I only care about my own comfort, but Mingyue she..."
Concubine Yu rubbed her eyebrows in annoyance, and finally said with a wry smile: "Ming Yue thought that since she knew that she might be a resentful couple in the future, she might as well not get married! She always said, why can a man become an official?
She has great ambitions, but a woman can only be trapped in the back house, taking care of her husband and raising children? If the Queen Mother and the Emperor were not lenient this time, I don’t know what stupid things she would do!"