Otoharu

Chapter 140

Mrs. Li and Mrs. Jiang discussed Li Meier's lifelong affairs, but Li Meier had an indifferent attitude and only concentrated on eating. In fact, she didn't care who she married. Anyway, her parents would definitely arrange the most suitable one for her. In her previous life, her grandmother really wanted Let her marry her cousin, but my uncle won the Jinshi examination and went to the capital to become an official. Mother couldn't bear her to marry so far away, and felt that the family background was not suitable, so she didn't agree to this marriage. In fact, she didn't want to marry far away. , she just wanted to be with her parents. In fact, she secretly thought in her heart that it would be great if she could never marry for the rest of her life, but she also knew that this was just her own delusion. One will have to die.

The few people finished their meal, and Mrs. Li had had enough intimacy with her eldest grandson, so she handed Brother Kang to Mrs. Lin who was beside her, and said to Mrs. Jiang: "Daughter-in-law Ayan, you stay for a while, I have something to say to you, let A Lin took the kids down for a nap."

"Grandmother, what are you going to say to mother, can't we listen?" Seeing that grandmother wanted to keep mother private, Li Meier asked immediately.

"As long as you like to inquire, go back to your room and sleep!" Mrs. Li reprimanded angrily.

"I've just had a full meal, so it's easy to accumulate food if I go to bed immediately!" Li Meier protested.

"As long as you have a lot of tricks, you can stay if you like." Mrs. Li didn't let her children listen, she just felt that they didn't understand anyway, and it was useless to stay.

Li Mei'er sat down and continued to listen with peace of mind, while drinking tea to digest.

"I went to the patriarch's wife yesterday, and she told me some great news." Mrs. Li stopped here, as if she was keeping a secret.

"Grandmother, tell me quickly, don't stutter." Li Meier urged with shame.

Mrs. Li was a little angry, and glared at her, thinking to herself, she knew how to dismantle the old lady, but she continued to say: "There is an aunt in our clan who was selected by the palace chief as a palace daughter when she was young. It is said that after entering the palace, she has been serving the concubine of the old emperor. Later, the old emperor passed away and the concubine became a concubine. Ready to leave the palace."

When Li Meier heard this, she subconsciously glanced at Jiang Shanqing beside her. She remembered that Brother Shanqing's mother seemed to be a maid in the palace, what happened to their place, why so many women entered the palace as maids.

Li Meier thought about it, and then asked out her doubts.

"You don't know that, do you?" Mrs. Li said triumphantly with the expression of knowing what you little brat once said.

Li Meier decided not to ask her any more, and turned to look at Jiang Shi, "Mother, you must also know?"

Seeing that Li Meier didn't ask her anymore, Mrs. Li stared angrily, but she didn't like to curse.

Mrs. Jiang knew that her daughter was deliberately angry with her mother-in-law, so she had no choice but to smooth things over, "Mei Meier, I heard from your grandmother that she knows much better than your mother."

After all, Mrs. Li is a native of Zhangshui Town, and she knows a lot more than Jiang's from the countryside.

"Huh!" Mrs. Li snorted proudly, the meaning was obvious, and now she was not willing to say it.

"I think grandma doesn't seem to know, otherwise why wouldn't she say it." Li Meier deliberately provoked.

"Damn girl! If I don't know, no one will know." Li Lao Niang still followed her.

"Then grandma, please tell us juniors." Li Meier pretended to listen attentively.

Mrs. Li coughed and finally started talking. "Our Zhangshui Town had a noble concubine during the Emperor Taizong's time. It is said that the empress slowly climbed up from a small maid. Emperor Taizong loved her very much. After her death, he made her a queen. Although it was conferred posthumously, it was also the queen. From then on, as long as many families in our town have a daughter who is a little more neat, they will find a way to send them to be palace maids. If one day the old man of the emperor takes a fancy to him, then he will be prosperous."

"So that's how it is." Li Meier suddenly realized that in this world, wealth and power have always been the most attractive, and there is a noble concubine in front of her, and those who want to be rich, they naturally want to take their daughters for a fight, in case they leave If she had the luck of shit and became the emperor's concubine, that would be a one-man attainment of the Tao, and a chicken and a dog ascended to heaven.

"I think those people can't think about it. How can a concubine be so good? After the concubine concubine, there are so many women who enter the palace to be maids, and who is like the concubine concubine, who has won the eyes of the emperor's old man? Most of them died of old age. In the palace, there are very few people who are allowed to be released from the palace like this aunt in our family. They are separated from their parents and family all their lives and never see each other until they die. I can't bear it." Jiang was very disgusted with this kind of use of his own daughter to gain wealth, and said in a very disdainful tone.

This time Mrs. Li agrees with her daughter-in-law, she nodded in agreement and said, "That's right, if you want to be a concubine, you have to look like a fairy, otherwise, how can you make the emperor fall in love with you? We won't be able to get out of this small place for decades. Such a beauty, so those who send their daughters into the palace to be maids are wishful thinking."

"Then why did this aunt in our family enter the palace? Are her parents also wishful thinking?" Li Meier couldn't help asking again.

"Don't talk nonsense, this aunt's situation is different." Mrs. Li glared at Li Mei'er, and quickly explained, "Her parents died when she was young, and my uncle wanted to seize her family's property on the grounds that there were no males in her family. In a fit of anger, she sold all her belongings and went to the palace, because of her good luck, she went to the concubine's side when she entered the palace, and now she has the opportunity to be released from the palace."

"But now she is old and has no children. She doesn't want to die alone when she comes back." Li Meier thinks that it is not a good thing for a maid to go out of the palace. For example, brother Shanqing's mother died of illness not long after leaving the palace. She still has a son. As for the situation, wouldn't it be even more miserable if there were no children under her knees.

"Don't talk nonsense, I heard from the patriarch's wife that the aunt in our clan is a capable person. There is a female official of the second rank sitting in the palace. She is in charge of all the affairs of the palace in front of the empress dowager. , You have the ability." In her words, Mrs. Li praised this aunt she had never met, and she said it seriously.

"That's also in the palace..." Li Meier didn't take it seriously, she would be nothing if she left the palace, she wondered if her uncle was still alive, otherwise, when she came back, she might still be thinking about seizing her property.

(End of this chapter)